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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-26
The Girls of New Orleans.

A correspondent who went to see the
Mardi Gras festivities at New Orleans
saw something else. He writes ::
I" New Orleans bellies, by the way,
would have been fit welcomers of the
ancient Minnesong. I have heard much
of their beauty, but never studied 1t
with occasion until now It is up to its
fame. These women of the southern
metropolis are the most superb looking
IN America. They are brunettes, the
most and best of them, with an ele-
gance of carriage and figure, a contour
of feature and a pose of manner that
are matchless. They say that the peas
antry in certain districts of Spain carry
yet in thesr faces the grandeur of the
faded Castilian 7lO6Iesse. These New
Orleans beauties, lifted tenderly down
dozen generations of close blood, are
more queenly than the portraits of their
French mothers, that have hung for
centuries in their par1ors. Some of
them are like chiseled penciled figures
ont of marble, with the soft dash of
Guido's brush or of Petrach's song in
their faces, and the ripe southern blood
flushing up to their temples, under the
pure surface of their veins. The ex-
quisiteness of their style take your
breath with an exclamation of admira-
ton, and a sigh of relief as yon pass.
Their native and city state are the hori--
zon of society and of the world to these
superb creatures they are reared un-
der the solemn shadow of Catholicism
they are local in their attachments as
Venitians their culture is narrow, but
they gather in their loins the gate of
expresses, and in their eyes that glance
filed with the wisdom, the cunning, the
the magic of womanhood.
The Boston beauty offends you with her
look of intellectual pertness New
York puts on the face of her charming
favorite the stamp of their eager ex-
travagancei; in the west we have not
settled to our features yet, and femi-
nine comeliness is without type. The
New OrlC ans belle stands alone as far
from the placid demeanor of the " Fu-
ture City" as from the " lilies and Ian
guors" of the south, and offers the eye
the satisfying compliment of taste.
There is but one drawback. Her man
ners impose. You must see her in posi-
tion. The lifting of an eyelid or the
glitter of her teeth may be olsen
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-26
Grange Matters.

1t is claimed that ], 900 oranges will
be established in Georgia by Jan. 1,
1875.
Fourteen hundred and fifty oranges
h We been formed in the state of Indiana
up to this date.
The Patrons of Husbandry in Wiscon-
sin have started a newspaper entitled
the Moving Machine.
The number of oranges in Wisconsin
is reported by the secretary of the state
grange to have increased to sos. Ia JAN
usry last there were 346. When the or
ganizatiou of those that have applied
for recognition is complete there will be
430 oranges.
The Missouri state grange is discuss
ing the utility of establishing exchange
and discount banks, to assist farmers in
holding their products, as well as man.
ufacbories of agricultural implements,
and depOts and warehouses where grain
can be store d until the market justiies
q sale.
The state grange of Nebraska is put
ting in machinery at Plymouth for the
manufacture of plows, cultivators, head
ers, harvesters, and other agricultural
implements. The building is two
story brick, 40 by 140 feet. Thirty
heads of families are employed to
commence with. Steam and blast pow
er of the necessary quantity will be fur
nished.
The grangers of Ca 'ifornia demand
that the salary system for public officers,
both state and county, shall be extended
over the whole commonwealth. In San
Francisco county the salary system was
established in 1858, and, although the
wealthiest county in the state, its sher-
if has a smaller income than the sher
ifs of CalaveIas and other counties,
who receive from $4,000 to S14, 900
vear in fees
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-26

The emigration Of negroes westward
continues 10 attract public attention.
The tide, it seems, starts with dimin-
ished volume ia Georgia, gathering i'm
mense additions in Alabama, 10 pour its
black food into Missispippi, Louisiana
or Arkansas. The spiritof unrest seems
to permeGte the whole race. For while
the Georgia and Alabama blacks are
moving into Mississippi ilnd Louisiana,
a new tide starts westward from those
states to lose Itself on the i'm
mense plains Of Texas. In this way
it is claimed by those conversant
with the matter, thlt the blacks
of Louisiana or even Mississippi iro
not increasing, at l,fst not faster
than the white populaticH. The move
ment, can work no injury political
" many state. and in oae IL Is full Of
cheerful Significance. Int the begiTn,
even moderately q We feel It ia Georgia,
Is full of I q m il we eannot gain auequiv-
alent, IL We lose labor IN one way, We
must acquire il in another or feel tho
loss. And that way lies ia the estab-
liahment Of manufactures snd IN tho
encouragement Of white immigration.
Virginia and the Caroiinas are actively
engaged in securing white labor. and
the marked success which attend their
efforts indicate the coHTse We D ust IA
the end pursue. .-AtioAtG CcHstit'ftiOn.
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NUMBER II.

