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TIE SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTION,

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The late election in South Carolina furnishes
more striking proof Of the great revolution
which the country has passed through during
the last seven years than any other thing that
has yet occurred. In no State, previous to the
var, we're political privileges carefully guard
ed. The right to hold Office, to represent dis
trict in the Legislature, and even to vote, we're
limited by restrictions and qualifications which
we're required no where else. The majority OF
the people we're blacks. In 1860 the negro pop
u1ation was 412 320, and the white 291, 800; dur
ing the ten years that followed, the colored
people had increased to ass and the whites
decreased to 289,667. The slaves in 1860 nun
bered 402, ,406, being more than four-sevenths Of
the whole population. The white population of
South Carolina was wealthy and educated
its Government VAS singu1arfy free from cor
ruptidn, and its affairs we're conducted with
ability. Official integrity WAS so thoroughly
cultivated, thGt officers dared not braGe public
opinion by any act Of questionable propriety.
OF course this is all apart from the monstrous
crime OF slavery,-for which we Of the North
were not wholly guiltless. After the war the
co1ored people we're invested with equal po1iti-
cal rights, and many Of the former white 1ulers
we're rendered ineligible for Office. The condi-
ton Of the slaves in South Carolina had been
more abject and degrading than in any other
State. They were denied education Of any kind;
they we're denied any intercourse with whites, or
blacks from other States; the negroes OF
one plantation we're strangers to those On the
next,-the policy being to keep them as isolated
and as uninformed as possible.
The election on Wednesday last exhibits the
revolution which has been accomplished. There
we're two tickets nominated by the Republicans,
, 1872-10-19

The mania for mining speculation, which has
hitherto been confined principally to silver and
gold, has broken out afresh in diamonds It is
but short time ago that the most dazzling
stories we're told Of the abundance Of diamonds,
as well as OF other precious stones, in Arizona
and New Mexico. Some diamonds brought from
London were exhibited in the show-windowB Of
San Francisco shops. Fabulous accounts we're
printed OF parties who had shoyelled them up by
the pecks and bushels, and there WAS popular
fiction that untold quantities Of them had been
deposited in the Bank Of California. 4 stock
company vas Immediately formed, with re-
sponsible men at the head Of it, who had been
Induced to lend their names to the swindle,
under false pretences, and the shares
we're put upon the market. simultaneously dia-
monds were exhibited in the principal large
cities OF the country, and every preparation was
made BY the originators of the scheme to realize
on the shares and then get out from under,
when some parties in San Francisco, who were
not as creduous as othets went to the spot to ex-
anime for themselves, and found that there were
no diamonds or any other Va1uables there, and
then the huEnbug collapsed The diamond e1-
citement, however, is once more revived, and,
the public is informed that
diamonds have been discovered in
Nova Scotia and Nebraska With regard to the
latter, the Omaha papers contain reports Of
mysterious movements Of California diamond
hunters, supplied With large quantities OF dia-
mond specimens, maps, charts, government SIR
veys, and the most recent decisions Of the At
toruey General, in reference to entering mining
tracts. This is but the old story over again, and
probably the same old collection Of stuff, which
vas used to work up the Arizona excitement.
In the light OF past experiences, it is sensible to
give any diamond operations very Tide berth.
, 1872-10-19

Three Of the four district candidates for Con-
gress, ). q. Rniney, A. J. Ransier, and Robert
B. Elliott, were co1ored, and we're elected with
ont opposition in the other district, two can
didates we're run, both whites. OF the IL per-
Sons elected s are colored men, including four
Congressman. Three-fourths Of the members
OF the two houses Of the Legislature are colored
men. An United States Senator is to be chosen
by this Legislature, and Robert 3. Elliott (col-
ored), at present o member Of the House Of
Representatives, will probably be chosen. The
Convention which nominated the Moses, or sue
ceaaful, ticket was composed principally Of col
ored men, as VAS also the Convention which
nominated the Tomlinson ticket. The latter
was supposed TO be shade better than the for
mer.
South Carolina therefore, is at this time in
that condition predicted by Senator Morton, q
few years ago, as the inevitable re-
suit Of negro suffrage, completely Afri-
canized In that celebrated speech Of his the
Indiana Senator proclaimed that no white man
could be blamed who would refuse to live in 3
State -of6cered and governed by men OF the negro
barrassment Of the State due so much to impair
tial suffrage as to other causes. The previous
degraded condition Of the slaves, and their
numerical majority, united with the fact that
South Carolina was free Of debt, combined to
make her promising field for adventurers from
the North. They found the colored people
honest and eredulous. They found the negroes
thoroughly convinced Of their OWL want Of poll
ticsl knowledge and experience and when these
crafty acoundrels told them that their inferiQrity
, 1872-10-19

