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WANTED.

REERCANTILE AGENTS IN, EVERY
mi important city Throughout the United
States. Men acquainted with the mercn ia y
among the business community almost exelu-
siyeiy. This is a good opportunity to clear a
handsome sum by a few days work. For fur
ther particulars address, with stamp:
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'Nii ah" MEDICAL. AlhH ~
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DIR. o. $. PROPHITT's
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MEDICAL

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which are many. Loss Of Appetite, SOurnesao OF
tho Stomach, Lowness of Spirits, Collie Costivo-
ness, Chills and Fover, and all other unpleas-
ant symptoms that originate from dyspeptic
habit.
. Also good for females In all their various Pc
riodical changes or during all tho different
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THE FAYETTE FALCON,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
By 8. q. & ]. L. SPARKS.

AZ ssmerviIle. Fayette County. Tennessee
Tsrms-s3O0 per Annum, an Advance.
T'HE PRoPRIEToRs WOULD CALL TIE
sttention az boFincrs men Of Memphis 20
TIE FALCON az an excellent medium lQr
giving publicity 70 their huEiness. Circuiati ~
IN a section Of country, from which Aefrp9ls
derives an iumcnse trade, TIE beneut 20 - ne-
rived from advcrtiSinE in H. columns kill ~
once Be seen.
aITre o. ADTEET1sfEes .
One square q ten lines, or lee, y 7l ~ ~
frsrrfior. and IS 1,rnfs for each Subsequent ia
1erfi0n. Special Notice. in local column, ~
cent pr line. Tne ueuai redectiou vii -
male On monthly and yearly alfer -
mcuu. WIZ
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Law Court OF Memphis.


CLERK's oFFIcE, May 10, 1861.
Thomas W. Saddler. plaintiff, rs. Attachment
Suit. n. T.. Crawford, defendant:
A FFIDAVIT FOR ATTACHMENT HAV-
"A ing been made in this case in pursuance
OF Section 3l5S Of the Code Of Tennessee. and
attachment having been issued and returned
by the proper officer levied, etc." on the
property of the defendant, NJ. p. Crawford, u
i therefore ordered that said defendant appear
at the Court House In the city OF Memphis
Tennessee, on or before the second Monday IN
June next, aud defend this suit, OF the same
will be taken for confessed az % him, and the
case set for hearing cxrartc. and that a cory OF
this order be published once week Tor tour
consecutive weeks in the Pubic LEDGER.
JOHN DONOVAN, Clerk.
BY MASON HYDE, ID. q.
DIXON q HousH, Atty for pl'h. oaE-sl
VAKEN UP-BY w. b. SLOAN, NEAR
Il Cuha. Shelby county. on the - day OF
April, 1857. one brown MULE. nine or ten
years old. valued az slzs;, Also, one sorrei
MARE, five years old. small star IN iorehesd;
valued az $s0. and ported before me on the %
Of April, ISL. ANDREW STEWART.
Ranger shelby Cosg,niy;
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Baggage Checked Through to all Points
afTfI u " +. NfU NANH

Trains arrive at Memphis at $3.50 am and
pm. r.
For Through Tickets and all information.
apply at Ticket Office, No. 237l% Main street,
and at Depot, head Of M in street.
DIV Ifflsf ~ SAM. B. JONES,
$3.50 General Superintendent
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On Saturday, June 10, 1867

T'HE PROPERTY TO BE DISPOSED OF
l consists mainly of CITY AND SUBUR-
BAN LOTS, and of SMALL FARMS, adjacent
to Memphis, in Tennessee and Mississippi.
One Hundred and Five Prizes Of Ten
Acres Each, within five or six miles of Mem
phis.
Plantations subdivided into Farms in the
vicinity of Holly Springs.
Farms and Residences along the Memphis
and Charleston, Mississippi and Tennessee
railroads.
City Lots and City Residences. Some of
the most costly ever constructed in Memphis.
Property assessed by disinterested Real Es-
tate Broker OF cash prices, will be disposed Of
and drawn off from the top of the list, equal in
value TO the amount of tickets sold.
General Frank G. Armstrong, Lesn Trous-
dale, John Ainslie, Louis j. Dupre,. II. M.
Halpin, j. W. Shacklock, and General A. =.
Stewart have been employed by the Stockhold-
ers as intermediate agents between themselves
and the public, to CONDUCT fairly TC the business a,
to be had of the Local Agents, or COL JAMES
STRAIN, fernando, Miss. Orders by mail
accompanied by Postoiice order, may be adj
dressed Gen. FRANK G. ARMSTR0NG,M en-
phis, Tenn. Money letters should be sent by
EXDreSa
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Water Wheels Water Wheels |!
VALENTINES PATENT TURBINE.
v The best in use. Manutactured by Va,,-
entine L Co., Fort Edward, Ny. Prices mod
crate Send for circular. Agents wanted
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WANTED WHERE..SALEsHES,
w LADIES AND GRSTLEMEg-$lOO TO $50
PER MONTH-To sell the genuine Common
Sense Family Sewing Machine. Price only SIS.
This machine will stitch, hem, fell, tuck, bind,
Quilt, braid and embroider. The cloth cannet
be pulled apart, even after, cutting across the
seam every quarter of an inch. Every machine
warranted for three years. Send Tor elreulia,rIs
BIoek, corner Fourth and Green sts., Louisville,
XIV. BLISS & McEATHR0N. General ACTS.
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A Household Necessity.
ONLY TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS!

