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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-02-13
PETER MARTINS
PATENT lRON-CLAD
WARM AIR FURNACE,
FOR WARNING
Dwellings, Stores, Churches, School Buildings,
Halls, Court ouses, Public Buildings
Of all kinds &C..
Rcplenished with Fuel but once week requiring
less Fuel than any other Air Furnace ever
before invented.
Pure, Even, UnbuTnt Atmosphere,
Night and Day, without the
Usual Trouble ana At
tentiOn.
CONTINUANCE,

DY AN INGENIOUS CONTINUANCE,
ID originating with the inventor of this Furnace,
all tho cold air is made TO pass through water its
way to the cold air chamber. thus cleansing it of
every particle Of dust, that it enters the room
pure as though il was on the mountains top. Ply
sicians praise IL, and recommend il on account Of
its health-imp ITting tendency.
The amount of Fuel required by this Furnace to
warm dwelling Of from nine to thirteen rooms, is
no greater than is required by one CRATE; and it
gives an even, summer like temperature, night and
day, in all parts Of the house.
After several seasons use, this Furnace has fully
established its claim as the most desirable Warm
ing and Ventilating Apparatus in use. Burning
anthracite or bitumnOus coal, coke or wood equally
we'll. upon the true principle o ecOnomy-sow
combustion Of large mass of fuel-it secures an
evenness and freshness of temperature. a steady
Aow Of pure, clean, nnburnt air, night and day,
while the furnace itself will not burn out or require
repairs for many years. The correctness of the
above is certified to oy the written testimonials Of
many leading citizens Of this and other cities, which
will be furnished with illustrated descriptive
pamphlet, price list, &c., upon application by mail
or at Nos. l49 and Isl West Fifth street, Cincinnati
Ohio. PETER MARTIN,
dec24-d3m Inventor aud Manufacturer.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-02-13

STATEMENT of the condition Of the REPUBLIC
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, of the city Of
New York, on the 3lst day OF December. 1886, in
conformity with the laws of the State of Ohio.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04

Bd- The Cincinnati Commercial Of
Saturday says; ut rained hard and
steady here yesterday, from an early
hour until 2 o'clock in the afternoon,
with the wind from the east and north
east, finally shifting around to the north
west, bringing few fakes Of snow, and
turning freezing cold, the wind blowing
gale last night, and making ice. The
storm is general throughout the West,
from St Louis to the Alleghenies and
the Lakes. Snow fell to the depth Of
six inches at st. Louis and Chicago yes
terday. The Ohio river is rising slowly
from Pittsburg to Louisville, but we fear
the cold weather will soon dry it up
again, fit does not make sufficient ice
to suspend navigation. Several steamers
will commence loading for Memphis and
New Orleans to-day, however"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04
s@- A Washington correspondent of

R@r A Washington correspondent Of
the Philadelphia Press says;
We could fill columns with the ex.
tracts of letters from distinguished cor
respondents calling upon. Congress to
take hold of the financial question at
the earliest moment, There is emphatic
unanimity in their sentiments. Writing
from different States, they employ the
same arguments and reach the same
conclusions. One of them says:
No case of duty and policy ever was
palmer than that the Republican Con-
gress should promptly take hold of this
question. In Chicago and all the North
west the rate of interest is fifteen per
cent, and currency is only plenty in the
few great money centres. 1t is notori-
ously insufficient for the present bust.
ness of the people. What this deficiency
will be when the South is thoroughly re-
constructed and made prosperous and
productive by contented and improving
laboring class, and the mighty Pacific
railroad is finished, none can tell.
Nothing but the blindest stupidity can
prevent any man from anticipating this
state of things. 1t is unnecessary to un.
dertake the speedy payment of the ma
tional debt, which will be absorbed by the
increased business Of the country, and in
ten years we shall hardly feel the burden.
"And we must in some way get rid of
the odium of the non-taxability of the
debt. This exemption hurts US amazingly
and cannot be remedied while the present
debt remains unpaid. But we can con-
soldate the debt into long bonds, princi-
pal and interest expressly payable in
coin, so as to remove all question on
that point The law should declare that
bonds in the hands of resident holders
should not be exempt from equality of
taxation with other personal property.
Such bonds irredeemable for, say, forty
years, payable in sterling money
in Europe at FIVE per cent. inter-
est, could be negotiated there,
and six per cent dollar bonds payable
here and negotiable here. With the
proceeds pay off the existing debt. With
such law the debt would soon be
merged into the new bonds, and thus
escape all trouble on the tax question.
Congress ought to take up these ques-
tions at once, and press them rapidly
forward. Business is dull; the labor
demand declining; taxes enormous
prices of living very high; and all me-
chanics, laboring men, and persons of
moderate incomes have hard work to
live
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04
Child Killed by a Rat,

