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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-07-17
The Gentleman.

1t is almost the definition of gentleman to
say he is one who never lntllcts pain. The
true entleman carefully avoids whatever may
cause jar or bolt in the minds Of those with
whom he is cast, all clashing of opinion, or col
lision of feeling, all restraint or suspicion Of
gloom, or resentment; his great concern being
TO make every one at ease and at home. He
has eyes on all his company he is tender to-
ward the bashful, gentle toward the distant,
and merciful toward the absurd he can recol-
lect to whom he is speaking; he guards against
unreasonable allusions to topics which may
irritate; he is seldom prominent in conveFsa-
ton, and while he makes light of favors he
does them, and seems to be receiving when he
is comforting. He never speaks of himself ex-
cept when compelled; never defends himself
by mere retort he has no ears for slander or
gossip; is scrupulous in imputing motive to
those who interfere with him, and interprets
everything for the best. He is never mean or
little in his disputes, never takes unfair ad-
vantage, never mistakes personalities or sharp
sayings for arguments, or insinuates evil which
he dare not say out. From long sighted pru-
dence he observes the maxim of the ancient
sage, that we should ever conduct ourselves
toward our enemy as if he were one day to be
our friend. He has too much good sense to be
affronted at insults, he is too we'll employed to
remember injuries, aud toe indolent to bear
malice. He is patient, forbearing and resigned
en- philosophical principles he submits to pain
because it is inevitable, to bereavement be-
cause it is irreparable, and to death because it
is his destiny. If he engages in controversy of
any kind, his disciplined intellect preserves
him from the blundering discourtesy of better,
perhaps, much less educated minds, who, like
blunt weapons; tear and hack instead of cut.
ting clean !; who mistake the point in argument,
waste their strength on trifes, misconceive
their adversary, and leave the question more
involved than they find it. He might be right
or wrong in his opinion, but he is too clear
headed to be unjust; he is as simple as he is
forcble, and as brief as he is decisive. No.
where shall we find greater candor, considera-
ton, indulgence; he throws himself into the
minds of his opponents, he accounts fer their
mistakes. He knows the weakness Of human
reason as well as its strength, in province and
its limits. If he could be an unbeliever, he
will be too profound and largeminded to ridi-
cule religion or to act against,it; he is toe wise
to be dogmatist or fanatic in his in6delity.-
He respects piety and devotion ; he even sup
ports as venerable, beautiful or useful, to
which he does not assent; he knows the minis.
ters of religion, and it contents him to decline
its mysteries without denouncing them. He is
a friend of religious toleration; ami that not
only because his philosophy has tau ght him to
look all forms of faith with impartial eye,
but also from the gentleness and effeminacy of
feeling which is the attendant on civilization.
-Francis W. Nesoman.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-07-17

a-Morality is the foundation of true man
hood and honor.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-07-17

The evening red and the morning gray
Are certain signs of beautiful day.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-09-02
IsIt Worth whneq

And is it worth while to take all
the sunshine out of life for the sake
of few miserable dollars? Meat
and groceries, and coal and clothing
are not all Of life. IL we restrict
ourselves to these. and shut out
music and pictures, and the hun
dred things that cultivate the es
thetic side of our nature, we shall be
economical at the cost of dwarfing
our moral and intellectual nature.
And after we have done this for a
long series OF years, and reached
middle age with a fair balance
in the bank, we shall then find our
selves untitled to enjoy the pleasures
that money will buy. We shall
then keep the dusty road so long
that when we finally turn aside into
the groves and the brook side, our
eyes will be in no condition to see
the beauties around us. Is it rot
better to live while we do live, to
give some brightness and color to
our daily lives, even if by so doing
we fail to increase our boarded saw
ings quite as rapidly as we other
wise might? Is economy quite
worth the sacrifice of everything
that makes life other than a dull
and dismal drudgery? A wise ex-
penditure of money for the good
things Of life is really the best econ
OmV.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-09-02
Summer Society.

