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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-13

The name of the Company 10 " Life Association
of America"
The location Of the Company il IN st. Louis.
State Of Missouri.
The 81 Life Association Of America" is purely
mutual.
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AUCTION SALES.
R0YSTER, IRRELEVANT & CO.,
AUOTIONEERs,
N. e. cor. Main and Jefferson cts.

Daily sales of Merchandise,
Furniture, ETC.. Mt salesrOOm.
~ COnsignments solicited.
~ No Goods offered at auction un-
der limit. 35-l12
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Domestic Affairs,

Gold closed yesterday at 1853.
-S60,0U0 in specie was shipped TO Europe
from New York yesterday.
General Kilpatrck's leave OF absence has
been extended until March,
General Reynolds is at Galveston, Texas, on
his way TO Washington.
William Holmes, for many years Journalist
In -. Louis, died on Tuesday.
"A bill prohibiting prlze-6ghting has been
introduced in the Missouri Legislature.
The Democrats of New Hampshire yesterday
nominated John Ball, of Bath, for Governor
-Four of the largest business houses in
Leroy, Minnesota, we're destroyed by fire on
Tuesday.
The order preventing the importation of
American hay into Great Britain has been re-
scuded.
"A Plan ers' and Manufacturers Convention
is in session at Jackson, Mss, with full
"A State Agricultural Convention is to be
held at Harrisburg on the third Wednesday in
The state Agricultural Society met at Har.
risburg yesterday and elected officers for the
current year.
1T was reported in New York yesterday that
the murderer OF Rogers had been arrested in
Hon. o. j. Dickey has resigned the desk OF
the late Thaddeus Stevens in the House OF
Representatives TO General Butler.
Two laborers on the New York Central
Railroad were run over and killed by a train of
cars near Syracuse, on Tuesday.
The Atty-drst annual communication of the
Masonic Grand Lodge OF Mississippi was held at
Jackson on Tuesday night.
70 -Messrs. ONeill, Myers and Taylor are op-
posing the confirmation OF Alexander Cum
inings as Commissioner OF Internal Revenue.
President johnson yesterday designated the
special commission to attend the annual assay
at the United States Mint in tns city on the Sth
OF February.
"A Republican meeting in Richmond last
night passed resolutions asking Congress not to
grant the terms asked by the Virginia COmmiLte,
now in Washington.
Twenty officers that were with General
George II. Thomas at Mill Springs, KY, on Jan.
20, 1862, called on the brave ana modest hero in
Washington yesterday.
-Ex-secrctary stanton returned to Washing
ton from Wheeling yesterday, and Will imme
diately prepare a number OF important cases ioI
the United States Supreme Court.
The President We terday nominated Robert
n Buchanan and A. c. Glllem to be brigadier'
generals n .Gt !saS M sea oee r. tereI ~ Gou
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Section Is batitshall be the duty Of the Comm.
soners of Police, through the police forge herein con
stituted at all times preserve the public peace every
where within the boundaries of the said city to pro-
tec the rights of persons and property herein TO pre-
vent crime and arrest offenders and to cause the laws
and ordinances of the city to be duly executed They
shall preserve the at election polls in said city and
protect the citizens in exercising the right OF suffrage
from lawlessness and disorder 1t shall be their duty
IN all cases when Informed by three persons in writing
that disturbances apprehended at any poll in any
election division in said city to furnish sufficient po
lice force TO keep said poll and free from all OBJ
strueion and IN order 70 prevent any conflict of au.
thoriy IL shall not be lawful for the SherfOf the city
and county OF philadelphia, any other person,
cept as herein stated and designated, to appoint any
deputy deputies to act officers at any
city.
Section a. That all laws parts of laws of the com.
monwealth OF Pennsylvania heretOfor passed which
inconsistent with the provisions of this act are
hereby repealed,
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avenue, testified that he was naturalized on the
2Sth of last September and showed his papers at
the October election; voted then the Republican
ticket.
James Robinson. No. 943 Master street, testi-
led that he voted the Republican ticket in
October last; had paid tax; was naturalized in
1S46.
George Fisher, No. 351 Master street. testified
that he voted the Repu blican ticket In October
last the ticket was read to him by his son; had
paid tax.
Adjourned until Friday next at Bpm.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 70
The Reconstruction Committee

