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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-01-25
AN ALL MIaHTs'stssIoM OF THE
SENATE.
The Electoral Bill Fully Dis.
cussed.
AND fHE "COMRoMIsE" ADOPTED
THIS MORNING.
BY a Vote Of Forty'ssven to
Seventeen.
DI.sracsful Developments In the
ohio Election.
lsrEcrlL prrarcuKs TO II 0oLp DILL
DAILY NEws

--.-.,-u.....,,h.h .I s,Js.vored IN
!'sSruay A'se. :, an. r,o-
o''ns "' N"" -.
Visions o' 'nis WI. --rsS,..,.,
desired . result mlsh' 10 "o'A 49,
tho complication satisfactory to tho 'Fhoio
country |; and second. because he desired
o,,.i an, .,.., ~i,.tic. .bouIl 10 done 10
- ,,,,.,
every candidate AZ tue iA'o rr'"u
election aud TO the parties which put those
...,,,.,.. s.rv.rJ. lint n, did NIT be-
n' ~ I'M ..,,a. .snr,nIi.h any such
NV '"'s NIL MI sr,nirIons sLout the
,ss"'@ Inn.J a-sr. IN Inc Fri.
Dill nir.,s 4, r.rs.' m fairness was
''sni.., 49," I'M ,,s. rerv unfortunate. be-
u.. ni, A. T.. .~ccomnlisbed by n
Iaasnn.'1 ann ona man 40 IN select,i, as
"eP.unnn" IL" Tn.- .un,srterx Of the bill
=, "sa."...., ,h.ir nrcuments to tive
an" p;r.'"' wss IL c~onsiitutiousl =
IsconJ~w.s n ~cxpediopt? Ito then
.r,ra,I ,L.t A was never intended that
con"ress .houid count tho electoral vote
or .i,.cri,nir.t. between returns, IL the
sr.msr. If n. Constitution lad intended
IN lo,lrc any such power In Congrs ~. \
fcw word. would have madc u certain. II
WAS moi intended tulolgo such dangerous
noUer In Congress, because the two Houses
conlJ Themselves create an cXigoncy In
,.Ii.,, an. ronsiitutien nroylJed the Houss
Nh'eh u-.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-01-25
A s-uppocArrNa Cough.

IN a letter to Mrs.. Lisle, Of Chicago. . well
known oouihhutor to the Western press. she
l-crihcs the cure Of . dangerous cough. sceom.
R PiSsss Of y flo s,sSS,as a and * T.r 'an say y s0 H.
she says, "threaicned 10 ruiocats me- .
hat the Honey of Horehound and Tar has
r.,,noyei every irarc OF It," The letter was 10
= .ady friend In this city. who has PLACED u a
the dlsposal OF q. N. crttenton. Z Sixth ave
nue.. Pikr'r Toothsehe Drops cure 10 ons
minute
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-01-25

LIos's KArnlnos Inakss bsauiifal. slossy.
lIxurisnt hair; prevents its falling oct 90 turn
ting tray. u las. st-o I the test OF foity yssis.
1, chsrni.ngiy periumed. AMI has M rival. .
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-01-25

HAsASs MAGNOLIA BALM prrrsrvrs and ~
stores ihs complexion. removes irrckits. tan
ani allowness: makes The KIN .on. white sud
dslicaic. Its application cannot 10 dstecled.s
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07

GENERAL LoEGsTREET has written fol
the Philadelphia Weekly Times an in
teresting and valuable description Of the
battle of Gettysburg, He says that he
oaposed the march into Pennsylvania on
the ground that the Western Confederate
armies needed assistance, Grant having
bottled up one Of them in Vicksburg.
When the two armies faced sach.other a,
Gettysburg he advised General Lee to
decline battle, interpese bis army be
tween General Meade end Washington
aud force the latter to make the attack
But General Lee said: IF the enemy
il there tomorrow we must attack him. "
General Longstrest replied: IF he is
there, Il will be because he is anxious
that we should attack him-a good
reason, in my judgment, for not doing
So" Lopgstreet was directed to make
the opening attack. His corps numbered
thirteen Thousand men. 1t charged up
Cemetery Ridge with such bravery and
audscity that General Meade thought
that General Lees whole army wa at its
heels. Reducing his right wing to one
brigade, Meade hurried the others to the
support Of Bis imperilled left, aud forced
Lougq,reet back. When night came.
Longslrest found that he had lost 1929
men, or more than one third Of bis corps.
Longstreet charges the failure Of bis
assault 10 ExelIs inactivity, declaring
that L Esell had attacked Meads's weak
eued right wing, it would surely have
been overcome, and the battle won. He
also criticises Picketi's assault on the
second day Of the battle, and says that
it was q great mistake in General Lee to
order it made.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07
ELECTIONS YESTERDAY.


