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CINCINNATI.


sangerfest-- Hay. Gould Returned
CINCINNATI, May l3.--1'here will be a
grand rehearsal for the Sangerfest at
Sanger Hall tonight.
A magnificent monumenth asjust been
erected in Spring Grove Cemetery over
the remains of Charles McMicken, the
founder of McMicken University.
Jay Gould, the railroad king, returned
yesterday from St. Louis and Louisville.
Mutual arrangements have been made
between the Erie railroad and lines con-
Meeting with this city for increasing the
railroad facilities between the East and
West. He is confident of being able to
force narrow guages upon the central
combination, and to reduce the rates for
the public in general.
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CHICAGO.
Fenians on the Move for Red River
McCOOle Challenges Mace Tor
$4,000, and Mace Accepts.

8osUOUs Ahlo @.AoGt Att1f.e"
CHICAGO, May l3.-The St. Paul Press
publishes letter from Dunleith, which
says that large body of armed Fenians
had arrived at the latter place, en- route
to Red river to aid Riell. Each man is
armed 9th breech-loading rife, pistol
and knife. The first stroke will be the
capture of Fort Francis, on RAINY Lake,
while the main force will harass and dis
pute the passage ofBritish troops through
the rivers, swamps and mountains from
Fort William to Red river At the proper
time theywill march down and join Riells
forces.
One party has already started over
land by yermilion, and another viii soon
follow; third goes to the same destina-
ton in canoes via ST. Lonis and Fermil-
ion rivers and Q f9urthparty is reported
at Superior river, which will march di-
rectly west to Red river. The forces at
pn1leith is said 70 be commanded by
distinguished confederats officer, who
fought General Banks in the Louisiana
campaign. The men are nearly all ex-
soldiers. Many French and Canadians
accompany them, and they have secured
the services Of several Indian and half
breed guides and one or two employees
If the Hudson Bay Company
McCoole has challenged Mace to fight
within six months, within fifty miles Of
New Orleans, for $4,000. Mace, it is re,
ported, has accepted the challenge.
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To the Merchants. Citizens and
travelling Community Generally
of MemunfS. ~

oil Mempmls.
SIS MEMPHIS, May Is, 1870.
From a card appearing in the Ava
lanche this morning ! find / am in duty
hound to answer, as there are so many
misrepresentations in it. In the first
place, the gentleman says that the Little
Rock railroad has chartered the steam
boat Gallatin. This is not true, for i
have myself chartered one-half interest
in said boat, Captain Wagner retaining
the other half. As we have made ar.
rangements with the Superintendent OF
the Little Rock railroad to run in con-
nection with the train from Memphis to
Duvalls Bluff, making close connec-
tons with the train at the Bluff,
we guarantee to put passengers to Little
Rock in overweight hours, which is just
twenty-four hours sooner than they can
90 by the Adams or Elliott Lines, or any
other that don make close connections.
The gentleman goes on, further, to say
that these lines have run in regular
connection with the railroad, which
is not SO: and ] can prove TO the contra
ry BY any number of passengers that
had to lay over at Duyall Bluff eighteen
and twenty hours, and pay hotel bill Of
four dollars extra. He further says that
the steamboat Gallatin is an opposition
boat This charge, | say, is false; for
the Gallatin only claims to goto Duyalls
Bluff as a regular railroad packet while
the other lines advertise as Jacksonport
packets. which is one hundred and fifty
miles further up the river. This article
is only TO show the gentleman that he is
misinformed 10 good many of his asser-
tons. CAps. JOIN ID. EDsoY.
Appeal. Avalanche and Sun please copy.
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REAL ESTATE.
W. H. pAssxoRE. .lik0 i3 IN. Huprrs.
PASSMORE & RUFFIN,
Real Estate Agents,
.fdlfQ li flsIIs 3I afaI
Z 231 Second Street.

