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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-06
Arrival and Departure Of Trains.


MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE hAILR0AD.
New Orleans mail daily. s:ss pm. l lS ann m.
F re9?sSt Except Sunday 2:sS pm: 4:55s.m.
MaiI train makes direct connection for New
Orleans and all points South. e..
Express train makes direct connection ior
Cofeeville, Water Valley. oFt 1r.d HOLY ny
Springs. and all points North OF drenada on
Mississippi Central railroad. a,
Ticket Office, 2s7lS Main street. and at the
depot. Omnibuses will coll for passengers ana
oh eek baggage In any part OF the CITY oy ieas-
ing orders at 2S7z Main. a. o..
MEMPHIS AND oHARLRsroN RAILRoAD.
Through mail. daily.,-...... 255 Pm. LTD Pm
Through express, dailyldoes
not arriveSunday or leave m
Saturday. ......-..'lU;50 TN. ii''v I'm
Junction Accommodation,
save Sunday ........-..-...... S;lo AM I;oVP'M'
Soherville Accommodation,
save Sunday.....-.........9 :4S AN. 4:40P.M.
Railroad time fifteen minutes faster than
''1 3e S Ne. 27s Maia street. and at Depot.
A. A. BARNES. g. T. A.
BARNEY HUGHES. Passenger Agent.
MEMPHIS AND LOUISVILLE RAILROAD.
nav Nxpress-...............-12 Pm. 4:WA.hs
Night Express.....-:...:..... El5A;n. 2:dS r;H.
pass'eer Accommodation. Glib 500
T;cfet office. No. 23Tx Main street. De-
pot heAa u Da'A s. B. JONES. sup't.
SELL HOWELL, Passenger Agent.
MEMPHIS AND LITTLE ROCK RAILROAD.
aorra WEsr - Leave Hopefeld at $50 am.
arrive at L'Anguille at ll:So IN.
arrive at HopeGeld at 500 Pm.
Trains leave daily: feTryooa' isss t;ma 1901 Oh
Union su''' ~ B. D. Williams,
General Agent and Superintendent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-06
TEXAS.

GALVESTON, November 5.-The Pre-
visional Governor is Supplying for
authority e enforce an ordinance adept
ed By the Reconstruction Convention.
General Reynolds decides that they are
not valid. aud Gays ths, the ratification
Of the Constitution viii not in any man
ner or degree validate or make Of force
The ordinaDcea
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-06
REGISTRATION NOTICE.

A LII PERSONS MAKING APPLICATION
n for Ward registration viii be required to
exhibit their county certificates, under act OF
NJ arch Q. 1868.
/ will also open my Office at the Court House,
Monday, November ]. 1863. for the registration
Of voters, and continue open fer six days.
JOHN p. B0UGHNEN,
Commissioner OF Registration for Shelby
County.
Memphis- Tenn. October 76 E-R
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-06
Medical Notice.

IL physician Of the Charity Hospital. View
Orleans, La, and for the last three years sur
eeon Of the U. S. Post Hospital at Jackson.
Miss, respectfully tenders his profe sional SER
vices to the citizens of Memphis spd vicini y.
in cases of every cha acter. Special attention
given to all diseases peculiar to females; also.
ven ereal, syphilis. tumors, anfall chronic dis
eases. r E
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-06
Trust 8 ale

DY VIRTUE AND AUTHORITY OF A
ID deed of trust made By NJ. j. Cox. on the 4th
day of January 1856. to secure certain indebt-
edness therein described. I will. on
Saturday, 4th day OF December, 1859,
In front of No 164 Front street. Memphis,
Tenn, proceed 70 sell for cash, to the highest
and best bidder, the following described lot Of
land. lying and being In. Shelby county and
State Of Tennessee, and bouH cd s follows,
to-wit: Beginning at point where the west
ern boundary Of the VIM. Black tract crosses
the Memphis and Ohio railroad; thence east
erly with the north line Of said "a lroad twenty
chains, to stake; thence westerly twenty-five
poles and half, to 9 stake; thence south
warsly seventy eight poles. TO the beginning |;
containing ten acres of land. All right Of re-
demrtion IL expressly waived in said Trust
Deed: and the title to said land is believed to
be perfect. but will convey as trustee only.
Sale between the hours of ten and twelve
o'clock m. of said Attn day Of December.
57-8i a. g. METTE. Trustee.
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M z pIcAL.
DR.. Richau's Golden RENE dies.

