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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-10
How to Manage Female Kutinsers.

Speaking of the recent mutiny of
women employed at the cigar manufac-
tory at Madrid the Epoca gives the fol-
lowing humorous description of the line
Of action pursued by certain director
of one Of these establishments in SINH
lar emergency
The women having quit work, left the
mandatory in body, and with me-
nacing gestures and shouts, FASTENED
toward the office of the director. The
tumult reaching the ears Of the latter,
he asked what it meant.
- "The hands have mutinied, and have
come to demand"
= "What?"
"Justice from your exceliency. The
whole Of them insist upon coming in to
see You, and they declare they will come
in by force If you won't admit them
otherwise.
1t was a difficult dilemma. The d.
rector reflected. AT length be exclaimed:
GOOD Go and tell them am ready
to receive them"
"Yes, sir"
"But as there are so many of them, l
cannot see them all. They must dele
gate three Of their number for the inter-
view"
The messenger was about to retire
with the decision, when the director
cried after him: Wait a minute; the
three delegates must be the three Oldest
and ugliest of the lot"
Strange to say, the director never re-
ceived the deputation.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-10
Responding to the Judge.


v The New Orleans Picdyune says the
Judge Of one of the New Orleans muni-
cipal courts sat gloomy and grand on his
bench Of ermiue. The prisoner occupied
the dock, apparently meek and downcast.
She had merry twinkle in her eye,
however, that promised mischief, and
had the magnate but perceived it, he
would have been more careful in his
questions.
I" how many times are you coming up
here9
"What, yer honor?'
"How many times are you coming be-
fore me2 This is the third this present
week"
"Oh, no. yer honor"
"Didn't see you here yesterday
"Why, yer honor, it was last night yer
seed me, in the concert saloon. 1t was a
BIT of drink we had together, and yer
did talk beautifully With yer cunning ways
and ssucy jokes Aye, yer honor the
man for the girls The divil admire ye,
but yees are smart.
"Stop your mouth-you can 20.
THANK ye, yer honor"
The prisoner went cut, the Judge
blushed. and the audience rosred.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-10
Hsll-Pirs inI His Pocket.

The Banner of Light tells the follow
ing story of Universalist minister who
attenked convention of his brethren in
a new village in the wilderness, where
Z malaria and the diseases incident thereto
abounded. He took the precaution to
carry vial of cayenne in his pocket, to
sprinkle.his food with as preventive to
fever and ague. The convention met,
and at dinner tall Hoosier observed the
parson as he seasoned his meat, and ad-
dressed him thus:
stranger, I'll thank you for leetle
of that ere red salt, for I'm kind O Gu
rious to try it."
Certainly" returned the parson, "but
you will find it very powerful; be care
full how you use it.
The Hoosier took the proffered vial,
and, feeling himself proof against any
quantity Of raw whisky, thought he could
stand the red salt with impunity, and
accordingly sprinkled junk of beef
rather beautifully with it, and forthwith
introduced it into his capacious mouth.
It soon began to take hold. He shut his
eyes, and his features began to writhe,
denoting q very inharmonious condition
physically. He opened his mouth and
screamed fire
"Take drink of cold water" said the
parson.
8 "Will that put it out p asked the mar
tyr, shifting the action to the word. In
short time the unfortunate man began to
recover, and turning to the parson, his
eyes yet swimming in water, exclaimed:
stranger, you call yourself a 'Versal-
ist, I believe ?"
4 81 do" mildly answered the parsou.
q "Wal, / want to know if you think it
consistent with your belief to go about
with hell-fre in your breeches pockets 2"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-10
Memphis and Little Rock
RAILR AID.
OPEN TO MADISON.
Overland Route to Little Rock.

ON AND AFTER WEDNESDAY,, SEP
~ tember 2, 1868. the train on the Eastern
Division of this road will run regularly as foi-
GONG wEsr-Leave Hopefeld Monday, We'd
nesday and Friday, at 7.SO a.m.' and arrive
at Madison at / o'clock Pm.
CeMrNc EAsr-Leave Madison Tuesday. hurs.
day and Saturday, at 1880 am; arrive at
Hopefeld at O'Clock pm. and Memphis
at 1:30 pm.
Union street at am. Trains at Madison cCr-
meet with the Stage l. ne between Madison and
Duvalls Bluff.
B5- Passengers lea ying Memphis at am
arrive In Little Rock at 5 pm. next day.
Tickets for sale at all the Railroad Ticket
Office, in the city.
Freights for Madison or way stations. re-
ceiyed by P, NJ. PATTERSON d CO., at their
wharf boat, foot Of Union street:
Freight to way stations must be prepaid.
w. ROBERTSON,
1881 General Superintendent:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-10

