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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-30
TbeTramD.s Harvest.

Spring has come and the trRmps look
longiugly westward, for festivity and
plumber. A tramp-by protession-now
IN New York, has been so swinging
through the circle that it is said he can
now set type handsomely for the Cherokee
Nations paper; while a Philadelphia
tramp is known as having set many
thousand ems in an old Dutch settlement
in Ohio, where especially fine gin is dis
TILED which pays no tax and is certainly
in respect TO price. the poor mans
friend" Fun, isn't ir
A characteristic tramp is he Of the fes-
tive nature, who walks into town tired
hungry, solemn, sober and pennilsss; poor,
but respectable; shabby but very sklllful;
shoele S, but with a good understanding;
all but hatless, with o remarkable idea
box. He applies for work: Sober?
Yes Been here tefore7" NO" Got
any recomerdations?' Lots of EN-"
an right, go to work. Sedately and
calmulv he labors until he gets his two
weeks pay; then comes a change to the
spirit of his dream. He gathers together
the Other devotees at the shrine of
Bacchus, aud not only incapacitstes him
self for further work, but demoralizes
aud all but paralyzes for time the entire
printing interest of the town. Then it is
that editors and proprietOrs and boys
and girls have to get out the paper, as
the festive tramp having done all the
damage lie can, moves for new worlds TO
conquer In this way a tramp will bring
destruction on half-dozen offices, and
smash more temperance pledges in two
weeks than are smashed in year.
Ofa sort as bad or worse is the "bus-
mess tramp" He sells soap, bibles and
pIavlnr cards is agent for several large
mnironolitan mercantile houses" is Of a
pios turn and willing to speak in meet
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The Policy of the Democratic
PARTY.

The Chattanooga Times, under the
heading we give above, contains sensi-
bic and well.timed article. There are
those, even in the Democratic ranks, who
think the Democratic party departed
somewhat from its faith, and others think
1t stultifed itself when, at Baltimore, it
adopted the Cincinnati platform of the
Liberal Republican party. The Times
shows how unfounded this charge is;
1t seems to us that there is less disa
greement in ideas than of words among
the members of the Democratic party,
and especially in regard to the Greeley
movement and the campaign of 1872.
There was no real inconsistency between
the platform of 1858 aud that of 1872.
When the platform of 1868 denounced the
reconstruction acts of Congress rs uncon-
sttutional. null and void, and demanded
their repeal and the admission of the
Southern States to representation in Con-
greSs upon the same terms as the loyal
States, 1T met live issue squarely. Had
it triumphed in that campaign, the
Southern States would have been read
mitted under the Constitution as it was.
In 1872 these matters had ceased to be
in issue, and the Democratic party in &C
cepting the Liberal platform of Cincin-
natl simply recognized the existence OF
facts as they we're, and appealed to the
country for peace and reconciliation and
oblivion of war enmities. No one can
doubt that the action of the Democratic
party in 1872 did more to bridge the
bloody chasm than any thing since the
close of the war, and its victories in the
past two years have been achieved maiu
| ly because of the confidence which that
action inspired at the North that the
Southern people were not conspiring tc
break up the government, and were moi
actuated by feelings of hatred to the
| Worth. o..
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eathorMrs. Bishop Polk.

New Orleans Times, April Is.
A host of friends will be shocked to
learn that Mrs. Frances A. ID. Polk has
ceased 10 breathe. AT half past two
O'Clock yesterday this venerable lady,
full of honor, aud better far circled as by
an halo, with the affectionate respect Of
an entire people, peacefully passed away.
1t was the fortune of the writer hereof,
o~e mild breezy June morning i'll 1851,
to watch the husband of this estimable la
dy, as surrounded by a numerous staff, he
threaded the declivity of Pine Mountain.
He saw the party halt near the signal
station, the General dismounted, and
moved slowly and thoughtfully over the
crest. A dull boom was heard in the dis
lance, the shrek of shell, a puff Of
white smoke doomed up an iron rain and
Lieutenant-Gelera Leonidas Polk, the
prelate and warrior, lay mangled and
dying man. There was mourning in the
army of Georgia that unhappy day
Heaven help Us all, through what ordeals
have we not passed? Ssddened for life,
by what was regarded a national calami-
~, the gentle subject of this trite para
graph, returned to the scere of her hus-
bands labors, to the bosom of the church
which in happier days he founded. From
the close of the late war up to a time
when lingering illness only to be re-
Iieved by death Frustrated physical pow
er, she has pursued in the even tenor of
its way the dicta es of unostentatious
charity. Whatever could ennoble the
young, brighten those of maturer years,
alleviate the suhierings of the infrm or
INDECENT, found in Mrs Polk an earnest
advocate The Bishop Polk society, a
spiritual monument to departed worth
from her received the blended encourage
ment and enthusiastic support of a de
voted widow and Christian gentle-woman.
Her life for the past eleven years of be-
reaven ent has combined all those attri-
hutes which could add dignity TO the
name of woman.
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Proclamation.
Executive DEPARTMENT,

