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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27
JOHN WILKES BOOTH.
Why he assassinated Abraham
Lincoln.
Brick POmerOy Assumes to
Give the Truth of History.
IPomeroy's Democrat.l ]

PomerOy's Democrat.
Another of the characters of the
war time was a wild, dashing, bee
Drained young man, named John
Wilkes Booth. From his father he
inherited a certain taint of frenzy
under excitement that was cousin
german TO insanity. This Booth
was a reckless, handsome fellow,
whose delight was to dress well,
feed upon female hearts, and in
mimicry mouth the utterance of
men of creative genius. His blood
was hot and passion quick to kindle.
In his loves and friendships ne was
erratic and peculiar. He did not
try to study himself, and grew up
wild and tumultuous.
Among the chosen friends of his
boyhood was a dashing, chivalrous
Young man named John Y. Beal,
whose home was in the beautiful
Shenandoah Valley, not far from
Winchester, as we know from hav
ing been there. Damon and Pythias
were not more attached to each
other than were Booth and Beal
They rode, walked, dined, drank
and intrigued together. Beal was
Southern in his sympathies, and
to a certain extent as much a mar
tyr as was erratic John Brown, whe
was taken in a raid, hung in the
Jail yard at Charlestown, Virginia
bv order of Governor Wise, anC
whose scafold, as we write this, is
now in our Office. Beal planned
raids on northern cities, and at last
was captured at or near Buffalo
tried for piracy on northern lakes
and sentenced to be hung on Bed
loe's Island, in harbor of New York
In prison, waiting his doom, w
! leave him for a time.
One afternoon, the City of Wash
ington, while Beal was under sen
tenee of death, there alighted iron
a carriage two men, who walked in
to the room occupied by Washing
ton Mclean, of Cincinnati, VIII
was at the time in Washington il
/ the interest of his business. Thes
men who called were Senator Hale
of New Hampshire, and job
Wilkes Booth, with whom, throug
the Morgans, of Kentucky, McLea
had become quite well acquainted
Their errand was briefly told
Booth was anxious to save the lii
of Beal, his chum and confdentii
personal friend. He had intereste
Mr.. Hale in his behalf, who, frol
his former Identification with tn
political movement that had grow
into the elevation of Lincoln to I'll
Presidency, had come to ask at Il
Executive the favor of mercy for
brave enemy, who had, in defen'
> of his friends in the South, doI
no more than people in the Nort
;, applauded their scouts and adve
Is turers for doing or attempting.
e They importuned Mclean to {
with them to the President, as
Democrats a friend ofBooth-
man who had much influence wi
Mr. Lincoln, and to voueh wi
Mr.. Hale, for any promises Boo
might make in return for this gre
favor to him. After a protract
, interview, Mclean accompani
s. Hale and Booth in a carriage to {
residence Of john ". Forney, "
= was then in bed, the hour bel
= late. Forney was awakened from
sleep and told the object Of his c:
His sympathies we're enlisted, as
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27
10 report as ID salaries of preaehers

#No report as to salaries of preachers paid
for the year 1sT4-5.
+Connected with Prospect Circuit last year
tAbsorbed by other cha ges this year.
sCulleoka and MooTesville last year, Guile
Okla and Hurricane Switch this year.
Report imperfeet, owing to the death Of
the pastor, DR.. Smith.
TThe publisher has omitted the fractions
for convenience of condensation The table
could not otherwise be condensed into the
width of a column.l
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27

The New York Bulletin, an infu
entail financial journal, makes this
startling estimate Of the losses %
property and trade by corrupt gov
-ernment. eAfter allowing for the
inevitable addition to the taxes aris-
ing from war expenditures, it may
be safely estimated that for the last
ten years the taxes, including ali
kinds, have been swelled by corrupt
political influence at the rate OF
10000. O00 e year. If this esti-
mate be correct we have paid with
in one decade s2.500,O0O,o00 an
amount sufficient to extinguish the
whole national debt and equal e
four years net earnings Of tho ma
tion, as the penalty Of toleratins
political corruption" Here is an
impartial authority as to what Re
publican rule has cost the overbur-
dened taxpayers Of this country.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27

