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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-10-11
EASTERN NEWS.

Greeley arrived in Philadelphia on
the 2Sth nit, making speeches on the
route. In Eastern Pennsylvania he
said II am a protectionist as oil
men know, but it is equally true that
If a majority in Congress should pass
a law not reconcilable with these Opin-
ions. | would not exercise the veto
power"
The Commonwealth Insurance Co.,
Of Baltimore, has been ordered to slls-
pend for fraudulent transactions.
Caleb Cushing astonished the mem
bers of the Geneva Conference by his
remarkable ability as a linguist.
1t il estimated that the annual loss
TO Missouri from insect depredations
amounts to goo, 900.
The official canvass Of Vermont
shows a majority Of Converse Of TO-
$40.
Three-fourths of the oil wells
throughout Pennsylvania, by agree
ment among their owners, were stop
ped at midnight on the 2Sth ult., to
wait for the price Of oil to advance.
Bishop Lagnen, ofSyracuse, N. Y,
died at Saratoga on the 3Oth ult.
Two persons were killed and eight
wounded BY the colliding of two trains
on the railroad near Patterson, n. j.,
on the 10Th ult.
On last Saturday night week train
the Boston. Concord and Montreal OH
railroad was thrown from the track.
wrecking three cars. and fatally
wounding three passengers, and injnr-
Ing Others.
K. X. Smart, ex-CongressInan, died
ut Camden on tie 29th ult.
Patrick Leary. Of New York. lately
discharged from the Insane Asylum,
had u recurrence OF his insanity Oh :lIe
30th ult.. and horribly mutilated his
wife and daughter with ! meat saw.
Considerable excitement existed in
the Pennsylvania oil regions on the
Both ult., over the suspension. In
some localities violence is reported.
In accordance with a recent act of
Congress, no paper, after the 3Otl ult.,
Is subject to stamp duty except bank
checks, drafts or orders. No stamps
required on foreign bills Of exchange.
The Collector Of Internal Revenue
decided that wholesale and retail
liquor dealers may continue and sell
malt liquors under the special tax hav-
ing receipts as such, without being
assessed as malt liquor dealers, and
the collection Of taxes assessed coIl-
trlry to this construction Shall be slls-
pended until the question Is brought
before Congress.
A Committee Of the Colored Mems
Convention OF New England, which
met at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Sep. 9TH,
called on tile President on the Both
ult., and presented a letter from the
Convention. The President, In reply,
expressed his qualification that his
efforts to secure protection to life and
property of all classes throughout the
country had been so fully appreciated,
and thanked the committee for the
Kind manner III which they had allud-
ed to his action toward their race.
The verdict IN the Fair case Is re-
ceived in Chicago with surprise and
indignation.
Many. lives are reported lost and
vessels driven ashore by storm OH
Lake Huron last Saturday night.
A prisoner attempted to escape from |
Chicago policemen last Sunday night, |
aud was shot dead.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-10-11

We have read four seperate cases of
men choking to death from eating
meat, lately. Two Of them occurred
In San Francisco, the last individual
bearing the name Of Austin Dntton.
Why is 1t these cases are becoming SO
frequently ls the fault In the meat,
or is It In the "swaller?" Won't
some vegetable-eatlng, meat repudlat-
Ing Greeleyite tell us what he knows
about It D.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-10-11

Nearly 30OO wOmenATe engaged In
boot and shoe making in Philadelphia.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

Sioux CITY, August Ia dispatch
from Fort Sully, Dakotah, says the Vel
low Stone Expedition, which rendez-
voused at Fort Rice for the purpose of
guarding the surveying party of the
Northern Pacific railroad was all ready
to march on the morning of the 26th ult.,
and undoubtedly left at that time. The
Indians are very hostile, and it is almost
certain they will attack the party, 1t is
reported that they fred into a herd be-
longing to the escort near Fort Rice,
killing several head Of cattle, but did not
succeed in stampeding the herd. To-day
has been issue-day for beef to the
Cheyenne agency, and many hostile
Indians came in. They made raid on
the ferryboat at the agency, and the mil
itary had to be called out to recover it.
A courier is expected to arrive at Fort
Sully in day or two, when the latest
news from the expedition will be re-
ceived. lgf tiAI
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01
Democratic Ticket for Shelby
County.
MEMpH1s NEEDS A MoReuE.

