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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-11
WHAT Is nFMnnRAcYI

To the above question, the Hon. VIM.
Allen, now the Democratic candidate for
Governor Of Ohio, furnishes the annexed
glowing answer. Il is al once eloquent
and truthful.
Democracy is a sentiment not 10 be
appalled,, corrupted, OF compromised.
IL knows no baseness, 10 covers 70 no
danger; Il expresses no weakness. Fear
less, generous, and humaue, it rebukes
the arrogant, cherishes honor. aud
sympafhizes with the humble. Il asks
nothing bat what Il comedies. Il con,
cedes nothing but what il demands.
Destructive only Of despotism, il is the
sole c0nservator Of liberty, labor. and
property. Il is the sentiment Of freedom,
Of equal rights, Of equal obligation. Il
is the law Of nature pervadiug the lav Of
the land. The stupid. the selfish, aud
the base in spirit may denOunce j. as q
Vulgar thing but in the history
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-11

Of our race the democratic
principle has developed aud illustrated
the highest moral aud intellectual at
tributes Of our nature. Yes-that IS a
noble, magnanimous, a sublime sent
ment, which expands our affections,
enlarges the circle OF our sympathies
and elevates the soul Of man, until,
claiming an equality with the best, he
rejects, as unworthy Of his dignity. any
political immunity over the hunblest OF
his fellows. Yes-it Is An ennobling
principle-aud may that spirit which
animated our fathers in the Revolution
airy contest for its establishment con-
tinue TO animate us, their sons, IN the
impending struggle for its preservation
We should like to hear the Hon. Mr..
Aliens definition Of RAdicalism, or OF
that new party" which undertakes to
ride the black aud white. horses in the
political ring, which feat many Of our
Southern politicians are attempting at
present.
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Unfortunate Accident.

ATcHEsoN, KAN, September ia
sad aud unfortunate accident occurred
on the race track at the Fair Grounds
yesterday. In the scrub race for un
trained animals a boy named james
Bell, finding himself behind, broke
across the grounds and appeared on the
track in front of the incoming horse.
Before his horse could gather himself he
received a broadside from two horses,
and the shock was so great that it over
turned the horses, killing one rider and
fatally injuriug another. The other was
endorsed and slightly injured.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-11
WORKING WOMEN.

The difficulties surrounding working
women in cities is commented upon by
the New York Sun: II remains to be
proved whether or no the masses Of single
women can support themselves. In all
our great cities it is an undisputed fact
that they cannot and do not live on the
average wages they receive. Six dollars
week would probably be large esti-
mate of the average price paid for
womans labor, and six dollars cannet
possibly be made to give respectable
support to woman under the ex'
isting conditions of society in this
country. 1t cannot furnish her with
food, lodging, aud clothing, not to
speaks Of car fares, doctors bills, aud
other necessary incideutals. The diff
culties surrounding the single woman
worker in the way Of obtaining respecta-
BILE lodgings and board increases every
year, and every effort to form organiza'
tons among them for mutual benefit
fails entirely, or falls so far short of the
exigencies of the case as to be equiva'
lent to failure. This state of things
certainly cannot tend to the develop
ment of a high type of womanhood
among the working classes. Though
this may be but one of the causes, it is
undoubtedly one to which we may trace
a great deal Of that low standard of mo-
rails among the masses Of single women
which renders the rule Of debarring
the whole of them from. the privileges
of guests at respectable watering-places
and city hotels absolutely necessary
But does not the necessity for such
rule, together with the actual wants OF
working women, point to another great
need, that of having hotels Of all grades
for respectable single women only? Is
not the preservation of good morals
among the working women of America
sufficiently dear to American men to in
duce them to build and establish such
hotels or houses; or to aid the working
women not only with their money but
also with their minds2"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-11