LIE. hlC1duS OOlucH htnltulCss
Use these only, and save time. health and
money.
$1,000 REWARD for any case Of disease,
in any ste &c. which they fail to cure.
DR. RICHAU'S Golden Balsam. No cures
IL ulcers. liberated sore throat and mouth,
sore eyes, cutaneous eruptions. copper colored
blofches. soreness Of the scalp. scroiula etc; II
is the greatest ronovatoT. a. tsrsti-c and bleed
purifier known, removes all mercury from the
system. and leaves the blood pure and healthy.
DR. RICHAU'S Golden Balsam, No 2. cures
IL mercurial Elections. rheumatism in all its
forms, and gives inn ediate relief in all cases.
Price of either NO. or No. 2, So per bottle,
or two bolt es for So.
DR. RICHAU'S Golden Antidote, a rapid
IL and radical cure for all urinary derange-
pents. Price. So per bottle.
nR. RICHAU'S Golden Elixir D'Amour. a
~ radical cure for nervous or general debility.
in old or young: imparting energy with won
derfu effect Price, S. rer bottle, or two for 50.
On receipt of price these remedies will be
shipped to any place. Prompt attention paid
to all correspondents. None genuine without
the name Of DR.. Richau's Golden Remedies.
d. B. Richards, Sole Proprietor, blown in glass
of bottles. Address DR.. d B. RICHARDS.
No. 218 Varick st.. New York. 49, ll-4S
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No. 500 Front ST., Memphis, Tenn,
WILL ATTEND PROMPTLY TO THE
w sale of Cotton and Produce. and FIJI or
ders for supplies for customers. l50-9-69
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-07
PLAIN SEWING and MACHINE STITCHING
MRS. j. A. WILSON

WISHES to notify her friends and the public
w that she has removed from No. 10 Washing
ton street to No. Is Elizabeth avenue. She is pre-
nared TO 90 out into families by the day with her
SEWING Machine Having been at first class work
for n humber of years, she understands Cutting,
Making and Trimming Ladies' and Children's I'm
derclothing Also, Children's French Dresses and
Meos' shirts and carries her patterns with her,.
Nv leaving the name and address at 10 Elizabeth
avenue, Mrs Wilson VIII call on the ladies for their
orders in the evening. moon
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-07

Prominent citizens and Europeans
have been arrested in Mexico charged
with plotting the assassination Of Pres
ident Juarez.
Heavy and continued rains are
damaging the crops in Georgia.
The receipts of the Land Office at
Denver, Col, for July were 1929, 79S.
The British bark Bessie Young, Sc
days from Liverpool, is ashore on ST.
Catharine's bar, Savannah.
The United States steamer Newbern
has. arrived at San Francisco from
Sitka. Her news is unimportant.
A barber named Schupkezel living
in Mascontale, ILL.,, was brutally MUIR
dered on Wednesday by Henry Gath,
a butcher.
The report that Jay Cooke & Co. had
advanced money on whisky destroyed
by the great Philadelphia fire is posi-
lively denied by that firm.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-07
WIRE CLOTH FOR SCREENS.

A BOUT TO ARRIVE, complete assortment of
n Wire Netting for Mosquito Sereens-plain,
drab and green, "a, 80 and Sc inches wide.
L. NJ. HERRICK & CO.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-07
OUR SECRETS ARE TO DO GOOD.

7 INCoLN DIVISION No. OF SONS OF TEN
| 4 PERANCE meet EVERY TUESDAY EVENING
at Library Hail. third story. Initiation fee-Males
50. Females 81. Dues per month-males 20 cents.
Females 81 per year. We invite ALL to join US,
and unite their efforts with us in doing good: we
ask the earnest aid and cooperation Of all. There
is work enough for all to do. JS Inn
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-07-21
God is not a Merchant.

