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panions where the French army was
supposed to be incapable of going.
There was not only no resistance, but
there was no one TO resist him. The
news was spread, and the Government
troops came forward in rapidly increas-
ing numbers A division entered by
Auteuil, another by the gate Of st.
Cloud, another by the gates of Waugh
rard and Montrogue. BY Monday night
there were something like 80, 900 govern
ment soldiers in Paris. There had been
no serious resistance anywhere, and it is
not at all surprising that NJ. Theirs
should have firmly believed that, after
all, he had taken Paris without any loss
or trouble worth considering But most
serious change came over the state of
affairs on Tuesday. The Germans, act
ing, it must be supposed, in concert with
NJ. Theirs, refused to let any one leave
Paris on the northern and eastern sides.
The government wished its triumph to
be complete. The leaders of the insur-
gents were to be caught in trap. They
should not on any account be allowed to
get out of Paris. The telegraph an
nounced-and to most readers it may
have seemed an unimportant announce
ment--that wounded insurgent general
attempted to pass the Prussian outposts,
but was forced to retrace his steps. he
was sent back to die, and if he was to
die, why should he spare those who were
bent on killing him, and refrain from
doing as much injury, not only to their
persons but to their feelings, as he couldf
What is the Sainte Chapelle, or the in
dignation of those who would mourn
over the destruction Of the Sainte Cha
pelle, to a man who is driven back by
the bayonets of foreigners on the bayo-
nets of his countrymen2 The fighting
on the part of the insurgents at once
became furious and determined, and pre-
parations were made for laying Paris in
rnins.
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A Literary Curiosity.

San Francisco publishers have issued
fac simile of the manuscript from
which Bret Harte's famous rhyme of the
Heather Chinee was put into type in
that magazine. Its erasures and inter
lineations show far better than the
printed poem his skill in the art of put
ting things. Every change was the
touch of the artist. AS first set up the
title was, "On the Sinfulness of All
Sin, as reported by Truthful James
which in proof is shortened and i'm
proved into "Plain Language from
Truthful James" The much.quoted
line: ~ IIpU lIa Gilu SOD
With lt ihs9 smile that was childlikc and
was first written: ci 3uuHa
= with the smile of the angelic band.''
The line. sftlffa tft'jAfb
(which was stuffed full of aces and bowers" ]"
was first and more feebly written;
(which contained all the aces and bowers" "
And the nervy line:
VI va "And my language is plain"
was an improvement on;
"In language that's plain"
"All this is a very triAing matter"
the unprofessional writer may say. But
therein lies much of the genius. good
friend, of such work. The manuscript
winds up with a pen flourish which indi-
Gates that the author was in good spirits
over what he had just tossed off.
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A story of Grant.

st. Louis Republican New York Letter.
A we'll known member of the profes-
sion was looking about there last week
with a view to rusticating the BARNS
during the summer, and strolling along
the beach in the evening, he met another
man. and the twain sat down to watch
the fog, which the Jerseyman said would
"lift in a minute, as a land breeze was
snriuging up" They talked of the fail
ure OF the hay crop, and the good pros
meets for a large musquito crop, OF ho-
tel life and cottage life. and then Of pol
tics. of Grant and his administration,
etc. The aetOr-man expressed himself
freely; quoted some editorial of that
morning from the high-favored pen Of
Dana; told his new-made friend that
these things couldn't be said if Useless
4 ;dn't give such glorious occasion for
'elu," etc, TO the end of Democratic
ma,1's chapter. After awhile, as the fog
didn t lift, they strolled up the beach to
n noirrt where the stranger was about 10
leave. The actor-man expressed his
Measure at meeting the gentleman, say
inc. my name is -; what might 1
cali you, sir2"
Won might call me almost anything,
b1t as you've been calling me Useless
Grant all the evening, it's almost useless
IN ask Won to try another, and, with a
pleasant good evening OF walked
the President Of these United States.
Not bad for Useless, as Dana must ad-
NIT this time.
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MEMPHIS, TENN: THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE l5, 1871.