TIE Supreme Court, at the urgent re-
quest of the lawyers of East Tennessee,
adjourned over the regular fall term at
Knoxville, but will hold a special term
In November and clear off the short
docket. The cholera has prevailed at
various points in East Tennessee all
summer, and the lower courts were in
several instances suspended; conse-
quently the lawyers were not ready with
their cases, and they we're further
alarmed by four recent deaths from
cholera at Knoxville, and one at Nor
ristown. Hence their petition for ad-
journment, and the emineutly proper
action Of the court in postponing the
term. 1t is a coincidence that the chol-
era appeared in Knoxville in a violent
form just about twenty years ago, and
that no term Of the Supreme Court was
held that fall. The disease has not and
is not likely TO make such ravages as it
did that fall. spreading death aud con
sternatiOn far aud wide. Judge John
L. 7. Sneed, now one Of the members
Of the court, aud then Attorney General
for the State, We learn returned yester-
day from Knoxville, but states that no
great alarm was apparent among the
business men Of that city.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-11
The BsautifuI Indian Girl at Sara

John Paul to the New York Tribune.l
The mention of Sarah gives me
another personal-about the beautiful
Indian girl " of the old encampment.
Her name is Sarah" and some have
imagined that it was from her that this
village got its original, or aboriginal,
name, Saraghaha. Why the parents Of
this sweet maiden should have christened
her "Sarah," unless to prevent me from
writing a poem about her, | cannot i'm
agine. The name is not euphonious,
and cannot be made to rhyme with the
usual examinations. One might churn
out one stanza, say, for instance:
The bitter waters of Marah,
Would be sweet if shared with Sarah,
And knew that she didn't care
Cuss for any other fellow.
But don't see how one could get
much further. Her other name is
Reeves" her age is sixteen, her hair is
black, long and luxuriant, her eyes are
like fawn's and her teeth-well, if
man had such teeth as hers, he could not
be blam ed for taking them out at the
dinner table occasionally, and passing
them around among his friends. Pretty
enough to eat; even one who objected to
Johnny-cake would not refuse an Indian
meal in such guise. She stands behind
a counter selling to the beaux who stand
around paying her silly compliments and
'arrowing up the feelings Of all. Wish
ing to say something striking and
original to her, l remarked that she
was pretty. From the fact that
she took it very composedly, |
infer that she knew it before, and
that perhaps something OF that kind had
been said to her previously. Withal she
is very well educated, and reads with
graceful huidity. She has travelled.
New York is not unknown to her, and
she has visited Washington. While in
Washington she saw Mrs. Grant, and
dined with her by special invitation. 1t
is strange how anxious all are to learn
Indian. Young men gather around to
that extent that her levees are longer
and more packed than any along the
Mississippi. Even the ladies are in love
with her, and quarrel as to who shall
adopt her. Lest there be any disturb
ance over the matter, / have concluded
to do that myself.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-11
The Y.IIed Murderess.

From the New York ExPress.l
A few days since we noted that the
Yelled Murderess Of Sing-Sing had been
removed from the cell she has occupied
80 long. and taken to the Auburn Luna.
tic Asylum, the doctors having decided
that she il hopelessly insane. The i'm
peuetrable mystery with which this vo-
man has chosen TO surround herself rem
dered her unique among criminals. This
woman, commonly known as Mrs. Hen
rietta Robinson, though nobody knows
that 10 be her name, vas sentenced to
be hung in 1855 for poisoning 3 man
and woman in Troy, but her sentence
vas subsequently commuted 70 impris-
onment for life. She derives her singu-
Jar title, The Yelled Murderess, from
the fact that throughout the trial,
and since in prison, she kept herself
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-11

RECEPTION COMMITTEE-B Coleman.
L AVs55yj N Feix S n Jones Dun Dun
FLOOR COMMITTED r Prescott. c r
Powell. B Moore. Geo Mellersh, Jas New
som, r ii Wildberger.
Townsend, A L FARMLAND. S II Lamb. Jos
Lenow, X b L VIM, Leon Trousdale,
Samuel Spicer, John Weaver, John Gent.
ON RAtLR0ADS-A G bettis, A W Drew.
ON MUSCLE d Steinkuhl.
ON ICE AND REFRESHMENTS Stein
kuhl.
A G Belts, Chas Kney, Thos Cubbins.
ON INVITATIONS p Prescott. d
Steinkuhl. VIM II Lake.
ON TICKETS FOX NON -MEMBERS-Joh ohm
I Stratton, J Halstead, M Magevney. S Will
kins, VIM Chase, S II Lamb, A Q Belts,
Prescott, j P Hoffman. D Steinkuhl. j X
Alternately, 7 w Hoist
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Grent Men Mt HOme-HOw George
Washington put ON Clean