ITS exceedingly large circulation through
cut the city ana state Ofex businsas men an
excellent opportunity 10 make their business
known 70 The Thousands Of Germans LIVING IN
his section 81 the sounxg. 81
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-10

LARGEST CITY 0IRGuLATl9N:
p.elins Of tho French DramA-A New and
Lasoivious Piay-Analysis OF the Plot
and Scenes. =.
Nothiue indicates the fast decline OF
\ she French drama as much as the grow
inc favor which plays abouuding In las
civious and equiyocaI scenes mes. on
the Partisan stage. The Palais Royal
Theater now gives, every evening"
small comedy named Madame est
coucsee MADAM is in bed), which always
throws the audience into ecstacies oil
delight, aud the contents Of which are
"A follows: .Chazonnier, .boursier, IS
married to charming young wife, but
keeps, Of course, q mistress. lie has
iust visited the latter, and. comes home
AT very unreasonable hour, his wife
having gone TO the opera ball with her
lover, and Georgette, the maid, has
amused herself with the footman in her
mistress bedroom. Her CONSIDERATION
NAV be imagined when Chazonnier en-
ters the house He wants to penetrate
into her bedroom. Georgette, in some
what disordered toilet, places herself
against tue uOOr. 1ou Onnho'
come in" she exclaims. MADAME
is in bed Madame has the
sick headache" Chazonnier then sits
down and says he wants his supper.
What is the girl to do to get rid Of him 7
She tries 10 persuade him that he has had
a rush Of blood to his head, and ought to
battle his feet. Chazonnier, however, re-
plies that he feels first-rate, aud that he
wants her to admit him to his wife's bed
room. At her wits ends, Georgelte
kneels down before him and exclaims:
Have mercy on me, master love you
dearly, and am jealous of your wife.
Chazonnier is not averse to tender fefe.
a-tete with the pretty girl But what II
his wife should catch him in 1fGgrdntef
In order to protect himself from any un-
pleasant Interruption, he locks the door
/, of her bedroom and puts the key in his
pocket. At the same moment the oppo-
site door opens, and Georgette perceives
a domino. She says she feels very i'll,
snatcbes the key from Chazonnier, and
asks him to fetch her eau de Cologne.
Meanwhile, Madame slips softly into her
bedroom. Chazonnier returns with the
eau de Cologne, and begins to embrace
the girl; but Madame rings her bell, and
the husband, cursing her for interrupting
him, enters the bedroom. All this is
played with thousand obscene inuen-
does, but the Parisians enjoy 1t most
heartily. FEl aNt
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-10
Administrator No fice.

r ETTERs OF ADMINIsTRATI ON HAV-
IL ing been granted TO the undersig ned at th Q
September Term Of the County Court upon the
estate Of Mary Wiley. deceased, all persons
notified to present them, duly proba':ed. within
the time prescribed by law. TO me for payment,
OF this notice will be plead in bar of their re-
are hereby notified to come forward and make
payment 10 me Immediately, or steps will be
taken TO coerce payment Of the same.
CHAS. +. BULLOCK, Admir-,
Office in rear Of Nc. Z7S Second street.
October %, 1868. oaw62
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-10
Wanted 10 Exchange.

A WE'LL ESTABLISHED AND GOOD
"a phyina business in Louisville, Ky. for real
e-fats in Mcmphis. Tenn. coed opportunity
will be offered TO any one wishing 70 mer-
chandi1s. Business Low worth $4,000. For
'-'' GEO. ii. MONsARRAT A CO..
@ Ayres Block.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-10
Particular Attention Paid to the Obtain
ing of Patents.
DIR. RUSSELL'S
Dispensary and Imfrmary,
,rrwpEyrS. rENNEssEE.
MEMPHIS. TENNESSEE.

nR. RUssELL's DIsPBNsARY AND
DInfrmary, the largest and Oldest institu,,
ton Of the kind in the Southwest. established
in 1850, pleasantly located NJ Nos. 40 and AZ
North side # Court Square, Memphis, Tennes-
see, is open for the reception of patients desir-
ing treatment and the comforts of home while
receiving the same. Patients also treated at
the Office or by letter, If desired.
Rheumatism. Neuralgia, Govt. Paralysis,
diseased, Spermatorrhea. Impotency, and all
the diseases arising frem the indiscre ton OF
youth permanently cured. Also, Chronic Dis
eases in all their forms effectually cured at the
above named institution.
DIR. RUSSELL, Consulting Physician.
as- Treatise on Chronic Diseases furnished
free on application. 4y-l2o
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-10
J. VIENNOT IL co,

