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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-09-09
CHICKASAWRA.

Twelve miles west of Barfield Point,
in Mississippi county, Ark, on the east
bank of the lovely stream called Penn
iscOtt bayou, tributary of the st. Fran
els river, stands an Indian Mound,
some twenty-five feet high and about
an acre in area at the top. This mound
is called Chickasawba, and from it the
high and beautiful country surrounding
it, some twelve square miles in area,
derives its name--Chickasaw The
mound derives its name from Chicka-
sawba, chief Ofthe Shawnee tri %
lived, died and was buried there. .@.I4is
chief was one of the last of the race of
hunters who lived in that beautiful re-
giOn, and who once peopled it quite
thickIy-fOr Indians we mean. From
1920 to 1881 he and his hunters assem-
bled annually at Barfield point, then as
now the principal shipping place ofthe
surrounding country, and baFtered off
their furs, peltries, buffalo robes and
honey to the white settlers and the
trading boats on the river, receiving in
return powder, shot, lead, blankets,
money, etc. Aunt Kitty Williams,
who now resides there, relates that
Chickasawba would frequently bring
in for sale at one time as much as tWen-
ty gallons of pure honey in deerskin
bags S ung to his back. He was always
a firm friend of the whites, man of
gigantic stature and herculian strength.
In his ninetieth year he took young
wife and by her had two children. In
1881 she died, and the old chief did not
long survive her, dying the same year,
aged ninety-three or four years. Mr..
w. Fitzgerald who moved to that
country in 1922, said that up to the
time of his death, Chickasawba sup
piled him with game. He was buried
at the foot of the mound on which he
had lived, by his tribe, most of whom
departed for the Nation Immediately
after performing his funeral rites. A
few, however, fingered there up to a
late date, the last of them, we believe,
being john East, who, in 1860, at the
breaking out of the war, Joined Captain
Charley Bowen's company of the late
" so-caHed,'2 and fought the war
through as gallant n "reb' as any of
them, coming back home in 80 10 re-
turn to the arts of peace. Chickasaw-
ba Was perfectly honest, AMI the best
informed chief of his tribe. His CO.
temporary chiefs were Big Knife, Sun
shine, Corn Meal and Moonshine.
Mike Brennan and Quill buried him.
He left son named John PemescOtt.
A number of years ago, in making an
excavation into or near the foot OF
Chickasawba's mound, a portion Of;l
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The sexton of Trinity Church, New
York, and his assistants have received
instructions to lock all the doors of the
edifice on Sundays Immediately before
the commencement of the sermon, and
to keep them So until the service is
concluded. The regulation went into
effect on a recent Sunday and produced
much dissatisfaction among those who
attempted to leave before the eonclu-
sion of the services. The sexton was
deaf to their entreaties and held them
prisoners until the end. Only one sue
ceeded in securing his release through
a middle door by threatening a suit fOI
false Imprisonment.
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MemphI


The habit of little children
by ladies when passing them on the
| street has been almost entirely sus-
pended in New Orleans. The little
ones have gotten it into their heads
that they are to be Kidnapped, and
wont stand any such familiarities.
A gentleman. who has Just returned
from trip along the line of the Vir-
ginia and Tennesse railroad, between
Lynchburg and Bristol, says that the
crops of corn are the best he has evo:
seen, and are indeed magnificent. The
farmers are busy preparing for seed
ing wheat, and propose sowing an Un-
usually large breadth of land.
The cattle disease is still doing dam
age in the vicinity of Knoxville. a
very experienced cattle raiser and
dealer, who is himself n loser by the
disease, advises the overs of any COW
that may become unwell to treat her
at once for the hollow horn. He is
satisfied from the developments made
that the most of the deaths enumera-
ted were caused by want of knowl-
edge in treating the sickness.
An infuriated brother compelled
gay LothariO to marry his sister the
other day in Baltimore. A couple Of
se.pistols, marriage license, and
preacher met him at the door when
he went to see her, and rather than
confront the equine machines he ac-
cepted the license and the ceremony
was performed. He Immediately left
and had the brother arrested for as
saulting and threatening to shoot him.
Mr.. M. M. Wright, OF Floyd coun-
ty, Ga, says: About the 10th of No
Yember last, 1 sowed five bushels of
white and small fraction over one
bushel of red wheat on nine acres of
stalk land, without any preparation,
and ploughed it with common twis-
ter. 1t come up very well, but was
seriously injured by the ground spew-
ing up during the winter. and then
again by the heavy winds and hail
just before reaping. l thrashed out
21915 bushels of white wheat, and
49, of red, making 266 bushels from
the six and small fraction of bushels
SOwed."
The Selma, Ala, Times, says: Day
before ye yday five car loads Of
Chinese W elanded here. They were
sent from San Francisco by KOCp-
manschap 81 Co, who had made
contract for furnishing them with the
Selma and Gulf Railroad Company.
They are to be employed as laborers
in the construction of this railroad,
and have contracted to work three
years. Each laborer is to receive Sl6
in gold monthly, free board, lodging
water and fuel. The contract stipu-
lates thst the working hours shall be
ten hours per day, six days in the
week; that there shall be five cooks;
THAT sufficient quantity of rice, pO~k,
fish, beef, and vegetables shall be
furnished; and when a man falls sick
he shall receive no wages, but provis-
ions, and guarantees free return to
San Francisco after the term of SER
vice. There is one. interpreter who
has to receive $75 a month, and there
are four foremen who will be paid
$40 per month" a st reFa
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SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

