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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-23

TIE FLOODS For days past newspaper
readers have seen accounts from various
portions of the country, ehrouicling great
loss of life and property by the high water
which has prevailed in the principal tribu-
taries of the Mississippi river, but an accu-
rate idea cannot be formed of the dread
reality of the case without one should stand
upon the hills near one of the many i'll fated
streams and be an eye witness to the foam
ing and drift-covered waters that are rush
ing along and carrying destruction through
out the valleys While in Memphis during
the past week, we gathered information from
parties who had been driven from their
homes, and who told us that the Mississippi
river, from Cairo to Vicksburg, was changed
into monster inland sea, and that the bot
tom lands, from the hills on the cast to the
highlands on the west, were all under water
Thousands upon thousands Of valuable stock,
houses, and in many cases human life
had been swept away. Great fears are en-
tertained that the food now prevailing will
not subside before the spring rise in the Mis-
souri, comes down, in which case it will be
impossible to till farm on either side Of the
Mississippi between the points mentioned
above. At Memphis the water is forty miles
wide, and in many places, between that point
and Madison, Ark, stands to the height of
twenty feet over the bottom lands. No esti-
mate can be formed of the loss already sus-
tanned, as the waters rose so fast that people
who lived distance from the highlands
were unable to remove any of their house
hold effects, or drive cattle points of safety.
A gentleman from Madison told US that
CrOwley's Ridge was the roaming ground of
myFiads of bear, deer, and wild game of
every species familiar to the great swamps
and bottom lands, all of which were com
PEELED to leave their old haunts by the mer-
eiless food. At this time Bolivar, Miss, is
the only landing between Memphis and
Vieksburg.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-23

MEMPHIS CITY SAVINGS INSTITUTION,
GUCCEssoRs
OGDEN, TOBEY & CO.,
METPH S...-......... .. TENN
CNo Is eaerson street)
Dealers ia Exchange, Coin Bank Notes. Stock &c. Col
lectioEs made all accessible points United States
Corrected Weekly for the Bolivar Bulletin.
MENPIus. I'm Mnrch d Iss5
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-23

Taylor, McBain & Co., of Chicago, have
been awarded the contract by the City Coun-
Gil of Memphis to pave several prominent
streets with the Nicholson pavement, at ii
contract of s. 600 COO
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-23

INPoRTANT.-A telegram, dated Nashville,
March q, says @
The Supreme Court of Tennessee viii
render decision to-day on the cases in
vOlving the eOnstitutionaiity of the State
Franchise Law"
Impatiently we wait for the decision, and
when we do receive it, will lose no time in
placing it in the hands of our readers, all Of
whom We can almost confdentially assure
that its tone and essential points will be in
keeping with their wishes, the law, and the
constitutional rights bequeathed to the chill
dren of a band Of heroes who endured the
dangers and hardships of a seven years war.
From information obtained while we were
in Memphis, during the middle of the pre-
sent week, we are led to believe that the
franchise law has certainly been declared
utterly void .aa
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-23

In the Senate of the United States on Fri
day, Alr. Sherman introduced a joint resolu-
ton to remove the disability to hold Office
from Robert NJ. Patton, of Alabama, AID
Joseph E. Brown, Of Georgia, which was re-
ferred to the Judiciary Committee This is
a clear offer of a bride to other public men
in the South to pursue the course opened up
by the apostacy of Patton and Brown 1t
will be recollected that the third section
of the Constitutional Amendment leaves it
within the discretion of Congress to except
from its disabilities any whom it may see fit.
1t is with this power that Congress expects
to win to its support the aspirants for place
who love Office more than country.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-23

The port collector OF Detroit is after the
fashioaabIes Of that city for smuggling cloth
ing purchased in Canada.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-23

What Makes a BusheL-The following
table of the number of pounds of various
articles to bushel, may be of interest to
our readers.
Wheat 90, corn shelled Sc, corn on the
cob 20, rye 56, oats 80, barley 46, buckwheat
So, Irish potatoes so, sweet potatoes so,
onions 81, beans 60, bran %, clover seed 90,
Timothy seed 45, hemp seed As, blue grass
seed IA, dried peaches 80.
at late meeting in Nantucket there were
375 people present over 20 years old, Is over
SO, and 9 over 80. In Nantucket people live
until they dry up and are blown away.
In London large bilLpOsting firm has Of
fered the English Government $4,000 in
gold year for the privilege of using the
fence around Hyde Park for advertising pur-
poses. In America, as an evidence of the
effect Of advertising on the public, it is said
that when citizen of New York recently
advertised for wife, he received about 1 800
answers from husbands. saying he could
have theirs.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-23
FOREIGN Exchange

