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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-03-23
The 30 Thinr Yet

The editor of that sprightly and we'll
conducted exchange, the Griffin Georgia.
Ne,cs, takes off his gloves and walks into
Parson Brownlow With finer effect than We
remember ever to have read before:
"It is interesting as we'll as instructive
to occasionally take a retrospect of the past.
It shows up the motives Of men and lays
open many leaf in the book of human
nature. AS matter of curiosity to such of
our readers as are in the habit of occasion
ally looking back on the past, we publish
an article written in 1861, from that old
reprobate, that profaner of the pulpit and
blasphemer of God, 'Parson' Brownlow.
No man, perhaps, did more to fire the
Southern heart against everything North
ern. His position in the church, and his
real talent, gave him vast influence, and
he never missed an opportunity to hurl
anathemas from the Sacred Desk and on
the street, at every thing and every body
to which the word Yankee could be ap-
piled; and yet to find him now the acknowl-
edged chief of all the prosecutors of South
ern men. His system Of tyrans seand per-
secution n Tennessee has reached perfec-
ton ITSELF And the historic tyrants of
oldeu times, could they be allowed to re-
visit the earth, would be struck dumb with
smazemeut when they beheld the perfection
to which the brutal Parson had brought
their art.
While such. a man as Alexander II. Ste
phens has just been released from prison
cells, such brute as the infamous Brown
low is permitted to lord it over gentlemen
deprive them of liberty and property
without even a color of right. Ah 8 81
Read letter from the Rev. Blackguard:
Rev. A. PRYNNE-No. 5.-SIR: owe
you an apology for not having disturbed
your peace and quiet as you repose in the
sweet-scented family of Fred. Douglas, ed
iting his dirty Abolition paper, rendered
still more dirty, false and infamous under
your editorial management, during his visit
to England. I have been engaged in my
attention to home matters, to the winding
up of the career of your old bosom friend,
John Brown, with whom and by the side
of whom you ought have pulled hemp,
without foothold, or I would have paid my
respects to you before this time.
have watched your movements with
interest, expecting to hear of you being call
ed before the Harper's Ferry Investigating
} Committee Of the Senate, and had you been.
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The Exile

Roll on We white surges, with dreadful connection
And swallow up with this desolate shore;
And wait, ye kind winds o'er the deep billow'd
ocean,
A sigh to the land shall visit no more
o tell me, kind Sun, are thy GENIAL rays beaming,
Where once was the home of the good and the
brave!
say, dost thou find the bright star yet gleam-
ing,
When thou biddest adieu to the orient wavea
tell me, wild com'rant thy course art thou bending
To bring to this hell of keen anguish a smile?-
Osay is a friend-ifa friend have-sending
Some news shall light Up this storm beaten isle?
But see, in the heavens, the tempest impending,
Has doom'd me afar from my fathers to die;
And bark! the deep thunders the ocean wave send
ing,
Forbid me to hear from my cottage sigh.
All well I remember the scenes of my childhood,
The hawthorn and ivy that twin'd round the door:
Full well remember ''the deep tangled" wildwood,
And e'en I remember the bleak howIing moor.
All! well remember the moss round the fou ntain
Where many hours I have slumber'd away;
And ah! the green turf on the oak shaded mountain
Where I and the watchdog used often to play,
But mercy, kind mercy, from memory sever
The country and friends I can never more see;
The child of misfortune, Pm here docm'd forever
To mourn for home, thatperhaPs mourns for me.
Then roll on, ye surges, with dreadful commotion,
And swallow me up with this desolase shore,
And end this keen misery, deep-billowd ocean,
For I sigh for land 1 shall visit no more.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-03-23

