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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-06
For st. Francis River

TUT Bts KiVeF.
For Helena. Friar's Point and St. Francia
River.
81. FRANCIS ..-.--.......... Basket, master
Davis. clerk.
EAVES MEMPHIS AS ABOVE
~ every Tuesday, Thursday and auatftSA
Saturday at pm. t&
For freight or passage apply on board. 2St
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sFRAsorns, 20 to oonvsrse's, 81 South
Court street. cot
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-06

To tue Voters Of the Third ward.
! am a candidate for Alderman from
your ward, and respectfully solicit your
support. [llOl JoHS L. MORTON,
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The protection of our property de.
mands that our present FIRE and police
departments should be sustained. Vote
accordingly to morrow and silence for
ever the discharged peelers. ward bum.
mers aud the City Hal clique.
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says I'm your friend" that viii stick
10 you gu election day.
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE,

BOATS LEAVING TO DAY.
Arkansas river, Belle Of Texas.--.-..5 pm
friar,,s Peint. Phil Allin.-.~..........--.-5 pm
0sceola. George w. Cheek~.--..-...~.l5p pm
ARRIVALS.
Steamer Belle Lee, New Orleans.
Belle ofTexas, Arkansas river.
Andy Bsum, Cincinnati.
Phil AIlin, Friar's Point.
Mary Ament, Osceola.
Geo. W. Cheek, 0sceola.
DEPARTURES.
Steamer Ella, Cincinnati.
A.. j. White, Napoleon.
st. Francis, Wittsburg.
Capitol City, St. Louis.
BOATS IN PORT.
Belle Lee, Belle of Texas, Andy Baum,
Phil Alliu. George w. Cheek, Mary
Ament.
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TO NEW ORLEANS SHIPPERS.
EkhldHT WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE
Il Elevator Building for the steamer
GREAT R~EPUBLIC,
Leaving. for New Orleans on .g~as
WEDNESDAY Jan. g. at D m. .xfaSzE&
AID. STORM. Super;ntendert
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-06

HoIIenberg, No. 204 Main
street, haas everything In the
music line fresh al low prices.
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For Cfncinnnf

For Cfncinnati.
Memphis and Cincinnati Packet Comnanv-
For Cairo. Evansville Louisville and Gin
ANDY bAUM....-.~............. Vinton, master
WILL LEAVE AS ABOVE ON a-.
THURSDAY. Jan. 7th. at hA
R. ". LIGHTBURNE,
Sup't Memphis Elevator O..
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WEATHER AND BUSINESS.

WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
Weather cold and cloudy. The river
here is rising rapidly. At St. Louis the
river is frozen over, with navigation sus-
pended. The Ohio from Pitisburg to
Cincinnati is falling. with a big stage of
water in the lower Ohio. Arkansas river
! falling, with 81 feet in the channel at
Little Rock. White river continues at
good tide. Business on the landing was
rather dull to-day.
New-York tribune., 1875-12-24
AUpIToR 1AAYER sELEcoNVICTED.

