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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-24
Prnhnfe Ruainenn.

Judge Ray made the following APP
pointments during the week: James s.
Day, guardian Of VIM. Robertson. Eu-
gene Magevney, guardian Of minor heirs
Of John Magevney, deceased. Charles
Collins, guardian Of Anna and Camilla
Pope. j. W. X. Browne, guardian of
Emma B. Browne and other minor heirs
of ]. W. S. Browne, deceased. S. G.
Maddox, administrator OF the estate of
S. W. Bolton. Andrew Davis, admins
traitor of George Burnett. Virginia A.
Ward, executrix of the will of W. c.
Ward; the will was admitted to probate.
Public administrator J. A. Anderson,
administrator Of the estates Of John
Sturlock, Susanna Polk and j. B. Abb
ington. F. W. Louis, administrator Of
the estate Of Josephine Mailer. Mrs.
P. F. Russel, guardian Of Lucy Reeves.
Chas. H. Meyers, administrator Of the
estate Of J. K. P. Lowrance.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-24
Grand Concert.

With a fine lunch, tonight at A. Kauff-
mans saloon, No. 2sO Second street.
There will be the bestWinklemeyer's lager
beer, wines, liquors and the best Havana
cigars. Come one, come all tonight.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-24

The FINEST lot of spring lambs ever
brought to this city are for sale very
cheap at H. Seessel, Sr.'s, Central
Meat Market, No. Y Jefferson street,
corner Of Third. %
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CIGARS.
Interestin & News to
s m O X RS.

HARPMANN BRO. 2Ss MAIN STREET.
have just received, direct from the celebrated
factory of Peres Roderiques q Co.. Habana.
their finest brands; PARAL0S YNTELI-
GENTEs. LA REPUTATION. which, with
other fine brands like ESCEPCI0N. CORONA
DEL REY. PRIMA VERA. TUBA ROSA,
LA ANITA. etc.. etc., ALL FRESH, constitute
the finest assortment of IMPORTED HA-
vANA CIGARS in the city. Connoisseurs
are invited to call and try them. Prices very
moderate.
Remember the place. 2S6 Main street, next
door to Oliver. Finnie 4 Co. It's
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-24

- he hour OF 8 o'clock p-H.. a. What i knevn
=. ~ Fddin raV Mil, IN the city Of Memphis,
..,-ss5 n cell % the highest bidder. for cas
IN ~ rirhf. titie and Interest 81 the sad
Al n1iiev II the saw nil and Lumber tlnl-
- D and an bis interest," ID the lcrl. lumber
80 Tier property in and shout faid tut. nesf,
T n. G. BBANI, Trustee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-24

MASsFoHD, corner of Second and
Monroe, has London Punch, Graphic
Illustrated News, and all the great dai-
lies, weeklies, monthlies and quarterlies.
You can always find the latest and best
at the complete establishment on the
corner Of Second and Monroe.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-24

AT III MAH STREET.-Mr. Wilkinson,
the clever news-dealer and stationer, has
our thanks for files Of the very latest
Eastern and Western iailies he has
on hand also the latest popular maya
zines, fashion. sporting and literary pa
pers; also, foreign papers, and 3 com
plsts stock Of everything IN bic hne. At
lowest prices.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-24

ENTRANCES from Main or Madison to
Miller's "Cut Off saloon. SO
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-24

DooLEY' yeast powder is the cheapest,
but not the lowest priced, baking pow
der. Elegant biscuits. rolls. etc, pre-
pared in a few minutes. cod
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-24

Ex-senator PoNERoY announces him
self candidate for the seat Of Cald-
well, resigned, in the United States Sen
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Trustee,e Sale.

ny VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST
Is made % ne b. N, Dudley, Of date y q
800 offre on shelby county, Tennessee, In
bo,t q. NJ. page 35s. for the purposes there
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-24

SHIPPING TAGS printed just at New
York prices at the PUBLIC LEDGER
office. 40
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AUCTION.
AUCTION.
Lot No. SO Madison st.
TO the HIGHEST BIDDER.
en- Saturday, Nay slst, lS73

at the corner Of Main and Madison streets
will Be cold this. the NEST desirable min
proved tunnsss lot In the city. situated oppo.
site the Masonic Temple between Main stFes'
ard the proposed rits Of the Curton Hesse,
posiofce and United States Court BUILDING.
Directly In the business center.
Ierua-One-ffIh cash Remainder IN }. .,
and ~ uoEttE. 81 3 nsr rent. interest. k.le =
I'm. w. II. VANCE,
E-1s WI. CHERRY.
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CARD.

