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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-13
Naval Engagement at the Mouth
Of the Danube-Turkish
Steamer Sunk.
General Livitizky Dismissed = A
More Hopeful Feeling Prevails.
United States Minister PierrePOnt
Tenders His Resignation to
Take Effect In De-
cember.

LONDON, October l3.-General Livitz.
ky, of the Russian headquarters staff, has
been dismissed, and now q more hope.
full feeling prevails.
United States Minister Pierrepont has
rendered bis resignation, to take effect
the first Of December.
SIsTovA, October l3.- Preparations
are making for the reception Of the car
in view of the transfer of headquarters
here.
ST. PETERSBURG, October l3.-An Of
fetal dispatch says on the 9th inst. there
was a naval engagement in Sulins at the
mouth of the Danube, during which q
Turkish steamer crossed the line of tor.
pedoes laid the previous night. An ex
p%losion followed and the steamer saak,
the Russian cutter hauling down her flag
1t is supposed that all on the steamer
persisted.
The car DEGREES that every soldier
may be promoted q commissioned officer
for distinguished service on passing the
usual examination.
BERLIN, October l3.--The failure of
the Ritterschaftliche Bank, Stetten, has
caused a general depression. 1t is stated
that the managing director committed
suicide. Embarrassments of the bank
began ten years back, when two man
aging directors first discounted doubtful
bills without the knowledge or the coun.
Gil of directors Of the bank, which has q
capital Of nine million marks, deposits
twenty million and discounted bills to
the amount of forty million, half of
which would require to be prolonged on
falling due. The principal creditors are
Berlin and the Stetten Railway Com
pany for twenty-five hundred thousand
marks, the Pomerianna estates, Pome.
rianna sugar refinery, Schmidt Fire In
france Company, Gera BaHk, Vulcan
Ship Building Company and Baltic
Lloyds.
PARIS, October l3.-Public interest is
becoming manifest in the streets. Re.
publican comments on President Mac
Mahon's last manifesto are very severe
aud for the expulsion of Bedell, the Amer
lean, for ~canvassing for Menier, Radical
Republican, at Moutrouge.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-13
How Tom Paine nisd.

The New York Observer responds to
Colonel IngersolPs challenge to earn
$1,000 by proving that Tom Paine died
stjuring inGdelity by simply saying that
il never made that assertion, and then
going on TO prove the truth of the asser.
ton it really did make. This was that
Paine died a drunken, beastly death"
The whole weight Of evidence yet given
is TO the effect that during the last ten or
fifteen years be lived a life to which those
sdjsctives are justly applied, aud that be
did not change at the end. Paine ives a
disgusting wretch - there can be no
doubt about that-aud yet he mag have
died as stout an in6del as ever, though
no one can believe so except by
believing that the Quackers, Stephen
Grele,t and Mary Roscoe lied about his
excited language on his death.b bed.
Once when she MARY Roscoe) was
there says Grelett, three of his deis.
teal associates came to the door, and in
a loud, u~nfeeling manner said: Tom
Paine, it is said you are turning Chris.
tian, but we hope you will die as you
have lived, and then went away. On
which, turning to Mary Roscoe, be said,
You see what miserable c~omforters they
are Once he asked her if she had ever
read any of his writings, and on being
told thab she had read but very little Of
them, he inquired what she thought Of
them, adding, From such a one as you |
expect a correct answer She told him
that when very young his Age Of Rea.
con was put into her hands, but that the
more she read in it the more dark and
distressed she felt, aud she threw the
book into the FIRE. i wish all had done
as you, he replied, for if ever the devil
had an agency in any work he has had it
ia my writing that book. When going
to carry him some refreshments she re.
peatedly heard him utterinr the Ian.
guage, % Lord, Lord God or Lord
Jesus, have mercy upon me-" Now let
Colonel Bob produce another state.
ment, and the Observer attend to Vol
,aire.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-13

To the Editor of the N. Y. Tribune:
SRI do not know how Jefferson
Davis was dressed at the time of his
capture, but l cal tell you what be him
self has said about it. Major Walthal,
Of Mobile, has in his possession, and
showed to me during a visit to that city
in 1874, an autograph letter from Mr..
Davis, aud a photograph which was en-
closed in it. In the etter Mr.. Davis de-
MED the whole sto.y of his having at.
tempted to -clps in woman's clothing,
AID he add d that the photograph repre-
scented him dr--s 4 exactly as when he
was captured, with the exception that at
that time he wore a pair of spurs not
shown in the picture, and had over his
shoulders a waterproof cloak.
In the picture he appeared, as / 80
member, dr. osed in a loose and bat ,
fitting sack coat, Of o lightish color, with
his ps%ntaloons inside a large pair OF
cavalry boots, and he held in his hand a
l%ow-crowned, brosd-brimmed felt hat.
q L. W.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. %. 1877.
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LEGAL.
mo. 27S2.l
NOnsResident NOiicA.