times the price of the pepper. But,
throwing of the enormous taxes and
opening the trade to all, although some
what tardily done, has rendered it an
industry in which thousands are en-
ployed, and placed it within the reach
Of all.
What is called allspice, pimento, or
Jamaica pepper. has nothing whatever
IN common with pepper proper and has
only been named jamaica pepper be-
cause its dried berry somewhat rcsam-
bles the black pepper berry. 1t is ma
tive to Jamaica and the whole northern
side of that island, as far as the base
of the Blue mountain range, is clothed
IN green by pimento groves or walks. {"
The pimento tree is n beautiful one,
and, although insignificant in height,
when hanging full OF rich puple iruit,
is sight to be long remembered. The
berries are picked whom green, as the
dried riPo ones become soft. In some
seasons a single tree will bear ns much
as $50 pounds of green fruit, that is,
about 100 pounds of dried fruit, as ihe
loss IN drying is about one third. The
crop is, however, irregular, aud plant
ers dc not count on an unusually
plenteous yield Oftener than once in Eve
years.
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Elder Jacob Knapp, the RevIvalIst.

The death is announced of Elder
Jacob Knapp, at Rockford, Illinois, at
the ripe age of seventy-four years. Mr..
Knapp was born in Otsego county, in
New York, December z. 1893. His pa
rents were members of the Episcopal
church, but when young Knapp ar
rived at about his twentieth year he
joined the Baptist church, against the
wishes Of his father and friends. After
being some time engaged in teaching
school, at Springfield, in his native
county in the spring of 1922 he joined
the ministry, and in 1925 obtained his
first pastoTate in that town. In 1880
he removed to W6tertown, New York,
where a revival was then in progress.
During the three years OF his ministra-
tion there he added 200 converts to the
church. Mr.. Knapp soon after resigned
his position, determined to start as an
independent itinerant preacher. For
many years his labors were confined to
New York, but subsequently extended
to New England and other Atlantic
states, and IS49 found him in Chicago.
He visited st. Louis in 1858, and in
two years after returned to Boston. He
published a curious autobiographical
volume some years ago, in which he
gives some statistics of his labors. Up
TO 1867 he held about $50 protracted
meetings, many of them extending over
weeks, preached 1860 sermons, and re-
ceived during thirty-six years an aver
age compensation of little less than
5000. More than thirty years ago he
gave up counting the persons con-
verted under his ministration at that
time they amounted to about 100, 900.
Elder Knapp was a very eccentric per
son, and was celebrated as a revivalist.
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Prospect Of Peace in Cuba.

The special correspondent of the New
York Tribune in Cuba, writing from
Havana under date of January 2Sth,
says:
at is the general opinion among the
leading foreign residents of Havana
and the interior cities, that before the
end of the present year the struggle
which is now cOnvulsing the island Will
have been ended one way or the other
Such of the residents as care to express
an opinion on this point seem to believe
that the success of the insurrectiOn Is
assured, and that the disorganized and
chaotic condition of the mother country
will preclude further systematic efforts
to prevent such result. The recent
repeated successes Of the insurgents in
the interior and the reports of the Car
list instructions at home have demor-
allied the rulers here, who find them
selves without resources, and are con-
tinually harassed by querulous COM
plants of the people, which are the
more bitter because they are 50 Just.
The Spaniards are thoroughly disgusted
with the condition of affairs, and de-
nounce the war of determination at home
as unsparingly as they do the insurrec-
ton upon the island"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-26
4 Burglar Caught by a Skeleton.