rpHE STAR SHUTTLE SEWING MA
/ chine. An entirely new iHyenti91-Tnntt,.EEs
ann other Seicing Machine IN the World; PAT
ENTED 1867. 1t uses tlro threads, and makes
SitcI alike on both sides, that lciH not rip or
,mrar,L 1t combines simplicity, durability
and beauty. It is as large as other hrst-ela,,s
machines. A child can learn to work u; ~
will do every variety Of family sewing and tall-
oring. IL will sew from the finest game 70
leather. In order 20 introduce the Star Shuttle
Seioin0 Machine into every household IN the
land. we propose TO furniss them complete,
with one shuttle, six bobbins. a full set OF
needles. oil eau, screw-driyer, directions. etc,
etc. at the unprecedented price Of only !teentD-
Fiee Dollars. on receipt Of which we will box
W. G.. WILSON K CO.,
2el Second street, Memphis, Tenn.
N. Beach Machine warranted for five
years. Persons who order Machines and md
that they are otherwise than represented, can
return them and get their money back.
AGENTS WANTED.
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UlIEMAN's LAUNDRY BLUE, FOR FAM
iIy use. This BlIe is manufactured BY the
well known and old established manufacturers
Of fine eolors, d. I. Tieman 4 Co: II is per-
fectly pure, and needs but to be tried 70 De APP
preciated. Sold by grocers and druggists
throughout the United States.
]. II. TIEMAN. Sole Agent,
$40 Pearl street. New York.
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Ladies, Discard Injurious Paddings.
MADAM JUMEL'S MAMMAkiAL BALM IA
MI and Patent Breast Elevators develop the
form alphabetically. Depot 9OI Broadway,
New York. Send stamp for treatise. Sold at
Drurgists and ladies' furnishing stores.
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Resolved That for the purpose of consolidate
ing the Bonded and other Indebtedness of the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company, and to raise
funds to meet the annual demands upon the
Treasury of the Company for new tracks, add.
tional equipment, enlargement of depots, ex-
tensions of sidings and to meet the legitimate
demands of the traffic of the country drained
by the road Of said Company and It's branches,
for Increased railroad accom- modations, and
also to preserve the proper relation between
the share capital and debts of the Company. the
following financial programme be and the same
is hereby adopted
First That the Bonds of the Pennsylvauia
Railroad Company secured by the First ana
Second Mortgages, and those due the common
wealth issued for the purchase OF the Main Line
of Public Works, and other Indebtedness, be
paid out of the proceeds of, or be retired by,
Bonds to be secured by n Consolidated Mort
gage upon the whole er such portion OF the line
from Philadelphia to PittsbuTg, with It's equip
ment, and for such amount as the President
and Board of Directors may determine. ana the
issue of the Bonds secured thereby shall at no
time exceed the capital stock as the same may
from time to time be increased.
Second. Dividends to be made semi ANNUALLY
of not exceeding four per cent. from the net
profits of the Company, payable in cash, free OF
United states and State taxes, and that stock
dividend of five per cent, based upon profits
already earned, be declared at the regular
dividend term in May next. and thereafter in
addition to the semi-annual cash dividend, a
stock dividend of five per cent. per annum be
declared annually. If the net earnings OF the
Company will warrant the same.
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This is thS result Of the years operations of
your railways and canals after charging all
expenditures for new work and additional roll
ing stock ETC., together with an instalment of
100000 upon the principal of the debt due the
State, ETC., to expense account
The demands upon your Treasury during
this year, in addition to the ordinary expendi-
lures for operating the road, will be about the
same as estimated for 1866 To the comple-
ton of the Connecting Railway, and the in
crease Of facilities for business upon the West
pennsylvania and Pittsburg and Columbus
lines, there will be added the extension of the
Tyrone and Clearfield Branch to the town of
Clearheld, near the centre of the great lumber
and coal region of the Alleghenies.
number of improvements upon the Main
Lane, heretofore deferred in consequence of the
hlgh rates OF wages and materials will not
admit OF further delay; while the road be-
tween Lancaster and Philadelphia, located
before the successful application of locomotive
steam power upon railways, requires extern
slVe alterations III its alignment, to place it in
harmony with the other portions of your
railway.
That portion of this line crossing the high
range OF nills bordering the Great Valley.
commencing near HaverfCFd Colleue and ev
teudng to Valley Creek-a space of over
twenty miles-embraces the worst located
parts OF tAe old line, and requires alterations
which will amount to nearly a new road for
this distance. An appropriation of a quarter
of a million of dollars annually to this object
for few years will make these changes :. the
interest upon which sum will be more than
repaid in the diminished cost of moving and
maintaining the rolling stock of the Company.
Your Directors have alluded in previous
reports to the rapid destruction of iron rails.
and the increased cost of replacing them,
| under the frequent Interruptions to the work
| men from the numerous trains now passing
! over the line. Every effort to materially i'm
| prove the quality of the iron to meet the wants
| of the augmenting traffic of the trunk lines
| having heretofore failed, attention was directed
| to the introduction of steel rails, and with a
view to test their efficiency, the President
while in England, in 1862, ordered few hun
dred tons for trial.
These proved so satisfactory that larger inn
| portations have been made of Bessemer stee
rails, which have entirely confirmed our ex
pectations OF their success. The cost of stee
rails is at present about twice the price of tn,
best iron rails, while their durability is fully
eight times greater. tits confidently believed
however, that with enlarged works, increased
knowledge of the ores required to produce the
best quality of this metal, and greater ex
perience in its production, they will be success
fully manufactured at home, and the price
very largely reduced. At present the demand
is equal to the supply, and prices are main
tanned. Hf.
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ING TELEGRAPH-PHnADELPHA TUESDAY FEBRUARY 19 I8e7

