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Daily Republican., 1878-12-28
The January Interest.


The Democratic council will hardly
make much party capital by continuing
its war upon the City Treasurer. Mr..
Guthrie, the chairman of the finance
committee, seemed to fully understand
the case, and openly proclaimed in the
City Council on last Thursday evening
that the council had no right to force a
clerk upon the Treasurer that he did
not want, he having given bonds for
not only his own, but the fidelity OF
his clerk. Everybody will recognize
the iustness of what Mr.. Guthrie said
and yet, strange inconsistency, that
gentleman because the treasurer would
not accept the clerk council was trying
to force upon him, voted that the Treas
urer should have no clerk at all. Thr
most remarkable thing noticeable is,
that thes Democrats in Council would
have let the payment Of the January
interest amounting to about 81, 900 60
by default, simply because the Treas
urer h ad not the list of three hundred
names, to whom interest was ue,made
out, and which was not included in the
duties OF his office, as specified by the
city charter. 1t did not seem to occur
to the majority in council that the cred
IL of the city was at stake ard had it
not been that President Lichtenstein
who is ever faithful to the true inter-
ests Of the city, left his chair and intro
duced resolution providing for the
appointment of a temporary clerk FOR
tb. Treasurer that the interest liz;
might be made up, the January Interest
paid and the credit of the city saved,
their own party world be the sufferers.
Even this bipartisan harmless resoIu
tiOn which was more LOT tht peheh' w
the Democrats than the Republicans,
was objected to and could not have
ma s.d council, had not the President
accepted an amendment providing that
the Finance Committee instead of the
Treasurer should have the clerk. Presi
dent Lichtenstein in this action showed
a most commendable spirit saying that
he had nothing to do with the fight be-
tween the City Council and the Treas
urer, but the credit of the city was at
stake and he wanted to save it, and to
show the bipartisan spirit which actu
ated him he was very willing that the
Finance Committee should have the
clerk instead of the Trcasurer-he was
willing tor any thing that the interest
should be paid according to contract.
Not only are the bondholder creditors
of the city indebted to this unseltish
spirit of President Lichtenstein for the
payment of their interest promptly at
the allotted time, but the Democratic
members of council are indebt d to him
for preserving their credit and saving
them from the charge which would have
followed, of allowing the payment o.
the January interest 60 by default
simply because the City Treasurer
would not accept clerk in whom he
had no confidence, and for whom he
was responsible under his bonds.
Daily Republican., 1878-12-28

A DRUNKEN WOMAN at Portsmouth,
Va, while cooking, fell headforemost
into a tub Of water. The head was
drowned and the other part caught fire
and was burned to death. We have
not yet heard Of the verdict Of the Cor.
oner's inquest.
Daily Republican., 1878-12-28

CIT Is AN Ill wind that blows .
good,' is an old and general nId
saying, Its truth il onco more u
by the Finance Committee discover
that it is the City Auditors duty to
make out the city interest account, in
stead of the City Treasurer.
Daily Republican., 1878-12-28

Hon. D. W. VOORHEES,, the great in
hatlon &. :. Senator from Indiana, is
confred to his room in Washington
with a terribly inflated nose. A car
buncle has attached itself to the out
ward bound end OF it.
Daily Republican., 1878-12-28

". SMITH, in a letter to the smyrna
Times, says the editor Of the REruBLT-
CAN comes as near advocating the free
license system as seems to be prudent
IN the case. Perhaps Mr.. Smith wi
define which is the better temperance
man, hr who favCrs restrictive license
or he who favors license to all who
want it, or to nobody ? We belong 10
the latter class.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11
Tho AmerIcnn Historinn.

Mr.. George Bancroft, the historian, ac-
cording to a Washington correspondent,
is a spare, active man, with bushy white
hair and a long, full, whita beard. He
is in his sevenly-eighth year, but works
with untiring industry. BE rises at eight,
sips a cup Of coffee aud eats a bit Of
black bread, and works. until ten o'clock
examining the archives of the depart.
ment Of State for the material of the
forthcoming volume of his history. At
ten be breakfasts, and after breakfast
returns to his library to work till three.
Then, unless the weather is too stormy,
his mare Elsie is saddled and be rides
for an hour, attended by a groom, A
popularity of his valuable library are
the scrap. books he has kept for many
years and now numbering hundreds of
volumes, carefully indexed and classified.
A secretary prepares for each volume Of
his history a dictionary of dates for the
time it is to cover, and provides and vtri.
hes the references; another writes from
tho historians diclation. Mr.. Bancroft
live, in a spacious house on H, street,
Washington, the perlors Of which are
fultof antiques and curious old furni-
ture. He spends his summer usually
in New York. His wife is living, and
they have one son.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11
BRITISH POLICY.
What nn Intelligent BrftOn says fer
HIS aud other Governments.
Mruprra Eahruarv0 1919

