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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-06-03
GREAT Speech of Ex.Presfdeut
Johnson.
Johnson Enthusiastically
Cheered.

Special to the Union and American,
KNoxvILLE, May 27.-There was n
immense crowd of people in Knoxville
to day, drawn hither by the Industrial
Exposition, but mainly to hear ex Presi-
dent Johnson, who had been invited by
the mechanics to address them on this
occasion. The mechanics of Knoxville,
as well as of Knox and the surrounding
counties, were out in full force, and there
were thousands of other citizens. At
an early hour il the morning process
sion OF mechanics and citizens was form
ed, which was about mile in length
President johnson rode in carriage in
that part of the procession composed of
tailors. After marching through several
of the principal streets of the city the
procession moved to the fair ground.
Though the weather was excessively hot,
and Mr.. johnson spoke under great dis
advantages, owing to the confined at
mosphere in the Exposition building,
aud theloud noise made by visitors walk
ing ID be upper story, he neyertheless
thst be was proud Of being mechanic
himself He.said he would address his
,udience in reference to measures involv
ing the highest interests of the labor
and mechanism of the country, and then
spoke against the policy of the State in
allowing penitentiary labor to come in
conflict with honest labor as a general
thing he thought prisons and penitentia-
ries did not tend to reformation of the
criminal.
In regard to capital and labor, he said
that capital was always seeking to obtain
labor on the most favorable terms, and
labor was always seeking to obtain the
highest wages. Referring to the late
war, he said that England was no friend
of the South, but was disposed to aid
the South in her conflict with the North
so as to weaken the power of CONNER
cial rival. The President spoke of the
high position which the industrious and
frugal mechanic might reach and in
stanced his own case as an illustration
he also spoke at some length of the Ma
tional debt, and said that the interest
upon it was one hundred and fifty mil.
lions of dollars at six per cent. This
had to be paid by the labor of the coun
try; no nation had ever yet paid any
large public debt without Reputation.
The debt contracted in the revolutiona-
ry war was nearly all repudiated. But
we had not the right to make this debt
permanent. He said it would be just
and equitable that the six per cent. paid
by the government as interest, should be
applied to the reduction of the principal
in semi annual instalments, which in
sixteen years and eight months would
liquidate the entire national debt. Mr..
johnson also discussed the constitution,
and said that every good citizen should
cling to it as the chiet ark of his safety.
The President was frequently spplauded
during the delivery of his remarks. and
at the conclusion was enthusiastically
cheered.
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Hard Beds.

The idea. that the soft side of plank
makes the best couch when one gets used
to it, was long ago expounded. People
who know ''what is what" who read the
newspapers and mean to be somebody,
don't believe a word of it. Those who
have settled down to Diogones in the
rub life accept the doctrine. 1t is true
that the tired man or woman will sleep
soundly on hard bed, and habit may
make the hardness dear to them. 1t j,
also true that Napoleon's soldiers slep
while on their march homeward from
Russia, and some of them may have been
attached to locomotion and slept united
Notwithstanding all this. those who have
once felt the almost human kindness and
warmth of hair mattress beneath them
cannot go back to straw and husks with
out pang.
We do not recommend softness, but
elasticity: Feathers, except in very cold
weather. are unwholesome, because they
retain an excess of warmth about the
BODY. and also be cause they absorb the
iusensible PRECIPITATION thrown off by the
pores, and permit The body, to reabsorh
the excremeutitious matter. A bed OF
soft, fresh straw, evenly distributed and
covered with thin cotton or wooileu
mattress, may be good resting place,
and furnish sweet sleep. But how can
man or woman rise refreshed, from a
couch of sirlw or shuck mattresses, which
has been in nightly use without renewal
for series of years? Yet there are por
tions of this very land of plenty
whsre travellers put to sleep upon just
such beds as this.
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From the Phifadelphfa Recoi
"A Parody of Justice.