England, Ireland and Scotland IS % psr E
france. Switzerland and Eeirfuan. G.6slT for 81.
GeEmaay-sil4 for gold thsieri 81 O. for Prussi
guildsT 65Se- for guilder.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-23

Judge Comstock, of New York, formerly
prominent Republican, has written a let
ter in regard to the military reconstruction
scheme of Congress. lie declares that in
wiping out the governments of the Southern
States, the Radicals leave the question OF
slavery as it stood at the close of the war,
for its abolition and Its future prohibition
were accomplished through the sanction of
the States whose governments are now de-
cIared to have been, since the war, Illegal
The Judge recommends the Southern States
topursue policy of mastery inactivity,
and trust to the returning reason of the
North for the restoration of the republican
liberty which the bill denies. He says the
Radical party cannot maintain themselves
on platform in direct conflict with the con-
stitution, and he recommends the South to
take no hand in oyerthrowing that instru-
ment.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-23

THREATNNe.-From the following article,
taken from the Nashville Press and Times.
it viii be seen that the Radicals Of this
State are bounding on another war. Men
should not fold their hands and shut their
eyes when such threats are bei.g made.
As we have said weeks ago, the future Is
dark and permanent peace is far removed
from our doors
ARMS FOR -TENNEsSEE Senator Fowler
called up the joint resolution in the Senate
on the 18th inst, directing the Secretary Of
War to furnish G vernor Brownlow with
arms and equipments for twenty-five thou
sand militia. The resolution was promptly
passed. The seditionists il this State may
infer from this action of Congress, what is
in store for them if they persist in their in
famous plotting and warfare against the
peace Of society, and the present State Gov
eminent Both men and arms viii come
freely from the AOrth To quel the turbulent
rebel Democracy. Governor BrowHiOw will
be gloriously sustained. He goes mp as
st lily as Andy johnson goes downward
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-29
Remarkable Works.

Nineveh was fourteen miles long, eight
miles wide, and forty-six miles round, and
with wall one hundred feet high and
thick enough for three chariots abreast
Babylon was fifty miles within the wallis
which were seventy-tive feet thick and one
hundred feet high, with one hundred gates.
The Temple of Diana, at Ephesus, four
hundred and twenty feet to the support of
the roof. 1t was one hundred and eighty
teet on the sides. The base covered eleven
acres. The stones are sixty feet in length.
and the layers are two hundred and eight.
1t employed three hundred and twenty
Thousand men in building. The labarinth
contains three hundred rooms and twelve
halls. Thebes, in Egypt, present ruins
twenty-seyen miles around. Athens was
twenty-five miles around and contained
three hundred and fifty thousand citizens
and four hundred thousand slaves. The
Temple of Delphos was so rich in dona-
tions that it was plundered of five hundred
million dollars, and the Emperor Nero car
ried away from it two hundred statues.-
The walls OF Rome were thirteen miles
around. IN E.-. -f.e
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-29
Singular and Terrible Affair.

A correspondent, writing from Highland
Falls, says:
"Michael Finnan, of this place, who has
been in the employ of the professors at
West Point for many years, having large
family of small children, conceived the
idea of more easily supporting them by the
aid of cow, which he purchased in New
York, and brought her home on Friday
night by the James Baldwin. Having a
rope on her head, the cow readily followed
to the house. His wife being in delicate
condition, and Over-anxious to see and in
spect the animal that was to give so much
relief to her hard-working husband, un-
suspecting!y stepped from the door, and
noticing little dog by her side, the COW
became inturiated, made a plunge at the
dog, which took shelter behind Mrs. F.
She was gored by the animal in shocking
manner. A male infant and her intestines
protruded to the ground, and the woman
and child, with the help OF bystanders,
were removed to the house. The skill OF
the surgeons of West Point, who were early
on the spot, was of no avail. She died
about two hours after the occurrence. I'm
usual sympathy is felt for the family, and
the additional fact that this infant is still
alive and apparently doing well, intensifies
this feeling. The funeral was attended by
large concourse ofpeOple. The lamenta-
tions of the relatives and six small children
were heart-rending in the extreme.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-29
URIV Men.

