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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04
A REIGN OF TERROR IN TEXAS.
MeIicans and Indians RObbIng and
Numbering at VIII.

MeKicans and indians RObbIng and
Numbering at VIII.
A special from Brownsville of the
22d, says there is a terrible state of af-
fairs there. Judge Doherty reports
less security for persons or property
between the Neuces and the Rio Grande
than heretofore. In Neuces and other
out counties the ranches have been de-
serted by all frontiCrsmen. They will
send afidavits to Gen. Steele substan-
tiating robberies and murders. They
ask fo- authority TO organize and pro-
tect themselves. The number of raid.
ers is greater than previously. They
steal fewer cattle because there are
fewer to steal. The Mexicans have been
crossing cattle at Los Conchas for three
days, twenty-four miles above. They
have fred on ciTizens from the Mexican
side. Judge Doherty has left for Ru-
ceas this evening. He will try to pro-
cure evidence to justify military action.
They have crossed over eight thousand.
The commander at Matamoras has been
asked to send force to capture them,
We shall be forced to fight in self-de-
fense. There is no safety for an Ameri-
can outside of a town. They are de-
termined to drive us out of the country.
such IS tho opinion OF our clearest men.
Later dispatches sa, the condition of
things is getting worse. At a meeting
of citizens of Corpus Christi, commit
tee of safety was appointed, will full
power to act throughout the county.
About one hundred and fifty signatures
we're obtained of men pledging them
selves to maintain order. A telegram
was received from Gen. Meager, stating
that a company of cavalry would be
sent here Immediately. An attack WAS
threatened on the Jail Tuesday by ff-
teen men from Meansville, but was tTus-
trated by the sheriff. Last night detail
of twenty-five meu was patrollin2 thec city
in anticipation of an attempt to release
the murderers. Threats are made free
" by the Mexicans to burn and rob.
Seven hundred dollars were subscribed
last night for the capture of the other
murderers, and a petition will be pre-
sented to Gov. Cooke to offer reward
on the part of the state. On the 9th
inst, a Mr.. Smith, who lives about
twelve miles from Fort Davis, and
rancho. was attacked by four Indians,
the latter on foot, near his house, and
was slightly wounded. They stole ten
head of cattle, which were found after
ward killed a few miles from the rancho.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04
Obedience in Children.

Unquestioning obedience we must
demand from the child for her own
safety. It may often be a question of
life and death whether the little girl
runs when she is called, or throws
away something which she has IN her
hand instead of putting it into her
mouth. But has not this habit of obe-
dience a higher Office than this It is
the first yielding of the unframed will
to rightful authority, and as such has
an immense significance. The mother
who cannot train her daughters and
sons to obedience we're better chiidless,
for she is but giving to her country ele-
meuts of weakness, not elements OF
strength. She is furnishing future in
mates for jails, penitentiaries, and pris-
ons, and putting arms into the hands of
the enemies OF law and order.-Aiss
4. Q. Bracket.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04
A Granger's Dream.

The Lanark Gazette, staunch Gran
ger paper, publishes the following,
which is too good to be lost:
"a Granger dreamed that he died
he went straight to the spirit world he
knocked at the gate of the New Jerusa-
lem and it was opened unto him. The
books were opened. he was asked.
Did you ever belong TO any secret
society 2 to which he replied I did-tO
the Grangers.' Then, sir, you can not
be admitted-depart.' He then went
to the bottomless pit, where the same
questions were again asked him by the
devil, and again he was told to depart.
After he was gone a little way of be
was accOsted by the homely ruler of
the pit, when the following propositions
were made Stranger. said Nick,
will not admit you here they do not
want you in heaven but ] VIII sell you
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04

' Mamma" she said, tyou love me
very much, don't yon ?"
" Certainly, replied Ruth {" why do
you ask %
" don't KNOW" answered the child.
" except that it makes me very happy
to know that you love me so dearly.
Ruth pressed the little one nearer to
her heart.
You love me better than any one in
the world +? continued the child.
Ruth did not reply the color faded
and came TO her cheeks as she looked
inquiringly into the ohild's face.
" Is it not SO, mamma ?" continued
Efie. You love me better than Won
do papa, don't you ?" and she took her
step-mother's hand and looked into her
eyes.
Caleb Walker sat by breathless and
motionless.
Ruth hesitated for a moment only.
and then she answered in a low but dis
tinct tone
"No, Effie, do not.
The next instant Caleb was on his
knees beside his wife.
Ny own, my darling 70 he exclaim-
ed, now feel that you are mine own
indeed" and he fervently kissed her
pale brow"
And so, in truth she was. His cease
less tenderness and unwearied atten-
tiOns had won her heart, unknown even
to herself. From that time forward a
new Joy entered the hearts of ruth and
her husband.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04
The Fallacies of Finance.

