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The Portland daily press., 1875-03-01
Valuable Real Estate for Sale.

TIME weIl-known DeaDe property, or state street
containing about 10000 feet of land, with com m
modious dwelling house in good repair is onered iol
sale The house can be seen every Thursday ana
Friday from TO Z. M ,u ,,op,NcoN Pool
For terms etc. inquire Of S. W. KoBlNs0IHG, @ y Rsal
Estate Broker. 2O5 Middle street, OF "h' Ill. ;gdff
corner of Pearl and Middle SITS. Jatouu
The Portland daily press., 1875-03-01

We do not read anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations. The name and address of the writer are III
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nieations that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1875-03-01

THE report that the government will send
out an arctic expedition is denied, though it
is said that Secretary Robson is favorable to
the project. The Secretary says that the Ma
Wy Department can furnish all the material
required, and that $15O,O00 will pay the cost.
He is convinced that no expedition can be
successful that is not under naval control. In
this opinion he is supported by Admiral Por-
ter, who also thinks that the expeditions from
different countries should go in company.
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FOR SALE.

LOT of vacant land, situated on the west si1e
"A of High between Pleasant and DanfoFth, ots:
This lot has front of about 81 feet and s abJnt l94
feet deep, and plans have been drawn by How, for
block of seven nine genteel and convenient resi-
dences. and adapted for the same. Enquire OF
EDWIN CHURCHILL,
No. Portland Pier,
mar29 From 12 to O'Clock. p M.
The Portland daily press., 1875-03-01
Valuable Iron Works
FOR SALE.

FVyHE Iron Works known the Portland Machine
Il Works offered for sale. This property oc-
cupes about an of land on tide water on Conn
mercal St.. in Portland, and comprises o large
Machine Shop, Foundry and Pattern Sop. Boiler
Shop and Blacksmith Shop. There Is a full compile
ment of Towlsfor heavy work and general Machinery
and large assortment of patterns.
The concern having been long established has
large and constantly increasing list of customers in
New England, and Canada and is running on
full time on orders. A more favorable opportunity
for investment is seldom offered. For further parti-
culars apply to the proprietor at the Works.
w. II. FESSENDEN, Proprietor.
ia12 DIFF
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PORTLAND MONDAY MORNING. 1, 1875
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
R0Ok RinIerS.

booksellers and StatiOners.
KOYT. a. FOGG ,Eo.9G Middle street.
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FfUUk BIklWGTVs
VIM. A. QUINCY, Room II, Printer'n
Exchange, No. AS Exchange ~.
SMALL & sMACKFORD, No. 35 Plum
Street.
The Portland daily press., 1875-03-01

EpB PRINTING of every description neatly
y executed at this Office.
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Magazine Notices.

The London Quarterly ReVieao (known abroad
as "The Quarterly'') for January has just been
republished by the Leonard Scott Publishing
Co., Al Barclay street, New York. The west
ern gales, which retarded the steamers have
been the cause ,f the delav in its nublication
The Portland daily press., 1875-03-01
THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS
Published every day Sundays excepted) by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO.,

TERMS: Eight Dollars Year In advance.
mail subscribers Seven Dollars Year If paid in
vance.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15
IDLE TALK.

Some Of the adherents of Andrew
Johnson, although a lean minority of the
Democratic party, threaten that il he is
not elected Senator they will break up
the Democratic party. This they cannot
do. Mr.. johnson tried that plan the
last election and tailed. He cannot de
siroy the Democratic party of Tennessee
even in this city Of Memphis. lie can
not carry FIVE hundred men with him
into the Radical ranks. The majority
OF the Democratic party Of Tennessee
have submitted to the domination Of
Andrew johnson long enough. He can
do us less harm in the Radical ranks
than by pretending to be a half Demo
crat, disturbing year after year the har.
mony of the party. He has attempted
10 ruin Us and failed, and we do not now
fear him.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15
The "INsrRUCrION" BUSHES AGAIN

