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PUBLIC DIRECTORY.
MEDICAL.
ADVERTISEMENTS AH E INSERTED IM
lhisColuiun at 76 oents a line per month.
A"" SHURY CUAPKL (MtTH01ISX)7C0R.
Iletni.ticlo mid Linden streets.
1ARNAI1Y, K. U. DEALER IN GENTS'
1) Furnishing tloods, under Overton tHitcl.
B"OAMlilN (1(100 ft BOARD AX LOW
ratas.AppIy at '.Mil Mnin street. 1M
H- RUMS i FKTKRriON. COAL DEALERS,
office 11 Mahsonstreet.
liOKTONT w. J., PAINTER, LESSONS
J) in Drawing (water and oil oolorsi at the
pupil's residence. Address ut2 McCaU st.
?1A NOLI N AI N S I ! K A N C It C 0 M 1' A N V , Z 1
Main street, J. II, Kdmundsen. tgent.
IA V ChC M. 0. A CO., AUCTIONEERS, StK
y Mnin HI reel. -
C lLAPl'T VANCE 4 ANDERSON. ATT01U
t nay.vat-L.aw. K.ldon Building. 16 Madison
street, Memphis. Tenn.
CALVARY CHlTRCU (EPISCOPAL). COR.
V Kecond and Aduitis sts., Rev. Dr. Whito.
1KSTRAL M r T 11 01) 1 ST CHURCH, I'D
Union street. Rut. J. T. C, Collins, pastor.
(
1I1KLSTIAN CHUllCH, COR. LINDEN
) ami Mulberry streets. Rev. Dr. Caskey.
70.Ni.REl)ATldNAL UNION CHURCH
) Union street, bet. Third and flo oto.
-MONORKUATION BEN EMET1I (ISllA
J ELITE), eor. Kecntid and Monro Ufa.
CUMBERLAND P K K 8 B V TKRI AN
(J Churoh, Court St., hot. Second and J hlrd.
I)
ARIIIKI.,1. A MILLIARD. COTTON KAC
tors ami 'Jommission fti.ronanw.iiwi rrnnt.
1)
1)
1CK1NS0N. J. W. A BKO. COTTON
Factors. 210 front street.
llllll.li-tAI IS rC. ItUTWJKTUTO L'Tll
JWl .Mnin street, net. unyoso rind MeUMI.
NCAN, lloTJKRT P., ATTORNEY AT
aw. No. IS West Uonrt street.
j
7 LSON BROS., DRY GOODS, CLuI'IllNG,
J etc., m Wain stroot.
UMMH SAVING INRTITUTION.NO. 7
.1 J Madison at.. Thou. Fisher, Pros t, transauts
a Uonaral Ranking Business. Kl-fi-J
t?AY A CHANDLER. 2S7 MAIN AND 1(1
T Jefferson streeta, lottery aeont-i.
1.HNN1E.B1ICKHAM 4 CHAPMAN, URO
I1 oors. 300 Main street.
UISUER. AMIS 4 CO., MARBLK AND
A btonc Workii, cor. Ja ana Adanu ma.
U1RST METHODIST CHURCH, SECOND
1 atreet, nrar I'opliirj
IMRST BAPTIST CHURCH. SECOND
f . Hu. i.m, Rm A It Altllfir
' lMHST PRESBYTERIAN CHURC11.C0U,
1 of Poplar and Third utre.ta.
l.UAHKRTY 4 WKNUHK, FURNITURE
F jnd Undertaking. No. S7 Union treet.
tJlANNKRY. JOSEPH. VRACTICA
r Plumber, Qai and Steam Pip Kittar, !
.TclTBrBnn utrcet. 8tt-li
-lAYOSO 8AVINGS INSTITUTION
IT Hankina House. 19 Madison street, E. M
Avery. Cashier. John C. Lanier. Preset.
riRKENVVALD 4 LAKH, DRY GOODS
VX eto., 223 Soeond street.
1 RACK CHURCH (EPISCOPAL), HKR'
I. J nuncio street, bet. Pontotoc and V aneo.
G
U.MBIN'IER, J., DEALER IN SPECi'A-
' 1 LUIn arMft
H
AMPE, HENRY O., BARBER AN1
Uairdrexfer, II ropiar street.
II
II
ERNANDO INSURANCE COMPANY,
17 MaiHKonjit., 8. B. Williamson. Pros t.
UNTIKUISEN'S SWIMMING SCHOOL,
tuotot wasninttion stroei.
itnmitu i M('R I.INDRKY A VREDEN
I CUKlHlArejl MjsonJtreelMt
"TON ESTJ . W. A.', CO. , AGENTS FOR PK
l troleuin Btovea. 3(10 Front Btroet. np stairs.
TrKTsTrTsTTTIN. COPPER AND SHEET
J Iron Worker, 281) Second street.
TroTlTK MobONOUGH, GAS FITTERS,
J Plumbers, etc., 344 Second street.
