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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-01
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From the N. Y. Evening Post.l
The great FIRE in Chicago has reminded
capitalists engaged in insurance against
FIRE Of some features in their business
which are too often left out of sight. The
premiums charged for insurance are
liked by estimating the risk Of loss; and
the only means the companies have OF
determining the risk are the experience
they have had Of actual losses. Know
ing what proportion of certain kind Of
property has been burned every year,
upon the average, heretofore, they can
calculate the probability that the piece
Of property TO be insured will be de
stroyed during the Axt year. Wherever
improvements in building or greater eff
cheney in police, or better fire engines, or
more Abundant water diminish the losses
Of year, the companies naturally re-
joice in their profits, make great divi-
dends, and compete more strongly than
ever for business, at decreasing rates.
Bat once in a few years, or perhaps in
generation comes some great disaster
which sweeps away one or many such
companies entirely, and cripples others.
A general alarm is given that the risk is
greater, after all. than the ordinary ex-
perience Of any company indicates; that
rates are too low; that competition is
pressed too far. An agreement is formed
among underwriters TO advance their
charges, and this is done for few years
or months, until the great FIRE is for.
gotten or set aside as exceptional, and
business goes on in the old suicidal way.
So it was after the great fire Of 1885 in
this city; so il has been since, after the
fires which destroyed large parts Of Pitts
burgh, Troy and Portland; so itpromises
to be after the desolation Of Chicago.
The frst lesson Of this great FIRE to in
surance companies, therefore, is to make
their rates OF premium adequate to the
entire risk they rum including that Of
great catastrophies; to keep their rates
up to this standard, even in times Of as
much prosperity as the year ending with
last month; and TO make the public IN
derstand that a part Of the premium,
representing the extraordinary risk, IS
taken by them for the security Of in
surers as much as for their own. By re-
serving it to accumulate until the day,
sure to come sooner or later, when that
extraordinary risk win become an enor-
nous loss, and when once more, as now,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-01
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE: WEDNEsDA'

underwriters who neglect this duty will
be involved in ruin. There is no reason
in the nature OF fire insurance why the
security afforded by it should not be alb
solute; and it will become so, against
everything but national connagration,
when, with fairly distributed risks, the
reserve fund OF the system shall be
several times as great as the whole
amount of property which could posi-
bly, be destroyed by a single FIRE.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-01

visit that region; but when this tornado
struck it, it went to pieces like child 8
playhouse built Of cards Whoever had
not already reached a place of safety
found it impossible to move against this
mighty storm. People threw themselves
fat on the ground rather than be borne
away by its violence, and perished where
they fell. The next day n man was
found hugging tree in the outskirts Of
the village, his body half consumed.
The storm of falling cinders was sue
ceeded quickly by
A CONTINUOUS BLAZE
that licked up everything with which it
came in contact. Those in the water
only saved themselves by keeping their
entire bodies submerged, only venturing
to raise their heads at intervals for a
moment to gasp for breath. Many were
drowned in the effort to escape burning,
while others who sought to catch breath
inhaled only liyid flame, and persisted
Even the very fishes in the stream we're
reached by some mysterious agency and
killed, so that the next day hundreds OF
them were found floating, dead
But it is useless to attempt to picture
more in detail gw-lug
THIS HORRIBLE TEMPEST OF FIRE.
The destruction of Sodom and Gomor-
rah and the appalling overthrow Of Pom
peii are the only parallels history affords
Of so frightful calamity. 1t will have
been observed that this was in all its
characteristics an amomalohs storm
The fire did not reach the town by gra-
dual approaches along the surface Of the
earth, but seemed to come from above
through the thick pail Of smoke that en-
veloped the place. Nor did the frightful
rain OF fire strike them from any one
direction. All parts Of the forest-bound
town were assailed at once, aud the ter
riied populace found themselves without
refuge, exposed to all its terrors which
ever way they turned.
Thus il is clear that the calamity was
peculiar in that the consuming flame
Was borne to the place Of destruction on
the wings Of the wind, and high up in
the clouds above the earth rather than
along the ground. Another peculiarly
of the dreadful phenomenon was its
slow but kN r9
AwFULLY GRAND APPROACH.
FOR an hour and halt the warning
roar had been heard, though what it
portended none could tell. The stout
est hearts quailed at the strangely omi-
nous sound, though not one of the popu-
lation could say why the distant rumble
should create alarm Five minutes be
fore the storm burst upon them not
the most Intelligent Of that community
could give any satisfactory reason
for supposing that the place was
in any peril. On the contrary,
while the more timid we're alarmed by
their apprehensions Of fire because of
the known presence of fire in the forests
but few miles away, the more thought
full and deliberate endeavored to pre-
serve measure of confidence in the Sc
curity of the place by the assuring re-
Election that all the immediate sur
roundings OF the village had been so re-
Gently and thoroughly burned over that
there was nothing combustible remain
ing to draw the dreaded element TO any
dangerous proximity to their homes.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-01