We have repeatedly and thoroughly
laid bare the stupendous fraud known
as the Shelby county cigar box instruc-
ton to our legislators in the matter
Of United States Senator. 1t is without
parallel in the annals Of political history.
Upon the theory Of our government the
man selected rs q legislative representa-
tive is presumed to know the condition
and necessities of the people he repre-
sents and the measures necessary to
protect their rights and promote their
interests. His election clothes him
with the power and imposes upon him
the imperative duty to guard well those
rights, and to the extent Of his ability
TO protect those interests, but the duty
and the responsibility deyolyes upon
him Individually, and not upon the one
man or the few hundred men who
may seek or attempt to instruct ="
him, as was the case here last
November. The people WHO elected
him land by him we mean all the Shelby
representatives. cOnfded this important
trust to his hands, and not to the hands
of his unknown advisers, who came
up through these cigar boxes last
November 10 the surface. And If
the course of these gentlemen in the
present Legislature is not guided by this
principle they will fnd at the close of
their labors that they will have made a
great mistake and committed a serious
blunder. If they do not wish to vote for
a. United States Senator upon their own
responsibility, it is not manly to hide
behind so shallow a subterfuge
as the Shelby county cigar.box
instruction" We believe that our
representatives desire TO do right in this
matter, as well as in all others, and it
would be far better and drawer for them
TO resign their seats than to support
Andrew johnson for Senator under the
authority OF this wauton fraud upon the
party which elected them. II, as indi-
viduals, they wish to support Johnson.
no one has the right to cry them nay.
and let them do 80, looking to their con.
stituents alone for approval or its
reverse
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15
The Sum of TypdaIl.s I,,f, Tneorx

The London Globe says: Professor
Tyndalps laborious address to the British
Association may be readily summed up
by the simple restatement of a very old
argument. An egg contains all the
material necessary TO form a chick. 1t
holds also, for a time at least, the force
requisite to construct the animals ont Of
its component elements. The only thing
needed is to SET the formative nrocess in
action by the application Of another form
Of force or motion called heat. But this
last must be supplied from without. The
sum Of Professor Tyndalrs researches is
precisely analogous. He finds in matter
the promise and potency of every form
and quality Of life, just as the naturalist
and the organic chemist find the organic
materials Of a chick, and the promise
aud potency to form one, within the egg
she'll. But neither the philosopher nor
the experimentalist can q one step
beyond the facts. They are wholly
unable to explain the something from
without, in whose absence neither an
egg full nor a world Of life can be called
into palpable existence. This is the
point at which philosophy again arrives
the old point at which it has been
arriving by various paths eve since the
first effort to penetrate an inscrutable
mystery. The Egyptians symbolized
the difficulty, aud their inability to sur
mount it, by Offering the mysterious egg
reverently to their gods. They laid the
~unsolved problem of the finite at the feet
Of the Infinite. Professor Tyndall and
the British Association might learn wis.
dom, without humiliation, irem the an.
Gent idolators and emulate their not
ignoble submission"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15
"oH! IT WAS PIrIPUL"

10 another place we produce to day
the inaugural speech Of "our trusted
Senator" Andrew johnson, when the
oath was administered to him as Vice
President Of the United States in 1865.
At that moment, which ought to have
been one Of the proudest Of his life,
when be was about assuming the place
Of presiding officer over the United
States Senate, and to which body he now
asks Tennessee to send him as it's repre-
sentative, Andrew johnson raised his
hand before high heaven to take the
oath of faitbfulness to his county and
position, as a disgusting drnsk.rs AID
bloat, a disgrace to humanity. E0zh
it not be e~minently proper iOr Tsn1ss
see to have this scene repeziedl The
man is ready and waiting al Nashville.
Win the State send him2
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15