K
RAU8 GO..DHY GOODri, NOTIONS,
eto., VIA Alain Bireoi. Dear cor. ui auhihb,
pntiTVit! uiiurvPUU fnT.T.WCT? MAIV
J dtreet, peiween jeuerFim mm aubiiij
TTYmrri iiu ti Jr rfl J VP A T . W! 1i H IM
fiVrilli o "o. v.. w- i' """""" '
j Boot and Bhofa. eto., No. 6M Mam fltreet
tt i xr 'ii'iinS! TV A T.VP a T W a H fsfTKH T KS
I . . T : ' 177 1lt; atHit
I J lJUllI'UB. ll Ullllll Btiwv,
j I'ainterF, 2tv secona mrenr,.
I
vmpej imf K PIIVmiAK ANIl SIIR
j peon, jviatn street, up Bitty-n
M
ADA MM ANNA. FORTUNE-TELLER,
M
M
ADA MB LKISE'S DANCING SCHOOL,
in Adnms Block, Second street.
EMPHI8 4 OHIO RAILROAD DEPOT,
head of Main street.
M
ILKS4 STODDARD, AUCTIONEERS,
southwest corner Alain anil uayoso sts.
MONSARRAT 4 MONTGOMERY, Al. U
tioreen, 272 Second St., Ayres Building.
M" USIC, PIANOS, CABINET ORGANS,
Musical Instruments and Musical Mer
chandise, at F. Kattenhach's. 317 Main st.
O- WENTMOORE 4 WEST, INSURANCE
Agents, N. W. cor. Mnin and Madison sts.
I )AUL 4 CROCKETT, DEALERS IN IRON
I ami Acrifiiltiiritl Implements. 270 Front sr.
DACKER. H. B., DEALER IN PITTS.
I burBOCttl. No. li'O Mnin st. .
IlAINT STORE, PAINTERS' MATERI
I als. McDonald & Colo. 44 Monroe it.
Y)EiiKTNS, LIVINGSTON 4 POST, DEAL"
1 ersin Machinery, etc., 3ffl Mnin street.
POLICE COMMISSIONERS OFFICE, No.
VA Madison street.
jfjOSTOFFl'bErcOR. JEFFERSON AND
I Third streets, R. C. Gist, Poj'mnster.
Q
iUACKKNBUSH 4 WARREN, DEALERS
in Sa'h. Doors anil minus, .)( niatiifon si.
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AY 4 WELCH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
N o. ill m am street, up suvrs.
eIlly" r kea dY.de ale rs in gro-
ceries ami Hlnntntlon riupnlies, h.j mnin.
OGEHS 4 PURNELL, PHYSICIANS
and Surgeons, oor. Main and Madison sts.
OYSTER, TREZEVANT 4 CO., Auc
tioneers, 27H Neconn stroer
tSUHSELL. GROVE 4 CO., GAYOSO PLA
JVning Mill, 212 Adama stro-t, east of the
jisyou.
TiOUSII 4 CUNNINGHAM, BLACK
JV smithing and Wauon-makiug, cor. Mon
roe and Desoto streets.
c1Tul!:z7aTo.. locksmith, safe ma-
ker, etc., 119 Jelfrmon street.
r'nNKUllL, JACOB, DEALER IN ALE,
O Beer and Liquors. 2H1 Third street.
C WAN 4 FOUTK, AT'i'ORNEYS-AT-LAW,
O Desoto Block, Madison stroeU
C'TRAfMAN'S SWIMMINU SCHOOL,
foot of Union stree
opriTER, ANDERSON 4 CO., GROCERS,
kr No. '12 Main street.
t! ECOXD PRESBYTERIAN CUURClT.
L 7 cor. Main and Uoal streets
ol. MARY'S GERMAN CHURCH (CATH
r OLIO. for. Market and Third streets.
oT. LAZARUS CHURCH (EPISCOPAL),
Ll Mndison street, east of Third.
jTfT MAmY78 CHURCH (EPISCOPAL),
H Poplar street, near Alahama.
LT. PATRICK'S CHURCH (CATHOLIC).
1 corner Linden andj)esoto streets.
CT rpETER'S CHURCH (CATIlbLIC). COR.
0 Adnms and Third streets.
rpAY UoR, R. S. 4 CO., GROCERS, NO. 27f
1 Front street.
rViESNEsVEE STATE MUTUAL FlkE IN-
1 surani-c Co.. oRiee in Odd Fellows' B uijd.
nWrVPHILLlPS A CO., COTTON FAC-
J tors and Wholesale Growers. ront st.
fpRTD E A U 4 DUKE, CORNER MADISON
J and Second sis., deal in Jewelry, etc.
a "Tobacco and cigars-a large and
superior Hot k t Thurmond, Foster 4 Co. I
lohaeuonlsti, 3SHoo' nd street.
VAN YOAST.G. W., LOTTERY AGENT,
No. 2tl JelTers, n streeu
tFeN AB1.E S SAW SllLL, WOLF RIVER".
north ot Rayon Gsyoso.
AY
TBlTMOF a : CO., STEAM JOB PRIN-
ter. n Mirtienn street.
