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, 1867-11-29

In the midst of our Affections it is al
ways consoIing to know that dire distress
is not upon us. Raiment and food arc
obtainable. If the regular marketing is
not done, there is always a sufficient
supply of Hams, Cheese, Butter, Sau-
sages, Preserved Meats, Sardines, Bis
cults, Pilot Bread, Salt Beet, &c, &c.
to meet immediate wants. TO those in
more immediate need the Police have
been daily serving out Biscuits, Salt Fish,
Herrings, Corn Meal, &c. The Bakeries
have done nobIy, their Ovens work, even
when danger threatens them.
, 1867-11-29

the vessels that were upset or driven on
shore, with the loss of life. The United
States war-steamer De Soto which was in
the harbour, Immediately proceeded TO lis
mouth in the hope Of saving the lives of
those that were on board the vessels that
capsized in that vicinity, and we believe
was partly successful.
, 1867-11-29
Roym Insurance Agency St. Crox 18th November 1867.
NEW TARIFF OF FIRE RATES.

The very serious losses which have occurred of late Years in many of the West
Indian towns have demonstrated beyond QueSton the iadeQuatmess OF the existing scale
of m@6 for places in which buildings wholly or partly Of timber are congr@ted together
and have induced the offices to consider the whole question anew, he rSult being a very
moderate increase upon som of the inferior classes in town. uhs the Country Rates are
reduced as foHms:
IN TOWN.
, 1867-11-29

buildings whether occupied As DNclHng-houseS, warehouses;, stores,
o. ccs, or for any other purpose
The erternaI Walls being constructed
/. Entirely Of Timber !.
OF Brick and Timber, whether wholly or
part Of Brick-noggin, or the lower part
of Brick or Stone and the upper part
OF IlmDef
2. OF Iron
3. OF Brick or Stone, and if adjoining any
other Building, having a perfect Division.
Wall of Brick OF Stone
/. Ditto ditto ditto =.
Warranted not to have any Wooden
Verandah or other External Wood
work to any part Of the Building =
). Ditto ditto ditto i.
Warranted also that the Doors and
Shutters to all the openings in the
Outer Walls are of solid Iron, not
Wood cascd with Iron --.........
, 1867-11-29

u Important Ghue. The Royal Mail
Steam Packet Company's Ship Danube,
arrived on Monday night from Havana.
The Gable news from London to New
York and New York to Havana, announ-
ccs under date 4th November, that it was
rumoured that the sale of the Danish
West India Islands had been concluded
with the United States for $l4,O 900 600.
The news of the hurricane of goth ulti-
mo, sent to Havana by j. B. CAMERON,
Esquire, General Superintendent of the
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, to
be transmitted by the Cable was known
in London on the 5th inslant.-U.d, Nor
ember 13.
, 1867-11-29

buildings whether occupied as Dwelling houses, Warehouses, Stores,
0. cs, or for any other purpose.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-02-28
A Snake In a Stove.

We learn that gentleman residing in
our town, some few weeks ago, purchased
lot of old, condemned sleepers, from
the railroad company for the purpose Of
using them as frewood. They were &C.
cordingly conveyed to his residence, and
sawed in suitable lengths for the stove
and were used as fuel, and as such gave
great satisfaction, until one evening the
good wife placed one of the pieces in the
stove, when very strange and remark
able occurrence happened. Shortly after
placing the wood in the stove, her atten-
ton was attracted by singular noise in
the room, not unlike the crying of a
child or the moaning Of person in dis
tress, and upon searching for the cause
of it, ascertained that it proceeded from
the stove, and becoming somewhat
alarmed, called in her husband and ae-
quainted him Of the matter. The gentle
man at once advanced to the stove, and
upon opening the door strange and
fearful sight met his gaze--right in the
midst of the blazing flames was large
black snake writhing in agony and utter
ing the piteous noise which had drawn.the
attention of the lady. The snake slowly
crawled out of the stove and dropped on
the floor veritable fiery serpent, and
in few seconds expired The snake
had doubtless entered a cavity in the
sleeper in the fall, and relapsing into
torpid state, was only aroused when en-
by the flame. HanOser( Pa. J
Spectator.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-02-28

