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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-10
THE HOUSE ON THE HILL.
Old Man Eash's Residence and
His Immense Family.
Nashville Ranner.l

Nashville Banner.l
Thesother day as a train approached
this city, a one-legged Michigander,
with eyes open for Southern novelties,
moved his tawny beard close up
against the window pane, and gazed
from afar upon the outlines Of Ten
nessee's magnificent Capital building.
As the train pulled into the city and
was turning the curve, atull broadside
view was presented, and the remarks
Of admiration INDUCED in by the i'm
migrant attracted the attention of half
the passengers in the car. AT last,
curiosity got the better of him, so he
turned and inquired of a ~neiehbor:
Whose house is it anyhow"
Oh" was the reply, that belongs
to Nash. Did you ever hear OF
Nash?"
The stranger frankly acknowledged
his ignorance of the suppostious
Rsmesake Of the city, and then much
to the amusement of listeners, the wit
proceeded to gull the unsuspecting
traveller by answers to many perplex-
ing questions
Yes, it belongs to Nash, of course
it is a big one, but he has a big family.
| reckon they are scattered all over
the State in almost every county. No,
he don't need such a house, generally,
but he has a reunion every year or
two, and then about a hundred mem
bers of the family assemble and have a
boss time, all at the expense of the
owner of the building. Generous old
fellow he is, but he is worth many
millions"
With increasing EXPLANATIONS OF
wonder and interest, the Michigander
took in the story. He lett the train at
the depot, after thanking his informer,
and moved on up Church street at a
ten mile gait, intent on seeing Nash's
house. Nor did he stop until he
climbed the hill. Then with carefully
guarded grip-sack in hand he wan
dered over the grounds, gazed long
and admiringly atthe equestrian statue
of General Jackson, and Indignantly
at the half nude statuary on the es
planades. He afteFgsrd sauntered in
to the corridors and fading that non,
questioned his right to be there h,
summoned up courage, walked int
the room Of the Bureau of Agricul
ture and asked: rs the proprietor o
the building in, or are you him2'
Receiving a negative answer he ex
pressed a desire to get up on top fthI
"du.ned thing Permission and di
%rection were given and he took his de
Parture to climb to the dome-is gril
, sack still we'll in hand. Whether h
succeeded in climbing the windin.
stair is not known, but as the corps
has not been found it is probable tina
: he safely made the trip, and left tn
; city an ardent admirer Of the muni6
: cence of THAT nan Nash"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-10
hob, THE PAGAN.
Colonel IngcrsOlI Omciates At
the Funeral OF His Friends
Child.

Special COurier-JOurnal
WASHINGTON, January 8.-Colonel
Robert &. Ingersoll to-day, for the
third time in his life, oficiated at a
funeral. He oficiated at his fathers
funeral in Illinois and at the funeral
Of his brother, in this city, two or
three years ago. Detective Miller, Of
the Metropolitan Washington police
force, has long been a strong adherent
and admirer Of the versatile Colonel;
he knew no religion save that Of In.
gersoll. To day a boy of Miller's was
to be buried, and he requested Inger-
soil to conduct the funeral services.
To this Ingersoll consented. There
was no service at che house nor at the
church; all there was of a funeral
rite wa the delivery at the grave of a
beautiful and short address by Colonel
Ingersoll, the pagan.
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THE sONa OF THE RELLs.
sherman's Sleigh-BelIs Do Net
Sound Cheerful TO His
Friends.
Special to the Courier Journal

Special to the Courier-JournaI.l
WASHINGTON, January 6.-Through
the testimony taken before the COM
mittee investigating the Treasury CON-
tlngent expenses, was a thread of
testimony damnatory to John Sherman
and the Treasury Ring in the broadcast
terms. The facts to that effect are
being daily dedueed, aud everything
corroborates what has been printed on
this subject. There is one point in the
investigation upon which the commit.
tee needs enlightenment. 1t is in
regard to a sleigh purchased last win
ter. Washington was then visited by
a snow of long duration; it hung on
for two months, and there was good
sleighiDg all the time. John Sherman
is fond Of ~sleighing; it suits his tenn.
permanent. Upon his order a gay and
dashing enter, with bells and buffalo
robes, was purchased from the contin-
gent fund; there was no warrant in
law for such a purchase; it was a lux
ury %unprovided for by statute; it came
high, but Sherman had to have it.
Every afternoon while the snow lasted
Sherman or members of his family
enjoyed the delights of the sleigh.
When he gotthrough with it "Pincky"
or Assistant Secretary Upton" took
it. 1t was also noticed that every
merning, just before Office hours at the
Treasury Department, the sleigh drew
up before the house OF a female en-
ploye of the department, who resided
on Twelfth street, and toek her to her
duties.
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FIrz JOHN PORTER
The President TO Refer the Mat
ter TO Congress for Final
settlement.

