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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1869-04-02
Philips and Grant-A Blood thirsty
E1ict

Wendell Phillips has delivered himself
in the National Anti-Slavery Standard of
another of his "vermillion edicts,' in which
he is pleased to express his sublime appro-
val of the various points IN Grants inaug-
ural, from which address he joyously con-
cludes that Grant will be ''the negro's Pres
ident." The main part OF the pronuncia-
mento is devoted to an invocation to Gen
eral Grant to let the South "sup full'' of
blood. We give blief extract to show
the animus of the article. Wendell says
''At last the Kuklux have left the White
House. Those midnight towards need on
ly half dozen summary executions in as
many States to disappear forever. If we
were in the Senate we would confirm no
man for any Office from any Southern State,
Kentucky included, mot even Holt) till
life was as safe there as in Vermont. Shoot
and hang first nominate and confirm af-
terward. x We beseech Grant to
send men South whose very Eame shall
mean engeance-deep, terrible and most
effective vengeance. Put aside sham Gov
errors and paltering officials, and give US
the "peace'' which is sure to follow the
drawn sword in the hands of prompt and
honest man. The bondholder
paid will give US credit to borrow in case
OF another rebellion. This debt promptly
paid will render another rebellion impossi-
BILE. Il will food the South with capital
and brains, the two enemies against which
! she rebelled, and which her madness and
Johnson's have been striving to get along
without. Congress cannot reconstruct the
! South-laaO can. Safety for men and mon
! ey will Such a man as Butler in New
! Orleans is worth now more than mule
load of laws. Hang twenty aesassins in
every capital six hours after they arrested,
and you will empty half of the bank vaults
of Christendom into the South you will
light up all its forges and crowd it's ex-
changes with business men. This is the
way. Soldier of the Wilderness, to ham
mer the rebellion to pieces. Make your
vengeance so swift sure and terrible that
! the mere name of Union man may be as
ample protection even on the Del Norte, as
that of Roman Citizen was to st. Paul
at Jerusalem. Press the constitutions
amendment. Push the Executive for q
strong arm of resolute law throughout the
South. If the SOuth loves blood, let hel
sup full of it, only le: it be the blood o.
assassins.''
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1869-04-02

A writer very correctly remarks "God
looks not at the oratory of your prayers,
how elegant they may be nor at the geo.
metry of your prayers, how long they may
be nor at the arithmetic of your prayers,
how many they may be nor at the logic
of your prayers, how methodical they may
be but the sincerity He looks at.''
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1869-04-02
sd che BOYS to LearnEarmig

int che Boys to Learn e rming.
sry pursuit or calling that ministers
The sustenance. comfort or enlightenment
sankind is honorable and laudable.-
is a narrow and essentially false con-
(which regards the farmer as more
s1efactor than beneficiary, and stig-
Atizes as drones and cormorants all who
o not directly contribute to the produ ction
and increase Of material wealth. The up
right, able lawyer, the studious, skillful
physician, the pious, loving clergyman, are
workingmen, as truly and quite as nobly
as though they were wood choppers or
bricklayers. He who, by whatever means,
helps to diminish the fearful aggregate of
ignorance, sin and suffering in the world
and diffuse instead of knowledge, virtue
and happiness, is worthy of all honor, and
far from me be the wish to discourage and
degrade him. And yet I hold it the duty
of every father to look we'll to the physical
and industrial training of his sons and
daughters-to see that each Of them is
early Injured TO some form of manual labor,
thoroughly trained to efficiency in some
pursuit which ministers directly to the
material or physical needs of mankind
Ny reasons for this conviction are summed
up as follows:
The demand for intellectual labor OF it's
products, and even for mercantile capacity,
is exceedingly csprioious. In a season of
commercial prosperity, great city affords
employment to thousands as clerks, book
keepers, teachers of music, languages,
etc., etc., who will nearly all be left high
and dry by the ebb of the tide. War, pes
thence, bad harvest, business revul-
sion, throws them suddenly out of employ
ment, and no merit or excellence on their
| part can avert the catastrophe. 1 would
have every one so armed and equipped for
the battle of life that if suddenly endorsed
he can fight on efficiently and undismayed-
/ ly on foot.
The professions are fearfully over-crowd-
ed. A Western village is half peopled by
doctors, lawyers and clergymen, who have
rushed in ahead of the expected food of
immigration. Like miners in Sierra NeEa-
da or Rocky Mountains, they have several
ly staked out their claims and are waiting
for others to come in and nelp develop and
work them to mutual profit. But "while
the grass grows, the steed starves." What
ever may be their fortune ten or twenty
| years hence-snd events are constantly in
terposing TO blast their sanguine hopes
doctor, lawyer, minister, ara often =.
but a meagre, precariOus sna
present. Il cannot dis
ashamed, - is the plain
utter if they could
outspoken. Tho
on, oppressed =
debt, who
ductiva
to
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1869-04-02
Home CheerfuIness .

