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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-05-01

The Kuklux epidemic has broken out in
our city at last What will be the extent
OF its ravages, duration and remedy We are
unable to say. In fact we do not feel that
We would be permitted to say. We almost
imagine now as We pen this little notice,
that the beaming, burning and awful eye
of The Great Grand Cyclops was making =
searching survey of our heart. This much
We feel imPelled to say, however, strange
foreboding and symbolic Placards. have,
(shall, We say y decorated our walls. Our
city contemporary has been pressed into
service, and has published (gratis doubt
less) a notice Of meeting. Our Chief Of
Police has arrested, and has now hand
cuffed 10 his Office, an unknown creature
scarcely human, yet bearing many marks Of
humanity. its body covered with strange
cabalistic sattOOings Of figures and words,
and although every effort has been used TO
induce it TO talk and tell Of its strange mis-
sion, it has preserved an unvarying FsGi-
cenee, submitting in silence, and without
any visible sfOw Of suffering or pain TO
every punishment which has been inflicted
upon it. Many Of our citizens yesterday
thronged 70 the station house to get q
glimpse Of this creature. aud all left unable
to form any opinion IS regards its family OF
kind Yieks6urg Herald.
Mrs. Partington has come to the eoncla-
,;o, that tbere il no use trying 70 catch soft
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-05-01

All intelligent agFiculturl
our farmers would make.sa6 hons
ing less land, and doing slann Rf
thoroughly. The practice hitherto 6S
tainly been very unwise and unforsans.s
Many farmers have lost more in forty years
than they have made, by recklessly impov-
erishing the soil: except what has been
made in spite of themselves, by the rise in
the value of their land. What we mean is
that wiss culture would have left the pro-
ductive power of the soil double what it is
now.
Il is time that attention were directed to
this subject. The matter should be iuves-
tigated by scientific men, and the facts de-
veloped with view to the adoption and en-
forcemeDt of sound policy.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-05-01

Seeing it announced that Grant is to
make speech, one Ofour exchanges warns
him to remember the fate Of the first Ulys-
ses, who. when very near to port, was, by
the opening Of his wind-bags, blown far
away from Ithaca.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-05-01
PULASKI HOUSE,
1st MAIN STREET, South.
Pulaski, fTenn.
Bv Mrs. n. D, PAINE.

THIS house is conveniently located 20 the business
i portion OF the town, yet sufficiently retired to
give it the air of private boarding house. The
accommodations are as good those Of any cOUn-
try hotel in the State, being supplied with the best
the maSlret Affords and guests attended by polite
and accommodating servants.
Regular Soarders, without lodging, IS per week;
Transient boarders without lodging, 81; Transient
boarders, with lodging SO; Board per day, with
lodging, 81; without lodging $3.50 Single meals
so cents. sept6-ly
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-05-01

What ridiculous things occar sometimes
at funerals For instance, on one of those
solemn occasions out West there stood in
the house Of the defunct an old fashioned
clock, which, when it finished the announo-
ment of the meridian hour was made to
play a tune. The officiating minister was
in the midst of his sermon whenSnoon hav-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-05-01
5. G. MITCHELL, T.J. FLIPFN.
Sam. G. Mitchell & Co.,

EUNEhaL UNUEhLAhEho,
PULASKI, TENN.
A RE Agents for, and keep constantly on hand,
II Cranes celebrated air-tight
Metallic Cofins of all Sizes.
Wood Cofins Of all kinds furnished when preferred
We have a. Splendid HeaTse,
and are fully prepared to wait on Funerals both in
town and in the country. Mr.. Mitchell viii attend
to the undertaking, and can be found at all times
doors above the Livery Stable, ready to wait on the
public,
Hearse free to our customers.
Wood OOfins furnished when preferred.
a competent gerson will be on hond at all times
to wait upon customers.
TERMS CASH.
septT-tf S.M. q co
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-05-01

Gen. Hancock is the handsomest man a
woman eyes ever rested on in the militia
ry service,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-05-01