On Main street--Storehous with iron front,
lot 2412x14S12, can be had at a bargain.
On Second strcet-0ne or two fine business
houses, iron fronts. at very low figures.
Fine building lots on Beal and Linden SITS.
On Shelby street-Modern brick residence,
ten rooms, at a low figure and on long time.
On Second street--Three business lots.
On Tate street A desirable cottage, FIVE
rooms; lot 50x2l5, f,,a
On Robson street-Lot 37xl50; cottage, four
rooms. Cash. $1,000. a,fl.ci
On Robson street.-the feet square, neat cot
tage, grounds handsomely improved.
On Henry avenue-Lot 6Oxl6O. with neat res
idence. af.
On Monroe street Cottage residence, lot
3Ox14S.
On Linden street. Lot 50xl4s; desirable
house, all complete.
On Causey street Store house at low figures.
On Dupree street-Lot50x feet improved
with house containing six rooms.
3 On fernando street-Handsome residence,
with every convenience for comfortable
home. i...ataa VII
p On Ruth street-Cottage residence, hand
somely improved. ~ aaat ra
On Alabama street-vaoant lot, in desira-
BILE location. Ha
On Exchange street extended--Two houses
and lots; eight rooms in each house.
On Alabama street-D Double frame house,
four rooms; lot SO feet front.
In Chelsea-Four houses and lots. 4f
On Mosby street-Lot 44x14sla; frame house,
Eve rooms. servants rooms and out-houses.
On Poplar street-A desirable residence.
On Market street-A handsome residence
lot.
On Main street-Beautiful lot, 50xl4s11s feet;
small brick house; location desirable.
On Jones ayenue-Two houses and lots.
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OLIVE LOGAN lately in Louisville en-
comiumised the women of the South for
their devotion to the Confederate cause.
Forney's Press takes her TO task. We
thank You. Olive; and you need fear
nsught from the pen of John W. Forney,
whose profits for quarter of a century
have been realized from lampooning gen.
tlemen and playing pimp for Forrest and
other knights of the drama.
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newspapers in this State. and Of late
years widely known as political and
humorous writer under the title Yuba
Dam died at Lexington, KY. yesterday
evening
MILwAuKrE, Wis, May l3,<The sales
of beer and ale manufactured in this city
for the past year were s2,29l barrels, an
increase Of 1868 barrels over the pre-
yious year.
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THg bill to incorporate the Kansas,
Indian Territory and Gulf Railroad Com
pany, which viii be another attack on
the Interests of the people, is now agi-
tating Radical legislation. Go on, gem
tlemen; rob the people of their lands;
Judas like, sell out your constituency;
but remember there will be a day OF
reckoning. Stand from under. q
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Amendments.

The Democratic candidates for Judges and
Attorney General will address the people Of
Shelby county at the following times and
places:
Friday. May 10, Collierville.
Monday, May Is, Germantown.
Wednesday, May Is. Mechanicsyille.
Friday, May 20, Arnold's.
Monday. May ., White Station, nj. and U.
Wednesday, May Is. MeConnelps Church,
and Memphis at 8 o'clock pm, at Exchange
Building. go
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One Of the - Saints ''-Some Account
ofHis Life and Death.

On the 9th uitimo, President John
Young, the oldest brother Of brigham
Young, died at Salt Lake City. When
Mormonism was first started, Brigham
Young and his four brothers embraced
the faith. All Of the brothers followed
Brighass to Utah, and were appointed
to leading Offices in the church. Al
though Brigham Is the youngest except
one, this is the first death Ehich has
occurred in the family. The Salt Lake
Telegraph has the following sketch of
the deosased:
he was ap elder brother Of President
Brigham Young, being nearly ten years
his senior. In his fifteenth year he be-
came member of the Methodist Church,
to which be was for years deyotedly at
tached. In 1913 he married, and in
1925 became a preacher Of the Methodist
doctrine, receiving his license as such.
He continued attached to that body I'M
III he heard the principles Of Mormonism
from bis brother Joseph Young, now
President Of the Seventies, and was bap-
tised in 1923. He subsequently took a
mission through the States of Ohio,
P6nnsylvaria and New York, and in
1885 eoyei TO Kirkland, where he as
sisted to build us Temple In lS4l he
was ordained as High Brisst and subse-
quently became President Of the Stake
al Kirkland. In ls47 he emigrated to
these valleys and when the Twelve in
that year, after their arrival here among
the pioneers, to go back 10 the States,
and Father John Smith was appointed
to preside, Elder Young assisted him as
Counselor. When the organization Of
the church was completed here, he was
appointed to preside over the High
Priest Quorum, position he occupied
until bis death. He was for many years
Patriarch IN the church, and ofticiated
az such thVangaoai 1La Territory
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The Admission of Girls 10 Oxford
A Letter from Goodwin Smith.