A burglar in Grsensburg, Pennsyl-
vania, was recently caught in a rem ark
able manner, Breaking into the closed
Office of a physician of that town, the
burglar opened closet (while his COM
panion, with a dark lantern, was in an
other part of the room, and, feeling
for clothing at about the height of
closet-hooks generally, got his hands
between the jaws of skeleton, which
being adjusted with coil spring aud
kept open with thread, closed sudden
" on the intruding hand by the break
ing of the thread. a sudden thought
striking the burglar of his being caught
by a skeleton in the doctors closet, so
terrified him that he uttered a faint
shrek, and when his companion turned
his lantern toward him and he beheld
himself in the grim and ghastly jaws of
Death himself, he became SO overpower-
ed by fear that he tainted, fell insensi-
be to the floor, pulling the skeleton
down upon him, and making so much
noise that his companion fed immedi-
ately, and the doctor, alarmed sat the
noise and confusion, hastened into the
Office and secured the terror-stricken
burglar, still held by the skeleton.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-26
A Novel Law Question.

A novel law question has arisen in
Iowa. The Mississippi river until re-
Gently has annually frozen over solid
between Prairie du Chien and McGre-
gor. The ice has furnished a winter
highway from one side to the other dur
ing several months in the year, en-
abling the people to dispense with
bridge and ferries. Recently the Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad has built
pile bridge across the river, the effect
Of which, it is asserted, has been, by
creating eddies and changing the cur
rent, to wholly prevent tho formation
OF ice, SO that the stream below the
structure remains permanently open.
The river, it is claimed, Is a public
highway at all seasons, as much one
way as another, and the use of the ice
bridge is a right of which the public
can not be divested by any authority.
1t Is assumed that suits for damages
would lie, and that the railroad bridge
is liable to be indicted and or cred
removed as a nuisance and obstruction
to trade and intercourse between states.
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'' And the CoIOred Troops Fought
NOblY.H

An exchange tells of a colored troop
who did not fight nebly. In fact he
ran away, and was reprimanded by his
lieutenant, who sneeringly asked if he
thought his company would have missed
him much had he have been killed.
The discreet darky replied: Not
much, boss dey don't miss de white
folks, much less a poor niger. Bu8
den I would hab miss myself-and dat's
de pint wild me-" This was reasoning
worthy of old Jack Falstaff himself. 1t
was some such practical and personal
argument as was used by peace-lOving
Confederate whose story was current at
the close of the war. He belonged to
an artillery company whose guns were
captured by Federal raiders. Smarting
under the disgrace, the commanding
officer called upon his men to recapture
those guns or perish in the attempt. If
any member of the company, the cap
tain added, was not willing to share in
the effort to retrieve their hOnOrs and
their loss, he might step out of the
ranks. A pale, suffering reb stepped
forward, saying, "C-c-aptain, if th-the
l-l-Oss isn't very gr-great, why can't we
t-t-ake up col-l-lection, and p-pay for
the ID old g1ns ?"
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Immigration Into South Carolina.

at the recent taxpayers convention
of South Carolina, Gen. Gay, chairman
of the committee on immigration, re-
ported that eight hundred immigrants
have been introt uced into South Caro-
lima during the past four months, and
that over two thousand were introduced
during the past year. This has been
done by subscription of lands in guar
ter-section tracts to each head of a fam
ily who viii become q permanent settler.
The vast quantity of land lying idle,
and the exr ectation that the quarter
sections adjoining those of the settlers
Will more than double in value, have
induced liberelity on the part Of land
owners which we recommend 10 the
consideration and imitation of the peo-
pie of Louisiana. Agencies have been
established in New York and Germany,
and arrangements have been made with
the lines of steamers for transportation
at a ,ow rate. Gen. Gary has demon
strated that the south can secure emf
grants of the best class with reasonable
exeEtion. The first step, however, IN
all such enterprises is to guarantee to
e e settler a farm In fee mple-NelU
Orleans PicdytETle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-26
An Ancient nnenmenf