NASHVILLE, Tenn.
WHEREAS, On the 10Th day Of May
l775, the patriotic citizens of North Car
DINA, of which Tennessee was then d
part, met at Charlotte in the county OF
Mecklenburg and solemnly declared, by
resolutions, that they were absolved from
allegiance to Great Britain, and that
henccforth they you'd be free and indie
pendent people; and,
WHEREAS, This is believed to have
been the first step taken in the direction
of that free aud independent Republican
Government, which was. on the 18th OF
July, I776, more formally and generally
pronounced by the colonies in the Decla-
ration of Independence; and,
WHEREAS, The Joint Committee of the
General Assembly of Tennessee and the
Committee of the Tennessee Historical
Society, have, by resolution, requested
me to make the proclamation that cen
tennial cOmmemoFatiOn Of such patriotic
action Of North Carolina, Tennessee's
noble old mother, will be held at Char
lprte, in Mecklenburg County, North Car
olina, on the 10th day of May, 1878, and
TO make the day public holiday.
Now, therefore, !. james u. Porter,
Governor ofTennesse6, do publicly pros
claim that the said centennial celebration
will be held at Charlotte, North Carolina,
on the 10Th day of May, 1873, and do
call upon the people OF Tennessee, in
cities, towns, aud counties, 10 meet to-
gether aud celebrate the day of dawning
Of American Liberty, and do further re-
quest that the day be observed as day
of rejoicing, and a general holiday.
in witness whereof | have here
unto set IHy official signature, |
aud have caused the Seal Of the !
RI. ST State of Tennessee TO be affixed |
at the Executive Department in |
Nashville, on the 10 day of April,
1875.
Jas. d. PORTER, Governor.
CHAs n GIBBs, Sect of State.
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HERALD AND MAIL.
CURRENT EVENTS.

W. r. Handy, Acknowledgement o
the State, notifies military companies tina
they must uniform themselves befor,
they can get arms.
West Tennessee papers TEEN will
accounts of the killing of cattle by buffa
10 gnats.
The Southern Baptists will assemble
in convention on the 9th of May, n
Charleston, S c. All the Southern
States will be represented.
Reports from nearly every county ir
the State indicate that fruit and early
vegetables were greatly injured, if not
destroyed, and only the early crops Of
wheat damaged
AT a recent burlesque spelling match
IN San Francisco, California, the word
rtTtue was given out, and some galoOi
Spelt it us-JeechertittoH. The audi
euce seemed to be amused at the ludi-
crous mistake.
1t is thought that the constitutionaliiy
Of the Enforcement Act, passed by the
AID Congress to give Grant control of the
Southern States, will not be passed upon
by the Supreme Court of the United
States until next Fall. 1t is believed that
. large majority Of the Justices will de-
clare against its constitutionality.
Grants Attorney General, Williams,
whose great incompeteney is only equal
ed by his vindictive hatred of the South,
has rendered his resignation to the Presi-
dent
The Courier Journal says that a
dry-goods clerk in Columbia, Tenn, spelt
rhapsody thus: tCrapsody. We call for
proof Name the man, CD.
Gov Porter announces officially that
the Mecklenburg Centennial celebration
will take place at Charlotte, N. c., on the
goth of May, 1875.
Col. W. H. Stephens, of Memphis
late a candidate for United States Sena
tor, has determined to leave Tennessee
for California, where he will make his
home in the future. Col Stephens is &
native of Msury county, and is brother
in-law of our distinguished fellOw-citlzen
Hon. James II. Thomas. Tennessee lose
one of her ablest, purest and best mel
when Col Stephens leaves her borders.
Hon. Ben H. Hill, of Georgia, hal
been invited to address the students o
the Lebanon Law School at the approach
ing final exercises. Ben. Hill is one o
the most powerful men in America, but h
seems to belong to that old erratic clas
of Georgia statesmen, who, however grea
intellectually they may be, have alst
great weaknesses. They are foreve
fighting and fussing among themselves
Hill is an independent candidate 70
Congress, and he deserves to go there b.
reason of his great ability, but his part.
seems not to want him.
-Brownlow, editor of the Knoxville
Wing and Chronicle, published a lons
letter in reply to Andrew Johnson's grea
speech in the Senate, in which he tool
occasion to mention Brownlow's miscOn
duct while Governor of Tennessee
Brownlow concludes thus, in the old Cam
byses vein:
Andrew Johnson and myself made wa
on each others about 80 years ago, anC
have kept it up without intermission eve
since, save during brief period when III
threw up the sponge and made over
lures for peace. Now that he has renew
ed the war in the Senate, | say to him:
Lay on, MacDuff;
And damn'd be him that first cries, Hold
enough.
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UNDER ONE HEAD.

