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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04

The Brownsville Democrat, in a
very severe article upon Senator
Keys vote for the Christiancy res
olution, says:
'e,rhis is most extraordinary. 1t
will come.ta the people of Tennes-
see like a clap of thunder in clear
sky. Tennessee, through her rep
resentative in the senate, trying to
aid the American Marat in his bit
ter and diabolical designs against
the liberty and peace of her twin
sister, Mississippi! 1t is monstrous.
1t is preposterous. It is absurd.
1t is a grotesque political schism
The reasons given for this singular
attitude of the Tennessee senator,
in which he separates himself from
the balance of the Democratic sena-
tors, is more preposterous, if that
could be possible, than the position
taken. The Democracy must not
shrink from Investigations, for
sooth! Therefore this representa-
tive of the will of Governor Porter
(for we repudiate the idea that in
any sense he represents the people
of Tennessee), voted against the
wise and patriotic Thurman, the
chivalric Gordon, the cultivated and
accomplished Bayard, the noble and
upright English, the learned and
able Nerrimon, against all of his
Democratic associates in the senate,
and side by side with Morton, Bout
well, Spencer, Logan, Cameron,
Dawes and Powell Clayton, the vim
dictive and malevolent prosecutors
and slanderers of the southern peo-
pie. 1t will be idle for Senator
Key, or his apologists to excuse or
palliate his reprehensible conduct,
this covert and undemocratic attack
upon the liberties of the people OF
Mississippi. The only reparation
he can offer to the people of the
state he has outraged and misrep-
resented, is to resign and come
home. Come home, Key, come
home"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04
A TEKRIBLE TALE.
Unraveling the Horrors of the
Government Lunatic Asylum.


WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE tes-
timony before the committee on ex
penditures in the interior depart
ment to-day discloses a condition
of affairs at the government lunatic
asylum "a this district more horri-
bic than can easily be believed.
The principal, witness was George
NJ. Daw, at one time a soldier in
the regular army, and afterward an
assistant at the asylum. His testi-
mony to-day fairly curdled the
blood of those who heard it. 1t
was tale of such a brutal treat
ment and neglect. He swore posi-
lively thar many patients had been
thrown into filthy cells with pothing
hut a bandle OF straw to lie upon.
Every morning a servant would
come around with a wheelbarrow to
remove the excrement, but the
straw was merely shaken up like
the straw in a stable and left in the
cell The patients only bed was
left until it became so fetid that it
had to be carted away, when a new
bundle was brought in and the pro-
cess repeated. The most atroelous
case cited was that of certain Gen.
Loomis, who had been an officer in
the regular army. When brought
to the asylum he was old and per-
fectly helpless; yet old and helpless
as he was, he was left to wallow in
his filth on the floor, until, when
the witness saw him, as he said, the
bones of the poor mans shoulder
blades, knees, and elbows had act
ually worn through the flesh, and
he was literally devoured with YER
min. This patient finally died
there. The witness also under
stood that General Howard came
once to see General Loomis, but
was told that he was asleep. Mrs
Murphy, another witness, testified
that her husband was sent there al
the instance of a certain benevolent
society in this city. She called of
ten to see him; always found hin
covered with vermin and often GOV
cred with severe bruises, which he
husband said were caused by abuse
Finally he died there suddenly on
Wednesday. The preceding Satur
day she saw him, and he was well
and when they brought the body t.
her the face was covered with bruis
es which were not there Saturday
She believed that his death wa
hastened by violence. Tho com
mittee are determined to probe tn
matter. to the bottom.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04
Moody and Sankey's Services
GratuitOus.

Moody and Sankey's n. Y. Ex
ecutive Committee announce that
not a dollar of the money received
by them will 60, or has gone, into
the hands of Mr.. Moody or of Mr..
Sankey. Neither the preacher nor
the singer has received any salary,
weekly or otherwise. No fund has
been raised for their support. And
no committee has been appointed
or will be appointed to act in the
matter. When the services began
the Executive Committee placed
small boxes at the various doors
and entrances to the Hippodrome,
with the design OF giving any per-
son so disposed an opportunity of
Contributing to the support of the
revivalists, but Mr.. Moody at once
directed that the boxes should be
removed. For a consideration
which the committee. considered
equitable, viz, payment of money
by the publishers of the Gospel
Hymns towards defraying the ex-
penses of the Hippodrome, the
agents of these publishers were foI
a day or two allowed to sell the
hymn books at the various en-
frances. But to this arrangemeni
Mr. Moody also objected, and il
was forthwith abandoned.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04

