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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-23
Gigantic Scheme for Defrauding Colorsd
Soidiers.

Gigantic Scheme for Defrauding Colorst
Soldiers.
Special to the Cincinnati Gazette.
WASHINGTON, November l3.-A deep
laid plan for defrauding colored soldiers
sailors and marines, by men now travel.
ing through the South has come to light
By present laws, all moneys due any Of
the above classes in the military or naval
service, who now reside, or have resided
in any State where slavery existed in
1860, for back pay, prize moneys OIL
bounties, are paid through the Freedmen
Bureau and its agents in those States
1t appears that the plan covers those
| States, and reaches far enough back in
Washington to secure all needed iRfor-
nation and assistance. Those who are
parties to it have combined to delay the
payment of these claims after the money
has passed out of the Treasury and into
the possession of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau officials, and in the meantime, hsv-
ing obtained the postoffice addsess of the
claimants or their legal representatives,
the principals in the Office, who are now
travelling for the purpose to represent to
them that the chances are that such
claims may not be settled for long time,
and then offer to buy their claim for less
than half its face for cash, taking the
claimants's receipt. On presentation of
their receipt the full amount is paid over
at once. The matter came out through
application made by those engaged in
the enterprise to certain parties, to fur
nish capital to prosecute the business on
a large scale. Those applied to showed
sufficient interest in the matter to learn
the outlines of the plan, and then made
it known, instead OF taking part in it
Those prosecuting the swindle repre-
sented that the average cost of buying up
these claims had been only forty per
cent, and that ten per cent would fully
cover all costs of travel and information
from the departments. The gentlemen
importuned to furnish funds were assured
that every dollar invested could be dou-
bled in few weeks, as the claims unpaid
and delayed amounted to several million
dollars There has passed through the
Freedmen's Bureau from the Treasury
Department, in checks and certificates,
on account of colored soldiers and sail
ors, during the last year, the sum Of g..
100000. and the only guard against the
wholesale preparation of the kind of
fraud alluded to is the individual hon.
esty of the agents throughout the country.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-23
PUBLIC LEDGER.

The PUEBLO LKDoER is published every AZ
ternoon (except Sunday BY E. wHITMORE.
+. A. TYLER and ]. J. DuB0SE, under the
firm name Of
w III TIT MORE Sc 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, 81; six
months. $4; three months, 81 ono mentn' "a
cents.
I Newsdealers supplied at 2k cents per copy
Communications upon subjects OF general In
terest TO the public are at all times acceptable.
Rejected manuscripts WILL NOT be returned.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-23
City Directory.


Iyirst National Bank, "a Madison. M
Memphis City Saw. Inst. cor; Jenefsopu 80 y ana
HOOK SIORES.
Church A Co., Bookseller. Stationers' frin-
" ters ana binders, ylb Main.
dC,ieaves, o. o. \ Co.. 1s Main. 4 III GH.
ROOTS AND SHOES.
NUiller. william. 2ls Main.
IL snnsday. W. II. 4 Co.. a's Main.
II inkhausr 4 Bro. 2si,< Second.
CARRIAGES, BUGGIEs, ETC.
VXT oodruif 4 Co.. l79 Main.
CIGARS AND PIPES. -.
NTayer, Marshuetz a Co., removed to Soo
GsrsyssI, es9; H., 7 Importer. Headquarters in
CLOTHING AND GENTS fUBNIsIi.
ING GOODS.
XyTard, ]. c.. Resident Partner Garthwaite.
w Lewis 4 Stuart, Hl Main:
II obeson., Sneed d Co.. 2el MAN, opposite
H cSa%s capIs s6S1., sfHs'IS. LAMPS AND SOAPS.
Drcscott. o. +. & Co., 40 Jefferson.
Up osenbaum 4 Bros. Coal OIL, Pstre OH and
HI Stoves. wholesale and retail. 23f Main.
CONFECTIONEHS.
Ey otto, D.. 200 Main; also oyster Saloon.
S,pecht. J.. 81 Madison.
Dodesta 4 Carassa. 252 Main. cor. N. Court.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-23
COAL! COAL! COAL!