MILWAUKEE, November THE chair
mar of the Republican State central
committee telegrsphs the following: II
think the State may be safely counted
on for FIVE or six thousand majority. The
vote for the Greenback ticket in the State
is now estimated at 80, 1000. Milwaukee
county, complete, gives a Democratic
majority for governor Of 500; Tilden's
majority was 2O45. Eleven towns heard
from since last night reduces the Repub.
licAn gain Sc. Two hundred and sixteen
precincts give a Republican gain Of
1880"
Later returns give South 1000 major.
ity as heard from.
New York, November 7.-Catlin, the
Republican nominee for district attorney
in Brooklyn, is elected by over 5000 ma
jority.
NEWARK, November --latest returns
give Mcclellan 1880 majority over
Newell. The legislature is Democratic
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07
Fires.

SPRINGFIELD. MASS, November L.
The Keith paper mill at Turner's Falls
was burned this morning. Loss, $780,
900; insurance, $265, OOe. This mill had
a capacity OF five tons of paper daily,
and employed three hundred hands.
NEwBURGH, N. Y, November THE
oil works of D. Powers q Sons was burn.
ed this morning, Loss, SIS, 1000; half in.
sured.
%PITTsBURG, November IA FIRE at
Gilmore, Walters & Co. s Touring mills
and ]. N. Straub & Co.'s malt-house on
South Canal street, Allegheny City, last
night partially destroyed both buildings.
Loss, SIG, 900; fully Insured.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07

THIS strange story is toldconcerning
the family Of the late Senator Morton, If
Indiana: at is said hat the original
name of the family Of the late senator
was Throokmorton. His grandfather
was a Scctchmau who was born. lived
and died 10 the 'laad Of cskes}' The
father Of the senator, with two or three
brothers, migrated to America and found
homes in the fruitful West. In the full
ness Of time the old pareut died, and an
uncle Of Oliver P. went to Scotland TO
settle up the estate Of his father, and
bring the proceeds to America. He was
eminently successful in settling the pro-
cssds into bis own pocket, which SO dis
gusted his brothers that they disowned
him, and in order that they might never
be suspected Of a relationship with such
a fraud, they dropped the first syllable of
their fathers name, and t~henceforth
we're known by the name of Morton only.
To this circumstance the great Indiana
senator was indebted for the name his
genius and courage made memorable"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07

"WHATEvER may be the opinion Of the
Southern psople respecting the propriety
of reducing the army" says that leading
Radical sheet, the Philadelphia Bulletin,
=" there is no doubt at all that the opin-
Tod in the North is opposed to such a
policy. OF course nobody wants a huge
standing army, but we ought to have g
great enough force to do the things
which positively need to be done: To
garrison all the forts aud ~arsensls with
ren to take care Of the public property;
to guard the Texan frontier so as to pro.
tect Americans from Mexican maraud-
ers; and to place upon the plains at i'm
perilled points q force which can dispose
of Indian outbreaks speedily and effec
lively. A government which cannot
enforce its authority will not have its
authority respected. President Hayes,
without troops to compel obedience
to the laws when the laws are threat.
ened, is not much stronger than any
other one man in the country. We had
sufficient proof last hummer Of the fact
that unforeseen emergencies may make
the absence of a sufficient military force
disastrous. A more terrible crisis may
come upon US at any time, and we may
have to pay millions which moy be saved
by expanding thousands now. The ami
mostly with which the Democratic hous,
regards the army is not applicable upor
any other ground than the esgsrness O
the rebels who control that house t
strike a revengeful blow at the force tina.
whipped them"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07
Sth Day Of December, 1877,

