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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-12-04
BY TELEGRAPH.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES
LATEST FROM ALL QUARTERS

GNoTE.--Owing to the storms and the
pressure upon the lines, no Eastern re-
port was received in time for the press.
Ref
New ORLEANS, Dec. 3,-The cotton
factors here, to-day, advised their cores
pondents in the country that it would be
unwise to make preparations to plant
cotton with the negro or other kind Of
labor, until the course which Congress
is about to pursue becomes settled, and
its effects can be prognosticated. They
express great depression and hopeless.
ness as to the future Of this country.
CINCINNATI, Dec 3.-Flour, very dull,
80 25; trade brands, $40 75@ll 10;
wheat, dull red offered at 50 10; corn
in light demand SSc for No. l old
shelled in ear soc; oats firm and ad-
vanced to soc for No. old; whskey
steady; cotton frmer middling BE; re-
ceipts 1906 bales since Saturday; hogs
S. rs gross; Sc 1907 net; pork dull,
Sl9@l9 so; green meats dull, 5ac;
shoulders 7gc; sides 73c; hams 9lc;
lard dull, l2lc bacon dull; but little
here; shoulders l3c; clearsides l4c;
groceries dull.
New ORLEANS, December Cotton
steadier, sales 5000 bales, low middling
3O@3lc, middling nominal 33c, receipts
5000 bales; sugar in good demand, fair
9Ic; molasses-inferior 45c, prime cog
Csc; -four quiet at $40 5O@lO IS, extra
81 25@l5 so; corn quiet and dull,
mixed 81 80, white 81 35; oats quiet at
75c; hay s29; pork dull, new s24, old
S26 bacon dull; shoulders l3lc; sides
l53@l6c; lard dull, l34@l33c; whiskey
quiet, 50 POOP 40; tobacco-medium
leaf SOLO, fair slO@l2; gold l42;
bank sterling 533; New York exchange
/ discount; freights unchanged.
LOUISVILLE, December 3.-Sales leaf
tobacco IL hhds, low grades rates un-
changed -four So rs, A No. l $l4 80;
prime red wheat 80 95; corn in bulk SOC,
new in the ear SOC; oats, in bulk, 52c;
hogs Sc % per gross; pork, new $40;
shoulders, green &c, new, tierces, l22c;
sugar-N. o. prime l3zc, hard l39c,
choice l4c; plantation molasses 75c;
cotton SIC; whiskey 50 80.
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How to be an Editor.

An old editor once said to young
man who was about to wed the scissors
and paste:
My young friend, you are about to be-
come, learn, the editor of a newspaper.
Permit an old man to give you this piece
of advice Ifyou desire success in that
capacity you should, in each paper, pub
lish one column for sensible man and
two for fool.
1t has been truthfully remarked, that
an old man had measured well the pub
lie mind. He had calculated the capac-
ity of the lines he had to fll, and he
knew what each one could hold. The
public have not changed much. While
one man reads a moral essay, dozen
will drown his voice with laughter over
an absurdity. A majority Of the people
don't take the papers to learn, they take
them to laugh, They enjoy the mirth
and music of a hearty guffaw they want
something they must have, or they won''
take the paper.
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GERTIFICATES.-I HAVE EXAMINED
~ and carefully tested the new method Of cal
culating interest by Mr.. j. l.. Irby. Of 0ren-
ada, and d. not hesitate TO pronounce it the
shortest and most direct rule that / have ever
seen. It. results are invariably accurate and
true. For business men il has many manifest
advantages over the ordinary methods.
S. W. MOORE, Prin. Bascom Seminary.
/ concur In the above.
ALBERT MOORE, Teacher.
Having carefully tested the same, / heartily
subscribe to the above.
WIN. NJ BURDESHAW.
take pleasure IN certifying that the process
Of computing interest offered the public By Mr..
j. l. Irby Is the most reliable and easiest meth
cd known. J. Is. TOWNSEND.
Former Teller Of D. c. Adams Bank. Grenada.
Mr.J. l.. Hby's method Of computing inter-
est Il correct, and the shortest with which am
ACQUAINTED GEO. p. RICHARDSON,
prin. Male Academy. Grenada.
/ have carefully examined and tested the rule
By which interest is computed BY the rule orig
mated by Mr. J. L. Irby. and pronounce it cor
rect in an its departments. and the shortest
method with which I am acquainted.
d. W. MCCORMACK.
102 Teacher.
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ASSETS, JULY ], 1866.
Loss By Portland Fire, July Al