Special to Courisr-Journal.l
WASHINGTON, January 6.-Presi-
dent Arthur will refer the Fitz John
Porter matter to Congress without,
it is understood, any recommendation,
except that the matter deserves their
attention. He will send in the Grant,
Porter and Terry letters. General
Drum, Adjutant General of the army,
to day said, in reading General Fiiz
John Porter's letter to President Ar
thur, the impression is given that no
legislation is necessary to restore him
to the army. Such is not the case.
however. If General Porter is re
stored to the army. it will have to be
in accordance with an act of Congress.
he says: Aud l now respectfully
and urgently represent that the sen.
tence is a continuous sentence, and so
long as it exists is within the reach
and under the control of the executive
power" 1t is a wrong view of the
case to aver that part Of the sentence
Is continuous, which forever disquali-
fes General Porter from holding any
Office oftrust or profit under the gov
eminent of the Uni,ed States; his
c~ashiering and consequent dismissal
from the army is final, and nothing
but legislative action can restore him
to the army.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-10

proportion to amount. But the plain.
tiff took his stand on the law, or what
he conceived to be such, and stoutly
maintained that all expenditures Of
that sort ought to be betrayed out of
the estate. He had been left s10O,
not 500 IS. and on principle he
claimed the full sum. The JUDGE con-
sidered the point thus raised so impor-
tant that he postponed Judgment in
order to have time to consult high legal
authorities. The trait thusillustrated
isnot meanness. but readiness to 90 to
trouble and expense to maintain per-
sonal rights. This instance of it may
be wrong. but the general principle is
sound. While the English legatee is
trying to collect his Eve shillings sew
eral hundred thousand citizens Of
New York arejumping skids and dodg-
and stalls on their own side
walks without a protest.
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very strengholds Of the frost king ia,
the Northwest, where before Christ
mas OF the previous year the polar
cold Of 50 below zero occurred. It is
by no means too late to hope for a very
good ice crop, and, judging from like
seasonal anomalies in former years, we
may expect the worst of the winter in
February and early March. Should
this be the case and the seyerest cold
visit the country before the fruit trees
bud last years scarcity Of fruit will
not be repeated. We have reason,
also, to rejoice that the grain crops
are not now threatened by the terrible
and protracted winter Of 1881, and to
anticipate something better next sum
than only two-thirds Of the
average WELD
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Clerical Pedigrees.
rcial to Cincinnati Commercial

Special to Cincinnati Commercially
WASHINGTON, January SIN COM
p~liance with a resolution of the SEN
ate, passed May 10 of last year, the
Secretary of the Interior hes prepared
a list showing the names Of all officers,
clerks and other employees borne on
the rolls Of the Department, and
showing also the State and Con-
gressional District to which each is
charged, sex and color Of employees,
and who among them served in the
regular or volunteer service during
the rebellion. There are on the rolls
Of the Department 1851 employees, of
whom 1343 are male, 348 female, l13
colored, and of the total only 443
served in the army during the var.
The following is the list by States:
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THE BONE,
Malone I'm Command Ofthe Fed
eraI Crumbs, Much to the
Disgust OF DeZendOrf.
Special to the ourier-JournaI.I

Special to the Courier-Journal.J
WASHINGTON, January s. -There is
somewhat of an irrepressible conflict
between Malone and Dezendorf, a
member of Congress from Virginia.
When the campaign was on in Vir-
GINA, %Jorgensen, the other Republican
member from that State, end the fore
sight to see that Malone would win,
and at the last moment ceased to be
a straight out Republican and
joined his forces and influence
to Malone. That saved him; but De-
zendorf had not the foresight. He
chung to his straight out Republican
principles and opposed Malone. The
result is now apparent. Jorgensen is
allowed to keep his strikers in place
in his district, but Dezendorfis shorn
Of all his patronage. Malone has in
vaded his district, and, in the matter
of postmasters and such like, had all
the Dezendorf men put out and Ma
hone howlers put in. De-
zendorf yesterday, for the first
time, fully realized the situation; he
visited the Postofice Department and
the Treasury and talked a sky blue
section of language; he demanded the
revocation of the Malone appoint
ments in his district, and inveighed
against the people who had allowed
him to be wholly relieved from all
patronage. He threatened revenge
most dire, but for all his protest Ma
hone will continue to wipe up the
floor with the straight out Republican
D~ezendorf, in the matter Of Federal
patronage. Malone has got all of the
inside track to himself in the matter
Of Federal appointments in Virginia.
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A NEGRO.
Curious History of u Celestial
Wayiarer in Denver.