a shadow in the West. drawn by ignis
fatuus" to n very severe and unhospit-
able country, where only the giant labor
ers eould hold on-where there is no
comfort of house and living for woman
kind, with coarse and rough society be-
yond conception. / saw many who we're
disappointed, and some very much dis
gusted on their return to New York, with
not money enough to enable them to pay
their passage home.
/ have come South, and / find that
immigration is hardly known here---a
very few have entered the State OF Vlr-
ginia, and a still smaller few are scat
tered among the cotton States-yet this
and neighboring districts Of anyof the
fields | have visited seem to me the
most likely to suit the new conner.
Judging from various sources of infor-
nation / should think this is by far the
best climate in America; it is certainly
the most equable, and resembles the ay-
erage of England and South Germany.
/ Farm hands | have all along found
were relatively more successful than
their employers; why, | cannot tell; yet
they did not seem to appreciate their
good fortune as
Emigrants would do well to look South
before settling permanently, or before
leaving America. Their farm hands
could get good employment and comfort
able homes and the cities around could
absorb any number of white female
servants. CHAs Courtney.
Washington, d. c., 1lth May, 1871.
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II. WhIEmOhE.
Publisher and Proprietor.
For the PUBLIC LEDGER.
YOUNG GIRL OF THE PERIOD"

For the PUBLIC LEDGER.l
YOUNG GIRL OF THE PERIOD"
She's one that will shirk from all kinds Of
work,
But will read each new romance and sonnet.
Wears feathers and frills, like porcupine
quills. 81 I'd H A tA
Stuck around in piece of bonnet;
She loves to "tend balls" she loves to make
calls;
She always looks faded and wearied;
She's of the same stripe, very good type,
OF the present young girl of the period.
With 'ehignOn" and rats" meath smallest
Of hats.
With pannier assisting to bend her,
With cheeks cherry-red-tho' painted tits
said w
With a look very ''gushing" and tender; Z
If old "Rip Van Wink" should wake up. l
think r0ttnanLnfF
The people by him would be queried,
To know whence she came, and what was the
name, eA
Of this dashing young girl of the period.
She marries a man as soon as she can.
And in most cases weds for money;
And 'twixt you and me, she will make 1t to
flee
That he'll think it amazingly funny.
To be good wife is such dull life,
Of housek coping she becomes wearied,
Then Hubby" will find he must have been
blind
When he we'd this young girl Of the period.
N-lhNN ---a- - .h---------f no y Il
BURNETT's COCAINE prevents loss ol
hair-kills dandruff.
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THE TRADITIONAL WILD MAN.
His Wanderings Through the WiIds
of MeNafry.

"
From the jackson Whig and Tribune.I
A correspondent writes us that the
wild man of the woods, who periodi-
cally appears in the press and startles
society with his fantastic tricks, has
again turned up in McNairy county, and
is treading up her hooks and corners
seeking whom he may devour." This
time we have live Ku-Klux, clad in a
long hirsute drapery, that he must have
inherited from Esau himself. 1t will be
recollected that over year ago we pub
lished an account of the killing of a
peddler by one Quill Maness, hard
trough" who lives on the headwaters
of Piney. Quill was tried therefor, and
acquitted, yet nobody ever doubted his
guilt Since his discharge Quill has
abandoned the walks of men, dived
into the shadowy forest, and has be-
come as wild as March hare" His
physical appearance is in striking
unison with his habits of life. He will
not work and provide the usual raiment,
yet nature is weaving for him hairy
covering, impervious to storm or heat,
and cheaper than the cheapest suit that
was ever made 10 order Whether
Quill subsists on the herbs Of the field
is not fully settled; yet, Nebuchadnezzar
like, he has certainly turned out to
grass" The appearance of Quill in
any given neighborhood produces quite
sensation, especially among the fair
sex, to whom he seems not unwilling to
unbosom himself and a tale unfold. -
Whatever may be the facts in this par
ticular case, is it not strange that the
murderer, although acquitted nj tihe bar
of so-called justice, can find no solace
in society and betakes himself to the
quietude of the woods? Truly, the
way of the transgressor is hard
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The south Compared TO the East
and West by n Foreigner.

