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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-10
NEW YORK.
Japanese Princes Races-Skating
Consress-The Youthful Brutus-
Confession.

| Japanese Princes Races-Skatine
ress-The Youthful Brutus-
Confession.
New YORK, February l0-Among the
arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel yes
terday we're the japanese Princes and
suit, numbering in all eighteen persons.
An important meeting was held yes
terday at the New York Produce Ex-
change. Resolutions were adopted TO
take measures for the relief Of the suf-
ferers by the war in France. The at
tendance of prominent merchants and
business men was very large. The sub
scription amounts to S6675
The entries for the July and August
meeting at the Monmouth Park Course,
Long Branch, closed on the LIST of Feb
ruary, but the secretary waited for en-
tries by mail The lists were not com
pleted until yesterday. In seven stakes
of the July meeting one hundred and
forty-two of the finest horses in the coun-
try are entered; and for the August
meeting the number is even greater.
Nearly all of the old favorites will APP
pear, and several new ana good ones are
entered.
The American Skating Congress held
their annual meeting yesterday at the
Hoffman House. This association is
formed of delegates from different cities
throughout the country, the object being
the advancement of the art of skating
and the forming of rules to govern con-
tests. No business of Importance was
transacted.
The police of Brooklyn have been
unable to arrest the boy who has fright
ened the ladies Of Brooklyn for some
time past, notwithstanding the large
reward offered for his arrest.
John II. Devon, the accomplish Of
Kelly, both alleged murderers
of Garrett W. Costran, at Syacott, Long
Island, on January 2lst, has, it is said,
confessed the commission of the crime,
at the request of his father and mother,
who visited him in jail. Kelly denies
the crime.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, February l0.-Work-
men are now engaged in raising the en-
CINE, and viii probably find more bodies
to-day. The impression from evidence
given is, that the accident was the result
Of careIessness on the part of the freight
conductor-in not having signal cord
on his train and brakemen in proper po-
sition-and the company not enforcing
the rules for carrying signal cards
through the train. The examination
continues to-day
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FORCING EQUALITY.

The Senate of Mississippi has run a
close race with, overtaken and throttled
one of class of measures precipitated
on the South by the race Of carpet-bag-
gers. 1t has defeated a bill (by ma
jority of two votes) making it misde-
meanor for any inn-keeper to make dis
tinction on account Of race or color.
The animus Of the measure is this:
There is an excellent hotel in Jackson
kept by gentleman who has made his
money by industry. He embarks in the
hotel business, as men embark in any
other business, to make money. He in
vests his money in it. He provides
everything suited to the business.
His parlors are richly csrpeted and
gorgeously furnished. His rooms con-
tain clean beds and furniture suited
to the comfort of clean people. His
table is luxurious, and patronized by the
highest people of the land. A negro
from cotton-feld, or from a night Of
debaueh, carrying fifty pounds Of dirt on
his clothes and body, and gallon of the
meanest whisky that the genius of the
still can invent in his stomach, demands
one Of the best rooms in the hotel-de-
mands to sit at the table with the guests
demands to spread himself out in the
parlors, and to make himself at home
generally Many negroes demand the
same privilege, and enforce it by the law.
To deny it to them is misdemeanor and
punishable. What can the inn-keeper
do to protect HIMSELF Why, quit the
business or keep negro hotel, as the
whites will desert his house. II the vii
lainous act had passed, it would have
closed up every hotel in Mississippi
The result would have been this: A
white man, possessing the pride anC
instincts Of his race, could not keeI
a hotel in the State. This is Radi
cahsm. 1t hates, it despises, Il
damns the white race of the South
In attempting to force the negro into
the circles aud cOmpanionship of whites
1t is not sctuated SO much by a desire L
benefit the negro as it is to wound, hu
initiate and ruin the whites.
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CALL IN BUNsBY.