Many child goes astray, not because
there is want ofprayer OF virtue at home,
but simply because home likes sunshine
A child needs smiles as well as flowers and
suubeams. A child looks little beyond the
present moment. If a thing pleases they
are apt to seek it if it displease they are
apt to avoid it, Ifhome is the place where
faces are sour and words harsh, and fault
finding is ever in the ascendant. they will
spend as many hours as possible
Let everV father and M
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1869-04-02
Nashville, Tenn.

ALSO A STOCK OFTHE
LATEST AND BEST IMPROVED
AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY
Suitable to the Season and wants of the Farmers
INCLUDING
Reapers and Mowers,
Threshers and Separators,
Horse Powers,
Wheat Fans and
Seed Wheat Cleaners,
Wheat Drills,
Wagons,
Straw and Feed Cutters,
Corn Shelters,
Double ShoVels,
Cultivators,
HarroWs,
WheelbarroWs
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1869-04-02

The man who can crack joke in half
minute after a fifty two pound weight has
fallen on his toes, may be called excru'
ciatingly funny.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1869-04-02
groceries

viii be made speciality with us, heavy ste ok
of which will be kept always hand, and win be
sold together with Bagging, Rope, Ties and Farm
ing Implements, at Nashville prices adding freight
and drayage.
We sole agents in Giles county for the celebra
ted Wheat Fan, Seed Separator and Smut Machine,
manufactured by T. II. Jones 81 Co., Nashville,
hibited and awarded premiums all the late Fairs
in Middle Tenn, which we offer at Manufacturers
prices, freight added. We are also agents for the
sale of Virginia Chewing and Smoking Tobacco,
good stock of which have and will sell at Manu-
facturer's prices. We have built commodious
COTTON WAREHOUSE,
Along side the Railroad track, ard possesses supe-
ror facilities for the storing and handling of cotton
We will take charge of and ship for Planters their
cotton, to Nashville, Memphis. New Orleans, Lou
isville, Cincinnati, or New York, and make liberal
cash advances on the same.
Our stock of Bagging, Rope and Ties is large ana
will be supplied to Farmers and Planters during
the season on the most favorable terms.
We viii bein the market for the purchase of Cot
ton, Corn, Wheat, Hides, Feathers, Dried =
Rags, &c, in fact, everytlllyzaa -
the market by farmers, an
ply them WITH
The Montana post., 1869-04-02
THE RECOGNITION OF CUBANs.

To recognize the Cuban insurgents as
belligerents. 1t seems TO us would be to
stultify the position the Government
took in regard to England's recognition
of the Southern Confederacy. and TO
jeopardize our Alabama claims. If Eng
land had no right to recognize that Con-
federacy as belligerent power, when it
had an established control, and ten State
governments in operation, and held
large tracts of country, what right have
we TO recognize these insurgents, who
have not an established government and
hold no provinces undistur5ed.-Gdzette
While it is true Mr.. Seward endeavs
ored to have incorporated in the proto-
col for the settlement of the Alabama
claims, the question of the moral re-
sponsibility of England for the recog-
milton of ftheConfederates rs belligerents,
il must be remembered England has
: ositively and persistently refused to
submit that question to the Commits
sion in any form, and 1t was not in the
recent protocol. IL is claimed that re-
cognition was only a measure of strict
neutrality between the parties, and
question for that power alone to decide.
England at once received the Confeder-
ate Commission officially, whereas Mr..
Fish has, as yet, declined to receive the
Cuban envoy. We had an effectual
blockade along the entire coast, where-
as Cuba has not. and if Grant continues
the same policy as Mr.. johnson did on
the issuance OF Maxmilian's decree of
the blockade of Matamoras and other
ports, our Government will hold the Gu
ban blockade null and void. The insur-
gents of Cuba have a Provisional Gov
eminent with duly accredited Minister
at Washington, and are in. if not undis-
turbed, at least armed possession, of
three-fourths of Cuba. The claims of
the United States against England are
for damages to our commerce by Brit>
ish built, armed, and manned ships, SO
built, armed, manned and sailed in full
knowledge of the British Government.
Our recognition of the Cubans as bellig |
erents would, at most. impair only the
claim of England's responsibility for re-
cognition of the Confederates, and that
is now a most unimportant matter.
The Montana post., 1869-04-02
CALIFORNIA AND MONTANA.

