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The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
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The war between the Germans and
French has ended, and Paris is again
free. French soldiers again occupy all
the forts around Paris. Thiers is still
at the head of affairs, but it is said one of
the Orleans princes will be proclaimed
King.
All the theaters in Paris are prepar-
ing to reopen as soon as gas can be got.
The Bank of France will commence
issuing balance sheets THURSDAY
a letter by Jules Simon, piacarded
every where in Paris, announces the
deposition of Napoleon, and declares him
responsible for the ruin aud invasion OF
France.
The French Minister of War proposes
a complete reorganization Of the army
and defenses of France. including the
erection of Notifications upon the new
German frontier.
The Prusians, yesterday delivered to
the French all the forts upon the lefI
bank of the Seine.
Emperor William and staff have left
Versailles for Ferrier.
The Prussians areto completely evacu-
ate Versailles by the 11th and the neigh.
borhood by the 10Th inst.
1t is hoped the present difficulties il
Paris will pass over without serious dis
turbances.
A dispatch from Hanover Sth says the
French prisoners who have been held il
various parts of the Kingdom of Hano
yer, have been forwarded to Hamburg
I whence they will go to Frs3ce.
A special correspondent at Versailles
teIegraphs that Bismarck has began hi
homeward journey, The Emperor anC
Crown Prince are to hold review of th'
German forces, eastward Of Paris, anC
will not return to Versailles
Rotchschild has issued Russian loai
of twelve million pounds, atSl4
The small pox is increasingly England
The strike at Newcastle has resulte'
in the success of the workm,n.
The Emperor Napoleon VIII not leav
Wilhelmshohe till peace defnitel.
signed at Brussels.
The Prussian Cross Gazette says ar
Engagements are making for grand mil
itary festival on the occasion of the en-
trance of the German army into Berlin
Deputations from all the German State
will be present.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
The "ReIIeyed.,,

The disability bill which has passed
Congress, relieves from political disabil-
tiles the following well known West
Kentuckians Judge VIM. Lindsay,
S. c. Brice, McCraeken county; n. NJ
Cargill, Graves county; P. NJ. Ellison
and Jesse Gilbert, Galloway county, n
NJ. Greenwood, Thos. D: Grundy, and
Jno. G. Noble, McCracken county; j. II
Roulhac, Fulton county. While on its
passage the names of Basil Duke, W. B
Machen, and others, were stricken out
This bill at once removed the prosecu-
ton entered under the operations of the
14th amendment against udge Lindsay
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
TsIckman:a Produce Centre.

In THE one item of corn, have it from
reliable figures, there has been near
800, 900 bushels, bought and shipped
from this poiut this season, aud corn yet
in the country, which may aggregate
fully one half million bushels. To move
this one product requires capital OF from
$4,000 to 100000. Besides the corn
in our immediate section, dealers at this
point have handled nearly the entire
crops of Madrid Bend, and for miles up
aud down the Mississippi, in Kentucky,
Missouri and Tennessee. To handle the
cotton brought to this market requires
perhaps as large or larger amount OF
money, to say nothing OF the wheat, fruit,
and other crops, which are nearly as
large items in our trade. To handle this
vast amount of products requires large
capital, and the question occurs where is
it obtained? A considerable portion OF
it comes from our enterprising merchants
but far the greater portion from foreign
dealers and foreign bankers These
dealers aud bankers of course reap a
profit on our trade for the use of theii
capital. Our home dealers are hamper
ed for want of sufficient money to handle
the increased amount Of produce attract
ed here, and which could be vastly more
increased, if we could command money
equal to the trade within our reach
Why have we not a Banking House
asks every business man2 We dare say,
there is no town which enjoys as large
trade as Hickman, without Bank
1t has become an absolute necessity. Our
trade demands it more than ever in the
history of our town. There is no ques-
ton among business men but that a
Banking House would pay largely on
the capital invested, aud besides be of iu.
calculabIe benefit to our trade.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11

THE FRANKFORT MAILs.-The Post
Office Department has discontinued the
mails from Louisville to Frankfort via.
the railroad, because it is alleged the Ku-
kIux threaten the life of the mail agent,
who is negro. The mails now pass
round by way of Shelbyville stage.
The Z. s. Government undoubtedly
has the right to select its appointees, but
this disposition to exhibit an utter dis
regard to the wishes of the people along
that route by the appointment of a negro
agent, is unjustifable on the part of the
managers of the mail service. 1t is
grossly wrong to impose an officer upon
people, so distasteful to them, aud was
probably intended to provoke violence,
and thereby manufacture Radical thun-
der
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
railroad Debt in Mentucky.