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Cen1-
ateyeiaZ writes the following and vouches for
its truth:
I % ''INDIANAPoLIs, IND, March T.
"A startling affair you may say am about
to describe, and 1 promise your readers not
only to vouch for the truth of what write
myself, but will give you the best references
in the city in addition 'On call A me-
chanic in this city, by the name of Orrin
Elder, went to California in 1853, leaving
wife and two girls here. Upon arriving
in California, he went to Shasta City, and
after having mined for year or so, became
engaged in gambling, and was, sometime
in the fall of 1860, killed in a drunken
brawl in that place by chum, one George
Edicott, since which time his memory and
name had almost faded out of the remem-
brance of his acquaintance here. His wife,
deserted by her husband, reduced to the
most squalid poverty, for three years has
made living at the wash-tub.
Last week (Thursday), her youngest
daughter, Janet, died, and a few friends
gathered in to watch the corpse. There
were, in the party who sat up, John G.
Rieves, an engineer at a steam-mill, Thomas
Tanners, a brother Of Mrs. Elder, Mrs.
Shawmut and Mary Williams and myself.
About 10 o'clock in the evening, the doors
and windows all closed and shut, we were
not only amazed, but stricken dumb by the
appearance of Elder himself among US in
his palpable, earthly form, as we knew him
years ago. I tell it to you as it was, and
if you wish to make this appear more read
able you can put the flourish and high
sounding words to suit yourself. H8 de-
liberately walked to the coffin and placed
upon it bag of metallic substance, and as
instantly disappeared. Common sense got
the better of US afterawhile, and upon open
ing the bag, we found $67O in ten-dollar
gold pieces, and little scrap of paper with
| the words on it, Restitution at last, Mary
The woman has a certificate for the money
now on the First National Bank of this city.
/ [ took the editor of one of our city papers
up to the house, called in all who had sat
up, and after they had given in their testi-
mony, he declined doing anything about it,
and said he would get the credit of being a
fool fer his labor in giving this story to his
readers. AS to the character I bear in this
community, would refer you to A. H.
Conner, Esq, Postmaster, Joseph Lawson,
Esq, Colonel Richard Ryan, Rev. ]. H.
Lozer and DR.. Wagner.
Very Resp't'ly, WILDER Q. MoINTIRE.
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Josh Billings ON Does.

Josh Billings favOrs the world with a
brief essay on dogs. dogs in the lump" !"
says Josh, care useful, but they are not
always profitable. Nufoundlin is useful to
save Children drowning; but you have got
to have pond of water and Children run
ming about kareless, or else the dog amt
prOfetible. There amt nothing made bord-
ing a Eufoundlin dog. Rat tearries
are useful to ketch rats; but the rats amt
profetible after you have ketched them
The shepard dog is useful tew drive sheep,
but if you have to 60 and buy flock of
sheep, and pay mere than they are wutb,
jest to keep the dog busy, the dog amt
profetible not much. LaPdOgs are very
useful, but if you don't hold them in your
lap awl the time they amt profetible at all
The coach dog is one Nv the most useful Nv
dogs know Nv; but yol have got to have
a coach, and that amt always pleasant, or
you can't realize from the dog. Thus we
see, while dogs are generally useful, there
are times when they amt generally profe-
tible."
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day we sec these petty wrongs all over.
We all abuse the Indian, who marches off
leaving his squaw to lug the food and bag
gage, yet we ask our wives, mothers and
sisters to do more; spr the cares of a white
woman-her family duties, ETC., give her
more labor and steps than ever fell to the
lot of an Indians wife, who has no cake to
make; no shirts to iron and keep in but
tons; no stocking to darn; no furniture to
keep in order; nc bed clothes to wash and
care for; no such endless variety of duties
as falls to the lot of abused and overworked
women of America.
II the chords of creation" would be more
manly-more attentive to their wives--more
careful of the women they loved-more
ready to make pleasant and themselves Loved,
there would be fewer unfaithful women
fewer funerals--more happiness and more
contented homes than now.
Women cannot love unless her love is
returned, no more than man can, and as
she is a creature of more heart than man,
she Graves more love, works harder for it,
and becomes more reckless at not receiving
that to which she is Justly entitled. When
a woman loves a man, she loves with all a
woman's devotion, and if his heart responds
through the little actions which make life
pleasant, she will follow him to hell itself
Failing to receive this love and attention,
she casts herself affoat and drifts, she cares
not whittier, waiting to find only some true
heart, to rest on some loving embrace 70
take refuge in when the soul is tossed on
bitter seas. BRICK PoMERoY.
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One More Unfortunate.