Great Men Mt HOme-HOw George
Washington put ON Clean
shirt.
We always think of great men as in
the act of performing the deeds which
give them renewu, or else in stately re-
pose, grand, gloomy and majestic. And
yet this is hardly fair, because even the
most gorgeous and magnificent human
beings have to bother themselves with
the little things of life which engage the
attention of us smaller people. No
doubt Moses snuffed and got angry when
he had severe cold in the head, and if
fly bit his leg while he was sitting in
the desert, why should we suppose he
did not jump up and use vio-
lent language, and rub the sore
place? And Cesar-isn't it tolerably
certain that he used to become furious
when he went up stairs to get his slip
pers in the dark and found that Cal
phurnia had showed them back under
the bed, so that he had to sweep around
wildly for them with the broom-handle2
And when Solomon cracked his crazy
bone, is it unreasonable 70 suppose that
he hoped around the room and looked
mad ana lelt as II ne Hauleu 10 CRY
Imagine George Washington sitting on
the edge Of the bed putting on clean
shirt, and growing at Martha because
the buttons were off; or st. Augustine
with an apron around his neck having
his hair cut; or Joan Of Arc holding her
front hair in her mouth, as women 90,
while she fixed up her back hair; or Ma
poleon jumping out Of bed in frenzy to
chase a mosquito around the room with
a pillow; or Martin Luther in his night
shirt trying to put the baby to sleep at 2
o'clock in the morning; or Alexander
the Great with the hiccups; or Thomas
Jefferson getting suddenly over fence
70 avoid a dog; or the Duke Of Yelling
tom living in a bed with the humps; or
Daniel Webster abusing his wife because
she hadn't tucked the covers in at the
foot Of the bed; or Benjamin Franklin
paring his corn with a razor; or iona
than Edwards at the dinner table want
ing to sneeze just as he gets his mouth
full Of hot beef; or Noah standing CT his
window at night throwing bricks at q
cat.-Mdx Adeler.
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JOSEPH ARCH.

In view of the English emigration
scheme brought into existence by the
visit of that pioneer in the cause of hui
man labor, Joseph Arch, a brief history
of this remarkable man will be read with
interest: He was distinguished in bis
neiphborhood Tor his intelligence, bis
good character, and for his gift in forci-
BILE and effective speech For years he
had been volunteer local Methodist
preacher, and while industrious as
laborer. his zeal and efforts to lift his
fellow-laborers to better physical and
spiritual life had given him the conf
denee of all his class, who had thus be-
come conversant with his manly quail
ties. So, when the agitation among
these poor, ignorant peasants for bet
ter life began to form into sentiment
their eyes naturally turned towards this
man as a leader. His advice was to call
a meeting and organize. The meeting
was called. No placards conspicuously
announced it. But the word was passed
from cottage to cottage and from estate
to estate; the day was fixed, and the
meeting assembled. 1t came together q
strange and motley group. Composed
of men who felt as strongly and as
strangely, in taking such step, with
the view of striking blow for their own
rights, as an American community
would have felt on the eve Of assembling
to organize revelation. They crept
along the hedge rows with suspicious
and crouching silence in their clumsy
walk. Each peasant for miles around,
wore upon his face for days weird look
OF apprehension, as though meditating
q half clandestine purpose. But they
met under a great chestnut tree. Joseph
Arch talked, and talked sense. He
advised organization, moderation, pa
thence. He said in organization was
their only hope. Strange TO say, in his
stold audience q great thought had so
nearly reached the core, that there was
found virtue and intelligence sufficient
to fix a common basis upon which they
could organize They organized; then
went away wonderingly, that they
had passed this ordeal and we're
alive. So little did these men know of
natural human rights So little had
these men come to feel that they were
created in the image Of God and were
designed to walk upright before Him and
in the face of menl Although these or
CARNATIONS were opposed by landlords,
and made the ground of inquiry in Par
lament, they have spread throughout
the counties of England with rapidly
astonishing to those who originated
them; and their effect has astonished
those who opposed them. Their good
results have not been altogether on one
side; for, whilst, in Difference to their
demands, the pay Of laborers has been
advanced in sections where the organi-
cation is most complete, the landlord has
found that the alacrity with which the
laborer performs his duties is fully pro-
portioned to, and compensatory for, the
extra pay he receives. He already in
dicates change in his mental and in
dustrial habits, being less the reluctant,
stolid, stubborn and half brute he form
erly appeared"
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Prices ofTIckets:

