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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15
No. 10
Another Shameless Grab at the Public
Treasury.

I
Under this head the Nashville Union and
Dispatch furnishes the following article,
from which it can be seen that. Aldridge,
Bosson, Cate, Hall, Keith, McElwee5 Powell,
Spence, Mckinney, Patterson, Robinson,
Senter, Wilson and Speaker Friersou, radi-
cal members Of the Impeachment court.
made an attempt to replenish their failing
funds by unlawful process. Here is what
our cotemporary says
Not satisfied at the turpitude Of Judge
FTaz;er's conviction, contrary to law and the
evidence. the majority Of the Court of I'm
parchment could not permit the opportunity
to pass without an effort TO defraud the
Treasury by drawing unlawful pay for their
mischiev0us services The pay Of Senators,
as such IS four dollars per day, and they
cannot increase that stipend during their
term of office But it seems that as a Court
of impeachment they rose above the CON
stitution, and proposed 90 draw a per diem
of six dollars-undeF color, we believe, of
some law or resolution of the Legislature,
enacted or passed by themselves Not only
so but they also demanded forty per cent
On account of the depreciation OF the legal
tender currency Of the country. Their de-
mands upon the Treasury, thus mounted Up
from four dollars to eight dollars and forty
cents They notonly did this for the twenty
i've or thirty days they were actually IN ses-
sionI but Tor eighty SGc dQ5fS--tb entire time
intervening between the adjournment of the
Senate on the llth of March-including
that day, for which they had already received
pay-dnd the adjournment on yesterday.
Such a cOld-blooded anddeliberate attempt
to obtain money from an Over-burthened
people, without the pretense of service, is,
SO far as we know, Unexampled in the history
OF legislative bodies. The expenses of this
trial, including the pay of clerks, reporters,
messengers, attorneys, printing, etc, VIII eX-
eeed the sum of twenty thousand dollars.
The pay of the mem bers and attorneys alone,
at this rate would amount to seventeen thou
sand three hundred end odd dollars And
all to prosecute aud degrade an innocent vic
tim Of their dastardIy malice-whose- shoes
the best Of them are to-day unworthy to
loose.
We learn that the Comptroller was SO
shocked and amazed at this Infamous at
tempt to plumber the public treasury that he
refused to pay them more than the four dol
lars allowed by law, and that several of the
graceless harpies have threatened him with
suits, etc.
How long will the public close their ewes
to the Infinite meanness of these Radical
abusers of public trusts, and despisers of
public honesty and personal deceney2 ? Has
the time not already come to hurl them from
place as the children of hell were cast down
from the battlements of Paradise2 We
think 1t has and should the people tolerate
them longer than till August, when they
have an opportunity to dispose of them, they
viii be no longer worthy of freedom or the
name Of freemen.
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Tag on the ColOred Nan.

There is one view, says an Exchange, of
the effects of Radical legislation which col
ored men would do well to consider before
they give their votes to Brownlow. The
indemnity bill, as tits styled, and which only
required one vote in the Senate to become a
Law, and by the operations Of which infa-
nous measure the people would have been
buthened with untold taxation for the bene-
fit OF the cur mudgeons and -thieves who
profesS to have sustained such great losses,
but who, an most instances, are better off in
property and money now than they. were be-
fore the war, would have fallen with heavy
and oppressive and unjust hand upon the
colored men. They as a class would not be
benefited atall by the law; upon the contrary
they would be taxed and made to contribute
Of their already seanty store to cram the
pockets of the ioyal-simOn-pure Of this
State-the men who can take the iron-clad
oath, but who, with afew ezceptiohs) swear
most falsely, as every body knows
Are the people of Tennessee to be ground
TO powder to enrich these greedy eomorSnts
these gungry buzzards, who are ready ~
pluck the living and the dead This bill, if
it should become Law, viii PROSTATE the
financial prosperity Of cur people for quar-
ter of a century to come. Are colored men
willing to be taxed out Of their hard earn
ings to Indemnify any ones Iooses during
the war, whether real or pretended If
Brownlow Is reelected there viii be no end
60 or,v-szqfoa ard ruinous taxation IN Ten.
nessee
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15
a ManWolf