lessness, rather than from over-conf'
dence. For instance, the Franklin Re
pieio this week sums up the situation in
this view:
In Tennessee at present, white men
can not vote on account Of the Franchise
Law, which looks alone to the welfare
Of negroes-they can not act out their
feelings on account Of the Loyal Mil.
itia BILL" which was passed in order to
bind hand and foot Of the white popula'
ton, leaving them at the mercy Of the
blacks, and they will soon be unable to
speak on account of the Gag Law" the
object Of which is to prevent those in
power from hearing the truth, and to
prevent the world from knowing the cor
rect status of our State. Liberty in
Tennessee is forever dead
Do we read aright2 Is liberty dead
in Tennessee 2-,.forerer dead2 Away
with such promptings of despair2 Our
case is certainly. desperate--each day
makes it worse. But can it not be rem
edied Why, we've not yet made even
one united effort Let these melancholy
forebodings be held in allegiance at least
until we have proved our manhood and
our right to freedom by the adoption and
execution Of. some feasible policy.
The McMinnville Era speaks in a
similar strain, though less doleful. There
is germ of hope in its utterances:
The letters to freedom in Tennessee
are fast being pinioned on our limbs, and
the people have no power to save them
selves through the regular channel.
Truly, the prospect to freedom in Ten.
nessee is dark, and ominous clouds still
gathering. If the people of our State
have any vestige of patriotism left to
warm their hearts and cause hot blood
to avenge so great wrongs, we know not
what they may be driven to by this never
ceasing oppression and subversioA of
their rights. The people are wickedly
wronged and prosecuted by this Jacobin
party, yet there has been no fault found
in them; they are now being led like
sheep to the shsmbles, still their spirit is
submissive. How long this may be the
case, we know not. Let the blood be
upon the hands of our oppressors. "
Gazette.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-02-28
LET US ORGANIZE.

Minorities always work harder than
maiorities, because they desire to get the
aseenSance, and tits by persistent effort,
feeble st first but growing stronger all
the while, that eventually they become
dominant, even though the principles
held BY the minorities may be erroneous
Maiorities feel secure in their numbers,
and. like a man who ceases to take care
Of bis fortune after be makes It, let their
organization 20 10 rack, and become in
different and inefficient DisOrganization
and inactiOn is IA prevalent evil over
the South now. Nine-tenths Of the peo-
ple are Of one sentiment, and they are so
Indifferent that IL Is hard to get up
county meeting, or pay any attention TO
a canvass Eternal vigilance is the price
Of liberty; we ought TO haae thorough
organization Of Conservatives in every
county in the State.
Thss speaks a Southern eotemporary
concerning the political situation Of Ala
hama State wherein the local govern
ment is controlled BY the people. Every
word OF il may be repeated with the more
emphasisin Tennessee, because here We
are ruled BIZ a party whose want Of prin
ciple is only equaled By their Want Of
consistency. Our majority, hoFever,
appears 10 be inactive rom utter hope
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-02-28

From the indianapolis Journal, 22d.l
About ten weeks since some Of our
readers may remember notice OF the
severe mutilation Of both hands Of. Mt
William A. Pope, a laboring man, living
on Huron street, in an encounter with a
dog supposed to be rabid, on Virginia
avenue. Mr.. ?. fought the animal until
he succeeded in cutting iis throat with a
pocket knife. receiving several severe
bites in both hands and fore arms. The
usual remedies we're applied, and the
wound some time since healed over, and
no apprehension, except probably mo-
mentary uneasiness, ever troubled Mr..
Pope or his wife.
Day before yesterday the man expert
enced 4 slight feeling Of lassitude, and
took 10 his bed, although not suspecting
anything serious His nerves soon be
came excited, especially upon the sp-
pearance and taste q water, and the
horrible suspicion Of hfdrophohia siernly
forced itself. upon bin. Mr. Pope Is as
sane and healthy as any one can be, at
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-02-28
VOL III MEMPHIS TENNESSEE. THURSDAY EVENING, FEI

