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AMAZING FOLLY.

1t is stated in the Boston Daily Adver-
tiser that the Collector of Boston ana
the United States Marshal of Massa-
chusetts are actively at work packing
the Republican Convention OF that
State in order to secure the nomination
of General Butler for Governor. IL
seems that the Republicans OF Massa-
chusetts are opposed to this sort OF IN
reference, which they denounce as an
attempt to establish there q general
BROKERAGE in the Offices of the State and
nation. 1.-THE Republicans of New
York" says the Advertiser, tried to do
that, and they we're split hopelessly in
twain. They have come to that con-
dition where the nation has nothing to
expect from them, except through the
amazing folly of their enemies. Moth
ing but the amazing folly" of the Dem
ocratic party will defeat it next year.
The amazing folly of discussing the
new departure, has nearly ruined it.
Some other amazing folly will complete
its ruin, possibly. We must get rid of
amazing follies, or we shall have an
amazing Radical triumph and an amaz-
ing despotism.
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A MYSTERY.

Wonders will never cease. We cannot
turn round without humping our heads
against them. They have become 50
very common that they cease to astonish
us. The last of the tribe of them we
find in the Trenton Gazette. A CORE
spondent of that paper has been among
them, or, perhaps, they have been
among him. He says:
AS though standing upon the confines
of eternity, saw the River OF. Lite,
having its source far out beyond the an
ole of vision-rising with the beginning
of time. and its pellucid waters rolling,
and yet stationary, athwart the heavens.
No raging pillows, nor stormy wayos-no
foaming crests, or dashing cataracts-no
stormy sea, nor stranded ship, nor dy-
ing crew.
This beautiful river appeared to have
its origin in the attitudes of heaven, MD
the songs, the beatitudes and sweet music
of the redeemed throng that makes glad
the city of God; and its terminus out on
the margin of time was beyond compre-
hension in the fathomless abyss OF eter-
nifty. The river was subjeetto no law
no power of attraction-no rolling cur
rent-no turbulent and muddy stream
no chilling winds; but placid and calm,
permanent, and yet river
saw it, and on the east side was the
city of God, with its tall spires, kissing
the utmost heavens. No golden streets
nor ivory gates, but all of eternal and
durable marble, the creation of an ON
nipotent hand; and the streets eyer
green, overhung with eyer-blooming per
ennial flowers, and the inhabitants knew
nodeath, nor sickness, sorrow nor pains,
but drank from that crystal river, and
lived forever
We perfectly comprehend the phe-
nomenon of waters rolling, yet sta
tionary." We see the picture. We per
ceive the lever blooming, perennial
flowers" We wish we had been there.
We feel that we have missed it all. We
want to see the river that has no law,
no power of attraction, no rolling cur
rent, and still is a river We want to
see it coming out of the attitudes Of
heaven. We shall then be happy.
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HODGE.

A Washington telegram says Of the
great Hodge dedication: His embez-
element has run over such a long time,
and was covered up, one way or another,
in the tweuty-six millions of dollars he
has disbursed in that period of fraud
and speculation, that it seems quite i'm
possible to SIT his altered accounts and
ascertain the exact amount. Hodge
himself says he is defaulter for -four
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but
investigation shows that amount to be
fifty thousand dollars too little. The
total loss to the Government, so far as il
can be approximately ascertained, viii
reach one million two hundred thousand
dollars.
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PUBLIC LEDGER.
anon suanEsTION.

