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Indians from Asia.

Among the forest tribes of Brazil DIR.
Martius found traces of the village COM
munity with its tribe-land common to all
while huts and patches of titled ground
were treated as acquired property, the re-
cognized owners not being individuals but
families. This may be well explained as
a custom brought by Asiatic immigrants
into the American continent. The Chi
nese anciently divided the land of village
into nine parts. The division was made
by two perpendicular and two horizontal
parallel lines. The middle square was
common land. The eight remaining
squares were assigned to eight heads OF
families, who cultivated the common
square, giving the produce to the Govern
ment-this constituted a village. This
principle of revenue collection. based on
land distribution, existed for many CEN
turies in ancient China, and was after
wards changed for grain tax in kind,
about the time of the building of the Great
Wall. Agricultural emigrants to America
at any date before 200 BIC. would be ia
miliar with this mode of doing things, and
would naturally carry with them the
knowledge of this and other customs ex-
isting al the time in Eastern Asia. The
appearance of principle of land distribu-
ton resembling that of the old Teutons,
among American tribes, cannot then be
taken as proof that they were progressing
and not degenerating, for it may, when
our knowledge of ancient America be-
comes more accurate, be seen to be one OF
the lingering remains of an older eiviliza-
ton which, in tropical climate, favorable
to Incidence, would easily decline. The
religious bellies aad dssOeial customs OF Ash
attic and American races are in many re-
spects so similar that there is abundant
ground for questioning the originality Of
any civilized custom found among Ameri-
can tribes. Why should not comparative
ethnology one day find the key to solve
all such questions?
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It is now known that the Spanish Republic
has been formally recognized by England,
France and Germany. Russia hesitates to
recognize the Republic. The Spanish Gov
ernment has thanked Germany for taking the
initiative in this movement.
The statement of the sugar crop of the
Island of Cuba for the past year shows that
79. .5S per cent. of the total exports of sugar
and molasses went to the United States, or
was taken by the United States.
Marshal Bazaine arrived at Cologne on the
10Th, where he was to remain few days,
awaiting the arrival of his children. He de-
clares that only his wife and brother-in-law
assisted him to escape. Eight persons have
been taken into custody, charged with assist
ing the prisoner to escape.
Holland and Italy have joined in the recog-
milton of Spain.
Dispatches from Ottawa. Canada, 18th, re-
port that extensive bush fires were raging in
that vicinity. Near Aylmer the fire extended
for distance of three miles, and the village
was threatened with destruction.
The New York Freenadn's Journal claims
to have positive knowledge that the Madrid
Government has agreed to cede to Germany,
in consideration of her assistance in putting
down the Carlist insurrection and the revolt
in Cuba, the island of Porto Rico. 1t also
stated that the reason of Admiral Polo's
resignation as minister to this country was
on account of his refusing to sanction the
agreement.
A Bayonne dispatch of the 18th says: The
Carlist chieftaia Tristany has captured 70 de
Urgel, sixty-seYen miles northeast of Zerida.
The fighting was desperate, and losses on
both sides heavy. An immense quantity of
stores fell into the hands of the Carlists.
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to their clothes stated that they had been exc
cuted for setting fire to prairie grass. One of
the slain was about forty-fve years old and
the other two quite young men.
A remarkable case of death by hydropho-
bia occurred at Chicago on the 10th. The
| last week in June, small terrier dog owned
by John Sollitt, who lives on Western ave-
nue., suddenly became lazy and irritable, and
one day, as Mr.. sollitts little daughter Lettie
attempted to put him in the kennel, he bit
her on the cheek, drawing blood. The dog
was soon after killed, on account OF his tenn
per. The wound caused no alarm, and soon
healed, but on the 18th inst Lettie was seized
with sickness, which gradually increased
until the 10Th. Her face grew liyid, and her
breathing became very irregular. She froth-
ed at the mouth, gasped continually, and
with her body writhing convusivelys died.
The case is deemed remarkable, because it
disproves the theory of DIR. Hammond, that
children do not die of hydrophobia, and be-
cause death ensued in this case much sooner
than usual.
The Kansas City Times of the 10th pub
lished letter from John 7. Morris, Deputy
Sheriff of Collins county, Texas, in which
are gwen bLe 1AAC CapcuAO olN
death of James H. Reed, who robbed one OF
the stages of the Austin and San Antonio
Stage Company. Before dying, Reed con-
fessed to the robbing of stages in Nevada,
California, Oregon and Arizona; that he was
the leader of the Iowa and Gads Hill, Mo-,
| train robberies and the Ste. Geneyieve
bank robbery; that he shot young Ro-
zier at Ste. Genevieve; and that Nc
| Coy, the Younger brothers and the james
boys had nothing to do with the train rob-
berries, and were innocent of those crimes
| He further states that Reed had on his per-
son one thousand dollars in gold, and had
twenty thousand dollars in gold buried, but
would not tell him where. Reed was thirty
years old, five feet ten inches tall, with light
hair, fair complexion, and weighs one hum
dred and thirty-ive pounds, intelligent and
| brave.
A man named B. FL. johnson and his wife
were chlorofofmed and then killed with an
ak at their home in Lexington, Mo-, on the
night of the 10th. A cousin Of the murdered
man, named Lorenzo johnson, from Ken
lucky, is suspected of being the murderer,
but no positive evidence was found against
him. He was arrested, however, and lodged
in Jail on a charge of horse stealing.
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VOLUME III.
POETRY.
TROPIC MIDNIGHT.
BY WILL WALLACE HARNEY.