In the Chlncery Court Of Shelby oountv
Tennes5ee- Martha A. Mcknight VS., Joseph
II. Pickard ct al.
TT, APPEARING FROM AFFIDAVIT IN
II this cause that the defendants, joseph III.
Piekard, ~, b. Packard frd John B, Weld.
are non-residents of the l ute of Tennessee;
appearance herein. at tho court-house IN
the city Of Memphis. Tenn, on or before the.
first Monday in D mber. 1877, aud plead.
answer or demur to complainant's bill, or
the same will be taken for confessed as To
them, and set for hearing ex parte; and that
a copy Of this order be published once A
week for -four successive weeks in the Public
Ledger.
This 18th day of October. 1871.
A cepy-Attest:
EDMUND A. COLE, G. and M.
ByR. J. BLACK. D. O, and NJ,
S7-43- 1879
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Attachment Notice..

No; 7o8-Before j.. S. Galloway, ]. P. for
Shelby county, Tenn.-Venable & Rawlings
vs.. Nj. Parker.
TN THIS CAUSE AN ATTACHMENTHAV.
4 ing been sued out under section 1855 eff the
Code Of Tonnesste, and returned levied upon
the property Of the defendant, and affidavit
having been made that defendant is Justly
indebted to the plaintiff in the sum Of Sl39. S3.
due by account, an that defendant is a nsn-
Iesidentof the State Of Tennessee; 1t is there
fore ordered that the said defendant make
his personal appearance before me on the 3lst
day Of October, 1877, at Y o'clock m, at my
ONCE. No. "a Madison street, Memphis. Ten
nessee, and defend said attachment suit
within the time prescribed by law, or the
same will be proceeded with ex parte and that
o cepy Of this order be published once a week
for four successive weeks in the Public Ledger.
This 10Th day Of september, 1877.
2.2S. 80 30 ]. 3. GALLOWAY. l. p
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-13

SAYS the Louisville News: In order
to carry the State Of Ohio for West, the
Republican candidate for governor, the
national banks in hat and other States
made large contributions Of money to
the Republican campaign fund. The
issue in Ohio was chiefly made between
the tax.payiug masses on the ole side
and the bondholding, national bank ele.
ment on the other. West was the expo
nent of the capitalists and of that ays
tenn Of congressional Legislation which
has robbed the people of many millions
Of dollars within the last ten years. The
victory achieved reflects imperishable
glory upon Tom Ewing, who is to-day the
bravest champion Of the people who has
spoken on the questions Of currency,
taxation aud tariff.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-13
Attachment Notice.

Before Thos. Fleming. Justice Of the Peace
for Shelby County, Tenn.-MarRaret Dom
nelly VS.. Henry Ilumphries.
TN THIS CAUSE AN ATTACHMENT
4 having been sued o1t under section 3455 Of
the CODE Of Tennessee, and returned levied
qpen the property of the defendant, and afi-
oayit having been made that defendant il
Indebted to plaintiff in the sum of $50.
que by account and that the claim is just, and
that the defendant is a nonresident of the
state Of Tennessee il is therefore ordered that
the said defendant make his personal APP
l8H, at 10 o'clock am, at my office. No. "a
Madison st., in the city of Memphis, Tenn.
and defend said attachment suit, within the
time prescribed by law. or the same will be-
proceeded with ex perte and that a copy Of
this order be published for four consecutive
This llth day of October. 1877.
25.4l-H % TH0S. FLEMING, j. p.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-13