SIR: ] read in your current number:
" 1t is officially aHEonnced that girls will
be admitted TO the JUne examinations
for Oxford University, subject 10 he
same eondifi0ps Is are required Of boys
These words would seem 10 imply, and
/ understand i rs commonly believed in
this country that the University Of Ok
ford has been opened TO women | think,
however, / may confidently state that
this Is not the case The examination,
TO which girls are 20 be for the first time
admitted, is not the enrence examine
ton TO the University, but 90 szamina-
ton for persons not belonging 10 the
University, commonly called the middle
class examination, and held under the
aaspices Of the University for the pur-
pose of faising the standard Of eduea-
ton il 0uF secondary schools.
lam NOT ssaEe ihsl tbe question Of
admitting women 20 the EuiFsrsiiy itself
has ever been mooted az Oxford
Yours respectfully,
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DANIEL MoRREIL, of Pennsylvania, is
in Congress, end this modest gentleman
is one Of three owners Of the Bessemer
patent for making steel and is daily in
Congress attempting 10 whip in his
friends to advance his own interests.
Was there ever such rascality? Voting
against the interests ofthepeople to CON
serve his own, AMI he sworn officer Of
the law! Cox and McNeely challenged
his vote, but no 60 Morrell has money,
and that is all his Radical colleagues
worship, rMine Got, vat countryTA
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reimbursement of the negro. Wherever
elections have taken place, whether ip
country or town, since the adoption OF
the Fifteenth Amendment, theresult has
proven adversely to the Republican
party. The negro never fails to east HIS
vote with the friends to whom he owes
his freedom and subsequent enfranchise-
ment. Decent white men that have here
tofore belonged to the Radical party and
always voted the ticket are coming over
to the Democracy to array themselves on
the side of their own color and people.
The intelligent and free-thinking people
of this county are opposed to being
dragged down from their exalted station
to a level with the negro, and will severely
condemn and vote against any party
that attempts such thing. IVA
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The San Francisco Home cor In
ebriatas i most appropriately named,
ss the steward brings around drinks
for the crowd three times 4 day. q
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One of the most delightful homesteads within
three miles Of the city,
At Woodlawn-S i0-lOO acres fronting on the
Memphis and Charleston railroad.
100 acres within ~ miles of Court Square,
In exchange for city property, either in whole
or part.
40 acres fronting on the Memphis and Ohio
railroad, within few miles Of the city.
20 acres. with elegant improvements, near
the city.
81 acres, with superior improvements.
Is acres, with magnificent residence and
grounds tastefully laid out.
s5acres, within "a miles Of the city.
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FOREIGN.

QUEENSTOWN, May l3.-The Cunard
steamship Zebra, for whose safety fears
have been entertained, arrived at this
port to-day with all well on board.
LISBON, May l3.-Late advices from
South America state that a revolution
has broken out in the province of Entire
Rios, in the Argentine Republic, headed
by the revolutionist Lopez, The Govern
ment troops attacked the rebels, and a
sanguinary battle was fought, resulting
in the killing and wounding of number
of revolutionists. The instruction has
assumed formidable aspect and threat
ems to enyelop the country in a pro-
tracted civil war lsa sgo3
= Gen j. j. Uruquisa, Dictator of the
Argentine Republic, was assassinated at
Buenos Ayres. The assassin has not
been discovered. rs |r
LONDON, May l3.-The Times urges
the authorities to prohibit the Flourens
demonstration at Hyde Park on Sunday,
and says it is calculated to result in
rioting and humiliation to the authori-
ties.
The House of Commons has debated
the first part of the land bill, principally
the sections regulating compensation of
tenants dispossessed by eviction and
providing security for improvements
The House rejected the proposition
for female suffrage Gladstone declared
in opposition.
PARIS, May l3,-Baron Stockelberg,
Russian ambassador died in this city
yesterday morning.
( Complete returns of the vote indicate
a negative majority by civilians, and an
affirmative majority by the army. The
Government declares the result unsatis-
factory,
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Gen. Pickett denies that he has been
offered an appointment in the army Of
the yiceroy of Egypt. a'ia e.
Mr. ]. Levy, the cornet player, goes
to California this week with the com
pany organized by Miss Adelaide Phil
lips,
The knife with which japanese per-
forms the "hari kari must be buried
with him or he is refused at the gate OF
Paradise.
There is woman in New York who
makes handsome living by renting out
dresses for parties, receptions and other
entertainments
At the famous LaScala Theater, Milan,
writer says the audience have annoy
ing peculiarities, such as "incessant loud
conversation and laughing; gentlemen
reading evening papers sold on the spot;
many drinking champagne or eating ice
in the boxes, with here and there a would
be connoissepr showing his prowess and
annoying his neighbors by humming
aloud the airs sung on the stage, always
beat or two in advance One could
almost imagine ene's self in cafe"
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Plantations.