pany, in pursuance Of the policy sanctioned at
your last annual meeting.
II is believed that the growing bituminious
coal and lumber transportation that may be
thrown upon the Pennsylvania Canal, at or
near Huntingdon, will upon its enlargement,
make it profitable investment Above Hun
tngdon It must, in consequence of great
amount Of locl1age, eventually be abandoned
and railway occupy its route, along which
there exists an abundant water power to give
life and activity to large manufacturing popu-
lation.
The earnings of the Philadelphia and Erie
Railroad in 1865 were;-
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The whole number of passengers carried in
ls65 was 2,S6l, S36, and during the past year,
267356S. The average distance travelled by
each passenger was so miles, and the previous
wear III miles this difference being due to
the larger amount of through travel and troops
in 1865.
The nuraber of tons of freigAt moved (in-
cluding 266,359 tons of fuel and other mate
rails transported for the Company was
3. .452, us, embracing l, Alb, lSl tons of COAL
The increase in the coal traffic is 33S, 424 tons,
and the whole tonnage of the road exceeds
that of last year 653,9OS tons, nearly 70 per
cent.
The ordinary expenditures for working and
maintaining the Companys roads We're
$40 6I6 362.17. which is equal to "a per cent.
of their revenues, or, including the expendi-
lures for construction and equipment upon It's
own line. and the outfit of the Philadelphia
and Erie and other railroads, n l2-lOO per
cent.
The earnings of the Companys canals were
From susquehanna s2S3gTs5a55 TS5s5
Miscellaneous sources...-......,..,..' lOolO42
Total earnings SzgI,oo 10
Against Sl8l, ,Ol5'l3 for 1865.
The cost of maintaining, enlarging, and
operating the Canals was -
For Susquehanna 80 80 2iS 2l5 yS ~
Western Divisinnt' ''''''''''' .. l735'55
|
Io'al 49I 20
Showing net profit during 1866 OF
$64 ,429'1S.
Estimating the value of these canals WHOM
purchased at one million of dollars, they w
stand the Company including interest and he
cost of their renewals and enlargement as fan
as it has progressed, at about 81, 100000, fol
which sum they will be sold to the Penpsyl
vania Canal Company fol- stock in said Com
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the resolution annexed to this report, which is
submitted for your approval. II is believed
that, in addition to cash dividends, a dividend
of per cent. in stock may be declared an
nually under any ordinary condition of the
country, and still leave an ample surplus to
the credit of profit and loss TO preserve the
property of the Company at its present high
standard of efficiency and value.
The responsibilities assumed by this Com
pany, through the endorsement of the bonds
of other railroad corporations, are confined to
the first mortgages of the Philadelphia and
Erie Railroad Company, amounting to five
millions of dollars, the Western Pennsylvania
Railroad Company for eight hundred thousand
dollars, and the Connecting Railroad Company
for one million of dollars. In the two last
named companies the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company is also the owner of nearly all their
share capital, and upon the first it has a lease
for 999 years
The Connecting Railway has been leased to
the Philadelphia and Trenton and Camden and
Amboy Railroad Companies for legal interest
upon its whole cost, which wiz be twice the
amount of coupons falling due upon the issue
of its bonds so guaranteed.
The nett revenues of the Western Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company, since its extension to
Pittsburg, have been sufficient to meet its in
terest, and these must continue to increase,
while the thirty per cent. due to the Philadel-
lease and first applicable to the payment of
the coupons upon their bonds, is already
largely in excess of the amount required for
this object. 1t will therefore be seen that the
revenues of these Companies are amply sufh-
cient to meet the interest upon the bonds so
endorsed, and that they cannot become a
charge upon the nett revenues of this Com
pany.
The bonds of these railroad companies, with
the exception of 81, ,200,0 900 of those of the
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company, were
endorsed after their purchase by this Com
pany, and were so endorsed to secure a better
market price for this Company when sold
by it.
The propriety of selling the bonds of lines
aided by this Company, either with or without
its endorsement, is questionable, inasmuch as
better results can be obtained by the use OF
the direct credit of the Company. Hitherto,
however, there has been no alternative, as the
powers of the Company have been too circum-
scribed to act upon such policy.
The earnings and expenses of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, and the roads worked by it,
except the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, were
for 1866 as fOllOWs:-
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a successful manager of the important depart
ment committed to his charge.
The acknowledgements of the Board are due
TO the officers of the Company generally, for
the prompt and efficient manner in which the
business of the line has been conducted during
the past year.
BY order of the Board,
j. EDGAR THOMPSON,
President
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GOVERNMENT SALES.

