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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-04-06
An ACT to increase the fees of County Reg
listers, and for other purposes.

An ACT to increase the fees of County Reg
listers, and for other purposes
SECTION / Be 1t enacted by the General
Assembly Of the State Of Tennessee, That
from and after the passage of this act, the
Register Of each county be, and he is hereby
entitled to demand and receive for services
the following fees:
For registering each Sheriffs deed for
land or each deed Of conveyance, grant or
other assurance of title, including all the
certificates, and for one tract, piece or parcel
of land, two dollars.
For each additional tract or town lot, fifty
cents.
For registering DEGREES for titles under
one hundred words, fifty cents.
For each additional one hundred words,
thirty cents.
For registering transcript for Judgment,
one dollar.
For registering any other instrument, one
dollar
FOR each search Of books, ten cents.
For all copies from Office, the same fees
as for registration, including seal.
For each memorandum of incorporation,
or other documents relating to private cor
porations registered under the laws Of Ten
nessee, two dollars.
For each copy of such memorandum or
document, two dollars.
For registering copy of petition and GER
tifcate Of election to be incorporated as a
town, one dollar
For registering deed or other article of
limited partnership or removal Of same and
certificate Of probate or acknowledgement
thereof, one dollar
SEC ,. Be 1t further enacted, That in all
! cases of attachment suits where the Sheriff
/ of any county in this State may levy an at
/ tachment, and the amount for which attach
ment levied shall be paid or satisfactorily
/ settled, the Sheriff levying the same shall
/ be entitled to the same commissions as II
cases of executions and that this act shal
take effect from and after It's passage
Passed March 9th, 1867
}. s. MULLoY,
Speaker pro tenn Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives-
JOSHUA B. FRIERsoS,
Speaker Of the Senate.
! do certify that the above Is a true copI
Of the original now on file in my Office.
4 A. J. FLETCHER,
Secretary Of State.
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what the Newspapers do for Nothing.

What the Newspapers do for Nothing,
The following article should be read and
pondered well by every man who takes a
newspaper without paying for it
My observation enables me to state, as a
fact, that publishers of newspapers are more
poorly rewarded than any other class of men
in the Emitted States who invest an equal
amount of labor, capital and thought They
are expected to do more work for less pay,
to stand more sponging and' dead head
ing, to puff and defend more people with
out fee or hope of reward than any other
class.
They credit wider and longer, get oftener
cheated, suffer more pecuniary loss, are oft
ener the victims of misplaced confidence
than any other calling in the community
People pay printers bill with much more
reluctance than any other 1t goes harder
with them to expend a dollar on a valuable
dewspaper than ten on needless gew-gaw
yet everybody avails himself of the use Of
the editor pen and the printer ink.
How many professional and political rep
utatiOns and fortunes have been made and
sustained by the friendly, though unrequited
pen of the editor2 How many embryo
towns and cities have been brought into no
tice and puffed into prosperity by the press
How many railroads now in successful Ope
ration, would have foundered but for the
lever" that moves the world ? In short
what branch Of industry and activity has
not been promoted, stimulated and defended
by the press
And who has rendered it more than
miserable pittance for its services The
bazaars of fashion and the haunts of dissi-
patton and appetite are thronged with an
eager crowd, bearing gold in their palms
and the commodities there vended are sold
at enormous profits, though intrinsicaly
worthless, and paid for. with scrupulous
/ punctuaity; while the counting room of
the newspaper is the seat of jewing, cheap
ening trade orders and pennies. 1t is made
a point Of honor to iquidate a grOg bill,
butnot of disnonOr to repudiate printer s
/ bill
Aye, and more; the editors of a daily
| journal are expected to give their morning
readers the latest items of intelligence. To
| do this, they must do without the natural
sleep of ordinary mortals. The small hours
of the morning find them away from their
homes and families, reading prool-sheets,
| clipping items from exchanges, preparing
| telegraphic dispatches. for cGmpOsitOrs to
set, and endeavOring to coin a small .pittance
| which many a narrow minded public be-
grudge them, and when worn out by incipi
ent toll they shake off this mortal coil, il
they have enough of this worlds goods to
pay their funeral expenses, their brother
editors may well exclaim Well done
good and faithful servant of an migrate
full public.
It is generally believed that editors and
printers car live on air, or that they have
an inexhaustable mine of wealth always a
their command.
They need no money, hence they can bc
put off till a convenient season, while the
milliner's bill must be promptly iquidated
I-NetCbeTT Journal
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DO Newspaper subsorlbers.