Whatnn HnteIltgeee RrftOn says fer
HIS and 0ther governments.
M~KMPEIs. February 8, 1878.
To the Editor Of the Ledger:
Your articles Of yesterday and to-day,
in reference to England and the East,
appears to me to be founded on an entire
misapprehensien of British feeling. You
accuse England of a desire TO acquire
COnstantinOple permanently. Nov If
there is anything firmly settled in Euro
pean politics It is this; that ever since
Hanover was disjoined from the English
crown blythe operation Of the Salique
law the British people have had a rooted
antipathy to any schemes that
would lead TO the acquisition of q
foothold on the continent Of Eu-
rope, with the single exception Of
Gibraltar, and this feeling is q very wise
one. Englishmen know that the perms-
nent acquisition Of Constantiaopl would
involve them in constant trouble aud
war. If you had said Egypt it might
udNt D6eu uchEcl tuH bIuiu. Dub tOS
real state of the case, l think, is that
England's objects and interests are
merely negative, namely, to check Rus.
sian ACKNOWLEDGMENT, from the suspicion
hat all Russia's aims have for their ul-
timqie object England's possessions in
the East. American papers seem to de.
light in accusing England of selishness,
l would like to know what al the powers
of Europe are doing il they are not loek-
ing after their own interests? Who be.
lieves that Russia went into the war on
purely philanthropic motives7 The truth
is, it is simply ridiculous to talk Of any
one pswer being exceptionally SELFISH
they are about on a par. EYea your
own republic is credited occasionally
with having a skinned eye" to the main
chance and her own interests.
Yours, etc., BRIToS.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11
PinkertOn's Defender
Comes to the Relief
Of Anderson,
Whom Hs Regards as a Martyr to
PrejudiOs and Hate.
4 Dlspatch Of Consolation Sent by
sherman, katthOWs and
Others.

WASHINGTON, February ll.-Secretary
Sbetman, being asked if it was true that
he, Matthews, Garfield, Hale and White
had sent q dispatch to Anderson, said it
was true, and as that fact had been made
public he would furnish q copy Of tie
dispatch, and they meant all they said.
Mr.. Sherman then stated he regarded the
arrest, trial aud conviction Of Anderson
as a great outrage. Under the color of
the forms Of law Anderson was indicted.
The grand jury had refused to indict
him. The proceedings against him is
called an Information" and is expressly
prohibited in cases Of felony by the con-
stitution Of the United States and of
most of the States, but is provided for by
the Law Of Louisiana. The Information
was signed and filed by q man who was
an officer Of the White League who was
identified with numerous crimes of that
organization. The Judge who tried the
case is a public defaulter for over $780,
900.
When Anderson was arrested be was
acting as collector of the port Of New
Orleans, and the arrest was made while
he was in the discharge of his duty at
the custom.house, which stands, as Sher.
man thinks, on ground under the sole
Jurisdiction Of the United States, by ces.
sion from Louisiana. He was hurried to
prison and required to give excessive
bail, and falling to do SO was kept in
custody, denied all postponements,
forced to trial, convicted, and is now
held for sentence without the benefit Of
bail.
The jury was picked to convict, as the
panel had been carefully selected, almost
exclusively Of one political party and
one race; their examination, as called.
showed the deepest and strongest preju-
dice against the defendant, and in any
tribunal he (Shsrmau) knew that nearly
every one would have been rejected or
hisoath, and yet, though challenged, they
were sworn 10. With such q jury / am
prepared to believe the story telegraphed
this morning, that the two colored %jurors
we're tricked into agreeing TO this verdict
by an empty appeal to the mercy Of the
court.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11
BRITANNIA Oh TIE WAVE.