T ARGE SALE OF ARMY CLOTHIN
DEPOT QUARTERMAsTER's OFFICE,
BALTIMORE Md, February 6, 1867.
Will be sold at Public Auction, In the city
of Baltimore (at Government Storehouse No.
l20 5. EUTAW Street) on WEDNESDAY, IL
M, February q, 1867, q lot of
ARMY CLOTHING,
consisting OF
3478 NEW YORK JACKETS,
OF irregular pattern, and otherwise unsuited for
issue to troops.
BY reason of its long retention in store, the
material is in some instances more or less
damaged.
Sale will take place in lots to suit purchasers.
Terms-Cash in Government funds on day of
SALE
Three days allowed to remove purchases.
By order of the Quartermaster- General,
A. S. KIMBALL,
Captain and Assistant Quartermaster u. s. A,
Depot Quartermaster.
ADREON, THOMAS g. CO.,
No. Is S. CHARLES Street,
27l7t Auctioneers,
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GALE OF DAMAGED CLOTHING AND

GALE OF DAMAGED CLOTHING AND
y EQUIPAGE.
NEW YORK, February s, 1867
VIII be sold at Public Auction, on account
of the United States, at the Depot of Army
Clothing and Equipage, corner of Laight and
Washington streets, in New York city, on
WEDNESDAY, the goth of February, 1867, at
IL o'clock A. NJ, and will be continued from day
to day until all are sold the following named
articles of damaged clothing and equipage-
Woollen blankets, greatcoats, blouses uni.
form coats, bedsacks, shirts. drawers, greatcoat
straps, knapsacks, stockings, stocks, trousers,
knives, forks, spoons plates tin cups, hats caps,
boots, shoes, brass articles. musical instruments
cap covers, etc. etc.
samples of the articles may be seen. -.
Terms-Cash, in Government fundsi ten per
cent. down, and the balance before the goods
are taken from the Depot, which must be within
three days from day of sale, under forfeiture OF
the purchase and the ten per cent.
BreVet Brigadter- General ID, H. VINTON,
299t Assistant @. M.-General, u. 8. A.
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! MPoRTANT SALE OF GOVERNMENT