GENERAL NEWSPAPER ADyERTIS-
VI ING AGENTS, 1873 Mas eau street, New
York. Established in 1922 We beg to call
the attention Of advertisers 20 our agency. Our
the country are second to noue, an we are fully
prepared to offer terms and conditions which
cannot fail to give superior inducements. We
also send advertisements to all Cuban and
South Amsrican papers, with whom we have
exclusive contracts. We are the only house
doing SPANISH ADVERTISING BUSINESS.
We can, by special permission. refer to
Mr.. H. T. Helmbold, Druggist, 59i Broadway.
New York.
Messrs. s. X. yanduzer i Co., 19S Greenwich
street, New York.
Msssrs Han & Ruckel. 2ls Greenwich street,
New York.
Messrs. g. Bruce's Son & Co.. Type Founders,
IL Chambers street.
Messrs. Phalon 4 Son, New York.
Phelan Collender, New York.
Tarrant x Co., New York.
ChickeriDg * Son, New York
Railway q Co., New York. Gill
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-22
The Mixture OF Races.

Agassiz, in his lately published
work on Brazil, has the following on
the mixture of races: "I,et any one
who doubts the evil of this mixture
philanthropy to break down the bar
riers between them, come to BRAZIL
cannot deny the deterioration con-
sequent upon an amalgaffiation of
races more widespread here than in
any other country in the world, and
which is rapidly effacing the best
qualities of the white man, the negro
and the Indian, leaving q mongrel
nondescript type, deficient in physical
and mental energy. At time when
the new social status of the negro Is q
subject of vital Importance in our
craftsmanship, we should profit by
the experience of country where,
though slavery exists, there is far
more liberality toward the free negro
than he has ever enjoyed in the Uni
ted States. Let us learn the double
lesson; open all the advantages of ed
ucatiOn to the negro, and give him
every chanceOf success which culture
gives to the man who knows how to
use it; but respect the laws of nature,
and let all our dealings which the
black man tend to preserve, as far as
possible, the distinctness Of his ma:
tiOnal characteristics, and the integ-
rity of our own"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-22

CURE FOR BALD-HEADEDNESS.-
Frederick Kemp writes from the sill
yer mines of Montana to the Herald
of Health, giving the following hint
I'm reference to cure for bald-headed-
ness: "a friend of mine who had the
misfortune TO be bald-headed, know
ing that there Is q wonderful invigor-
ating power i'm the SUMS rays, last
spring threw away his hat, and
worked In the gulch all spring, sum-
mer, and fall bareheaded, and also for
the first few days at midday. For "a
few DAYS the rays of the hot sun on
his head were almost uncomfortable;
after that time experienced no UNI
easiness whatever. The result was
that in the fall he had a good head of
hair. And In this experiment he was
not alone-several of his acquaintan-
ces who were bald-headed having fol-
lowed the same plan, they We're all
fortunate enough To experience the
same result" The editor adds that
a similar case once came under his
own observation, and processes to have
no doubt that "the exposure of the
skin to air and sunshine, under the
proper circumstances, stimulates 1t To
a healthy action, and with II those
glands upon which the growth Of the
hair depends"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-22
From Latrobe's Sketches Of America."]
The First Steamboat.

In October, 1911, the greatest event
of the Western country took place
This was the commencement ofsteam-
boat Fulton'ssteambo boat,
called the New Orleans" left Pitts
burgh at the above date, and late
at night on the fourth day after
starting, she arrived at Louis
Vile, having been but seventy hours
in descending over seven hundred
miles. The novel appearance of the
vessel, and the rapidity with which it
made its passage over the broad
reaches of the river, excited mix
ture of terror and surprise among
many of the settlers, whom therumor
Of such an invention had never
reached; and il is related that on an
unexpected arrival of the boat before
Louisville, In the course of a fine
moonlight night, the extraordinary
sound which filled the air as the pent
up steam was suffered 90 escape from
the valves on rounding to, produced II
general alarm, and multitudes in the
town arose from their beds to ascer-
tain the cause. / have heard 1t said
that the general impression among
the Kentuckians was, that a comet
had fallen into the Ohio.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-22
Pleasant