New ORLEANS Picayune: Bishop Polk s
faithful body servant, who followed him
into the Confederate army, and was with
him to his last moments, was present with
his family at the funeral. Bishop and
Mrs. Polk had eight children, two sons
and six daughters, Both the sons, men
of marked AGILITY were in the armies OF
the Confederacy. The elder, A. Hamil-
ton Polk, who died two years ago at Hart
ford, Connecticut, suffered severely from
exposure during the Kentucky campaign.
The other, William NJ. Polk, studied med,
icine after the war, and enjoys a hand
some practice in New York city, in con.
junction with that eminent physician, DR..
Defeat, formerly Of Natchez. The anna
BILE and accomplished daughters, are all
married, and are Mrs. Joseph Jones, Mrs.
W. 4. Huger, and Mrs. Edward Chapman,
residing in this city; Mrs. p. Il. Skipwith,
residing in Mississippi; and Mrs W. ID,
Gale and Mrs. f. ID. Blake, residing in
Tennessee.
As FAR as the matters of opinion of dis
inter ested spectators can be gathered,
nothing but disagreement Of the jury is
looked for. Very different is the feeling
of those who are pronounced Beecherites.
They look on his acquittal as virtually an
accomplished fact, or at all events
inevitable, inasmuch as Beecher stood the
ordeal creditably, and came off with few
bruises, which do not hurt him much. His
testimony balances that of Tilton and his
friends, and he has proved alibis against
Mrs. MOulton by independent testimony.
This kind of talk was heard all through
the courthouse. In the several courts
where trials were in PROCESS aud juries
sitting, they passed the word from one to
the other, Beecher is through.
At recent spelling match at Roxbury,
two brothers took the prize at Nortbboro,
Massachusetts, mother and her son
were the victors; at Haverhill, broth er
and sister; and at Philadelphia, two Sis
tiers were the last to go down-all of
which seems to show the art of spelling
correctly is a species ofhereditary genius
as well as other accomplishments. En-
chance.
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nIssoLUTI0N OF PARTNERSHIP.

The firm of Vaughn 4 Barkley has this day
been dissolved by mutual consent. having
sold out to J. p. Street & Co., who assume all
the liabilities, and are alone authorized tC
settle all claims of the old firm. Thankful
we respectfully solicit a,continuation of the
same for cur successors.
April 30-2t. VAUGHN & BARKLEY.
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Your CuIueoka correspondent Again.

TO the Editor of the Herald and Mail.
A few weeks since | called the attention
Of your correspondent to two mistakes
made in his report of items from Culleo-
ka; one in reference to case of diphthe
ria said to be in the village the other in
regard to the number of cases of mumps
among Prof, Webb students. Your cor
respondent admits the error in the diph-
iberia case, but attaches the respensi bill
ity to a physician "i0hO had Diploma
an has office" Does your correspondent
,mean to say that the presence of Diplo-
ma in a physicians office caused him to
mistake the disease of his patient? The
physician, 'ohOeUer he may be, is at liber-
ty Ito rise and explain"
In regard to the number of cases of
mumps among the students in the Culleo-
ka Institute, direct issue to facts is made.
My information is there were two cases
Your correspondent claims information
of Seven-at the time of the writir of the
item. One, or possibly both of US, are
mistaken. AS your correspondent knows
me, and | do not know who he is, will he
call on me, or invite me to call on him,
aud let US Investigate THE FACTS AT ISSUE.
There UCeTe not screen cases Now let us
investigate Let there be no lodging
No impressions made by insinuations or
on the authority of nameless to formers.
w. H. WILKES.
| April 18th. 1875.
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what Tennessee has gained by
her Internal KunUrOV CanCnGS.