"A mule race is to be feature of the
Georgia State Fair.
The Clarksville CTenm fair COM
mences September IA, and lasts days.
Chattanooga offers a prize of a wax
doll to the best little skater on roller
skates.
The price of board in Memphis is
going up along with rents, and impe-
cuniOus people are iii distrt SIS.
During a rain storm a couple of
water spouts were observed near Cor
pus Christi, Texas, recently.
The Masonic fraternity of Memphis
are making rapid progress in procur-
ing the necessary funds fer their new
temple.
According TO the census Just taken
the population OF Grenada, Miss,
stands: whites l,072, blacks 74O.
Augusta, Ga, has established a reg
ular line of steamers between that
city and Savannah, making ten trips
4 week.
y stratum of good bituminous coal
five feet in thickness. was found five
miles from Fairfield, Texas, by parties
who were digging well.
Richmond, Virginia, will have a
brilliant theatrical season The coming
winter. Edwin Forrest, Ristori, and
other celebrities will appear.
w. T Mallory, brother of the Secre-
iary of the Navy of the late Confed-
crate States, died in TuFcaloosa,zAla Ia
bama, OF the 18th instant
In New Orleans on Tuesday even
ing Joseph Seymour, forty-six years
old, committed suicide by shooting
himself in his head with revolver,
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CHICKASAWBA.
Remains of a Race of Giants Found in
Arkansas. Human Skeletons I'm
eRrthed Eight Feet in Hight.
(Fron the Memphis Appeal.

The statements which we make be
low, and the facts detailed are so
strange and almost incredible, and so
like the many roorbacks and canards
that have from time to time appeared
III the press of Europe and America,
that we premise them with the decla-
ration that they are strictly true, and
that we have not exaggerated what we
have seen, one iota. With this much
as preface, we will proceed with our
story.
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AIOndOn correspondent of the Chica-
go Tribune writes: 8 \ complete recon-
ciliatiOn has taken place between Mrs.
Dickens and her sister-it seems too
painful to add-and between Mrs Dick
eas and her eldest daughter. a few days
ago there was a meeting between the
three; much shedding OF tears and poig-
na OF feeling: but the end is as l have
Gesc[IUua 1t would appear that it was
the decea alone who stood in the way.
His death whites the children to the moth
eT, and sister to sister! One wishes the
veteran, Mr.. HOgarth, whose death oc-
CURED few mOnthSasInce, could have
witnessed this meeting Mr.. Hogarth.
who was the intimate friend of " alter
Scott, and who often sat with Wilson in
the Ambrosial Nights was singular
ly tenderhearted man, and no one can
eXagerate the grief which he felt at the
difference between his daughters. Ihave
heard his voice break as he spoke of it.
he liked his SOn-in-law, and was once eX-
ceedingly proud of him; bus after the
separation, he could not bear to hear his
name mentioned. His sympathies were
solely with the wife, and it appeared as
though some loved ideal was shattered
when Dickens tOld.his wife he could live
with her no longer"
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WAR SONGS.
WHOSE SHALL BE THE RHINE ?