Attracted to this country by desire
to see for myself whether the tales Of
extraordinary opportunities offering TO
the farmer, the farm servant, and others
wishing to follow country pursuits were
true, travelled East, West and South
In the East / found the new conner
contending with opposition, with high
rate Of labor and relatively small price
for his produce. The emigrant farm
servant seemed content only a time, for
the tales of the riches Of the West, like
the over fabulous tales Of the gorgeous
East, carried his head away.
followed to the West, not doubling
but that the emigrant was. now on the
right track, whether the small capitalist
or larger one. In the West land was not
difficult 10 obtain, but the low priced land
would be dear TO the present generation
at any price, and the expensive lands
had not much 10 recommend them. l
was convinced both classes Of emigrants
had left some substance in the East, for
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why They Fought.

1t has been difficult to understand why
the Communists, after their ruin was
complete, persisted in fighting from
street to street, with the certainty Of de-
feat and death. II now appears, how
ever, that they had an ineligible motive
for their desperate course. Says the
Saturday Review;
1t appears that on Sunday Paris was
accidentally entered by an officer OF
engineers. The generals were not
ready, the Government was not ready,
the troops were not ready. But this
officer, who had been looking at the gate
Of st. Cloud for many a weary hour,
took il into his head that without much
ado he might as well 90 into Paris. He
went forward-there was no one TO stop
him-and he walked with few CON-
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Monday, July 10th, 1871,

At 10 o'clock, at the real estate exchange Of
Royster, Trezevant IL Co., northeast corner OF
Main and Jefferson streets. in the city Of Mem
phis, Lot n in N. NJ. Trezeyants subdivision,
on south side of Union avenue, about four
miles east of Court Square. containing i've
acres and sixteen-hundredths of an acre
Title perfect. ~, ,,,, MN, NJ.
RoYsTER. TRKzEvANT CO.. Anctrs.
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ESSAYS.
NM IIRIDAL CHAMBER.

EssAYs FOR YOUNG MEN, ON GREAT
" Social Evils and Abuses, which interiors
with Mari age--with sure means OF relief ior
the errinr and unfortunate. diseased and de-
biIitafed Sent free, In sealed envelopes.
address HOW ARD ASSOCIATION, No; Is.
Ninth tire Ell, Philadelphia, Pa. 6o-lS
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REMOVAL.
Dr. r., r. de AragOn

HAS RENO WE'D FROM ~ CHARLESTON
III. avenue to
NO. 25I THIRD SIRE Il Z :
In the Rrountl floor Of ST. JOSEPH INFIRM-
AIRY. Order can be left at No. 81 Charleston
avenue. at WALTER WARES DRUG STokk'
tofore. the DC etor gives particular attention
to all private and chronic diseases, sores ana
ulcers, and tn Q diseases Of females. l5.lul
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Miss Ella Noe, Of 0skaloOsa, is called
the Winnie Ream Of Iowa. She helps
her father make gravestones.
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Iuctioneers.
Trust sale.

DY VIRTUE OF A TRUST DEED FROM
d Anna NJ. Koehler and Hermann Koehler,
/ will sell to the highest bidder, for cash, at
nuhIic sale. on ..U 80
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Lot and Brick Residence,


Situated on the east line of Second street, at
the corner of the alley next north of the First
Methodist Church, having front of Ga feet
by depth of 14sK. with alleys on two sides.
This is one of the best localities for residences
in Memphis, an experience of forty years
having dem onstrated tito be the most healthy
portion of the city.
5a4N - nilH lCf .0f
The sale is absolute, and title perfect.
Terms-half cash, and balance. in six and
tweIve months. aHdn adi anf t43ii !
'"0''' 30. ..l l.flf 30 h1lf ttf ali
RoYsTER. IRRELEVANT 4 CO.,
49,.
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PUBLIC LEDGER.
Weekly Public ledger,

