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UH0 eHEs WILLIAMS, Anctieneers,
AZ No. S19, southeast corner TIN and u street.
TRUSTEE stLR OF SMALL YRAMs HOUSE,
AND LVr FROM riN1UN n sTRHsr -VUrB
bEINEEk CANAL AND 1Ta orREETS
- By virtue Of deed OF trust dated 18th DAY
IN 81 Jsunars, A. 1853. AID driy TO, 0rded in
k Liber 7. and u No {. folio Isl, one ~ the
land recordsf,r Washington unry, ia the District
Of Columbia shall se |, on the rragnis r. on MON
DAY. tht i3th day OF eebrusrY,A d 1871, At ~
O'Clock m, ALI thst certain piece or parcel q
ground situate, lying and being In the sad city II
Washington, and described as foHpws. to cit The
most eastern twenty i've rs feet OF LOT fovr By
the depth thereof, IN sQusrc numbered eight hun
dred q! eighty two, 81 As LAID down oa the plan
oi past of said city with the IN prov srnents .
Terns: One third cash. balance 10 aad Is months
tor notes bearing interest and secured By aeei n
TRUST on the pr misses All nyeypnciug and rsve-
uue STAN p at the Cost of the purchaser. SO down
on the day OF sale. And II the terms are not com
piled with in FIVE after the day of sale the
tee reserves tn, ght to resell the property at the
rex and Cost # tue detsu'tng rurch ger by dver
tising three times in some rewspapr publishci in
arlington city.
3kURGs HUFF, Trustee.
nol0 lawAds GbEEN WILLIAMS. Aucs
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The following important items OF war news
!, ere received here YESTERDAY and last night:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03
H1pINa AssAssINs.

Scott, by the grace of negroes,'Gov-
ernor of down-trodden South Carolina,
has been spoken Of recently. Scott is
wanted. Scott is in demand. Scott has
some work cut out for him to do. There
are serious charges against Scott. Scott
win have to meet them. Can Scott do
it2 4 man named Colonel Kerrigan, of
New York city, has just made confess
sion which throws a little light upon
some very dark doings of the Radical
Governor Of South Carolina. Among
other things, he says that he and twenty
Eve others we're hired in New York city
last November, by an agent Of Scott, to
20 to South Carolina. On arriving there
Scott wished to use these men as assas-
sins to murder various prominent citi-
zens, who were politically opposed to
Scott. Large sums Of money were
offered Kcrrigan and his companions
if they would consent to do the bidding
of Scott. Of course Scott denies these
statements, but Kerrigan's companions
confederate his statement under oath.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03
NEW NAVIGATION ACT.

Congress has passed an act to regu-
late navigation on the Mississippi river
and its tributaries. 1t directs the Sec
rotary Of War to. have water gauges
established, and daily observations made
of the rise and fall of the lower Missis-
sippi river and its chief tributaries at or
in the vicinity of st. Louis, Cairo,
Memphis, Helena, Napoleon, Prov
idence, Vicksburg, Red River Land
ing Baton Rouge, and Carrollton, on
the Mississippi, between the mouth of
the Missouri and the Gulf of Mexico,
and at or in the vicinity of Fort Leav-
enworih, on the Missouri Rock Island,
on the upper Mississippii Louisville, on
the Ohio; Florence, on the Tennessee;
Jacksouport, on White river Little
Rock, on the Arkansas and Alexan-
dria, on Red river; and such other
places as the Secretary Of War may
deem advisable, the expenditure for the
same to be made from the appropriation
for The Improvement Of rivers and har-
bors-provided that the annual cost Of
lhe observations shall not exceed the
sum Of 10000 per annum.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03
PUBLIC LEDGER.
HE Is GONE.

