The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-05-11

THR Senate. on Thursday, 26th ult., re-
fused, by a vote Of 70 to 7, to admit Hon.
Cave johnson to the seat to which he was
elected by the citizens Of Robertson, Mont
gomery and Stewart, simply because he is
not Radical.
GEN. SHERMAN, in his Daroit speech,
said, 81 know the man at the head of af-
fairs at Washington, and all we have to do
is to trust him. Exercise forbearance and
patriotism. and give the President your
hearty and earnest support"
THE Watertown Democrat announces the
discovery. that what were formerly con-
sidered bodies of water on the moon are
vast seas aud oceans of petroleum, and that
an association has been organized to go and
see about it.
TwENrY-NINE negro paupers were buried
in Louisville, KY, last month, and one
white pauper. The record is black in more
senses than one. It marks the CLEAN of
philanthropy so-caIled. It is lustrous with
misery-it is the echo of the freedman's
shout.
The Tennessee House on Saturday pass
ed Senator Trimble's resolution declaring
Jefferson Davis, Gen. Breckenridge and
others Infamous, and that they ought to be
arrested, tried, and punished with death on
conviction, after leaving the name of James
Buchanan out.
A bad state of affairs exists in Washing
ton county, Tenn. Large numbers of those
who sympathized with the South during
the late war, are receiving orders to leave
the country, being notified that if they do
not comply, they will suffer the penalty of
death.
Pass HIM RoUND.-Mr J. j. Mcmillan,
a very tall, slim man, and matchmaker,
dancing master and teacher Of guitar music,
very unceremoniously left here last Satur-
day night or Sunday morning, leaving quite
a number of unpaid bills. We hope our
brethren CT the press and all others will be
more coutious about trusting him than some
we wOt of.-Ronae, Ga.) Courier.
THE age of bastiles and guillotines has
passed, but there is a despotisn in Con-
gress as infatuated as that which caused
France to weep tears of blood. The ma
jority of the House of Representatives has
invested COMMITTEE of Fifteen with
powers which, under the guidance of ia
Goblin Chairman, is becoming as odious as
any triumvirate created by despotism.
THE grand ball given at the Gayoso
House, in Memphis, last Saturday night,
the proceeds of which were to be devoted
to the purchase of limbs for MANNED Con-
federate soldiers, was crowded with beauty
and fashion, and is considered one of the
most brilliant affairs ever witnessed in
Memphis. Over FIVE thousand dollars
were realized. It was noted that many of
the guests were Northern people.
TOURNAMENT AT GAINESVILLE - From
the Clarksville Chronicle we learn that a
tournament is to be given there by the
young men of Christian, Todd and Logan
counties of Kentucky, and Montgomery
county, Tennessee, on the 31st instant, for
the benefit of the Orphan Asylum. Gen
erals Forrest and Brown, of Tennessee, any
General Williams, of Kentucky, are to ad-
judge and award the prizes.
DURING the recent storm IN the vicinity
of Madison, Wisconsin, the lightning was
seen to strike into the lakes, and hurl mass
es of ice, two feet in thickness, hundreds
of feet into the air. The latent heat set
free by the change Of vapor to liquid form
was so great as to raise the temperature in
few hours from below the freezing point
to that of summer, and preserve it there for
nearly twenty four hours.
The Nashville Dispatch of Saturday pro-
poses that an election be held for District
Attorney on the 4th Thursd day of this
month, without regard to the registration
to be made under the Franchise act JUS
passed by the Legislature. If the Governor
shall refuse to commission the person elect
ed, it is then further recommended by the
Dispatch that a writ of mandamus shall be
sued out against him, and, in this way, The
constitutonality of the newest Franchise
law be tested.
BELLE BoYD.-A gentleman who saw
the Rebel heroine, Belle Boyd, in London
a few weeks since, states that she had sueC
for divorce from her husband, ex-Lieu
tenant Harding, Of the United States Navy
Cause--utter worthlessness and dissipa
ton. Harding was also in London in yer,
destitute circumstances. He tried to OBJ
tain passage in one of the Cunard steam
ers. under pretence Of having lost his ticket