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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-02
The Wear and Tear of Currency.

A correspondent of the New York
Evening Post discusses an interesting
point in the currency question, which,
though It has not been touched upon IN
the congressional debates, is not new
one. as the Posts correspondent as
sunes. Something over a year ago we
estimated the entire loss of legal-ten-
ders and bank notes from wear and
tear. destruction IN fires, and by the
sinking of vessels end steamboats, at
about SOS, 600, 900. The Posts cores
pondent, however, prints an elaborate
table to show that the average loss has
been over l per cent. per annum on the
entire volume of paper currency, and so
figures up q total loss of SO, 900, GOO IN
the twelve years since 1861, and to sus-
tain this position, refers to Treasurer
Spinner's annual report for 1873, IN
which. after stating the amount OF
United States currency outstanding at
the close Of the fiscal year, Nov, 1,
S3Ss. AZ. $40. %, he says 6 From this
amount there should be allowed = large
naruin for notes Of al kinds that may
have been destroyed and lost, and that
viii never be presented forredemption.
On. page II, referring to the loss on the
issue of a postal currency" he states
ssThese facts would seem 70 indicate
that nearly the whole Of this issue,
originally amounting to so 30, $50
that still exists, has been redeemed
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-02
A Mile in Thirty-twO Seconds.


The following story of the achieve
ment in respect to speed in an ice boat
on the Hudson in the vicinity of Stats
burg, New York, is told by the Pough-
keepsie Eagle: Thursday last the wind
blew very fresh from the south, and
the owner of the new ice-boat 'Cyc-
lone determined to take advantages of
the favorable opportunity for trying his
yacht. The Hudson at this point is wide,
and at the course selected its widtA is
one mile. Having made every prepar-
alton for the feat to be accomplished,
the reef points were shaken out of the
sails, and every stitch of canvas spread
to the gale. Withtwo men on the wind
ward runner TO keep the boat down to
theice, the helm was turned. thessalls
filled, and in a moment, with every inch
of canvas drawing, she was under full
headwRy. Like all arrow from bow
she darted away on the course, clouds
of pITlVerized ice following IN the tracks
of her runners as they hummed over the
surface OF the river, and In what seemed
bat an instant the river had been crossed
and the mile accomplished IN the al
most incredible time of thirty-one sec
Onds, bel g at the rate of two miles IN
a minute and two seconds. Persons on
the shore compared the speed OF the
flying racer to that of O meteor flashing
through the sky, and watched her move
menSs with eager interest. The owner
afterwards put the boat through some
movements on tue ice, and Rstonished,
as we'll as paralyzed, the lockers on by
sailing all the way across the river on
one runner, the force of the wind throw
ing her over on her beam ends and rais-
ing the windward runner from ten to
twelve feet above the ice. Although
but few were found willing to partake
of the amusement, all seemed disposed
to coincide in the opinion that ice yacht
ing is the most exhiiarating of sports,
and the eYolutiops of which one Of
these yachts is capable, the most grace
full of anything they had ever wit
messed +"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-02
me Temnerance Reform.

The infection of the temperance re-
vival still spreads unabated throughout
the country. In its features and modes,
the warfare changes to adapt itself to
new fields, but there is no lessening of
the moral energy at the bottom. The
90 yomen's war; it remains, on its Origi-
nal battle-grounds ia Ohio, and to q
great extent IN the neighbOring state of
Indiana, where alone as yet does the
spirit wolk from town to town till next
door communities are all ahRme with
one vigorous purpose, and encouraging
each other by mutual reports of prayer
and labor and triumph. The license
laws are turned into an effective weapon
against the dealers. in Indiana, and
many of them are finding themselves
prescribed by legal means, instead OF
the moral force they had expected. The
movement, in one form or another, has
foothold IN the western states of Hi
nois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri,
Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa, though
merely an isolated one, save, perhaps,
in the last-named state, where a new
feature was the work of the women IN
carrying the recent town election Of At
lantie by personal lebors before and at
The polls. In Tennessee everybody IS
waiting to see how the Greenville cam
paign tnrns out. Eastward, except in
some of the8smau towns of Long Is
land, there has been no success in the
genuine Ohio movement. The Phlla-
delphians have first attempted to get
the law enforced against keeping bars
open on Sunday, aud meanwhile, the
quiet hOuse-to-house prayer-meeting
and personal appeals to dealers, with
ont any street demonstrations, are re-
ported to result in several conyersl ons.
Little. but mass meetings OF prayer,
addresses and hymns marks the work IN
New York. The most interesting man
Hesitation in the east is IN the capital OF
Vermont, where, the "Tum " element
supposed they had the select men in
their hands, and found themselves
greatly disappointed. Dio Lewis is the
apostle in Montpelier, as in the other
| Vermont towns Of st. Adams and Rut-
! land. It remains to note that the coun-
rspirit of opposition is being mani
| tested in its rud1st forms of insult and
actual violence in some Indiana and
/ Ohio towns, while the Germans of the
west are in extreme excitement on the
subject, their ministers generally de
nouncing the crusade and its partieipa
! tors strUnuously.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-02
Germany and AIsaee-LorraIne.