The treasurer of a Georgia eolored
society pocketed the funds, and reported
that the rats had "run'd away wid all de
money" -,
They tell Of an individual who lectured
in q Minnesota village for the benefit Of
Chicago sufferers, but the audience was
so small that be didn't pay expenses, and
the sufferers are two dollars and seventy
FIVE cents in debt to him. -l
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-01
BEAur1YuI LEAVES.

Fading beneath our pressing feet
Strewn upon lawn and lane and street,
Beautiful leaves
Dyed with the hues Of the sunset sky
Falling in glory so silently.
Beautiful leavesl
Never TO freshen another spring,
Never to know what the summer may bring
Beautiful leaves
Withered by wintry frost and cold,
Soon to decay in the common mold.
ar.4gg er Beautiful leayes
So will the years that change your tint,
Mark upon us their autumnal print
Beautiful leavesl rU
So shall we fall from the tree Of time.
Fade like ye. In frosty cline,
Beautiful leavesl
But when the wintor of death is past,
And We wake in eternal spring at last.
Beautiful leaves
May He. who paints you every hue.
Form our lives chaplet new
..trtru Of beautiful leaves
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-01
WATCHES. JEWELRY, &c.
CLOSING OUT SALE.

HAVING TO REMOVE FROM MY OLD
isl place, / have resolved % close out my
entire stock. consisting Of watches,
ClockH. IeWeiry. Spectaeies, Gold
Pens. SflverWaFe, ETC., al cost.
vited 20 try me.
Remember the place. No. 1II Main
street. under the Peabody Hotel.
A good chance for Country Merchants.
Persons having any work left for repair
are requested 70 call for IL b. November 3D.
or ID will be sold according . law.
E-Ts JOSEPH GOODMAN.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-01

The English thoroughly understand
horses and everything connected with
them, and all the appointments Of
handsome equipage. We think their
carriages needlessly heavy, and so they
are, bat not for their powerful horses
and smooth roads; for speed in driving
they do not seem TO care. Even the
women are capital whips as well as
riders. Nothing is cOmmoner than TO
see a lady driving a pair Of horses
through the crowded streets. hardly hold
ing them in at all, yet guiding them
with perfect dexterity amid a chaos Of
other vehicles, hand-carts and people or
foot These female characters are by
no means always young or pretty. The
most remarkable turnout this season
was that Of an elderly portly parsonage.
with the cOuntenance, at once stolid and
sour, 80 frequent among English women
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-01

Of a certain rank, who drove a pair Of
dashing ponies, and was always accom-
panied by two out-riders, while in the
fooiman' place sat two female compan-
ions, each holding lap-dog
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-01

A LII LETTERS AND INQUIRIES IN
Areference to Ida City and the purchase and
sale Of lots should be addressed 10 Hy.. fon-
taine, Corresponding Secretary, No. ~ Madi-
son street, Memphis, Tenn. The title 10 the
property Is perfect in me, and the advertise
ment and maps published correctly represent
the value and attractions Of the place.
ll3-tl JACOB THOMPSON.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-01

BURNETT's COCAINE is the best and
cheapest hair-dressing in the world.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-01
NEW 5UcKWHEAT,
NEW MESS MAGKEREL,
8RkUQe 8nf NEW GOLDFISH
FORTUNE TELLER.

MADAM1s Am
TTIHR FORTUNE TELLER. CAN BE CON
IL suited nt TT .
Iss Main WEBSTER RIsek). I'D nOor
l7f rfa.e-FI = 9-IF /.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-01
sUNDRIEs
- u N ID r. i E =.

