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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-18
STEALING OUR KU-KLUx.

II 10 with mournful feelings we print
the annexed paragraph. We do not
know whether we are about to burst into
tears or whether tears are about to
bnrst into us. In either event, we feel
quite undone. We had pressed to our
bosom the fattering hope, trust and be-
lief that the South had acquired title
to the souls and bodies Of the race OF
promiscuous hoaters, sometimes called
in terms Of laudation, carpet-baggers.
We've mean the South-had learned
to love them. We've mean the South
had witnessed their many virtues,
and had come to regard them, to employ
the language of poesy, as our mutton.
And now comes the State of Iowa and
contests our title In proof of this de
claration we quote from the Shelisburg
Iowal Observer, this;
The people Of Shellsburg have taken
the law into their own hands, Last
Monday they waited upon Dr; Dennis
who has been stopping here Tor some
time past, dragged HIM from the house
took him to the creek. there stripped HIM
of every stitch Of clothing. and gave HIM
a complete ducking, after which they
notifed him to leave the town forthwith,
EWING him Int A few minutes in whichto
nrenare for departure He left accord
ingly for parts unknown
Tbis.is monstrous. Do the people OF
Iowa intend to Cypress the South alwaysr
Do they intend, after depriving US Of the
ballot, and putting the colored man IN
the foreground, 10 rob US of the right
the privilege. the immemOrial custom OF
in short = dueking carpet-baggersf
Who invented the Ku-Kluxl Was thatin-
stitution coined in a Northern brainY We
answer no. Did not we ofthe South invent
II when the negro, freed from the restraints
thst had ever bound him, swept to his re
venges9 Did not the happy conception
burst ike a sunbeam into the Southern
brain when that mild and placid indi-
vidual, the earpet-bagger, straddled the
South, and with the negro as spur, at |
tempted to ride it to perdition1 And
now why do the people of the North
wish to deprive us of the fruit Of our
inrenfions7 Let US rise as one man and I
one woman and resist. 1t is our right
to introduce the genial carpet-bagger to
the liquid food Under the pressure OF
circumstances we have surrendered many |
privileges, but this viii be defended to
the last. What right had the people,
living away up in Shellsburg, to work
DIR. Dennis Off What right had they
10 steal our mutton in that way2 The
truth is, we are not permitted to have
rights. Dennis should have been sent
South and condemned to hold an office.
That done, the Ku-Klux would have
taken him in hand. Seriously, we do
not know anything meaner than the at
tempts making in the North to cheat
the South of the Ku-Klux
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cRSARIsM.

Morton, Butler, Chandler, Conkling
and Cameron, says the World, are new
illustrations Of the old truth about the
madness of the foredoomed. The Re
publican party, falling into the hands Of
such men, has suffered injuries from
which nothing can now redeem it. Re-
Gently so powerful, enjoying peculiar adj
vantages, Boosting a splendid organiza-
ton, it goes to pieces as swiftly and
surely as a wooden ship dashed against
storm-beaten rocks. And yet the crazy
men who hold command insist upon
driving it again and again against the
same fatal barrier WELDING with mer-
ciless severity the lash Of party disci-
pline, crushing down with scorn and in
suit every Sumner, Sehurz, or Farms
worth who dares to stand up for justice
and constitutional obligations, and rely
ing solely upon blind partisanship to Sc
cure immunity for offenses such as no
free people have ever yet forgiven, these
desperate leaders seem resolved to force
every man who respects the Constitution,
every man who desires true reform Of
any kind, to ally himself with the Demo
cratic party.
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The custodian of the eard-basket and
boot,jack has been transferred from the
infantry to the artillery. West Point
graduates, says the Louisville Ledger,
on finishing their academic studies, are
assigned 70 different arms Of the service
in accordance with their standing in
their respective classes, the best being
sent to the engineer corps, where brains
are most needed, the middling men to
the artillery department, and the lowest
grade TO the infantry. Colonel Dent
graduated with infantry honors, but be
isGeneral Grants Observation-Disclosures
this promotion. The New York World
saws he knows as much about artillery
as an owl does Of music.
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MARKETS.