A negro woman stepped into a
Pulaski drug store Monday morning
very much excited and asked:
"Mister,is de stewartess in town p
The drug man asked her a half
dozen times what she meant, and
she still repeated the question, fin
ally explaining:
81 heard the stewartess were in
town and dat dey pasted up folks
mouths andtstole 'em Off"
The girl was very much frighten-
ed when the getleman assured her
that her fears were well grounded
that they were here and we're steal
ing all unprotected yellow girls
She hastened out of the store
dodging strange looking men, and
evidently scared almost out of heI
wits. The report spread through
the colored population and many
of them are now excited and ap.
prehensive Of danger. We can't i'm
agine how such a foolish idea start
ed, except it grew out of the reports
Of a. T. Stewards death. This il
a literal fact, and we mention it a
a phase of negro superstition, o
! voodOoism, a characteristic whicl
SO fttingly demonstrates the justie
of their claims to intelligence. refine
meut, social equality, civil right
and the elective franchise. Arie
. finds unanswerable arguments il
these everyday outeroppings of ne
gro character in support of hi
! brute theory.
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That farmer who keeps every
thing about the premises tidy, al
the animals in comfortable condi-
tion, who has plenty Cor his family 5
support. is out Of debt, Tor whose
affairs are in a prosperous coadi
tion, is at peace with his neighhors,
takes the papers, and buys good
books, is truly natures nobieIhan
and can truthfuiiy say u anu mon
arch Of all ] survey my rights none
dare dispute" Such one the king
on his throne might well envy, and
the merchant or professional man is
naught when compared with this.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27

The Boston Transcript describes
the private box Of Dir. a. 4.
Stewart al Nibio's Garden, which is
said TO equal in style. size and con
venience the box Of any crowned
head IN Europe. It consists OF a
suite or four rooms. a large paFlor,
dressing-roosn and box. They are
richly carpeted and curtained. and
the paTlor has immense mirrors OF
the finest cut glass chandeliers in
the city. The dressing room has
every appurtenance Of the toiletand
his box is filed with luxurious
Turkish chairs covered with Grim
son satin. A dance can be IN
dulged in between the acts. il thc
orchestra be playing. or a supper
served from the Metropolitan Hotel
just across the court.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27

Every foo. Of Centennial space for
American exhibitors has, it is said,
been applied for more than twice
over, and eight hundred applies
tions have not yet been touched.
The number of square feet thus as
signed 70 the principal nations is
thus given: UNITED States, IS7. 705;
Great Britain, not including colo
nies, 51,776; France and colonies.
43,3l4; German Empire, 57T05;
Austria and Hungary, 2L070; Ja-
pan, 1866; Netherlands, Is. 400;
Sweden, I7,755; Bolgium, l5,35s;
Spain. 1888; Russia, HOOP, Por-
tagal, 1888, China, 1904; Switzer.
land, 6,6I6; Brazil, 6,s97; Mexico.
6. .5O4.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27
Senator Blizzard on the State
Debt.
lAthens Post.)

CAthens Post.)
After the adjournment of the
Democratic county meeting last
Monday, our distinguished fellow
townsman, Col A. BLIZZARD, ad-
dressed a large audience, assembled
in the Circuit Court room, for
something like an hour. He took
bold, positive and high ground
against reputation, whole or par
tial, and said the bare thought of
such an alternative to get rid Of an
honest debt was unworthy of Ten
nesseeans, and its consumation
would be an everlasting reproach
and stigma upon the character and
history of the Commonwealth,
past, present and to come. If we
did not misapprehend him he is in
favor Of retrenehment and reform in
the administration of State affairs,
and an increase Of taxes sufficient
to carry on the government and to
restore and preserve the faith and
integrity Of the State, should it take
sixty cents, eighty or even one dol
on the hundred to do it. The
plighted faith and good name Of
Tennessee must be maintained a.
all hazards and at any sacrifice as
the richest legacy we can leave our
children.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27

A Frenchman roasts coffee,
grinds it to -four, moistens it slight
Is, mixes it in twice its weight Of
powdered white sugar, and then
presses it into tablets. One OF
these tablets can be dissolved any
time in hot or cold water, making
at once the very perfection ofconee;
and tis claimed that 6 pound Of
the berry win go much further BY
this than by any other preparation
Of the berry.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27