About two weeks ago an infant in this
city was attacked and bitten in the night
by a rat. When the child, which was
about two months old, received the
wound, it screamed, and awoke the pa
rents, who discovered the wound near the
temple. 1t did not bleed, but begun to
swell, and finally the little sufferer was
attacked with erysipelas, from which it
suffered about ten days, and then died,
in spite of the utmost exertions of the
physicians, We forbear to mention
names, in Difference to the feelings of the
afflicted family, who are stepped in grief
at the sufferings and death of the dear
little babe.
The infant was asleep in a cradle at
the time of the attack, and the rat,
with which the house, and probably the
neighborhood, abounds, is supposed to
have been one of the large rodent nam.
mails peculiar to all seaport cities. There
are large numbers of this species in this
city, which are supposed to have been
imported in vessels from some foreign
and more southern clime,-Nortoik Day
Book
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04
A Haytien Witness Against Gen. Howard

1
In one of his recent addresses, General
Howard drew a picture of the South
converted into paradise by the hands
of the pupils of the Freedmen's Bureau,
educated by that institution into models
of agricultural industry and thrift. tits
the amiable anticipation of the .pious
head of the Bureau that when the South
ern States are properly reconstructed" ="
the landed estates of their white people
will be broken up into small farms by a
school tax so intolerable as to compel
proprietors to sell TO colored people on
terms suitable to the latter.
This accomplished, new and paradis.
ical era is to begin. He tells the country
to look forward to the event with atis-
| faction and await-Fesults with confidence.
But he is by no means precise In point
ing out the nature of the results that are
to follow, and we would be remitted to
loose conjecture in this regard, did we not
have before our minds some examples
elsewhere of a condition of things SINH
lar to that which General Howard is
bent on establishing in the South. One
of these examples is the nigritian portion
of Africa; another is Jamaica. But
Hayti is the one which especially COM
mends Itself to notice in this connection,
from the fact that we have the testimony
of an intelligent and outspok Ken Haytien
witness, a colored man, the editor Of Lc
Psuple, newspaper of Port au Prince,
as to the effects of making his race un-
conditional lords of the soil with every
earthly encouragement and aid to be-
come of all the world the most success
ful agricuturists. Listen to the oolored
editor of the Haytien newspaper! 1t
might we'll be questioned" he says, that
Hayti, in the midst Of the best conditions
in the world for producing everything
from her own resources, is notwithstand-
iHg, by combination Of sinister circum-
stances, absolutely wanting in every
thing What must be- the inference,
then, of one who dispassionately looks
at the matter2 1t is that this soil so
highly favored by nature, lacks an in
dispensable element, and this population,
intelligent and well meaning, lacks a
desire and will This element is labor
this desire is to do; this will is to sue
ceed"
The colored journalist is especially
indignant at the decay in Hayti of sugar
production, in which at one time it sur
passed all the other West India islands.
" Is it not, in fact, deplorable," be says, |
to see an island so remarkable for its
fertility, country which once pro-
duced by itself as much sugar as all |
the surrounding colonies united, draw
ing from abroad the sugar needed for its
own eNnsumption, when it need import |
nothing but what its soil and its indus
try cannot supply, such objects as are
necessary TO the manufacture Of sugar,
like the air which we do not produce,
5ut which, to support life, We must
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04
RevOltipg Di.covorio. in Mexico City.