V,HE total amount covered by the Ktna Poll
I cies on property destroyed or damaged is
500, 1884, on which salvage will be about FIVE
per cent. Our total loss will not vary much
from 900, and was promptly adjusted and
paid. This sum is five per cent. upon the Com
pany's assets. figure but slightly exceeding
our Government and State taxes paid last year.
or proportion equal TO a 81, 900 loss for a COM
pany Of 10000 assets.
The necessity for insurance and the value Of
wealthy, strong corporations il fOrcibly IL
Illustrated by this FIRE. Several weak insurance
companies are destroyed. Portland has a
population Of 35.000-was handsomely bdilt,
mostly fine brick or stone structures-protected
and screened with upward Of 1900 shade trees
bounded on three sides by water-indeed,
literally, almost rising from the ocean, and
with a steam fire department-yet il has &c.,
0OO,O00 of property consumed in a few hours
upon a holiday VIXEN its people are least oecu-
pied-from the very Insignificant cause Of a
contemplate hrecraeker.
Remember the trihing origin Of fires that
sweep away in a few hours the earnings Of
years. Consider your best interest and give the
Ktna Agent a call If you need proper insur-
ance security. Pay fair rate Of premium for
a good and genuine article, and with these
lights and experiences before you. procure
your insurance with shrewd judgment.
| Applications for insurance promptly attended
to BY II. A. LITTLETON a Co., Ag'ts.
| 20 No. rs Front street up stairs.
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THALBERG,S OPINION.

IT consider Chickering & Sons Pianos be-
yond comparison, the best I have seen in
America. s. THALBERG,
Charm Jury on Musical Instruments"
Among the chief points of excellence of the
Chickering Pianas, of which speak the re-
nowned artists in their coneratulatory testimo ..
mails to the Messrs. Chickering, are the greatest
possible depth richness and volume of tone,
combined with rare brilliancy, clearness and
perfect evenness throughout the entire scale
and. above all. n surprising duration OF sound.
the pure and sympathetic quality of which
never changes under the most delicate or pow
erful touch.
During the past forty three years this firm
has manufactured
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1866 FALL 1866
ARRANG EN- f N II ..
Superior Advantages 0fer'd
TO SHIPPERS BY THE
AsNszEE zIE :
MEMPHIS l. CHARLESTON r. r

