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sUNDRY BILLS.

Mr. Poland, from the Special Commit
tee on Arkansas Troubles, presented {
report ol the testimony taken during lht
vacation. Ordered printed.
Dir. Durham, from the Committee OF
Banking and Currency, reported u bill
reducing the allowances 10 bank exam,
liners and fixing the rates. After an ex-
planation by Mr.. Durham the bill wa!
passed.
MIR. Maynard, Chairman OF the Com
mittee on Banking and Currency, report
ed bill to amend the national bank acI
In the matter Of proceedings in liQuida-
tiOn.
In response 10 question as to where
the bill was to make the shareholders liza
bic for the banks Indebtedness, MIR. May
nard said the bill went no farther in thai
direction than the original act. holding
shareholders liable to an extent equal tO
the amount OF their shares.
Alter some discussion the bill was, al
the suggestion OF MIR. Niblack, recommit.
ted with leave to report at any time.
THE OMAHA BRIDGE.
Mr.. Houghton, from the Committee on
Pacific Railroad, reported o bill providing
that tho railroad bridge at Omaha and
approaches on each side oil the river shall
be operated as the continuous line OF the
Pacific Railroad, and requiring hall
yearly report to be made oil the monthly
receipts ol tolls and charges for the use Of
said bridge.
Tho morning hour having expired the
bill went over without action.
Bills were intoduced and referred TO
committees as follows:
BY Mr.. McCrary, for the exlnguish-
ment Of the Indian title 10 the Black Hill
reservation, Dakota.
BY Mr.. Wood, fixing rates and duties
on imported merchandise.
ReS0lred, That no higher or other rates
Of duty in suits proceeding against the
United States. sc.
He moved Tor It's reference 10 the Com.
mittee on Ways and Means.
MIR. Butler, Of Massachusetts, suggested
that the Judiciary Committee was the
proper reference
MIR. Beck said that the bill pertained TO
tho revenue cases, and ho instsnced the
employment Of the New York Senator
in the tax case Of the New York Central
Railroad Company.
Mr.. Randall move that the House
now proceed to the consideration OF the
bill.
The speaker-That requires unani-
nous consent.
There was no objection, and the bill
having been amended at the suggestion
Of Mr.. G. F. Hoar by emitting from the
! penslty a provision for disqualification
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FRANCE.

PARIS, December S.-Banking house OF
Rotchschild, has advsced 100000
reals to Spain.
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BTANDING CoMMTTTREa

On adjournment Of the Senate the Re-
publican members went into caucus to re.
Ceive the report on tho standing COM
mittees Of the Senate for this session. 1t
Is made known that no changes whatever
will be recommended, and that the only
alteration will be at the request OF Seua-
tors desiring to exchange places on com.
miltees oil minor importance.
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A Theory as TO Beechcr's Case, by
James E. Wharton, formerly OF
Wheeling.
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BY TELEGRAPH
AssocIATRp PRESS REPORT

(By the Western Union Line
Jttico Northwest cor. OF Main and Monroe Hts,
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Thomas A. Scott was elected presi-
dent OF the Northern Central Railroad
on Tuesday.
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NASHVILLE.