IF SO be as how the ship am gone
down, then the boy won't come back. II
so be as how the ship am not gone down,
the boy will come back. 1t is scarcely
necessary to say that the words We have
quoted above fell from the lips of Capt.
Jack Bunsby, one of the ornaments of
the British merchant service. There
is wisdom for you" is an expression that
fell from the lips Of another ornament
of the same service. 1t is hardly neces-
sary to advise the learned reader that
we allude to--in short--Captain Cutie.
Bunsby and Cutie we're fast friends.
The former, whether from the circum-
stance of always keeping one eye fixed
on the coast of Greenland, or other
wise was almost worshiped by the good
but supplemented Cutie. Mr.. Domby
had sent young man to Demerera on
business. In course of time intelligence
came that the ship on which he en-
barked had foundered. Bunsby who,
in the estimation OF his friend was half
a dozen Websters rolled into one colos-
sal whole, was consulted as an oracle.
Spreading on the floor map Of the seas
the ship must have traversed, and keep
ing one eye on the coast of Greenland,
he delivered the opinion we have quoted
at the beginning of this article. We ex-
press no opinion of our own as to the
merits of the opinion, though it extorted
the most extravagant praise from the
man with great honest, tender heart in
his bosom, and bright pair Of sugar
tongs in his pocket. And SO, if we have
any Cuttles in this country. let them
summon all the Jack Bunsbys they can
hear Of and set them to calculating
the chances of the safety of the pleasure
party that went out from our shores on
board the Tennessee, bound for the
shores of San Domingo. We should
perpetrate a verbal inconsistency to
adopt the language Of Bunsby, in char
acterization of the possible fate Of Ben
Wade and party. We should unsay what
we have said on former occasion when |
referring to this identical subject. We
seorn to be inconsistent. But let Others
do that which we cannot do Perhaps |
we are wrong and Bunsby right. Other
Bunsbys may console the Administra-
ton. If the Tennessee went down, the |
party will not come back. If the Ten
nessee has not gone down, the party may !
come back. People generally may be
more difficult to satisfy than Cutie was.
Meantime, as the vessel should have
reached her destination within the space
Of eight or ten days, and has been out
twenty-odd days and has never been
heard from, we cannot perceive any hope |
for its safety, except that founded on the
Bunsby philosophy.
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WASHINGTON.
Conversational Proceedings.

WASHINGTON, February 10. = Mr..
Hoar' bill provides national system Of
education, and is not likely to pass. The
chief value Of the debate upon it is to
direct public attention to the deplorable
state of ignorance prevailing at the
South, and the possible necessity for the
General Government to give some TEN
porary aid toward starting common
school education in the Southern States.
The strongest objection against the bill
is that instead Of stimulating the States
to greater exertion, it takes the matter
really away from such as have not pro
vided free schools and places it under
control Of the Government.
The fear Of amendments plunging the
House into an endless debate on tariff
reduction and the abolition Of the inter
nal tax, was the cause Of the defeat Of
the first step taken in the House yester-
day morning toward the abolition Of the
odious income tax. Very much interest
was shown as to the result Of the vote on
the main question after going into Com
mittee Of the Whole on the bill, and
when it was announced there was i'm
mense clapping Of hands by Che major
ity, who evidently thought it great
victory. Mr.. Hooper, who has charge Of
the bill, will make another trial some
day next week, when it is hoped he viii
succeed il getting the matter before the
House
In the Senate a memorial was pre-
sented from the New York Reform
League asking that 3 commission be
sent South to inquire into the condition
Of the freedmen, and suggest a mode for
improving their condition.
The House bill regulating rank in the
navy was reported from the Committee
on Naval Affairs with an amendment
The Senate at 1910 went into execu-
tive session to resume consideration Of
the nomination Of the commissioners to
settle the Alabama claims and other
questions with Great Britain.
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officers Of the boats worshiping at the
same shrine. Now, while am no tenn
perance lecturer, do say that men who
habitually and frequently indulge in the
use of whisky, while on duty on steam
boats and railroads, are not fit TO be
trusted with the lives aud the property of
their fellow-men. And / verify believe
if the sale Of spirituous liquors were rig
idly prohibited on steamboats, that the
number of river catastrophes would be
greatly diminished. / am aware this
will be regarded as old fogyish, and per-
haps as an insult to the liberal ideas Of
the present day upon the subject Of
drunkenness and the responsibility Of
the respectable drnnkard for his acts
when under the influence Of whisky yet
I venture to express my convictions. /
trust one of the "despotic powers Of
the coming Inspector Of whom you
speak, will be exercised in the Danish
ment Of bars from STEAMBOATS,. r.
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In the House telegram was read
from the Governor of Texas, stating
that the Legislature of Texas had passed
joint resolution instructing the Sena-
tors and requesting the Representatives
in Congress to urge the passage Of the
bill for the construction of railroad
from the eastern boundary Of Texas to
the Pacific, with grants similar to those
given to other Pacific roads, at or near
the thirty-second parallel, ms-
The House bin to amend the act i'm
posing tax on distilled spirits and to-
bacco, with the Senate amendment, was
referred TO the Committee on Ways and
Means.
The bill to authorize the payment of
duplicate checks of discussing officers
was reported from the Ways and Means
Committee. ..'.....s
The annual bill to establish additional
post routes was reported from the Postal
Committee and passed.
Consent was asked to introduce res
olution directing the Census Commits
sioner to summon before them one
Thomas and others
A bill reported from the Naval Com
mittee for the relief of Harriet Pendle-
ton, widow of the late acting Lieutenant
Pendleton, Of the navy, was passed.
A bill reported from the same Com
mittee, to permit W. N. Houston, tate
naval constructor, to withdraw his resig-
nation, and authorizing the President to
use his discretion to restore him to his
ormer position in the navy.
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ST. LOUIS.
Constitutional Convention - An.
other Trunk Line 10 the North
west.