THE MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON R.
Il r. Co. have perfected arrangements with
steamers on the Mississippi. Arkansas and
White rivers, and with the Virginia and Ten
nessee Air Line Railway to Norfolk, Va, and
with the Great Southern Freight Line via
Charleston and Savannah TO New York for the
transportation OF all classes of freights to and
from Eastern cities. at rates not exceeding
tn 0se charged by any competing line.
The facilities afforded shippers by these ar
rangements are in point OF time ana security
unequaled by any other route.
Through bills Of iading issued from Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York, Boston and the nrin-
cipal cities in the North and East to Memphis,
Grand Junction, Corinth. and stations on the
line of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad,
covering all expenses to destination, like ar
rangements made by the Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad, fol. eastward bound freights.
ARRANGEMENTS particularly relating to pro-
duce shipments have been made with roads TO
Atlanta, Georgia, and the Southeast, securing
to shippers great advantages in rates over other
lines.
Special contracts made on cotton and pro-
duce shipments TO Eastern cities.
Charges advanced. and all claims for loss,
damage or overcharge. promptly settled;
For rates and further information. address
W. J. ROSS, Gen'i Sup't.
L. w. WALLACE, Gent Fr't Ag't.
Memphis, Tenn.
C.E. EVANS, Gent East. Ag't Virginia and
Tenn. Air Line Railway, LIS Broadway, n. Y.
g. j. F0REACRE. Gent Ag't Great South
ern Freight Line. Bowling Green, N. 81
m
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S6r The steamer Scotia, which arrived
at New York on Tuesday morning, made
her voyage across the Atlantic, from
Queenstown, in little more than eight
days. The steamer Pereire, which ar.
rived at New York two weeks ago, made
the voyage from Havre in nine days.
These are among the shortest trans At
lantic voyages on record.
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CCHENCK's MACHINERY DEPOl-,yr
- cob Scheuck. Agent No. 10 Maiden
Lane, n. \. W0odworth's Planning. Ionguing
and Growing Machines. sash and Blind Ma
chinery. Portable and Stationary Steam En-
rines and Boilers, Pages Circular Saw Mills Of
the most approved construction, ufail sizes. and
All kinds q Machinery for workiug wood and
iron Also superior quality q Leather Belt
inr. Rubber Betting, Picking. etc. eodi-s7
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10000 PIANOS,

In the construction Of. which they have intro
duced every known and valuable improvement.
They have invariably been selected and used
by all of the worlds acknowledged great artists
who have visited this country professionally.
both for private and public use.
THALBERG
81 consider Chickering Il Sons Pianos, be-
yond comparison, the best have ever seen in
America"
GOTTSCHALK.
81 consider Chickering & Sons Pianos SUI
perior to any in the world.
"They are unrivaled for their singing quail
tone. There is perfect homogeneity through
out all the registers. The upper notes are re-
markable for a clearness and purity which do
not find in any othe instrument, while the base
is distinguished for power without harshness,
and for a magnifcens sorority"
WEHLI.
"Your Pianos are superior to any / have ever
seen in this country or in Europe.
have never heard tone so perfect II
yields every expression that is needed in music.
and its quality is capable of change to meet
every sentiment. This is a rare power. and is
gether with its sympathetic, elastic and we'll
balanced touch"
POZNANSKI.
During the past eight years have con.
stantly played upon the justly celebrated Erard
rianos; yours are the only instruments that /
have found. either here or in Europe. to equal
them in all their points OF excellence"
Watson's Art Journal of Nov. II. 1855, says:
MADAME Abel performed on the new CHECKER
ing Grand, which took the Gold Medal at the
Fair of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechan-
les Association, held at Boston last month.
" 1t Is the modest Instrument zoe erer heard IN
a concert ROOM"
l. 4..f. A. .,.I
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Our large assortment CT type.fof
SHOW BILLS AND POSTERS
is net excelled in the United States.
The Large Pictorials
Can now be as readily and cheaply dune at this
offce as they are in the East. and in as hand
some style. 10
We have in our Office the largest size Presses
now in use. together with
Steam JObbers Il Power Presses
In addition to our extra large type. we have
q splendid assortment of small plain and fancy
Job Letters suitable for fine work.
BUSINESS CARDS AND CIRCULARS
Done in handsome style, with suitable engrav-
Lings representing business.i
DIP MAS
Fol. schools and colleges printed equal to cop
pcrplate.
Masons' i Odd. p elbows. and Sons of Temperate
CON - TIT u TON -
Printed in elegant.style.
Our Prices Have Been Reduced.
And now will compare with the cheapest regu-
,arly established Job Offices in New York or
Philadelphia.
We are enabledlto.print
CARDS AND BILL-HEADs
With great celebrity. and our prices are proper
Prompt and particular attention given to
kinda OF
military and Raiir d
PRINTING.
Bills Lading, Funeral Notices.
Bank Cheeks, Catalogues.
Circulars OF all kinds. Hat Tips,
Insurance Policies. Blank Deeds.
Bill Heads. Labels.
Auction Bills. Programmes.
Dray Tickets. Periodicals..
Notices. Magazines.
Blank Reosipt. Election Tickets.
COUNTRY STORE BILLS
or every description. Illuminated with suitable
sdevioes. such A. railroad cars. steamboats,. etc.
BLANK BOOKS.
With printed heads, together with every kind
Of Plain and Fancy Work done with dispatch.
wHITMoRE BROTHERS
IL Madison street.
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DRY GOODS.
GREATEST BARGAINS
Il HI e A O. IL !!
CALL EARLY 4 PROCURE THEM.
The large stock of
DRY GOODS,
Boots,
Shoes,
Hats,
Clothing,
Gents
Furnishing
Goods,
Notions, etc.

