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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04
-CUSTOH.H1UsE BILL
Senator John 0vertOn States What
Connection he had with it,
The Bill Passed as Sent to Nashville.
NASHVILLE, October 3, 1876.

NASHVILLE, October 3. 1876.
To the EDITOR Of the Ledger:
DEAR SlB-Some kind friend has sent
me from Memphis your paper OF the 9th
Of September, with the editorial headed
" Custom-House marked. | expected
10 have gone to Memphis to-day, but be-
lag u%nsyoidsbly detained, / write this
note ior fear some OF the charges con.
tanned in said article against myself
might be taken as true.
Alter making charges yon say: I'VE
have no idea that the matter will ever
be made any clearer than it ia now, but
it should be-" More than this, YOU seem
to think that | Am The one of ell Others
to riae and explain
1 have no desire that any act Of mine.
while serving the people Of Shelby coun.
IT, should remain in the dark or not
be subject TO the closest scrutiny; and
ct the same time DO not desire to be
charged With The shortcomings of others.
You are mistaken when you state that
the eustom.house bill was placed in the
hands Of Senator 0yerton." The first
recollection that ! have Of ever seeing
The bill was when it was presented By
Senator Peytou J. Smith. / see nothing
singulsr" 10 bis having presented ii.
lie was as much @ representative Of
Shelby county IS myself, and the autbors
Of lAe bill had the right Of exercising
their ckoiee a. 70 Fho should present il.
! have not the least dopbt BIT that
eeng,or Smith believed the bin was right
and that its authors knew what they we're
doing When they drafted it, and be did
bis duty when be ~pfesentqd il as sent
him. / well remember thai he was very
active in securing It's passage, as we we're
led 10 believe there we're good eason
why It ebould pasa without delay. sup
pose this will fully explain why It wla
not presented by Senator Overton."
but found in the pockets Of Peyton J..
Smith, Of Upton"
had no information Of the bill being
either lost orolttred, but urged and aided.
as passage believing that tbs bill | voted
and worked for was the one that had
been sent there for OR support. 1t is
useless for me 10 cay that | would have
done and did everything ia my power to
pace any and every Get that would add
70 the growth aud prosperity Of Shelby
county, and certainly would never do
anything against itS interests il vas
aware Of it. respectfully,
Jxe- ogERToY, gR.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04
THE LEGISLATIVE CANVASS.

The Democratic nominees for the
Legislature, after consultation with the
Executive Board, have agreed upon and
will fill the following appointments:
J.J. ,DuBose and W. H. Nelson
Lucy, Wednesday, October 4th.
Cuba. Thursday. October 9Th.
kerrsyille, Friday, October 9th.
depot.
Capleville. Tuesday, October 10th.
S. 9. Maddux and Geo. B. Peters.
Collierville, Wednesday. October 4th.
germantown, Thursday. October sta.
White Station, Frid0y, October 9Th.
Memphis, Saturday, October It'll mississippi
depot.
Whitsha7on, Tuesday, 0ctobcrIOih.
N. D.. 1. Stewart and H. L. Douglass
Elsherville' Thursday, October 18th,
Mythe Deaot, Friday, October 18th.
Shelby Depot, Saturday, October 18th.
house,.
I. c. Lowe and W. W. Coleman
Stewards Store, Thursday, October 18Th.
Raleigh, Friday, October 10th.
Bartlett, Saturday, October Dist.
memphis, Saturday, October 2lst(0hio depot).
All the Candidates at
Assembly Hall, Saturday night, October 2Stb.
E1change Building, Saturday night, Novem-
BY order Of the Executive Board.
Irving HALSEY, Chairman.
j. HARVEY MATHEs, Secretary. 26-f
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04
COTTON SEED.
NOTICE.
Cotton seed
g Association.