AN active discussion, says an ex-
change concerning the whereabouts Of
the remains of Columbus IS likely to
arise from the recent claim at Sauto Do.
mingo Of their discovery there. The
story, as given by La Patria, may be
summarized as follows: There had long
been a popular tradition that the remains
Of Columbus still rested in the cathedral
at Santo Domingo. The remains OF Don
Luis Columbus, who was captain.general
of the Island from 1910 to 1913, have
been recently discovered in that cathe.
dral. These circumstances, it Is stated,
induced the authorities to make On in.
v~estigation, which was conducted 10 the
presence OF numerous spectators Of high
ecclesiastical, civil and military rank.
The sepulchre being opened with due
respect" a lead coffin was brought to
view, ito the establishment Of all."
On the top was found the inscription
D de la A per Ate, The Diatio says
that I'D de la A" means Descrubidor
de Ia America; but, before accepting this
rs evidence, it is questioned whether the
name Of America had been given 10 this
country in Columbus time. On the in.
side of the coffin was found in German
gothic the inscription Illtre y Esdo
D Christobal Colon. Finally, bones aud
dust were fouRd within. La Patria also
refers to q statement in a Spanish new
paper, published in tbis city in 1886,
suggesting that, at the time Of the reno
val Of the remains in 1896 to Cuba, q
trick was played by a canon, by which
other remains than those of Columbus
we're substituted. Taking the whole
story as it now stands, there appears to
be more probability that a trick was
played on the present than on the pre-.
vious occasion. The discovery of re.
mains, as described, has the air Of being
prearrauged and conducted for sensa.
iional effect. Assuming that the per.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-13

ACCORDING to a special to the Phila-
delphis Ledger q cabinet officer has in
timated that the President would like to
see a Southern Democrat speaker, if a
Republicans could not be elected, because
be thought Southern Democrats were
more conservative than their Northern
brethren, and to place an ex.C Confederate
in the chair of the house Of representa-.
tives would be an additional indication
Of the desire of the North to bury sec
tionsl j~ealousies and the issues Of the
war.
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EnisconnI OonYentIon.

BosToY, October l3-Ia the Episco.
pal general convention to-day discussion
continued on the amendment shortening
morning and evening prayers. Bishop
DeKoven (Minn) and ex Governor
Stephenson (Ky) favored its adoption.
Rev. Mr.. Livermore Wis., was among
those opposed. Nearly all the speakers
favored u shortened form OF morning
and evening prayer, but thought the OBJ
ject could be accomplished without
amending the constitution.
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NEW YORK.

Death of n Yellow Fever Patient
Gilman, IA FOTRer, n nephew OF
Henry Ward BeecIer senator
Nash, of SOutD Carolina, MAKE s q
COnfessfOn-Etc.
New YORK, October l3.-Mrs. Mary
Drake, of 4O2 Welt Thirty-irst street,
stewardeas of the steamship City of Vera
Cruz, who was removed to the quaran.
tine hospital Thursday as a yellow fever
patient, died yesterday.
Henry Ward Beecher made Gilman
and his forgeries the subjects Of his talk
at the prayer meeting last evening, and
said: For the week past or more l
have been under q cloud. Mr. Gilman,
my nephew by marriage, has been sent
to-day to Auburn for FIVE years, and is in
Auburn tonight. He married the dsugh.
ter OF my sister, Mrs. Perkins"
A Columbia, S. c., dispatch states that
State Senator Nash has resigned and
made a confession to the investigating
committee duplicating others in legisla.
tive frauds, and has made restitution.
Two additional charges Of forgery have
been brought against Colonel Sibley, of
Boston. He remains in Jail 10 that city.
The City of Berlin has arrived with
el0O, 900 in gold coin.
Frank Edaall, of Hamburg, N. j, the
school boy whose disappearance has
been reported, has been heard from by
his friends. Instead of going to bis
school he took a steamer for England,
and arrived there safe and we'll.
The steamship England, whose petty
officers were engaged in smuggling silks,
has given bonds in 1926, 600 and been
released.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-13

COLUMBUS, o., October l3.-Tbe ware
house of McAlister & Son was destroyed
by FIRE last night. The loss will be nearly
covered by insurance in the following
companies: British America, $500;
Commercial Uuiop, $500; Ohio Fire AS.
sociation, $500.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-13

CHICAGO, October l3.-Daniel 0'Hara,
an old and respected citizen, prominent
politician, and formerly county treasurer,
died at his residence in this city, at ten
o'clock last night.
PoRT TOBACCO, Nd. October 49,
Captain Elijah Wells, editor and propri-
etor Of the Post Tobacco Times, died
this morning, aged sixty years.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-13
T"ELEGRAPHIC
STOCKS \ BONDS.