To be an editor. If you let every
thing go as 1t happens, you are q
wooden man. III you attempt to do
your duty, you are trying to rule the
country. You a.e abused for not pub
fishing any news, and then you are
worse abused when you do publish
the news. People will take ofiense II
you notice them in your paper, or il
you dOn't-sO you neverknow wheth.
er you are to meet man as you par
ted with him or not.
Your party demands the most i'm
plicit allegiance, and on election day,
when your prestige, which is your all,
Is at stake, 1t heedlessly or pui'posely
abstains from voting, and allows you
to he beaten to death.
If you are neutral on politics you
are of no account to anybody. You
can't support one party never so call
didly, and high mindedly without
being denounced as all that Is mean
by the other.
If you admit that your political op-
ponents are men, acting from as sim
cere and conscientious motives as
your own, you are in the market for
buyers. That you can have other
than = mercenary or selfish motive,
.eyeni in your prayer, is secuted.
4oureditOrials are termed scurrilQus
by-your enemies and tame by your
friends. You are not read If your
paper isn't spicy, and your paper isn't
iit to be received into decent family
If 1t is spicy. Ifyou should take no.
tice. OF every cur swapping al your
heels on the contrary, you would be a
black2uard and an idiot in the bar
gain. Moreover you would soor be
food for worms, for you would have a
fight on hand every hour i'm the day,
and an assassin like attack at least
once every night. 1t is well for the
editors and the devils I'm hell that
there is great deal of US.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-22
.If7sl7I-
From the Nashville Gazette.1
WILL OUR PEOPLE SUSTAIN A
FREE ERESS.

Yesterday we received through the
mails notification from the publish
ers of the Press and Times by which
we are informed that
No publication or advertisement,
directed or required by law, is now
valid, unless it appears in the Official
journals of the State. This includes
chancery sales, sheriff's sales, mar
shal's sales, cOnsiable's sales, trustees
sales, and all tax sales, guardian no
tices and settlements, executor or ad-
minister's, notices, county clerks no.
tices, insolvent notices, nonresident
notices, attachment notices, dissolu-
of partnerships, statements required
from insurance companies, notices of
meetings required i'm characters of cor
porations, ETC., etc. 1t indeed includes
every notice required by law, and
every publication required by any
Court from that of Justice to the
Supreme Court. The law also covers
all advertisements of officers I'm their
official capacity. The title obtained
to property acquired at a sale illegally
advertised, when required by law to
be advertised, is of course worthless.
On this subject the remarks of the
Gallatin Examiner are as pertinent
as any we could indite:
If our peOple-if the white men. of
Tennessee, are not wholly unmindful
of their interest and duties, they will
give an immediate and liberal sup
port to their newspaper presses. The
Radical Legislature has done all in its
power to crush out Conservative pa
pers, by forbiding the publication of
all legal advertising i'm any except in
a few papers of their own stamp,
which have circulation i'm the country,
except among their own "bummers
and carpet-bag men," Its effect has
been already to stop the issue of one
capital paper at Winchester, and we
hear of Others which will suspend un-
less they are better backed by their
people. And it will be so all over the
State unless our white people open
their purse, and give them a paying
support.
We say to our people, in all serious
ness, that there is great danger to the
permanency ofthe Conservative press
in Tennessee, which can only be
averted by their active support. If
the press is worthy anything to a
people it is worthy of II liberal back
ing.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-22
STRUGGLING Alone

The world opposes many obstacles
to the ascending genius Of man--dis-
couiagements that either directly or
Indirectly impede his progress or XIII
the talent he would display. Count
less are these obstacles, and all consid-
erred, there Is none, perhaps, that so
discourages him as TO be frientiless. =.
To know that In this broad world he
has to struggle on unaided By single
friendly hand, is truly hard.
All !! how his heart bleeds at only
the Thought that he must strive
on, day after day. from morhing to
night, uncheered be the gentle voice
OF love without kindred heart To
which he can confide hfs joys and
sorrows; without loving word t6 en-
courage him in the hour of darkness!
How hard to him is the knowledge
that he takes no part in the world, It's
society, its pleasure; that he lives
wholly for and by himself; and, that
unknown, ,unlOved, unwept, he
must pass from this earth to that
future state, without friendly hand or
voice to alleviate the pains of his last
hours! Alas how many hearts in
youths joyful hour have been crushed
and sent to early graves only from
this knowledge. Life, public and pri-
vate, presents us many instances
Who has not heard the story of Chat
terton, the poet boy, who, being
friendless and weary, died by his own
ha.d at the age Of eighteen! And
who knows what such a master
mind, matured by age, and spurred
on by the voice of friendship; would
not some day have accomplished in
the field of literature!
Much, too, of dormant talant there
Is, which, If encouraged, might one
day dazzle the world with its gran
deur, and enlighten 1t in its highest
attachments. All! yes, the worldloses
much by not extending the hand of
friendship to all; but he loses more
who receives 1t not us help along the
rugged path of life. Well has Moore
said:
"When friendships decay,
And from loves shining circle
The getfs drop away;
When true hearts lie withered,
And foul ones are flown,
Oh who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?"
All Z! truly! sad is the lot of him
who iiihabits 1t alone.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-22
And He Passed 20 shune,n.

