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To Carpenterg and Bnilders.


TO Carpenters and Builders.
w have now OH hand and constantly
w adding thereto, large and complete
assortment of all kinds Of building material
Locks, Hinges, Screws, Catches, Springs,
&c, &c for sale at prices to compete with
any other house in the county. ~
Also, Paints, Oils, Glass, DC, forsale in
any quantity, and quality guaranteed.
T. X GERNAND,
marl5 Corner Main & Court Streets.
Japan TEA-AAnother chest ofyery SUI
81 pcror Japan Tea, just receiyeds also
English, Breakfast, Imperial and other Teas
of best grades, for sale by
mario Il X Gernand.
A. NJ WARNER has always on hand supe-
ror article of syraps, whichwill be sold at
right prices. mar Is.
+. Y0uRMONEY Buy your Dry Goods,
A. NJ. WARMERS New Store.
SMOKED HERRING, at
mario A. M. WARMERS.
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ERROTgs or YOUTTT.

SMOKED HERRING, at
mario A. M. WARNER'i
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
FROM MARYLAND.
Reducing the Number of Volun-
teer Army Officers.

Washington specials declare that the
Secretary Of War is reducing the number
of volunteer officers remaining in the
service as rapidly as the exigencies of
the army will permit. Within the present
month large number have been return
ed to their rank in the army, or have
found their way to civil occupations.
Instead of promulgating the muster
out orders, each officer is now mustered
out by virtue of an extract from a war
Department special order, having refer
ence to himself only. By this method
the fact is known to none but the de-
partment and the officer concerned
Most of the volunteer officers that have
been retained in the service are on duty
in the Freedmens Bureau. Many of
them have already been honorably dis
charged since the first of September, and
a number of others it is expected will be
mustered out BY the first of October
All the officers acting in the capacity
of assistant commissioners of the freed
mems bureau, are to be mustered out of
their volunteer rank; each of them, how
ever, will be retained in the regular SER
vice either by virtue of commissions,
now in their possession, or by appoint
ments recently made, with the exception
of Major General r. K Scott,
the Assistant Commissioner of South
Carolina, and Maj. Gen. Tillson, assist
ant commissioner of Georgia, who hold
no other than volunteer commissions;
but the muster-out of these officers has
been suspended until the LIST of Decem-
Der next, to allow them time to properly
arrange the affairs of the Sea Islands,
which have hitherto been in rather I'M
settled condition.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
A New Set Of Rules for the Freedmen
Bureau.

The Macon Telegraph says the fol-
lowing are said to be some of the most
prominent sections of the new Bureau
Bill"
/. Every freedman shall have bureau
to himself, with pair Of red breeches,
blue money jacket, and jew's-harp in
the top drawer.
2 Every negro woman shall have a
light wardrobe-to consist of litter and
full set of glass jewelry, in which to
display her charms at the balls de
A.fricue.
3. Every freed boy shall be furnished
with secretary, in which to keep his
ventilation pants on hot day, while out
for an airing ia top cots and short
shirt He shall also be furnished with
a bag of marbles and another of goobers,
with few private stocks for his own use.
A. Every freed damsal shall have q
washstand, well provided with turpentine
soap, Turkish towels, soft bricks and
Prophylactic Fluid. She shall be al
lowed the run of the streets, dressed in
"trifles light as air." if she feels like it,
and shall at no. time be compelled to
wear more than one pair of high bal
morals and light skirt.
5. Every freed child shall be allowed
to go "limus" rags" and shall run as
free as their noses in winter He or she
shall be plentifully supplied with sor-
ghum candy and blue wooden trumpets,
and shall not be compelled to take
water" except caught in a shower, and
then they are privileged to dodge the
drops.
And be IL further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the freedmen to
watch the whites, and should one of them
look cross-eyed at "cullud pusson,
he shall instantly be knocked south
westward crooked, and fined for his i'm
pertinence. -
And be 10 still further enacted, That
only whites of intelligence, on showing
evidences of loyalty, shall be allowed to
vote. Poor white trash" yellow dogs
and "injungs are ruled out"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
REVENUE STAMPS.