Formerly belonging to BEST.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Main street, will be sold at
great sacrifices, commencing
on SATURDAY. NOVEMBER
Sd, and continued from day to
day until completely closed
out.
So L. SELDNER & CO.
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CA r. ID.

Its with feelings of pride, as American man.
ufacturers. tn 1T we publish the following testi
moniaIs, which ,.aye been received by US re-
Gently: t ..tE fLE IlN
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-01-05

ENERGY.-It is o common error to
mistake mere effort for energy. Where
there is real power adequate to the
performance of the task in hand, there
will be no effort The strong man
will lift weight easy and even grace
fully; while the weak man, who rushes
forward and puts out all his strength,
may pant and tug at the burden, but
either fails to accomplish the task or
does it only in strained and awkward
manner, showing plainly his want OF
the requisite power. There is in con-
nection with every form Of bravery q
true energy and its counterfeit. Blus-
ter is not courage, rashness is not
readiness, doggedness is not fortitude,
stupidity is not patience, foolhardiness
is not valor, recklessness is not mag
nanimity, and desperation is not self
devotion.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-01-05

CHEERFULNEss.- Cheerfulness, unaf-
fected cheerfulness, is the thing that
you must bring into company, if you
wish to shine in conversation. Now,
! do not mean by this any of those
outbreakings of loud mirth, nor what
the world sometimes calls "high
flow of spirits" but a light and airy
equanimity Of temper, that never rises
to boisterousness, nor sinks to dull
ness-that moves gracefully from grave
to gay, from serious to serene, and by
mere manner gives proof Of feeling
heart and generous mind. The high
and boisterous flow of spirits, so often
praised by the superficial world, that
keeps up during party or visit, and
then sinks down to absolute imam
ity, is, on the other hand, sure sign
of a coarse and vulgar nature. Let
women look to this matter for, though
rarely coarse and vulgar in their own
nature, they may suffer from the
coarseness Of others, and should
therefore, set their pretty faces against
it, however much they pretend that ii
is redeemed by the "dear fellows
wild, rafting spirits.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-01-05

PICTURES. room with pictures in
it and room without pictures differ
by nearly as much as a room without
windows. Nothing, we think, is more
melancholy, particularly to a person
who has to pass much time in his
room, than blank walls and nothing
on them; for pictures are loopholes Of
escape to the soul, leading it to other
scenes and other spheres. 1t is such
an inexpressible relief to person en-
gagged in writing, or even reading, Oh
looking up, not to have his line of Wis
ion chopped square off by an odious
white wall, but to find his soul escap-
ing, as it were, through the frame Of
an exquisite picture, to other beauti-
full, and perhaps, Idyllic scenes, where
the fancy for mement may revel, re.
freshed and delighted. Is it winter il
your world Perhaps it is summer il
the picture; what n charming moment
airy change and contrast And thus
pictures arc CONSIDERS of loneliness
they are o sweet fattery to the soul
they are relief to the jaded mind
they arc windows TO the imprisoned
thought; they arc books; they arc his
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-01-05
The ROMANCE OF A WoMAS's LIFE

