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Fresh Gleanings.


Value of real and personal pro-
perty in Cincinnati, $l33, 672,763.
- Brigham Yong's latest wife is
styled No. As.
There is thirteen hundred acre
cranberry farm in Michigan.
The occupation of croakers in
the South will soon be gone.
- The Charleston aud Savannah
Railroad sold for $4,000.
- large company of emigrants
is organized in St. Louisfor Venezuela.
Wife beating in Chicago is
termed the flaming process"
Forty divorces were grantedby
a New Hampshire court in two days.
- The Connecticut woollen mills
are running on half time,
- The secret of Prussia's power
is in her military education-not in the
needle-gun.
During the past year one cot
ton factory in Augusta, Ca, has turn
ed out 6,4l0,O00 yards of cloth.
A Southern paper styles the
rump Congress as a ''Grand Phantas-
magori Of Giescuteses."
- Italy aas been borrowing money
ever since 1859. and her debt is now
over 81 600, 100000.
- An entire family in Portsmouth,
Va, was removed by cholera-to Nor
folk. a
- One county in California has
produced this year 1000. 900 gallons of
wine. a1
- In 1901 the city expenses of
New York were $4,000, now they are
81, 100000 ,.a ,,...
The Sandwich Island papers
say that coolie labor is the worst and
most expensive in the world. z
- The annual income of Queen
Victoria is 100000 and her living
expenses $4,000
Taxation without representa-
ton is tyranny" The lapse of years
defaces no golden thought.
The United States, according
to the London Times, has succeeded in
bullying the world. II
- The petroleum belt" in Cali
fornia is 700 miles long and forty or
fifty miles wide.
- Governor Winston has been
chosen United States Senator by the
Legislature of Alabama.
- Iu Texas, where farmers own
10000 head of cattle. Goshen butter is
used upon their tables, Il
- .. S. Commerce for year ending
June 30, 1866, amounts to $437 ,63s,
966 imports, and 1865. 426, 1874 exports.
There are 1000 bookkeepers.
5000 merchants, $500 laundresses, 1000
lawyers, and 100000 school children
in New York.
So A London paper says that the
Union built and cherished by Wash
ington and his Congress exists no long
er. True, every word of it.
- The crater of Popocatapeti is
big enough to hold several cities, but it
is not probable that any viii be built
there at present.
- During the month of October,
twenty-five thousand acres of public
land, in Florida, were entered for actu-
al settlement.
- There is said to be more corn
elevated in Chicago than in any city in
America. 1t is more in the juice than
in the kernal, however.
- The London Times says that
New York is the handsomest and will
some day be one of the largest cities
in the world.
- New York city polled almost as
many votes atthe last State election as
the entire State of Massachusetts,
only four thousand less.
- There is region in Oxford
county, Me-, where the soil is SO poor
that single grasshopper might look
over ten acres of it and weep.
"Tom," agenuine Guinea negro
living at Hamilton, O is the only per-
son now alive who witnessed the SUR
render of CORVALLIS.
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wish to employ good Boot and Shoe
Il maker. Fair wages and constant en.
ploynent given. Apply Immediately, to the
undersigned, at Bellevue, La
w. j. GERHARD
December 9Th, 1856 n3sf
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BY the Governor
j. II. HARDY, Secretary of State.


New Orleans, Dec. 3i.-Cotton &C.
tive, and advanced &C.; sales $500
bales; low middling, 3l40324e.; mid
ding, 334c.; sugar, good demand fair
&c.; molasses, in good demand at &c.;
-four, dull and unsettled; superfne.
$40 1911; X, II 5O01l rs; corn. in
fair demand at 81 05t0l 10; oats, 74O
TO-; hay, in better demand at S260
q ~ ton; pork, firm at $2I IS; bacon,
shoulders and ribbed sides. l24c., clear
sides. l53c.: lard, dull and unchanged,
at l2sO13c.; gold, 13240I324.
Hudson. N. Y, Dec. %, evening"
The greatest snow storm ever known
here occurred to-day. Every avenue
to the city is blocked up. The Hudson
and Berkshire railroad is completely
closed. Four passenger cars were
blown from the track of the Hudson
River road. The damage done in this
neighborhood will be very great.
New York, Dec. 3l.-The steamer
Henry Chauneey, with San Francisco
dates to the 10th, bring $630.11s in
specie. ~ 2U9.
Liverpool, Dec. 29.-evening.-Cot-
ton firm. Sales 10000 bales. Mid
ding uplands l5d.
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Proclamation by Gov. Wells.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,

