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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
NEW YORK..

New York, February ia meeting
will be held at the Produce Exchange
to-day, at which the final report in re-
gard to the Chicago relief fund will be
presented.
Three more Of the Japanese students
sailed yesterday for London. Of the
remainder three have entered the mill
tary school at Peekskill, New York, and
two are stopping with friends at Pater-
son, New Jersey, before deciding on their
future course.
The Grand Lodge of the American
Protestant Association Of this State is
making arrangements for parade in
this city on Washingtsn's birthday.
The procession is expected to include
FIVE Thousand men, under DR.. johnson,
grand marshal. No sashes will be worn
except by marshals, and no flags or ban
ners carried except the national stan
dard. 1t is understood that the Seventy
ninth and Eigbty-fourth regiments will
parade on the occasion.
Stokes trial is progressing.
Fifty-fve thousand dollars worth Of
silks have been stolen from the bonded
warehouse of Miller, Myers & Co., Wash
ington street. The greater part Of the
property has been recovered.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
NoprHRRN Ku-KLUx.

We believe this paragraph has already
been published in this city;
The Suns correspondent at Susque'
hama Depot, Pennsylvania, says that on
Sunday morning three employees of the
Southern railway, finding thirteen year
old negro boy asleep ON one OF the
company's buildings, poured kerosene
oil on his legs and set il on fire.. They
then threw water on the FIRE, only to in
tensify it. The boys shrieks were
heard far from the building, and it is
said that the burning was witnessed by
men who will not expose the monsters.
The flesh was consumed to the bone.
The boy cannot live. he arrived IN
Susouehana Saturday morning, and be-
ing willing to work he was furnished a
box and blacking brush, and had earned
some money, but not enough to warrant
the luxury of hotel lodgings, and he had,
therefore, sought shelter in an Erie
building.
If this outrage had occurred in the
South, what howl would have gone up
from the throats of half a million patri-
ots2 But it occurred in the North. No
committee will investigate it, and moth
ing will come of it. Roasting the legs
of poor, sick negro, in Pennsylvania
That is new departure.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
mol REnoME THE RULE.

1t appears that the system of whole.
sale corruption introduced and fostered
by President Grant is likely to become
n settled institution in this country, IN
less the people shall be wise enough to
force it to stop at the point to which al
present it has advanced. General
PlOasanton, the World says, having been
removed from the Office Of commissions
err of internal revenue by the President,
has sent to the senate letter, In which
il is stated that Mr.. Boutwell, is a most
unfit person to NEEDLE with the affairs
of the internal revenue bureau, because
he has unsettled accounts aggregating a
large amount of money before the said
bureau, which moneys were SO involved
when Mr.. Boutwell, was commissioner OF
internal revenue. The former commits
sioner is thus arraigned' as defaulter.
General Pleasanton also says that the
accounts of Mr.. James W. Douglas, at
forwards appointed acting commissioner
of internal revenue, were also in a most
unaccountably unsettled state, and that
he reported all this to the President and
demanded an investigation of the affairs
of the bureau, which investigation the
President peremptorily refused to have
made.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
PUBLIC LEDGER.
a DEAD STATESMAN.

The Banner has this reference to the
death of a Western statesman; The
late ex-senator James W. Grimes, OF
Iowa, who died at Burlington in that
State, of heart disease, on the Sth, was
an incorruptible politician who bore the
stamp of nobility and sustained the Dig
nifty of a statesman, and in the closing
acts of his senatorial term won for him
self name to be honored among pa
triots. As chairman Of the sub-eom-
mittee on the State Of Tennessee he
fought hard and long for her readmission
to her full privileges as member OF the
family of American commemorative, and
it was in great degree owing to his efforts
that she was so soon after the war restored
TO the Union. The threatened impeach-
ment of Andrew Johnson, however, was
the GROWING crisis Of this senator's ca
reer. Although so thoroughly identified
with the Republican party, he hesitated
at the reckless partisanship which, with
a sheer, thrust from its path every obsta-
Gle to factional triumph, and did not stop
even at revolutionary removal of the
chief magistrate to attain the purpose
of the movement and secure to its own
use the spoils of federal patronage.
Senator Grimes made a bold stand
against this outrageous abuse of the
power con6ded to a majority of the
people, and it was in no slight measure
due to his conscientious efforts that i'm
peachment was defeated.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
COMING HOME.