~ - - - ~ u - ,
ESQ boxes Cheese.
80 bbIs and hIf bbIs Pickles
25 hlf bbIs White Fish.
300 kits a. hlf bbIs Mackerel.
30 bbls and hIf bbls KrOut.
so bbls HOminy and Grifs.
200 cs imp. Brandy Cherries
80 tubs of Fresh Butter.
So boxes breakfast Bacon.
25 rsnewsugarc cured hams
100 kegs Spiced Pigs Feet.
1900 cases canned Fruits and
Jelltes.
80 cases Sardines.
200 bbls Apples a. Potatoes,
Just received at
g. A. ECKERLY's,
33S Front, cor. of Union street
20-gT
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-01
EDUCATIONAL.
KEBLE HALL,

Select Boarding and Day School for Young
Ladies',
No. 12S washington Street,
MRS. KETCHUM. Principal,
DEGINS SESSION SEPT. Is, 1s7l. CIRCU-
ID lars and cards at the book and music stores
and at keble Hail. 1S3-52
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-01


ightes running Shuttle Machines yet made
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-12

TIMID PEopLE.-It is the habit of
some people to laugh at the terror
which is experienced by others
at the heavy thunder crash,
or the flashing lightning. This is
both cruel and wicked, since the VIC
tim is no more to blame for it than
for the color of his eyes and hair
in fact, like them, it is hereditary.
Such persons should be pitied and
sOothed, and allowed during these
periods to be always near some one
whom they love and confide in.
More especially is this true of chill
dren, some Of whom suffer more
than words can tell from this. as
well as from other causes of fear.
Deal gently with such; it is the on
ly way to eradicate their fears: ridi-
cule and harshness will confirm
them. The child "afraid of the
dark" should never be enforced to
encounter it unattended and un-
watched. Idiocy has often been
the sad result of contrary treatment.
Let both parents and teachers, then,
be thoughtful in these regards. .-Er,
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-12

RISE HIGHER-When the birds
are flying over and the fowler lies
in wait for them, if they fly low, at
every discharge of the fowler's gun,
some fall, some are wounded, and
some, swerving sideways, plunge
into the thicket and hide themselves.
But you will find that Immediately
after the first discharge of the gun
the flock rise and fly higher. And
at the next discharge they rise and
fly still higher. And not many times
has the plunging shot thinned their
number before they take so high a
level that no longer the fowler aims
at them, because they are above the
reach of his shot. When troubles
come upon you, fly higher; and if
they strike you, fly still higher. And
by and by you will rise so high in
spiritual life, that your affection will
be set on things so entirely above,
that these troubles shall not be able
to touch you. So long as the shot
strikes you, so long hear the word
of God saying to you, rise higher.
= Ex.
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-12
The Political Situation in Mississippi

From all parts of the State we
have encouraging reports of the
unity of Republicans, and deter
mination to sink all personal differ
ences rather than endanger the sue
cess Of the party by opposition to
the regular nominees. The conven-
ton of last Thursday in this coun-
ty has had good effect. "Old
scores" were settled. The political
tomahawk and scalpingknife WELD
ed by the chiefs of opposing clans
have been buried never to be dug
up, except when on the Democratic
war path, and for the purpose of
raising" Democratic hair. In the
various counties in which cOnven-
tions have been held, general salts
faction is expressed, and a deter
mination to support the nominees,
although Objectionable to few in
dividuals. If the harmony in our
own convention is any criterion to
go by, and we should think it enti-
tied to some weight from the fact
OF there being so many candidates,
(many of them men of weight and
influence, coming before the conven-
ton and submitting to its action)
then We need have no fears of the
result of the coming election. Adams
county q)ter her convention, is more
uuited than before, and we believe
will return an increased majority at
the November election.-Ne,c South
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-12
WHAT II AN OLD MAID!

