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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-18


THE Washington correspondent of the
Louisville Commercial, writing a few
days ago, speaks of letter received
from Hon. Allan A. Burton, Secretary
to the San Domingo commission, writ
ten on board the Tennessee just before
leaving port, which he concludes by CIV
ing expression to the presentiment that
he would never return from his voyage.
When the rumors about the Tennessee
first started, personal friend ofJudge
Burtons, who was in Louisville at the
time. said that he had received letter,
written also just before the ship sailed,
giving utterance to the same foreboding.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-18
g-1l.f ID Main D.. sole AgenL.. Memphls.

Avoid QuackD.-A victim Of early indisere-
ton. causing nervous debility. premature
decay, etc.. having tried in vain every adver-
tised remedy. has a simple means Of self-cure.
which he will send free TO his fellow sufferers.
Address J. II. FUTILE. IS Nassau street.
New York. 107-12-106-eod
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-18

SoUTH CARoLISA has a negro Lieuten-
ant Governor, three negro Congressman,
eleven negro State Senators, eighty negro
Representative and one negro Judge
Of the Supreme Court
One would think that with 50 much
Niger in a State, such men as Sumner,
Stokes and Pinchbaek would be con
tent Nothing yin content them but
darkness made universal.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-18

FORESTS Juniper Tar-Por Coughs. Groups,
Hoarseness. Whooping Cough. Splitting Blood.
Bronchitis, and all diseases Of the lungs.
Parties purchasing should be careful. as there
are two or three counterfeits resembling the
genuine calculated to mislead all in want Of
this preparation. The genuine Is warranted,
or the money refunded; and this is prepared
by DR.. JANIS MASON FoRREsT & Co.. since
1852. Price reduced to thirty-hve cents.
GOODYEAR 4 HILLS,
elf 2sl Main st., Sole Agents. Memphis.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-18
TRUSTEES, SALES.

DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST
ID executed to me by B. Cuneo, which is duly
registered in the Office of the Register of Shelby
county, Tennessee, in book No. 60, part 3,
page 226. and for the purposes therein recited,
/ will on tho
2Ist day of March, 1871,
On the premises, between 10 o'clock a IN. and
4 o'clock D. m. sell TO the highest bidder, at
public sale. for cash. the following described
land and premises, to-wit Being in the city
of Memphis, Shelby county, Tennessee, and
known at the time of the execution of said
deed as lot No. 3SS, Main street; it being the
first lot north of the Gayoso Block, between
Gayoso and Beal streets, ON the east side,
fronting twenty feet and being one hundred
and forty-eight feet deep. All right of re;
demption is waived by said deed of trust, and
the title is believed TO be good, but shall sell
and convey only as trustee. and not otherwise.
147-l2-ls j. A. SIGNAIGO, Trustee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-18
NURSERY.
Bluff City Nursery,
N. PERDUE, PROPRIETOR,
Poplar Street, near Dunlap Avenue.
OI0Y JoHSss0N, Florist and Landscape Gar
dsner. late Of ROYAL Gardens, Stockholm

80 Greenhouse and hardy plants, cut hoW-
err, bouquets. heral decoratiOna for balls, par
and cemetery lots laid out In the most artistlo
style fs-hH
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-18

CHOICE lot of dried venison hams for
sale at Victor D. Fuchs, Al Jefferson
street. l49
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l The Louisville Ledger says THE
validity Of old indebtedness contracted
in the purchase of slaves before the is
suing Of the emancipation proclamation
win shortly be adjudicated by the su
preme Court of the United States. II
the court decides the question according
to advanced Radical ideas, and makes
the proclamation retroactivein its scope,
it will complicata matters considerably,
On the same principle every freedman
can recover from his former master the
value of his services while a slave.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-18

TIE new bill to Cypress the South pro
vides that if persons in the Southern
States refuse to employ negro, and he
shall swear that such refusal is on politi-
cal grounds, they shall be liable to go to
Jail for one year and pay a fine of a
thousand dollars. The taking away OF
a gun from man is made felony.
Suit may be brought against counties,
and the property of innocent persons
taken to satisfy the wrong done by ne
groes or Radicals disguised as Ku-Klux.
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rURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1871.