Once there was poor woman standing be-
fore the window Of a royal conservatory which
looked into the public street 1t was the dead
of winter, and no flowers were in the garden
and no fruit on the trees. But in the hot
house splendid bunch Of grapes hung from
the glass ceiling, basking in the bright win
ter sun, and the poor woman gazed at it until
the water came into her mouth, aud she sighed,
" Oh, / wish could take them to my sick
darlingw She went home and sat down to her
spinning-wheel, and wrought day and night
till she earned halfa crown. She then went
10 the kings gardener and offered him that
sum for the bunch Of grapes but the garden
er received her uukindly, and told her not to
come again. She returned home, and looked
around her little cottage to see whether there
was any thing she could dispense with. II
,,.a o 6orsss --io,os, -, sho thought she ooSld
do without blanket for a week or two; so
she pawned it for half crown and went to
the kings gardener, and now offered him five
shillings. But the gardener scolded her, and
took her by the arm rather roughly and turn
ed her out. 1t Just happened, however, that
the kings daughter was near at hand, and
when she heard the angry words Of the gar
deuer, and the crying Of the poor woman, she
came up and inquired into the natter
When the poor woman had told her story, the
noble princess said with kind smile, " My
dear woman, you were mistaken, my father is
not a merchant, but king his business is
not to sell, but TO gire, - whereupon she pluck
ed the bunch from the vine and gently drop
ped it into the woman's apron. SO the poor
woman obtained as a free gift what the labor
of many days and nights had been unable to
procure.
The salvation Of the soul is the creates t
treasure you eau desire. But you cannot buy
it with all the riches in the world, with all
the prayers you can pray, with all the aims
you could give, with all the useful works you
could perform during a life as long as that Of
Methuseah. The fact is, your souls salvation
is in the hands Of a king, aud not Of mer-
chant If you receive it at all, it must be as
a gift, for you never can buy it.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-07-21
" These Little Ones"

As a general rule, We are not half thought
ful or courteous enough in our manner toward
our children. We are too apt to content our
selves with general consciousness Of being
right in the main, with theoretically intend
ing that they shall grow up to be good Chris
tain citizens and an honor TO ourselves We
make big sacrifices in their behalf, revolve
fine schemes and bring out the heavy artile
ry of our nature on very slight occasions
But our graces, our courtesies, our delicate
acts of appreciation and lofty consideration
are not for them. These are reserved for
adult friends and select acquaintances-as if
to any one living were due more Of the best
and sweetest that is in us than to those whom
we have brought into the world to meet its
Jars, temptations, and cruelties
Think of the really coarse way in which
the fondest of us sometimes wound our chill
dren's sensibilities. How we parade their
special traits and accomplishments, and ignore
their individuality how recklessly we break
in upon their little plans and pleasures; how
carelessly we comment upon their defects !;
how we laugh at their childish distresses, be-
cause the grieved look or the tragic little
seowl is so cunning :" how We visit our
vexation of spirit upon their innocent heads ;
how we resent their inexperience; how need
lessly or sharply we deny their little petit
tions, and how we ignore oar "Thank you, "
and insist upon theirs how we jerk or push
them in our impatience how we 6out their
earnest questions, and deal out cutting, cruel
words of wholesome reproof," when perhaps
the little heart is quivering under some real
or faneied wrong 1t is terrible to think of.
Many, seeing these charges in the aggre-
gate, will Indignantly deny them. Yet we
venture to assert that no parent, answering
each in turn, can plead guiltless to them all.
We shall not dwell upon the monstrous
wrongs of chastisement too often inflicted
upon children such as beating, threatening,
frightening, and, that meanest act of all, the
" boxing" of ears. The dear Christ teaches
no hard lesson of harshness or brute force to-
ward the little ones committed to our care.
Even as He was subject unto" his parents,
returning meekly with them from Jerusalem
while his child-soul yearned to be about his
Fathers business, so would He have our little
ones subject unto us. They are ours to lead
and protect, to teach and warn and cherish !;
ours TO love wisely, to deal with firmly and
revereutly-mirrors of our example, cleaners
of the harvest of our home.life--not ours to
pet, and rebuff, and sacrifice to our hundred
weaknesses. Well for the father and mother
to whom their child's heart is as holy Of
holies and their childs foibles and human
tendencies as stumbing-bocks, not to yex and
upset them, but which the little one must
wisely and lovingly be taught to overcome
Heaven bless the always cheerful, gentle
voiced, conscientious parent And heaven
help all those who, when il is too late to
atone, remember with anguish the quiyering
lip and pleading eye of little face that has
passed away - Hearth and Home,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-07-21