The incorporation of Alsace-Lorraine
into the German Empire, presented a
novel question of legislation to the
German Riechstag last month. The
fourteen deputies allowed a seat in that
body from the new provinces, made a
formal entry on the oath ult., and asked
q special privilege, that as they could
not speak the German language, they
might be permitted to address the body
in French. - The simple .requ est pre-
sents strikingly the difficulty Germany
meets in governing its new territory.
Imagine fourteen deputies in our con-
gress, unfamiliar with our language,
representing a conquered province
whose people hated our governm ent and
people, and were only biding their
time to rise in insurrection whenever
their former compatriOts should come
to the deputies formally protested
against the policy OF the Germen gov
ernment in its police regulations in
these provinces.
The protest was bluntly met by
Moltke and Bismarck. The former very
pointedly said in his plea for q large
standing army that so great a work as
establishing the German empire was
not accomplished in q space of time,
AMI what they in half a year had com
quered with sword in hand they must
protect fer half D century with the
sword also." Bismarck answered the
complaints of the new deputies in a
style which was both stinging and indi-
cative of purpose to bold the country
for some time to come. He said:
I'VE never expected that the Alsa-
tians would greet our institutions with
applause People have to accustom
themselves to foreign institutions, and
when you have been with Germany for
two hundred years the results of your
comparisons will be in Germany favor.
From the acquaintance 1 have made OF
the gentlemen here, believe 1 should
seriously endangeF my responsibility if
[ were to diminish the power of the
governor of the imperial province. In
France there are twenty eight depart
ments in a state of siege. Remember
how we came to annex Elsass-Loraine !;
what we required was a bulwark to de-
fend our rights. The Aslatians are GER
tainly not free from blame for what has
occurred. They participated in the
restlessness which led to the war that
broke out against us.
This is the battle of words and ideas.
The war with powder and lead, 1t seems
from the gigantic preparations going on,
is not far distant.-RglO1Ottte Chronicle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-02
How the Ashantees Fought.

a correspondent writes from the
field The Ashantees fought like
demons. They were present in enors
nous numbers, pouring on our gallant
troops by thousands, yelling and scream
ing hideously. Although our firing
told on them immensely they had to
be driven from point to point, and even
when pushed out of the successive vii
lagos returned to the attack. In the
thickest parts of tho brush they climbed
the trees in order to fire more effectu-
ally upon our troops. The order of ad-
vance from Insarful was as follows /:
The attack was made IN the form of q
square, through the middle of which
ran the main road, and the line extended
about three hundred yards on either
side. The forty-second regiment, pre-
csded bv Lord Clifford and his scouts,
formed the front line, with two of Rats
guns in the centre, Gordon's houssas IN
a dense corner of Jungle It really
seemed as If nothing but the failure OF
their ammunition would drive them out
Now at one point, now at another, along
the hull crest they poured down crushing
voIleys. Life they counted at no price
il only a white man could be killed It
was the same desperate obstinacy We
had seen st AbraIampa. They climbed
trees to fire with mere deadly effect. but {
the mass Just lay down and shot till
they shot themselves short of ammuni.
ti01. Sir Archibald Alison, bTigadier
of tbe-wbite troops, declares he never
came under a iercer fire in India or the
/ Cr,-,aa -fa s---s---as-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-02
sti,dvinr Grammar.