Denver News.l
A reporter ofthe News, who CHANGED
to be at the Union depot, yesterday
when the train from Cheyenne arrived,
had opportunity for observing a speci-
men Of humanity, very rare, which was
nothing less than a Chinese negro
black and woJlly- haired, but dressed
in the garb of the Chinese lower classes,
wearing the shirt-like coat, baggy
trousers, and box-shoes ofthe inhabi-
tants of the celestial kingdom. The
man, for such in sex the person was,
at once attracted considerable atten-
ton from those standing about the
depot. He was with a party Of half a
dozen new arrivals from the Orient,
and was jabbering away with the
others in what seemed to be pure
Chinese chatter. He was found to be
entirely unable to speak English, but
said in Spanish that he understood
something Of that language. The ma.
jority OF the bystanders considered
this portion of his talk as merely a
continuation of his Chinese talk, but
one man in the crowd heard the re-
mark and understood it. AS his
knowledge OF the Spanish was but
little better than that of the Africo-
Monaghan, but little could be made
Of the narrative.
Enough was, however, under stood
to know that the man was about forty
years oil age, and that he had been
born in Spain. When ten years of age
he went to sea as the servant OF an
officer on a privateer. In those days
the Chinese waters were not pleasant
quarters for an outside craft, and pi-
rates even took great risks in invading
the Chinese seas. This particular
vessel ventured in, however, and bold
~ entered the strait of Formosa. The
result was that she got into unknown
waters, and a storm coming up she
was wrecked. The people living along
the shores promptly took possession
Of all yaluables, and of the sailors
themselves, who we're not liberated
for some eighteen months. The off
Ger of the vessel continued to make a
servant of his colored boy after his
captivity. The Chinese observed that
be was a slave and a very intelligent
one, and consequently when the sail
ors were liberated they refused to per-
NIT the colored boy to go. Hence,
he continued ia China the slave OF
me Of the leading men of the town
whore he landed. There he remained
for some twenty-seven years, serving
his master, as he could not get away.
He gradually became habituated to
Chinese life, learned the Chinese Lam
guage, and, per force, adopted Chinese
customs and costumes, and was not
anxious to make a change.
A year ago he came to San Fran
cisco with his master. He had been
in America, but three months when he
made the discovery that there were no
slaves here, and he determined no
longer to serve another. For the past
nine months he has been a free man,
but has continued to live with the
Chinese, because he understands and
is used to their mode of life. He
came to Colorado with a party Of them
and goes with them to work in the
mines neal Como. The fellow appears
to be a man Of natural intelligence
He is as black as coal and thoroughly
African in appearance. His Spanish
name is Montoya and his Chinese cog
nomen Ong Fupe Yu.
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NOW to Break Up Mormondem

Washington Special
Delegate Maginuis, of Montana,
proposes an excellent way to put a
stop to the political power of Utah
pOlygamy, and to place polygamous
Mormons under proper control of the
law. His proposition is to let Congress
divide the Territory of Utah, incor-
pOrating the western part with the
State of Nevada, the southeastern part
with the State ofColorado, and a small
northern part with Idaho and Wyo-
ming, Congress has abundant power
to do this, and he thinks that when it
is done, Mormon power will be broken.
A part Of the Mormon population will
then be citizens of Nevada, and will be
there only a minority Of the whole
State, and a part will become citizens
Of Colorado, in a minority there. The
small remainder will form part Of
Wyoming or Idaho. The main portion
OF the Mormon population would thus
become citizens of States which have
already established constitutions and
laws, to which, Of course, MormoHs
would become amenable. Mr.. Magin-
mis- remarks that such a division of
Utah and distribution Of its parts
would not only be perfectly legal and
proper, but would have the advantage
that the new boundaries would be
! natural instead of artificial. The
| Wasatch range, which now runs
through the center Of Utah, would
then form the boundary line between
the States Of Colorado and Nevada.
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MolIday, Japuary 3. Iss2.
Attachment Notice.

