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NEW ORLEANS. November Is. 1850 a.m.-The
market is firm. Middling, 45sc; sales. 1900
bales; receipts. 1902 bales.
GALVESTON. November lS.-Cotton is weak.
Middling, 414c; net receipts, gag bales gross,
1702; exports cOastwise, 70; sales, 5lo4; stock,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-18
MEETING.
Stockholders Annual Meeting.

.1rur ANNUAL MEETING OF The
I" 'it e,o,thoiders OF the Mississippi and Ten
;.ls.'ss RAILROAD Company will be held at the
rLc--te-lain House, in the city Of
, 1874-09-13

ening canary bird" It is sufficiently appalling
to think Of .devl Of ghost" crawling
through your key-hole without the added necea-
sity of regarding him OF it as burglar. VI
what avail nre pistols against forms OF thin air !!
You behold the elongate ghost halfway through
the koy-ho1e. You spring to clutch him dc
vanishes with blood-cu1dling chuckle. The
next moment while you are absorbed IN
keeping the bed md bedding from go
ing through the ceiling against Which
they arc pounding, your pantaloons, con~
tanning pockct-book, safe-koys ETC.. are
dextcrously w1,skcd through the transou', and
the spirit. first dropping the wnter-pitchor on
your head, disappears permanently. The Reltglo-
Philosophical Journal indorses the New Orleans
burglars story. and addl TINT the Diakkn help
the bandits Of Italy aud MEXICO. and, in fact.
tho rogues of the world. This is too much. II
VIC are to be preyed upon by all the scarnps now
alive, and by the spirits Of all who have died, we
might as well give up tue contest. 1t II painful
to think how the ranks of the D1akkA will be
swelod when the present generation OF Aldermen
auu County Commissioners dies. Aha for our
descendauts
, 1874-09-13

the tparoxysmal kiss, We would be in favor OF
the most rigorous precautions. Even the par
sons themselves, when they come to think the
matter over. or talk it over at their Monday re-
unions, will see the necessity OF their being
nippod in the bud at such crisis as thus. They
must zee that they are asked to foreeo q per-
qu1Bite, not q requisite, They must consider
other lips that ache.
III Paraguay, now, it is different There they
all .sgrcet one another with the holy kiss, tho
same custom, by the way, which is enjoined by an
Apostle. Bat in Paraguay, as in the land OF the
Apostles, the free trade in this luxury as IN
every other) is not only promotive, but correct
i've. What everybody has, nobody coyets. The
waters lose their sweetness when they cease to
be stolen Mere kissing does not lend to par
oxysms in Paraguay, any moro than shaking
hands in this country lends 70 cutting throats.
But we arc not Paraguayans, and We must
take things-stumb1ing- blocks and things-asw we
find them 1t is true that We might reduce Fiss-
ing to u compulsory civility without respect to
sex. age, color, or previous condition OF serEl-
tude, but this would bring us upon the rock
upon which the Dankarls split when freedman
aud brother undertook to join in their obedi-
cuce to an apostolic command No; We must
There must bo end Of kissing the parson.
, 1874-09-13

Nature seems to delight in pointing out to the
wealthy and powerful OF this world their respon-
sibility for the squalor and misery OF the poor
and ignorant in the most poignant and unn,is-
taxable manner. in the epidemic diseases which
carry on the purest and dearest Of the house
hold OF plenty with the same relentless cruelty
rs the children OF poverty among whom they
originated. In the well-built, we1l-ventilatcd,
well-warmed, and well-irained residences Of
those who are in comfortable circumstances:
epidemic diseases seldom OF never appear
spontaneously. 1t il III tho novels Of the wretch
edly-poor that scarlet fever, smallpox. and
dphtheria are born and foBtered until they gain
the dimensions Of giant destroyers- The last
named disease has becn growing for some time
under the most favorable circumstances in the
poorer districts OF New York aud Brooklyn In
deed, it is beginning to cAuso serious apprehen-
zion, aud the subject Of its prevention aud cure
is belng actively discussed in the daily papers.
The old story Of bad air. bad food, and bad
habits promoting mortality from this disease IL
the refrain Of avery essay upon the subject, T.
tuattnhnz stas, rhsthar vi ehoo&s 10 &dmls tie
, 1874-09-13