The Words of my text, my hearers,
You will find i'm Kings, iv chapter,
verse s." And he passed to Shunern.J ~
Take to heart the lesson our text
teaches, and when temptations try
you and evils lie Inf wait to ensnare
you," pass on to Shun'eni."
i When you see men of wrath fight
ing and breaking heads and sticks, and
hear them cuisiny and swearing
mind the words of the text and "pass
on To Shuf'em1."
And oh my hearers--if you should
come into one Of our little towns and
behold q row of nice little offices with
signs on the door of each and hear
talking OF attachments without af-
fectibns,. and representations without
quiet-eh;' and seize-yours and new
er theiIs-ah,' aud about eternally
going to law-ah; 1t will be to your
profit "and pass on to Shun'em."
And III you go round where the
merchants are-ah--and they rush
out to shake hands with you, and
dre especially anxious to learn the
condition of your wife's health and
the. chiidren's, and the worms and
the crops, and offer to sell you little
bill of goods. u great deal lower than
their cost on account of their love for
YOU and for cash-ah-"pass on to-
Shun'emv"
And If you should happen to 90 to
the Cosmopolitan Corner-arfd see
men drinking beer; that will bfing
them to- their bier-2aud gin slings
that will sling down the strongest,
anti smasbes that will smash mans
fortune faster than commission mer-
chants who advanced supplies on the
last crop-ah-Oh, "pass on to Shun-
lem ~
But oh, my hearers! If you should
go down to Nashville, that modern
Sodom and Gomorrah, where I havo
been-ah--and when the gaslights
are flashing and glimmering, and tho
cabs are da hing along the streets
and obliging drivers are Offering to
carry you where only steamboat cap
tains and the first gentlemen go-ah
and the town is on u rip and u roar
--ah and men in little holes are ready
to sell you tickets to go I'm and see the
Black Crook dance with nothing TO
wear-Aand make spectacles of them
selves-ah-oh, MY frieiids, "pass on
to Shun'em /"
And oh! If later In the evening,
with a very particular friend, you go
up stairs Into most splendidly ftlrnish-
ed rooms--ah-and see the supper ia
ble spread with delicacies from every
cline and country-and teal ducks
and snipcs and yaller legged pullets
and plieasants and all that fish, flesh
and fowl can afford-and champagne
and brandy and Burgundy and Cha
teau Lafitte, older than Waterloo
and nothing to pay and all free-and
a nice gentleman with rings on his
fingers, and diamond breastpin,
playing with little spotted pastei
boards, and another turning a ma
chine and dropping i'm II little ball that
rolls round and round and stops sOme-
times on the eagle bird, and of;ener
don't-and when the player generals
ly put down more than they take up
and men sometimes win but mostly
don't-ah--oh; "pass on to Shun'em."
And in conclusion, my friends, when
the world, the flesh and the devil
ah-lie in wait for you-"pass on to
Shun'emi"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-22

THE GREENBACK ISSUE. The New
York Times thinks that the interest
In the bonded debt question-its pay
ment in greenbacks-is subsiding In
the West. Therein it is greatly mis-
taken, Just ut present the subject OF
the Impeachment is more discussed,
but that does not prove that the bonds
have been forgotten or at all lost sight
of. The Times will soon have con-
vincing evidence of that fnct. No
measure was ever before so popular
I'm the West as that of the payment
of the bondholder i'm the same cur
rcncy that pays all other debts, and
the stoppageof annual drain of inter
est which Is impoverishing the coun-
try. This measure Is stronger than
any man in the nation. Any organ
ization that places itselfagainst Il will
be utterly crushed, and its candidates
will he beaten out Of sight. IL the
Times entertains the contrary 'lea, a
few months will dispel its delusion.-
The people are not ready to be eiitlre-
ly sold out to the bondholders.- Cai-
cianoH Enquirer.