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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-03-18


The time of year is now at hand
when the officer in charge Of the in
come tax begin their inquisitorial
search into the privacy of every
mans business. They collected
S34, 100000 of income tax last year,
of which only SO. ooO.O were paid
by corporations. The remaining
s25. 700. 900 came directly out of the
incomes OF the psOpls, and chi. f.
out of the earnings Of labor. The
heavy per centage levied by this tax
is great temptation to moueyed cor
Poraiions and large capitalists, and,
where these are disposed to do so,
they can find the means of evading
much of the burden that the Law os-
tensibly imposes on them. Its ope-
ration is very Unequal. and is most
stringent upon the very persons who
are least able to- pear it. The wealthy
farmer, whose acres produce al that
the family need for subsistence or
raiment, is allowed as great an ex-
emptiOn as the city employS who has
to buy everything his family CON
sumes. The widow OF the minor
living on fixed income has no chance
toa escape, and the salaried man in the
city,> though he earn barely enough to
support his family in the most frugal
style, is compelled to pay, not only
his own income, but a part of his
landlords. his butchers and his ba-
ker's. The landlord of course puts
the income tax as well as the city tax
and the insurance in the rents, and
the renter pays them all Thus, if
the salaried man is obliged to spend
all his earnings for the maintenance
Of his family, the pretended ezemp-
ton is a cruel mockery. He really
pays five yer cent. Of incoms tax on
every dollar that he ca rs Courier
Journal.
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Old or New.

We have heard one white man in
this county, aud we behave him to be
at heart true Southern man, say that
from principle he was opposed to The
ratification Of the new Constitution.
His anly objection to it IS that it en-
franchises TIE negro. The gentle
man, whom we believe to be consci-
entious, certainly does not reflect
that the rejection of the new Consti-l
tu ion not only leaves the negro en-
franohised, but DISTINGUISHES the
great mass Of the intelligen. voters of
the State. In this election we are
not called upon to decide whether
the negro shall or shall not be en-
franchised, but whether the white
man shall be allowed the right Of
suffrage.
We cannot say by our vote that we
will discard both this and the old
Constitution and get up a better one.
1t is either this or the old one
Which. sir, in all candor and homes,
t.. would you prefer? Certainly you
would not decide in favor of the old
one, which enfranchises the negro
and DISTINGUISHES you and l. in pref
erence to the new, which enfranchis-
es all upon certain conditions.
The question, sir, is plain oue.
You either vote for the new Consti-
tuition aud your own political equal
ty, or decl re for the old one and
your own Acknowledgement and polit-
icai degradation. Upon which side
will you be arraigned on the 26,h Of
this month? Decide.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-03-18
The Season and It's Dangers.

The human body is chiefly COMPOSED of
tissues and fibres rs sensitive to every change
in the condition of the atmosphere as the
most lioate electometer, or the quick
silver in a barometer tube.
The stomach, the skin, the nerves, the
lungs, and the excretory organs are especial
ly liable to be affected by these variations,
and the best defence against their disastrous
tendency is to keep the digestive machinery,
which feeds and nourisbes the whole sys-
TEN, in good working order.
II the stomach is veal IT disordered mel
Their the blood nor the bile can be in
healthy state, and upon the fitness of these
tM o important fluids for the offices assigned
to them by nature, and the regularity of their
flow, health in a great measure depends.
When tae air is heavily laden with the
chilling vapors, as 1t often is at this season
of the year, the digestion should be an OBJ
iect of peculiar care. fit is weak and Ian
guild, the Whole ply steal structure will be
enervated. fit is vigorous, the entire or
ganizasion will be strong to resist the unto
ward and depressing influence + damp and
Initiated atmosphere.
n pure duO BOh GOL4S ID G4lCICAOlO is
pecially needed as a safeguard against the
diseases most common in the spring, and
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters being the most
wholesome and potent medicine of the class
at present known, a course of it is Particu-
larIy advisable at this period of the year.
The stomach will thereby be toned and
strengthened, the liver and bowels regulat-
ed, the nervous system braced up, and ma
ture put in a state of active defence against
the miasma that superinduces intermittent
and remittent fevers, rheumatisms, nervous
debility, headache, hypochOndria and othsr
complaints which are apt to assail the IN
toned aud unfortifed organizations. The
body is strengthened without exciting the
brain, and consequently no unpleasant re-
action follows it's reviving and renovating
operation.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-03-18
Roder1ck Random ButIer