A OrEX DECLARVT10X OF WAR!
rpHE UNDERSIGNED KNOWING THAT
1 h is ritht. and feeling unwilling to surren
der without a
General En(n(;ement !
hat declared WAR arainst the many disea.es
ot the skin. The "lu.Me rrnterti nf hi;
S ,. i constitute A SOVEREIGN REMEDY
that is well known to maay of the eitnens
,f this r'K-: "hih should be better
known. Tendering hn thanks to his former
eu'tonrrs for their ra'ronage, he tan tnts
petho,l, tierefor. t. slioit a continuance ol
the same from the public generally.
Go to MfOmarT and there ynsll find
The fiDe-l So.p and the cheapest kind ;
It. sute to come and that rery o.n.
Or dirt and filth will be your doom 1
For .ale bj all respectable ImuxiiU and
Cr.-m."
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ISTMr. Grinnel, the Sheriff of Mobile,
died en the 27th.
' tTBrick Pomercy intends coming
South again in the full.
IST A negro company is running one
of the Milwaukee theaters.
S, There are 802 daily, weekly and
monthly papers published in Paris.
BQaThe mackerel fisheries are said
to yield less this year than ever before.
IS? An exchange says the harvest of
the Radicals is mighty small "potatoes."
ISTThe Nashville papers say 1000
pupils attend the colored schools in that
city.
16 The annual exportation of lumber
from Michigan amounts to 12,000,000,000
feet
8 There are 1G00 Chinese employed
in tne construction oi me racinc
railroad.
tfA machine on exhibition at Paris
turns out a pair of shoes every forty
minutes. v
tSf A lady at Stanington, Conn., re
ceived, one day last week, 181 letters by
the mail.
BST" A young lady of Portland, Me.,
only nineteen years of age, weighs four
huudred pounds.
BfiS A negro in Houston, Texas, on
trial for murder, objects to having ne
groes on the jury.
BTho' Louisville Democrat says the
adies of that city are putting up all the
fruit they " can."
JfaJ-The Democrats of Massachusetts
will hold a Stato Convention at Worces
ter, on October the 1st.
BPJUA German company has been or
ganized in San Francisco to encourage
immigration to Sitka.
B5 There are 138,931 widows in the
State of New York, being 03,180 more
than there are widowers.
ISTThere have been over 63,000 cases
and 32,000 deaths from cholera in Italy
within the past six months
IQfc.The value o) the cotton exported
from this country during the year end
ing June 30, was f 202.807.910.
toT Sheridan's recently appointed
chief of police at Galveston, Texas, has
died of yellow fever in that city.
tSTPaul Taylor, a negro, was hung
in Montgomery, Ala , op Friday last, for
the murder of a Yankee peddler.
Jita? There is an apple tree in Living
ston county. Mo , on which the lruit
grows in doublets, Siamese twin fashion-
tafAlex. McCmisland, the builder of
the first sleam fire engine ever made in
Philadelphia, died in that city, Saturday.
tCTThc Freedmen's Bureau in Mobile,
last weei, refused to take charge of a
tick and friendless negro from the country-
.
U5b There are 24,000 Cretan refugees
in Greece, the poorer of whom are sup
ported by contributions from this country
and England.
J2TA courteian of Louisville lately
threatened the life of her attending
physician for not calling at the hour he
had appointed.
Vm The Cincinnati Commercial
hicks Ben. Wade is "disgustingly
Radical." The Commercial is only
moderately so.
laT"A man in Hamilton, Ohio, has
drunk an average of twenty Eve glasses
of lager per day for fifteen years past,
and is still dry.
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MEMPHIS. TENNESSEE. THURSDAY EVENING. AUGUST 29,
ttaT The wind was so strong on the
20th on the prairie between Houston and
Galveston, Texas, that three cattle cars
were blown off the track.
H2T The crops in Dyer county in this
State are said to be suffering greatly for
rain. Not even a shower has fallen in
the county for six weeks.
SkaTTbe fact that the Indians never
scalp negroes, an exchange attributes to
the conclusion that there would be
" much cry and little wool,"
IcTThe President on Tuesday was
elected an honorary member of a New
York baseball club. He thinks the game
moral, delightful and National.
ISaTJohn G. Suxe says that it is a
common notion in Boston that, if a per
son is born in that city, it is unnecessary
for that favored mortal to be "born
again." x
JwTThe Dyersburg (Tenn.) Gazette
says the fiends who so brutally murdered
Mr. Harkreeder and his wife, near this
place last week, are still at large and
unknown,
t
8 The Louisville Journal says
Those who do most in the way of cutting
up about the old Eentucky flags would
probably cut up the flags if only a little,
tempted.
t"A religious cotcmporary asks if
all the trains worn this summer at fash
ionable watering places were cut off even
with the ankles, bow many poor chil
dren would they clothe?
BQ&.A servant girl, living in a family
near Liverpool, England, has unexpect
edly come into a fortune of one million
of dollars by the death of a relative in
one of the colonies.
t&" The statement in the Radical
papers that General Robert E. Lee has
declared in favor of accepting the various
and sundry reconstruction bills is with
out the least foundation in fact.