BOLD ROBBERY OF BANK INDAYLIGuT,
NASHVILLE, December S.-The follow.
ing has just been received from Corlnth
Mississippi:
"a bold and daring robbery was COM
mitted here. At 1870 p. NJ, yesterday, four
well mounted men rode up TO the Tisho-
mingo Savings Bank, two OF whom enter.
ed the bank and locked the door, and two
remained outside. They demanded the
safe key, which President Taylor refused.
They then made an attack upon him with
knives and compelled him to give it up,
They took over five thousand dollars in
currency and as much more in watches
and diamonds. Mr.. Taylor was not bad.
ly hurt. A negro man was in the bank
making deposit at the time, and was
not permitted to leave until the robbers
retired. They were in the bank fifteen
minutes. People who observed the bank
closed supposed Taylor had gone to din
ner. The bank Is in an outol.the-wav
place, and is not much noticed by the
public. The men had been lurking about
the town and country for two weeks.
The robbers fired several pistol shots as
they departed, and rode at full speed in
the direction Of the Tennessee river. The
sheriff with a large posse has gone in
pursuit.
ARREST OF surPosED MURRRERs.
-Four men, Hurd Hampton, George
Myers and the two Purdows, have been
arrested and held as the alleged murder.
ers of j. N. Bauer, OF Grutte, Grundy
county, on the third Of November. The
circumStantial evidence leaves no doubt
OF their guilt One OF the masks worn
by one Of the parties has been found,
which was made of two pieces of pecu-
liar fine goods. The Banner editorially
says that when this discovery was made,
and which was not until Saturday night,
arrangements were at once made for a
search, with the determination 10 find the
goods from which the mask was made,
On Sunday the searching party found a
part OF the goods at Hampton's and the
other at Myers. The jury is still lnves-
tigatiDg the matter, but the proof already
is SAID 10 be overwhelming. The prigo-
ners are held under a strong guard and
the citizens are determined 10 have Justice
done,
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WASHINGTON.


WARRINGTON, December s S-Comman,
der VIM. B. Cushing of tho United States
Navy was last night removed TO the Coy.
eminent Hospital for insane.
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PRESIDENTS BUSINESS HOUR

Tho President will devote the morn.
ings from 10 to IL 10 Senators and Rep
resentatives and receive by card from 12
until 2 O'clock each afternoon exceptIpp
Cabinet days, Tuesdays and FrilaYa.
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~77W WI 70 s4V pVIUVU kVIIluK UPVTU
PostmAsters arc requested 70 act a. Agents.
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NEW YORK.

New York, April 29.-Oriental Paul
has been arrested on the charge Of steal
ing $50, 900 worth OF bonds from his
uncle, Harvey Paul, of Throggs Neck.
The bonds were recovered.
Klennan Habkaken, bank defaulter,
arrived yesterday from England in
charge Of an officer, and was immedi-
ately taken to the Hudson county New
Jersey Jail to await trial.
The Orange lodges OF this district
will celebrate the 18th Of July this year
by an excursion to neighboring grove
on Monday, the 18th. Sunday, the 18th,
the members will meet and, without re-
gala or other insignia, march to church.
A dispatch from London says the
mails of the steamship Ameriqae have
arrived. They were found in an aban-
doned boat, which was picked up in lati-
tude Az north and longitude 70 west by
the bark Assyria, which arrived st
Havre on the 9th from New Orleans.
The mails are damaged by water.
Joseph Brooks and Elisha Baxter,
each signing himself as Governor Of Ar
kansas, have published letters in papers
here, giving their stories Of the trouble
in Arkansas. Baxter says, speaking Of
his rupture with Senators Clayton and
Dorsey, that an individual representing
himself as their agent, called upon
him, and requested his completely in
frauds sufficient to carry the State in
their interests, aud when refused directly
offered, as the price Of his completely,
the United States Judgeship and money.
He gives assurance that be will abide By
the decision Of the Legislature, which he
has convened, and which, he says, the
Supreme Court has decided is alone
capable Of disposing Of the subject.
Mr.. Brooks, on the contrary, says
The Legislature can only decide the
question Of who is Governor, when the
question is presented to it, by reeountiDg
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a QUESTION FOR THE FUTURE.