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.
The Reconstruction Committee
to-day heard the argument from Governor
Wells and the mixed delegation of negroes and
whites, urging that no legislation be had by
Congress- but that the present Constitution Of
Virginia be allowed to remain as it is. They
also appeared before the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee, and urged the passage OF the House bill
now before the Committee, providing for hold.
ing an election under the present Constitution.
The Postal Committee
of the House heard arguments against the
Postage Telegraph bill from William Orton,
President of the Western Union Telegraph
Company. he argument is to be CONT nued to-
morrow.
The House Appropriation Committee
had the army appropriation bill under consdera-
ton to day, and put it IN condition to be re-
ported to the House,
The Ways and Means Committee,
among other things, discussed sherman's
they 90 not look with favor on it, but will pro-
badly bring in a funding bill of their own,
containing the features looking to resumption.
The House, after discussing the bill to regu-
late and restrict the
FraDkinG Privilege
for two hours, during which amendments Of all
sorts were proposed, one of them by Mr.. WASH
burne, TO abolish the privilege entirely, passed
the bill, which simply prohibits the use OF
fac smile stamps, and requires each perso n
using the franking privilege to write their own
autograph.
The Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia, to-day, through
Chief Justice Cartier, declined to accede to the
request of Joseph II. Bradley, made several
days since that the order for his disbarmenl be
considered simply as suspension OF ms practlce
before that Court. The Supreme Court OF the
United States having ordered peremptory
mandamus to the Judge of the District Court to
restore Bradley to its bar, 1t is supposed that
the next step will be the serving of that process
on or before Monday next.
Fire In New York.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2O-2'3O P. M.-The large
four-stCry building No. II William street, occu'
MED by Bogert q Evans as q paper warehouse,
Is now burnhg g furiOusly, A large stock of viii.
low ware, owned by Smith 4 Sou, is stored in
the building. The loss will be very heavy.
NEW York, Jan. 2O.-Gerard c.. Quick, a
shoreman iOr over thirty years, died suddenly
in this city to. day of paralysis, aged 81 years.
More than fifteen hundred deaths occur in
London every week.
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GiARL SENTz' AND MARK HASSI. .ER,s Or
" CHEsTRA MATINEkS, EVERY SATURDAY
at so =. NJ, IN MUSICAL FUN ID HALL Single Ad.
mission so cents. Package OF tickets g. st BonersI
No. 1l02 CHESNUT ST.. and at the Door, [iI4u-'
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Shin Tar,or,oro M9EMoRANDA, ,,,-,o,..u o,
instant. '
BaLque Csdette. Hatfield, 81 days from Liverpool
f0f @ Phliaoelphia was spoken on Thursday lest, off
Chlncoieague, ana supplied with provisions by the
steamship PrOmetheus, hence at Charleston,
Barque 9ertrude, Atherton, for PhiIa delphia, was
loSolDg AZ Buenos Ayres goth Nov.
,BsIque ~ a. Souder. Palne for Antwerp, remained
Brig Wm Muir, Acker, sailed from Havana 10th
Inst. for Sagua to load for Philadelphia.
Brig Meteor, Carver at MatanZas Sth inst for Car
Brig Eliza Mcneil Small, at Gibraltar 8lst ult. from
Messjna. and cleared for Philadelphia. CO., -
Schls Louisa, NevenS, and stephen @. MOTIFS, sea
man, for Philadelphia, cleared at Savannah yester
day.
schr Julia A. Garrison, Smith, hence at Galveston
scbrs Bertha souder. Wooster, hence for Boston
and Addie RyeTson, HutchinRs. hence for POrtlREd
remained at Holmes Hole 18TH Inst.
MISCELLANY.
Schooner Fly formerly of Philadephia), 1870 tons,
built at Camden, New Jersey, in 1856, recently pur
again sold TO Captain Chester O. Heath and others Of
East Greenwich for 5000, and will hereafter hail
from that port,
~ NOTICE TO MARINERS.
NOuSe is heresy given that green buoy, marked
Win the WORD Wreck" has been laid 10 fsthoms TO
Whitaker spit.
with the following compass bearings
Whitaker Beacon NV. by w. westerly, distant
cables.
Whitaker Buoy, NE by e. Il E., distant 5.lOths
mile.
swim Middle Lightvessel, sw. q S., distant 0IOths
BY order. ROBIN ALLEN, Secretary.
Trinity House London. Jan. 5. 1869
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Fire in New York.
GROCERIES, ETC.

