Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-20

virginia ana Ia d cites OF many other
Southern States yesterday. The Missis,
sippi Legislature adjourned. There was
no celebration Of the anniversary in this
city, bat next year the event will not be
60 ignored.
Quite a friendly contest is progressing
among the General Councilmeu as to the
~chairmsuships Of the Boards. In the
Aldermauic Board Aldermen Cochran,
Zent, Green and Dent are spoken Of as
candidates. and in the Common Council
Councilmen Williamson andsHil are
favOrsbly mentioned. Let the best men
for presiding officers be selected, as such
a course adds no little to the dispatch Of
municipal business.
Many wiseGeres yesterday and to-day
reported that they knew how the slate was
made up by Mayor Flippin, and whose
names we're on it. These sensationalists
we're at once surrounded by q crowd, but
their declarations we're not satisfactory
The news came by grapevine telegraph
and failed to be authenticated Some
men have the weakness Is seek to i'm
press the world with the fact that they
know more than all other men.
The County Court, by way Of compro-
mise with the Raleigh railroad bonds
judgment creditors, offered 10 allow the
holders Of the bonds sixty cents on the
dollar, but this oTer was rejected and
the holders will seek to carry out the
judgment BY collecting dollar for dollar
from the county. These Raleigh railroad
bonds, amounting to $4,000, were in
dorsed by Shelby county, and, as in
many other cases, the indorser has to
pay for the privilege of displaying a
signature.
United States Senator DOrsey's Missis-
sippl river bridge bill provides for q
bridge or tunnel between Memphis and
Hoppfeld, to be erected by two compa.
mes or corporations lone in Arkansas
and the other in Tennessee), with au-
t1ority to use steamboats, and suitable
water crafts for the transportation OF
passengers and freight between these
p 'ints pending the construction Of the
bridge or tunnel. Judging from the pro
visions of the bill, it ia to be a railroad
bridge or tunnel connecting the Little
Rock aud trans Mississippi railroad with
the railroads on this side Of the Big
Muddy.
The black depositors who deposited
their little earnings in the Freedmen's
s wings Bank of Memphis, and we're rob
d by Radicals, will be glad to learn that
the Democratic House Of Representa-.
tiv4s has appointed a strong committee
t. ljok into the affair and devise means
to compel the thieves 10 disgorge aud
pay back to the plundered black people
their hard-earned money. Ia China the
celestials manage things better. No
Chinese bank has failed for five hundred
years, and there is a tradition that when
the last bank failed and the depositors
w're plundered. the heads OF the officers
Of the bank we're cut Of and flung into a
corner with other assets. These might
be termed detached coupons.
The outgoing General Council has
been in office one year; many of the
members have served two years, and
we're elected when Mayor League was
elevated to the municipal chair in 1874
OF the outgoing Councilmen aud Alder.
men it may be said with truth, not tax
ing into consideration q few recalcitrant
members, that they worked faithfully
and earnestly for the good Of the city,
and would have done more had they not
been thwsrted and sheckled to a certain
extent by the opposition of Mayor
League, who had his own views and oh
iects to carry out. OF Mayor Leagues
ours during tho past two years it is
unnecessary now to criticise; suffice it to
know that he failed to be Endorsed BY
the people on the 18th inst. In charity
let US draw a veil over the past and look
cheerfally and hopefully toward the
future.