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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21
WASHINGTON.

The EIectiOn-Arciic Expedition.
WASHINGTON, April 2l.-The election yester-
day resulted in a magnificent triumph for the
Republicans. The voting went on quietly; a
full vote was polled. in which the whites had
a clear majority of 1900. yet the Republican
candidate for delegate to Congress General
Chapman). is elected by from 25CO to 1000 ma
jority, and the Republicans carry fifteen out
of twenty-five legislative districts. The class
Of men elected to the Legislature is much
above the average Of such selections usually
and the whole result augurs well for the sue
cess Of the new system Of government in the
District Of Columbia.
Captain Hall. the Arctic explorer, has nearly
completed his preparations for departure.
The steamer Perriwinkle will be launched on
Monday. fully equipped for the Arctic voyage
The appointment Of Mr.. Farquarher as Su-
pervisor Of Internal Revenue for Indiana is
held up for the present for some unknown
cause.
Subscriptions for the new loan amount 70
only few thousand dollars.
Many members Of the House and Senate are
closing up their business here to-day, so as 10
leave for home tonight.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21
society ON OH.

The Titusville Herald has the follow
ing society gossip:
Several cottages have been let for the
summer at Holidays Dam, and a bril-
liant season is anticipated at this fash
ionable resort. The Union and Titus
vile railroad now brings this elegant
watering-place within few minutes
travel of the city, and business men can
thus visit their families every day after
the close of business hours. 1t is ex-
pected that the price Of claims will be
reduced considerably in this locality,
which will afford new inducements as
cool, quiet, cheap, rural, residing place.
Olive Logan will visit Oil Creek lake
this season.
Anna Dickinson will snuff the noun
tain breezes from Fagundas City during
the dog days.
Walt Whitman is at Pithole, writing q
continuation of his Leaves on Grass.
The coming book will be entitled
Loads of Hay" -,
Kate Field and Gail Hamilton will
exhibit the contents of their trunks at
Bailtown Spa, near Pithole, during the
watering season. -,
Kylyanus Sobb is at Miller Farm,
writing a true tale of the Pipe linel
war, entitled "The Phantom Sand
Pump; or, Alaric, the Robust Revenger
of Red Hot
Susan B. Stanton and E. Cady An
thony will indulge in lemonade with a
fringe in it at Holidays Dam during
August.
Lavender kids, ten cent paper cuffs,
eyeglasses and paste diamonds are con-
sidered quite the thing at the opera house
now. Government underwear is also
worn to a great extent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21

The New York Democrat says OF the
speech of Hon. w. W. Vaughn, Of this
State, in the House of Representatives,
on the Enforcement bill, that it was "one
of the most. convincing and telling
speeches that has yet been heard in that
body on the subject Of the so-called ku-
Klux outrages which are being charged
against the people, as well of his district
as of the whole South. He character
lied the stories as the basest fabriea-
lions and caused letters to be read by
the clerk from many of the best citizens
of Tennessee proving his assertions.
Mr.. Yaughn's speech was listened to
with the most rapt attention, and IS be
lieved to have convinced many OF those
who were undecided on the subject o
the great injustice it was sought by IN
principled parties to inAict on the people
of the South.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21
MARKETS.

CmcAoo, April A.-Receipts: Flour, 900
barrels; wheat. 81 900; corn. $4,000; oats. a.
600: rye, 1000: barley. 1000. shipments; Flour.
$1,000; wheat, q, 900: corn. 1000; oats 40
OOO; rye, -; barley. 200. Wheat. steady-No-
2, 81 ~ to l q for May; 81 $50 TO 80 for
last half Of May. Corn steady, So to see.
Oats. Sc. Pork steady, SIS so cash. as to
brand. Lard quiet. 1O5t 70 lO5Sc. Cut meats.
6ll to &c; rib sides. 50 to sc; sugar cured
SIC. Whisky unsettled. nominally SIC for
iron bound.
CIScNxATI. April 2l-Noon.-Markete easier
but prices unchanged in every respect from
yesterdays quotations.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21

A CONNECTICUT man has trumped up
a claim against the State of Mississippi
for arms, accoutrements, etc., alleged to
have been furnished in 1861, amounting
to upward Of $4,000. 1t turns out that
the Fourteenth Amendment and clause
inserted in the State Constitution by the
mongrels, have come into useful service
The clauses prohibit the State from as
Stunning or paying amy debt or obliga-
ton contracted in aid Of the rebellion. =
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21

AN exchange says Radical" is a
word derived from the Latin Radix,"
which means root. The Radicals are
therefore RIOTERS. s." Their nature has
an element Of swinishness--for swine are
born to root Indeed the first real Radi-
cal, the first Rooter, belonged to the
genus swine. To that first Rooter can
be traced the lofty ancestry of our mod
ern Radicals.
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THE PASSAGE OF THE KU-KLUx BILL,
AND THE ADJOURNMENT OF coN-
GRESS.