Wendell Phillips, in an article in
the Anti-Slavery Standard, says : "Con
gress represents the Republican party."
In this Phillips is precisely right Con
gress don't represent anything else. .
B5uThe Galveston (Texas) Inquirer
thinks the labor of emancipated slaves id
so little to be depended on that, the sys
tem of small farms will have to be gen
erally adopted, or the plantations rented
to actual settlers.
JOS' The Chicago Times says Radical
ism has commenced to sympathize with
the coolies. Radical sympathy always
means votes. The country is now being
Africanized ; will it be Asiaticized a
generation later.
tfiF The Commissioner of Immigra
tion at Columbus, Ohio, states that for
the six months ending July 1st, 21,478
immigrants have reached that city,
against 12,909 for the same time in 18G6,
showing an increase of 85C9.
ISyAn affair of honor came off in the
suburbs of New Orleans, on Sunday last,
between two well known citizens, one of
whom is the editor of one of the Crescent
City French papers. Shots were ex
changed, but neither parly wounded.
BQti.News from Vancouver's Island
stales that a proposition is being freely
discussed in the British metropolis for
the transfer of the Island to the United
States, in liquidation of the claims grow
ing out of the depredations of the Ala
bama. ttg,The Webster homestead is now in
the possession of Mrs. Fletcher Webster.
An adjoining residence, fittod up for,
and for a timo occupied by, Fletcher
Webster, is at present owned and occu
pied by Miss Adelaide Phillips, of opera
notoriety.
ISf" A bashful young man escorted an
equally bashful young lady. As they
approached the dwelling ol the damsel
she said, entreatingly : "JehicI, don t
tell anybody you bean'd me home.
Sary," said he, emphaticully, " don't
you mind. I am as much ashamed of it
as you are."
137 In Europe generally the chances
of the birth of a deaf mute child are
more than twice as great as in the LTnited
States, or C15 in a million there, against
8 in a million here; while the chances
of the loss of hearing after birth are, in
Europe, except in Germany, much less
than in the United States, to wit: 154 in
million there, .and 222 in a million
here.
taiTThe Black Hills of Dakota, which
are an outlying group of hills belonging
to the- Kocky Mountain range, are
believed to abound in geld, silver, cop
per, coal and other minerals. Unlike
the miningregion of Colorado, these hills
are said to yield fine, large timber, while
they are watered by two branches of the
Big Cheyenne, a tributary of the Upper
Missouri.
tgiAn Eastern paper says Thad.
tevens is becoming more and more
feeble every day. He bad intended to
visit Bedford this searon, but was com
pelled to abandon the idea on account of
11 health. He is not confined to his
bed, but is compelled to keep the house
by reason of his increasing infirmity.
An intimate friend of lis thinks it
doubtful whether he will ever reacfc
Washington again.
i.ai:wi:nt city circulation.
Letter 'from it. Louis.
Growth of the City Health and lhisir
nets Prospects Gossip about the
Fashions The Nicholson Pavement
The Street Car War and the Great
Bridge Memphians up the Rieer.
Correspondence Public Lidiiib.
Et. Louis, August 27, 1807.
According to a census taken several
months ago, this city can now boast up
wards of 230,000 inhabitants, and is rap
idly increasing in population, extent
and commercial importance. It has al
most been wholly exempt from cholera
this season,' and other epidemios fatal to
the prosperity of Targe cities, which fact
is mainly attributable to the strict sani
tary precautious taken by the Board of
Health.
Trade here is characterized by a much
greater activity than at Memphis; aad
the long lines and huge piles of boxes
on almost every street, evidencing the
receipt of the fall stock, has given an
impetus to all the different branches of
trade, and -made the streets present a
much livelier appearance than a few
weeks ago.
St Louis can rejoice with Memphis in
the possession of the Nicholson pave
ment, which covers most of the principal
streets, aud is being vigorously laid on
the bulance. The only difference be
tween the process of laying the pave
ing here and the Memphis plan is, that
hero the sap and air is expelled by
hydraulic force from the blocks, which
are then saturated with a fluid that ren
ders them entirely impervious to water,
and consequently much more durable.
St Louis streets have a cleanly ap
pearance at all times, and are entirely
rid of garbage, decaying vegetable mat
ter, and that pestiferous article of mud,
which abounds in such superfluity on
our principal thoroughfare that liquid
abomination dubbed " Main street."
Fourth street is the fashionable thor
oughfare here, and is daily thronged
with legions of blushing maids and gush
ing widows, all radiant with smiles, redo
lent with Email de Paris, and redundant
in that article of bacholorio horror and
unconquerable feminine tenacity the
irrepressible and everlasting crinoline.
Excessive skirts and long trails are some
what out of vogue, however, and the
scant attire a la Black Crook is rapidly
superceding them. The long dresses, it
is asserted, prevent the " dear ones "
from making a display of that " magic
in a lady's foot." Who is not an ardent
admirer of this improvement iu the fem
inine costume and does not hope the fair
fashionables will continue the short
dresses, and, if necessary, carry them to
the hight of the fashions.