all times, except when water is seen by
or offered TO him, when a tiemor passe,
over his body, and he bags most piteously
TO have the liquid removed.
Yesterday his physician, DIR. Selman,
in company with DR.. Todd, called upon
him aud conversed for some time, en-.
deavoring TO convince him that the man
ifestations were but the result of an over.
strained mind, and repeatedly attempted
to have him taste water, but uniformly
with a tremor, and implored them to re-
move the glass if they did not wish to
aggravate his sufferings.
Although at present, or at least last
night, Mr.. Popes case was not one OF
confirmed hydrophobia, still it is the
opinion Of his medical attendants that
tho case will so develop itself 1t is one
Of the saddest, painful and most remark
able cases we have had to record since
the opening Of our fatal season of rabid
dogs and hydiophobic diseases.
The same paper of yesterday gives the
following particulars Of the death Of the
unfortunate man:
lat DEATH OF Mr.. POPE.
AS we feared, Mr.. w, A. Pope died on
Saturday night at 10 o'clock, from the
effects OF bites received from dog some
ten weeks ago, the full particulars Of
which we gave in Saturdays Journal
From Mr.. Melvin Rollins and Mr.. Hew.
EFT, neighbors of the deceased, we learn
that the hylrophobic symptoms contin-
ued strongly marked up to the hour of
death, going so far as to compel him to
refuse even grain of coffee, which might
excite the reaction of saliva. He was
rational until within half hour Of his
death, fully impressed with his danger
GUS condition, but withal cheerful and
contented. He was but forty-iivo years
of age, and leaves wife and grown up
son,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-02-28
LUMBER /! LUMBER | I!
.I 30 m
Large and Well Assorted Stock of
Cypress and Poplar Lumber
AT G. M. vENABLEs sAw-MILL.

AT @. M. VENABLE'S SAW-MILL.
WE HAVE NOW ON HAND AND ARE
wv constantly saving Cypress and Poplar
Raiters, Bridging Strips, IL " and 2-inch clear
Cypress and Poplar Plank, rough Flooring aud
Weatherboarding, common inch Plank, Sheet
ing, Fencing and Fence Posts, Pickets. Laths
and Shingles, which will be sold at favorable
prices to CASH purchasers.
Dimension Timbers sawed to order. Orders
filled on short notice. Teams always at hand
and strict attention given TO the delivery of
Lumber.
Mills and Lumber Yard on WOLF river, fin
mediately north of Bayou Gayoso, Memphis,
Tennessee.
30 GKO. C. q JOS. VENABLE, Agents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-02-28
ASSETS. JULY !. 1886
A.s.sssss soc
Loss by Portland Fire, July 4th

VNHE total amount covered by the Ktna Poli-
4 cies on property destroyed or damaged is
500. 1854. on which salvage will be about five
per cent. Our total loss will not vary much
from 500 0O0, and was promptly adjusted and
paid. This sum is five per cent. upon the Com
pany's assets, a figure but slightly exceeding
our Government and State taxes paid last year,
or a proportion equal to IS 200 loss for COM
pany Of $4,000 assets.
The necessity for insurance and the value of
wealthy, strong corporations is forcibly IL
lustrated by this Gre. Several weak insurance
companies are destroyed. Portland has a
population OF S5.000-was handsomely built,
mostly fine brick or stone structures-protected
and screened with UPWARD of g. 900 shade troes--
bounded on three sides by water-indeed,
literally, almost rising from the ocean--and
with steam fire department-yet it has $l0,-
OOO,OOO of property consumed in a few hours
upon holiday when its people are least occu-
pied-from the very insignificant cause of
contemplate frecraeker.
Remember the triaing origin of fires that
sweep away in few hours the earnings of
years. Consider your best interest and give the
Rtna Agent q call if you need proper insur-
ance security. Pay a 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
10 by Ii. A. LITTLETON & CO., Ag'ts,
is No. AS Front street. up stairs.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-02-28
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TUPELo. MISSISSIPPI.

A THRIVING AND FAST IMPROVING
n town, situated on the Mobile and OHIO
railroad, in one of the best cotton growing re-
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munieation with Mobile, Memphis and Colum-
bus, Ky. Therefore. the North Mississippidn,
as an advertising medium, presents great in
ducements to merchants and business men
generally. 4-52
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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-18
The Passage of the Military Reconstruct
tiOn Bill by the Senate.