An English writer says in the Pail
Mall Gazette: Many political phenom-
ma of the modern democratic world have
shown that blunders and injustices be-
loug to no particular era or state OF so
ciety and here we have the congress of
United States repeating that particular
fraud of feudal princes which even in
the middle ages had fallen into the low
est discredit. There is absolutely no
difference in principle between adulter-
ating the metallic coinage and 'intia-
ting" the paper circulation. The sole
distinction consists in the greater iabil-
ity of the older piece of cheating to be
found out A medieval gold coin had
its proper intrinsic value IN the market,
and the money-changer who melted
down a coin of some particular issue
and discovered that it was half made up
of copper, at once knew that the sover-
eign had been swindling his subjects.
Bat the effects of adulterating a paper
currency have to be detected, not by
the scales or the tests. but by some
slight labor of the brain. AS a bank
note is, to begin with, a piece of paper
which is absolutely without appreciable
value. very superficial person may
conclude that any number of pieces OF
valueIess paper may be made valuable
by printing on them the same wor Is
which appear on the face of 3 redeem
able note. The difficulty, such as it is,
of seeing through this fallacy gives the
modern corrupter of money his sole ad-
vantage over his execrated predecessor,
but both the act and its consequences
are identical in the Two cases. The I'M
age and superscription of the monarch
lied in the older example the assertion
that "the United States promises to
pay" is a lying assertion in the modern
srrAnr,na
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04
LIFE LEAVES.

The day, with its sandals dippsd I'm 5.,y
Has passed through the event lp' = golden gatea.
And single star in the oloudiess blue "-''''
For the rising moon IN silence watts.
While the winds that sigh 10 the laner1ia l,,,...
lullaby breathe Ger the folded flowers.
The lilies nod 70 the sound OF the strean,
That winds along with luIliuR hovr
And either awake or half a-dream,
pass through the realms OF lone ago.
While faces peer with many q smile
From the bowers Of memory's magical isle
There are joys and sunshine. sorrous and tears
That check the path Of ife's April hours
And a longing wish for the com 'ng years,
That hope ever wreathes with the fairest fowera
There are friendships guiieess-love a. bright
AID pure as the stars IN the halls OF night.
There are ashen memories. bitter pain
And buried hopes and broken vow.
Aud an aching heart by the restless main
And the sea-breeze tanning pallid brow.
And wanderer on the shell-lined shore
Listening FOR voices that speak no more
There are passions strong aud ambitions wild.
And the herce desire TO stand 10 the van
VI the D1ttle OF nte-and the heart OF the child
ls crushed IN the breast OF the struggling man
But short the regrets aud few are the tears
That fall at the tomb Of the vanished years.
There's quiet and peace and domestic love
Aud JOYS arising from faith and truth,
And love unquestioninR, far above
The passionate dreamings Of ardent vouth
And kisses Of children on lips and cheek
And the parents bliss which no tongue speak.
There arc loved ones lost There are little graves
In the distant dell, meath protesting trees.
Where the streamlet winds and the violet waves,
And the grasses sway 20 the sighing hreeze
md we mourn for the pressure 0f tender lins
And the light Of eyes darkened in deaths eclipse.
And thus, as the glow Of the DAYLIGHT dies
Ana the nights FIRST look to the earth Is cast
I gaze meath those beautiful summer skieS
Al the pictures that hang IN the hall OF the past
Oh, sorrow and j1y chant a mingled lay
Whom TO memory's wildwood We wander away!
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04
Lord Chesterfield on PrOhibitiop.

