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What is the Remedy2
From the New York Tribune

From the New York Tribune,
The shooting of o postmaster, because he
did not allow the mails to be rifed in the in.
terests of Democracy and reform, occurred
cutie naturally in South Carolina, the state
which pleases to be represented in the SEN
ate by Massacre Butler and by Fun-at-the-
Fair Hampton. Mr.. Butler is the person
whose sole claim to the suffages of his
fellow.citizens was that he had been more
responsible than anybody else for the infam-
GUS massacre of colored people at Hamburg.
Mr.. Hampton is the person who made the
most solemn pledges that, if left UNI estrain-
ed by the presence of United States troops,
he would take care that all the laws
should be faithfully enforced, and all the
rights of all citizens faithfully respected
and defended. That he has never made any
attempt whatever to keep his pledges the
whole world knows. Their chief fruit was
the gigantic fraud perpetrated by Harp
toms friends and party through the system
attic use of tissue.ballots. A state that is SO
represented in the senate can hardly be ex.
pected to find local officials who enforce
the laws with especial fidelity. Nor can it
be expected that public opinion in such q
state will lean rather to the defenders of
Justice and law than to the murderers of
helpless colored people and the suffers of
ballot-boxes. A tree is known by its fruit,
and the latest fruit of South Carolina bar
barism is the presence of Hampton and
Butler in the senate.
The friends of Butler, the hero of the
massacre, had been doing as they pleased
at the postofice in Blackville. They had
robbed the mails openly, and without re.
sistance, in order to deprive Republicans OF
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letters and papers to which they were emit.
tied, and the postmistress, being of A.
Hampton Butler persuasion in politics diS
nothing to protect the mails intrusted To
Fer charge. Properly she was removed
aud ought never to have been appointed
Frederick Nix, colored Republican, whose
letters show that he is man of intelligence
and hdellty, was appointed, and the massacre
loving Democrats found that they could mo
longer tamper with the mails. Tbere.
upon they first threatened and finally shot
him, and but for the bad aim of the
ass ASSN Mr.. Nix would now be as heInless
as Judge Chisholm, his daughter and his
boy, or Dixon, the murdered Candidate for
sherltt in Yazoo county. This. in brief is
the history of the case. Senator RntIer
whose sympathy with the assassins Is
natural, manifests his feelings bv q Ietter
III "hlcn ne sets up the usual Democratic
pea. NIX, ne says, was very bad man.
dangerous, turbulent and incompetent
Inc facts prove that Mr.. Buffers assertion
mas not word of truth in it, but it does not
appear that being convicted of falsebooJ
does any harm to his reputation. No donbt
now that the shooting is over, he will ~
serve that it was ''deplorable event - hnt
insist that it was entirely due tn the foot
that Nix was bad man, All the RonrhI;-
cans who get In the way of Democratic as,
sasslns are very bad men, we notice.
what is the government to dop r. IL
physically impossible to put about every
postmaster or other official in the soutb q
suhc1ent military force to protect him ia
the performance of his duties. Yet what Is
a government worth that does not MAKE
any effort to defend it's officers in tho dis.
charge of their trusts?
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So you can buy as much now with 49, as you
could with $2s in 1865. You can take your $14,
that it is harder to pay one dollar now than
three in 1865.
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Republican State Ticket.

