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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1866-08-02

When the summer of youth is slowly
wasting away into the nightfall of age,
and the shadows Of the past years grow
deeper, and life wears to its close, it is
pleasant to look back through the vista of
time upon the felicities of our earlier years
If we have home to shelter, and, hearts to
rejoice with us, and friends have gathered
together around our fresides, then the
rough place of our wayfaring will have
been worn and smoothed in the twilight of
life, while the many spots We have passed
through, will grow brighter and more
beautiful. Happy indeed are they whose
intercourse with the world has not changed
the tone of holier feelings, or broken those
musical chords of the heart, whose vibra-
tons are SO melodious, so tender and touch
ing in that evening of age.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1866-08-02

THE New ATTORNEY GENERAL. The
President has nominated and the Senate
has confirmed Judge Henry Stanbcry, of
Kentucky, to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Attorney General Speed.
He is native Of Ohio, but resides at Co.
vington, opposite Cincinnati. For sever.
al years he has been ranked among the
ablest lawyers practicing at the Cincinna-
tt bar
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1866-08-02
gLACKSMETEsEFsC

"AVI G repaired damages and resumed
IL bushes at my old stand in Woodstock, I
respectfully request my old customers to give me
CALL
will work for the old prices for those who wish
to trade grain at the old prices otherwise charges
will be in accordance with present prices
Feb. 2, l866-tf JACOB ANDERSON
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1866-08-02
PO E T I G A L
FOR THE HERALD.t
The Torture OF the Prisoner.
BY REV. II. NETZEL.


Ky God! You cannot hare been sent to iron me-,
America! and can it be!
., land of boosted Liberty
Can it indeed be true, | say,
That barb'rcus wrath's vindictive sway
Leads any OF thu sons of State
70 load the helpless captive's fate
With needless shame in clanking chains,
And torture which no law ordains?
Can it be true that thy fair name
Shall now be cursed with burning shame
That madness in It's frenzied play
Shay sport thy pow'r without stay
And caprice steal the name of law,
Its lines in chains and blood to &ysG1
Anss lsurtiss--~~ T. e--e.., l.-.-
Fanatic ranters reign alone -
Shall guile, ambition, av rice, hate,
With deep perdition seal thy fate /?
And shall thy own escutcheon bright,
BE by fanatics sunk in night, =
Down deep in blasted honor's grave,
While they pretend thy land to save
From State Secession's s'fest'ring sin,
And their own DEMONSTRATION spin?
Ye sovereignS States, whose former fame
Should, in Republics, prompt the aim
At all that's good and great and grand,
And curb misrule in every land,
VIII ye permit your rights to pale, r.
And justice in the dust to trail2
Or will we speak in thund'r ring tone,
And hurl injustice from her throne?
No prophet, nor OWNERS art,
The truthful lesson to impart, -
Is needed here where all may know,
That, strike who will the fatal blow ~<
At Southern rights and Southern race,
Both North and South from thence,may
The downfall Of their Liberty,
And date the reign of Anarchy.
July 20, 1866.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1866-08-02

\ gentleman advertised that he had
a house to let containing 8 rooms and an
acre of land
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24
A Brilliant Offer.

A French paper closes an interesting
article on Gen, Beauregard, who is now in
France, as follows:
THE General has likewise received from
Government, which ana not permitted
to name, an extremely brilliant offer, which,
however. be has declined. He was offered
the chief command Of an army Of 80, GOO
men, salary of 100, 600 francs per annun,
and donation Of lands worth a million of
dollars, VITA abe grand naturalization Of
himself and his family. The General de-
clined, saying that bis sword belonged to
his eVuRtry, and be would never draw it
except for her. There is. one question
which is asked him almost every moment:
In case that there should be var between a
European power and the United States,
would the South revolt?' The General al
ways replies that he tanks not. aud this
answer invariably seems to cause astonish-
ment-Wby, indeed. cannot say"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24
Inagn Oampben va. "a. Noah.