We are in receipt of the Auditor S
Report, TO the Legislature, in response
to resolution offered by Senator Oscar
Turner. asking for information in regard
to the amount of indebtedness of each
county, district, city, and town in the
State of Kentucky, incurred for the con-
structicn of railroads. This report shows
that there is now owing By the different
towns, cities, and counties, s14, ,933, ,9S3
Hickman owes SIT 900, Paducah and
McCracken, 100000, Louisville, 81.
! 625, 600 The debt is much more thar
shown in this report
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
Great Britain and U. 5.

The London Spectator, in an article on
the Joint High Commission, remarks
at is only when America is hostile that
Great Britain looses her weight in Eu-
ropean politics, weight which. we may
remark, the Americans do not desire her
to lose. Once relieved of that special
danger-a danger to which no other
Power in Europe is xposed-Great
Britain is unburdened, and can, if her
rulers please, once more exert her just
authority in favor of moderate counsels
of the observance of treaties, aud the
right of every civilized people to remain
under the Government theyprefer."
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
The Midway Bill.

The Kentucky Senate has had under
consideration bill to amend the charter
of Midway, which we understand pro-
vides real estate and poll tax qualii
cation for any voter at any city election.
This charter would deprive many poor
people of that village of the right ol
franchise. They would be taxed, but not
allowed to vote We are glad to see
that Senator Tyler voted against this
effort to establish a property qualifca
ton to voters.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
CoIored testimony.

The question of admitting colored tes-
timony in the State Courts, has been re-
ported by the Senate judiciary Com
mittee, favoriDg the admission.
During the discussion Senator Tyler
vigorously opposed any change in the
present law, giving as his belief that the
negro was not worthy of credence in his
testimony.
Dir. Turner moved an amendment that
where colored persons are allowed to
testify, plaintiffs and defendants in the
same action shall testify. Mr.. Tur-
ner's amendment is wise aud we'll.
Mr.. Tyler in opposing this bill, we
think, is behind the judgment and con
viction of his constituents. Since Mr..
Tyler's election, great change has un-
questiouabIy been effected in the minds
of our people upon this question.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
MutiIated Currency for Postage
stamps.

A dispatch from Washington announ-
ces that Treasurer Spinner has decided
that Postmasters must receive mutilated
currency for its full value, in payment
for stamps, in cases of United States
notes where not more than the twentieth
Of the note is missing, and of fractional
currency where not more than one tenth
has been lost When such notes and
fractional currency are mutilated beyond
the standard referred to, no one is com
PEELED to receive them for any part of
their value, the only place where they
may be redeemed is the Treasury.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11

We see that the petition from this
county asking for authority to levy an
additional tax of 10 cents ad valorum
aud 81 poll tax, for the purpose of build
ing new Jail house, has been granted
by the Legislature. The question, will
now, therefore, come before cur Board OF
County Magistrates
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
Admitted 10 His seat.

1t appears that the Hon. Edward
Grassland, member of Congress from this
district, appeared in Washington on the
4th instant, and was regularly sworn in
as a member of the AID Congress; no
objection whatever being offered. Many
leading men in this District entertained
serious apprehcnsions that Radical vim
dictiyeness, would seek to exclude him
ESom the seat, to which our people had
elected him.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11

ROME, March THE Pope has held
a secret consistory, In which he deliver
ed an allocution of considerable length.
The Holy Father. in the address to the
Cardinal, attacks the motives and acts to
authorize the recent Italian events, and
particularly the occupation of Rome
and rejects the guarantees of his spirit
ual power proposed by the bill recently
passed the italian Parliament. He also
laments the occurrence of the French
and Prussian war, and expressed his
gratitude for devotion to himself and
Church of the whole Catholic world
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11

The telegraph learns from good author
ity that Bismarck is preparing circular
to be addressed to the diplomatic agents
of Germany in foreign countries, review
ing the history of events during the pro
gress of the past war, aud the changed
position of the Government. In this
circular he comments with a severity al
most amounting to ofensiveness upon the
attitude of England during the war. and
the tricky and evasive policy of the Brit
ish Government
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
Judge ON the Bench Shot Down
by a Negro.