A local debating society is pre-
pairing to wrestle with the following
question: Resolved, that man
who plays on an aeordeon and keeps
a barking dog can't be Christian. =
Four members 10 one want to take
the negative side.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27

The st. Louis RepuJ1ieaa { (Inde-
pendent) says OF the Morton inves-
tigation by the Christiancy fesolu-
ton, for which Senator Key, of Ten
uesse, voted. that the whole thing is
nothing more nor less than an elec
tioneering job, intended TO secure
the solid vote OF the African popu-
lation, and also to influence those
whites who still think the colored
brother has not yet obtained the
proper quantity and quality OF
rights The short time allowed
for the completion of the task shows
it was not thoroughly done, but
done just we'll enough to serve a
purely partisan purpose. 1t win be
just that one sided affair that Nor
ton designed it should be from the
start: a rehash of the kuklux busi-
ness, which caught the bsllots of SO
many fools three years age
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27

1t is a very serious thing - die,
but it IS a much more serious thing
70 live. Death IS but a single event,
life is 8 series Of events. Death
can make no change in our charae-
ter; life makes or uamakes ns forev-
er. Death is only serious beeaase
it is followed by eternity; life IS So
rious because it decides whether
our eternity shalt be one of happi-
ness or woe
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph thus mean thai your sub
scripticn Is eut or unpaid. and ilat you
are requested te pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in eStcading
credit e cur friends and patrons. hut
cash alone sill yay our expenses. ana
We are forced to adhere 10 s strict rssl.
rule. We hepe sou win comprehend
aud appreciate The Necessity Of such a
course, and renew yenr subscription
without delay, We solicit yeur favor.
We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27

Small farms make bear neigbboFas
they make good roads; they make
plenty Of good schools aud church
esi there is more money made in
proportion TO the labor; lees labor Is
wanted; everything is kept neat
less wages have to be paid Cor heips
less time is wanted more Is raised TO
the acre; besides il is titled better,
there is no watching OF hired helps
the mind is not kept IN a worry.
stew, and fret all the time
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27

This from the Knoxville Tribune IS
very severe: st vas not G bad re-
mark of one Of our young attorneys
the other dag in the ehancery court
who, when oyerruied By the chan
cellor, apoiogised for having cons
sumed the time Of the court, con
Tossing that he had been led INTO his
error by several foolish decisions Of
the supreme court.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27

Don'tlet your angry passions rise
because your neighhors advertise
and draw away the dimes but bold
iy do as they have done, parsne
the same course they have begun.
aud drive away the aail times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27
From the Columbia District Directory. j
Nearer Home.

This beautiful hymn was written
by Phoebe Cary in the year 1842.-
The following touching story is
told concerning the singing Of it in
far off heather land:
A gentleman in China, intrusted
with packages for a young man,
from his friends in the United States,
learned that he, probably, would be
found in a certain gambling house.
He went thither, but not seeing the
young man, sat down and waited, in
the hope that he might come in
The place was a bedlam of noises,
men getting angry over their cards,
and frequently coming to blows
Near him sat two men-one young,
the other forty years of age. They
were betting and drinking in a ter
rible way, the older one giving ut
terance continually to the foulest
profanity. Two games had been
finished, the young man losing each
time. The third game, with fresh
bottles of brandy, had just begun,
and the young man sat lazily back
in his chair, while the older shuffled
his cards. The man was a long
time dealing his cards, and the
young man, looking carelessly about
the room, began to hum a tune
He went on till at length he began
to sing the hymn Of Phoebe Cary
given below. The words, says the
writer of the story, repeated in such
a vile place, at first made me shud-
der. A Sabbath-school hymn in a
gambling den! But while the young
man sang, the elder stopped dealing
the cards, stared at the singer a mo-
ment, and throwing the cards on
the floor, exclaimed: ''Harry, where
did you learn that tuner" "What
tuneY Why, that one you've been
singing" The young man said he
did not know what he had been
singing, when the older repeated
the words, with tears in his eyes,
and the young man said he had
learned it in a Sunday-School in
America. ''Come," SAID the elder,
getting up, "come, Harry, here's
what I've won from you; go ard
use it for some good purpose. As
for me, as God sees me, have
played my last game, and drunk my
last bottle. / have misled you,
Harry, and I am sorry. Give me
your hand, my boy, and say for old
Americas sake, if for no other, you
will quit this internal business" So,
arm in arm, the two walked away
together.
Rat bara ic tho hx-y,,r, -.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27