Instructions have been issued by the
Treasury Department to all the Assis-
tant Treasurers, and to several Collec-
tors of Customs, requiring them to keep
on hand packages of internal revenue
stamps, which are to be sold to the pub
lie at the same rates of commission as
are allowed for the Internal Revenue
Bureau. The National banks that are
" designated depositories" are also re-
CURED to keep internal revenue stamps
for sale, in such amounts as the public
may require, and at the rates of COM
mission allowed by the Bureau. These
rates are: upon $1,000 and upwards, 5
per cent discount; $500, per cent;
5000, per cent; $50, per cent
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21

LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
M H M II HIS:
Friday Evening, Sept. 21st. 1866
OUR ROUTES.

We are now making arrangements to
extend all the routes on the PUBLIC
LEDGER, and add new ones in the SUI
burbs, by which we hope to be able TO
supply all who may wish to take cheap
aud reliable evening journal. Should
any of our patrons be overlooked by our
carriers during the next ten or twelve
days, they will please make the fact
known at our counting room. Our cir
culation has been Of late so great as to
make the paper reach some portions of
the city at a very late hour. We have
made arrangements to overcome this, by
ordering faster machinery, which we are
now expecting daily, and on its arrival
the paper will be served at an earlier
hour at all points within the city and
suburbs. lS
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
A WARDROBE SUIT.


An exchange paper says professional
gentleman in New York has brought a
suit against an Insurance company for
the insurance on his daughters ward
robe, lately destroyed by fire. The COM
pany, it is said, were astounded by the
magnitude of the items presented in the
claim, and refused to settle. Hence the
action in Court, which brought out list
of the young lady's wardrobe, as drawn
up under her own supervision. Consid-
cradle allowance is made for the wear of
many of the articles, yet at the reduced
valuation the list foots up twenty-one
thousand dollars The original cost
could not have been less than 100000 !
Among the articles enumerated is satin
dress appraised at $4,000, and another at
$500. The descriptive list embraces
nearly five hundred articles, and fills
column and halfin the New York Her
aid, in small type
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
MORE LAUNDERING CONGRESSIONAL
LEGISLATION.

The Congress, says the Cincinnati En-
quirer, at the suggestion of Senator
TRUNBULL, Of Illinois, who was Chair
man Of the Judiciary Committee, passed
a law reducing the number Of Circuits
Of the United States Court This was
done to prevent President JOHNSON Sc
curing judge Of his appOintment-Mr.
STASsBERRY, Of Kentueky-on the bench.
But no provision was made to assign the
judges to their respective circuits, and
as the Supreme Court had adjourned,
that body made no assignment of cir
cults to the respective Justices. The
consequence is, that by an agreement of
the Justices among themselves, no Cir
cult Courts of the United States will be
held until the Congress, or the Supreme
Court, next winter, makes new assign
ments Of circuits for the several Justices
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
NEGROES ARMING.

The negroes of the city of New York,
according to the World, are organizing
regiments to protect their interests.
Says that paper: While the white poll
ticians of the North, and the renegade
refugees of the South led by BRowSLow
are quarreling over the future destiny of
the colored race in this country, the ne
groes of this city are inaugurating q
movement which exhibits their distrust
of the Radical party who climbed up
their shoulders TO power and influence.
Apparently approaching the teachings
of THAD STEVENS and SUMNER, that
bullets in certain emergencies where
Liberty" might be at stake, should
supersede ballots, they have taken the
necessary steps to form four regiments
TO protect their political interests.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
THE LOST CAUSE.