A curious and instructive example Of
the abuses possible under the present
system of impanDelipg juries in the courts
Of this city was afforded in the court of
quarter sessions on Tuesday. This anus
ing and anomalous parody of justice
was duly reported in the local columns
Of the Public Record yesterday, and con-
sisted in the calling Of three citizens to
act as jurymen, not one of whom under
stood a word of the English language or
had the least intelligent idea of the po
sition he was expecting to occupy or the
duties he had been selected to proform.
This, of itself, was ludicrous enough,
but the farce ran great risk of being
transformed into tragedy, when one of
these men was actually impanneled, in
Quoted into the jury box, suffered to
listen to testimony in tongue which
was, to him, mere gibberish, and finally
allowed to record his virdict in the case
under trial, upon the strength of an sex
planation" given him by an interpreter
after the case had been dismissed and the
jury had retired for consultation.
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Railroads Must Protect Passen-
gers.

The duty of railroad companies not
only to carry passengers safely, but also
to protect them from annoyance and in
suit, has just been judicially declared in
suit against railway company in
Maine. The plaintiff in the suit, being
in one of the company's cars, surrender
ed his ticket on demand to brakeman.
Shortly after, the brakeman, without
provocation, approached the plaintiff in
his seat, and, accosting him in loud
voice, denied that he had seen or receiv-
ed the ticket, called him liar, charged
him with trying to evade the payment Of
his fare, and with having done SO before;
and, leaning over him and bringing his
istsdown close to his face, violently
shook it there, and threatened to split
his head open aud spill Hisise brains erirsh.
there on the spot, with much more to the
same effect The defendants, although
we'll knowing the brakeman's misconduct,
did not discharge him, but retained him
in his place, which he continued to oc-
cupy at the time of the trial. The jury
was instructed that the case was prop
er one for exemplary damages, and they
returned verdict for SIS. $50, which the
court declined to set aside, laying down
the law as follows:
The carriers obligation is to carry
his passenger safely and properly, and
to treat him respectfully; and, if he in
trusts the performance of this duty to
his servants, the law holds him responsi-
BILE for the manner in which they exc
cute the trust. The law seems to be now
we'll settled that the carrier is obliged to
protect his passenger from violence and
insult from whatever source arising. He
is not regarded as an insurer of his pas
senger's safety against every possible
source of danger, but ne is bound to use
all reasonable precautions as human
Judgment and foresight are capable of to
make his passengers journey safe and
comfortable He must not only protect
his passenger against the violence and
insults of strangers and co passengers,
but a torfiori against the violence and
insults of his own servants. If this
duty to the passenger is not performed,
if this protection is not furnished, but.
on the contrary, the passenger is assault
ed and insulted through the negligence
or willful misconduct of the carriers
servant, the carrier is necessarily re-
sponsible.'
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PennsyIvanra in the wan.


r The Democracy of Pennsylvania held
their State Convention, Wednesday, says
the Nashville Banner, aad nominated
Gen. Wilson McCandless for Auditor
General, and James NJ. Cooper for Sur
veyor General. Resolutions were adopt
ed indicating that the party in that State
is planted squarely upon the broad, lib
eral platform enunciated by Vallandig-
ham, in the Dayton resolutions. The
following will suffice to show the spirit
of the whole:
Resolred, That we recognize the bind
ing obligation of all the provisions of the
Convention of the United States as they
now exist, and we deprecate the discus
sion of issues which have been settled in
the manner and by the authority con
stitutionally appointed.
The great questions of the war having
thus been placed beyond the contingency
of being made disturbing elements, the
canvass will turn more generally upon
local issues, which never complicated
party politics in Pennsylvania mare than
at present
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CasabIanca Improved.
NO. 81.

The mule stood on the steamboat deck,
The land he would not tread;
They pulled the halter round his neck
And cracked him over the head.
Yet firm and steadfast there he stood,
As though formed for to rule;
critter of heroic blood
Was that there cussed mule.
They cussed and swore-he would not go,
Until he felt inclined;
And though they showered blow on blow,
He wouldn't change his mind.
The deck-hand to the shore then cried,
sThis here mules bound to stay"
And still upon the critters hide
With lash they fred away.
His master from the shore replied
'eThe boat about to sail,
And every other means you've tried,
Suppose you twist his taill'
aIts likely that will make him land"
The deck man brave, though pale,
Approached him with his outstretched hanS
To twist that there mules tail y
There came sudden kick behindi
The man-oh where was he2
Ask of the softly blowing wind,
The fishes OF the seal
For a moment there was not a sound,
as that mule walked his sy es,
AS Though 70 ask OF thcse aroand,
'sNow how is that for high?"
"Cut that there mules throat right away,
The captain did command,
But the noblest critter killed that day,
Was the fearless, brave deck hand.
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canadian Annexation.

