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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-29

For cash and cash only we will sell
goods at cost. G.. Rice & Co.
apps If
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-29

Bargains! Bargains@-We will sell at
cost for cash only. G. Rice & Co.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-29

RIVER 1--WE.
Daily RsDort Of Stage Of Voter, tyA CaEgsS IN
hs "a h0urS ending 3 p. II. April =, 1879.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
sympathy with Crime.

"PrisOn REFORM is a phrase which
runs glibly from the lips of a certain
kind of philanthropy Heaven knows it
is needed, even more In this county than
in Europe, but it should not be of that
sentimental character which forgets the
crime in pity for the criminal. 1t is
not necessary to make a man hero be-
cause he happens to be a murderer, nor
to weep the salt water of sorrow over a
pickpOcket, who was simply an object
of disgust until his treacherOus fingers
were found in the wrong place. 1t is a
tendency of the times to overlook the
criminality of crime, to offer ready ex-
cuses for ii, and to be affected by a very
weak feeling in the region OF the heart
when a villain kills some one else's re-
lations rather than ours. We mOralize
in the most poetic fashion over the
temptations of the dangerous classes
and set our occasional sympathy to the
music of passing sigh. This is not the
product of true philanthropy, as we
fOndly dream it to be, but rather of alb
solute indifference to the public welfare.
When we are so becomingly stirred
with pity, it is that peculiar kind of pity
which lights another cigar, murmurs
"Sad, very sad, indeed" and then lets
all rascality drift out of its thoughts.
To be soft-hearted and sorrowful is not
the fullness of a genuine philanthropy.
There is pity which has organized its
missionaries, gathered its libraries,
established its Sunday school and night
schools, and spent its best energies to
make the dangerous class less danger
Gus. We would not seem to be over
critical ON this matter, but we feel sure
that the Indifference toward, or foolish
sympathy with crime and the criminal,
which makes one of the signs of the
times, is largely responsible for the
daring and recklessness of the danger
GUS class.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
80 Ouestions Asked

The custom of advertising for lost or
stolen property, with the twofold
promise of a reward and ''no questions
asked" has been indirectly the cause of
much crime. But it is not altogether
surprising that the system should have
come into vogue. The public have not
an implicit confidence in the honesty of
the police, and they prefer very often to
take matters into their own hands, es-
pecially where property of considerable
value is concerned. Moreover, the first
object of person who has lost anything
of value is to recover it.. Punishment
of the thiefis a secondary consideration
to him. Even the most patriotic people
are very apt to consult their own inter
est first, and the public good afterward-
Besides, there are the cost, trouble, and
Inconvenience, and, perhaps, ultimate
disappointment, involved in taking
prominent part in a criminal prosecu-
ton, and these are quite sufficient to
deter many people from entering upon it.
We do not speak of this by way of JUS
tifying the practice we have mem
toned. Wehave frequently condemned
it unreservedly, and we do so still, but
we can quite understand that upon the
pleas stated there are some people who
would attempt at least to extenuate It's
evil effects. To this suppositiOn alone
can be attributed the fact that although
few could be found who would openly
commend it on grounds of morality, and
notwithstanding the depreciation of the
majority of the community, it is still
persevered in. No attempt of any kind
has been made to check it, and no prac-
teal protest has ever been made from
any authoritative quarter against its
continuance.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
Representative Southern Men
In Congress.

The Republican press continues to
harp On the election of a number ex-
Confederates to Congress by the South
ern Democrats. Their action is re-
garded as evidence of lingering love for
treason, and the question is asked in
(Tretended) alarm, care we not in dan
ger of being ruled by the rebels ?" 1t
is shown that a majority of the Demo-
cratic members of the House are ex-
Confederates, therefore the ex-COnfed-
crates will control the Democratic eau
Gus and through it can shape the legisla-
ton OF the House to the injury and pos
siDle overthrow of the Union. Such
one sided and unfair arguments are used
to excite the apprehensions of voters at
the North and drive them back to the
Republican party. Care is taken to say
nothing of the fact that the ex-COn-
tsderates are not in majority
In the Senate, and lifzthey were dis
posed to be as unwise as is charged
about them, they could not pass any
| sectional legislation through Congress.
The constant allusion to the ex-COnfed-
crates in Congress is a political trick,
and mean one at that. Several of the
Republican Congressman are ex Confed-
crate officers, notably "Ananias" Hayes
| of Alabama and Wallace of South Caro-
lima. 1t may be noticed that the Radi-
Gals had no objection to the appoint
ment OF General Longstreet to a lucra-
tive position in New Orleans, nor to that
OF Ex-Governor Parsons to the District
Judgeship of Alabama, nor to that OF
James L. Orrto the Russian mission.
These gentlemen, though they fought
against the Union, were very proper
men when they Joined the Republican
party. But great horror is felt Of Sena-
tors Cockrell and Gordon, and Repre-
| sentative Lamar who fought side by
side with Longstreet, Parsons and Orr.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
announcement ofLabOr