IN front of the courthouse door, in the city Of
NJ emphis' at u O'Clock m, proceed to sell To-
inc highest bidder, for cash, the following
described property:
part OF o tract Of land formerly owned by
James U. Jones, lying in the Twelfth civil
u~istrlcti IN range Z, sections l and 2, beginning
at the sou beast corner of q 6OO-acre tract.
part OF q 5OOO-acre tract, which said 600 acres
was conveyed by ohm p. Hickman and Edwin
hickman to s. and b. kimbrough, By deed
lated July %. 1929; thence west77 chains and
~ links, a stake ON the east line of Patier-
sons lOOO-acre subdivision thence north So
chains and Ga links, a stake in the state Limo
road, 37S links north of a sweet-gum marked
~; thence south 63%e east % chains and n
hnks with the center of said road; thence
south " cast 20 chains and 50 links, a stake;
thence south 81 east 81 chains, a stake;
thence east 4 chains and 50 links, a stake;
thence south IS chains and " links to the be-
ginning. containing by tho original deed 415N
acres. The above land has been subdivided
by Sarah W, Jones into lots, which said plain
is of record in the Registers efice of Shelby
county, Tenn, in Plat Book /, page 80. | will
sell, By virtue Sf said deed to me executed, lots
2, S,.4, g., Z. 5. 9, 10, II, Il, 10, IA and Is OF said
subdivision.
I viii sell all the right. title and interest.
both legal and equitable, Of Sarah W. and
Felix M. Jones in and to said property. All
equity of redemption Is waived In the deed by
the grantors; The title is believed to be good,
but 1 Will sell and convey as Trustee only.
64 80 u. M. HEARN, Trustee,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

BERLIN. November THE subterran
a telegraph line between Berlin anG
Kiel has been completed with appro
pirate ceremonies in the presence of th.
postmaster-generAl and members of the
English and Austrian telegraph lines,
The total length of the German subter'
ranea cables is 9l7t miles. Each cable
contains seven wires.
LONDON, November IA telegram
from Rome says it is believed hat Christ
mas is the time fixed for the pope to
issue apostolic letters re-establishing the
Catholic hierarchy Of Scotland.
PARIS, November THE official jour.
nal announces that the DeBroglie minis
try, at President MacMahon's request,
have withdrawn their designations.
They, however, insist that it shall be
fully understood that while continuing
discharge their functions this shall in
no wise prejudice the presidents subse-
quen. decision.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07
A rrn det. .inns. aar, A MIa,I;,inni


A FEW days sines, says q Mississippi
exchange, Che Supreme Court of Missis,
sippi, in the case of &. Virden vs.. E. ].
Bowers, delivered a decision on the ef.
feet of tax titles which is destined to
mark a new era IN the jurisprudence Of
the State on that subject. 1t vas held
that by virtue Of section 100, code 1871,
a tax collectors deed imported prims
facie q perfect title. and relieved the pur-
chaser from offering any proof touching
the assessment or sale. 1t was held fur
Their that if the owner assumed the bur
den Of proof, as he is in all cases COM
PEELED to do, be could only defeat the tax
title by showing a payment Of the taxes
before sale, or BY showing there were In
validities in the assessment or sale.
What circumstances would constitute
such invalisities, it vas said, was a mat.
ter for construction, and by the censtitu-
ton the same libsrality of construction
must be extended to tax sales as to sales
under execution. Hence it was held that
neither the fact that the owner had per.
sonal property in the county, nor that no
personal demand was made upon him for
the taxes, nor the failure by the sheriff
to advertise the sale, would invAlidats the
tax deed, inasmucb as none Of these
would invalidate an execution
sale.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07


ONLY three Of the old Abolitionists
now survive-Wendell Phillips, William
Lloyd Garrison and Parker Pillsbury.
The two former are to this day rampant
advocates of the bloody shirt, while Pills
bury, more modest and retiring than
either, and probably the ablest man Of
the three, is decidedly in favor of the
Presidents concilistory Southern policy.
In a recent letter to a friend he thus re.
fers to the decline Of the Republican
party, and his words have a peculiar
significance: tlP etGeasd.
You ask what l think of the present
political prospect. Evidently great
changes are at hand. Republican rule
is to cease, and Democracy, or its substi-
tute under some name, is to succeed.
Nor need any regretit. The old Federal
party ceased ts be at the close Of our war
sixty years ago; the Wing party at the
close of the Mexican war thirty years
ago. The Nation survived both; though
many in Office or other conservatives saw
only visions Of ruin, terrible as death on
the pale horse on the Isle Of Pstmos.
Had the Republican party given up the
ghost at the end of the war OF the rebel
lion, it might have been better for its
own honor and the national welfare. The
history of its last Presidential admins
trstion surely cannot be pleasant read.
ing in the days to come.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07

