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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-22
For the Pulaski Citizen.
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By ELLA LILLIAN NJ.

Down in lone thicket, on duty as picket,
One night long ago, stood soldier boy lone,
Near the banks of the river, he watched the beams
quiver,
And listened in silence to the waters low moan.
The soft summer air, kissed the brow broad and fair,
And whispered sweet words, soft tender and low;
His worn comrades slept, while his lone watch he
kept
To give warningto to them of theapproach ofthe foe.
Far over the river, where the moonbeams culver,
Dispelling the shadows of dark-robed night,
Looked the picket boy lone, and he thought of his
That home far away, SO peaceful and bright.
His mind wandered back, DER fair memory's track,
And called from the past, scenes holy and dear
When in childhood he played in the green forest
glade,
And the shouts of gay children he still doth hear.
The scene changes fast-that dream is long past
With playmates so merry he gambols no more;
His picket watch keeping, whilst comrades are
sleeping,
Dreaming sweetly of loved ones on Potomac's fair
shore.
He thinks of his brother and soft-eyed mother,
Whose hand led him gently in youth sunny day.
Of his fathers last blessing sisters tears and cares
sing,
as he marched with his band to scenes far away.
Tears dim'd his dark eye and he breathed sad sigh,
For his heart yearned sadly for loved at home
AS he stood that night, in the moonbeams bright,
And listened in pam to the wavelets low moan.
His gun is at rest: the arms over the breast
I;o1.+ IL eth h yJ,+l
Of his home far away, where the little ones play,
And in fancy he sees them in the waves slvered
sheen.
Scarce a sound to be heard-no warbling of bird
Breaks on the silence that is lowering there
Naught but the ring low of the silyered waves
flow,
And the whispering Ioavos in the Silly air
Bring thy wandering mind baok-the VOLTS on thy
Oh soldier so youthful, SO true and so brave,
By the banks of that river, on which the beams
quivar,
He would make for thee lone, early grave.
Awake from thy dreamsi in the moons bright beams;
An eye Is upon thea foeman is nigh
Hark shrilly it rang-the rifles sharp clang-
The ife-lightis quenched in the soldiers dark eye
| On the banks of the river, where the mOonbeams
quiver,
! The soldier boy lay on that memorable night,
In calm, peaceful rest hands crossed DER the breast
His soul safely sheltered in the Eden home bright
Naught viii arouse him from sIumber, hosts without
number
May march with ''quick-step' by the soldie boy,
bed;
No dreaming Of a. Dfatber. sister or brother
His sleep KIND - sking-tis the sleep of thu
dead.
And whilst he is sleeping, no comrade is keeping
Watch over the picket the banks of the river
But angels are sining, and harps sweetly ringing
For tho soldier aZ who is now 'off duty forever
PULASKI, June, 1866.
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rienced vine-dresser, matted with vineyards
that win prove greater sources of wealth
than was ever the most prolific of cotton
fields. Our worn-out and sun-baked fields
may be carpeted with our tropical grasses.
and converted into most nutritious pastures
for innumerable f1ocks and herds.
Nowhere in the world can the orchard be
made to bring forth such increase of deli
cious fruits, and all that may be made
therefrom, as under the "skiey inhuencies"
of our Southern land Our forests, with
their millions upon millions of unavailed-of-
wealth, are almost untouched. Our won
derful mineral resources are virgin and un-
plucked, save only so far as to leave dis
covered the rich exhuberance that awaits
the ravishment of hardy enterprise. Our
fisheries are no mean rivals of those of the
North. if we but choose to spread our nets
for our own treasures of the sea, instead of
depending upon neighbors with whom we
would be brothers of they would only let US
be so.
Nor is the enterprise and the hardy in
dustry lacking to develop these resources,
should the course of the Federal legislation
compel an abandonment of cotton culture
as the principal reliance of the South. The
war was good school in which the South
ern people became Injured to undertakings
for which it was always before supp posed
they had no adaptability. The monuments
of their ingenuity, skill and industry still
exist, nor have they lost the cunning of
hand and brain which still stand them in
good stead whenever it becomes necessary y
to abandon culture of cotton, and turn their
attention to the development of other re-
! sources.
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Wealth and Poverty Of our Statesmen.