One Of the most infamous and high
handed acts Of usurpatien ever yet perpe-
tFated BY an infamous and high-hsnded
Governor, has just come TO light in this
State. The Hon. David Canpbell, of Frank
lin, was several months ago appointed
Chancellor for this district, but by the able
aud impartial manner in which he has dis
charged his duty, without fear or favor, has
given offence to the unblushing usurpeF
who elaims 70 be Governor Of Tennessee,
and by the majestic waive of his imperial
hand the Judge is Invested of his Office, and
the judicial srmine transferred to a hungry
political upstart OfsacknOwledged iuferiority,
who glories in the name of Major J. J..
Noah, formerly of New York, then of the
army, then of the swarm of locusts which
came into our community as suffers, and
now Of Columbia.
Bat We learn from the Union and Anseri-
cun that Judge Campbell viii continue TO
hold his courts as usual, and pay no at
tention whatever to this attempted usurpa-
ton on the part of Brownlow. We learn
also that Mai. Noah is wonderfully pleased
with his appointment; but We would like to
know where be designs holding his courts.
If he is not aware Of the fact, we can in
form him that there is no military to up
hold him now. President Johnson has su-
perseded the Would-be Judges protectors,
and old Brownlow didn't quite get his
army organized-thanks to Judge CAMP.
aELTt -4a
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24
The Convention.

We yield much of our space to-day to the
proceedings Of the late convention at Phila-
delphia. For this We make no apology,
feeling Satisfied that our readers are all
deeply interested in the patriotic efforts to
restore peace and harmony to the country.
1.-THE tone and temper which characterized
the deliberations, says the n. Y. Herald,
''were admirable. All parties concerned
seemed to be thoroughly impressed with
the importance of the movement, and have
exhibited spirit in every way commend
able. One sentiment aoluates all pres
cut, whether they come from the North or
South, East or West. Personal feelings
and private ambition yielded to the necessi-
ty of the hour and gave way whenever it was
even limited that by SO doing the cause
could be benefited"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

The late news from Mexico indicates the
early abdicatiou Of MaKimiIian. The liber-
ais are advancing from all quarters-the
imperiaiists giving up city after city and
State after State. The news indicates a
general uprising of the Mexicans in defense
of their country against the foreign usurp-
ers.
The Emperor MACMILLAN has recently
declared paper blockade Of MatemOras and
other forts in possession Of the liberals, but
President johnson has issued proolama-
ton declaring said blockade null and void.
and the penalties prescribed By its violation
disallowed Is regards American vessels.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24
&c Convention and &c President.