A morgue or dead house is mucl
needed in Memphis. In cities Of large
population it is an indispensable neces
sity. A place where the bodies OF those
who meet death casually or by murder
may be kept for time, in order that
they may be recognized and undergo
the necessary medical examination.
There have been many cases in Mem
phis where the cause of death remained
an impenetrable mystery, because no
morgue existed. Even in a human
point of view, its establishment is desir-
able-yet it is often the means of secur-
ing the ends of justice, and sometimes
the way to the settlement of matters
whose adjustment is most important to
the living No doubt the fac ulty of the
medical college will render every aid
and give every information necessary to
the establishment of a morgue. 1t would
be a great assistance to the coroner, and
would facilitate his duties immensely.
Our City Council should consider the
matter.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01
Embezzlement.

CIEcISNATI, August Ian embezzle-
ment of $4,000 in the Adams Express
Company was developed yesterday. II.
X. Whittlesly, money clerk of the Com
pany, was the embezzler. He left the
city last Saturday, stating that he was
going to Louisville. Monday he did
not come to the office and suspicious
we're aroused. Errors in his books were
discovered, as he had receipted money
packages without delivering them to the
proper party. Superintendent L. c.
Weir, finding he had not gone to Louis
vile, dispatched detectives on his track,
and he was arrested in this city to-day,
being followed from Meadville, Penn.
He had disposed of the money as fol-
lows: $4,000 in New York bank certif.
Gates, $1,000 to kept woman, $1,000 TO
his wife, which was recovered His
wife and child live in Newport.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, August IA firm Of COM
mission men ia this city, backed it is
said by money, have taken an immense
risk in pork, and now control that mar
ket, to the almost suspension of the
trade. 1t is understood that the con-
spirators have already invested 81 ,250,-
900 in their game, and have more to
back them in carrying it out. They
have raised the price Of pork in forty
days from $l2 to SIG.
Z Nothing has yet been heard of Steiner
the late manager of the French band
concerts; but it is now the theory with
some that he has been robbed and muir
dered. He was seen driving to the
depot Saturday night, having taken into
his carriage stranger who stopped him
on the way and asked to be allowed to
ride, as he was trying to catch the train
and couldn't get a carriage. The bridge
tender saw body floating in the river
on Tuesday night, but was unable to get
it. He, however, fshed out light coat
which is believed to be the light
summer overcoat which Steiner was in
the habit of wearing t'
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

A NIBBLER. -All who have occasion
to lay in family stores from the grocery
will recognize the following as fair
sketch Of familiar character; A nib
bleris person who enters a grocery
store, runs his fingers into every sugar
barrel and laps up couple Of ounces;
takes nibble at the back of herring;
eats handful of nuts; then goes to the
cracker barrel and takes few crackers,
and perhaps before he makes up his
mind to purchase twenty-five cents worth
of coffee, he has eaten up the profits of
two dollars worth of groceries. To
wind it all up after getting trusted on
his coffee. on which the merchant makes
a profit of three cents, he leaves the
store munching an apple. This is no
picture of the imagination, but reality,
except that sometimes the nibbler does
not purchase twenty-five cents worth of
coffee. a
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01
PROTEST OF THE POPE.

The threats made by Bismarck against
the Pope, and the encroaehments of the
Italian Government upon his temporal
power, do not seem to brighten him in
the least. Pope Plus denounces the
usurping government for its attempts to
dispoil the Apostolic See of its power.
He concludes a protest to Cardinal An
tonelli, his Secretary Of State, in the fol-
lowing determined language: " MOI we
cannot stoop to approve the assaults
against the Church, this usurpation
of our most sacred rights, this
culpable interference of civil au-
thority in ecclesiastical concerns. Firm
and immovable, we will defend With
honor, and BY every means in our power,
The interests Of the fock entrusted TO
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01
WE ARE SEVEN.