MEMPHIS, March 6.-At Meridian
Miss, this evening, while Justice Bran
lette was trying negro for riotous con-
duct at fire Saturday night, disturb
ance occurred in the court room, and a
negro named Tyler shot Bramlette, kill
ing him instantly. Tyler and two other
negroes were killed by the citizens. Eve
rythiug is now quiet.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
The Legislature.

Editor Hickman Courier:
SIR:-Permit me through your paper,
to answer various inquiries as to whether
| will be candinate for the Legislature
or not. | reply that am not willing
to divide our strength and cause some
one to be elected who is not the choice
of majority of the voters.
Madrid Bend, KY, March 5, 1871.
j n. HAWKINS.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
The nInY EIecrion.

There has existed in the minds O
many an uncertainty as to whether the
election for Circuit Court Clerk, in thi.
county, to fill the vacancy occasioned BY
the resignation of John C. Gardner
occurs in May or August As yet nc
writ of election has been issued Several
of our Lawyers have examined the
point, and think the law clear, that il
occurs in May.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11

A PARIS correspondent, who has been
all through France, says he finds every
where the bitterest opposition to Germa-
ny and the terms of peace, and that
nothing but exhaustion causes submis-
sion. Peace cannot be of long duration,
as every Freedman waits his first oppor-
tunity for revenge.
THE MAYFIELD DEMocRAT.-This
sterling journal has just entered upon
the second year of it existanee. Capt
Warren the able and accomplished editor
deserves great credit among his patrons
for the manner in which he has conducted
the Democrat. As local, family and
newspaper it has no superior in the
Purchase and the intelligence of Graves
should see that it continues to receive q
liberal support.-Paris L"tet9igeRcer.
THE Forty-second Congress, now in
session, will probably not adjourn unit
about the middle of April.
WHAT NEXT-The District of Colum.
bia through Congressional manipulations
has become territory, the President
signing the bill. The next move will
be to turn it into State with two Sena
tors, and ever SO many Congressman, and
name comes next. Call it Ethiopia
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
U. 5. Troops at FranI.Cort.

4 report is published that Que thou
sand IT, s. troops are to be sent to Frank
fort. 1t is on the authority of promi-
nent Republican, who is no sensational
ist. The troops are supposed to have
been ordered from Kansas, and their
object is to hunt out and demolish the
Ku -Klax.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11

THE recklessness of some of the spe-
cial dispatches sent from Washington is
we'll illustrated in Herald telegram.
We are gravely told that such is the hor-
rible state of affairs in the South, by
reason of Kuklux cutrages, that soon
there will not be solitary Union man
left
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
An Odfous Law.

The enforcement act recently put
through Congress, and which is now a
law, is so much of partisan measure
that even Republican journals-of the
out-spoken and liberal sort, of COURSE
denounce it without stint. They do this
on two grounds; first, because the law
proposes wanton interference with the
freedom of elections, and, second. by
reason of the use the Democratic party
may make of it when the whirligig OF
time places that organization in the as
cendant. The Chicago Tribune, the
most influential Republican journal in
the north west, speaks cut unreseryedly
in detestation of the law.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11

A POOR dissipated prostitute, who gave
her name as Lethy, and claimed to have
relatives in Dresden, Tenn, visited ne
gro hut in the vicinity of Carbondale,
last week, and taking seat on the floor,
begged permission to remain there during
the night The next morning she was
found sitting bolt upright, corpse. The
coroner's jury that inquired into the mat
ter, decided that the poor creature had
died from dissipation and exposure
Cairo Paper.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11

THE st. Louis Republican has been
sued for 100000 and costs by the Mis-
souri, State Lottery. The publication
complained OF, says the Republican,
"was an item of news, stating that the
Chief of Police had determined to use
his power to break up this lottery bust
ness, and adding some mild remarks rel
ative to the sympathy and moral support
by majority of our citizens which the
Chief would probably receive in this
work
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
BEECH WOOD SEMINARY
Hickman. Kentucky.