We give in the article below The law of
Newspapers" Here is a guide to all who
are Subscribers to any Newspaper or Peri
odical 1t is the law Of the land, for tho
protection Of newspaper publishers and
those who receive newspapers; law that
should he fully understood by all.
1t is utterly impossible for newspaper
publisher to be st all times cognizant of the
wants Of a subscriber or Of his goings and
comings, and the post Office changes and IN
certainties make it very difficult for him TO
know how to act unless 0dcised by the Sub
seribey himself this be can do and should
do himself by letter, first paying an dues.
The Law OF NEWsPAPERs--l. Subscribers
who do not give express orders to the contra
rv. are considered as wishing to continue
their subscription.
If subscribers wish their paper discon-
fioued. publishers may cOntinue TO send them
until 0H charges are poid.
8. If subscribers neglect or refuse ta take
their papers from the Office or place 70 which
they are sent, they are held responsible ari-
til fhez settle their bin and give notice 20 dis
continue them.
4. If subscribers more 10 other places
scithom Informing the publisher, and the
/ paper is sent to the former direction. they
are held responsible. Notice should always
I be given Of removal
5 The courts have decided that refusing
/ to take a paper or periodical from the Office,
/ or removing and leaving it uncalled for is
/ DrfBaa fqciG evidence Of Intentional
| fraud
Postmasters would oblige, by a strict full
/ flment Of the regulations requiring them to
notify publishers, once in three months, oi
! papers not taken from their Office by subscri
/ bers.
Under the law Of Congress, papers are nol
charged postage In the county in which they
are published.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-04-06

Corinth, Miss is to have a daily paper.
1t viii be issued from the Office of the Corinth
Weekly News. The people of that enter
prising place, now that the Corinth and Ten
nessee river railroad is almost completed,
are perfeeting plans for the erection of a
large cotton factory. Success to the Corin-
thians
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The Enisoopal Meth. Church