STATE OF LOUISIANA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
New Orleans, Dec. 5th, 1866.
To the Sheriffs of the Parishes of Bos-
sier, Claiborne, Bienville and Winn:
Whereas. q vacancy has occurred
in the Office of Senator to the State
Legislature from the District composed
of heparishes named. by the death of
the Hon. A. A. Abney
Now, therefore, /, j Madison Wells,
Governor of the State of Louisiana, do
issue this my writ Of election, direct
ing you to cause an election to be held
in the aforesaid parishes on the same
day, by the qualified voters thereof, to
fill the said vacnney-the election to be
held on day to be fixed by you,
which must not be less than twenty,
nor more than thirty days after the
publication of such notice, and to be
conducted in all respects according to
law. i's,l
Given under my hand and seal of the
State, as above, and the Independence
the United States the ninety-frst.
j. MADISON WELLS.
BY the Governor
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/" The first snow of the season
fell on Monday evening-wrapping the
dying year in natures shroud of gossa-
mer white-the New Year dawning
upon us attired in her vestal robes Of
spotless hue Thus, ''gone, from the
earth-forever," is the Old Year
crowded by the remorseless cycle of
time into the abyss of eternity, mum
bered among the things that were"
Another year is ushered in upon US
like a blushing Embarrassing the
'.cofin-lid of Hope bidding US be up
and doing, while it is yet day. Let us
look forward to better future. remem-
lbering the unfortunate past-with its
sore trials and disappointments-only
for its lessons Of dear-bonght bitter
experinee. Let us profit thereby.
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-06
AMusEMENTs IN KANSAS.

That which is falsely charged on the
South, is practiced as an amusement in
bleeding Kansas" Three negroes were,
on the 23d of last month, hanged at Fort
Scott by mob. The story is thus told:
at seems that a negro named Eli
Mackey, who was confined In jail for
murder escaped and concealed him
self in his brothers house, some six
miles from Fort Scott. Learning of this,
Mr.. Wheaton, in company with his son,
Mr.. Charles s, Wheaton, Mr.. Benz. Files
and Mr.. Ed Coe, started out to appre-
bend the escaped felon. On arriving
near the vicinity Of the house, they were
fred upon by the murderer from within.
Mr.. Coe fell mortally wounded, and Mr..
C. S. Wheaton was soon after seriously
wounded 1t appears that the house had
been loopholed and fortified in prepare
ton of an attack. The inmates, when
called upon to surrender to the officers
Of justice, refused to do so, and forcible
means had to be resorted to to obtain
admittance. In the meantime the muir
derer, we'll provided with firearms, had
taken refuge in the brush near the house,
and was chased for several hours from
point to point by the party in pursuit,
who were now aided by the neighbors.
At last, after having been wounded three
or four times, and having expended his
ammunition, the murderer was secured,
marched to the house from which he had
fed, and there delivered to the tender
mercies OF Judge Lynch. Before being
dispatched, be made a confession of
having killed Mr. Hayford, a merchant
of Fort Scott as well as FIVE men before
him. He also stated that it was he who
shot at Major Meford. Two eolored in
dividuals-one the brother of the MUIR
derer, and the other named Harry Nan
were secured and lodged in the county
jail, charged with aiding and abetting
the felon in trying to escape, as well
as firing upon the officers of the law.
On Thursday evening a party of fifty
or sixty men forced their way into the
Jail, took them out to the outskirts of
town and hung them"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-06
THE LAST DITCH.