The Rev. Dr. John Hall, in an article on
the Dangers of Life at Summer Watering
Places" published in the Independent, makes
the following sensible suggestions to parents;
There is danger to simplicity of life
Manners, habits and dress at the Elysian
House are freely scrutinzed by old and young.
Supposed shining virtues are copied. A
number of authorities on taste, prudence, and
even right and wrong, come into conflict with
that Of mother and father. OF course, such
things arise in some measure out Of all hui
man intercourse. A little girl goes even
from Sunday school boiling over with an ac-
count Of her bec-utiiul teacher, with
love of bonnet AID the darling-est little
parasol !" but the summer life of many has
little else than this scrutiny TO give in interest
and employment and the circumstances are
favorable. What follows A question like
this Why should mother require Bill to
do what Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Brown do not
enforce on their hopeful sons Bill is not
going to stand it in this free country. Why
should Carrie, of the ripe age of thirteen,
be dressed any otherwise than Miss Lizzie, or
Miss Minnie, who won't be thirteen till Jan-
uary, as she ascertained in the first interview
she had with those frank young ladies f"-
And so comes emulation; then ostentation
then extravaganza then bitter reproaches;
then sore temptations then mean shifts;
then, in some cases, the misery of a collapse,
or the misery Of lifelong struggle on the
edge of it. Fathers and mothers, give your
children all the advantages you can. But
oh let me entreat you to preserve in them
as long as you can simplicity Of tastes, of
dress, of pleasures and for this end keep
your summer life as like your home life as
possible.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-07-21

Not to confess Christ is in itself a sin.
Some years ago | met somewhere the state
ment Of the case of daughter who was un.
willing to confess that her mother was her
mother, which is in point here When the
daughter was an infant, the mother was
obliged on certain occasion to leave her
children at home while she went to her neigh
boris for some necessary purpose. As how
ever, she returned, she saw on approaching
the house. that flames were bursting forth
from the doors and windows. She hurried to
the house and found from the bystanders that
her infant child was yet within. She imme-
diately started to enter, but the persons stand.
ing near prevented her, telling her that oer-
tain death would be the consequence. But
she escaped from their hands and rushed into
the door, and soon found her child on the bed
where she had placed it. She wound it up
in covering and in a few moments the little
one was safe but the mother was most shock
ingly burned. For many months she yibrated
between life and death, and at last her vital
power overcame the effects of her injuries,
and she was restored, but an OBJECT terrible
to look upon. Twenty years after this, the
infant, then young woman, was asked one
day by stranger, who that person was who
was so terribly deformed2 But the daughter
was ashamed to confess that it was her mother,
Was her unwillngpess to confess, nothing ?
Was it not crime against her mother and
her mothers lovo2 There is something SINH
lar to this in the manner in which men are
disposed to treat Jesus Christ, the Saviour of
the world. Thousands who confess that he is
the great benelactor Of man, and that there is
nothing that has so blessed the world as his
religion, are unwilling to enroll themselves
among his followers, aud acknowledge him as
one whom they are bound to honor and adore
As the young woman to whom we have re-
ferred was unwilling to say, This is my
mother" so they are unwilling to say of him
who hung upon the cross, and whose "yisage
was so marred more than any man." "This is
my Redeemer and my King, and will servs
and adore him forever, II From the Chris
tian Work.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-07-21

"Give me a cent, and you may pitch one
of these rings, and if it catches over nal
III give you six cents"
That seemed fair enough, so the boy handed
him cent and took ring. He stepped back
to stake tossed his ring, and it caught on
one of the nails
"Will you take six rings to pitch again, or
six cents 2"
" Six cents" was the answer; and two
three-cent pieces were put in his hand
He stepped off well satisfied with what he
had done, and probably not having an idea
that he had done wrong. A gentleman stand
ing near had watched him, aud now, before
he had time to look about and reoin his COM
panions, laid his hand OIL his shoulder.
" My lad, this is your first lesson in gam
bling"
"Gambling, sir2"
"You staked your penny and won six, did
you not ?"
eyes | did"
"You did not earn them, and they were
not given you; you won them just as gam
blers win money. You have taken the first
step in the path and that man has gone
through it, and you can see the end. Now, |
advise you to go and give him six cents back,
and ask him for your penny, and then stand
with the world an honest boy again"
He had hung his head down but raised il
quickly, and his bright open look as he said
I'm do it," will not soon he forgotten. He
ran back aud soon emerged from the ring
looking happier than ever. He touched his
hat and bowed pleasantly as he ran away to
Join his comrades. That was an honest boy.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-07-21
"Gct RID Of Them at Once

