The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-02-03
General Gossip.

There are 750, 600 barFelsof -four stored in
New York city, and 100000 bushels of
cereals. 81 .sssat sas lsi7, 5-ro-a5.1..s
aw Railroad communication has been restored
between Charleston aud Columbia, S. c.
The first train passed over las. week. .saz.7
Miss Harriet Lane, who presided over
the white house during the administration
of her uncle, President Buchanan; was mar
-ried. on the I IIth inst at Wheatland to Mr.,
Henry e. Johnson, a Baltnh6se banker
Ashland, SO I6Hg the home. of Henry
Clay, has been purchased by the. trustees Of
the Kentucky University, at a cost Of S90,-
00O The farm contains about three hdn-
dred and twenty-five acres Of the best land
in the Blue Grass region.
DR. Everett, Of New Orleans, claims to
haye inyented new telegraph, requiring
no inaplatogs batteries or poles, 1t is no
ticed 9ppr9yinglly by the Picayuns, WHICH
says the apparatus is y gsifmplef the PrQeess
easy, and the glPhabet, easily understood,
Charleston Feportssay that atinoonseqpeuee
of the cruel and. oppressive Legislation
against freedmen by the South Carolina
Legislature. Gen. Siekles has been compelled
to issue a very stringent Radical order, an
nulling all such legislative epactments.
The Nashville papers make mention of o
mass meeting to be held in chat city on the
22d Of February, to give expression to tho
true feelings and desires of the friends of :
the President-of peace, harmony, and good
government IN Tennessee --e
Major General Govan, we are happy to
announce, has been pardon6d by the Presi
dent, and is making arrangements to retire
to his farm IN Arkansas, and engage IN the
culture Of cotton The many friends Of
this distinguished gentleman wiz be happy
to know that he is in excellent health.
Major General N. P. Lowry, who COM
manded division of rebels at the battle Of
Nashville and elsewhere, and who surren-
dered to Sherman in North Carolina, has
taken to preaching He has two Baptist
churches in Fippah county, Miss. He got
during the war, though it took tho
hardest sort Of texts to do II.
The War Department has ordered General
to reduce, If practicable, the mill
tary force in the division Of the Southwest
to 10000 white and 10000 colored troops.
Gen. Meade has been. ordered to muster out
all volunteer troops in the department. of
the East to reduce the force in the Middle
department to 1900 men, and in the de-
partment of Virginia to 2,5 0. The force in
the division of the Tennessee is to be re-
dueed to 1000 men
President johnson, as the Nashville Dis
patch says, must regard it as a favorable in
1ication when such men as John Bell and
Emerson Etheridge, who are certainly not his
personal friends, cordially sustain therpolicy
of his administration in regard to the South
arRi States. Their support of the President
in the great work. of restoration Of the South
7rn Sa ties springs from patriotic motives,
and should, therefore, be appreciated the
more higbly.
Rev. DR.. Prime, Of the New York Ohserv,
er, Objects as,any refined person might weH
do, to the publication of digorce trial re-
ports. Z" They ara eorrupsing and fitted 10
produce the evils that.Fhe la~ would prevent
or punish" Ue attributes the vast increase
Of crime against tne-marriage vows to iniu.
aieious marriasessa and marriages witbous
love or mental or moral adoption. lie also
objects to the new theory that married peo-
pie have equal rights, and says the laws. Of
are laid down very plainly in tho
Bible The Apostles taught them very clear
J. under Christ. But thousands Of ChFis-
tians7 ignore an essential element Of Chris
tian marriages which IS, that the husband is
the head Of the wife, as Christ was the head
Of the Church. Where love abouuds It IS
the secret Of harmony. Whsre this princi-
pie is not admitted, perpetual strife is the re-
sulS, alienation often begets separation, and
thisis followed, if not preceded, By infdel-
ity