Mrs. Harriet Beeeher Stowe fehl-
lied $1,000 last year from the profits
of her orange grove in Florida.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-27

But here is the hymn -
One sweetly solemn thought
Comes 70 me DER and DER;
Pm nearer home to-day
Than I've ever been before:
Nearer my Fathers house,
Where the many mansions be;
Nearer the great white throne,
Nearer the crystal sea;
Nearer the bound of life,
Where we lay our burdens down;
Nearer leaving the cross,
NeaTer gal lining the crown.
Bat tho waves of that silent sea
Roll dark before my sight,
That bright on the other side
Break on q shore Of light.
Jesus, confirm my trust;
Strengthen the hand of faith
To feel Thee, when l stand
Upon the shore of death.
Be near me when my feet
Are slipping DER the brink,
For I'm nearer home.
Perhaps, than now | think.
The weekly clarion., 1876-01-19
SENATE IBiII NO. ..

The Senate bill introduced by Mr..
Johnston, of Kinds, and which passed
the House yesterday, Wednesday, "to
regulate advertising by the Boards OF
Supervisors" provides: SECTION 1st.
That hereafter when Boards of Supervi-
sors advertise for proposals for the ereo'
ton or repair of bridges, buildings, and
for any public work or contract, the no.
tice thereof, inserted in any newpaper,
shall only contain a brief statement that
such contracts are offered to the lowest
bidder such notices to be inserted once
for three consecutive weeks, and
shall omit all specifications, shall
not exceed one square, and shall refer
all bidders to the clerk of said Board fol
information as to details. SEC. I'd.
That whenever such contracts are offered
it shall be the duty Of the boards at once
TO file with the clerk a general plan, full
specifications, details, etc., and that il
shall be the duty of the clerk to exhibit
and explain the said plans, etc., without
extra fee therefor. Sec. Sd. Enacting
clause
The weekly clarion., 1876-01-19

The new Apportionment Bill, intro
duced in the House by Mr.. Meade,
of Simpson, provides that Section
2904, Code 1871, be amended as
follows County of Warren, four
Representatives Counties of Kinds,
Lowndes, Adams, Carroll, DeSoto,
Holmes, Madison, Marshall, Monroe,
Noxubee, Washington and Yazoo, each,
three Representatives: counties of Attala
QhickasaW, Choctaw, Claiborne, Oopiah,
Jefferson, Lafayette, Laqderdale, Oktib
beha, Pamela, Pontotoc, Tippah, Wilkin'
SON, Yalobusha, Tishomingo and Rankin,
each, two Representatives counties Of
Amite, Bolivar, Calhoun, Clarke, Frank
lin, Issaqaena, Ita%amba, Jasper. KEN
per, Lawrence, Lincoln, Lee, Pike,
sunfower, Scott, Simpson, Sumner,
Tallahatchie, Winston, Coahoma, Tuni
Ga, Leake, Newton, Neshoba, Covington
Wayne, Smith, Jones, Greene, jackson
Hancock, Pearl, Marion, Harrison
Perry, AlcOrn, Colfax, Benton, Grenada
Lefore, Montgomery, Prentiss, Tate
and Union, each, one Representative.
Sec. I'd, To take effect with next Leg
/ islature 4G
The weekly clarion., 1876-01-19
The Regeneration Laws.

The appointment of Senators Rey-
nolds to the Craftsmanship of the Com
mittee on Elections and Registration,
assures good work.-Aberdeen Exam
iner.
There is no branch of the public SER
vice which stands in greater need of re-
form, and we are gratifed that it is in
competent hands. We would suggest
that Registration papers be done away
with entirely, and the record be made the
evidence of registration and eligibility
with proper guarantee of right to chal-
lenge. 1t would be well, also, to transfer
the appointment of Registrars to other
hands than those that now WELD it and
there should be higher standard OF
qualification, and a lower rate of com
pensation fixed. The feature of the
law securing to both parties representa-.
ton on the Board should be retained; and
each voter should be required to deposit
his ballot in his own beat.
The present system is complex, ex
pensive Radical eontrivanee, and will M
doubt be simplified and economised, by
the able committee to whom the subject
has been committed,
The weekly clarion., 1876-01-19
HOW Gov. AmeS and kAiS Clan
HOaxed senator Morton.