Hickman, kentucky.
u,HE PRINCIPALS, ]. H. RoULHAC AND
Jno. W Cowgirl, would respectfully
announce TO the public that the first session
of their School will commence on MONDAY,
March 18th. 1871 The School now organ
lied is designed to be n permanent institu-
tion at this place. The building already
erected is ample for the accommodation of
one hundred pupils, and it is the purpose of
the Principals to construct suitable addi-
tions, with all modern improvements, in
desks, fixtures, Sc, sufficient for ! SO sehoI-
lars, with music room convenient for those
who desire musical instructions. This de-
partment will be under the charge of Mrs.
Mary Duncan. With liberal encouragement
the Principals hope soon to be able to found
a regular and permanent College with ample
accommodation for all who desire the bene-
FITS of a collegiate education in this section.
Tuition per session months or l6
weeks, spelling, first lessons in
reading, writing, &c.................Sl0 90
Advanced readers, mental arithmetic,
first lessons in geography and
written arithmetic. tic......................l2 90
English Grammar, Advanced Geogra-
ply, Written Arithmetic, first
lessons in Philosophy and Com
..........-.................-l4 w
Algebra and the higher Mathematics
! and Natural Sciences...............1 is 90
| Ancient and Modern Languages...... ~ w
Music including use of fPiano............. "a 90
Contingent tax to each pupil............. l 90
Tuition due, one-half at the commence
ment and one-half at the middle of the ses-
sion. Pupils charged from time of entrance
for balance of session, and no deduction
made, except for protracted sickness.
Patrons and teachers are alike interested
in building up good and permanent institu-
| tions; and to the generous assistance of the
people of Hickman and vicinity we most es-
pecially look for encouragement, promising 6
that our whole time and talents shall be de-
voted to our enterprise.
J. II. ROULHAC,
fcb25 JNO w. COWGILL.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11

Passions FOR DIsPLAY-The world
is crazy for show. There is not one per-
son in thousand who dares fall back ON
nothing but his real, simple self for pow
er to get through the world, and extract
enjoyment as he goes along. There is
too much living in the eyes of other peo-
pie. There is no end to the aping, the
mimicry, the false airs, and the superficial
arts. Itrequires rare courage, we admit,
to live up to ones enlightened convic-
tions in these times. Unless you consent
to join in the general cheat, you are
iostled out of reach There is no room
for you among the great mob of preten
ders. If man dares to live within his
means, and is resolute in his purpose not
to appear more than he really is, let him
be applauded. There is something fresh
and rare in such an example.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
CANDIDATES.
For the LegisIature.

For TIC Lc9IsIRIurc.
We are authorized to announce THOMAS
f. GLEESOA, as candidate to represent
Hickman and Fulton counties in the Lower
House of our next State Legislature, subject
to the action of democratic convention
should one be held.
We are authorized to announce Judge B.
r. WALKER as a candidate to represent the
people of Hickman and Fulton counties in
the next State Legislature.
For Circuit Court Clerk.
We are authorized to announce Mr.. J. T.
BYNUM, as a candidate for the office of Cir
cult Court Clerk, to fill the unexpired term
of Jno. C. Gardner, resigned, at the ensuing
election.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11

SEE aew advertisement of Drs. Cor.
bet & Faris, 10 another column.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11
HERMITAGE.

HAvING BOUGHT THE INTEREST OF
Mr. N. P. Harness, in the late business
of McCutchen g. Co., will continue the
wholesale and retail grocery business, with
a large and complete stock of everything
in that line.
Thankful for the liberal patronage be-
slowed on the late firm, would respectfully
solicit a continuance of the favors.
W. L. McCUTCHEN.
march11 lw
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11

KENTUCKY HARLAN
county is the largest in area in the State,
and Powell, the smallest. The average
value of land is highest in Jefferson, aud
iorast NJ a,,;foz.. ---.-------s-
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11

It is thought the Orleans princes viii
be restored TO their rights in France.
The Hickman courier., 1871-03-11

A MAN was recently informed just
before his marriage that his bride had
fallen heir to 100000, but be let the
ceremony 60 on just the same.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-16
Utah and the Mormons.
BIT HON. II. L. DAWES, n. C.