The Mobile Register tells the following
sad story of an unfortunate woman recently
found on the streets of that city in dying
condition. It is a fearful story, and should
serve as a warning:
Her parents came to this city, when
Mary was child, from Montreal, Lower
Canada, and her father being a man of emf
nent qualifications. entered into business, 4
and gave this, his only child, all the ad-'
vantages afforded by the hest schools IN
the country. At the age of seventeen she
visited Niagara Falls, and was lett at that
great summer resort by her PARENTS in the
hands Of friends, while they visited Lower
Canada. During their absence, Mary at
tended the grand balls given nightly at the
Cataract House, and was dazzled with the
glittering array of fashion and splendor
surrounding her. Among her many ad-
mirers was young man of gay and dash
ing manner and fascinating appearance.
He had known Mary and her parents for
many years, and set his heart on the GIRL
but her parents rejected him as suiter for
her hand, and he lost no opportunity to Sc
cure interviews with her in their absence.
On this occasion Mary, at an unguarded
moment, surrendered herself to him, and
they eloped. The old story now follows.
He plighted his honor to make her his wife,
but it was only the frivolous word of a
heartless deceiver, soon to be- disregarded
and forgotten.
! He deserted his victim in one Of the large
cities of the North, and, driven to want and
desperation, she became public courtezan.
After years of suffering and privation she
made her way home to this city, the scene
of her bright and happy childhood. She
had fallen to the lowest depths of degrade
tion, but fortunately her parents left Mobile
| shortly after their afTliction, and returned
to Canada, and they have never laid eyes
on their unfortunate daughter. since they
impaired the parting kiss on her fair young
brow at Niagara Such is the story of this
miserable outcast, who terminated her
wretched career on Tuesday night Was
she an object of charity? Let her own
words plead for her: r
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DANIEL WEBsTER was right when he re-
marked of the press: ''Small is the sum
required to patronize newspaper; amply
rewarded Its patron, I care not how humble
and unPretending the gazette ne takes. It
is next to impossible to I'll printed sheet
without putting into it something that is
worth the subscription price"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-03-23

AN Englishman being asked how he
spelled saloon, replied: with hess,
hay, hell, two hoes and a hen"
Another spelling ''helm' in this style:
''If haich, and be, and a hell. aud a
hem don't spell elm, what the eli do It
spell?" 81
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-03-23

A wicked old bachelor being asked by
a pert young miss if he could account for
the application Of the term "belle" to
handsome young ladies, promptly replied
that it was owing to the goodly proportion
Of brass in their composition.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-03-23

YouNG MAN, run your arm into an adder's
den, place rattlesnake in your bosom,
chew the berries Of Hellebore, but leave
that bottle alone. Though the liquor may
glow like molten rubies, though It's beads
sparkle like diamonds or amber, though the
gods may have drank it, and poets have
embalmed it in immortal verse, though its
aroma may be as pleasant as the spiee-kiss-
ing breezes of "Araby the Blest," yet
avoid it as you would the spotted Ieprosy.
It's ruby and diamond and amber hues are
the false lights Of the SOULS wreckers, and
its sweet aroma is the breath Of a syren who
viii surely allure you to destruction. Each
drop contains devil. and in drinking ys
quaf the fires of hell. avoid the bowl if
ye would not PERISH
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-03-23