We have omitted to refer to new
book placed in our possession some weeks
since. 1t is entitled The Lost Cause,
and purports to be history of the late
war from Southern standpoint We
have not read it with view to criticism,
nor indeed have we read it thoroughly
at all, from lack of leisure. Dipping
into it here and there, however, we have
found much to please. Some Of the de-
scriptions of battles are graphic, full, and
lust to the valor of both the contending
parties. Others are not so full as the
public could desire They are less mi
mute than accounts we have seen in the
newspapers. Bat, perhaps, it is too
early to form correct estimate of the
momentous struggle. A quarter Of
century must elapse before the truth can
be given unmixed with passion or preju-
dice. POLLARD is an eloquent writer,
and has composed book of remarkable
power As narrative, it is.of the most
absorbing interest Intentionally parti-
san, it cannot take rank as an impartial
history. 1t will subserve, however,
better purpose 1t will rescue from OBJ
livion the deeds Of valor performed by
the soldiers Of the South 1t is a splen-
did tribute to the genius of a peo-
pie who, deeming the common
Government diverted to the interests of
an exacting section, protested; were in
suited; flew to arms, and were overcome
by numbers. 1t will rescue them from
the aspersions which the partisan histo-
ries of the North will attempt. to cast
upon them, and place their conduct in a
proper light before the tribunal of the
worlds opinion There is, ordinarily,
something odious in the term rebel. But
the soldier of the South was not merely
a rebel He was belligerent, fighting
for the principles of the Declaration Of
Independence-the right to life, lib
erty and the pursuit Of happiness.
Events TRANSPORTING around us,
prove that the South was correct in be-
lieving that the abolition party was its
irreconcilable enemy, and that no con
cession yielded to it in 1860 would have
appeased its vengeance. Its organiza-
ton was based upon a boarded hatred
of the Southern people. Do we not see
parties in the North now divided2 Are
not the Democrats and conservative Re
publicans combating the Radicals as
they eombatted them before the war
Slavery is abolished, but the rancor re-
mains. The South is destroyed, but
these mems passions still rage like the
foam Of the ocean of hell We commend
the book to the Southern reader DR. J.
f. RUDD is the agent for this city.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
Sarcasm Extraordinary.

WASHINGTON, d. c., September 10.
The Secretary of the Treasury has re-
ceived communication from an anony-
nous correspondent at Goldsboro, North
Carolina, inclosing two hundred dollars
in Confederate treasury notes, which the
writer states he was by mistake over,
paid during the last year of the rebel
lion in some dealings with rebel quar-.
termaster Being Union man, he did
not return the money to the government,
feeling that he was justifiable under the
circumstances in retaining it. Suppos-
ing that the rebel debt might possibly be
assumed by the United States govern
ment, he inclosed the sum to the Treas
ury.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
GRANTS FATHER.

The father Of Gen. GRANT appears to
be rather waveringin his mind. A Gin
eihnati paper published the following
last week,
Colonel Grant, the father of General
Grant, was warmly received by the
President. The Colonel informed the
President that he supported his policy,
when the President said he was glad to
see him and such solid men standing by
the Constitution and Union in this hour
of peril. The President said he wanted
nothing but the Union of the entire
States, when Colonel Grant remarked
I" l am warmly with you in the effort"
1t is now asserted that the old ge nile
man has deserted the President and his
policy. 1t is matter of little conse
quence what his position is
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
THE WEATHERc0CK.

That weathercock of journalism, the
New York Herald, is again shifting its
position. 1t says the Presidents policy
is failure, and pats the Radicals on the
head VIGOROUSLY, that paper is for the
party it deems strongest, without regard
to the principles it advocates. Its guesses
have been good in reference to the result
Of elections 1t is to be hoped that its
sagacity will fail in its present calcula-
tons. The Herald is not a thunderer !;
it is a shifter 1t follows the cry of the
pursuer, and only supports the pursued,
it turns and becomes the aggressor.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
An Election Fund Voted by Congress.

The editor of the New York Times, a
Republican member of the present Con-
gress, and who is as conveisant with its
business and the reasons for its acts as
Thad. Stevens himself, thus refers to the
increase of the salaries of Congressman
A good deal of surprise has been ex-
pressed that Congress did not postpone
the vote increasing the pay of its mem
bers until the next session. The reason
begins to be apparent The extra $780,
900 was needed to secure their re-elec-
ton. Each member has that sum extra,
to be devoted to this specific purpose
The Radical members are thus put in
possession of grand corruption fund.-
amounting to something over $500, 1000,
taken directly out of the public Treasury,
and distributed among the members
nearly every one of whom is to be can
didate for reelection. It was proclaimed
before the session closed that Congress
must be sustained by the reelection of
its present members 1t is now clear
that this increase of pay was one of the
practical measures by which this result
is TO be brought about
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE NOON DISPATCHES
COTTON AND GOLD QUOTATIONS

