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THE CANADA SCANDAL.
Call for an Investigation by the House
OF COmmOns-PetitiOns to the
GOTernOr-General.

MONTREAL, August 5.-To-night at an
Indignation meeting here the following
resolutions came up:
Resolred, That the honor of our coun-
try imperatively requires that the grave
accusations Of corruption made against
the government on the subject of the
Pacific railway be Immediately submit
ted to a thorough investigation; that
any delay in the prosecution of this in
quiry viii seriously compromise the dig
nity of the crown and the interests of
the people.
Resolued, That the commons, by APP
pointing during the present session OF
parliament a committee of chosen mem
bers to make the inquiry, has followed
the immemOrial usage of the commons
in England. and that any Intervention
Of the executive who are implicated in
these accusations, for the purpose of
Withdrawing from the house the eXeT-
else Of this undoubted right, must be
considered as s dangerous attempt to
deprive the people of their most precious
constitutional guarantees Of freedom.
ResOlred, That the delays that up to
this time have retarded the inquiry have
created throughout the country lament
able uneasiness and anarchy, which can
only be calmed by a public and solemn
inquest; that in consequence petit
tion, based on these resolutions, be pre-
scented TO the governOr-general, praying
him not to prorogue parliament until
the commons have had an OppOrtunity
Of fully satisfying public opinion on the
subject Of these charges.
ResolUed, That petition be also pre-
sented to the house of commons, pray
ing it to take into serious consideration
the necessity Of proceeding without de-
Law, when il shall meet on the thirteenth
instant, to an inquiry into the accusa-
tions brought against the government,
and that representatives of this city are
requested to insist that an immed late
parliamentary inquiry take place.
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HORRIBLE CONFESSION.
A Murderer Tells How he Killed his
Victims, but Won't Tell Where
the Money is.

From the Harrisburg CPa.) Journal
On Thursday afternoon Nelson Wade,
who murdered Mrs. Isabella Mcbride in
Lycoming county, made a confession
which he preceded with the remark that
he did not care a d-n what was done
with it," He admitted that he COM
mitted the murder, but denied that he
shot Mr. Mcbride, as the eorOner's jury
decided. The fatal injuries were in
ficted with a club. While at a farm
house near by he learned where a trunk
containing thousands of dollars was To-
Gated, and about how much the couple
were worth. On reaching the house on
Tuesday evening he asked Mcbride for
milk, and was directed to the wife, who
was about the cellar. She told him that
he would have to pay if he wanted it.
The murderer continued: returned
to the house and found the door bolted.
The old man finally opened it, and /
put my foot to the inside. He
struck at me, and l knocked him
down with my fist, as well as
slienced the dog, who made an attack
on me. / then struck Mcbride three
times with the club, and be crying muir
der, hit him again. l then killed Mrs.
Mcbride with the stick, and coming
back to the house, found the old man up
and the dog licking his sores. gave
him another beating, and broke open
the trunk l was after. 1 had to make
two trips to carry away the money in it.
got between sixty and seventy thou
sand dollars. Will not tell where it is.
When / die l will reveal it to poor
man, but no rich one shall have it. Two
bags Of the money are buried in Will
iamsport, two above and two below the
city. have killed several women be-
foreaad am willing to hang tomorrow. -
The prisoner laughs and discusses poll
ties with a relish. Mrs. Mcbride was
buried on Thursday, and her remains
were followed TO the grave by large
concourse of people.
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WASHINGTON, August S.-GeneFal
| Spinner has addressed the following let
ter to the cashier Of the New England
bank.
TREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES,
WAsHINGTOS, August 7, IS7S.l
SIR-Your letter of the first instant
was received yesterday by the Adams
Express company. There came en-
closed, as therein stated, two United
States legal-tender notes, one of the de-
nomination of five hundred dollars and
the other one hundred dollars. Both Of
these notes are entirely new, having new
er even been folded, and are perfectly
clean, being without spot or speck. For
some bad purpose, probably fraudulent
one, with a view to the raising of
other United States notes Of
smaller denominations to the value Of
those, more than one-teDth of each
has been scissOred out with clean cut.
Under the old regulations of the treasury
Department. that existed for more
than ten years, these two notes
could have been redeemed for only nIne-
tenths of their face value. Sixty dol
lars would, under the old rules, have
been deducted for mutilatiOn. These
rules, unfortunately for the government,
penalty cannot be enforced. Under this
more than generous modification you
claim to have returned to you new
United States notes of like denomina-
ton. Under q government contract, at
the expense of the United States, the
charge to the government by the
express company for their trans
portation both ways would be
one dollar and twenty cents. For the
dog-days I consider this request de-
cidedly cool. First, you or your client
wilfully mutilate clean, new notes, and
then you ask the government not only
to replace them with other new, unmu-
tilated notes, to be in their turn, for
auGht | know, mutilated and returned
with like request for other new notes, |
but to pay the expense and run the risk |
of transportation both ways, this is, |
10 my mind, piliDg it on pretty steep. |
You not only burn with hot iron, but |
you ask the burned one TO pay for heat |
ing the poker. If you will turn to the |
thirty-eighth section of the national |
banking law, you will find that, if any |
person had treated two of your bank |
notes in the way these two United States |
notes have been you could recover by ac- |
ton IN any court having jurisdiction to |
the amount of fifty dollars for each of the
mutations. Now what is sauce for the |
goose is sauce for the gander. Ought |
not the perpetrators of these mutila- !
tons be made to respond in like manner
under the circumstances? 1t has been
concluded that the notes should be re-
tanned at any rate until the pieces that |
were cut out of them should be returned |
to this office, or until the apparent fraud
ulent or malicious mutilation shall have
been satisfactorily explained to the de-
partment.
[Signedl +. E. SPINNER.
Treasurer of the United States
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TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