BY WILL WALLACE HARNEY.
The rain floats off; the crescent moon
Holds In its cup found of dusk,
Like palIn-buds in the month of June
just breaking through their vernal husk.
Night t-blooming ag ives fill the sheaf,
10 catch the light distilled n showers,
Til oyerfiowing cup and leaf
Its cluster breaks in midnight flowers.
A sensuous stiffness north and south
And east and west, and just as sweet
AS seeds OF pomegranate In the mouth,
tir kisses when young lovers meet,
Breaks in low, sweet under-tone,
Like brooks that grieve In beds of fern,
AS if by curve and pebble-stone
The moon had spilled her silver urn.
Its airy current fills and ripes
The flower and fruit to wanton use;
1t blows the rush. slender pipes,
And roun Is the purple fig with Juice;
Like merchants breaking kids of nard
Or jars of olives, desert born,
Pine-apples lift their prickled shard,
And snow the seeds of fragrant corn.
Like Hebrew maids, the citrons hold
Their pitchers to the vapor spring,
And fill the hollow rinds Of gold
With musky midnight's Fl tvoring.
So once, think, earth knew her Lord,
In lands like these of palm and vine,
When midnight gave the sweet accord
That turned the water into wine
September Atlantic
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oRrmEa avn CAsuAITrEs.

The victory in the recent prize fight between
Edwards and Collyer has been conceded to
the former with the consent of the latter's
second.
The night express train which left Boston
for Montreal on the evening of the 18th, via
Passumpsic and Southwestern Railroads, was
wrecked near Richford, VT, and the engi-
neer, fireman, conductor, roadmaster and q
little girl were killed, and fifteen persons
injured. The cause of the accident
was the washing away of bridge
over a branch of the Missisquoi
River. Through some negligence of en-
plovees the train was not tagged, and the lo-
comotive was precipitated into the stream,
the express car ran over the engine to the
other side, and the baggage and smoking cars
were telescoped by the fourth car and Sec
cond-class passenger car. The fifth and sixth
cars, first-class, and Pullman car, were un-
injured.
Colonel S. S. Fisher, Of Cincinnati, well
know lawyer, and formerly Commissioner of
Patents, on Aug. started with his son, lad
ten wears old, on an extended excursion in a
small open boat. They reached Elmira, N.
Y, in safety, and had proceeded down the
Susquehanna as far as Conewaga Falls, York
county, Pa, when the boat was wrecked and
father and sopwere both drowned.
| An accident to an excursion train on the
Trenton Railroad, near Edingham station
Pa, on the 18th, resulted in the death of five
persons and the serious injury of fourteen
others. The accident was caused by a mis-
placed switch, causing collision between thf
passenger train and coal train.
Three buffalo hunters were recently fount
dead IN Frontier county, Neb., each with I
bullet hole through his heart. A card pinned
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The negroes engaged in the attack upon

