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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16
NASHVILLE.
FREsHET IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE.
Market Street Several Feet Under
Water.
Trains Temporarily delayed.

NASHVILLE, April 1.-THE Cumber-
land river is rising at the rate of one
inch an hour. One hundred yards of
Market street, south of Broad, are now
several feet under water, to the great
damage of stores and residences. One
more foot will invade the Easements of
thirty or forty business houses on Front
street. north of Broad. Merchants are
now moving their goods and cotton to
more secure quarters. One firm will
have to move 5000 barrels of salt at a
cost of $1,000. The damage already
done to property and the moving of
goods amounts to thousands of dollars.
Great damage is done along the dill.
ferent railroads from the high water.
Trains are temporarily delayed on the
Decatur road
Waverly, on the Northwestern rail-
road, suffered seriously from the storm
on Tuesday night.
The Tennessee river is very full and
rising two inches an hour, threatening
an overflow. The Cumberland, Stone
and Duck rivers are higher than at any.
time since lS47, and from present indi-
cations will reach or exceed that year.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16

GOVERNOR JOHN c. Brown, with DR..
Calendar and other experts, will visit
the site selected for the Insane Asylum
at Humboldt on the 10th instant The
Chamber of Commerce meets this after
noon, and committee will be appointed
by the President to meet the Governor
and his party at Humboldt and invite
him to extend the visit to this city.
This move is an important one, as it
may lead to a more full discussion and
comparison of the various sites offered
for the asylum should the Governor dis
approve the one selected.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16
ST. LOUIS.

ST. LOUIS, April l6.-It is understood
that the railroad superintendent and
managers we're in session here yesterday
to consult regarding the summer time
schedule, and decided to make no change
in the present through time cards, ex'
cepting to shorten the time between
Chicago and New York about half an
hour.
The Kingston Bridge Company COM
pleted the iron work on the bridge
crossing the Mississippi river here yes
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16
rrnErssRRANs I'M TEXAS.

A correspondent of the Nashville
Banner, writing from Sherman, Texas,
says:
improved land can be bought for from
IS to $40 per acre. Unimproved from
So to IS per acre. The country is
healthy, the society excellent churches
and schools abundant, a railroad run
ming through the richest country in the
world, from st. Louis without change
to Galveston in Texas, and Continental
railroad in course of construction, which
will cross it at Sherman, and will reach
from Memphis, Tenn, to San Diego, Cal
With such prospects is 1t not possible
for the people of this place to realize
the utmost hopes that the most ardent
imagination can conceive? Sherman
is eminently a Tennessee city, being
almost entirely settled by Tennessee,
Kentucky and Virginia. Most OF the
Offices are held by Tennesseeans and
others from Southwestern States, the re-
doubtable Hall himself being from North
Carolina. There are three weekly papers
published here, one of which is ably
edited by our handsome and genial
friend, Jack Martin, formerly OF the
Lebanon bar, who has held the position
of City Attorney. The Mayor OF the
town is from Gallatin, and sixteen out
of the thirty-four lawyers are Tennes-
seeans, besides which, they are repre-
sented in all other departments by a
large numerical strength.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16
TIE nRFIcRs TO FILL.

The following offices, nine in number,
are TO be filed in this county at the Au-
gust election: Sheriff, Tax Collector and
Trustee, terms of two years; Register,
Clerks of the County, Criminal,
First Circuit, Second Circuit and
Bartlett Courts, terms Of four years.
-Four of these offices, Tax Collector,
Trustee, Clerk of the County Court and
Clerk Of the Criminal Court, are each
worth over $4,000 per annum, clear of
all Office expenses. The others run down
much lower, to the Bartlett clerkship,
which, we presume, is worth scarcely
$1,000. The Sheriffs Office is nominally
= fat take" as the printers say, but the
fees come in SO slowly that very little, if
anything, is made clear the first year or
two, as it takes a large amount Of
money to run the Office from the start.
These are supposed to be rich prizes,
and when a convention is called no
doubt large number Of candidates will
take the field. But it is to be remem-
bered that Office holders are expected to
spend more money in various ways than
if they derived the same income from
private sources, and it is rather nota-
bic fact that very few men, even those
holding the most lucrative positions,
have grown rich by holding Office in
Shelby county. We can only call to
mind two or three ex-ofice holders who
are in afiluent circumstances, while
many have retired poorer than when
they began. This it may be said is their
own fault yet it is 50 generally the rule
that there must be some common under
lying cause whose results are so seldom
escaped. 1t is perhaps this: the public
servant, from coming in contact with so
many people, has many calls for money
which are hard to resist at the time
and be insensibly enlArges his expendi-
lures far beyond the limits Of private
citizen. Nevertheless Office has its al
1urements, pay or no, and always vii
have. We see as many candidates fol
the Legislature, where the pay is scarcely
canal 10 board bills, as for the bigges
osiees in the country. Sol is honor ant
position sometimes as we'll as monel
that ufice-seekers are counting.
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NEW YORK.
of the business
Men-PetftfOntng the President.