For Ladies and Gentlemen-ONE DOLLAR
each. Children of members over twelve years
will obtain tickets, free of charge; all other
children over twelve years, FIFTY CENTS.
No tickets will be sold or given to persons
eligible for membership, except to the sons of
members.
Members Of the Society must obtain their
tickets of Ben Richmond, Financial Score
tary, at the Fourth National Bank; All other
persons desiring tickets must apply to some
member of the Ticket Committee.
Tickets can be obtained only on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, September Sth. 9th
and 10th. w b. WALDRAN, Pres't;
J. p. PREscoTT. Rec. Secretary. 7-lO
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DIED.

DOwNES-This Thursday morning. 18th
instant, at s o'clock, of ous.intermittent
fever, MARY. beloved wife Of John X. Downes.
Funeral services will take place to morrow
from st. Bridget's church. of which due notice
will be given in the morning journals.
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PERFECT ORDER GUARANTEED
The Finest Music in the City Engage
The building Will be Brilliantly ii.
Illuminated.

The Relief Association. since its organiza-
ton. has distributed to persons needing relief
over TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS (s10.00O:
and the Committee now most confidently APP
peal to the liberality of a generous public for
their assistance. so that the good work may be
continued.
No fears need be entertained by the most
fastidious in visiting this entertainment; and
the Committee. in conclusion, would again
urge and ask of the public monster turnout
upon this occasion.
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PROPOSALS.
To PIasterers.


MrrFHrs. TESE.. September 8. 1873.
CEALED PROPOSALS WILL BIZ RE-
- ceiVed Al this ofiec until Y o'clock NJ,
saturday. 18Th inst for plasterinE new ward
al he City Hospital. ne city reserves the
rieht 70 reject any or All q the prsTQsals. fer
further iniermation aFb.l{ q ne u1derslEnea'
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MEDICAL.
MEDICAL.
DR.. Curtis on Manhood"
2OOth EDITION.
Revised and Corrected By the Author. +. De
?. CURTIS. n. D.. etc.. etc.

A MEDICAL ESSAY on The cause and cure
o. Premature Decline In Man. showing how
health ~ lost and how reFaincd. 10 rires a
clear synopsis Of The lmpediments % Marriage.
The treatment 81 Exhausted Vitality, Nervous
ana fhYsical Debility, and other diseases ap-
ne results Of twenty years successful prac-
tire.
"'cURTTS on MANHOOD. There il no
mem Der 81 society ty ghom this box viii mt
be found useful. whether he 81 parent pre-
eeItrr - clcrrym. "-lLoudcn Times.
Pres 90 cent?. b. mail address the author.
DIR. CURTIS,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-11

Grafton at II o'clock m.
Dinner at l o'clock pm.
Dancing, 8 am. to II IN. and to 6 pm.
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BARBEC CUE.
BARBECUE.
OLD FOLKS BARBECUE!
Thursday, Sept. II, 70,
AT THE
FAIR GROUN DS.
Orator of the Day--J. Z. Swayne.

G. QUENTEL, JR................Superintendent
X. M. MAS0N.....-Assistant Superintendent
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ATTORNEYS.
BANK.
BANK.
The State National Bank
OF MEMPHIS, TENN,
II. q. DANIEL, President,
JOHN J. FREEMAN, Cashier,
No. 10 Madison st.