Roderick Random, the Reckless
Radical Representative in Congress
from Tennessee, gets out Of his
sotspe quJta easy. From dispatch
to the Courier Journal we learn that
the cadetshiP committee have at last
taken action in the case by agreeing
to a resolution to csnsure Butler
The evidence shows that some time
after he appointed cadet he received
several hundred dollars from the par
tY wLo received the appointment,
which sum he spent with the Repub-
lioan Papers 10 Tennessee OF SD to
Senter's election for Govern
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serve. In this Mr.. Rogers gives the
lie to Secretary Fletcher, to the Ten
nessee delegation in Congress, and to
the baud of negroes who have been
sent-to Washington to aid those ras-
calls in their attempt to reorganise
Browrlowism in that State, and ev-
cry honest Tennesseean will lhank
him for it. He may be unaGe to
prevent the consummation of the in
tended outrage, but his efforts to do
so will place him immeasurably above
the class of men with whom he went
into Congress. and -he viii thus do
something for himeelf and his chill
drsn. if he accompanies nothing for
Tennessee.
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The Tennessee Bill.

A delegation of colOred people
from Tennessee called upon Presi-
dent Grant the other day and asked
for military protection in this Safe.
He referred their request to the Sec
rotary of War, but stated that any
proposed. Interference with the civil
law was matter requiring very
grave consideration.
The New York Herald suggests
that Butler, Maynard and company
give the matter very grave and seri-
Gus consideration before they deter
mine to reconstruct the State, and
then, probably, they will conclude
not to do it.
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Tennessee in Congress.

Every day brings its batch 0
rumors from Washington as to
what Ben Butler and company
are going toldo in the way Of re-
Euctine. Tennessee, Sitting
as itfcomgs, and
better post
Washington. correspon-
snts ~ shout tbe mao
I. added e, De genera drift oil
public sentsmea, thekBssnaer is
fled to conclude atsButlcr's In
tsrnlgddIing IN this State will
prove a failure. That he will IN
trod- ce, OR have introduced by
the Reconstruction Committee,
his threatened bill, there is very
little doubt, but that effort, and
the discussion which it will elicit,
is likely to end 1.-THE business
The republican papers Of the
N@h, with few exceptions, i
not outspoken against interfering
with the status of a fully recon-
structed State, are silent on the
subject, thus giving the revolu-
tionary project no countenance
whatever. as to the lone olsen
tipent at the national capital, it
.eabe f1ettS correctly CLEANED
from the following dispatches -
The first is a special to the GIN
cinnati Gazette, and derives its
significance from the fact that it
is from a Radical source:
Gen. Butler has about finished
a bill which he will try to gA
through the Reconstruction Com
'mittee in the coming week, regu-
Iating affairs in Tennessee. The
bill only interferes by rcciting
that Gov. Senter was elected by
fraud, and that the reconstruction
acts of Congress were violated in
the registration, and that the cleo
ton is in consequence null and
void. Provisions are made for a
new registration and election
WhiIea majority ofthe delegation
from Tennessee favors such a
STEP, the drift of conVer5 alton
4m0ng members Of both Houses
appears to be decidedly against
.themeasure.
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ATTACHMENT NOTICE.

W G Irman and Madry, VS.. Ebert Wick
ham and Davidson.
IN the above case it appearing to the salts
i faction of the court by affidavit that the
defendants are non residents of the State of
Tennessee, it is therefore ordered that pub
LEGATION be made in the Pulaski Citizen, a
newspaper published in Pulaski, Giles coun-
ty, Tennessee, for four successive weeks, re-
quiring the said defendants to appear before
W H Alternately, Esq, on the 26th day of
March, 1870 at 10 O'Clock A. NJ. to answer
the said complaints commenced by original
attachment, or the same will be taken for
confessed. and heard ex parte.
Eel. %. 1870. VII. ALTERNATELY,
j. P. for Giles County, Tenn.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-03-18
a Royal DuelI

A duel between the DuI pc Mont
pensier and Henri de Bourbon occur
red at Madrid, Spain. on the morn
ing of the 18th, in which the latter
WEI killed. The seconds Of the Duke
were Generals Cordoya and Alaminor.
Those of the Prince were S~nor Ru-
and another { uametuuknO Wn), both
republican Deputies in the Oontinen7I
tai Cortes. The affair created much
excitement.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-03-18
PULASKI, TENN
FRIDAY MORNING, MAR 10, "
To the CoIored Voters.