The following is an extract from a
speech made in the house Of lords by
Lord Chesterfield, about the year I749:
Luxury, my lords, is to be taxed, but
vice prohibited, let the difficulty in the
law be what 1t will. Would you Iay
tax on breach of the ten command
mems? Would not such tax be
wicked and scandalous? Would it not
imply an indulgence to all those who
could pay the tax? Vice, nv lords. is
not properly to be taxed, but sup
pressed; and heavy taxes are sometimes
the only means by which that suppress
sion can be obtained. Luxury, or that
which is only pernicious by its excess,
though not strictly unlawful, may be
made more difficult. But the use of
those things which are simply hurtful
IN their own nature and in every de-
gree, is to be prohibited. None, my
lords, ever heard, in any nation, of q
tax upon theft or adultery, because a
tax implies license granted for the use
of that which is taxed, to all that are
willing to pay for it. Drunkenness, my
lords, is universally, and In all circum-
stances, an evil, and therefore ought not
to be taxed, but punished. The noble
lord has been pleased kindly to inform
us that the trade of distilling is very
extensive, that it employs great num-
bers, and that they have arrived at ex-
quisite skill and therefore the trade
of distilling is not to be discouraged
Once more, my lords, allow me to won
der at the different conceptions of diff
ferent understandings It appears to
me that, since the spirit which the dis
tillers produce is allowed to enfeeble
the limbs, vjtiate the blr cd, peivert the
heart, and obscure the intellect, the
number of distillers should be no argu-
ment in their favor for I never heard
that law against theft was repealed or
delayed because thieves were numerous.
1t appears to me, my lords, that really
If so formidable body are confederate
against the virtue or the lives of their
fellow-citizens, it is time to put an end
to the havoc, and to interpose, whilst it
is yet in our power to stop the destruc-
ton. So little, my lords, am L affected
with the merit of that wonderful skill
which distillers are said to have attained,
that it is, in my opinion, no faculty Of
great use to mankind to prepare palata-
BILE poison nor shall ever contribute
my interest for the reprieve of a muir
derer because he has, by long practice,
obtained great dexterity in his trade If
their liquors are so delicious that peO-
pie are tempted to their own destruc-
ton, let us at least, my lords, secure
them from their fatal draught, by burst
ing the walls that contain them. Let us
crush at once these artists in human
slaughter, who have reconciled their
countrymen to sickness and ruin, and
spread over the pitfalls of debauchery
such bait as cannot be resisted.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04
Turf Statistics for 1873.

From the compilations of the Turf,
Field and Farm, We condense the fol-
lowing:
Thad. Stevens, by LangfOrd, heads the
list, with winnings amounting to $685.
425. Tom Bowling, by Lexington, comes
next, with S27, $50. Joe Daniels, by
Australian, third, with S14. 255. No
other single horse reaches SS. 900, and
only six others have over $5, 900.
Lexington heads the list of winning
sires with % winners to his credit; As
teroid has 70; imported Australian 16;
War Dance IA; Planet 13; Bonnie Scot
land II; lightning and Norfolk 10 each;
Jack Malone s; Vandal 6; Kentucky,
Revolver, and Rebel 5 each; balance
scattered among Al different sires.
The principal winning stables are as
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04

Wife" All, husband, do you see This
beautiful carving ?-how delightfully."-
cut IN the pure white stone ?"
Husband" Yes very pretty"
Wife" But, William. you have no
taste for art; you don't enjoy these
things as do. just notice this slender
column of immac late marble, with the
touching question so beautifully carved,
Do they miss me at home
Husband" Yes, / see, and here is
her name on the foot-stone-'G @. A. b.
Yes. guess they miss her, If that was
her name" And there came silence.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04
POSTAGE BY THE P0UND.
How Es<Ss98peEs WIN be Affected b.
the Proposed Chsngs.