William B. Stokes, one Of the lights o
Tennessee, and one of the ornaments o
Radicalism, is no morel In the flesh he
still lives; but as a politician, he came
to his death yesterday at the hands OF a
caucus of the Radical members of the
House of the Forty-Second Congress.
Having been defeated for Congress by
his district, he became candidate for
door-keeper of the House. The caucus
gave him twenty votes, and thus put an
end to his existence as a public man.
Bnt the man with the brother-in-law
will very probably regard has re
mains as good subject for gal
vapie experiments. If he cannot make
him brother-in-law, or some other de-
scription Of relative, he may warm his
frozen yitalities with an Office. And 30,
deep down into perdition as Stokes has
sunk, there is power to snatch HIM
hack and rchabilitate his defnnctness.
We may yet hear the scream OF the bald
eagle Of the mountains, and feel the arr
aapped BY his wings rushing upon us.
We might here 90 off into quotations
from Byron about soaring through
rolling clouds" and all that sort of
thing. but we won't. We desire rather
to pay our poor tribute to one who suf-
ferod, served, sinned, hoped, banked on
Radical gratitude, and was ruined Elk
cuse these tears.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03
The Bayonet Law.

The Baltimore Sun thus concludes an
article in denunciation of the new bay
onet election law:
Who can wonder, in view OF the use
proposed to be made of the army by this
bin. and of what has already taken place
under the previous act, that Mr.. Brooks,
of New York, declared in the House last
week, when the army appropriation bill
was under discussion, that, SO help MIN
God, he would never vote one dollar for
the pay of the army while the bayonet
election law remained upon the statute
book. Better far would it be to disband
the army to morrow, to dismantle every
fort in the United States, and to burn
and destroy every musket and cannon
owned by the Government, than to con-
vert the military forces of the country
into an engine for the oppression OF the
liberties of the people.
We have given but an imperfect and
meager outline Of this bill of nineteen
sections. No further argument is needed
to show the madness and wickedness of
such scheme of legislation. The case
is too plain for argument, and mere
statement of the provisions of the bill
is. or ought to be, its sufficient condemn
alton. II should be enough to say that
such a bill is actually pending, that it
has already passed one house Of Con-
gress, that it is, after all, but corollary
to that which passed last session, and
that it is quite within' the range of politi-
cal probabilities that this one may pass
also, to cause the voice of indignant
protest to ring throughout the length
and breadth of the land.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03
TIE SELMA ROAD.

People have learned by long expe-
rionce in Memphis that the only plan Of
building roads - indispensable to the
progress in wealth and intelligence Of
the city aud couniry-is by the imposi-
ton Of n tax. Blessings conferred by
railways, ike the dews of heaven, de-
scend upon all alike. Mechanics and
working men. the men who make a
country rich, are the primary benef-
Charles, since the very tax gathered from
the property Of the city and county is
transferred ut once TO the pockets Of
those who use the spade, mattock and
ax. Merchants, as such, derive no ad-
vantage from a railway til trains Hn
over It, and landholders begin to discover
an augmentation in the value Of property
only when the construction Of a road is
assured. Il has resulted, while mer-
chants gains are most remote and most
doubtful, since they travel and read and
see more Of the world than other classes
of citizens, that they are first to invest,
and most literally in such enterprises.
Intelligent mechanics are readers Of that
very species Of books and 81 journals
shat famiiisrizc shem with advantages
Arising from railways. Day hnorer,
Iiou-rer unic.tered, see riainly tl...i their
tasks ara multiplied and TIE fei Of
employment IS ininiieiy uidened ih 90
s-.-er-.ririn-raiiway-hnilding progressive
cit.. 1he farmer DISCOVER that as the
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

A correspondent, writing from Fort
Laramie, under date Of the 10th inst,
inst, 10 the Omaha Herald, says:
There are several thousand Indians in
the neighborhood Of this post still. 10
whom rations are issued. They conduct
themselves orderly and are wholly de-
pendent on the Government for support;
80 It would now appear, notwithstanding
their naughty and independent tone at
the Council held with the Commissioners,
that hunger has solved the problem Of
the Indian difficulties. The question
now is. how to feed, rather than how 10
fight them,
The iron horse has completely ban
ished the buffalo and other game, and
Che gradual encroachments Of emigra-
ton must necessarily compel the tribes
inhahtiug this region to starve or &C
ceni the ultimaium Of settling perma.
ucnuy on some reservation hereafter %
be- located. where they should BE- pro
rided with the implements Of industry
and compelled 90 work
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

Death by suicide is becoming a fash
ionable way of leaving the world,
throughout the United States. 1t has
become an epidemic, from which Mem
phis has not been exempt. A quaint
law writer says the crime of .felo de Sc is
not punishable, because the unfortunate
object is beyond the reach Of human tri-
bunals. Falling on swords and drinking
hemlock were the favorite methods OF
the philosophical Romans, but in our
day the repeating pistol does the business
for men, and some flowing river receives
the bodies Of women.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03
GIycerine as rood and Medicine.