Some of the California papers are
more thoroughly reused to the impor>
tance of securing the interior of trade of
the Great Basin and are making strenu>
Gus efforts to induce the merchants of
San Francisco, ,Marysville and Sacrament
10 TO make an effort in Idaho, Nevada.
Utah and Montana. The Sacramento
Reporter has devoted several leaders to
this matter, and in the issue of March
18th, publishes extensively from the
Mining Commissioners Report of Mon
tana showing its Importance as a COM
mercial, mining and agricultural region.
The following advantages in railroad
distances are cited:
The distance from Sacramento to Og-
den City is but $50 miles; from Ogden
City to Omaha the distance is 977 miles:
the distance from Ogden City to Chica-
60 is L AL miles, and the distance from
Ogden City to New York is 2,431 miles
Ii will thus be seen that the distance
from Ogden City TO Omaha exceeds the
distance from Ogden City TO Sacrament
30 227 miles; that the distance from Og-
den TO Chicago exceeds the distance from
Ogden 10 Sacramento 721 miles. and
that the distance from Ogden City to
New York exceeds the distance from
Ogden City 10 sacramento .6Sl miles,
Ii is simply ridiculous TO assume that
goods can be transported as cheaply
over 1,47l miles of rail-
road, the distance between
Chicago and Ogden City, as over $50
miles, the distance from Ogden TO Sac
ramento. Ii is still more absurd and
ridiculous 10 maintain that goods can
be conveyed as chesply over 2,431 miles |
of railroad. which is the distance from |
Ogden City TO New York, as over $50 |
miles of much better railroad, being |
the distance from Ogden City to Sac- |
ramento. The great Importance of the |
trade of the Territories named, We fear, |
10 underrated by many of our citizens |
who have not taken pains to inquire az
to the resources, products and condition |
of business matters in those Territories |
Notwithstanding these facts, and the |
others, that California is better posted |
on the kind of goods saleable in mining |
regions and large mum Der of our mer-
chants have partiality for doing bust. |
ness with our Pacific coast men, the fact |
yet remains that Chicago and st. Louis
can put goods in the streets of Helena |
for far less money than California, and |
that settles the question.
The Montana post., 1869-04-02
IDAHO ASSAY OFFICE.

The bill establishing an Assay Office
at Boise City is similar in its provisions
to that of the bill for the Helena Office.
with the striking difference that one is
a law and the other not. The building
is ordered TO be constructed immediately
under direction of the Secretary of the
Treasury, $4,000 having been appro-
priated for that purpose The business
of the office is TO be under the immedi-
ate direction of the Director OF the
Mint at Philadelphia, and the govern
ment of the officers employed therein is
by the laws for the government OF the
United States Assay Office in New York.
The salaries are One Superintendent,
$4,000; one assayer. 81 500; melter and
refiner. $1,000; TIVE clerks, $1,SOO and
81 600; subordinates. the customary
wages. Is IL not very strange that
Idaho, producing far less bullion, pay
ing far less revenue. with less popula,
ton and more convenient 10 Govern
ment Assay Offices than Montana, could
procure the passage of this fine appro-
priatiou, while our Assay Office Bill was
passed down, without further action
than reference to Committee. This will
be something for Mr.. Cavanaugh TO ex>
plain TO his constituents when he re-
turns
The Montana post., 1869-04-02
INpEAN TREATIES.

We lind the following in the n. Y.
-i'raSd's Congressional proceedings. 1t
was referred
Nr. Harlan, (rep.) of Iowa. introduced
: Dlll IN relation TO treaties with the
.ldian tribes. IL provides that hereaf~
,ef no treaties shall be made with the
indian tribes in the United States, and
s-ey shall be deemed incapable OF max
.og Treaties with the United States. II
t'oFldes also that no convention, agree
S,1snt or contract between the United
,''a'es and any Indian tribe entered in
'3,, of ratified after the enactment of this
authorizing or providing for the
SSe!ment of money from the United
@'es Treasury. or sale or other dispo-
,.Non OF public lands or Indian reserva-
'.oas' n whole or in part, whether held
- seEeraity or in common, shall have
iSe and effect either in law or equity,
"a oe enforced by any officer of the Uni
- states or of any State or Territory,
,H.Ss ss the enforcement thereof shall be
49, uoflzed by an act of Congress passed
1 approved subsequently to its date.
The Montana post., 1869-04-02
YARD ARM CoUHrESIEs.