Some of the funding organs have been
very happy over clause in the act which
was intended to set aside the interest
money in preference to any other claim
even taking the precedence over
current expenses; and the absurd idea
has been admitted by many of the oppo-
nents of the measure. If they only re-
feet a little, they would see that such a
proyision is utterly null and void, for in
the event of deficit in the public reve-
nues. the machinery Of the State gov
eminent would be stopped, and the sala-
ries of the very officers charged with re-
ceiving and disbursing State funds would
be stopped, as well as all legislative and
judicial salaries. Practically, it would
depend somewhat upon the construction
of the law by the Governor, Comp
troller and Treasurer. When the time
draws near to refill these offices
the various aspirants will doubtless De
Intercepted as to their peculiar views
upon this subject. And right here we
will give expression to our views OF the
subject and shall elaborate them more
fully when the proper time comes.
l. The interest on the State debt is not
a preferred claim over and above ordl-
nary current expenses. 2. When de-
felt occurs, as viii be the case in less
than eighteen months, the interest fall
ing due should be paid off last as far as
the money on hand will go. 3. 1t is
more important to create sinking fund
with which to buy in the bonds mot due
for forty years. at the market price ten
years hence, than to pay every dollar OF
the interest as we go by expressing the
people with excessive taxation.
We are opposed to reputation, but
the necessities of the people must be
taken into consideration by the next
Legislature.
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LATEST TELEGRAMS.
COL0RED STATE CONVENTION
Edward Shaw, of Shelby, Elected
President.
Civil Rights and Impartial school
Privileges.

NASHVILLE, April 29.-The Colored
State Convention convened in this city
yesterday. Only seventeen counties
we're represented. Edward Shaw, of
Shelby, was elected permanent Presi-
dent; w. F. Yardley, William Sumner
and J. n. Moore, Vice Presidents;
Samuel Lowery and W. 81. Longfellow,
Secretaries. During the organization
several able speeches were made in favor
of equal rights The following resolu-
tons we're offered by Samuel Lowry and
referred 10 the Committee on Resolu-
tons:
Whereas, 1t has been asserted without
authority, and unwarrantably, that the
colored citizens of Tennessee and the
South do not want civil rights, with i'm
partial school privileges to all the col
ored children of the South in the pub
lie schools and all the other privileges
demanded and allowed in civil laws, this
convention of colored citizens repel in
dignantly and with contempt. We
earnestly invoke the national Congress
to pass the Civil Rights bill giving to our
children impartial school privileges in
every public school, State and national,
thror ghout the United States, and not
sdeny to any the privileges and invidious
distinctions against our race in any OF
the institutions Of the country. We
present our thanks to General Benz. +.
Butler, of Massachusetts, for his man
agement of the bill in the House OF Rep
resentatives of the United States, and SO
ably vindicated by the lanented Charles
| Sumner
Resolved, That this convention of col
ored men of Tennessee appoint COM
mittee 70 prepare plan for monu-
ment to our lamented friend, the Hon.
Charles Sumner, the apostle of true
liberty and civil rights to the colored
citizens of the United States, in the
State of Tennessee, as a mark OF our
gratitude and respect for his earnest and
humane labors in behalf of our race
during his public life until his death.
Without taking any definite action,
the convention adjourned until nine
o clock this morning
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ProbahIliaien-

WASHINGTON, April 29.-For Tennes-
see and the Ohio valley, clear weather,
rising temperature, and winds shifting
to easterly and southerly. For the
western and Gulf States, winds veering
to easterly and southerly, lower tempe
nature than on Tuesday, and clear and
partly cloudy weather. For the upper
Mississippi valley, Iowa and Missouri,
fresh and brisk southeast to southwest
winds, rising temperature, increasing
cloudiness. The Ohio river, above Pm.
ducah, and Monongahela, will rise; the
Mississippi will remain nearly station
airy; and the lower Missouri will cen.
tinue falling.
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river TeIegrnms.

CAIRO, April 29.-Arrived-Idlewild,
Evansville, 8 pm; Ed Hobbs, Wheel
ing, am; Charles Bodmann, New Or.
leans, o'clock; Belle Memphis and
Falls Pilot, Memphis, o'clock; Fear
less, City of Chester and Ironsides, st.
Louis p. m; Pauline Carroll, New Or
leans, am. Departed, Idlewild, Evans
Vile, 10 o'clock; Hobbs, st. Louis, l
am; Bodmann, Cincinnati, o'clock;
Belle Memphis, st. Louis, and Falls
Pilot, Ohio river, o'clock; Ironsides,
Pittsburg. o'clock; City Of Chester
Memphis, 9 o'clock; Carroll, St. Louis,
IL o'clock. The weather is clear and
cool and the river falling.
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Attachment Notice.