It is known to the majority of our readers,
says the Augusta Constitutionalist, that for
months past the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, in their several conferences have been
discussing and voting on a change of name.
4 few votes were lacking for the required
constitutional majority. These the Balti-
more Conference gave on Saturday last.
Lay representation in the annual conference
has also been secured We cheerfully com
ply with the following request of the MethO-
dist clergy of this city
Mr. Editor: As it is a matter of interest
to Methodists generally. permit US to say,
the action of the Baltimore Conference on
the question of Lay representation and
change of the name of the NJ. +. Church,
South, has been received, and we are graft
fed to learn that the name of the Church
has been changed from Methodist EpiscO-
pal Church, South, 10 Episcopal Methodist
Church, and that Lay representation was
adopted by a unanimous vOte-l04 years,
nays none Thus the church no longer
bears a sectional name and Lay representa-
ton will ensue the unity of Methodist South
F. w KEY,
G. H PATuLo,
A WRIGHT
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L1xDELL HOTEL BURNED.-The Linden
Hotel, St Louis, has been destroyed by FIRE
A telegram, dated St. Louis, March 3lst,
says:
The Lindell Hotel largest building of the
kind on the continent, if not in the world,
was totally burned last night There Is
much mystery about the origin of the fire,
but most reliable accounts say it broke out
In the fifth story The building was owned
by Henry Ames & Co, Edward Ames being
the representative of the property. It's
original cost was little over 100000, and
was bought by Henry Ames Il Co., two
months after it opened. 1t was insured for
$4,000. Loss of furniture and stores,
S30n,OO0, which was insured for 100000
The loss of personal effects by guests will
amount to 100000 Loss Of goods in the
stores underneath the hotel viii be about
$4,000 A number of our citizens have
already expressed determination to rebuild
this magnificent structure.
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The following is clipped from that wide
awake, excellent paper, the Franklin weekly
Review:
The action of the Supreme Court relative
to the Franchise Law, increases the difficult
ties of the summer campaign, but each one
should only struggle the harder. It only
makes it more imperatively necessary that
each man should do his whole duty in the
ensuing election Tennessee is now recon-
structed upon the plan of the Sherman MILF
tary Bill, and we can but believe that terror,
arising from the Infamous measure, was the
primary cause of the late decision of the Su-
preme Court We prefer placing such d
construction as this upon their conduct "a
ther than impute 20 them wilfully base mo-
tives. But the deed is done, and we must
abide the result Williamson county num-
bers some five hundred who have been al
lowed to vote heretofore. Every one Of
these should, whenever the opportunity is
offered, at once proceed to renew their GER
tifcates, if that Is necessary, and prepare
themselves to vote IN the August election.
Voting has been decided by the Supreme
Court not to be a privilege; but we say that
it is positive and imperative duty. Those
| who are not for US are against u.s. and in
every instance where Is Conservative man
can exercise the elective franchise and fails
to do so, he adds that much to the strength
of the Radical party Ia military affairs the
General would be regarded as very blame
worthy who, seeing the movements of his
/ antagonists, would quietly, and without an
effort to prevent it, suffer himself and his
army to be surrounded, captured and dis
armed And it is even so in political affairs.
! We should use our best efforts to prevent
measures Of degradation from being carried
out in our midst The Radicals are making
a great deal of noise throughout the State ia
reference to attempts upon the part of the
/ Conservative party to re-enslave the blacks,
all of which they know to be false; but it is
/ not false that these same Radicals are atempt-
ing to enslave the former owners and mas
ters of the State of Tennessee, and unless
every voter does his duty they viii come very
near the accomplishment Of their design.
Each man must be prepared with his certi-
ficate, and each man who can must vote.
| We know that In this county we can elect
a Conservative Representative, and we wish
to aid as much as possible IN eleeting Con-
seryative Governor.
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The first bin Ben Wade was called upon
to sign, after his election as President OF
the Senate, was one in relation 70 the oung
Mems Christian Association Of Washington,
and as he put his name - it he whispered
that it was a pretty good beginning, by
Cd r'-PHblic Ledger
just as might have been expected. Ben
Md and found wanting
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Call for a Conservative State Cen
VeRtfOn.
NASHVILLE, March II, 1867

NASHVILLE, March II, 1867.
The undersigned Conservative
members of the General Assembly
of the State of Tennessee, deeply
impressed with the dangers which
imperil our beloved country, from
the reckless disregard upon the part
of the majorities in Congress and
the Legislature of our own State, of
the sage counsels of the founders of
our government, and the funda-
mental principles of our Constitu-
ton, respectfully y propose, that there
be held in the city of Nashville,
on TUESDAY, THE 18TH OF
APRIL NEXT, a convention of
the true Conservative Union people
of the State; of all who wish, in
the language of the Father of his
country, that our Union and broth
erly affection may be perpetuated /;
that our free Constitution may be
sacredly maintained, that its ad-
ministration in every department
may be stamped with wisdom and
virtue, that the Happiness of the
people of the States, under the au-
spices of liberty, may be made COM
plete by the careful preservation
and prudent use of this blessing
in short, a Convention Of all who
oppose the tendencies and ruinous
policy and practices of the domi-
nant party, for the purpose of tax
ing counsel for the common good OF
all the people of the State, and to
select a standard-bearer, in the ap-
preaching canvass for Governor
who shall be a true, loyal Union
man, firm and determined de
fender of the Constitution and laws
of the land, and around whom may
rally all the people of the State whc
desire the full and complete resto
ration of peace, prosperity and hap
piness of our beloved State.
, J. D. johnson, John S Brien,
: J. P. Thompson, Jas. Jones.
W. J. Mcfarland, VIM. W. Coleman,
Hervey Brown, J. f. Moore,
L. NJ Tharpe, Dan Able,
S. l. Warren, Peter Pearson,
J. T. Street, t. ~ Jarvis,
+. A. Loughmiller, E. Simlnerley,
- Henry Briggs, VIM. WTighe,
John r. Shuts, G. W Overstreet,
r. L. V. Schmittou, John Lellyett
r E. Lasater, James Parks
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Augusta, Ga, March u. e..