Besides supplying common sense, people with
ideas, forms Of language, models Of phraseology,
charms of faucy, aud m inexhaustible fund Of
quotations, Shakespeare has furnished pcdants
and newspapers seeking news and finding none
subject of discussion. A periodical epidemic
occurs onco every two or three years
on the subject Of tho authenticity Of
Shakspeare's works. or course it il q mat
ter which will never be unanimously agreed
upon. Boucicault will ever maintain That Shaks-
penre merely borrowed from French or other
SOURCES. altering the text little aud atixing his
name On the ti:le-page- Richard Grant Whte
will ever maintau that the Bard of Avon was
the actua1author Of the dramas and poems which
are attributed to him. Conservatism will stand
by Shakespeare to the last sigh, aud radicalism
assign his inas.eKpiaoea - popular authors. It
, 1874-09-13

insurance by remedving, at their own cost, the
defects in their bui!dings?
It is conceded by all tie insurance agents here,
and by tho Eastern managers Of insurance COM
panics WHO have visited here, that the rebuilt
Chicago il constructed in as substantial man
ner, and is as good fire risk, as any other
business district in any city in the country.
Their only complaint is that the City Govern
ment will not enact laws that are in forco in
every other well-goyerned city, regulating build
ings, and thus leaye an immense amount OF val
liable property exposed to danger, when under
such laws slight expenditure Of money in
aafa.
, 1874-09-13

Since Tyndal1'B address before the British Asso-
ciation for the Advancement Of Science, at its
meeting ut Belfast, Ireland, in which he emphat-
ically let the world know that he did not set much
store by the present religion OF European na~
tons, he has been made the object OF not
a few attacks from various quarters, al in
deed it might have been expected he would have
been. The last number Of the London Spectator
that has reached this country contains no fewer
than five letters to the editor, in which the Pro-
fessor il moro OF loss roughly handled by
parties disagrceing with him One Of
the correspondents inquiries why, if atomic
evolution can produce man, it may not produce
. demi-urgo sufficient for heaven and he'll, for
the creation Of worlds and systems destined to r
4uasi-et e1nity Of endurrnce2 The writer holds
that the existence Of atoms is hypothesis as
unverifjable % the existe11co OF God that both
hypothescs are ine1plicablo to human under
standing aud that, II called upon to glucose be-
tween them, he would prefer the inter, because
it has for him: ''Tbo eternal God is thy
refuge, and underneath nre everlasting arnss." !"
a1O[4e1 Hflte8 70 nave &18 luala EltaIeQ up Oh
the meaning OF Matter Tyndhl had called it
the universal mother Of all things, and said that
it contained the promise and potency Of every
form aud quality OF life. This last gentleman
would rather view it With Locke. as meaning the
substance and solidity Of body, without taking in
its extension and figure. and finds it impossible
to understand how it can DO all this and at the
same tiuo the universal mother Of things. A
th1rd admires Mr. Tyndalrs essay very much,
but thinks he stole the thunder OF Prof. Draper.
Of New York, from his :" History Of the 1nteilec-
tual Development Of Europe, without making
any adequate acknowledgment Of that fact. This
gentleman does not Like Tyndall's idea that al
poetry and religion are ganglionic thrills, and in
Inmates his beof thut, if they are only gangEonic
u4rills according to the iuductiye philosophy, tho
lnductivo philosophy is at disadvantage as COM
pared with Faith in the region OF mora|a. He does
not care to accept TyndalFs Gospel Of Dust
- Dust thou art. to dust RETURNS" Perhaps some
will yet question whether this is IyDdall'a Cos
pei But, assuming that It is Is it not. in view Of
tho voice within that testities to Immortality,
refutation or retuckio al a1surdu,A Of bis ua-
toriaiism3
, 1874-09-13

Either New Orleans officials are unusually
vigilant and attentive to their duty in appse-
hending criminals, or the city possesses mdrs
murderers TO the square inch than any Other
large city On this continent II the pezcentags
of convictions for murder bears tho same rela"
ton to the number committed as in other citie41
tie opinion must be entertained t.st gzess
many mora people quit life By violent ne.a
than Is altogether proper. There are no ha
than tairty-four alleged murderers IN jail ths1t
Many OF them are c1assed in pa1A
the deed having required partnorsaP
to render it satisfactory. Especially
Is this the case when the object OF the rlu1ds
has been plundaf. Where the crime was paonps'
ed merely by passion, the nurde1efs vent lDae
business alone aud on their own sccount- Tas
is very shocking exhibit. and indicates the se1
Of security OF life felt in that city. The nuuaoa
has received many accessions recently, md u
political excitement intensifes the eont1bntaon5
will probably increase proportionaselT. In spss
OF tie recent execution Of tive mnrde1a1s
Louisinna-the first in many yearH-tho geoesa
impression that hanging is played out " II faa
State seems to have all uudeair2bly firm fouaaa-
ton in fact.
, 1874-09-13