The Cincinnati Commercial tenders
the following advice to Grant and his
cabinet: The seven members oil
Grants cabinet should show the country
how the government can be managed by
giving up their whole time to election
eering in Grants interest. They should
scour the country from end to end, jump
on every available stump, and pour
thrilling torrents of eloquence into every
ear, white or black, that they can lay
hold Of They are not needed in
the administrative departments of
which they are fgure-heads. Their
most important business is speech
making. Their highest duty is to
show the necessity of Grants re-
election, in order that they may retain
their places. Fish should praise Bout.
wells management of the Treasury, and
Boutwell, should eulogize Fish's diplo-
matte skill in Foreign Affairs. Belknap
should show that Robson is jolly Sec
rotary of the Navy, and Robson should
show that Belknap is a superb Secre-
tary of War. Delano and Creswell
and Williams should glorify each
others genius and management. None
of them should praise himself or the
administration Of his own department,
for this would be regarded as self
laudation. They should all praise Grant
for his eminent military talents and for
his success as soldier. II they adopt
this suggestion, Grant will probably be
beaten, but they will enjoy the satisfac-
tion ofhaving done their duty,as members
of the Cabinet, in administering the var
ious departments of the government on
the stump. Boutwellis the best speaker of
the lot, but all the rest Of them can de-
liver great speeches in such cause as
this. Every true American can, at any
time, deliver an elegant speech. If any
one thinks he can't, let him wrap him
self in the American flag, stick hand
full Of eagles feathers in his hat, and try.
We are especially anxious to see Secre-
tary Fish compelled to take the stu mp"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

Mr.. SUMNER in his letter to the ne
groes on the Greeley movement says, in
the language of Sir Philip Sidney, 1T
is the spirit of the Lord and it is ire
sistable," notwithstanding the counter
acting Influences of politicians. Mr..
Sumner is sure that it is not best for
the colored people to band together in a
hostile camp, provoking criticism and
keeping alive separation Of the races.
Every colored voter should vote without
constraint from league or lodge"
The colored men of Shelby county are
doing exactly what Mr.. Sumner warns
them against. Mr. Curry has the negro
vote in his pocket, and can transfer it to
this or that candidate in order to SUBJ
serve his own interests. 1t is his capital
stock in his Radical business.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01
LATEST 'TELEGRAMS.
TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
Specials co tine Ledger.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, August 1.-The publca.
ton of Mr.. Summers letter here yester-
day morning occasioned considerable
and varied comment, The coiored peo-
pie are discussing the letter very earn
estly. The letter appears IN all the
morning papers. The Patriot publishes
it without word Of comment.
The Republican says the letter of Mr..
Sumner is merely sort of supplement
to his speech in the closing hours of the
Senate. What no one in the Republi-
can party, and what the Republican
party itself could not do, Mr.. Sumner
has now done-read himself out of the
party. He has deliberately gone over
into the camp of the enemy and allied
himself with the opponents of the men
who since 1856 have stood by Republi-
canism and who have worked out the
greatest revolution the nineteenth CEN
fury has seen. 7 III
The Chronicle, after carefully review
ing the letter, says: In this letter we
have repetition of the gaul and worm
wood of hate that found utterance
through his lips few days prior to the
Philadelphia Convention, the result of
which was the unanimous nomination of
General Grant The response of the
people in November, like recent cpl
sode in Massachusetts, will be. a repeti-
ton of that at Philadelphia.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

BROOKS OPERA HoUsE.--Open every
night, introducing fifteen frstclass ar
fists in chaste programme offered each
evening for the amusement of the fun
loving public. Stars of the highest
order will appear in their different roles
each evening. We can boast of the
best company that ever appeared in
this city. Don't forget Marsh Adams
benefit on Friday evening, August I'd.
Come one, come all
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

tine Memphis Water-works Company
will be prepared to furnish supply Of
water to our citizens before the close Of
the year. Mr.. Holly, whose patent has
been secured by the company, says q
careful analysis has shown that the Wolf
river water in point Of purity is only ex-
celled by the famous Croton water. Be-
fore the water from Wolf river can reach
the wells it will have to filter through an
immense bed of sand; hence it will be
Of muddiness and whatever i'm
purities it may receive from the Mis-
sippi. This is gratifying news to all
lovers Of pure water, Of whom there are
goodly number in Memphis.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