1t Is urged, and with great ability by
many Southern journals, that the whole
legislation of Congress in reference 10
the Southern States is intended to bring
them into the Union as Radical States
Thisis unquestionably troe. The negroes
have been armed with the ballot that
thew may secure Radicsl State conven-
tions, form Radical constitutions, elect
Radical State officers and send to Con-
eress Radical delegates. All these re-
sults will follow, unless the white inhabit'
ants participate in the elections that 'out
take Mace. in the conventions that iofH
assemble, and in the constitutions
that ,ciR be formed. The choice o. the
Southern people is between allowing u
few sealawags Of the white race, through
the negro vote, to get possession OF their
State governments and administer them
after the model of Tennessee, and taking
advantage Of the facts of the situation
and retaining them to themselves. IL is
not for us TO attempt TO dictate what
course they had best pursue. We ad-
here however, to the views We have
heretofore expressed on this subject
One thing is certain, and worth all
the logic directors; The Military bills
on finahties, as far as they go. The
President who vetoed them, will enforce
them with all the power OF the military
arm of the government The South is
utterly helpless, except that il may, if 1t
will, on the principle that drowning men
catch at straws, seize upon a gateway
left open, and, through registration to the
last man that can be put through, control
the Constitutional Conventions, and
frame the constitutions that Congress
saws shall be framed. What If,
when presented to Congress, they shall
he rejected. Will the South be in worse
condition than it is at present2 No.
But il will still held the advantage, and
he in readiness to confront another out
rage. But if the scalawaGs and their al
lies get possession of the States, they will
be admitted with constitutions disfran-
chisiug everybody except themselves.
In pursuing the course we have suggested,
nothing is accepted, nothing is admitted.
1t would be, indeed, fighting and dying
in the last ditch.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-06
RADICAL DICTIONARY.

Loyal'y-Denouncing the Constitu-
ton as a covenant with death and a
league with hell; and the President le-
gally elected under it as an enemy to his
country.
Disloyalty-Supporting the Govern
ment in meeting the requirements Of the
Constitution.
Patriotism-Holding all the Offices
and abusing everybody who conceives
that he has the least right to object
Party of Great Moral Ideas-An or
ganization the leaders of which are in
fidels aad most of the followers practical
free lovers.
Supporting the Union - Subverting
the entire system of government and
overriding the Constitution.
Opposing Secession-Swe airing that
eleven States went out Of the Union by
their own acts, and that it is necessary
to hold them as territories in order to
get them back.
Our Government-The President when
he is Radical, and Congress when that is
Radical
Impartial Suffrage - That kind OF
voting which keeps the Radical leaders
in power.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-06
.arrum FOE PRINTERS.

Nil suggesied that in order to carry
ont the provisions ofthe will Of ArtemuS
Ward, in relation to an Asylum LOT
Printers, that the craft in all parts OF the
country, by united resolve, provide
that there be retained by the foreman oil
each newspaper and printing Office from
the earnings OF the journeymen, a sum
eoual to FIVE mills upon each dollar oil
his weekly bill. This small tax OF one
half cent on the dollar should be paid
over to localtreasurer weekly, and by
him forwarded to a general treasurer to
be invested until such time as the asylum
fand will be available. The tax is
small sum to each person, but in TIN
years time, if properly invested with
its earnings, would constitute fund
equal to the establishment and endow-
ment of an asylum equal tr. the demands
of the craft, aud worthy OF the men whose
infirmities Of body may make them its
| inmates
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-06
GEN. poPE's ORDER.

General Pope, whose headquarters ="
used TO be lin the saddle" but who now
halls from Montgomery, Alabama, as
commander Of the districts Of Alabama,
Georgia AID Florida (late States), has
issued an order, the thirdly Of which is
in these words:
g. 1t is to be clearly understood, how
ever. that the civil officers thus retained
in office shall confne themselves strictly
10 the performance OF their official du-
ties; and whilst holding their Offices,
they shall not use any influence what
ever to deter or dissuade the people from
taking an active part in reconstructir z
their State Governments under the act
of Congress to provide for the more eff.
cient government of the rebel States and
the act supplementary thereto
The present State officers Of the
States lately in rebellion, are to ad
dress themselves to silence, and though
representing the real sentiment Of the
Southern people, cannot, from fear Of
military pains and penalties, give voice
to it. Their continuance in Office vii
depend upon their mumness. II they
dare TO say that the people should moi
accept the terms of the tyranny i'm
posed upon them, off will 20 their heads
Renegades, sueaks and scalawags, plen
tiful as flies about 2 carcass, stand read,
10 take their places. This is cheering
indeed, over the left shoulder. Pop
will be Pope under all circumstances.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-06
WHAT WE EAT.