One of the causes of the dishonor now
cast on manual, and especially agricul-
tural, labor Is traceable to the education
OF our young. The academician is
trained for the college or university
and the collegian is trained with aspira-
lions for the learned professions, the
bar the pulpit, politics, medicine or
science. They feel that it would be a
waste of talent and dissertation of
genius to step from the university hall
to the pillow, the loom or the anvil.
Hence the crowded professions In which
hundreds are reduced TO the starvation
point, and from which hundreds are
annually forced to seek for bread by
recourse occupations. AS it has been
so forcibly said, the same recoiling from
hand labor leads thousands to rush into
unremunerative and precarious clerk
ships and paltry commercial enterprises
for which there Is no demand, while the
soil of the earth Is left half titled and
its mines unopened. Never more ur-
gently than now, therefore, are we
called to encourage the return OF labor
10 its natural and ordained channels.
Let the thousands of the unemployed
and work-seekers who now thrOng the
cities and towns turn their attention to
productive Industry and rural enter
prise. Let the industrial energy of the
country be once more (as in the earlier
part of the century, on the husbandry
and pasturage of the sOil-so beautifully
called "the two breasts of the State"-
and another year, humanity speaking,
would see the still lowering financial
and commercial clouds dissipated and
the dawn of better and brighter era ia
all the Industries of the land.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
StrnminrRennars

It is very difficult to convince tender
hearted women that there is anything
foolish in the manner of their treatment
of the scores of lazy, good-fOr-nothing
rascals who pull at the kitchen-doOr bell
handle on all sorts of pretexts from one
weeks end to another. They believe
their studied addresses, and are really
sorry when they are no longer able to
comply with their requests. The man
who has ''just come out of hospital, :"
and is urgently in need of sufficient
money TO pay for nights lodging, day
after day continues the recital of his dis
tressing story, carefully noting the To-
caiities he visited, so that he may not
commit the blunder of doing a street
twice during the same season. The
youth who has a widowed mother and
several young brothers and sisters to
support finds his efforts so profitable that
he has got into the way of performing
his labors by card, which, In a we'll
worded post script, he politely requests
may be returned to him. Then there
are the peddlers who sell their wares by
appealing to the sympathies OF house,
keepers, dealers in knick- knacks, can
vassers for swindling book concerns, the
patent man and hosts of others. Some
housekeepers are innocent enough to
suppose that it would be impossible to
put an end to these pests of their daily
life, and in short, that they have to sub
NIT to them whether they wish to do
so or not. 1t Is useless to support ones
warnings with reports in the newspa-
pers of the sneak robberies and murders
that have been committed through the
aid of this foolish disposition to see what
everybody wants, and TO turn no hui
man being from the door without hav
ing first given him a hearing.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
SCHEDULE.

Abiding to Senator Cockrell reminds
us of the absurd cutlery that the neglect
of the Missouri Democratic Legislature
to re-elect Mr.. Schurz to the Senate.
For the man whom they abused and
caricatured so shamefully two yeras
ago, they have suddenly conceived great
sympathy, and they do not tire in para
ding the Bourbonism of a Legislature
which elected the ex Confederate Gen.
eral Cockrell instead of the gifted
Schurz. The fact is that no complaint
was ever mere unwarranted than this
Schurz took open position against the
Democratic State ticket in Missouri last
Autumn, stumped the State vigorously
for what was called the "PeOPle's ticket.
His party was disastrously defeated,
and he went into retirement, as was
natural. He never expected, like Mr..
johnson, and perhaps did not desire, to
be elected Senator by a Legislature
composed of men whom he had done his
best to defeat. Such legislature elect
ing a pronounced political opponent TO
an important Office was never known ex-
cept In Tennessee. At any rate Radical
legislatures were never known to do it.
The Indiana Radicel Legislature did
not hesitate to retire the gifted Hen
bricks and put Radical in mis- place.
This weeping over Schurz's fate is sheer
hypocrisy. He does not want their
sympathy.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
The Debt ofNations.

