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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-28
LEAF FALL.

Fall-let them fall around;
Fall on the reddening greund;
Fall, as we fall away from life's serc tree
Into the ocean Of eternity
Lost, swallowed up. and drowned.
Fall, though the sun is high
And bright and blue the sky;
Yet every soughing windfts myriad sends,
Failing, still falling, as false hearted friends
In our adversely.
Yet while they fall. still fall.
A BONNER light than all
A bluer sheen than yon autumnal sky
Shines on me, as feel thy love-lit eye
Dispel my beings thrall.
We walk, those leaves above,
Thy soft voice, like the dove.
Low murmuring; or as whom the woods among
On morn of Valentine, the wild bird s song
Whispers her mate of love.
So let them fall away.
Friends Of the summer day hf
False friends, who cannot bear attliction's test
know the love that liveth in thy breast
Will never fall away. r.t
Neverl Not even when
Beyond earth's s narrow ken.
Like dead leaves fluttering in the autumn tide
We two have passed; our love shall still abide,
Shall have grown perfect then.
--insteV' MdgdziHe.
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oliver Wendell Holmes Run-The
Dry Goods Salesman.

"The Poet at the Breakfast Table 4"
says lin the August Atlantic) that be
treasures up with interest all the words
uttered by the salesman, and then goes
on to make a sketch Of that person,
Il must have been noticed that he very
rarely speaks. Perhaps he has an inner
life, with his own deep emotional and
lofty contemplative elements, but as we
see him he is the boarder reduced to the
simplest expression of that term. Yet,
like most human creatures. be has gen
eric and specific characters not un-
worthy Of being studied. / notice par
ticularly a certain electrical briskness of
movement, such as one may see in q
squirrel, which belongs to his calling.
The dry goods mans life behind his
counter is succession Of sudden, snappy
perceptions, aud brief series Of co ordi-
mated spasms, as thnsi
" Purple calico, three quarters wide,
six yards"
Up goes the arm; bangl tumbles out
the fiat roll, and turns half dozen
somersaults, as If for the fun Of the thing;
the six yards Of calico hurry over the
measuring-nails, hunching their backs
up, like six canker-worms; out jump
the scissors; snip, clip, rip; the stuff is
wisped up, brown-papered, tied, labeled,
delivered and the man is himself again,
like a obild just come out Of a convul-
sion fit. Think Of a mans having some
hundreds OF these semi-epileptio seiz-
uros every day, and you need not won
der that he does not say much; these
fts take the talk out OF him.
But because he, or any other man,
does NOT say much, il does not follow
that he may not have, as / have said, an
exalted and intense inner life. | have
known G number Of oases where q man
who seemed thoroughly commonplace
and International has al at once sur
prised everybody BY telling the story Of
bis hidden life saF more pOiniedly and
dramatically than any play writer or
novelist or poet could have told it for
him. ! vii not insult your intelligence,
Beloved, by saying how he has told il.
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DENTISTRY.
sTocKHoLpERs' MEETING.
MEMPHIS
Building and Savings Association.

A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF SHARES
"A having already been subscribed to justify
the commencement Of operations, a meeting OF
1abscribers to stock Ia the above association
S.N Be held on Saturday evening. November
cer- for nv and election Of OH
Parties desiring TO Fuhrrrif., - .,s.
Iui enterprise may call on IA t,rerl =
u Manhattan Bank; or on L. 4 K. teh1,,,,s,a.,
% Madison street. 1i-os
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-28
FiveAttractiye Flowing Matches
Six Troti ing Premiums,
ONE FOR EACH DAY.
Stock Premiums-alsO, for Poultry,
Very complete and liberal.