Published every Tuesday at So per annum lin
administrations upon subjects Of general
interest to the public are at all times accept
able. a ~. a-a. -,
The New York herald., 1871-02-14

declare that she cannot fight anybody while
there is danger of our being her enemy. It
is very natural, therefore, that she should now
wish to be our friend and ask herself what is
the good of fighting anybody any more If she
can possibly avoid it. 1t will be a great day
for the world if this idea Is allowed to produce
its natural fruit and development, as we ex-
pect it will from this joint High Commission.
In that case the great English republic and
the great British empire will unite to keep the
peace of the world.
The truth is that the commercial classes in
England and a sober democratic policy have,
under the great American influence, revolu-
tionized England in this important direction
SO completely revolutionized it that England is
now going to have thoroughly citizen army,
and will no longer depend upon hired soldiery.
We look forward with satisfaction to the pros
pect, for it amounts to moral annexation OF
England to this country's objects and policy
in international affairs. England cannot do
better than revolve henceforward, so to speak,
In our orbit There is no question here, be it
observed, Of formal alliances but of that in
voluntary and best sort of cooperation in
which both parties are of the same mind and
animated by the same underlying purpose.
The liberal and commercial policy of Great
Britain has been preparing the ground even in
her own despite for this important consumma-
tion. She now perceives the enormous folly of
which her governing classes were guilty when
they threw their sympathies with the South,
and 80 did their feeble best to thwart the life
of the Power upon which her best moral depen-
dence is to be placed and from which her best
lesson in international policy needs had to be
drawn. The reparation which she will have
to make for that will be to her not only whole
some discipline but a luminous lesson instruct
ing as to the meaning of her own mind and
the direction of her own destinies. She must
keep the peace with us, and in securing this
she will fasten herself irrevocably to the USE
ful and glorious policy of promoting, as she
has of late so earnestly striven to do, the
peace of the world. Let her look steadily to
the great West; for here is being forged the
key to the destinies not only Of her own peo-
pie, but of all mankind.
The New York herald., 1871-02-14

POLITICS IN NpIANA.-Indiana democratic
papers aver that treachery is not confined to
the radical camp in that State, but that ga
Few democratic Judases are about to give the
State over to the republicans" This is rather
m interesting matter. 1t is not confined to
State politics alone; for in the event of Sena-
Tor Morton taking seat in General Grants
Cabinet his Senatorial seat may be filed by a
republican instead Of, as has been hoped, a
democrat. If this should happen to occur
Che democrats have nobody to blame but
themselves. Their withdrawal of the States
ratification of the fifteenth amendment was
silly piece Of business, and no doubt disguised
several independent members of the party.
If the democrats are not careful the same
result may follow in other States where the
adoption OF the fifteenth amendment has been
Withdrawn.
The New York herald., 1871-02-14
The French National Assembly.

The recently elected members of the French
National Assembly met for the first time yes
terday for the transaction of business. The
meeting, however, was only preliminary one,
as over twenty departments are still unheard
from. The result in Paris is also unknown,
as, owing to the number of candidates, the
work of counting the votes is necessarily
slow operation. A second election,
too, in the capital may have to be
resorted to, and, if 80, still further delay
will be the consequence. In those depart
ments which have been heard from the repub-
licans have not been successful. Gambetta,
Picard, Garibaldi and number of other well
known radicals have secured seats, but there
is none of that extraordinary popularity for
the republican candidates which many persons
no doubt believed was cherished by a large
number of the French people. M. Theirs was
elected in eighteen departments General Tro-
chu in seven and the veteran Changarnier in
four, while Jules Favre was elected only in
two, Gambetta in three and Garibaldi in one.
If anything may be judged from this exhibit
it looks as though the Orleanist party were
going to make very strong show in the As
sembly. Theirs is an Orleanist SO is Trochu,
and if Changarnier is not moderate republican
we think his sympathies lean to the side Of
the Orleanists. The dispatches, however, are
too meagre as yet to form decided opinion
regarding the complexion of the Assembly.
The Bonapartists have kept quiet. Whatever
the adherents of the fallen Emperor-and that
he has many in France is not to be doubted
have done they have done it quietly, and when
the proper time arrives it may turn out that
they have worked not only silently but
effectively. From the facts received up to
this time nothing certain can be arrived at, if,
indeed, we except the conclusion that so far
as the radicals are concerned they may be
considered behind in the race, and the choice
now resolves itself between kingdom and
empire
The New York herald., 1871-02-14
The Ice Blockade ON the East River.

