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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10

BY ADELAIDE sAYRR.

DID il for fun !" All, you wicked young siren,
To play with heart as a child with toy;
Did you find it rare sport to drive deeper the
iron fNlH
That entered the soul you had vowed to de-
stroy?
Did il for fun !" o the monstrous confession !
/ sicken to think of the ruinous deed;
For though there's no law to impeach the
transgression,
You have murdered heart that forever
must bleed.
did it for fun ~ For shame that a woman,
Whom nature has crowned with such graces
as thine,
Should train her rich gifts for q service inhu-
And spill the heart-blood other victims like
wine.
did it for fun!' Would to God hadheeded
The impulse that oft bade me fly from your
charms;
But had legions ofangels to rescue me pleaded.
I'd have flown from their call to the clasp Of
your arms.
Did it for fun!" O, skilled in all falseness.
Though slain by your arts, must weep for
you yet,
For the curses of men yet unhurt by your base
ness,
Shall wiring from your brow drops of guilt
poisoned sweat.
All, this pain in my breast makes me hate you
sometimes,
And my anger burns fierce and would rise in
flame
To whelm you beneath its unquenchable fires.
And blot out your errors, your life and your
name.
" Did II for funl" Great heaven, was it plea
To toy with the victim whose doom you had
sealed2
Did You laugh when you thought of the woe
without measure
That l must endure when my fate was re-
vealed?
Round my neck you have wreathed dimpled
arms snowy white,
All the while cooling low like some nest
brooding dove; LTu
You have sank on my breast with we'll
feigned delight.
While i swore you outshone the fair God
dess of Love.
And so, with your Establishments, kisses and
wiles, .-t
You have lured and bewitched me till lost
and undone,
sit mid the ashes and blight Of my hopes,
And hear but the echo, " did it for fun"
For fun 0 false charmer, not long will you sit
On the throne of your power with your serfs
kneeling round,
For men will reyile you and women despise,
Your pride shall be humbled, your forehead
uncrOwned.
o woman. in naught save the beauty which
wins
And brings naughty men at your feet to
We have parted for aye; but you II reap from
your sins
A harvest of bitter, unspeakable woe.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10
walter scott's Hunter"

The great novelist was fond of dogs,
and told many stories of their wit. Once,
he said, he desired an old pointer Of great
experience, a prodigious favorite, and
steady in the field as a rock, to accom-
pany his friend Daniel Terry, the actor,
then on visit to Abbotsford, and who,
for the nonce, voted himself short ex-
cursion. The dog wagged his tail in
pleased obedience, shook out his ears,
led the way with confident air, and be-
gan ranging about with the most scienti-
fic precision. Suddenly he pointed; up
sprung numerous covey. Terry, bent
on slaughter, fred both barrels at once,
aiming in the center of the enemy, and
missed. The dog turned around in utter
astonishment, wondering who could be
behind him, and looked Terry full in the
face, but after pause, shook himself
again and went to work as before A
second steady point, second fusilade,
and no effects. The dog then deliberate
ly wheeled about and trotted hume at
his leisure, leaving the discomftted yena-
tor to find for himself the remainder of
the day. Sir Walter was fond of repeat
ing the anecdote, and always declared
that it was literally true, while Terry
never said more in contradiction than
that 81 it was a good story"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10
.The battle of the hooks

We published paragraph a day or
two since referring to the new book which
Gail Hamilton is about TO publish, in
which she will 90 for her former publish
ers. Fields, Osgood & Co, Of Boston, and
quoting her motto which she takes from
Iowelfs "Biglow Papers. A CORE
spondent Of the New York Mail has DIS
covered that Hosea Biglow said several
other things which are quite to the point,
as for example:
II seems though I see her. with wrath in
each quill,
Like a chancery lawyer. a-flin her bill,
An grindin' her talents ez sharp ca all natter.
To pounce like writ on the BACK o the
traitor
Some Of her judicious friends have ad-
vised her not to publish anything about
the matter, but she disdained the Quaker
policy, and says. in Biglows language:
" Not BY a jugfulll sOoner'n thet, ia - thru
Ere and water;
When hcv once made up my mind. ueet'n-
hus amt softer" ..r
The following would hardly be elegant
as a motto for title-page, bat i expires
ses quite exactly the Independence Of
spirit that will be manifested in her book
- I'm strairht-spoksn kind o creatur
Thet blurts rirht ont wut's in his head,
An efI've one pecooler fectur,
It's q noss thst vunt Be ed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10
ANobIe woman.