In the eastern part of Ohio there resides
a man named Brown, now a justice of the
peace and a very sensible man, but by COM
mon consent the ugliest individual in the
West, being long, gaunt, sallow and awry,
with a gait like. a Kangaroo. One day he
was hunting, and on one of the mountain
roads he met man on foot and alone, who
was longer and gaunter by all odds than
himself. He could give the squire fifty and
beat him. Without saying a word, Brown
at the stranger. SFor Gods sake don't
shoot" shouted the man in alarm.
stranger" replied Brown, IL swore ten
years ago that it ever l met a man.uglier
than L was, I'd shoot him, and you are the
first one I've seen." ...... ...-.-- ..
The stranger, after taking careful sur
vey of his rival, replied: ...
swell, captain, if look any worse than
you do, shoot, 1 don't want to live any
loDpern -r..s-Es 19i --s a1sr ~s7- E.T.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-29
THE BURLOCK DIAMOND SHIRT.
The HandsOmest Shirt i'm the
Countrywide Best Fitting ear
Shirt Ever Made.
sATISFAo74oNa GUARANTEED.
Made to Measure at the Following Prices, in Do,
ems or Half Dozens: .t.

Made to Measure at the Following Prices, in Doz-
ems or Half Dozens: -...E"
No.. A New Y York Mills Muslin7 or Plait Bos-
No. . Wamsutta Muslin or PIait Bosom,
: NO. ) Bates Muslin or PIait Bosom. $40 90
No: &C Chapman Muslin or Plait Bosom, sS6 90
No; 5 Uxbridge Muslin Plait Bosom. sss 90
No. 6 Attawaugan Muslin Plait Bosom. Ses 90
4 no. ! Sprague shirting PIait Bosom. sas 90
Mol A Full-N. Y Mills Muslin, Linen Lawn
Bosoms $54 90 per dozen.
No. 2 A tull-Wamsutta Muslin, Linen Lawn
No.. b tull-Bates Muslin, Linen Lawn Bosoms.
No Full-Chapman Muslin, Linen Lawn
| Bosoms, $42 90 per dozen:
| No. s Full-Uxnridge Muslin. Linen Lawn
No ~ If pSF Mills Muslin. Linen Lawn
Bosoms, $54 90 per dozen: u,.
| Bosoms, $4S 90 per duzen.
No. PuH-Bates Mus in, Linen Lawn Bosoms,
No. g Puff Chapman Muslin. Linen Lawn
No. S b Puf-Uxbridge Muslin, Linen Lawn
No i L Ali Linen. Fulled Bosoms s75 90 per
No. L Full-An Linen. Plait Bosoms. s7a SC
30. ; l. All Linen, : Plait Bosoms. se8 90 pei
No. All Linen, Plait BosOms, $50 90 pei
No. Spanish Linen. Plait Bosoms, $4s 90 pei
No 2 s Spanish Linen. T. Plat Bosoms. $45 90 pei
No. S Spanish Linen, Plait Bosoms, $50 90 pei
dozen.
No French Percales 5 & Plat Bosoms. Col
! lars detacn ed, $50 90 per dc zen.
No. + Full French PeIcales Fulled BoSoms, Col
lars detached, $5I % per dozen.
i No . a A W amsutta Muslin, Fine Plait BosOms,
$48 90 per dozen.
No G Q Chapman Muslin, Fine Plait Bosoms
$40 so per dozen.
S65 90 per dozen.
No. 3 A 4 Wamsutta Muslin Embroidered
$50 90 per dozen.
Mol I Fine Spanish Linen, PATENT, Travelling
Shirt, $4S 90 per dozen.
Any style with Collars attached, So so to So OF
extra.
not it, we will refund the money.
II CLARK 81 NESWANDER,
SOLE AGENTS,
Il 12I SOUTH HIGH STREET.
apr24-deod3m
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-29
MILITARY despotism is costly