When Mr.. AIillard Fillmore died the
other day, most of the notices which his
death occasioned mentioned the fact
that mis- early education was neglected,
and that at the time when he began the
study Of the Law, at the age of nineteen,
he had never seen a grammar or geogra-
ply. Yet Mr.. Fillmore, both IN writ
ing md speech, used the English Ian
guage with about the usual propriety /;
aud, like most of our respectable public
men, he never lapsed into any very
caring solecism 1t is the accuracy
with which so many of our half-educat-
ed.Or self-edueated men write and speak
English which is surprising and there
Is nothing like it, we suspect, anywhere
in the world. Yet this facility does not
come from the study of grammar. There
are not ten men in the house of repres-
entaives who could parse ten lines of
Milton according to the rules of Lindley
Murray vet these gentlemen are never
guilty of two negatives employed TO
strengthen the negation. These are
facts which may we'll lead us to revise
our notions of the necessity of studying
grammar as it is usually taught in our
schools. Our American accuracy does
not come of early drilling. 1t is to be
attrih ted to the general habit OF read
ing. It is in this way that the majority
become tolerable Rrammarianssb by rote,
aud speak correctly simply because
they speak at all. The verbs are made
to agree with their nominative cases IN
stinctively and as a matter OF good
breeding. Small mistakes are made,
as they are by the best writer's but no
body notices them except professional
teachers. who, in their turn, make just
@many.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-02
Roval Oddities.

The King Of Bavaria IS eccentric.
Els. engagement TO marry q pEincass is
said to hage been suddenly broken of
because she. persisted in refusing to ex-
press admira ion for Wagner's music.
Among has freaks was the obstruction
Of a lake on the top Of his palace. III
which ne sailed about ia q boat for re-
creatioHl a few years since Ee took 3
notion that he wanted to.see > represen-
tstisni of an eruption Qf MoHns tesuYl-
US, and ipnediatelY ordered the ogIiTt
pyrotechnist 70 proceed, regardless Of
cost 10 produce such o spe.etaele on tie
mountain near hls seeiuded palace. De
cot3bliei with the+ order, but the repre-
sentet tsod sxEas not safifdaeSoFy. The
ouurt Y,zrotechnist. ab Vienna vas then
sent for. and lze made ezteEsiye prepnr-
atiofs aud gave entire satissaeti0n, and
had an order Tor is repatitio1, the king
exDerting and thinning that he was and
would Be the only spectatoE, BE, how
ever. heard that The villagers had as-
semhIed AZ the fo3f c{ the mGuntain
spd lad Witnessed khe .speclaole also.
on hearing tins he couptermanced tbs
order for its repetition, cent the Pyro-
technist home. and, ordering The o1rgo-
rnrster Of ths1ilIaae -baicso him. severe
II Eatfd him f0y allGEing the people e
approach the mountaia-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-02
THE air eeemed full of Katies.

The air seemed full of Katies. I
could have stopped the engine, If I'd
only had sense enough to know what to
take hold of to reverse her But was
too drunk And that grand little an
gel stood up TO If, tryin' to warn us IN
time, and we just rushed along into a
pile Of ties some wretch had placed on
the track fright over my baby i-Oh Z
my baby l-Go away, George.
There And do you want me to tell
you how that mangled little ma killed
her mother? And do you want me to
tell you walk live muderer of my
own child who stood up to save me I?
And do you want ne to tell you the
OodfellOwship yOu were drinkin' awhile
ago brought all this on me2
You'll let this pass by, maxim mp your
mind to be moderate. Hope you viii.
was a moderate 'un.
%, God Oh my baby j
1 can knock down any man twice my
size for good reason, George Burks,
but my heart just melts to water for
that little girl.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-02
Protecting Southern SeapOriS From
Yellow Fever.


