Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-17

bales.
Hon. Jacob Thompson, Of Mississippi,
has removed TO Memphis as his future
home.
Total amount of cotton received this
season as far as.known at noon to-day,
2O5, 900 bales.
The magnificent steamer City ofRich-
mond, 80 well knowni 10 Memphis, is to
be sold for debt at Columbus, KY, where
she now lies, on the 9th of March.
There are thirty three eases of small
pox in the City Hospital, and very few
outside. The people have been unnecea-
ssrily alarmed. Yet tits we'll enough to
use every known preventive.
Rev. DR.. Witherspoon will lecture at
Rocco Hall, under the auspices of the
Young Mems Christian Association, on
Tuesday evening, the 22d instant, at
seven o'clock, Subject: " Popular OBJ
jections to the Infallibility of the Bible"
Louisville is making heavy effort to
organize an Arkansas packet company,
and even has charter granting capital
Of 100000 But the enterprise drags
along slowly, and will not likely succeed,
as Memphis is fully prepared to attend to
and supply the Arkansas trade.
The great Louisville bridge, over two
miles long, including it's approaches, is
finished at last, and is one ofthe grandest
monuments of mans genius and skill in
the country. 1t will be formally opened
as liuk connecting various railway
systems tomorrow.
An article on "Colored Schools" pre-
pared for yesterdays paper, is deferred
for the present. Thersis no doubt but
the text books in use are grossly partisan
and slanderous of everything Southern,
but finding the teachers are mere instru-
ments in the hands of others, we will
suspend comments and see whether the
Board can adjust its internal discrep-
aacies.
The Memphis and Charleston railroad
received local freights yesterday, but not
to-day. The delays appear to be on al
ternate days, aud the officers of the road,
we are satisfied, are making the most of
their facilities. President Wicks has
lately returned from the North, from
whence he will soon receive one hundred
freight cars, number of locomotives
and other rolling stock.
At least two hundred emigrants have
come over the Memphis and Charleston
railroad every day for the last two or
three months. They represent all classes,
from the well-to-do farmer, with plenty OF
money, to the veriest outcast who thinks
there is country made for him, some
place where there is good eating and
sleeping and no work to do. The hard
ships of new country are numerous,
aud no doubt many Of these people will
be trying to get BACK next fall Z
The proposition to tax insurance com
panies by the city one hundred dollars for
each solicitor, and u per cent. instead
of | per cent, is not only an unjust dis
elimination, but in the end will work an
injury to the general interests of Mem
phis by driving away capital and busi-
ness that otherwise would be concentrated
here. We have not space or time to dis
cuss the subject aS it deserves, but hope
the General Council. which meets this
evening, will reconsider this onsfous and
injndicious measure.
The following appears 10 late num-
Der of the Nashville Banner: A very
interesting suit came up in the Chancery
Court yesterday. An old gentleman
named Long, residing some distance from
Memphis, had deposited in the Union
Bank at that place during the war the
sum of $4,000. Gen. Besuregard was
all persons with arrest who
refused to receive Confederate money
Many parties had already been arrested
for that offense.l Long was notified by the
bank to 90 to Memphis, and to draw ont
his $50, 900 in Confederate money. Being
an aged man, and in6rm in health, he re-
ceived it, as he alleges in his bill, through
intimidation and under duress. w. f..
Cooper, attorney for respondent, de-
INJURED to the bill on the ground that the
duress was not sufficiently strong BY the
bank as to compel the action Of Long in
taking out bis deposit. Chsncsllor East
overruIed the demurrer, and required re-
spondents to answer"
Owing to the want Of labor, much of
the cotton in the region adjacent to
Memphis has not been picked, and will
be a loss. in the region tributary to
Memphis, it is estimated that 100000
worth of last years crop has gone to
waste in the fields. A plan has been
suggested, though too late for this sea.
son, which appears both novel and FEAST
Bile, to secure cotton-pickers for two
months in the year from East Tennessee.
1t is proposed to send responsible agents
into that end of the State to gather
up gangs Of men and boys, who in the
fall season have little work to do, and
bring them to West Tennessee on good
pay, aud when they are done to take them
b.ok The railroads have sirai6ed their