A convention has been called by the
Dominion Annexation Society to meet at
Niagara Falls on July 4. Annexation
has not been much agitated in Canada
of late. The question was indirectly an
issue in the late Novo Scotia election,
and is apparently losing ground. The
party opposed to confederation, which
party embraces all the annexatiOnists OF
that Province, though retaining majori
ty of the Legislature, lost several mem
bers. Previous to the election the ar
gument was used by the CoDfederatioDists
that victory for the opposition would
be one iu favor of annexation to the
United States, and the result shows that
in Nova Scotia annexation is not SO
popular as it was four years ago. If this
feeling has extended throughout Canada,
the time for holding the convention is
inauspieious. The Canadian advocates
of annexation have also made another
mistake The convention as called, will,
if all the delegates attend, be so large as
to be uowieldly. Two delegates from
each Congressional District of the United
States. and two from each Parliamentary
District of the Dominion, will, If all
send delegates, make convention con
sderably larger than our National nomi
mating conventions But as the interest
In annexation on this side of the line is
confined to small circle, there is danger
that the convention will be 80 palpabie a
failure as to extinguish, for the present,
the hopes of its promoters.
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General Harlan and the Ken.
tuckY Insurance Company.

tucky Insurance Company.
There are several thousand men, wo.
men, and children in Kentucky, who will
be delighted to know that they are more
indebted to General Harlan than to all
others beside, for the great public bene-
factions conferred by the Kentucky In
surance Company that while he was
Attorney General of the State ne pro-
cured the enactment of the charter; was
attorney for the company during its ex
istence, aud since has been patriotically
administering on its estate. and pocket
ed, out of the assessments upon the poll
cy holders which have been made, and
are still being made. round sums by way
of allowances as attorneys fee-his law
partner being on the other side of the
case. and drawing Ike liberal fees from
the defendants. The Kentucky Insu
rance Company may be regarded as one
of General Harlan's pets-a nice little
family tub mill from which he aud his
law partner have realized not less than
$50. 900 of the money drawn from too
coufding and remedyless public through
out the State of Kentucky. However,
that is business-and business is busi
ness" they say.-LouisUille Ledger.
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a Woman Hater.

