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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-03

with 9 feet s inches on the gauge
at Cincinnati it rose SO inches,
with 2S feet 4 inches on the gauge;
at Louisville 6 inches, with 10 feet
/ inch in the canal; at Evansville it
is rising, with 1S feet 9 inches in
canal. Cumberland river declined
% inches at Nashville, with IL feet
10 inches on the gauge. Arkansas
river is falling at Little Rock, with
10 feet on the gauge. White river
is falling at JackSonport, with a
good stage of water from there out.
miscellaneous.
Heavy rains this morning.
Business inactive on the leyee.
Now that all danger of an over
flow has passed We may look for a
revival of business in the bends.
The Golden City passed Vicks-
burg yesterday for Cincinnati. She
will be here tomorrow morning.
The John B. Maude left Vicks-
burg yesterday for st. Louis. She
will arrive here tomorrow night,
leaving the elevator Sunday at 5
pm.
The Illinois left Vicksburg to-
day for Memphis and will arrive
here Sunday evening.
The Capitol City from st. Louis
arrived at Yieksburg yesterday at
noon, and leaves there to-day for
st. Louis.
The new Mary Houston for Gin
cinnati and G. P. Chouteau for St.
left New Orleans last even
ing.
The Cons Millar for Memphis,
and Robert Mitchell for
Orleans left Cincinnati last
evening.
The Colorado left st. Louis last
evening for Vicksburg, and leaves
mere Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.
The Andy Baum for Memphis
md c. B. Church for New Orleans
Evansville yesterday.
The A. @. Donnally, bound for
Cincinnati, passed Evansville We'd
lesday at midnight.
The Liberty No. 4 and barges
md also the Rapid Transit in tow,
passed up last evening for the Ohio.
The Geo. W. Cheek, Capt. Mark
came in this morning with
4 fair trip, and returns this even
.ng on her usual time to Friar's
Walker Outlaw is clerk.
Captain James Bowler pur-
chased, at Little Rock, yesterday,
The steamer Rose City. Terms
private.
The Katie Hooper, Captain Eu-
gene Smith,, will arrive to-day from
Arkansas river and leave tomorrow
evening with a return trip.
Mr.. Gibson, a Ouachita river
pilot, was stabbed and killed by j.
R. Lawless, another pilot, in a diff
iculty at New Orleans on Monday
asst.
The Big Horn will be the first
boat and the earliest to reach Fort
Benton this season, and the first
BOAT for many years.
Captain Green Shields stopped
off from his packet here yesterday
and proceeded last evening to st.
by rail.
New Orleans, up to date, has re-
oeiyed 1886 bales more cotton
than she received up to the same
date last year.
We will have two lines OF boats
in the New Orleans trade next yea
3on-the Ohouteau, Hicks stern
wheeler, and four fast passenger
packets-leaving here on Wednes-
and Saturdays.
The Charles Morgan passed down
last night for New Orleans after
li5charging at the Lee wharf boat
100 barrels -four, a lot Of furniture
and other stuff, and adding 1000
sacks Of oil-cake and a lot of cotton,
engaged for her by Captain Wash
ington, her agent.
The Florence Meyer passed here
last evening for Arkansas river
with a full cargo. She did nothing
here Of consequence and declined
to pay wharfage. She wanted but
and will get that below. Her
captain is one of that kind.
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DEUTsCHnR B-RUDER.RUND.

DEUTsoHER BRUDKR-BVED-meet 1stSunday
n each month ats O'Clock pm, at Cochran
mann. Vice Yres't; w. G~laentzer. Sss'y: II.
W. Sehultze. 1yeas'r; Aug Zweiiel and John
Handwerker. Sick Committee fer Northern
Division; John Wendell and John Margie,
Siok Committee for Seuthern Divi6lon.
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A xOIENr ORDER WORKING MEN

BLUFF Cry LODGE, No. 22-meets Saturday
evenings at 29s Second street. +. J. Mac
Crafty, W. NJ.
EoUITY LODGE. No. Connects every Friday
night over Adams street engine-heuse. 5. q.
DePass, NJ. W.; Z. D. McHenry, Recorder.
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Donation Of mo Rivers.