We do not believe the Legislature of
Tennessee could be induced to tamper
with or impair the school charter Of
Memphis. just as It is we accepted il.
and under it, in good faith, we have built
up a school system which is the refuge
of the children OF the people. Let IL
remain in all its integrity, not one pro-
vision altered. appeal.
We wonder if the Appeal editor who
wrote the above remembered that this
very charter, which he so much com.
mends, was a snap judgment Of the
Legislature, enacted without the knowl,
edge Of the people that it was in con
temptation, and a surprise to them when
1t was adopted. The same charter au'
thorizsd the NicolsOn pavement swindle,
which has been condemned by she Su.
preme Court as an outrage on the
rights Of the people,, II was pre-
pared here, and passed by the members
Of the Legislature on the false suppose.
ton that it was the wish Of the people
Of Memphis, as Mr.. Cabins then a
member Of the Legislature, informed us,
The people never have accepted IT,
for they have never had an opportunity
10 pass opoo it Doubtless the school
syssem built up uDder that charter
is a good one, IL the object is to
make classical scholars Of ell the
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15
NEH YORK.


New foRK, January l5.-At the an-
nual meeting Of the Union League Club
last evening a short and spirited discus
sion Of the Louisiana troubles took
place, the general tenor of which was in
approval Of the Presidents course. An
extended consideration Of the question
was deferred until Monday evening
next. when q special meeting will be
called and a committee appointed to re-
port on the question. In the election Of
officers the names Of VIM. +. Dodge,
Peter Cooper and VIM. C. Bryant.
owing TO their participation in a mass
meeting at Cooper Institute in relation
TO the action Of the government in the
Louisiana matter, were scratched con
siderably by members.
The Stock Exchange has placed the
first mortgage consolidated seven per
cent. bonds Of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul Railway Company on the
regular list, and they will be called as
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul con-
solidated first mortgage bonds.
Owing to the repeated complaints Of
counsel aud the sixty reporters that they
we're cramped for room. Judge Nelson
has given instructions to admit to the
trial of the cause of Theodore Tilton
against Henry Ward Beecher, only such
Of the public as have tickets Of admis.
sion. As these tickets have been
issued to more persons than the court
room will contain, great confusion
was caused this morning by the struggle
of holders to gain an entrance. Az
soon as the space allotted to the public
vas filed the doors we're closed, and
those favored with tickets were formed
in line and admitted in such numbers as
those inside would leave. There was
presentto day the usual strong delegation
from Plymouth church. When the Judge
took his seat Mr.. Fullerton, one of the
counsel for Tilton, said they we're some
what embarrassed by the absence of Mr..
Morris, who was sick and confined to his
bed, and they therefore would have to
ask the indulgence of the court from
time to time. Frank Moulton then took
the stand, and his direct examination
was continued. 1t consisted mainly in
identifying documents aud relating cir
cumstances connected Herewith already
familiar by publication in the various
statements.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15


The Boston Transcript observes that
short wait is never complained Of at
the theaters.
An asylum for INDECENT, debilitated,
nervous people, who are not insane, is
to be established in Massachusetts.
Among winter fashions it is noted that
Russian sables are much worn by ladies
whose husbands have recently become
bankrupt.
A watch originally brought to this
country by Roger Williams was recently
exhibited at a meeting OF the Rhode
Island Historical Society.
Joseph Harper, a ce~nteuarian, died
in Georgetown, D. c., at the age Of LOG
years, on the 9th instant. Deceased bad
been blind for nearly eighty years,
A young actress who had played sue
cessfully in the lesser theaters Of Paris
applied for an engagement at one Of the
irst-class houses. The manager, who
was in want Of pretty girls, wcs about tt
accept Of her services, when she sud
denly exclaimed: "You must alss
engage my mother in the wardrob,
department" "0h," said the manager
p%iaintiVely, is that absolutely Deces
saryY' "0f course" said the prett,
actress she is the only one 10 all Pari,
who knows how to throw NE my bouquets
10 the right way That settled III,
question, and an actress and Der mammi
were made happy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15

SAD, sad days these, when such a re-
port as this now before the Chamber OF
Commerce should find 80 many good
citizens to see in it their only salvation,
their only road out Of present troubles,
and relief from an almost overwhelming
ebt.-AppeGl.
Our neighbor may be set down as on
the anxious seat at least, il not a con-
vert, after snch a lugubrious efusion as
that. He is not quite ready to make a
profession, however, as with tears in his
eyes be adds. 1T must be rejected.
Alas how hard is the process Of coming
to the truth.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15