l.O92 acres in chicot county, Arkansas; 400
acres cleared, good improvements.
In Fhyette oounty-3o0 acres near Oakland
go acres cleared, good Improvements.
5000 acres in Humphrey county, Tennessee,
within four miles Of the Northwestern rail-
road.
700 acres in Cross county, Arkansas, near
wittsburg- 800 cleared. Also, l59 acres in
Arkansas county.
32D acres in Washington county. Missis-
PAssMORE 4 RUFFIN.
35-t Real Estate Agents, No: 9 Court 50:
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NOTICE.
Attention, Sons of Temperance

IL OFFICERS AND MEMpEha OF
~ y, NJ. niYitiaa No. %. Sons 81 Temper.
dn6e,t and al Sons Of Temperance in good
standing, are earnestly regdested to BE n at
tendance AZ their hall, No. y south court
street. Friday evening, 18th inst, Al o clock
promptly, on important business,
y-'' 5, j. WARD, W. ?,
W. J. RLLIoEI. r. s.
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M f NJ P III IS: Mva
Friday Evening, May Is, 1870.

Mr.. Thomas Tardrew. of New York City. is
authorized to act as Northern advertising
agent of the PUBLIC LEDGER.
S. H. Parvin, General Advertising Agent,
Cincinnati. Ohio, is our duly authorized agent
to contract for advertisements.
Hudson, Menet a Gay, 1888 Dearborn street,
Chicago. will contract for advertisements for
this paper. ttb f3##eI
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NEr GoLDnIy Smith.
Cornell Uniys,.ity, April ., 1870
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RAILROAD PERILS.
Particulars of the tIuch ExnRGerated ACcide Mt
To the Irlsh Mall Train.