DRsT ALABAMA AND IkNNEsSb ~ y
any in this market. at
Eighty Cents per Barrel tdelfvered''
Also Quantity Of SLACK COAL, very low.
All order. left al @. A. Beehn's printing ~ &C.
N adison street, OF NJ hudnai a 70;
Is-s''s i''H' jas. R. JONES. Agent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-23
Notice or Dissolution.

THE FIRM OF MOORE, EADER Il co.
| is this day dissolved by the withdrawal OF
J. NJ. Mcknight. he selling his entire interest
10 y. Mellersh.
Either member Of the old firm is authorized
10 collect claims and 10 receipt for the same,
and pay all liabilities Of the firm.
c. B. MOORE.
W. III. EAOER.
Memphis. November 2, 1865.
We, the underlined, will continue the husi-
ness Al the old stand, No. 360 Second street.
under the sam0tyle Of firm. MOORE, EADER
4 co. 9. b. MOORE.
W. II. EADER.
something New.
A Great BENEFIT 90 the Wholesale
GrOeers of Memphis.
Wrapping Paper Warehouse,
NO. sss SECOND STREET.
n. II. STEPHENSON a Co.
Mouitor Paper M1h Of Dayton. Ohio,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-23

worse were it dish rag, to be worn by
him as badge Of disgrace. 1t is
happy time for him when lie gets to
church and sits down with bis coat tail
under him; but he is still spprehensive
with thinking of the Sunday School, and
wonders il any Of the children will ask
him to swing bis long tailed blue.
The entrance into society may be said
to take place after boyhood has passed
away, yet many take the initiative before
their hearts are penetrsble. IL is great
trial to tender or tough age. For
any overgrown boy to 20 to door, know
ing there are dszen of girls within, and
knock or ring with absolute certainty that
iu two minutes ell their eyes will be upon
him, is severe test of courage. To go
before these girls and make satisfactory
tour Of the room without stepping on
their toes, and dispose of ones hands
without putting them in ones pockets, i'd
an achievement which few can boast. If
any boy can get so far as to measure of
ten yards of tape with one of the
girls, and cut it short at one end,
he may stand q chance to spend pleas.
ant evening; but let him not fatter
himself that the trials of the evening are
over. There comes at last the break up.
The dear girls don their hoods, and put
on their shawls, and look so saucy, so
mischievous and unimpressible, as il
they did not wish any one to 60 home.
Then comes the pinch, and the boy
having the most pluck makes up to the
prettiest girl, his heart is in his throat,
bis tongue clinging to the roof of his
mouth, and crooking bis elbow, stammers
out the words: Shall see you homer
She touches her fingers to his arm, and
thus they walk home about foot apart,
feeling as awkward as goslings. As soon
as she is safe inside her own doors, he
struts home, and really thinks he has
been and gone and done it.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-01
146.

AN ACT to Legalize the Action of Mitch
ell County, providing for equalizing the
Bounty of Soldiers in said County and
to authorize the levying of tax to pay
the same.
Section |. Be it enacted by the Gen.
eral Assembly of the State of Iowa, That
the vote taken by the citizens of Mitchell
county, at the general election in 1866, to
equalize the bounty of soldiers from that
county be and the same is hereby legalized
and the board of supervisors of said coun-
ty are hereby authorized to issue warrants
for said bounties according to the terms of
said vote, and that the board of supervis-
ors of said county are hereby authorized
to levy IA special tax on the taxable proper
ty of said county, not in one year to ex-
coed one mill on the dollar, to provide a
fund to be called the ''bounty fund" to
pay such warrants.
Sec. 2. When all of the bounties pro-
vided for by said election are paid out of
such fund, the balance thereof shall be
transferred to the general county fund of
said county.
Sec. 3. This act being deemed by the
General Assembly of immediate impor-
lance, shall take effect and be in force
from and after its publication in the Iowa
State Register and Homestead, newspa-
pers published in Des Moines, Iowa.
Approved April 7. 1868.
l hereby certify that the foregoing act
took effect by publication, as required in
section 3 thereof, on the Goth day of April
1865. ED. WRIGHT, Sec'y of State.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-01