TNVIEW OF THE PRESENT LOW PRICE
4 Of Oil and Oil Cake, and for the purpose OF
making the prices of cotton seed uniform,
and preventing the heretofore enormous loss
OF seed sacks. the undersigned have agreed to
tho appointing ont Of Mr.. S. j. Camp, who will
act as our Secretary and Treasurer, for tho
purpose Of receiving and paying for all seed
which may arrive by river or railroad. He
will furnish sacks. rs usual, and transact all
business relating to purchase, receipt and de-
livery. OF seed al-o to superintend the
weighing.
The present low price Of cotton seed pro-
ducts will not justify us to work seed at over
seven dollars ss7) per ton. which Is the pres
ent established price al the wharf or depot.
Our friends may rely at all times on getting
the highest prices for good. sound seed which
tho prices of products will justify. All COM
munication on the subject Of sacks, sale Of
seed and oil other matters relating thereto.
should DO addressed IN the Memphp Cotton
seed Association, No. go Front street.
We caution. our friends against mixing old
with new seed. as the latter will be damaged,
and will not be received as sound seed. No
old seed received aftel the 10Th inst.
MEMPHIS OIL COMPANY,
SOUTHERN OIL WORKS.
PAN0LA0IL AND FEhTILIAING co.
CITY OIL WORKS.
MEMPHIs, September ], l8l6. sos
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04
Indian DELIBERATIONS.

ST LOUIS, October 4.-Advices from
the Neuces river county, Texas, say that
a party Of twenty-five Indians raided the
settlements on that river on the 2S.h
rlt. and stole a number Of horses. They
then went down Sabine river and at
tackled several ranches and sheep camps,
killed three white men and several Mex
leans and stole many horses. They also
visited the Fires and Geona settlements
in the sane manner and passed out in
the vicinity of Fort CLARK, taking fully a
hundred horses with them. A party of
citizens and a detachment Of troops are
in pursuit, with some probability CT over
taking them.
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v Kilograms.

CAIRO, October 4-Arrived =. Belle
Memphis, Memphis, midnight; Church.
Cincinnati, midnight; John Gilmore, St.
Louis, l a m James W. Gaf, CinciD.
natl, 4a.m. Capitol City, Cincinnati, Il
am. Departed Iron Mountain, St
Louis, 10 pm; Belle Memphis, st
Louis, 2 am; Church, New Orleans, ;
am; John Gilmore, St. Louis, 8 I'm.
Cloudy and cool
Pl-TsRURG, October 4,-River 4 feet {
INCHES, and stationary. Weather cloudy
ard cool.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

All miasmstic complaints. in other words,
all disorders generated by unwholesome ex-
halations from the earth or water, are preva-
lent at this season. In every section subject
to the visitation Of fever and ague. or other
forms oil intermittent disease, the causes
which produce these maladies are now nc
lively at work. This, therefore, is a period of
the year when the inhabitants Of such dis
tricts SHOULD prepare their systems to meet
by q course Of tonic aad Alternative treatment.
Foremost among the invigorants, recom-
mended by time and experience as a means
OF Certifying tho system against all endemic
and epidemic maladies, stands Hostetter's
nttnach bi.ters. ~ a timely use OF the
Bitters, the feeblest resident of an unhealthy
soil may escape tho sickness, which, without
the aid of this potent ally of nature, will be
apt TO oYertake the strongest.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

This story is told and vouched for by a
%well-known Boston a~uctioneer. A year
or more ago the suctioneer had for sale
a large lot of homeopathic pellets. When
the sale occurred, all those medicines
were dumped into one pile, and disposed
of in ore lot, there being various kinds
OF medicine in the mass. A. boarding.
house keeper bought the lot, and some
days alter the purchase the a~uctionegr
asked her: What did you want with
that homeopathic medicine2n She re.
piled: u thought | could use it and it
was cheap, so | crushed it under the
roller, and then filled my eu~gAr.bowls
with it. The boarders seemed to like it,
and especially when powdered over
pies"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04
EXPLOSION.