lHE UNDERSIGNED HAVE BEEN AU-
thorized by Eastern Capitalists to propose to
the people of Memphis and vicinity the es-
tablishment eff
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stock.
We deem it unnecessary to call the atten
ton Of our business community to the great
advantage to result from this liberal PROPOSE
tion to bring capital to our city, and hope it
will meet their prompt response.
Citizens and others will be called upon for
subscriptions of stock, that the organization
may be completed without delay. as our
friends are now ready to furnish their share
Of the capital.
Subscriptions may also be made with either
Of the undersigned.
AMOS WOODRUFF.
J.J. BUSBY,
ia. NELSON.
Memphis. May IA, 1873. est
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NEW NATIONAL BANK.

with capital of $500, ZOO or $500, geo.
conditioned that they (the people of Memphis)
subscribe for one-third only of the capital
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-21

The result in ONO is easily explained.
Regarding this IS the s'off year in politics"
tae Republican effsrt was nos 60 energetic
IS in the elections Of last year. The multi
plicity of tickets and the Temperance COM
pication also had, doubtless, tie eject upon
The election. One thing, at least, was
cieer1F developed in the result, viz: that
he Democratic support of the Greeley
ticket In 1872 was not so hearty IS good
filth required, and that the Republicans
who did support the Greeley ticket have
pretty generally returned to The Repubi.
can camp. 1t indicates that the Ohio DEM.
ocrats preferred not to ssaccept the situa-
ton" In 1872, ard Did 'saccepe the situaticnn
OF 1878 primo facte evidence of lie insin-
cerity of the DemocEatic- performance st
Baltimore isss year, Nashville Banner,
Oct. 10.
Oureontemporary seems as anxious as
any Radical TO 'explain" Ohio. An obser-
yer Of ''indiffsrentisl politics" might be ex-
peeted to regard the aoff year in politics. as
Affecting both parties equally. The fact is,
With a six-year United States Senator to
succeed Thurmsn. itwes not mnch of an
"of year, On either side, aud it is on this
most important issue of the campaign that
the Democrats have been most signslly
triumphant. The temperance ticket" to
which the Banner alludes didn't have
flea's force in effecting the result. Neither
did that famous aThird Party" Of which
the Bonner seems. now too ashamed to
raako unontin, a<y-~
For delving in1o the dead and buried
past, commend us-to your ''live, indepen.
dent, indiferentialp journal. The Bonner
eonfesses that t'Repdblicans who suppc rted
the Greeley ticket have pretty generally re-
turned TO the Republican camp but it has
no word of chiding for them. It reserves
the vlals Of its wrath for the Democrats, ac-
cusing them Of insincerity. Now what are
the facts? Here in Tennessee, where the
Banner utters this charge, we stood by
Greeley to the last, though wounded aud
bleeding ourselves at every pore from Lib
eral darts. Was that issincerity? Is the
Banner talking of Tennessee Democrats?
For the Northern Democrats, those of
Tennessee cannot be held responsible.
Quite early in the canvass last year, we
warned the Liberal managers that the North
ern Democrats had never been Hsabju-
gated" the iron had not touched their souls,
aud they were not ready TO terminate
II years of struggle for principle by accept
ingalife, long enemy. We leave the Ban
ner to say how far our words of caution
were justified by the result. But we hope
the Banner will credit Southern Democrats
with fulfilling their promises-while it is
juss possible that the South, depending too
much on Liberalism, was used at Baltimore
to force on the Northern delegates policy
they could not carry out. But these are
dead issues, utterly proftless to discuss low,
and our only excuse for noticing the Ban
ner's allusion, is to repudiAte its charge of
insincerity SO far as Tennessee Democrats
are concerned. Our record speaks for it.
self
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-21