The Convention and the President.
The committes appointed to wait on the
President and deliver to him an autbenti-
Gated copy of the proceedings Of the Phila-
delphia Convention, performed that duty on
The 18th, Hon. Beverly Johnson being the
spokesman on the part Of the committee, de-
livered the proceedings in an able con-
gratulatory address. The President said
in reply:
..Mr. Chairman and Gendemen Of the
Committee: Language is inadequate to ex-
press the sensations of feelings produced on
this occasion. Perbaps I could express
more By permitting silence to speak, and
allow you to infer what ought to say l
confess that, notwithstanding the expert
euce have had in public life. the words
address on this occasion to this assembly
is well calculated to and do overwhelm me.
AS I have said, have not language to
convey adequately, my feelings and emo
tions in listening to the address which your
eloquent and distinguished Chairman has
Just delivered. The proceedings of the
Convention, as they transpired, required to
my mind. Seemingly partoOk of the in
SEPARATION that prevailed in the Convention,
when received dispatch by two of its
distinguished members. conveying in terms
the scene which has just been described of
South Carolina aud Massachusetts, arm-ip-
arm marching into that vast assembIage,
and thus giving evidence that the extremes
had come together, and that for the future,
they were united, as they once had been in
the past, for the preservation Of the Union.
"When the dispatch informed me that in
that vast body of men distinguished for
wisdom, every eye was surprised with tears
on beholding the scene, conld not finish
reading the dispatch to those present with
me in the Office. for my feelings Overeame
me. [Cheers.l
SCI think we may finally conclude that we
are moving under proper inspiration, that
we need not be mistaken, and that the finger
Of an eVer-ruling and unerring Providence
is in this matter. Loud cheers.
"The nation is in peril. We have just
passed through mighty and bloody and
momentous ordeal, yet do not find ourselves
free from the difficulties and dangers that at
first surrounded u.s..
while our brave men have performed
their duties-bolh officers and men-( turn
ing to Gen. Grant, who stood at his right, }
while they have won laurels imPerishable,
there are still greater and more important
duties to perform. While we have had
their cooperation in the field. We now need
their support in our efforts to perpetuate
peace. lCheers.
$50 far as the Executive Department OF
the Government is concerned, the effort has
been made to restore the Union, to heal the
breach, to pour oil into the wounds which
were consequent upon the struggle. and, to
speak in common phrase, to prepare, as the
learned and wise physician would, plaster
healing in character and -co-extensive with
the wound. Loud cheers.
"We thought yet think, that We had
partially succeeded, but as the work pro-
crossed, as reconstruction seemed to be
taking place and the country becoming
united, we found destructive warning ele-
ment opposed to US"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

TIE Toledo (ohio) Blade. q Radical
sheet. in speaking of the increased pay of
members of Congress at a time when the
people are carrying burdens they stagger
under, says: eve would not have regarded
it IS so mean a thing had il been done fairly
and squarely-had the members acted the
manly part and squarely voted themselves
additional pay; but, afraid to do this, they
meanly sheltered themselves behind The
soldiers. aud thus sheltered, make this huge
grab at the Treasury" It closes by ex-
pressing the opinion that ''the people will
very properly denounce it as a dodge
miserable. hyPocFisieal dodge. sneakiDg
dodge"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24
A State Convention Proposed.

The Lebanon Herald favors the calling Of
a State Convention to ''relieve our people
from the intolerable burden of despotism
that is imposed upon them by the present
State Government The Herald says:
There is, in our opinion, but one feas-
able method to 'alter, reform, or abolish
the State Government, and that is by call
ing a convention of the sovereign people of
the State. How is this to be~done? We
all know that the people who are 10 posses
sion of the government of the State will
throw every obstacle in the way of a peace
able assemblage of delegates. That they
will Try every means in their power to pro-
long their despotism over our down-trodden
people, so it will be useless to expect assis-
lance from that quarter. How is it to be
done? Simply by holding preliminary
meetings, and fixing on day for general
election of delegates. The constitution
gives them the 'inalienable' and indefeasi-
Bile right to do this whenever they think
proper"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24
Civil Law Restored.

The President Of the United States issued
another proclamation on Monday, restoring
civil law in Texas, and announcing that
''iusurrectiOn is at an end, aud that peace,
order, tranquility and civil authority now
exist throughout the whole of the United
States of America" He says:
Whatever of your rights were suspend
ed during the war are now restored; civil
authority now reigns. do not claim the
right, now, that peace is restored, to con
troll the country by the bayOnet. The war
is over aud the people aud their rights Of
person and property are RENTED to the
civil authorities -esr
''What now becomes Of Gen. Grants late
ORDER" says the Nashville Dispatch, ''di-
FeotiBg the arrest Of parties in cases where
the civil authorities have failed to arrest
aud bring such parties 10 srial, snd 70 de-
taiR them in military confinement until such
time as proper judicial tribunal may be
ready snd willing to try them Under
tbis order the military were to be the judges
as to whether our courts have done their
duty, and men might be arrested upon the
complaint Of any person. white or black.
whether guilty or act. and held for an in
definite period. The Presidsnt's procla-
NATION places quietus upon this order,
aud FOR this ihe people Of the South should
thank Andrew Johnson.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24
How mr.. Davis Imprisonment is Re
garded in England.