Men-PetifiOntng the President.
New York, April l6.-At meeting
last evening of bankers, capitalists and
merchants to consider the action neces-
sary to represent the feelings of the
business men of New York to the Presi-
dent regarding the Senate bill for the
expansion of currency, Peter Cooper
was called to the chair. A petition to
President Grant was read and signed by
Brown Bros. & Co., Henry G. Stebbins
& Co., Drexel, Morgan & Co., Samuel b.
Ruggles, and about twenty-five hundred
others, including majority of the
Presidents OF banks in the Clearing
House Association. The petition says
they appeal from their own Judgment TO
the language of the most eminent states
men in the Senate and House OF Repre-
sentatives in 1862 in justification of
their plea that further issue of green
backs under existing circumstances,
without warrant of necessity, will infict
stain on the honor of the Republic
and impair confidence in every future
pledge and promise given in its name.
Addresses in support of the petition
were made by Stuart Brown, Rev.
Leonard Bacon, Hon. August Belmont
and Others and committee was APP
pointed to present the petition to the
President, asking him to interpose his
veto to prevent the enactment of the
currency bill, which has recently passed
both houses of Congress, or any other
bill having in view the increase of in
conference.-the currency. The commit
tee includes Messrs. James NJ. Brown,
Howard Potter, D. Willis, James Jacob,
D. Vermilye, Jonathan Sturges, VIM.
NJ. Evarts, Cyrus W. Field, and
other representatives. The petition will
be presented tomorrow.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has been
voted six months leave of absence, to
be spent abroad or at home, the congre-
CATION to pay all travelling expenses.
A large number of Storage passen-
gers of the abandoned steamship Eu-
rope called at the French Transatlantic
Company's Office aud we're each given
twelve dollars to relieve their immediate
wants. All so desiring will receive rail-
road tickets free to their points of des-
tination. Captain Lemaire leaves for
Paris Saturday.
By the sinking of schooner in the
sound during the late gales three men
were drowned.
A Philadelphia dispatch says much
anxiety is manifested for the safety Of
the steamship Nederlaud, now week
overdue. The storm that did so much
damage to the Pennsylvania injured the
Nederland sufficiently to compel her to
put back to port, where, after repairing,
she put to sea again March Goth.
There is a report here that the French
Transatlantic Companys steamship
Amerique, which arrived at Brest Tues
day, from this port, foundered while en-
route from Brest to Havre. 1t is further
reported that all the passengers we're
saved, but that the second officer was
lost. Agents of the line here state that
they have no information Of such dis
aster.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16
RAILROAD.
Arkansas and Texas Short Line
VIA
MEMPHIS AND LITTLE ROCK R. R.
NEW SCHEDULE.

Until FURTHER NOTICE, TRAINS
u will run as follows:
Mail train leaves Memphis daily..... :25 p. IN
Mail train arrives at Memphis daily.12:S5 pm
Freight and Accommodation. Nom
days, Wednesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays. leaves Memphis............ 70 am
Arrives at s;lO pan
Close connections made in same depot at
Little Rock with trains on Cairo and Fulton X.
X. for Fulton, Texarkana, Jefferson, shreve-
port, Marshall, Longyiew, Dallas. sherman
Dennison. Palestine, Helrne, waco houston,
Galveston aHd all intermediate points IN
Arkansas and Texas. Also. in same depot,
at Argenta, with trains on Little ROCK ana
Fort Smith railroad for LeTisbgTTg; russell Rsrsn
Fort smith etc Pullman Palace Sleeping
Cars on Night Trains. For Tickets and in
formation, apply At 27s in street, SSlMain
street, or at Depot f0ot MEashi sn street
IN. PERRY itn Ticket Ag't.
aa5s n. A. WILL .Pas'ger Ag't.
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River Telegrams.