CHICAGO. April s.-Receipts-7hou GOO
bbls: wheat, 1000 bushels; corn, $1,000; oats.
81, 200; rye, 5000; barley. 6OOO. Shipments
tioar. 1000 barrels; wheat, 5000 bushels; corn.
&. 900; oats, 10000; rye. 1000; barley, 1000.
Wheat quiet and steady. 81 S01s to 500.
Corn dull and easier. 5514 to 5614c; new of
fered at 59,sc. Oats dull. 4sk to 400. Pork
quiet; SIS 25 is bid for May. Lard dull, lG's
to lOs4c. cash; lOs4c for May and June. Bulk
meats steady; shoulders, 6 to &c; rib sides.
"a to Sc; clear rib. to sAc; short clear held
at So to Sc. Whisky. iron bound. saleable at
SEC.
NKw YoRK. April 1S-Noon.-C heavy.
l4slc: receipts at all ports. 40 bales; stock
at all ports, 56O,9I5 bales. Flour quiet and
unchanged. Wheat strong. 81 So to 60. Corn
quiet, 76 to nc. Oats dull. &c to Csc. Mess
pork dull, SIS rs to 10 so. Lard dull, llssc.
Cattle quiet, II to 141Sc; receipts, 1000. Hogs
steady, 65S to re. Whisky quiet, 80 to 9O19e.
Sugar steady-Cuba, 914c; white. lie; hard,
he. Coffee steady, Rio, l51a to l61sc in gold.
Linseed oil firm, s2c.
CINCINNATI. April 1S.-The market is dull
and inactive. Mess pork is selling at SIS so.
The other markets are unchanged from yes
terday's quotations. There is but little doing,
and the market is heavy.
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Those who wear glasses under the
nose on Sunday viii be indignant to
learn that the Grand Jury of Davidson
county, sitting at Nashville, has found
over two hundred indictments against
persons for purchasing liquors on Sun
day. This action was taken under de-
cision of the Supreme Court rendered at
the December term, 1858, in the case Of
George Bonner, indicted for purchasing
liquor from a slave. The court in this
case said:
In the case Of phite man, we sup
pose it cannot be seriously controverted
that, upon general principles, the pur-
chaser of spirituous liquors in violation
of the statutes passed to suppress tip
ping, is as much guilty of violation Of
the law, and as much amenable to Grim
inal prosecution and punishment as the
seller. They are, in all respects, pdrti-
ceps crimiRis--they are alike wilfull vio-
latoys Of the law The express prohibi-
tionto sell, upon every just principle of
construction, must be considered as i'm
plying a prohibition to purchase. The
purchaser whether we regard his
intent, or the effect and conse-
quences Of his acts no less
guilty, no less within the mischief in
tended to be suppressed than the seller.
1t matters not that the former is not
placed @nder the obligation of bond or
OATH This takes nothing from the force
of the Argument. He still stands guilty
of wilfully participating in and aiding
and encouraging the commission of a
criminal ofIense. Does not this, upon
the soundest principles of criminal law,
constitute him principalin the oifense2
We think it does. And perhaps it would
scarcely be going too far to say that he
ought to be regarded as less excusable
than the seller. He has not the poor
pretext of the latter, that the forbidden
traffic is, in part, his means Of procuring
a living"
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TER SENATE BILL.

The Ku-Klux bill as it passed the Sen
ate is an outrage on the country, North
and South. Even the New York Even'
ing Post Radical to the core, says by
il every constitutional restriction upon
the power Of the Executive is withdrawn,
and instead of the Constitution and its
checks. the nation is left TO the volun-
tary forbearanee and sound Judgment OF
the President as the sole safeguard for
its liberties. If he should choose at
any time to declate the city of New
York or of Washington in rebellion, and
to take possession of it with the army,
under martial law-that is, under the
viii Of himself as commandments
the people must choose between submis-
sion and armed resistance to the enforce
ment of an act of Congress-. That is to
say. II gives the color of law to such a
coup detat as made Napoleon III mas
ter of France.
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NEW YORK.
diers-Freneh Emigration 10 this
Country-Gas ExpIOsiOn-COnve
ffOn.