Lady Trevilyan is dead.
One fatal case Of cholera reported at
Terre Haute yesterday.
A dispatch from Berlin says that the
cholera is prevalent at the barracks in
that city.
Articles to be placed on exhibition at
the Cincinnati exposition are beginning
to arrive in that city.
General Bourbake has forbidden the
sale in the streets of Paris of La Petit
LyoRdtse newspaper.
A large rice-mill in Stephany, a sub
urb of London, was burned yesterday.
Loss fifty thousand dollars.
Monday Thiers will leave for Lucerne,
where he will remain till the end of the
week, when he will return to Paris.
The payment of the third quarter of
the last milliard of the French war in
demnity was completed on the fifth in
slant.
The Ohio constitutional convention
adjourned at Columbus yesterday, to re-
assemble at Cincinnati on the second of
December.
a Nashville telegram last night says
there were five new cases of cholera at
Chattanoona yesterday, three of which
were fatal.
An old school-teacher, said to have
been dead twelve days, was found in the
schoolhouse at Benwood, West Virginia,
yesterday. No further particulars.
A dispatch from Elm Creek, Nebrss-
ka, states that on Tuesday morning,
while party of two hundred and forty
Pawnee Indians were hunting near Re
publican river, ON Blackwood creek,
they were surprised and attacked by a
large body of Sioux Indians, and
bloody fight ensued, resulting in the de-
feat of the Pawnees, whose loss was
about one hundred persons, comprising
some Of the best men in the tribe, and
most of their horses, arms and game.
They were pursued twenty-five or thirty
miles, and only escaped when night
came on.
The manuscript book reported burned
in De WoOds's library, at Brunswick,
was q copy of the famous Hokiuyt
manuscript, long supposed to be lost,
but discovered by De Woods in 1869, in
the library of Sir Thomas Phillips. This
De Woods was preparing for publication
by the Maine Historical society, and
its appearance was watched for with ex-
treme interest by scholars here and in
Europe, as it gives details of the earliest
English settlements in America, and
shows them to have been on the coast of
Maine. WoOds's comments on it had
consumed four years of labor, but it is
not impossible to reTlace il.
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DEMOCRACY.
Call for a Convention of Pennsylvania
Democrats, to be Held at
Wilkesbarre.