Telegraphing from Tamworth, on September ii,
in relation the accident which befel the Irish mail
''The statements current OF the loss of life have
been much exaggerated. Fortunately the result has
list Of the killed up to the present time:-Samuel
Taylor, engne-driver, Stafford; Thomas Davis,
stOker, Stafford: Father Heaey, Tower-hill, Lon
don, a Roman Catholic clergyman. In his
pocket was found tourists ticket from
kingstown to London He was in the carriage
next the guards van, that being next the engine.
The escape of the guard, Charles Reeves, little
short OF miraculous. His van pitched over the
engine, and he sustained only a slight shock. He
lies at the Tweeddale Arms close to the station and
the. only physical injuries ne complains of are
slight blow on the head and confusion Of the shoul-
der blade. Two mail clerks, Wilcox and Clark, were
shaken but not severely injured. Clark was thrown
into the water, where he is said to have remained
At Tamworth Station there are four sets OF rails the
mail should have been allowed to run on the inner
up lne but the fatal mistake committed, first of
turned in to the set of rails running close to the
platform. From this line, had q double fatality not
attended it, the train should have been turned out
again TO the main line, but here the siding points
were open and the fated mail turned into short
which, and crossing under the main line, flowed the
river Anker. The embankment at the end OF the
siding was literally swept away part OF the parapet
Of the adjoining bridge Knocked down, and the en-
gine and seven carriages went headlong into the
water. Alfred Evans, the pointsman in charge at
the station, was an old and tried servant of the
company He was apprehedded soon after the acci-
dent, but until Ipl inquiry has been held it woul
be unfair TO attach any blame to him. The mail van
was smashed to atoms, Dut the mails though
wet, were saved. The injured passengers
rot be ascertained They were attended by
Mr.. Ruffe surgeon, Tamworth, and medical gen.
nenan from birmingham. Mr.. Ruffe reports that
the injuries are not OF dangerous nature. Father
Ring, a friend OF the deceased Father Healey, re-
ceved some contusions. 1t was reported that lady
passenger was missing but late in the afternoon
telegram was received that she had reached her
destination in London. There were about thirty
passengers and all, with the exception of the three
dead and five injured, proceeded on their journey
by the next train to London. The up line was
blocked for three four hours only, and no inter-
ruption took place in the traffic on the down line.
Three or four OF the carriages were completely
smashed, but those near the end OF the train were
apparently uniniured,
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out any notable until the 18TH when she
sprung aeak and in spite OF every effort to keep tue
water down, rapidly filled.
After twelve hours OF incessant labor at the
pumps the steamer having ten feet of water in her
hold, the captain and officers determined 10 abandon
her. At O'Clock IN the afternoon of the 18Th, tn
BTst and second cutters launched and Dro-
visions placed in them, but there fresh water
In consequence OF the sea having risen into the
tanks. Perfect order was observed a abandoning
the vessel and after the second cutter hal showed
of, with the second officer, first assistant engineer
and fourteen seameD Captain Gordon, with Nr.
Watson, Thomas Edwards, second assistant eng
reer, and eleven seamen took to the first cutter
There was heavy swell, but no wind, aud at ten
minutes past Eve the steamer sank, stern foremost
with all sails set The two boats steeTed for AGO.
in the Bananas but the night being dark they be-
came separated, and nothing was seen OF the
second cutters lights after midnight Next morn
ing the first cutt-r saw schooner, ABOUT twelve
miles distant and tried TO overhaul her. but without
success.
AT 9 O'Clock that night the schooner Tamplco OF
New Jersey, Captain Lombard, appeared, aud
picked up the cutter, landing Captain Gordon and
party at Kew West from which place they were for
wGded to Baltimore in the steamer Cuba, by Mr.
Tint the agent Of the Baltimore, Havana, and New
Orleans steamship Company No fears are enter
tanned by Captain Gordon or Mr. Watson for the
safety OF the ;ond cutter she probably reached
Abaco on the same night that the first cutter was
picked up.-N Y. Herald Of 90. day.
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should break We hear of pothing of the
kind in Metz where the Guard is surrounded;
but the accounts from Sedan are heartbreak-
ing to the friends of Frauce-in6uitely more
disheartening than any number of defeats.
There are still regiments, like the 18th, which
90 into action 20e0 strong aud come out 3)0
but over a great section of the army it is
clear, unless, indeed, all correspondents,
French and English, are in conspiracy
of falsehood, that most dangerous spirit has
extended itself. The men are without respect
for their officers, abuse them-especially the
generals-with savage freedom, and on the
first reverse insult and even fire upon
them. All accounts whatever-M Jeanne
rods, Dr. Russells, the English correspon-
dents, the German correspondents, even
the French correspondents of English papers
are all unanimous on this point, that indis-
ciplne has crept into the French army, with
its invariable consequences-ine dis
order, and reluctance to act except when the
advantage to be gained was visible to the
soldier, while many of them speak of actual
hatred existing between the officers and men.
Take this single statement out of dozen. 1t
is from a correspondent of the Telegraph, an
officer who served through the Crimeau war,
who is therefore not moved by little tenn
porary disorder, and who entered on his
mission profound believer in the perfection
of French military organization:-'I confess
that some of the revelations made by the re-
gimental officers-by men whose wounds and
mutilations bore testimony that they, at any
rate, had borne their share Of hard knocks
quite startled me, and reminded me
of much that was brought to light
in the Bengal Army after the great mutiny of
1851 81 am quite prepared to have much,
if not all, that have written above not only
disputed, but fatty contradicted in England.
But can only say that 1 have chapter and
verse for every word have written; that my
informants have been officers of all ranks;
that 1 have here, at Sedan, and elsewhere,
spoken to nearly hundred officers upon the
subject; that not one of them has differed,
even in degree, from what the others had re-
lated; and that very many 1 have spoken to,
certainly half of them, were men who had
themselves risen from the ranks. One and
all say that they do not attribute their con-
tinued defeats by the Prussians half so much
to the superiority in numbers of the latter, as
to the immensely better artillery they pos
sess, to the utter want of discipline in their
own ranks, and to the worse than in compe-
tence OF most of their general officers, parti-
cularly of those commanding cavalry briga les
or divisions"