The n. 7. Herald assumes that Sena
tor Morton was '' hoaxed' into the in
PRODUCTION of his resolution TO investigate
the Mississippi election, by the shrewt
management of Gov. Ames and his oat
rage committee. The Senator was no
half as badly fooled as the Herald
imagines. He is willing dupe. The
real motive at the bottom of the move
nent is to manufacture capital fol
partisan uses in the Presidential election.
Morton knows too much of the Southern
caTPet-bagger to be really deceived by
any statement from that source.
} We will, however, let the Herald pnr
the. case IN Its own way, promising that
its idea that it would have been as rea-
sonable to send investigating committees
to New York and to Massachusetts. after
the recent political revolution in those
States, as to Mississippi, is the same
which has been advanced in THE
CLARION:
n. Y. Herald.l
Standardization wants a committee to in
Festigete Mississippi politics. There has
been great and sudden change in party
predominance in Mississippi, and Mr.. Nor
ton seems to have his eyes so fixed on the
South that he has not noticed similar equal
ly sudden, and even greater, changes in some
Northern States. He is so amazed at the
Of1 hot he ho
investigating committee, and a good many
thousand dollars for its expenses, to explain
the mystery to him. But when Massachu-
sets went over from the Republicans to the
Democrats. why did not Mr.. Morton de-
ma1d an investigation? That was even a
greater change. When New York Hoped
over from Dix to Tilden, he ought to have
had an investigation; and now that it has
hopped back again, there is, on his theory,
occasion for another costly investigation.
If, whenever the people of State, tired
of misgovernment, or of false promises, or
for any other cause, turn out political
party, the Senate is to investigate the causes
of the change, l. will have its hands full.
Fortunately, the case of Mississippi does
not need committee. Mr.. Morton's aston
ishment need not last until a leisurely in
vestigation relieves him. Our Washington
correspondent sends US letter from d
prominent and honest Republican of Mis-
sissippi, which shows why his State became
Democratic. The reasons are quite suffi-
cient. The Republican Governor squan-
dered the peoples money on favorites and
corrupted the Judiciary, and the people
united to fling him and the faction which
sustained him from power. They did right,
and they would not have deserved the name
of American citizens if they had done
less. Ames seems to have been the Tweed
of Mississippi, and he and his Ring have
been overthrown. Does Senator Morton
mean to say that he greves over the result?
We hope not.
The weekly clarion., 1876-01-19
very Much Mistaken.

Tn reference to the Mississippi resolu.
ton of Morton, the Chicago Inter-Ocean
says that ''The Democrats fear the in.
vestigation, and will strongly oppose the
passage of Senator Morton's resolution.
That journal is very much mistaken
in attributing the opposition of Missis-
sippians to the Morton resolution to any
fear of an investigation. They denounce
the movement because it is an interfer-
ence with their right of managing their
own State affairs In their own way An
investigation into the Ohio election,
where fraud was charged against the Re
publicans in the late election, would be
equally as appropriate.
The people of Mississippi, who carried
the election last fall over the corrupt
black-liners and riot inciters, are pre-
pared to show that the election was per-
fectly fair on their own part, and that
the occasional disturbances of the peace
during the canvass were brought on, as in
the case of the Clinton affair, by the
Radical leaders, to intensity the animos-
tiles which they had encouraged between
the white and black races.
That the bloody shirt agitators can OBJ
tain volumes of perjured testimony,
there is no doubt It can be manufac-
tured in any quantity, and any quality,
to suit the occasion; but it will be as
readily overturned by stubborn facts and
the righteousness of the Democratic
cause
We repeat that there was never fair
er election than was held in Mississippi,
so far as the Democrats and Conserva-
tives are concerned, in November that
there never was a canvass more free from
intimidation; that the violence COM
planned of by the Radical tricksters, was
premeditated and brought on by them
selves, and this we stand pledged to
maintain, in any way, and against all
cOmers.