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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-02
The Alaska Fur Trade.

1t is officially reported that the Rus
sian-American Fur Company, from the
small prices paid to the hunters in Alas
ka, must realize over one thousand per
cent. upon the first cost of the skins.
The Russian-American Company have
for the last fifteen years kept employed
in their trade from twelve to fifteen steam
sailing vessels, all built or purchased BY
themselves. Their exports between the
years 1912 and 1862 were as follows:
l,762,l22 skins of various fur bearing
animals, of which 1884 were of the fur
seal and 808, 900 we're of the mink. Be-
sides this, they exported during the same
time 5000 pounds of castorsum, 8207
pounds of walrus bone, 25,797 pieces Of
beaver tail and 40,588 pieces of paws
Castoreum is substance of strong PEN
etrating smell, Of light brown or yell
lowish color when fresh, and Of reddish
brown when dried. 1t is obtained from
two seeretory sacs, one in each groin of
the beaver, and is used as medicine for
its supposed antispasmodic properties.
The islands of St. Paul and st. George
are asserted to be very rich in seal fur,
and the essiguees of the Russian-Ameri-
can Fur Company and other persons are
in Washington endeavoring to obtain
the sole right of conducting the fisherie,
on the islands ofSt Paul and St. George
and the Aleutian Islands. A bill intro
duced into CoHgress proposes to limit
the number of seals to be killed annually
on the island of St. Paul to $4,000, and
upon the island of st. George to 5000 /;
this number, it is stated, can be captured
without exhausting the supply.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-02
The Monsouris Park.

The city of Paris has recently pur-
chased an immense tract of land at the
southern extremity of the Fsubourg St.
jacques, and known popularly ss the
Plain of Monsouris. On this spot has
been commenced the construction of a
new park, which, it is asserted, will be
the largest of the interior parks Of Paris,
and will equal, if not sarpass the Buttes
Chsumont, in its parterres, rivers, cas-
cades, grottoes, mountains, serial bridges
suspended over abysses, belvederes, and
other marvels. 1t will be completed, it
is believed, in much less time and at less
expense than other works of this kind,
since the ground possesses great nat
ural advantages. A vast reservoir is in
course of construction to receive the
waters of the Vanne, river of Burgundy,
which are to be brought into Paris to
beautify the new park, by means of an
aqueduct already conctructed through
the Forest of Fontainebleau. This aque-
duct and reservoir are not the only works
actually undertaken for the prosecution
Of this enterprise; there is besides mag
nificent building in process of erection,
which is to be a complete fac sinlils of
the palace of the Bey of Tunis, one of
the finest ornaments of the Exposition.
The view of Paris from this park, it is
stated, is not less varied and beautiful
than that from the Buttes Chaumont,
although the ground is less elevated.
When Monsouris Park is completed, the
southern quarter Of Paris will be placed
upon an equality with the other portions
in the attractions of public drives.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-02
The Preservation Of Meats.
From the Philadelphia Ledger

At recent meeting of the Massachu-
setts Institution of Technology, DR..
Simms, of Charleston, s. c., gave an &C.
count of his new process for preserving
meats. The putrefaction of dead animal
tissues, it was stated, is caused by the
action of minute animslculas, whose
germs float through the atmosphere. The
process required is, therefore, simple
method of preventing the vivifcation of
these animalcules. Sulphurous acid gas,
though theoretically the best preserva-
| tive, is evanescent, and is not available
in practice, as it is efficient only when in
contact with the material to be protected,
Carbon, powerful antiputrescent, is OBJ
jectionable on account of the injury to
the external appearance of the meat. A
combination of these two substances,
however, in the form of bi-sulphide of
carbon, secures the advantages of both,
but with the disadvantages of neither.
The bisulphide of carbon, it was as
serted, is exceedingly cheap, much more
80 than salt, the estimated expense being
one-tenth of mill for each pound Of
meat preserved. To produce it, it is
necessary to burn sulphur in close re-
tort, and pass the fumes over glowing
charcoal, when the escaping gas may be
employed as such or may be condensed
into fluid. DR.. Simms places the meat
in q vat or chamber, from which the air
is exhausted, by machinery if need be,
and is then filled with the gas. He had
preserved in this way, in September last,
at Charleston, South Carolina, with the
thermometer 92e Farenheit in the shade,
whole sheep with the skin on; this
meat, he asserted, ia now in a perfect
state of preservation. AS the process
goes on best at temperature of l000 to
lO4o Farenheit, it is better adapted for
warm climates where it is most needed
than for cold ones.
As usually seen, the gas thus prepared
is very fetid but it can be made without
disagreeable odor. If necessary, the
protosulphide can be used, which has
rather an agreeable odor. But even with
the bisulphide this gas will volatilize at
l04o Farenheit in few minutes, so that
the meat is perfectly free from unpleasant
odor or taste after cooking it. 1t every
where permeates the muscular fibre, dis
solving the fat, and carrying the oil
through the whole tissue, giving rich
taste relished by many epicures. A fur
mace for producing the bisulphide of car
bon has been invented by DR.. Simms.
The process of DR.. Gamgee, it was
stated, begins where the Simms process
ends, the product of the furnace being
the carbonic oxide and sulphurous acid
used by Gamgee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-02
Anew York Journal Opposed to Celebrating
Waahington's Birthday.