Glycerine is one of the most valuable
articles our pharmacopia can boast,
while as an article of food, it is one of
the best and most fattening nutrients.
Sweet oil, or olive oil, has for ages been
an article of daily diet in Palestine, and
other old countries, and glycerine is the
essence Of it. 1t is a perfectly neutral
and bland fluid, and the most penetra-
ting, perhaps, in all nature. Oil itself
will penetrate where water viii not, and
glyeerine, which may be considered
TIE ethereal part Of oil, has this property
to a most remarkable degree-it pene-
trates the solid bone. A medical journal
tells us that if poured into mixture of
blood and matter, such as is expectorated
from consunptive lungs, it will get be-
tween the globules. of each and show
them with great distinctness Being
thus penetrating, it is the very best APP
plication for feverish sores, for infamed
or dry surfaces, SIMPLY from its quality
of penetration and eyaporability. IL
applied with common brush to the sur
face of the throat, in diptheria, in few
minutes its penetratiye quality enables
it to sink between the molecules Of the
false membrane, dissolving and detach-
ing it in a few hours. 1t is the best APP
plication known in case Of burns.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

made that the present police force was
not authorized by law, and resolution
was adopted to organize q day and night
watch for the city,i If this proposition
be true, the acts of our police in official
capacity we're illegal and void.
The petition of the Mississippi River
Railroad, asking for right of way through
the navy yard in order to reach the loca-
ton of the proposed union depot was
referred to a committee 0 ten.
A committee was appointed to change
the boundaries of the different wards, in
order to equalize representation and re-
district the city for some purpose.
The Board adjourned sine die.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03


city is enriched his products are IN
greater demand, and as the city y
widened the value Of country properly
more and more rapidly approximatess
that of the city. There is no class oil
men who do not confess themselves IN
terested, directly or indirectly, and with
absolute certainty in the prosecution o.
tasks like that contemplated, which
sbortens the distance between Memphis
and the Atlantic two hundred miles ana
makes this city the grocery and cotton
market for the richest districts oil the
Gulf States There was never greater
popular unanimity in reference to any
ouestion than this which iAsures the
construction of the Selma road. we
would fain hope, when the election DAY
dawns that there win be no citizen oil
Shelby county, confessing as he must
the uniyersality of blessings, will pre-
vent the universally of assent to the
subscription of 100000 proposed by the
County Court.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03
MUNICIPAL.
Board OF Aldermen.

This body met last evening, pursuant
TO adjournment. A number Of streets
and sidewalks we're ordered TO be re-
paired and graded Lamps were or
dered to be located in dark places. The
Aatboat merchandise business was
crushed out by tax Of from s. to $40
wharfage per day, for ten days; and s.
for every day thereafter. The assess
ment for city taxes for the ensuing year
was placed at the following rates: One
dollar on the hundred, on real and per
sonal property, for sinking fund pur-
poses, to pay the bonds Of the city ma
turing in 1872 thirty cents on the hun
bred dollars for city schools; and sew
eniy cents on the hundred dollars for
general purposes. In the Ninth and
Tenth wards only fly cents on the
hundred dollars will be collected. The
market hours we're again changed
Markets open from 4 10 10 o'clock, pm
except on Saturdays. when they are
open from 2 10 o'clock, pm. After
passing on some minor matters the
board adjourned.
Common Council.
The proposition 70 grade the bluff be
tween Monroe and Court streets, and
improve the same. was referred TO
committee of ten, or one-half the Coun
ell. The estimated coat l. or. 900. TIL
committee consists Of Mcssrs. Grehan
Amis. LighibHrne. Malatesia, Petiigrew
Rain. Smith. schabei. Twohig an'
Zent
The startling announcement va
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03
A Negro who Has seen the Devil.