Mr.. John W. Forney, who has
just resumed the control OF his
newspaper, asks, in a burst OF en-
thusiasm: where's the black man
to-day2 You do not find hira in
your jails." Mr.. Forney, why don't
you have patience and give the
black man chance2 II you will
only give him time, he will come up
fully to the Black Republican stand
ard and 90 to meet Mckee ahd Ne
Donald and Joyce and Belknap.
He is getting along splendidly, but
you must not -erowd" him. He
has not been in Congress long
enough set to learn how to sell ca
detships. You have not put him
in the Cabinet and given him a
chance to swindie the Indians or
sell post-traderships. You have
not put him into the whisky ring
OF the real estate pool or the straw
bid maIl-contract swindle. Give
him time and treat him fairly aud
he will get along fully as well as
the white Christian statesmen
Baltimore 6ezstts.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04

gion a Christianity or the water of
life vii quench the thirst or the
longing desires of the immortal
mind OF man, and he says that it
has done great deal more harm
than good, and has been the cause
of all the bitter wranglings and per
secutions, and all the wars that have
cursed the earth since the world
began.
Now, if you ask him, "Have you
ever tried It, have You ever drank
of the water of life, to see whether
it will quench thirst or not, have
you tested the great truths of Chris
tianity by your own practical expe-
rience?' and he will tell you no,
that he has not, and that he viii
not, for he believes that it is all a
delusion, that ft III inseeiaasis.a.
Hero he con
demnsfa theory that be nas never
tried. Is he an impartial jndgef
Is the water of life to blame for
this? Are all the great truths OF
Christianity to be rejected by all
mankind because the infidel will not
receive them while thousands have
tried them and found them to be
true?
Whose testimony shall we receive
the testimony of those who have
tried Christianity and found it to
be true, or the testimony of those
who condemn it and call it false
and yet have never tried it?
G. BARNHART.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04
The Captive Humming Bird.

The following poem, written twenty-sevel
years ago, by Mr.. Joel T. Hart, has neve
before been published:
Fleet-hying gem, of FURNISHED crest,
And Silver-tipped wing,
With azure, gold and sapphire breast;
Hoian captive thing
Tell me the secret of thy song,
And whence thy robe of beams;
If to the earth thou dost belong,
Or Paradise CT dreams
Born for one season, Of ray,
To banquet mid the bowers,
Or wilt thou chant another May 2
Sweet minstrel of the flowers
The eoyest honeysuckles still,
Their daintiest buds unfold
For thee to kiss, with honeyed bill,
Their nectar lips Of gold:
The lilly opes its snowy cell,
The pink its crimson door,
"SiP ~ whispers every fond blue bell,
"My honey to the core"
While blushing flowers Tor thee all fling
Their fragrance on the air,
The purple morning glories cling
On high, in beauty bare.
The tiny chalice of the thyme,
And daisies, plead below,
Each dewy- eyed, too small to climb,
'Come kiss me ere you CO."
Away on thy melodious wing
To Loves ysteriOus'b 'bOwerss
Still thy free band of minstrels bring
To reyol mid the flowers.
Breathe on their bosoms fair and sweet,
And rosy lips apart,
And give and take, in Loves retreat,
The honey of the heart.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04

Stewart was not the inventor Of
the aone-priee system" in selling
goods by retail, but he forced it up
on New York dealers, and, II he
had not found it in use somewhere,
he would have invented It. His
sales were made upon an absolute
basis ofthree elements. truth, court
esy, and a good bargain. He gave
the buyer all the advantage Of his
own skill in selecting and bis COM
mana Of the market, he let the buy
er know politely, and no. obtrusive
IL what It was he was buying, and
then he took for himself the fair
profit, which he always meant 10
get He had great difficulty in com
pelling his salesmen to be as civil
70 poor Bridget who bought 3 nine
penny calico. rs to Mrs. Knicker-
booker. who spent / 900 in a single
visit, but he did secure that equal
clvilisr, 81 last. and he proHted by it.
-Spriaefsla Espu5lioan.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04
For the Citizen ]
InfdeIity.