In the Independent Of last Thursday, Mrs. Mary
C}emmer Ames says (what will be news to most
readers) that, in the midiura age, and before it,
women were very often both physicians and sur
geons. She cites various books and manuscripts
to prove this, and adds: 's It remained for bows
Of the nineteenth century to insult women who
sought TO- practice the art Of healing" For the
dastardly way in which male medical students,
in Philadelphia and elsewhere, showed their dis
like Of feminine fellows, there iB, Of course, no
shred Of excuse. For the dislike ITSELF there is
every excuse The profession is, in some of it's
branches, pre-eminently woman's work. We be-
lie7e in feminine physicians. But Wa do not
believe in fitting woman for this work by thrust
ing her into dissecting-room, among reckless,
dissolute boys. It must be strangely callous
woman who could desire erch d thing. Let the
sexes have separate schools. It is not worth
while to sacrifice feminine delicacy for the sake
Of getting knowledge.
The meeting Of the French Association forthe
Promotion of Science, at Bordeaux, few weeks
ago, showed q very unscicntifc state Of mind
among the members. The President, II. Qustre-
fages; gave sketch of the scientific successes
of the last few years. He dwe1t in glowing
terms On the progress Of truth in England, Bel
gfum, Wales, and Denmark, but spoke not c
word Of praise for Germany. The hated nation
waB ignored as far as possible by everybody.
One man, ii. Lefort, was candid enough to
recognize the perfection Of the Prussian medi-
cal system. His eu1ogium upon it VAS but coldly
received. The principal topic Of discus
sion Was how science could aid France
to recover her military renoWu. The
Strassburger zeitung Sums up its comments
On the whole session by sharply saying that
scieuce. in the opinion of the Bordeaux meeting,
no longer exists for her own sake, but only as
the handmaid Of war. a
, 1872-10-19

FIRE ANNIVERSARY NUMBER!
FIRE ANNIVERSARY NUMBER!
FIRE ANNIVERSARY NUMBER
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-11
stealing ssS, ,OOO, 900 Worth of Pub
- p. lie Lands.

AhC AA4n08s
From the Nashville Union and Americana
| One of the latest developments con-
nected with jobbery at Washington, is a
recent decision Of the Secretary Of the
Interior by which the Burlington and
Missouri River Railway Company is to
receive public lands stated TO be worth
$50. .0O0,0 600. The following statement of
the matter was made public week or
two ago, and we have seen no denial of
the facts g In the act of July 2, 1864,
Congress granted to the Burlington and
Missouri River Railway Company for an
extension of its road distance of $40
miles, ten alternate sections per mile on
each side of the line Of the road, under
certain restrictions, some of which were
-purposely, no doubt-made vague, al
though the usual construction of such
grants would properly apply to this In
the following year, after the company
had flled TIE map of their route, they
claimed that under the law they
we're not limited 70 any particular dis
tanee froRl the line of the Foad in select
ing the ten odd numbered sections per
mile on each side thereof but that
thoy might select them at any distance
from the road that it was necessary TO
90 in order not TO conflict with the claims
of settlers, and to observe the other ex-
emptious of .he law This claim Of the
compaHy Was ailoyed by Secretary Har-
Ian in 1866, and be gave them permis-
sion to select their land accordingly.
Under this construction and authority
of Harlan's the company went right on
and listed about three million acres of
land in eastern Kansas and Nebraska,
taking the finest they could fiEd, without
regard to the limit prescribed by their
grant. Under Andrew johnson, Mr.
Browning gcceeded Harlan as Secretary
of the Interior, and reversed the decis-
ion of his predecessor, ruling that the
grant extended the right only to twenty
miles from each side of the line of the
road, and that in the absence of the in
demnifyipg clause Of the grant, the com
pany was entitled only 10 odd numbered
sections not otherwise disposed Of and
not exceeding ten per mile on either
side, as might be found within that dis
tance. This latter and just construction
gave the company only about half the
quantity Of land that they would have
dbtsined gnde- the former, or something
over a million and aaf 1f gcres, hut
vet more than sufficient TO accomplish
the purpose Of the act. The statement
is now made, and not denied, that Sec
retary Delano has reversed Browning S
decision, and affirmed Harlan's original
swindlal The effect Of this reversal is
that this Western Railroad Gompsny
will obtain some 5000, 600 acres Of land,
among the best in the United States,
ranging in value from two dollars and
fifty cents to twenty dollars per acre, and
Averaging ten to eleven dollars per acre,
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THERE COMES A TIME.