1t is, we know, not always pru-
dent to make the acquaintance Of
strangers at a place of summer re
sort, even when they are apparent
ly persons of the highest respectable
ity. 1t is right, therefore, for every
body, and especially the head of a
family, to be cautious about such
matters. But we are speaking now
of cases where there can be no pos
sible need of this caution. 1t is
occasionally very amusing to see
the gratitude evinced by one person
or family, when another breaks
over the restraints of ceremony, and
eaters freely into conversation,
without the fOrmality of regular in :
PRODUCTION. OF course, anything of
this kind should be done in the ex-
ercise of good judgment and with
reasonable evidence that it will be
agreeable to the other party. But
when judiciously done, it often pre-
vents much of that monotony and
loneliness to which many visitors at
summer resorts, in spite of the
crowd around them, find themselves
subjected. 1t certainly seems alb
surd for persons who want company
to allow themselves to be lonely
for days or weeks, when there are
plenty of congenial people under
the same roof with them who would
be glad of their society.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-09-02
Pitch In,

Judge Underwood, of Rome, to
four young lawyers who had just
passed an examination in his court: /:
Young gentlemen, want to say a
thing or two. You have passed as
good an examination as usual, per-
haps better; but you don't know
anything. Like these young fellows
just back from their graduating col
lege, you think you know a great
deal It's a great mistake. II you
ever get to be any account, you viii
be surprised at your present ignor-
ance. Don't be too big for your
breeches. Go round to the Justices
court and try to learn something
Don't be afraid-let off upon high
key. You will, no doubt, speak a
great deal nonsense. You viii have
one consolation-nobody will know
it. The great mass of mankind take
sound for sense. Meyer mind about
your case; pitch in-you are about
as apt to gain as lose. Don't be
ashamed at the wise looking justice.
He don't know a thing. He's a
0CftL DGlb Oil hAOM4GlEGs CLInA 10
your rack, fodder or no fodder, and
you will see daylight after q while.
The community generally suppose
that you will be rascals. There is
no absolute necessity that you
should. You may he smart without
being tricky. Lawyers ought to
be gentlemen. Some of them
don't come up to the standard,
and are disgrace to the fraternity.
They know more than any other
race generally, and not much in par
ticular. They don't know anything
about sandstones, carboniferous
periods, and ancient land animals
known as fossils Men that make
out they know a great deal on these
subjects, don't know much. ghey
are hHmbugs-shperh humhugs.-
They are ancient land animals them
selves, and will ultimately be fossils.
You are dismissed with the sincere
hope Of the court that you viii not
make asses of yourselves,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-09-02
An Expensive Luxury.

The Beecher trial, which has fur
nished such an amount of choice
reading matter to the prurient scan
dal mOngers Ofthe country, promises
to be very expensive luxury. Some
of the lawyers are said to give their
services-on Tilton's side, at least
without pecuniary compensation
But it is not so with all of them.
There is, for example, Mr.. Evarts;
he gets $3.50 a day. 1t is big pay,
but the wealthy corporation known
as Plymouth Church (knowing the
consequence if Beecher is con
demned) foOts the bills. Mr.. Ev-
arts bill already must be something
like $4,000; for this singular trial
has already been going on these
three months, and may yet become,
if it has not already grown to be
one of the establithcd institutions
of the country. And there are 9th
er lawyers engaged in this case who
are also getting very liberal fees
Altogether it is likely to be a costly
affair in more senses than one.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-09-02
GOrdOns and Anderson.

Mr.. Robt. j. Gordon, having
withdrawn from the firm Of Gordon,
Rankin and Ordway, and Mr.. John
G. Gordon from, that of Ordway,
Gordon and Mcclure, have
formed an association with Mr., W.
@. S. Anderson of Pulaski, and will
open next month in Nashville, a
cotto and commission house. All
Of these gentlemen being natives of
Giles, and being known by almost
every planter and merchant in the
county as reliable, worthy gentle
men, with sufficient means to be
very accommodating, they will no
doubt receive a good trade from this
section. Their advertisement an
nOuncIng style of firm and place of
businesss will appear in the CITIZEN
in due time
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-09-02
Rest.