The Directors cordially invite a superior. dis
play of Agricultural Implements, Household
Fabrics, and ornamental Workmanship under
their liberal offer of premiums.
Premium Lists may be obtained by applica-
tion to the Secretary, at the Chamber OF Gem
merce.
Half-fare rates will be charged by the rail-
roads, but the person purchasing tickets for
the Fair must be certain to call for such tickets
at his place of starting, and have them
stamped by the Secretary on the Fair Grounds,
otherwise he will be charged full rates.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-28
MUSIC.
GROCERIES.
NEW GOODS.

JUST RECEIVED AND IN STORE.
SEQ bbIs. FIour CdIHersnt grades),
100 casks bacon, ha
500 Packages Lard,
SEQ boxes Cheese,
25 tferces Hams,
100 packages TobsscO,
1909 eases Can Goods,
whisky, brandy, Gin, Wine, Cigars,
Bagging ana Ties,
Corn Beef 0barreIs and Ia barreIs).
TAYLOR q DUFFIN,
G-2 2ss Front street,
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or early Egyptian. Otway coolly ap
propriated love scenes in Romeo and
Juliet as an underplot to his "Caius Ma
RUS" Half of Wycherly's plays are
"annexations" from Moliere. All Mrs.
Centlivers comedies are translations
from the French or Spanish. So with
the exception Of his burlesques) were
Fieldings. The same, with few excep.
tions, OF Foote's farces The bestscenes
in the School for Scandal Il. G. the front
scenes) are limitations from Limpromptu
de Versailles, and Les Precieuses Ridi-
cules Of Moliere. Pizarro is literal trans
lation from Kotzebue. So is The Stran-
ger. The clap-trap, sentimental, bu,
invariably humorous comedies OF the
younger Colman and the elder Morton
we're composed at time when we were
toe busily engaged in taking forts and
frigates from the French, TO trouble
ourselves with appropriating their dra-
matte Inventions; and these plays may
be called original. TIE same may be
said OF all the works of Knowles and of
Douglas Jerrold. But here our natural
claims to the debatable virtue of origi-
nality may be almost said TO cease. OF
noticeable living writers the names only
of Bulwer Lytton, Bayle Bernard
and Blackstone can be cited as
those Of men largely dependent on their
own constructive resources, though all
these availed themselves of French fer
tility. Money is an original comedy,
but the Lady of Lyons and Richelieu
would never have been written without
certain vital suggestions from the works
Of Soulie, De Vigny and Victor Hugo.
Not one successful farce in ten, pro
duced in this country in the last forty
years, can be pronounced original. Nay,
to 90 much further back, we find more
than the germ of High Life Below Stairs
in Les Precieuses, while that very model
of an old-fashioued English farce, The
Village Lawyer, turns out to have been
mot merely adapted, but-translated,
almost word for word, from the oldest
piece on the French stage, LAvocat
Patelin, which was quoted by Rabelais
in the sixteenth century.
And, pray, what is all this intended
to proven | am sure, | don't know,
reader; but found a quantity of people
gossipping upon subject in which |
am personally interested, and thought
| would have my gossip with the rest of
them. ROBERT BRoUGH.
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sH The Society will have a General Agent,
who will take special care and give particular
attention 70 all Stock and articles on exhibit
tion at the Fair.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-28

In addition to tho Premiums contained in
the Premium List, the Directors call attention
to the following additional Special Premiums,
which they have concluded to offer, viz:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-28
GROCERIES,.

WE HAVE THEPLEAsURE To INFORM
w our patrons and the public, that our
recent large purchases Of Canned and Glass
Goods. Teas. Spices, C0Iees. Sugars. Butter.
with the largest and best selected stock Of
Staple and Fancy Groceries ever offered by US
in this market. Visitors 70 the Exposition
Hall will have an Opportunity el Witnessing
and look through our stock. at = Main street.
t0-S5 LYLE A SHIELDS.
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PRICES OF FApmIssIoN

For 4-horse coach or Omnibus.....-..,....I 90
For 2-horse hack or carriage (public) e. 90
For each person, whether in carriage, on -
For children under IL years of age and
over o.. %
Children under years of age, free.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-28

Edmund Winston Henry, the youngest
and last Of the sons Of Patrick Henry.
died on the llth instant at his late resi-
dence in The county Of Charlotte, Va,
IN the seventy-ninth year Of his age.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-28
ANNOUNCEMENT.


