Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-01
NEW YORK.
Trial OF Ex-POssOnfce OnicIal Nor
tOn-DeAth of Henry GrinueiI, an
Old and worthy Ottfxen-The Fu-
ture Headquarters Of the Army
Governor Kemper, of Virginia,
mafauds Hfmaelf

old and worthy Ofttzen-The Fu-
ture Headquarters Of tne Army
Goyernor Kemper, of virginia,
Defends Himself.
NEw York. July lin the trial Of ex-
postofice official Norton, accused of en-
bezzling about 100000, the defense put
in a plea that the Indictment is invalid,
because certain law affecting the case
originated in the Senate instead of the
House of Representatives.
| One Of our leading German bankers
has gone to Washington, rumor says, TO
negotiate for another lot of new govern
ment five per cents.
| Henry Grinnell whose death took
place at his residence in this city yester-
day at the age Of seventy years, was for
many years at the head of the house Of
Grinnell Minturn & Co. He was we'll
known citizen, but will be remembered
by the munifcence he exhibited in fit
ting out two vessels and placing them
under charge Of the officer Of the
United States navy, to make search
for the lost Sir John Franklin.
A Washington dispatch gives the cor
respondence between General Sherman
and Secretary Belknap inrelation to the
removal of army headquarters from
Washington to St. Louis. The General,
in q short letter asking permission to
make the change in the same manner
and to the same extent as granted Gen.
Scott shortly after the Mexican war,
says; "Strong reasons, official and per-
sonal, impel me to this step, and | make
the request at this early day because six
months notice is required of me in
certain necessary preliminaries. The
Secretary of War in his reply giving
consent to the proposed change, encloses
copy Of the general order to be issued
on the subject, adding: you will per-
ceive it does not change the present
order of business with this department.
1t is only deemed best here to add to its
provisions suggestion which was made
and carried out in the case of General
Scott that no material change shall be
made in the stations Of troops or COM
manders without the previous approval
of this department.
A telegram from Richmond states that
Governor Kemper has prepared for pub
LEGATION long letter in reply to the
charges that he had entered into an ar
rangement during his recent visit to
Washington to support President Grant
for the third term. The letter contains
the following sentence: IF the future
should bring forward a candidate inn
personating third term principles; if he
should cut loose from old party tram
mels and take his stand on our safe con-
servatiye ground Of universal reconcilia-
ton and peace under the Constitution,
and if so standing he should be opposed
by any champion Of the civil rights
iniquity then the contest between the
two conservative parties ought to 60 de-
cidedly, but as an organized party, and
not otherwise, for the third termer, yet
with protest on their lips against the
third term principle and in spite Of that
principle" The Governor recites the
circumstances of his call upon President
Grant in Washington shortly after his
own Inauguration, and says the visit was
one of courtesy, made in response to an
invitation from the President that the
Governor should call and make his &C.
nuaintance.