In the letter of VIM. J. Sykes, published
the in HERALD AND Mail of April 10th, it is
said, 1T is true our State will have to
pay sixteen million of dollars for her
railroad system, owing to the reckless
and uuwiSe legislation from 1860 to 1870
inclusive, but this amount is insignificant
compared with the benefits derived, and
the increased wealth and productions Of
the country which are the results Of this
aystem.'
TO show that this view is sustained by
the facts, We need only recur to the past
history of our State and OF our own cOun-
" of Maury. In 1852 the assessed value
oil all the property in the State, including
slaves and all other personal property,
for there was then no thousand dollars
exempt from taxation, $ls6,62l,ll9. In
1871, in the midst Of the scvercSt tinan-
cisl crisis we have had for years, il ever,
the assessed value of property in the
State was $3.50, So, j65, which did not
include slaves, and did not include the
thousand dollars worth Of personal prop
erty in the hands of each taxpayer, OK
capt. from taxation.
The true value of all the property in
ie State in 1850 was sol 30 GS6, and
in 1870 it was Si9s, 237, 724. In our
county, Maury, the assessed value of land
in 1851 was S5,2IO,OJ2 and in 1874 s.,
$3.50
The value Of the farm products of Ten
Ressee in 1870 was Ss6 472 81 a very
large increase over 1850. These figures,
drawn from official sources, are more re-
liable than the mere recollection Of any
man. All this has happened notwith-
standing the terrible destruction of prop
erty caused by the war. We know men
are disposed to complain, but we should
examine and see whether We have any
reasoms Die grounds Of complaint and
What are the real causes of our dcPres
sion. Where would Tennessee he now,
we're all her railroads destroyed and she
6 reed to rely upon wagon transportation
alone?
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RIIv

Dr.. seth Arnold's Cough Kircr. The great
EradiCutor for all Lung diseases. a superb
or remedy To ali other medicines yet diScov-
cred in severe cases. H. Is q sure, quick and
perfectly SAFE remedy for Coughs, Colds,
Sore Throat, WhOOpiDg Cough CrOOp, and
all diseases of the Throat and Lungs. Retail
price 2jctS, scots 81, Any bottle that does
not give relief may be returned, and money
refunded. Under these conditions we wish
every citizen troubled with Lung COM
plants try this remedy. Arnold's DiarrhOae
Balsom p and 5GctS. Remember it is war
ranted. Compounded by DIR. Seth Arnold
Medical Corporation, WOOnsOcket, r. ].
Sold by WILLIAMS & fowler, exclusive
agents. COlnnbia,I Tenn, april 2l-:!m,
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A CHANGE In BUSINESS

From the following notice it will be seen
that have formed partnership with Mr..
Eugene Pillow, who, after the first proN.
will be associated with me in the interest
of insurance. GEO. CHIDDRESS.
with much pleasure l announce to my
friends that / have purchased of Mr.. Geo.
ChildreSS, an interest in The Insurance
Ageacy of Columbia. Very respectfully,
EUGENE PILLOW.
We would very respectfully, call the at
tcutiOn of our friends, who, by their liberal
patronage, have shown favor to this
Agency, and eli who are or may he interest
ell in the protection of life and property, to
the fact, that it. is Our desire and Intention
to promote and advance the cause of in
sCrancc in our cOmmunity-rCpCeSentin AS
we do, the oldest time trted dItd fire tested.
Corpora tioIIS of Europe and America by
which we are enabled at all times, 10 Oher 10
the public the BEST indemnity at the UCrY
IO,ccsf rate commensurate with the hazard
and 10 this end, will devote our best
energies. Feeling grateful for past faVoFS
earnestly soliciting the continuation of the
same with the addition of all new business.
Very Truly Yours,
CHTLDRESS 81 PILLOW, Agents.
Oct. 3DLh 1871.
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Rea cons Of the Democratic
Arimn1nH in Connecticut.