TEE session of the Senate which commenced
on Saturday was prolonged until half-past six
O'Clock yesterday morning, when Mr. Stevens
bill for the more efficient government of the
Rebel States, after having been amended in
several particulars, was passed by a vote of 20
to 10.
The bill, as it finally passed the Senate, COM
bines the features of both the Stevens and
Eliot bills that had previously passed the
House. The chief amendments made by the
Senate are, first, to give the President the ap-
pointment of the commanders for the several
military districts provided by the bill, instead
of bestowing the selection upon the General of
the army; secondly, to strike out the section
which prohibited United States courts from
issuing writs of habeas corpus on petition of
any one arrested in the Rebel States and,
thirdly, the addition of the following section,
which is a modification of the Blaine amend
ment:-
'SeGton 5. That when the people of any one of
the said Rebel States shall have formed a con-
stitution for their government In conformity
with the Constitution OF the United States in
all respects, framed by convention OF dele
gates elected by the male citizens of said State
twenty-one years old and upwards, of what
ever race, color or previous condition, who have
been resident in said State for one year previ-
Gus to the day of such election except such as
may be disfranchtsed Tor participation in the
rebellion or for felony at common law; and
when such constitution shall provide that the
elective franchise shall be enjoyed by all such
persons as have the qualifications herein stated
for electors OF delegates, and when such consti-
tuition shall be ratified by majority of the per-
sons voting on the question of ratification who
are qualified as electors for delegates, and when
such constitution shall have been submitted to
Congress for examination and approval and
Congress shall have approved the same and
when said State, by vote OF its Legislature
elected under said constitution, shall have
adopted the amendment to the Constitution of
the United States proposed by the Thirty-uinth
Congress, and known as article Ia, and when
said article shall have become a part of the
Constitution of the United States, said State
shall be declared entitled to represen tation in
Congress, and Senators and Representatives
shall be admitted therefrom on their taking the
oath prescribed by law, and then and thereafter
the preceding sections OF this act shall be in
operative in said State"
The bill will be taken up in the House
to-day. It's fate there is somewhat doubtful
as there is much opposition among the Re-
publicans to the fifth section. Still, as the
bill as it finally passed the Senate is accept
able to the active Republican strength in that
body, we presume it will be adopted by the
House, especially as any disagreement be-
tween the two bodies now would throw the
whole matt er over to the next Congress.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-18
The Speech of the Emperor.

THE address of Louis Napoleon in opening the
French Chambers treats of European and
American affairs with vagueness truly de-
lightful. If the science of diplomacy consists
in non-committalism, and if ''words were in
vented, ",as Taleyrand tells us, 'to conceal, not
to convey ideas" the speech is the best of dip
Iomatic and rhetorical documents. In regard
to foreign topics, we can see, 'as through
glass darlzly," what the Emperor intends to
state, but when we reach Mexico and the
United States, the Cretan labyrinth is soluble
compared with the sentences as telegraphed
by the agent of the Associated Press. Talk
about the dubious meaning of the Sybil-
line books, these paragraphs far surpass them
for while the Sybil only gave sentences that
could be understood either afirmatively ornega-
lively, the Associated Press gives despatch
which makes about as much sense if read
backward or forward:-
"In another part OF the globe we have been
obliged TO employ force to redress legitimate
grievances The happy results at first obtained
were compromised by an inauspicious concur
renee OF circumstances. The guiding idea OF
the Mexican expedition was an elevated one
to regenerate q people, and implant among
them the ideas Of order and progress; to open
vast outlets to our commerce, and leave the
to mark our path. Such was my desire and
yours; but as soon as the extent of our sacrifices
appeared to me to exceed the interests Whlcn
had called us across the ocean, spontaneously
determined upon the recall of our army corps,
that the Government of the United States
might comprehend that want of Cancellation
had embittered relations which, for the welfare
of both countries, should remain friendly"
:. The legitimate meaning of the despatch is
that the relations between France and the
United States are not friendly. But we cannot
think that such was the sentiment Of the
address, for it is only few weeks since we
had the assurance of the French Minister that
the feelings between the two Governments
were of the most amicable character. The "~fn-
auspicious concurrence of circumstances re-
ferred to is a neat name for the success of the
North and the continued unity of the American
republic 1t is very probable that the address
as delivered was clear and satisfactory, but
certain it is that, as it comes to us, we must
view it either as having no bearing, or else as
declaring that the present feeling between the
United States and the Empire is anything but
friendly-a condition of circumstances directly
. opposed to the truth. The rest of the address
avors the maintenance of Austria and the COM
pulsory subjugation of Crete, on condition that
the Porte will guarantee to its Christian sub
iects their rights and religious belief.l
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-18

ERRORS IN THE PRINTED BBLE.-A London
paper notices a curious misprint in one of the
editions of the New Testament printed at Ok
ford. where the word "glad' was converted
into "clad" The person who detected the
error received the reward of one guinea which
the Oxford press offers for such discovery.
1t is an extraordinary fact that, with this
standing offer of a reward, and all the vigi-
lance of readers,s Sunday School teachers, and
scholars, this error of single letter is the only
one that has been detected in upwards of sixty
different editions.