To the People Of Shelby, Fayetto and Tipton,
=. Responsive 70 the action Of the recent County
Convention of Upton county, and the request
Of my friends In Shelby and Fayette, i an
nounoe myself a candidate for Senator for this
district IN the next General Assembly. subject
TO the action Of the Senatorial Convention,
6o-to PKYTON j. SMITH.
l hereby announce myself n candidate 10
represent Shelby county In tho Senate Of the
next Legislature, subject TO tho nominating
election Saturday, July 20. 1872.
lO7-te wst j. M. CREWS.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-28
A Magnificent Double BarreIed
BREECH-LOADING SHOTGUN !
nest pigeon Shooting.
Match on FRIDAY. Entrance fee, IS.
Worth $3.50 is offered for the

Best general display of Flowers. Plants
and Shrubs, from the greenhouse ana
garden, including Plants in Pots, Cut =,
Flowers, Bouquets and Eyorgreens.;,...s5O "
Best general display of Canned Fruits,
rFessnssdi ate Sd. in 1ststh sogthern Ss stStcs 50 q
Best Suit of Gentleman's Clothing, made
by Lady, including Coat, Pants and ,- =,
Vest - W
Best display of Quilts and Comforts
(home-made), to include silk, cotton - q,
and % "
Best display Of Embroidery by South
ern Lady, TO include specimens of silk, =,
wool and cotton "
Best and most tasty alicO Dress, made
by n Southern Lady. p "
Best display of Crochet-work .............. 25 U
Rest general display of Artificial Flowers Is O
Rest display Of Hair Work.................. p y
Rest Southern made Bonnet.................. so q
Best Pictorial Worsted Tapestry ........... % O
Best Historical Painting, in oil, by
Southerner Original designl. .............. so q
Best Landscape Painting, in oil, (original =,
designl . "
de design I a @ 25 0C
Best Painting in water colors lorlginal
design . W
J. G. BALLENTINE, President.
LEON TROUSDALE, Secretary.
13-dkwt
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Monday, October 81, '72,
And to Close October 30, 1872.

THE FAIR GROUNDS ARE BEAUTI.
fully situated on the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad, and ample transporta-
ton is provided for visitors by the Southern
Security Company, at twenty-five cents the
round trip, during the Fair.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-28
THE PREMIUM LIST

Is very complete, especial attention being paid
to the exhibitions by Planters and Farmers,
and to every kind of Domestic and Home
made Product and Ladies' Handiwork.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-21

On the 9th of November, 1860, Mr..
Greeley wrote: whenever a considera-
BILE section of our Union shall deliberately
resolve to 60 out, we shall resist all
coercive measures designed to keep it i'm
And again, February 90, 1861: "When-
ever it shall be clear that the great body
of the Southern people have become con-
'clusively alienated from the Union, and
anxious to escape from It, we will do our
best to forward their views" eff Mr..
Greeley should be elected" says the Alba
ny Journal, land the old rebel element
should combine. in the Southern States, to
secede from the Union, how could he con-
sistently interpose to prevent them ?
Would he not be bound, as President, to
do his best to forward their views p"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-21
PROTECTION OF MIGRANTS.