garded In England.
The London Cosmopolitan in its review
of DR.. CraVen's "Prison Life of Jefferson
Davis" says;
To as this book is very sad one; We
scarcely had heart to read It, and We have
still less to write an elaborate review. Il
is not SO much sympathy with the illustri-
Gus prisoner, whom, in the day of his
Senatorial and Ministerial fame, we were
proud to call our friend, and we shall feel
still prouder if he continues to call as his
friend in the day Of his adversity-it is not
50 much the pang one naturally feels %
looking at the Gagged eagle or the chained
lion that makes this Prison LIFE the
saddest of books; it is the shame and sor-
row we feel for great nation Who make q
victim of their captive and torture their
heroic prisoner in very wantonness and
vindictive cruelty. Jefferson Davis was
manacled with heavy irons as we'll as i'm
INJURED within loathsome prison walls. And
the degradation inflicted upon the ten mil
lions of people whose cause he represented
Ia cause for which he risked all but honor
"a cause which he vindicated for four
fearful years with a zeal, a courage, hero
ism, that commended even the admiration
Of all that was manly in the hearts of his
enemies.
Whether he was right or wrong in the
great secession movement is a question we
do not propose to discuss. Let it sleep in
the graves of its martyrs. tits enough TO
say that the entire South, educated in the
school of State Sovereignty, most religious
ly believed in the right of secession from
the federation; and they held the doctrine
that the citizens first allegiance was due to
the State-as the ehild's first obedience is
due to its mother--not to the Federal Gov
ernment. Before the war Mr.. Davis was a
man whom the people delighted to honor.
He was universally
regarded as one of the ablest statesmen in
America. And yet this man, defeated in a
cause which he thought as just as the old
revolution-a revolution in which success
changed the name of Washing ton from
''rebel'' to hero, almost to demigod--des-
poiled of wealth, of health, of honors; ban
ished from the sweet consolation of domestic
sympathy, from intercourse with friends;
debarred the privileges of reading except,
by a species of Pious mockery, the Bible,
with the ever fixed bayonets and ever fixed
eyes of the sentinels in his cell, not even
allowed the blessed relief of darkness by
which God soothes the vilest of his crea-
lures to sleep; under all the privatiOns. hard
ships and humiliations, the Ministers of the
| Model Republic iniict upon the emaciated
limbs of this world weary old man the tor
ture of irons-of irons that gnaw the flesh
from his anklesl But we turn from the
heart-sickening picture. Let the veil Of
Inegenia fall upon the victim.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

IT is said that the claims arising under
the law equalizing the bOunties Of soldiers
cannot possibly be settled under six years,
as all the papers connected with the claims
will have to pass through the various bu-
Feaus of the Treasury and War Depart
ments. 1t is estimated the claims arising
under the Law viii amount in the aggregate
close to 500, e00, goo.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

NEW MUsIo.-We are again under obi
cations to those enterprising music publish
ers louisville, Messrs D. P. Faulds & Co..
for two new and beautiful songs, entitled
Happy may you ever. be-" and Father is
here" We commend this music house to
the patronage of all lovers of music.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24
NaahrilIA Market

Prices are evineiug decidedly down
ward tendency. Bacon has declined to Gle
for clear sides. Joint meats are moderately
inquired for at 17@18c for shoulders, and
2o@slo for plain hams. Flour from new
wheat is coming ia freely, but prices are
weaker, the best brands going at sI4 so.
Old Is nominal. with no inquiry.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