There comes a time when We grow DID,
And like a sunset down the sea,
Slopes gradual, and the night wind cold
Comes whispering sad and chillingly;
And locks are gray
AS winters day,
And eyes Of saddest blue behold
J The leaves all weary drift away,
And lips of faded coral say.
There comes q time when we grow old.
There comes time when joyous hearts,
Which leaped as leaps the laughing main
Are dead to all save memory, at
AS prisoner in the dungeon chain;
"a And dawn of day fi
~ Hath passed away. LAt
The moon hath into darkness rolled,
And by the embers wan and gray,
hear a voice in whisper say,
There comes time when we grow oiu'
There comes time when manhood's prime
Is shrouded in the mist OF years,
: And beauty. fading like dream,
Hath passed away in silent tears;
And then, hew dark!
But, oh, the spark, N
That kindled youth to hues of gold.
Still burns with clear and steady ray,
And fond affections, lingering. say.
There comes a time when we grow old.
There comes a time when laughing spring
And golden summer cease to be,
And we put on the autumn robe.
So dread the last declivity;
But now the slope,
Withrosy Hope.
BEYOND the sunset we behold,
Another dawn with fairer light,
While watches whisper through the nlgnt
There comes a time when we grow old.
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BURYETT's KALLIsToN is the best cos
metic and skin beautifer in the world.
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HOUSE, SIGN, AID FREsCO

DEAN & CO.. successors to Dean. Baxter *
Co., S9l and 393 Main street.
A.F. DAVIS, 2Sl Second street-Particular
attention given TO calcimining walls in
any color.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-11

WALL PAPER-wIND0WSHADEs.
GRIEsHABER 4 SANDER Curtains, and
all kinds of Upholstering goods. 2sS Sec
ond street.
L. NJ. DEAN & Co., successors to Dean, Bax-
ter 4 Co.-Pictures. picture frames, cords,
tassels. and artists supplies. 39l and o93
Main street. HHE
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Tho Murder Of Innoeent..

A distinguished Paris physician says
" | believe that during the twenty years
/ have practiced my profession 10000
children have been carried to the ceme-
teries a sacrifice to the absurd custom
of exposing their arms. Put the bulb
Of thermometer in babys mouth,
and the mercury rises to ninety degrees.
Now carry the same to its little hand; If
the arm be bare and the evening cool
the mercury will sink to fifty degrees.
OF course all the blood that flows
through these arms must fall from ten
to forty degrees below the temperature
of the heart Need say, when these
currents Of blood flow back to the chest,
the child's vitality must be more or less
compromised And need / add that we
ough. not to be surprised at its frequent
recurring affections of the tongue, throat
or stomach? / have seen more than one
child with habitual cough or hoarseness
entirely relieved by simply keeping the
arms and hands warm.
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story OF Love and Royalty.

Correspondence of the New York MALL
A leading weekly journal processes to
give, on reliable authority" the rea-
son why the King of Bavaria is, at the
mature age of twenty-six, still unmar-
ried namely That he is in love with the
pretty prima donna Of Berlin, Fraulein
Mallinger. During a residence of nearly
wear in Munich | never once heard
that the King was suffering from mis-
placed affection. That he is waiting to
lind princess who can sympathlze
with him in his admiration of Wagner
and the Music of the Future" Is
another reason frequently given in
French and American journals for bis
state Of single blessedness. If apprecia-
ton of Tannhauser" and Lohen-
grin" is tho only qualification that King
Louis desires in his wife, surely he might
have been satisfied with his cousin
Sophie, to whom he was engaged five or
six years ago, for she, it is well known,
was enthusiastic in her admiration for
the solid operas of this great and eccen-
tric composer, and often distinguished
herself in court circles by her imperson-
ations of his heroines.
1t is well known that during the days
of their betrothal she frequently sung
Elsa in costume, the King taking the
part of Lohengrin Avery absurd story
has met with some believers in Munich.
Princess Sophie, it seems, was very fond
of dried frnit, and ate in enormous
quantities. King Louis, like devoted
lover, imported it for her from Italy, but
on the condition that she should never
eat prunes in his presence, as that fruit
was offensive to him. The Princess
could not or would not control her
penchant to conform to the fastidious
taste Of the Fairy Prince, and
regardless ef bis desires, that fruit
was served one day when the
royal fances were dining at heF resi-
dence of Possenhofen. Upon receiving
the obnoxious prunes the King rose from
the table, left the castle without word
of farewell, and returning to his own
castle of Berg, on the opposite side of
the lake, threw the Princess bust out
of the window into the water, and wrote
to her father tpnke Maxi that he re-
leased his cousin from hsr engagement.
Whatever was the real cause OF the Gisao-
luton of the engagement King Louis
generously allowed his cousin to say
that il was broken off at her request.
She has since married the Duke dAlen-
con, grandson Of Louis Philippe.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-11