New YORK, October II, 1850 am =
United States skies of 1881, l09s@lO98
United States skies of 1881, coupons,
l09b@llO5; new four-and.a-halfs, 1910
1913; coupons, - @l04s; fve-twenties
Of 1865, new issue, lO5}@l05s; five.twen-
ties Of 1867, lO7s@lO74; 6ve-twenties Of
1868, coupons, lO9f@l094; t~en-forties,
= @l063; ten.fortics, coupons. 1870
1914; currency skies, = @l209; new
6ves, - @l07.
Bank statement: Loans, decrease,
$24l, 800; specie, increase, $53S, 500;
legal tenders, decrease, $l,095, 200; de-
posts, decrease, 1851 800; circulation,
increase, 9 .sOO; reserve, decrease,
1876, $50.
LONDON, October IL, 4 p.m.-Consols
for money, IS 7.l6; on account, 95 8 l6;
United States new four.snd. a.hslfs lO4t;
United States fve-twenties Of 1865, 1919;
United STATES ive.twenties of 1867, 1919;
United States ten-forties, 1917; new Gves,
i06; Erie, lat
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-13

DR.. Doods is the DR.. Mary
Walker Of st. Louis. She is a reg
ular practising physician, well-to-
do and wears a dress unlike
anything else in nature-a mans
trousers, confined at the bottom
very closely, a garment in place of
a coat, which is neither coat nor
cloak, and a hat which is neither
male nor female in character, but
rather epicene. She believes in
sun baths, and has built a great
bay-window in her house wherein
to take and administer the same,
but a neighbor is building a dwell
ing to command the bay-window,
whereupon the doctor has begun
the erection of a board fence as
high as his house, through or over
which no impious eye may peep.
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Trustees Sale.

ON NOVEMBER 10. 1877, AT Il O'CLOCK
" NIL will, as Trust ,, in front Of nv
office, 40; 4S& Madison strf ct, Memphi;,
Tenn. sell at public t..lo to the highest bid
der, for, c .sh, that lot of land in shelby
county, Tepness >, known as the west half Of
Lot No. 4, in block 81, Fo.S Pickering, stu
and Seventh streets, having a front on the
south side Of jackson street Of 56N feet, with
uniform width 'outhwardly to an alley, and a
front on tho east side Of Seventh street. OF
Hii,% {, )t The right of redemption is waived,
aud the t,tlo believed to DO perfect, but | sell
only as Trustee.
3i-BJ j. N. GREnnRY TrnstAa
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A Romantic story spoiled.

A romantic story is going the
rounds Of the newspapers about the
late Archbishop Of Baltimore and a
brilliant Connecticut belle. 1t is
said that when Mr.. Bayley became
a priest he broke off an engagement
of marriage to this lady, whom he
had met on a summer holiday trip,
and that she took refuge in a con-
vent, whence she soon fled under
very peculiar circumstances, and
she died of consumption and
a broken heart. 1t is a pity to spoil
such a work of Imagination. Mr..
and the lady in question
were friends from childhood, but
not lovers. They were never en-
gagged to be married. She never
suffered from either consumption
or a broken heart, but remained in
excellent health and spirits for more
than thirty years after he entered
the priesthood, and died in Eu-
only a year ago. She made a
short trial of convent life as a nov
ice of the Sisters Of Mercy, but as
this was when she was a middle
aged woman, and as much as twelve
or fifteen years after the alleged
separation from her supposed be-
trothed, it could hardly have been
the result of disappointed love.
was there anything pecu-
liar in the circumstances of her re-
turn to the world. Finding that the
convent did not suit her, she went
home in the most common : place
as novices and sisters often
do.
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BREADsTUFFs

LIVERPOOL, October IL Wheat, win.
ter. lls4d@lls9j; Milwaukee red, los Sd
oils sd; California white, l2s 7d@
Us l0d; California club, Us l0d@l3s I'd.
Germ, 27s 9d@28s Cd. Pork, AIS. Beef,
92s Cd. Bacon, long clear, 40s Cd; short
clear, AIS Cd. Lard, 46s Sd. Tallow,
Ais.
CHICAGO. October IL, Jl:05 am
Wheat, l O7f@l 07B Tor November. Corn,
42g for OCTOBER; 424 for November Pork
is quiet at IL 774 for seller year; II 874
for January; IL 20 for November. Lard
ia nominal at s 273 for seller year; 8 323
for January. Dry sailed meats, boxed,
steady; shoulders, 81; short ribs, II;
short clear, 81; long clear and short clear,
8; long clear. Il Pork strips, II; bacon
strips, s Receipts = Flour, $500;
wheat, 1891; corn, 1896. Ship
ments = Flour, 97ll; wheat, 1882
corn, 22s. 4s7
New YORK, October II, l2;l5 pm
Flour is quiet and steady. Wheat is
quiet at l 36@l 81; Milwaukee, BIO
l 80. Corn is quiet at 59l@594. Mess
pork is quiet at 10 80 bid for October;
Ia 90 for November; l3 SO for December
- So for year. Lard is quiet at 8 O5 bid
for October; 8 921 for November; s Is
for year. Whisky quiet at | l34
CINCINNATI, October H., p m Flour
and grain are quiet, steady and un.
changed. Whisky is steady and firm al
| O8 Pork is quiet at IA 90 Lard il
firm 81. Bulk meats are firm; sidss, 81;
short clear, 81 Bacon is firm; shoulders
8; short ribs, 9; short clear, 81
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-13
SPECIAL NOTICE
A CARD.

