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The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1875-01-02

MISCELLANEOUS.
Great Attraction I!
New Goods at Panic Prices!
j @ Il N W e { L.,
Front Street, Opposite Ferry Landing,
E1PAS NOW THE PLEASURE OF In
- forming his numerous friends and
the public generally, that he has Just re-
turned from New Orleans, with an entire
ly new stock Of
GENTL LEMEN'S
DRESS GOODS.
HARD w ARE,
CROCKERYWARE,
NEW CALICOES,
3 l. A N KETS,
SADDLERY AND
HA RNE E. IS,
COTTON BLEACHED
AND UNBLtACHED.
A FULL LINE OF
FINE WARE.
A large Stock of Ready Made
Clothing!
complete assortment OF FAMILY GRO
CERES. and everything suited
to this trade, which he Of
fers for sale at prices
which defy com
petition.
He has on hand the LARGEST and ONLY
Stock of
FURNITURE TOWN.
1LL GOODS EXCHANGED FOR cor
TON, or the highest price will BE
PAID IN CASH.
Country Produce of all kinds
Bought for the Highest
CASH Price.
~ Onr Country friends will do we'll to
give IT'S a call before purchasing or selling
their Cotton elsewhere.
JOHN WE'LL.
Nov. 23th 1874
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
LOUISIANA
The Hon. Holmes CummfBgs' Reso-
IutioHsin h Legislature on Nom
day. l

The Hon. Holmes CummfDgs' Reso-
Iutionsin the Legislature on Nom
day.
Whereas, information is received that
on the 4ih Of January. 1875. the rights
OF the people and OF the State Of Louis.
lana, in the person of their General As
sembly, were invaded and assailed by
the military forces Of the United States,
acting under usurped powers, thereby
striking a deadly blow at the common
rights, liberties and sovereignty Of all
the States,
Therefore, Resolved by the General
Assembly Of the State Of Tennessee,
That We condemn the action of Presi.
dent Grant in his armed interference
with the assembling and organization Of
the Legislature OF Louisiana by the
forcibls expulsion Of a Speaker elect
and Of the members thereof;
That, offering to our sister State ex.
pressions Of our warmest sympathy, we
nevertheless exhort her people to exer
else patience aud forbearance until re.
lief shall come through the modes
recognized BY the Constitution of our
common country;
That to this end our Senators 10 Con-
gress are instructed and our Represent.
atives are requested to assist, by all
lawful means, in staying the hand OF
Federal interference with the several
States, and TO guard the people of
Louisiana from further oppression.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
FOREIGN.

LONDON, January THE entire
French cabinet has rendered its resigna-
ton, a correspondent at Paris writes, as
i is well known that the dissolution Of
the Assembly would render MacMahon
very popular and influence the general
election in favor of his government. The
President will very probably break of
his negotiations with the Left and form
a dissolution ministry, comprising
Broglie, Depeyr, Cissey, Deciges and
SandiAret.
The Directors OF the Bank Of England
to-day fixed the rates Of discount at FIVE
per cent.
PAsQuIER, January 7.-Castelar is
preparing TO quit Spain before Alfouso's
arrival.
Two Protestant newspapers have been
suppressed in Madrid.
King Alfonso has Just sent a dispatch
to Canoyas confirming the ministerial
appointments, aud expressing the hope
that there will now be inaugurated an
era Of real liberty, peace aud forgetful-
ness of past discords.
vienna, January THE Montengrin
government declares itself satisfied with
Turkeys action in the Padjoritza affair.
PARIS, January King Alfonso's
sister, the Countess Of Girgenti, accom-.
panies him TO Spain.
President MacMahon will decide to-
day about accepting the resignation Of
his ministers. A cabinet council will be
held to-day.
MADRID, January 7.-One thousand
troops will be sent to Cuba on the 10th
inst.
BERLIN, January frederick Will
liam, elector of Resse, Is dead.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
QUE I,gaTslArURH.