PHILADELPHIA, August 5, lS73,-The
Democracy of the city are active
throughout the different wards, and are
commencing the work of the campaign.
The followsng address, from the pen OF
"Sam" Randall, is being extensively
circulated:
DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE Room,
PHILADELPHIA, August i 1873. )
By direction of the Democratic State
committee / announce that the Demo-
cratic State convention will assemble st
Wilkesbarre on the twenty-seventhd day
of August next, at ten o'clock in the
morning. 1t is urgently asked that the
Democracy of the respective counties of
the commonwealth will at once organ
ize for the approaching canvass. Cor
ruption and violence of every descrip-
ton were practised by the Radicals in
almost every part of the State
at the last State election, and
thus was nullified the choice of the peo-
pie of the State. To accomplish this
the ballot-box was polluted, fellow
citizens, by the use of money and the
practice of all kinds of fraud, Radical
governor and Radical legislature, in
consequence, were chosen. A vigorous
effort must be made to prevent repeti-
ton of these gross Outrages; and it is be-
lieved by an Immediate and united
struggle and thorough organization of
the party that this result, so desirable,
can be accomplished. 1t is the duty of
every Democrat to make an exertion to
that end.
The State committee instructed me,
in giving the foregoing notice to the
Democracy of Pennsylvania, to earnest
ly call the attention of the people to the
political condition of Louisiana. In
complying with this direction and ex-
pressing the wish of the committee, the
Democratic party of the commonwealth
is invoked to take such action in the
county conventions as will, when the
State convention convenes, enable that
body to declare the opinion and
Judgment of the Democrats of PenDsyl-
vanta in regard to the infamous acts of
the federal executive in subjugating,
overthrowing and destroying the rights
Of the people of sovereign State by
violent, unlawfal and unconstitutional
means, using federal troops and the
usurped power of federal court to de-
termine and decide questions of State
franchise, constitution and government.
VIII the people not pause and reflect,
that they may see to what form of gov
ernment We are with certainty drifting,
and apply remedy before it is too late.
Let the executive, legislative and judi
eial powers OF the government be quick
ly and fixedly restored 10 the limits
within which our revolutionary fathers
prescribed they should be exercised.
SAMUEL ]. RANDALL, Chairman.
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ANoTHER PRIzE MIL.


Butt Cavanagh, of Providence, and
Johnny Madden, of New York, fought
a prize fight yesterday at Mountain
were fought, Cavanagh winning.
ANOTHER vIRGINIUs EXPEDITION.
The Cubans of this city are preparing
another expedition to land arms and
ammunition on Cuban soil by the
steamship Virginius. 1t is said this will
be the largest one yet attempted.
HUGE TAX FRAUD.
The sanitary-superinte reports
finding in a quantity of malt in this
city some ten thousand cases of tea, the
cargo of the ship Petersburg, which was
wrecked off Bermudas. This tea has
been submerged several months, soaked
with salt water. 1t is now purposed to
wash and dry this tea, mix it with other
tea, and then put it upon the market.
The superintendent adds: " 1t is the
endeavor of owners to prepare this tea
for market. 1 consider it a most bare
faced swindle, and / respectfully recon-
mend that this matter be referred to the
proper authorities to have this fraud pre-
vented" The board of health has accord
ingly prohibited the sale of any delete
riOus preparation from which drinks are
made.
THE MYSTERIOUS SIGNS OF SHIP
WRECK. e
The agents in this city of the line to
which belongs the steamship Alabama,
reported probably wrecked off the Irish
coast, say that the Alabama did not
leave Lorne, Ireland, till Sunday, in
stead of Saturday, as stated in dis
patch, and could not possibly have been
in the neighborhOod where the wrecked
stuff has been found.
CoRoNER's VERDICT.
The coroner's jury in the case of Gar
gan, who was found murdered at the
corner of Green and Spring streets, rem
dered as their verdict that he was killed
by Jerry Fuller and Charles CobouTn.
The latter was committed to the Tombs,
and the police are in search of the
former.
THE MISSING STEAMER.
The steamship Arndt, from Stettin
and Havre, is now sixteen days overdue
at this port. On July 18th, the steam
ship Westphalia passed her seven days
out, and, to all appearances, she was all
right, in latitude 49o IL, longitude DO
VI dOOut Ouc 4uetAIcI VI the uiStduCe
out. Since then nothing has been heard |
OF her. The list of passengers in the |
Arndt is incomplete, as only part of it |
has been received at this city. The fol- |
lowing are the cabin passengers as far as
reported: Mrs. Adams and Mrs. At |
wood, United States: DR.. II. Doherne, |
one of the directors of the steamships |
company in Stettin; Rev. DR.. Schartz |
and family, Asia Minor; Henry Ohmske, |
Louis Basses and child, Miss Tereza
Landt, Carl Balentz, VIM. Brandt, Au-
gust Schwadt, Miss Flora Freyer, Au-
gust Mossel, Max Krontoswich, Miss |
Schewegen, Frederick Schultz, Miss
Adelia Smide, all of Prussia; Rev. A. |
Knrone, Miss Rosalie Krone, Miss Anne |
liza Krone, of Brandenburg.
THE ALABAMA HEARD FROM.
The agents of the States line in this |
city have received the following dis |
patch from Glasgow, in reference to the |
reported loss of the Alabama: "Look |
out for the Alabama on the eighteenth. |
Report unfounded."
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NARROW-GAUGE.
The Railroad Meeting at Hickahala,
Miss.-S1O,OOO Subscribed.