The river here is on a stand, with
20 feet II inches on the gauge. At
Cairo the decline was IS inches,
with SO feet 8 inches on the gauge ;
at st. Louis it rose l inch, with 20
feet Q inches on the gauge; at Pitts
burg the decline was IL inches,
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old FOLKS.

No. Is Madison street Qbasementl, the LIST
Tuesday in each month. James S. wilkins,
pres't; S.. II. Lamb and G. +. Vance, Vice
Priests; w. J.. B. Lonsdale, Seo'y; j. g.
Lonsdale, Treas.
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CLASS.

MEKPHIs LAW CLASS meets each Thursday
night during the session. AZ No. 9 Madison
street. E. F. Adams. President; A.:W. Otis,
Secretary.
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Trustees Sale.

by VIRTUE Of a deed 10 trust executed to
me- on the 24th day Of February, 1874, By
John 1. and. Mary II, Hillsman, and recorded
"a the REGISTERS otice of Shelby county,
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1. o g. T.

SHELBT LODGE. No 650-meets every Friday
night, ~ o'clock. at Knights Of PytAias Hall,
$50 Second street D. g.. Rearhard, W. c.
T.; D. W. Coan. W. Sec'y.
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OGTTOn.

The market is quiet this morning, with
a moderate inquiry and more disposition
on the part Of factors to effect sales.
Prices are nominally unchanged.
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.lVEspont. May 3, 1890 pm - Cotton Ia
dull, Miidling uDif pds. sgd; middl!ug Or
leans. SD. Bales, 1000 bales, o. which 1000
were for export and speculation.
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Saturday, May 4, 8 Z

within legal hours, the following as,.r;h.d
property, situated in Shelby county. Tenn
tO-wit: 1900 AeAn''
b part. Of q certain lot, situated on Lin
zen street, IN the city Of Memphis, on which
Is situated the cottage, having a frontage Of
40 heet; gag Is desoribed as commencing at a
MAIN and Linden streets, and running thenoe
nearly east, and parallel with Linden street
10 ieet; thence nearly north $50 feet; thenoe
west 10 feet; thence south $50 feet to the be-
ginning.
Terms of Sale-0ne.third cash; balance in &
and " months after date, Notes with an
are paid.
This April Il, 1878.
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RY virtue of the terms of n cor,oiD 80.
y deed made by Val Sanford on the OH ussss
December, 1875, to the undersigned, az Trust
Tee, which IS OF record in the Register's ofica
81 ahei9y county, Tennessee, in Book No. lis,
page w. there will be sold by said Trustee, At
o one sTIIt,nouSe do9I in Memphis. Tennessee,
county; - sSiu
A LOT Of ground in said city of Memphis.
pouRnt OF Il; A. Sanford, Trustee, for John
y. Armour BY said Val Sanford, lying on the
hotth SIDE OF Marshall avenue. fronting IS
and being lot No. IS of Armour ubdiv;sioy.
me title to said property is believed ID be
perfect: but i will sell and convey "a TrnstsS
only. Terms OF sale cash,
5-Im8w-8 WIN. SANFORD. Trustee.
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PUBLIC LEDGER.
RAILROAD FINE ABLE.

lRMPHIs ANDLoUIsvILLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
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MEMPHIS ARD CHAaL tSTcN B. R.
Arrives. Leaves.
The New York herald., 1878-09-21
Emigration from Canada.