MILITARY despotism is costly. Like war
itself, it eats into the resources of the peo-
pie. 1t is bad animal to be yoked up
with civil government. under a common
flag. Already we hear of its evil effects in
Virginia, and in other States. The regis
try lists are made out by military comman-
ernment;aand "sevele hundred officers" are re-
quired as clerks and assistants, in Virginia
alone, to make out the lists. The lawis that
white men shall be very generally disfran-
chised at the South, and negroes enfran-
chised-so it requires vast deal of labor
to do the business. Richmond is already
full Of s.loyal' office-seekers, who are ready
to prey upon the peoples money. The wit
of man could not have devised a precedent
more dangerous to Republican institutions
than this military despotism, no matter
whether its pretext was reconstruction
or oppression, .e
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-29
A RESOLUTION

Relative to an amendment of the Constitution pro-
viding for the extension of the elective fran
chise. .- . .-..-.. .-..tt.....
RssoEUed 6y the General assembly Of the State of
0Ato three.ffthS of the members elected to each
proposed to the electors of this State to vote. at the
next annual October election, upon the ap roval
rejection of the following amendment as substi
tute for the first sect of the fifth article of the
Constitution of this State, tewt Every male cit-
zen of the United States of the age of twenty-one
years. who shall have been resident of the State
one year next preceding the election and of the
county, township, ward in which he resides such
time may be provided by law, except such persons
as have borne arms in support of any insurrecton
rebellion against the Government of the United
States or have fed from their places of residence
avoid being drafted into the military service thereof
or have deserted the mitaryO naval service of said
Government in time of war, and have not subse-
quentlS been honorably discharged from the same.
shall have the qualifications Of an eector, and be
titled to vote at all elections.
ED. A. PARROTT,
S eaker of the House of Representatives.
ANDREW g. MCBURNEY,
.... President of the Senate.
Passed April 6, 1867.
apis dlaw6m-r
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-29
The Last Man i'm the Barber shop

We have seen many illustrations of
misery, many that move the hardest heart
to pity but nothing can be more touching
to an observer, nothing better defines
misery, than a man in a barber shop, with
a dozen or so ahead of him. waiting to be
shaved. 1t is impossible for any one who
never has experienced it to know how
much nerve is required to pass successful
ly through this ordeal. Different natures,
Of course, experience different degrees OF
misery as they wait. ''The poor but vir-
tuous young man, struggling with NOUS
tache" (the fading hue of which has
brought him again to the tonsorial artist,
having an engagement with Sasan-who
has told him, "any thing but feller as isn't
on time"-can probably be put down as the
subject of most abject wretchedness and
despair, as he enters and looks around upon
s'less miserableso who are ''ahead' of him,
the last of whom mingles with his misery a
grim satisfaction that some one comes after
him. r a.na .tta.l ~
The young man would rather s'dye' at
once than be subjected to the suspense he
must endure. Talk of ambition; of tame,
as she beckons from afar to the midnight
porer over volumes filled with learning
and wisdom, or to the warrior as he cuts
his way with his sword and wades through
seas of blood TO her shining gOal!- The
scholars ambition fades to insigniticance
and the soldiers dream OF glory vanisheS
before the mighty yearnings OF the last
man in the barber shop, waiting for his
turn. No goal but the cushioned chail
does he see, 80 near, and yet so far"
There is music to him in the barber!
"next," as it lessons the distance between
him and his ambitious goal; and when i
finally appeals to him, he experiences JOY
that the honied words of f1attery fail t.
bring to him who has found fame. En-.
fbo oil Ioxxy Ino
make good street crossings, &C., and WI
will submit, but deliver us, good Lord
from being the last man in the barber
shop.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-29
Group.