No more beautiful picture of true wo-
man has ever been drawn than Sir James
Mackentosh's description of his own wife.
Who can read it without having every
noble impulse within him stirred to its
profoundest depths2 Would that we had
many such women as Lady Mackentosh:
"She was woman who, by tender
management of my weaknesses, gradu-
ally corrected the most pernielous OF
them. She became prudent from atfec-
ton. Though of the most generous ma
ture, she taught economy by her love OF
me. During the most critical period OF
nv life. she relieved me from the cares
of my affairs, and preserved order In
them. She gently reclaimed me from
dissipation, she propped my weak and
irresolute nature, she urged my Incidence
to useful and creditable exertions, was
perpetually at hand to admonish my
heedlessness and improvidence. To her
owe whatever am, to her whatever l
shall be. In her solicitude for my inter-
est she never for a moment forgot my
character. Her feelings were warm and
impetuous, but she was placable, tender
and constant. Such was she whom !
lost, when a knowledge of her worth had
refined an ardent love to sincere friend
eb,v -
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10

which was in it was constantly rolling
and crushing and grinding, affording no
certain foothold for climbing Mr.. Platt
threw his satchel upon the unstable bank,
and then commenced climbing over.
When partly over he narrowly escaped
being crunehed into mince-meat in con-
sequence of its steady, grinding motion.
With great difficulty and labor he extri-
Gated himself, losing his satchel, how
ever which disappeared down the greedy
hopper of the ice-mill Getting upon
the shore side of the chasm, down
he went again, and this time
into the water and ice The men
perched on the icebergs above him had
a pike pole, which they reached toward
him, and which he finally got hold of,
and commenced with their aid, climbing
up the slippery steep. But when part
way up the ice-bank his foot slipped and
down he went again, for another ice
water BATH the men releasing their hold
upon the slim pole, which, bending over
the edge of the ice, they feared would
break, and so destroy their almost only
chance of saving him. AT length he
succeeded in reaching il up so that they
seized it again, and after working his way
in the mushed ice and water short dis
tance came to where snow had drifted
over; where, finding better foothold, with
the aid of his companions he reached
the top, nearly exhausted. On witness
ing his disasters, the boy had become
disheartened and made for the steamer
as fast as his legs could carry him. and
succeeded in reaching it after jumping
one or two chasms. Mr.. Platt and his
friends, who had reached the shore,
finished out their severe exertions by a
long walk TO Muskegan.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10

papers, containing very valuable inform
alton, with his daughter, concerning a
short and feasible route for ship canal,
which papers are now in the possession
of NJ. Arrivett, the French Consul, who,
understand, submitted proposition to
the Commander of the Darien Surveying
Expedition through Mr.. Perry, the United
States Consul at Colon, whereby he (the
Commander) should bind himself 10 pay
over to Miss Hugg certain amount, in
case the information proved of value to
the expedition, and if the route therein
designated were selected for the canal;
but Commander Selfridge having little
faith in said papers, rejected the PROPOSE
ton in toto. AS write, seven am, the
Nipsic is steaming out of the bay, and
flags are flying in honor of the departure
of the Darien Surveying Expedition.
Messrs. Sullivan and Mosman, of the
United States Coast Survey, Joined the
Nipsic here, and Don Bias Arosemena,
the Colombian Commissioner, is the guest
of Captain Selfridge. The Nipsic will
call at Porto Bello to take the native la
borers on board, and then proceed direct
to Caledonian Bay.
AS the subject of the present survey Of
the Darien by the United States is of
such absorbing interest to your readers,
l regret not having space to close this
letter with an extract from a recent pub
lication of NJ. Lucien de Puydt, mem
ber of the Meteorological Society of
France, who was sent out by the Colon
bian Canal Company of France, in 1864,
to make second attempt to find route
for the construction of ship canal with
out tunnel or locks. This NJ. de Puydt
claims to have secured in the vicinity of
the proposed survey by the United States.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10
Conceited Prussia.