If we talk to the infdeI about the
joys of religion and the glorious
prospects of those who die in the
triumphs of the Christian faith, he
says that it is nothing but animal
magnetism, that it is all imagina-
ton. Hence, according to the inf
del theory, all the Apostles and
primitive Christians, and martyrs,
and all the Christians that have
lived and died since the days of the
Apostles down to the present time,
and all the Christians that are liv-
ing on the earth now are laboring
under great delusion; all their
ioys and comforts and all their
bright prospects are nothing but
magnetism, they are all imagina-
ton. Now, 1 think that before an
infidel makes such a sweeping q e
nunciation as this he should con
slider that Imagination is one thing
and reality is another. For in
stance, if hear of man that
never saw, I Immediately form an
image in my mind of his size and
appearance and actions, DC, anc
/ this is imagination; but when l SET
the man and take an actual survey
of him and his appearance, &c, tha
is a reality.
Before I embraced Christianity
heard about it and read about it
and l pictured out in my own minC
what a glorious thing it would b
to be a Christian, and to live
| Christian life, and this was imagi
nation; but after 1 embraced Chris
tianity I found that it was bette
than I expected, and that the hal
f had not been told me, and this wa
a reality. But the infdel will sa
no. that was all imagination toe
Very well, let him have it so if h
wants to. But win give you an
other example.
, Five years ago I went on an eS
carsion trip to Columbus, the CaI
}, ital of Ohio; and on the way | pie
tured out in my mind the appea
G ance of the city, the houses an
streets, and the Capitol, and Il
Legislative halls, &c, and I ws
elated with the idea of having IL
privilege of seeing the place
which l had heard so much. No
this was Imagination; but when
saw the city, and beheld the street
, and the houses, and the Capit'
) and the Legislative halls, and t
peniteatiary, DC, this was a reaIii
S and the reality far exceeded u
t imagination of the place, and I {,
= that was well paid for the tr
But according to the infidel theol
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04

In the language of an Alabama
contemporary, should any of our
patriotic political aspirants desire
their virtues extolled by their
friends, our columns are open to
them at the usual advertising rates.
We viii also make announcements
at five dollars a head, so come for
ward, gentlemen, and let the untram-
meled electors know that through
veal and woe, in prosperity and ad
versity, amid storm and sunshine,
when wars dread sounds are heard,
and when balmy peace spreads its
white pinions over the land, that
your talents, energies, and strong
right arms are devotedly at their
service. We throw out these few
hints to aspirants, in the hope that
they viii give us credit for good in
tentions.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04

The Upton Record says, addition
al to what it has already said on the
same subject, that safter a careful
perusal OF Senator Keys speech, we
are led to the belief that he offered
many excellent reasons why he
should have voted against the reso,
luton, but none why lie should
have voted for it"
That's so. The speech aud the
vote were not consistent. The
speech was very good. The vote
was execrable.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04
For the Citizen.l
Queries.

Why is q church bell mere afFa-
bic than the organ? Because the
one will go when tits tolled, and
other has to be blown up first.
Why is a prosy preacher like the
hub of wheel2 Because the fell
lows around him are tired.
What is the difference between
an auction and sea sickness2 One
is sale of effects, the other effects
Of sail.
Why is a glazier likely to be an
incorporate man? Because he al
ways has to have his glass before
he goes to work.
Who was the first man that ever
went around the earth? The man
in the moon.
When was beef the highestP
When the~cow jumped over the
moon.
Why is a mans life safer just be-
fore dinner? Because he can't di-
jest then.
Why is matrimony like a landed
estate? Because it is a proper-tie
property.
What do cats have that no other
animal has? Kittens.
What is the next thing to hen
stealing? Cockrobin.
Why is a dogs tail like an elder
ly lady? Because it's in firm.
What is it in this world that has
only one side? A prison life only
on inside.
Why is kissing like a sewing ma.
chine? Because it seems so good
Why is $lOO bill like tall May
pole? Because it is hard to raise
Why is a drunkard like a bad
politician? Because he is always
putting his nose into measures thai
destroy the constitution.
Why cannot a temperance man
kiss a Jewess? Because he is sworr
not to touch Jew-lips.
What does a grocer do with al
his goods before he sells them
Gives them a weigh.
When is love deformed? Whei
it's all on one side.
When are eyes not eyes2 Whei
the wind makes them water.
Why is a minister near the EN-
of his sermon like a ragged urchin
Because he is to'ard his close.
What age do hogs attain2 Sau;
age.
When is love like a battle? Whe
it comes to an engagement.
Why is a wife like dynamite
Will blow up if handled rough.
What blossom deprived of one (
its letters is often sent by lovers
Pink.
What blossom deprived of one
its letters becomes what all youn
Misses desire to possess? Glove
What animal is suggestive
. heavy rain? Reynard.
What flower speaks the sweets
words to lovers and bitterest wore
) to enemies? Tulips
When is a married man like
candle? When he goes out
night when he ought not to.
Why should soldiers be moi
t tired the first of April than al
= other day in the year? Becaul
they have just ended a March
r thirty-one days.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04

