The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-04-28

I've loved thee well and long.
And thus hunby thee
glad and grateful song
! When the strangely pOndering souls
Comes thy eOngenial glow,
My heart leaps light with ecstacy-
By this the Spring know.
There was a fearful explosion at Aspin-
wall on the Sd inst, aboard the steamer
European, destroying the ship and 400 feet
of the wharf, it is supposed to have been
caused by nitro-glycerine on board. About
SO persons were killed, including the captain
and officers of the ship.
a late telegram to the Memphis Post says
much alarm exists about the levees. It is
feared that the whole Lower Mississippi viii
be overfowed. The heavy rains have i'm
paired the cotton seed, which was poor, and
much viii have to be replanted.
Late information from the upper portions
of t&e great lakes say that the ice is yet at
| least two foot thick, and that navigation will
not be resumed by the 1st of May. 1t is the
! most backward spring ever known in those
localities.
Jim BrOwnlow, son of the Governor" a
day or two since talked fight to Mr.
Woodruff, one of the editors of the Union,
but didn't come to time; owing to the fact
that the "quill driver presented huge
navy to his patriotic bosom and exhibited a
decided inclination to tumble with the
trigger.
Although the world is generally at peace
! just now, the atmosphere threatens storms in
all directions Prussia and Austria are on
the verge of war; the Prussian peopel hate
and distrust Bismarck there is trouble be-
tween the young King of Greece and his
new subjects Spain will soon be again
stirred with rebellion; and there is a bone to
pick between Italy and Austria, as well as
Italy and the Papal Powers; while the affair
of the Danubian principalities remains to be
settled.
An intelligent correspondent of the Lou
isYille Courier, who has carefully examined
the subject says that the cotton crop of the
present year will scarcely reach 100000
bales It is thought by some of the know
ing ones that even this estimate is too high,
considering the recent heavy damage sus-
tanned by planters from excessive high wa
ter all along the southern rivers and water
courses, as the bottom lands have nearly all
been overAowed.
There still survives three members of the
choir of young ladies, that, dressed in white
greeted Washington as he entered Trenton,
in 1889, on his way to assume the Presiden-
cy, and strewed his path with flowers One
lives in Trenton, another is the mother of
the Hon Mr.. Chestnut formerly Senator
from South Carolina, and the third, Mrs
Sarah Hand, of Cape May, n. J.
Mrs. jefferson Davis, accompanied by one
of her children, is now in New York city
The object of her visit is not positively
known, but it is supposed to have some rela-
ton either to the anticipated trial of Mr.
Davis or to the education of her children,
some Of whom are at school in Canada, where
it is said, she intends to proceed for the pur-
pose of visiting them
A telegram, dated Washington, april 21st,
says the Reconstruction Committee agreed
to-day that the Constitution must be 50
amended that hereafter no State stall make
any discrimination of color, and that after
the 4th Of July, Is 76, negroes must have the
right to vote there shall be no representa-
ton between 1866 and 1876, of coIored per
sons not allowed to vote, and that Southern
States may be represented on these terms on
: taking the test oath prescribed by Congress.
THE VETo PowER-This prerogative of
the President 70 check unconstitutional and
hasty legislation, which is now denounced
so bitterly by the Radicals, has been used
by the following Chief Executives
By Washington, 2; by Madison, 6 By
Monroe, 1 by jackson, 9; by Tyler, 4 by
Polk, 3; by Buchanan, by johnson, 2.
/ Only in two instances has it. been over.
l ruled once when revenue cutter bill was
: vetoed by Mr.. Tyler, and in the late case o.
: the miserable Civil Rights Bill
PRAYER FOR JEFFERSON DAvIs.-A highly
esteemed minister in neighboring State re
marks in recent letter
Z" have often thought Of late, that If
, could speak to all Of the praying people o
the South, would impress upon them tn
9 thought that It is their especial duty to pra,
for Jefferson Davis. Surely he is in prison
and IN peril because Of what we have done
lie would not have been there If we ha
D not made him our chief VIII the praying
d people Of the South forget him in these try
IF ing hours - Christian Observer.
Court House is being constructed a
Corinth, Miss. The News and Advertise
Z saysa jailis needed also Very likely "
: learn from the same paper that there Is
great demand for homes in Corinth.