/ IMPORTANT SALE OF GOVERNMENT
i VESSEL
DEPOT QUARTERMAsTER's OFFICE,
BALTIMORE, Nd,
January 80, 1867.
VIII be sold at Public Auction, at the port of
Baltimore (Henderson's Wharf, East Balu-
more), on THURSDAY, IL M, February 28,
SUPERB SIDE-WEEEL STEAMER
COSMOPOLITAN,
of 779 tons; length, 225 feet breadth or beam, 81
feet; depth of hold l3 feet; cylinder 30 inches
and ii feet stroke
this steamer, to persons desiring TO purchase o
really first-class vessel.
She is of light draught, the engine and boiler
are in most excellent cohultlon, and the hull
perfectly sound and strong.
II is believed that, for Size and build the cos
MOPOLITAN surpassas any vessel hitherto
offered by Government for sale at this port
Terms-Cash, in Government funds, on day OF
sale
Further particulars may be learned ON appli-
cation to the undersigned, or to the,Auction-
eers Messrs ADREON, THOMAS Il Co. NO. Is
Sou1h CHARLES Street. N - 49,
BY order OF the QuarJermaster- General.
A. 8, KIMBALL,
captain and A. O. M, u. s. A.
22t2 Depot tOuart0rmAsteA
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This loss is largely to be attributed to the
bad condition of the older bridges erected by
the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company
over the Susquehanna, and the unfinished
character of the work generally upon the
whole line.
The passenger travel has fallen off during
the year. in sympathy with that of nearly all
of the other railways of the country. To this
general depression this line has also had added
to it the loss of travel from the decay of the
speculative excitement of the oil region, while
the same train accommodation has to be main
tanned.
The tonnage of the Philadelphia and Erie is
mostly made up of cheap products that can
only be moved at low rates of transportation,
which, under the existing condition of the bust
ness of the country, are inadequate to meet
the cost of their movement at the percentage
stipulated in the lease of the road. This traffic
has been quite irregular during the past year.
though in the aggregate it has largely in
creased over that of 1865 and must continue
to grow with the increase of the population of
the region traversed, while the relative trans
portation expenses can only be reduced by
this enlargement of its business and a fall in
the prices of labor and materials.
Arrangements are being made to increase
the business of the road by the establishment
of line of steamers between Erie and the
other lake ports, under the patronage of this
Company, with anticipations of successful
results.
The future of this great work is very en-
couraging, but its traffic, as in all other similar
projects, will require the application of capital
and time to develop. The transportation
facilities are ample for the accommodation of
the business that can be offered to it during
the present year.
The whole of the revenue of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company from its several lines
is as follows, VIII
From the Pennsylvania Railroad and
$50 SS2 81
From the Pennsyl vania s......... 297 'l6
From the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad 25Il 05l7S
| $l9,422 S0l'7g
| And the expenses of operating the lines
| are-
| Pennsylvania Railroad ordi-
nary $40 ,S6217
| PennsylVania Railroad extra
| ordinary .n..................... 2,l74547lO
| Pennsylvania Canal. .....,....... 233, ,437'98
| Phada ana Erie Railroad. 2OS6 974'53
| Thirty per cent. reserved to
| pay taxes and interest on
| debt of Philadelphia and
| Erie Railroad Company... 73273S80
| - s15. .8Il OsO'S
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MILLINERY, TRIMMINGS, ETC.
SPLENDID OPENING OF FALL AM

-NRA SPLENDID OPENING OF FALL AN
~%S$ WINTER sTYLEs.-MR M A. BINDER
~T" NO 1Ga r, CHEsNUT Street, PhiladelPhIA,
CLOAK TRIMMINGS. Also an elegant stock Of
Imported Paper Patterns for Ladies and Childre g
varieties Ladies furnishing their rich and costly
heir work finished in the most prompt and effi-
cient manner at the lowest possible prices twenty
fou hours notice. Cutting and basting Patterns In
sets by the single piece for merchants and dress
makers, now ready. 920 6m
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From which deduct payments made dur
ing the year to the shareholders of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company for
dividends, 91,737 .969; the balance to debit
of Interest and coupon account, $780,
S59'57; the amount due to the Harrisburg
and Lancaster Railroad Company
lease, $l35, ,274lS; the taxes on dividends
and coupons, S43s, ,S55'57 and the annual
sum OF $160,nO0, due to the State of Penn
sylVania for the purchase of the main
line of public works, amounting in all
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