We find an idea we suggested some
time since elaborated in Philadelphia
naper II is, that criminals be taxed to
nav the expense of their trials
Thoroughly good men, our contempt
rary says, and very correctly, 40 not
need restraining laws. 1t would, there
fore. seem proper that the cost OF admin
;s,er;ng such laws should fall alone upon
those who create the necessity for them.
The vicious who render it necessary 10
keen up the costly penal and criminal
svstems of courts, jails and penlten-
t;aries ought, in strict equity, to pay the
hill of their own creation. By far the
largest part of society-honest men and
women-have no use for penal and Grim
inal laws, and very little for any others.
Four men out of five, perhaps
nine in ten, can be safely lett
10 themselves to adjust all their re.
Jations with each other. What could
not be UecluCu, III tuC NOV
their mutual satisfaction would be re-
ferred to friendly and impartial ar0ltra-
ment of neighbors, and with the power
20 expel incorrigible members. Such a
society would get on very well without
any kind of public law, and without any
form of penal code whatever. 1t is the
bad people who make government neces-
sary. Government restraints personal
liberty. and even when the state is tree,
the government which the evil-doers me-
cessitate takes part of rational liberty
from the good. The worse the people
are, or the greater the proportion OF the
bad men to the good in the State, the
more stringent and exacting must the
laws be. So is that scoundrels ensnare
good men, and mulct them in the ex-
pense of laws which for themselves they
do not need
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LATEST TELEGRAMS.
Specials TO the Ledger.
axERroAN PREss ASSOCIATION, VIA 8. P. A.
TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
WASHINGTON.

New Funded LOan---Thc Hodge De-
charlottesville Indian and Mexi-
can Comm sssfOn.
WASHINGTON, September l8.-About
$50 O0O,O 900 of the bonds of the new
funded loan, are yet to be sent to those
banks which, before the syndicate was
formed, sent to the Treasury their $500
dollars in exchange for those of the new
loan. The subscriptions are filling at
the rate of one million per day, and be.
fore month will elapse, the whole
amount subscribed for, about seventy
millions, will have been forwarded to the
banks.
1t is altogether likely that the Hodge
defaleation will have a Congressional
investigation. The pay department al
leges that che performance of certain
acts, which it names, by the treasury
would have detected the irregularities,
and the treasury reports that the action
indicated would not have hindered the
operations, and explains how they could
have been carried on in spite Of the
guards upon it which the pay depart
ment would have it enforce. An inves-
tigation by committee Of Congress
would not bring back the half million
lost, but it might furnish the basis for
legislation which would make it impos-
sible for any one again to continue in
the practice Of fraud for four years
without detection.
The Indian and Mexican Claims Com
mission is expected to resume its session
this week. There are Overcome Thousand
three hundred cases still on the docket
and nearly equally divided between thu
two countries. So far about eighty have
been decided against Mexico, involving
about four hundred thousand dollars
and thirty or forty cases against the
United States, involving nefourth o
that amount.
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NEW YORK.
Connolly Removed Appointments
of General Geo. Is. Nc J1ellan-At-
tempted Suicide.

Connolly Removed Appointment
of General Geo. B. McJ1eIlan-At-
tempted Suicide.
New YORK, September lS.-Several
facts developed in connection with the
appointment of Mr.. Green as Deputy
Commissioner, led to the belief, ex-
pressed in several places yesterday,
that it was brought about by the active
agency Of the Democratic State Central
Committee, and the new situation was
generally accepted, in view Of these
facts, as beginning an active operation
by the State Central Democratic Com
mittee against the ring, or at least par.
ofit,which hoped to save itself by sacri-
iicing Connolly. The announcement Of
the removal of Connolly and the appoint
ment Of Gen. Geo. B. Mcclellan as head
of the finance department. is made this
morning by Mayor Hall.
Yesterday woman named Corners,
living in Willow street, Hoboken, at.
tempted suicide by taking Paris green,
The cause Of the rash act was cruel
treatment received from the hands of a
drunken husband almost daily. She is
not expected to live.
A small house in Coy ION, N. j., occu-
pied by an aged couple named John and
Bridget Higgins, was destroyed by fire.
The remains Of Higgins and wife were
taken from the ruins terribly charred.
The fire is supposed to have been purely
accidental.
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corToN FACTORS.
No. IL UNION STREET,
slonewalI BLOCK. Memphis. Tenr

