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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-06-04

While the income tax is an uumiti-
gated nuisance, and held by legal minds
to be unconstitutional, it has its advan-
tages as an indicator of what would
seem TO be the clear profits of the wealth
creating classes of the country. We
know that. the class who truly create
those profits do not pocket them, we
also know that the capitalists do; but
nevertheless, inasmuch as what little is
yearly rolled up as clear gains, the
income reports give the figures OF,
we can mark the apparent progress
Upward, or downward of this now terribly
tried, debt-ridden country. The ag-
gregate returns Of the net taxable in
come Of the people Of the United States,
shows a falling or the past year. The
State Of New York, as a whole, declines
abost $4,000, 900, although the city Of
New York increases $l3,5O00O0 West
ern agricultural States fall of S24 OOO,-
600; Philadelphia, Sl0OOO,O00; Pitts
burg. $1,000, 600; Buffalo, $1,000, 600;
Brooklyn, 81, 200, 900; ST. Eouis, 81 ,5OO;-
600: aud the Middle States some S27,-
OOO, ,000 Il is quite likely that the entire
decline Of the aggregate incomes Of the
people OF the United States this year.
over last, Is not less than 500. .OOO.O 200;
and this indicates the downward coufse
Of the country.-Ddy Book.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-06-04

try should be informed of the terrible
cost by which that success was obtained.
In concluding its very able article, the
World says:
THE truest test of military genius is
the accomplishment Of great results with
slender means. We can recall no in
stance (unless Grant be an instsnce) of
a general who established his title to be
called great otherwise than by succeed
ing against great neutrality-suspicious.
superior numbers, or consummate abili-
ties in the commanders opposed to him,
or formidable physical obstacles. A man
does not prove that he possesses giant $
strength by over mastering an invalid or
cripple. A general does not establish
his title to be considered great by sub
DUNG an army one third as large as his
own, and losing FIVE of his own men for
every one he disables of the enemy.
"We have had some experience before
of running successful Generals as cam
didates for the Presidency; but their
achievements were, in this particular, a
great contrast to those of Gen. Grant
Gen. Jackson won his brilliant victory
at New Orleans with 1000 men against
British army of 10000 Gen. Taylor
had but about 5000 men at Buena
Vista, and the Mexicans twice or thrice
that number. Gen. Scott had $500 at
Cerro Gordo, the Mexcans 10000. The
splendid victory of Contreras was
achieved by Scott with 450O against H.
600 Mexicans. Gen. Scott, in his report
to the Secretary of War, speaking of the
battles in front of Mexico, said And |
assert, upon accumulated and unques
tionable evidence, that in not one Of
these conflicts was this army opposed by
fewer than three and-a-half times it's
numbers-in several of them, by yet
greater excess. If it be said that Grant
had disadvantages of ground and posi-
ton to encounter in advancing through
an enemy's country, the same is equally
true of Scott, who, nevertheless, with
greatly inferior numbers, advanced
rapidly from triumph to triumph, while
Grant, operating with superior numbers
against nearly exhausted foe, required
whole year to capture Richmond,
which finally succumbed to exhaustion
rather than to military genius. ."-Spring'
field Register.
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A Nuisance that Ought to be Stopped
From the New York World.1

From the New York World.l
The Freedman s Bureau is an outrage
upon the taxpayers of the country
which should be suppressed. Ostensibly
established to benefit the emancipated
blacks, it has been used from the outset
as political machine-first to provide
bread, butter and clothes for small
army of political paupers and nomadic
carpet-baggers, and next to use these
nomads as negro drivers in the Radical
interests, as overseers to see that the
blacks deposit Radical tickets in the bal
lot. boxes Beyond these objects the
Bureau has no purpose. The cant
about schools and churches " for the
blacks is only to cover the pretended
necessity for hundreds of superintend-
ents of schools" at $500 and $4,000
each, and Massachusetts, school marms
and missionaries at from 5000 to $1,000
apiece, the stipend for similar services in
their own State, where the Govern
ment" does not pay the bill, rang
ing from $3.50 to $500 with a " dona-
ton party" which generally. costs
the beneficiary about $50. Even
more egregious is the Canon about
the Bureau as a mepns of furnishing en-
ploy yment for the blacks. The planters
are suffering for labor, while the blacks
are attending political meetings, or are
marching in procession to the polls, with
muskets in their hands, to vote as they
are directed by their masters, the paid
agents of the Bureau. This glaring
swindle upon the Northern taxpayers,
apart from the enormous, expensive and
useless military establishments in the
Southern satrapies, is costing not less
than eleven millions of the peoples
money every year, and this money is
taken from the property owners and la
borers of the North, to purchase black
votes for the continuance of the Radical
party in power. To show how stupendous
this swindle is in the mere item Of sal
aries we have collected the following
list of Bureau agents and clerks, with
their pay annexed:
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OyertOn Stables,
No. I64 Main St.
OPPOSITE OVERTON HOTEL.
MAI. y. VI. DevASSA.
n. ". RAWLINGS.
st-sa Agents and Managers.
STAR MILLS /:

nFIWFFN MARKET AND WINCHES-
II ter sfreefr. east Of Third street Presh
Com Meal asd Chcr Feed aIpays On tard and
2 lirtred free q ctafrc % any f1rt ofthe city.
40 orders rrCurfiy alter dtd o.. 4
tf-als NINDKMAN A DELANET.
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AGENTS AND

Besides their salaries, large number
of these agents manage also to swindle
their living in Government ratious, and
they derive other psrquisites aad panta-
looms, which are all set down as sta
tionery."
How tiese lesches really regard the
value Of labor appears curiously, in coz.
uection with their own magnificent sala-
ries, in the sums paid to messengers
and "laborers" who are rewarded for
their services At the rate Of from $50 TO
$500 a year Months age, when It was
shown that this enormous drain on the
Treasury was As useless - u IL out
rageous. the Radicals in Congress voted
that il vas inexpedient to discontinue IL
At present, that Is, 90 long IS It could be
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2e7 MAIN STREET, OPP. COURT SQUARE.

made a political machine for Radical
benefit at the tax payers expense. But
i-is not less an outrage now than it has
been since the day it was established,
and the fact that such swindle should
be continued shows to what straits Radi.
calism is reduced in its effort to prolong,
not merely its power, but its existence as
a party.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-06-04

HAS AT LAST MADE ITS WAY INTO
IL this country, after having been in use in
the old world for so many years. and especially
in China. The celebrated alchemst and chem
list, DR.. Hepserdam, of Pekin, China. has at
last consented to his great CHINESE REMEDr
being introduced on this continent, and has
established few wholesale agencies fer the
purpose of supplying all druggists throughout
the towns and cities of our country. This great
Blood Medicine has performed cures (the most
astonishingl, where every other remedy known
in Materid Medica has most signally failed.
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PUBLIC LEDGER.
PUBLISHED
EVERY AFTERNOON. EXCEPT SUNDAY.
+. WHITM0RE AND f. A. TYLER.
Under the firm name of
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No. Is 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. $S; six
months, $4; three months, 80; one month. IS
cents.
Newsdealcrs supplied at 2lz cents per copy.
Communications upon subjects of general in
terest to the public are at all times acceptable.
Rejected manuscripts WILL NOT be returned.
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DEAFNESS, CATARRH,
CONSUMPTION,
AND
Cancer Cured!