The consul of the United States at Port
Sarnia, in Canada, has sent to the State
Department communication reporting the
number of emigrants from Canada to this
country through that port for the year end
ing June 80, 1873. The facts are remark
able. The whole number of emigrants for
the year through Port Sarnia was 30,610,
and of these 16, 1873 were Canadians from
the two provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
They seemed to be very respectable and
well-to-do class, taking with them horses,
wagons, agricultural implements, house
hold goods and in most cases money
enough to purchase farms in our Western
States SO large n loss of valuable popula-
ton throws light on the distress and dis
content which have wrought the recent
great political revolution in the Dominion.
1t proves that the suffering there is even
greater than it is in the United
States, and that the agricultural
population can improve their condition by
emigration to this country. If Sir John
Macdonald should adopt the protective
policy on which he has so triumphantly
carried the parliamentary eleCLlOuS IHcTe
will be still larger exodus from Can
ada to the United States. The present emf
grafton is consequence of a restricted
market for agricultural produce. The Can
adams cannot sell their oats and barley in
the United States without paying duties
which put them at disadvantage but by
cultivating equally cheap land iii our West
ern States they will enjoy unrestricted
use Of our markets. When Canada shall
have adopted high tariff its agricultural
population will bc still worse of, because
they will have to pay larger prices for
everything they have to buy besides getting
smaller prices for everything they have to
sell. Under q zollverein, and still more
surely under annexation, Canada would be
on an equal footing with the most favored
portions Of the United States and instead
of losing population by emigration she
would be large gamer by settlers from
this country.
The New York herald., 1878-09-21
The Delays OF Rapid Transit.

For some days there have been great
holes in Tryon row, where the principal
downtown terminus of the East Side ele-
waited road should be, but even practical
engineers are unable to see why the work
at this point should proceed SO slowly, and
Mr.. Director Fields late statement that
the Chatham street branch would probably
be in operation in two months is
anything but encouraging when the
small distance to be covered is
considered. The delay at this most i'm
portant portion Of the road is of great an
noyance to the larger body of passengers
from down town, aud the explanations given
ore by no means satisfactory. Another
cause Of delay, which is equally provoking
of the company, is due to an insufficient
number Of cars during the busiest portions
of the day. Any one who has attempted
to get upon train between five and
seven in the evening at Canal street or
Grand street knows to what we refer The
crowd upon the platform, the packing Of
the cars, the difficulty Of getting on or off
through the crowded mass OF humanity on
the trains and platforms, and the foul air
Of the cars are not only destructive of
human comfort and dangerous to life and
limb, but they show the present inability
of the company to do the work it
has promised to do. The discomforts,
dangers and delays of horse-car travel
will soon seem to nearly every one to be
preferable to those experienced on this ele-
waited road, and if once dislike to the road
takes possession of its would-be patrons it
cannot subsequently, be overcome until the
company has suffered considerable loss.
The management of the East Side road is
decidedly lacking in executive ability, and
no time should be lost in making good the
deficiency if the line is to be properly bene-
fetal either to the stockholders or the public.
The New York herald., 1878-09-21
ITALIAN OPERA.

ARRIVAL or CHARLES MAPLEsoN AND THE
BALLET MAsTEB--soMETHINa ABOUT THE
ABTIsTs-THE PRIME DONNIE, TENoRs, DAN
sEUsEs AND THE IEPEEroIRE.
Tho City OF Brussels, which arrived ns this port
yesterday, brought to this city Mr. Charles Mapcson,
son Of the famous director, and signor francesca,
leader OF tho ballet Tho journey across the ocean
had not been an exceedingly pleasant ono TO young
Mr. Mapeson, and he greatly fatigued during tbs
early part OF tho day. In tho afternoon, however, he
was quite willing TO talk ''opcra," ana granted tho
HERALD representative opportunity fgatherina ior
tho music loving people Of New York. the various items
Of connected with tho new operate enterprise
under hts fahors directorshp Mr. Charles Mapisson
stated that he left The company In Dublin, where the
success Of "Cirmcn" had been extraordinary. Even
the Queenstown journals spoke OF tho enthusiasm cre
ated by this representation In Irelands capital as an
event OF Importance iu oporatic annals
Ihe reporter asked Mr. Charles Mapleson the object
OF his coming over SO many days in advance oil his
fathcr2
sMy OBJECT To- he replied ''to obtain general view
OF things. operate aud otherwise, 90 as 10 INFORM
The New York herald., 1878-09-21