WHOSE SHALL BE THE RHINE?
At the present moment there is a revived
interest in Nikolaus Becker's German
Rhine " and the reply to it, by Alfred de
Musset, and the following translation of
them may be acceptable:
1t never shall be Frances,
The free, the German Rhine,
Tho raven-lilHe she glances
And crOalks her foul design.
So long as calmly gliding
1t wears its mantle green,
So long as oar dividing
It's mirFOrCd wave is seen.
It never shall be Frances
The free, the German Rhine,
So long as youth enhances
Its ferYOc with its wine.
So long as sentry keeping,
The rock its margin stud;
So long as spires are sleeping
Their image IN It's Hood.
1t never shall be frances
The free. the German Rhine,
So long as festive dances
Its loYe-groupes combine;
So long as angler biingeth
It's lusty trout TO shore;
So long as minstrel singeth
It's praise from door TO door.
Itnever shall be Frances
The free, the German Rhine,
Until its broad eXpanse is
Its last defenders shrine.
THE FRENCH REPLY-BY ALFRED DE NUS
SET.
Your German Rhine has heen ours before
II mas served our WaSSa1l bowls TO NIL,
Can singing its praise from door to door
Ehiace the hOOf- prints, Iegible still,
Of our cavalry charge that bathed its left
bank in your gore?
Y our German Rhine has been ours before!
On its breast the wound yet gappeth wide,
Which conquering COnde made when he
Thro' its mantle of green to the farther
side:
Where once the sire has ridden, shalt the
son not ride once more?
Your German Rhine has been ours before!
Of your German virtues what remain
W hen acroSS1tS Hood our IegiOns pour
And the Empire Over-clOudS your plains?
When all your men nave fallen, have ye
other men in store?
Your German Rhine has been ours before!
If ye your annals would fain forget,
Your daughters remember the days of yOre,
And wish the Frenchmen among them yet,
Fo- which your vintage white they were al
ways bithe to pour.
If your German Rhine be yours once more,
Then wash your liverieS in its tide:
But pitch your arrogance somewhat lower!
Can ye recall with generous pride
Your myriad raVen-beaks that drank the
dying Eagles gore?
May your Germ Rhine flow evermoTe
In peace and mOdeStly may each Spire
Be mirrOred fair in its CLASSY floor?
But oh keep down your bachanal fire
Which, else, may rouse to life again the vic
tor hearts of yore.
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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-09-09

Your German Rhine has been ours before!
On its breast the wound yet gappeth wide,
Which cOnquering COnde made when he
tore
ThrO' its mantle of green to the farther
side:
Where once the sire has ridden, shalt the
son not ride once more?
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THE FRENCH REPLY-BY ALFRED DE MUS
SET.
Your German Rhine has heen ours before
1t has served our waSSail bowls to fill,
Can singing its praise from door to door
Effiace the hoOf- prints, Iegible still,
Of our cavalry charge that bathed its lef
bank in your gore?
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lows SEcFloS o And Be- i J,rtker enact.
"a, That L shall DO lawful for the Saint
Joseph and Denver City Railroad Com-
pany, q corporation chartered and created
by the laws Of the State Of Kansas, or
their assigns, to build bridge. aud main
tain Che same. across the Missouri river at
or near Saint Joseph. Missouri, on the
terms, aud subject to the Limitations and
restrictions contained in the first, second,
and third sections Of The aes,of Congress,
passed July twenty-five, eighteen hundred
and sixty.six. entitled can act 70 author.
ize the construction ofcertain bridges, aud
70 establish them as post-roads,p aud that
corporation may have Lhold, and enjoy all
the rights, privileges, aud lranphises con-
fCrred by. aud contained ID said last mem
toned act; aud siid cotupSuy may con-
slFuot aud maihtain waysfo wagons car.
rlages. nud for fool ms .eng6fs ciareipg
aud receiving reasonabl blo tolls therel0Fi
and when said bridge IS constructed under
said limitaticns Il shall b, . lawful strac-
ture and be recognized aud known as q
postrout: PyOpiaed That itsail bridge
shall be constructed as o draRbrlage the
spans of,tha,d draw shall not be loss than
two hundred feet ia the clear on each sido
ofthe central point
Approved, July n, 1870.
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Approved, July IA, 1870.
fpunt1o..-No. 16Tl'