HAYE ONE OF THE LARGEST STOCKS
Ill IL has ever been their pleasure to offer,
both to the city and country trade. consisting
in part. viz;
200 bags Coffee; 1000 Kegs Nails;
100 hhds Sugar: 800 bbls Sugar;
1000 bids lrOn-tfes-all patterns;
1000 pes Bagging, 20 ~ pounds;
1900 bbts FIOur--aII grades;
1000 bbIs salt; 300 bbls whisky ;
500 pigs Tobacco; 100 eases Sar-
Gfnes.
400 eases OYSTERS;
Bacon. Mess FORK, Hams, Lard;
MackereI. MOIasses. Meni. and vari-
Gus other articles i'm their line too
numerous TO mention.
The attention Of wholesale dealers e fpe-
cially invited TO their large stock. which has
been getton up with Lfeat care, and il offered
at prices that must prove satisfactory 10
buyers.
Their Cotton Department Is under the
charge Of A. c. TREADWELL, who gives his
personal attention 10 the sale Of Cotton, and
having had eighteen years experience 10 the
business, feels competent 20 do iugiice 10 ship
lers in the sale u the staple. They would
lurther return thanks for the Fory liberal pa
ifonsge heretofore extended b them, and re-
specially solicit a continuance Of the fame.
1870
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A TRAITOR uNRARTHRn-

The organ of the Grand Army OF the
Republic makes a fierce assault on Post
master Creswell. 1t says " he prefers a
rebel for appointment in his department
to a Union soldier Of at least equal &C
quirements. No amount Of explanation
or shilly-shally ing will cover this plain
fact. Mr.. Creswell, by his neglect and
refusal to take a decided stand, and by
his connivance with the Baltimore Gus
tom-house ring, contrived to throw the
Fourth and Fifth Maryland Congress
sional districts into the hands Of the
Democracy, and helped to defeat
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at least two soldier candidates
for Congress in the campaign OF
$50. Let this be marked down. The
Postmaster General finds it convenient
to be absent from Cabinet meeting
when the question of afoding protec-
ton to Southern loyalists comes mp, being
too busiiy employed in laying pipe Tor
the nomination of another relative Tor
the office of Governor of Maryland, and
not daring to place himself on record as
the enemy of loyal men, though his
whole conduct shows that such are ms
sentiments. Let that be placed to his
,radit a1so "
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The young lady who was caught smok-
ing BY her mother excused herself by
saying it made her smell like there was
a man about.
A st. Louis woman not quite making
up her mind to sewer-cide, whiled away
sixteen hours in cistern. She recov-
cred without a stomach pump.
According to the census statistics more
homicides occurred in Tennessee during
the year ending May 81, 1871. than in
New York and Pennsylvania together.
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BUTLER is resolved to be. the next
Governor of Massachusetts. He intends
to speak every night until the nomina-
ton, and, if necessary, until the cleo
ton. He has four or five secretaries
constantly employed at his Office in
Pemberton Square, Boston, and pri-
vate telegraph apparatus enables him to
send and receive messages without the
least delay.
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Mr.. ETHERIDGE is quoted as saying
that he does not care whether he is
called "a Departurist, Conservative, or
Democrat; but there is one thing which
he can not stand, and that is the name
of Radical" Mr.. Etheridge is clearly
upon our platform. No platform but OPP
position to the Radical party.
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LAZARUS & MORRIS perfected specta-
Giles are the best They never tire the
eyes; last many years without change
are warranted not to break. f. II. Clark
& Co., jewellers and opticians, No. |
Clark's Marble Block, 29O Main street,
Memphis, are sole agents for this city,;
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The Memphis Gas Light Company is
now supplying gas to the city of supe-
rior Illuminating power and brilliancy
at reduced rates, and has on hand coke
and coal-tar; also naptha-tar, the best
lubricator for railroad cars and heavy
machinery. Office, 29l Second street,
146t
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A WASHINGTON telegram in the morn
ing papers says the cotton reports for
the past month are not genuine. Have
the rings forged false accounts and taken
the cotton crop under their supervision2
The rings-we mean thieyes--may send
out their reports, but they cannot abolish
facts
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Boys, and Children's Fall and Win
ter nIOfhfmw

Parents and guardians wishing to
send their boys off to school can now
supply them with complete outfits Of
fall and winter clothing and underwear,
at J. D. Williams, 327 Main street. His
stock is new and fresh, just received,
and embraces everything necessary for
boys and children's wear. Is
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ce-Oongregafion Beth FL Em
eth.