HICRAHALA, Miss, August IL
have been out to a railroad meeting to-
day at Canter's Spring. There was q
large crowd, and ali wanted herailrosd.
We had a splendid dinner. About one
hundred and fifty ladies were present,
and they are all railroad women. The
young folks had nice bran-dance, and
ali went off well. Mr.. Fulsom, of Tyro;
Rev. ]. P. McCracken, of Independence; ;
Mr.. Oglesby, of the Senatobia Times ;
and that enterprising and untiring young
merchant of Wall Hill, Mr.. Ed. Cole,
did the talking for the crowd. Ten
thousand dollars were subscribed toward
building the narrow-gauge railroad from
Memphis to Oxford. Canter's Spring is
thirty-five miles from Memphis, on
Hickahala creek, and is in one Of the
best neighborhoOds in North Mississippi.
The crops are fine here, especially cot
ton, and the farmers will make one thou
sand pounds per acre.
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A remarkable old lady, indeed The
Raleigh N. c. Sentinel reports the ar
rival there last month of Mrs. America
A. Hamlet, a widow, aged fifty-eight
wears, who, with her little daughter
had walked all the way from Louisville,
Kentucky, from the twenty-third Of
June, and was about to proceed 20 Viii
mington. The Sentinel goes on to say
6sSbe saws she went from this county
thirty-two years ago, and that her
mother was Stonewai Jaekson's Oldest
sister. She went from here to Pike
county, Missouri. In 1866, her husband
moved to Medina county, Texas, and
engaged in cattle-raising. On the
fourth day of June, 1868, her husband
and three sons were murdered by the In
dians. The oldest son was twenty-four,
and the youngest fifteen. On the nj
teenth of May last, she and her child
started for Wilmington. At Mouistown,
Kansas, where they stopped for supper
twenty minutes, the freight-train ran
into the passenger-frain, killing and
wounding some twenty passengers. She
had her arm broken aEd skull fractured.
Her child was stunned, bat not seriously
hurt by the collision. From Louisville
she started direct for this city, twenty
seven miles being their best days walk.
Some one in Raleigh has procured a tree
pass for them TO Wilmington.
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DIED.

PFANNENSTIEHL--Friday, August sth,
Mrs. 4. E., beloved wife OF c. PFAENEN-
s1IEHL, in her hfty-frst year.
GALA HAN-tE Eday, August sth, at half
past two O'Clock am, MARY, wife Of I. F.
Callahan, aged thirty-fve years.
The friends and acquaintance are invited
to attend the funeral, from the residence,
corner Hill and Mosby streets, at haIf-past
nine O'Clock this SATURDAY. morning.
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CHEEK COTTON PRESS

I WILL, as heretofore, devote my persona
Il attention to the manufacture Of this
WROUGHT IRON SCREW PRESS, as ia
now surpaSSes all others, both for horse ana
steam power. am determined that 10 shal'
continue TO do so, and sustain the unriValed
character that it has attained and TO which
1t is Justly entitled.
most wonderful machine, the Cheek Cotton
stalk Crusner, which must necessarily su-
percede all hand labor for clearing on the oil
stalk.
All orders for either the Press or Crusher
must be addressed to
FORD, PORTER & Co.
s. Union street. n Nemphfs. Tenn.
iy29 NJ. ID. CHEEK, Patentes-
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Creditors Notice.

NIHIS Is to notify all parties who are credit
4 ors OF the estate of VIM. Rehkopf, de-
ceased TO file their claims, properly authenti-
Gated, with my attorneys, Humes q Roston, Is
South Ccaft street, Memphis. 3enn.t within
the time prescribed by law; and all parties
indebted to his estate viii come forward and
make iYnmediate seetiemeut with said after
news. ERNST REHKOPE,
Rehkopf. aus
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ST. GEORGES SOCIETY.