uBblC--HU' 4Olsl
AN ACT for the relief Of the United State 6
and Brazil Steamship Company.
Bet enacted BY the Senate aud House
Of Represcatetiues Of tie United States d
Amelca in Congress assembled, That che
Secretary Of the Treasury be, and ho is
hereby, authorized torefund to the United
sates and Brazil Steamship Company, out
Of any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated; all sums. heretofore COL
lected at the custom-house at New York
city,by way Of tonnage taxes upon The ves-
sells, of said company employed IN mail
service between the United States aud
Brazil, under the provisions Of the act Of
tWenty-eight May eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, entitled IAN act authorizing
the establishment Of ocean mail steamship
service between the United States and
Brazil" notwithstanding that such sums
we're paid without due loyal protest and
appeal: Provided, That satisfactory evi-
dence shall be produced to the said Score
tary that at the time the said taxes were
imposed the said vessels were in Brazil
specially exempted from similar exactions
10 which other vessels were in the ports
Iofthat country liable. ~
Approved, July Ia, 1870.
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Iof lhd payment Of said certificates aud
! lls cxceS beyond tpenty-iye por cent
MY Be applied d lhe discretion og che Sec
rs|ofr ofihe Igcasury % tho payment OF
roiemplionof Alclpoulstandiug bonds oI
Oh United States heretofore issued and
l,0oun us the Eve twenty bonds; as he may
designate Under the provisions Of the
fourth section d this aet; and any certi6.
calesof deposit issued rs aforesaid, may
bl received at par With the interest accrued
rcon 10 payment for any bonds author
to be Issued BY this not.
eRo G And be Il further enacted, That
United Stres bonds purchased aud
" held 10 the treasury ia accordance
D tie provisions relating to sinking
a o. section Eve Of this act entitled
not loauthorize the issue Of United
notes, aud for the redemption OF
ibafaof and for funding tic neass
ing deBtofthe Unised States, approved
F9bruafy tRenty.fiih. eighteen hundred
and sisly.tWo, aud al othef United States
bond which have been purchased By the
Sctretaty Of the Treasury with surplus
funds il the treasury, aud now held n
The treasury ofthe United States. shall be
cancelTll Jed and destroyed, detailed REQ.
ord Of such bonds SO cancelled and destroy
cd be- first made in the books Of the
Treasury, Department, Any bonds hereaf.
ter applied 10 said sinking fund, aud oil
other United States bonds redeemed or
paid hereafter by the United States, shall
in like manner be recorded. caucel[l led aud
destroyed shall be deducted respectively
from tho amount Of each class Of the out
standing debt Of the United States. Ia
addition to other amounts that may be ap-
piled 10 tho redemption or payment Of the
public debt. an amount equal to the In
teresto on All bonds belonging 70 the afore.
said sinking fund shall be applied, as the
Secretary Of the Treasury shall from tinic
to time direct, to the payment Of fthe pub.
lie debt asproyided for in. section. Eve Of
the act aforesaid. And the amount so TO
be'applied is hereby appropriated annually
for that purpose. out Of the receipts for
duties on imported goods,
Approved, July "a, 1870.
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Sic. s, An,i6s Z iisiier enacted That
the supply ofwateF 10 All manufacturing
establishments, hotels. livery stables. and
other places requiring a large quantity,
shall be determined BY matters erected aud
maintained at the expense Of the consamer;
aud the said corporaliopsof Washington
aud Georgetown shall charge and collect
for che quantity so determined price mot
exceeding thrcc cents per bundled gal.
Ions.
SRc. 4. ARbcit further enacted, That
saidengineer officer shall cause to be fufn-
ishcd, and laid from the distributing re-
seryoir Of tho Washington aquednct to Cap.
ital Fill, in tho city Of Washington, along
such route as he shall determine, an iron,
main Of thifty.six inches in diameter,
connected with The present mains at such
points as Ne shall direct. aud that tho one
tire cost thereof shall bo borne proportion.
,aEeIJ :, ~ 49, aArn1fations Of Washington
and Georgetown, and u ~. az
for such cost, the said corporations aEc,
hereby empowered and authorized 70 in-
crease Che present water rates aud water
taxes 70 such au.amount astnay by thcnl
be deemed necessary.
sRc, 5. Aadleit further rNaetsd, That
for tho purpose Of enabling tho corpor-
ations aiorsaid 10 carry out The, provisions
Of this act, IL shall bo competent for them
to borrow, in such proportions as they
may doem necessary, asum Of mouey not
exceeding two hundred aud sixty thousand
dollars for the city Of Washington, aud
forty thousand dollafsf for the city Of
| Georgetown, rVdeemable within d period
often years, out'of any revenue to bc do
rived from water rents.
Approved, July II, 1870.
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AN ACT TO vacate the Fort Dakota militlsy.
reservation in the Territory Of Dakota, aud
for other purposes.
Be IL enacted by tte ScnaEs and House
Of Representatives. of the United Safes Qf
lmeritcd IN Congress assembled, That the
military reservation at Fort Dakota, in the
county Of Minnehaha, aud Territory Of
Dakota, be and the sams is hereby, yaoa.
ted, and the lands embraced in said res.
eryation shall. be subject TO private entry
under tho provisions Of the presumption
aud homestead laws Of the United States,
except 50 much thereof as may be en--
braced in sections heretofore reserved for
school purposes: Provided, That nothing
in this act shall be so construed as to in-
terfere with any rights which unaS hagS
accrued previous 70 theiwthdraYa q b
lands for the purpose Of such rosary Slions
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Approved, July "A. 1870.
fPublic-No. l0s |