Near the thriving little city OF WIN
chester, in this State, says St. Louis
paper, lives the most singular specimen
of the hermit to be found probably any
where in all this country. His log cabin,
sitting like ''a ragged beggar," about
two hundred yards to the right of the
road from Winchester to Boonsborough
seldom fails to attract the eye of the
traveller in those parts. "Squat like a
toad" as if trying to burrow itself uu
der ground and out of mortal sight, its
low, fat roof, its dumpy, daubed, dirt
chimney, its ten inch window, all seem
constructed with the special view Of re-
pelling the approach of man.
Shut up in this den, the monarch of all
he surveys, another, and this time q
voluntary, Alexander Selkirk, dwells the
hermit son of one of the wealthiest men
in the ENTHUSIASTICALLY Quisseu-
berry, Jr.
Many years ago Coalby Quissenberry,
drifted out to Texas with the young men
who were seeking fortunes in that gol-
den land He was then gay, fond OF
company, and in every way companion
able. But in few months he put in an
appearance very unexpectedly, at home,
gloomy, sullen and reticents
His antipathy to the female sex was so
strong that be refused to speak to his
Mother, or to tolerate her or any other
woman in his presence. He was devel-
oped into a thorough misanthrope, with
a peculiar mania against the female sex
generally, both brute and human.
| r.. IL q
friend few months ago, as he was ri
ding by the hermit's cabin, and being
deeply impressed with the character o
the singplar subject, suggested that w
should ride by and Interview the woman
hater. "First ascertain said he, "th'
sex of the animal you ride. IF it is {
female, Quissenberry would go into bys
terics on the discovery. He would burr
the gate you rode through. the tree you
hitched to, and almost dig up, and haul
away the very soil you rode over in his
inclosure.
Finding we were aback of one of the
disfranchised animals, 1t was with con
siderable disappointment we were com
PEELED to forego an interview. He has
sought this most secluded spot of the
famllY IaQOS 10 Duliu Ills CdUlu. Ills hait
aud beard grows in wild confusion: he
makes his own garments, which hang
loosely and awkwardly about him, tills
his own corn and potato patch, grinds
his own meal on hand mill, does his
own cooking, washing, &C., and steals
out but once a month at night, to garner
up such things as he is indebted to the
outside world for, and beyond this will
admit of no intercourse with men.
As to whether he conceived his aver
sion to 1.-The sex" from jilting he re-
ceived in Texas. or elsewhere, he has
never spoken. In fact he has not been
heard to speak dozen words in as many
years.
"Look there" said our friend, "dc
you see that fence panel entirely gone
Well, few days since, a negro woman
passing through the neighboring farms
crossed Quissenberry's fence, and he
burnt every rail of the pannel she climb
ed over. He will have nothing female
about him. Mares, cows, hens, pigs
everything, in fact, that is cursed with
the female form divine, throws him
into perfect state of frenzy"
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terrible disaster In a Coal MINE.

u -
PITTsoN. Pa, May 27.-The West
Pittsou Shaft, owned by the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad, and worked by Blake & Co.,
New York, is one outlet, and the miners
are in fearfnl danger.
LATER.
Some men have been saved. The scene
about the shaft is one of great distress
and anguish. Two FIRE engines from
Scranton and one from Wilkesbarre are
on the ground.
1t is thonght no water can be thrown
into the shaft from the top, but it is said
the shaft will fiji with water in twenty
four hour; so even if the poor fellow are
not suffocated, they must drown. There
is apparently no escape for them. From
thirty FIVE to forty men and boys are in
the mine.
STILL LATER.
The fire engines are playing on the
ruins, which are so hot that they cannot
probably approach them before morning
A dog has just been sent down the shaft
of the mine, and was brought up alive
which fact encourages the belief thai
the men may yet be saved.
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AUGUSTA, GA, May 26.-Jefferson
Davis arrived here last evening, when
be was serenaded at the Planters Hotel.
and to day held reception. Mayor
Estes rendered the bospitalities of the
city. In response to repeated calls and
cheers, he made his appearance on the
balcony of the hotel, when he was in
troduced by Henry W. Hilliard. Mr..
Davis said he recognized the peculiar
claims Georgia had upon him, and him
self upon Georgia, for in the ancient city
of Augusta his father had identified him
self with the revolutionary struggle for
liberty. IF the late struggle tor the
principles of constitutional liberty had
been crime, twas his misfortune, for
which he had fully suffered. He was
aware of the eagerness which every word
he might utter was watched for and mis-
represented. He wanted to be silent,
not from apprehensions of the result to
himself individually, but his utterauces
were made to affect the interest of the
Southern people. He did not conceive
that the principles of the Lost Cause
were dead, or that the truth should re
main crushed. He counselled fortitude
and forbearance, believing that the South
could afford to be patient under her
wrongs till the return of justice achieved
the rights of every free man of the
period, to which he confidently looked.
With his feeling, he was fearful to trust
himself to speak, because he could not
think one thing and speak another. He
looked forward. however, to the time
when he might with propriety speak to
his fellow. .citizens as his heart moved him,
and bade them farewell, expressing a
hone that God would be with them.
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BULLS SARSAPARILLA.