~.
GIN. GRAET.-The appearance Of Gen.
Grant on the right of the.PresidenL. at the
Executive Mansion. on Saturday last, when
Andrew Johnson received the Committee of
the Philadelphia Convention. excited gene
raj remark in Washington. His uureserved
participation IN the reception Of delegates
to the National Union Convention was IN
terpreted by many as an Endorsement of the
action of that Convention. If suchis really
the temper of Gen. Grants mind, we trust
that the Radicals viii not brand him as q
Copperhead aud traitor Union d american.
A Washington dispatch of Sunday says:
Mr.. Stanton viii soon be appointed Minis
ter to Spain, and Gen. steedman Secretary
OF War.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

Hon j. L. NJ. CURREY, an eminent law
yer, gallant soldier of the Confederate
army, and, in time past, the most gifted
statesman of Alabama, has Withdrawn from
secular pursuits for the service of the
church. He Is one of the few men in pub
lie life whose integrity and honor were
never questioned. His character as Chris
tian gentleman has always challenged the
admiration of his bitterest political OPP
ponents.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

If there remained any uncertainty in the
the public mind as to the reliability of the
Atlantic cable, it must be dispelled by the
fact that every morning now the journals
contain news from Europe up to the evening
previous. The dispatches are looked for as
regularly as those from New York.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

SPEAKING of the appearance of the chole-
ra in Cincinnati, the Catholic Telegraph re-
marks: 1t is a remarkable coincidence that
the caterpillars which heretofore destroyed
the trees and sbrubbery during the summer
months have not made their appearance
this year, and the same phenomenon occur
red in 184e, when the cholera was so fatal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

A late letter from Dalton. Georgia. says
that one company there took out SO 600
worth of gold from the mines in one day,
and that capitalists from New York aud
Boston are about to ship extensive mining
machinery to that place.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24
NEW ADVERTISER NTS
FEM ALE SCHOOL
Pulaski. Tenn.

THE Fall Session of MRS. SUE. F. MONEYS
L SCHOOL will open the first Monday in Septem-
Der, 1866. She win be assisted if necessary, by Miss
Lou A. MOONEY. Thorough instruction given in
every department Of English Literature, Mathe-
mates and Latin.
TERMs-Per Session Of twenty weeks, $500, one
fifth of which must be paid at the end of every
fourth week.
Incidental fee, fnUGTiGbly ~ Gdranos, 81 90.
Music and French at the usual rates,
A few small boys viii be received.
The orphan Of q worthy Confederate Soldier sd-
mitted without price =. $50
Persons Directing to the terms of tuition, may
have their children taught at the old rates by paying
for it in produce, ETC., at aate-aOGT PrScss.
Aug. 10-4t
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

The Augusta. Ga. papers are laughing
over a suit brought by q colored girl
against negro swain. for breach of prom
Use of marriage. Such q prosecution has
never before been known in = Georgia
court.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

GRANT Is a full General and Sherman is
Lieutenant General. Should Grant become
Presidant, Sherman would be General.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

A You're WtDow.-Mr. John Bixler, of
Ohio, recently died, leaving widow only
twelve years old, and the mother of child
nearly six months. She is the youngest
widow in America-perhaps in the world.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

The sale of melons aud cucumbers has
been suppressed all over the city of Saint
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

THE population of st. Louis. according
to a census just published, is 9o4p 927.-
This is an increase since 1855 of 79, 1875.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

A FIRM faith is the best theology; good
life the best philosophy; clear conscience
the best law; honesty the best policy; and
temperance the best phYsic.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24
81. CEGILTA,s ACADEMY.

THIS we'll known Female Academy, under the di-
rection of the Sisters the Order of St. Dominic,
situated in one of the most delightful and healthy
localities, in Davidson county, viii open for the
next session on the first Monday in September.
For further particulars, apply to the Academy, or
Mount Vernon, Nashville, Tenn. (aug24 4t
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

81 say. landlord, that's dirty towel for
man TO wipe on.'
Landlord, with look of amazement, re-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-24

well, you're mighty particular. Sixty
or seventy of my boarders have wiped on
that towel this morning and you are the
first one to find fault %