Notwithstanding the expressions OF
friendship between Spain, Cuba and the
United States, matters are becoming
more complicated every day, and a rup
ture seems almost inevitable. While
several citizens of the [ Cnited States ar
rested have been released NJ. n aDplicas
ton of our Consul, the biool CT the
Spaniards is up and the shoe .iTg down
of Citizens in the streets, the execution
of revolutionary commanders in sight
of exiles being sent TO Africa, the cap
ture of the American vessel, Fanny Pow
ers, and the proclamation to treat all caps
tured blockade runners as pirates, is
destined to lead TO some act of atroclty
that will end this make believe friend-
ship. Our fleet in the Cuban waters
has been strongly reinforced by some OF
the best monitors on home service, and
Admiral Hoff instructed to examine into
the seisure of the Powell. The result
of this will be the Spanish Courts will
make restitution of the prize. The jus
risdiction of Cuba only extends one
league from shore, or, under war privi~
leges, four leagues at most, while 1t ap>
pears the captured vessel was sailing
under American colors on the high
seas. This will be readily adjudicated,
ter, and the aggrieved government may
then demand restitution of the other if
the capture is deemed illegal. But if
Dulce and his Spaniards string up an
American Crew TO the yard arm as pi>
rates, trouble will begin in earDst. IL
Cuba can maintain a blockade, well and
good, but as hundreds of men are leav-
ing our Southern por:s, rendezvousing
a. Nassau and thence joining the Cuban
Liberals, the United States will require
a strict Interpretation of the law of ma
tions, which certainly does not contem>
plate the hanging of every crew, unfor-
tunate enough 10 sail in shot of a Span
ish eunboat, with case of muskets or
dozen adventurers aboard. IL is no
wonder the Spanish are vigilant and
earnest in intercepting these supply
shipsL Arms alone are needed to give
the Cubans an army of $1,000 or 10000
men. Their present force is rapidly ac>
O uiring efficiency, the summer fevers
and cholera threaten defamation TO the
imported soldiers of Spain, The great
powers are contemplating recognition
of the insurgents, and the imperative
necessity is TO anticipate all these re-
suits by quick suppression OF the in
surrection and the prevention OF muni-
tions of war and reinforcements reach
ing them, if possible. IL is all for naught.
Cuba is destined to be tree from Spain.
The Montana post., 1869-04-02
The Infantry Omcerz.

An Associated Press dispatch in the
Salt Lake Reporter OF the both, gives
the following list of field officers ro>
tanned in active service for the twenty
five regular regiments of infantry:
Colonels Robt. G. Buchanan, Samuel
w. Crawford, George w. Getty, Frank
Hazen, John Gibbons, James Il. Bonn
ford, John II. King, Henry B. CIitz,
Alvin &. Gillem, Orlando b. Wilcox,
Philip II. DeTrobriand. Chas. l.. Lowell,
Oliver l.. Shepard, Galusha Pennypack-
er, Thos. l.. Crittenden, Thos III. Crit
tenden, Thos. II. Ruger, Chas. II. smith,
George Sykes, George Stoneman, David
:. Stanley, jefferson. G. Davis, Ronald
s. Mackenzie. Joseph A. Move.
The 1t. Colonels retained are Pinck-
ney. Lugenbel, Thos G English. John X
Brook, Joseph III Potter. Alex Webb,
Daniel Huston, Chas G.. Gilbert, John II
Eddie. B Bradley. Alex NJ u McCook,
Geo p Buell., Geo w Wallack, Henry A
Morrow. Geo A Woodward, August V
kantz. Robt s Granger. Saml b Hay
man. Emory Upton, Romeyn B Ayres.
Lewis G Aunt, Frank Wheaton, Elwell
: Otis. Geo Cook. Cuvier Grover, Edwd
II Kinks.
The Majors are Martin ID Hardin,
Peter l. Swayne, Richard Dodge, VIM
McEdge. Hugh b Fleming, James o
Ray, VIM II Lewis, John ID Wilkins,
Edwin z Townsend, Alex Chambers,
Lyman Bissell, Henry II. Misner, Rob
ert S. Lamotte, Mathew NJ. Blunt. John
s. Mason, VIM. p. Carlin. r. T.. A. Graf
ton, Jas. Van Voast, Henry A. HON.
bright. Geo. A Williams, John NJ
Joseph N. G.. Whistler, Alex.
j. Dalles, Henry G. Merriman, Zenas r.
Bliss
The Montana post., 1869-04-02
CLOSING THE GAP.