In the annual report of the health Off
GERS of Chicago, occurs this statement
The cholera register shows that seven
ty.five per cent. Of the attacks are upon
those OF incorporate habits, and the too
free use of unwholesome food, such as
wilted vegetables, stale meats, putrid
fish, etc. Our city abounds with Q class
of stores or huckster stands where the
poorer classes purchase that character
of food AS their means are limited,
they study the price and not the quality.
/ would suggest, as a sanitary measure,
that it be made the duty of this or some
other department of the city government
to sec that none hut wholesome food is
sold in our city.
We ask the attention of our own sani-
tary authorities to this statement The
same facts are true here, and are true
everywhere. 1t is time that this subject
should arrest attention. We shall soon
have summer, and then, probably, some
thing else.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-06
ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.

The eclipse of the sun of the 9th OF
March, though imperfectly observed in
England on account of the cloudy con-
dition of the sky, afforded to observers
more favorably situated an opportunity
to note down many interesting phenom'
ena. A writer in the London Times re-
lates his own observations, and states
that the profile of the moon was plainly
seen on the sun. The mountains on the
dark margin of the moon we're beauti
fully projected upon the luminous disc
behind, the protuberancss on the south
east side of the moon being the most
prominent, the Liebnitz mountaint
standing out in bold relief
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-06
LINcoLEs LIFE.

Several persons have been doing up
the biography of Mr.. Lincoln. II that oil
his old law partner is true to TACT the
early life of the great Illinoisian was
simply ridiculous There was nothing in
II 10 admire or to give promise OF an
eminent future. But biographist in
the Atlantic Monthly has knocked the
black out of Herndon and perforated the
bulls eye in the following;
Once. about the time of his arrival
here. he was wrestling, in Illinois fashion,
Yah his sister Sarah and some neigh
boris girls. He threw one OF the latter
ronghIv. and his sister turned upon him
with siarp words. "What do you ever
ernact 10 be-" she asked, :" if you treat
women ike that 2" A sort OF shadow
settled over him; the exhilaration OF the
gvmnast disappeared, and, putting q
hand on each Of her shoulders, he an
swered seriously, Il am TO be a great
man. Sarah, and to have sad destiny
then turned and left her.
Wrestling with girls, and fOreseelng a
great and sad destiny, coming one upon
The other with such rapidly, suggests a
singular affinity between gymnastic
snorts and those more serious acts which
command the attention of the world.
We are 10 infer, We suppose, that man
who would throw a girl roughly on the
oroupd. and not even apologize for the
roseuess when rebuked by his own sister,
would not be likely to care q great deal
so- men. or the suferings that might
bassU them. Bat We viii not judge him
uufAir test. his entirely probable
Ia. the ssory has no foundation in fact
AMMAN ever needed saving from his
.-,,--spbsrs. that man is Lincoln. As be
i. sort Of ciuhoua Of the Radical party,
II sto.l3 5e . part Of their policy ut IS
Al uol;ey with ihenl to employ Parton,
o. As5O,s. or Hessly, TO do him up in
r-aud style The latter would probably
"a .hs best Written after the style OF
Napoleon and Narshals, the work
would command immense success But
one bioErapher would be inadequate to
paint all the phases of his character.
Headly could perform the heroic in fine
style Parton could do the serious But
another would still be wanting We can
think of no one so competent for the
humorous part as Josh Billings. These,
then, putting their heads together, could
make a splendid book. Upon such a
tonic as wrestling with girls, the latter
great author would give some racy, and,
perhaps, philosophical reflections. Young
men and boys, and perhaps a sprinkling
of round, rosy girls, would pour over the
pages with delight We commend the
subject Of these reflections to the authors
mentioned, and to the especial consider
alton of Radicalism generally. We i'm
plore Harper to think of it, and then
nrovide at once for the illustrations
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-06
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE NOON DISPATCHES
FROM NEW YORK.