Some years ago the General of our ar
mics, and subsequently the President Of
our nation, was q man by the name OF
Washington.
Called George for short.
| He was good and he was kind, and in
history we find but very few as shrewd
as he.
But really now do we, as citizens Of
| New York, already taxed within an inch
and half of our very lives, care to pay
800, 900 for the celebration of the ami.
versary of his birth2 Let us look at mat
ters seriously. Thousands of paupers
creep along our streets to whom the city
will not, cannot, give one solitary cent
until they commit a crime, when they
will be fed, clothed and housed. Tens of
thousands of children who slept shiver-
ing with the cold last night, and have had
no breakfast this morning, are begging
at our doors to-day, but the city will not,
cannot, give them shilling. Hundreds
of journeymen are out of work. They
are largely dependent upon their fellow
tradesmen, but the city will not, cannot,
| give them q particle of aid. But our city
J fathers are asked to appropriate $20,0
to celebrate the anniversary of Washing
tons birthday-$2O,0OO for poppy-cock
oratory, for hifalutin rockets, for gas and
wine, for sandwiches and cigars, for dev-
iltry aud corruption.
As the organ of the working g-men, we
protest against this waste OF the peoples
money. II is ridiculous in conception,
outrageous in precedent, and would be
unjustiHable in execution. The Com.
mon Council are the representatives of
hard-working, over-taxed, struggling peo-
| pie Hard times are at the door of the
msjority of our citizens, aud it is just as
wicked for the members of the Council to
make this appropriation as it would be
to steal it from the private pockets of
their constituents.
George Washington was a very good man
in the time of him but there is no nsces-
sity of examining his memory down our
throats at the rate of $4,000 year.
NJ r. Star
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-02
The Gypsies.

A recent foreign writer has started the
theory that the Gypsies are descended
from the, followers of the famous Hussite
leader John Ziska or Tschischka, whs
carried on religious hostilities in Bohe-
mia from l4l8 until his death, in 1424.
By this event the Hussities we're divided
into three bodies, one of which was call
ed the Orphans, or orphan children of
Ziska. These dwelt in their wagon-camps
in the open country, and were under a
vow r,ever again to sleep beneath roof
They also refused obedience to any SOW
ereign. Driven out of Bohemia in the
disasters to which the death of Ziska led
the way, the whole sect became fugitives
and wanderers and il is asserted that
the ''Orphans," with their wagon-camps
and their oath against houses, would
readily become wanderers like the Gyp-
sizes. This curious race made their first
appearance in Europe between l4l8 and
1927, and from the very first were called
Bohemians. They everywhere exhibited
passes or safe conducts from the EN-
peror Sigismund, and it is contended
that if the Gypsies were Hindoos, they
woEld not havs been aware of the value
VI ehCoO piCCCc VI Popcis IL So .hO VI -
inal Gypsysparties, the leaders had the
titles Of Dukes and Counts, and called
themselves Lords of Little Egypt, whence
the notion arose that they were Egyp-
tians. But this phraseology, it is assert
ed, was not intended to convey the idea
of origin, but of religious belief The
Hussitss used Biblical imagery, and call
ed their opponents Moabites and Amale-
kites; and it is supposed to be natural
that the countries where they were perse-
cuted should be called Egypt, or the
house of bondage" The argument that
the language of the Gypsies resembles
that of Hindoostan is answered by the
fact that the Bollemians were Czeehs, q
branch of the Sc lsvic race of undoubted
Asistic descent, and that the Ssnscrit is
the parent of beth languages. Bushing,
the learned German philologist, says
that the Gypsy language is mixture of
corrupt words from the Wallachian, Sla-
vonisn, Hungarian and other nations of
the Selavic race.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-02
The Reason Why.
From the Courier-J -Journal.l