"WAErED-A printer, - says a cotempo-
rary Wanted mechanical curiosity,
wit brain and fngers-a thing that viii
set so many type a day--a machine that
will think and act, but still machine-a
being who undertakes the most systematic
and monotonous drudgery, yet one the in
genuity of man has never supplauted me-
chanically-that's printer.
A printer-yet, for all his sometimes
dissipated and reckless doings-a worker
at all times and hours, day and night; sit
ting up in close and unwholesome office,
when CAV crowds are hurrying to the thea
tres-later still, when the street jewellers
are gone and the city sleeps-in the fresh
air of the morning-in the broad and gush-
ing sunlight-some printing machine is at
his case, with his eternal click! click!
Click! click! the polished types fall into
the stick; the mute interpreters of express
sion are marshaled into line, and march
forth as immortal Irnt Click! click! and
the latest intelligence becomes old-the
thought principle--the idea living senti-
ment. Click! click! from grave to gay,
item after item-a robbery, a murder, a
terrific battle, a railroad collision, bit OF
scandal, a graceful and glowing thought
are in turn closed by the mute and impress
sive fingers of the machine, and set adrift
in the sea of thought He must not think
of the future, nor recall the past-must not
think of home, of kindred, Of wife, or of
babe-his work lies before him, and his
thought is chained to his copy.
"You know him bY-hissA
err0FgZ@zs rest on these mute
evidences of a ceaseless toll, cOrrespon-
dents, editors and authors, who ignore
the simple medium of your fame. think not
that the machine is altogether machine
think not he is Indifferent to the gem of
which he is but the setter-a subtle ray may
penetrate the reeesses of his brain-of the
flowers he gathers, some may leave their
fragrance upon the toil-worn fingers. But
when you seek friend, Companion, adj
viser--When you elevate one who for sym
pathy may represent either or both
when you want judges, Legislators, gov
errnors and presidents--O, ye people, adj
vertise: Wauted--a printer" "
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M. D. LIE NOME.

A r CHITE CT.
Office No. II, Cherry St, near Church,
NASHVILLE. TENN.
?. o. Box SIS. Jan '5s-Sm
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]7~-@-----7l llaI IIsJIess pTIdes
The wife Of his bosom took the air.
She was bought in the marts where hearts were
sold.
gave myself away for his love,
She sold herself for his gold.
Cling to them, ladies, and shrink from me,
Call me opprobrious names, if you will,
The truth is bitter; do you think have lied!
I'm harlot, yes, but Pm a woman still
God said Of old, to a woman like me,
$50, sin no more,'' OF your Bibles lie;
But you, and such as you, mingle his nercful words
With Go and sin till you die"
Die! the word has pleasant sound,
The sweetest I've heard for this many year,
It seems to promise end to pain;
ANY way 1t viii end it here
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IN me whal is done to the man

Tell me what is done to the man
That tempts and riots in a woman's fall ...
Does his father curse him-is he scorned by all!
Not he, for his judges men like himself,
Or thoughtless women who humor their whim,
Young blOod--wild oats-a dashing young man
They'll soon forget it in him.
But pity and pardon-who are you,
That talks of pity and pardon to me,
What want is justice-justice, sirs--
Let both be punished, or both 60 free.
If it be on a such a shame fell, ."
What is it on man? come, be Just.
Remember she falls through her love for him,
And he through his selfish lust.
What had to gain by moments sin,
To weigh in the scale with my innocent years,
Ny womanly shame my mental name,
My fathers curse, my mothers tears2
The love of man. 1t was something to give;
Was it worth it!--the price was my soul paid L..
Did gain a soul-his soul in exchanged
Behold me, here on the town.
T .4 H.. ~. -, u, -, a.
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FRUIT TREES!

FRUIT TREES!
wish to inform the citizens Of Giles county that
4 j have all kinds CT Fruit Trees, which wish to
sell from the
ROSE BANK NURSERY,
near Nashville Tenn, Truett Wiley. Proprietors
All orders filed promptly five miles north of Pulas-
ki, on the Columbia pike, or left with {. p, May,
Pulaski, Tenn. A-tP. MARTIN
jan 12-2m Agent.
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An Extraordinary Story.
A Dead Man Walks in at a Wake and
Leaves his Widow a Bag Of Gold.

"A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gem
a5erciaZ writes the following and vOuches for
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-03-23

Roll on We white surges, with dreadful commotion,
And swallow me up with this desolate shore;
And wait, ye kind winds DER the deep binow'd
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-03-23

IT is not the gold or diamonds about
watch that keeps time
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-11-16
Meerschaum Pipes.