Slade, the famous spiritual me-
dunn, has come to grief in London.
His slate-writing trick was fully
exposed as a fraud the other day by
a couple of eminent scientists, and
since that he has been marched up
to the Bow street police court for
vagrancy and conSpiring to detraud.
Thus one after another Of the mis-
cradle wretches who pretend to
communicate messages from the
dead to gullible mankind come to
grief. Slade was a boosted me.
dunn. The spiritual papers claimed
that he had withstood the most
crucial tests and had converted
large numbers Of scientific me in
this country and in England, but
one good grab at the slate on
which he had previously written q
message exploded the humbug. He
may have convinced some people
weak in the upper story, but
no sensible man. AS to sci
entifc fools, we have noticed
the phenomenon that they are as
easily gulled as common fools.
Spiritualism is the thinnest de-
teption that ever took possession Of
so many minds; but there is more
yillainy than delusion about it. The
leaders, the editors, the big medi-
ums go into the business dehber-
ately to make money ont Of it.
This shameful ism has somewhat
lost its grip and has certainly at.
tanned its full growth. After this
it will go into a decline, an
eventually be spoken of as curious
psychological development, like the
witehcraft Of the past. The best
medium in the world, and all O.
them assembled together around
one table, could not have called NJ
a spirit that could tell where Boss
Tweed was while he was hiding il
Cuba. They submit to nc
tests if they can help it, except
such as they know they
can stand. The exposure 0.
Slade was complete and satisfactory
1t is quite a blow to the lettering
fraud that has misled so many
good, weak-minded, silly people.
The big medium sent over to Rus.
STA not long ago to convert the
learned men of that country was
dismissed as an impostor in les;
than no time. Very few of the
big injins" give shows now. The
business is carried on, rather clan
destinely, for the dollars it brings
from Ignorant, superstitious dupes,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

BosrOY, October 4.-The straw coed;
factory of D. D. Curtis & Co., at New.
field was burned yesterday. Loss be
tween $50, 900 and $lO9, 600. Insurance
about $50
CORNING, New YoRK, October 4.-The
Corning Glass Works we're burned THU
morning. Loss, $4,000. Insurance.
s26, 900.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04
LEGISLATIVE TICKET.

SENATOR FOR SHELBY, FATETTE AND TIPFOS
WI. A. MILLI6AN. Of Fayette.
FLorERIAL REPRESENTATIVES, FOR SHELBY AM
FAYKrTE.
WIN. A. COLLIER, OF Shelby.
SENATORS FOR sHELBT County,.
J.J. DUBOSE.
S. G. MADDUX.
REPRESENTATIVES TOR SEEIBY COUsTY.
NJ D. L. STEWART,
GEO. 2. PETERS,
HENRY L. DOUGLASS.
W. NELSON.
TH0S. c. LOWE.
W. ". COLEMAN.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04
STATE ELECTORAL TICRET.
ELECTORS 0 FHE STATE AT LARGE.
W. Z. BATE, of Davidson county.
T.. A. JAMES. of Hamilton county.
ELEcroRs.

ELhlAohos
First District-W. H. Ingersoll, of Greene
county.
Second District-Mose5 White. Of Knox
Third Distriet-W. j. Gift, of Warren.
Fourth District-hon. Benton Mcmillan, OF
Smith county.
Filth District-HOn. E. Cooper, Of Bedford
county.
Sixth District-ThOmas L. Dodd. Of David
son county.
Seventh District-Johu Il. Moore, of lick
man county.
Eighth Distribution. B. A. Enloe, of Mad
ison county.
Ninth District-G. W. Smitheal, of Upton
county.
Tenth District-J. W. Clapp. of Shelby
county.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

The news from Colorado is not
surprising. The oyer-sanguine
Democrats talked of carrying the
State, but it went Republican by a
considerable majority. Colorado
has always gone Republican during
the fourteen years it has been a ter
ritory, except in 1874. States when
first admitted to the Union, always
vote the first time with the party
in power. There has perhaps never
been an exception. There is no
particular significance in this cleo
ton, though the three electors to
be elected by the Legislature will of
course be Republican. So far as
Colorado is concerned the Presiden.
tial election is virtually over.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

