The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-02-10
General Gossip.

| Mankind should learn temperance from
the moons the fuller she gets hessmaller her
horns become. r-.se,--, -.-,--..vs -.
1t is reported, at BeFliR thatztha Prussian
Government is desirous, ,sofobFingiug about
an alliance of Prussia, Russia, and the
United States ag.rinsb England; F4anoe7 and
Austria
f g The military districts OF SficRfgan and
Wisconsin have been discontinued.
2 The steamer Asher. 4yres, having on
board 1929 bales of cotton, was burned a
| few days ago, on the Alameda river, in
Georgia Five OF six negroes negroes lost their
lgsittSes .zllgZ& usg
/ 1t is reported at Richmond that President
johnson intends to supersede the. present
State Government of Virginia by a provis-
ionaI one.
q The commander of the French feet in the
Rio Grande having protested. against. the
occupancy of Bagdad by the Us forces,
Gen. Weitzel Withdrew. hisr troops there
4 A1-s S}@t2 C-t5 N~-
t. A French, expedition was recently sent
| against Ell PasO Juarez collected force to
kFepeIit, aud, upou hearing of his prepare
! tions, the French returned to Chihuahua
! A bank porter was robbed, in New York,
on the 26thy Of. tin box containing $4,000,
/ by fellow who personated a policeman so
hsHceessfully that he induced a genuine
" star to take the prisoner to the police
station while he himself took the -box-tL to
headquarters"
! A Raleigh paper announces that Theodore
Il. HiH,a a Southern poet, is preparing for
publication book of North Carolina poetry.
1t is added that there are many beautiful
poems, by North Carolinians, yet unknown,
which merit more enduring record than
the poets corner in daily publications.
Mr. Hill intends to bring these to light.
a dispatch from Washington states that,
in a conversation between the President and
q distinguished Senator, on the 28th, Mr..
Johnson expressed doubts as to the propriety
Of making any further amendments to the
Constitution but said that, if amendments
were to be made changing the basis of re
presentation and direct taxation, (which he
did not deem at all necessary at present.
he favored making the humber of qualified
voters the basis of representation, and the
valuation of property the basis of direct
taxation The President also expressed the
opinion that the agitation of the question Of
negro suffrage in the District of Columbia
was ill-timed, uncalled for, and calculated
to do great harm - that It would prove the
entering wedge to agitation C tae subject
throughout the States and, he believed
would result IN a war of races, and the
certain determination of the negroes.
The Hibernian brings the news Of the
death Of Frederika Bremen, the distinguish
ed Swedish novelisti The tFansiation ef.hsi
pleasant stories, by Mary Hewitt, frs
acquainted the mass of English and Ameri
can readers with the fact that Sweden had
literature Of its o1ynZ rich, original, ant
strikingly natural in its conceptions. Mis-
Brsmer' s works are 90 familiar to the pablo
that we need only instance q few of th,
T most predominant d" The Neighbors,
AZ The Il. Family I" The PresidenEs Dough
ters. and her Homes Of the New World
1.-The 5ast an account Of her visit TO th
United States about fourteen years since
She vas IN her sixty fourth year at tbe Elm
Of eE.dceoase. sfe @ see