PRINTERS are unlike other classes of
men. Their vocation imparts to them an
intelligence that does not result from any
other business. Dealing with language
exclusively, in combinations of letters,
words, sentences and paragraphs, they are
constantly brought into communion with
thoughts and the working, and these in
sensibly become imbucd with the ideas of
those minds whose creations they help to
embody into those forms that give them to
the world. They literally get grammer at
their fingers ends while picking up the
types that form sentences that are gram
NAUTICAL. Spelling comes to them as natur-
al as breathing, for t.ey fall into correct
orthography through force of habit. The
characteristics Of printers are not so favor
able to personal thrift as those of other
professions. They partake of the nature
OF the artists in some degrees, and are
generally liberal to a fault, t~houghtless of
the future, and frequently improvident of
the past-flush when in a good situation,
and dead broke when on tramp. They
may be said to be the working Bohemians
of the world of operatives.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-01

The PoTATo BUG.-Coleman's Rural
Uorla, in referring to the potato bug,
which has already commenced its ravages
in Missouri gives the following advice to
those growing the edible "When a few
garden potatoes are raised the bugs and
the larvae may be brushed off by holding u
tin pail on the side of the vine and with a
little stick knock them off into the vessel.
They may be killed by pouring boiling
water upon them, but great care should be
taken not to inhale the fumes arising from
the insects. Where large fields are cult.
waited, another method is recommended.
Take a brush harrow and run it over the
rows Of vines, this will knock off the larvae
and most ofthe bugs-which are naturally
disincl!ned to fly: then Immediately cover
them with a one-horse eight inch pillow.
The larvae when mature will go into the
earth to change. but they are not ready
when thus covered and can not extricate
themselves, and thus perish.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-01
Hemor OF Soldier-Iff~

A soldier, was taken before the nsc;s
trate of Glasgow for playing cards during
divine service. The account is thus g;vep
in an English journal:
Sergeant commanded the soldiers at the
church, and when the parson had read the
prayers he took the text. Those who had
a Bible took il out, but the soldier had
neither bible nor prayer book but puttinc
out a pack of cards, he spread them ont
before him. He first looked at one card
and then at another. The Sergeant of the
company saw him and said
Put up the cards this is no place for
them
Never mind that said Richard.
When the service was over, the consta.
bie took Richard a prisoner, and brought
him before the Mayor.
WELL says the Mayor, "what have
you brought the soldier here for?"r
o playing cards in church,
well, soldier, what have you to say for
yourselfP''
Much sir, I hope.''
very good; if not, I will punish YOU
more than ever man was punished"
~ have BEEN said the soldier, ''about
SIX weeks on the march. l have neither
bibie nor common prayer book. I have
nothing but a pack of cards, and hope to
satisfy. your worship Of the purity of my
Intentions
Then spreading the cards before the
Mayor, he began with the ace:
when see this, it reminds me that
there is but one God.
"The deuce reminds me of Father and
Son.
"The hea reminds me of Father, Son
and Holy Ghost.
The four reminds me of the four Evan
gelists-Mathew, Mark, Luke and John.
The fire reminds meEof the five wise
virgins that trimmed their lamps.
1.-The sac reminds me that in six DAYS
the Lord made Heaven and Earth.
The seen reminds me that on the
seventh day God rested from the great
work, and hallowed it.
"The eight reminds me of the eight re-
ligious perso, 8 who were saved when God
destroyed the world, viz Noah, his wife,
his three sons and their wives.
THE niHe reminds me of the nine len.
ers that were cleansed by our Savior.
There were nine out of the ten who never
returned thanks.
The ten reminds me Of the Ten Com
mandments which God handed down to
Moses on the tables of stone.
The king reminds me of the Great
King OF Heaven, which IS God Almighty.
The queen reminds me of the Queen of
Sheba. who visited Solomon, for she was
as wise a woman rs he was a man,
"Well' said the Mayor, ''you have Civ
en- a description of all the cards in the
pack but ONE
"What is that p
':The knave," said the Mayor.
IL will give your honor a description Of
that too, if You will not be angry
81 will not said the Mayor, "if YOU
do not term me to be the knave."
"Wcll,'' said the soldier, "the creates.
knave that | know of is the constable that
brought me here
Il do not know said the Mayor, if he
is the greatest knaye, but | know he is the
greatest fool.
"When | count the number of cards in
a pack, | find there are fifty two-the num-
Der of weeks in a year and | find four
number of weeks in n month.
Il find there are twelve picture cards in
a pack, representing the numbero of months
IN a year and on counting the tricks, l
had thirteen-the number of weeks in Il
quarter.
$50 You see. sir, a pack of cards serves
for a Bible, Almanac, and Common Pray
er Book"
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-01