keeping over winter. Thus the Baldwin
apple as grown in Massachusetts, is a
small fruit, but as the tree is transferred
through Western New York, il becomes
larger and brighter in color, with an inn
proved taste. II, however, cannot be
preserved till the next spring The
Snow apple Of Canada, and other varie-
ties exhibit tendency TO shrivel up
when planted South of Lake Erie. The
Russian apples, recently introduced into
the United States, it is thought, should
only be planted in the northern parts Of
this country. On the walls of the Fruit
Cabinet are hung diagrams, showing the
character and habits Of the different in
sects that prey upon the fruit and fruit
trees of the United States, and in glass
cases are preserved the native birds
that feed upon these destructive insects,
which should be protected by the kind
treatment Of the fruit cuturists.
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Il. WHTTMURT 4
Publisher and PrOprieI
HOMAGE OF BEAUTY.
BY GEORGE D. pRESrIcE.

Beautiful girl have wandered far
Toward the rising sun and the evening star
have roamed mid the Northern wastes OF
snow, Ia .
But | never gazed on face as bright
As thine, sweet spirit of young delight.
Beautiful girl thou art young and fair.
As an angel shape in the moonlight air.
No shadow rests on thy brow OF snow.
Save that of thy tresses. dropping low;
Loves own dear light is wandering oft,
Der thy gentle lip OF carmine soft
Thy lovely cheeks, where the rich red glow
OF the warm blood melts through the virgin
snow,
The woven beauties of earth and sky.
Truth, holy truth, in its freshness dwells
Deep in thy dark eyes, shaded wells;
And fancies wild from their clear depths
Like shadows ofstars from trembling stream
And thy thoughts are dream of Edens
bowers,
And thy words are garlands of flowers, bright
flowers
Beautiful girl! haveseen thee move,
A floating creature Of JOY and love-.
As light as q mist on the sunrise gale,
Or the bouyant sway of bridal vail,
Till have almost looked to see thee rise,.
Like a soaring thought. to the free blue skies,
Or melt away in the thin blue air,
Like vision of fancy painted there.
Thy low sweet voice, as it thrills around,
Seems less sound than dream of sound
Softly and mildly its clear notes swell,
Like the spirit notes Of a silver bell;
And the lips whence the fairy music flows.
Is to fancy's eye like speaking rose.
Beautiful, beautiful girl, thou art
A vision Of Joy to the throbbing heart;
star sent down from the world of bliss
And all undimmed by the shades of this;n
A rainbow pictured by Loves own sun
On the clouds of being, beautiful onel
Beautiful girl, tits weary year
Since thy sweet voice fell on my ravished ear
'Tis long, long year Of light and gloom
Since | gazed on thy young cheeks lovely
bloom;
Yet thy gentle tones Of music still
Through the holiest depths of memory thrill,
Like tones of fount, or breeze, or bird,
In the long-gOne years Of childhood heard.
And oft in my dark and lonely moods,
When demon wing O'erIy spirit broods,
Thine image seems on my soul to break,
Like the sweet young moon o. 'er gloomy lake,
Filling its depths, as the shadows iee,
With beauty, and love, and melody.
Beautiful girl thou art far away.
And know not where thy steps now stray;
But, oh It's sweet IL is very sweet,
In the fairy realms of dreams to greet
Thy cheek of rose, thy brow of pearl,
And thy voice of music, beautiful girl.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-25
ImmortnIity OF the sonI.

An eminent divine was once trying to
teach a number of children that the soul
would live after they we're dead. They
listened, but evidently did not under
stand it; he was too abstract. Snatching
his watch from his pocket, he said
James, what is this | hod in my
hand2"
"a watch, sir" "a little clock" said
another.
ado you 500 it2'
"Yes, sir. /"
"How do you know It Is watch2"
at ticks, sir"
"Very well. Can any of you hear 1t
tick? All listen now
After a pause, eyes, sir, we hear it. "
He then took off the case, and held the
case in one hand and the watch in the
other.
"Now, children, which is the watch
You see there are two which look like
watches"
"The lttlest one, in your right hand,
sir"
Every we'll. But how do you know
that this is the watch"
Because it ticks.
Every well again. Now | will lay the
case aside-put it away, there-down,
down in my hat. Now let us see If you
can hear the watch tick.
Eyes, sir, we hear it" exclaimed sew
eral voices.
We'd, the watch can tick, and go,
and keep tiRs, goq sac, when the case is
taken off aud put away "a ny hat
$50 it is with you, ehildreDi yo@F body
is nothing but the case the soul is inside,
"The case, the body, may be taken of
and buried in the ground, and the sonl
will live and think, just as well as this
watch will go, as you see, when the case
is off"
This made Il plain, and even the
youngest went hoaRe and told his mother
that his thoughts would iiek atter he
was dead.
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The Fruit cabinet al washington.