The Ice Blockade ON the East River.
1t is not often that the floating ice in the
East river, even in pretty severe winters, has
formed such an unpleasant blockade as we
have witnessed for the past few days. The
Fulton ferry, which is very rarely obstructed
in this way, is the severest victim on this
occasion. On Saturday, as we know, thou
sands who expected to make the voyage from
Brooklyn were disappointed. The sudden
gorging Of the ice Immediately above the ferry
afforded an opportunity for large number of
rash people to attempt crossing on foot. The
friendly interposition of some tugboats and
ferryboats upon which they clambered saved
hundreds Of them from an icy grave.
The ice gorge just at this time can only be
accounted for by the fact that the flow of ice,
relieved possibly by thaw in the Sound and
forced down by the tide, met the flow from the
North river, which was drifted by the west
erly wind then prevailing, and thus held the
ice in both channels in suspension.
The change Of wind to eastward, which pre-
vailed yesterday, must have carried the ice of
the North river out toward the sea, and
hence the navigation on the ferries was easier,
though by no means free from obstruction,
uncertainty and delay. The navigation Of the
ferries on the East river in an Arctic season
like this depends almost entirely upon the
direction Of the winds, as the experience Of
the last few days fully establishes. The moral
Of this ice blockade on the East river, Of
course, is that the bridge ought to be COM
pleted in the shortest possible space Of time
commensurate with the interests of the con-
tractors and others engaged in this immense
job. 1t is evident, from the experience of the
last week, that the Brooklyn bridge is essential
to the interests Of two great cities, and should
be constructed without any needless delay.
The New York herald., 1871-02-14
Italy asd Tunis-Tcnding 90 tho Rase from
Africa.


Africa.
The cable telegram news reports which
reached us during the past few days, previous
to Sunday and yesterday, from Florence and
London, indicated that there existed danger Of
rupture of the friendly relations which have
lately existed between his Majesty the King
OF Italy and his Highness the Bey of Tunis.
Although the contents of the different de-
spatches were to very considerable extent
contradictory the latest, as it were, of its pre-
cursor, we had intelligence which was amply
sufficient to prove the fact that the exercise of
avery active diplomacy was absolutely neces-
sary in order to prevent an outbreak between
the governments, his Excellency Hussein Bey
having been forced to undertake a special
mission from Tunis to Florence with this
intent. The exciting cause of the agitation
was the old matter of outrage on peaceful
commerce by the pirates of the Rif-those
insolent buccaneers of the coast line fringes of
the Barbary States. At the present moment
the affair might be made dangerous to the
peace of Europe, as the Bey of Tunis would,
If severely pressed by Italy, appeal in his
suzerainty to his imperial lord and ally, the
Sultan of Turkey, and thus open an Africo-
Eastern question, the consequences of which
would radiate from Central Europe, in Flor
ence, to Constantinople, and from the homes
of ''the Berber in old Atlas glens" to the Par
lament houses of Britain. In view of the
interest which attaches to every matter con-
nected with the subject of Tunis and the Riff
piracies-the American government and people
being actively interested in the subject during
very late years-we publish to-day special
historical exhibit Of the case, accompanied by
statement of the government of Tunis, its
organization, location, strength and executive
resources.
The New York herald., 1871-02-14

A MIXED COMMISSION ON CUBAN AFFAIRS. -
As will be seen from our news of this morning
General Sickles telegraphs to the State De-
partment from Madrid that the negotiations
for mixed commission to consider the claims
for injuries to the persons and property of
American citizens done by the Spanish authori-
ties during the insurrection in Cuba have
been concluded, and that the messenger is on
his way to Washington with the correspond
ence. Good for General Sickles. Good, too,
for the whole American people. Let us have
peace. But let US have peace, through pluck,
with honor and dignity. ~.