Speaking of arguing the Erie case before
the New York Legislature, Quilp said it
would be of NJ avail-it was SO apparent
that there was "buy-us P' 10 the minds Of
The members
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-05-01

ing arrived, the clock conn
twelve. In a very solemn
ed upon his hearers the
time ; but the exhortat
ineffective. as the 8
with the CHEEKY old not
time, Miss Lucy !''
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-05-01

universal love and refined affection cannot
be torn from the privacy of the family cir
ela and the reoesses Of the heart. There,
at least, these memrOies can be held sacred
and cherished till the dawn ola new era,
in which it shall not be deemed reasonable
to pay homage to the names Of the gallant
dead, who went down to death because they
were not afraid to defend their rights ard
die in defence of their native land. That
day will surely dawn in which it will be
deemed an honor and a duty by the Amer
ican people to participate in ceremonies
commemorative of the "Lost Cause" and
tie martyrs who marched so grandly and
sublimely through the valley ofdeath in its
defence. It is only the good and true who
hold fast to the faith that is born of virtue
and valor when disaster and defeat is upon
them. The mean and ignoble are towards.
| and towards are not far removed from trail
tors, having no regard for God or country,
but always ready to fall down, and fawn,
and cringe. and worship at the footstool Of
power. And so it is, alas that our own
bright sunny land is now afflicted and sore
ly oppressed By those who were once the
loudest lip-tOngued braggarts in her de-
fence, who, fOrgetful of her past and their
own manhood, have igDOminiously sold
their birthright for mess of pottage-In-
sulting the memory of the dead, and ignor-
ing the presence of the living.
Wrongs are sometimes neglected even in
our little world, and when righted those
instrumental in inhicting them do not al
ways escape that reward which is theirs BY
the laws of retributive justice.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-05-01
From the Banner of the South.
Our Dead.

A people who forget the memory of their
dead. deserve to be forgotten themselves.
Yes, Shey deserve to be branded with the
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-05-01

Mrs. Partington has come to the eonclu-
sion that there is no use trying 70 catch soft
water when il rains so hard.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-05-01

Carefully compounded at all hours by competent
and experienced druggist. jan4H
The New York herald., 1868-05-21
The Condition of Mexico.

They still revolt in Mexico, and they are still
put down. Getting up revolution and putting
it down is the principal business of the people
and the government. 1t is the only way in
which they keep up their mutual relations.
People would hardly know they had not a
government if its agents did not come to levy
forced loans and these coming the people, or
dozen of them, pronounce; and the indiffe-
rent masses, caring only for plunder, sympa-
thize with the side that opposes law, and so
revolution comes up. Give this story over
two or three hundred times and you have given
the history of the republic that triumphed in
the killing of Macmillan. What is to become
of it2 No one respects order; no one heeds
the law no one has power. to enforce it no
one will even care now to seize the country,
with the possibility that such seizure will unite
into an effective force all this worthless power,
as the attempt to establish the empire did.
Singular State, that left to itself is worthless,
powerless, denoralized horde of wretches,
but that any foreign attempt to seize and
govern Immediately converts into a semi
respectable Power. This is, perhaps, the
natural attendant of its barbarous condition,
making it present fair appearance in war,
but making it also unfit to stand in the numoer
of civilized nations in a time of peace.
The New York herald., 1868-05-21
PENNS NSYlvANlA.

Positive Denial Of tho Reported Attempt to
Assassinate John A. Logan at York.
YORK, May 20, 1858.
There is not word Of truth in the statement pub.
lished editorialiy in New York paper Of the 10Th
inst and in Its Chicago letter Of the 18th OF an at
tempt to assassinate General Logan on his passage
through this place on Saturday night last, nor was
any assault made on the train in which he was .
passenger. The railroad officers on duty at the sta
ton here publish the following certificate on the
subject
YORK, May 20, 1858.
We hereby certify that we were on duty at the
York station when the Buffalo express train above
referred to passed through soon after midnight.
There was roting nor any attempt made to create
riot nor was any one on the platform except the
passengers and the ofYicers of the road.
w. +. BUSSIER, Ticket Agent, N @. X. w. co.
GEO. w. OGDEN, Baggage Master, M; G; r. W. Co.
DAVID SMALL Chief Burgess OF York, Pa.
The New York herald., 1868-05-21
FRANCE.