Never be afraid Of becoming an
old maid, fair reader. An old maid
is far more honorable than heart
less wife; and "single blessedness
is greatly superior, in point of hap
piness, to welded life without love.
"Fall not in love, dear girls, beware!p
says the song. But we do not agree
with said song on this question.
On the contrary, we hold that it is
a good thing to fall IN love or get
in love, if the loved object be a
worthy one. To fall in love with
an honorable man is as proper as
it is for a man to fall in love with a
virtuous and amiable woman and
what could be a more gratifying
spectacle than a sight so pure, so
approaching in its devotion to the
celestial. No; fall in love as soon
as you like, provided it be with a
suitable person. Fall in love, and
then marry; but never marry I'M
less you do love. That's the great
point. Never marry for "home'
or a husband" Never degrade
yourself by becoming a party to
such an alliance. Never sell your
self, body and soul, on terms so
contemplate. Love dignifies all
things (; it ennobles all conditions.
With love, the marriage rite is
truly sacrament. Without it, the
ceremony is base fraud, and the
act a human desecration. Marry
for love, or not at all. De an sold
maid' if fortune throws not in your
way the man of your heart and
the witless may sneer and the
jester may laugh, you still have
your reward in an approving con-
science and comparatively peace
full life.
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-12

A BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT. III
Augustine Daley's great play, "Un.
der the Gaslight," Laura Court
land utters this beautiful SEN
timent "Let the woman you look
upon be wise or vain, beautiful or
holy, she has hut one thing she
can really give or refuse, and that
is-her heart. Her beauty, her
wit, her accomplishments, she may
sell you, but her love is the trea-
sure without money and without
price. She can only ask in return,
that when you look upon her eyes
shall speak a mute devotion that
when you address her your voice
shall be gentle, loving and kind.
That you shall not despise her be-
cause she can not understand all at
once your vigorous thoughts and
ambitious plans, for when mis-
fortunes and evils have defeated
your greatest purpose-her love
remains to console you. You look
upon the tree of strength and
grandeur do not despise the
flowers because their fragrance is
all they have to give. Remember,
love is the only thing that a woman
can give-but it is the only thing
which God permits rs to carry
the grave"
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-12
1~ Terms OF SUBSCRIPTION: S1
PROSPECTUS
OF
The Louisianian.

H. ,be ,udeavor to establish another
Republican journal in New Orleans
ha rromietors of the LoUIsIANLAN,
,ropose to fill a necessity which has
been long, and sometimes painfully
,et To exist. In the transition state
ofourpcople, in their struggling efforts
TO attain that position in the Body
Polite. which We conceive to be their
due. it is regarded that much infOr-
nation, guidance, encouragement,
counsel and reproof have been lost, in
consequence of the lack of a medium,
through which these deficiencies might
be- supplied. We shall strive to make
he LorIslANIAy deSiclerut,m in these
sutrts
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-12
PO e T r Y.
THE YOUTH By THE BROOK.
AFTER SCHILLER.
BY MARY L. RITTER.

Sadly youth. beside the stream reclining,
Watched the quick dancing of the Joy
Gus wave,
And from the dewy buds bright garlands
twining,
Their morning freshness to the waters
gave.
"And thus, he said, depart my summer
hours,
With all their happy dreams of hope
and light;
The stream of Time these days, sweet as
the flowers,
Unheeding bears forever from nv sight.
"Ah! never ask why thus in early morning
The rosy splendor from my sky has fed,
And the bright blossoms once inv path
adjoining
Now fade around me, scentless, pale.
and dead.
Kind Nature, with her bounteous hand,
VIII ever
Create new beauties when the old depart
But all in vain l sigh, for never, never
Can come second springtime to my
heart.
Autumn will come, an'l heap with rich
est treasure
The hands that hold the promise of the
spring;
But to my heart what joy, wha. hope,
what pleasure
Can the returning seasons ever bring?
For she whose image fills my soul forever
Only in blissful dreamings can be mine:
Praying, | stretch my hands with vain
endeavOr
TO where the vision stands with smile
divine.
Come to ME, thou my only love! my
blessing
Leave the proud castle with its hearts
of ice;
Only to see thee, and thy smile possessing
viii make the earth to Inc paradise.
List to the waves ill light and beauty
flowing,
The music of the singing leaves above
A cottage home is large where hearts are
glowing
With the pure sunshine of mutual
love-"
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-12