If we 90 into the country on a
hot day in June, the first thing
which strikes us is the noon-tide
hush. The very boughs seem to
have forgotten their whisper. The
wise husbandman has adjourned his
toll, and is sleeping in the shadow
of the caves, IN the meadows the
the cattle have abandoned even the
exertion of eating, and are standing
under the foliage, or with their feet
in the cooling water. What "A con-
trast TO the artificial turmoil of the
town at the same meridian hour!
For, deplete the city as we may,
motion here never ceases; and thou
sands will be grinding here all sum-
mer for the hundreds who have
gone away-working when work
means sunstroke, aud apoplexy
and fever and death. In she hot
and stiaed chamber, the little child
will sicken and die. Through all
the open windows, of certain quar-
ters, float not the pure air which
is fit for breathing, but miasma
and stenches and all food of typhus
and of cholera. There is no help
for it. There are evils which we
may mitigate, but which we cannot
altogether abolish. Something we
may do for others; but the one
thing which we should do for our
selves, if possible, is to rest.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-09-02
For tbs. Citizen.
The Pike to COrnersviIIe.

What has Pulaski lost for the
want of turnpikes and the loss OF
the Cornersville district. That dis
trict pays over one tenth of the
taxes of Marshall county. There
are five threshers around in less
than two miles of Cornersville.
Three of them have thresEed with
in. small fraction of thirty thou
sand bushels of wheat, certainly
over forty thousand by the five.
am sure nine-tenths of this would
have gone to Pulaski if we only
had a turnpike, or in the absence
of pike to Pulaski, would have
gone to Lynnville, had we a pike
there. Having no pike at either
place the bulk of it has gone to
Shelbyville, q miles and of course
some money was expended in Shell
byville. They know the value of
our trade and propose to build a
railroad on most advantageous
terms, only ask little help from US.
Yet Pulaski cannot afford to build
miles turnpike and much of that
only requires grading. Had
the then County Court been worth a
blue bean this district would not
have been lost to Giles. Four-fifths
of the voters were opposed to the
annexation. "a little more sleep a
little more slumber" and it will not
require an expert in figures to tell
what Pulaski and Giles county have
lost and are daily tossing.
"OCCAsIoNAL."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-09-02
GREENBACKs.
The Mass Meeting I'm Detroit.
The Platform.

The Mass Meeting I'm Detroit.
The Platform.
The following resolutions were
adopted at the Greenback Conven-
tion at Detroit on the 25th
RESOLVED, That the people owe
to the government st all times. and in
all emergencies, n loan of money ad-
equate to its needs, at a rate Of in
tereSt so low as TO be the least pos
sible burden, and offer the least pos
sible competition to private enter
prise.
,. The Government ows to the
people an absolutely safe and uni
form currency, adapted TO their
varying needs in amount, and of a
value not materially different from
that Of other civilized nations.
3. The providing OF a currency
for the people is an attribute of
sovereignty, and demands that the
government Of the United States
shall perform this duty in such
manner as to furnish the public an
amount of currency adequate to the
business requirements Of the coun-
try, and independent of the action
of banks or other private corpora
tions.
4. That we are neither repudia-
tiOnists nor inhationists, bat the
friends of safe, sound and reliable
currency; that we propose to redeem
the greenback circulation of the
United States, at the pleasure of the
holders thereof, in bonds of the Uni
ted States, bearing a low rate of in
terest, convertible at pleasure of the
holders into greenbacks, thus re-
deeming the original promise of
the Government, when it first issued
greenbacks, TO fund them, when de
sired, into an interest paying bond.
D. That we are in favor of the is
sue of United States certificates.
or bonds bearing interest not to ex-
ceed 3.65 per cent per annum, to an
amount equal to the whole Govern
ment debt, said bonds or certificates
being changeable and interchahgea-
BILE with greenbacks at par on de-
mand.
6. That the legal money of the
country should be endowed with the
power to pay all debts, public and
private, except that portion of the
bonded Indebtedness specially made
payable in coin.
z. That as the enactment of the
last Congress providing for resump-
tion of specie payments in 1879 is
impractieable and impossible, and
is disastrous in its effects upon the
business of the country, we de-
mand its immediate and uncondI-
ticnal repeal.
s. The plan of government cur
rency proposed by this convention
would, in our opinion, tend to rem
der onr government and people in
dependent, financially, of foreign in
fuences or complications, and not
subject, hereafter SIS heretofore, to
the disturbing control or influence,
of foreign countries.
8. That we recommend the or
ganization of greenback clubs in
every State OF the Union, for the
purpose of carrying out the prinei-
pies and measures set forth in the
foregoing resolutions.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-09-02