A TREATISE ON DEAFNESS. Ca
N tarrh, Consumption and Cancer; their
causes, means of speedy relief. and ultimate
cure. By a Pupil of the Academy of Medi-
cine. Paris. Sent to any address Tor 10 cents.
Letter from Robt. McMurdy. DID,, LII. D..
Grand Prelate of Grand Encampment of U. s.,
and Editor of the National Freemason
New YoRK. September II, 1857. DIR. Stilwell
was in charge of Grace Church Hospital. Alex
andra, Va. during the war. frequently, al
most daily. for months. visited this Hospital.
and had every means of knowing his reputa-
ton for EFFICIENCY and SKILL. 1t was of the
most creditable character. and his success in
tho treatment of patients was remarkable.
ROBT. MoMuRDY.
MIC VIBRATOR.
1t fits into the ear, is not perceptille, re-
n,oues singing noises ia the head. and enables
deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and
public assemblies. This instrument will often
produce results almost miraculous, and indeed
in most cases Of long standing deafness. it will
relieve in short time. 1t may be adjusted
with tho ease of spectaces.
DR.. Stiwell will be professionally at 81 East
Washington olace. University Buildings, n.
Y, daily, 10 to 4, except Tuesdays, when he
will be at his rooms, 1892 Pine street, Phila-
delphia, Pa. est
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HDY'vtrtue oT suGdry. wsits Of sFSsri Fassse
LID to me directed. will sell at Ahse'fns.
Court House, on the fsst Monday in Fsbruury
next, the following property, to wit:
500 acres OF land, more or less. bounded by
lands of tlls Estate Of J. Il: Wilson. aud others.
levied "a the properly Of William Ciiukscales.
ads. Ernes, klrin, cndursor.
l House and Lot in the Town Of Abbevle. on
u-hng.on street, continuing Que acre, more or
less. bounded by lands of Mrs. Cntharine Alston,
and others, and known as the Worlds Hotel
levied OIL the property OF r. =. Rutledge, ads
the Siute for Taxes.
1l3 acres Of land. more or less. bounded by
lands Of Mrs Wnrllaw. WIN. Blake, aud others,
known q. the New Market Tract.
Also, 300 ncr-s Of lind. more or less bounded
by lands Of ". X. Blake. and the New Market
Trnct, known M the Culp-per Tract. levisd on
ne the property Of John \. Partlpw, ada the
, s;r-+nv lille aud Columbia Railroad
Terms t:asli-Pu.cIas-rs 10 pay for papers.
II. s. ChSON, q. A. D.
Sh.riff~s Office.
Jan. II, 1868 : ii I'd
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Commissioners Sales.
Tho Trustees of De La Howe vs.
Jas. w. Law, Executor.

nN Sale day in February next, (3) at Ah-
~ Levile G. IT,. at public ouicry. will sell
the House and Lot in Greenwood. the real cs-
tate Of JOHN Logan, deceased. The said lot
cont aims 80 acres more or Iess. aud will be d
vide.l into two or more purcels, OF. which plate
will be exhibited.
credit of II mouths, With interest. Puroias-
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Middletown transcript., 1868-06-06
Presidents and Vice Presidents.

The following list of Presidents, Vice
Presidents, and candidates for these Offices
since the formation of our government, is
worth preserving.
1889. George Washington and John
Adams, two terms, no opposition.
1877. John Adams, opposed by Thomas
Jefferson, who, having the next highest
electoral vote, became Vice-P President.
1901. Thomas Jefferson and Aaron
Burr; beating John Adams and Chas. G.
Pinckney.
1904. Thos Jefferson and Geo. Clinton !;
beating Chas. G. Pinckney and Rufus
King.
1908. James Madison and Geo. Clinton !;
beating Chas G. 'Pinckney.
1913. Jas. Madison and Elbridge Ger
ry; beating De Witt Clinton.
1917. James Monroe and Daniel D.
Tomkins; beating John Quincy Adams.
1925. John Quincy Adams and John G.
Calhoun beating Andrew Jackson, Hen
ry Clay, and VIM. H. Crawford, there
being four candidates for President, and
Albert Gallatin for Vice President.
1929. Andrew Jackson and John G..
Calhoun {; beating John Quincy Adams
and Richard Rush.
1888. Andrew jackson and Martin Van
Buren beating Henry Clay, John Floyd,
and William Writ, for President, and VIM.
Wilkins, John Sergeant, and Henry Lee,
for Vice President.
1887. Martin Van Buren, and Richard
NJ. johnson beating VIM. TT. Harrison,
Hugh l.. White, and Daniel Webster, for
President, and John Tyler for Vice Pres
ident.
1871. William II. Harrison and John
Tyler; beating Martin Van Buren, and
Littleton w. Tazewell. Harrison died
one month after his Inauguration, and
John Tyler became President for the rest of
the term, .'.rf
1915. James X. Polk and Geo. M.
Dallas; beating Henry Clay and Theodore
Frelinghuysen.
1849. Zachary Taylor and Millard Fill
more; beating Lewis Cass and Martin Van
Buren, for President, and VIM. o. Butler
and Charles F. Adams for Vice President
Taylor died July 6, 1850, and Fillmore be-
came President
1858. Franklin Pierce and W. r. King
beating Winfield Scott and N. A. Graham.
1857. Jas. Buchanan and John G.
Breckenridge beating John G. Fremont
and Millard Fillmore, for President, and
VIM. l.. Dayton and A. J. Donelson, for
Vice President.
1861. Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal
Hamlin; beating John Bell, Stephen A.
Douglas, and John G. Breckinridge, for
President, Edward Everett, Herschell v.
johnson, and Joseph Lane for Vice Pres
ident
1865. Abraham Lincoln and Andrew
johnson beating George B. Mcclellan
and George H. Pendlcton. Lincoln as
sassinated April IA, 1865, and johnson as.
sumed the Presidency.
Middletown transcript., 1868-06-06
Crops in Lancaster County.