In perambulating Fourth street, the
eye is attracted by objects which would
well nigh disturb the saintship of an
anchorite, in the Bhape of mammoth
chignons artistically manipulated the
cynosure of many eyes and the subject
of as many complimentary swmarks
towering alott in conical proportions
essaying perhaps to rival the Pyramids
of Egypt in altitude, and seemingly un
conscious or sublimely indifferent of
the soft superstructure on which some
repose. The hair is with somo, who are
extremely iYenchy, colored Bismarck
brown, to accord with the style in vogue
in the trans-Atlantic headcenter of
fashions and vagaries. " There is no
accounting for taste," eto.
'Thestraet cars here are liberally pa
tronized and are yielding handsome re
turns to the owners. They charge only
five cents a ride from one end of the city
to the other, a distance of ten miles or
more. Only think of our one mile and
ten cent ride in Memphis. Their char
ter allows only five cents, but several of
the companies, a week or two ago, at
tempted to extort six cents, and adopted
the motto of "six center tyrannis," and
reluctant passengers were forciblyejected
from the cars by the conductors. The
consequence has been, numerous prose
cutions have been instituted against the
railroad companies, without any other
result, however, than their dismissal.
We know not on what grounds this ac
tion was based, unless it is that whatever
the conductors take is nothing but fair
(fare).
A convention of Topographical engi
neers have recently been examining the
river banks, and are now in session at
the Southern Hotel, discussing measures
looking to the building of a bridge across
the Mississippi at tbis point The plan
has been declared feasible, though not
without an immense expenditure of mo
ney, and the work will soon be com
menced. It is designed to build a truss
bridge of two spans, of a suffiaient
elevation to obviate the possibility of
obstruction to navigation.
If Louis XV of France could be
restored to life and permitted to revisit
this sublunary sphere, and particularly
this the greatest commercial metropo
lis of the West and the pride of the
Mississippi Valley, which is more surely
perpetuating his patronymic and linking
it indissolubly with immortalily than
the fame of any great and noble dee As
he-ever performed be never would
take it for an American State, but
as a province of Holland or one of the
Slates of the German Confederation, for
the Teutons are the ruling element here,
and control nearly every branch of the
city government The King's English
is not entirely attrgetpielt, however, a
there is a large Southern element, dis
franchised, at present, as in Tennessee,
a
j Bj JW
but which represent at least two-thirds
of the talent, wealth and aristocracy of
the city, and who never fail when occa
sion requires to give expression to their
deep sealed love of freedom and their
inextinguishable, detestation of the in
quisitorial and Jacobinical despotism
which weighs down like an incubus the
energies of the State, and prevents a de
velopment of her immense resources.
Since my sojourn here I have noticed
the arrivals of S. P. Walker, sr., S. P.
Walker, jr., Robertson Topp, D. Cock
rell, A. J. Keller, M. J. Wicks, Dsn Able,
Albert Price, of the firm of Price &
Yeatman, and the following ex Mem
phians : J. W. Barron, Wm. Armstrong,
and T. D. Sloan, fermerly of tho South
ern Palace, 332 Main street, W. H. H.
Rusyell, attorney, and Dr. Carles O. Curt
man, formerly of Memphis, and now
professor of chemistry and pharmacy in
the famous McDowell Medical College.
R. J.
Letter from Free lhinker.
Grants last Letter a Masterpiece of
Stratew-Sheridan Killed Off We
owe Grant an Expression of Grali
tude.
Correspondence Public Lsoork.
The test of military genius is success;
President Lincoln answered the argu
nients and assertions of a "Northern
Democrat," when he proposed to furnish
Grant with any quantity of that peculiar
whisky to which he was Addicted. True,
as asserted, Grant was not always sue
cessful ; neither was Napoleon. Th
opinion of your "Damocralic" corre
spondent may be very well founded.
Unfortunntely, however, for his asser
tions as to Grant's weakness, there are
other Democrats whose opinions are
worth quite as much as his owo. Sher
man conceded to Grant the honor of
having planned campaigns which broke
an " egg shell " and " smashed things to
the sea." I may therefore leave this
question affecting Grant's stupidity to
bo determined by tho rclativo value of
Sherman's opinions and of those enter
tained by a " Northern Democrat"
If the Confederacy had been estab
lished, General Lee would have been its
second President Is it not reasonable
to infer from this conceded fact that the
same influences will cause the North lo
invest Grant with the highest honors 7
If Grant should do an act which rcn
dered him unpopular, the next most
military chieftain would grasp the prize,
Is it not true that Sheridan has won the
hearts of the Northern rabble ? If Grant
hud concurred with the President, Sheri
dan at this hour, next after Grant,
would stand highest in the affections of
tho Northern multitude. Sheridan is
deemed as "bad a man" as Wendell
Phillips or Butler. President Johnson's
decreo beheading this violent military
satrap, approved by Grant, would surely
have made Sheridan President It is
bad enough that Louisiana is subjected
to his tender mercies. What a magni
ficent despot this rude soldier would have
proved for the whole South I It is better
that Texas and Louisiana should suffer
than American freedom be extirpated
by -an ignorant adventurer. If Gront
deserved the country's admiration and
gratitude for no other reason, this letter,
having reference to Sheridan, should
win universal applause. Sherman may
be incapable of deciding upon Grant's
merits as a soldier, and your Northern
"Democratic correspondent" may be a
Wellington or Marlborough; but Grant's
letter condemning Sheridan s dethrone
ment is surely a masterpiece of partisan
strategy.