Wealth and Poverty Of our Statesmen.
Jefferson died comparatively poor. In
deed, if Congress had not purchased his
library and given for it Eve times its value,
he would with difficulty have kept the wolf
from his door.
Madison saved money and was compare
lively rich. To add to his fortune, how
ever, or rather that of his widow, Congress
purchased his manuscript papers, and paid
$50, 600 for them.
James Monroe, the sixth President of
the United States, died so poor that his
remains found resting place through the
charity of one of his friends. TheNremain
in cemetery in School street, but no monu-
ment marks the spot whore they repOse.
John Quincy Adams left some 10000,
the result of industry. prudence and in
heritanoe. He was man of economy.
Martin Van Buren died very rich
Throughout his life he studiously looked
out for his own interests. It is not believ-
ed that he ever spent thirty shillings for
politics. His party shook the bush and he
caught the bird.
Henry Clay had very handsome estate.
1t probably exceeded $1,000 He was a
prudent manager anda scrupulOusly honest
man!
James K. Polk left about s 1 so. .OOO-ffty
thousand of which he saved from his Presi-
dency of four years.
Daniel Webster squandered some mil
lions in his lifetime, the product of his
professional speculation. He died leaving
his property to his children and his debts
to his friends The former sold for less
than $50, ,0OO-the latter exceeded $50, 600
John Tyler left $4,000 Before he was
President he was bankrupt. In Office he
husbanded his means, and then married g
rich wife.
Zachary Taylor left $4,000.
Millard Fillmore is a wealthy man, and
keeps his money in a strong box. 1t viii
not be squandered in speculation and vice
Frank Pierce saved some $50, 900 from
mis- term of service.
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LIQUID Eloquenee.

Paul Denton, Methodist preacher in Tex
as, advertised barbecue, with better liquor
than usually furnished. When the people
were assembled, desperate in the crowd
shouted out: "Mr Paul Denton, your rev.
erence has lied. You promised not only a
good barbecue, but better liquor. Where
is the liquor" There" answered the
Missionary, in tones Of thunder, and, point
ing his motionless finger at the matchless
double spring, gushing up in two strong
columns, with sound like shout of Joy,
from the bosom Of the earth. "There," he
repeated, with look terrible as lightning,
(while bis enemy actually trembled on his
feet, "Tbere is the liquor which God, the
Eternal, brews for his children"
Mot in the simmering still, over smoky
fres, choked with the poisonous gasses, and
surrounded with the stencil of sickeniDg o.
doris and rank corruption, doth your Father
in Heaven prepare the precious essence of
life, the pure cold water; but in the green
glade and grassy dell, where the red deer
wanders, and the child loves to Play-there
God brews 1t; and down, low down in the
deepest valleys, where the rills sing; and
high up on the tall mountain tops, where
the storm clouds brood, and the thunder
clouds crash; and way far out on the wide,
Wild sea, where hurricanes howl music, and
the big waves roar the chorus. sweeping
the march Of God-there be brews it, that
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This suggests another rumination.

This suggests another rumlnation'
an awful thing il must be for lady to
a gentleman and not dare ssnt
facts''-in short to let infeg
in the mud, prey on her ID
Now when a fellows a
can R (letter rip, you know,)
ing for the expense. like thS
''Sav, old hoss Dads rich, Civ
cents worth O. peanuts-who
mousyl'') Consequences way be GnsI
cally maranatha'd. If girl says ''I
you can turn around and say you had
on it she would And it isn't very lik|
she will anyhow-since it is Allah asOds1
Turkish fashion, you know-tO be engaged
to two or three ladies or gentlemen at once.
Isn't it nice?
But suppose she refuses and goes bsc
on you and splits and tells Of the FsfusalF
Whew-wel, it spoils her market, for the
sound marrying men who don't like fiowers'
that have been snuffed at, even If they did
shut their petals sensitiyely.. By the way,
ladies, permit one who is D to your I--de-
voted TO your interests, you know-to sug-
gest that you forego the monentary tri-
umph of boasting of a refusal. It's bad
bad-bad In the long run
But-when a damsel loves a man 40
can't make him feel it-isn't that awful2
When We reflect what perfect cresture
most men are, especially most young msD
and most especially those of the Ord9
of the Sunday egro-minstrel, Cuba-Spa
lard, fast bar-keepsr, handsome scto
dandy dentist, travelling photographer tyI
when we reflect upon all this and remeT
Der how susceptible poor girls are 70 SO
Adonises, why We pity the poor gurls
gairls with exceeding great pity, and "
that some fellow would invent a mach
dry their weeping eyes.
Meanwhile-until something be
vented-let us suggest that any
is troubled with this sort Of
procure this number Of the Citi
sent it to chin" Possibly ii
the following lines, by Bryant
his eyes:
aI would that I eoaid utter
Nv feelings without shanss
And tell him how love him,
Nor wrong my virgin fame.
Alas! to seize the moment
When heart inclines 60 he
And press suit with pass
L not 8 woman 5 part.
II nan comes not TO gath.
The roses where thsY etl
They fade among the foliGa
They cannot seek his bard"
Alasl poor Yorick.
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NUMBER 25.
beverage of life-health giving water.