The best way 70 reduce the ar
my, is to cut of the dead heads,
that is, strike from the rolls, the
fancy men, who do service By sim
ply dancing with Washington bellies.
The army in the field needs no re-
duetion, but the vast army Of fan
cy officials. who serve the country
alone in ball rooms, and by parting
their hair in the middle, and wear
ing a profnsion of buttons, needs
eurtailment. If the reduction pow
er takes this direction in Congress,
then We are for it.-Jackson San.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04
The JOY Of TncomDieteness.

The JOY of IncomDleteness
Il all our lives we've one broad glare
vi sunlight, clear, unclOuded;
If all our path were smooth and fair,
by no soft gloom enshTouded;
If all life's flowers We're fully blown
Without che sweet unfolding,
And happiness were rndely thrown
On hands too weak for holding
Should we not miss the twilight hours,
The gentle haze and sadness2
Should VIC not long for storms and showers
To break the constant gladness?
If none we're sick and none were sad,
What service could we renderg
J think FIVE were always glad,
We scarcely could be tender
Did our beloved never need
Our patient ministration,
Earth would grow cold, and miss indeed
It's sweetest consolation;
II sorrow never claimed our heart,
And every wish were granted,
Patience would die, and hope depart
Life would be disenchanted.
And yet in heaven is no more night,
In heaven Is no more sorrow
Such unimagined new delight
Fresh grace from pain will borrow
As the poor seed that underground
Seeks It's true light above it.
Not knowing what will there be found
w hen sunbeams kiss and love it.
So we in darkness upward grow,
And look and long for heaven,
But cannot picture it below,
Till more Of light be given.
ID. Besemeres, in Sunday Magazine.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04

All night long on the first night
OF the present month the Millerites
of Toronto sat up in their aseen
sion robes, momentarily expecting
the world to come to an end
Whether it did or did not come to
an end the Toronto papers don't
say, and nobody is surprised that
they don't, for there is not enter
prise enough among them TO chrons
icle such an event even if it were TO
take place Courier Journal
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04
Another civil war Threatened.

Mr.. George S. Boutwell,, lately
Grants Secretary of the Treasury,
and now u Senator from Massachu
sets, in the course of a debate IN
the Senate the other day used the
following language.
''No, sir; if the people this eoun-
try fail to do their duty the Govern
ment is lost. If they fail to over
throw the Democratic party by a
vote so overwhelming that there
can be no excuse for bribery, for
falsehood, for double return, this
country a year from this win be in
volved in sanother civil war. Moth
ing but an overwhelming vote of the
people, from which there can be no
appeal by traitors, viii save US from
civil war"
What does this mean? What can
be the purpose of such q threat
Who is TO begun the civil war which
AFR. boutwell, announces3 Is Is the
Belknaps, the Robesons, the Bah
cocks, the Shepherds, who viii set
on foot this method Of retaining
power after they have been beaten
in the election? Have they author
lied Mr.. Boutwell, to speak in this
manner, and is he their mouthpiece?
Are the people of the United States
not to be free to choose in accord
ance with the Constitution, in the
election of next November, such
candidates as the majority of them
may approve? Or must they take
men who will be satisfactory to
Grant, Belknap, Robson, Babeock,
and Boutwell,, under penalty of a
new civil war?
What else can be the Specification
of Mr.. Boutwell's menace? 1t the
Democratic party is not voted down
by an overwhelming majority in No
vember, he tells us, this country a
year from this will be involved in
another civil war. Will the Demo
cratic party make this civil WARP
Not at all, for, as he tells US, the
civil war will follow the success OF
that party, and a successful party
can have no occasion to appeal TO
arms. 1t is the unsuccessful, the
defeated party, which can alone ex-
pect or desire to gain anything by
such an appeal. This threatened
civil war, then viii be made by the
defeated Republicans, and be made
simply because they are defeated
This is tue whole sense of Mr.
Boutwelrs declaration. He requires
the people to let the candidates oil
the Republican party be elected
in November, or a civil war viii bC
commenced in March next, immedi
ately after the inaugurating of {
| Democratic President.-N. 7. San
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04