COLONEL DUPRE, editor Of the Austin.
Texas, Statesman, draws the following
parallel between the two dead men,"
Forrest and Morton:
The deaths of Morton and Forrest will
mako The week memorable in the NEGRO
logical calendar for many a year. They
were antipodes of one another. Morton
was fierce IN politics and Forrest IN war.
Morton was q man Of terrible words;
Forrest of terrible deeds. Morton was a
great thinker; Forrest q great doer.
Forrest talked little; Morton was the
i~mpersonation Of v%olubility, as Forrest
was of violent action. Neither was sup
posed BY the great body Of mankind to
be 6t to die, and Morton was hardly fit
to live. Both were heroes of q revolu.
ton; Forrest while it lasted, and Morton
when it was thought to be ended, and
both we're natural products of evil times;
Forrest a destructive soldier, and Morton
a destructive statesman, and each was
peerless in bis peculiar sphere. Both
we're meR Of violent passions, and it was
only unfortunate that Morton's was most
violent when the country wanted peace,
even as it was Forests luck that his we're
given vent wheR demonism was domi-
naut. Forrest won admiration BY the
splendor OF his achievements in arms,
Morton by the violence Of his vehement
speeches in peace. Both were rude men,
and in private life not without grievous
faults, and while the world admires, it
does net and will not venerate the story
Of their lives. Ignorant Of books as was
Forrest, Morton, a soldier, would have
been Forrest, and Forrest nurtured in the
school of abo~litionism, as he was a dealer
in slaves, would have been an enthusiast
for freedom and worShipped, as did Nor
ton, at the freedom.shrieking shrines of
0berlin. Forrest was tall, perfectly
shaped, with a massive head and impoa.
ing presence; Morton, for years. was
bereft of all personal attractiveness and
went hobbling on crutches, and strangers
stood aloof dresding some foul leprosy;
but they died together; Forrest hardly
older than the I~ndianian statesman, and
the world will never again greet two such
contemporaries. Forests death would
have been @ terrible loss to his country
in an age of war; even as that OF Morton
is recognized by many as a great gain in
time Of peace.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07

In Ohio Mr.. Pendleton's friends claim
that he will have forty votes for United
States senator on the first ballot, which
is eight short OF enough to nominate.
This claim rests upon a solid Hamilton
county delegation in his favor, aud thig
by no a certainty. General Nor
gan isthougbt to stand second and Gen.
Ewing third.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07

The New York Tribune states that
the appearance In the senate of a Demo-
cratic successor 10 ME. Morton will re-
reduce the Republican majority to four,
when all seats are full. As Senator
Sharon is habitually absent, the actual
majority is only three. Ths admission
of the Democratic claimants from Lou
isiana and South Carolina would balance
evenly the strength OF parties upon the
floor, but the Republican supremacy
would still be maintained By the casting
vote of Vice President Wheeler. Since
1871 the Republicans have lost sixteen
senators, and gained ons-not consider
ing the seats aow IL dispute. The gain
is in California, and the losses are IN the
following States: Connecticut (2), New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Iudi
ana (2), Illinois, West Virginia, North
Caroline, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Missouri and Texas (2) Unless a break
ing up Of parties should eooner occur
the Democrats will be certain, during
the next two years, to make further
gains Of one senator in each Of the iol
loving States: Ohio, South Cerolioai
Florids, Alabama aud Arkansas In no
State rave the Republicans any prospec'
OF gaining a seat, unless it be in Conpec
ticut II would therefore seem a. well
assured az anything can be in politics,
that the control Of the senate will pass
iuto the hands Of the Democratsin 1879
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07

The Tall Sycamore OF the Wabash +"
on Monday next will take the seat in the
United States senate made vacant by
the great War Governor" of Indiana.
What is the Republican loss will be the
Democratic gain. No more able man or
truer Demscrat lives in Indiana than is
Dan W. Voorhees,.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07

RIYer TelegraEna.

CAIRO, ILL, November I. Arrived
Carl Schurz, south, 7 am; G. W. R
Bayley, Ohio, 9; Belle Memphis, Mem
phis, 10 am, Departed-Dora Cabler
Evansville, 9 pm; Chester, Memphis, 9
Fair aud cold.
PITTsBURG, November River is Eve
feet one inch and falling. Clear and
cold.
CINCINNATI, November River fall
ing. Cloudy and cool.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07
l2lbI.l
N0H-R Resident Notice.

In the Chancery Court Of Shelby county.
Tennessee- John M, Lea, John OVerton ct
al. VS.. City Of Memphis ct nj.
TT. APPEARING FROM AFFIDAVIT IN
i this cause thatthe defendant, 7. n, Brown,
y 3 non resident Of tae State Of Tennessee;
pearance herein, at the court house in the city
Of Memphig. Tenn.. on or before tho first Nom
day in December, 1877, and plead, answer or
demar, to the, original and amended bills
or the same will be taken for confessed
as to him sad Get for hearing OK parte; and
that e copy Of this order be published once a
week, for four successive weeks, in the Public
Ledger.
This 10Th day of October, 1877.
A copy-Attost:
EDMUND A. COLE, G. and NJ.
By +, J. BLACK, d. @. and Nj.
Estea i Elicit, and W. w. Goodwin, solic-
'AtoEs Ter complainant. 50-6S62-6S
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07
WASHINGTON.
Oongresslonal ProeesalnEs.