Arrival of Amerieau-Freneh Sol
diers-Freueh Emigration TO this
Country-Gas ExplOsiOn-COnve
ton.
NEW YoRK, April ls.-The steamship Vir.
ginia. Of the National Line. from Liverpool,
arrived yesterday. having on board one hun
bred and thirteen soldiers who passed through
the whole Of the late RrancO-Prussian war.
They were of various nationalities, but the
majority are American citizens. They all
served under Garibaldi in the Vosges.
The French papers of the city are discussing
several plans and projects Of directing and
systematizing French emigration to this cOun-
try, and it appears that several companies are
in course Of organization for that purpose. 1t
is expected that in consequence Of the diser-
dered condition of affairs in France, the re-
suit of the invasion and the civil war now
raging. French emigration will assume con-
siderable proportions. The Courier Des Etats
Unis fayors a project to establish n French
colony in North Carolina.
William NJ. Este. Of IS Broad street, mem
Der Of the Stock Exchange, entered into
partnership January lst with Jas. s. Mcneil
from California. On Saturday last Mcneil
absc0nded, after drawing from the bank in
which the firms account was kept sl5.O 600 Of
his own money and sl7 600 belonging to Este.
The latter on discovering the facts at onGe
placed detectives on his track, and telegraphed
to the police eadquarters Of the principal
cities. Offering large reward for the arrest Of
the fugitive. II is thought Mcneil went to
Europe Saturday evening in the steamer City
of Paris.
About half-past nine o'clock last night an
explosion Of gas occurred in the residence Of
II. ID. Downs. corner Of One Hundred and
First street and broadway. II appears the
Eas-ltters. who had been at work there durinP
the day. left pipe open in a small room. One
Of the servants. named Hannah Cleary. en-.
tered the room with lighted lamp. when an
explosion Immediately followed. The iamI
also exploded. setting ERE TO her clothing and
burning her terribly about the head. 0thei
inmates Of the house rushed to the rescue
and while attempting 10 extinguish the fame
were seriously burned. The flames were ex
tinguished without serious damage 10 tn,
house.
A convention will be held here on May 9th
under the auspices Of the New England Labol
Reform League. Its sessions will continue
several days. commencing with discussion
on trades unions in Cooper Institute on thu
5th Of May. Horace Greeley. Miss Anthony
Mrs. Cady Stanton, and numbers Of othel
speakers Of prominence will take part.
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PENNSYLVANIA.
The II nights of Ply thfas-supreme
Lodge I'm session.

PHnADELPHIA. April IS. - The Supreme
Lodge Of the Knights Of Pythias assembled
II lie morning at 10 o'clock. at Assembly Build
ing; Samuel Read. Of New Jersey. presiding.
and @. NJ. Barton. OF the District Of Columbia.
CHEZ Scribe. Twenty-Five grand Jurisdictions
are represented. and an the Supreme Lodge
officers are present This session is looked
forward 10 with especial interest By the fra
ternity.
In consequence Of recent troubles in the
Supreme Lodge upon the admission Of new
delegates. this morning all were required 10
subscribe to the famous o. b. N. Those re-
fusing. numbering shout twenty-five. were
not allowed 10 remain in the hall. The ousted
msmbers will hold an indignation meeting
some time to-day. and threaten 10 form Su-
preme Lodge Of their own.
Termination Of the Coal strike.
soRasTox. April 1s.-A final termination Of
the coal strike l. announced this morning.
and an early resumption q mining Il antici-
pated. The Reading railroad = already con
trncting Cor large Shipments.
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it as an error to rank tobacco as cere-
bral stimulant, conducting to long-con-
tinued mental activity, and afiirms that
it rather obtunds general and special
sensibiity, and lowers muscular power
indisposing for active exertion or Tor the
reception of external Impressions We
confess our ignorance as to the meaning
of these terms. The dictionary is un-
satisfactory. The most remarkable ex-
ternal impression we ever heard of was
the impression left upon the mind of
William Patterson by the mysterious fist
with which he once came in contact.
We really do not know anything about it.
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The county seat of Pamela county,
Miss, having been removed TO Sardis,
the Pamela Star Announces that its next
issue viii be from that place. Pamela,
as a town, no longer exists. Batesville
destroyed it, and now Sardis has cap
tured its last hope. Pamela was once a
famous place 1t was noted for the
talents of the young men who made IT
their home, and for the beautiful girls
who adorned its society. There are
broken hearts buried under the dust OF
its deserted streets Miller, Harrison,
Armstrong, Clarke and others are town
less. In the language Of Bulwer, what
will they do with it'll
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Indian HosfiIities in New Mexico
| MIsreDresentatious ot san no
minro-t,eorge Francis Train ti'
Warrington He REQUESTS her-
mission 40 Speak tn thc tHpttoi.
WAsHINsrox, April ls.-Dispatches Of re
cent date TO the Associated Press regarding
the Indian hostilitics in New Mexico. and a
collision between the troops in front Of Fort
Bayard and the Mexican soldiers, are now en-
tirely discredited. This pretended news came
by way of Galveston. which is about 1000
miles from Fort Bayard. and with which it
has no regular means Of communication.
Fort Bayard is less than half the distance
from telegraphic communication by way Of
Santa Fe by pony express than news could
have been received several days earlier
through this channel. which is sufficient rea-
son to doubt its correctness.
Senator Cole, Of California, who visited San
Domingo few years ago, about the time the
BabeOck treaty was negotiated, expresses sur
prise at the course certain Senators have
taken on the subject. especially in view of the
comprehensive and satisfactory report OF the
Commission. He announces that he will
shortly add the weight of his testimony tothat
Of the Commission, and eounteract, as far as
he is able, the Misrepresentation that have
been made.
1t is unOficially stated by several Senators
that the President will convene the Senate in
executive session about the 18th Of May, by
which time it Is now supposed the Joint High
Commission will have concluded their labors.
A volume of s5s pages, entitled " The private
and national Alabama claims and their final
and amieable settlement" has been circulated
to-day among the members. Its author is
Charles c. Beaman, jr., Of New York. who
ventures to present basis Of possible settle
ment.
1t is powerfully asserted here that Hon.
Robert G. Corwin. of Dayton. Ohio. will be
appointed Supervisor of Internal Revenue for
that State under the consolidation Of that dis
triet This appointment is believed to be at
the instance of Gen. Schenck. and it will Dust
Mr.. Dryer. the present Supervisor of the
northern district Of that State.
George Francis Train. this forenoon. sent
note to the Speaker OF the House and to the
President of the Senate. requesting permits
sion to speak ten minutes in the rotunda Of
the capitol in favor Of general amnesty
and against the Ku-Klux bill, in defense of
the South.
Arguments were heard in the legal-tender
cases in the Supreme Court. this morning.
Chief Justice Chase presiding.
General Butler attempted to make perso-
nal explanation in the House this morning,
but Mr.. Beck. of Kentucky. objected.
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LATEST TELEGRAMS.
Specials 90 the Ledger.
AMERICAN PRKss ASSOCIATION. VIA 9. p. 4 A
TKLKGRkPH COMPANY.
European N ews.
FRANCE.