THE Republicans have not sent
any orators down South this sea-
son, knowing that it would be use
less. They pretend, however, that
no Republican would be safe down
this way. Why not give them a
military escort and an iron-clad car
for the interior, and gunboats for
the coast and rivers?
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04
SURGERY,
PRACTICAL SURGERY.

nR.. J. A. CLOPTON. OF HUNTSVILLE,
II Ala his native city who has for many
years made surgery q speciality, and per-
formed the most difficult operations in sur
gerry, has or number Of years given more
esuclal attention to the treatment of PiIes,
ftstOfo, atricturas, TunuOrs, gIceFs,
Diseases OF the Eye, etc. and guarantees, per-
teet. satisfaction. Piles cured WITHOUT the
knife, or tho BsRRAh0Vs EoRAsEUR, under ibe
torture Of which one Of the prpminert. ,Judges
OF this city had . brother-in-law 10 he nese9
Used and die. Two Of the brott ers.in-lsw
have since been DR.. Clopton's naiients-one
IA lebS and the other in 1916. and perfectly re.
heyeq, IT; y. has lever lost a patient nor
XII sho sIlsnies' accident to happen Every
ing hece.sary to cure the worst cases Of
pies Is done Ia less than Oi,e "a InuFr, and
we patient may return home Immediately.
Hot one IN ten are confined to their beds. lie
Is Stopping at tho Worsham House. T-42
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

WASHINGTON, October 4.-For Tenses
see and the Ohio valley, nearly station
ary, followed by falling barometer
souiherly winds, probably shifting tt
easterlyi lower temperature than on
Tuesday, partly cloudy or cloudy
weather and occasionally light rains.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

.WOOLDRIDGE-In this city, October Sd.
At y o'clock pm, in the SSth year Of his age,
CHARLES P. WOODBRIDGE.
The friends and acquaintance of the family
are respectfully invited to attend the funeral
from his late residence, No. l2slCourt street.
at 10 O'Clock tomorrow QHURSDAD morn
ing.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04
AUCTIoW.
ELEoTIoN.
ELECTTON NOTTOE

THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE "HOME
i Insurance Company" Of Memphis, arc
the ~Company's Office, No. % Madison street.
Wednesday, 18th Day Of October,
between the hours Of 10 am. and PPM, FOR
the purpose Ct ~tlecting seven Directors to
2i.29 R.P BOILING. Secretary.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

COLONEL f. P. CAH1LL, late Of
the Federal army, and now a Dem
cratic nominee for the State Senate
in Davidson county, has decided to
attend the meeting of Union sol
diors at indianapolis on the 9Th
instant. He can tell them how
Union men are " ostracised " in the
South.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

TIE Republicans began about
the first of September to claim a
majority Of 10000 in Ohio. Now
they have got down to 10000, and
will be satisfied with anything that
elects.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

The subscription price of the PUBLIC
LEDGER is 50 per annum for the Daily,
and SO per annum for the wsekly-POst
age free.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

STATE DENOoRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
A. S. Dsaderick, of Washington.
y. A. Moses. Of Knox.
A. M. johnson. Of Hamilton.
J. w. Judd, of Robertson.
j. W. Childress. jr., Of Rutherford.
A. G. Merritt, of Davidson.
D. b. Cooper. Of Maury.
j. II. Freeman, Of Madison.
7. j. Edwards, of 0bion.
L. Il Wright, Of Shelby.
Membersa ut Iaarge-Jemes @. Malone, Ihos.
Conner, D. N. Kennedy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

EX-DEPUTY Collector Hill, of
Evansville, Indiana, who was SEN
fenced to two and a-half years in
the penitentiary for completely in
the whisky frauds, has been par
dOned. 1t is unnecessary to add
that he is a strong supporter Of
Hayes and Wheeler.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

The Tennessee Conference con-
yenes at Columbia to-day.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

The Radicals are very sweet on
Union soldiers who support Hayes
and Wheeler, but the Indianapolis
Journal calls the soldiers Of a diff.
ferent political faith who are to as
semble on the 9th instant these
human cattle.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