The ROMANCE OF A WoMAN's LIFE
On the 9Th of October died at Frank
fort on the Order, eighty-fve years
old, in the Holy Ghost hospital,
Louise Dorothea Schulz of Demmin,
in Pomerania The late Prof Acker-
mann, friend of Theodore Korner,
and jaeger in Lutzow's Freischaar,
made the following communication on
the life of this remarkable woman;
Louise Schulz fled from her home
during the welded procession to a
distant church, which wedding was to
bind her, by the will of her parents
to Mecklenburg gentleman, Won
Hahn, whom she hated, and who was
deformed. In her bridal dress she
threw herself into boat, was rowed
down the Peene, and joined Schill's
corps, in which she served till the tax.
ing Of Stralsund, where she was made
prisoner by French soldier, who, We
expect, was not deformed, for she
married her captor subsequently
Her husband fell in Spain; her only
son served in the Prussian army, bu
died before her. She lived at Frank
fort on small Prussian pension. >
Prussian paper.
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From he Banner Of Light,
THE HOME OF MY SPIRIT.
Vision.
BY J. BOMBER, JR.


Nod and worn by the journey Of Life.
1mry.' '.'id and fearful unto the hearts core,
49, dovncast. by toll and by strife,
p P 'ia dreams wandered down by the Lethean
y I'D ulr"''- [grim,
nh sn pores rolled dark. and the heavens frowned
xl.,,i i.freighted vessel enliyened the view;
n, 4ea-going bindings the dark waters SKIM,
T,d 6losE shores we're lined by the cypress and
yewl
p,t a mystical shallop soon hove into sight,
1nd a male. stohd boatman piled briskly his oar,
i.wthio long, bony arm, but win slle"s OF might
u. ..1iled his bark to Earth's surt-beaten shore.
waved nv hand to the waterman pale,
t-snsnd shouted his notice to gain
lam I saw to my Joy he was shortening sail :
faa.boundinr. anon. DER the dark, rolling main.
Al briefvas the time since this Stygian stream,
ma tbe plcadings of loved ones, and fearful
gl9v fail one from view, with miser-like screen,
\ NM sonl -huddercd not at this journey Of
mn. Aagclof Peace was abroad in the air,
1hc anof his wings chased the ghouls from my
,nI5bysong freed my bosom from care
Twas i1 own, loving voice, filled my heart with
delight.
Fn5er this dark stream, upon sunny shore,
M s9ud Of whose harps by the breeze waited
0d,
aom echoes soon swolled to welcoming song.
l.sa The fond beck Of their soft, snowy arms,
While trcssos Of auburn or Of raven hue
Hfmd from my view other ravishing charms,
Do SHADED their eyes Of sweet, violet blue
Soon gained VAS the shore From an arbor
nearby,
Acolcstia' maiden, crowned gaily with flowers,
nme, me caniv forth, with a lovo-hghted eye,
And muiugy led to our nuptial bowers
Then tie fountains Of love celestial played,
ndthe rlse-buds bloomed amid scraphs' song
While myrtle leaves twined, orr slumbcr q
shade.
As my fam one Iclasped had momned so long
softly echoed the groves to a glad serenadc;
And thoushn no gowned priest the marriage-yov
read
Yet holy the chants by the seraph-choir played,
Asmy soul with IT'S dear angel maiden was wed
ALI the arrows of Death we're impotcnt here,
Affection To- chill re fully in bloom;
Coafned was our brdal-tour unto the spheres,
Bat Eternity length was our fond honeymoon
Oh. sweet was the sound of the nightingale
song,
IH'ling soft on the air by the light ofthe moon
lhe skies were a stranger to tempest or storm,
iAs atmosphere tempered to Undertaking. june
''iuAtu was tllt laul hht u Sdltitii " A'N'''
7r song of content swcctly wc.lcd to the skies,
As fudly we baskcd meath the umbrageou
bowers
0-trol the fair mcads Of Loves own Paradise
This is naught but dream !" / tcarrily said
I8, earth-Weary spirit stu vainly must roam,
hiihep eace-seoking pilgrim to bondage be LED
llga, in Giload no BALM for mortAls no home
m o from valley Of shimmoring green,
irn rosy-draped cot on lily-Lned shore,
" Heal Maiden replied, in my dream,
Ishe home Of ny spirit EyERMoREl EVER
NlREln
~ Adams, VI, 1865.
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the treasures of their bright hopes and
coniiding love; and, when some start
ling fact destroys the visions, they feel
as if the whole creation were a blank
to them, and they were the most in
jured Of women. 1t is safer to be very
skeptical on the subject of being loved
but if you do make the mistake, take
all the blame to yourself, and save
your dignity by secrcsy, if you cannot
keep from loving.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-01-05