Nothing ofinterest trsnspired in either
House yesterday. Senator Boyd offered
a resolution repeating the act Of 1870.
which authorizes a conventional rate Of
interest on money, aud it passed on its
first reading. Ia TIE House a bill to au-
thorizs State bonds to be received in
payment Of taxes passed a FIRST reading;
also to repeal the assessment law. to
prevent counties or municipalities from
lending or giving credit to or in aid Of
any person, corporation or company, to
amend the regulation and lien laws, and
a bill to relieve delinquent taxpayers.
The Shelby county beavers are at
work, but have as yet developed no i'm
portant schemes for the public veal.
They viii, however. Mr.. Msthes, of
Shelby, and three other Democrats. re-
fused to vote on the resolution Of Cum
mings on the Louisiana Federal interior
ence. Caution is a good thing. but it
sometimes acts just like a lack Of it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
THE COUNTY JUDGE.
HIS Authority ~ Contradistin-
gufshed from that OF h County
atumH

Hts Authority as Contradistin-
gufshed from that OF the fouBfy
Court.
From the Nashville Banner. 6th.l
As the authority of the County Judge
has been generally discussed, dur.ng the
past few days, It would not be amiss.
perhaps, to give an abstract Of an opin-
ion delivered by Judge Mckinney OF the
Supreme Court in 1851, constr ing the
law regarding the power of the County
Court Judge in the control Of al county
property. Judge Nelson had S23 worth
Of repairs done on the courthouse OF
Carter County, audited the claim and
presented il to the Quarterly Court to be
passed upon and the majority Of the
magistrates refused to do 30. Said Judge
Mckinney: THE act of the LegisIa-
ture Of 1856, creating the Office Of County
Judge shows that the Legislature has
constantly maintained the policy OF
placing the courthouse and public build
ings 10 the care Of some responsible
person instead Of leaving this important
matter to the body Of the Justices. :
Ilc COUNTY
Judge is constituted the general agent
of the county and is invested with juris-
dictiou and powers in several respects
above and independent Of the justices
altogether. He is not only expressly
invested yith the power, but the duty is
positively epjoined upon him to take
upon himself the care ard custody Of
all public buildings not by law placed 10
the custody Of other officers" .
Would Il not be absurd to say that a
particular officer, as the County Judge,
should &c responsible for keeping the
courthouse in proper repair, and yet
deny to him the necessary means Of DO
ing so, or 10 other words. leave it TO the
uncontrolled discretion or caprice OF the
justices Of the County Court to furnish
the means or refuse to do so2
THE power Of the justices to levy
taxes and TO make appropriations for the
discharge Of county liabilities, does not,
in this instance, carry with il the implied
power to control the proper officer in the
discharge Of his duty Of contracting for
suitable and necessary repairs"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
pyxocRArs, THINK BEroRR You Acr.

We publish this evening the resolutions
offered iay before yesterday in the
House by the Hon. Holmes Cummings,
of Upton, sendemning in strong terms
the bayonet interference Of Grants sol
diery in cur sister State Of Louisiana.
The resolutions are highly proper, and
will, as they should. receive the atten-
ton Of the free people Of this Republic,
for it looks liSe the inaugural movement
of usurpation and s~espotism in our land.
Certainly, it is an event without e paral-
lei save in France and England; fOrcibly
recalls the terrible days of the French
revolution; shows to what lengths the
the Radicals will go to hold US in their
firm grasp that they may pillage and
c~on6scate our property and then outrage
us. Just here we warn our Represents
tiyes that there is no middle ground be-
tween the Democratic and Radical par
ties. and that the people Of this State
EXPECT and demand the election Of a
Senator who has ever been consistently
the friend Of liberty and the sovereignty
Of States, and not one who has been a
Radical, an Independent, or Democrat,
as it suited his purposes, and who in the
mas, drove women and children from
their peaceful homes With vile epitbetsi
imprisoned ministers Of the gospel in
filthy dungeons for no offense-without
charge, without presentment or indict-
ment, simply upon his wi ipse dixit;
who set the example first in this Repub-
lie OF trampling under foot sovereign
States and making them worse than
provinces; held electioEsin the common
wealth he would now represent as q
Senator with federal bayonets over the
ballot boxes, and the free born sons Of it
4, d~isiranehised; who suspended the writ
OF habeas corpus at & time Of profound
peace, when not al armed force existed
against the government; and would have
made treason odious by hanging that
Christian soldier, r. Z. Lee. How fitting
an occasion for q retrospect Poor, down
trodde1. ~plundsred louisiana How
we can sympathize with you Your OPP
pressors and ~plunderes recall wildly to
memory ours Of other days, when We had
the terrible order Of a President land
his name was Andrew Johnson) for a
Federal soldiery to see to a fair election
which meant that c%arpet-baggers and
negroes alone were to vote 10 it, and
they alone to be elected by it, and the
election turned out as intended, and our
State was plundered then just as Louis
lana is being plundered nov.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
srEAKER THos. 4. PAINE.