REs- On our pention last week of
the horse and cistern 0Xcjtement,
we alluded to the prompt gathering
at the scene of all the UFchIRS
about town. From what we learn
since that time, the grave fathers of
that particular locality, outnum-
bered the little folks. The fact is,
the boys had to take a hack scat.
1t was not their show. So let's see
who al were there. Well, there was
a leading merchant apost-master-
we call no names--R grave justice
of the peace, and If intimate bust
ness relations with the old gentle
man did not forbid, we could name
another. But far be it from US that
we should give any clue. Suffice II
that the ceremony of resurrectlng
the horse Sas largely patronlzed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-09-02
-" ..What nave Pulagki

10 What have Pulaski and
Giles county lost for the want of
a turnpike to Cornersville?" This
is a significant question asked by
a correspondent to day. The loss
of Cornersville district was enough,
but this is not all. Thousands
have been lost to Pulaski per annum
ana in the end millions. Nor is
this all. We have sacrificed the
good opinions of the noble and gen
erous people of that section by our
want of enterprise and liberality
1t is not too late to retrieve our
losses, in measure. The Corners
vile district may be recovered, if
our County Court will undertake it.
If the County Court fail, the bust
ness men of Pulaski should under
take it. But even if we choose to
let this alone, 1t behoOves US, at least
to consult our own interest, to build
a pike, and thereby reclaim the
trade of that fertile and prosperous
valley. In the name of common
sense, what is the matter with Pu-
laski?
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-09-02
what the war Cost tho south.


A correspondent of the New York
Evening Post, who has Il turn for
statistics, gives some highly inter
esting facts and figures connected
with the losses of the South sus-
/ tanned by the war, showing the dim
mutton Of assessed personal prop
erty between 1860 and 1870 by rea-
son of the emancipation Of the
blacks. Alabama, with two hun
dred and seventy millions IF
personal estate in 1850, returns but
thirty-eight millions in IS7O-a de
crease Of two hundred and thirty
nine millions. Arkansas is reduced
from one hundred and sixteen To
thirty one millions in this respect.
Mississippi returns three hundred
and fifty one millions in 1860 against
only fifty nine millions in 1870 de-
crease of two hundred and ninety
two millions; and South Carolina
presents even a greater difference,
returning three hundred and fifty
nine millions assessed personally In
1850, and sixtyfour in 1870, being
. loss Of two hundred and ninety
five millions. Georgia in 1860, re
turned a larger amount of assessed
personal estate than any other state
IN the union, namely four hundred
and thirty eight millions. In 1870
this total was changed 10 eighty
three millions, a loss of three hun
dred and ffty-fve millions. Mis-
souri,, though a slave state, has suf-
fered comparatively little. Her
personality, as assessed in 1860, was
one hundred and thirteen millions.
In 1870 It was increased to one hun
dred and thirty seven millions
Taking the aggregate estimated true
wealth Of all the slavehOldiag states
in 1850, II presents = total of six
thousand seven hundred and forty
six millions ofdoIlars. Ia 1870 the
same aggregate falls to FIVE thosand
four hundred and sixty two millions,
showing a loss of twelve hundred
and eighty-fonr milliona The non
slaveholding States, on the contrary,
show an immeRse increase during
the same period. In 1879 their az
gregste estimated true wealth Was
nine thousand three hundred and
forty millions, and 1870, twenty.
four thousand three hundred aud
sixty millions; being an increase Of
fifteen Thousand and twenty nil
lions. II We looked at the wealth
of the late slave States in 1880 there
appears q great increase from that
period 20 1869. The total in these.
States in 1850 was twenty nine
hundred and forty seven millions:
and in 1860, six Thousand seven
hundred and forty six millions
showing an increase Of thirty-seven
hundred and ninety-nin0 millions.
or one hundred and twenty eight
per penE. Had the war not taken
place, the same ratio OF increase
would have fixed the wealth OF the
southern States in 1870 at fifteen
thousand three hundred and eightys
one millions, or more than two and
a quarter times what Il acuallv
proved TO be. And yet, with even
all these enormous losses. the south
would nov be happier and saore
prosperous than st Ray time Ia her
history. bNt for the corrupt and
tYrannQus rule with which she has
been cursed since the war But
peace has come al last. and the
next decade will show a glorious
outcome.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-09-02
COrrespOndcenee of the Citizen.)
New York Letter.

