The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-03-22

A horse dealer, describing a used-up
horse, said he looked as if he had been ed
iting country newspaper.
The soundings for the cable between Gu
ba and Florida have been made, and the ca
BILE will be laid by next November.
The Internal revenue law has been mod
fled, incomes over thousand only are to
be taxed 8 per cent aud not 600 as before. /
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Iris stated that Thad. Stevens has pre-
pared and will report in a day or two. an /
elaborate cOnfscatiOn scheme for the South. |
There is every probability of the dele |
gates of the old and new school of Presby- |
terians, now in conference at New York, |
etfecting their permanent union. .s dear,
TIE House Committee of Foreign AT
fairs are seriously considering the proprie-
ty of reporting series Of resolutions look
ing virtually to sympathy with the present
struggle in Ireland.
We learn, says the Richmond Times,
that some of our white citizens have notni-
mated lame negro named Morton Cephass
to represent this district in Congress, an
der the bill recently passed in Washington.
THE total number of cOuyicts in the Ten
nessee penitentiary is three hundred and
eleven. OF these convicts one hundred
and forty-six are whites, and one hundred
and sixty-fYe. oOlOred. T.a
GovERNoR Jenkins estimates the number
of destitute people in Georgia at 10000
whites, and half as many blacks! The
The destitute in South Carolina are supa
posed to be even more numerous. ~ i5fi
THAD. Stevens wants to confsoate $500
OOO.O worth of property in the South.
He is overloaded with q speech on the SUBJ
jet, ofIwhieh he is determined to deliver
himself before the adjournment. won
sA1rHLAED, KY. is completely inunda-
ted, and great suffering exists among
the people. Some of The houses have
been washed away, and many families have
taken refuge in the courthouse.
MEXICAN news continues mixed and
muddled as ever. The final and complete
evacuation of the city or Mexico by the
French troops took place on the 9th inst
The whole army marched to Vera. Cruz,
there to embark for France. -aad sefr or
In the Maryland House Of Delegates on
the 9Th inst, a bill permitting negro tes-
mony in courts, on the same footing as
white citizens, failed for the want of con
stitutional quorum. The vote was ayes
80, nays 10; absent 81.
w. P. KING and Abram Owens, the rail-
road robbers, and murderers of Henry
King; who were tried, convicted, and SEN
fenced to be hung at Franklin, KY, have
been respited by the Governor until the
18th of May.
THE late Alexandria election is to be
ing the military reconstruction bill of last
session. ID The case is being made up very,
carefully; and win be pushed up to the
Supreme Court as soon as possible. IL
Ex-Governor Hamilton, of Texas, made
speech in Washington on the night of the
18th inst, in which be declared, as repor-
ted in the Chronicle, that the Presentre-
construction law. was failure, because the
government had not troops enough to en-
force it. "a , f II
The Baton Rouge Advocate says: when
ever we take up an exchange aud fail to
find 1.-The duty of the South in its usual
place at the head of two columns of edito-
rial, we feel uneasy until another paper is
unfolded. a .17s1r-
TAE restoration of the Transit Potomac
part of the original District of Colum bia is
now contemplated, on grounds Of public
expediency. The law by which it was
retroceded to Virginia in 1916, is consid-
cred unconstitutional, and as the hopes of |
the people of Alexandra, who expected by
this means to build up great commercial !
metropolis at that port, has never been re-
allied, it is not probable that there will be |
any serious obstacle in the way.
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