The Ku-Klux bill was passed yesterday,
and Congress has adjourned. After
passing such Measure, an adjournment
was proper We do not see how the
National Legislature could have done
otherwise. When man reaches the
utmost limit of crime, or performs the
most atrocious act that depraved ma
ture IAN suggest, he halts. He can go
no further. And so it is with Con-
gress. That body could do nothing
more atrocious than it has done,
unless it passed an act to annul
the Constitution Of the United States
and declare Grant Emperor, or King, or
Dictator. There is no use in denounc-
ing the measure. Words are thrown
away upon that which they cannot affect.
The Ku-Klux bill is the law, and the
Government will attempt to enforce 1t.
A member of the Sherman family repre-
senting the malice of the Radicals of
Ohio in the Senate, is willing to go to
war to put down what he calls the ku-
Klux of the South. There will be no or
ganized resistance to it, though it
will be regarded as an act OF
usurpation. Resistance would be
folly, and only make matters worse.
Whatever the Southern people may
think of it, their true policy is to give no
occasion for It's enforcement. The
Radical people of the North have never
yet recognized peace between the sec
tons. In their minds, the surrender of
Lee did not end the waT They are
still at war with the South and never in
tend to make peace. Peace is not their
policy. They want war, for the reason
that they hate the South, and that agita-
ton is money to them. They would cut
out the heart OF the South and coin 1t
into gold dollars if they could. We
mean the leaders of the radical people
of the North. We mean the Buffers,
Shermans, Mortons, and the long
list of names eminent for nothing
but notorious for every political crime.
But they WELD the power OF the
Government. They control its army
and navy, its powder and its balls Its
caissons and its cannons. They keep the
KEY of the national exchequer, and rattle
the peoples gold derisiyely in the peo-
ple's faces. That we cannot help. The
temper of the North has never cooled
down toward the South since 1861. 1t
is the business of the Radical leaders to
keen it hot. The opal is said to be
volcanic production. The Radical spec
ulators of the North find fortune and
fame in national agitation. They are
rich, but they want more, and more they
must have. They want to see things
bubble and boil, for then they float to
the top, and then robbing is legal
lied Let us not forget the purpose
of the Ku-Klux bill. 1t is to ex-
asperate the Southern people to acts
of violence, and make capital for
the Radical party to be used IN the
Presidential election next year, and to
give occasion for robbery. Let the
Southern people resolve to defeat this
infamous scheme Let them commit no
act of disorder, but pursue the line OF
prudence. Let them observe order and
submit to that which is inevitable. In
that way the men who thirst for their
blood and their money may be baffied.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21

tbs Independent states, on the au-
thority of the Bien Public, whose state
ment in turn rests on that Of " an emil
neut 6nancier who has looked into the
matter" that the estates Of Mr.. Louis
N. Bonaparte, late Emperor Of France,
in Italy alone are valued at 10000, 600,
besides very large acquisitions made by
his wife in Spain, and certain invest
ments of the Imperial pair in Russia,
England and America. The Bien Pub
lie estimates his entire fortune at SloO''
10000. The statement is open to many
doubts.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21

THE Louisville Ledger gets of this:
We have heard American citizens OF
African descent and of prolonged ex-
perience in the poultry business, say
that to steal doing turkey off his roost
you have only to prod him in the breast
a few times with long pole. To escape
the annoyance, he will leave his perch
and try to roost ON the pole, which en-
ables the artist at the other end to bring
him down and bag him without the least
disturbance.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21

There is pretty little girl in the
Treasury at Washington, to whom, the
gossips say, Ulysses has fallen into the
habit of sending fragrant bouquets of
dollhouse flowers and things. Rumor
intimates that Mrs. Ulysses thinks these
polite attentions are altogether unneces-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
uoreI Rnrned.