WASHINGTON, November T.-SESATE-
The committee on privileges and cleo.
tiohs had another meeting to-day on the
Spofford-K Kellogg case. After some fur.
tbsr discussion as to the proper scope of
the investigation the committee adjourn
ed, subject to the call OF the chairman.
Postponement OF action to. day was owing
to the absence Of Messrs. Hoar and Hill,
together with the fact that the vacancy
on tho committee caused by the death Of
Senator Morton has not yet been filled,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07

NATHAN BEDFORD FoRREsT was APP
pointed a brigadier general July 81, 1852,
He was promoted to be msjor general De-
cembsr 4, 1863, and assigned by General
Bragg to the command Of all his cavalry.
Late in the war he attained the rank OF
lieutenant general. His cavalry cam.
paiCDs in Tennessee, Georgia, North AL.
bama and Mississippi form some Of the
most interesting and brilliant chapters
of Confederate war history.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07
Monday, November 26, 1877.
Trusiee,s Nale.

ON NOVEMBER ID. 1877, AT IL O'CLOCK
" M, l will, as Trustee, in front of my
office. No. 4SH Madison street, Memphis,
Tenn. sell at public sale to the highest bid
der, for cash, that lot Of land in shelby
Lot iSSG No. 4 4s in biock I g., For t' P PhJ sSSS hu sitS Sl
ated at the southeast intersection of Jackson
and Seventh streets, having a front on the
south side Of jackson street of $50 feet, with
uniform width southwardly to an alley, and a
front on the east side of Seventh street OF
and the title believed to BIO perfect, but / sell
only as Trustee.
ass j. M. GREGORY, Trustee,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07
Thursday, November %,

the real estate mentioned in said decree, situ.
ate In the northwestern part of Shelby county.
and described as follows
Beginning, at a stake IL links east of an
ash VIZ" thence north rs poles 10 a stale.
thence north 75e east I7.9 poles to a stake.
thence north 81 west 1874 poles I'll links n a
stake; whence east 81 north 10 poles 10 links
is a gum marked "P M" thence west 40
souto 30 pelos 2O1S links to a stake: thence
north 52' west 8S51s poles to a stake on tbe
north boundary line; thence with said line,
wet 81 south 1905 poles to a sts Ike; whence
30 links is an ash marked "R W;H taense
south L ~ east, S8% poles TO a stake; Whence
west ~ links is a white walnut marked ''P:"
thence east "a north gTH poles to a stake.
whence west so north Is an ash "LRsv
thence south $50 east l6iA poles to a stake.
whence south 80 east IS links is a syeamore
"L;" thence cast II o. west 79K poles IN ths
beginning containing 100. Y ayfes. and heinz
tho samS tract Of land conveyed By FINE
Cash to j; D.; Thweatt on LIST day of January
!eUo, by deed Of that date registered in tbe,
Registers Off 20 Of Shelby county, Rscsrd
Book No. n, part l, pages 1853 and lH.
Terms OF ~sale-eash. Equity of redemption,
JOHN H. FREEMAN, CLERK.
kortFeeht u Graft, Solicitors. 4l.7f
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07

ALLUDIyG to the proposition Of an
extra session Of the legislature, the
Jouesboro Times says: If the present
legislature has sand enough in its gizzard
to levy a tax sufficient to meet the u
rent expenses and resume the payment
of interest on an adjusted debt, by all
means give them q chance. If they have
not, an extra session would be a bur.
lesque, and their expenses an outrage
upon the tax payers.'' Let the matter
pass over until the people can consider
it aud elect a new legislature. The
present legislature stands under instruc-
tons to oppose every effort to impose
heavy taxes on the people. An extra
session Of the Legislature would be an
expensive elephant and an outrage upon
the Taxpayers Of the State at the present
time. Governor Porter and the bond.
holding ring must await the pleasure Of
the o~Ver.tsked and over-burdsned people
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-07
Indications.

WASHINGTON, November For Ten
nessee and the Ohio valley increasing
cloudiness followed by rain, essterly
winds veering to %southerly, higher tenn
perature and falling barometer.
The Mississippi and Missouri rivers
will remain nearly stationary.