A correspondent, who is manufaotur.
er of meerschaum pipes, says the Scienti-
Jfc american, gives US tho following in
formation relative to these goods:
Meerschaum (English-foam of the
sea- is so called on account of its remark
able lightness and pure white color in the
raw state. 1t is superior species of
white clay, chiefly consisting of slicate of
magnesia, and is dug mostly in the pen
insula of Natoli, Asia Minor. 1t is sent
to market in irregular blocks of different
sizes, the latter fixing the price, which is
much higher in proportion for large Jumps
than for small ones. The Turkish Gov
eminent owns the mines and stipulates
the quotations according to the demand,
which generally exceeds the supply. The
last reports from Constantinople, the prin-
cipal market for crude meerschaum, say
that prices advanced IS per cent. lately.
The method Of manufacturing pipes is
very simple: the Jumps are cut into shape
with knife, after having been lightly
wetted, then the bowls must be very care
fully rubbed to obtain a clear, smooth sur
face, and afterward boiled either in pure
wax, or wax, oil and fats, the latter effect
ing q yellow hue and facilitating the COL
oring.
Imitation meerschaum is invariably
made of the parings of the genuine, and
nothing else. Numerous other expert
ments, such as the application of magne-
STA, etc., have proved total failures, and,
consequently, there is no probability of
meerschaum being manufactured on a
large scale of maguesia in New York, as
your article states. | am the only manu-.
facturer, to some extent, Of meersehaum
pipes, made of the imported raw material,
in the United States.
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The Frightful White Man.

There must be something, says DR.. Liv
iugstone, in the appearance of white mel
frightfully repulsive to the unsophistica
ted natives of Africa; for, on entering
villages previously unvisited by Europe.
aus, if we met child coming quietly and
unsuspectingly toward US, the moment he
raised his eyes and saw the men in "bags,''
he would take to his heels in an agony Of
terror, such as We might feel if we met a
live Egyptian mummy at the door of the
British museum. Alarmed at the child's
wild outcries, tho mother rushes out of
her hut, but darts back again at the first
glimpse of the Same fearful apparition.-
Dogs turn tail, and scour off in dismay
and hens, abandoning their chickens, fly
screaming to the tops of the houses. The
so lately peaceful village becomes a scene
of confusion and hubbub, until Gained by
the laughing assurance of our men that
white people do not eat black folks; q
JOKE having oftsntimes greater influence
in Africa than solemn assertions. Some
of our young swells, on entering an Afri-
can village, might experience collapse Of
self-infation at the sight of all the pretty
girls fleeing from them as from hideous
oannibals, or by Witnessing, as we have
done, the conversion of themselves into
public hobgoblins, the mammas holding
naughty children away from them, and
saying, "Be good, or l shall call the white
man to bite you"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-11-16

LAPLAND REINDEER TRAvEL.-Bsy.
ard Taylor, in his lecture on Lapland.
thus speaks of Reindeer travel:
ga more bleak and dismal region than
the greater part of Lapland could not be
imagined, except when the MONDAY sky
of winter covers it with mantle of Grim
son and gold. Here, however, God has
made the home of one animal, without
which human life would be impossible.
What the camel is to the Arab, the REIN
deer is to the Lap. He was created e..
pecially for service in the snow, as the
camel was for journeying over the sand
He is not much bigger than large New
foundland dog, and strong man could
easily lift him. His muscular strength
is not great, yet he has a vast deal of en-
durance. His hoof is divided into two
compartments, like that of camel, 80
that it spreads out and covers large sur
face when he puts it down, the parts com.
ing together when he lifts it up again
This popularity, combined with the
lightness of body, prevents him from
sinking into the snow. ..
From this animal the Lap obtains his
clothes, tent, thread, needles, meat, milk,
butter, cheese, and the handles Of his
knives-in fact, everything he uses, ex-
cept his musket and little coffee.