beverage of life-health giving water.
"And everywhere it is a thing ofbeaut
cleaning in the dew. drop, singing iEusl
summer rain, shining in the ice ger
the trees all seem turned to living
spreading a golden veil over the setti
or white gauze around the midnight
sporting in the cateraet, sleeping -
cier. dancing in the hail shower.
bright snow curtain softly about the
world; aud weaving the many colo
that seraph ssone of the sky-wh
is the rain-drop of earth, whose VIC
sunbeam of heaven, all checkered o
the celestial flowers, by the mystic
refraction. Still, always it is
that blessed life-waterl Nopois
on its brink; no madnes or murde
stains its liquid glass; pale wi
starving orphans find no tears in
no drunkard's shrieking ghost
grave cursing in words of eternal
Speak out, my friends! would you
it for the demons drink, alcohol?'
a shout like the roar of tenn
swered-"Nol"
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For the Pulaski CHzer

In late paper noticed decision
dered by Kentucky justice that XII
a ''binder," in case before him bro
by lady to recover a pony from Sc
man who promised it in payment for 4
and thought to back from his bargain
by judgment for the plaintiff, was cons
ed to "pony up This brings to
a decision by equally high legal auth
that any man or any other man, has a
to take a kiss when the fenianess cal
is willing to give it. At least SO i
the author of the following "pome, .
as you newspaper men say, from
change:
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This is the latest from Fanny Fern, ad-
dressed to the ladies:
Show but a strip of white stockings above
your boot, or bit of embroidered skirt, OF
a balmoral, and you may lead a man by the
nose. have positively seen gentlemen
stand at the corners, eagerly bObbing their
heads this way and that, to catch sight of
the gaiteF boots, as they alight from the
various omnlbusses. Not all young men
either, but gray-headed old cOdgers, who
had grandpa written all over them.
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Artemus Ward was out late one night
recently. Here is his account of his return
home:
''It was late when I got home. The
children and my wife were all abed. But
a candle-a candle made from taller of our
own raIsin-glemed in Betsy's room. 1t
glemed for Il All was still. The sweet
silver moon was shinin' brite, and the bu-
tiful stars was up to their usual dOins.
felt a sentimental mode still so gently DER
me stealing, and pawsed before Betsy's
winder, and sung in kind of op'ratic vols
as follers, impromptu, to-wit:
Wake betsy, wake,
My sweet galOot!
Rise up fair lady,
While ] toot my lutel
The winder-I regret to say that, the
winder went up with vi'leut crash, and
form in spotless white exclaimed, ''Cum in
to the house, you old fool. To-morrer
you'll be goin' round complaint about
your liver.
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Tea-A Chinese Secret,