The Commercial Dcbate-Free Trade tho
Policy Of the Empire.
PARIS, May 20, 1888.
In the Corps Legislatif to-day, during the debate
on the Interpolation in regard to commercial treaties
Minister Of State ROuher made an important speech,
defending the free trade policy Of the government
He declared that the commercial crisis raised in this
Chamber was now ended. France would not re-
nounce the treaty Of 1880 with Great Britain nor
fOrego the advantages OF other commercial treaties
OF q similar character, nor would she destroy this
good effects Of the vote OF the Chamber In the cause
Of commercial reform; for the tendency of the gov
ernment was to refer questions of reform to the
Legislature. He concluded by expressing the con-
vction that free trade constituted the basis of the
future greatness and commercial prosperity OF the
country.
The New York herald., 1868-05-21

Under the Reconstruction laws of Congress
all the male negroes at the South, whether
they took part in the rebellion or not, are
invested with the right of suffrage. 1t appears
now to be settled fact that the Southern
States are all to be rehabilitated under these
laws, and as soon as they have resumed their
position in the Union, with their proper repre-
sentation in Congress, negro votes will play
their part in influencing our national affairs as
well as in shaping the local governments of the
South. We have had doubts of the wisdom of
incorporating into our body polite large
army Of ignorant and depraved Africans, but
recently liberated from slavery and wholly
incapable of self-government. We have
questioned both the justice and the expediency
of giving one-third of the States of the Union
over to barbarism and setting back civilization
half century or more. But we must submit
to the laws, and we accept the situation.
At the same time we must insist that
the extension of the suffrage shall
not be permitted to stop here, but
that at this propitious moment shall be
commenced in the American republic the great
movement of the age-the enfranchisement of
all human beings, saving and excepting only
Indians not taxed. To this end we call upon
Ignatius Donnelly to bring in bill to extend
the right Of voting to all American females,
and to push it through Congress with the
vigor, valor and vim so signally displayed in
his recent contest with Washburne. We have
conferred the right of suffrage upon negroes,
and who will undertake to argue that our edu-
Gated and refined American women are not
better qualified to form an intelligent judgment
upon political questions and more capable of
welding the power of electors to the advan-
tage of the country, than are the negroes of
Africa who have just been liberated from
bondage at the South? We select Ignatius
Donnelly for this work because he has shown
himself to be possessed of high principles of
honor, great delcacy of feeling and laudable
ambition. Let him avail himself at once of the
opportunity and introduce the great measure
before Washburne or any other envious rival
can forestall his action, and he will cast Phil
lips Greeley, Pillsbury, Ben Wade and the
whole set of timid, time-serving reformers into
the shade and win for himself an everlasting
and worldwide fame.
The New York herald., 1868-05-21