For GOVERNOR
WILLIAM E. SMITH,
Of Milwaukee.
For LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
JAMES M. BINGHAM,
Of Chippewa.
For SECRETARY OF STATE
HANS B. WARNER,
Of Pierce.
For STATE TREASURER
RICHARD GUENTHER.
Of Winnebago.
For ATTORNEY GENERAL,-
ALEXANDER WILSON,
Of Iowa.
For STATE SUPERINTENDENT
WILLIAM G. WHITFORD.
Of Rock
Election, Tuesday, November 4th, 1879,
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when the price of a days labor. skilled or I'M
skilled, would buy as much of the necessaries
OF life as to-day. 1t is claimed that S2S per
capita In 1868, and that we have only Sl4 now
But ,sH now will buy more of the common
articles used by common people than in 1865
Let us see what $2S would buy then and what
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Total. $685. e12, 521 $67s, 126, 900
The compound interest notes are pr acticaly acsth
drGa0n from circulation, reducing the volume of
our currency by nearly $20o,OOO,0oO But, in
nearly as follows:
Government legal tenders .......... 1888 812 ,521
National Bank notes ................. 203, S77,355
State Bank notes about ............. 60,000,000
Total currency. $780,, 6s9, s76
HENRY CARY BAIRD.
Mr.. Greeley was a " contractiOnist !" In the
articles from which these extracts are taken he
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was arguing there was an injurious initiation,
and he demanded contraction But he did not
out his imitation case. Now we will take man
from the other side-a man who wanted infia-
tion-Henry Cary Bard. Neither did he think
of treating the temporary loans to any great ex-
tent as currency
Writing to Sec. McCulloch, in February, 1866,
he says:
"The interest bearing legal tenders may some
what have increased, but, having been steadily
Withdrawn from circulation as they grow in
value, the increase cannot have been very great.
Further than this the high price of gold having
Withdrawn from it all the private boards Of the
only now commenced, but had made such prog
ress as to constitute an important element in
the estimate here, for the close of the year, to
be made OF the paper, money! then outstand-
ing. Allowing for all these circumstances, the
highest estimate of the circulation that could
now be made would scarcely, as / think, exceed
$3.50, 900, OO0."
or of the estimates made by either contraction
lists or int1atonists at the time, limited at such
thing as $20OO,OOO,OOO of currency in 1865. 1t re-
| NAMED for certain modern refOrmers to raise
this howl about contraction 10 years after these
loans were paid or funded. The thing is illog-
ical and absurd to the verge of idiocy, and I'M
worthy lodgment in any sane and honest
mind. To have refused to pay or fund these
things would have been bald Reputation. To
have issued an equivalent amount of greenbacks
to su bstitute for them would have been to in
yite depreciation and would have been only in
direct Reputation. No such thing was pro-
posed at the time, and it would have had no
friends if it had been proposed. No one thought
of any other course than to pay or fund the
floating debt just as the law crowded should be
done. Modern greenbackers had not yetarisen.
DID CONTRACTION CAUSE THE PANIC OF 1878.
If we have to rely on the funding of temper
airy loans to make out contraction it will be
hard to make it appear that contraction caused
the panic of 1878. For these loans were all
issued before the end of 1865; none of them had
more than three years to run, so they all
matured and were paid or funded before the
end of 1868. The panic did not come till near
the end of 1878, or five years after the con-
traction was completed: Now, if this was the
contraction and it caused shrinkage of values,
and the shrinkage caused the panic, why didn't
the values shrink and the panic come at the
time of the contraction On the contrary, we
are told that these very years, '66, '67 and 6S,
were among the most prosperous years we ever
had. According to their own arguments during
the very three years that two thirds of the
currency was stolen from the people, the people
had great prosperity.
THE PAPER CURRENCY FROM 1868 TO 1873
was as follows:
1000 H-oo a1o co,
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LEGAL.
R. ssOll
ChancerY Sale Of Real Estate


In the Chanoery Court Of Shelby county,
Iennessee-W. B. Williamson vs.. A. II.
DY virtue Ofan ln~terlocutory decree for sale
ID entered in the above cause on the Sd
day Of July 1873, M. B. 3, page 36, | will
sell at public auction TO the highest bidder,
in front Of the Clerk and Masters Office,
courthouse Of Shelby county, Memphis,
Tennessee,
ON Saturday. December o, 1879,
within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in Shelby county, Tenn,
to-wit:
Two certain parcels, or tracts OF land, situ-
ated and being in the Seventh Civil District.
Tract Mol beginning at n stake the northwest
corner of Dock Carter's home tract; thence
west 10 poles to q stake near a white oak;
thoace south % poles and 20 links 10 the mid
ale OF Fletcher creek, under the east side Of a
bridge; thence in an easterly dire ction with
me channel Of said creek to a take. aid
DOCK Oarter's southwest corners of 3. "a hom0
tract; thence north with his west boundary
llne ~ poles 70 the beginning, containing by
estlmation, "a acres. Also tract No. >, being
the west corner OF s. A. Munson's, all on the
north side ofFletcher creek, beginning in S.
a Munson.s west line, in the center Of the
main bed OF said creek with sweet-rum point
ers' thence west 10 chains 10 the northwest
corner OF said Munson's tract, with maple
pointers; thence east 3 chains to a stake, with
sWeet-gum and white oak pointers, the north
east corner Of tho part north Of said creek;
thence south 8 chains TO a stake; thence east
to the center Of Fletcher's creek; thence down
said creek to the beginning; containing nine
Wlacres, more or less.
Terms Of sale-Un a credit of six months,
purchaser to execute note with good security,
Lien retained; redemption barred.
This November, 1879.
X j. BLACK, Clerk and Master.
Q. r. BARTHAu, Solicitor. bot
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
District of West Tennessee,
nfrouft Count for uoid dsst~tok