How EeSssSsPers VIII he Anseted by
the Proposed Chsnge.
The subject of newspaper postage
and the practical inconvenience of the
present system, have lately been under
discussion with the postal committee OF
the house, who have decided to report
In favor of a radical change IN the pres
ent mode of mailing and stamping. AS
the matter stands at present, newspaper
postage can either be paid at the Office
of reception or delivery, and in this
way two systems are really at work
which necessarily complicates business,
and causes a loss of both time and
money. Under the present system, if q
paper is prepaid by the publishers.
a receipt is obtained, aud thereafter the
papers will pass through the mail with
out further trouble but in case it is
not prepaid, then postage must be col
lected at the Office of delivery, either
quarterly in advance, or else at the reg
ular rate as each paper is delivered by
the carrie.
1t is now proposed to abolish this
plan and charge entirely by weight, at
the rate of two cents a pound. Such
an arrangement, it is said, will be no
additional expense to the newspaper
pAAbAAouCAog nAAAaG IL VIII nECuL0 10 TIC
government its entire revenue.
Outside of the large cities, not more
than one-third of the newspaper post
age is ever collected, owing to the man
ner Ia which country postmasters COM
bine private business with their duties
to the government. Thus, a country
postmaster generally keeps q small
store, and If good customer is in receipt
of a newspaper, he viii not often press
his claim for postage at the possible
risk of njuring his other business. In
this manner, the government suffers
great loss that cannot be we'll remedied
Under the system proposed, the rate of
two cents per pound is so low that pub
fishers will not be taxed any more than
at present, and the trouble of stamping
and preparing will be o5viated. The
bundle of papers, or in fact any printed
matter when delivered at the post-office,
will be weighed, and the amount
charged against the paper, which will
be collected quarterly as heretofore.
The fact of a paper then being in the
mail will be the best evidence that it is
paid for, and it will be delivered in any
part of the United States without fur
ther charge or trouble. Or if a news
paper does not wish to have an account
kept, book of stamps may be retained,
of which an amount equal to the weight
of mail matter delivered can be cancel
led by the clerk receiving the bundles.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04

Cremation has been adopted s.in
Havana as q prevention to the spread Of
smallpox. In the Gale lie Prsdo fam
lies are abandoning their houses, and
the dead are given to the burners. It
seems that the disease has been 50 long
resident In some localities that nothing
but FIRE will act as a disinfectant. 50
the houses are also to be given to the
flames,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04

The market value of these wines is
estimated at $4,000, 0OO When it is
considered that the above results have
been obtained within the short period
Of ten years, it may safely be anticipa-
ted that the production of wine will,
within some years, become an impor-
tant element Of national wealth.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04

destruction of life by war, for It has
fallen upon women more heavily than
upon men. The new census points to
the conclusion that the population of
France is decreasing because of the in
frequency of births. Whether the re-
moter causes that lead to this infre-
qusncy of births can be reached and
oYerconne remsins to be san
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04

TIE French census Of 1872 shows a
loss of population since 1866 of nearly
. 600. coo souls. The cession Of Alsace
and Lorraine accounts for the greater
part of this loss; but after this Geduc-
tion is made it remains true that France
has lost in ak years nearly 400, 900 IN
habitants. This loss is not due TO the
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04
4 PhilOsOphIc View Of the Grange
Movement.

At the session of the social science
association at New York, q lengthy pa
per. by William O. FlaGg. of Illinois,
was read, on the farmers movement in
the west. After giving the history of
the movement and its effect upon po-
liticaI parties, it concludes: :" The
farmers movement meant primarily an
Advancement in the intelligence and
ability of the tillers of the soil; second
ly, an unusual feeling of oppression and
distress, resulting from the mischievous
legislation of the country, and finally,
an effort to reform abuses and carry to
more logical conclusion the principles
of our republican-democrat system.
It was a part of the universal upward
tendency of the manual workers of the
world, and was as irrepressible as the
progress of democracy on earth. 1t
foreshadowed the time when the cum
ming of the hand would be displaced
bv the brain of the worker, equal and
exact Justice to all men, all men are
created equal > government derives its
inst powers from the consent of the
governed : whatsoever ye would that
men shoHld do unto you, do ye even SO
uuto them These were all accepted
principles and must work out their log1-
cal results.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04

An engineer on the Western North
Carolina railroad shouted TO a crowd OF
rustics, who had gathered 70 see the
first train OF cars come IN, Put down
your umbrellas yoa'l scare the engine
off the track {" The umbrellas we're
lowered at once,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04
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The pensa HaArks you see szound this
paragraphs (thus) mean that ysu sab
sCiptior il out or unpaid. ana that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pieasure IN extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cssh alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solieit your favor.
EE We enter no new names on our
books without the monev in aslv1t c.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04

NEW ExaLASD is still ahead Of Geor-
gis IN large cotton dividends. In Fall
river the earnings OF some milla have
been enormous, Is dividends Of $50 per
cent. in one year and mill stock muiti-
plying IN valns ten times might indi-
cate. On the other hand, there are
many manufacturers IN New England
who might as well have had theif mills
cloaed Last winter.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04
nnr Native Wine ProdnetIon.