Berlin Cor. San Francisco Bulletin.l
The conceit of Prussia is almost be-
yond conception. You see everywhere
the busts and portraits of the vain, weak
minded King and the bulldog face OF
Bismarck You hear everywhere the ex-
preston that Prussia is the greatest mil
itary power in the world-talk like that
of village school-boy bully, Who dares
knock this chip off my shoulder" But
you hear another talk, too-deep-toned,
indignant, resolute. They denounce the
conduct of Prussia as characterized by
every kind of fraud, treachery and vio-
lence. They say that it was the whole
of the old Confederacy which waged the
war to redeem the Germans in Schleswig-
Holstein from Denmark, but only to
bring them into the German Confedera-
ton as a constituent member of it. That
Prussia incorporated them into her king
dom, and when the Confederation waged
war upon them, which was successful
only because it was treacherously deter
mined upon and planned years before.
What had Hanover done that her
monarchy should be abolished and her
people annexed to Prussia? What had
the Free Republic of Frankfort done,
that her literal institutions should be
crushed out and made Prussian prov
ince2 Why could. not these States come
into the new Confederation as members
of it and not have their votes cast by
Prussia? Where is German freedom
now2 Brushed out by the iron heel of
Prussia. Where is the German Father
landG What is now the only fate of the
German Liberals? The only fate they
can look for in the future is to serve in
the Prussian army, pay taxes, and be
Prussians. There is no German unity
except the unity of the Prussian tyran-
nv. If you could hear aged Germany
speaking English as well as you do, talk
thus with streaming eyes and faltering
voices, perhaps you would doubt as to
whether Bismarck had yet erected ma
ton. The revolt is coming
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10

A female compatriot of the irrepressi-
BILE Train not long since addressed a
mournhl communication TO a Buffalo
paper: BY some fantastic trick of your
type-setter my speech at st. James, S Hall
on Sunday evening is suddenly termina-
ted. and so linked to that Of Mr. Train
that am made to run off in an entirely
new vein Of eloquence.
Among many other exploits, / am
made to boast that neither smoke, nor
chew. nor drink, nor steal, nor swear, as
If such accomplishments were usual
among American woman; and whenever
refer to my honored countrymen as
white males am reported as having
addressed them as white mules. An
these are very good jokes if credited to
the printers devil. but not TO those who
represent an unpopular idea and care
fully weigh .heir words "-LippiReOtfs
Magazine
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10
GROCERIES.
TO THE TRADE:

WYE HAVE JUST : RECEIVED, AND
w offer to the trade at the lowest market
rates:
5000 bbls. Flour-all Grades,
100 hhds. Sugar.
800 bbls. and half bbls. MOlasses.
2 100 bbls. Syrup,
go bbls Sugar-all Grades.
500 kegs Nails.
200 bbls. Ness Pork.
5000 lbs. Pork,
% tiorces Hams,
200 bbls. Whisky.
Together with a complete assortment Of all
goods usually kept in our line.
The attention Of the trade is especially IN
vited.
STEWART BROTHERS & FIZER,
No. II Union ST.. stOnewaII block.
22-dkW
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10

We are authorized 10 announce j.. s. CAR
RUTHERS as n candidate on the independent
ticket for Clerk of the County Court of Shelby
county, at the ensuing March election.
hereby announce myself as an independ-
j. j. SEARS.
We are authorized to announce JAMES
REILLY, the present Deputy County Court
Clerk, as candidate for County Court Clerk.
al the ensuing March election.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10

We are authorized to announce. b. NEW
TON HART as a candidate for the office Of
Attorney General Of the Criminal Court, sub
ject to the action of the Democratic Conven-
tion of Shelby county. Election in May.
We are authorized to announce JOHN s.
KERR as n candidate fore the office of Attor-
ney General of the Criminal Court.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10

C. w. HEISKELL is candidate for Judge
Of the First Circuit Court Of Shelby county.
PIT. SCRUGGS is a candidate for Judge Of
the First Circuit Court of Shelby county.
Election, 18th of May, 1870.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10
CIerk OF First Circuit Court.