Circuit Court for said district.
In equity, No. 2l6-Luke p. Blackburn vs..
The Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad
Go. aud al.
DY virture Of the final decree of the Circuit
ID Court Of the United States, for the West
ern District Of Tennessee, made in the above
entitled cause, on the Sd day of June, AID,
1879, the undersigned clerk Of the said court,
duly authorized and appointed by the said
decree, will sell at public sale, at the court
house in Memphis, county of Shelby and
State Of Tennessee, on Monday, the I'D day
OF March, AID. 1890, between the hours of u
m. and 2 pm, of said day, to the highest
bidder, all the following described property
tO-Wit; All the Selma, Marion and Memphis
railroad, lying between the city of Memphis,
ia the State Of Tennessee, and the city of
Selma, in the State of Alabama, constructed
or 10 be constructed, together with all and
singular the railways, rails, bridges, fences,
warehouses, engines, cars, fixtures, privileges,
rights, real estate of every and all descrip-
ton, and al other property owned or which
since the 18th day Of March. 1871, the date
Of the mortgage mentioned in the bill
in this cause has been acquired by said
company by subscription, donation or
purchase and including 81 bonds Of
$1,000 each, issued BY the city Of Aberdeen, in
the State Of Mississippi, now in the hands of
the receiver in this cause. The said line OF
railroad with its equipment and appurten-
ances, being an entirety, will be sold alto
gether, with the benefit Of the franchises
owned AND possessed by said company, The
sale will be made on the following terms, to-
wit: One thousand dollars Of tho purchase
money of said railroad, with its appurto-
nances, equipment and rolling stock, shall be
paid in cash at the time of the sale, and the
remainder shall be paid in six months after
the date Of sale, the purchaser giving his note
with approved security, payable to Complain
ant, and a lien reserved on the property. The
said bonds and other property will be sold
for cash TO be paid down at the time Of the
sale. BELL W. ETHERIDGE,
Dec. 10, 1879. Clerk and commissioner.
ESTES x ELLETT, soils.
q rrr 10
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lioaa leaders have failed 10 comply
With their promise 10 give all the club
Offices. in the language OF ono Of its
officers. h-ll viii soon be 10 play in
the ranks
Captain Joseph H. De Haven, an
old United states retired navy officer,
aud lately a citizen Of Chicago, died a
few days ago in Geneva, Switzerland,
in his 5ith year, he was born in
Pennsylvania but was raised in Mis-.
sour. During the late rebellion he
served the Union. Those who knew
him best spoke Of him in the highest
terms ofpraise
Miss Annie Pixley is astonishing
the patrons Of McVicker's theatre in
"M'hss' Her talent is ola very high
order. Adelaine Nelson viii succeed
her next week as Juliet"
NAYR,
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ARKANSAS.
NAYR,

1t is predicted that there will be
10000 people at Eureka Springs by
this time next year.
The following counties are without
a newspaper; Calhoun, Chieot. Crit
tenden, Dallas, Grant, Union, Lafay-
cite, Lincoln, Little River, Montgom-
cry, Newton, Pike, PoinSett, Polk,
Searcy, Sewer, Stone and Van Buren,,
Many of these eighteen counties con-
tain a large, intelligent and thrifty
population,
Little Rock Gazette; We have au-
thority from official sources for saying
that if in addition to aid promised by
Pine Biaff, the citizens of Little Rock
will subscribe to $4,000 worth Of
stock in the Little Rock, Mississippi
River and Texas railway company, the
road which is now completed from
Annapolis on the Mississippi river to
Pine Bluff will be extended to Little
Rock, and hat Immediately on the
subscription of this amount of stock,
contracts will be made for the build
ing of the proposed extension, and the
work prosecuted with all possible dis
patch.
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Trustees sale.