What a spendthrift she is. The aggre-
gate national Indebtedness of the world
is $23750, 000, 900, on which there is an
annual interest charge of more than
81 ZOO, 900, 600. Those tremendous fig
ures but represent financial embarrass-
ment of this world of ours. Nations
are pulling up their debts In the rate OF
$3.50, 100000 and more per annum. And
yet these are years of comparative
peace. Presently Che world will be
plunged into great wars, and waste will
be accelerated tenfold. The most seri-
Gus question to be considered in this
connection is of the ability of the peo-
pies to preserve their national credit
under their increasing burdens. Now
a general European war to follow, with
its attendant increase in expenditure
and Indebtedness, how is it possible
that many of the Continental nations
will not eventually reach the point of
reputation Spain is already on the
verge of it. The immense wealth of
France may carry her through, but can
Austria and Italy stand the strain ?
The burden of taxation will bear heaV-
lily upon their people, and heavier as
the years roll on, and some day the
question will be whether they can bear
1t and live.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15

The Freedman's Bank Matter.-If the
Southern white men would see to it,
that the colored voters are properly in
formed as to the facts Of the Freedman's
Bank matter. they could open the eyes
of thousands of the dark race to the
real nature of all this Southern 'recon-
struction" business. Next to stealing
the coins off a cOrpse's eyes, is this
Infamous meanness of robbing the poor
emancipated slave of his hard labor
earnings. The Congress which has just
expired has had no more energetic ap-
peal made to it than that it should
smother and suppress this Freedman's
Bank investigation and exposure. And
what is this Ereedman's Bank matter
1t is, simply, the swindle, under pre-
tense and cloak of pious, Republican
Government care, of millions Of dollars,
from the wages Of emancipated slaves.
This money these poor darkies had de-
posted in this Freedman's Band, on the
the faith of what we used to call "the
Government" and these moneys have
been stolen. That is the Freedman's
Bank matter, and every negro ought to
be made to understand it.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
In ChancerY at Pulaski.

a krlt Rules. 1910.
VIM. II. Walker vs.. James Carter ct al.
TN this cause it appearing to the satisfaet ton
i Of the Clerk and Master from an affidavit
to the bin and amended bill that the
defendants James Carter and George
BrOyles are non residents of the State OF
Tennessee 50 that the ordinary process
of this conrt cannot be served ON them, and
that they are indebted to complainant
in the sum Of $500, for The rent Of land
and an original attachment having been isSu-
ed against the of said Carter & BrOyies
and the same having been returned LEVIED
upon three bales of cotton as the property OF
said Carter and BrOyles in the house of Hill
& Ballentine.
On motion it is therefore ordered that publ
cation be made for four sue cessive weeks IN
the Pulaski Citizen, newspaper published
in Pulaski, Tenn, requiring be said defend
ant to be and appear on the first day of the
next term of the Chancery Court to be held
for the county of Giles at the court house in
Pulaski on the LIST Monday in September next,
and answer compliments bill, or the same
will.be taken for confessed as to them and set
for hearing ex-parte.
J. b. STACY, c. & NJ.
Jones, Son d Ewing, Att'ys. aprl-4w
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
Chaneerx Sale of Lend.