From the Courier-J ournal.l
The secret of General Grants request
to the managers of the inauguration cere-
monies at Washington, that there should
be no inauguration ball, has come out.
The various negro societies in the Dis
trict were preparing to pack the ball
room. Their leaders demanded equal
privileges from the ball committee, who
were afraid either to consent or to de-
cline-afraid of white public sentiment
in the one case and of black public SEN
timent in the other. So Grant had to
rule the ball out of the ceremonies ss the
only mode Of escape from an awkward
perilous dilemma, dilemma with horns
bigger than those of Rocky mountain
bull.
Grant sees and the Inauguration COM
mittee sees and everybody else sees what
a disgusting, revolving, and scandalous
thing it would be if the inauguration ball
room we're filed with promiscuous
crowd of white and black dancers. Even
the worst Radicals, we must do them the
justice to think, appreciate this. But let
it be remembered that the Radicals are
and have long been enforcing in the
South the very condition ofthings which
they shrink from with loathing when
they contemplate its introduction among
themselves. In the reconstructed States
negroes can 60 in any numbers TO the
highest public balls, crowd the tables OF
the best hotels, and demand passages in
steamboat cabins, railroad sleeping-cars,
and public couveyances of all descrip-
tons, and any man daring to refuse them
admission makes himself liable to the
severest punishment And the Southern
people have no Grant 70 use expedient
for relieving them from such 3 wretched
state Of affairs.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-02
AUCTION SALES.
Bankrupt Sale OF Real Estate
and Personal Property.
In the matter of W. III. Grider, Bankrupt, in
Pa nk-rrtc.r a. Nam nhia Tan naaaaa

In the matter of W. IL. Grider, Bankrupt, in
Bankruptcy at Memphis, Tennessee.
DY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF SALE
ID entered in the above matter by the Dis
trict Court of the United States for the Dis
trict of West Tennessee, in Bankruptcy, will
proceed to sell,
On Wednesday, February Sd, 1859,
to the highest and best bidder. at the sales
room of Monsarrat, Lanier q Co.. T6 Second
street, Memphis. Tennessee. between the hours
of 3 o'clock a. m. and o'clock pm. of said day,
all the right, title and interest. legal and
equitable, which belonged TO said Bankrupt at
the date OF filing his petition in Bankruptcy.
in and 10 the personal property described as
follog 8, to-wit: All the promissory notes, Sc
curities, debts, demands, claims. equities, ac-
counts. books Of accounts, chooses in action. and
all and singular, the personal ELECTS and nd
scription; as well as to the real estate set out
as follows, to-wit LIST. His interest in lots and
Z. block q. in the town Of Fort Pickering, near
Memphis. Tennessee. This property is encum :.
three notes of $3.50 each, dated September 7th,
1860. due 8, IL and Is months after date, given
fer purchase money, with interest on said
notes. I'd. His interest in lot on the corner of
Main and Broadway streets. l08 by l26 feet.
Said lot is encumbered BY trust deed exc,
cuted TO secure note for $2452 20. in favor of
estate of W. b. Fant, due February lst, 1858. 3D..
Also, the right of redemption on the following
described properly To- VIII: "A tnree-ElOry DIlck
residence, the same being the western end of
tenement sold to W. H. Grider by W. B. WAL
dram, and locat cd on Adams street, adjoining
Waldran cotton shed, in the city of Memphis,
Tennessee. This property was levied on and
sold June 10th. 1857, by the Sheriff, to satisfy
an execution in favor of N. d. Elliott, Execu-
tor Of estate Of @. @. Atkinson. deceased, for
$5sO7 20. cost, ETC., s5C7 80: lth. Also, bis
equity Of redemption in lots ] and 2. and the
north half Of lot g. in block "a, In Fort Picker
ing, near Memphis. Tennessee; said property
has a two-s story frame house on it. This prop
erty was levied on and sold by the Sheriff OF
Shelby county. to satisfy an execution in favor
of the Southern Bank Of Kentucky. June Sd.
1861, against W. III Grider, and bought by. Il.
M. Cash, for S27s3 50 amount Of execution,
costs, etc., sl5s 81. 5th. Also, his equity OF
REDEMPTION in the remainder interest in lots /,
and 9, block "a. 180 feet on Sixth street by 3C
feet on Georgia street, located in Fort Picker
ing. near Memphis. Tennessee the same has
a one story frame house. This property is in
numbered BY life estate; the remainder in
terest which belonged to said Bankrupt was
sold under execution, but Is subject to redemp-
tion. 1t is the equity of redemption in the re,
mainder that propose to sell, which was sold
first for $275. costs, etc.. and again FOR s224l 70,
costs, etc. Schedule can be seen at my office,
20 G. 4. LEFFINGwELL. Assignee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-02
General Grant and the Tenure-of-0 Office
Law.