JEFFERSON CHANDLER, Of st.
Louis, a relative Of old lacks, has
come out for Tilden and Hendricks
and reform.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

The Cincinnati Commercial is
getting ready for a Republican de-
feat in Ohio. 1t fears that SO many
Ohio voters will be off at the Cen
%tennial that the State will be placed
4" in a ticklish position"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

THE State election in Georgia
takes place to-day. Of course it
will 90 Democratic.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04
ANNOUNCEMENTS

WIN. A. COLLIER. Of Shelby, is the Demo-
cratic and Conservative nominee for Pictorial
Representative from Shelby and Fayette
counties, Election November 7th.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For President.
SAMUEL J. TILDEN. of New YORK.
For VICE PRESIDENT.
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, of Indiana.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

COMPTROLLER GAINES has just
made the semi-annual apportion-
ment of interest on the school fund
to each county according to scholas,
tic population, as required by Sec
ton AZ, chapter 70, Acts of 1873.
The scholasticpopulation of Shelby
county is %, 1925 apportionment
of money, 3 ,7O9.41. Fayette
county scholastic population, 1921;
apportionment, Sl,495.67. Harde.
man county scholastic population,
63l3; apportionment, $1.05S.4 AZ.
Haywood county scholastic pop
.ulaiion, 693l apportionment,
$l,l62.03. Davidson county has a
scholastic population of 22,154, the
largest Of the State /; apportion-
ment, $3,7l4.3O. Sequatchie county
has the smallest scholastic popula-
ton of any county in the State,
742 apportionment, $l24.4O. Tho
total scholastic population of the
State is 427,29O; apportionment,
$71,63S.35 ; expenses, $3.50. The
warrants for the fund will not be
issued until January LIST, at which
time the interest natures. The
warrants will also be cashed at that
time.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04

CONGRESSIONAL TICKET.
F0R TENTH DISTRICT.
H.. CASEY YOUNG. Of Shelby.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04
PROFESSIONAL.
PRESCRIPTION PREE

E0R THE SPEEDY CURE OF SEMINAL
Z weakness, iost manhood and all disorders
brought on BY indiscreti0ns or excess. Any
druggist hes tho ingredients. Address DA.
WILSON Z CO.. Box 22g6. New York.
6Hxiii.h-aod
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PUBLIC LEDGER.
oFFIOE-No. Is MADISON sTRHIT.

M
wednesday Evening, Oct. 4, 1875.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04
KoM1NArIoNs FoR HRLEa1sLATuRR

The American publishes the
nominees and "Independent cali,
didates for the Legislature as fal
as known:
FOR Il sEEATE-DEMocRArs.
First District-John Allison, jr.
Second District-L Il Denny.
Sixth District-H A Chambers.
Seventh District R P Lloyd.
Tenth Distriet-D d Nancy.
Eleventh Distriet-F P Cahill.
Twelfth District-R E Thompson.
Fourteenth Distriet-W D Fulton.
Fifteenth District-T D Davenport.
Seventeenth District-A E Garner.
Nineteenth District-A G Hawkins.
Twentieth Distriet-Geo W Martin.
Twenty-6rst District-A r Reid.
Twehty-second District-FB Raglsnd.
Twenty-third District-W A Milligan.
Twenty-fourth District ] DuBose.
Twenty-6tth Districts G Maddux.
sEYATE-REPUBLICANs
First District Q A Remine.
Seventh District-B W Padgett.
Eleventh District-H Fl Harrison.
T~wenty-third District-T A Hamilton
Withdrawn.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-04
sENArE-lNpErENpENr.

