davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24
Now York Day Book Brsyities.

Grant has been dubbed "the dry-goods
candidate" by Mr.. Greeley. And his
presidential stock is declining just about
fast enough to keep company with the
everywhere failing dry goods business
Redtape and tape-and-bobbin are going
down together. Ereunt omines
The announcement Of the official vote
Of Maine shows that the Democratic gain
in that State last year was l6,34S. The
same gain the present year will give the
Democracy a glorious victory. II is sure
to come, and that eastern boundary Of
the Union will be cured of the black
plague.
The Bangor Democrat says the Mon
grel members of the Maine Legislature
"are the most solemn set Of men ever
seen together" )" 1t is the solemnity OF
despair, however, rather than of re-
pentance.
A California paper says that d. d. in
that State means dead drunk" in
Washington it means dead duck, and
in the North, generally, it means man
who breaches about negroes every Sum
day.
Senator Chandler says /: "The great
question is, whether the Government
shall liquidate its obligations with gold"
No. With Chandler the greatest ques-
ton is, how he shall hquidate his throat
with "old rye"
"Gen. Hancock" the papers say, has
appointed Joshua Baker to be Governor
Of Louisiana" This is the way Congress
guarantees every State "a republican
form Of government"
The leading Mongrel of the Louisiana
black-and- Convention said, IF the
Constitution submitted should be as black
as damnation itself, Congress would re-
ceive it." OF course-the blacker, the
better it 'rould suit Congress.
What are called the "loyalists Of the
Seuth" are negroes, and a mean set of
loafers from the North-low wretches
who were hardly recognized by the gene
raj run of even the Northern Mopgrelsi
An exchange says: 1t may surprise
some, but it is fact that the meanest
rascals in our country seem naturally to
take to the Mongrel party" That is no
more surprising than that the fithiest
insects and worms should take to carrion.
Senator Wilson says: "The Republi-
can party will take no steps backward
But it is taking very rapid steps doom
ward
1t is said that the young daughter of a
wealthy Mongrel politician of this city
has been enjoying frequent skating frol-
les with dandy mulatto at Central
Park. She is an ice young lady.
The Washington correspondent of the
Worcester Spy (Massachusetts) says
"a race but recently enslaved have sur
prised the most hopeful with the wonder
| full dignity in which they have assumed
the robes Of republican sovereignty.
We have no doubt that the author OF
these words has nasal twang like tin
horn, and that he rolls up his eyes in
pious squints when he talks. Idleness,
theft and vice. is the Mongrel idea OF
wonderful dignity" The creature who
can write such stuff is either wonder
ful" fool or wonderful " rascal.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24
The N. Y. Press on George Francis Train.

New YORK, January 2O.-The World
says to-day, relative to George Fran els
Train, that it is the clear duty of our
Minister at London to demand, without
delay, the reason Of Trains arrest, and,
if he has committed no crime, his imme-
date release and satisfaction for the in
Jury, if any doubt is felt by Mr. Adams.
Prompt instructions from Washington
already ought to have reached him, and
in that case this kind hesitation is cow
ardice. Our citizens must be made to
feel that they are safe in every country
whose laws they do not violate,
The Tribune says on the same subject:
We are afraid We are not correctly in
formed about the imprisonment of Mr..
Train. If true, then America must take
decided ground. This Government can
not permit the wanton arrest of Ameri-
can citizens by any power upon earth.
II Mr.. Train has been unjustly arrested,
he must be returned as promptly as We
returned Mason and Slidell.
The Post says thus far no grounds for
Mr. Trains arrest are alleged except bis
participation in Fenian meetings on this
side of tie water. If none other exist
his arrest is a gross outrage upon the
rights of American citizens, calling for
instant interposition on the part of our
authorities.
The Commercial says the arrest must
have been wholly arbitrary, and will oc-
easiou more difficulty between the two
governments than one hundred frothy
fools like Mr. Train is worth.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