WHITE GLOVER HONEY,
nETHLEHEM BUCKWHEAT,
EXTRA MESS MACKEREL.
ALBERT &. ROBERTS,
Dealer in Fine Groceries,
z2rp Cor ELEVENTH ana VINE Streets.
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CLEARED YESTERDAY.
str H. l.. Cav, Her, Baltimore, A. Groves, II,
VEaTEpD,

steamship Saxon, Boggs 4s hours from Boston. with
mQse and passengers to II. Winsor g. Co.
sChr E M. Blossom, Blossom, 1 day from New
Cesue, Del. with grain to James Barratt,
steamer ]. 8. Shriver, Dennis 10 hours from Baltl
more with mdse. to a. Groves, Jr,
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THE PULPIT.
Arc WeIO L

Are We TO Have Another Tying Triais
We take the following from the New York Lgde-
'"The Rev. Dr. Newton, of Philadelphia, an Episco-
palian OF the most liberal and evangelical type, and
who has the reputation Of being one OF the most sue
cessiul preachers to children In the country, was
lately invited to preach sermon in the Congrega-
tional church to the children Of Woburn 1t is an
immense building, aCcOmmOdatingi an audience of
sixteen hundred; and other church in town
would hold the children and adults OF the various
Sabbath Schools But there is a snug little EpsCo-
pal church., having an average audience OF not over
nifty; and the pastor, hearing of Dr. NeWtOn's COM
ing, addressed him note, Offering the intruder the
use OF his little church, but on the authority OF the
revised canOns Of the Episcopal Church fOrbiddlng
him to preach elsewhere in the limits OF his paris
DR.. Newton preached according to appointment, Civ
ing the opportunity for another Tying trial"
An Explanatory Letter from DIR. Newton.
In the last issue Of the Independent the following
Is publshed:-We lately mentioned the fact that DR.
Newton, or Philadelphia had preached sermon to
chlldren IN Woburn Mass, In opposition to the pro-
test OF the Episcopal rector OF the place. DR.. New
ton SENDS us the following note OF eXplanation:--
PHILADELPHIA, October 4, 1S69.-To the editor of
week my name is mentioned in connection with q
recent service held at Woburn, Mass. VIII you allow
me the privilege OF saying rev words in reference
From the way in which the matter was stated in
the Indeendsnt the inference might fairly be drawn
tnat had oesgnedly and peIsstently sought an op-
portunity or breaking one OF the canons OF the
Church to which belong. Such was not the case.
No one can think worse Of the canon in question
than do. i consider it emlnently unjust and Op-
presslVe. But much as dislike IT, yet feel myself
bound TO conform to it so long as am minister in
the Protestant Episcopal Church. That there was
no intention on my part TO do anything contrary
either to the letter or spirit of that canon, in what
took place at Woburn, viii appear from these three
considerations
In the first place, when the engagement at Wo-
burn was made, was not aware OF the iact that an
Episcopal church had been formed in that town.
address TO the Sunday School OF the Congregational
church. This was not necessarily an Official OF Gle
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MIRACULOUS.

Narrow Escape of Four Persons from Death.
From the NGShUtue Banner, 7h.
One of the most wonderful and unprecedented es-
capes from horrible death probably ever recorded,
occurred at 4 O'Clock Tuesday afternoon on the
Louisville and Memphis Railroad. While the train
was rushing at full speed within short distance OF
Russeville, KY, and near the crossing Of county
road, carriage drawn by two mules, and containing
four persons, suddenly appeated upon the track.
The engineer was Mortified at the sight He shud-
dered as ne blew ''down the brakes" and reversed
the engine. The carriage seemed to stand still,
it destruction and death, Nothing could stay its
swift course.
There was a crash. The carriage was torn into
fragments Two of the inmates, q lady and gentle
man. were carried distance OF one hundred and
fifty yards on the cow-catcher, and dropped into
cow-gap. The other two, a gentleman and lady,
rode on the coW-catcher, to which they clung with
the tenacity OF desperation for the distance of one
hundred yards beyond, when the train was finally
checked and they were taken Off. Had not the two
first fallen into the gap, they would nave inevitably
been crushed underneath the wheels of the train.
The escape seems provdential and miraculous.
The frame OF the carriage, having first come in
contact with the loCOmatVe broke the force of the
collision, and they were dropped as it were, on the
cow-catcher as the train passed on This Is the only
way in which their escape can be accounted for,
Strange to say, they were only slightly bruised.
When the carriage was struck it torn loose
from the mules, which has Just passed over the
track sufficiently far to miss the train The animals
The two gentlemen and ladies were cousins and
were on their way to that place when they were
Oyertaken by what might have proved terrible
CatlstTOphe,
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THE PEQUOT.
Regular Haytien Cruiser.