farmer says: 1t is now over twenty years
since l learned that sweet oil would cure
the bite of a rattlesnake, not knowing that
1T would cure poison. Practice, observa-
ton and experience have taught me that it
Will cure poison of any kind on man or
beast. ! think no farmer should he
without a bottle OF it in his house. The
patient must take a spoonful of it intern
ally for a cure. To cure a horse it requi-
res eight times as much as a man. 1t is
an antidote for arsenic and strychninc. 1t
will cure the sting of bees, spiders and
other insects it cures persons who have
been poisoned by a low running vine
growing in the meadows called Ivy.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-01

The christening of the new Russian
baby must have been a gorgeous affair.
The programme of the court ceremonies
alone occupies a colamn and a half of the
official paper. The ''august grand duke''
was to be borne by princess Kourakine;
Field-marshal prince Bariatinski and the
chancellor of the empire, prince Gortscha-
koff, were to carry the corners of his quilt.
The "august grand duke new bonn during
the ceremony, and whilst a salute Of lOI
guns was being fired, was to be invested
by the emperor with the insignia of the
order of saint Andrew, the cross and ribaud
having been carried before the 'saugust
new born on gold plate.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-01

THE COMING AGoSY.-The new style OF
pants for gentlemen-of course for gentle
men,-is to be pictorial. Some represent
a quiet landscape in the country, with cat.
tie and sheep browsing near bbubling
streams and outrageous recesses; others
picture forth in all the destinations of fes-
tive art, lofty mountains in which peaks
lift themselves up and slumber quietly in
pillows Of the softest clouds: others detail
the gay and exhilerating scenes of the
ballroom with ladies in their most beauti-
full costumes and radiant in the most be-
witching graces; and still others give
street life, horse cars, omnibuses. various
vehicles, dogs, mannikins, and other lively
photographs of active life. Tho ladies
will find much to admire about the legs
and bodies of fashionable young gentle
men in about two months. This will be a
sort Of return compliment to the opposite
sex, whose pedals have been q sort Of OBJ
seryation by the mail genus since the early
days of one Mr.. Adam. saca
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-01
LAWS OF IOWA.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
CHAPTER on

AN ACT Fixing the Price of the
State Binding.
Section l.. Be it enacted by the Gen,
eral Assembly of the State of Iowa
That hereafter the State Binder shall
be paid the following prices for all
work for the State done by order OF
the Secretary of State, viz: For fold.
ing and trimming all documents not
stitched, fifteen cents per hundred
<Qpies; for folding, stitching. and
binding in paper covers all messages.
reports, and documents not exceed.
ing n sheet following eight pages
FOR a Sheet one dollar and TWENTY-FIVE
cents per hundred copies, and for each
additional sheet of eight pages twenty
1ve cents per hundred copies, the coy
er or each copy to be counted as four
pages; for folding, sewing and bind
ing the journals Of the two houses of
the General Assembly, in paper covers
twenty cents per copy; for folding,
sewing and binding in muslin or cases
with guilt letters for title, (same STYLE
as n Agricultural Report for 1866
per copy for a volume
OF four hundred pages or less. and for
each additional hundred pages, or
traction thereof over fifty pages, five
cents for folding, sewing, and bind
ing in half Sheep" with guilt letters
ior title, (same style as the legislative
documents of 1860 sixty cents per
copy for each volume of four hundred
pages or less, and five cents for each
additional hundred pages or fraction
thereof over fifty pages for folding.
sewing, and binding in flaw sheepT
(same style as Iowa Reports) eighty
cents per copy for each volume of four
hundred pages or less, and five cents
for each additional hundred pages, or
fraction thereof over fifty pages; for
folding, stitching, and binding the
laws of each General Assembly in
boards, with muslin backs and paper
sides, (same style as laws of 1861
eighteen cents per copy !; and for ali
styles of work not named in this act
he shall be paid as nearly as possible
in accordance with the rates above
specified.
Section 2. All acts or parts of acts
inconsistent with the provisions of
this are hereby repealed.
Section 3. This act shall be in force
from and after its publication in the
Iowa State Register and Iowa
Homestead.
Npproved April 6, 1868.
I hereby certify that the foregoing
Act took effect by publication, as re-
CURED by Section 3 thereof, on the
22d day of April, A. d. 1868.
ED WRIGHT, Sec'y of State.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-01