We are authorized to announce FRANK
TAFT as an independent candidate for the
office of Clerk of the First Circuit Court, at
the ensuing March election.
EDITORS LEDGER Please announce me as a
candidate for the office of Clerk of First Cir
cult Court. ["l b. Il. REAVES.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10

MARCUS J. WRIGHT is a candidate for
Sheriff Of Shelby county. at the ensuing
March election.
hereby announce myself as an independent
candidate for recollection to the office of Sheriff
of Shelby county, at the ensuing March cleo
ton. A. p. CURRY,
Sheriff Of Shelby county.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10

PEOPLES CANDIDATE. MCLEAN is q
candidate for reelection to the Office of State
and County Tax Collector, at the ensuing
March election.
We are authorized to announce W. d.
STRATT0N as a candidate for State and
County Tax Collector.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10
ANNoUNcEME ENTS.
CIerk of second Circuit Court

We are authorized to announce e. r. HAIR
RIS as an Independent candidate for the Office
of Clerk of the Second Circuit Court, at the
ensuing March election.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10
LABOR.
FSFSS FsSSs5 l
V,O THE WORKING CLASSES.

We are now prepared to furnish all classes
with constant employment at home, the whole
of the time or for spare moments. Business
new, light and profitable. Persons of either
sex easily earn from 80 cents to IS per evening,
and a proportional sum by deyoting their
whole time to the business. Boys and girls
earn nearly as much as men. That all who see
this notice may send their address, and test
the business. we make this unparalleled offer !:
To such as are not well satisfied, we will send
81 to pay for the trouble of writing. Full par
ticulars. a valuable sample (which will do to
PLE's LITERARY CoMP AHIoS-one of the largest
and best family newspapers published-all
sent free by mail. Reader, if you want per-
manent, profitable work, address
Z. Z. ALLEN & CO.,
AZ Augusta, Maine.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10

In reply to very complimentary call in the
myself as a candidate for Constable Of the
Fourteenth Civil District, pledging myself. If
elected. to perform my duty to the best of my
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10
REAL ESTATE.
Exchange oil Property.

I WILL EXCHANGE NY LOT ARD RESI-
esther IN the city suburbs or for plantation
In Tennessee, Mississippi OF Arkansas. II the
terms can be agreed on, taking the difference
In Taluo in money. p-lA-fl A. hklohI.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10

We are authorized TO announce J. A. AN
DERSON as a candidate for Judge Of the
Second judicial Circuit of Shelby county.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10
Judgc of First Circuit Court.

lam candidate for Clerk of the Criminal
Court of Shelby county.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10

A. WOODWARD is a candidate for County
Trustee of Shelby county, at the election in
March next.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10
w A L T g. CO.,
2za FRONT STREET.

Opposite Packet LandingJ MEMPHIS.
OFFER THEIR WELL-AsSORTED STOCK
" Of cook and heating stoves. sheet-iron
ranges, tin and copper ware. mantels and
CRATES. cutlery. house furnishing goods. coal.
lard and l1bricating oils and steamboat stores
to the trade. at low cash figures. Special at
tention paid to
job Work In all its Branches.
frm. and viii Be rlad 10 serve his cd frisnds
and eustone-s. Respectfully.
10 WALL A co.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10

STOVES AND TINWARE.
NOTICE!

WE HAVE THIS DAY SOLD OUR STOCK,
w interest and good will in the stove and
tinware business to Messrs. Walt 4 Co.. who
will conduct the same at the old stand, and
patronage so literally bestowed upon us. Mr..
r. Brannon has charge Of the assets and lia-
bilities Of the firm, and will attend to the wind
ing up Of their affairs at the Office Of Walt A
Co.. 272 Front street.
Memphis, January 10. $50.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10
CoRSETS.
Best French Corsets
AT THE
Southern HOopskirt Mandatory