AUDITOR iHA1LR SELF-tONFlCjED.
Mr.. Thayel's bravado has broken down COM
petely. First he was reported as denying that
he had ever purchased any canal certificates.
Then he admitted the purchases, but insisted
that they were made for others. Then con-
fcsscd that they were made for his own pur-
poses, bat denied that the certificates were sub
ject to his audit. Then confessed that they
were-and so completed the case against HIM
self. What the case is may perhaps be best
understood by summary OF the facts re-
vealed by the Commission. year ago Mr..
Thayer owed the Troy City Bank $4,000; /;
by the opening of the present month he had
reduced this figure to $4,000. Meanwhile he
purchased, at various times and always at a
discount, canal certificates, which are certifi-
Gates of Indebtedness on the part of the State,
to the amount of nearly 100000. These
purchases were made III the name of George
A. Stone, cashier OF the Troy Bank, OF which
Mr.. Thayer is director and E. j. McKie,
Mr.. Thayer's brother-n- law, and as the profits
from discounts continued to accumulate, Mr..
Thayer's debt to the bank continued to dwindle.
All of these certificates were subject to his audit,
and one other, the Baxter award of 5000,
where Mr. Thayer got ten per cent of the face
for one months use Of the money, is in dis
pute the Commission holding that it was sub
iect to his audit, and the Auditor denying it.
HIS promised attempt to prove himself fool
as well as rascal by showing that these GER
tificates were in reality bought by other peO
pie, or, in other words, that he was guilty Of
wrong solely that others might profit seems to
have been abandoned. The testimony shows
that Mr.. Thayer usually received the money
in person, and the cashier swOre that he knew
no one else in these transactions
His treatment Of number Of these certifi-
Gates raises a seIiOus question for Mr.. Thayer
A number of them he did not and would not
audit until they had come into his possession,
and one, that OF s. K. Wells for $5,207 90 he
refused to audit, though the money was in the
Treasury subject to his warrant. This dis
closure brings out the interesting query whether
Mr.. Thayer has not been guilty of felony.
Section / of Article XIV. of the State ConstItu-
ton is as follows:
Any person holding Office under the laws Of this State
who. except in payment OF his legal salary, fees
perquste shall receive consent TO receive, directly
Indirectly any thng Of value Of personal advantage
or the promise thereof, for performing omittne to
perform any official act with the express implied
understanding hat has oedl action omission 10 act is
gully Of felony. This section shall not Affect tho
New-York tribune., 1875-12-24
The MN WHO CINE TO Us.

There could be 10 filter story to read as we
sit about the Christmas fire than that of the
loss of the Water Witch, which comes to us
this week from Conception Bay. Nine ship
wrecked people find themselves at midnight
of Dee. g clinging to frozen rock, the waves
dashing over them necessarily, while above
them tower gigantic peaks. There is no
escape for them below is the sea; it is I'M
possible to climb these precipices, sheeted with
ice. The fishermen of a poor village, having
been reused by others of the crew, collect at
the top of the rocks. the good clergy
man at their head. In the dark
ness and driving storm they can see
nothing, only hear the faint cries in the abyss
below. There is no way to help the ship
wrecked people unless some man will be low
cred to carry them rope at the almost GER
tain risk of death. The man offers himself
rough fisherman, Alfred Moores by name
Three times he is swung down into the ter
rible chasm and brought back exhausted; the
fourth he reaches the crew, and after long
effort they are one by Que carried safely to
the top and so to the houses of the friendly
fishermen to he warmed and cured.
Surely this is a story for Christmas. The
custom is right and beautiful by which we
bring st. Nicholas and fairy tales and gifts,
and all the little tender sympathics of home
wherewih to celebrate the day on which
Christ was born but not the less belong to it
heroic acts of self-sacriGce and every decd by
which man greatly serves his brother man.
On Christmas morning we will go to church,
or make our own children happy, or give a
little pleasure to some poor woman in the
alley and feel that we have partaken of the
spirit of Him who gave His life for
us. But this fisherman (who, for aught
we know. may have been Catholic,
Protestant. or outside of any church, Is roused
out of his sleep at the dead of night to look
into black abyss and to hear human voices.
That is all he cannot even see whether they
are men or women there below, struggling with
death he does not know from what part of
the world they came they are strangers
nothing to him. Nothing but brothers, and
he takes his life in his hand and offers it for
New-York tribune., 1875-12-24
Juoex TO advertisements

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New-York tribune., 1875-12-24
TILE EXPENNE OF TIE My.