MER1TED COMMUNICATIONS Somerville
cotemporary, in referring to the house of
Orgill Bros & Co. dealers in hardware,
cutlery, machinery, etc, at the corner Of
Front and Monroe streets, Memphis, says:
OygiU Bros. d Co.-This is one of the
oldest and decidedly one of the best hard
ware houses in Memphis. They keep every
thing in their line and Of the best quality.
Messrs. Denison and M'Near attend to the
business and in point of integrity, enter
prise and business capacity are not to be
surpassed. and a more pleasant, agreeable
gentleman than Mr.. Denison is seldom, if
ever. met with. Give them call or send
them your orders, and our word for it every
thing will come up all right as the utmost
confidence may be reposed in them.
We endorse the above. and will state that
the firm referred to are direct importers Of
European manufactured goods.
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Cadence, the Nashville correspondent of

Cadence, the Nashville correspondent of
the St Louis Republican says
Bro,onJOU's Lam6s-1t is easy to guess
what sort of white men will volunteer in
this portion of Tennessee to assist Brownlow
in the dirty work of stufing the ballOt-bOx,
by coercing negroes to vote for him and keep
ing white men away from the polls. But we
are not left to conjecture. The other day,
gentleman who had conversed with one of
these precious pets, repeated to me his threats
He declared his determination to play havoc
with the g rebels in a certain locality, not
fifty miles from Nashville, because a relation
of his had been killed in personal difficulty
by a citizen, who holds that a white man is
as good as a negro. My informant is ac-
quainted with the people threatened by this
lamb, and assures me that, though they are
exceedingly law-abiding and peaceably dis
posed, they have too much gunpowder, and
understand its use too well, to be downtrod-
den by bandits in time of peace IF such
youths as that to whom / have referred shall
attempt to carry out their threats of murder,
they will be treated to hOspitable graves
and then yell will be raised about bush
whackers" 1t is well understood that a
chief part of BrOwnlows object is to open
wide these neighbOrhood feuds, that he may
have occasion for fresh measures of tyranny.
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The following, from the New York Post,
will refresh the thousands Of hopeful CORE
spondents of the benevolent millionaire
Mr.. George Peabody, intending soon to,
leave for England, informs those who have
written to him asking loans Of money, sub
scriptions to churches, public charities, etc,
or assistance for themselves or others, that
the great number Of these communications
has rendered it impossible for him to read
OF answer, or even open them in person.
These letters, amounting to nearly four thou
sand, have been burned in his presence
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asked Papa, how did they wax him ?
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-04-06

4 microscope has been manufactured ~
London which magnifies three thoasand
diametres with It's lowest eye-pieees gEd Eif-
teen thousand diametree with is highest,
80 that an object Is made io APPEAR one bil-
lion Eve hundred and sevenfy-iee million
times larger than il really is
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For the Bolivar Builetin.l
REAPPEARAWCE or TIE sun.