Mexican Correspondence of n. o. Picayane.l
A company of Frenchmen are engaged
on very singular enterprise in this city,
which partakes very much of the charac.
ter of the Martha's Vineyard search
after hidden treasure The parties spoken
of have purchased the old convent San
Domingo, and are at work excavating
tunnels beneath the same, hunting for
treasure supposed to have been put in
secret vaults, said to exist there, by the
Catholic priests some years ago. They
have already made the discovery of an
underground passage leading from the
convent to the massive pile Of buildings
known as the Inquisition, standing on
the opposite side Of the street. Several
bodies have been exhumed already,
which bear the appearance Of having
been buried alive. They have thus far
been found inel0sed in the walls. One
was in perfect state Of preservation,
and had the appearance Of having been
a man Of rank His clothes even we're
almost wholly intact, and we're richly
embroidered 10 gold. The priests Of the
city are greatly annoyed at these reve-
aitons, and have made many efforts to
stop them.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04

borrow from the atmosphere" Kfler
further remarks, this Hayden journalist
concludes that it is only by awakening
in the colored people Of Hayti moral
force not now manifest, that the island
can be saved from relapsing into viii.
derness and its inhabitants into barba-
rism. Without this moral force" he
observes. (which these robust laborers
lack, what remains for their mere brutal
force to do but glut passions which long
continued idleness engenders "
We trust that Gen. Howard, when here.
after sketching his anticipated paradise
in the South, will, for the sake Of truth,
if not of poetry, fill up his outlines with
illustrations drawn from the realities of
Hayt.-M o. Crescent
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04
Hitch in the Entertainment.

The entertainment which was to have
been opened at Richmond yesterday, was
postponed in consequence of the non
arrival of Judge Chase, one of the stars
who has been detained in Washington
assisting in the preliminaries of another
farce, which will be brought out next
week, under the title of Impeachment
There is some doubt at present whether
the managers of the Richmond theater
will not conclude to abandon their show,
on account of the small patronage it is
likely to receive. Several performers
and spectators who went on from New
York and elsewhere, have already init
mated willingness to take their money
baek.-Albany Journal (Rep.l
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04

HAp The six Boston theaters received
1899, ,524 during the year ending October
3lst, and the whole amount spent for
public amusement in the city exceeds
81, 100000 Eleven months of the Bos-
ton Theater resulted in $270,796, or
nearly twice as much as any of its rivals.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04

Berthe Atlanta correspondent of the
New York Times writes that Gen. Pope
and j. E. Brown have a draft of con-
stitution ready "cut and dried" which
will be submitted to the Convention at
an early day, and that its joint author
ship will secure its adoption by suff :
cient majority.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04

t6sr Richard Bradley, aged eighty.one
q jeweler in Hartford, Conn, was muir
dered, on the evening of the 2S:h ult,
by an English thief named John Brook;
and a coloRd man named Alexander
Henry. They also robbed the store
Both were arrested.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04

I@- In Pierceton, Indiana, Friday,
q negro went to the house of Mrs. j. S.
Baker, respectable married lady,
threatened her life and ravished her. He
was pursued, but had not been captured
up to Friday evening. The outrage
caused great excitement in the village.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04

CHEF JUSTICE CHAsE has declined
attending the court at Richmond, where
Mr. Davis was to be tried, on the plea
that his duties at Washington required
his undivided attention. He says be has
no objections to officiating when it can
be done without interfering with his other
duties, but that he does not consider it
the duty of the Chief Justice to preside
over the circuit courts. Now all this
means that Judge Chase is a candidate
for the Presidential nomination, and is
afraid of the effects of deciding either
way upon the points that would arise in
Mr. Davis case. Among the misfortunes
of the times is that of having a politician
for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Louisville Courier.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04

E9- The Tuscumbia Times says Gen.
Weitzel, in charge of the Tennessee river
survey, was in that place last Friday,
and represents that he has made salts
factory progress. The party were en-
gagged on the Muscle Shoals last week,
and are about TO commence work on
Colbert Shoals.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04

19. The Chicagoans are making big
fuss over Weston, the pedestrian. He
walked from Portland, Maine, to Chicago
in twenty-five days, making an average
of fifty two miles per day. Weston made
a speech at the Opera House, and is
reaping quite harvest of dollars. He
proposes lecturing tour through the
country
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04

H6s- A negro named Fred. Crow has
been arrested, charged with numbering
Mr.. Frank Rawles, near 0kolona Miss,
an account of which we published some
time since.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04
WONDERFUL INVENTION!
HERE 1T IS--.LOOK AT 1T.
THE INVALID AND PARLOR SPlTTOON.
JNO. nj. CAYCE's PATENT.
FRANKLIN, TENN. Sept. Il, IS