History is replete with instances of victims who
have been sacrificed ny tyrants to test the value
OF their own inventions. It is even narrated Of
the Duke of Wellington that when an ambitious
inventor claimed to have found bullet-proof
armor Of ordinary hemp mgeuiously wrought
into dense FIBRE he ordered an experiment. to
bo made immediately upon the inventor with q
platoon OF riflenen. Tho grim humor Of the
order was appreciated by the bold Bpeculator,
who preferred to forego any practical test
That arcl-tyrant Fate has recently made an ex-
ample OF IN ingenious old darkey in Ken
lucky. The man had fused tile two
manias Of yelocipedism and perpetual
motion into one practical test. He built .
velocipede which should run forev er after it had
once started-i the rider desired it. The mode
Of propelling it was tho force OF grayitation. \
heavy weight was 80 arranged On the machine
that when slipped forward it perpetually pro-
polied the wheels After completing this labor
saving invention the old darkey started out on it
to Franklin, to report to the Secretary Of tho
State Fair Association the wonder Of the thing
ho had made. Unfortunately, while travelling at
the rite OF Is miles al bour, one wheel came III
collision with saping, and the driver WAS
thrown over the dashboard. came in contact
with one ct the wheels. aud then mado
his exit. The infuriated velocipedo sped
on aloue, threatening to run Oh forever,
indeed, like the st:ugy merchant OF Rotterdam
when it struck another sapling. which reversed
the weight and brought tie machine to stand
still. Whether this is i political allegory or
huge but undscoverable joke, the Franklin (Ky.)
Patriot only knows.
, 1874-09-13
TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE.

RATES or srBecn1PT1os tPA1ABLK n ApVAsck5'
1>r,, ,,x mail 2.{l); Sunday...-.......- .SS.IU
Tn-Wrciiv GOO Weekly ..-..- .-...- ..oo
atle =. 81 di,H ~ nni rnistayes and Give Post
Ctce address ip fu lncludins State and County. pot
ESn.anrrs may be either Vi dra. express es'
f.E.eo rel or IN registered !cr1eTs It our risk
~Ae" TRIMS 70 CIT sunscEInEEs- -.a,
r.,,+ te1{7ered SUNDAY excepted = cent? per
n.;j: cel,ycred SUNDAY tnclnasd. g Seats Ues eo1'
Address 1HE ntno s.h;r.xn lit.
, 1874-09-13

responsibility Of boins our brothers kesptr
not, there is power Independent Of cur cns,Is
sions inilicting the penalty Of eyadiue th,, .
sponsibiity. Chlorate Of potash viii b. ~. -
but an Insignificant remedy compared sjtb Sa .s4
liable interest in the welfare OF the neaI, ~
ignorant poor. @2
, 1874-09-13

door OF this sepulchre, that il there be anything
more disgusting than the crime charged upon
Deecher with Mrs Tilton, it is conspiracy Of
outsiders to furnish him opportunity for repeat
ing it with others.
, 1874-09-13

An American, presumably nun Of ozdn14
sense, in this nineteenth century. with The las.
trious precedents for doing nothing Of ths lind
before him, hiss actually, and, SO far - aaha
learned from his letter, without compulnon,n r.
signed aa ofico after the e1prsh1o
Of one term. he was member II
no Board, President Of no Council q
Nation, custodian OF no party. He Vas the hun.
bio doz-catcher Ut the Tenth Assembly District
Of the City Of New York. He has had ccn:
mission, and used it; he has had bis pay. IND
spent it; he has received thirty-dve bites from
captured CANNES, md exhibits their scas il
triumph rs evidence of having performed hs
duty. Now he gladly steps down and out. As 10
Office was created for one man, Bays he, that u
may live and enjoy it's cmolumenss forever, and
az he wishes to devote his time and energies to
the coming election, he reluctantly, but ecn-
scientiously, tenders bis resignation. Noble CT
ample to the batt1e-acar15d catchers Of hunaa
dogs who wiah to devote their energies 10 tbs
coming election. Le: them cnnscientiouslJ, u
reluctantly, follow the example OF Jacob Ross
dog-catcher, and tender their designations slsa
The reluctance savors Of q higher Office. Tbs
couscientiouBuess ia confined almost entireaJ 70
dog-catche1s.
, 1874-09-13

uooLEy's NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. street, oes"eoo
f,}crx and t:sallc. lied Astsar."
, 1874-09-13