In front of my house there are two young
shade trees or rather one in front OF my
house and the other in front of my next door
neighbors house Last spring they both came
out in leaf beautifully. They looked very
green and Aourishng. After while the
worms appeared, those long black, ugly
looking creatures that play such havoc with
our shade trees every spring. Well, one
day, when | was going out Of the house, |
stopped moment to look at the tree, and
found the worms had fairly got possession of
it and were likely in few days to eat up all
the leaves shook my head and said, 4" All
my gentlemen, this'll never do So | went
in and got chair to stand upon, and taking
a cane in my hand, l went TO work and
knocked off and killed every worm that was
on the tree. That saved the tree. 1t has
been growing nicely all the summer. But
my neighbor let the worms alone on his tree
The consequence was that they ate up every
particle Of leaf there was on il. Then the
tree died, and every time | look at its bare,
black, dismal-looking, dead branches, it
teaches me lesson. 1t seems to tell me the
importance of resisting sin as soon AS it ap-
pears. What the worms were to that tree,
sins are to your soul. o pray God to give
you grace to see your sins as soon as they ap-
pear, and to try to get rid of them at once.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-07-21

Why should the wind, coming from the east
over the ocean Of water, depress the human
body, while that which comes from the west
across a continent, enliycns the spirits and
gives courage aud yigor BE this as it may,
it seems as if some people never felt any wind
that was not east They are always out Of
sorts The weather is always Just what they
don't want mot one Of these men q while
ago, a farmer who raised all manner Of crops.
1t was a wet day, and | said Mr.. Nayling,
this rain will be fine for your grass crop
Yes, perhaps but is bad for the corn, will
keep it back don't believe we shall get a
crop"
A few days after this when the sun was shi-
ming hot, said;
Fine sun for your corn, sir"
Yes pretty fair, but its awful for the rye.
Rye wants cold weather"
Again, on a cold morning, | met my neigh
Dor, and said
This must be capital for your rye, Mr.
Nayling'
''Yes, but it's the very worst weather for
the corn and grass They want heat to bring
them forward
q
wind. Nothing suits him, aud it would he i'm.
possible for Providence to give him wealth
er about which he would not grumble.
know one man who feels that our country Is
on the very brink of ruin, the government q
curse, and every thing to be destroyed AnC
he has felt and talked thus for at least thirty
years, and yet his property has been increas
ing in value all this time, amid this gather
ing ruin. The fact is the man lives in an un
changing east wind And there is Mr.. Slow
who lives in the hollow under Long HILL h
has been mourning for many years over tn
degeneracy Of the times and always telliu
what wonderful lawyers and doctors and min
listers there were when he was young H
can sleep under any preaching he now hear
and the lawyers seem to be young upstart
or too old to practice He longs for tn
good old times All Mr. Slow, does yoy
weaiher-yane ever point any where but TO u
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-07-21
The Unseen Power.

You have seen, probably, your little child
strain its fingers trying to push up the latch,
and falling try again. You came behind it
unseen, and just gently put your finger be-
meath its elbow, raised its hand a little higher
the latch flew up, and the door opened. The
little child laughed, and felt that it had opened
the door but it was your power applied al
most unconsciously to the child And if my
arm tries to perform some work that God
wants to be done, and he touches it by the
finger of his omnipotence, the closed door will
open, the great work will be done, If try
weak as am, to build church, and exert
myself, God Almighty, who has all the treas
ure in his hand, can touch my hand, if 1t is
necessary to do so, and it shall be filled with
silver and gold, for all are his. The power
of God, if joined to humanity, how much can
be accomplished Now, such is the power
of the Gospel which, through Christ is
preached unto US.