Recently gentleman notified the Board of Health
that person IN East Twenty street was exten-
sively engaged in the manufacture of wheat-bran
tea. and in buying up damaged cargoes and after
cleansing the tea, colorng it with Paris green The
Boards inspector for the Fifth district thereUp0n
visited the place against which complaint had been
entered, and the following extract from his re-
port, which presented at the meeting of the
Board OF Health this afternoon shows the result OF
ais Investigations;
Henry Joseph Jamoson's business is that of buy
ing tea damaged by shlpwreck and by water at fires
After submitting it TO process by which it is de-
prved of its damaged appearance he puts it into the
market. The damaged tea is lrst placed in cistern
of cold water here it is allowed to remain several
hours that the saltsh other foreign taste which
it may have acquired may be removed; it is then
dried and sfted; the coloring matter is then added
and the tea removed to revolving barrel where the
color is thoroughly mi xed.
The tea is then moistened, and dried and sent to
market. The proprietor informed ne that he paid a
Chinaman one thousand dollars for the secret of
coorng, and he declined to impart the secret unless
peremptOrily ordered to do He assured me- how
ever, that poison is employed in the process and
invited the most rigid tests. took the specimens
and tested them, with the following result: The
colOring matter, tested for copper, yielded none.
Marsh's test yielded trace of arsenic. 1t is com
posed of sulphate of lime mixed with some organic
substance and a small amount of iron, probably an
impurity of the gypsum The tea marked "colored -
digeSted water and tested for copper yielded none
The filtered liquid had distinct blue tint probably
impaired to it by the solution of the organic matter
Tested for chloride of sodium only traces of it were
discovered. Some green tea from respectable up
town grocery, submitted to similar tests yielded both
Suphate and carbonate of lime In these inyestiga-
tions | had the services of DR.. Arthur Duberceau,
formerly assistant TO Professor Doremus in the New
York Medical College. CONCERNING the accusation of
using Paris green or other mineral poisons in the
coloring of his tea, 1t is my opinion that the
jameson is entirely innocent"
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CLEANSE THE BLOOD.-With CORFU

ordered or vitiated Blood, you sick all over.
1t may burst out il Pimples Sores or in some ac
tive disease or it may merely keep you istless, de-
pressed and good for nothing. But you cannot have
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SARsAPARILLA purges out these impurities and stim
uates the organs of life into vigorous action resor
ing the health and expelling disease. Hence it rap
idly cures variety of complaints which are caused
by impurity of the blood, such Scrouta or Kngs'
Epst. Tumors Ulcers, Sores, Erupttons Ptmptes,
Btotehes Boiis, ST. Anthony's Fire, Rose Or krgspe-
Cancer or Cnncerous Tunors, Sore Eyes, Female Dis
eases, such as Retentio IregutarttV, Sippresston,
Whites, Merttitv, also philis VeneraL Diseases.
Esoer Gompea'nts, and HeGrt Diseases. Try AVER s
oARsAPAR!LLA, and see for yourself the surprising
activity with which it cleanses the blood and cures
these disorders.
During late years the public have been misled by
large bottles pretending to give quart of Extract
of Sarsaparlla for one dollar. Most of these have
been frauds upon the SICK for they not only contain
little any oarsaparilla. but often no curative prop
critics whatever. Hence, bitter disappointment has
followed the use of the various extracts of Sarsapa
rilla which flood the market, until the name itself
aS become mel yybs with mposon and cheat
tend to supply such remedy as shall rescue tbe
from the load of obloquy which rests upon II We
think we by III bs it has virtues
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AYERs 81 CHERRY fRf PEoToRAL so UNIVERSAL,
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and arsptFfS spd 81 by IL BROWN NGsSf S Mass
ph1s-so2@d&w Baltimore. and by all Dealers.
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Annapolis, May 10, 1866.
mope1uI Indications in the South.