im~petuously, that.his brain, heart, stomach
and all Fittings else in nature are on fire
and she must ely with him. She was
ready at any time on application After
a few days fixing up her wardrobe and
abstracting what carry-able values she can
find in husbands bureau or secretary,
money included, she pens a note of sub
lime coincidence to ~"my:poor, dear, discon-
solate, heart-broken husband" and the
~infatuates take wing for that isle of Love
which Tom Moore so fascinatingly de-
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-01
CHAPTER lO4.
AN ACT for the improvement of the


AN ACT for the improvement of the
~Penitentiary.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Iowa,
That there be appropriated out of the
State treasury the sum of fifteen thou
sand dollars, or SO much thereof as
may be necessary for the eXtention of
the cell building to the line of the east
wall of the prison yard, the covering
of present cell building, and the roof
of the extension thereof, with states,
the erection of new prison cells, one of
which shall be dark, and the enlarg-
ing the windows OF the present cell
building. That there be further APP
prOpriated the sum OF three thousand
dollars for the erection of u wash
house and store-rOoms, and the pro-
curement of the necessary cooking
range and apparatus.
Sec. 2. That the further sum of one
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-01

s-IN-THE-DAY.-This we'll known
chief of the st. Paul country was
emily by a lot of raiders from an
ibe. He has been reported killed
al occasions in the last few years
time there is no doubt. "H. in
is "Hole in the body now, for
We learn from one who knows,
was a tyrant toward all whom he
timidate, brutal, coarse and mean.
for him even from his seren widows
other man. We confess to an ad-
4 for him now and we'll tell you
On a late occasion an Omaha gen
"a Kentuckian by birth-was in
ercurse across the plains to Chey-
d the Rockies. On the way out
I'm the party saw specimens of the
$, Rappahoes, Souix, Cheyennos
he Kcntuckian was asked, at a sup
;eturn to Omaha, which kind of
among those he had seen, he liked
!, which tribe he admired the most,
ecimen of the noble savage most
regard. His prompt reply was
d one!':
)ur sudden attachment to "IIole.'
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-01

General Dumont, commander of the
French forces at Civita Veechia, in a re-
cent speech stated that France would
never abandon the Pope.
A dispatch from Jackson, Miss, states
that Gen. Biddle took forcible possession
of the Governors Office on the 23d inst
Gov. Humphrey has fitted up another Office,
and still claims to be Governor.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-01
80.

AN ACT to legalize the Acts of GER
tain cities and towns, in their at
tempts to amend and abandon their
special charters, and to legalize cleo
tons, ordinances enacted, and other
proceedings had by said cities and
towns.
Whereas, certain cities and towns
organized under special charters prior
to July Is, 1858, have attempted to
amend their charters, other cites and
towns have attempted to abandon their
special charters, and act under chapter
81, OF the revision of 1860, and the
amendments thereto, in both cases
acting without authority of law; and
Whereas, Said cities and towns
have, since such attempted amend
ments, and abandonment, held cleo
tons by their councils or board of
trustees, enacted ordinances, and per-
formed other acts therefore,
Section l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
Iowa, That in all cases where amend
ments to special charters of incorpOra-
ted cities and towns, attempted to
have been made since July Is, 1858,
and in all cases where cities and towns
have, since the date last aforesaid, at
tempted to abandon their special char
tiers, and organize under chapter 81,
aforesaid, such acts of said cities and
towns, and all elections held, ordi-
nances enacted, and proceedings had
hereunder, or by virtue thereof, are
hereby declared as legal and binding
as if such amendments, and abandon
ment, and organization, under and by
virtue of chapter 81, of the revision of
1860, and acts amendatOry thereto, had
been regular, and made in accordance
with law.
Sec. 2. This act being deemed of
immediate importance, shall take eff
feckand be in force from and after its
publication in the Daily State Regis
ter, and the Evening Statesman,
newspapers published at Des Moines,
Iowa.
Approved April 6, 1868.
hereby certify that the foregoing
Y Act took effect by publication, as re-
auired in Section ? thereof, on the 22d
day of April, A. ID. 1868.
ED WRIGHT Sac'y of State