LAcoRxIA. April 21.-The new hotel in this
Mace. owned by Messrs. Tuck. and occupied
By W. G. and II. Calston. was burned this
morning. Loss. sSO.OOOi insurance small.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21

THE scene in the House of Represent
atives yesterday was so remarkable that,
as matter of history, it should go upon
the record. For it, we are indebted to
the dispatches of our morning cotem-
poraries. That bold, bad man, Butler,
suffers in the debate. Whatever sensi-
bility that may yet linger, like the rem
nants of an ague, in him, was provoked.
For the first time he alluded to his repu-
tation for larceny. He is evidently in
great agony.
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NOTICES.
Notice to Stockholders.

OFFIcR MEBPHIs AND ONO RAILROAD Co.. /
MEMPHIS. Tenn April l6, 1911.
A MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS
n ofthis Company will be held In this city
on Tuesday, the 18th day Of May next, 70 dis
touching their interests.
Arrangements for transporting stockholders
10 and from the city at that time will be made,
and due notice given ut an early day.
By order Of the President.
H-66 r. A. PARKER, Secretary.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21

"A Rare Chance.

7 WILL SELL A ONE-HALF INTEREST
in nv Billiard Hall, No. 81 Adams street.
70 a party understanding the business, az a
soon. l3l-tl j. II. WILLETI.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21
MERCHANTS MEETING.
The Interest of Memphis I'm the
Mississippi and Tennessee Rail-
road Stock iB Danger.

The Interest of Memphis I'm the
Mississippi and Tennessee Rail-
road Stock in Danger.
A large number of merchants and
other business men met at the Chamber
of Commerce yesterday afternoon. The
question OF the railroad stock was settled
by the following series of resolutions:
Resolved, That committee of five be
appointed by the chair, who, in COM
pany with +. NJ. White, shall visit the
merchants and other leading citizens of
Memphis, and obtain subscriptions for
the purchase of stock of the Mississippi
and Tennessee railroad, for the purpose
of retaining its management in the
hands of those identified in interest
with this city.
The following are the committee: f.
NJ. White, Thomas Fl. Allen, John 7.
Stratlon, James Elder, ID. I. Porter and
Col. White. W. r. Moore was added.
Resolved, That the committee be di-
rected to wait on the authorities of the
Memphis and Ohio railroad, Mississippi
River railroad, and the Memphis and
Charleston railroad, and request their
cooperation in the objects for which
they have been appointed.
A committee of three, consisting of
Messrs. w. M. Harrington, Amos Wood
ruff and Jacob Thompson, was appointed
to proceed to Louisville and confer with
the President of the Nashville railroad
to carry out the objects of this meeting.
The following resolutions were also
adopted, after which the meeting ad-
journed:
Resolved, That board consisting of
- members be created by the Cham
Der of Commerce, whose duty it shall be
to vigilantly watch all railroad enter
prises projected which can in anywise
affect the interests and trade of Memphis;
to consider of the ways and means of
concentrating in Memphis the produce
Of the rivers properly tributary to her
commerce, and such other matters as
pertain to the gathering of products to
our market, and the distribution of the
same to other markets, domestic and
foreign. The said board shall from time
to time report to the Chamber as the in
terests of our trade may require.
Resolved, That the members Of the
said board shall be appointed by inc
President Of the Chamber for one year.
The board shall fill the vacancies in the
same by election, and appoint its chair
man. The board now appointed shall
only hold office until the next annual
election of officers Of the Chamber.
Resolved, That the said board shall be
designated as the Shipping Board. "
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21

The newest bonnet is called the Con-
gress." Fashionable millincrs say a new
style now comes out every two hours
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21
PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, April 2l.-The entire naval forces
of Prussia have been transferred to the Ger
man Empire.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21

The Sunday Knoxville Wing and
Register Of Tuesday announces the re-
turn to that place Of W. G. Browniow.
His health Is said to be as good as usual.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21

A WAC of a fellow down South thinks
he knows more about managing negro
farm hands than Greeley does about
raising cabbages. This is his plan:
If Won desire popularity with the ne
groes get up reputation for being a
GOOD easy fellow, who don't care about
making a fortune; who don't wake a
man up too soon; who don't mind hay
ing his mules rode to death going to cleo
tons, to town, the circus, and to see
" Brother Peter" and who don't refuse
to give an order on stores, and who don't
make fuss when q poor liberated slave
happens to get into you = at the end OF
the year.
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FOR RENT.
or Rent.

cTOREHOUsE NO. 2se FRONT STREET.
y Fixtures for sale. Also a nice Office up
''''''' w. 's K. A. PARKER.
45-47 u Madison It.
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Tar Washington Patriot says; Nv

The Washington Patriot says: I'VE
learn that Hon. George II. Pendleton
has finally declined to permit his name
to be used as candidate for Governor
before the approaching Democratic Con-
vention in Ohio. This decision has been
reached after much delirNration, and is
understood to have been made for rea-
sons wholly personal. The impression
now seems to obtain that Gen. George
W. McCook, well known as an able ana
faithful advocate of Democratic princl-
pies. will receive the nomination
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21
Comedy at the memphis Theater.