New YoRK, Sept 81, IL m.-Gold, 43J;
sterling, quiet at u cotton, unchanged
and quieter; -four, firm wheat, l@2c
higher; pork, dull at S33@33 OS; lard,
dull at l7i@l9i
LIVERPOOL, Sept 2O.-Cotton market
unchanged-estimated sales to-day TO-
900 bales; uplands, l3ld.
LONDON, Sept 20, IL m.-Consols, SGT
sos, 22l.
The ship Dreadnot, from New York,
and bark Anne, from Boston, arrived
LesDoY, September 20 The ship
Conqueror, from Bordeaux for Phila-
delphia, arrived at Queenstown in a
damaged condition, having been in col
lision with the barque Rising Dawn,
from Ivigtul, Greenland, for Boston, had
besn lost off the coast of Greenland. The
steamers Napoleon the Third and Penn
sylvania from New York on the 9Th, ar
rived out
BERLIN, September 20.-Count Bis
mark is very i'll, though not so much so
as to excite serious apprehensions.
The King of Prussia has written an
address to the people thanking them for
the part they bore in the war, and con
graduating them on the victory gained
and establishment of peace.
PARIS, September 2O.-The Finance
Committee, sent here from Mexico to
negotiate for loan, are disheartened and
have announced that the Empire Of
Mexico is without funds.
Florence, ITALY, Sept pa very
serious outbreak ofbrigands has occurred
near Palermo. The telegraph wires have
been cut in all directions, but as nation
al troops hold al the principal places it
is thought the rebellion viii be Of short
duration.
LONDON, Sept Pa telegram from
Bombay announces that the firm Of
Rychard & Co., in that city, have failed.
Their liabilities are said to be very great.
WASHINGTON, September 2l.-SenOr
Don Ezeguiel Gutierrez, yesterday, pre-
scented his credentials to the acting Sec
Rotary of State, and was received as
Charge dAffairs Of the Republic Of
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
A Fallen Statesman.

A St Louis letter relates the following
story Of prominent public man;
Coming down Chestnut street, St
Louis, one day last week, i was struck
by the appearance of an old man past
sixty, who wore a 'threadbare coat shiny
with constant wear, and whose hat was
bruised and seedy. His head was bent
toward the earth, and his walk was a
tottering shuttle, the effect of whiskey
and old age. He reeled from one side
Of the pavement to the other, and at last
brought up against a lamp-post on the
corner, when q young-looking loafer
coming along saluted him with, Holloa,
jim Come and take a drink" The old
mans eyes Frightened, and, arm-in-arm,
he ssuntered along to the nearest grog-
gerry with his companion. Five years
ago that old man was James Green,
United States Senator from Missouri, and
in the days of the Kansas and Lecomp-
ton matters be was, next to Stephen A.
Douglas, the ablest debater in Congress.
But the war broke out, Mr.. Green was
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21

The correspondent of the New York
Herald writes from Richmond:
The opinion prevails here almost uni
versally that Governor Pierpopt will be
impeaehed next winter by the Legisla-
ture, or deposed by the Convention
which is likely to assemble, for his reck-
less and unjustifable exercise of the
pardoning power. A glazing instance
Of this sort is furnished in his pardon re-
Gently of negro named Long, who was
sent to the penitentiary for eighteen
years, for the killing white lady named
Mrs. Whitehurst, at Portsmouth, on the
occasion of the negro celebration of the
passage of the Civil Rights Bill, "a few
months ago. The negro was pardoned
three days after his confinement, and
without the shadow of justification, save
the petition of a few Radicals in Ports
mouth and Norfolk. Far from feeling
any remorse for the murder of this in
offensive lady, the villain, while on his
way to the penitentiary, remarked to the
officer who had him in charge, that he
cared nothing about his imprisonment,
that he had left enough behind to carry
on the work which he had inaugurated
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21

AS the order stood before the new law,
Justice SwAYxE, of this State, was as
signed to the Seventh Circuit By the
new law, Ohio is part of the Sixth Cir
cult. There viii, therefore, as we said,
be no Circuit Courts of the United States
held this year, and all the important
suits in these Courts will have to lie over
until next spring or summer. The Radi-
cal Congress was SO intent ON Gripping
the President in his patronage, and at
tending to the wants of the negro-and
we may add its own-for the devil al
ways, it is said, takes care Of is own
that it neglected great public interests,
and this among them.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
From Nashville.