An old bachelor in this city, after
reading the advertisement in the Banner
of Light of Boston clairvoyant, sent
on lock of his hair and his name las
Miss Bette Brown, and received the
following: " You will marry a railroad
conductor in less than a year-will have
five children, and die in child-bed of the
sixth" BE swears " May ever he cease
to love-if he does.
Three years ago Fred Wilson, who is
now doing minstrel business at the Ma
tional Theater, Cincinnati, had min
strel troupe of his own, with Cal Wag-
ner as one of the end-men. Now Wag-
ner has troupe of his own, while Will
SON earns rather precarious subsistence
as a variety performer. Such are the
vicissitudes of minstrelsy.
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PhOtOgrapRing the Bottom of the
Sen.

NJ. Joselly, an Italian photographer,
has bit upon a new branch of photo,
graphy By means Of diying-bell
land no doubt electricity, magnetism,
oxy-hydrogen, or other powerful illuml-
nation, we would say) this innovs.os has
succeeded in obtaining submarine views.
The idea is said to be quite practical,
several experiments made on tie ltal-
ian coasts having been attended with a
perfect success. The most fantastic
images have been obtained, showing the
vegetations and zoophytes Of the sas S
bottom, which, according to sphcric
trignometry, occupies five-eights Of our
globe, thus aifording a valuable auxilia-
~ to students. NJ. Joselly intends to
send sample-proofs OF bis photographs
to ali the scientific estsbi;stnents in
Europe.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-11
The origin Of an ola Provcrh.

About the year 1000 B. c., there lived
in the country of Phrygia, in Asia Mi
nor, peasant by the name of Gordius
who, while plowing in his field one day,
noticed an eagle alight upon hisyoke Of
oxen, where it remained all the day
Gordius became very much alarmed at
this. Others believed it to be prodigy
and prevailed upon Gordius to consult
the soothsayers of Telmessus, city in
Lydia, which country in those days was
famous for the science of aqgury. AS be
came into the city he was met by very
beautiful yonng woman. He related ia
her the cause of his coming to Lydia,
upon which she assured him that the
prodigy indicated his elevation to a
throne. As an evidence of her faith in
her Interpretation of this extraordinary
omen, she offered to become his wife.
Although Gordius had doubts as to the
verifcation of the prediction, he very
willingly embraced this opportunity, and
they became man and wife.
Not long after this occurrence a.sedi-
ton broke out among his countrymen,
who were at the time without a ruler.
They finally appealed to the oracles for
means TO stop this anarchy. The ora
cles advised them to choose king.
They more TO Eote the frst man who
passed the temple Of Jupiter, driving an
ox-cart. This person, the oracles assured
them, was destined to become their
ruler Accordingly, all rushed to the
temple. Gordius shortly after passed,
driving his ox-cart. The assemblage
hailed him as their sovereign, and he
thus became King Of Phyrgia.
As absnrd as this may appear OF o
glance, it has many parallels in history.
The popular caprice has frequently
conferred honor and power upon per
sons of obscure birth, from a motive no
more rational than the one indicated
above. During sedition in Florence,
in the middle ages, a wool-comber was
made chief magistrate of the republic,
sinply because he picked up a national
flag and waved 1t over the heads of the
multitude.
To commemorate this remarkable ele-
vation to a throne, Gordius dedicated his
ox-cart in the @mple Of Jupiter to regal
majesty. He fastened a knot TO the
beam Of the cart, 50 deNteFOusly involved
and perplexed that the orac!es promised
the dominion Of the world to the man
who could unite it. The untying OF il
probably was impossible, as both ends
were woven together. Great numbers
tried to unite it, and failed. At length
klereader the Great came, and after re-
peafed and Ruthless efforts, be drew his
eword and cut a Tins resulted the saw
ing, cutting the Gordian knot
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Kansas City, Memphis and Mobile
Railway.