The negroes engaged in the attack upon
Austin, Miss, after being repulsed on the
11th, disappeared from the vicinity, and the
report being current that they were commit
ting outrages upon the women and children
of the surrounding plantations, the white
men nearly all left the town for the purpose
of protecting their families. The negroes
then returned and took possession of the town,
and after committing many depredations upon
property, they voluntarily retired the same
night. On the following morning force of
some 300 men landed at Shoe Fly, five miles
below Austin, and marched into the town
without opposition, the only occupants of the
place being about thirty negroes, all but
eight of whom were non-combatants. Anoth-
er force of 400 men had been collected at Men,
phis, on the steamer St. Francis, under COM
mand of Gen. H. King White of Arkansas, and
were ready to proceed to Austin when the
capture of the town was announced.
A dispatch from Memphis, 18th, says:
ssMen who went to Austin returned this
morning, satisfied that the Austin riot was al
most as much fiasco as the SomerVille one,
and that affairs there had been much exag-
gerated during the entire disturbance. One
negro was killed, and no white man even
wounded. Only one store was sacked by ne
groes during the time they had possession of
the place. Seventeen of the leaders--or rath-
er the more boisterous ones,as they seemed to
have no leader-were arrested and confined
in jail TO await trial."
An Omaha dispatch of the 18th says: An
expedition, under command of Colonel Anson
Mills, consisting of three companies of the Sd
cavalry, one company of the 18th and one of
the 4th infantry, is now encamped near
Rawlins, Wyoming. Three other companies
of cavalry and twenty Shoshone Indians will
Join the command in Sweetwater Valley. In
structions are to thoroughly scout the valley
of the Sweetwater, Powder, and Big Horn
Rivers, and the country to the southern ex-
tremity of Yellowstone Lake, and to admin
lister the severest punishment possible to all
Indians found out of their reservations. Much
is expected of this expedition, which is finely
equipped and will be in the field about three
months.
The Iowa State Grange has recently donat-
ed twelve thousand dollars in aid of the suf-
ferers from the grasshopper raids.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-09-05

AN atlas of the Chinese Empire, in
thirty-three volumes, embodying all the
geographical details derivable from the
Jesuit surveys of the last century, and
also particulars yielded by purely native
sources. has been published by commit
tee at Wuchang, in China, under the pat
ronsoe of Kwan-wen, Governor General
of Hukwang.
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FOREIGN.

1t has been ascertained that the plan for
Marshal Bazaine's escape from the island of
Sainte Marguerite was arranged some six
weeks in advance. The Marshal refused at
first to fly, but finally, owing to failure to
obtain some modification of his sentence,
Welded. He sailed from the island in the
steam yacht Baron Ricasoli, belonging to an
italian company. The prisoner refused to
employ French vessel. He was aecompa-
MED in his flight by his wife and brother.
His place of refuge is not known. Some per.
sons say he is in Spain. The domestics at the
fort where the Marshal was imprisoned have
been arrested.
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A LIVELY trade in rattlesnakes and moe
casins for foreign expectation is springlne 8
up in some parts OF Georgia. where tne
negroes catch the reptiles alive ana sea
them to dealers at 80 cents apiece.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-09-05
Races of Eastern Prussia.

The history of the population in the
eastern provinces of Prussia is still involv-
ed in much obscurity, while that of the
remaining provinces is pretty accurately
known. DR.. Marshall considers the evi-
dence obtainable from early writer's
Pliny, Taeitus, etc.-from names of per-
sons and places, and more especially from
the archaeological collections, of which
there are two. imperfectly arranged, in
Konigsberg. From study Of grave-rel-
les, DR.. Marshall Is led to the conclusion
that. at one time, IN these eastern prov
inces, two distinct races lived together.
Several races having come from the East
and settled in the coast-lands of the Baltic,
more than ], 900 years B. c. This land was,
later, overrun by Goths from Central Rus
sia, many of whom pressed on TO Scandl-
navia and the Danish Islands, and 10 West
ern and Southern Europe; bat number
remained on The amber coast. especially III
the Weichsel region, and became fused
with the Aestiam or Wend race, already
there. They were together known as
Ptuzgep.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