dance of gold in the country to which it is
exported would reduce its value by the law
of supply and demand, and the balance
the effect only when coinage in the two
metals had been honestly adjusted on their
approximate bullion value. At present in
our own national coinage, there is differ
ence of more than ten per cent in the value
Of the gold bullion in gold dollar and the
value of the silver bullion in silver
dollar; whereas the difference should never
exceed one per cent, and ought, if possible,
to be confined within much narrower limits.
If the two metals did not fuctuate at all
with reference to each other an interna-
tional ratio would be Of no consequence,
because there could then be no difference
between coin and bullion, and both would
be equally valuable for expectation. But
such absolute stability is contrary to the
nature of things, and it is therefore desira-
BILE that the effect of fluctuations should be
parried by a common ratio established
by international agreement But an
international agreement would be futile
and worthless except on ratio founded
upon the actual market value of bullion. 1t
could rectify small differences, but not
large differences. 1t would be competent to
deal with difference Of one per cent, but
not with difference Of ten or twelve per
cent. Our present law for the coinage OF
silver is absurd Except for mere subsidiary
coins) because it defes nature and reason
by declaring that ninety cents worth of sill
yer has the same value as one hundred cents
worth of gold. The international Confer
ence having failed our Congress ought to
put bullion enough in our silver dollars to
make them the real equivalent of gold
dollars
The New York herald., 1878-09-21
An Execution In Paris.

In to-day's HERALD is given in a letter
from Paris minute account of public ex-
ecution in that city, The persons executed
were the two speculative students who MUIR
dered milkwoman to secure for themselves
the small amount of her little fortune, and
who so heedlessly left ghastly relic OF
their crime in hired room. 1t is a story
that indicates with how little consideration
of the magnitude of such crime two men
will for pitiful sum of money undertake
murder, and it is probable that its early dis
The New York herald., 1878-09-21

ports ne would give up his sword and become monk,
Bismarck is in angry mood about him. The Duke
commands II frontier corps.
Chicago Times:-"Any combination would be prefer
able to the election OF Butler the endorsement OF
Kcarneyism and the crazy currency delusion which
the natists are Determined TO force upon the couu.
try"
London Truth says:-''The Alps, after all. are pleas
ATTEST at a distance. regular Swiss haunt IS into-
rabe, with the crowd and the noise, and the scany
fare and high prices, and the mpossbity OF putting
foot outside tho without Immediately COM
menc!ng to climb"
A Russian grand duke recently said to distn-
guished French lady that tho royal family OF Russia
might before long become refugees IN Europe, Tho
men of his country having been taken for war pur-
poses from the land which refuses to supply The
people with food, and social revolution being immi-
nent.
President Andrew ID. wh.to and Professor Willard
Fiske, Of Cornell University, who returned from Eu-
rope yesterday will be rendered reception and din
ner on Monday evening nex,, ut the Uo;on Square
Hotel, by tho Cornell Alumni Association, OF this
city. Erastus Brooks Stewart L. woodtord. Fl. w.
Sage and Alonzo b. Corn ell will also bo present.
Cincinnati Commercials 'rhere has been no greater
farce In American politics than the presentation OF
Ben Butler Us an exponent of reform In anything.
His greed OF gain Is notorious. His urgency of tho
salary grab and his enormous foo In the Farragut
prize money award illustrations of thus character
stic Ho is less true representative OF the working
men than Horace Greeley was OF the democracy
1872"
London World:-"Of all bores the sporting bore Is
perhaps the nsufsrabc, and tete a-tsLe with
man VINO will insist on enlargug for IN hour at
stretch the merits OF his horses or hts dogs Ia
wcarincss to the flesh OF the most unmtisated kind
No attempt 10 turn the conversation to politica or
social topics is OF any avail The horsey or doggy
cares for OF these things and at the first
lulI IN tn talk he is Oh his hobby again.
Sir Cnarlos Dixie at his Provencai homo rises At
daybreak reads and writes until midday. when, un-
der cloudy sky, he takes long walk. Ho never
drinks wine, but he IS groat sm oEer His cigars
nearly loot long. The house Is the in which
Nurat hid during the ''whte terror" 1t was an
cestor OF Sir Charles Dixie, one Potter Wentworth,
who spoke Ill of Queen Elizabeth and was COM
mittod to the Tower where he died. From him Sir
Charles gets his radical spirit i.f
The New York herald., 1878-09-21
Mvsrc,L AND DRAMATIC NOTES.