LIEUT.. GEN. SHERMAN, it is said, ex-
pressed himself very strongly in regard
to the reinstatement of Stanton. The
New York Heralds Washington corre-
spondent is informed that, in connection
with high official, he alluded to the
subject pretty much in this style: " If a
dismissed staff officer of mine we're to be
forced back upon my staff during war, by
action of the Senate, l should give him all
the messages to carry to the front" ITO
have him shot off, l suppose" said the
official. Certainly, sir" replied the
General, very emphatieally. The con-
versstion was related to the President,
who smiled aud remarked, " The trouble
is in this case that l can't send Stanton
TO the front"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24
A Divorce Suit, with a 7" Nice Young Nan >
Attach0d

The Springfield 1ll.) Journal has the
following account Of a divorce suit that
has been commenced in that city;
The plaintiff in the case is lady OF
the highest respectability. The brute,
her husband, who resists her plaintlve
petition, is a gentleman mot entirely
disconnected" as Mr.. Micawber would
say, with the most improved method Of
overland transportation. He was, when
he promised to love and cherish the pc
titioner in the case, locomotive epgi-
neer. Shortly after his marriage, he re-
moved with his bride to this city, and bis
efforts were directed to securing home
for his family. With this view, he bought
several acres of land, located at that time
quite outside of the city, and on por-
ton he built snug dwelling house.
This property he, with prudent foresight,
decided to his wife. Time passed on, and
the engineer bought with his savings
small lots of land, all Of which he placed
in his wife's name, so that they might be
safe. The property originally bought
became valuable, and portion was sold,
and other lots were leased. The profits
arising from these sources were
carefully invested, and so the en-
gineer was a very thriving man, and
his wife was able to dress like some
body" The sobriety and steadiness of
the engineer attracted the attention Of
men in high position, and he was in
duced to accept charge of an important
public work in far western State The
Springfield property was too promising
to abandon, and his wife was left behind
to manage it. After the engineer (he
bears different title now had been
gone year, the wife found herself
lonely, and took nice young man to
board with her. The engineer, busy with
the duties of his position, remained
away long time, and is now brought
home by the news that his wife has petit
toned for a divorce, on the ground of
abandonment and failure to support her.
Her petition sets forth that her husband
| has been absent for the greater part of
thee years and that for the past eight
years he has contributed nothing to her
support, and that she has lived entirely
upon the rents and profits Of her own
| property. o.
When her husband came to this city
few weeks since, she refused to see him.
She said the sight of the villain who had
so cruelty wronged her would kill her,
and her nice young man boarder says he
has known her to sit up half the night
brooding over the story of her wrongs.
The case will be heard at the next
term of the Circuit Court, and the wife
expects to get divorce, keep the prop
erty and marry the boarder.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24
Saturday, the a5th of January, 1ses
TRUST SALE.


DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST EX
I'D ecuted TO me on the 18th day Of January,
1861, by Pierre Bacquet. & secure the payment
j. Of three certain promissory notes. made by the
said Pierre Racquet. in favor Of Josenh Etche
varne. and due respectively on the 5th day Of
May Of the years 1881, 1892 ard 1852 said Deed
Of Trust is recorded in the Registers Office
Shelby county. in book No. 46, pages 3SS, $50
and $40. and the said Pierre Bacquet having
fsiled TO pay his said note falling on the 5th day
Of May, 1863. / will expose and sell at public
auction, ondhe 3Oth day Of January. 1868 al
the southeast corner Of Court Square, FOR
CASH, TO the highest bidder, the following
described lots OF ground, tO-wit: Lots No. ~.
o and 20. as marked and described on Flippin s
plan OF the subdivision OF lots below Fort Pick
erinT, and lying between S. NJ. Wheaton's aud
Vaecaro's. and severally fronting 50 feet on the
Horn Lake road, and lot p cornering. on Will
kersonis avenue, and soverally running back
$50 feet 10 an alley. Equity Of redemption
specia ly waived. Title believed to be good,
but convey only as Trustee; tee;,..r.
eQ-l2S Trustee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