Says the Tribune Of yesterday
The screw-steamer Pequot, lately suspected OF hli-
clustering procvlties, has settled down into legiti-
mate cruiser of the Hayten Government, and will
take her departure from this port Saturday
ing. The PequOt is much finer looking, better
built, and faster vessel than the Algonquin whose
place she fills in the Haytien navy She was built by
The Government in 1864, and dld good service i'll
capturing blockade-runners on the coast OF North
Carolina.
The Pequot was sold by the Government to John
S. Geness Of New York, for $T700, and by Geness
to the laytens for 200 in gold She is fourth
rate screw, 503 tons, old measurement length 200
feet, and breadth OF beam 2S She carries one linch
pivot, and four 30-pound broadside guns. The fol-
lowing the officers :-E. Biondl, Captain Haytlen
Navy; George Il Mcconnell, Lieutenant-C Com-
Elander and Executive Onlcer; Frank g; Hall, Lieu
tenant, Navigating Olcer Chas g. Han, Master ana
Watch Ohicer James Ii. Greenfield, DO; Chares
w. Austin Pilot; William A. Penneil, n HhIei EhgI-
neer; d. II. Newman, First Assistant; Mlllam N.
Buckley Second Assistant; A. Dumas Paymaster !
John Reiny gunner. The crew, mostly Americans
are eighty in number The wages OF the Ordinary a
seamen are $25 per month, and OF the nremen, gao
per month in gold Captain BIondi was an Acting
Master in the United States Navy curing & ehe i WaI
and commanded the English steamer DON Whlch
was cantuTed in 1865 by the PeQuot while running
into Wilmington The crew are IN the best OF SPIRITS
and hone to give a good account OF themselves
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THE INDIANS.
Attack by the Snvnges United States Sur
VeyIng Party.

From the Laurence (Ka11) Tribune, Oct o.
We are kindly furnished by Surveyor-General
Babceck with the following letter. giving an account
of an attack by large party of Sioux Indians upon
q party of surveyors in Western Kansas. The sur
veyng party can muster pretty strong force-thirty
or forty men - on an alarming occasion, and, as
every man is well armed, can make q hard fight
when attacked. Their mode Of operation is to run
the lines in the vicinity, close together that
the parties do not get separated so far that they
cannot rally on a common centre when threatened
This combination OF several "outlitS has been found
necessary for seltprotectlon from the Indians and
has thus far worked well:-
GRINNELL STATION, K. p. r. r. Oct 3, 1s69.-C.
W. Babcock, SnrYeyOr-G r-General-Dear Sir:-We have
just arrived here from the completion of the north
ern portion OF our survey, q part OF which | have
this day transmitted to you. We assure you are
glad, once more, to obtain CLEAN of civilization, as
our trials have not come single-handed.
One week ago yesterday, on arriving on Prairie
Dog Greek, about thirty miles from this place, we
were surrounded by about two hundred Sioux IN
dian warriors, who appeared jubant over their game
and our misfortune This was in the evening.
During the night we fortified, and next morning
were cirCled, and one OF the boys captured one OF
the haired gents and they found that their task
was not so easy. While in the height of our anxiety
and most of us thinking about sweet home, we were
most provdentialy released 10y the appearance upon
the scene of portion of General Carrs command of
the I'd and 5th United States Cavalry, with Pawnee
scouts.
It appears that they had been for some time the
trail OF these Indians and, thank fortune they found
it fresh, and in time to save US. 1t is supposed that
the Indians are endeayorng, Oy this mode, to drive
the buffalo south.
The prairie is now rapidly burning north OF the
Saline river, but we will endeavor TO prosecute our
work SO as to be through by the lst OF November
ARMSTRONG Il MCCLURE.
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THE MONITOR SYSTEM.
What is Thought of it bv Foreigners.


British captain recently said :-''For nineteen
years we had to deal with vessels which we knew
were worthless to fight in. They were gorgeous in
appearance, rich in tradition associated in the past
with all our naval gOries, and it is bitter thing to
part with them; but still that old wooden neet has
been at last got rid Of for last night the First Lord
OF the Admiralty promised you that even your
reserve in future should be an irOn-clad eet iIay
ing got rid Of that wooden fleet, you have now to
prepare yourselves in the next ten years. if you are
governed and led as you should be- to find the fleet
trusting to steam machinery alone for its progress"
Whereupon the Arnly and Na0B gazette remarks:-
Until Americans and French, PrusSians and Rus
sans decide upon ceaSng TO build irOn-clads, cast
ing and building up tWenty-inch guns, rihing and
smooth-boring and manufacturing other implements
for the ready and wholesale destruction of human
life, we cannot afford to he behindhand; and so we
fear the ugly, low, iron foating ciades must drive
from the face Of the waters the stately three
decker. War is "A business sad as it may be- ana
those who engage in it cannot indulge in senti-
ment which might lead TO bankruptcy We must
make up our minds to fight when called upon be-
hind twelve or fifteen inches Of iron armoT-pates
ana our movements regulated by steam power renre,
senting the combined strength Of nine or ten thou
sand hOTses.n
When the British navy comes down from three
deckers TO ugly, low ctadels protected by twelve
or fifteen inches OF IRON and propelled by "steam
machinery alone 1t will be splendid realization OF
the American idea, first proposed by Stevens ana
made practical by Ericsson.
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Eohiladelph7a Trade Report