One of Mr.. Theirs minor troubles
with the Germans, which has
caused a great deal OF comment and
some apprehensions, has passed
away. The army of occupation has
now completely evacuated the De-
partment of Oise, one of the four
departments yielded to the French
on the payment of the third half
miliard of the war indemnity-after
having halted in it's eastern can
tons, around Compiegne and Creepy,
for number OF days beyond the
anticipated term. The delay, we
now hear, is attributed by General
Manteuffel to a misconception of
orders but, excused as it was be-
fore on the ground of the accept
ability of some of the French drafts
not having been fully ascertained,
it was probably intended to give
some additional weight either to
Count Arnim's complaints of NAL
treatment to which German resi-
dents were here and there subject
ed in France, or to Bismarck's OBJ
jections to the notifications intro
duced by the National Assembly in
the recently negotiated Alsace-
Lorraine customs treaty. The point
in the amendments chiefly obnoxious
to the German Chancellor is re-
ported to be the one demanding the
same tariff immunities for French
manufactures in Alsace-Lorraine as
are to be accorded the manufactures
of these provinces in France. Ac-
cording to last reports, Mr.. Theirs
has abandoned the article in ques-i
ton, and all difficulties in the wsy
of the ratification of the treaty are
considered overcome. But as the
National Assembly is not in session,
and its law, expressly passed for
the purpose, authorizes the Pres
ident only "to ratify treaty in
conformity with the conditions
prescribed in the act, we cannot
exactly see how the ratification is
to be carried ont without a stretch
of powers such as not only French
public opinion but Bismarck him
self must find rather exorbitant.
The eagerness, however, which the
French Executive has evinced in
smoothing the way for the accept
ance of the treaty by the Assembly
renders it almost certain that, if
the German Chancellor only raises
no objection, Theirs will not
hesitate to take the responsibility of
a bit of usurpation the immediate
result of which is to be the de-
liverance of a number of French de-
partments from the presence of the
hated foreigners seven months be-
fore the term fixed by the treaty of
Frankfort. The Nation.
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-12

for the lawyers OF this court and of
the State than that entertained and
cherished by me. Few, if any, 1
am sure. have ever enjoyed their
intercourse with them more than /.
or been more proud of them as
brethren, but I state now and here
that I will not purchase or retain
the respect of any man at the high
price of a dereliction of any official
duty, as 1 understand that duty,
and in this 1 believe I express the
feeling of my brother, the Circuit
Judge.
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-12
North Carolina Ku-KluX.

TRIAL OF THE RUTHERFORD KU-KLUx-
ERs-JUDGE Brooks REMARKS
HE INFAMY OF THE ORDER EXPOSED
SENTENCE OF THE PRISONERS
The BIGGERsTAFFs TAKEN Up THREE
OF THE ACCUSED PLEAD Guilty.
Correspondence of the New York Herald. !
RALEIGH, N. c. Sept. %, 1871.
In the Ku-Klux matter to-day no
motions in arrest of Judgment were
made, nor anything done in writs
of habeas corpus. The counsel for
the defense made an eloquent ap-
peal for mercy on behalf of the
prisoners. In response to this ap-
peal, Judge Brooks said:
JUDGE BROOKS ADDRESS.
We regard it as proper that we
should now say that the facts as
developed in the trial of this case
show most clearly that there is, in
fact, condition of things existing
in this district which we know is
earnestly regretted by every good
citizen, to whatever political party
he may belong. We express, with
confidence, the opinion that no man
is good man and no citizen good
citizen who approved of atrocities
such as have been shown to have
been perpetrated by these prisoners.
We say more, that no one is either
a good man or a good citizen of the
government who does in his heart
condemn such acts, by whomsoever
perpetrated, as inhuman, fiendish
and reasonable in their character.
We know that good men and citi-
zens do so condemn such acts, and
we would have but little hope for
our republic if we did not so believe.
That bad men should be now found
to violate the law, and even to con-
spire together to violate the law,
not only by attacking the most sa-
cred rights Of their fellow men, but
their lives also; not only so, but
even more, that men should be now
found to attack in this way not only
those around them, and not content
with that, should attack posterity
by reasonable acts with q view to
destroy o government which has
never punished but protected them,
is not matter of SO much surprise,
for in looking into history we find
that at all times there have been
those who would commit such
crimes. But the manner in which
this association, spoken of by the
witnesses, was bound together; the
character OF the obligation signed
taken by its members, as construed
by themselves, it's manner of pro-
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-12
FINAL.

49,. generous, manly, Independent,
''''c'ous conduct, we shall strive
We our paper, from an ephem-
uo temporary existence, and
1t upon basis, that if we
command" we shall at all
deserve" success.