GRE EN-The members of st. Georges So
ciety are requested to attend the funeral of
HENRY E. GREEN, from his late residence
2S7 Monroe street, this SATURDAY. morning
at ten O'Clock. W. W.JUNIPER, Pres't.
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The New Orleans Republican, of
Thursday, says: "In a day or two
General Longstreet and Professor For
shey, levee commissioners, viii start on
a tour of inspection Of the levees along
the Mississippi river as far up as the Ar
kansas State line, and thence down the
river IS far up as the forts. This tour
completed, the Red and AtchRfalaya
rivers viii claim the attention of the
commissioners. The river has fallen
sufficiently to enable the inspectors Ito
determine with accuracy the repairs and
constructions necessary to be bad during
the coming season.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.


HNHE Joint Board of Trustees will ,sssss,s.,
4 attend a called meeting, this s e.lsss7s,.
evening at 8 O'Clock, -.
IN the Trustees office. Sss4ligsSSS
By order OF the President.
au9 J P. PRESCOTT, Secretary.
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The contract for building two new
iron sloops of war has been awarded to
John Roach & Son, Of New York, at
twenty-nine Thousand dollars each.
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A Copenhagen cable dispatch says
that rigid quarantine is enforced on
all vessels coming from Hamburg, on
account of the cholera prevailing there.
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At Fort Wayne, Indiana, yesterday,
an ObstreperoUs fellow named Billarks
attempted to disembOwel two or three
persons with 3 dangerous knife, and was
himself shot dead.
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F1CE OF MAsOs1c MUTUAL LIFE AssU-
HOSPITAL FOB THE INSANE.

i AM prepared to take charge Of few
Insane Persons. Such accommodation s-
may De desired can be secured On a long anu
large experience in the treatment Of this elias
of cases, with a reference to the profession and
community who know me, must depend for
public confidence. Address,
DR.. j. r. ALLEN,
au2 No. 70 West Court street.
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A telegram from Madrid says that
Valencia has uneonditionally surrender
ed, and General Campas now occupies
the city. The submission OF Cartagena
is expected to follow Immediately. g
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COTTON FACTORS
TAYLOR, RADFORD & CO ,
COTTON FACTORS
Commission Merchants
No. 500 FRONT STREET,
MEMPHIS, TESyEssEE
IMPROVED WINSHIP GIN.

Manufacturers Agents Tor the
IMPROVED WENSHEss GIN.
Which for Light draft, fast ginning and clean
ing Of seed, Is uuequaled By any other gin go
use, while 70 prOduces rs good q sample as aT-
Of the standard gins OF cur country. Price.
81 per saw. Fully warranted.
Brooks Improved Revolving Screw Press
This justly celebrated press, We present .1
the public greatly improved Ia convenient.
which We feel assured viii meet fully t-=
wants Of the planter.
BaXter's Steam Engine.
Is simple, durable, safe, and occupies L-t
little space. The very thiug Tor those wishing
LIGHT Pow EE-
The ]. C. HOadlsy x Co. Portable
Steam EBgine.
This engine so long and fav0rahIy known ln
the sOuth- has been great ~ i'm proved not Ju.-
in material, but workmanship. II p0sze-..-
al the power necessary for the heaviest wOl-.
Fully warranted.
Gum Betting Always on Hand.
81 send for Circulars fvsu
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Foreign TraTel-AnOther Fisticuff En-
gagemeBt-The tnbans and the
Tirginins-Tax Fraud.
The Mysterious ShlpWreek-Terdict Ia
Murder Case-The NJ ssing
Steamers Armdt and Al
ALBANIA, Etc.

COMPARATIVE RATE OF FOREIGN
TRAVEL.
New YORK, August S.-The steam
ships leaving this port for Europe during
May, June and July carried eighteen
thousand five hundred and thirty-three
cabin passengers, an excess of five hum
dred only over the corresponding months
in 1872. ~
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rT1HE PAMELA OIL COMPANY offers OH
Meal at unusually low prices. Good feed,
and proof against dry murrain in horned
cattle. w. B. MILLER, Secretary
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The funeral of Odillon Carrot win
take place in Paris to-day. Thiers will
vii be one Of the pall-bearers,
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4O7 1-s Main Street, Memphis, Tenn.


y 2 HfTTo4EII's school will be con-
w tfr,ued daring the u3onths Of July and
Aurust- For terms and branches taught ap-
ply at the schoolroon, No. s05 Third street.