FINDER and by virtue of a certain deed Of
y trust executed by @. ". Edmonds and W.
I. EdmOnds on the Sd day Of August, 1873, and
duly recorded in the office Of the register Of
shelby county, Tennessee, in record book
no. 10, page 400, reference being here made
thereto, l will, at the request of the benOici-
airy therein, for the purpose of paying the
Indebtedness thereby secured, on
Friday, December 70, 1870,
between tho hours of 10 O'Clock am. and Q
o'clock pm, on the southwest corner OF
Main. and Madison streets, in the Taxing
District, late city Of Memphis, Shelby county,
Tennessee, offer for sale to the highest bidder
for cash, the following described real estate,
to-wit: All the right, title. claim ana interest
Of said 9. W. EdmOnds and w. 7. Bdmonds,
being the undivided sne-half thereof of the
following described lot of ground in the said
Taxing District, late the city Of Memphis,
Tennesseei being part of lot 373, as laid down
on the south side Of Adams street So feet 9
inches from the east side Of the alley which
runs between Second and Third streets; thence
running s0uthwardly aAd parallel with said
alley 1857 feet TO Cars alley; thence east
Wardly 40 feet; thence nOrthwardly parallel
with the first line 1881 TO Adams street;
thence ~westwardly 40 feet to the beginning,
heing the same lot conveyed to A. n. Ed
monds by John r. Watkins by decd recorded
in book lN, page26O, of the records Of Shelby
county, Tenn.
The right of redemption is especially waived
10 said trust deed and the sale will be made
discharged thereof. The title to said proper
ty is believed to be good but l will sell and
r. A. PARKER, Trustee.
TAYLOR u Carroll, Attorneys. 81 101
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Attachment Notice.

Before Thomas Fleming, J. P. for Shelby
IN this cause an attachment having been
i sued out under section 1855 Of the Code OF
Tennessee, and returned, "leyied upon the
property Of the defendant" and afAdavit hav-
ing been made that defendant is indebted
to the plaintiff in the sum of $50, due
by account, and that the claim is just,
and that the defendant is q nonresident
Of the State of Tennessee; it is therefore or
dered that said defendant make his personal
appearance before me on the Oath day of De-
cember, 1879, at my office, No. SO Madison
street, Memphis, Tenn, and defend said
law, or the same will be proceeded with OK.
parte; and that a copy Of this order be pub
liished once a week for four weeks In the Pub
lie Ledger.
This the 22d day Of November, 1879.
u Is 81 so TH0S. FLEMING, j. P.
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Tuesday, january Is, 1850,

sell for cash to the highest bidder, the follow
Ing described property, to-Wit: One tract oP
land lying and being In the county of Shelby
and the state of Tennessee and in the Thir-
teenth civil district of said county, and more
particularly described as being ia section III
one, range () eight of the eleventh surveyors
district, beginning at a stake on the west
boundary line Of Grant, No. 1854, the south
eastern corner Of D. II. Townsend's GAG acre
tract; thence north with the west lima of
said Grant 1854, forty-two t42J chains q
links to the center of Nonconnah creek with
elm pointer mark Sd" on the south bank Of
said creek; thence up said creek with the
center thereof north $40 So east 6 chains S.
links, south 3d. cast q chains IS links, south
6Q' east I chains Is links, south 43o east 3
chains 3 links, south A. 3V Westl chain, south
SS' west 3 chains Is Inks, south s. east 4
chains 70 links, south 14o 30 west | chain AZ
links, south 81 30 west1 chain u links, south
So ,west 2 chains 5 links, south 81 west 8
2. east one chain IS links, south 425 east 3
chains IS links south 30 east 2 chains 0 links.
south S' 20 east 3 chains 81 links TO a stake
in the center of said creek with black
gum pointer on the south bank Of said creek,
7 links west of line, marked ''T," one black
gum ~ links east Of line, marked "M;p
thence south As wost "a chains rs links TO n
small black runs; thence west 3 chains rs
INKS 70 the beginning, containing 100 acres,
being the same conveyed by Peter Mitchell To
y: IL lQWnsonu on tho 10Th day OF January.
1870, and duly recorded in the registers ofBce
of Shelby county, Tennessee, in book N. n.
49,. Also or undivided one-fourth interest
Of the lot Of ground situated on the southeast
corner of Main andBeal streets, in the city of
Memphis, known as the McMannus property,
and beginning for the boundaries of said en-
tire lot, at tho southeast corner of Main and
Beal streets; thence south So feet front on
Main street to Townsend's line; thence eHst
with said line lIa feet to Mulberry street.
thence n%orthwardly with the west line Oh
Mulberry street l16 feet to BeaI street; thence
westwardly with south line Of Beal street, lis
feet to the b~eginning;and ], CT. Patterson by
virtue Of a deed Of trust executed by Ben
May, conveying to me the same lands herein
before stated described as conveyed to Geo.
W. Winchester, trustee, by D. II. Townsend
land which the said May purchased at the
sale OF the assignee In bankruptcy Of the
said ID. II. Townsend, to secure certain
indebtedness, mentioned in said conveyance.
which is recorded in the Registers Office Of
Shelby county, Tenn, in book No, l12, page
2A, will join with the said T.. p. Winchester.
trustee, in making sale Of the lands herein.
before described. The title to said property
is believed to be good, but we sell and convey
only as trustees. Equity of redemption is
waived in both deeds of trust. IeFms Of sale
cash. TIP. WINCHESTER,
CT, PATTERSON,
80 llb Vrugtoec
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Attachment Notice.

