Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-12

thusiam over the production, put it away
for n year, aud her in almost every
instance you will burn it without a sigh
Of regret.
The new charter for the city, now on
its passage in the Legislature, has been
deprived Of one of its objectional fea-
lures, and now provides that the election
Of municipal officers shall take place on
the Thursday after the second Monday
in January, instead Of in June, 1876, as
fixed upon by the ofice-holding City
Hall ring.
Any n having in possession a copy
or copies of the Theatrical Bulletin.
bound or unbound, OF the old Washing
ton Street Theater, when it vas the
temple of the legitimate drama in Mem
phis, under the management of the
lamented David Ashe, II. P. johnson,
Treasurer, will confer a favor by report
ing the fact at the LEDGER Office, where
the object will be explained. t
The General Council was mandamused
again last night to compel the levying
Of a special tax to pay past due bond
holders, the sinking fund for which pay
ment it was collected having been mis-
appropriated by the city government to
a speculation in purchasing bonds not
yet matured, or turning the City Hall
into a brokers' shop.
1t is rumored that the Eastern cred
itors Of the Memphis Water-Wor Com
pany have been in our city during the
week, and have been holding secret
meetings with the present proprietors
and officers with a view to taking the
works in payment of their debt and
running the water business under a new
management, all of which would be a
good thing for the creditors as we'll as
for the consuming public.
The conduct of the negroes of Mem
phis in not attempting to intrude upon
the rights of the white citizens in thea
tiers or hotels ander the villainous pre-
visions of the civil rights bill meets with
the approval and commentator of the
best people of the city. When you find
a Negro attempting to do so you may
put him down as a worthless vagabond,
who is repudiated by the decent portion
Of his own race,
The Aldermanic Board last night re-
fused to concur in the Council ordinance
prohibiting driving herds Of horses,
mules or cattle through the streets
faster than b walk, under a penalty o.
not more than fifty dollars or less than
five dollars. When a herd OF wild mules,
goaded into a gallop by the drivers, runs
over and kills the wife or child OF some
Alderman, then the Senators of the city
will suppress the dangerous nuisance.
Ex-Councilman Jack Walsh now saws
that the League ring ruined him
when he was a Councilman and their
satellite. He adds, that he would have
gotten along politically all right, as be
was always a Democrat, but he was con
trolled by the little Radical ring of the
City Hall, who made him stick 10 the
"nagur" against the white man. Jack i,
now a political mOurner, since League
Winters Il Co. have recanted aud hav,
become Democrats under the missionary
labors of Colonel Keating, Of the APP
peal.
The Graphic of the 9th instant has Q
very good cartoon on civil rights. The
scene is n bed room in a New York hetel
on the foot.board Of the bed are the
words: Equal rights TO all white men,
with the word white crossed out by lines
In the bed is a white nan sitting up
having just been disturbed by a burlJ
negro, who appears as taking of his
coat. wher the following dialogue takes
place. White citizen--"You dom
mean to say you intend to occupy this
bed with me2' Colored citizen-"Y Yes
boss, but don't '~pologize; / eau stand il
if you can"