An eastern correspondent Of the Cli-
cago dduaRcs, Who has been Ia Nab
loua. the modern name Tor Samarla. Pat
estine, says that venerable journal is
carefully preserved there, 10 waiel ap-
pears the following entry IN the hans'-
writing Of q Samaritan high priest NAM
ed Shabbott sIn the year from Aessm
4.2si, in the ninoieenth year ot my pom
tincase, Je. us, the son ci Mary was crti-
cifed at Jeruslenl, Y IS sal1 that me
"a journals Of the priests of the sam
arilaa synagosne are still ia existence,
dating back 10 fifty or gixiy years before
Christ vas born There IS rothtuE iSe-
probable abOut the story. The priests
of tho JeWs, like Che MONKS of the midi
die ages, were the recardefs of fiassiu q
svents, and the cracilnfioh % Jesaa was
a notable event not oniy throughout
Judea. but the whole Roman empire.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-26

career carried it over so many checkered
scenes, and whose passage in its multi
form divisions from hand to hand was
in every case a message Of gladness, a
token of honesty, and a promoter of
prosperity, or that of Squire Clinch
whose only change from the dull mo-
notony of its useless, selfish life was
such disastrous one?
Let those in whose care the destiny
Of greenbacks may be placed take warn
ing from these two cases, and so act on
the lesson taught as to make the world
prosperous, their neighbors glad, and
themselves richer in the return sure to
FOLLOW
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United States Rallway signal code

One whistle signifies " down brakes"
Two Whistles 4" off brakes" Three
whistles signify q" back mp" Continued
whistles signify - danger" Rapid,
short whistles e cattle alarm. A
sweeping parting Of the hands on level
Of the sye signifies Ego ahead. Down
ward motion oi the handn with extended
arms signifies "stop." BeekoniDg mo-
tion Of one hand signifies back. Red
flag waved upon the track signiGes
sdsnger." Red flag stuck up by tho
roadside. signifies danger ahead. Red
flag carried upon a locomotive aigniiies
% an engine following" Red flag hoist
cd al 8 station Is q signal 10 stop.
I.anleru at aight raised and lowered yer
ticaiiy is q signal 10 - start. Lantern
swung ct right angles across the track
means stop" Lsntei1. sxung ia q
circle signifies +" back the train.
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NORAH,s vow.


Hear what Highland NOrah said:
" The carlie's son I Wilma wed;
Should a. the raes o. nature dee,
And name be left but and he,
For a. the goud, for a. the gear,
And ~ the lands, bath far aud near,
That ever valor lost or won,
wadna wed the carlie's son."
g maiden's vows, 4" auld Callum spoke,
q" Are lightly made, and lightly broke
The heather on the mountains height
Begins to bloom on purple light;
The frost-wind soon shall sweep away
That lustre deep frae glen and brae;
Yet Norah, ere its bloom be gone,
May blithely wed the carlie's soR."
" The swan" she said, f" the ioch'B clear breast
May barter for the eagles nest;
The AWe's fierce stream NAV backward turn,
Ben-Crashan IA and crush Kiichurn
Our killed clans, when blude IL high
Before their foes may turn and fly;
But l. war o. these marveis done.
Wad never wed the carlie's SON."
Still in the water-lily's shade
Her wonted nest the wild swan made:
Ben-Crashan stands rs fast as ever;
S,il downward fOsTos the Awe's fierce river;
To Fhun the clash O. fOeman'A steel,
No Highland bOurge has turned the heel;
But Norah's heart is lost and won
She's welded to the carlies son!
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ECLIPsEs THIS YKAR.-There viii be
four eelipses in 1874, viz : Total eclipse
of the sun April 1G, visible in the south
ern part of South America and south
ern part Of Africa invisible in tho Uni
ted States. A partial eclipse of the
moon, May l, invisible IN the United
States. An annual eclipse Of the sun,
October 10, visible il Europe, western
Asia and eastern Africa invisible in the
United States. A total eclipse of the
moon, October %, visib,e IN the United
States. In New England 1t viii CON-
mence two minutes before ! a. m, and
end ten minutes before 3 at p it VIII
be total. Besides these there viii be a
transit of Venus across The suns disc,
December 8, visible In the Pacific
ocean, Asia, aud part of Europe IL
visible IN fhe United States. This event
viii attraes TIE special attention Of as
tronoInsrs, who viii be enabled by it
to measure accurately the distance Of
the earth from the sun.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-26

SIGNALING THE PLANETS. = Signaling
between tie earth and the planet Venus
is a suggestion made in all good faith
by a French astronomer, NJ. Charles
Cros. who considers the coming transit
of Venus TO be a good opportunity for
ascertaining whether there are inhab-
itants on that planet, and, If SO, enter
ing into relation with them. He Gays !:
81 II is possible that Venus is Inhabited; /;
that among its inhabitants are sstrono-
ners that the latter Judge the passage
of their planet across tbe solar disc to
be an object to excite our curiosity !;
finally It IS possible that these saynnls
will strive IN some way to make signals
70 us st the precise moment when they
might suppose that many telescopes
viii be leTeled at their planet"
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General Intelligence.