Mr.. Charles Pope will begin an engagement at tho
Bowery Theatre Monday night q round Of
ShaEcsperian characters.
"a False Title" is the title OF o comedy TO bc
produced tonight at the Standard Theatre IN place Of
can Open Verdict" which proved 80 disastrous u
failure. The play Is iavorably spoken Of by
those who have heard read. The cast embraces tho
names OF Mcssrs. Piympton, Lovick. Magnlcy, Le-
clerq and Ringsold, and Miss Rose Osborne and Mrs.
Poole and Mrs. Jordan.
The "school for Scandaln will be produced this
evening at Wsilack's Theatre aftor months Of prspa.
ration. The play will be given In accordance with
the promise adc some time since by Mr wallack
that u tho oary part OF the no would revive
a number OF tho works OF Sheridan, Goldsmith, Hoi-
croft and other famous writer's Of old English come
dies, typical Of the life, manners ana customs OF Tho
last century. The revival OF these OLD plays has
always been q feature with the management Of this
house. Nearly every season has witnessed somc OF
these revivals With elaooratsness and accuracy OF
detail In actin = setting and costumng which has won
warm praise IRON all paygoorsL Seven years have
passed since the School for Scandal last played
ut this house In that umo almost q geoeration
OF plsygoers has arson. To them Shsridans chef
d'nuvre as II Will be given Tonight will prove
a ane intellectual treat M John Giibort
as SIR Peter Teszle will recall doubt
tho minds Of many RUFUS Blake ia the
part somo years ago, when Los.cr walack played
Charles Mr. Charles +. Coghlau will tonight assume
tha, ole and iom what has been scon OF his acting
In othor parts and the Ono reputation he brings IRON
the London theatres the exponent Of characters
old English comedy the success OF his Charles nay
q measure be anticipated Genial John Brougham will
make hts FIRST bow this season before the footights
Sir Oliver Surface, and no doubt will be grootod
with hearty welcome. Mr. Barrow. new
In W nadc an
marked hit Jack Belcher In ''Carissa
Hariowe,r will assume the part OF Joseph Surface.
Mr. Beckett will be the Moses, and Mr.. Floyd the STR
Benjamin Backbite Lady Tcazc will be iotrusied TO
Miss Rose ooshap, who has already become aInetro-
polsn tavor,c and Mmc. Ponisi Is tolplay Mrs. Can
dour In cnumeratns the principal characters IN tho
scncdy with ths names Of those who will play them
It viii be that tho cast 10 brilliant and the revi-
val fun Of promise Tor u successful run.
The New York herald., 1878-09-21
,overy and punishment have saved the fife

covery and punishment have saved the hfe
of many capitalist in small way, for if
the partners had found impunity in their
enterprise they would have continued it.
But the execution is for New Workers the
most instructive part of this story. The
artistic completeness of the preparations
for the grand act of justice, the care with
which these two wretches were launched
into eternity, can only be compared, with
any account of an execution here, to the
complete conviction ofevery thinking person
that our method is horrible and barbarous.
The New York herald., 1878-09-21
PERSONAL INTELLIG ENCE.