YRRsArLLEs. April ls.-The Prussians have
agrsoc to assist the Government forces IN
starving out the Paris insurgents and make
them surrender from lack of supplies. The
store of provisions now in the city is very
small. and the Prussians have stopped tho re-
victualing by the st. Dennis gate, which is
commanded by the guns Of Fort 81. Dennis
LONDON. April is, Paris advices state that
the insurgents obtained an undoubtcd success
in the engagement which occurred near
Asnieres yesterday. Tho Communists now
occupy Colonies.
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ABoUT TOBACCO.

A Philadelphia doctor is Ost on the
nse Of tobacco, and piles up some very
t.rve words on the subject He, denies
that il leads to alcoholic excess and says
that il has always seemed to him 10 be
/, soue measure an antidose both 10 the
elects o. sIcohol and te the craving for
il in ola dipsOuaniacs." he also regards
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Mr.. EDwIs BoOTH has been summoned
before a New York court to show cause
why admission to his theater was refused
dramatic editor who had written a
criticism unfavorable to the establish
ment. We guess Booth will have some
difficulty in showing proper cause.
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SoNE citizens Of East Tennessee paint
a horrible condition Of things in Tennes-
see, and appeal to Butler for protection.
As there has never been a Ku-Klux out
rage in East Tennessee, we should like
to know whatthe fellows are driving at
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A GREATER number Of vessels are en-
ployed in carrying cotton from New Or
leans to the continent Of Europe than at
any time since the war. Recently ten
American vessels cleared for continental
ports, all loaded with cotton, in a single
dav
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BFN BUTLER talks about the existing
rebellion" in the South. Perhaps it is
rebellious for the Southern journals to
denounce his character. II that be re-
bellious, for one, We are not loyal to that
bad man. We detest him.
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chained in his room. The walls Of tho build
ing, which were Ions since pronounced as un-
safe, fell in with terrible crash soon after the
fro had spread over the building. The asy-
lum was contracted for by Gov. Butler. and
the State officers gave the contract out to ire
sponsiblo parties. II was built two years ago
at an expense to the State of si20 900, but after
II was completed and accepted It was pro-
nounced unsafe. An attempt to burnt was
frustrated last fall, and II Is generally be
lieved thatits burning must be tho work OF an
incendiary.
While the Ere was progressing the prisoners
confined In the State prison. taking advantage
Of the careessness Of the guard. portion OF
whom are supposed TO have been absent
made q successful attempt to escape. Ton
prisoners got away, among whom was PHI
Doran, who murdered Constable McChean.
and Samuel Poole. who murdered Frank Case
in this city last year. Every effort Is being
made to recapture them, and no doubt some
II not all viii be recaptured.
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II the East Tennesseeans who got up
the memorial to Congress asserting that
rebellion reigns in Tennessee, and that
hey are neither protected in life nor
property, are not ashamed Of themselves,
they should hire somebody to be ashamed
for them. We have never seen more
graceless document. Some Of the signers
Of it are trying to explain it away. They
admit that they had no reference to
East Tennessee in their statements.
That will not do. What business had
they with West and Middle TENNESSEE
The whole thing bears the mark OF the
man with IAN ice-house at his heart. ="
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NOTICES..
Notice TO Stockholders.

