Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-31
AN OLD Paper.
rhs Memphis %,AtIanta) Appeal,
Nay no, 1884.

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Or. n. Hart,a native Of BlOunt
county. Tenu.and graduate Of Maryville
College, but nov Of Lake City Fla.
sends US a copy Of the Memphis Daily
Appeal, dated Atlanta, Ga. Tuesday
morning. May 10, 1854 1t is marked
Vol. XIV, No.1O3, and vas published
BY John R. McClanahan & Benjamin
F. Dnl-terms for the daily, s. per
month. 1t is a half sheet Of eight
columns to the page, dingy and yellow
with age The type is all small but
very distinct, aud as we leok over it
the ghosts Of the dead Southern Cons
federacy seem to rise up, one by one,
and pass along in procession. 1t is a
chapter and days history of the most
trying period Of The var.
A significant line appears near the
head Of the first column: mo sub
scription taken for a longer term than
two months" AS q matter. ot fact the
paper was issued a little more than two
months after that iu Atlanta. Advertise
ments we're charged for at the rate Of So
per square for the first insertion, and
two dollars and a half after that
Those were the days when
a jigger Of whisky that made
half q swallow cost a Confederate
soldier two dollars out Of his pay Of
thirteen dollars a month.
7. NJ. Acton was news agent for the
Army of Tennessee, He supplied mail
carriers, regimental news agents, etc.,
with daily papers at 10 to 20 cents a
copy.
j. NJ. Holbrook, Of Whitehall store,
had hats for sale, and would exchange
one wool hat for two pounds of wool.
The Battle House, of Mobile. kept
by Nabring, DuvalI & Co., was adver-
tised and the ~proprietOrS after thank
ing the public for their liberal patron.
age, in order to correct some misrep-
reservations that had gone abroad.
stated that their charges were fifteen
dollars a day, and in no case had more
been charged, This ought to have
paci6ed the public mind.
Grants report OF the battles o
Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain anG
Missionary Ridge, dated Chattanooga
December "a, 1863, appears il
full. 1t is concise, yet a docu
ment Of considerable length, which
would fill two or three columns of fin,
print in any Of the leading papers o
the present day.
Some counterfeit Confederate none,
had been discovered in circulation il
Wilmington. ItWOuld doubtless pas
as well and sell for as much now as tn.
genuine. Who could tell at this da,
the counterfeit from the genuine?
Some Of the items sound very Oddl
DOW. A soldier writes from Lake City
Fla May 2, 1864: "0ur pickets drov,
the Yankees to within three miles o
Jacksonville yesterday, but there i
no prospect Of fight here. | neve
expect to return home until we gal
our independence. | had rather liv
on parcbed corn and water for on
hundred years than see the Oonfed
eracy subjugated, hut that time vii
never come BUTT did come prett,
qsick, aaa he &C dssb. %ea. home
loyal and in favor Of the old flag AM
an appropriation.
1t is announced that smallpox ha
broken out at Tupslo, Miss, anon
the negroes captured at Fort Pillow
some fifty 10 number. They declar,
themselves tired Of Mr. Lincoln
freedom, aud willing to abide by tn
fate of Dixie. Good reason for it
they could not well help themselve
just then. But whe ever before hear
OF a prisoner taken at Fort Pillow
We have been reliably informed sey
erAl millions of times that the colore
garrison was mastered to a man.
The Mobile Tribune quotes -four
$3.50 a barrel; eOrnmeal, s. pt
brshel (2l; eggs, 50 5Oa3 90 q dozer
fresh beef, 81 per pound, etc.
Those we're halycOa days Of plsnt
Everything was three times high,
before the racket was all over.
The paper b%ristles all ovor with wi
items and tho spirit of war. Scarce
an extract, an "ad.," q TELEGRAM
a letter from the front, 3 b
Of news, a clipping, an editorial
local notice that does not CLEAN like
two edged sword and reflect the int
or the effect Of carnage. 1t revea
the intense energy and desperation
a whole people engaged In
common cause involving propert
hsme, life, honor, everything dear
them. We may question the judgme
Of those who on the Southern side pr
cipitated the war aud fought it out
such a desperate end, but no OF
friend or foe, can question the since
ity and the high heroic qualities Of /
people. Their valor is a part of tn,
national heritage, their devotion
the lost CAUSE was an expression
American character.
The only marriage not
in the paper shines 0
like q sSiitary star in a midnight 8
Of murky blackness. 1t is as folio,
"Iu Trinity church. Ashville, N.
April q, 1864, by Rev. }. Ruxtc
Lieutenant VIM. Hazen, First Lo
isiana Regulars, to Hiss Lilly D,
q dannhtnr Of L-innLnnant q.