Lancaster county produced, in 1860,
2, 1885, ,722 bushels of wheat, which is
about the one-sixth of the whole crop of
the state which was 13,042, 1865. The
crop in the "Old Guard was about one
eightieth of the whole crop of the United
States; it was 1912, 529 bushels more
than was raised in the six New England
States, and as much as those six States ad-
ded to Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Kan
sas and the District of Columbia.
Itexceedod the crops of either of the fol-
lowing seventeen States, viz: Maine, New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey,
Delaware, South Carolina, Florida, Arkan-
sas, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Kansas,
Oregon, Louisiana. .e
The average of the crop in this county
was eighteen and eighty-three one-hun-
dredth bushels to each inhabitant, the av-
erage of the United States, being 81 BUSH
els; of New England States III quarts /;
of the Middle States p bushels, and of the
whcat-growing States of the West 10 bush
els. Our county raised in 1860, 2,64S,-
39S bushels of corn, or twenty three bush
els and half to each inhabitant. Lam
caster county produced very nearly as much
wheat and corn as nine of the. most fertile
counties in that famous wheat growing
country, the Valley ofthe Shenandoah, Va.
The cash value of farms, in 1860, in Lam
caster county was $52, 500, ,461, which is
an average of one hundred and fifteen dol
lars and seventy-fve cents per acre for the
improved land. There was also produced
in 1860, 2,001, ,547 pounds of tobacco
Truly our county is an empire within it
self. .f
Middletown transcript., 1868-06-06
BE Polite at Home,


There are few families, we imagine, in
which love is not abused as furnishing a
license for impoliteness. A husband, faith
er or brother, will speak harsh words to
those whom he loves best, simply because
the security of love and family pride keeps
him from getting his head broken. 1t is
shame that man will speak more impo-
litely at times, to his wife or sister, than he
would dare to any other female, except q
low and vicious one. Il is thus that the
holiest affections of mans nature prove to be
weaker protection to women in the family
circle than the restraints of society, and
that woman usually is indebted for the
kindest politeness of life to those not be-
longing to her own household. 7sH gTasi
This ought not to be SO. The man who
because it will not be resented, inhicts his
spleen and bad temper upon those of his
hearthstone, is small coward and mean
man. Kind words are the circulating me-
dium between true gentlemen and ladies at
home, and no polish exhibited in society
can atone for the harsh language and dis
respectful treatment, too often INDUCED in,
between those bound together by the ties of
blood, or the still more sacred bonds of con-
jugal love. '
Middletown transcript., 1868-06-06

To CoNstMpTrvEs.-zHav seen much
suffering from consumption, and knowing
thousands of dollars are yearly spent by
invalids travelling for their, health, and ON
medicines and physicians, we propose a
simple, recipe by which patients may be-
come their own physicians, and if not too
far gone, will guarantee perfect cure if
made and regularly taken according to di-
rections. The ingredients are hoarhound,
mullen and molasses-ingredients that are
in reach of all, the mullen growing wild
in every field, the hoarhound in almost
every garden, and the molasses to be had
at any grocery. The directions for making
are to take large handful of hoarhound
and boil as strong a tea as possibly can be
made. Take up, then boil an equal guam
tity OF mullen in the same way. Take a
cupfull of the tea of the hoarhound, cupfull
of the tea of the MULLEN and mix together
in suitable vessel, then add a cupfull of
molasses and stew a syrup-the thicker
the better. Take tablespoonful, or a
large swallow, three times day. Be par
ticular in following directions as to making
and also to taking it, and we will guaran-
tee relief in all cases not too far advanced.
Middletown transcript., 1868-06-06
Aurora B0r~alis,