Rev. DR.. Butler, the well known Metho-
dist missionary who established the mission
of that church in India in 1856, recently re-
turned TO this country. He makes the fol-
lowing statement Of remarkable case
In 1859 a British soldier, while bearing a
dispatch from one magistrate to another in
the kingdom of Odde, passed and unfrequent-
ed ravine, where he saw pack Of wolves,
and with them a human being, evidently one
Of their company. Immediately turning back
he reported the circumstance to the mag
istrate for whom he was travelling. The lat
ter forthwith mustered a number Of coolies
and went to the place. The pack Of wolves
fed a short distance, and sought refuge in a
sort Of cave or den. Beginning to dig, the
party soon discovered the feet Of the wild
man, and, drawing him forth, succeeded in
binding and carrying him to town. DR..
Butler has seen him often since, and SAYS
he is evidently man, and at the time of his
capture apparently about twenty-four years
of age.
The captured creature at first violently
resisted the attempt to put clothing upon him,
but after a while ceased to tear the garment
He is now kept by a gentlemrn in the city
of Thabje Vampore, some eight hundred
miles west Of Calcutta When first taken he
was unwilling to eat anything but raw meat,
and has never been able to speak or make
any approximation to a knowledge of the
alphabet If any one looks earnestly or
sharply at him, he expresses his annoyance
by a half-uttered grunt Immediately Turning
away and settling on bis launches In a cor
ner of the room, or lies down. He eats his
food off the ground and although evidently
human being is in habits a wolf, with the
instincts Of that beast
This is certainly an apomalous fact in nat
ural history, although it is said that four
similar cases are known to have occurred in
India, presenting the same general facts
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15

lAffachEllenf Noffce.
Before @. M. Anderson, }. p.
.llh.-,.. II rl......r !. q cn-,.-

Attachment having been levied on the
property of the defendaat in this cause who
absccnds himself so that the ordinary pro-
cess Of law cannot be served on him, it is
hereby ordered that publication be made in
the Bolivar Bulletin, for four consecutive
weeks, requiring the defendant to appear be-
fore me at my Office, IN the town of Bolivar,
Hardeman county, Tennessee. on Saturday,
29th day Of June, 1867, and defend this
suit, or the same will be proceeded with ex-
parte This 9th day Of May, 1867
iel-4t pfS6 G. H. ANDERSON, J. z. H
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15

Last Sunday one week ago the negroes of
Nashville made rush on the street railroad
cars, and notwithstanding the rules of the
road to the contrary, took possession of the
cars and compelled the drivers to convey
them to the cemetery at the head Of Summer
street At one time terrible riot was ex-
pected. but luckily no one was fool-hardy
enough to open the ball In consequences
of the Iawlessness fthe negroes, the presi-
dent of the street railroad company rendered
his resignation.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15
NOTECE.

Having this June Sd, 1867 suggested the
inso{ rency of the estate of Nancy Shinault
20 tie Clerk Of the County Court of Harde-
man county. all persons aris notified % file
their claims probated as required 81 law,
with said Clerk 5n or before the 81 day of
December, 1867. on they viii Be forever
barred les A. 81 a MAsE, Admir-.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15

J. H. Pearson, John N. Burke, Geo
Thompson and E. J. Phillips, employees Of
the Merchants National Bank, Memphis,
were poisoned in that city a day or twp
since from eating ice cream that had been
made in a copper vessel. Prompt medical
assistance was rendered, and the gentlemen
affected are now out Of danger.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15
The Prospect

We have had opportunities in the last few
days, Of Obtaining thoroughly reliable intelli-
gence from various portions Of the State in
regard to the condition Of political affairs,
and it is Of a highly gratifying character.
The people are becoming thoroughly aroused
The intelligence and soberness Of the State
is beginning to exert its iBfuence The
enormities Of the Brownlow administration
have condemned it. and there is ground for
strong hope that in spite Of franchise restric-
tions and the terrorism Of It's militia, it will
be expelled from power.
This brief paragraph is not written lightly,
or without warrant, or for the purpose Of
exciting expectations that do not promise
fairly 20 be realized. It is done 60 give to
our friends the facts as they reach US from
trustworthy sources; and for the purpose Of
stimulating them to active eXergion. The
reaction has commenced. Proper effort viii
secure the cOnsummation Of our hopes
Nashville Union and Dispatch.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15