By q telegram which the LEDGER re.
ceived from Nashville last evening ia
reply to an inquiryo on the subjective learn
" hat Speaker Paine is supposed to be
against johnson for Senator. but has no
candidate Of his own" Speaker Paine
and the LEDGER stand exactly on the
same platform. We are supposed to be
against Andrew Johnson, aud we have
no candidate Of our own. Leaving the
j Judgment Of fitness and capacity Of The
man who shall represent Tennessee in
the United States Senate entirely 10 the
members Of the Legislature, we hold the
right to insist that he shall be Demo.
cratic in his pelitics and in accord and
active cooperation with that party,
which Andrew johnson is not. To re-
peat what we have already said. BY
Democratic party we mean that party
which has always given battle to Rsdi.
ealismj that party which in 1869 nomi-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
LOUISIANA AFFAIRs.

The telegraph this morning brings a
well.tempered but emphatic protest from
the Archbishop Of New 0rleans, the
Bishop Of the State OF Louisiana, the
pastor Of the Jewish Temple Sinai, the
rector Of St. Joseph Church, and the
Bishop Of the Methodist church, 10
the Infamous charge against the white
people Of that city and State, which has
been promulgated by the INSCRIPTIONS
Sheridan. A similar one also appears
by authority Of the New Orleans Board
of Underwriters, the members Of which
are Of all shades Of politics and are from
all sections Of the United States. Colo
mel Mari, chairman Of the Peoples Com
mittee Of Seventy in New Orleans, bas
issued the following address which we
earnestly hope will be scrupulously &C.
cepted and acted upon by the people of
the Crescent City:
To the People Of Louisiana;
In the name Of al! that men hold dear
and sacred, l implore my fellow citizens
TO avoid by all means the traps which
our enemies and oppressors have DELHI.
erately set for us. Our deliverauce from
political bondage depends on our pru.
dence and forbearance, and a conflict
with the soldiers or authorities would be
the ruin OF our h~opes--the riyeting Of
oar chains. A little more Of heroism,
patience and forbearance, which has all.
ready crowned you with im~perishable
honor and aroused the sympathies Of the
entire country in your favor, and ucurpa
ton and m~isrule, to which you are now
subject, will have ceased, and you will
be once more q free, a prosperous and a
happy people X. H. MARI,
Chairman Of the COMMITTEES Of Seventy.
So
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
WASHINGTON.
cansressioaal Proeesafpss.


W~AsH,SeroS, January The Ways.
and Means Committee this morning re
sumed the Pacific Mail subsidy i~nvesti-
CATION by asking Charles Albert again.
To whom did you pay money disbursed
by you under the direction Of Irwin ?"
Abest thereupon read to the committee
several letters. One from Iryin
said he could not give his con-
sent to Abert's answering this
question; that he doubted the propriety
Of the counsel ever giving up the conf.
dence OF the client; that he would be
content il Albert would follow the advice
on this point OF Reverdy Johnson, Jere.
mish Black or some lawyer Of similar
standing. Reverdy johnson, in a letter
to Albert, stated: "Ifyou we're employed
by Irwin as counsel, aud in that capacity
was directed by him to employ other
persons and to pay them out of funds
placed in your hands for that purpose.
you cannot legally or morally disclose
their names without his consent" Albert
was excused until Saturday. when he
said he would decide about answering
the questions.
Commodore G. W. Riggs, a banker,
identified a check for $4,000, payable
to the order of J. G. Schumacher, and
paid in one thousand dollar bills at the
request of Schumacher. Albert had an
account in 1872 in witness bank, and he
would furnish the committee with a
transcript.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
THE CLAY STREET SCHOOLS.
what the Leading Negroes ThinI
Of Principal Baraum.

Whereas, AT a mass meeting Of the
patrons Of the colored public schools of
Memphis q committee was appointed to
Investigate the management Of said
schools and present resolutions to this
meeting with reference to their finding
in the premises; therefore, your com
mlttea would respectfully submit the
following, to.wit,
We find the principals duty. as laid
down in the rules and regulations Of the
Memphis city schools, page IS Of the
I'D annual report Of the Board of Edu.
cation, among other things, TO be the
following, viz: TO classify the pupils
in the different grades according to their
advancement in arithenetical studies;
to see that all the records Of the school
are neatly, regularly aud accurately
kept by the several teachers, and alb
stracts sent 10 the superintendent
etc. This your principal, j. II. Bar.
mum, has failed or refused to do. We
further ind that ]. II. Barnum, priuci.
pal Of the colored schools, is guilty of
cruel and inhumane treatment 10 pupils;
Of clandestnely seeking the d~isparage.
ment OF our colored teachers, and COZ.
nlying at the whims Of his pets. and
this by base falsehood; Of maliciously
transferring pupils IRON room sixth to
room eighth without reference to their
advancement, andbefore they had passed
through room seventh, and this. We be.
lieve, from q well laid scheme 10 harass
huniliate and cripple said teacher h her
effort to bring her pupils Up 10 the stand.
ard required; and we further believe
from a well developed scheme to rid he
school Of colored teachers, and thus make
room for hia friends aud pets; Of making
rules which, by reason of their nou.en.
forcement, become obsolete and void,
thus eyincing restitution OF 6rmness,
the necessary requisite OF q principal,
On the whole, yonr committee find j, y.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07