CJlored men, we have a"}wogS 20
gay to you as to your duty inlthS aP-
preaching election for the ratification
or rejection of the new Constitution.
Not that We think it essential to its
success that you should give it your
support. but that We believe it is to
your true interest to have adopted.
Remember that the time when your
cooperation was necessary to carry
or defeat q measure, is passed, and
Tou en- believe the white man when
he tslIs you what your interest IL
You should no longer be led blythe
nose by set Of ofice-sseking. de-
signing couusellors, who care for you
not The snap of finger only in SO far
as they may be able to make you subs
servient to their base designs.
Between the white man and negro
there should be no .antagonism, and
in the proposed new COustitutiOn al
the rights you could so9sbly ask
FIR are guaranteed, andS!s aopiis'gyl
is as necessary to your politicas al
ity as It's to the enfranchisemsng Of
The hits people.
Every reasonable, thinking colored
voter has learned that the white men
OF this country are his truest and
best friends, and while you would
not benefit yourselves in the least by
Voing against the new Constitution,
you would. to say the least of it, in
c1s theiTl displeasure.
AS wei remarked above. your vote.
is not necessaryGtO its adOPtiOn,l but
for the reasons mentioned, and that
we desire to see Giles county, above
Ell others. cast aNunanimous vote for
it, We urge you to- weigh the ques-
ton carefully before you cast your
vote against it.
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Escape of Hon. E. M, Yerper

E. NJ. Yerger, who has been in
military confinement since June last,
on the charge of killing Col. Crane,
was transferred to the custody of the
sheriff of Kinds county, by an order
fsom the Adjutant General of the ".
S. Army, aud on last Sunday morn
ing escaped from Jail.
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List of Prices for Advertising:

Advertisements must be paid quarter
yearly in advance. Those inserted for three
months or less, must be accOmp panied with
the money. Yearly advertisers are permit
ted to renew quarterly free of charge; further
renewals charged one dollar per square.
Advertisements from distance must be
ceompanied with the cash in every instance
The advertising of house or firm will be
strictly limited to its own immediate bust
ness
Calls on persons to become candidates,
and political circulars charged as adver-
tisements, and will not be inserted without
the cash in advance.
Editorial advertisements and personal
communications will not be inserted unless
puid for in advance at double the regular
rates.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-03-18

Il turns out that it is not impossi-
bic for a Southern Radical Congress
man to be just and to speak the truth.
The COurier-Journal says Mr.. A.
A. c. Rogers, of Arkansas, has illus
trated this fact 10 a very handsome
manner, and he deserves for it the
applause of all good men. Ia a
speech in the House, last Saturday.
ne declared that he did not believe
the stories of Kuklux outrages in
Tennessee, that they were invented
for political effect, and that he interG-
ed to expose and deuounce the nefari-
ocs scheme they were meant. t01eub-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-03-18
! - Cuba

Cuba.
A letter from General James Wat
son Webb, from Havana, March 5tF;
says -
The Cubans have ffty to twenty
thousand well armed troops, and as
many more carrying pixies, scythes,
ETC., and that on the authority of a
Spanish volun teer officer. if one hun
dred thousand arms could be landed
there would be found Cubans to
carry then, aud Havana would fall in
a fortnight. The officer claimed that
the gunboats built in the United
States had so surrounded the island
that it is imposs bic to land arms and
ammunition. General Webb says
the oruslties apetrated upon the
Cubans actually exceed belief. The
cold -bloodea murders and indiscrim-
mate butcheries perpetrnted by the
Spanish soldiers and Spanish volnn-
teers upon defenseless women a d
children makes ones blood boil with
Indignation. .
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SCHOOL NOTICE OF
Pulaski College.