Constitutional Convention An
other Trunk Line TO the North
west.
ST. Louis, February l0.-In the Mis-
souri, House of Representatives reso-
luton for calling Constitutional Con-
vention was passed by vote of II to 49,
The result in the Senate is doubtful.
Important negotiations have just been
concluded in this city, whereby St Louis
is to have another. trunk line to the
Northwest. Mr.. Joy, representing Han
nibal, and other railroads, after a full
conference with the committee represent
ing the corporation known as the st.
Louis and Keokuk Railroad Company,
has agreed to build the road last named
on the chartered route from st. Charles
to Hannibal via Louisiana, and the Han
nibal and St. Joseph railroad is to con-
meet with it at or near New London by
branch from Monroe City-the whole
track to be finished and in running
order within the present year. 1t will
leave gap from st. Charles to this city,
which it is proposed to fill up by build
ing an independent line. 1t is under
stood the object of this movement is to
run continuous line from st. Louis TO
Omaha under one management
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How a whole Family Became Blind.

From the Cambridge tMass.) Herald.l al
There lives family in Dorchester
county, every dark-eyed male member OF
which for the past fifty years has gone
blind at the age of twenty 10 twenty-five
years. Those with blue eyes escape the
terrible affection. There is tradition
about this singular circumstance which
we lay before our readers as we heard IT,
Some sixty years since, so goes the
story, a beautiful black-eyed girl OF
twenty, from some cause or other, lost
her eyesight. Her misfortune brought
penury and want with it. Being re-
duced to beggary, she was wont to go
abroad asking aims. During one of her
Journeys she visited the neighborhood
in which resided the ancestors of those
who are now sightless Instead of her
helpless condition exciting, as il should
have done, a feeling of sympathy, she
was treated with ridicule by some of the
younger members of the house her evil
star had led her into. Two of the boys,
as matter of mere deviltry,
took her out, promising to conduct
her to a place where plenty awaited.
Instead of giving her safe conduct,
they carried her into swamp and left
her. 1t is said that she cried out, be-
seeching them to put her on the public
road, but they needed not her lamenta
tons Finding herself about to be de-
serted among the tangled brushwood,
she turned her prayer to a curse, asking
her Maker, in her revengeful anguish, to |
punish her betrayers by making their off
spring for seven generations as helpless |
as she was. 1t is said that she was found
dead in the swamp, having persisted
from hunger and cold This may appear
somewhat romantic, but whether the ira
dictionary part of it be false or true, it is |
assuredly fact that the male offspring |
of the family referred to lose their sight |
as indicated. Hundreds of persons in
Dorchester county will verify it. {
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sonrHrRn PACIFIC RArERoAD.