FRANKLIN, TENN, Sept. II, 1857.
MO COMPLICATION ABOUT 1T. NOT
~ liable to get out of order. Only two nova
bic pieces in the OPERATION Of using it-the lid,
and the lever that raises it. The lever is placed
in the handle. and when the handle is taken
hold of the lid rises; when released, the lid
closes, thereby excluding from view the entire
contents of the box. 1t Is an ornament for the
center table does away all the unpleasantness
from the casting off expectOratisn about the
sick bed. 1t is as easily cleaned as an ordinary
tin cup. SEE one of them and you will never
use any other receptacle for expeotOrati n Its
cheapness and superiority being so much supe-
rior than anything ever before used for tho
purpose, and adapted TO oil classes and condi-
tons of our race, in all climates, at home or
abroad, by land or by sea. by day or by night,
in 5 ckness and in health in prosperity or ad-
versity always at your service ready to serve
you, and almost for nothing only one dollar
and for much less to wholesale customers.
No man of energy need ever 20 plain of hard
times or fear o starving Vt he can raise even hye
dollars 10 begin with. One hundred AGENTS
WANTED IMMED IATELY, to aid in supoly-
ing the demand. County and State Rights Tor
sale. Come, and come quickly Delays are
dangerous Disease is in the land. We say
again. every family on the globe should have
one or more.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04

OEE Virgins was recently hung in
London for the murder Of his mistress,
he all the while protesting his innocence
and insisting that the woman committed
suicide. Now the facts make it evident
that poor WigaiRs vas judicially mur-
dered, simply because be had not enough
money 10 pay counsel and hunt up Wit
nesses One can now understand why
tke unfortunate man fought his execn-
TONERS upon the scafold, and died sirur-
Cling and shrieking.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04

The New York Post rebukes the Hoas
journal for taking unwarrantsble hber.
ties in making up its column of Society
News" 1t specifies tho publication of
the names of gentlemen and ladies who
are understood to be engaged" The
Home JeUrnai also INDUCES in the pub.
lieation of the style Of dress worn by
young ladies in walking-names, resi-.
dences, etc., being given in full TIE
excuse is sometimes made for such p'Ib-
lioations that they are sought and even
furnished by the ladies' concerned,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04
Col. M. G. CAYCE,
OF MEMPHIS,
General Agent for the United States; Head
quarters at the Arcade, 800 Second street.

UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A DEED
u of Trust, to me eeuted hy Jnoc, Scotland
John d. Armour, on the tweDty-hith day of
October. eighteen hundred and sixty five, to
secure the payment Of certain o1 Proa1iissory is
corded in the Reg ter's office of Shelby county,
in Record Boo g, art !, RACES q. l5S and and
best bidder, for cash, on the premises in the
city CT NJ mphis, Monday. Dec mber ID, 1861
between the hours of 10 and l2 o'clock, the fol,
10 ing described property, VIZ: Part of original
county 1T four hundred and ninety-six l4sjl,
heeinning at a point four hundred and seventy
five feet (475) east of the Intersection Of Lau-
deriale and Madison streets; thence running
west on the line of Maids n street thirty feet
ESQ.,; thence unning north one hundred and
sixty (l60i feet TO an alley. which runs b tween
Madison and Court streets, parallel wi each
thence running east thirty t31l feet on the line
Of said alley: thence running south one hun
dred and C6Ol feet, to the place Of beginning
being the west hafOf number ixty-four '6l);
The title to the above property Is supposed
to be good; but will convtyoply as ITqS,ee'
Memphis, Nov. II, 1867. ~ 81
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04
Notice 10 Tax-Payers.

TYE TAX BOOKS, FOR TIE y EAR ls5l,
,--,...l y, r.iIe-f ae.nrfinr % law All tax
rayers Who have PERSONAL PROPERTY
must conc M al once, or they viii ind their
faxcs In TIE hands of Consiables. Who arr an,
s-S.. PHILIP GAhNIN.
Tax Collector Shelby county, ISL
OFFICE-Nortitresf cor. Jefersoa and ltira
Streets. -
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04