CAIRO, April l6-Arrived: Alex.
Swift, Cincinnati, am; Pat Rogers,
Memphis, Pam; Mollie Ebert, Pitts
burg, 2 am; Iron Mountain, St. Louis,
Gam; Paragon, Cincinnati, 10 am;
City of Alton, New Orleans, 10 am.
Departed: Bodmann, New Orleans,
JPN; Swift, st. Louis, 2 m; Pat
Rogers, Cincinnati, 3 am; Ebert, st.
Louis, am. Paragon, New Orleans,
l2m. Ligh. rain and cool.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16
FOREIGN.

LONDON, April ia Transatlantic
Company steamer, the LAmerique,
which left New York on the 4th inst, for
Havre, sunk on the l4th inst. one hum
dred miles from Brest Everybody was
saved except the second officer.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16

A WAsHISGroN special of yesterday
has it that majority Of theSenate Ju-
dietary Committee has agreed upon a
substitute for the late Senator Summers
civil rights bill. 1t differs in some re-
spects from that of Mr.. Summers, but is
almost, if not quite, as Objectionable.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16
Condemned American.

KEY WEST, April l6.-There are no
advices from Cuba yet as to the result OF
the appeal to the Captain General for
a Communication of the death sentence of
the American, Dockery. kilograms an
nouncing Dockery's condemnation have
evidently been suppressed by the author
tiles at Havana.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16

THE benevolent organization OF the
ladies of the Presbyterian church, for
thereief of the sewing women Of the city,
deserves the hearty cooperation OF the
community. tits a step in the right
direction, in behalf of large and neg
lected class, many of whom have been
in better circumstances and reduced to
want BY misfortune.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16

10 the EullOI Of lut A4tuBcfs
While the battle-cry of freedom is
being resounded in regard to the loca-
ton Of the courthouse, ! and my part
ner, who represent a large element Of bus
mess men and non-professional jurymen,
want TO be heard. We want the whole
business moved to Raleigh, Jail and all.
Raleigh, as you are aware, is the great
est as we'll as onliest watering place
between here and Raleigh. That will
make it healthy for the judges, the pris-
oners, the professional jurymen, the
Sheriff and his deputies, Colonel Dono-
vans railroad (but mind you, the Colo
mel amt in this ring / and my partner
represent), and our business men, who
have been annoyed to death BY sum-
mons to serve on juries, and will be an
noyed as long as the Courts remain in
Memphis. We insist that Raleigh have
the courthouse. and the Overton Hotel
too, if she won't take the legal nuisance
without it. And let Raleigh have the
county bench of magistrates also, or
give EN- to Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary,
Il Raleigh cant possibly stand EN-.
This means business. Look Quit"
HIGH WATER,
Low TAXES.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16
Probabilities.

WASHINGTON, April l6.-In Tennessee
and Kentucky, and from Missouri east
ward over the Ohio valley, fresh and
brisk north to east winds, with cloudy
and rainy weather. Cumberland, Ten
nessee, Ohio below Louisville and Mis-
sissippi from Cairo down will continue
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Died.

ELIZABETH, N. j., April l6:-Rev. DIR.
Thomas Carlton, late of the Methodist
book concern, died at his residence here
this morning, aged SO. he vas Treas
urer of Elizabeth at the time of his
death.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16
An UnaecountabIe Omission.