A BosToN inventor has found sub
stitute for paper hangings on the wall.
A very delicate, simple and beautiful
machine takes a portion of tree after
it has been cut the right length and width,
and shave it up into thin ribbons as wide
as a roll of house paper, making one
hundred or one hundred and fifty to the
inch. These rolls of wood are placed on
the walls by paper hangers with paste
and brush, precisely in the same manner
with paper. The wood is wet when used,
and really works easier than paper, be-
cause it is much more tough and pliable
The longer the wood hanging remains on
the wall, the more distinct will be the
grain and color of the wood.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

The country has been frequently
assured by the Radical press that Radi-
cal ascendency meant no distinction Of
color. We see how this pretense is il
lustrhted in the case Of the black man
who keeps the restaurant, or hole in
the wal" under the halls Of Congress.
This nan pays rent Of $1,000 instead
Of $1,000, which was paid by his imme-
date predecessor, a white man. Aud
General ca Vienna Schenck moved, in
the house, to permit him to sell spirit
Gus liquors, also ale and beer, a privi-
lere which was denied to the white man.
The true rendering Of this pretense Is
that there is no distinction Of color
except IN favor Of the negro"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24
The London Directory.

London Correspondence Of N. Y. Tribune.]
One Of the curiosities of London is its
Directory, the sixty-ninth annual num-
Der of which has just been issued. The
New York Directory is pigmy by the
side of this imperial octave of 27l5
pages, and it may be added that the New
York compilation is as inferior in the
variety and usefulness of its contents as
it is in size. The striking feature of this
book is its street directory, wherein is
recorded the name of every street in
London, and the name of the occupants
of each house arranged in numerical Or
der. The intersections of the streets are
also given; and if you know neither the
name of the person you want to find nor
the number of his house, you may dis
cover him by the name of the street alone.
The convenience is a very great one, and
this list of itself occupies five hundred
pages Of close type. The commercial
section, which gives names of all persons
in business, fills over seven hundred
pages; the Court Directory, embracing
ali names not in the commercial, two
thousand pages. The Trades Directory,
in six hundred pages, collects the names
of all persons in business, arranged un-
der their respective trades and profess
sons-all the butchers, the bakers, and
candlestick makers by themselves. There
are, besides, official, law, Parliamentary,
postal, city, clerical, conveyance. and
putting its information in shape of such
compactness, so easy of reference, and
SO exact, as to be above all praise.
Somebody has taken the trouble to calcu-
late that it contains four million words
as many as twenty closely printed oc-
tavo volumes. Not the least wonderful
thing about it is its cheapness, the price
being thirty shillings, about 81 so in gold.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24
In AN ARTICLE deolarinr for Mr.. Pendle

In an article declaring for Mr.. Pendle-
ton for President, the Chicago Times
says: "In Mr.. Pendleton, in our judg-
ment, lie the highest and best hopes of
the patriots of this nation. The popu-
lar masses instinctively feel this, and
hence the sublime spontaneous rising in
his behalf. Hence the already solid
northwest pronouncing for his nomina-
ton. Hence the movements for him
which are breaking out here and there
and everywhere in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey and New York and New
England. All this ia the work, not of
politicians, but of the people. If the
people shall nominate him, it need not
be doubted that they will elect him."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

The vote in the islands of St. Thomas
and st. John upon the question of ofannex'
alton to the United States was errone-
ously printed yesterday. 1t appears that
there were 1914 votes in favor of annex
alton and % against 1.-THE total being
1866. The st. Thomasites are evidently
more anxious to belong to the United
States than the United States is to have
them
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