Those desiring to engage seats in our
Synagogue for the coming Holidays,
can apply to the President. Happeck,
No. 352 Main street-between three and
four o'clock pm, up to the end of the
Holidays.
ri BIN. LEVY. Sec'y.
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REYNOLDS New Orleans improved
Screw Cotton Press is on exhibition at
Swift Iron and Steel Works, 1876 Main
street Call and examine this splendid
press. [2S1 JoHN MANoGUE, Agent.
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THE through rate for corn from Chi
cago to New York is quoted at 23c per
bushel. With Sd freight from New York
to Liverpool, the through freight from
Chicagoi is lllc per bushel. The present
rate of freight on corn in sacks from st.
Louis TO New Orleans is 3Oc per hundred
pounds, which is equal to l63c per bushel.
With lOd freight from New Orleans to
Liverpool, the through freight charges
on bushel of corn from St. Louis TO
Liverpool is 39lc. The cost of bulk
grain would be less than these figures by
Sc per bushel. AS between Chicago and
st. Louis there is, therefore, a difference
in the through cost of grainto Liverpool
of nearly Sc per bushel, with very little
difference in point of time consumed.
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Tnr Appeal of Sunday says:

After several days delay, the new or
eanization of the Appeal Publishing
Company has been completed, and the
paper makes it appearance under new
auspices. The charter granted by the
Legislature of. Tennessee, is still re-
tanned, and the stockholders and Di-
rectory have unanimously elected NJ: c.
Galloway, j, NJ. Heating and L. }. Du-
Pre- editors. i'h a1sAh
And now the Appeal goes bravely on.
Such young fellows as Galloway, Keat-
ing and DuPre, know all about the news
paper business. We remember distinctly
that we had hard job when we taught
them all they know. They are good
boys, and viii yet make men of them
selves
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CASH PREMIUMS /:

The Bolrd of Directors, in commencing this
scheme to the public, promise thst il shall be
carried out in good faith. They will appoint
a Committee Of Award whose high character
will be n sufficient guarantee that perfect fair
ness will control the distribution.
The price of these Special Tickets has been
fixed at the low sum Of
TWO DOLLARS.
In order tina. they may be within TIE reach Of
eveTv one.
1t Is hoped and expected that the Third An
nual Fair will be so srccessful, financially, as
to enable the Society 70 erect sritablo build
inss and improve the grounds to such degree
Of excellence as TO render them source of
pride to every citizen Of Memphis, Shelby
county, and t.s adjacent country.
The Hoard Of Directors have selected Mr..
W. II. BATES to supervise the special ar
rangenelt. and Tickets can be had on appii.
cation TO him at the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad Depot. or through any Of his sub
49, JACOB THOMPSON. President.
LEON TR0USDALE, Secretary,
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SAYS the Pittsburg Post; The friends
of the President continue to steal all
they can get their hands on. Now
we have another defalcation of one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars in the
New York postoflce. Well these poor
fellows think, no doubt, that so long as
they give presents to the President, they
have right to steal, and that he will
protect them or pardon them if con-
Yicted. at. .Nl
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TRUNKS.
EAESs
PRIVILEGES AT FAIR.

CEALED BIDS WILL BE RECIYED UN-
- til October LIST proximO at the Office Of the
Secretary OF the Chamber of Commerce, for
the privilege to sell wines and LIQUORS. under
the restrictions of the Board Of Directors, at
the next fair Of the Memphis Agricultural
and Mechanical Society, commencing October
10th. The highest and best bid win be re-
eeiyed, the Directors reserving the right to
grant privilege to sell table wines at restau-
rant.
Other PRIVILEGES will be sold by application to
1875 LEM TR0USDALls, Secretary.
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presh oysters.