AN OLD VIRGINIA LAw.--Some of the
ancient records of the Cavaliers are nc
less amusing than those of the Puri-
tans; in one before us we read that
"At grand assembly held in James
Cittie, in the year 1916, were passed
many acts to the glories of Almightie
God, and the publique good of this
his Majestie's colonies of Virginie. .
Among them was the following, en-
titled Women causing scandatous
suits, 10 be ducked
Whereas, oftentimes many bah
bling women often SANDER and scan
dalize their neighbors, for which their
poore husbands are often brought in
to chargeable and vexatious suits and
cost in great damages;
"Be it therefore enacted by the au-
thority aforesaid, that in actions OF
SANDER occasioned by the wife, as
aforesaid, after judgment passed fol
the damages, the woman shall be
punished by ducking, and if the Sian
der be SO enormous as to be adjudged
at a greater damage than five hundred
pounds of tobacco, then the woman
to suffer a ducking for each five hun
bred pounds of tobacco so adjudged
against her husband, if he refuses to
pay the tobacco"
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-01-05

HOME CONVERSATION. --Children hun
ger perpetually for new ideas, and the
most pleasant way of reception is by
the voice and the ear, not the eye and
the printed page. The one mode is
natural, the other is artificial. Who
would not rather listen than read ?
An audience will listen closely from
the beginning to the end of an address
which not one in twenty OF those pres
ent would read with the same atten-
ton. This is emphatically true OF
children. They viii learn with pleas
ure from the lips Of parents what they
deem it drudgery to study in the
books; and even if they have the mis-
fortune to be deprived of the ednca-
tional advantages which they desire,
they cannot fail to grow up intelli-
gent if they enjoy in childhood and
youth the privilege Of listening daily
to the conversation of intelligent poo-
pie. Let parents, then, talk much and
talk well at home. A father who is
habitually silent in his own house
may be, in many respects, Q wise man
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-01-05

The TExr.-A pious old lady, who
was too nnwell to attend meeting,
used to send her thick-headed hus-
band to church to find out the text
the preacher selected MS the founda-
ton OF his discourse. The poor Ounce
was rarely fortunate enough to even
remember the words of the text, or
the chapter and verse where they
could be found; but one Sabbath he
ran home in hot haste, and informed
his wife that he could repeat every
word without missing syllable, Tho
words were as follows
Gan angel came down from heaven
and took a live coal from the altar"
Know every word" said the hus-
band.
81 am anxious to hear it," continued
the wife.
"They arc nice words" observed
the husband. sdv
II am glad your memory is impro-
wing, but don't keep me in suspense.
my DEAR" said She fo3
"Just get your big Bible and will
say the words, for / know them by
heart. / said them hundred times
on my way home"
We'll, let's hear them"
Ahem !" said he, clearing his
throat. San Injun came down from
New Haven and took live colt by
the tail, and jerked him out of tho
halterl"
The memory OF one-half who go to
church is very similar to the above.