Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-05

Horace Vernet used to faint at the
sight of blood.
Broaerick's properly in California has
been found.
Boutwell, is lecturing on the Transition
Period of the United States.
Bernadotte's grandson, the present
King of Sweden, has written an epic cell
ebrating Berbadotte's history.
OF the sixteen Governors of Pennsyl-
vania seven were of German descent,
and Of all the Governors in the South
eleven are of csrpet-bsg descent
Wilkes, of the Spirit of the Times,
claims first having suggested the Pscific
railway. IL wes suggested by the spirit
of the times, but not Wilkes or any other
paper.
Victor Hugo and Louis Blanc have
written characteristic letters about Mr..
Peabody. Neither of them ever miss
chances to keep themselves before the
people.f
Mrs. Scott Siddons is again throwing
the New Orleans critics into ecstasies Of
enthusiasm by her acting as Rosslind
in as You Like IL
Sir Walter SCOTS house, in Castle
street, Edinburgh, is now occupied as an
attorneys Office and lodging house. 1t
is proposed to form Scott club and pur-
chase the house for q clubhouse. Z" I'm
perial Caesar dead and turned to dust,"
etc., etc.
Mr.. Davidson in his Living Writers
of the south" says our friend DR.. Wm.
Gilmore Simms, 10 the author of 65 pub.
lshed volumes, besides miscsllanies
Mr.. Davidson chronicles 75 females and
l66 male writer's, 24l in ell. Their
united publications nnmber 739 volumes.
Josh Billings has been to see the
Chimney Corner and says it is good
thing. Hear him: This is fust cias
pls ov the meltingli humerus stile. Wen
the theater peple want tn set onto the
stile Mary, this is there kind. cud tax
sum 10 mine about times pur weak. a
Chimney KorDer is handy tn hav Around.
No famerle shud B without J.. Sc the
Chimney Korner, B virtuus & yu'll B
bapy. am. But, my aged hearers who
Q eentli tottor onto the brinke ov the grave
tux my edvias & don'tmak your chimney
Bank ov Opposite, 1t don't SCOT. N. b.
this COAX is patented" l
Old Thad. Stevens was an original.
He desired simple tablet laid level over
his grave, but said: I" suppose, like the
rest of the fools, we shall have to get
something stuck up in the air; let it be
plain" he wished flowers planted at
once above his remains and renewed
often, and for this purpose he left $1,000.
For flowers be had passionate planted
them always on bis mothers grave; also
for music, though he said: "Pll be
hanged il know one tune from another"
When urged not to talk about the matter
of his funeral and the arrangement of
his grave, his reply was: why not? /
am settling up my business, and this is
business"
RrsroRI.- she regards the U nited
States may be seen from an extract taken
from recent private letter addressed to
Miss Kate Field: "Csn / ever forget
your dear country, where passed year
and a half SO delightfully."-, receiving the
warmest testimonies Of affection from
every class of society, enjoying perfect
health, breathing air charged with vi.
tality, and feasting uy ewes on skies as
blue as those of Italy Who could have
started the report OF my having ansthe-
mstized the climate of the United States
The statement is false. | always speak
of your country with enthusiasm, bearing
it's memory engraved upon my heart, and
wishing that provokingly wide and in
digestible sea did not separate me from
the people that long to meet again"
A New York paper says: We hope
that the true matrons OF society, the
grandmothers and the mothers well along,
will be unseli sh enough to appesr in the
drawirg.room on New Years Day. Oar
city society sees quite too few of these
women, who are quite as charming at
seventy as old ladies as they were at
eighteen as young ones. Let them do
the society man more honor than to think
because they have ceased to coquette
they have ceased to please. We hope the
rustic of their rich silk and the beauty of
their well Kept lsces will present pictures
in the drawing-room of 20 such as the
teuderly.besrded fellow seldom gets g
chance to see." To which lie. sll the peo-
Die say amen hereabouts.
T.B Thorpe has got into q hornets
nest TIE editor of the New Orleans
Picdyune thus disposes Of him: These
"reminiscences Of Thorpe are rot much
worse than the average of the press pro-
ductious, which, since the war, have been
a. N...hh Il s5,-sss7Tii iSS,ssiiS5,f, SSssiiS ,,f
Southern offairs and men before the war.
They seem to Us little more absurd than
others, chiefly because their ridiculous
blunderings are more clearly within eur
own means of detection but they give
us a very fair mode Of estimating the
value Of similar recollections for other
nlaces, got up to suit the Northern
market. Thorpe, probably, is not graiu-
itously malignant; he is only Indifferent
whether g thing be true or false, If Il
suits a prevailing appetite and will sell.
We are indulgent enough to believe that
for The came price he would have taken
mn any other incident and invented
reminiscences with the sane needless
maneling Of character and muddlIng OF