From the st. Louis Republican,
1t is said that General Grant is urgent
for the repeal of the tenure -of-ofiice law; /;
and that there is considerable opposition
in Congress to its repeal. The law, as it
is we'll known, was passed as an act of
retaliation upon Mr.. Johnson, who, it was
charged, had become renegade to the
party by which he was elected. 1t was
conceded at the time of its passage to be
an extraordinary measure, only justi-
fable, even in party point of view, by
peculiar state of circumstances; and
it is hard to see why there should be any
opposition to its repeal, unless General
Grant is suspected of Johnsonian ten
dency to insubordinatiou. That there is
q good deal of distrust of General Grant
in the inner circles of the Republican
party is fact which does not admit of
concealment; the effect of which is to
create disposition not to let go the hold
which the party has upon his official
policy through the law in question. The
fact that the party was compelled to take
him or submit to defeat, is not forgotten,
probably, upon either side; and each is
conscious that it is remembered by the
other. Such being the case, there is that
between the parties which prevents the
establishment of perfect harmony.
The matter is a difficult one-one of
those in which evil acts return to plague
the inventors. If Congress declines to
repeal the law, General Grant will be
Justly entitled to regard it as declars-
tion of want of confidence. If Congress
should repeal it, and General Grant
prove insubordinate, the party will have
placed before it the disagreesble alterna-
tive of re-enscting the law in the face of
President strong with the people, or of
losing the hold upon the Executive which
is established by its provisions. To de.
cline to repeal would be to admit an i'm
minent breach between the majority in
Congress and the President; to repeal
would be to detract largely from the
power of the majority in case such a
breach should occur
The real reason for the repeal of the
law is its unconstitutionality. Upon
this point the argument of Mr.. johnson
in his message vetoing the bill is un-
answerable; at least, it has never been
effectually answered. The course of
Judge Carter, Of the Court of the District
in the case Of General Thomas, indicates
the unwillingness Of the party to permit
the Question of the coRstitutionality of
the law to be submitted TO the court of
final jurisdiction, aud is virtually con-
fession Of its illegality.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-02
How Brigham Winds the Mormons Round
His Little Finger.