W. are permitted by Hon. w. c. Whit
thorne to make an extract from private
letter received 10y him from Hon. S. S.
Cox, OF New York, one of the most prom
iaent members of the 4Ith Congress, in
relation to the recent Democratic tri-
umph in Connecticut. Mr.. Cox says:
We did spIendidIy in Connecticut,
Can you guess why They were working
on haletime and that was bigger than
Third Term! Eighty thousand horse
power and only forty thousand horse pull
Ing rather forty thousand stabbed and
eating their heads Of. TO the frugal and
patriotic mind OF Connecticut, so anxious
for their old customers, South and else
where, all such economic appeals on tax
AID tariff Cancellation and liberties, were
not in vain"
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Newspapers not favorable to Beecher
admit that his testimony, which lasted
about two weeks, and is ended, was not
seriously damaged by the great Fullerton S
cross examination. The trial has now
IasteI about eighty days, and it is believ-
ed That it will be ended by Summer.
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TO THE
Farm ~ -
OF MAURY COUNTY.

Since witnessing such an exodus of
from our State, it becomes us TO beStir our
selves in getting the best and most Improved
implement of husbandry. ''Carnos' Clipper
Harrow and Clod crushers comes in tho mich
OF time. 1t is conceded by some of the best
;arIucrs of Williamson and Maury Counties
that it is a success as a labor saving impls-
ment. For putting in small grain after the
ground is broke it.has no equal trash not
choke it but wet dirt, Eor preparing meadows
and lawns it is unsurpassed. Bleak the ground
then this harrow will leave it in better con-
dition than three times plOughing the same
land. II is evident to every farmer that he
can t make much of crop with half of his
best soil lying in clOds which can easily be
pulvcri1cd with this harrow whether moist
or dry. Hence the necessity of using it in the
spring. | have purchased the right Of Maury
county of A. c. Carnes and wish to sell farm
rights, district rights, and Harrow. For partic
lars address me at Spring Hill. ,,,-
Vaughan & Barkley ACTS,
March 18th. tt Columbia Tenn.
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NON.RESIDENT NOTICE.
Geo. =. Frl.rs2n, Executor, &C., W. Jane,

Geo. 4. frlCrson, Executor, &C., Vs. Jame,
NJ. liurwcll ana others
! In this cause ~ appearing from complain.
| ants bill, which n sworn Ia, that James N.
] HHTWell h. ~ nonresident Of the STATE III
Tennessee, ~ that the ordinary PROCESS 81
| law conunt Ice served upon him: n IN there.
| FOR" ordered by me that publication IN
Herald and Mail, a newspaper published IA
the town Of Columbia, Mauy county, Ten
nessce, requiring said dpirndant 90 be and
appear 1T the next sitting or the ghancafT
Court, Ga be held ~ the town uf Cnlunihim
Maury county, Tennessee, on the first Mon.
day in October next, aud plead. answer or de-
mur 10 cumplainantz blll, or the same will
he taken for confessed ns 10 hun, aud act
for hearing CXpaTtC.
April -, IS7j, o. a.. COOPER, q. An
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
Z. s.. ]. Humphreys VS.. John Hump hreys.

4. S. j. Humphreys ys. John Hump hreys.
Because it appears from the allegations in
the petition in this caus., which is sworn to,
that the defendant, John Humphreys, is a
nonresident ofthe State of Tennessee, it is
there ordered by the clerk that publioa-
ton be made in the Herald and Mail, a news
paper published in Columbia, Tennessee, for
four successive weeks, commanding the said
John Hum phreys to appear at the next term
of the Circuit Court for Hickman county, al
the cOurt-hOus thereof, in the town of Centre
Vile, on the LIST Monday in June pext, or the
same will be taken for confessed as to him,
and set for hearing exparte.
ELY THOMPSON,
April 70, 1873. CLERK.
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ORIGINAL ATTACHMENT.

| u. J. Howell W. james Howell, col.
| In this cause u appearing 10y affidavit that
the defendant, James Howell col. n Justly
| indebted to the plaintin, and b. nOn-resi-
dent Of the state Of Tennessee, No that the
Ordinary process of law cannot be served On
him, and an original attachment having
ordered that publication hc made la the
Herald and Mail, q newspaper published In
the town of Columbia, Marry county, Ten
manding the said James Howell, col, 90 np-
pear before me the Eth day 81 May, ih1s.
and make defense "a said suit ngni INST him
or the same will be- proceeded with a.
parte. w. X. MtkEh NON, .
April 18th, 1919. Justice PcnT