The MILITIA UEIFoEsL-Ihe uniform Of
the BrownIow militia IS the same as that Of
the soldiers of the regular army, though
only a portion Of them have yet been sup
piled with clothing
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15

Captain John E Chandler, formerly Of the
IIth Tsnnesse, G. S. A., committed suicide
by Jumping into the Gu eFiqud river, near
Clarksyille, few days ago The Chronicle
says shat he leaves wife at Waverly, Tenn
The Koseiusko lMiss Chronicle Of last
week. announces bhe death Of tE0 persons IN
Leake county from actual starvation.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15

Robort Hendershott, well known as the
drummer boy Of the Rappahannock, eloped
from Poughkeepsie, New York, with rich
merchants daughter, on Friday last. They
were married at Newburgh
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15

Up to this time seven companies Of Brown
lows militia have beep ORGANIZED and mus
tered into seYice. Several companies are
also being organized, one Of which l. at
Purdy, McNairy county.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15

In Richmond, Edward a. Pollard has
entered suit against William James, Rev
enue Collector, for property in Washington
sold for confscation, and purchased by
James.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15

The colored Conservatives of Nashville
have organized a political club, and by res
olution. have determined to do all they can
70 beat the radical party in this State.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15
III MEM0RTAM

From a Funeral Sermon IN honor Of Mr..
James Wood, preached at fE Bethany
Church, Hardeman county, Tenn, May the
2oth, 1867, by Rev W. II. Thompson, pas
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15
oRRosEaEoM e 4ERAEEggx.

Platform Of the Conservative Party
Of Tennessee.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15
80llgar 80lfetld.
Is publishea Every saturday.

UbsCRIPII0H-one Copy One Year -Four Dollars snra-
riably in advances One Copy One Month
delivered, Fifty Cents.
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skT6SING-One Square, Of ten lines OF less. 81 .O0.
each subsequent insertion 80 conts; Local
- 81. ;. .-.a-- lE..a
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-06-15

W. H. THOMPSON. ALVIN WARREN, L. B. ADAMS
R. L, LIGHTFUOT. C. H. ANDERSON. R. C CRAWFORD
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-05-08

IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL CASE DECI-
DED.--A Washington special, Of the Oath
says: :" Action has just been had in Toron-
to in case involving many of the intsrna-
tional questions arising out of the rebel,
lion. The pirate Florida during the war
captured the mail steamer Electric Spark.
Among other articles taken we're over ten
thousand dollars worth of United States
postage stamps. There were sold to pri-
vate parties in Liverpool, and shipped to
Canada with the idea Of getting them into
this county for sale here. Our government
obtained knowledge of the transaction, and
got out an injunction to prevent the sales.
The parties holding the stamps petitioned
the court of chancery in Toronto to dis
solve the injunction and dismiss the case,
Solicitor Ware, of the postof1ice depart
ment, proceeded to Canada to conduct the
case and gained decision in his favor, the
court refusing the prayer Of the petitioners.
An order was made that the United States
should present testimony, and an agreement
entered into to take dispositions in New
York on the 9th Of May, proximo, and in
Washington and London simultaneously,
or as soon thereafter as possible. Govern
ment is preparing to open up the whole
subject of the piratical Confederate cap
lures in Connection with this trial, and the
opinion among lawyers in Toronto is that
it will ultimately be carried to the House
of Lords.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-05-08