We publish to-day a communication
from "a Briton," an intelligent gentle.
man who controverts the LEDGER views
in regard to Great Britain's govern
mental policy toward the Eastern ques.
ton. This 10 a matter of opinion. Like
oil Englishmen, he ia sensitive to such
criticism as he read in our columns.
This is a commendable quality, though
he is liable to look at the question from
a strict English standpoint. He is Gan.
did enough to admit a portion of the
LEDGER's premises. and on the other
hand we are very free to concede that
this has been q war for commercial ends.
and not to protect the Christians IN.
der Turkish rule. Since the days
of the Crusaders wars have rOrely
been undertaken to propagate re-
ligiOus ideas, although appeals are
made TO religious fanaticism and
prejudicesi in nearly all wars. EngIand's
drum tap, it is POLITICALLY said, is heard
all around the world, aud it is probable
that her policy does not contemplate the
acquisition of much more territory. un,
less it be in the newly discovered regions
Of Africa, where there is supposed to be
room and opprtunity for great com
mercial enterprise. Bat we think that
> portion Of the English public heartily
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11
The eo-rnllnd Miracle.

NV York, February ll.-Father
Heiuen, whose name was associated with
that Of Miss Grsth in the so called
Maueh Chunk miracle, read from his
altar yesterday Archbishop Woods letter
thereon. The archbishop characterizes
the whole affair a delusion and a pious
fraud, and says that, without inquiry as
10 the extent TO which others partici.
pated in this lamentable folly, he desires
to mark the whole proceeding and the
principal actor in It with his distinct and
unqualified disapprobation and condem.
nation, and to say thOt Q repetition Of
anything Of Ihe sort in this DIOCESE will
DO visited by the severest censures au-
thorized by the laws Of tie church.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11

A CIRCULAR has been issued by sur.
viving members Of the Army of Teuues-
see, commanded successfully by Bragg,
Johnston, and Hood, suggesting the
propriety of the establishment of a home
organ in the West, similar to that pub
lisbed by the Southern Historical Society
of Richmond, Va. The objec. is not to
come in competitor With that excellent
publication, but to give preference to the
records and struggles and incidents Of
the army 10 the West, which has never
yet had a distinct organ. The survivors
Of our gallant army are rapidly passing
away, and in a few years it will begin to
be difficult to collect the material for re.
liable western history. Many of the
greatest actors are yet living, aud would
cheerlully contribute much matter of
great interest, if called upon, which
otherwise would DO lost. ALL who are
favorable to this movement have been
requested to address the secretary, E. L.
Drake, Of Fayetteville, Tennessee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11

BREEsE, ILL.,, February l, 1873.
Editor Republican, st. Louis, No.:

oNNHoht ALbss EODAuhAg ~ 1000
Editor Republican, st. Louis. No.:
DEAR SIR-Inasmuch as you seem to
delight in impartiDg information to those
desiring it. | will venture TO PROFOUND q
question or two. /. Is the trade dollar
independent of and distinct from other
silver money! l. Is it eubject to the
same periodical fluctuations as we're and
are the dollar of our dads2 3. Is it true
that silver money is always below par as
gold is above2 For instance, when gold
ia worth $l.02 is silver worth CSC to the
dollar2 4. Is the rise in gold and the
fallin silver simultaneous, and vice versa?
READER.
First-The trade dollar is q distinct
coin, containing 42O grains of silver,
nine-tenths fine. 1t is coined for use in
our Asiatic trade, and is not intended to-
be a part of the local money of the
country-though it may be paid out to
any one who is willing to receive it.
Second-It is subject to the same huc-
t~uations of commercial value as the dol
lar of our dads.
Third" Reader" is a little misty on
Jus ouUJoCb vi par. Wubu We Say
gold is 81 OF and silver SO cents, we
make greenbacks the standard of mea-
surement, or par. If we make gold the
par, in th- case presented, silver would
be worth 90 cents; if we make silver the
par, gold would be 81 o.. 1t is not true
that silver money is always as much be-
low par as gold is above it. For many
years prior to 1873 silver was worth more
than gold-that is, was above the par
of gold. 1t present it is below, A
rise in gold and a fall in silver
need not be Simultaneous. 1t is not al.
ways easy to tell when an increasing
disparity between the two is caused by
q rise in the value Of one or a fall in the
value Of the other. If the mines yield
an unusual amount of silver, that will
decrease the value Of silver; if a law is
passed requiring all debts over S. to be
paid in gold alone, that will increase the
value Of gold. If both these agencies
work at the same time-that is, if the
mines turn out an unusual amount OF sill.
yer, and, while the process is going on,
Congress makes gold the sole instrument
OF paying debts over $5--then the dis
parity between the two metals is widened
by the simultaneous fall OF one and rise
Of the other.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11
q rRIuMpH OF YALOR.