Men believe tina, if they know how TO
shoot, their pockets will not be riaed.
The only companions Of a woman of
Seneca street, Boston, are nineteen
dogs.
The least sensitive Of Parisians is
dead. His name was Pericles, and he
was a rhinocerous.
The editor Of a Nevada Newspaper
gives notice that he cannot be bribed
with a ive-cent cigar to write a five doll
lar puff.
A Kentucky editor speaks of a local
genius who haQ been 6 perseyering con-
tributor to the Office waste basket for
several years.
A close room, a hot stove, and a to.
bacco chewer make a powerful bouquet
in this kind Of weather. The board of
health. if it understood its business,
would enforce the cuspadore ordinance.
IT labor is not degrading" asks q
Michigan paper, why Ia it that leading
citizens always hire boys to carry in their
coal2" Why, simply because the boys
won't Gerry it in unless they are hired.
II is thought that the Republicans in
Spain will not start another revolution.
Alfonso has consented TO allow his sub
jects to address him as "'Fonse,p and
Isabella says she thinks she can stand
1t to be called Belle"
A Detroit Paper iells Of q man who,
ct his death, left all his property to help
pay the national debt. Whether tina,
property, consisting Of a cart and mule,
has yet been appropriated TO the purpose
intended, there is nothing in the last re.
port Of the Secretary of the Treasury ia
show.
A Paris authority says: There il
nothing more difficult for a woman to dc
than to sit gracefully in a carriage. The
lorette lies down at full length; the
strong minded woman crosses her legs;
the burgeoise sticks up her knee; the
waiting maid leans over the side. ana
looking as though she had been born in
q carriage
Thomas Caldwell, President Of the
South Nashville Street Railway, under
took to ride With a new driver the othe,
night, telling him in response to th,
demand for fare, Il own most Of thi,
road, aud getting bis reply, We'll
you won't own il long + you don't pay
your fare. That's all I've got to say
about il"
As a gentleman was nearly run ovei
IN . narrow London street BY a dray, b.
shouted TO the driver, DO you want Il
kill meg' whereupon the intelligent
driver put the thumb Of bis dexter hant
TO bis nose, aud, spreading out his Gu
geFs like . faD, replied, fTf ! he'd know
% yop was a coming ibis way vopIl
have sent you a post card.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07

Barrum. principal Of the colored public
schools. from prejudice. malice. inability
aud incompcsercy, shelly unEt for tho
position Of principal OF our public
schools, and your committee would re-
commend as the sense of this meeting
the following resolutions:
Resolved, That in view OF the finding
Of the committee, and OF many other
facts known to us oil, we, the patrons Of
the colored public schools OF Memphis.
declare j. II. Barnam, principal Of said
schools. unfit for the high position he
now holds.
Resolved. That in view Of the dissatis-
faction on The part OF the people, aud
the fact .sast the position held by J. Fl.
Barnum is a ~sinecure, We think the best
interest Of the schools and Of ths COM
munity demands the immediate removal
Of the said principal; therefore, we
earnestly but respectfully ask the Board
of Education that J. II. Barnum be
forthwith removed from any position in
the colored public schools.
Resolved. That we earnestly petition
the Board Of Education that hereafter
when a vacancy occurs in our colored
public schools, our colored teachers have
the refusal, as in duty bound we will
ever pray.
Resolved. That 1t is with reluctance
we are driven to this measure, but the
best interest Of our youth impels this
act OF our part.
Resolved. That a copy Of these ind-
ings and resolutions be furnished the
Board Of Education; also to each Of the
city papers. EDWARD SHAW,
81. N. RANKIN,
JAMES THOMAS,
I. FRANK CAssELs,
Committee.
j. A. THOMPSON, Chairman.
Il. N. RANKIN. Secretary.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
n

W4vHISaToS. January 7.-For Ten,
uessee and the Ohio valley, northwest to
northeast winds, a slight rise in temper.
ature and cloudy weather, followed by
by rising barometer, with light rains in
the first and rain or SNOW in the latter
section. For the upper lake region, the
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys
and the Northwest, no decided changes
in the barometer and temperature varl-
able, winds mostly from the northeast TO
the southwest, with possibly occasional
light snow from lower Michigan south
ward to Missouri.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
NEW YORK.