In considering the development of
Utah and the growth of mormonlsm, we
are confronted by pol 6 'my, not as an
occasional crime, punished and passed
by. but as an institution in the land, de-
irving its sanction and support from
what passes as the religious teachings
and convictions of the entire people,
The evil and remedy have been reserved
for separate chapter. The problem is
the cure. No other question connected
with it admits of argument. Ihe prac-
tice is evil. and that continually, and full
of all manner OF uncleanness. What Is
the remedy?
Let us first briefly inquire what sort of
a people we are dealing with. From the
late census we learn that out OF the S6,-
600 people there, $4,000 are foreigners,
and of these $4,000 are females over 20
wears of age, while there are only 6,0o0
native females of that age i'll all the Ter
ritory; and that of $4,000 natives, Al,
900 were born in Utah, and are OF course,
under 23 years of age. The adult te-
males and their offspring, therefore, &C.,
OoO), constitute nearly three-fourths of
the entire population. Four-ftths of
this number, more than half the whole
population, mothers and children, the
fruit of the evil tree to be cut down, are
| involved in the curse and consequences
of that crime, not counting i'll that num-
Der single man. They are helpless,
defenceless, destitute in society, as con-
stituted there, except they stand under
the shelter of the cursed tree itself. Lit
tie better are the men as whole. Aside
from the leaders, they are generally an
ignorant, unthinking people, and, as far
as they are foreigners, accustomed from
their birth to uDquestioned submission
to arbitrary power. They are content
in the sufficiency for daily wants that a
few acres yield, exulting in the contrast
which even the most limited space allot.
ted to their exclusive use, here, affords
6ver anything they could call their own
in the land OF their birth. They did not
flee from tyranny, but from want, and
to them one form of government is as
another, if they are clothed and fed
alike in either. They have no aspirations
or discontents. The sagacious head ol
the organization takes good care thai
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-16
A Night on Vesuvius.

The louisville Journal has a Naples
correspondent who writes IL spent
the night with some friends on the top
Of Nersuvius, freezing on one side and
boiling on the other. We kept ourselves
awake by the amusement of lodging
the falling stones. About once il ten
minutes the old mountain gave shiver-
then burst like forty thousand muffled
cannon, if ever there was such thing.
At each burst, a cloud of black smoke,
in the shape Of an inverted hay-stack,
and many'times the size, was driven into
the air, followed by mass Of livld
flame that lighted the country for leagues
around. Then look out for stones mil
lions of tons are thrown hundreds of
feet high into the air, most of them fall
ing back into the crater, but many, vary
ing in size from pigeons egg to a to-
bacco hogshead, land outside, and you
must dodge generally easy enough, as
they are of white heat, and show as
a rocket-star. They tumble down the
steep cone, Kissing and steaming in the
snow-the big ones breaking into frag
ments, and flying like bursting shell.
We rush up to the very edge of the
abyss and look down for further partic-
ulars see Dante's Inferno y but you
spoil your boots did. You singe
your moustache 1 did. And you wish
you weri safely out of it; l did. You
turn away sneezng, as II you had acci-
dentally gnited box OF locofocos under
your nose tor moment all is dark ;
then the long, twinkling row of gas
lamps in the streets of Naples seem to
spling out of the ground under your
feet, though miles away then you see
the lights in the little towns above the
and that one the largest. Pompeii-
with its great old temple, magnificent
theatres, close-built streets, and vast
arena, is dark the grim skeletons lying
in their ashen beds alone keep their vigil
there their eyeless sockets need no
light. No sight that ever witnessed
can equal clear sunrise from Vesuvius.
No one can imagine its grandeur but
you must try to, for dare not attempt
description. AS we stood gazing down
on the r, ofess houses of Pompeii, the
sun lighting its gay-colored wall Tore
del Grece, with It's earthquake-shaker
walls-I said: "Pm glad OF it," Say:
one OF the party, cts awful shabby
don't think it pays" That young man
was fiom Henry county, Indiana. With
pretty general destruction of boots
and clothing, and the aforesaid loss Of
one of the handsomest moustaches IL
Naples, by your humble servant, we go,
down safely. Not SO with another party
who ascended from the Nola side. On,
of them had an arm broken by a falling
stone another leg, i'll getting down