2
: We copy an article on this subject, which
we commend to the special consideration of
mothers. 1t is from Halls journal of Health,
and may be read with advantage:
!, Group seldom comes on suddenly. Gen
orally it has at first no other symptom than
those of a common cold, but the very mo-
-ment the child is seen to carry his hands
toward his throat, indicating discomfort
there, it should be considered an attack of
Group, and should be treated accordingly.
When child is sick of anything no physi-
clan can tell where that sickness will end.
So it is with cold; it may appear to be a
very slight one indeed, still it may end
fatally in Group putrid sore throat or Dip
iberia. The moment mother observes
croupysymptoms in a. child from two to
eight years, the especially crOupy age, she
should keep the child in her own room, by
her own side, day and night, not allowing
it for a'moment to go outside of the door,
keeping it comfortably warm, so that no
Echiltiness or draft of air shall come over it.
Light food should be eaten, no meats or hot
bread or berries. The whole body, the feet,
especially. should be kept warm all the time.
Rubbing 20 drops of sweet oil into the skin
over the left breast patiently with the
hand, two or three times, or more times, a
day, often gives the most marked relief in
a cold, thus preventing Group. Such q
course, promptly pursued will promptly
cure almost any cold child will take, and
seldom fails to ward off effectually, in a
day or two, what would otherwise have
been fatal attack OF Group, with its ring
ing, kissing, barking sound, aud its uneasy,
oppressive and labored breathing, none OF
which can ever be mistaken when once
heard. Many sweet child is lost thus
The parents are aroused at dead of night
with a cough that suggests Group; but il
seems to pass off, and in the morning they
wake up with feeling of thantul deliver
ance from boding i'll. The child runs about
all day as if perfectly we'll; but the next
night the symptoms are more decided, and
on the next night the child dies; but this
would have been averted with great GER
tainty if from the first night the child had
been kept in warm room, warmly clad
if the bowels had been kept free, and moth
ing had been eaten but toast with tea ol
| cruel, or stewed fruit.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-29
Sudden Death.

We learn from correspondent at Colum-
bus city, Iowa, that at regular meeting of
the Free Masons, and while the lodge was
in session, one of the members had his
horse stolen. The next morning bottle
of whisky was found near the spot from
which the horse was taken. A young man
by the name of John Gets drank portion
of this liquor, and in less than a half hour,
he was corpse. The liquor, upon exam
.ination, was found to contain enough poi
son to kill ten men, and is supposed to have
been dropped by the thief, hoping that
some one would drink it, thus raising an
excitement and giving him a better chance
to escape.-M. Pleasant GotUa) Journal.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-29

A Boston paper says that some of the
banks OF that city have been in the habit
OF taking receipts instead of notes for
loans, by which large amounts are saved
on stamps. In one instance a two-cent
stamp was used where the law required
stamps amounting to two hundred and fifty
dollars -
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-29
CARRIAGES,
On Broadway, between Bond and
Front Streets,
COLUMBUS, OHIO.

WE TAKE THIS METHOD OF
w calling attention to our large stock OF hand
some and well finished
Carriages,
BarOuches,
ROCK
shifting Top Buggies,
Top BuggieS,
Open BuggieS,
And Spring Wagons. They are all of the latest
style. finished in the finest manner, and warranted to
give satisfaction We take great pleasure in show
ing stock. whether you buy not, and only ask
you to call and examine for yourselves.
All orders by mail promptly attended to, and spe-
cial care taken in the shipment of work.
Il. ANDERSON,
All repairing in our line done on the shortes' no.
tice apr4-d3n
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-29
Cholera.

We learn from Mr.. Canny Percy, of
Pointe Goupee, that several cases of cholera
have been reported in that parish. Two of
the cases were servants employed by him,
both OF whom died. The msla.ly is said to
be the genuine Asiatie cholera, but cannot
be accounted for, BqoH Sara (Lz.) Ledger,
12kh .tSif'Sa''-- - = - - - ,,I6-fa
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-29
SEALED PROPOSALS

WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE OF.
w fee of the City Civil Engineer, in Columbus,
Ohio, until
NIOuday,the Goth day of april, 1867,
at O'Clock p. NJ. for furnishing materials and do
ing the following work, to-wit:
For grading and paving the roadway of High
street from North Public lane to point 125 feet
south of Friend street with .-l- --. 49,.
s-NicOlSOn Pavement.''
distance of about 1900 feet by 60 feet wide be-
tween kerbs. -.......l- . l.. ..-.... !. |f.--
The bidders will be required to specify .
1st. The price per square yard for pavement
ID. The price per Gu bic yard for excavation.
Sd. The price per lineal foot for setting kerb-
stone. -.- :. T.. .s 49,. .-.t. III
The bids will be opened by the committee on
Streets and Hiehways and the committees of the
several w ards in which said improvements are To-
Gated, and the right to reject any all of the bids
will be claimed by the committees.
City Civil Engineers Office, Room No. q up stairs
in No. 18 Buckeye Block. - ....E t
80 :, : = - b W. W. POLLARD.
spr9-dtd "a .5-i I'D, City Civil Engineer.
LWestbote cOpy.l