Probably nothing that Gen. Grant could
have done to strengthen his hold upon the
masses Of our foreign population in this coun-
try would have been more effectual than his
movement for the protection of emgrants
The neglect Of proper care for them has been
shame to each successive administration for
many years, and even foreign governments
have taken occasion to discourage emigration
from their jurisdictions, on the ground that
the United States Government did not offer
proper guarantees. The Presidential message
gives promise of a generous reform, one
which shall take away from any single State
the power over newly arrived emigrants, and
shall exercise the full power of the United
Government. Inasmuch as the main evils
have existed in New York, they should be
remedied first there. Instead Of the dreary
incompleteness of Castle Garden, the Gov
eminent of the United States should there
erect suitable public building, combining
every convenience Of modern civilization, and
should see that it is presided over by officials
who are servants of the United States. No
runners or vlllainous agents of a corrupt use
OF universal suffrage should be allowed to en-
ter the portals; the building ghould be for the
protection and shelter Of emigrants until they
can proceed on their way from the port of en-
try to the far Western and Southern States
and territories where they are to find homes
and prosperity.
To efiectually secure this protection trea-
ties with all the great powers with reference
to emigration are absolutely necessary at once.
migrants are practically abused from the
time they leave their own shores until they
arrive where they are to settle. They are
packed into unhealthy holds of ships and fed
IKE swine or troops on troopship They
have no rights on shipboard and no conyen-
fences. Ii contagious diseases break out in
one or two cases, the lives of the whole are in
danger. They are released upon our shores
in boisterous quarter of one of the dirtiest
cities in the world, and assaulted as soon AS
they land by swarms of harpies. Treaties
must be made between the United Statesa and
Germany, England, Sweden, Italy and rance
even, stipulating that the peculiar quality of
'semigrant" shall be recognized and entitled
to consideration, ::and that every emigrant
shall receive proper treatment on foreign and
American ships and steamers, and on his or
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-21
TIE TARIFF BILL.

The House has been making good progress
on the tariff bill lately. Its condition on Fri
day is stated as follows by the Washington
correspondent of the Boston Advertiser. ALI
of the sections relating to duties and imports
were disposed of and the pending amend
ment when the committee Of the whole rose,
was one by Pennsylvania democrat repeal
ing all laws and all parts of laws for the col
lection of internal taxes, which it is safe to
say will not be adopted. Debate upon the
whole bill having been closed, there is now
no opportunity for discussion of its internal
revenue sections, except the House by a two
thirds vote on Monday reverses its order and
extends the time for debate. An effort which
will have the support of some of the strongest
members Of the House, will be made to effect
this, but it will be resisted by Mr.. Dawes and
many of the democrats, and probably the ap-
preparations committee, which is anxious to
go forward with its business. The most i'm
portant amendment made in the bill to-day
was that offered by Gen. Butler, providing
that from the time it takes effect one-third of
the duties may be paid in greenbacks or treas
ury notes. The section designed to relieve
and revive American commerce by admitting
free materials for the construction of wooden
sailing vessels also remains in the bill, with
the addition Of valuable amendment allow
ing the benefits of the section to vessels en-
gagged in the coasting trade not more than
two months in the year. A provision by Mr.
Holman relieving steamers built on western
waters from duty on materials entering into
their construction, was also agreed to. The
section as it now stands is substantially the
bill introduced early in the session by Mr..
Lynch, and advocated by Speaker Blaine be-
fore the ways and means committee. The
success OF the section and its retention in the
bill are also largely due to the personal efforts
of the Speaker in the committee of the whole
thus securing to the shipbuilding and sailing
interest Of the country measure which it is
believed contains all the essential advantages
of the considerable number of bills which
have been introduced for similar object
The section, being constituent part of the
most important bill of the session, is morally
certain to 60 through the Senate and become
q law.
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FOREIGN NE VS..

Floating baths are to be established on the
Thames.
An English locomotive was lately run, ex-
perimentally, seventy-seven miles in one
hour.
Mrs. Horace Greeley and two daughters are
now at Angouleme, France.
In Egypt a woman is pronounced old at
twenty five, and very old at thirty years of
age.
Private letters from Yokohama says that
Shepard, the United States Charge d'Affair is
critically i'll.
Vague rumors are again aHoat that Queen
Victoria is in state mentally unfit to reign.
white flag is just now waving over the
prison of Monitors, in Switzerland, as a sign
that the cells are without inmates.
Japan has abolished all the old edicts
against Christianity, which have been in force
more than three hundred years.
The New Dominion Parliament has passed
to second reading by vote of l2l to IS the
bill giving effect to the treaty of Washington.
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:AvASsxxB1Y OF xwvocEvrs.