Other things besides chickens come
home to roost. The people of the North
have permitted, upheld and supported
the outrageous legislation of congress.
They are now beginning to observe the
fruits of it. An indignant Northern
paper says the educational bill, which
has passed the house of representatives,
virtually throws upon the people OF the
North the expense Of educating the ne
groes of the South. The school funds
are to go principally where there is the
most illiteracy, and that is among the
negroes of the old slave States, the great
mass Of whom can neither read nor write.
1t is, therefore, the worst kind of class
legislation, robbing one section of the
States for the benefit of the other. II
does directly what the tariff does ind,
rectly, and is, therefore, opposed to the
spirit, if not to the very letter, of the
constitution. That instrument would
never have been ratified if it bad been
supposed that to congress had been given
the power to discriminate in its legisla-
ton between States, and to bestow pecu-
liar advantages among them. If the
Federal government is to give money to
the States for public schools, it must be
distributed among them upon the basis
of population. 1t is a new idea to make
ignorance the basis.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
TROUBLE WITH MEXICO.

A congressional committee has been
engaged in investigating the condition
of affairs on the Mexican border. One
Of the Texas members appeared before
the committee and gave an explanation
of the troubles existing there. The
depredations of the subjects of Mexico
are increasing daily, and some action is
necessary to prevent an outbreak, or
the two nations may become entangled
in a war. The officers of the Indian
Department say that unless something
is done to prevent the Mexicans from
riding across the border and stealing and
plundering in the territories of the
United States, trouble will inevitably
ensue. The committee decided that
they wouldn't take any action in the
premises until the Secretary of War has
been communicated with, and has given
them the benefit of his views of the
army officers stationed in the sections in
which the outrages are committed. And
here comes in the red tape.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
Choiera checked.

From the New York Post.l
There now seems to be fair hope that
the advance of the cholera has been
checked. We have heard but little OF
its ravages of late in Russia, and the
news this morning from Constantinople
that the disease has disappeared in that
city is encouraging. During last Sep
TENDER and the latter part Of August, it
will be remembered, western Europe was
threatened by an advance of the de-
stroyer in two different directions, the
route being from Cherson, Russia, to
Moscow, and thence by way OF konigs-
berg, Dantzic and Stettin, in Prussia, to
Hamburg, whence we feared its emigra-
ton to this city; the southern route was
from Cherson by way Of Debretzin and
Vienna, in Austria, to southern Ger
many and France. Neither of these
courses Of the disease included Constant
nopIe. but the fact that It was raging
there endangered all the Mediterranean
ports of Europe, and its disappearance
proves, apparently, that the source Of
the plague in Asia, where it reached the
Bosphorus, has been exhausted. This
source was the same as that from which
the cholera crossed the Black sea to
Cberson, in Russia; it came from the
east, and touched the Euxine at Trebi'
zond. This place is due east from Con
stantinople, and the disease has proba'
bly, nearly disappeared there also; witt
their commercial relations i. could hard
ly exist in one place and not in the
other. Of course, the fact that the
source of the cholera is thus exhausted
is not positive evidence that we shall es
cane: but even If It should reach oui
shores, its ravages will be much les
than il it we're constantly aggravated b.
new supplies from the distant marshes o
the Ganges.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
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NASHVILLE.


Destruction by Fire of tho Metho.
dist book Concern The Largest
Printing Establishment In the
sauth fn Rufns-Death of Colonel
Granville q. Torbett.
NASHVILLE, February l5. Another
destructive fire has visited us. This
morning large portion Of the Metho-
dist Book Concern, the largest printing
establishment in the South, is in ruins.
The fire commenced in the bindery,
which was the individual property of
John Locken, Of Philadelphia. Tho
loss in machinery, ETC., to this depart
ment amounts to $4,000. There had
been an insurance on this until the
present year. Under the bindery were
the press-rooms and stereotyping de-
partment of the company, the con-
tents of which, together with some
small account books end the library
of DR.. I. O. Summers, containing
some Of the most valuable volumes
in the South, were destroyed. The ste
reotype department was valued at from
$4,000 to $4,000, on which there was no
insurance. The plates were in secure
vault and not injured. The fire was
checked when it reached the rear of the
book house, on, which there is an insu-
rance Of $4,000, equally divided be-
tween the Andes and Tennessee COM
panies. This building sustains no dam
age.
It is estimated that a loss of from
$40, 900 to $4,000 was sustained on the
type and fixtures in the composing
room. None of the material was in
sured. That portion of the building
burned was, however, insured for $4,000.
From sixty to seventy-fve persons are
thrown out of employment by the dis
aster.
Colonel Granville C. Torbett, an old
and very distinguished Tennesseean, who
was for many years the successful man.
ager of the Union and American news
paper, of this city, afterward treasurer
Of the State during the war, and presi-
dent of the State bank of Tennessee,
died last evening at eleven o'clock.
Death sentence was yesterday passed
BY Judge Turner, of the supreme court,
on Robert Bealy (colored) for numbering
his wife, in Maury county. He is
to be executed on the 22d of March,
1872, at Columbia, Maury county.
When asked what he had to say why the
sentence Of death should not be passed
on him, he replied that he had but the
one wife, and loved her; there had never
been serious jars between them, and ne
would have taken his own life sooner
than hers. Being conscious of his inno-
cence when first arrested, he felt no fear
Of conviction, and being anxious to get
out of Jail and 90 back to his little ones,
be went to trial without preparation. If
he had it to 60 over again he would be
better prepared, and thought he could
prove his innocence. He had never
been a vicious negro, but had been raised
carefully by his old mistress; had never
left home during the war, and was
never twenty-five miles from home
in his life until brought to Nashville to
be tried. He hoped something would
intervene to save his life; otherwise he
would have to bear what the court chose
to put on him.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
THE ENGLraH DIFFICULTY