Henry Houze, admir-, vs. John c Young ct al.
PURSUANT to a decree Of the Chancery
Court for Giles county in the above cause,
viii sell on Thursday, the 9Th day of Nay,
SIS, at public sale, TO the highest bidder, on
tie premises, on credit of one and two
years. with interest. and free from the equity
Of redemption, the remainder interest Of the
dover tract of land assigned to the widow
of A. s. Young, deceased, out of the lands of
her deceased husband, situated in the 10th
civil district, on the waters of Little Brad
shaw creek, containing about 200 acres.
Plat and survey will be exhibited on the day
of sale. Notss with good security will be re-
quired from the purchaser, and a lien re-
tanned for the payment of the purchase
money, J. B. STACY, G & M
aprT-AW
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15

The present Republican party has
about fulfilled its mission. 1t organized
twenty years ago. 1t stole It's name,
and concealed It's principles. The name
"Republican" had been originally adop-
ted by the political organization which
elected Thomas Jefferson President, in
1901. Our aristOcratic opponents of
those days, termed themselves "Feder-
alists," nicknamed the Jeffersonian Re
Publicans by calling them democrats"
The latter adopted the then term of con-
tempt, and became known as Demo
cratic Republicans" This political
organization, which elected Thomas
Jefferson, has never died nor dissolved.
1t exists and exhibits uncommon liveli-
ness, after the lapse of three quarters of
a century, and Is as proud of the name
Democrat to-day, as when it first
accepted 1t and converted a phrase OF
reproach into one of pride and hOnoS.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15

Prayer.-What battles has it not Fought
what victories has it not wonl what wounds
has it not healed what griefs has it not as
suagedl 1t is the wealth of poverty; the
refuge of affection; the strength Ofweakness.
the light of darkness. 1t is the oratory to the
pulpit; il is the hand that strikes down Satan,
and breaks the letters of sin: it turns the
scales of tate more than the edge of the
sword, the craft Of statesmen, of the weight
of scepters; it has arrested the wing OF time,
turned aside the very scythe of death, and
discharged heavens fEowning and darkest
clouds in a shower OF blessing.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
ChancerY Sale of Lands.

Martha Williford ct al VS. Josephine u Will
hfOrd ct al.
DURSUANT to a decree of the Cbaneerv
L Court of Giles county, Tennessee, in the
above cause, will sell on Friday, the 7th day
OF May, 1875, at public sale, on the premises,
to the highest bidder, on q credit of s, u and
Is months, vita interest from date, and free
from the equity of redemption, the lands
mentioned in the pleadings heretofore set
apart by commissioners to the children of
Wiley Williford, deceased, situated in the
10th civil district of Giles county, on the
waters of Bradshaw Creek, in lots from 27
to SS acres, as divided by said commissioners.
Also, at the same time and place I will sell
the remainder interest in the dover tract, as
signed to the widow of the said Wiley Wilt
ford, subject to her life estate. on a credit OF
8, IL and is months, with interest, and free
from the equity Of redemption. Notes with
approved security will be required from the
purchasers, and liens will be retained until
the purchase money is all paid.
aPrs-4w j. B. STACY, G. & N.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
Election Notice.

In pursuance of an order of Giles Quarterly
L Court at its April Term. 1875. will open
and hold an election at the various voting
precincts in said county on the
1st Saturday in May next,
when viii be submitted to the qualified Yo-
ters Of said county the Proposition,of levyinp
q collection for the present year for Public
School purposes the sum of one mill on the
dollar of the taxable property OF said county
and the further sum OF one dollar on the
poll, when those desiring that speh school
tax be levied win have printed or written on
their ballots "For School Tax" and those
desiring no such tax be levied will have on
theirs "No School Taxi The Constables Ia
the several districts are hereby directed and
empowered to open and hold said election in
their respective districts.
r. A. MITCHELL. Sheriff.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15

Doak thinks "tOll-gate en- the broad
road that leads to destruction about a
mile from the terminus, at a dollar a
head, would soon pay off the State debt"
That is some internal class legislation,
Intended to victimize Tom Neal, Luther
McCord, Tom Kirby, Bob Gates, Hop
johnson and ourselves. Bob White has
a free pass over the road, Doak & West
brook are going to press through on
their "cheek. Brownsville Democrat.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15

The Gibson county prisoners, indicted
by the United States Court for alleged
conspiracy, were acquitted yesterday by
the jury in obedience to the recOmmen-
dation of Judges EmmOns and Ballard,
that the evidence in the case did not
sustain the charge and was not sufficient
to convict. The charge to the jury was
very important and full, and the court
room was damned with citizens inter-
ested in the result of the case.-Men-
phfs Appeal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
Chaneery Sale of Lands.