ONE OF HER "SwINE."- My sweet
"sprig of geranium has q fashion, when
speaking Of her beaux during ther absence,
Of styling them " my SWANS"
Her pa heard her speak thus
/ went to see Jennie one evening, and
was met at the door by the old man.
After the customary How do You do :"
and comment on the weather, he blurted
out
81 suppose you want to see Jennie I"
nodded af1irmatively.
He then called her; and from up stairs,
over the balusters, in sweetest accents she
replied
=" What do you want, pa?'
Come down at once, daughter, here's
one of your stoine."
Imagine my sensations, amidst her ring
ing laughter, after the old boys exit.
-~>~~~>~>-o>~~.o~So-
sea. aRebels' and rebellion" TRAITORS
"and sympathy with treason" may be good
catchwords TO rally party upon. But we
inform the Chronicle that their spell is ex-
hausted. The people Of this country un-
derstand that the legislation of Congress
makes the plain issue whether the Govern
ment is to be revolntionized or not, by
clothing Congress with the power to de-
clare "null and void" the constitutions of
the States. Even timid Republicans are
learning that it is better to be classed with
"rebels' by partisan slanderers, than to
sustain consolidationists who would govern
the country by a Congressional directory.
That is the significance Of the Connecticut
National lnteligencer
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-05-08

NUTs FOR THE LoYAL.-The North
ern Radicals have sovereign contempt
for their Southern allies. Speaking of
the Loyal League in this part Of the
country, and the way it works, the New
York Times scathingly remarks:
"The men who manage it are not
content with the submission Of the
South to the law. They insist that the
South shall applaud the magnanimity
and soisdom Of the la,u-makera It fol-
lows, necessarily, that a party organi-
cation originating under these auspices
and controlled by these influences will
range itself On the side of the Radicals
in Congress, and will be repellaht to
the great body Of the Southern people.
We require tkean to respect and obey the
statute, snpalatable as 1t is; sue haze no
right to ask them to abase themselves By
singing to The glory Of its outho,s, or By
declaring themselves delighted NTH the
rule to schich they are subjected"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-05-08
A Calculating Bridegroom,

I've known some very mean men in
my time. There was Deacon Over.
reach now he was so mean he always
carried a hen in his gig box, when he
travelled, to pick up the oats his horse
wanted in the manager, and lay an egg
Tor his breakfast in the morning.
And then there was Hugo Himmel-
man, who made his wife dig potatoes to
pay the marriage license. / must tell
you that story of Hugo, for it is not a
pad one, and good stories, like pota-
toes, amt SO plenty as they used to be
when was a bow. Hugo is q neighbor
ofmine, though considerably older than
| De, and a mean neighbor he is, too.-
Well, when he was going to get mar
rled to Gretchen Kulp, he goes down
to Parson Rogers, at Digby, to get a
license.
"Parson," said he, "what's the price
of licenseg"
'sSix dollars" said he.
1six dollars!7 said Hugo, "that's a
dreadful sight of money! Couldn't you
take any less?"
''No," said he, "that's what they cost
me at the Secretary's Office, at Halifax
"Well, how much do you AK for pub
fishing in the church, then7n
Nothing" said the parson. -
"Well," said Hugo, that's so cheap
can't expect any change back. |
think III be published. How long does
it take ~
"Three Sundays"
"Ihree Sundays" said Hugo, "well,
that's a long time, too. But three Sun
days only make fortnight, after alt;
two for the covers and one for the in
side like; and So is a great amount of
money for poor man to throw away"
So oft he went, a jogging toward
home, feeling about as mean as new
sheared sheep, when all at once a bright
thought came into his head, and back
he went as fast as his horse could carry
him.
''Parson," said he, five changed my.
mind. Here's the Sc; I'll tie the knot
tonight with my tongue that l can not
unite with my teeth"
"Why, what in the natur' is the
meaning of all this9n
"Why," said Hugo, GIVE been q CT
perrin it out in my head, and it's cheap
er than publishing after all. You see,
sir, it's potato diggin' times; II l wait
to be called in church, her father will
have her work for nothing, and as
hands are scarce and wages big, if /
marry her tonight she can begin to dig
our own tomorrow"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-05-08
A MARRYING WoMAN.-The Wineinac
Democrat tells the following curious story:

A MARRYING WoMAN.-The Wineinac
Democrat tells the following curious story:
There is a married couple living in the
county, whose matrimonial history is rath-
er t,nhstlal, the woman having been mar
ried four times, and yet is living with her
first husband. After sharing the couch of
her first "woiser-half'' few years, the
wife got o divorce frem husband No. ], and
was married to husband No. 2. In a little
while she applied for and obtained a di-
vorce from husband No. S, and was mar.
ried to husband No. 8. In the course of
time she became weary Of her bonds, and
was divorced from husband No. g. Then
her first love resumed its sway in her heart,
and, to make amends for herseeming way
wardness, she sought out aid again met
husband No /, when they Were the second
time indissolubly bound ear in the tender
cords Of wedlock, and Ore pow living hap
PLY and peacefully together, with the CON-
pany of two children by their first mar
riage. She was not blessed with any off
spring by either her second or third hus-
band, SO after years Of separation from her
first. object Of happiness, naught how're
mains to remind her Of the past estrange.
ment save the memory Of husbands Nos.
2 and 3.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-05-08

SATAN REPRovING SIN.--The "Union
League Club" propagated set Of resolu-
tons denouncing the cofruptions of the
New York State Legislature, whereupon
the New York Herald lets fly the follow
ing:
"They had the effrontery to transmit
these resolutions to the Senate, and that
body summarily sent them back. again by
a vote of twenty-seven to three, after ex-
pressing considerably indignation against
their authors. But the Senator'S overlook
the provocation the Union League politi
clans have received at the hands of the
Legislature. The members of the League
were the secret patrons and lobbyists Of
all the new commission jobs for New
York city introduced at Albany this ses-
sion, and as they anticipated grand
increase OF their patronage and profit under
those, they are naturally iriitated at their
defeat.
ut would be better for the pockets Of
the people, as well as for the public
morals, to adopt sort of graduated scale
of corruption, making it legal for corpora
tons and heads of department to steal a
certain amount during their terms of Office,
according to the relative Importance of
their positions; and for the two Houses of
the Legislature to make stipulated sum
per session out of the State and as much
as they can ont of private individuals.
Then violations of the law could be
punished by pains and penalties, as bur
glary and larceny are punished, according
to statute, and the whole system could be
properly regulated. Everything would then
have its price. and the people would know
what to expect and would stand less chance
OF being badly yictimized. We commend
this subject to The Union League Club as
worthy of their consideration, now that
the question of political equality for the
Southern negroes is out of the way.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-05-08
The Registration Swindle.

The disgracefal exhibition says the N
O. Times Of the utter trampling upon all
law. right and dccency-known as the reg.
istration in this city, is still continued.
More than a half of the white citizens fully
qualified under the law are turned away.
whilst every negro who applies is immedi-
ately accepted and registered. Katuralized
citizens are not only required to produce
their papers, but to leave them with the
registrars, witha very dim prospect of ever
getting them back. Old citizens who have
lived here quarter Of a century, and who
pay individually more taxes than the whole
Radical party in the State pay collectively,
are turned away because they have been, ut
some remote period of irlives, School
Directors or Aldermen under the City Gov
eminent, and are suspected of having SYM
pathized with the rebellion. But few natu-
rallied citizens are registered on any terms
except that of adherence to the Radicals.
That virtue will purge all vices. Rene
gades, who fought in the rebel ranks and
deserted when the cause became desperate
and Joined the KadicaIS-eyen some who
were punished by Butler and Banks for
their rebellious excesses-and who posses
sed the disqualification of having held Fed
eral or State Offices previous to the war;
are admitted to the honor O Of registra-
ton without questions.
But why dwell ON the enor,nities of this
miserable farce9 Are those who have got
up this shameless scheme to defraud the
people Of this city and trample upon the
acts Of Congress, weak and credulous
enough to imagine that they can profit
tharetrom They will soon awake to q !
full comprehension Of the infamy, the de-
testation, the bitter hostility Of all the hon.
est and respectable Of the community, !
which alone they will secure by their law
less course. Let them persist therein, and
the time is not distant when the word
g registrar will fix upon the luckless in
Of that Office, stigma which will
accompany him to the grave and descend
to hisposterity.