Watkins, Mitchell & Co. VS.. George Lemly.
I'M THIS CAUSE AN ATTACHMENT HAY
/ inc been sued ont under section $3.50 of the
Code of Tennessee, and returned by proper
officer levied upon the property Of the defend
ant, and affidavit having been maae mat t Ils
in the sum Of 500 IS, by account, and that de-
fendant is a nonresident eff tbs, State OF Ten
nessee; it is therefore ordered that defendant
Wa1ioce I on the 18th day Of May, 1874,
At fen O'clock a. m, aud defend said attach
ment suit within the time prescribed by law
or the same will be proceeded with, ex partei
fonr successive weeks in the Memphis Public
Ledger. This 10Th day of April, 1874.
a 50 $500 WIN. WALLACE, J. p.
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Attachment Notice.

Watkins. Mitchell & Co. W. NJ. c. Priddy.
IN THIS CAUSE AN ATTACHMENT HAY
L ing been sued out under section 3455 Of the
Code Of Tennessee, and returned by proper
officer. levied upon the property Of defendant.
and affidavit having been made that the de-
PENDANT is Justly indebted to the plaintiff in
the sum Of sl95 IS, by account, and that de-
PENDANT Is q nonresident Of the State Of Ten
uessee; IL is therefore ordered that defendant
make his personal appearance before William
Wallace, J, p, on the 26th day Of May, 1874,
at ten o'clock m, and defend said attach
ment suit. within the time prescribed by law.
OF the same will be proceeded with ex parte;
and that a copy of this order be published for
four successive weeks in the Memphis Public
Ledger. This 10Th day Of April, 1874.
44-50 $3.50 WIN. WALLACE, J. p.
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MRS. elem at Liberty.

INDIANAPOLIS, April 29-The motion
made yesterday by the Prosecuting At
torney at Lebanon, Ind, to enter rolle
pros. in the case of Mrs. Nancy E. Glenn,
on her fifth trial for the murder of Jacob
Young and wife, has been sustained by
Judge Palmer, and Mrs. Glen is now at
liberty.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-29

REV. JosEPH Books, one of the Ar
kansas gubernatorial contestants, served
nine years as a Methodist preacher in
the Ohio Conference; thence went to the
Iowa Conference, and was subsequently
editor of the st. Louis Central Christian
Advocate, and was for time Presiding
Elder of the Arkansas Conference. At
present he is trying to preside at the
State.house.
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the vote. He don't propose to have
anything to do with the Legislature, nor
can he recognize the right of Baxter to
call it without recognizing him as Gov
ernor, and this he will not do. He will
abide the decision of the courts cheer
fully, and has appealed the case in order
to bring it before the Supreme Court at
the June term,
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snioide or a RniIronder.

CINCINNATI, o., April 29.-Augustus
Bradley, some years ago Superintendent
of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chi
cago railroad, and afterward Superin-
tendent of the Indianapolis, Blooming
ton and Western railroad, committed
suicide yesterday by shooting himself.
No cause for the act is known.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-29
CONVENTIONS.