James n. Wagstaf; admir-, ct ais VS. Amanda
J. Smith, ct al.
DURSUANT to q decree of the Chaneerv
L Court for Giles county, in the above
cause viii sell on Wednesday, the 5th dsy
Of May, 1875, at public sale, to the highest
bidder, at Lynnville Station, on the Nash
vile and Louisville Railroad, on a credit of
six months, with interest, and free from the
equity of redemption, the remainder interest
in the dover tract of land set apart to Mrs.
A. .. Smith, out Of the lands Of her deceased
husband. Sold subject to the life estate of
the SAID A. J. Smith Bond with good Sc
curity will be required of the purchaser. and
lien retained upon the land for the nav.
ment Of the purchase money Plat Of said
land will be exhibited on day of sale. Sale
TO commence at II o'clock A. H.
aprs-4W J. B. STACY, C. &M
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
A Singular Freak of mature

a gentleman from Gibson county
was In the city having in the most
wonderful freak OF nature we have ever
seen. a black gum limp terminated i'm
an exact representation of a human
hand. The hand was perfectly devel-
oped, joints being well formed and the
hnger-nails wonderfully natural. The
hand has been examined by experts
with the aid of a microscope and pro-
nounced TO be a genuine production OF
nature. The limb was cut from shrub
growing on the grave of a Methodist
preacher, and the hand before being
severed was pointing heavenward.-
Jackson DispQtch.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15

Gov. Porter. an ex-rebel, by invitation oil
Pennypaeker, will review the Federal troops
1T Ash Barracks this afternoon. There
that's the sort of determination that COM
pletes the work Of reconstruction, and makes
people forget that We had Rcivil war. Cover
nor, Porter himself had already recognized
the new order of things, by appoin ting ex-
rebels and ex-Federals on his staff, and this
later exhibition is = reciprocal compliment
that suggests political love-feast, with the
amen corner in full blast. If there are any
super-loyalists on the one hand, or super
rebels on the other, who do not like the style,
why, let them go and train with Wendell
Phillips and Admiral Semmes, anil not in
terfere with the campmeeting. Shoulder,
armsl-BGnRsr.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15

A contemporary asks: "Can any one
tell how young men whe dodge their
washer-women, and are always behind
their landlords, can play billiards night
and day, and are always seen at the
opera ?" Ask us something easy. Ask
us whether Beecher innocent or guilty /;
ask us what effect the polar wave has
on the experimental researches of the
motional functions of the serebral hem
ispheres, and why.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
Chancery Sale eff Lot at Lynn
villa Stafinn

Jesse Fry, admir-, VS. Abner T. McQuigg ct al.
PURSUANT to decree of the Chsncery
4 Court of Giles county. Tennessee, in the
above cause, I will on Wednesday, the 5th
day of May, 1875, sell at public sale to the
highest bidder, on a credit of six months
with interest, and free from REDEEM ption, at
Lynnville Station, on the Louisville, Nash
vile and Great Southern Railroad, a lot of
land containing about one acre, situated st
Lynnville Station, adjoining the lands of J.
81. Farmer, r. A. Mitchell and others, and
the same heretofore sold by said Farmer to
Frank Lynch. Notes bearing interest from
date with good security will be required of
the purchaser, and q lien retained until the
purchase money is paid. Sale at IL O'Clock
A. n. j. B. STA CY, c & h.
uOr3-GW
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15

The business outlook has engaged the at
tention of a reporter for the Cincinnati Com
Dl|rciaI, who has been interviewing the bank
ers of that city to ascertain their views. The
President of the Fourth National Bank,
stated that he regarded the outlook tor the
future of business of all kinds throughout the
country as hopeful and encouraging, more SO
then at any period since the close of the war.
Other bankers were unanimous in the view
business interests of the country. They all
said the character of paper offering was good,
that obligations were promptly met, and ap-
plieations for cxtenlions fewer than they had
been for long time, Business was eontrac-
ted, but was decidedly on the mend, and con
stantly improving; cOidence was beng rap
idly restored, not only there, but all over the
country. Everything indicated a healthy
condition of business Union Gad american.