A correspondent sends us the following
in relation to the Aurora Borealis, or
Northern Lights: ,a. T. '5- 3 'l' .ra
The Aurora has been carefully observed
for many years. 1t has been found to be
an Electrical light. During bright dis
play of it, many telegraph operators have
used it instead Of electro magnetism-opeh-
ing their machine, and letting the electric
ity of the sky operate them. When there
is northern light, there is also CORES
ponding one in the Southern sky, called
surora australas. 1t is most active from
sunset to midnight. tits abundant in April
and September. Then it has also habit
of returning in periods of go years. The
displays increase annually for about thirty
years, then decline, so that for the latter
part of the 80 years, there will be but few
exhibitions. This pcriodicity of go years
in the Aurora agrees with the changes of
the spots on the sun, and with the changes
in the magnetic pole of the earth, and with
the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.
The Aurora has been measured as to its
height. Its range is from so miles to 500
nearly. Its displays are varied by the
latitude. s----------s
The inhabitants of the tropics scarcely
ever see the Aurora of northern climes.
Between 40 and SO degrees of latitude,
there may be 40 annual exhibitions. Be-
tween SO and go twice as many. Between
60 and 20 they have 40, and farther north,
over the great polar sea they have more
The electricity Of the tropical regions is
supposed to descend to the earth in their
abundant and heavier. thunder storms
But the electricity gathered in northern
attitudes not having such means of re-
turning to the earth, is shot down in auro-
raj streams. The theory is, that evapora-
ton carries off from the earth the electric
ity which superabounds in the air. In
warm latitudes when the rainfall is very
copious, there is not superabundance of
electricity left to make an aurora. Besides
it is foated off from tropical attitudes with
those large clouds of vapor which pass to
cooler regions. Over the Poles Of the
earth the electricity cannot extend, be-
cause it must revelve in the air around the
earth. -ua p. 4-.... ...t
Middletown transcript., 1868-06-06

SNArLs AS FooD.-Of all the sights in
Paris, none is more curious than the snail
seller. He trundles large and shallow
hand-cart through the streets, covered
with huge snails crawling all over the side
of the cart, with horns extended and house
on back. A dozen can be purchased for
the small sum of two sous; you can select
them yourself and carry them away in q
paper bag. Some people eat them raw,
like oysters; others roast them with savo-
ry herbs. The best snails come from
Burgundy in the autumn, and are fattened
ON the vine leaves. Those now selling,
are gathered in every ditch houtside the
city, the several cemeteries yielding the
largest supplies.
Middletown transcript., 1868-06-06

DoN'T KILL THE BIRDs.-One of our
cotemporaries enters the following plea for
the birds >" Don't kill the birds that run
up and down your apple trees. Tehy are
the conservators of orchards, and the arch
enemies of bugs, grubs and worms. Some
one told us, the other day. that the farm
ers' boys were shooting woodpeckers and
sap-suckers, as if they were birds of prey;
but what is their meat is poison to orchard
trees. If you see row after row of round
holes encircling an apple tree trunk, don't
be alarmed, but thank Providence for the
birds which took grub out of every hole,
perhaps. Many insects deposit their eggs
in the interstices of the bark, and when
they hatch out, they bore into the soft,
spongy bark. The "sap-sucker," as he is
enormously called, seeks out the hidden
places of these pests, and gobbles them up.
The wood-pecker alights on a tree trunk,
and darting sidewise, taps on the bark
with his beak. He is sounding the bark,
and when he detects hollow-and it
must be very small one if he don't de-
tect tho bores his way into the cavity
and devours the tenant You lose ten
bushels of apples when you shoot wood
pecker. So don't kill the wood-peckers.
Middletown transcript., 1868-06-06

RoMANTIo.-Ay young fellow in Michigan
dreamed that he went to Fremont, Ohio,
and married a pretty girl whom he had
never seen before, and, acting on his mo-
ther's advice, he packed up his trunk and
started for Ohio. He searched two days
in Fremont without seeing the face he had
seen in his dream, and then he saw il in
the post-ofice, told his story, popped the
question, received an affirmative answer
at once, was married next day, and took
his bride back to Michigan. Romantic
and speedy .ss is ir-< 81.