To all who are suffering from the errors and
ndiscretions Of youth, nervous weakness.
early decay. loss Of manhood, ETC.. l will
send a receipt that will cure you. FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered
BY a missionary in South America. Send a
.self-addressed envelope to tho REV. JosEPH
T. INMAN, Station d, Bible House. Ne0 York
CIR. 50 xxvii-25-eodkw
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Indications.

WASHINGTON, October l3-For Ten.
nessee and Ohio valley warmer southerly.
winds, stationary or lower pressure and
increasing cl~oudiness, followed by rain
areas.
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Appointment.

WASHINGTON, October l3-The Presi-
dent to-day signed the appointment Of
VIM. L. Macmillan as penson agent at
New Orleans.
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Minera Rtsuminr Work.

SCRANTON, Pa, October Is. = The
miners are rapidly resuming work and
additional collieries will be started next
week. Reported troubles are groundless.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-13

1t is now very fashionable for a fash.
ionable woman to remark that she has
the heart disease, and that it is greatly
aggravated by her husbands conduct.
Some of the Yale College graduates
who Save been assigned to write on the
question, rs Walt Whitman a Great
American poet2' have concluded to ask
Walt about it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-13

A PHILADELPHIA journal states that
there are s2l cases on the docket Of the
Supreme Court of the United States IN.
tried. These cases would occupy the
time Of the court for three years, to the
exclusion Of new business, if they were
taken up regularly 10 their order. OF
course, this certainty Of delay operates
in many instances as a denial Of remedy
in cases of great urgency. 1t is note.
worthy that in matters of the utmost
political Importance the function Of the
court for the settlement Of disputed
questions has almost lapsed, in conse.
quenee of %exasperating delays. Som
thing must be done to lessen the labo.
and quicken the progress Of business, or
one co. ordinste department of the gov
eminent will lag so far behind the others
as not to be able to deal with the opera.
of one administration before an
other shall supplant it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-13

Torrance was, from first to last, a fraud,
it is supposed hat the %cefin, with its
contents and inscriptions, vas recently
prepared and deposited.
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Dickens ln Black YeIrot.

In Rochester l had occasion to 90
a little shop kept by a talkatiye
old woman who had a photograph
Of Gadshill lying on a counter.
This led to my asking her whether
the illustrious master Of the house
often made his appearance in the
town. ooh, bless you, sir" she
said, eve every one Of us knew him
to speak to. He was in this very
shop on the Tuesday with a party
of foreigners-as he was dead in his
bed on the Friday. He 'ad on his
black velvet suit, and it always
made him look so 'andsome. |
said to my 'usband, Il do think
as Charles Dickens looks so nice in
that black velvet suit But he
couldn't see as he looked any way
particular"
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The French Army.
German Magazine.l

German Magazinel
1t will surprise most Of our read
ers to be tolo that in the spring of
1878 France will be able to put into
the field an active army Of an ag-
gregate strength of $4,000 men,
153,40O horses with 27O0 guns.
And of this force 605, 900 are com
Blatant infantry, 44,G00 are cavalry,
and $4,000 are engineers and pom
tooniers. But back of this active
military force, ready to be utilized
at a days notice, there is a reserve
of $4,000 men and 0,300 horses
available for defensive operation,
without including the landsturm,
which is yet unorganized, as reserve
behind the reserve, of military ma
terials that can be made available
in any emergency. This actual or
gained military establishment of
France amounts to 1,738,500 men,
of whom 1,325,000 are infantry,
7l,7OO are cavalry, lis, $50 are ar
tillerymen, and so, 800 are engineers
aud pontooniers. And this army
is supplied with 1862 guns of the
best make and 210,400 horses.
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ohio Elections.

COLUMBUS, October l3.-The indica-
lions now are that the official figures will
make Bishops majority less than 2 5000.
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PUBLIC LEDGER
RE r HIS
Saturday Evening, Oct. Is, 1877.

The subscription price Of the PUB
LILO LEDGER is IS per annum for
the Daily, and 81 per AMMAN for the
Reekly-Postage free.