The political Bituat1on in Ohio to-dny presents
curious aspect The Republican and the Demo-
cratic parties are both divided, split up aud 30
mixed that the voters, when they 60 to the polls
ON the second Tuesday OF October, viii hardly
know which horn Of the political dilemma they
must take. The Democracy il split upon the
currency question Allen G. Thurman, by his
voice and hiB vote in tic Senate, stood by the
old landmarks Of the party that made him SEN
ator, and that he saved by his hard work in last
falls campaign. The country press, with
but few exceptions, followed in tbs wake OF
the Cincinnati Enquirer, and, denouncing
Thurman, dec}Ared for more creenbacka, without
calculating upon the cost. Tie State ConVen-
ton, partially controlled by Thurman, declared
in favor Of sound currency. but eklhully for
Convention thraW sop to the whale, and pre-
sentod q platform upon which Democrats Of e7
cry shade may stand. But Thurman made
great mistake when last fall he insisted upon
calling William Allen from his rural retreat He
knew that Allen twenty years ago had retired to
his country home, disgusted with politics and per-
fectly willing to remain there, bus la thought
that Allen vas the only man Who could control
cure an election. His idea was that
he could use Alien as = steppng-stone
to the Senatorahip and then the old man would
retire to the shades Of private life, no moro to
be heard OF among men. Here was his mistake.
Alien was elected Governor, and 1t once the old
greed for Office was aroused in the breast of the
uncle, and the nephew, who held the Democracy
Of Ohio in his grasp. has been compelled to 1e-
luquiah it, and acknowledges that his unclo will
be strong competitor for the nomination for
the Presidency Thurman sees the error he
committed, and feels soured, while Allen IS de-
voting his time to visiting the county fairs,
making pretty little speeches to the toiliug
masses, and quietly awaiting any turn the poliEi
cal whirlgig may make.
Tho Republican party Of Ohio have hardly re-
covered from the astonishment ct their defent
last fall, and cannot be said to hare gained any
wisdom by it. They have renominated the same
ticket they ran two years ago, but they have ec-
grated in their platform plank in favor OF
Prohibition which must result disastrousl7 to
them, and take from their ranks almost every
German vote They have gone as far as
the most ultra Prohibitionfst could desire, and,
while the Prohlbitonists have ticket IN the
field headed by JOHN 3. Buchtel, OF Akron, as
their candidate for Secretary Of State. the Re-
publicans cannot hope to gain many votes from
The ranks OF the radical Temperance party.
Taken all in all. then, Ohio politics are mixed.
Thurman represents one wing OF the Democracy,
Allen represents another, while the beer queB-
ton must affect. and vital3y, too, the Republican
vote. Surely politics are undergoing 4 ehsnge
which will render it hard for man OF intel1i-
gence to tell where he does stand.
, 1874-09-13

AMERICAN 3USEuM-Monroe street: oee":s e":.
o..,l.n- ~ STATE Earsec4nen: Of the Lord Elliot
Laauou our1csque totnpaas- I'noo3eAa'
, 1874-09-13

TO.MORROW'S ADJUSTMENTS. ).