If we may repose our faith IN the
truth photographic reports from WASH
ington, the bill to, appropriate public
lands in aid of the construction Of the
Southern Pacific railroad will pass tri'
umphantly through Congress. We have
been slow to believe that y had any
chance at all of going through, and are
glad enough to find that we have been
mistaken. 1t seems that a test yotez-one
hundred and twenty-nine to sixty-two-
has settled its fate. After the fifteenth
of this month it will be taken up by the
House, and, it is said, will pass. Mean
time it remains in the hands of the Pa
cifc Railroad Committee. But the as
sent of both Houses does not dispose OF
it. In his message to Congress, the
President notifies it that bills granting
any more lands to corporations would
encounter his veto. We have no doubt
he win veto il should it pass His hatred
of the South is so intense that
he is totally disqualified from
treating it with that justice
which is common among civilized COM
and especially that justice
which is due from the first officer of the
Government to the people, whose repre-
theoretically at least) he is.
Another President will sign the bill, or
,ne similar, and the road win be built.
Grant can obstruct it two years, and
possibly six, but the work is fixed fact
f anything that has not transpired may
,e styled fact. The work will proceed,
,eto or no veto, and will go through
whether its greatest enemy live to OBJ
truct it or die hating it. i
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CHICAGO.
Arrival OF Bret Herte.

CHICAGO, February lO.-Mr. F. Bret
Harte is being lionized a great deal,
though in a quiet way, in Chicago so
ciety. Wednesday evening he was en-
tertained by the Chicago Club. Yester-
day evening he dropped in on a small
company of artists and journalists at
the bachelor rooms Of a well known
publisher This evening he will be the
hero of select reception at the resi-
dence of Writ Dexter, Esq.
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The New York journal of Commerce,
in an article on the course of Gambetta,
says if peace is not made by the Bor-
deaax Assembly, the renewal of the war
can have but one ending, and that the
complete ruin of all that is left to France.
Following that would not unlikely come
the assumption by the Germans of the
right to govern a country which was I'M
able to govern itself, and the return Of
the Napoleonic dynasty under the pro-
lection Of German bayonets, and with
the aid of those Imperial civilians and
soldiers, including many of the prison
ers from Sedan and Metz, whom Gam
betta's rash order has exasperated.
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NOTICE.
MARDI GRAR.

CPECIAL TICKETS AT go FOR THE
- round trip to New Orleans and return
rood from February 18th 10 18th, both days
inciuHive-Will be sold By the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad.
Mardi Gras occurs on the 2lss Of February,
and the tickets will be good TIL the Following
Sunday. For further Information and for
tickets, apply 70 JaIaos Speed, Ticket Agent,
q. p. OAKLEY, Gen1 Ticket AT.
l1e-lH Miss. and Tenn. Depot.
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River Dfsasters.
ID 40 Rditor of the Ledrer:

lhe iOHoMluB - run que VI OuI very
best citizens, on subject of very greet
Importance:
To the Editor Of the Ledger:
The public mind seems thoroughly
aroused 10 the Importance Of adopting
some measure for the greater security Of
human life upon railways and steam
boats. The frequent and appalling dis
asters upon our Western waters have
created general and well grounded dis.
trust Of the security Of that mode Of
travelling. Ingenious theories as to the
cause Of these disasters have been ad-
vanced. My observation leads me 70
believe that, in many instances, one
cause is apparent 10 every careful OBJ
server, and yet ! have not seen il men
toned BY any Of those who have ex-
pended so much learning in devising
ingenious theories ] verify believe that
the bars inside Of our steamboats, are
the cause Of the loss Of more boats and
human lives than the bars in the river.
i is a notorious fact that the laborers
on our Western boats spend q large per
centage Of their wages at the boat bars.
And i is not az al uncommon 10 see TIE
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IMPORTANT CHANCERY SUITS.
The County Court Held Liable for
$4,000 i'm Bonds Issued i'm 1861
for the Benefit of the widows of
Tennessee Volunteers.