What does the Appeal mean by talk
ing about speeches being made ION the
side Of property against the people" ?
How can property be against the peo-
ple2 1t is the want Of property against
the people that troubles US just now
To restore property and prosperity for
the good Of all is the object to be at
tanned. And every white and black
man who wants wages desires its attain
ment Every man wants such change
Of syslem as will benefit property
holders, il he has brains enough in bis
head to see that there can be no pros.
perity to any class, no work nor bread
where there is no property to buy it,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15

We are afraid our neighbor Of the APP
peal has a little disposition to "dema
gogue," which Mr.. Eusley go decidedly
protested be had not. This mornings
paper asks il the reform movement is in
order that the favoredf few may continue
to profit by the sweat and toll Of the
merchants, who are the pride and boast
Of the city, and also by the labor Of the
mechanics That is cutting it fat
whether meant for demsgoguery or not.
1t falls harmless, however, from the fact
tiat the merchants and mechanics Of
Memphis are the very men who have in
augurated this movement. They will
not be moved by clap trap.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15
VnoTioE.
NOTICE.

NJ ERcHANTs. SALOON KEEPERS,
lyl owners Of licensed vehicles and all
others whose ioens es have expired. are 70.
quested 70 cell At the Office Of the CftS Taz
O"ltaotOr wltnOut farther notice
JOHN HOLLYWOOD.
lle-uc City Linoense inspector.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15
Probabilities.

WASHINGTON, January l5,--For Ten
nessec, the Ohio valley aud upper lake
region, falling barometer, rising temper
sture, easterly or %southerly winds, partly
cloudy weather, and in the latter section
snow,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15
FOREIGN.

PARIS, January l5.-The committee
appointed by the Assembly to inquire
into Burgoing's election is composed of
nine Deputies Of the Left and six Of the
Right, all strong anti Bonapartists.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15

children Of Memphis at the public
expense. But it has cost us fifty
thousand dollars a year mere than sde-
quAis primary schools mould 90. And
that is 6fty thousand dollars for tax
payers to pay for the good Of a select
fep, and not for the good Of the masses
of the people, who desire no classical
education, and have to pay higher prices
for everything they eat and wear to pay
back the taxes fixed on commercial
men, whose business it ia to furnish their
supplies. Thus it is the poor are
injured and troddeR dozen by the tares
whick the rich directly, and they
indirectly, pay. All You me-
chanics with head or hand in Memphis
who do not intend to send your children
to college. and do not need or seek
more for them than a sufficient rudi.
mental education to fit them for the
business of life you intend they shall
follow, hold up your hands against this
law. It was made for the nabobs and
the apes Of nabobs, the snobs and ex-
quisites, who want to make princes OF
their tender paintings at your expense.
The Appeal Of this morning illustrates
most decidedly how well.meaning men
a go. like lawyers for their clients, to
an extreme on any partisan side they
may adopt. For the purpose of this
effect il makes a great speech" of the
explanatory remarks of Mr.. Meriwether.
which, though at some length, we're made
with no attempt Of that character, and
fell far short Of what that gentleman is
capable Of whenever he may really at
tempt an able and thorough speech. So,
on the other hand, that paper makes two
other great speeches for Messrs. Enoch
Eusley and Henry G. Smith. That is
two to one, you see, with the arguments
Of Ensley and Smith given at length and
those of Meriwether and others barely
alluded to. Mr.. Ensley only read a
letter, which be had prepared in his closet
by the smoke Of the lamp, while no man
of any ~pretensions for the g~ubernatorial
Office prepared any on the other side.
And Judge Smith only made a sensible
conversational talk Of a few minutes,
based in a large part on the ~misconeep.
tion Of what had been recommended by
the committees, and bringing them into
a ludicrous" attitude for doing what
they had not done. II the reputation of
Judge Smith was TO rest on that speech
he would stand far lower in the esteem
of the public than he does now or de-
serves to do. So much for the effect Of
disparagement of one side and . bun
combe representation in behalf Of the
other.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15