Have For Sale---
:25 MILBURNE,s CELEBRATED IRON
AXLE WAGONS.
25 MILBURNE'S CELEBRATED THIN
BLE-SKEIN WAG0NS-over 300 sold in
Memphis; all warranted for u months,
and only $l2 so damages claimed for break
age.
50 CARVER GINS. from 40 to so saws. wood
and iron frame.
25 T0DD'S IMPROVED BULLOCK COT
TON PRESSES-double geared and TO
work by crank. Two men can make 500
pound bale.
10 T0DD'S IMPROVED HORSE POWERS,
for running Gins and Grist Mil's-the finest
power made.
JAMES TODD STATIONARY ENGINES.
of all sIzes-from 20 to lOO-horse power.
Topp,s planning MILLS AND WOOD
WORKING MACHINERY, of all kinds.
furnished at short notice.
PORTABLE STEAM ENGINES, of all sizes,
from to 3O-horse power.
STATIONARY ENGINES. of all sizes. from
20 to s0-horse power.
SINGLE, AND DOUBLE SAW MILLS
IOud ana Otner makes.
GIN SEDIMENTS. for 10 and 70 feet wheels,
complete.
RAILROAD AND LEVER HORSE pow
ERS, 2, and horse power.
rs TONS OF IRON TIES dow to the trade).
100 DOZEN CEDAR BUCKETS, iron. and
brass-bound, assorted Qow to the tradel.
100 NESTS CEDAR TUBS dow to the trado).
lOBUoKEYE CIDER PRESSES, to close
consignment.
11OAND 12 HORSE POWER PORTABLE
ENGINE, secondhand. low fer cash-inust
be sold.
16HORSE POWER. secondhand. cheap.
12HORsE POWER STATIONARY EN-
| be bought low.
2sOsAw and 26O SAW GINS Cbut little uSed)
| low for cash.
DANIELS planning MACHINE-cuts
81 inches wide and Is feet long-can be had
at bargain.
PLQWS of all kinds:
CORN-SHELLERS;
THRESHlNG MACHlN ES
| REAPERS AND MOWERS; I;
LATH MACHINES;
WHEAT DRILLS;
LILIES FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFES
DEERING COTTON PRESSES
| COTTON PLANTERS:
| COTTON SCRAPERS
| COTTON SWEEPERS;
CULTIVAT0RS
CORN PLANTERS;
SHINGLE M MACHINES.
AFwOOD AND IRON WORKING MA
CHINERY, of all kinds, ordered on short
4 nr;ces $3.50
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04

Displayed advertisements will be charged ac-
cording to the sPAoE occupied, AZ above rates.
there being twelve lines of solid type to tho
inch.
Notices in local column inserted for twenty
cents per line for each insertion.
Special Notices inserted for ten cents per line
for each insertion.
To regular advertisers we offer superior in
ducements. both as To rate Of charges and man
ner Of displaying their favors.
All advertisements should bo marked the
specific length Of time they arc to be published.
II not so marked, they will be inserted for one
month and charged accordingly.
Advertisements published at intervals will be
charged One Dollar per square for each inser-
ton.
All bills for advertising nre due when con-
tracted and payable ON demand.
W. All letters, wheiher upen business or
otherwise, nust be addressed to
WHITMORE & CO.,
Publishers and proprietOrs.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-04
PUBLIC LEDGER.
PUBLISHED
EVERY AFTERNOON. EXCEPT SUNDAY.
L. WHITMORE AND +. A. TYLER.
Under the firm name Of
WITHIN RE 81 CO.,
AT
No. 13 Madison Street.

The PUBLIC LEDGER is served TO City subscri,
bers by faithful carriers at FIFTEEN CENTS
per week, payable weekly to the carriers.
BY mail lin advanced: One year, SS; SIX
months, 81; three months, 50; one month, 70
cents.
Newsdealers supplied at 2h cents per copy.
Communications upon subjects Of general in
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Rejected manuscripts WILL NOT be returned.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-11
Standard neIixer.

md - tpN,. -
<I9erer IS Yto.be e. meeting got- Leading
wealthy manufacturers at the AAstor House
to-day TO organize and raise money to in,
crease tne dugles got our present tariff and
make lG stHI more protective, II not pro-
nlllD}lltorY nll}le ne names appendea TO the scah
UT %bo h,S rssiils ap uOfg 1l gen5emSn %
lions OF dollars out Of the American peo-
pie oy the sale OF goods whose market price
was maoe eartinciaily qeaT py speclaI legls-