In a late speech at Washington city
the Attorney General, though a Republi-
can, thus manfully speaks out the true
sentiments OF his honest heart
The reconstruction acts passed by
Congress have converted ten Of those
States into lower condition than that
of mere Territories, have destroyed
every vestige Of State government, and
have stripped millions OF their people OF
every characteristic that belongs to an
American citizen. Under this extra
ordinary legislation the vast territory
covered by these ten States and the mil
lions of unhappy people which reside
there have no more protection under
our Federal Constitution than il they
occupied 30 much territory in the
interior of Africa, Their State Consti-
tutions, made by these people, under the
auspices of President Lincoln snd Presi-
dent johnson, are declared to be illegal,
are in effect abolished, and in place oil
them Congress has provided military
despotism. Certainly if no valid State
law protected these people there was at
least Federal law which ought to have
protected them; for every foot of that
territory and over every individual that
inhabits it the great fundamental law of
the Constitution of the United States
prevails in all its vigor, and gives to
every one Of them every privilege and
every immunity which it extends to the
American citizens anywhere and every
where. With this Constitution, then,
fully in force over all that territory and
all those people, where does Congress find
its warrant for supplanting legal State
government with military government Z
Where does Congress find its warrant in
time of peace to suspend the habeas
corpus; to take away the inestmable
privilege of trial by jury; to remove the
civil officers of q State and substitute
Federal officers in their places; and,
finally, to try, to condemn, to punish, to
imprison, to hang these people for civil
offenses or pretended offenses by the
Judgment of military court2 Where
does Congress find its warrant in the
Constitution for State by voters of its
own creating to pass suffrage law for a
State2 Where does it find authority to
say who shall vote, and who shall not
vote in State elections2 Lastly, where
does it find authority to make new
class of citizens, and to give to that
class of citizens greater rights than
were ever conferred before by the
Constitution upon any class, and to
take away from those who always en-
joyed the rights of citizenship the most
precious of these rights ? Gentlemen, /
have been at the bar for nearly half a
century, and have been constant stu.
dent, not only of the common law, but OF
our own constitutional law, and | do not
hesitate to say that the whole of these
Reconstruction Acts of Congress, from
beginning to end, first, second and third
in the SERIES are unconstitutional and
void. These are times when to be silent
is to be unfaithful. These are times
when men must sneak out
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

LA FoNTAINE was one of the most
absent-minded OF men. We are told that
he once attended the funeral of friend,
and shortly after called to visit him,
while the servant informed him that his
master was dead. La Fontaine was at
FIRST very much shocked, but, recovering
from his surprise, observed; ut is true
enough, for now l recollect 1 was at his
hnrial -
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24
Horrible Tragedy in st. Petersburg Fe-
male Seminary.

st. Petersburg has lately been the
scene of horrible tragedy, which does
not tell very favorably for the state of
female education in that city. The
patroness Of boarding school for young
ladies had expressed her disapprobation
of their coifure which she considered as
too coquettish. The lady who had the
superintendent of the class was so
much affected by this censure, that she
ordered all the young ladies' hair to be
cropped quite short This was regarded
as a great indignity, and as soon as it
was dark the young ladies attacked the
supposed offender, threw sheet over
her head, knocked her down and NAL
treated her so seriously that she died in
a few hours. 1t turned out afterwards
that these paragons of feminine pro-
priety had made q mistake in the dark,
and vented their fury on the wrong
person. The unhappy victim was what
they would call in England parlor
boarder, who on the evening in question
had undertaken to discharge the duties
of the usual class teacher.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

A FEW less than ten thousand buildings
were erected in the combined cities OF
New York and Brooklyn last year, while
about nine thousand were erected in
Chicago alone. Only three thousand
eight hundred buildings were erected in
Philadelphia during the same period.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

Six thousand and seven hundred tickets, rep
resenting the certificates issued. will be placed
in one wheel, and the same number Of blanks
including twenty five inscrited with the names
of the premiums, will be placed in another.
From these wheels tickets will be drawn at the
same time. and the number drawn will take the
premium drawn simultaneously.
All moneys received upon the sale Of these
shares will be placed in the German National
Bank Of Memphis. and will remain there 10 the
takes Dlace.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24
NOTICE.

r WILL EXCHANGE BUILDING LUM-
| Der for a small stock Of Groceries, Provi-
Fious, or Dry Goods-censisting Of Calieoes,
Domestics, Wool Goods, Hats. Boots and Shoes,
and Clothing, suitable for a country store.
Thee or four yoke Of OXEN wanted.
The lumber to be saved AZ fddins' mill, in
Memphis. at mouth Of Wolf river. All the
lumber sawed according 70 the order Of pur-
Arpiy to me. at EDDINs' saw MILL
Iqd DEXTER CURTIS.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

A BOY in Louisville, who had been re-
duced to great debility by frequent and
copious bleedings at the nose, for which
the physicians could not account,
sneezed out thorn a few days ago, when
the hemorrhages ceased, and he is now
regaining his strength.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