A certain parson, who is also a
school teacher, handed a problem
to his class in mathematics, the
other day. The first boy took it,
looked at it az hile, and then said (:
"I pass" Second boy took it and
said, II turn it down" The third
boy stared at it awhile, and drawled
out, Il can't make it. every good,
boys said the teacher, eve will cut
for a new deal" And the switch
danced like lightning over the
shoulders of those depraved mathe-
mnficians.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04

We have read some very pretty
writing upon the general steal all
round of the Federal officials, and
then we have read from the same
writer's, effusions on State credit ex-
citing wonder, wholly unmixed with
admiration. Honesty inculcated in
Federal affairs and rascality con
demned. Scaling CT bonds, princi-
pal and interest, commended in
State affairs ana payment of the
State debt condemned. Your repu-
diator at the mere mention of State
honor turns up his nose in the air
like an amorous bull. When you
call him by his right name he paws
the ground, envelops himself in a
cloud of dust, and IN low muttering
thunder tones, emulating the furor
if not the orthography of the fa-
nous western advocate, he bellows
out, F-R-O-A-Di He initiates Pat
rick Henry's famous "and
if this be treason make the most of
it''-by telling the "bloated" that
his bonds were conceived IN iniqui
ty and brought forth IN fraud, that
if he will agree to surrender halt
his bonds, why, perhaps, he may
possibly pay the other half; hut if
he refuses why he'll take all, "and
if this be repudiGtion, make the most
of itr'
How brave! What unselfish mar
tyrdom! How even BELKNAPERY
fades in the sunlight of this bril-
liant anti-climax! After such q
display of public virtue the severe
confluence of Beecher, and the in
exorable chastity of Elizabeth, seem
no longer worthy of our admiration
But a word on fraudulent bonds
Where are they? We have read the
Governors messages, Comptroller
and Treasurer's reports, and reports
from legislative committees special
ly instructed to hunt fraudulent
bonds, but neither State officer no
Legislature has unearthed such
bonds. What bonds were issued il
fraud of the law? Name them, tn,
corporation or individual to whom
issued! We won't trouble you tC
give the numbers or series. Wer
the bonds issued to build our Stat
capitol, our railroads and turnpikes
fraudulent? Speak out. You nee'
not tell US of "Brownlow bonds" j" ly
ing cancelled in the State Treasur
er's safe, or Mineral railroads" re
pudiated by legislature long ago
As well republish the POpe's bu
against the comet, or sing psalm
over defunct cavalry. But We dc
sire to know what bonds wer
fraudulently issued. Tell us. Yo
alone possess the secret. Concea
ment on so vital matter is Grim
nal How can a faithful journals
withhold such knowledge from tn
people? You are for paying all tf
, debt that Tennessee honestly owe
So are we. You are opposed on
to paying bonds fraudulently j
, sued. So are we. Now tr'ot oI
your fraudulent bonds, and we
help you mark them GarksUil
Chronicle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04

The Holly Springs Reporter says
that whatever the Aralanehs may
say in his defense, the sentiment Of
the country south is against Mr..
Key, and arguments may be strung
out to the crack of doom in his vim
dication and the people of this sec
ton will not be convinced that his
position is a correct one.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-04

The Spencer fraud has cost the
government $4,000. and the old
skunk remains in his seat. This is
a progressive age; honesty is below
par, and thievery commands a pre-
MUM.