The Washington correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune writes as follows:
From Mississippi more frequently, and from other
States occasionally hear of confessions that are
not without significance. For two or three months
past earnest requests have been arriving, one after
the other, at General HOward's HEADQUARTERS Eassd
upon lntimations that the functions of the Bureau
woud pc narrowed or that the number of its agencies
would a diminished. The petitioners have uni 0rmly
been planters, recently Shareholders and rebels who
are now endeavOringto reconstruct" their fortunes
upon the only basis left them and are not too dull to
discover that without the aid of the Bureau and its
eclent ald too, they cannot manage the free negro
MORE recently from Kentucky-think of it!-from
Nestern tennessee, and from all parts of Mississippi
as previously from Arkansas and Alabama these
petltons have come IN larger numbers than before
IN most instances informally and indirectly but with
all the more significance. From many localities the
agents OF the Bureau have been withdrawn; and the
troops were Withdrawn because the army is being
reduced by the muster out of one hundred and twenty
thousand colored troops, who mustered out in
Difference to ul-reconstructed Southern preiudices
In a few instances l judge they might be counted
upon the fingers of two or three hands.
The negroes and their employers have gotten on
a1ncaoy enough, selslhly attending to the industrial
interests IN hand and leaving politics and the stand
ing army to Congress. But in most instances the
ohclal reports show that the opportunity to resume
the oppressive methods of other years proved too
Strong temptation to the masters as the pres
cence OF such an evil impending warned many of
the negroes, and sent them OFF by droves in the
wake Of the retiring regiments. Sober second
thought has sent the masters after them to the
nearest military commander who was entreated to
restore the troops that with them might be regaiped
the only available instruments of industry and
means of wealth.
1t is but step or two further to the deduction of
those general principles, universally applicable and
so widely understood at the North, by observance of
which the prudent employer is able to win with the
Warmest personal esteem the most profitable service
from his kindly treated and generously paid laborers
How long it will take the planters to get over this ad-
dltlonal step or twos cannot, with accuracy con-
jecIure; out We may safely prophesy that whenever
they do arrive at clear apprehension of the real in
divisihillty OF interests between the employer and
vii hnNY lAap rnaaft.
which God has endeavored to teach at the bayonets
point, since it could be taught in no other way.
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Fort MONROE. May 12-Immediately on the ad-
journment of the United States Circuit Court in Nor
folk, on last Thursday afternoon, Judge Underwood
left for Washington. D. c. and gave particular in
structions to the clerk Of the Court TO exhibit 10 no
person persons the indictment brought against
JEFF Davis. The various attaches of the press en-
deavored in vain to obtain permission to copy it, but
the clerk Of the Court acting under Judge Under
woods peremptory instructions. positively refused to
leave any one see it.
An interesting billiard tournament took place last
evening in Norfolk, and large audience was in at.
tendance to witness the match between the cham
pion players of Richmond and Norfolk Messrs Bald
win and Brian. The match was played upon four
pocket table, carom game.
Major General Hunter went North last evening
on the steamer Thomas Keso.
The weather here yesterday and last night was ex-
ceedingly stormy and rainy,
The following vessels have arrived in the harbor
and are awaiting opportunity to sail: Schooner
Queen from Baltimore for Providence, Rhode Island
coal; schooners Mason from Baltimore for Boston
coal; Hoyt from Washington, D. c., for Newbern
n. ebay; Palestine. Cramer and Cook, from Nor
folk for New York-wood; Cain. from City Point fol
Philadelphia-timber B. N. Fox from Baltimore fol
Fort Monroe-coal; Ellsworth. from Baltimore fol
New York-guns.
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Watches.
1866.

A SPLENDID SToCE OF FIRST CLASS GOLD AND SILVER
WATCHES. just opened this day, together with an
entire new assortment of Diamond. Pearl. Mosaic
and other ewelry. Also solid sterling Silver
Ware, Triple Plated AIbats Ware of every descrip-
ton, English Table Cutlery, Clocks, Opera Glasses
Spestacles and Eye Glasses to suit all eyes. These
articles will be sold at greatly reduced prices
The public are invited to call and examine our stock
They will find bargains. Watches Repaired and
Timed in the most perfect manner. We also manu-
facture Hair Jewelry to order at short notice.
LARIoUk & Co.,
Light street, opposite the
mh5-lstptf Fountain Hotel,
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from California,

SAN FRANCISCO. May 10.-The steamer Constitu-
ton saied to-day for Panama, with S39S l8 in treas
ure, of whiak $2S53i6 goes to New York. Sold yes
terday, $4,000 lbs. Of sugar refining grades at sc
Reports indicate that the crop of cereals will ex
ceed that of any former year.
Tho contract giving the sole agency Of the New
Almaden, New Jordan. and Lake Quicksilver mines
to one firm has caused an advance in the price of
quicksilver to S65 for export and S75 for local con-
sumption.
SAN Francisco, May 1.-THE steamer Oregon,
from Victoria, has arrived, bringing $4,000 in
treasure.
Mining shares are advancing: Legal tenders. 19
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d27-6m2p JAS. H. JOHNSON Co.. proprietors

COMPLETE CLOTHING HoUsE.-We take great
pleasure in calling the attention of readers to the
conspicuous advertisement of Messrs. Smith, Bros.
d Co.. No. 40 West Baltimore street. We speak what
We know when We say their present stock of clothing
cannot be excelled. We commend this firm to tho
favorable notice of all VINO may want goods in their
line. They sell at small profits. and deal on the
square with eyerybody