Representative Bromberg's bill to es-
tablish q national quarantine system is
opposed by many of the New York
members on the ground that it would
interfere with the state quarantine es-
tablishment Mr.. Bromberg replied to
this objection that this would not nee
essarily be the case, for the state Off
oials could enforce any local regulations
after the government officers had exam
ined a vessel. In reply to the objection
that it is not legitimate function Of
the general government to look after the
health Of the people, the author of the
bill refers to the fact that in 1865, when
the rinderpest prevailed in Canada, con
gress prohibited the transportation OF
cattle except under such regulations as
the president might prescribe. If 1t Is
competent for congress to legislate Tor
the health OF the cattle of the. country,
he thinks there can be no question as-to
its power to make regulations to guard
the health of citizens The chief OBJ
ject of the bill is TO protect the south
ern seaports from the introduction OF
yellow fever. Local quaranhues have
been found to be insufficient. They are
almost always enforced too late, because
the local authorities hesitate TO admit
the danger that exists for fear OF injur-
ing business by creating alarm among
tho people, and when they are enforced
they do not protect southern cities from
the introduction of the disease by per-
sons who have landed on other parts OF
the coast and enter them by rail-.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-02

aud that probably about 81, O00. 900 has
been, destroyed, and can be fairly de-
Quoted from the actual circulation of
the fractional currency, and that the
fractional Indebtedness is reduced bv
hat amount"
The loss on this so, OO0. eco of frac-
tional currency is over 5I3 per cent. of
the amount issued.
But the position of the Posts CORES
pondent is not sustained by what Treas
user Spinner says about the old demand
legal tender notes, the entire loss on
which in ten years has been onIy aloout
one and one-third per cent. the de-
struction of fractional .eurreaSy Is M
-doubtedly very large, bat On the legal
tenders and national hank notes. even
after making an sliOwance OF. srv
s., 600, 600 for the aaount DESTROYED In
the Chicago and Boston fires, we should.
not estimate the entire destruction OF
notes at over S25, ,O0O, GOO o.. SIS. .O00. 600
N the twelve years. Chicago ITi5uns 4
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-02
Birds on the Farallon islands.

All the islands are freuuented by
birds but the largest, the South Faral-
Ion, on which the Iight-house stands Is
the fevorite resort of these creatures
who come here In astonishing aunabers
every summer to breed ard II Is 70
this island that the eggers resors at this
season to obtain supplies 81 sea-bird =
eggs for the SaP Francisco marked
sale. .
The bids which breed upon the Far
ATOMS are gulls, muEres, shags and
se'-parrots, the last a kind of penguin
the eggs of the shags and parrots are
not used, but the eggeFs destroy them
to make more room for the other birds
The gull begins to lay about the mid
die of May, and usually ten days before
the murre. The gull makes a rude nest
of brush and sea-Weed upon the rocks !;
the murre does not take even this much
trouble, but lays its eggs in any conven-
lent place on the bare rocks.
The gull soon gets done, but the
murre continues to lay for about two
months. The egging season lasts,
therefore, from the 10Th or Goth OF May
until the last of July. In this period
the egg company which has for eighteen
years worked this field gathered in 1872,
1882 dozen eggs, and in 1873, IA, 2O2
dozen. These brought last year in the
market an average of twenty-six cents
per dozen. There has been, i was as
sdred by the manager, no sensible de-
crease in the number of the birds or
the eggs for twenty years.
From fifteen to twenty men are en-
ployed during the egging season in col
lecting and shipping the eggs. They
live on the island during that time in
rude shanties near the usual landing
place. The work is not amusing, for
the birds seek out the least accessilO
places, and the men must follow, climb
ing often where a goat would almost
hesitate But this is rot the worst
The gull sits en- her nest, and resists
the robberw who comes for the eggs, and
he must take care not to get bitten.
The MUIR remains until her enemy is
close upon her; then she rises with a
scream which often startles q thousand
or two birds, who whirl up into the air
in dense mass, scattering filth and gu
ano over the eggers.- Charles NOrd-
hOLf, IN HdT10er'S Magazine.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-02
In Praise Of Georgia.