The discussions respecting the Ala
bama imbrogio are ploughing up the
memories of the war between the States.
This is unfortunate. The government
again denounces the Confederacy, and
since it is overthrow, holds those who
supported it at home, and those who
gave it succor abroad, enemies of the
United States. Itmatters much with the
South how the question is settled. The
South has ne part or lot in the govern.
ment, it is true, but war with England
would damage her interests by cutting
of the English market for her cotton.
1t is impossible TO guess with any accu-
racy the issue Of the quarrel, but we ad
here to the view we expressed day OF
two since, that there viii be no war. The
arbitrators at Geneva may fail to settle
the dispute, but some other plan viii b,
tried, and, at last, it will be adjusted.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, February l5.-Great disap
pointment was caused to the immense
audience who assembled last night to
hear Wachtel in the opera of the Pos
tillion," by the sudden announcement
that he was sick and could not sing. II
seems the great tenor is liable to sudden
colds, and was taken in the afternoon
with hearseness which prevented him
from uttering note. The opera men
toned was postponed week, but Wach-
tel is expected to appear Friday night in
the Huguenots."
An association, called the Chicago
Opera House association, has been
formed to erect magnificent opera
house somewhere near the Pacific Hotel
capital stock, $4,O00,0O0.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15

JOHN BURNS, the hero of Gettysburg,
was in New York in December last in
this condition: Partially paralyzed,
memory failing, without sufficient cloth
ing to protect his person properly, with
out money, without friends, but with no
appearance of vice, 1.-THE Hero of
Gettysburg" Of whom poets had sung,
begged for money sufficient to take him
homo IN die
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
Explosion ON the Erie Railroad
One Man Killed and Fifteen
Kouned.

Explosion ON the Erie Railroad
one Man Killed and Fifteen
WOuned.
ScsoUEHAxSA, Pa, February l5.-Lo-
connective No. Isl Of the Erie railway,
while pushing heavy freight train up
grade from here TO Summit, Tuesday
evening, exploded, killing one man out
right and injuring fifteen, who are now
lying in a precarious condition. Thelo-
connective was detached from the tender
by the explosion and hurled the distance
Of forty feet eff the track and down an
embankment. The train consisted Of
twenty-five loaded freight cars. cabOose
and three locomotives. The wreck Of
the caboose took FIRE. and two cars load
edj with oil aud car laden with corr
we're consumed. Relief was immediate
ly sent from this city. and the dead and
wounded we're brought here and cared
for. 10 cause assigned for the explo-
sion. r
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15

Loss OF the steamer Belle Vernon.
CINCINNATI, February l6.-Steamer
Belle Vernon, owned by Darrough
Brothers, of Pittsburg, was moved last
night, by order of the underwriters,
from the city wharf to the mouth Of the
Licking river for safety. At two o'clock
this morning she was struck by cake
of ice and sunk in FIVE minutes. She
had large cargo of merchandise for
the South, on which there was $4,000
insurance in this city. She lies in an
easy position in IL or IA inches water and
much of the freight is being taken out,
though in damaged condition. There
was an insurance on her hull Of $4,000
in Pittsburgh companies, as follows
Citizens, Western, Merchants and Man
ufacturers, and Pittsburg, Of $4,000
each. The boat was valued at $4,000
It is impossible to tell at present whether
she will be total loss or not. The
loss as now stands is estimated at from
$4,000 to 10000
The river is frozen over again to-day,
making the third time this season, an
event never occurring before in the his
tory Of Cincinnati.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, February l5.-Sir Ed
ward Thornton, in conversation with a
gentleman of prominence, said he ap-
pretended no serious difficulty between
the United States and Great Britain.
Respecting the incorporation Of the
Washington treaty, he said he believed
the Misunderstanding will be satisfac-
torily adjusted.
Senator Davis is out Of danger.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15

SAYS the Courier-J Journal: Somebody
suggests that they ought to send Anna
Dickinson in search OF DIR. Livingstone.
But what's the use? Hasn't she spent
the last twenty-five years in trying to
find man in country where you'd
suppose one couldn't possibly be half as
badly lost as Livingstone ISL
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
FOREIGN.