monster was harmless mouse, and compared
with which the late slaveholding cotton oil
garchy Of the South, with its twenty-five hun
dred millions of capital in negroes, may be
proved to have been an inferior political party
machine.
There is still another clause in this suggested
Chicago platform, which distinctly proposes to
hold this national debt as burden upon the
country for generations to come, in proposing
to call in none of the loans till fully due,
twenty or forty years hence, within which time,
it is assumed, ''the currency of the country
will rise to the value of gold, unless the
enemies of the public credit shall meanwhile
destroy it" The people, we say, desire nothing
so indefinite as this, looking to the end of this
debt. They want to see the beginning of the
end, and with the present generation of our
taxpayers we believe this idea, or, we may
say, this purpose prevails-that they will sub
stantially be relieved of this debt before they
pass off the stage. Any financial policy, there
fore, which looks in practical way to this great
cOnsummation will attract the masses OF the
people against the evasive and do-nothing
policy foreshadowed as the Presidential plat
form of the republican party.
For instance, here are the national banks,
with their three hundred millions of currency
in circulation, for which the Treasury pays in
interest some eighteen millions year-an
item which would be saved by simply substitute
ing greenbacks for this bank currency. Next,
here are fourteen hundred and forty millions Of
bonds, touching the redemption of which gold
is not mentioned in the contract and is not in
the spirit of the bond, according to the con-
struction of the law by many of its most intel
ligent trainers. Let, then, the democratic
party, in addition to the universal negro suf-
frage question, make the redemption of these
bonds in greenbacks their ultimatum in con-
nection with feasible plan for the rapid re-
duction of the principal of the national debt,
against the indefinite postponement policy
which will doubtless be adopted at Chicago,
and we may have on this subject some sur
prising developments of public opinion in the
impending Presidential contest with any man
of fair national record as the democratic
candidate. We are inclined to think that the
money question may be put into shape by the
opposition which will be stronger than General
Grant.
The New York herald., 1868-05-21

Great Storm at Havnna-L0ss Of Life-Vessels
Dragging AnchOrs-The Bishop of Havana
Appointed to the See Of Segovia-Sugar
Market-Marine Intelligence.
HAVANA, May 20, 1868.
severe storm prevailed here yesterday, during
which several lives were lost in the harbOr. Many
ships and steamers dragged their anchors.
The Dtarf0 states that the late Bishop Of Havana
will not return to this diocese but has been appointed
Bishop Of SegOvia.
The sugar market is very dull and sales light offers
have been made at So 81 reals per arrObe.
The steamship Bienville sailed to-day for New
York.
The New York herald., 1868-05-21
'he European Press ON the Impeachment-
The Atlantic Gable.


For two days past the telegraphic columns
of the HERALD have been enriched by the
opinions of the European press on the failure
of the impeachment. We do not care much
about the opinions of the European press in
matter of this kind, for Europeans generally
are seldom particularly happy in their judg-
wents of American political questions. 1t is
impossible, however, to look at these cable
dispatches from day to day without feeling
how widely different are the times in which
we live from the times of our fathers. Fifty
years ago-what an old-fashioned world that
now seems to us! Twenty, even ten years
ago-how we have been bounding forward
since then! Time and space were at either of
those dates great practical barriers, holding
the nations apart, localizing interests and
dividing humanity into numerous and antagon-
istic'sectons. Time and space have now be-
come as very little things. Science has bridged
the ocean and otherwise annihilated distance.
The most distant nations have been brought
near. The interests of one people begin to be
felt to be identical with the interests of every
OtHcI, uCCVmCo ohC' Aho AoPu
interchange of sentiment which has taken place
through the medium of the Atlantic cable on
this impeachment business is one of the most
striking illustrations which we have yet had of
the influence of modern science on the relations
of nations. A few years ago and the impeach-
ment sensation would have created a panic on
both sides of the Atlantic and involved thou
sands upon thousands in ruin. How different
it is now we have but to look at the facts to
know. Science continues to work her won
ders, and will continue ; and it is only just to
conclude that the world of to-day is not more
different from the world of twenty years ago
than the world of twenty years hence will be
from the world of to-day.
The New York herald., 1868-05-21
Radical Nonsense.

The latest complaint against Fessenden,
Henderson and the other patriotic men of the
Senate is, not that they voted against impeach-
ment, but that they did not hunt up Tilton and
tell him how they intended to vote. Astonish-
ing depravity, of course All radicaldom
roars out in common against the suspicious
circumstance that the Presidents friends
'knew" how these men were to vote, while
the impeachers did not. The truth is that
nobody knew anything about it till the vote
was taken. On the radical side, only the day
before the vote, it was ''known" that enough
would vote in favor to carry the eleventh
article; on the other side it was ''known" that
they would not, and the knowing ones on one
side or the other had to be disappointed. Just
such knowledge" is always in possession Of
both sides in these cases. Yet this inevitable
disappointment is the whole ground of Buffers
new investigation. Will that fellow always
beat the air in this same wild style Will he
still keep on
Dropping buckets into empty wells
And growing old In drawing nothing upS
The New York herald., 1868-05-21
A Curious Divorce Case-How Divorces
Arc Obtained.