But one hundred and twenty>six
miles of track remain to be laid to close
the gap between the u. p. and c. p.
Railroads.&c. span the continent with
iron. Instead of the 1st of July, the
two lines will probably meet by the 1st
of May, and tho Overland coach will
give way forever TO the Overland cars.
The impetus it will give to industry;
the seed capital il will carry into the
West, and the new ideas il will carry
into the East; the thousands II will bear
to new homes and the thousands it will
carry back to the old homes, and the vast
revolution il will work commercially,
financially and socially from the Mis-
souri, to the Pacific, and whose infiuen>
ces will be felt around the world are
matters we can conjecture, but who can
comprehend The special Commis-
sioners intimate neither road is built as
required under the Government charter,
and certainly If the Central is no better
than the Union they are not fIst-class
roads. II such is the fact. il Is the fault
of those Commissioners who have, on
the part of the Government, accepted it.
The Company and Commissioners were
the two active parties TO the contract,
and if the Commissioners failed TO do
their duty il was not the fault of the
Companies. The Government can with
hold subsidies on road not accepted. but
if an attempt is made to compel them
to complete and expend money on secs
tions heretofore accepted. it may lead to
an immense Government law suit. If
the business of the road pays for run
ming it-and that is q foregone conclu-
sion-the interest of the Companies
alone will induce u cutting down of
many grades, reducing curves, widening
road beds. ballasting, etc.
1t will be- but few days till the track
will be laid TO Corinne, on Bear River,
about 4e0 miles from Helena. between
which points Wells, Fargo & Co. propose
to run in sixty hours after the spring
opens. The freight, mail and passenger
terminus will however be retained at
Ogden, most likely. until the roads
meet. Corinne will be the city of the
Great Basin. and we doubt not many
Montsnians. now crazy with the White
Pine fever, will eventually turn up there.
1t Is the better place of the two, and
Montana wants a good representation
there to divert immigration TO these /
hills and yallies. until, in the fullness .
Of time the rails of the Northern Paei- |
fic are laid by our rivers and mines \
The Montana post., 1869-04-02
THE TOBACCO TAX

We made a note yesterday. pertain
ing to the stamps required on fine cut
chewing and smoking tobacco. which
does not meet the views of Mr.. Judd
Acting Collector, and Mr.. Gilbert, Act
ing Assessor of the Revenue District of
Montana. We are of the opinion that
these tobaccos may be held by merchan Is
in Montana without being stamped
or incurring a penalty for violation of
the law. This opinion was based upon
letter OF instruction TO Assessor Chet>
lain of Utah and others, from f. A. Rol-
| Inns Commissioner of Revenue under
date of Feb. ID. The Revenue officers
here hold that no tobaccos of that des-
cription can legally be held by dealers
| IN Montana without being stamped. We
have mislaid The letter to Assessor Chet-
lain but submit the following paragraph
of a letter of instruction from Commiss
sioner Rollins to A. J. Simmons Collect
or of Montana, dated Feb. 10.
After February 18th, all such tobac>
cos before being sold, or offered for sale,
must be put up in the packages pre-
scsibed by Law, and stamped"
Persons having in their possession
such tobacco incur no liability for keep>
ing it unstamped, so long as they do not
sell it or offer it for sale
The question here arises are all to-
baccos in the hands of Montana mer>
chants offered for sale" If they are
they require immediate stamping, ii not
they do not require stamps until placed
upon the market. 1t is said that the
tobacco here referred to is that retained
in manufactures or bonded warehouses.
but the Commissioner is aware there
are no bonded warehouses for tobacco, or
manufactures, in either Utah or Mon>
tana, and if such was the meaning of
the instructions those words should
have been used inste ad of "possession.p
Section 7S of the act of July 20, 1868,
which was extended by act of Dec. 22d,
1868, makes il requisite to stamp all
such tobacco after Feb. 10. 1859, which
shall be sold or offered for sale" leav~
ing the same inference as the Commis>
sioner's letter. This much in support
of our views.
On the other hand, Sec II of the act of
July 20, 1868. makes it a Unable offense
to "use, sell, or offer for sale, or have in
possession except in the mandatory or
bonded warehouse, any such tobaccos
unstamped. 1t is upon this section the
Revenue officers hold that all smoking
and fine cut chewing tobaccos. except in
mandatory or bonded warehouse. re-
quired stamping on the 18th of Februs
ary. We acknowledge inability to re-
concile the Commissioners instructions
with this section. We are not, howev~ |
er, responsible for the conflict, and be- |
lieve the Commissioner is recognized as
the official interpreter of the Revenue |
laws. One thing is certain, the law
contemplates that no person shall sell |
or offer TO sell such goods without being |
stamped.
After July 1st, 1869, all kinds of man. |
ufactured tobacco will have 10 pay 81 |
cents per pound.
After April LIST, 1869, all cigars ia tie
hands Of dealers must psy a stamp tax |
of s. 90 per thousand. There is no ans |
biguity in the requirements on cigars.