New York, January THE Brook.
lyn City Court, IN which the Triiton.
Beecher case is being heard, was again
crowded to-day. The proceedings were
opened by taking testimony as to the
competency Of Louis n. Robinson,
already accepted as a juror.
Judge Wilson finally ruled that the
juror should be excused on the challenge
the principal cause to which exception
was taken by the defence. Witnesses
we're then called in the case OF another
accepted juror, Stephen Lewis.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
Governor Aliens Massage ON the
Interference o rFederal Troops.

Governor Aliens Massage ON the
Interference OF Federal Troops.
COLUMBUS, ONO, January 7.--Gover-
o Allen has just sent the following
message to che General Assembly, which
was referred to the Committee on Federal
Relations:
To the General Assembly:
] desire to call yoar attention to the
grave circumstance of the interference
Of federal troops in the organization and
proceedings Of the Legislature Of a sister
State. II the reported action of the
military in u~nseating persons claiming
to be members OF the Louisiana Legisla.
ture and giving their places to persons
contesting the same is true, and is legal
and proper, then the same interference
would be legal and proper here; and it
seems to me to be the duty Of the repre-.
s~entatiyes Of the people Of this State to
at once enter a vigorous protest against
such action, which may be made a pre-
cedent at some future time for the over
throw of civil government here. If there
is a law warranting the settling of con-
tested election cases in a State Legisla-
lures by the use Of federal troops, then,
in my judgment, you should request its
immediate repeal it there is no law for
it, then your indignant protest should be
heard at Washington insisting upon such
action by Congress as will prevent in the
future such fragrant outrages against
civil liberty.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07

SAN FRAYcTsco, January THE Re-
publican caucus Of the Legislature Of
Nevada last night nominated Sharon for
United States Senator BY a uoauipons
vote. Forty-six yotes we're pledged;
thIriy'eight being necessary to elect
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
ELECTION.
MUNICIPAL ELECTION
On THURSDAY, January 7,'75,

TT BEING THE FIRST THURSDAY IN
Il january. / will open and hold an election
at all the wards in the city ofMemphis for two
Councilmen and one School Visitor In each
ward, and one Alderman in each of the Sec
end, Third, Sixth. Seventh and Tenth wards.
The following Judges. Clerks and Deputy
Sherifis have been appointed:
FIRST ward-Northwcst corner Main and
Winchester streets.
Peter Mitchell.
Clerks John ] Duffy. F B Willard.
Deputy Sheriff.
second Ward-0ld engine-house. Poplar
street,
Judgss-JOhn Donovan, s Francioli, Ed
Clerks w H Goodlett. D s staley.
Deputy Sheriff
Third ward Second street. opp. Court
Square.
wJgdges-R F Patterson. Thomas Boyls.
glerks-F T Prewitt. Frank Blessing.
Deputy Sheriff
FOURTH w~ard-Under Grecnlaw Opera
House.
Judges-Richard 0'Brien, chas Meyers. J
I Begbie.
Clerks-R Melster. HID Sullivan.
Deputy Sheriff
fifth Wavd-No. So fernando street,
Judges "A M Stoddard. P McNulty. L W
Marshall.
Sierks-TF Meath. N D Smith.
Deputy Sheriff
Sixth ward-5lS Main street. corner Of
Vance.
Judges-w L Marsh, Jos Mulcahy, DR. s ]
Quimby.
Glerks-CF Lswlor. B t Plummer,
Deputy Sheriff.
seventh Ward-NOrth side Beal. Oppo-
site Orleans street.
Judges j J Busby, Jos Chambers, Brutus
Alexander.
Clerks H G Harrington. Al McLendon.
Deputy Sheriff
Eighth ward-172 Poplar street, oppo-
site Market house.
yudses-S NJ lobe, VIM Harrington. + II
Finpie.
Clorks-PD Boyle, J @ McDayit.
Deputy Sheriff
streets. ~
Judses-John Larkin. W + Gilman. Robert
Butcher.
Clerks Chris Riley, W B Gibson.
Deputy Sheriff
Tenth wnrd-Mkin street, near Carolina.
Judsesr,A v, Taylor, NJ Fitzgerald, Hem
glerks-John Patterson. Thomas curley.
Deputy Sheriff
G. L. ANDERSON,
iGz-ln Sheriff Of Shelby County.