Special TO the Louisville Courier.
NASHVILLE, September l9-Mortuary
committee report ferty-three deaths from
cholera for twenty-four hours ending at
7p.m. This is thirteen less than yester-
day and eight less than Monday.
John NJ Watson, Professor of Obstet-
RIGS in Tennessee Medical College, died
to-day of cancer in his stomach He
was an old citizen and prominent ply
stefan.
Miss Ella Donigan, a teacher in the
High School, young lady widely known
in this city, and much beloved, died of
cholera to-day.
Copious rains last night and to-day.
Weather unfavorable
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21

Costa RIGA, Senior Don Louis Molina
having resigned, as. Minister Plenipo-
Tertiary of that Republic.
The President has appointed M. s.
Perkins to be United States Attorney for
West Tennessee.
New York, Sept 2l.-Coupons Of 81,
lie do. of '62, llls; do. of '65, lS@lS};
los, 9s5; Treasures, 1868; Virginia, 10;
Carolinas, 65 new bonds, 65s.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
ELSON BROS
MAMMOTH CHEAP STORE,
297 MAIN STREET. IL
NJ < DICAL.
Something New Under the Sun.
A New Era in Medicine.

+ EFT THE SUFFERING AND DISEASED
i read the following:
Let all who have been given up by Doctors,
and spoken of as incurable, read the following:
Let all who can believe facts, and can have
faith ia evidence. read the following;
Kno,c all Men By these Presents, That on this,
the twentieth day Of June, IN the year Of our
personally came Joseph Hnydock TO me; known
Us such. and being duly sworn. deposed as ioi-
lows: That he is the sole general agent Tor the
United State and dependencies thereof, for pre-,
parations or medicines known as MAGGlEL'S
PILLS and SALVE. and that the following
certificates are verbatum copies 10 the Dest Oh
his SnoTlsdss ss sp sM bssi; No,orv p0hl;c
Wall Street, New York.
DR.. MAGoIEL: l take my pen to write you Of
my great relief, and that the awful pain IN my
side has left me at ast-thanksto your medicine.
Oh. doctor, how thankful am that can get
some sleep. Il can never write 1t enough. &
thank you again and again. and am sure you
are really the friend OF all sufferers. could
not help writing to YOU apd hSee yoq VIZ not
take it amiss. JAMES M ENS,
June |, 1866. ll6 Avenue d.
This is to certify that was discharged from
the army with Chronic DiarrhGa. and have
been cured be DIR. Mawgg,e IN PilIs., pvrv
New York. April 7, 1865. Y Pitt Street
The following is an interesting case of man
EN- ployed in an Iron Foundry. who. in pouring
melted iron into a flask that was damp and wet
caused an explosion. The melted iron was
thrown around and on him in perfect shower,
and he was burnt dreadfully. The following
certificate was given to me by him about eight
weeks after the accident:
New YORK, Jan. ii, 1866.
My name is Jacob Hardy; | am an iron foun
der; l was badly burnt by hot iron in November
last; my burns healed but had n running sore
on my log that would not heal tried Maggel's
Salye, and it cured me in few weeks This is
all true, and any body can now see me at jack
sons Iron Works, Second Avenue.
j. HARDY.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
Attempted Senatorial Election in Oregon.

SALEM, Oregon, Sept lS.-ExGov-
ernor A. C. Gibbs Vas nominated for
United States Senator The vote stood !:
Gibbs, 81; Mitchell, Is; scattering 3.
The Senate gave Gibbs majority of four
votes. The House adjourned without
action, and subsequently set the 25th of
September as the day for an election.
Great excitement prevailed throughout
the session. Three assembly men elected
as Unionists voted with the opposition
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
@. p. POUTE.

In another place in this paper will be
found the announcement Of G. p. FoUTE,
Esq, as a candidate for thee Office OF
Judge of the Law Court of the City. Mr..
+. is understood to be the choice of the
bar, and this is the best recommends
ton any man could have. A sound
lawyer, a polished gentleman of the
strictest integrity, and with nature full
of the most generous sentiments, he is
eminently adapted 70 the position.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21
A pELuGE OF INSECTS.

A Nebraska City paper states that on
August oath, that place was visited by
an enormous swarm of minute insects,
that filed the air and appeared much
like a snow-storm They were in two
strata-the upper one blown to the west
ward by a strong easterly wind, and the
insects in the lower one moving about in
every direction. Very few of them set
tied on the ground, and the entire swarm
wss finally blown away by the wind.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-21

bD The last of the colored troops
stationed in the interior Of Florida left
Tallahassee last Saturday for St. Marks,
whence they were to be sent to New
Orleans, where the whole force, together
with those at Barrancas, are to be
mustered out.