AIDES WILL FIND III 10 THEIR IN
as they are genuine and imported direct from
WERLY, .L'0ISEAU and NINE DUPONT.
To ladies desiring a closet fitting, durable cor
Werly; while the f'Oisear is an elegant cor
set, elaborately embroidered The Dupont is
a short corset, of most beautiful pattern. l
have them in sizes from l6 TO IS. and L promise
to exchange one size for another until the
proper ct is procured. Also the
Improved Breast Protector.
The Invisible Walking Skirt is the only
fashionable skirt for outdoor dresses, while
the NEWPORT ROBE is indispensable to the
train dress. Both skirts can be had ONLY at
the mandatory, 1881 Main st., near Wash
ington. 1851 LOuIS LANCE.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10
PUBLIC LEDGER.
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i. every afternoon (exc,'pt Sunday by
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tracted and payable on demand.
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Publisher and Propri stor.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10

Two Days Siege in the Ice--Nar-
row Escape of Passengers Get
ting Ashore.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10
Weekly Public Ledger,

Published every Tuesday at 81 per annum lin
advanced; clubs Of five or more, 81 so.
Communications upon SUBJECTS of general
interest to the public are at all times accept
able.s
Rejected manuscripts WILL NOT be returned.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-10

Leave Memphis (city time) 4.0Oa.m. 2.t5p.m.
Arrive at Nashville IS pm. 5.Oa.m.
Morning train from Memphis does not run
on Sunday.
Sleeping cars on evening train from Mem
phis to Louisville and Memphis to Nashville.
Through Tickets. at Reduced Rates,
Can be procured at the Company's Office. 2S71Z
Main street, and at the Depot, head Of Main
street.
Baggage checked at depot, or by the Mem
phis City Transfer Company az hotels. private
residences. or on board boats, to all principal
points East and North.
Ticket Omce, 23z I-2 Main st.
SAM. B. JONES. Superintendent.
SILL HOWELL, Passenger Agent ct
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-10-18
DAY SCHOOL.

u,uE UNDERSIGNED HAS OPENED A
nay SCHOOL for young scholars; on
Nh s,,set near Pioneer street. Gold Hill,
isSsre she viii DC pleased to receive few more ore
nnnils. The hes: OF care and instructions VIII
Be conferred on her scholar pourN
Gold Hill, September 80, lS'O seVi"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-10-18
NOTICE..

'rHE SUBSCRIBER WOULD INFORM HIS
customers that he Is going to the East. and
VIII shortly return with a large and varied as.
sortment OF all kinds Of the best HAVANA and
other CIGARS. CHEWING AND SMOKING
TOBACCO. ETC.. and will supply Saloons and
be continued at the Bank Exchange Saloon
Cold Hill, By E. $. Ellis, until his return.
HENRY WOLF.
Gold Hill, September 2s, 1871. sc2s.tf
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-10-01

To prevent the fraud Of reaning the bottles or jars with nativ
productions, they should Invariably be destroyed
when empty
Goods should always be examined upon delivery, to detect an
attempt ut Substitution OF articles Of inferior brands.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-10-01
SALT o SALE.

VvHE AGRNTs OF TIE PUULoA SALT
WORKS offer for sale by the Bag, Barrel or Cargo, either
Table Dairy or Coarse Sat. The Salt from these Works 10 Of
superior quality, and can be had at reasonable rates on appiI-
cation to 9. L. RICHARDS 4 CO., a
us Bun Agenta.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-09-28

11ie Game between tho retroiia ana
Columbia Clubs Yesterday.
The Oil City Times says: .ON 'I\
The game between the above named club
for $500 and the championship, came of
yesterday afternoon. A large number OF
spectators were iu attendance and good Or
der was maintained throughout. At and
before the beginning Of the game the gener-
al impression was that the Petrolia, or, %
1t is generally called, the Rynd Farm club
would carry of the honors and money, but
from first to last they steadily lost ground,
and were badly handled BY their oppo-
cents.
The Rynd Farm boys seemed excited and
played wild. They were particularly sue
cessful in dropping the balls and were slow
in fleldisg them, while they generally bat
ted fly balls that were easily gobbled up by
their opponents. HlAt-|I'F I
The Columbia nine were very quiet, and
played with e stesdy sttsntion to business,
&bat done mach towards Winaing the, game.
They batted heavily, generally ground
balls that were difficult to stop, and fielded
exceedingly well; " DTITCfH