sweet welcome to him, ye ohiIa5ea Of meaI
For his smile illumines your pathway again
Shout welcome to him, ye birds ana ye aOwers:
Shout welcome to him. ye long weary hours!
Drink deep, drink desp,of his warm lsviag kiss
That aIls up your bosoas with purified bliss
Shout welcome aloud 60 the beautiful sun
As it smiles the breast ef the grisfstrieken ons
And while its soft sheen avakes in the heart
A feeling that nothing bat light could inpart;
3, lif up the heart and lift up the eyes
To the Cod Of the storms and beautiful skies
opened my EYES in the darkness sf night.
And saw on the floor the loveable light
Of sHe Eofs silver orb that hung il the skies.
And thought that the clouds had ceased to arise;
And ny bosom ran wild with the Pursst delight
At the haleyon smile of the beautiful night.
How gladly the next morn arose with the dawn.
More gladly saw that the dark clouds had gone
And welcomed the long lost beautiful sun,
In behalf Of many a sorrowful one,
That like uuto me for long, weary days,
Had sighed for the warmth of its heartcheeFing rays
And proudly he marches along the blue sky,
scatt'ring ight and joy from his beautiful eye;
And forests and fields steal his soft-tinted rays
To cheer up the flowers that them lay;
And the birds and the streams hilltop and vale
Send love on the wing Of the musical gale
But deep is the shadow that hovers above
Many bOsoms all with the radianos ofIevs;
For the beautiful sun when he away,
Invoked every storm to ravish the day,
And the dark swollen cloud obseured every trace
Of the love that beams from his beautiful face.
And the rivers and riIls swollen with ire,
And trees in their anger fell down to expire;
And the bodies Of men, dishgured by gloom,
Dashed wildly along their movable tomb,
And the beautifult babe and mother crushed,
Where the mountain Of water and hurricane rushed.
Now the sad step Of sorrow is heard at the cot,
And the hall is an sabed for many not,
Whose heart-thrilling laugh and afable voice
But short while ago made the houselsss rejoice;
Yet the beautiful sun looks to allay
The raEage that happened whom he was away
Though afHietion plant thOrns to entangls feet,
And penury Of all that is sweet,
And hope seeks his couch about 30 expire,
Our eyes should look up the sun, if not higher,
And think ourselves happy whenever his ray
spreads over eur path the beauties Of day.
SPRING CREEK, March so, 1867.
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The Boston Post says the latest and most
effeetual cure for matrimonial ills, for con-
sumption. spinal disease, impeeuaiositys bad
breath, ruined regulations, defeated aspira-
tions for Office, the duns Of creditors, pleurisy,
the toothache. love sickness, hypochondria.
and the other Ills that flesh Is heir to, is to
take q trip on a Mississippi steamboat
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A Terrible Massacre Slaughter Of 123
Prisoners by the Mexican General
Eseobedo.
From tae Brownsville Ranchero.1
The following Is q translation Of General
| Escobedo's order to execute the prisoners of
war captured at San Jacinto:
EIKxlcAS REruBIro. ARnr rnE NoaTH.l
The constitutional arms have ever been
msagnanimous with the armed foreigners
who have come to wage the most unjust war
registered in our annals when those for
eigners have brou ght flag, although hostile;
it could in some measure protect them in
their beiligerent rights, but when that flag
has been turned asids from Tire Intervention
which they wished to iupOse On US, and
those who served under IS without Belong
ing any longer 20 il, neither to the Mexican
nationality, have voluntarily enlisted in the
service of the usurper, 70 take part IN our
domestic disseatiohs, to excite the passions
and agitate civil war, besides committing
depredatiOns and insults, by which humanity
IS outraged, as has been done by the foreign
forces which lately invaded the capital Of
Zacatecas, have lost all right to al eonside-
rations of humanity; have converted them
telves into bandits-the declared enemies Of
humanity and the peace of society-it be-
comes necessary to make, through them, an
example which viii duly punish them, and
satisfy public opinion about the horrible
outrages which they have committed. There
FORE the officer commanding viii proceed to
execute all the foreigners taken prisoners
with arms in their hands, in the glorious
battle of the first instant, with the exception
of the wounded prisoners, and give due no
tice Of the execution Of this order to these
headquarters.
Independence and Liberty,
MARIANA ESCoBEDo.
To Citizen Col Miguel Palacios Major
General of the First Division of this Army
Corps-present.
This order was executed on the Sd inst,
at Z o'clock in the evening; or rather the
execution of the one hundred and twenty
three prisoners was finished ut that hour.
One by one the prisoners were shot, and each
bloody body was left as 1t fell, for the next
victim in order to look upon. We are III
formed that but few of the doomed victims
faltered; and when marched out for eXecu-
ton most Of them sang the Marseliaise
hymn. We have been promised the full
particulars of this awful massacre, and
when received, they will be laid before the
public in order to complete the black and
damning record.
After the execution at San JacintO, Gen.
Escobedo ordered ball at San Luis Potosi,
in honor Of the victory achieved over Mira
mon 1t was to have been the gFandest
affair ever gotten up in that city. One hum
dred and fifty ladies were invited, who were
of course the ton of the town" When
the hour came to commence the dance, the
heroes of the San Jacinto massacre found
that but fifteen of the ladies had responded
to the invitation. And no more than fifteen
of those invited did attend that night FROM
this it may be determined what the women
of Mexico think of the murderers of those
French and German prisoners.