Let me suggest, parenthetically,
Messrs. Editors, that your curt criticism
upon this lelter of Gen. Grant does him
gross injustice. He does not assert the
supremacy of Congress, but of the
American people. You had read the
letter very hurriedly when you penned
that editorial commentary.
Grant may be an autocrat when made
President. I prefer this to the autocracy
of Congress. a single tyrant to a hydra
bended despotism. Grant may evoke
order from chaos and reproduce repub
licanism in America. No other man can
achieve these results at will, and no
other man, better than Grant, can be
elected. Those who oppose him are
practically the adherents of Butler,
Stevens or Sheridan..
Finally, Sheridan's removal may
cause Andrew Johnson's impeachment;
but Grant's letter removed the Presi
dential chair when Sheridan was about
to pop down into it Sheridan was
brni"1. pot Orant Fkk Thtukcr
SOITIIKKN IRON II01SK,
o. 370 Front Street.
IVtYTJJL. JHc CltOCItliXT
UAVK MOVED THEIR STOCK OF IRON
and Hardware to No. 270 Front street,
between Curt and Ma lison, where can be
found at all times the ONLY
Stock of Tennessee Iron
In the city: also, a very roper? or quality of
Common Iron, branded KENTUCKY IRON,
at Reduced Prices.
We keen also a full stock of Casting's, Nails,
Froiths' Tol, Waccn Material, Cotton Gins,
Threshers, Horse Powers, Cider Mills, Corn
8hellers, Plows, pVrair, in fact, a veneral
assortment of Agricultural Implements, etc. :
aod are prepared to supply everything kept in
our line of business at low rates.
Cpon the 1st day of August weiredaeed the
prr of Tennessee Iron one cent per pound.
nd Kentncky or Common Iron one-bslt cent
per pound. l-te fr-
l; V BSC K IB KF0 H 1 11 K PVBLIC LEDGER,
O wh-h is the CHEAPEST daily published
ia the btat el leant
W
Ten Cen tii Per Week.
1S67."
NO. 153.
INSURANCE.
CAROLINA
Llltll COMPANY,
Or Memphis, Tcuu.
Office: No. 291 Main Street.
0MY AGAINST LOSS OF LIFE.
Authorized Capital, . $300,000.
OKl'ICKUHt
M. J. WICK8, President.
A. 8EK88EL, Vioe-Preeldent.
W. F. BOYLE, Becretary.
W. O. MoCLURB. Treasurer.
J. H. EDMONDaOW, General Agent.
E. WOODWARD, Hogular Physioian.
Connultlntt
, W. AVANT.
Phytiiciana I
F. A. RAMSEY.
.Attorneys i
LOGWOOD & PEl'TON.
Director i
W. R. HUNT,
F. W. SMITH,
B. K. PULLKN,
WM. JOYNER,
A. SEKRSEL,
F. TITUS.
N. S. BRUCE,
E. M. APPERSON.
J. T. PETTIT,
M. J. WICKS.
, W. L. VANCK.
I
N. D. MENKEN.
J. O. LONSDALE.
W. B. GREENLAW
W. H. MOORE.
-The Company is now vrepsred1 to issue
Policios in all the various forms of Life Insu
rance, and respectfully solicit pablio patron
aire. 5-33
INSURANCE COMPANY,
HARTFORD, CONN
INCOHPOIIATKD 1M1W.
ASSETS. JULY 1. ISfifl.
Cash on hand, in h'kand with aj'ts $ 2.17.3?0,.0t
United Statos Slock - . H12.277
Real Estate, utiineumbered -. in.'lW 0J
Stute Stocks .....i i7.ft1 00
New York Bank Stocks 7:t4,17(l 00
Hartford Bank Stocks 7TII.S10 00
Miscellaneous Bank Stocks . l:tV1 00
Railroad Stocks, etc - 27S.067 50
Mortittute Bonds, City, County and
Railroad - 1.011.156 60
Total....-........
LIABILITIES.
Losses unadjusted and not due
Net - - - ..
..$4,075,830 55
I 2J1.23o 35
. ,VM,W 20
Income for last year net
... vs
,:VK) 00
A daily income of say..
l,osee!
las and ennennos - 2.511.24 00
Tax paid. Government and bt.ite.- JiH.I.n 3
Tntf.1 l.ikiKnM mail in 47 veurs HH.7.1:j7 410
Ry Fire 17.24.VW0 9
Inland 1..S4.408 07
Loss by v ortianu e ire, J uty 4tn.