There is a queer character at the City
Hospital He is an old negro who goes
by the name Of the General, and
claims to be a soldier Of the Mexican
republic The Genera has had the mis-
fortune to lose both legs, which have
been amputated above the knee, but
manages TO get around on two short
wooden stumps The General lays
claim to be over ninety, and is triile
crazy. He tells some wonderful stories.
Once he was robbed and murdered at
sea, and thrown overheard with a twenty
four pound shot tied 10 his heels. He
lay at the bottom Of the Pacific for five
hours, but was finally delivered by
angels. lie has been TO both heaven
and hell, and had a personal interview
with the Devil. His description Of the
latter character conflicts with popular
views. The General describes him as a
large, horid-fased parsonage, who looks
like an Englishman, wears sandy NUT
ton-ehops, and is a very pleasant spoken
parsonage The General was favorably
impressed with him. On being ques-
toned if he saw Solomon in heaven, he
said he saw an old fellow there whom
he supposed 10 &c solomon, but WASH {
sure Louisville Ledger.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

TnE New York Herald says that in
the town elections in New York State,
which occurred in February, the parties
remain nearly in the same position as
when the Democrats carried che State
in the fall of 1870 by over thirty thou
sand majority.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03
MEDICAL.
DIR. RICHAU's GOLDEN REMEDIES
Use these only and save time. health
and money.

eIOOO REWARD for any case Of disease,
10 any stage. which they fail to cure.
nR. RICHAU'S Golden Balsam. No. i. cures
ulcers, liberated sore throat and MOUTH
sore ewes. cutane0us eruptions, copper colored
blofcbes, soreness Of the scalp, ecrofula, etc.
II 4 the greatest renOvatOr, Alternative and
blood purifier known, removes All mercury
from the system, and leaves the blood pure
and healthy.
DR. RICHAU' s Golden Balssm, No. 2, cures
IL mercurial affections. rheumatism IN all its
forms. and gives immediate relief in all eases.
Piice OF either No. or No. 2. - per bottle,
or two bottles for g..
nR. RTCHAU's Golden Antidote, a rapid
IL and radical cure for all urinary derange-
ments. Price. s. per bottle.
nR. RICHAU'S Golden Elixir DfAmour, .
Dradical cure for nervous OF general deoihty
In Old or young; imparting energy with won
derful effect. Price. = rs- bottle, or two for ~
on receipt Of price these remedies viii BE-
shipped 20 any ulaco. Prompt attention paid
10 al correspondents. None genuine without
me name Of" DR.. kichau's Golden Remedies,
ID. B. Richards. Sole Proprietor, blown N
vlars OF bottles. Address Dr.. y. y. hi1i-
ARDS, No. % Nariok street, N. N. ~
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

The cottage of Anne Hathaway,
where Shakespeare wooed and won her,
is offered for sale The Shakespeare
Club. whose members own the poets
house at Straiford, talk Of buying the
cottage also, which is not more than
two miles distant.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03
Read This.

hhtttU HIM.
If you
Want cook,
Want situation,
Want a salesman,
Want a servant girl,
Want to rent a store,
Want to sell piano,
Want to sell horse
Want to buy horse,
Want to buy house,
Want to rent house
Want to lend money
Want to sell patent,
Want to sell a carriage,
Want a boarding place,
Want to borrow money,
Want to find an address,
Want to sell ayhouse and lot,
Want to find strayed animal.
Want to sell piece Of furniture,
Want to buy a secondhand carriage,
Want to find anything You have lost,
Want to find an owner for anything
found,
For few cents you can tell thousands
of people through the columns of the
PUBLIC LEDGER, some of whom will be
sure to have what you ask for, or know
where you can get it. Try it and see.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

Tnr Delaware (ohio) Herald says that
President Grants brother-in-law, the
Rev. Mr.. Kramer, was formerly col
lege student there, and that he united
the largest possible amount Of Teutonic
industry with the smallest conceivable
amount of Teutonic brain.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

THE Selma Reporter gives this hatier-
ing account of the business Of that
place: "Since last Friday week, Selma
has received one thousand four hundred
and fifty bales Of cotton, which, added
to previous receipts, make grand total
of seyenty-seven thousand seven hun
dred and thirty-eight bales for the sea-
son. Two thousand five hundred and
eleven bales were shipped during the
week, which, added to previous ship
ments, foot up sixty-eight thousand eight
hundred and segeniy-eight for the sea
SON Is it not Of great importance to
Memphis that she should have direct
railroad communication with so flourish
ing town as Selma ISL
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