Brigham Young is the head of the
Church Militant of the Latter-Day Saints.
Of course he is kindly sffeetioned toward
his flock. Most of the Mormons believe
in him. They pray for him fervently.
Undoubtedly he needs their prayers
Most Mormons would Gght for him to
the death, for they believe him to be the
Prophet of the Lord. Their sincerity is
as true, their zeal as fervent as that of
Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist or
Methodist. No sect or denomination
can surpass them in religious zeal.
Having the confidence and love of his
flock, the prophet, the revelator of God s
will, is supreme in his realm.
Undoubtedly Brigham loves the Saints,
but he has at times queer, strange way
of showing his kindness. Some years
ago a well-to-do Englishman embraced
the Mormon faith. He had about S70,-
600. Before he left England for the
Mormon paradise, he was induced by
Brigham to buy house there for which
he paid the Prophet $4,000. Brigham
also took him in-the expression has a
double meaning-as partner in an iron
foundry. Also a partner in Touring
mill. These investments absorbed
nearly all of the $4,000. The gentle
man, with his wife, started for the New
Zion, but he died on the passage. The
bereaved widow went on, reached Salt
Lake, found one of Brigham's concu
bines occupying the house, found also
that what had cost $4,000 was rather
dear at $1,000. The concubine could
not move just then. The widow had no
deed of the property and could not take
possession. The iron foundry was not
in operation,s and there was some trouble
about the grist mill. tlShe had left a
good home, but was forced to take lodg
ings. The bereavement-the reality sc
different from the promise-brought on
insanity, and to-day she is a recipient Of
the pittance doled out at the tithinp
Office, while Brigham has possession Of
her husbands estate" Carleton in
the Boston Journal.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-02
Science of the Elements.

The London Times, of December 29th,
has an editorial on 1.-The weather" which,
it says, is thing that clsmors for atten-
ticn, and will be listened to. 1t says that
"t the procession of cloud aud storm from
the Atlantic for the last week has been so
long, and the pace so terrible, that one
wonders where it all comes from, and
where the tail of the column is. Over
head the whole sky is in perceptible mo-
ton, even to the distant horizon, where
the motion must be much to show. Un-
derfoot, where the soil is absorbent, it is
saturated; where not, it is deluged. :"
Winter, however, is the season for winds,
and the Times apprehends that the me-
teorologists would have no great difficulty
in making out by such records as they
possess that the present portion Of winter
is not so new as it might seem. But,
it asks, what is science about that it
cannot form any system, or establish a
single principle, or give Us the slightest
trustworthy prognostication as to
weather. Beyond safe belief in cycles,
a dependence on averages, and certain
utterly unveri6ed ideas Of lunar influence,
there has been no addition made to the
science Of weather, aud it is ss far from
being q science at ell ss in the days Of
our painted predecessors in this island"
Even the path Of tropical cyclones and
the course of the rotating storms in more
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-02

temperate climss have not been laid down
with any certainty. II often happens
that a ship leaves port oRly to be driven
back within twenty-four hours, perhaps,
with damage and loss, if, indeed, she be
not wrecked. A forecast of weather
would be of as great advantage to the
farmer as to the sailor. And yet the
science of the elements, upon which the
vast interests of commerce and harvests
depend, is comparatively an unexplored
field, and less known Of 1t than of planets
so distant that they, cannot be seen by
the make eve.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-02

A rumor is current that Dix protested
against the unusual honors with which
jefferson Davis.wAs recently received at
St. Cyr, while on visit TO the military
schools there. 1t is officially denied BY
the French G&erSnsnt that Dix made
any such protest.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-02
STATE OF TENNESSEE,


CoNPTRoLLER's 0YYIcE. Z
NASHVILLE. January !. lSos.I
I, G. W. Blackburn, Comptroller OF the
Treasury, do hereby certify that the KTSA
INSURANCE COMPANY. located at Hart
ford. in the State Of Connecticut. has produced
to me satisfactory evidence that said Company
have complied with all the requirements OF the
laws of the State Of Tennessee imposed on IN
surance companies. and further certify that
Henry A. Littleton. Agent Of said Company
has also complied wit the requirements oil the
laws of the State, m ade and provided in sucn
cases:
Wherefore, said HsTNA INSURANCE COM
PANY has authority to take risks and trans
act the business Of insurance in this state at
Memphis, Tenn. oy.upu
CO comptroller of Tennessee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-02
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MAXWELL & ANDERSON,
Nos. 57 and 80 Union Street.

MONUMENTS, TeMBs. HEAD AND
M Foo Stones, Manfels, Vases. Counter and
best Ital ian and American Marble, at North
ern prie ~. All kinds Of Building Stone sold At
he Yar.i cheap. a5-ll2