Stanley, being an American citizen
BY adoption at least, if not by birth, and
having accomplished the great feat of
tracing the great Lualaba river down to
where it becomes the Congo and to the
mouth of the latter, in which the gallant
Lieutenant Cameron failed, has been
bitterly assailed on his return to England
by a few bigoted aud narrow minded
members of the Royal Geographical So
cieiy. Mr.. Smalley, the intelligent and
veracious correspondent Of the New
York Tribune, tells how this little clique
sought to belittle Mr.. Stanley and to
bring odium upon his name because he,
in self.defense, used an elephant rife
and slew q few dozen cannibal savages
in the heart Of Africa, when he and his
followers were in eminent peril Of their
lives. We presume these armchair
tender.hearted people think that Stanley
should have fed the cannibals on sugar
plums and distributed tracts among
them. But it is gratifying to every ad-
mirer of true manhood and worth to
know that when Mr.. Stanley come
to address the Royal Geographical
Society on tho 7th inst that his calum-
niators were silent and failed to intro.
duce their cut and dried resolutions Of
censure. Stanley had previously dined
with the Prince Of Wales, and when be
appeared at St. James Hal he was greet
ed By wei three thousand people, in
GLIDING the principal nobility and nearly
every distinguished parsonage in Lon
don associated with science, art and lite
nature. All the tickets were spscial and
complimentary, and the invitation so
extended was eagerly availed of, SO that
the spacious hall was t%hrOnged, The
Prince Of Wales was accompanied by
Prince Louis Napoleon, exPrince Impe-
rial of France; the son Of the khedive
of Egypt and Midhat Pasha also attended
the meeting, testifyipg by their presence
the appreciation with which Mr.. SANKEY'S
great geographical success is regarded by
the royal family of England. Mr.. Stan
ley, on appearing on the platform, was
received with immense cheering, the
whole sssemblsge rising to greet him.
Standing before this vast audience,
which represented the wealth and cul-
ture Of England, his breast blazing with
decorations received from kings and
chiefs of the Republic OF Science, the
gallant explorer silently bowed his &C.
acknowledgements of the honors rendered
to him. he spoke over two hours, with
out notes or the usual preparation for
such an occasion, and rivited the atten.
ton Of his distinguished hearers from
first to last. When he concluded bis
thrilling narrative he was greeted with
prolonged applause and complimented
in the highest terms by The Prince Of
Wales and the distinguished African ex.
plorer, Sir Samuel Baker. twas clearly
demonstrated that the general British
public has no sympathy with the self.
coneeited agitators who sought to rob q
gallant explorer Of his %lGurels. Great
Britain, IS well as America, shares hi;
triumph, and future generations viii.
honor his name, as well as share The
benefits of his wonderful discoveries il
a vast country yet to be settled and civ
ilized by Europeans aud Americans.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11

approves Of the proposition to send 5
feet forward to Gonstantinopie, and once
there. no n can say how long it will
remain. Russia has acquired a coasid-
cradle frontage of territory on the
Black Sea. aud desires egress to the
Sea of Msrmora and through the
Dardanslles, and thence communication
with the msratime commerce of the
world. England would witness such a
concession with regret. net SO much that
her Eastern possessions would be endsn-
gered as that she would begin to have a
powerful rival on the sea, where she has
so long had the supremacy Of the world.
England must either acquiesce or go into
a protracted war. Turkey seems likely
to form an alliance with Russia, her an
cient hereditary enemy. This would be
a grand stroke Of policy, which would
startle all the powers Of Europe without
afording any Of them a j~nstiGable pre-
text for going to war. Russis's policy
has been to get out 10 the Mediterranean
Sea since the days Of Peter the
Great, and now in the hour of triumph
will not voluntarily ~relinqaish so dear an
object. Russia can holG the positions
abe has gained, aud if meuaced by au
English feet will be almost certain to
do so. The latest dispatches of to-day
indicate that the British feet is ready,
if it has not already sailed, for the waters,
of ConstantinOple. This will justify aud
hasten Russian occupation, and we will
see who re;ires first.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11