From the Courier-J ournal.l
Everybody who has any right to speak
on the subject has been heard on the
currency question except the Rev. By
ron Sunderland, D. D., Chaplain of the
Senate. He generally explains pending
legislation in his morning prayers, and
invokes the divine interposition accord.
ing to his own views; but has been sim
gularly reticent on the currency ques-
ton.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16

IT is regarded as almost certain that
the President will not veto the initiation
bill. If he fails to afix his signature it
will become law at the expiration of
ten DAYS.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16

TIE Knoxville Press and Herald i'm
parts the cheerful intelligence that the
candidates for Governor are becoming
more numerous. 1t says that the last
careful count put the number at 1899,
and it's FIVE months to the convention
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16

terday, and gave banquet to their en-
ployees last night in honor of the event.
The work was on the bridge proper, ana
has been finished two weeks inside the
contract time, for which the Keystone
Company receive bonus of $1,000 per
1aw
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16

The Irish Literary Association meets
at its hall on Poplar street, near Main,
this evening, to discuss the merits and
dement's of the public school system of
this country. Any person is at liberty
To attend
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16

WORCESTER, April l6.-Philip and
Joseph Adams, aged fifteen and thirteen
years, we're drowned yesterday while
sailing in a pond.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16

The House has passed the Senate in
flation bill, and it now goes to the Pres
ident, who will probably give it his ap-
proval.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16

A Troy cremationist asks, wouldn't it
be pleasant to receive dispatch some
thing like this some day:
DEAR MoTHER-William died at noon
today. Ashes by mail Yours, in
sorrow, JOHN SMITH.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16
DIED.

BRUCE-In this city on April 10th. MARY j..
BRUCE, sister of W.. s. Bruce, N. S. and Jos.
Bruce. aged ifty-six years.
Due notice of the funeral will be given.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16
REMOVAL.
REMOVAL.
REMOVAL.

WE TAKE PLEASURE IN INFORMING
w our friends and the public that we have
opened at the well known stand. No. 30 Maio
street, corner Of Jefferson. where with more
room and Increased facilities we shall be bet
ter able 10 supply our customers. We come
10 stay. and having had an experience Of
many year, in catering 10 the public taste,
think We can please Thankful for the sup
port Of our many patrons a. our Poplar street
house (which for their benefit will be con-
tinued). we respectfully solicit share Of the
trade, pledging prompt attention and goods Of
unsurpassed quality and cheapneEs. Give ne
. trial. Very respectfully,
WIN. DEAN 4 CO.,
36-i7 40 Main street, cor. Jefferson.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16

MosBY, the guerilla chieftain, is said
to be General Grants candidate for
Congress in the Loudon, Virginia, Dis
trict
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16

VIZ are obliged to Mr.. Barbour Lewis
for a copy Of Horace MsynSrd's speech
on the currency question.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16

DRoFEssoR NATcHEz MISS CALLED ON US THIS M0HMG
photograph and the
Peabody
Persons living the country
the H.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16

Strawberry festivals have come 10 pass
in New Orleans, and Florida is in full
bloom.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-16

DOoley's Yeast Powder
Makes Elegant Biscuit and Rolls.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-16
Lear rlOur import
ended into United
Proportion Proper
IT q
en-. Kingdom,
+First seven months,

*Flrst seven months.
Since writing the letter referred to,
none Of the data have changed, and my
estimates and conclusion, therefore, re-
main the same, and.I, stand by them
with confidence as to their substantial
correctness.
ESTIMATES BY ENGLISH AurHoR1r1Es,
But there has since been published
in this country, and without critical re-
mark, an estimate Of tho British wheat
crop by Mr.. Kains:J Jackson, which was
printed in the London Times money
article (mark the connection )aof Aug.
10, and an estimate Of tho same by Mr..
James Sanderson, printed in the Lon.
doa Times mot in tho money article) Of
The Grange advance., 1874-09-16

The effect was very ridiculons, and
alwsys provoked shouts Of laukhter.s:
But here again the comic effect was
produced, not by the musical idea, but
by the caricature of the not uncommon
exaggeration of a grace in vocalization.
-K,chard Grant White, in the Galaxy
for September.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-16
Comic Music,