NUMBER of Pupils--more than the ave-
IN rage of the past five terms.
Optional Branches-classes fuller than
during any previous term.
Natural Sciences and Writing, as taught
by Mrs. Wallace I; Geography and English
Grammar, as taught by Mrs. Raspberry; Spell
ling and Reading, as taught by the Princi-
pal, viii compare favorably with any school
in the land, of which we propose making an
exhibit to the public on the 22nd and Esd Of
June next.
No teacher has entire charge of any class
of pupils. Each teacher instincts all the
pupils in those branches with which she or
he has been most successful With in the past.
Many pupils have been entered to COM
mence as soon as the weather gets better
hree and half months of the term remain
from Monday, March 2lst. Let these chill
dren come in as soon as the preservation e.
their health will permit.
Every citizen of Pulaski and Giles county
is, OF should be, a friend of the school, and
should forward its interests. If each one
VIII do his part we can number over seventy
five pupils before the close of the term.
Respectfully,
A. D. WALLACE,
mar1S-4t. Principal.
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Good Health.

A monthly jou0dal bearing this
name. published at Boston by Alex.
Mood ,thas reached US. for the pres
month: It is a journal devoted
Physical and mental culture, it's
aim-the improvement in human
Jhealth-the frightening zOf human
slifeS For So it will be sent to any
address one year.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-03-18
C. F. CATIONS
90 U CHI B Il S A NJ

I offering c. F. Cations Cough BalsaIn to
the public, we feel confident that in a short
time ii will become fully as popular as that
we'll known remedy, B. A. Fahnestocks
Vermifuge, with hich we have been con-
nected SO many years. All we ask is that it
has fair trial, and we have no doubt US to
the result.
1t has proved itself to be of very great ef-
fcacy in The cure of obstinate Coughs, Colds
Asthma, WhoOping Cough. Splitting of Blood
and other Pneumonia Affections and the
PToprietOrs feel warranted in recommend
ing it as a safe and useful medicine AMI are
prepared to show certificates of indispD table
authority in testimony of its value.
The ingredients of which the Balsam Is
composed selected and compounded
with the most scrupulous eXactitude and
care, and are, singly. ofgreat benefit in pull
monary complaints and the proprictors
feel assured that lift receives a fair trial, it
will be the means of alternating a vast
amount Of suffering, and may relieve m.I.y
q slight cough, which, If neglected and per
mitteu to run on, might end in confirmed
consum btion whereas, timely Use of this
Balsam. with proper precautions in avoid
ing expose to damp atmosphere, and keep
ing the feet dry, may prolong existence.
Are on troubled With cough or cold !
They seem like ailments oflittle Importance
but if suffered to run on, it may end in con
frmed consumptiC n. G. F. Cations Cough
Balsam will giveyou relief almost immedi-
sicily.
SCHWARTZ & HASLETT,
FORMERLY
B. Il F-ARNEHTOCH, SON e co.,
sOLE PRoPRIEToRs
B. A FahnestOok's Vermifuge,
c. F. Cations Dyspepsia Remedy,
and C. F. Cations Cough Balsan
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An Old Residanf.

Mr.. Weakley N Reed. one of our
worthy and we'll to do fellow citizens,
was born in sight of the pIeace where
be now lives, on Weakley's creek, in
1909, and has never resided a mile
from his birthplace.
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ImnrnYemh emit.

The Franklin Review of last week
came to US much enlarged and i'm
proved editorially and typographical
Iy. This evidence of its success is
encouraging.
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iCHWARTz & HASLETT,
PENNSYLVANIA.
ORIGINAL ATTACHMENT.

Black and HammOnds VS.. Ebert Wickham.
I N this cause it appearing to the satisfac-
ton of the Court that I he defendant Ell
bert Wiekham, is a nonresident Of the
State of Tennessee, 50 that the or
binary process of law cannot be serv-
cd on him it is therefore ordered that
publication be made for four weeks in
succession in the Pulaski Citizen newspa-
per published in the town of Pulaski, in
said State, requiring said defendant to ap
pear at the office Of W. II. Alternately, ESQ
on the 18th day of March next, and show
cause why judgment should not be rendered
against him or the same win be taken for
confessed. This.l5th day Of February, 1870
febl8-4t w. Il. ALTERNATELY. ?.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-03-18

Whoever votes against the new
Constitution, or refuses to vote for it,
distinctly says that he is for negro
Acknowledgement md white disfran-
chisement.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-03-18