Comedy at the Memphis Theater.
The Wyndham Comedy Company a
slight sketch of whose members APP
peared in yesterdays LEDGER, will pre-
sent each night change Of bill, thereby
giving in the short space of one week
almost as much variety as another thea
ter would get in long season, and these
representations will notbe hurried or
neglected in any way whatever, but each
play will be presented with that perfect
finish and completeness of detail as well
as fine acting in every part, for which
this company has obtained an enviable
reputation. On Monday, Robertson
beautiful comedy Of Caste, in the per
Torrance of which Mr.. Wyndham' S
combination is said to be unrivaled.
Tuesday, Ours, in which they made SO
great success last season. Wednesday
will present Miss Annie Goodall in the
charming operetta, Mephisto's Mission
in which she personates three distinct
characters, sings some good music, and
changes characters and costumes witt
marvellous rapidly. This will be fol
lowed by Tom Taylor's fine comedy
Still Waters Run Deep, giving another
opportunity for the company to display
their fine powers. Friday night will b
the only night of the ever popular Ian
GERS; and Saturday will bring the season
to an appropriate termination with thu
startling and world renowned comedy o
London Assurance.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-21
LATEST TELEGRAMS.


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BARGAINS
CHEAP PIANOS AND ORGANS.

now have for sale the largest assortment OF
frst-cass PIANOS. ever Offered in Ale1andTla
from the best makers such as WIN. kN ABE u
Co. and others will sell those that have been
rented out at great reduction from first cost on
easy terms of monthly payments. warrant
them in perfect order; and will eepthem in tune
one year They range in price from S7oto sZio.
Also Smith g. Princes celebrated farlor or-
guns, suitable for churches.
lam AGENT FOR ,
VIM. Knabe s. Co.'s Unrlvallcd Planos, sold
Mt factory prices. will furnish any pattern and
nrice on more liberal terms than in Baltimore.
Gall and see them.
A select assortment of SHEET MUSIC, vocal
and instrumental Instruction Books for all in
struments. Any piece not on hand Will DC 1ur1
nished by ordering from New York. Ihe usual
deductions allowed to schools, chors and teachers
Violin and Guitar STRINGS, including the
cheapest and the very best, with general as
sortment of Violins, Guitars, Banjos, Flutes
Rows and other small musical merchandise.
| will sell all these instruments upon easy
terms that will leave no reasonable cause to per-
sons wishing to uphold Ae1andrla t trade = to pur-
chase elsewhere. V. bEChhn,
149 King ST., near Washington St;
P. S.-All kinds of Musical instruments tuned
and repaired. sep - Eo-sl
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i. j. DAVIDSON
RTILUI.NG .HTTER"L.

j. W. MALLS. +. W. MALLS. b.. PEAKE.
IAMES w. MALLS, SON IL CO.,
y 1877 King ST., Alcxa., Va.
Dealers in HARD DWARE, CUTLERY
Carpenters Tools Doors, Sash, Blinds Door
and Window Frames, Brackets, Mouldings
Balusters, of different patterns, and Novel
Posts A largo stock of French and American
Glass, double and single thick, Of all Sizes =
Paints Oils, Varnshcs, Paint and White Wash
Brushes, Lewis Pure White Lead, and other
brands of fine quality, Putty, Turpentine and
Machine OIL Also, Lime, of superior quality,
Cemont Calcined Plaster, Pitch and Felt for
ted Car Augers, and other articles found in first
class Builders Furnishing establishments:
All orders for Lumber, Brick and all kinds
of Building Material, promptly attended TO-
Terms cash. feb ll-tf
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C.aBEN.ET FURNITURE.