The Fruit Cabinet of the Agricultural
Department at Washington City, con-
tains plaster casts Of the fruits from all
the different sections Of the United
States, arranged so as TO show at a
glance the products of each region, and
the specific changes caused by trans
plantation. 1t has been ascertained, by
examination of these specimens, that
Northern apples, when transplanted to
more Southern localities, enlarge in size,
become more juicy and luscious, and ae-
quire a large per centage Of saccharine
matter. As drawback to these advan-
tages, however, they lose the quality Of
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-25
BooK BINDERY. lln
Franklin Book Bindery,
-AND-
BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY,
No. Is West Court Street, Memphis.
sc. TOOF. Proprietor.
BooK BINDERY.

nLANK BOOKS, PAPER RULING. AND
ID binding Of every description. executed IN
a very superior manner, and warranted 10
give entire satisfaction
nH- Ny Blank Book paperembraces the frst
mills in America; my stock consists OF the
finest in the entire market, and prices TO COM
pete with any house IN Memphis. farues eni
fnd Il 10 their interest TO give me call before
ordering elsewhere. ho-i
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-25

Its simplicity renders its movements
40 easy that child can work it. Ii is
almost noiseless in operation, and for
speed and rapidity Of motion excels all
others, as has been demonstrated thou
sand times by competition.
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3
The LOCK- sTITCH which i

The LOCK STITCH which it
makes is more durable and beautiful than
any other, presenting the same appear,
ance on both sides of the fabric and will
not ravel. 1t is also more economical,
recurring oYE-THIRD LESS cotton than
any OF. er kind of stitch. Being the same
on both sides, it is not necessary to use
the extremely fine sewing cotton required
lby those machines which make a stitch
with a ridge on the under side, which can
only be concealed by using thread too
delicate and fine to bear ordinary wear.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-25

=. The prices are within reach of every
one. Machines are made to suit all
tastes and circumstances, and the plain
est in finish will work as well as the most
costly. tslf.. HL.l
Full and thorough Instructions given
AT the house of the customer at any time,
free of charge, and the utmost pans
taken TO render complete satisfaction.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-25

That hcrrid Chicago Times says: If
Chicago can have weekly course of
lectures hy ladies Of the same caliber as
Miss Logan, there viii not be left in
Chicago a single person who will favor
woman suffrage on the theory that women
are in any intellectual respect the equal
OF men.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-25
PHOENIX xINSURANCE COMPANY
Of Hartford, Conn.,,
Made to the Comptroller Ofthe State
OfTennessee, ON Jan. 1, 1871.
STATE OF TENNESSEE,
COMPTROLLER's OFFICE,
NJ .ou,rrrrp Topuaru LET 1911

STATE OF TRNSEssEE,)
COMPTRoLLER's 0PPICR,
NASHVILLE, January lst, lS7l.)
I, Ed. r. Pennebaker, Comptroller Of the
Treasury, do hereby certify. that the Phoenix
Insurance. Company, located at Hartford, in
the State of Connecticut, has produced to me
satisfactory evidence that said Company has
complied with all the requirements of the laws
Of the State Of Tennessee. imposed on insgr-
ance companies; aud further certify that II.
complied with the requirements OF the laws OF
the State, made and provided in such cases.
Wherefore, said Insurance Company has au-
thority to take risks and transact the business
of Insurance in this State, at Memphis, Ten
nessee. ED. X. PENNEBAkER,
ISS-i55 Comptroller Of Tennessee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-25

The Maryland Court Of Appeals has
decided that man who marries a minor
becomes responsible for any debts which
might have been enforced against her,
Notwithstanding her minority.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-25