"TIME restores not the msstodon." On
this text the Jackson Glenn Herald takes
the trouble of writing brief history of the
Wing party, and pays the following tribute
10 Henry Clay:
SIT is well known TO the close student Of
political history that that great statesman
came to the theatre Of Western and nation
al politics, from the State of Virginia, i'm
bued with the state Rights Democracy of
Jencrs L and Patrick Henry; aud not until
his bitter autagonism towards General
jackson, and his chsgrin over defeat had
aroused him TO full consciousness of bis
power as horn n er of msn, did be
cut loose from bis Democratic moorings
aud raise the flag of new and powerful
party. That larty died VITA him
because IL was an eXcresence on one
OF the two great distinctive organizations
t5st existed before the government was
formed, the parties OF which Alexander
Hamilton was one leader and Thomas JEFF
farson the other; the former striving for a
strong centralized government, the latter
seeking TO give TO the States the greatest
possible local sovereignty compatible with
the welfare Of the federal system. Those
aute-natal psrties-fOrces at work at the
conception snd nativity of the Lew polity
known as American Democracy--are the
two parties ard the only two to-day. The
party of Hamilton, the centralizsr, is seated
on its imperial throne and finds its compile.
ted image after eighty six years in the felt
conviction Of an imminent Cassrism at
Wash ngton, for which the American mind
is being gradually educated"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-21

THE Jackson Wing ana Tribune, after
noting the Democratic triumphin Ohio and
the gains in Pennsylvania, Greg n, and Iowa,
ocondoles with the veteran of the jackson
Courier on this to him sad and unwelcome
Intelligence" and adds good humOredly:
ever since Columbus discovered Ame-i
lea through all the thousand papers that he
has EDITED, managed and controlled, he has
never failed to announce the death Of the
Democratic party. It was tbs first note that
he struck on 'his harp of a thousand
strings when be took charge Of the Court
en-, and We know it will be bis last strain in
the ages YET TO be; but for sill that, we 'sth-
eT liked j.. Whenever th9veteT an predicts
a Democratic defeat, we always count on
victory and rice UerSd.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-21
HIGH TAXES IN TIGHT TIMES.

Our people erumble at the high taxes
they have to pay, and taxes are high in
comparison with what they had to pay fif-
teen years ago. aThose who dance must
pay the fiddler" and Tennessee was led a
merry dancs under the Brownlow regime,
when the Indebtedness of the State jumped
10 from about SIC, GOO, 900 to over SAC, oOO,-
900. The people of TIE State have to pay
this now, and the consequences is, taxes are
high. But We suspect that our people will
consider themselves rather favored even in
this respect, when compared with the con-
dition of the citizens Of other portions of
this "great country" From Indiana, a
State in which the Republicans have had
complete control for many years, and still
have, SO far as the taxing power is involved,
a wall comes up which shows what high
taxes are. The Indispapolis Neacs says:
"The new assessment law has rather
more than doubled the value of the proper
ty in this (Msrion) county upon which
taxes are charged. In 1872 it was $45, S92,-
Z4us lis wear III u q ltbIiC ONOl SAOO,OOOg-
900, we believe. The State and county taxes
together amount to 81 cents on the 500, or
only 10 cents less than last year. On the
basis of last years assessment, this rate
would be about equal to SLID on 500. 1t
is an astounding lax. 1t nearly doubles
The amount charged against exery tax pay
er last year. Where he got clear for $40 or
$50 before be mus now pay $50 to $50.
Aud this g the worst time TO raise money
since 1857. The condition OF currency and
the enormous increase of tax, together
make this the most oneTous and oppressive
tax ever imposed in this country. The
present rate on the old assessment would
have been heavy enough, considering how
hard money is 10 come by. On the
present assessment it will prove pref
ty intolerable to 8 good many and
disastrous to some. But If the county
tax is hard, the citT is worse. 1t is Sl.1O
on the increased duplicate, which is equal
to 81 20 on that of last year. The enor-
nous addition made to taxable values at
cash rates, increases the amount of tax
charged, though the rate of taxation be
largely reduced. The Council increases
our taxes from-the Journal says $l.73
last year, and that was certainly q general
impression of the rate-$l. 80 as appears by
The report of State Auditor Shoemaker to
81 20 on the old assessment, an addition of
10 cents on 500 of taxables. Taking the
old duplicate, the Council is now making
evary man pay rate thirty per cent higher
than last year. Taking the present dupli- !
cate it is making every man pay one dollar
and sixty cents now where he paid one
dollar las! year. This is a precious show
ing of economical management and encour- |
agement of businesSl'
This kind of taxation beats us considera- |
bly,, and will make the poor Hoosisrs |
squlrm. Well, "those who dance must pay |
the fid ler."
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-21
TALLADEGA, NASHVILLE AND
MONTGOMERY. H