AN AoT to amend Sxisting laws relating 10
internal revenue
BE Il enacted By The Senate and House
Of Representatives Of he Uaited States ef
1merica in Coagress assembled, That
on and after tho passage ofthis not, in ad.
dition to the articles now exempt by law
the articles aud products hereinafter emu.
merated shall be exempt from internal
tax. namely: Canned and preserved ash,
she'll tish, meats, fruits, aud vegetables.
Approved, July, IL, 1870.
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N ACT . anonl tho act . Incorporate III

An ACT 10 Rm0nd tho act 10 Incorporate Tho
!. National Academy Of Sciences.
Be Il enacted By the SIHdte and House
efRepyscntatives oftbe United Stdies Of
Anlerica IN Coagress assembled, Thatth
act To incorporate the National Acacemy
ofSoiences, approved March three, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty.thres. be aud The
same is hereby, SO amended as to remove
the Limitation Of the number Of ordinary
members Of said academy % proyidediia
said act
Approved, July II. 1870.
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i ubblV- -7-7ANus 1lut H. si.III
AN ACT 70 discontinue tho olsFksyills. Ar.
kansas land district andlthe establishment
ofan additional land districtin that Statt.
Be Il eRdctedjbg tie Senate and 70useof
Represeatdtices cflthe United lStsstes of
.Anpricd IA Coagress assembled, That tho
district Of landsnog subject 70 dispcsaIat
Clarksgillo, Afsahsas.be, aud the same is
hereby, discontinued from and after tho
firstiday Of July, eighteen hundred and
seventy, aud that thereafter tlie said land
district be divided asfollowa Begipoing at
the sorner common to townships twelve
and thirteen north, ranges tilenty.six and
.tWeIty.sSven west; thence soith with said
range line to the corner Common Of town
ships nine aud ten north; thence west On
the line between said townships q the
,westeron boundary, otthe State. tho lands
lying north Of sO:d division,line, and with.
in the limits Of tho said CIarksgille district,
70 be su6iect to disposalat Harrison, Ar.
kansas, and thoselaads lying south Of said
division iinc within saiddistrict to DO sub.
;iect to disposal OF Dardauelle, Arkansas.
ito b khowo aud designatsd as the Har-
rison and Dardauelle land district.
SEC, 2. Amtbeit further stdcted. That
the President Of the United Suites Is here
BY authorized to appoint. BY aud with tho
advise and consent Of the Sena.e Of the
United States, or during tho recess lheEe-
Of, OF until the end Of tho next ensuing
session, q register aud receiver for each ot
saii.land districts, who shall be rsadifed
70 reside at the site Of their Se6livs
otices. who shall be subject 70 ihe same,
laws and responsibilities, aud whose com
pensasion aud fees shall be respectively ths
same per annum as are now allowed by
Law 10 other land Offices IN sid State.
Approved, Jaly liislszo
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AN ACT 10 require national banks going into
liquidation TO retire heir circulating notes,
Be Il enacted L4 tie Senate and Hoase
Of Representatives. Of The United ,iStttes
Of America IN Congress assembled, That
every bank that has heretofore ,gono into
liquidation Inlerthe provisions Of section
forty-two oethe national currency act, shall
ibo required 10 deposit lawful money 6f'the
United States forits outstanding circula-
3tien within sixty days from the date Of the
passage Of this act. And every bank that
may Asrs1f' Goi6io, liq9 ation SheIl 70