IT is insisted that our condition is not
SO bad after all that the city Is growing
ia spite Of all drawbacks. II it grows
when the sound Of the hammer and
trowel are not heard, what will lido when
the mechanics and laborers are all set to
work? Adopt the Protective Union
plan, and We shall, next spring, have de.
maRd for the labor Of all we have aud q
thousand more.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15

Whole Tickets, $780, Halves, sf6; Tenth, or
each Coupon, y6i Eleven whole tickets. $500.
For Tickets or information, address
rHOs. n. 8RAmLErTE.
Agent and kepaaeF, Public Library Buiidlng,
Louisville, Ky.
For full Information apply 10 q. ". Samuel
No, Q West Court street Memphis. wAslR
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15
CONCERT
CONCERT.
ANOTHER
OPPORTUNITY

TO INVEST A FEW DOLLARS. WITH POS
sIBLE RETURNS OF THOUSANDS. Is Of
FERED BY 0FPUB-
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FEBRUARY NEXT. OFTHEIR FIFTH AND
LAST CONCERT AND DRAWING. THE
MANAGEMENT ARE PLEDGED TO THE
RETURN OF THE MONEY If THE DRAW
ING SHOULD NOT COME OFF AT THE
DAY NOW APPOINTED.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15

Mr.. EssLEY seems TO have little 70.
spect for governors, aud what they will
do when they have power. He thinks
that they would be looking after PRO
motion to the United States Senate or
something else" and 50 would take
wonderful little interest in Memphis. Z"
A plsgoe on all governors, soy we.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15

NOn.R Resident Notice.

W Lynskey &Co. va. John Hay alias Jack
Hay State Of Tennessee, Shelby county.
IN THIS CAUSE 1T APPEARING BY Az.
l 6davit that the defendant Hay is Justly in
debted to plaintiff by judgment from another
State. and is a resident Of the State Of
Tennessee so that the ordinary process Of law
cannot be served on him, and an original
a~ttachuent by garnishment having been
levied on his property, money belonging to
ton Railroad Company, and said corporation
having. answered that II is indebted to him /;
il is therefore. ordered that publication be
made 10 the Public Ledger. a newspaper pub
lishsd in the city of Memphis, for four sue
cessiye weeks, commanding the said Hay to
street. on the I'D day Of February, 1875, and
make defense to SAID suit against him, or X
will be proceeded with ex parte.
ll8 l24-l3U- 1856 JAMES HALL. j. p.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15

TIE last plank Of the Appeal plat
form Is that wealth is proverbislIy
self asserting, sometimes iusolent." That
Is too true and quite unlike our ueigh.
Dor who is never either self-asserting or
insolsut. But what occasion was there
for putting forth the plank at this time9
When a large and influential body Of the
people come forward, seeking the good
Of rich aud poor, is this self.sssertion
aud ipsolence7
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15

IT is said that we ought to have a con
stitutional convention and that's charged
as a defect in the reports of the COM
mittees. Ia that 10 be set down as a
fault that while they have recommended
so many good reforms, they have moi
rsnsaeked the universe for as many
more2 A convention may be a good
thing, il necessary. And let all 90 for
1t who will without objection.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15

Pure Irish is to be taught in the Joliet
Ills schools.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15
OFFICRRR


BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
NJ. L. MEACHAM. ..of NJ. L. Meacham 4 Co
A. N. McKAy.-....... Of Sledge, Mckay 4 90
s. MANSFIELD. .-......Of Mansfield 4 Higbee
WIN J0YNER-.- of JOyner. LemmOn & Gale
WIN. B. GALBREATH -.-....... Cotton Factor
Hon. JOHN 0vERT0R. Memphis
j. NJ. PErTIGREW .-Of Edmonds. Pettigrew
&Co.
ISAAC SCHWAB ...-r~--..~".of Schwab 4 Co
B. +. HALLER-....of Hollowell. Crockett 4
Halter. 1916
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-15

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