The trustees OF the Peabody Educa-
tioual Fund have on hand 81 100000 Of
Mississippi bonds, which they naively
confess are not worth much at present.
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louisville, AenI"ehy'
N1HE ABOVE LAW FIRM, COMPOSED OF
ex.(iovernor Thomas Il. Bramiette, X, Il.
Durrett and g. NJ. Briggs, will practice IN n Q
following named courts in Louisville; Inc
Louisville Chancery Court, the Jefferson Court
of Common Pleas, the Jefferson pircuit Court,
The Jefferson County Court, tbs LOUISVILLE
City Court, the United States Circuit Oourt,
and the United States District Court, ip Ellch
lasf-named Court all matters in bankruptcy
are adiudicated. They will also give partic-
miar attention to cases in the Court Of Appeals
at Frankfort, Ky.
Special arrangements have been maqe ior
vile, but throughout Kentucky, Tennessee
and other Southern States. With reliable cor
respondents, selected with the utmost care
from among the best lawyers AZ oil points Tor
sVhich business is undertaken. kpeady coilec-
tions and prompt remittances are assured.
We have removed our office 20 NO. tOo, on
the east side of Fifth street, nearly opposite 10
cha aaurt-hOuee. ll-ioo-i
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1t possesses the very great advantage
of carving the work in the natural way
from left to right-which enables the
onerator to handle the work more readily
and to sit upright; while machines which
carry the work from the operatorrequIre
an inclination of the body forward (detrl-
mental to health) and are hard and tire
some to use.
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II is an instrument of great versatility
IN its operations. 1t will hem, fell braid,
cord, gather, tuck more beautifully than
any other machine in use, without bast-
ing or any preparation of the work.
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FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS:

Its yearly sales are larger than those
Of all other Sewing Machines combined.
This fact alone is the surest test Of its
merit and superiority.
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ATTORNEYS.
T. z. BRAMLRTTE, R. r, DURRETr. o.A BRl0Gs'
Late Governor OF NY.
BRAMLETTE. DURRETT & BRIGGS,
Attorneys and COunselOrs at Law,

Office at 1O5 east side Filth street, between
Market and Jeffersoa streets,
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-30

~. G. +. ID. Leighton, Norfolk, Va, offers 800 or
q Medal AT the disposition of the American Po-
moogical Society.
S. c. d. Barbot, Norfolk, Va, offers $50 or II
Medal for the best dozen bottles of Scuppemong
Wine.
9. L. Berkeley, Norfolk, Va, offers $40 or
Medal for best dozen bottles of the Flowers Grape
Wine
10. w. H. G. Lovett, Norfolk, Va, offers $40 or
n Medal for best Dried Figs cured within the
IL. Hon. John Il. Whitehead, Norfolk, Va,
offers $40 Medal for best half bushel of Soup
pernong Grapes.
IL. W. 5. Butt, Norfolk Va, Two Premiums
of So each or Medals,-one for the best Figs the
other ut the disposal of the Society.
"A. III. NJ. Smith, Richmond, Va, offers $40 or
Medal for the best half bushel of Cider Apples
10. Downward, Anderson Il Co., Richmond.
Va, offer $40 or Medal for the best twelve
lunches of NortoniGrapes.
Is. Chas. L Workman & Co., Richmond, Va,
offer $40 for the best twelve lunches of Delaware
Grapes.
II. S. Zetelle, Richmond, Va offers 20 or a
Medal for the best twelve specimens of Peaches.
49, Messrs. Randolph q English, Richmond,
Va, offer So, at the disposal of the Society.
10. Southern Fertilizer Co, $40, at the disposal
of the Society.
The above Figs, Grapes and Wines, en-
tered for medals, to be the property of the
Society, for the use of those members
residing in those localities where they are
not grown.
1t is also expected that other premiums
will be added to the above list.
MARSHALL p. WILDER, Pres't,
Boston, Mass.
f. r. ELLIOTT, Sec'y
Cleveland. Ohio.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-30

THE Prussian system of public instruc-
ton embraces some features of a practical
nature, which would even now, in our
country, be deemed not only new, but wide
departures from the true standard. Tech
nical schools, however, are verging more
and more in the same direction; in other
words, practical rather than ornamental
education is found to be what the needs of
the masses and the demands of our times
require. From the New York Iri6une's
account of the Prussisn system, these state
ments of the management of the boys and
girls are given:
"Two hours week are given to nature
knowledge progress in which must largely
depend upon the teacher, so indefinatc are
the instructions. 1t is to comprise at
least rudimentary knowledge of the vege-
table, animal, and mineral kingdoms, the
principal products of different parts of the
world, their relations to commerce and the
trades, &c. Geography is taught in pc
culiarly sensible manner. This science, in
its rudiments, is always taught, as it should
be, in connection with history. The 'wo-
manly works. commended to the girls,
and in which they have to pass examina-
ton, comprise knitting, sewing, hemming,
patching, darning, and the marking of
linen-eight hours week for the upper
grade, and six for the middle"
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-30

WEDNESDAY, EvENG. AUG. 80. 1871.