IT will not do for the users of slang"
to 60 to Hartford. A police judge Of
that city recently sentenced a prisoner
on trial to thirty days confinement for
saving "bully boy"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

The system of education established
by the new Alabama State Constitution,
it is said, will absorb one fifth of all the
revenue collected from the people, be-
sides the polltax, the proceeds of public
lands, of estates of persons without will
or heir, fines, and some other miscella-
neors sources of revenue.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

A librarian in one Of the public libra
ries in Berlin, who died recently, in his
seth year, bad never been out ofthe city,
and for 20 years had never been in any
other houses but that containing the IL
brary and bis own home.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24
Trustees Sale.

DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST,
ID executed to me on the 10th day Of Janua-
ry, 1867, by j. T. Gillian, to secure. the ? y
ment Of certain note the elm mentioned, for
Sl,7a9 20 said note given in favor Of I. O.
Bridgforth, executor and guardian of I. b;
Bridgforth's estate and chi ldren, which said
deed is on record, in the Probate Clerks office,
of DeSoto county, Miss, in book No. 2, pages
27l and 272 of ihe records of deeds OF trust
mortgages and contracts. will on
Saturday, the 25th of January, Is6s,
between the hours Of II A. N; and 4o'clOck P. NJ,
on II premises, sell at pub ic outcry, to the
highest bidder for CASH, the fol lowing described
property, to-wit. One hundred and twenty
acres of land off of the east side of the north
east quarter of section (20) twenty, township
(2 two range t6) six west also, fifty acres OF Of
section (2l) twenty-one, township t2) two. range
lO six west. containing in All llO acres: Also
The title TO the property is believed'to be per
feet but will convey only as trustee;
d. W. BRISTOL, Trustee;
Ian A 1859 ll9
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

The Board of Health of New York re-
port that there has been decided
improvement in tenement houses in that
city the past year. The health of their
inmates has improved and the rate Of
mortality decreased. The occupation of
cellars as dwellings has been largely
diminished. This is certainly gratifying
intelligence,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

A London doc or has invented 8 meat.
preserver that keeps whole pieces Of
meat for IL months. 90 that when cooked
they are perfectly sweet and wholesome.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24
Rather Mixed.

Speaking of the very improbable
nomination by the Democrats of Han
cock for the Presidency, the New York
Herald says:
Watchman, what do you see in the
ofing2 Grant, the Republican ticket,
in spite of himself and in spite of the
Radicals; Hancock, the Democratic
champion in spite of the Copperheads.
What else 2 Vicksburg and Fredericks-
burg, Gettysburg and Petersburg, Chat
tanooga and Appomattox, niger suf-
frage, nigger supremacy, white man s
government, greenbacks, bonds, banks,
taxes, corruptions, Copperheads, Con-
servatives, Radicals, whites and niggers,
reconstruction aud restoration, redemp
ton and reputation, SO inexplicably
mixed up that it looks like the first
battle of Bull Run, when Mcdowell
thought he had it. The upshot of this
negro business in the South, within the
next three months, will, we doubt not,
settle the question.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

TIE curse is working all through the
country. The Detroit Post warns every
body in need of employment to keep away
from that city. At the present there are
over one thousand young men there out
of employment, which they seek in vain.
Old men, heads of families, servant girls
and seamstresses are about as largely
represented, and the agentof the City
Mission Board is beset every hour in the
day by persons seeking work or asking
assistance, while the office of the poor
master is inadequate to hold the suffer
ers who ask assistance of the county.
The police station lodging house is filled
nightly, and the City Mission house has
furnished lodging for seyenty-nine per
sons, and meals for 81 during the eight
DAYS that it has been in operation. 1t
will be worse before it is better.
Radical misruIe has brought all this
on the country. How long will the peo-
ple endure IT'D
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

LAGRANGE wore $l3O,0O0 worth Of
diamonds on her first appearance at
Pixies Opera House, New York.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-24

QUEEN VICTORIA has obtained the
second prize for fat pigs at the Birming-
ham cattle show.