From the Atlanta Journal.l
That portion of the above-named rail
way which is west of the Mississippi, is
now under construction, and runs dag
onally across the southwest portion Of
Missouri and the northeast portion oi
Arkansas--th distance between Kansas
City and Memphis being about four hun.
dred miles, to Mobile about eight hun
dred and twenty-five miles. AS the dis.
tance from Memphis to Mobile, via Cor
NTH on the Memphis and Charleston
railway, is four hundred and twenty-five
miles, and to Atlanta, via Chattanooga,
four hundred and forty-seven miles, il
will be observed that Atlanta and Mo-
bile are about equi-distant from Kansas
City. The building of the Georgia
Western ATLANTA to Decatur, Ala,
would give Atlanta about fifty miles the
advantage-as the distance hence to
Memphis would be reduced to three
hundred and seventy-five miles.
At Memphis, the Kansas City, Mem
phis and Mobile railway meets the Mem
phis and Charleston railroad, over which
it connects lat Chattanooga with the
Georgia railway system and the South
Atlantic coast. The line, then, between
Kansas City and Memphis becomes OF
no small Importance to Atlanta and
Georgia.
Kansas City is on the Missouri river
two hundred and eighty-two miles by
rail west of St. Louis. By its railway
connections west over the Kansas Pa.
ci6c, through the heart OF Kansas, and
northwest to Nebraska and the line Of
the Union Pacific, and by its river com
munication on the Missouri and Platte
rivers, it penetrates and must necessarily
command very large proportion of the
prodigious business which that prolific
grain-growing region lying west and
north, must create.
The distance from Atlanta to St
Louis via Columbus, KY, is about seven
hundred miles, and to Kansas City vis
st. Louis, nine hundred and eighty-twc
miles. As the line direct from Atlanta
to Kansas City via the X. c., NJ and NJ
railway, win be about eight hundred and
fifty miles, it will be observed that At
lanta will be placed over one hundred
and twenty-five miles nearer the fertile
graiu-producing lands of Kansas and
the Indian Territory.
The line is now surveyed to Bolivar
No, and graded to 0sceola, nearly
ninety miles southeast of Kansas City
and the rolling stock purchased and de
livered. The grade will be finished to
North Springfield, Mo, about one hun
dred and sixty miles southeast of Kan.
sas City, by the first of next August; at
this point it connects with the Atlantic
and Pacific railway.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-11

Woodruff & Clafin's Weekly informs
rs that Mrs Belva A. Lockwood, AN,
at the last election, wearied by being re-
fused permission to register by arrogant
men in petty power, she opened a regis
try for women at her house, and about
seventy women entered their names.
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REMOVAL.
REMOVAL.

UlHE OFFICE OF THE WESTERN METH
odist has been moved from p Jererson
sheet to 27qx Main street, up stairs, in the
rooms formerly occupied BY q. W. L. Crook.
Correspondents and others will take notice,
and direct their letters accordingly. We
issue now $50 copies. The Methodist Il q
GOOD medium for advertisers.
Sf r. w. BLEW 4 Co., Publishers.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-11

BURYETT's KALLIsToY is the best cos
metic and skin beautifer in the world.
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amounting in the aggregate to some S33,
100000, to build local and compara-
lively unimportant road leading along the
valley Of the Platte, cannot exceed in the
cost Of its construction and equipment
the average Of $4,000 per mile, which
would amount to some $7,5OO,0O0.
Under the construction Of Secretary
Browning. the company would receive
about 100000 acres, which, at the av-
erage of S4l per acre, would amount to
6,500,000, or about $9,000,000 more
than the requirements Of the company
for the construction and equipment of
their road. The exposures OF land steal
ing heretofore made, and the manner in
which the press had denounced this kind
Of jobbery, had led to the supposition
that the worst had been told. These
new revelations will excite feeling Of
surprise that such brazen robbery should
be continued. This opens up an inter
esting field for the Investigating Com
mittee, if they will only work it up.
Perhaps this is too much to expect.