FRIDAY, Oct. 15.-There is no change in Clover
seed, and it may he quoted at S7'5O@7'75 No change
in Timothy. Small sales of Flaxseed at s235 az
bushel.
There is very little Coffee here in first hands,
Small sales of Rio at 12G@17c and Laguayra at 179l
@1sC. gold In Sugar and Molasses no change.
There is no activity in the Flour market the in
qury being confined mostly to the wants OF the home
trade; sales of 1000 barrels "Thomas Eagle MILL and
Redstone" on secret terms, and COO barrels in lots
including extras at ,S6@6'25; Northwestern extra
family at s65097; Pennsylvania do do. at S625@7 :
Indiana and Ohio do. do. at S650@T25; and fancy
lots at higher figures. Small sales of Rye Flour AT
SG@625 Prices OF Corn Meal are nominal.
The Wheat market Is very quiet small sales OF
Western and Pennsylvania red at s14O@145 a
bushe. Rye is lower and 1900 bush. Western sold at
S1O3@1O5. Corn is firm at the advance Sales of
2O0O bushels at S110 for yellow, and S1@1.05 for
Western mixed. Oats are duh at 55c 2OO0 bushels
New York Barley sold at 81 .25G31 '2S. .,'
Whisky is lower; sales Of PENNSYLVANIA wood
bound barrels at si'2 +, and Western iron-bound at
gl27. "
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FLAMES.
,r,,o rerrlbIe Fire at Bordeaux.

The late fire in the port of Bordeaux was doubt
ass one of the most serious Of that kind OF calamity
hat ever aiiicted any seaport There were sixteen
vessels totally destroyed, and numerous Others more
oT less damaged. Those destroyed were composed Of
thirteen ships one brig, and two schooners, to-
gether with their CargOes, valued at nearly half
q million of money. And all this was caused
Nv n man careessly throwing q lighted lucifer
IGatch upon the deck OF lighter engaged in
tronsnorting petroleum in the harDor The COM
6nsti6n was qucEened by an easterly wind
,vbic6 of course helped to spread the ames but TO
he lack of energy ana OF adequate means for such
an emergency may be laid large portion OF the loss
phe vessels on fire not only allowed to ascend
through the thick tiers Of vessels along the Garonne
Int also TO descend again when the tide turned,
Succeeding in the second trip in firing many vessels
mat had escaped their first visit With the
cOntemptible means for suppfessng conhagra-
tion In possessiOn of the Bordeaux folks, the
only wonder is that all the ships IN the harbor
and the whole town. also, were not burnt up.
The correspondent OF the London Times says
that such thing as a steam fire engine is unknown
in Bordeaux, and that a few hand pumps, too small
TO be of much use were the only things they had to
fight the flames with, with the exception OF large
wateT-butt mounted on wheels ana drawn by horses,
which, however, did not much service as at the
height of the cOnnagratOn, 1t was awaiting hand
pump to utilize it, While the hremen were standing
around serenely contemplating the scene. Bordeaux
is most decidedly behind the age in fire engines.
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rical act It was only what any layman might have
DONE IL was not an act therefore, which came
fairly within the range of the canon in question.
And thirdly, the letter OF prohibition from the
Episcopal rector at Woburn only reached me little
while before the time for meeting my engagement.
There was no opportunity Of recalling my appoint
ment was obliged, therefore, either to meet it as
did or to have gone to the place OF the engagement
and have stated the cause of my failure to make the
promised address, This would have thrown the
odium Of the failure on the prohibiting rector Of the
little church in Wohurn and have turned the public
sentiment of that whole community against him and
his struggling enterprise.
II seems to me that prudence, and charity, and
common sense, and every manly and Christian feel
ing pointed out the course adopted by me as the
only proper one under the circumstances.
With great respect, very truly yours,
RICHARD NEWTON.