We observe from the Talladega (Ala.)
Reporter that books of subscription viii be
opened By commissioners at the Office of
Messrs.s Bradford and Bradford, on the 10Th
of next month, for subscribers to the TaIla-
dega, Nashville AID Montgomery railroad.
We heartily agree with the Montgomery
Advertiser that this is very important en-
terprise, deserving both serious considers
ton and active support. The opening of
subscription books for investment by the
people as individuals is healthful sign, al
though the counties to be opened up by its
construction viii doubtless subscribe as cor
porations. From the article of the Talla-
dega Reporter We gather that the general
route will be air-lines SO far as possible
from Montgomery, via Wetumpks to ITALIA
dega, thence to Gadsdeu and Guntersville,
as the most economical surveys will per-
NIT, connecting with the Nashville and
Chattanooga road at either Decherd or Tul-
iahoms. From q glance at our latest map
(1S72) we notice lines of railway already
existing from Gadsden, Ala, to Decherd,
with the exception Of the unfinished por-
ton of the Winchester and Alabama road.
This latter has now fair prospect for early
completion, and we presume that the pro-
posed new line from Montgomery to Nash
vile will take advantage Of these connec-
tions at GadsdeD, and perhaps run the
whole line under one management. With
the early Inauguration of this new enter.
prise, the necessity for double tracks on the
Chattanooga line will become live ques-
ton. From all we hea-, the able manage
nent of that road are likely TO meet this
new demand upon them, and the era Of
freight bIockades will lie fast forgotten.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-21
A CASE OF BLISrERING.

The Republicans sought to make capital
in the late canvass in Ohio out of the fact
that the Hon. VIM. Allen, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, was an ''old fossil, "
and that he had passed the day of his use
fitness, notwithstanding he is hale and
hearty and manifests wonderful vigor both
of body and mind. Senator Morton, of In
diana, went to Ohio to make some speeches
for the Republicans, and was indiscreet
enough to join in the cry about 'the anti
guilty of Bill Allen" As might have been
excepted, Allen retorted in a way that
"touched the raw in manner to make
even Morton to feel bis force. He is re-
ported to have said:
"This very man Morton, when he was
brought before the people, had not the pow
er to stand on bis feet before the people.
Laughter The committee helped him
up [ironical cheers and when they got him
up they had TO set him in an arm chair, and
had to tumble and hunt up an old manu-
script that be had COZ cocted in the deep dark
ness of some midnight, and read it there
and called tia speech. [Laughter.] Do l look
like mat? Loud applause, drowning
the speakers voice comp!etely.] Am l par
alyzed from my lips down? Laughter
there are two kinds Of influences which
wear away human life. One is the silent,
constant wear and tear of time, that takes
the man beyond 'thst bourne from whence
no traveller returns" which Discrepancies ali
oil oroanizad tbince and raanlvas ynatipr in
to its pristine condition. There is another
kind of influence that brings on age and
decrepitude. There is vicious esrly life.
There is personal debauchety. There is
moral and physical decrepitude which is
brought on in individuals, and paralyzes
them from the hips down. And yet this
man CONS and talks about my want Of
manly vigor.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-21

1T is estimated that the total shrinkage
of stock-values since the beginning Of the
plBic mas bern 100000. The New
York Tribune sscribes bis result mainly
TO Commodore Vanderbilt's refusal to save
the Union Trust Company by paying his
debt to it Of S1,750,OOO. Vsnderbilt's own
loss on stocks is estimated at S20,OO0,OO0.
This loss is largely nominal, however, as
he owns the same amount of railroads as
before, but their receipts are reduced by the
blockade of business. The Journal of
Commerce accuses the Commodore of re-
flsing to protect 10000 shares of Lake
Shore belonging to his daughter, Mrs.
Clarke, and allowing her to go into bank
ruptcy. 1t is supposed bis OBJECT was to
buy them in under the rule st present rates,
60662, gaining the difference of some 80
per cent. when the stocks are forced back to
80.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-21

EVERY few days bril- Is to light some
new defalcation on the part of Grants Of
fee holders, who evidently are beginning to
th ak they have as good a right to pocket
the peoples money as has the chief Of the
salary grabbers. The latest instance Is re-
ported BY the Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette, under date of Oct.
II, as follows:
"Col. Whitley, Chief of the Secret Ser
vice Of the treasury, has submitted the re-
port of thorough investigation Of the af-
fairs Of the Msrshsl's Office, for the Western
District of Arkansas. TIE report is very
severe in the charges which it makes agaiT st
the hole management of the office, and
nearly all the officers OF tha court in that
district, and most of the Marshal's Depu-
ties, as well as tue Marshal himself are re-
ported as being directly concerned in gross
irregularities. The methods by which
these officials have managed to accomplish
their purposes were by direct VOL ,tion of
the Instructions gwen By Attorney General
Williams.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-21
To Coal Dealers.

OEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RE-
- ceived up to Nov. /, 1873, for furnishing the
City Waterworks with Coal for the next twelve
months, the Coal to be good Nut Coal, and to be
delivered at the City Waterworks in not less
than seven thousand bushels per month, or as
necessity may require. The Committee on
Waterworks reserve the right to reject any or all
bids. The party securing the contract viii be
required to give bond and security for the faith
full performance of the same.
Proposals to be fled with P. G.. Bresn, Chair
man of Waterworks Committee, or Jas. Wyatt,
Superintendent of Waterworks.
P. G. BREEN,
Chairman Waterworks Committee.
0ct 10 1874 ocIo 0rv
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-21

The Knoxville Chronicle Of the 10Th con-
soles its Radical readers with the following
prediction:
"rhe result in Ohio ard elsewhere will
serve to revive the hope of the Bourbon De
mocracy and keep up their old organization,
which will be defeated whenever there is
an election of sufficient interest or import
ance TO call out full vote"
The Nashville Bonner Of the same date
says:
"The nstural consequence viii be, that
in liza the piucky Democratic ram viii
return to the swing maui of fate with re-
newed confidence, and the Republican con-
csrtaaiion upon the maui will give it srffi-
Gent oscillatory momentum to make the
struggle interesting and the interpcsition OF
a third party superlatively unnecessary"
There is remarkable similarity in these
two predictions. Is the wish the father to
the thought in both instances
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-21
WAS GRANT DRUNK AT PITTSBURG
IANDING2

This question is liable to be revived by
passage in the October number Of Broaon'
sons ReUielU. Col. II. S. Hewitt, M. D.,
entered TIE war as Medical Director on the
staff of Gen. Chss. F. Smith, but was soon
transferred to the staff of Gen. U. s. Grant,
with whom he remained till after the bat
tie of Shiloh, when he was again transfer
red, to Gen. Schofe.d's command. DR..
Hewitt died in New York a few weeks since,
and his lifelong, intimate friend, o. A.
Brownson, writes tlibute to his memory
in which occurs the following:
"Gen. Grant, we may add, owes him
debt of gratitude which has never been ac-
knoWledged, and we fear not to add, that
but for DR.. Hewitt, whose noble qualities he
was and is incapable of approaching, he
could hardly have been General-in Chief OF
the army or President of the United States.
He sG1ed both the Generals life and his
honor"
Evidently Mr.. Brownson might tell more
if he chose.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-21
HOW 70 OBTAIN A BE TEN CUR

One of the first acts of Congress after 1t
assemblies some six weeks hence, sh9uid be
to pass law making greenbacks converti-
bic at par, into five per cent gold govern.
ment boads. This would make greenbacks
equslto gold in valne 30 soon Is The people
understood that they had . reliable ssyi; 60
bank that paid Eve per cent interest IN gold
ON all deposits. 1t is nos merely a great
financial mistake, but great wrong to tax
the labor and exchanges Of the country for
the benefit Of a few banks and bondholders
from I'VE to ten per cent for the use Of a
deprecated paper currency. III paying
our national debt Of two billion
one hundred million dollars, in the
way things are now managed, our tax for
that purpose will not bsiess than five thous-
and million dollars. Three-fifths Of this
immense sum Of money will be profits to
bankers and spectators. He viii be wise
Cengressman who iarors to check this spirit
of speculation and extortion, and place all
government bonds in the hands of lab oring
people who have to-day nearly thousand
million dollars in savings banks. All should
encourage general industry and frpgality,
honesty and intelligence, rather than
over grown wealth ia the hands
of favored few, and - extreme
poverty and ignorance in the many.
Our federal and State governments should
be for the people, and of The people-not
for any privileged class or classes, in the
shape of railroad, bank, mining and manu-
featuring monopolies. Our present cur
rency is the illegitimate child of would-be
monied aris.ocrscy, for which q nation Of
equal sovereign voters has no use. 1t is
simply fifth wheel in our government
coach, which must run Qf at ally on the
schedule of the greatest good to the largest
number. This is the Jeffersonian Demo-
cratic principle the corner stone in our
republicans edifce. Without it the Decla-
ration of Independence is cloudy moon
shine.