1t is reported that the Committee on ApprO-
priatons intends to recommend large rcduc-
ton in the expenditures of the Navy Depart
ment. We doubt whether there is any branch
of the Administration to which the pruning
knife can he applied with greater ease or with
more benefit. For long time there have been
Iumors of gross extravagance-to use no harder
tcrm-in this Department, and the pu1lic has
agreed in believing that Mr.. Robeson, of all
the Cabinet officers, spent the most money for
the meagerest returns. We do not undertake
to decide how far these reports and suspicious
are we'll founded but if any proof is needed
of the facilities for retrenchment in this
quarter we have had 1t abundantly during the
past three weeks.
The Navy has suddenly and without any appa-
rent cause been put upon war footing. Almost
every ship that can be kept ailoat has been
fitted out for active service; supplies have been
purchased, and officers have been placed upon
sea pay. The exact cost of these preparations
We are not likely ever to know; but it must
have been very heavy. Where was the money
obtained Mr.. Robson says in his Annual
Report that it all came from the current ap-
preparation for peace expenditures and the
Congress at the time of the Virginius excite
ment. IF this is the case then The current ap-
preparation was altogether too large, and the
opportunity for retrenchment is plain.
1t was not the intention of Congress to
place in the hands of the Executive the power
of fitting ont military or naval expeditions at
his discretion. He cannot declare war, and it
is not designed that he should have the means
of threatening or provoking war. Mr. Robe
sons extravagant expenditures were incurred
in support of demonstration against Spain
planned by President Grant without the assent
of Congress, without the slightest necessity,
without any reason whatever except such as
might be found in the exigenCies of his own
political fortune. IF we said that the Secre-
tary of the Navy had squandered hundreds Of
thousands Of dollars in promoting the Third
Term scheme we should not go far beyond
the truth Now we trust the House Of Repre-
sentatives viii make such a close scrutiny of
the Navy accounts, and cut down the appro-
priatOn so remorselesSly to the exact SUN re-
CURED to keep our fleets on peace footing,
that there shall be no such tritling with
matches and gunpOwdcr hereafter
New-York tribune., 1875-12-24
PERSONAL.

Superintendent Bangs will not retire from
the postal mail service until Feb. 1.
Ex-Gov Clifford of Massachusetts, is slowly
recovering from his dangerous illness.
A new post Of the Grand Army Of the Re-
public at Auburn has been named after the late Secre
tary Seward.
Prof. +. V. Hayden, in charge Of tho U. 8.
Geological Survey of the Territories. has been elected an
honorary member OF the Crcoo Geograhco Ialano" Of
Turin, Italy
The Lord Mayor Of London has received from
Mayor stokey of Philadelphia superby bound volume
Of the aters third annual The book Is bound
in Levant morocco, with elaborate ornamental silk
Innings and Ia ncosed In an elegant morocco case, also
lined with silk.
Prof Tyndall sends a long letter to The
Nation reply certain observations Of its critic upon
one his works In closing, Prof Tyndal speaks OF the
praise secured his lectures in this country saying
1T came unasked-an incident, not an aim-shin
ing as your Emerson would put IT, pleasantly be-
spontaneously upon the necessary journey OF my
life Ii was not say truly the applause OF large
assemblies that constituted my chief happiness in the
United States but the eyergrowing proof Tor the most
duty had gained q nodcum Of the affection OF the
American people. That priced, and that have sought
to keep free from neck material or intellectual"
Gail Hamilton. writing in The Christian Union
on November Day in New-England," says "The
worst OF Is that fire makes impression on tho tenn
perature The vOracOus wind sucks all the heat out OF
the furnacebreath. The patient monster gives you ons
warm Whit and then six cold ones. Nothing Is 10 DO
relied but open fireplace and blazing wood-nre.
We need not bosstover our forcathers for have In
vented nothing better than this Institution OF theirs
furnace In the cellar has moral force coal stove In
the room is beastly contriyance Even coal-grats
takes considerable slice OF eternity in getting itself
warmed upbut with the dear old fireplace IL only
bit OF paper match and three pine spnters or quicker
STILL poke the ashesand benOld the sweet friendly
flames are dancing "A good morning To you. and
within semi-crcle OF three feet life Ia toerabe,
a November day III New-England"
The story as told by the New-YOrk cor
respondent OF The Boston Journal OF the late Vice
Presidents appearance the steamer Baltic In Chcsa-
peake Bay morning after the burning OF the Norfolk
Navy Yard is denied by Capt. John McGowan OF tho
Revenue Marine service. He says Mr. Wilson, In COM
pany with Solomon Foote sailed In the Harriet
Lane the convoy OF the transports carrying troops from
NewYOk Tor Washington, and did not leave the vessel
until the arrival In the Annapolis Outer Roads Alter
the landing OF the troops and stores r wilson ana r.
Foote sailed for New York in the Baltic, making the
Journey back in % hours During the greater part OF
the Journey out Capt. McGowan was on the Harriet
company with the senator's At this time, ne
SAYS Norfolk was In the hands Of the Government He
could he adds. have told the captain Of the Baltic oi
the Confederate preparations at Norfolk as tho vessel
did that place.
New-York tribune., 1875-12-24
validity o, any existing statute in relation to the orenso