The Chicago Tribune, which, like Artemus
Ward's organ grinding count, 'has seen bet
ter days. enlightens its reading with this
child-like story concerning the fearful lack Of
politicians at the late Cincinnati Convention !:
"The New York Evening Post, calling at
tention to letter from someone who attempts
to tell what took place at Cincinnati, says:
est will BIZ seen that the whole affair was
o trick of the politicians to capture body of
men who we're known to be sincere and earn
est, and whose action would have an import
ant influence upon public opinion
"Ths New York Evening Post did not have
a representative at Cincinnati; hence it NAV
be allowed to utter such nonsense as this with.
out making itself liable to a charge of DELHI.
crate falehood. There never was conven.
tion since the days of Babel where all the
politicians were SO COMPOUNDED and brought to
nought as that of Cincinnati. This is the
only convention said distinguished west
ern politician on the homeward train, that /
ever attended where everybody was beaten
To say that the whole affair was trick of the
politicians, is either to expose ones ignorance
or to tell q wilful untruth."
This may be good, square reading in Chi
cago, but it sounds queerly enough here.
The statement that the Evening Post has no
representative at Cincinnati is as true as any
part of it, and the reader who recollects our
full special reports will know what the rest of
this story is worth. Does the Chicago Tri-
bune think that we do not know the men who
went from this city to force their favorite
upon the reformers? Does it think we do not
know that anybody who would go there and
shout for Greeley could have free passes?
Does it think we do not know the unfair tricks
by which honest men were excluded from the
delegation, and the slaves of the ring were
substituted? Does it not itself know that the
ring which had Mr.. Greeley in charge is one
of the worst that ever corrupted the politics
of this State, and that it is equally hateful
with the ring that once was Tweeds and the
rival ring now known as Murphy's? Does it
think that any honest newspaper, which has
had to fight this ring, can now support it be-
cause it has gained national reputation, ant
, hopes to transfer its corruptions from this city
: and Albany to Washington
, To say that the politicians did not prevail a
! Cincinnati is to say that New York has hat
no experience in that rare species Of tn,
] human race, or that the sale of principles il
craftsmanship. York Post
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-21

The action of the democratic State con-
vention in New York gives Greeley good
start for the nomination at Baltimore. The
vote oflthe delegation is practically pledged
for him and instructed to vote as unit.
1t is significant that the reform delegation
from New York city was rejected by the
Rochester convention and the Tammanyites
admitted. With Tammany to back him
as at Cincinnati Greeley bids fair to win
at Baltimore.
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COMPOSING THEIR SINS.

1t is gratifying TO notice with what meek
ness the democrats confess their past po-
litical errors and open their eyes to the
merits of republican principles. A great
change appears to have come over them.
1t is not only that they see beauties in the
white coat and hat of Mr.. Greeley which
they never saw before, but they claim to
have been converted to sounder and more
wholesome views Of government.
The democratic State convention held
at Rochester, New York, last week. was
considered somewhat as forerunner or
representative Of the national democratic
convention to be held at Baltimore. In
one of the resolves adopted by that con-
yention we find the following Resolved.
THAT the recent declaration of political
principles by the convention of Cincin.
"nati is evidence of the progress of public
"opinion toward sound and wholesome
views of government" &c.
We cordially agree with the Rochester
democrats that every step they take in the
direction of endorsing republican princi
pies is progress toward sound and
wholesome views of government. This
would be very hopeful indication were
it not for the fact that the engineers of the
Rochester convention were Tammany
rascals. Our delight at this tribute from
the democracy to republicanism is slightly
disturbed by shade Of doubt about its
gennineness