The advantages of organization and
the necessity for conventions are ably
discussed this week by correspondent
of the Bolivar Bulletin. He says:
There may be evils in the convention
system, but surely no evils arising from
that source can equal the evil of defeat
to any party, and defeat isinevitable, as
has often been demonstrated, while a
disorganized party attempts to cope
with a we'll drilled and disciplined polit-
zeal enemy. Let US have conventions, but
let the people call and hold them, that
we may not give occasion for ofense to
any one. Our conventions for the No
vember elections ought to be postponed
to as late day as possible to make the
canvass. There are many reasons for
this. There has been a disposition here
tofore to hurry and forestall public senti-
ment by precipitating the expression Of
our political conventions. The i'm
patience of politicians attempts to
force the people forward before their
views are formed. Now this is wrong.
The people will not be forced, but viii
have their own views listened to. Again,
policy and principle both dictate that the
political canvass should not be mixed up
in the local elections this year. The law
has wisely and prudently fixed the cleo
tion for county officers on the first Thurs
day in August and the general elections
in November. Now the evident object
of this provision of the code is to avoid
all comminghng of two distinct elections
In which the people are differently inter
ested, and to relieve every voter Of any
complications, or obstacles to free ex-
ercise Of his political faith. 1t will be
we'll for us to follow this regulation also
bv endeavoring to suspend all discus
sionsyof political character until after
the August elections Two months is
enough to canvass before the people, and
they ought to have time after the local
elections to breathe freely, before they
are plunged into another campaign.
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sIanghter of Geese by lightning


From the Yuba City Cali Banner.l
On Monday, the 10th instant, an al
most incredible occurrence transpired
in the northern part of Suffer and the
southern part of Butte county. On
Monday evening, just before sunset, a
large thunder cloud came up, apparently
from the northeast, accompanied by an
unusual amount of chain lightning.
First a small amount of common hail
fell, and then followed sufficient snow to
whiten the ground AS the hail began
to fall and the lightning flashed, thou
sands Of white geese, which we're in the
ponds of shallew water which exist in
that locality during very wet winters,
suddenly rose up in great futter, IS If
many hunters had discharged volley
among them. They went up and up,
apparently to rise above the fearful
cloud. 1t was nearly dark, and those
who saw them rise thought no more of it
till morning, when they began to find
dead geese, and hear of hundreds being
picked up by the neighbors. Some 700
had been found. One man picked up on
his farm all two horses could haul, for
their feathers. Their heads we're badly
torn and their bills split into fragments.
Many Of them had the feathers of their
backs crisped and burnt aud their bodies
bursted open. The portion Of country
thus affected was about mile and a
half wide, and reached several miles in
Butte county. The terrific lightning in
this cloud was witnessed by people on
the Honcut in Yuba county. The thun-
der was heard twenty miles distant.
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We are in receipt of copy of tie
Foreign Relations of the United State,
in two volumes, for 1873. from the Hon.
Hamilton Fish, Secretary of the Depart
ment of State. The two books are well
printed and bound and make over 1850
pages, containing much matter of value
for reference and to the student OF CO.
temporaneous displomacy.
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Fatally stabbed,

PoRr JERvIs, N. j., April 29-Five
discharged workmen, while drunk last
evening, attacked two strangers, and the
result was one of the assailants was ia
tally stabbed, and another probably
fatally. No arrests.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-29

A BILL passed the House of Repre-
sentatives at Washington yesterday APP
propriating 100000 for the purchase of
rations to be used for the relief of per-
sons suffering from the overflow of the
lower Mississippi.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-29

HARRIsBURG, April 29.-The residence
of Henry Pennington, at Huntsville,
Clear6eld county, was burned this morn
ing, and two sons and one daughter lost
their lives in the flames.
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HATS.
MYHATS HAVE GONE !

lust RECEIVED A. LARGE AsSoRr
d ment Of Mems, Boys and Children 3 I ur,
Wool. Silk and Straw Hats, from New York,
direct from manufacturers. and IN order 20
realize money on same / offer them for sale ~
per cent less than any Of my competitors.
sq-H COHEN, % Main street.
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We have denounced only those who
seek to reopen this funding issue for the
purpose of dividing the Democracy
Union and american. 18th.
We we're not aware that the Demo-
cracy had ever been united upon the
funding issue
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-29

Mr.. Marrowfat came down to his office
at an unusually early hour on Saturday
morning, with green patch over his
left eye, and after moving around uaea-
silly few minutes, went out again, with
the remark that an injudicious friend
could be more destructive than house
ahre."