a
Twenty-seeond District-H. A. Jones.
HOUSE OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Sullivan-N Gregg; Washington-A
S N Debson; Circumstances Polk jr.
KNOW Q MeCammon; McMinn-
John A Turley; Hamilton-S A Key;
Wilson-James F Stokes; Rutherford
John Lvtle; Bedford "A l. Laudis;
Giles-E 7 Talisferro; williamson
George W Morton; Summers + VIII
son; Montgomery = Charles G Smith;
Henry-S A Champion; Weakley-J r
Thomson; Gibson-G W Day; Msdi
son-Johu ] Boon; Hardeman-J A
Manson; Tipton-G B Simoutoa; Da
vidsou-John 0verton, NJ NJ Brien, jr.,
P Phillips, James 5 Frazier; Shelby
NJ D L Stewart, George B Peters, Il L
Douglass, W Il Nelson, Thomas Glove,
w W Coleman; Hamblen and Granger
"A X Shields; Polk and Bradley-M
e Hancock; Marion, Sequatchie. Grnu.
dy, Bledsoe, Hamilton and Van Barren
Louis Shepherd; Wilson, Trousdale and
DeKalk-Jobn ] Ford; Bedford and
Rutherford-R P Frierson; Montgome-
~ and Stewart-N Brandon; Lawrence
and Vayne-Jsmes K Garner; Shelby
and Fayette w A Collier; Carroll,
Gibson. Henry and Weakley II T
johnson; Madison, Haywood and Har-
deman, George Q. Porter.
HoUsE-RBPUBLIcANs.
Washiugton-M S Mahoney; Green
Edwin Henry; Knox-M D Bearden
McMinn- T B Elwee; Hsmilton-W 7
Monger; Carroll-L L Hawkins; David
son-F 7 Reid, A V S Lindsey, sr, W
P Jones; Polk and Bradley-W l Dow
ell; Marion, Sequatchie, Grundy, Bled-
soc, Hamilton and Van Buren-W Pry.
or; Shelby and Fsyette-O C Moore.
HOUSE, INDEPENDENTS.
Green-Lloyd Bullen; Giles-J P C
Reed; Marion, Ssquatehie, Grundy,
Bledsoe, Hamilton and Van Buren-W
n Williamson.
THERE is an unfortunate diff
Guilty in the ranks of the Democrats
Of the Third Congressional district
Of Arkansas. The convention which
met at Little Rock a few weeks ago
to nominate a candidate for Con-
gross, disagreed as to the basis of
representation, and divided into two
conventions, each of which nomi-
mated a candidate and appointed an
executive committee. Colonel era
gens, Of GAINESVILLE, and Judge
B. Stuart, of Clark county,
-he respective nominees, are both
n the field, and all efforts at recon-
citation have, as yet, failed. The
Rock Gazette, although not
an active part in the contro-
Tersy, recognizes Judge Stuart as
rHE regular nominee. At this dis
.apce We cannot understand the
complication and merits of the
'ase. They may both be regular
'nough, but one thing is certain,
hey cannot both be elected. The
Democratic majority in the district
) 50 great that there is no paFticu-
ar danger Of q Radical slipping in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-07-17
The withdrawal of the facilities afforded

The withdrawal OF the facilities afforded
by the fast mail service will be loss Sc
verely felt in many portions of the country.
The fast mall trains were started as an ex-
pertinent by Governor Je we'll, VINO received
the cheerful co operation of Commodore
Vanderbilt aid Col Thomas A. Scott As
Is truihfully said by the vice president OF
the New York Central and Hudson river
railroad company, In his letter to the Post
master General, the fast service has been
running ten months with q success un-
equalled in practical railway operations.
Rushing with the spec I OF the wind across
the country, and distributing the mails as
they went, these fast trains have fully de-
monstrated their desirability as means for
the transmission OF mail latter, and ought
to De continued for the benefit of the people.
Colonel Scott and Commodore Vanderbilt
have always claimed that the compensation
for this service is altogether inadequate, and
now, since Congress has restored the old,
and, as they assert, unremunerative rates,
they decline to continue the fast trains after
the 22d instant. That this will create much
popular dissatisfaction there can be no
doubt, and one of the conundrums asked
during the Presidential campaign will be
responsibility is very easily fixed. 1t is
quite likely that the millions OF people bene-
flied by the service will demand its restora-
tion, ard that Congress at its next session
(after the Presidential election Is over) will
make due provision to this end, If 1t is not
sooner done.