A SUN amounting to over three mil
lions of dollars has been stolen by gov
eminent officials during the Grant adj
miuistration. A list Of over one hun
bred defaulters has been published, show
ing the amount stolen by each. Bribery
and embezzlement are the inevitable
consequences when the qualifications
required of an office-holderlare not hon
esty, efficiency and zeal in the discharge
of his legitimate functions, but fidelity
to the Presidents political fortunes, and
the ability TO packa convention or lead
platoon of voters. And whenever the
Chief Executive gives his whole time to
schemes for his own reelection, and
prostitutes the power of appointment
and removal to bis personal advantage,
the service will surely suffer and thieves
will abound.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

SAVE FUEL.-Save your fuel and dom
stand over a hot stove to cook. Take,
say, dozen bricks, pile them up about
foot and half square, get some COM
mon window glass and make a little
rough frame; slice some ham, also pota-
toes, etc., ad libitum. Place the bricks
in the sun, of course; put on the meat
to cook, and cover with the glass. In
fifteen minutes, there you are. s--.i
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

A down-Esst editor says his expert
euce in journalism teaches him that
there is nothing in this world that will SO
disgust and sicken the general reader
as to learn, after wading through the
particulars of an awful accident, that
there is prospect Of the victims recov-
cry.
A ministerial decree has been pub
lished in the Strasburg Official Gazette,
forbiddiug the use Of French names for
streets in the city, and giving list Of
the new German names by which they
had been replaced. A clique Of anti
German tradesmen have met the innova-
ton by having the old French name
painted on their signboards II ME
A novelty in the way of hops" has
been introduced in Boston. A ball at
the South End is now open every Friday
evening for shirt aud pants dancing
parties" and the attendance is confined
to the middle class who are disposed to
behave themselves. The proprietor
takes the ground that il ladies consider
themselves dressed in shirt waists,
there is no reason why gents should
sOt appear in the same cool apparel.
The following is a scale Of the average
duration Of animal life, from the most
celebrated writer's on natural history:
A hare will live thirteen years, a cat ten,
a goat eight, a sheep ten, dog from
fourteen to twenty, an OK twenty, swine
twenty-five, a pigeon eight, a turtle
dove twenty-five. partridge twenty-five,
raven one hundred, an eagle one hun
dred, goose one hundred. W j
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01
nenfh ornn EdItor.

New ORLEANS, August About ten
o'clock yesterday morning Mr.. John
Hunt, late news editor of the Mobile
Tribune, died suddenly at his apartments
in Dryades street, of heart disease. He
was native of England, twenty-nine
years old, and of more than ordinary
education and literary ability. Nv n
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01
FOREIGN.

LoNDoS, August 1.-The authority Of
the dispatches brought from Africa by
Stanley, the commissioned Of the New
York Herald, purporting to have been
written by DIR. Livingstone himself, is
being questioned to some extentin scien-
tifc and literary circles. The dispatches
themselves are the subject Of much
anxious elaboration, and numerous
arguments are advanced in favor Of and
against their geauineness. A majority
of the savants Of the literary and geo.
graphical societies favor Mr.. Stanley,
and support the authenticity Of the
letters. ~~.r.s si,r..E -aE
Rawlenson writes 10 the British Geo
graphical Society that he has received
nothing from Livingstone. The society
regards the Nile question as unsettled
The discoveries ascribed to Livingstone
in the Oeeanus dispatches received By
foreign officers, contain no information
or personal details.
M4nRID, August LA bill has been
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

our charge. We are ready to face the
greatest sacrifice, and if necessary to
shed our blood rather than betray any
one of the duties imposed upon us by
the supreme mission we have received
from on high. With the help Of God,
we will never fail to give an example of
strength and courage to the other pas
tors and ministers OF the Church who,
by reason of the adversely of the times,
sustain so nobly so many struggles in
the cause of God and for the welfare OF
souls, for the defense of the sacred leg
acy of faith, and for the integrity of
the principles of eternal justice and
morality.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

ACCORDING to the Radical organs all
those who have stampeded to Greeley
belong to the class of nobodies and ras-
Gals, but the organs fail to inform us
what classes do the chaps belong who
stick to Grant.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