The annual production of native wines,
in round numbers, is estimated at %
900, 600 gallons. The different states
L l. IL
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04

CUBAN planters who have been driven
from the island by the existing troubles
are emigrating to Southern Texas,
where the country between the Sabine
river and the Rio Grande has been
found to be we'll suited for the culture
Of the sugar-cane. It Is probable thSt
in time Texas may become large pro
ducer of smear. as there is an extensive
tract of country adapted to the growth
of the cane. The present annual pro-
duction is from 1900 to $1,000 hogs
heads.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04

No earnest thinker is a plagisrist
pure and simple. He viii never borrow
from others that which he has not Al
ready. more or less, thought out for
himself Charles Kingsley.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-04

two hundred barrels of birthstone for
cash, ten per cent of, and you can
start a little hell of your own, with no
agents or middle men. D"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-22

The Robert Mitchell has concluded to lay
IN until the business is more promising.
"Where, oh. where, has all the shipping
gone. Sing, Council, singw
Tom Jones fell off the Gray Eagle the
other day and left Miles Warrens specs in
the river. A darky scotch a cat" at the
dam, and in the fish were the spectacles
The darky says: ~ specs dat catfish car
ried dem specs for Miles-I'll Ud,ren't ye."
Miles sees it. Next!
The folio wing boats with coal from above
have arriv ed since our last report. They
will all be in to-day, making up the grand
tlotilla tn at left Pittsbnrg on the last rise.
Preparati ons are being made to send some
tf them below, within few days: Alice
Brown and tow, Sam Parker and tow, Ella
and tow, Belle MCGOWAN and tow, Maggie
Smith and tow, Stella and tow, Grand Lake
(not No. q and tow, Sharp Mcdonald and
tow, John Dippold and tow, and Hornet and
tow.
The Cincinnati Commercial, Of the 18th,
says:
The Senate agreed to the report Of the
Finance Committee, yesterday, recommend
ing that what is known as the Wheeler
amendment to the Louisville Canal bill be
struck out, and adopted "a section reported
by the same committee, that if, at any time,
it becomes necessary to enforce lien Of
mortgage on the canal property for the
benefit of bondhollers, it will be legal to
commence proceedings in any 'urt having
jursdction by .erving notice on the UrIted
States officer " ho may be in charge OF the
| canal The bill will doubtless PASS the Sen
ate Monday or Tuesday and there is every
reason to hope it will pass the House III this
shane at All early day.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-22

PENSACOL,-Per schooner Mary Emily casks
bacon to master 10 sacks oats meat SKIS coffee
800 sacks corn bales hay and suudres
NEW YORK-Per steamship city of San Antonio
sh DIES 535 bas otton 80 hhds iron 500 SKIS rye
60 bd, iron $50 bbls oil 200 hhds bones BIO empty
bbls
Z ILLA-Per schooner Lady Woodbury-3 box
cheese 30 bb,s pork 20 bbs -four ties hams
RUATAN ISL \ND-Per schooner o Robinson-l
ties hams cask whisky bales tobacco case meat-o
kegs lard kegs butter aud sundres
LIvERPOOL-Pe. bark Emily-29S5 bales cotton
1900 slaves
LIvERPOOL-Per steamship Memph s-3O25 bales
cotton ks cotton seed 1855 hhds tobacco $50 tons
vicake 23, 81 busne bulk corn
HAMBURG VIA HAVANA, HAVRE AND CHER
BOURG-B-r steamship Germana-326 bales cotton
IS baes So hhd tobacco l67 tcslard 10 bbs beef
2j pkys mdse for Hamburg. 100 bales cotton Dbl oil
bbl hams 6 bales moss 10 ba!eI skius bale straw
box IN Sc 500 ties lard havre. No cargo Havana
or Uherbourg