No, 7U72-Before ] s Galloway, j. P. for.
Shelby county, Tenn,-W II Order, admir-,
VS.. Mrs. A 0 McCrary.
N this u an attachment having been
4 sued out under section 1855 of the Code %
Tennessee, and returned levied GpOn the
property. Of the defendant, and affidavit
having been MADE that defendant is in
debted to the plaintiff in the sum Of 500, due
BY account, and that the. claim ia Just.
and that the defendant hasi fraudulently re-
moved from the State Of Arkansas IL snakes
or bags of seed cotton, upon which the sai q
Order as sid administrator has a lien u
landlord, and that the said A 0 McCrary rs s
nonresident of the State of Tennessee and
resides in theState Of Arkansas; it is the reforo
ordered that said defendantmake her p ersonaI
appearance before me on the 18th dayo fJanua-
~, 1882, at u o'clock m, at my oHic Q, No. 81
Madison street, Memphis, Tenn, Vnd defend
said attachment suit within the time pre-.
scribed by law, or the Same will he proceeded
with ex.parte; and that q copy Of this ordof
be published once a week for four consecu-
tive weeks IN the Public Ledger.
This the 10Th day of December, 1881.
GALLOWAY, j. P.
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PUBLIC LEDGER.
Tue.day RVenfnEf Jan. 10, lssl.
nnnnlIEOInsuREs.

We have been asked to furnish the
nroof that the bill enjoiningthe execu,
tion of the State debt act was nlec
nv a speculative ring. We SO asserted
AZ the time, positively, and the public
Accented ii. because the American
never asserts positively what 1t does
not know positively. We never allow
imnertinence to lead us into premature
CONTROVERSY. Our readers will lind all
the oroofin the testimony published
to-day. 1t was a speculative interest,
ont of which the low tax and 0O;4
leaders have manufactured this patri'
otic impulse Of the people. We have
but one observation to make. The
courts are open to all men, and the
spectators had an unquestionsble
right to file a bill for their own pur-
poses; bat the low tax and the oO-4
fast years bird's.nesters had no right
to represent it as the act of outraged,
oppressed patriots, seeking to MONO
rize" another Runny Mead. We
simply ask Tennesseeans to contem-
plate Savage, Marks, and other patri-
OTIS of that ilk, with all the great IN
terests of Tennessee lodged behind a
short bond speculation.- Nashville
American, 9TH.
AS far as we have read the evidence
taken by the Investigating Committee
at Nashville there is not a word to
Justify the frequently made assertions
that the injunction bill was brought
in the interest of or for a speculative
purpose. 1t has come out that at least
one State credit mar sought to make
money out Of the movement, but not a
word to show that any ofthe petitioners
who asked TOR the injunction had any
interest in the price of bonds, or ex-
peeted to profit personally by their
rise or fall in the market. The gen.
tlemen who brought the suit from
Henry J. Lynn, whose name heads
the list on down TO the last are great
business men, and some Of them very
large taxpayers, who wouldnot go into
the courts to make a speculation
or to aid others in doing so if they
knew it. Such men require no de-
tense, but rather those who. know
ingly and continually imputeto them
dishonorable motives. That specu-
lators on the outside whether claim
ing to be high or low tax men sought
to profit by the injunction and even
schemed to have the suit dismissed to
make money by it, mas nothing to do
with the merits Of the case. There is
no law yet that can reach such specu-
latOrs. Both sides may have been
engaged in it as for hat matter, The
assertion 30 often made that the bill
was filed for a speculative purpose is
not sustained By any evidence that we
have seen. The most Of the signers
live n Memphis, and we challenge
the American or any body else to
show shat a single one of them had a
dollars interest in the question ex-
cept as taxpayers.
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Health is Wealth.