UNHIs BANK. ORGANIZED UNDER THE
| National Currency Act. with a capital OF
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS,
is now fully prepared to carry on General
Banking business.
The accounts Of merchants, manufacturers
and business firms and persons generally will
be received.
The officers and directors tender the ser
vices Of the Association to this and other
- - JN0. J. FREEMAN. Cashier.
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TIC TX Il II -

Ladies and Gentlemen, ONE DOLLAR each.
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Door Committee ;

The members of tho above Committees will
report to their respective Chairmen at the Ex
position Building. promptly. at o'clock, on
the night of the 18th of September.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-11

DIRECTORS
Late President Merchants National Bank.
AMOS WOODRUFF.
Pres't Union Cotton Compress Association.
/. b. KIRKLAND.
Late President jackson Insurance Company
President Washington Fire and Marine In
surance Company.
7. A. NELSON.
7. r. TUGGLE.
3. LOWBNSTEIN.
OF b. LOwenstcin 4 Bros.
HUGH STEWART,
Of Stewart, Gwynne Il Co
II. 7. LENNON,
OF yOyner, Lennon 4 Gale.
A. J. WHITE,
OF White, Langstaf a Co.
JNO. p. HOFFMAN,
Of Mitchell. Hoffman a Co.
III. CLOTH,
OF Cloth Kettmann.
n. MALATEsTA.
OF l.. POdcsta a Co. sd
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-08-29
NEWS ITEMS.

-Pennsylv is in debt to the tune of
s26, esq., 62.
George n. Sanders, of well known reb-
ell fame, died in New York, Aug. 10, aged
81.
The Railroad Gazette estimates that the
extent of new railways built in this coun-
try in 1873 will be more than forty per cent
less than for 1872.
The issue between the temporal and
spiritual authorities in Brazil, which has
grown out of the Catholic and Freemason
quarrel, is assuming a serious aspect.
"A man IS Kansas is under arrest for
killing his wife, her sister and his two chill
dren, whom he covered with straw after
killing them, and then set fire to the pile.
-Depredations on railway postal cars
have been so frequent of late that orders
have been issued by the Post Office De-
partment which practically forbid any per-
sons but those duly authorized entering the
cars.
Rev. DIR. John Todd, pastor of the First
Congregational church in Pittsfield, Mass,
and one of the Oldest and most famous cler-
gymen in New England, died at his home
in that town on Sunday morning, in his
73d year. He was native of Rutland, Vt.
The coroner's jury on the Chicago and
Alton railroad disaster have rendered a
verdict, finding the conductor and engin-
Ger of the coal train responsible, and war;
rants have been issued for their arrest.
The latest about the Goodrich murder
is a rumor that the alleged confessions of
Kate Stoddard was a fiction of The Brook
| lyn police, promulgated by them 10 for
ward their schemes for the arrest of Ros-
coe, and that Roscoe is the real murderer.
| The Mississippi river steamer George
Wolfe blew up about o'clock, Friday af-
ternoon, at st. Francis island, Ark, few
miles below Memphis, Tenn. The cabin was
blown TO pieces, but the hull may be saw
ed. Fourteen persons, and perhaps more
were killed and | wounded.
Mrs. Schmidt of Long Island City, last
week pleaded guilty to charge of attempt
ing to starve TO death child for whose
maintenance she was paid $40 a month.
Her sentence was 1925 fine or six months
imprisonment.
Rev. Gardiner Spring, ID. d., of New
York, long known as pastor of the Brick
| \
week. DIR. Spring was native of Massa-
chusetts, having been born at Nowbury-
port, in February, 1855.
AT tho recent fiji emen' muster at White
hall, N. Y, the first prize was won by De-
fance of Glen's Falls, n. Y, throwing q
stream of 2Os feet. The second prize was
won by the Cataract, also of Glens Falls.
"A terrible accident took place on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Cameron
Saturday, by which an entire passenger
train was thrown from the track, and an
express and passenger car were preclpitat'
ed down high embankment. There wer'
from seventy TO eighty German emigrant'
7 in the car and three of them were fatally
injured. Some fourteen others were NOR
! or less hurt.