Uumindful of the national graft
tude due to the father of the Presi-
dent and the father-in-law Of Corbin,
an Irreverant movement was made re-
Gently to defeat ths confirmation of
the present incumbent of the Coving-
ton Postofice. The Senators, how
ever. finding that the President wish
ed the Covington Postofice to "move
on without change" sent the "charm-
ing young Jesse" back to Covington
in triumph. He signalizes this tri-
umPh of the administration by parad-
ing the streets of the city aud de-
nouncing the adverse petitioners as
"liars, scoundrels and poor men.-
Lou. Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-03-18

A committee of the Senaca County
(OhiO) Emigration Society is now in
East Tennessee looking for a suitable
location to establish a colony.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-03-18

Under favorable advices- from LiY-
erpool and New York our cottsn
market is v.rytfTm. We quote low
middling at 18'to 181.
Bacon coLt NUS TO decline, butws
continue our quotations of last week.
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Cirenit Court of Giles County,
Resident Notice,

Nancy Jane Drake, laintif, vs.. Joseph
Drake, defendant.
7 N this cause it appearing by affidavit that
J the defendant Joseph Drake is q non
resident of the State of Tennessee, so
that the ordinary process of this Court
cannot be served on him; it is there o.
fore ordered that publication be made for
four weeks in succession in the Pulaski
CITIZEN, newspaper published in the
town of Pulaski, Tennessee, requiring the
said nonresident defendant to appear before
the Judge of the Circuit Court of said cOun-
ly at the court house in Pulaski, on the
LIST Monday in April Next.
and answer said petition for divorce, or the
same will be taken for confessed as to them
and set for hearing. ex-parte.
This March 3, 1s70.--1m.
T. T. AcLAURINE, Clerk.
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There is bill before Congress 70.
divide the public iands1of he South
into homesteadg. Of forty acresA each
and give them 's6.he negroes. This is
glorious news 10 the negroes. The
public lands ST the South are Is rich
DO n. During a favorable 100
the concentrated fertility d
acres is generally sufficient
single grain of eafD. and
with Que of these homesteads5
negro would have nothing more
desire in this SWo5d But this bic
is really not intended foFI the bes,alr'
of the negro. Tt
told. for restoring DE
ktricts Of the South
Sing such other %
snecesseryIi5
- - energy, is
nisaSule than a dozen -
W ~ lsss ut .lheir u2epeY -
broves places az stealage
for some more carpet-b ggers and
scalaWags.
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NEW CONSTITUTION.

THE very highert market price will lie
i paid for chickens, eggs, butter, turkeys,
ducks and game of all kind, at the New Con
stitution Restaurant by
marl8 If FINLEY & MOORE
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Rrnnm

Wouldn't it be ~ orSsomss
our farmers, who have failed to real
ize the high prices they anticipated
for their cotton crop, to turn theIT.gt-
tention TO broom corn and see if 3
would not be'a little more profitable?
Broom corn is said to be about the
best crop a Tennessee farmer can
raise. Immense profits are realized
from it's culture. The Nashville
Union & American says any q"aati-
tS could be sold in the market, for
home consumption, to-day at $24O
per ton, and the price is never lower
than $3.50 per ton, and persons can
now\eDgage all they can raise at that
priee.< We learn from those CONVEX
SAINT : with the products of our soil
that the average yield of our lands
would be from eight hundred to
thousand pounds, the former being
the minimu per acre. Even at the
lowest pr and al the minimum
yield, each re would net the pro-
.ducerI$60, aud At present prices Of
course would go far beyond that. It
lis easier raised than the oe9hmon In
fdian corn. and the value Of tho seed
is lsufficient remuneration for pre-
pariI the article for market. The
same0 labor that it takes to cultivate
from 1--WE to eight acres of cotton
would cultivate from twenty to TWEEN
ty five acres of broom corn. The
crop Of the latter is sure one, and
the market certain one. The form
er is precarious and uncertain in
both, senses of the word. The same
soil that produces the one will pro-
sduce the other, and there is much
soil, that will produce broom corn
that will not produce cotton. The
demand for broom corn is extensive
and on the increase and the supply
not equal to it. those who favor a
diversity of crops in agriculture, up
on which every other pursuit de-
ponds, would do we'll TO give this mat
ter their attention.
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FAvoRABLY KNOWN SLICE 1929.

And purchasers must insist on having it, if
they do not wish to have an imitation forced
upon them.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-03-18

On Wednesday of last week Mr..
Shippey killed bear near the plant
alton of DR.. Strong, about FIVE miles
from West Point, Miss.