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

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PULASKI, TENN
FRIDAY MORNING. MAY /. 1858
NEWS ITEMS.
A negro who was recently elected Con-
stable in Maury county has had to resign,
having failed to give bond.
One tenth of all the:ta1able property in
New York city is owned by ten individu-
ais.
The New York Union League has very
appropriately omitted the portrait of Wash
ington from iss collection ofpoFtraits.
Maryland papers announce the advent of
the seventeen year lOcusts as feature of
the coming summers entertainment.
One hundred thousand negroes rule over
one hundred and forty thousand white men
in Tennessee. Put that in your pipes and
smoke it, white men of ths North.
Gen. Butler claims to have always been
ahead Of his Radical associates in party
movements, bat he certainly was usually
in the rear in army movements.
A Washington special to the Louisville
Courier says the impeachers are losing
ground. and even bets were made Monday
on the Presidents acquittal.
Boutwell,, it is said, disappointed his
friends by the weakness of his arguments.
His facts were weakly stated and perverted
to suit his cause. He is as dishonest as
Butler, but with far less ability.
Besides the Loyal League and the Ku-
klux, there are two other secret sooie:ies at
work in the South. These are the Kow-
kiIlians and the Kowmilkians, and are very
active and formidable.
Louisiana planters are improving upon
the contract system, by giving their labor
sFs tickets each day. good for the pay OfsO
many hours. as each may have worked, la
Ey or industrious.
The Brandon Republican mentions the in
Vention of new garden pIow. at Raleigh,
Mise. This new pillow requires no horse.
and is admirable for vegetables in mellow
ground. A patent is to be applied for.
Senator Sherman admits that the expen-
SEES Of the army for the current year will not
be less than 'one hundred and twenty
three millions of dollars" A nice sum to
be taken from the people, for the army in
times of peace.
The largest income in New Hampshire
is that OF the proprietor ola Hair Resto-
ror." He has got to be the richest man in
that State in six years. by advertising, At
least it is to printers ink mainly that he
attributes his Pecuniary prosperity.
To THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES :
1 have nominated John NJ. Schofeld to be
Secretary of the Department of War in
place of Edwin If. Stanton, to be removed.
The above is the message of the Prssi-
dent on Friday.
A Memphis dispatch Of the 25th instant,
says The buffalo gnats are killing all the
stock through the country. The stock
along the river suffer most. The late spell
of bad weather has increased the gnats,
and planters in some cases have lost their
entire stock.
It is understood the Arkansas Senator's
and Representatives viii be admitted i'm
mediately after the conclusion of the i'm
parchment trial. They are all IN Washing
ton. hungry for grab at mileage. The
South Carolina and other Southern carpet
baggers will follow.
The telegraph informs US of the death of
Hon. VIM. C. Rives. of Virginia. patri OF
and statesman of national reputation, who
during his long public life was regarded as
one of the ablest and purest men in all the
land, and who enjoyed to wonderful de-
degree the confidence and esteem of his
people.
The following is the official vote of fifty
counties in the late Michigan election:
Against the Negro-suffrage Coust
tuition IO3, o67
Fer the Negro-suirrage Constitution Go, SOC
Majority against the Negro suffrage