The most extraordinary trotting time ever
recorded was made by Goldsmith Maid at
Rochester, N. Y, on the 18th. The race was
a free-to-aIl contest, for q purse of $4,000,
with 81 600 added if any horse should beat
the Maids time of 10 IL recently made at
Buffalo. The entries were Goldsmith Maid,
Judge Fullerton, American Girl, and Henry.
The Maid won in three straight heats, her
time on the second heat being 2:14 "a. Fol-
toxui,sr ia tha official s1mmarv of the race.
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ONE of the qtiereSt dnels ON record was
that i'm which Sainfe- Beuve was engaged. 1t
began to rain slightly after h, had taken nD
his potion, wlerellpon he co0lIy held his
umbrella over his head with i,is left hand,
while holding the pistol with his right.
The exposEulation of his witnesses had no
effect upon him. :. 1t is all very well to
be Killed. said the famous essayist, but
| object to catching cold in my head. y
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The Louisville Courie7-,Jour7sdt ofthe 18th
publishes reports from correspondents in
fifty counties of Kentucky, representing sew
enty-five per cent. of the crop of the entire
State, which indicates an unparalleled failure
of the tobacco crop. 1t is estimated that the
crop of 1874 will be only thirteen per cent. of
the yield of last year, under the most favor
able future conditions.
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COmmERCE AND INDUSTRY.

The closing price of gold in New York, on
the 17th. was 100 5-S.
August returns of the Department of Agri-
culture show an improvement in the pros
pect of the cotton crop in all the large cot
ton States except Louisiana.
Following is the comparative cotton state
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-25
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, April 25.-William NJ.
Tweed will be remanded to-day to hos
pital duty in the penitentiary, under a
resolution of the board Of management.
The Butter aud Cheese Exchange has
protested against the new article oleo-
margarine being called butter and sold
as such. The Exchange says the future
Of the American butter trade demands
that the two be kept separate.
James Parton, recently elected Presi-
dent OF the Liberal Club, took the chair
last evening at session Of that body,
aud made short speech, in which he
said, we are upon the verge, if not in
the midst of general reaction from
what are usually called liberal princi-
pies of government by the people. 1t is
the right Of each man and woman to
share in a practical guidance Of public
aFairs.g In proof Of this. he ihstanced
Germany. where the victories Of the late
war have brought to the front conserVa-
tive forces and men and pushed back
out OF sight men and thoughts and
dreams Of twenty years ago England,
with Disraeli aud the conservative party
in power, and France with Mcmahon for
President, and in the United States this
conservative reaction is very strong, and
will not delay to manifest itself.
Vice President Wilson was in the city
short time last evening on his way
from Boston to Washington, Op his
return to Boston, he'and G. W. Bird will
leave on Southern and Western trip,
which will probably extend to Califor-
mia, and will include a visit to Hot
Springs, in Arkansas.
About fifty persons, including one
woman, attended meeting Of the Gre
nation Society last evening ard listened
to the reading Of the report of the Com
mittee on Cremation, recommending the
incorporation Of stock company as the
most feasible means Of attaining the de-
sired end. ~.
A Paris dispatch states that on Tues
Frank Riggs and William Payne, Amer
leans. went TO the Belgium borders to
fight duel but the police interfered and
the duelists returned 70 their resi-
dence. Words spoken about a young
lady is given out as the cause Of the
meeting, but the real reason is said 10
be an ARRAY between the fathers of the
young men fortnight ago at the Wash
ington club in Paris.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-25
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
THE OVERFLOW.
The Flood Increasing in the
Ouachita Valley.
Water Higher than Ever Before
Known.
People in starving Condition.

New ORLEANS, April 25.-The follow
ing dispatch to the Associated Press
shows that the food in the Ouachita val
ley has not abated, but is increasing;
Monroe, La, April "a, 6 p.m.-It is
impossible to give an idea of the extent
of the overflow here. The water is
higher than ever known. The towniis
an island two and half miles long
and half mile wide, from which
there is no exit except by boats or
/ swimming. From the crossing of
the railroad and Desaird street
back is one wide sea. Boats come and
20 froam Oakleys. People living near
have been driven in and all vacant
houses taken. Several families are liv-
ing in the court house.
Business is almost completely sus-
pended, but the houses are open. Fully
one thousand people in toyn have not
rations for three days, ner money to buy
any. Stock OF every DESCRIPTION is
gathered in town and starving. On
Desaird island almost all plantations
are under water; of one thousand acres,
Captain Phillips has out only about one
hundred and fifty. OF what has trans
PRED below we know nothing.
The fences are nearly all washed
down, and steamboat could run down
Cotton street. The river rose one inch
last night, and has rained slowly since
daylight. There are no crops to speak
of and not five days work has been done
along the river for three weeks. In the
hills the land is washed badly, and
what has been done toward making a
crop has been labor thrown away. What
the people are to do God alone knows.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-25
Churcn services To-norrow.