THE sovereigns of Shelby county are
rallying around the ballot-box to-day, in
order to save themselves from falling
into the power of the ncgroized party
headed by Mr.. A. P. Curry, the uncom-
promising Radical.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

THE almost forgotten Senator Brown
low, of East Tennessee, is out in terri
BILE pronunciamento against Greeley.
Poor old Brownlow is struggling against
fate, but he must retire to that obscurity
from which he should never have
emerged. REST, rest, perturbed spiritI'
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

A MORNING contemporary says: The
names Of merchants who do not close
their doors to-day at noon and suffer
their employees to vote should not be for
gotten" The employees of merchants
have never been interdicted from voting,
nor is there any necessity to close doors
in order that the merchant may be for
gotten. We presume people can vote
without interfering with their legitimate
business-at least, they have done SO in
all prior elections. Then why not in this?
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

The present political campaign in
Shelby county has brought forth pro-
life crop of anonymous newspaper cor
respondents. As literary specimens,
the communications are not first class,
and are chiefly noted for the ungramati-
cal and personal style in which they are
written.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

introduced into the Cortes authorizing
Cuba to borrow sixty million dollars.
PARIS, August l.--Stanly was ban
quoted last evening. Washburne and
other Americans were present.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

The Cincinnati Commercial Of re-
cent date has the following: Some of
our colored school teachers are, we are
informed, spending the summer in Ar
kansas. They have been reading law in
the midst of their arduous duties, and are
quite prepared to enlighten the rural
population of Arkansas as to the glories
of Grant"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01
PRESIDENT FOR rHIRrY-sIx HOURS.

PRESIDENT FOR THIRTY-sIx HOURS.
That there was President of the
United States who only held his office
thirty-six hours has been a strange and
forgotten fact in American history
The thirty-six hour President was Gen.
David r. Atchison, Of Kansas, who
upon the death of VIM. r. King, month
after his Inauguration as Vice President,
in 1853, succeeded to the Vice Presi-
dency. The history of the short-term
President is best told by himself to q
reporter Of Kansas paper:
Reporter-You were President of the
United States for about thirty-six hours,
we're you not?
General-Yes. You see Mr.. Pierce's
term expired at midnight Saturday, and
this being Christian country, of course
nothing was done on Sunday. Mr.. Blu
chanan was inaugurated at noon on Mon
day. Therefore, as President of the
Senate, | succeeded to the Presidency
when Mr.. Pierces term was out
Glaughingly1; but | had no realization
Of my high position until about ten
o clock Sunday morning. We had
been hard at work in the Senate
finishing up business, and having lost
much sleep would probably have slept
all day had | not beeR awakened up by
some personal friends who came to con-
graduate me and secure positions for
certain parties. la order to do every.
thing in proper style, / appointed full
cabinet, and then it is said that my adj
ministration was the most successful and
popular one ever known, there not being
a removal or appointment during my
whole term. .sftr IE
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

GRANT has wandered off to the Thou
sand Isles, in the st. Lawrence river.
What pity some Calypso does not ex-
list on one of the islands to capture and
keep our shipwrecked Telemachus for
years to comel He could there forget
the unpleasant corner in which he has
been placed by Pleasanton.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

From late last evening until early this
morning squads Of negroes, armed with
carpet-bags. we're seen vending their way
into the city on the roads leading from
Mississippi. Other squads crossed the
river in skifs from Arkansas. The
judges Of election and ehallengers
should closely watch asd guard the
polls. The emissaries of Radicalism are
active and determined to carry the cleo
ton, by fraud, if necessary. The watch
words to-day are, Africa or America.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

EMMoEs & Soy, the veteran newsmen
at 10 Jefferson and 4l0 Main streets,
have received the latest publications.,
daily papers from all points, weekly pic
torials, monthly magazines, both home
and foreign, and news goods of every
Dissertation. ~ N N
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

GovERNoR Hadley, of Arkansas, has
threatened to declare martial law in
Pope county if the unfortunate citizens
do not return to their homes and lay
down their arms, SO as to give the Radi-
cal bloodhounds every opportunity to
commit murder or other crimes with
immunity.