IT is stated by one Of the papers that
at the recent celebration Of Washing
toms birthday, at the Cooper Union,
New York, a letter was received from the
venerable Peter Cooper, giving that As
sociation one hundred thousand dollars,
half the income Of which he desires TO
be used for the establishment Of a refer
ence and lending library for the me
chanics and laboring people Of that
city; the other half to be used for other
purposes. But this was not all-he has
authorized the trustee to draw on him,
or his representatives, for fifty thousand
dollars more to complete it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

THr Meridian Mercury announces the
absconding Of Price, the Loyal League
Radical school teacher, who was arrested
and held to baillon the charge of Ku-
Kluxing thenegro, Adam Kennard. He
left his bondsmcn to foot the bill The
Mercury learns that the prosecution will
prefer a claim against the State for the
reward offered by the Governor for Ku-
KluX arrests.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

In a letter to Senator bar lloraee
Greeley says:
But | am old-fashioned, and cannot
change my camp or my flag, with your
admired facility. The cradle-songs OF
nv early childhood, the stirring nara
tions which enlivened the winter ire,
sides of my latter youth, have blended
inextricabiy my feelings, my sympathleS
INV convictions, with the men and the
principles of the American Revolution.
/ firmly believe that there were giants
in those days" and that very little pro,
rress has been made in our fundamental
conceptions, and none at ali IN practical
administration, since the days of Wash
ington.
Now it seems difficult to believe that
Greeley could have so far forgotten him
self as to write that, After all, he
thinks we have made no advance, Have
abolition, free love andnegro superiority
done nothing2 Is the career of the
Radical party a huge falsehood and
fraud2
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

TIE Cincinnati Times says the Rev
T. X. Beecher finds his horror at capital
punishment greatly lessened by the belief
that God will judge the convict more
favorably, or, il you please, more justly,
than his fellow men in this life, since he
will not be held accountable for the evil
done to him by others in this world,
whether of omission in his proper eduea-
ton while young or of commission IN
such examples and injuries as were cal
culated to debase his character. lie
says that we hang a man on the same
principle that teacher sends an ungoy-
ernable pupil home to his fathers gov
eminent. Like the teacher, society sends
the unmanagable. citizen home to his
Father in heaven, who will govern him
with infinite wisdom and goodness.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

~ Greenhouse and hardy plants; cut fov-
err, s,5aquets. horal decorauons for balls, par
fies reidinra and funerals. Lawns, gardens
snd cemotury lots laid out In the most artistic
style. "-im
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

HORACE GREELEY says in the New
York Ledger that Alice Cary died in his
own religious faith-that of the Univer-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

WOMEN in different places in the coun-
try are sending petitions to Congress
praying that body not to grant female
suffrage. That is sensible and womanly.
When woman becomes a wrangiing
voter addicted to whisky and subject to
bribery, men will no longer respect her.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03
MEMPHIS WATER COMPANY.

uIHE ANNUAL ELECTION OF THE
Board Of Directors Of this Company will be
held at the oiico Of the Company. No. 10 West
Court street. March 9th. Stockholders are no
,,ssd 70 attend. T.w. BROWN.
Isi-i2-s Prss't Memphis Water Co.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

Frank BLAIR, in his recent speech in
the Senate, took the ground that the Fif-
teenth Amendment was a part Of the
Constitution, but that its ratification was
effected in contempt Of the VIII Of the
people and the authors Of the iniquiiy
should be punished by being driven from
Office.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

nor sALE-TOwNsHIP PLATs. LOOSE
L sheets and nicely bound in book, on hand
ana for sale az this olce.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03

IL the matter Of bogus Counts and
fraudulent Princes" Continental Eu-
rope is no better or than this ceHniry.
A fellow pretending TO De- q Russian
Prince. ana 81 intimate friend Of ihe
Gown Prince Of Russia, has been az.
rested in MarsciHes for picking pocke,s
in church.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-03
NURSERY.
Bluff City Nursery,
m. PERDUE. PROPRIETOR,
Poplar Street, near Dunlap Avenue

Ol ssns s11 isss q Royal Gardens. stOcESolm.