OFTICE MEnPHIs And UHl0 hAfLROAD Co.,
MEMPHIS. TESS.. April Is. 1871. !
A MEETING OF TIlE STOCKHOLDERS
n Of this Company viii be held in this city
cuss and take action upon important matters
touching their interests.
Arrangements for transporting stockholders
10 and from the city at that time will be made,
and due notice given NJ an early day.
By order Of the President.
ul6 X. A. PARKER. secretarv.
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NEBRASKA.

burning OF the Insane Asylum.
LISooLE. April ls.-At The burning Of the
insane asylum two d the inmates perished 10
the flames, one being raring maniac and
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ILLINOIS.
The Elections,

QUINCY. April ls.-The election here yester-
day resulted in the success Of the Citizens
ticket over the regular Democratic.
BLOOMINGTON. April ls.-The election here
yesterday for MAYOR and six aldermen re-
suited in the election of BENJAMIN Funk Ire
publican) as mayor. and five Republican
aldermen out of six-the vote in the Second
Ward being tie.
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The Charleston News states that the
remains Of South Carolina's great states
man, John C. Calhoun, were exhnmed on
the 9Th instant and placed in the vault
where they originally reposed. The
News says: ut viii be remembered by
a chosen few that, on the night proceed
ing the evacuation of Morris Island by
the Confederate forces, the bones Of
Calhoun we're taken from their vault, for
obvious reasons, and we're laid in st.
Phillips churchyard, to the east Of the
venerable church. There the remains Of
our greatest statesman have rested in
peace during these six eventful years.
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Grant, according to webster's die
tionary, is "a term applied to convey
ances of every kind 81 zeal property,
especially houses, land, horses, Libraries.
etc.
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The total population Of Mississippi is
TAG, 2s5; white voters, 1888; colored
voters, sO,O6s; disqualified, 2S42; disa-
Utilities under Fourteenth Amendment,
1903; total over twenty-one, l5G,905. 1t
will be seen that Mississippi is in the
hands of the negroes; that is, they have
majority Of nearly 1000 over the
tvhifaa
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ESauELED or porcelain lined pumps, al
Browne a Brownies, sl5 Second st. 2At
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NOTICE!

A LII PERSONS ARE.lYARNRD NOT TO
n credit any person my account, as I
lrm; and not 20 pay any accounts or bills due
M. snly to myself.
JAMES p. sCHABEL,
nli % j. \. Schabel A Co.
Avalanche COPY four times.l
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FUN EItAL NOTICE.
Tho friends and acquaintances of DIR. 0. W.
Malone are respectfully invited to attend tho
burial OF his daughter, Mrs. Ida McGohoe. at
Elmwood Cemetery, on Wednesday. 10th inst.
at 4 o'clock pm. CarriagesNat the residence
Of DR.. Malone. at 3 o'clock pm. to meet tho
Mississippi and Tennessee train.
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ALl carOm tables at willeu's 2s-t
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MEMPHIS stained glass works, 252
Third street. ~
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WASHINGTON.

Indian UosfiIities in New Mexico
misrepresentation ef san DO.
mingo-George Francis Train ~
Wnshington Rae Requests Fer
mission 10 speak in the Capitol.