validity Of any existing statute In relation to the ohense
OF bribery.
Leaving this point for the lawyers to settle,
it may be well enough to say, in passing, that
Auditor Thayers defense, that Gov. Tilden
advised him to pay certain of these certificates,
is as empty as the wind. Even supposng that
Gov. Tildcn did so, it does not help MIR.
Thayer. The advice of hundred Governors
could not justify an Auditor in an unjustifiable
act. But, these things aside, it is worth while
to pause a. moment to consider the significance
of the revelations which the Commission has
made. Here is a man appointed to position
of trust where he is expected to test the
legality of drafts upon the Treasury, and pro-
tect taxpayers by barring the way to all un-
Just and fraudulent claims. a common sense
of decency would have prevented him not only
from lending any money to creditors OF the
State upon obligations which he must sane
ton, but from permitting any relative or busi-
ness connection to engage i'll the business,
though it were carried on without extOr-
ton. If Mr.. Thayer had any concep-
ton of the proprieties of the position, he
would have been az much ashamed to
confess that his brOthcr-in-law and the cashier
of his bank had been doing large discount
business in the obligations he was afterward
to audit, as he ought to be now at the full
disclosure of his guilt. 1t is this fragrant dis
regard of the decencies Of official life that has
made the name of Albany a synonym for rot
terness, and it is the Thayer kind of public
official that we must extermnate if we expect
ever to see governments honestly and prop
erly administered. We hope to see short work
made of Mr. Francis S. Thayer No further
explanation or defense can possibly break the
force of his own admissions. Whatever may
be the degree of his guilt, he is not proper
person for the position Of Auditor.
New-York tribune., 1875-12-24

The meeting between our leading merchants
and the representatives of the trunk lines of
railroad has had the happy effect to elicit
aud place in strong light the fact that on
both sides there is deep interest in the
prosperity of NewYork trade. 1t is doubtless
true that in other cities merchants have taken
a greater interest than here in tho success of
the railroads that serve them, but it is not
evident and it is scarcely true that the rail-
roads centering in this city have been want
ing in Efforts to serve our merchants. MIR.
yanderbilts explanation of the changes in
freight rates which Disseminated against this
city shows that the injury was less than had
been supposed, because our merchants were
protected by previous contracts; and tie dif-
ference of rates in favor of Boston was made
by the New-York Central for the purpose of
keeping the traffic of that city, and not to
hurt the trade of New-Y YOrk.
New-York tribune., 1875-12-24
FRIDAY, DECEMBER %, 1875.
The NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-Spain decided to send heavy reinforce
nents to Cuba - The British troops in Malacca
had arrived before Kimtah. == The Kh6dive, it
was rumored purposed selling the founders shares
owned by Egypt in the Suez Canal - The
Prince of Wales landed at Calcutta
DoMEsrC.-The Trustees of Princeton College ap-
proved the Faoultys action as TO secret societies.
g. Bowdon College develops sentiment IN
favor of Withdrawing from the Rowing Association.
Auditor Thayer's was postponed till Tues
day. ===== Cincinnati proposes a public inaugural
of the Centennial year. -- The earthquake was
distinctly felt over most of Virginia.
CITY AND SUBURBAy-Leading business men
conferred with New-YOrk Central Railroad officials
concerning freight rates. -= j. & I. Pearsal
fruit importers failed account of the en-
bezzlement of over $4,000 by their book
keeper. -= Controller Green made sugses-
tons concerning the city'5 finances before
the Senate Committee. The Assembly Committee
took testimony about the criminal courts and excise
matters. - The jury in Mr.. Bowen's libel suit
were instructed to bring IN sealed ver-
diet to-day. =- Twenty-fOur men were selected
from whom the struck jury in the one-mlllon suit
against Tweed Will be made up. -= The re-
port that Tweed is in Havana is believed by
police officials =- Gold 1873, lib, 113ls
Gold value of the lcgal-tender dollar at the close
SS 40 cents
THE WRATHER.-The Government report predicts
cloudy and cooler weather - In this city, yes
terday, the day was warm and sunny; thermometer
40, $40, 1So.
New-York tribune., 1875-12-24