Mr.. LINCOLN ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
The following story is related Of the late
President Lincoln: .NL.
There lived in Springfield in 1860, and
probably lives there still, an Irish day
iaborer named John Mccarthy, an intense
Democrat. Some time after the Presiden-
tial election, Mr.. Lincoln was walking
along the public square, and John was
shoveling out the gutter. As the President
elect approached, Mccarthy rested on his
shovel, and holding out his hand, said
bluntly:
'.An' so yer elected President, are We ?
Faith an it wasn't by my vote at all, at
all !"
swell, yes, john" replied Mr.. Lincoln,
shaking hands very cordially with John,
"the papers say I'm elected, but it seems
odd | should be when you opposed me-"
swell, Misther Lincoln" said John,
dropping his voice, lest some brother
Democrat should hear the confession,
"I'm glad you got it, after all. It's
moighty little pace Pve had wild Biddy
for votin' fornist ye; an if ye'd been
bate she'd ha' driv me from. the shanty,
as shure's the worrold."
'Give my compliments to Biddy, John,
and tell her I'll think seriously of woman
suffrage" said Mr.. L., with smile, as he
passed on to his office.
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BANKRUPT NOTICES.

1860
VNHIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE THAT on
l. the I'd day of August 1871, warrant in
bankruptcy was issued ont of the District Court
of the United States for the Eastern District of
Virginia, against the estate of John ii. Buchanan,
of Hanover county, and State of Virginia, who
has been adjudged bankrupt on his own petit
ton that the payment of any debts, and the
delivery of any property belonging to said bank
rupt TO him for his use and the transfer of any
property by him, are forbidden by law; that a
meeting of the creditors of said bankrupt, to prove
their debts and choose one or more assignees of
his estate, will be held at court of bankruptcy
to be holden at the Registers Office in Rich.
mond, Virginia, before w. w. Forbes, Esq., Reg
ister the 25th day of August, 1871, at 10 o'clk
AN. DAVID ID. PARKER,
au l4--T2w u. S. Marshal.
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4l5I
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNI
l. TED STATES for the District of Virginia
IN the matter of John Welfley, bankrupt-in
bankruptcy.
At Harrsonbarg, on the 18Th day of August,
1871. III
10 WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Please 10 take notice hereby, that petition has
been, to wit on the 4th day of January 1871,
filed in said District Court. by John Weliiey, OF
Page co, in said district, who has been heretofore
duly declared bankrupt under the act of Congress
entitled AN act to establish more uniform sys-
tenn ofbanlruptcy throughout the UnitedStates,"
approved March I'd, 1867, for discharge and GER
tificate thereof, from all his debts and other
claims provable under said act, and that the 18th
day Of September, 1871, at 10 O'clock A. M, be-
fore q Douglas Gray, one of the registers of said
court in bankruptcy, at his Office in Harrisonburg,
in said district is the time and place assigned for
the hearing of the same; when and where Won
may attend and show cause, if any you have,
why the prayer OF the said petition should not be
granted
You are also hereby notified, that the second
and third meetings of the creditors of said bank
rnpt will be held at the same time and place.
G.. DOUGLAS GRAY,
Register in Bankruptcy for the
au l5--Tn2w* 9th Cong'i Dist of Va.
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TT,HIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE THAT on the

rT'HlS Is TO GIVE NOTICE THAT on the
l. Goth day OF August 1871, a warrant in bank
ruptcy was issued out of the District Court OF the
United States for the Eastern District of Virginia
against the estate of Thomas J. Tribble, of Car
oline county and State of Virginia, who has been
adjudged bankrupt on his own petition THAT
the payment of any debts and the delivery OF any
property belonging to said bankrupt, TO him or
for his use, and the transfer of any property by
him, are forbidden by law What n meeting of
the creditors of said bankrupt, to prove their
debts and choose one or more assignees of his es-
tate, will be held at a court of bankruptcy, to be
holden at the office of the register in Richmond,
Va, before w w. Forbes, Esq, register, on the
9TH day of September, 1871, at 10 O'Clock A. M
DAVID B. PARKER,
au 3-W2w u. S. Marshal