A divorce case came before the Supreme
Court of this city, and was heard by Judge
Barnard, in Chambers, on Tuesday, showing
the ease with which divorces can be obtained
and the necessity of more protection by law to
the unfortunate victims of unprineipled people
and law shysters. 1t appears that Mr.. Smith
got divorce from his wife in the Supreme
Court here in December, 1866, on the ground
of alleged adultery. Mrs. Smith, with her five
children, the offspring of this man, was living
at Newport, KY, at the time, but never heard
or knew anything about the proceedings of her
husband to obtain q divorce. In fact, it was
not till Smith went home to his family in the
same month, and just before leaving them, that
he told his wife he was divorced from her. OF
course the poor woman was astounded at this
announcement and protested against her hus-
bands conduct; but she failed to obtain from
him any information as to where or how he
got the divorce. She ultimately found the de-
cree among the records of the Supreme Court
of this State. The case, as it came up on
Tuesday, was on motion to set aside the decree
as fraudulent and void. Smith, it appears,
had married again since the divorce was OBJ
tained, and had been actually appointed last
February to the lucrative position of United
States Consul at Honolulu, Sandwich IslandA
The case is to come up again for decision on
the 18th of June.
We know nothing of the merits Of the case
beyond this, but 1t shows that the laws of di
vorce and the practice in such cases need re-
vision. We know of another case where a
divorce, so called was obtained in Kentucky
against party in this State, who knew
nothing of the proceedings till after the decree
was issued. Indeed, there are hundreds of
such cases constantly occurring all over the
country. There are shyster lawyers in this
city who publicly announce that they can easily
get divorces for parties without. trouble or ex-
posure and in some of the Western States
there is no difficulty at all in doing this without
the husband or wife to be divorced knowing
anything about it. Need we be surprised,
then, that the marriage tie is held so loosely
and the grossest injustice and immortality fol-
low? This state of things is disgrace to the
country and our boasted civilization, and calls
for remedy. The Legislature should not
only make it criminal offence for those OBJ
tanning divorces in such manner, but should
make the judges of courts responsible and pun
ish them severely for issuing DEGREES of divorce
when both parties have not been heard or
have not had an opportunity of being heard.
The marriage tie is the most sacred bond of
the family and society, and it should be fully
protected. At present it is not so, and we are
fast tending to Mormonism or something worse.
1t is to be hoped the Legislature of this great
State will do something to remedy the evil and
to give an example to the other States.
The New York herald., 1868-05-21
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Nomination Of an Ex-Union Onicer for Mayor
Of Charleston by the Conservatives.
CHARLEsT0N, May 20, 1885,
The conservatives Of Charleston have nominated
for Mayor Colonel william p. Patton an exoficer OF
the United States Army who served CALAMITY during
the war, and who is now engaged in cotton planting
His opponent Is Gilbert Pilsbury, an ex-bureau
agent, who will be supported by the negro Union
League and the extreme radicals.
The New York herald., 1868-05-21

FATHER GRANTS LAST SPERcH.-It Is to be
hoped, for Son Grants sake, at least that the
speech which the self-styled ''braves Of the
nation" extorted from Father Grant on Tues
day, at the meeting Of the so-called Soldiers
and Sailors Convention, may be his last. We
need not specify the obvious reasons for
switching the "sld man eloquent" Of the track
Of speechmaking, as he has been switched on
the track Of biography. II win be - prudent
TO close bis mouth - IL was 10 take away the
pen with which he was beginning 10 write
memoir q NJ sons liz