The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-01-25


gnlaski Citizen.
L. W. mcc0RD, Editor end Publisher.
FIRm in the right the Printing Press should be,
The tyrant's.foe the champion Of the freei
Faithful and coIlstant to its sacred trust
Calm in its utteranee IN its Judgments Justi
Wise IN It's teaching; heorTupt and strong
To speed the right and to denounce tfe wrong.
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RUIo-ASKT TENRF-
FRIDAY MORNING. JAN'Y. IS. 1867.
Is the contested election case. Of Thomas
against Arnefl from this State. Che House
has decided to give the former, who is con
testant, further time to take testimony.
The Chattanooga american Union learns
that the engine Of the accommodation train
on the Shelby vile Branch road, burst It's
boiler on Friday
SLAYER1 was thought % be the great
cause Of sectional strife But slavery is
gone and the sectional strifeis ferceF than
ever. Dead slavery seems more potent for
strife than live slavery was.
A WRITER. dwelling upon the impor-
lance Of small things, says that he always
takes notice even Of straw, especially SO,
if there happens to be sherry cobbler at
one end ofit@ saT
The test oath prescribed by Congress
Tor post masters. has been declared udcon-
stitutional by the Supreme Court, and we
may confidently look for general opening
up of the postal ranks.
IT is said that the introduction into Con-
gress of propositions looking to the inn
parchment of the. President, has caused
foreign holders Of American securities to
return them in large quantities. Chickens
coming home to roost.
IT has been we'll said. that the thing
most likely to make the angels wonder, is
to see proud man. tpridesof birth is
the nostredieulous vauities--it8is like
Boosting of the root of the tree. instead Of
the fruit. s@7s
Tue insolence Of Radicals who say the
South has no one to blame but herself for
not being in the Union, resembles that of a
fellow who slams the door Of your own
house in your face, and then curses you for
not coming in to clean up the rooms.
JUDGE DAILY, Of New York, has decided
that fines imposed upon members oftrades
associations according TO bylaws for work
ing under scale Of prices adopted by as
sociations, are legal and can be collected b.
action of law the same as any other debt
Miss HosMER, has the cast of a monu
ment, which she desires to have toe freed
men adopt and erect, alta cost Of $3.50,
GEO, 10 the memory of Lincoln. The mex
thing Will be payment of the nationa
debtby the inmates ofour charity hospital
and poor houses. fe ee
THz general tenor Of advioes from ii,
States south of us. is to the effect that th
freedmen are almost all OF them unwilling
to work upon contract during the currep
year. They prefer to have shares of th
crop, and this arrangement is in most case
made by the planters.
AT the january term Of the Robertso
county Court. the following motion wa
made by Joseph Hardaway, Esq, whic
was carried and made an order That q
eolorod males Of tweniy-one and unds
forty-dye years Of age, pay polltax for Oh
year l867.-Robegsoa Register.
HERE is the object Of The constitution
amendment as announced BY Stevens
THE great virtue Of the amendment i
that il cuts down their representation an
takes away their power to overrale u
when they shah form constitutions 6ttO
represented ea .s
GENERAL LEE.-Nothing could be mo-
modest and pnobqusive than the coarse
Gen, Lee since The surrender 10 Gener
Grant. lie has had rothing to do vii
politics, and, as We learn, does not SO mue
as read The newspapers. His time and a
tentionare exclusively devoted TO the pc
formance Of his duties as president
Washington college, where, upon a sala
Of $500 or $4,000. be lives in the plai