ItTTE total amount covered bv the Ctna Poll
1 cies on property destroyed or datnrted il
$i06,S,r4, on which salvage will be about five
pcroont. vur total loss win not vary mucn
from fanflMK), and was promptly adjusted and
paid. This sum is five per ocnt. upon tho Com
pany's a-wet. a fifrtire but slightly exoaedinf
our Government and State tuxes paid last year,
or a proportion eoual to a 85,000 lods for aoom-
nanv of 1 0 IK ,..,it.
The necessity for insurance and the value ol
wealthy, strons; sorporations is toroibly Il
lustrated by this lire. Several weak insurance
companies are dovtrovod. Port and has
or. i..ui (,.nj.nn,nin t...;n
mostly fine brick or stone structures protected
and screened with upward of 3,H) shade trees
bounded on three sides by water indood.
literally, almost rising from the ocean and
with a steam fire donarttnont vet it has 10.'
000,000 of property oonvuuicd in a few hours
noon a holiday whon its poople are least occu
pied from tho very insignifiiiant cause of a
nontemntihle tirecmrkor.
Remember the trifling; origin of fires that
sweeu kwiv in a few hours the earnines o'
years. Consider your best interest and give the
AUna A (tent a call it you neon proper insur
ance security. Pay a ftiir rate of premium foi
a ffood and genuine article, and with these
luhts and experienced before you, procure
your insurance with surewd juuKment.
Applications lor inurinco promptly airenueo
to by
V5-1H
U. A. iiiiit.r.iu.'N x t;u., Ar t'
No. 22 Madison street.
INSURE
Lindsey & Vredenburgh,
Agents fer tbe following first-class companies
Home Insurance Company,
of
New Yr,
I
Co Altai, -
0.t,ref5.ro3,
Security Insurance Comp'y
of Now York.
Capital. ... ,08,0,
Enterprise Insurrjice Company,
Of Cincinnati.
Capital I I l.O00,OO0.
IJARTIKS DKSiaiMJ INSURANCE. KI
ther I ire, liarme er liull, woulU. do well
to call upoa
LIND8ET & VREDEN BTJROE
Before sleeting insurance elsewhere.
No. 11 MadNon Street,
5. S Tn gS'f. VeTrM.. T""
IMNAL SETTLEMENT. All creditors and
other persons concerned or interested in
the estate of James St. Simes. deceased, are
hereby notified that I will make afinsl settle
ment of my administration ot said etate at the
next September term of the r-he by County
Court, to be heeun and held at the Oert House
in the city of Vetnphis. on the first Monday in
September, l-'7. or so soon thereafter as the
said court will hear tbe sain.
.HAai 1:. Msl.s,
law S-i Administratrix.
REIH'CTIO.V IS PRICE
OF A
Standard Ilemedyl
TN CONSIDERATION OFTIIF SCARCITY
1 of money, and in order to place it within
the reach of all, we have reduced the priM of
Ur KINO OP CHILLS
To the low price of ONE DOLLAR per Bottle.
This il the most powerful and certain com
pound ever Introduced for the permanent
eradication of all foriui of Chills, Intermittent,
Remittent and Billioua Fevers, Neuralgia,
Dumb Chills, Sun Paia. and all those malarious
affections so common throughout the Southern
country. It ia put up in large bottlos, with
plain directions, is pleasant to the taate, and
does not afleot the head, ears or nervoa.
WHAT IT CAN DO.
It eleaniei the Stomach, arouse, the Liver,
opens the Bowels, and oarrios of all Hillious
Matter, effecting quick and permanent cures.
RADICALS
Who have not become acclimated, and aro con
stantly troubled with a Chill or Fever, who are
liillious and full of Aches, and feel an indispo
sition to got about, should, by all means, use
tins truly valuable Medicinal Compound, which
is preparod by Physicians of Twenty Years' ex
perience in this malarious country.
CONSERVATIVES
Who have no time to lose, fooling with various
mixture, of the day, and who have no money
to throw awav, could not do better than to
spend One Dollar for the KING OF CtUI.LH
and be cured f all forms of Chills, Fo' or, Bio.
Its taste is pleasant, and it never alieot the
Lead or ears.
MECHANICS OF MEMPHIS,
Your timo Is money, and why do yon continue
with the Chills. Fevers, etc., losing so much of
your precious time when a remedy is so near at
hand and so cheap. Our remedy builds up the
system, placing it upon a good foundation,
remodels by purging the system of all flaws,
and places you on foot with sound timber.
Send and procure one bottle, and be perma
nently cured. Price only One Dollar.
FARMERS AND PLANTERS
Visiting the olty would greatly consult their own
interest bv purchasing a supply of this never
failing King of Chilli. Much time can be
saved by curing the Chills immediately, and
this medicine uproots the disease and so
destroys the cause that it will not return, as it
dees when cured with quinine.