DIR. e. @. WEsr's NERVE AND BRAIN TREAr-
MINT; a specific for Hysteria, Dizziness, Con
v%ulsions, Nervous Headache, Mental Beprea
sion, Loss Of Memory, Spermatorrhea, Impo-
tency, Involuntary Emissions, Premature 0i1
Age, caused BY o~ver-exertiOn, self abuse, or
0ver-indulgence, which leads to misery, decap
and death. One box will cure recent cases.
Each. box contains one months treatment
One dollar q box, or six boxes for Eve dollars,
sent By mail prepaid on receipt Of price. We
guarantee six boxes TO cure any case. WITH
panied with Eve dollars, we will send I hepur@
chaser our written guarantee to return the
money If the treatment does not effect a cure.
Guarantees issued only by A. RENKERT u
co., Wholesale and Retail Druggists, 2l5 Main
street. Memphis, Tenn. Orders By mail will
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-10

New York Tribune.
An Englishman to whom was lately
lefta legacy of 6l00 has exemplifed a
national trait, much to the annoyance
OF his executors. In settlement of his
dues he received e99l5s, the remaining
five shillings having been deducted for
legal expenses. This arrangement.
however, the legatee declined to sane
ton, and as the executors refused to
hand oyerthe missing Eve shillings, the
case came into court. For the defense
il was urged that general custom Of
long standing authorizes executors to
deduct probate duty from legacies in
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MAH0NR's MANY FRIENDS.
The 'Siituents of the Vlrginian
Anxious 20 Get 'Pintments
30 Office.
spscial 70 courisr,Journal.l

Special TO CourisroJOurnal-l
WASHINGTON January 6.-There
was a very remarkable scene on the
floor Of the Senate to-day when that
body adjourned. As soon as the ad-
jOurnment was announced there was a
rush from every outlet door of the
Senate to the seat Ex-senator Malone.
Every one Of the rushers were colored.
They surrounded Malone after the
manner ola swarm of bees. Each one
had a paper, more or less dirty, in his
hand. These papers we're applications
for place in Washington or in the Fed
eral servicein Virginia. Malone had
to receive and talk to each Of the col
ored swarmers. As soon as one half
dozen OF them were through Malone
had TO give his attention to others
who filled up the gaps. For at least
twenty minutes he held this sort of a
levee; by the time it was over the
Senate chamber was deserted by all
Others except the employees and a few
stragglers. Before the Senate met
and after it adjourned Senator Ma,
hone was around at the different de-
partments talking with the Secretary
and the Appointment Clerks about
places for his friends. There GER
tainly are not places enough to "a
around, judging from the exhibit that
was made on the Senate floor to. day.
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N0n-Reai,lenf Mntioe.

No. 4s05 In the Chancery Court of Shelby
county, Tenn.-Carrie @ Hall vs.. John s
Hall.
T. appearing from afidayiti in this cause that
j the defendant, John S Hall. Is a citizen Of
Of Tennessee; 1t is therefore ordered that
he make his appearance herein, at the
courthouse Of Shelby county, in Memphis,
Tennessee. on or before the FIRST Mon
day in February, 1882, and plead, answer
or demur to complainant bill, or the
same will be taken for confessed as to him
and set for hearing ex- parte; and that a copy
Of this order be published once a week. for
four successive weeks, in the Public Ledger.
This 9th day Of January, 1852.
A copy-Attest:
R. j. BLACK, C: & NJ.
Taylor & Carroll, sol'rs for compl't.
Ill III 100 100
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sketch Of a Statesman Orrhe Old


~ashington Postl
twenty-five years ago Clement
Conner Clay, Jr., was a prominent
figure on the Democratic side Of the
Senate. He was first elected to the
Senate in 1853. In 1859 he was
unanimously reelected and resigned
along with other Southern Senators
in December, 1860. He cast his for
tunes with his State, and in tie troub.
lous times that followed secession he
took an active part in politics; was a
member Of the Confederate Senate.
and appointed q diplomatic agent
abroad. He was one ofthe prisoners
confined in the classmates at Fort
Monroe in 1865, and the dampness,
which affected the health of all The
prisoners to a graeter or less degree,
so told upon him that he never fully
recovered, and was only sixty-three al
the time Of his death. BE passed the
latter part Of a ife'that had been So
full Of stirring events on his planta.
ton in Alabama in a quiet way, un.
broken even by the ripple of local pol.
ities. He had great local influence
and was the leading man" Of his sec.
ton, which is a distinctive feature O
all Southern communities. He wal
Of the same stock that produced til,
Mill boy of the Slashes"-Henr,
Clay's father, however. coming from
Hanover county, in Virginia, anC
Clement @. Olay's from Halifax.