New YoRK, April GA Washington
special says Sheridan has sent no report
to the President Of the causes which
prompted him to remove Heron, Monroe
and Abel, nor asked for any instructions
about his actions under the Recon
struction act Sheridan says that
General Griffin, of Texas, recon-
mends the deposition or removal
Of Governor Throckmorton, and Sheri-
dan agrees with Griffin and thinks he
will have to remove the Governor Of
Louisiana, also. He says he will com
mence the work of registration as soon
as he receives certified copies of the
law.
An effort will be made to withdraw the
resolution offered in the Senate to expel
Salisbury, and put him on probation.
The report that the President is the
prime mover in the effort being made to
obtain a decision in the Supreme Court,
on the constitutionality Of the Recon
struction act, is emphstically denied by
the author Of the petition and the origi-
majors Of the movement
A few days. ago Hon A. L. Sharkey
notified the President that be was about
to proceed against him. The President
neither expressed his approval or dis
approval Of the movement, but said a
motion had been made TO reconsider the
resolution but It had failed
Cotton quiet but steady at yesterday 8
closing quotations Gold, 80
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-06
BUTTEREUT.

At Wabash, Indiana, in July, 1868, a
Copperhead preacher named Curran, and
his daughter, we're somewhat roughly
handled in consequence OF the daughter
wearing "butternut emblem. The
obnoxious thing was torn from the young
woman's neck by a soldiers wife, and
the preacher says that he was kicked
and otherwise ill-treated, for which he
sued certain citizens who were in the
crowd at the time, claiming 5000
damages. The case has just closed al
Huntington. The injured individual OBJ
tanned a verdict for 500.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-06
STILLS FOR THE SOUTH.

"A Western paper says it is stated that
several thousand small stills have been
manufactured in Cincinnati, within the
past year, and shipped South. They are
said to be of a capacity to turn out from
one to three barrels day. The people
of the South will thus be tempted to
violate the Revenue law, and this will be
made pretext to subject them to the
rigors of military rule. 1t will not be
long before some correspondent will
write up from the South, to the Radical
papers, that the whole South is engaged
in the loyal practice of cheating the
Government; but it will not be called
loyalty in that section, as it would up
North. What business has the South to
make whisky without paying license2 1t
is only the loyal North, and the loyal
portion of the people North who ought
to enjoy that privilege.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-06
RUSSIA AID TURKEY.

The Heralds Constantinople CORE
spondence, dated February 18th, says
that Turkey is concentrating all her
hosts of various nationalties in great
force in and around Constantinople.
Russia is reinforcing her regiments and
advancing on her frontier line, and the
Turks of all classes seemed impressed
with the belief that a struggle was at
hand in which the Sultan's position
must be maintained at the cost of much
blood, or the crescent driven from
Europe to the Asiatic shores of the
Bosphorus. The Viceroy of Egypt was
moved, it is thought, by French advice.
He bears himself more Independently
towards the Sultan as he understands
the near approach of war.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-06
REMOVALS.

A Washington telegram says il is
stated that the Attorney General will
soon give a legal opinion as to whether
General Sheridan had any right under
the Military RECON- truetion act to re-
move State officers from office in Loui-
siana The Pres dent is represented as
being Of opin' on that he has no such
right under fAat law. If the Attorney
General re- ports to that effect, the re-
Gently d. splaced officers will undoubt-
eddy be restored by the President
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-06
PHILADELPHIA NEGROES.

One of the Philadelphia papers pub
fishes some interesting negro statistics of
that city. The negro population is 2S,-
600. The combined wealth of thirty-four
of this number amounts to $l,358, 600.
The black people have seventeen
churches of different denominations, ac-
commodating 10000 persons, with an
actual membership of 5440. Seventeen
hundred scholars go to their Sunday
schools. Twenty-Five hundred scholars
20 to the negro day schools in the city.
Their church buildings are valued at
s225, 900.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-06
QUEER

A queer occurrence is related, BY the
Toledo Blade, Of a young girl from Ohio,
who had been attending Rev. Mr. Per-
sings Female College, at Pittsburg
During the late session she had been IN
usually popular among her teachers and
classmates, on account Of her marked
proficiency and good conduct On CON-
ing back to the irsiiiuiion, however, a
few days ago, after the vacation, to COM
nence anew her studies, she was refused
adntuance, on account Of the discovery
that she is one thiriy-second part Ethi-
opian." So much for negro equality in
the North. Yet some folks think oar
people can stomach t.