Frenchmcu shoot on Sundays.
Mr. Theodore Tiiton has arrived from Europe.
Mr.. d. @. Croly, OF tho Grdphtc. Is ut Newport.
Ripe apples are said TO be u cure for seasicknssf.
H. Gambolta calls Lord Beaconsdsid .'Lord Drag. Z"
Many midalo class English people are tho
RHINE.
Frs, class London physicians a. . rulc, charge
guinea us foe.
nv an order in India Queen Victoria is hereafter to
be spoken OF officially us Her Imperial Majcsiy.
sunset Cox is stiii spokou OF Tor Mayor. This city,
however does not want with six .tarrcllsd
A hall cozcn young hindoos have IN London made
tho politics or the English Empire their especial
study.
In Switzerland there are many travellers and dis.
mai season. Germans prsdominstc, and walters may
no longer receive fees.
Prince Ibrahim Hilncy OF Egypt will 80 toWool-
wich apd live Ike English gentleman. He is very
high In his military studies.
London World --"whcn sentiment In fashion
therc was a cant OF sentiment, but now the tendency
Is rather to cant OF insensibiliiy."
Lord Bcaconsnod sat down and told Queen Victoria
o tho details about tho bulgarian atrocities on the
Turks, anu she had him write TO the Gar.
At Bournemou tho grave OF William Godwin Is
beside that Of his daughter, whose tombstone says
that she Is "widow oi The late Percy Bysshe Shel.
ley."
London Worid:-'The quarrels OF lovers are the re-
nowai OF love; the quarrel between member and
his constituents Is almost invariably the absolutely
certain sign OF impending divorce"
Dublin feels hi.alutin because the Empress Of Aus
tria, the Duke OF ConnaughL the Princess Louise of
Prussia and tho Prince Imperial Of France will 20 70
the ncghborhood Of the Hill OF Tara and attend the
Ward hunt this autumn.
Tho Duke d'Aumaie having said that II France
tameiy submitted to Gormany's taking the Dutch
The New York herald., 1878-09-21
ADJUSTMENTS.
EMMA ABBOTT IN "M1oSov. ("


A crowded audience throngcd the Park Theatre last
evening to witness the debut Of Miss Emma
Abbott as Mguon. While the charming singer
had friends by the scoro It was evident
that hee talent lay 10 another direction
than that OF portraying the sympathetic, timd,
jealous aud self sacrificing girl OF Goethes imagina
ton. Indeed 1t would bo hardly fair to Miss Abbott
to say that sbo met with success In this
difficult role, for the reason that she At
tackled a part Tor which neither her musical
training cultivation in dramatic art had fitted her.
True she was at times heartily applauded, bat the
warmth OF good friends could scarcely overcome
the fact that the youn: lady was lacking
in many essential points-to wit, action,
which wins without vocazatiou, and that ap-
rcaling power OF the mendicant with which We
must ever associate tho quaint and fascinating
female Bohemian. The effort OF Miss Abbott was not
undeservin9 OF commendation, but there are other
parts in which she might have vsntursd with more
assured success. Favors showercd upon Miss
Abbott last night, and in "Knowest Thou tn Land"
she meritei tho encore which entbusi-
astioally demanded. Unfortunately Miss Abbott
took rather humorous visw OF situations when her
ire might naturally have been aroused Beyond
question Miss Abbott has good voice, but 10 win
lyric trumphs she pi1a, has ye. some obstacles
tague gave great satisfaction, the famous
"polonnais" being fapturously cncored. Mr.. Castle
Lo,hario In the person Of Mr.. Ellis Rysc, sustain ned
the part with credit rho only jocular part Of the
tye sserss whose voice. even a.
paratively quiet times during the performance.
provoked tho hcartiest merrimcn, But It should not
be forgotten that Mrs Segun personatcd tho some
what insign Ilcant role of Frederick and, even IN
the small share allotted 10 hcr, carried the
Signor Operti veteran IN operate matters, was q
prominent anu successful feature OF the evening" To-
day Miss Abbott appears as airline in tho "Bohemian