We speak Of comic music, but there
is no such thing. Comic songs there are,
and comic operas; but no comic music,
although this art, like all others, is ca
pable of the grotesque. But music can
express neither wit nor humor, neither
satire nor rai1lery, not even the ridicu-
lous. 1t can express jollity, which is a
mood of mind, and animal spirits, an
other mood, hardly Of mind. But in
this direction its limits is phrase, the
spirit and form Of which make it a not
inappropriate vehicle Of comedy. Ire
member but two musical jokes. One is
n Cimarosa's '.Matrimonio Segreto,'
an opera which I have never heard, and
which, l believe, has never been per-
formed in this country; never, at
least, within my memory. In this, up.
on the fathers announcement of ssun
n,dtrimonio 7aobile," there is brief 81
lence, and then two horns are heard in
the orchestra. It can hardly be that
this musical hint of the probable conse.
quences of noble marriage in ple.
beian family is accidental. But, after
all, the joke is not really musical; for
it depends entirely upon the name of
the instrument by which it is perpetra-
ted, not at all to the musical idea to
which they gave utterancc. If the horn
had happened to be trumpet, or horns
(corn') had not been the accepted sign
ola certain marital calamity the world
over, this brazen joke would have been
impossible. The other, instance was a
monstrous portan'e1to or glide in the
performance of the air of the 'sKing Of
the Cannibal Islands,: in . potpourri
by Julien's orchestra. This air opens
BY passage from the dominant to the
third Of the scale, and whenever it re-
Cured the stringent instrument, in
stead Of taking the leap Of five notes,
slid up, with : prolonged and .wailing
crescendo, and then dsshed Of EspidlY.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-16

announced as the newly engaged valet,
and went at once to his cabin, which he
did not leave, again before the landing
at Genoa. The Marshal and Nine. Ba.
zaine state most explicitly that they
have no accomplices, and began and ex-
ecuted the work alone. -, -
The Grange advance., 1874-09-16
A GOVERNORS VIEWS ON BABIES.
Gos' bagley Of Michigan Replies to
the secretary OF the Kalamaxo>
Agricultural Society..A Delicate
Position.
STATE OF MICHIGAN. Executive OrP,cs. }
DETROIT, Ang. 8, 1874. I
Frank Little, Secretaru.

DETROIT, Ang. 8, 1874.
Frank Little, Secretary.
DEAR SIR: Your favor of the 9th
notifying me ofmy appointment as one
of 4 ''Committee on Babies'' at vour
coming county fair, is at hand. The
position is certainly delicate, and. to
a man in public life, q dangerous one.
Suppose, for instance, was candi~
date for Office, would not every father
whose baby failed to receive q premium
vote square against me? Would not
every mother whose baby failed to re.
ceive the attention Of the committee
use her powers of persuasion in induc-
ing her neighbors to vote for the ssoth-
er man! Providence has very kindly
implanted in the heart Of every crow q
decided belief that its ''baby crow" is
the blackest of all crows, and no areu-
ment Of counsel could ever convince
the mother crow to the contrary; and
this is right.
Were it otherwise, our babyhood
would not be the reign of kinghood and
queenhood that it is. If our parents
had not believed us to have been the
brightest and best of the human family.
and that We were born to be Presidents.
or at least congressman, we should
have been drowned like kittens before
We had reached our teens. But were
to undertake the duty you request of
me, other objections loom up before
me.
| do not know the opinions of nv
tellow'members Of the committee on
''babies.' should want to know what
sort Of babies they have had if they
have had any. Iwant to know whexS.
er they like fat babies or lean babies.
whether blue-eyed or black-eyed, gray
eyed or hazel'eyed, boys OF girls, blondes
or brunettes, Above all, / should like
to know whether they like babies at all.
l do not suppose for moment your
society would have been so careless as
to select a committee, any member of
which did not like babies. yet you may
have done SO. If, by accident, you
have, then you have spoiled the lob.
! couldn't serve with any such person.
Their judgment wouldn't be worth q
straw.
Again, l want to know if there is any
member of the committee who never
owned a baby of his own. should
most certainly object to serving with
any such unfortunate individual. What
would he know about babies! How
much weight would his opinion have on
the important question Of which was
the ''tinest and handsomest baby not
exceeding eighteen months of age" A
decision made by such q one would be
laughed at by every mother in Michi-
gan. have seven babies of my own.
Some Of them are too old to be called
babies by the outside world, but to mo
they are and ever will be babies. Now,
| try to be fair and dccently honest in
my judgment Of men and things, but
when it comes to babies.I can't do it :
l know can't; l shall be making COM
PARSONS constantly, keeping my own
babies before me as standard of excel
lence: 1t is Of no use. l can't serve
and do my duty to myself, my wife, my
babies, my State, my neighbors, and
my prolific fellow citizens Of Kalamazoo
county. Your friend,
JOIN J. BAcrpv.