LABY.N.ET FURNITURE.
XIyM. III. DeVAUGHAN,
CABIN NJ A X E r,
And Dealer in
NEW AND SECONDHAND FURN1TUR RE,
No. 1I9 King street,
(Noxt door to Brengle's Confectionery store, }
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
Has on hand and is constantly increasing a
large and varied assortment of FUkN!IU Ukh,
which he is offering at very small profit.
His PARLOR SUITES, upholstered in hair
cloth) Marblo-top Tables, What Nots,, Walnut
Rocking, Side and Reception Chairs, Lounges,
Bedsteads, Warlrobes, Hair and Cottop-top
Mattresses, Wash Stands, Centre, Brea fast and
Dining Tables Office, Dining, Rocking, SIDE
and will be sold Quality consderedD as low as
they can be bought in this or any other market.
sep S-3m
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THE BIRD FANcIER From the Philadel
phia Evening Telegraph, October %. -,Fo

THE BIRD -FANcIER- From the Philadel-
phia Evening Telegraph, October %. For
about ten years past, on Coates street, above
Eleventh. north side, a funny old man has kept
sort Of fancy birds and dogs bazar. The
onc-story shanty. for it is nothing more, was
originally carpentersh but the bird man
had it changed to suit his peculiar business.
The interior was filled with cages and kennels,
and the yard was rooted over to form one I'M
mcnse coop, in which was kept the pigeons.
In this den of his he had every variety OF dogs,
pigeons, rabbits, and fancy game fowls.
The passers-hy could not but pause in curl
oSity and gaze into the place at the novel sight.
There were about two hundred pigeons on
hand, and score or two Of choice Maltese
cats, in addition to the other fcathcred, grunt-
ing, and barking inmates, The place has long
been nuisance to the nelghborhoOd owing to
the immense amount of vermin generated, and
frequent complaints have been made about it.
but until yesterday did no opportunity offer of
bringing the old man to account.
Besides his passion for birds and dogs, the
old man who prcsides over this mcnagerc has
a fondncss for rum. A week ago yesterday he
undertook tremendous journey into the DO
mains of Bacchus and has not been seen up to
this writing. Ofcoufsc, he safely locked his
live treasures up, when he started and took tn G
kew with him. Yesterday as Officer Gilbert,
of the Eighth District. was patrolllng the street
at that point, he heard most satanic and
hair raising uproar.
For some little time he was in doubt as to
whence the fearful din came, but at last he dis
covered that it en,inatcd from the bird dtancler S
shanty. lie walked rapidly to the spot, the
noise becoming louder every moment, and peer
cd through the dirt bcgrimlncd and cobwebbcd
window The sight that met his eyes was a
fearful and sickening one He could dcscry
dead bodies of birds. dogs, cats, and guinea
pigs, lying around while the dogs and cats that
were alive were screaming with agony and
fighting each other like demons.
The Maltese cats that survived had become
lean and gaunt, and their eyes burned red with
the fires of madness. The dogs CRASHED and
foamcd and rolled upon the floor in all the hor-
rihle suffering of starvation. lie saw at once
what had happened, and burst the door open.
The stencil that issued forth was horrible: =
Dead bodies in a high state of decomposition
lay in the cages and over the floor, over which
cr;,wlcd and writhcd horrid mass OF vermln.
Wishing to do all he could to save the ami
mails and birds not yet dead, he purchased meat
and cabbage from the grocery store and ted
them. 1t was the first they had to eat since
their masters disappearance. =.
A warrant has been taken out for the proprl-
ctor, and the case will be placed in the hands
of the Board Of Health.
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GROCERIES,.
r G.. MILBURN,

y. MlLDUhN,
Wholesale and Retail
GROCER AND COMMISSION MERCHAN1
NEW STORE,
No. 10 North Royal st., and cor. Market alley
Alexandria, Va.
The proximity of this store to the Marke
House, 1.-THE centre of trade" will enable me te
obtain good prices for Flour Grain and Country
Produce consigned to my care.
Consignments and orders for Groceries re-
spectfully solicited. They will receive careful
and prompt attention oct 2j-tf
GEo. Mob RNE1 & SON
Dealers in
CHOICE FAMILY AND FANCY GROCE
RIES, WINES AND LIQUORS,
English and Scotch Ale and Brown Stout also
Eastern and Potomac Herring
and Mackerel,
NOS. 1G6 and 10 KING STREET,
Washington Hall Building,)
Alexandria, Va.
Orders promptly filled. my 81
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
VIM. ROCKIES,
FAMILY GROCER,
Has removed to
147 KING STREET,
Below Washington street
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