MERCHANTS AND CLERKS,
Why will yofi. lose so many golden moments of
your life, in shaking and complaining ot chilly
sensations. Fevers, Headaches, pains in the
Rones and Joints, Lassitude, Billiousncss, etc..
when the insignificant sum of One Dollar will
speedily rastore you to health, vigor and buoy
ancy ? It is pleasant to the taste, produces no
roaring or bussing in the head, no ringing f
the ears, but a-tsqutoklyand elfeotually. After
using one bottle you will have no other in your
house. -
MOTHERS AND FATHERS
Who have pale, swarthy, puny, and sickly
children, having little or no appetite, imperfect
digestion, inaotive liver, indisposition to play,
bnt are oross, peevish and drooping about, with
slight fevers sometime during the day, can be
."actually restored to the bloom of health, by
giving small doses of the King of Chills four or
five times a day. Do not forget the name,
DramesToola Co.'i KINO OF CHILLS. Price
$1 00. Sold by all Druggists. J. P. Droh
fiiioi.K Jr. Co., Proprietors, M Main street,
Memphis.
YOUR WIFE
Possesses charms in proportion to her health,
and she measures a husband's love by the inte
rest he evinces in her welfare while sho is sick.
Now, if you wish to retain in tact your wife's
love and aflection undiminished, and desire
that she regain her health and formet beauty,
you should, by all means procure one bottle ef
ENGLISH EESIALE BITTEBS,
A compound that is actually restoring health
to more sickly females than all other remedies
combinetl. It only proposes to, cure thoso
Uterine Complaints peculiar to the female sex.
It is indorsed by the medical profession all
over the ouuntry, as it is no secret nor patent,
and effects cures -bona fide cures- after.all othor
means fail.
OLD AND YOUNG FEMALES
Ilave long needodamedicine that would roliev
them of all those Female Complaints an !
Irregularities which prove so troublesome a t
over the Southorn country, and they can nov
confidently relv upon the ourative powers of the
English Female Biijters. It arouses, restore."
and regulates. It cures are rapid and perma
nent. If troubled with painful, suppressed or
irregular Monstruatlon, Hysterics, Loucorrhoea
or Whites, Falling of the Womb, Ulceration of
the Womb, Chlorosis, and all those symptoms
which follow, this medicine will relieve you.
THAT YOUNG GIRL,
Whose bloom has departed from her cheeks:
whose eye has lost its lustre ; whose Intellect
has lost its brightness ; whose countonance
botokens gloom and despair; who is pale, ema
ciated, feeble, !ifleess, repulsive with palpita
tion of the heart, swimming of the head, cold
feet and hands, can be restored to perfect health
and beauty by using the Engliih Female
Bitters.
MARRIED LADIES,
As yon value your life, and health, and per
sonal charms; as you are now troubled with
some complaint peculiar to your sex; as you
have been under treatment of some physician
without benefit ; as you have nearly concluded
that your case cannot be rouched : let us insist,
lotus urge you to 1 y aside your fears and pre
judices, in regard to .'advertised remedies, for
one time in your life, and try one sioglo bottle
of Engliah i'eniale Hitters.
' We are well aware that many perrons snub
at the idea of using an article that is adver
tised, and we know of many tnitbhing individ
uals in this community, and if they had their
way, many ot them would snub all you sickly
females in your graves. Cannot a worthy medi
cine be advertised r Send immediately, and
procure a bottle ot this powerful Uterine aud
General Tonic and reiriin yourhealth. strength
and color. Sold by all Drnggists.
J. r. DKOMGOW.K CO., Proprietors,
301 Main street. Mcmi-his.
HESPERIAN PILLS,
THE
SURE C IJ II F.
FOR
HESPERIAN PrLLS. SUrtAR-COATED.
and entirolv freo from all itoiiomtits or
injurious drugs, bavo been tested lu thousands
of cases, and
NEVER KNOWN TO FAIL!
One box of Hesperian Pills will cure the
most malignant case of Ague and Fover. Price
$1 00.
For sale by Ward A Lefluere. O. W. Jones
& Co., and all leading drug stores.
Ask fur " Hesperian Pills, the sure cure for
Ague."
WM. D'OBHCH Be CO.,
4.104.S-" . lr"tirletnr. St. T,on',
LUMBER.
Lumber, Laths, Shingles.
A LARGE STOCK OF
a
Lumber, Laths and Shingles,
AT
TEMIHJS SAW MI IX,
ON
Wolf river, directly North of Bayou Oayoso
rB HAVE ON nND AND ARKCON
II stantlv sawing Cvt,rets and Poolar Lum
ber of all dimensions ; alto, a large lot of Laths
and Shingles, all ef which we will sell at prices
suited to the times, for cash only.
Contractor. Builder, and Dealers who wi.l
to buy for cash, will consult their interest b;
giypr o w -t. Ini-V M
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
TE ARK THE ONLY AUTHORIZED
f agents for the sale of
PKTROLEUJI HTOVFS
and fer the genuin. Fluid for them. St ill keen
constantly on band a stor-k ef .vii.
J. . A. J CO.. Arents.
MO Cffioe, Sdu Frunt sueet u. slaira,
ijn C I', xacuimo-a.