\. /. CITY, Aug. 25th 1875.
Our little party arrived here last
night all safe and sound, but I was
a little sick on the way We had q
PLEASANT trip with the exception
OF said sickness, although a por-
ton of the way the train was very
much crowded. There was quite a
crowd got aboard at Columbia, for
this place, and a larger crowd at
Franklin, and at Nashville there
were hundreds got on the train, but
the greater portion stopped at
Louisville. The Franklin party
had in it some very charming la
dies. We made their acquaintance
soon after they got on the train,
and they made our trip much more
pleasant than it would have been.
Two ofour Pulaskians were captured
immediately on meeting said ladies,
and the third had some tender
emotions aroused, and l would not
be surprised if some very impor-
tant results arise from SAID meeting.
Misses B., and D., of Franklin are
the young ladies who did the mis-
chief, and Col. s., and Mai. D., are
the first gentlemen alluded to. Col.
s., says there is nothing like ''rol-
licking in" and he did rollick in,
and 1 am forced to believe there is
something in the expression. We
missed connection at Cincinnati
and had to lie over about five hours,
and our Pulaski and Franklin par
ties procured elegant hacks, did
that city partially, and the result
of our ride was, we were rather glad
we missed connection. Besides see
ing some very beautiful portions
of the city, this was where cupid
seemed to have been performing
his wonders, and that little ride
around the city will doubtless be
referred to with sweet or bitter
recollection. We will visit those
ladies at Brooklyn tomorrow, as
they are stopping over there. We
have been doing this city a little,
and have seen some interesting OBJ
jects, will see more to day, will be
here five or six days, and 1 think I
can see as much as l want to see in
that time, will stop at Cincinnati
again on our return and stay a day
or two. Maj. D., will not return
until the Franklin party returns,
matters not how long it remains,
and will never pass that place here
after, without stopping, unless pros
poets change, and 1 have a greater
partiality for it than I did have
shall not speak of any of the OBJ
jects of interest seen on the trip, or
at this place, as we have seen too
much for that. So I bid you good
morning. Yours in haste,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-09-02

Re For the benefit of a CORES
pondent who wants to know if Judge
Jones has been away from home
lately; or if he was absent about
the time Olive Logan wrote from
Long Branch about "the Pulaski
man. we will say that we do not
believe Judge Jones has been alb
sent lately at least, not long enough
to have gone to Long Branch, In
feat, we believe, and perhaps would
be perfectly safe in saying, most
positively, that we know Judge
Jones couldnot possibly be the man
alluded to by Miss Logan. We can
not say so much for Col. Rose, how
ever, and besides the gay and fes-
tive antics ofthe Pulaski man would
perhaps more befit him than Judge
Jones. Capt. Andrews was posi-
lively not further north than Co
lumbiE.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-09-02
- A ride of s or 10 miles ou

/" a ride of or 10 miles out
on the Fayetteville road, one day
last week, introduced us to a part
of Giles we had not seen before,
Except where the land Is worn and
washed by rains, the corn fields
bristle with fruitful stalks. Egyp
tian plenty covers the face of the
land. We saw but little cotton on
the road, the farmers wisely turning
their attention to grasses, grain and
stock. Notably is this so, in the
case of Mr., Wm. Oliver and Esquire
Worley, whose fine farms totally
abiure "King Cotton" as also, in the
main, Mr.. Sterling Alternately, Mr..
Dol. Hopkins, and perhaps, Mr..
Aymett and others, along our route.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-09-02

ES- Mr.. Glib Townsend the jolly
knight of the Southern Express,
and the ugly brother of the two
Townsends, (and this is placing his
standard Of beauty mighty low, you
will bear us witness) is summering
just now near the cooling waters OF
the st. Lawrence, in northern n. \,
Mrs. T., who has been confined to
her room for weary months under
medical treatment, accompanied her
husband, in the hope of a recovery
by the change. We sincerely trust
that she may find relief. In the alb
sence of Mr. T., the efficient DR.
Bicknell is doing the honOrs of the
office, and doubtless doing them
well. We welcome bis sOjourn in
our midst.