Sr LOUIS, April 80.
- Dr. JoRE BULL-Dear Sir: Knowing the
efficiency of your Sarsaparilla, and the heal
ing and beneficial qualities it possesses,
send you the following statement OF my case;
Twas wounded about two years ago-was
taken prisoner and confined for sixteen
months. Being moved so often, my wounds
have not healed yet. l have not sat up a
moment since I was wounded / am shot
through the hips. My general health rs
impaired, and / need something to assist
nature have more faith in your Sarsa-
parilla than in any thing else. wish that
that is genuine. Please express me half
dozen bottles, and oblige
CAPT. C. P. JOHNSON,
= p. s.-Mr. johnson was the son of a skill
full surgeon. His mother recommended to
her friends. and for many years used my
sarsaparills with perfect success. In Scrof-
ala and Feyer-sores Mrs. johnson states
thatthe cures effected were almost m iracu-
lous. Road my Journal for extended in
formation and sdvice in your case. My
Iournals contains certificates OF eminent
persons, ministers and medical men-men
who are known here in this community for
integrity and veracity. have recently
received . most remarkable certificate from
an eminent gentleman Of Louisville.
JOHN BULL.
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REFERRING to the resolution of the
Democratic State Convention of Penn
sylvania, the New York World, in a
double loaded editorial, exu!ts over the
fact that the Democratic party "in the
four most important, populous. aud veal
thy States of the Union, bury dead issuesi
and the party, to borrow Scripture ex'
preston, is about to renew its strength
like eagles There are signs from every
part of the country, North and South
that the whole Democracy is resumine
the progressive spirit which characterized
it in the palmy days Of its supremacy"
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The Nexf Legislature.
From the Louisville Ledger.

There will be pressing need of men Of
ability and experience in the next State
Legislature; and if gentlemen who have
neither of these qualifications will presis'
in thrusting themselves forward, the
Democracy of the various Representative
and Senatorial districts should net delay
in rebuking their pretentions by putting
forward as their candidates men who will
have weight in the General Assembly
1t is not every man who is qualified as
legislator; and aspirations OF such Dem
ocrstic candidates as are not qualified
should not be engaged.
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JOHN G. BARNwELL, of the Univer-
sity of Georgia, gentleman of much
learning and research, asserts that by
taking the average rain fall of the past
twenty years he can predicate the amount
of rain that must fail this year. He
demonstrates that the summer must bt
excessively wet, fifteen inches of rail-
being due
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New CouNTIEs.-Apromising crop OF
new counts in West Tennessee have
have all been nipped in the bud by dis
ease Familiarity known as injunction. =
The new county of Bell, with Grand
Junction as the county seat. was the last
victim. Ethridge, Crockets and Bell al
Es iD stssa quo -Bycsc~svssk Bee.
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THs New York City post Office gives

employment to no less than five hun
dred clerks and three hundred carriers.
Three thousand bags ofletters aud print
ed matter pass through the mail every
day. their total weight being something
like one hundred and fifty tons. The
proportions are: letters. 900 bags; pa
pers. 81, 100 bags. The four weekly
mails tor Europe every month make
about eight tons, including printed mat,
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Misses Emma Fuqua and Pauline Over
ton as voluntary colporteurs for the Society
visited 100 white families for the Society
during the year. Four were found destitute
of the scriptures.
Rev. Mr.. Cobb has been employed by the
Society to commence the canvass of the
entire county at once. He is hereby com
mended to the aid and encouragement Of tie
friends of the Bible cause.
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". ANNUAL MEETING.

Officers chosen for the ensuing year.
President-H. c. Bailey.
Corresponding Secretary-w. L. McCntchen.
Treasurer and Depositary-J. H. Davis.
Place and time of next annual meeting,
Hickman, I'd Sunday in May, 1872.
H. C. BAILEY, President
W. L. McCUTcHES, Corresponding Secy.
E II. PEARCE Gen. Agt American Bible
Society.
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In Horace Greeley's speech at New Or
leans on the 18th, he said be had hatred to
NO one South now. He believed the best
men should occupy the best place without
reference to by cones. Had there been
amnesty, there never would have been
Ku-K -Klux.
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JOSH BILLINGS says: "Most people
decline to learn only by their own expe-
rience, / guess they are mora than
half right; for / don't s'pose . man
could get correct idea Of molasIes can-
iy merely by letting another feIlsr'tssts
il for him.