A Georgian gives his state high praise,
and it is not far from being Just. He
saws if a wall could be raised around the
commonwealth so high as TO shut ont
the rest of. Che world, Georgia would be
an empira in herself In the southern
part they can produce vast quantities Of
cotton. so fine that it will sell quickly
at eighty cents a pound and peaches
without rot or disease, and with no Tear
of frost, can be grown red ripe by the
frst of June. A days Journey to the
north lis the finest corn and cotton
growing region in the whole south ;
there. toe. all vegetables thrive, and
the applS, peach, cherry, 2 um, grape
and pear. The state, too, posse sses
fabulous wealth in marble, iron, lime
and coal and that precious metal, gold,
| is not absent. But the author berates the
people because they do not develop
their resources. They might export
large quantities of sugar they might
produce wool enough to run many fac
/ tories. giving employment to thousands.
| IS urged that the way to unhounded
| Drosperitv is to establish the small farm
system, by which the laborer owns the
! land in fee; then, as IN France, produe-
tious will be multiplied ten-iold, educa,
tional advantages will be enjoyed, and
All the social privileges secured. Al
presept conditions seem to be untortu'
/ nate. for We read that IN recent public
| address Gov. Smith conveyed the mel
aneholv information that " last yea
ONLY ]. 200 immigrants came TO Georgia
while 10000 Of her citizens ieit th'
slate"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-02
Postal Decision.

On the repealeof the franking priyi-
lere the postmaster general decided
that the several sc1ecutive departments
might send printed matter IN. seaied
packages at the rate of one cent for two
ounces, but that evs ~ such package
should bear the following certificate,
which should be signed BY the head Of
the department or sOme,oihcer desiSna-
ted by him:
q I certify that this package contains
no written matter.
This privilege has now, by a recslt
decision been extended TO the senator's
and representative n ccngress, and 80
any officer Of either house officially de
-signated by sucii house for the purpose.
This decision places the legislative and
executive departments on en- efnal
footing as to the transmission OF printed
matter through the mails, and viii save
much annoyance from attempts 20 col
lect letter postage On packages bearing
the above quoted or similar endorse
meuts by members snd senators.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-02


Most people have tried their hands et
the. so-called secret writing which. is
effected by various vegetable iHices, and
brought to Light by Ere or water-hence
the use of sal ammoniac and juice Of
onions, of solution of gals, and Of cop
ueras, is we'll known. From the time
of Ovid! who advises q young lady Ia
his Art Of Iove-as If, f0rsoOtb, young
ladies required instruction, at least on
that subject--to deceive, all pEyipg eyes
bv a letter written with raw milk. Til
the present day receipts have been pre-
scribed of various values TO this end.
Oneof the most curious Is thGt which
recommends an ink 80 be used made
under certain conditions With the ichor
Of ieIoy-worma.s The writing, says tbs
author, may be well read in light of
moon or star. This ls q sure recipe, Z, a
certain surgeon, wishing to disclose q
matter Of great Importance to brother
of his craft, sent him a live ibuildeg to
be disseeted, to whom he had previously
administered bOlus containing the let.
ter he wished kept secret, So his trieQd
was guided by that dumb dead dissee5
ted beast, as tho wise men. were guided
bv a star. Among hundred other de-
vices SUGGESTED by affection or by fear,
letters we're hidden IN womenis hair,
which would now, we suppOse3 be re-
presented by their ehigH0ns. But ne
cannot refrain from adding one more
method which has been pros epsed foI
secret tTenspissiop of sound. Let q
man, says the ingenious author, breathe
his words Slowly in 3 long hollow cane
hefmsticaIIy' scaled at tine fattlfest end,
then let hin. suddenly and closely seal
the end into which be bBsathsd.. The
voica will continue in the tHbe until II
has some vent. Wien the. seal is 70
moved at the end which was frst sealefl,
the words viii come out SistinctIy and
In order, but if the seal AZ the other end
be removed their inverted series viii
create confusion This happy cLncep-
ton. which seems to have been propose.
/ in all good fsithby its author, reninds
us, Of that, famous one Of bottled sen
| tences. aud may. be compared with 10
seph's grunt, to which he gave vent u
/ the execution Of bis trade, and which L
preecrved, IL is said, ii crystal among
| other equally valuable and sacred relic.
/ il q celebrated church IN Madrid