LONDON, February IA The Right
Honorable Lord Chief Justice Cockburn,
British member of the Geneva board of
litigation, approves of the Gladstone
and government refusal to admit claims
for indirect damages in the American
bill for compensation in the Alabama
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15

An extraordinary statement is made by
the Washington correspondent Of the
Boston Post, to the effect that Senator
Clayton, whose conduct il now the sub
ject of investigation by committee Of
the Senate, endeavored to compromise
with his antagonists by proposing to
guarantee the election Of men whom his
opponents might name for Governor and
Congressman at large in Arkansas, is no
more evidence was given against him;
and that this proposition failing Of the
intended effect, Clayton induced the
committee to issue a peremptory order
forbidding the publication Of the evil
dence brought against him.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
End OF "A Newspaper LIBEL Suit.

Sioux CITY, February l5.-The libel
suit of Judge Porter VS.. R. H. Mcbride,
editor of the Eldorado Ledger, for
$25, 900 damages, has just been decided
in favor of the defendant The trial
lasted three weeks and was bitterly con-
tested. Over sixty witnesses were ex-
amined, and much documentary evi-
dence introduced The libel charged in
fifteen counts consisted of articles pub
lished in the Ledger during the year
1870. Defense was made on the ground
of justification.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15

How republican we are becoming:
The proprietors of the Russell House, in
Detroit, were offered five hundred dol
lars for the bedstead on which Alexis
slumbered, and the chambermaid was
bribed in almost untold amounts to let
fashionable dressmaker have the
sheets. She said she would cut them up
into handkerchiefs and sell them to the
hon ton
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15

HoRLcE MATzARD, of Tennessee, is a
candidate for the Republican nomintion
for the Vice-Presidency He is very
proper person to occupy a second place
on the ticket with Grant. If all the re-
ports about him are correct, he is vicious
enough to serve for vice on any ticket.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15

IT is said that Colonel Elizabeth Cady
Stanton having violated lecture en-
gagement at Wheeling, the committee
entered suit for 800 damages. The gal
LIANT but somewhat inconsistent Colonel
resisted payment, on the ground that,
being a married woman, her husband
only was liable, and the statutes Of gal
liant Virginia released her from all pen
atty on that account.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15

Az exchange makes the eloquent re-
mark that the Radical party has bank
rupted the government" It omitted 70
add, ;hss Grant has appointed himself
receiver.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15

TIE authorities at Washington are
said to be convinced that the general
order business, to use a mild phrase is
an imperfect system and unjust to i'm
porters." This conclusion, says the
New York Tribune, has only been
reached after Eve weeks investigation
aud a month Of most damaging ex-
posure Of corruption and fraud
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
ADJUSTMENTS.
STOCK CALL.
MASONIC TEMPLE.

rrHR FIFTH CALL OF TEN PER CENT
- ~ AMOUNT on stock subscribed 70 tn
Nssoric Temple Of Memphis. will Be due a
he ofcs of the Secretary Of the Temple
Room No. S. corner Of Second and Madisoi
streets. on
Thursday. February IS, 1872.
By order Of the Directory.
- - HI. HIGBRE, President:
A. j. WnEELEn. Secrft4rys lAl-ia
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15

THE Boston Post says: "a paper
speaks of one of Grants supporters as
his right bower then he must be
knaye. of course"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15

CoyUNDRUN by the Washington Capt.
tai: 4" II the Presidents relatives we're
not created to fll Offices, what in the old
scratch we're they made for2' se
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON.

A Texas paper of a late date, in the
course of an article on General Albert
Sidney Johnston, written by professed
intimate friend, says his high sense
of honor was the cause of his death.
Because of his defeat at the battle Of
Donelson, he was bitterly denounced by
officers jealous of his fame, and severe
and untruthfuE articles against him pub
lished by portion of the New Orleans
press. This so mortified and exaspe-
rated him that, in the battle at Bowling
Green, he threw aside his rank as a
general and went foremost in the fight
where he received the mortal wound.
AS General Johnston was not killed al
Bowling Green, it is presumed the other
statements in this paragraph are untrue.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15

ONE after another the carpet-bag gov
ernors are made to walk the plank. The
legislature of Florida has disposed of
the carpet-bag governor of that State
by impeaehing and turning him out of
office. Commenting on this case the
New York Evening Post remarks: "Cne
after another the corrupt rings which
have ruled the Southern States seem to
be crumbling When they are all broken,
peace will return, and there will be prob
ably no call for Ku-Klux laws. The
ring governors of North Carolina and
Georgia have already been driven away
by the force of public opinion, and the
maladministration in South Carolina,
Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas must
soon give way before the popular zeal
for reform in those States.