Two suits were commenced yesterday
in the Second Chancery Court, of con.
siderable importance. The styles of the
suits are; Demsey Weaver, trustee, ct al.
VS.. the County Court and twenty-one
Justices and ex-Justices of the county,
and Sam. Watson, Receiver of the Bank
of Tennessee, and stockholders against
the same parties. The bonds we're issued
under an act Of the Legislature of 1861.
The bonds explain the object for which
they we're issued, and we append copy
of one Of them for this purpose:
Boxn-0SR THOUSAND DOLLARS.
STATE OF TENNESSEE, SHELLEY CoUNTY:)
Six months after date the County Of
Shelby will pay to George r. Powell,
Revenue Collector, ONE THOUSAND Dol
LARS. This bond is issued under an
order of the County Court of said county
made at October term A. D. 1861, appro-
priating $2l 900 for the benefit of the
families of volunteers, authorized by act
of the General Assembly passed on the
9th day of May, 1861.
Witness my hand and seal of said
court, this 3lst day Of November, A. ID.
1861. ]. w. A. PETIT, Judge.
Countersigned and sealed by John
Tregevant, Clerk.
These bonds we're discounted in 1861
at the different banks of this city, and
the Receivers and Trustees now seek to
recover the amount of these bonds from
the County Court, or from the respective
magistrates, whom the plaintiffs claim
are individually liable. Several other
bills will be filed to-day on bonds issued
for the same purpose. A short time
since a motion was made in the
County Court to appropriate money for
the payment Of these bonds, which APP
plication was refused. The plaintiffs
now seek their remedy by filing an orig
inal bill in the Second Chancery Court.
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YoUSG Grant has been expelled from
West Point for variety Of rascalities,
among which is said to be that Of lying
If the Presidents own son can't cultivate
at West Point the qualities necessary to
secure an appointment under the present
Administration, the institution had bet
ter be abolished. So says the Courier
Journal.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-10

GOVERNOR BULLOCK, of Georgia, has
appointed several prominent gentlemen
of that State a committee TO wait upon
the Kentucky Legislature, aud urge upon
that body the importance to Georgia Of
granting a charter to the Cincinnati
Southern railway. The delegation is
now en- route for Frankfort.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-10

ENGLAND is excited over an article in
the London Saturday Review, broadly
asserting that female tipping prevails
TO an alarming extent in British upper
tendon A few years ago New York
literary journal made charges Of a
similar kind in respect to American
society" but they perhaps not
refuted, but Indignantly denied.
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THE New York Express, of the 4th
inst, says: 1.-THE price of breadstuffs
since the fall of Paris does not satisfy
the spectators, and we are glad Of it.
These persons ought to have known that
the fall of Paris, which was to come
about the time it did, was long ago dis
counted in both the money and grain
markets of the country Besides, No. 2
spring wheat is more than 4Oc higher
than it was year since, and with stock
January /, 1871, $4,000 barrels larger
than the previous year, and with receipts
for January, 1871, $4,000 barrels larger
than January, 1870, the exports have
only increased $500 barrels, leaving an
discrepancy in stocks on hand
February LIST, of l67, 500 barrels against
us, compared with last year In wheat
there is falling off in the January ex-
ports of 1872 900 bushels.
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An old man, who went to the depot in
Wilmington, Del, TO meet his daughter,
who had come from Maryland TO visit
him, Joytully greeted her in the waiting
room, but had scarcely uttered his words
Of welcome when he tottered, fell. and
died. The physician said the cause Of
death was enlargement Of the heart.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-10

GANBErrA is reported to have resigned
and thrown up the sponge in disgust.
He is supposed to have been the only
stumbling-block in the way Of the resto-
ration Of the Empire.
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SINCE Postmaster General Creswell's
6isgracefnl connection with the Chorpen-
ming fraud has been exposed, other trans
actions not creditabIe to him are coming
to light A correspondent of the Wash
ington Patriot writes:
There is a small item | have desire
to let you know, which will assist you in
developing the very honest manner in
which the Postmaster General admins
tiers the duties of his Office, namely: A
party from New York offered TO convey
the mails to Galveston for twenty-four
thousand dollars once a week. Another
party from Baltimore offered 10 do the
same once fortnight for thirty-six thou
sand dollars. The Baltimore party got
the contract. Why? Let it be investi-
gated. NIX EA
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-10

A NEw YoRK paper hoists the name
Of Allen G. Thurman and John Quincy
Adams as candidates for President and
Vice President in 1872.