Court Street Cumberland Presbyterian
church-services at 10: 30 am. and 8 pm.
by Rev. L. G. Ransom. pastor.
Union Street Presbyterian Church, near
Marshall ayenue--Seryices IL am. and 3; 80
pm. by Rev. A. shotwell. Sabbath school,
9: 80 a m.
Linden street Christian Church-Sunday
school, Q am; communion, 1880 AM
preaching BY David Walk at 1880 am. and
SPIN,
First Baptist Church Second street, near
Adams) Services at II am. and PM by
Rev. George A. Lotion, pastor. Sunday
school, am.
Central Methodist Church-Seryices at II
a. m. by Rev. DIR. Darby, of South Carolina.
Central Baptist Church Services 10 80 am.
and s +. m. by Rev. VIM. W. Landrum. Sun
day school, Q am.
Chelsea Baptist Church-Services II AM
and 1880 . m. By Rev. John Powell. Sunday
school, $3.50 am.
Memphis Bethel = Services in Exchange
building, entrance on Exchange street, every
Sabbath at II m. by Rev. Geo. Hadell, pas
tor. Sunday school, ESQ pm; N. W.
Speers. superintendent.
Saint Mary's Cathedral, Poplar Street
Holy Eucharist at am. Morning prayer with
sermon at II m Evening prayer with SER
mon at pm. Sunday school at9a.m.
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Probabilities.

WASHINGTON, April 25.-For the mid
die States and lower lake region, brisk
and high north to east winds, cloudy ana
rainy weather, the former shifting to the
northwest and southwest, and on sun
day morning with clearing wea,ner,
For the Gulf States, west to south wlnds
and clearing weather For Tennessee
and the lower Ohio valley, Winds SHIFT
ing to the westerly with temporarily
clearing weather. For the upper lake
region, fresh to brisk winds, veerlng to
westerly, higher temperature, cloudy
and rainy weather during the rest of
Saturday. The Mississippi river, from
Cairo down, continues slowly rising, and
the Ohio falling.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-25

The Geneva cross, which became so
familiar an emblem during the Franco
Prussian war, is again in the field, this
time in Spain.
A Terre Haute man has been COM
PEELED to ask the protection OF the courts
against three widows, who have each
made up their minds to marry him.
A Missouri jury, in the case Of man
found with ten bullets in his head, de-
cided that "he had been shot or met
some bad accident in some manner not
lust now known" lft
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-25

The Times editorially says that to the
English eyes the initiation Of currency
is a hazardous proceeding, fraught with
peril to prosperity, and even to the
unity of the American commonwealth /;
but it is not denied that no other coun'
try in the world could do what America
has hitherto done. 1t is the law OF
American nature to expand and develop
in every possible direction.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-25
NERVOUS DEBILITY.

A depressed, irritable state of mind; weak,
nation; confused head, weak memory, often
with facilitating, involuntary discharges.
The consequ ence of excesses, mental oyerwork
OF indiscretiOns. This Nervous Debility hnds
Specific, No. %. 1t tones up the system. ar
rests discharges, dispels the mental gloom and
dependency, and rejuvenates the entire sys-
tenn. 1t is perfectly harmless and always efi--
cient. Price s.. for package of five boxes
and a arge So vial Of powder, which is impor-
tant in old, serious cases; or 81 per single box.
Sold by ALL Druggists. or sent by mail on re-
ceipt of price. Address HUMPHREYS, SPECIFIC
HoMEoPATHIo MEDICINE Co.. No. 56z Bro "a
way. N. Y. xvi8l-tukI-xviii-Ss
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river TeIegrams.

CAIRO, ILL.,, April 25.-Arrived-Ali
Stephens, Dyersburg, midnight Scud
der, New Orleans, three o'clock am.
City of Chester, Memphis, three o'clock;
Laura Davis, Nashville, six o'clock;
Andy Baum, Memphis, six o'clock;
Charles Brown, St. Louis, noon; Tyrone,
Memphis, noon. Departed -Seudder
st. Louis, six o'clock a. Andy Baum,
Cincinnati, seven o'clock; Stephens, St.
Louis, eight clock; City Of Chester, st.
Louis, nine o'clock Weather clear and
nool
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-25

The Helena World is authority for the
statement that the valiant Captain Rose,
who charged on the brass band at Little
Rock, was in a beastly state of intoxica-
ton. We should think SO; but even that
is a poor excuse for his conduct.