The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-05-11

FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 18th, 1866.
The local excitement in Washington con
tinues to be 10 the failure of the Merchants
National Bank
CoNF1scArIoN proceedings have been
ordered to be stopped in the United States
courts in Florida, by the President.
A white woman il Cincinnati tried to WOO
and win a "colored geman" of Nashville.
She failed. Lucky for the negro!
TIE President, it is said. intends re-
moving every Office holder who is opposed
to his policy.
TIE House of Representatives has passed
the bill reviving the grade of General in the
United States Army.
THE French troops are to be Withdrawn
from Mexico in three detachments; the first
in November next, the second in March,
and the third in November, 1867.
The man who never told an editor how
he could better his paper, has gone to St.
Louis to marry a.woman who has never
looked into a looking-glass.
THE authorities are taking away all the
guns and other weapons from the discharg-
ed colored soldiers, as some of them have
made bad use of their gifts.
IT is reported that the Cabinet meeting
in regard to the reconstruction" report,
Secretary Stanton was the first to break the
silence and declare against it.
PETITIONS are in circulation / raging Con-
gress to enact a civil code and general cor
poration law and allow the District of
Columbia DELEGATE in Congress.
Coon NEws.-The Tennessee Legislature
viii adjourn in a week or two. 1t might
have adjourned long ago for all the good it
has been doing.
DR.. S. H. Stout, of this county, deliver
ed an Introductory Lecture at the opening
ofthe eighth Summer Course of the Allan
ia Medical College, on Monday last.
A certain Liberal General in Mexico, with
an unpronounceable name, of no conse-
quence, anyhow, has proclaimed himself
President
A lot of regular soldiers, full of fighting
whisky. INDUCED in a general cleaning out
of negro soldiers, in Chattanooga, one day
last week. Negro stock was below par at
dark.
The New York Tribune, whose editor
has heart as black as it is yillainous, pro-
poses, in future, to try white people in the
South before black juries, as the only means
to secure their conviction.
A bill, indirectly to aid Mexico, has been
presented in Congress. It empowers the
Secretary ofthe Navy to sell vessels to any
government on this continent, and accept
its bonds in payment.
THE Ways and Means Committee report
ed one day last week, and the House al
once passed, bill imposing duty of &c
per cent. adj 0alorem, on all live animals i'm
ported into this country.
IT is thought Cairo will be free from
water hereafter when the river rises above
its level. It's new pump, capable of throw
ing 10000 gallons per minute, went intc
operation last week
The remains of Thomas II. Clay, grand
son of Henry Clay. Confederate officer
who died at Atlanta, Georgia, in 1864, were
reinforced at Lexington, Kentucky, few
days ago.
A lady who edits newspaper in one o
the Western States, says that the popularity
of her journal is due to the fact that people
are always expecting she will say some
thing she ought not to.
The Knoxville Wig says Gov. Brown
low will, in a week or so, reply to the lelte
of Gen Howard contradioting his statemen
in reference to the Freedmeu's Bureau bi
and the President,
The wealthiest congregation in New Yor
city, and perhaps in the whole country, i
that Of the Ascension (Episcopal) in tn
Fifth Avenue. Their aggregate income
last year are shown by the official return
to have been nearly Sl8.OOO,Ooo
The contemplated Secession Conventio
met at Knoxville oa the Sd inst. Judg
Sam. Rodgers, was appointed President
Many counties were not represented, an
many of the delegates opposed the sehem
of separating East Tenn. from us.
A NOVEL DEvICE.-One of the Govern
ment revenue detectives on the Canada
frontier writes to the Commissioner of Gus
toms that the smugglers have laid pip
across the st. Lawrence river, and are en-
gagged in pumping whisky from Canada int
the United States.