Before J. NJ. Coleman, j. P. for Shelby coun-
", Tenn.-EudOra kimbrough VS.. Est. Of
S. McCarty.
IN this cause an attachment having been
l. sued out under section 3455 of the Code OF
Tennessee, and returned IS levied upon the
property Of the defendant by garnishment on
Il. M. White 4 Co., who answer they owe
defendant s5 81, and affidavit having
been made that the defendant is indebted
to the plaintiff in the sum of SIS, due by
account, and that the claim is just, ana
that the defendants are non-residents of the
State Of Tennessee; il is therefore ordered that
said defendant make his personal appear
ance before me on the ID day of January, 1880,
az IL o'clock, IN. q. my office, No. "a Front
street, Memphis. Tennessee, and defend said
attachment suit within the time prescribed
by Law, or the same will be proceeded with
ex-parte; and that a copy Of this order be
published once a week for four weeks in the
Public Ledger.
This the 18th day Of November, 1879.
1881 SIS
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No. S2ST, r.
RsOiNoHt HOtIcs.

In the Chaneory Court Of Shelby eounty--A.
ID. 0wynn, Administrator Of the estate OF
81. D. Mnngum, deceased VS.. u. N. Estes,
TT appearing from tho bill in this cause that
h fe A proceeding instituted to wind up and
settle the ohate Of 5. D. Mangum, deceased,
as an inholyept estatei III therefore ordered
tbata ali pnrties claiming 10 be creditors Of said
estato mako thar Hppeafanpe heleln al the
CONF hois6 ofShclby county, In Memphis, on
Br boforo tho first Monday in February, 1880,
and have Themselves made parties 70 this
cauee, and hlo and ostabllsh their elaine, OF
he tamo win be forever barred: and thnt q
fol te1' sitsesSfk0 weeks In tie Public Ledger.
This November 9TH l5I9.
r. j. BLACK, Clerk and Master.
Bv z. B. McHEyRY, DC. and NJ.
I'M. Gregory, Solicitors for complainant.
IS 50 1851 N IS 90 l6 Ill ll6
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EDUCATIONAL
Miss Hig6GGs School
354 POPLAR STREET.


TNHE Sisters Of fist. Mary having discontinued
i their school In Memphis, | have leased
their large and commodious school building,
and will opcn therein my school for girls on
MONDAY, NOVEMBER IL, 1879.
The retired situation and refined surround
ings make the location a desirable one for ed
ucational purposes, while its accessibility by
the street railway and boulevard overcome In
a measure the obstacle Of distance from val
ued patrons. The rooms arc large, light,
well-Ventilated and perfectly appointed, be-
ing. refurnished throughout with new decks,
maps and school apparatus, and for adapta-
bility to their purpose are not to be purpassed
in tho city.
During the fifteen years Of my work in Mem
phis | have been enabled by yearly visits 10
other cities to keep up with tho progress of
educational science, and, assisted by trained
teachers, | am prepared to offer to tho people
Of Memphis as liberal a copTse for their
daughtnrs as can DO obtaIped in any high
school in the United 8tat6s.
The cpuf2e OF studyw will BE the same, with
some notifications, rs that degised by me for
use In the Presbyterian School.
A elass Of boys under eight years Of age will
be received in the primary department,
Misunderstanding TO ago pri class, s7
so, $50, $3.50 for tho school year (thirty Weoksl
payable in advance IN three equal payments.
No extra vnarge for Latin or drawing, FdI
circulars, With course Of sddy, etc., addres,
N' MISS JENNIE NJ. HIQBER,
AHf ISL Poplar nrroet, Memphis.