We believe the day is not far dis
ant when the enlightened public
opinion of the country will demand
universal education applicable to and
enforced in every in section of the Re-
public Our perpetutity and safety
as government depends on the in
telligence of our people. The higher the
standard of intelligence the safer and
more.permanent will be our institutions.
In his farewell address Washington left
us his views on the sabiect. He said /:
" Promote. as an object of primary i'm
portance, institutions for the general
diffusion of knowledge. In proportion
as the structure of a government gives
iorce to public opinion tits essential that
public opinion should be enlightened. T"
Ihe party that follows this advice will
not lack the earnest support of the peo-
Republic.
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The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your s1ib-
seripsior is out or unpaid, and That
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend.
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone VIII pay. expenses, and
We are forced 20 adhere TO strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF such
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your laver.
81 We enter NJ new names on on
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Character of Gen. Lee.

In his late speech delivered at Allan
Ia, Gen, b. F. Hill pays this deserved
tribute to the character of Robert Z.
Lee
"Wben the future historian comes TO
survey the character of Lee, he will
find it rising like a huge mountain
above the undulating plain of humanity,
and he will have to lift his eyes high
towards heaven to catch its summit.
He possessed every virtue of the other
great commanders without their vices.
He was a foe without hate, a friend
without treachery, II soldier without
cruelty, and a victim without murmur-
ing. he was a public officer without
vices, a private citizen without wrong,
a christian without hypocrisy, and q
man without guile. he was Cesar
without his ambition, Frederick with
out his tyranny. Napoleon without his
selfshness, and Washington without
his reward. He was obedient 20 author
ity as a servant, aud royal IN authority
as a trc e king. He was gentle as a wo-
man in life, modest and pure as 4 yir-
gin IN thought, watchful as a Roman
vestal in duty, submissive to law as
Socrates, and grand IN battle as Aehil-
les "
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4 Letter About Che Battle Flags.

The Springfield Republican prints a
letter from Mr.. Sumner, dated March
20, 1873, in which, after slIudiDg to his
Sickness, which he says ' goes back In
its origin to injuries received II years
ago" he speaks as follows of his battle
flag bill:
. 1t seems to me unjust ard hard that
nv bill can be called hostile TO the sol
dier or to the president, when it was in
troduced by me May 8, 1852, and then
again Feb. 81, 1865, and when it has
been commended by Gen. Scott, Gen.
Robert Anderson and Gen. Thomas, ali
good and true soldiers. If persons
would only consider candidly my origi-
nal convictions on this question, they
would see how natural and inevitable
has been my conduct, as If in such
matter I could haze hostility or spite
for anybody. / am a public servant, and
never was moved by a purer sense of
duty than on this bill, all of which VIII
be seen at last. Meanwhile men viii
founder In misconception and misrepre-
sentation in the day Of light"
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THE SEA MoUsE.-The sea mouse is
one Of the prettiest creatures that lives
under the waters. It sparkles like a
diamond, and Is radiant with eli the
coIors Of the rainbow, although IL lives
in the mud az the bottom Of the ocean.
It should not have been called 3 mouse,
for il is larger than a big rat. 1t is
covered with scales that move mp aud
down as it breathes, and glitters like
gold shining through a hOeky down,
from which fine silky hristles wave that
constantly change from one brilliant
tint into another, so that, as Cavier the
great naturalist says, tho plumage Of
The humming bird Is not more beaEti-
fnl. Sea mice are sometimes throgg
Up on the teach by storms.
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Az Indiana lawyer used the word
g fdispaTsgement in hiA pieR, and the
judge told him that il he eouldn't quit
using Latin words he eouid cit down.
The lawyer undertook TO define bis po-
sitios ard vas fined twenty doliens Tor
contempt OF court.