Az exchange says that Stanley, the
African explorer, has got high enough
upon the ladder to afford to tell his true
history. His name lie not Henry n. Stan
ley, but John Rowland. He ives born in
Wales, Of parents SO INDECENT that be was
raised in a ~poor-house. At the 2 of
fifteen he shipped as a cabin boy On a
vessel bound for New Oheazs. There
employed OF a merchant named Stanley.
he was at length adopted by him and
authorized to take his name. Having
Joined the Coniederates and been taken
prisoner by the FederaIs, be was cut of
from bis benelactor and became a news.
paper correspondent"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11

TIE Oldest house, perhaps, in the
United States suspended in Philadelphia
on the 7th inst. 1t was that of G. Js
Fell & Co., Wholesale dealers in spices.
The firm vas established in 1866, ten
years before the Revolution. Four rel
rations of the family have controlled the
house successfully, and it is said that
they have never had a note protested
within a hundred years, The firm re-.
fuses to make any statement except that
the suspension will be only temporary.
To have made the sfec. striking this
GTm should have suspended in the Cen.
tennial year, and thea opened the house
to visitors, as a Revolutionary relic, at Is
cents a head. Such q fine opportunity
for speculation will not occur again for
nearly a hundred years, aud the family
by that time may be considerably aged
and scattered around in cemeteries.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11
congressional.

WASHINGTON, February IL. -SrxArE-
Mr.. Matthews presented a petitioa frem
the national and State banks, and the
Pratt Bankers, composing a Cincinnati
clearing houte association, urging a re.
peal of that portion Of the national bank
act which imposes q tax of one.half Of
one per cent. upon deposits. Referred.
A large number Of petitions from all
parts OF the country in favor Of the Six
teenth amendment to the constitution
prohibiting the States from disiranchis-
ing persons on account Of sex, we're pre-.
scented and referred. In presenting q
petition Of this character, Mr.. Cockrell
said he had been handed a petition pur.
porting to come from the people Of Mis-
souri,. He saw by the names that
many of them we're citizens OF that
State. Among the signers we're a large
number OF women, and in the list sp
peared the name of George Francis
Train. He protested that Mrs. George
Francis Train was not a citizen of Mis-
souri,. Laughter.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11

The subcommittee of the house Pa.
cifc railroad committee will probably
agree to reporsa bill for the Texas Pa
cifc early this week. The most proba.
bic plan is a single.track line, with the
question Of the terminus on the Missis.
sippi river left subject to the decision OF
a board to be composed of the three
Oldest engineers of the United States
army and Generals Beauregari and
Joseph E. Johnston. Such scheme as
this would remove many Of the obiec
tons heretofore made to the bill. The
South a secure this road at this session
if her representatives in congress shall
be faithful to her interests. To secure
this result, the Southern people should
Immediately signify their wishes to their
members in congress, and demand an
equal participation in the benefits Of the
government.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11

NEw York, February 1.-THE FIRE in
the Times building originated in Pen
fields cigar store, probably from a light
ed cigar. There were twenty tenants in
the building. Total loss not far from
100000; insurance, 1926, 900. The
Times is issued to-day from the Office Of
the Sunday Budget.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11

New York, February Ito wing to
Jealousy, Thomas, alias Buck Taylor,
last evening fatally stabbed Maggie
Rogers, Of 59l Greenwich street, aud
severely wounded William Downer and
Edwsrd Watson,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11
Inafcattona.

WASHINGTON. February ll.-For Ten.
nsssee aud Ohio valley and lower lake
region, clear or partly cloudy weather,
colder northwesterly winds, rising bar
ometer followed in western districts by
falling barometer and warmer, southerly
winds.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11

IHE treasury officials are using their
official opportunities for prejudicing the
silver and tariff bills by reporting an
enormous falling of in the revenues Of
the government. Statements of this
kind are easily doctored to suit the times.
The alleged decrease in receipts is of
course attributed by them to the i%ncreas
ing chances that the silver bill will be
passed.