ACADEMY OF AJSIC-Halsted s.rcet. between Maa-
nm lad Monroe. engagement OF Pstmer's conbanar
ton, 1.-The DlAck Crook"
, 1874-09-13

GRAND OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES street, oppos'e
Sherman House. Kelly l. Lcon's A:nstrels
, 1874-09-13

Tt was Oliver Wendell Holmes Hho rennaffsa
that, talking Of the unequal division OF Hssl'0'
if the whole world were burned to q c4ndm, 10y
tunes would be made by = few OF the sur'1'oss
in the potash trade. Now that Gzange1 ~
complaining OF the inequitY Of their bs sn"'
industry opens out to them- The posato-bukS
sought for by chemists IL substitute LII ~
Spanish fly. OF course, II tho farmer can sen =
bushel OF potatoes md another bushei Of oa7p
at the same time, to the advantage OF ooso p"7
ties, be ought to do it without delay ee'esa
will be compelled to invent ne~ names ~ "a
tho two varieties OF insac: nov = w.
mand. The murderous druggint can p,.
reach up to cantharidea," but rhea
comes to epicantn vittata BY the ounce. CT
dozen of. Donythora Deccmlineata, MISTAKES ~
likely to occur. It would neyer do to ma1 w.
breeds in the manner likely to be The oonee
ouence and if the farmer Is really going 20
tract plenty out OF pestilence be must, oo1 =.
pllil4rthropy obtain new nomenclature 1ot y:
banefit OF the unscientifc. 8uch names as a"-.
already in existence would blister the tongue o.:
effectually 81 the insect would damage the aAD''
, 1874-09-13

At the request OF some Epgliah gen1suh, -,
stopping in New York, William II. beAu :,
eminent animal painter, has been lnoncsa ~.
send his htest production, "Oid. .I1ne ~
Life" to London for exhibition, The ncea4 -,
located in room Of clubhouse alessA;
furnished the occupants being MONKEYS dfes st
like gentlemen, each figure represented u 20 I..
fereut stsge OF iutoxicAtion. Those Rao ~ =
seen his iuiultable painting OF "fla" ~ ~
Title" will have soDs tda1 ma.:::1Gx
chtrnptaf lid strength Of tao
, 1874-09-13

The Diakka are bad spirits. Andrew Jackson
Davis has found out all about them. According
to his ponderous efrrsion on the subject, they
are tile beings who break dishes and tumble
around furniture and fill outrageous lies and
bring the shades Of prominent dead men into
disrepu:o by maliciously, personasing them.
When George Washington sings "Hey-diddle-
didd1e. tho cat aud the fiddle" to circle OF
awe-struck geese, it is not George Washington,
but Diak lit that ls the proper singular Of the
tribal pame). When Benjamin Franklin dances
q jig and Charles Dickens writes an idlotic story
and Keats raps out this wondrous couplet:
, 1874-09-13

There is issued in Boston monthly pupoa
ton entitled Equity, Journal OF tnns.--
Labor Reform" It's leading article IN tae ~
tember number insists that there must Do r.
feet brotherhood among men in tho VIZ. :.
sphere OF work, and that this h1othefnoc. -,
found only in the teachings OF Christ hsA.o
the question VITO can supply this needed hfo.ne, a.
hood, it anEvers by the following atst'n'a
afii1matiou6:
In reply return 10 tho thone with a NnGn rtrts
out, and cry aloud With all our power, 1esus GCa,d
lived on lbs earth and died on the to Ie ID
the ballot, NO did He live the earth aoa ole t
rross to found aud carry forward Labor Hefo1"-
, 1874-09-13

qronld be 4 gigantic task to attempt to persuade
the world that Shakespeare was nothing more
than q successful theatrical manager.
, 1874-09-13
Iou ara my queen,
1.oycliest I ever seer, /,

the Diakka are playing their pranEs. These
things might be suffered to pass without protest,
aince such Glaring shams are readily detected
but when the Diakka carry pail OF dirty water
into the yard and tip it over on the week's wash,
as they lately did in Milwaukee, or when they
givo all the furniture in house the St. Vltus
dance ut midnight. as they have just done in
San Francisco, or when they pitch the whole
contents OF 4 china-closet into one heap OF de-
bris, as they did near New Haven, Connecticut,
a few yesrs ago-then it IL time to complain
Yet even these evils are not the worBt II New
Orleans burglar is to be believed, he has spirit
In his employ, whom he. described Al "A
very devil Of ghost tbzt will
climb up any balcony in the city,
crawl through any key-hole, and throw me-
down III ths v&luab!ss, without 70 anch ~ vAk-
, 1874-09-13

DR. McCIIF.SSEY, CORNER ", ELAIM, ~. 4n1, 60 ~ IT
RGrdolpn- warrants tho i4e's anu oes aa1a ~ "
1.s,h inr IS Satisfaction gwen uf money fc4noueu.