The process by which struck jury has been
obtained to try the Tweed case must be pro-
nounced remarkable success. The we'll
known names of several of our best citizens
appear in the list, and the community will
have confidence in their judgment. 1t is much
to he wished that the services OF such men
could be more frequently obtained in import
ant trials. The ordinary mode of selecting a
jury where the facts of the case are widely
known, is well calculated to bring together
men of less than ordinary intelligence; the
plan by which a struck jury is chosen obtains
men above the average and consumes less time
in the operation.
New-York tribune., 1875-12-24

because the Bishop has had another aflatus Of the
spirit of prophecy and announces to tho Senators
who, holding the Government In their hands.
neglect to use it for tho liberation Of these martyrs
TO marriage that "God will wrest it from them and
give it to Others if they fail TO keep step to His do
mandsn If Bishop Haven is going on in this way.
shaking thunderbolts at Congress- we have at least
a right to insist that he shall make 1t plain what he
requires,
New-York tribune., 1875-12-24

The disposition to attack Yale for Withdrawing
from the general boat is prevalent. BCt there
is something to be said tho other side. Yale
makes no pretense that her students are more mus
cular OF better trained than those of dozen
other colleges entered for the competition. She
has no rivalry with those colleges and is
not anxious to have any. She does have
q rivalry with Harvard She wishes TO
indulge this, once year. by boat race between
the two colleges. But if this is enlarged as to
have a dozen other crews the course at The
same time, it is no longer race between the
two rivals and the numbers and confusion are
too great to insure race satisfactory to any
body,--eyen to the winner. Why should not
Yale have race with Harvard il she
wants tor And why should she be berated as
cowardly for saying with perfect courtesy to the
dozen other colleges 1--WE have no rivalry with you
and, if yOu will excuse us, want to make
only with the institution which is Ourriya" Doubt
less some Of the other colleges would be glad to have
Yale and Harvard contestants i'll their race also
and there is Why they should not be, il
they are able to row two races in one year. But OF
the other hand there is reason why, if they wish
it, they should not insist on having to themselye.
the race between themselves.
New-York tribune., 1875-12-24

country at large would be glad to welcome
Mr.. Conkling as an oriflamme. STILL we are not
disposed to be captious. Mr. Conkllng is be-
fore the country, and in the thickest OF the
fray, though not an Oriham me. Call the next.
New-York tribune., 1875-12-24

That was remarkable case which the city
won yesterday against Mr. Benjamin Wood.
There seems to have been some cOmpiica-
ton because of a reported compromise
made yesterday morning by the Controller. 1t
would be of extraordinary interest to know
what compromise he proposed in such a case,
and the grounds for it.
New-York tribune., 1875-12-24

fact. Our police authorities, however, place
credenco in the story. AS there is no extradi-
ton treaty with Spain, Tweed may be safe for
a while in Cuba, but if he stays till April the
romito will have greater dangers for him than
ludlow Street jail.
New-York tribune., 1875-12-24

Very full details are given in other columns
of the solemnities and music to be expected TO-
morrow in the churches of this city. Prepara-
tious for celebrating Christmas are generally
on quite as large a scale as in more prosperous
years. The public and private institutions Of
charity are striving to make it a day of happi-
ness for their inmates, and will gladly welcome
contributions and assistance in the kindly
work.
New-York tribune., 1875-12-24

The Herzegovinian insurgents appear to have
acted prudenty in rejecting the Sultan's mca-
sures of reform. If they can only be carried
into effect by the aid of foreign Ministers, as
is assumed in Count Andrassy's scheme, the
insurgents would be unwise to depend upon
these promises Of good government.