Where cal we get the best oysters
Why, at Headquarters Oyster and Game
Depot, 278 Second street.
81 EDWARDS & HoLBRooK.
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BOYS AND CHILDREN CLOTHING, from
two and half years old and upward.
j. ID. WILLIAMS,
Is 1921 Main street.
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Buy the best, which is always cheap
est. j. Devote has full supply Of the
best family groceries, Call and see, at
the corner of Third and Adams streets.
l04-tl
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If you wish 10 get "a Sewing Ma
chine that has stood the severest
tests for twenty years, get a Wheeler
a wilson. II
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Victor D. Fuchs, at Al Jefferson street,
is receiving them daily by express. Call
on him for your supplies. 70
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Go TO j. D. Williams, 327 Main
street, for boys and children's fall and
winter clothing. 10
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PUMPS al al5 Second street..

Pasture Farm.-One hundred and
forty acres clever and grass at Mon.
Redford's farm. Fine water, secure
stables, fences, etc. See Brackett
a. Go. 1887
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ANOTHER ROAD.

A Louisville correspondent of the
Trenton News says:
We invite the especial attention of the
people of Trenton to the splendid pros
poets looming up before them for great
Z railroad from Louisville to Memphis
by way of Trenton. The voting of the
s2OO,00 by the city of Memphis in Au-
gust last, secured the early completion
Of the Mississippi River railroad from
Memphis to Union City; while the $780,
900 subscribed by the enterprising town
of Trenton, made the branch road from
that road to Trenton fixed fact-while
the people of Louisville are pressing for
a road from Louisville in the direction
of Trenton to meet it at some point be-
tween Humboldt and the State line.
The railroad now leading out from Lou
isville by way of Bowling Green and
Humboldt to Memphis is very crooked
and circuitous line to Memphis, and
about seventy-fve miles longer than the
proposed road from Louisville, va Tren-
ton to Memphis, would be, as any one
can see by g.ance at his map.
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ALL kinds of roofs made or repaired
by Il. c. Jones, III Poplar street. 81
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Tnr AppeaI, Of ais morning. says:

The press has grown weary in discuss
ing, and the people in reading the inces-
SAINT chatter about the political question
which has recently divided the Demo
cratic party. The New Departure" has
become nuisance, and we do not pro-
pose to offend our readers by again using
a word which is a stencil and an eye-sore.
Now, boys, that is right. You should
have taken our position six months ago.
But we forgive you. Any question likely
to divide the Democracy should be con-
traband. Opposition to Radicalism is
platform enough. Now forfa pull all
together.
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Snow fell at Tate's Spring on the llth.
Only think Of i'll Granger county, East
Tennessee, has taken the snow premium
for 1871.
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PERSONS who have been waiting for
J. D. Williams stock to arrive can now
call at 1927 Main street. Is
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THE quarrel for the possession Of the
great Emma silver mine, in Utah Terri
tory, which has been actively carried on
in the courts of the Territory for a long
time past, is, we hear, about to be settled
by compromise. The terms Of the set
Element are, that the present owners OF
the mine, who paid Sl,5OO,OOO for it,
shall first be allowed to divide among
themselves $3,OOO,OOO of profits, and that
then the contestants of their title, among
whom are Senator Stewart, of Nevada,
James Lyon, Joseph Chafee, and Judge
Hillyer, shall be given q small interest
IN the concern.
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The New York Sun wishes to know if
the Democratic party of New York will
take upon their shoulders any RESPONSE
biity for the great robberies Of the pub
lie treasury that have been perpetrated
in that city, or will they decisively and
emphatically repudiate them and their
authors2 OF course the Democratic
party will not take upon its shoulders
the alleged sins of Tammany. Does the
Radical party take upon its shoulders
the defalcation of Hodge and others2
The Democracy never winked at corrup-
ton in high places. The Radicals not
only wink but nod at it.