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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-06-12
BEECHER PLEASED.
The Southerners Instinctively Gen
tlemen-His Cordial Reception
in the South.
n. Y. Special to the COurier-JOurnal.

The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
expressed himself to-day as having
been so pleased by his reception in
the Southern cities, which he has
recently visited, that he has ar
ranged with the Lecture Bureau,"un
der whose auspicies he makes his
tours, to plan series of lectures in
the South the next season, which
he will deliver with the design of
devoting all the profits of the same
to various Southern charities. He
had expected respectful treatment
in the South, because he knew that
the Southern men were instinctively
gentlemen, but he had not counted
upon the cordiality that had been
exhibited.
Mr.. Pond, Mr.. Beecher's lecture
agent, has written to Jefferson Da-
Wis, making him a flattering offer to
come North next season and lecture
to all of the leading cities. Mr..
Pond is understood to have offered
Mr.. Davis $500 a night, but he is
willing to increase his terms if Mr..
Davis makes that a point in his
agreement. There is little hope,
however, of the acceptance of the
offer, as Mr.. Davis is said to be en-
crossed with an autobiography, or
history of the late rebellion. Ii
is believed that should he accept
this Offer, his tour of lectures would
not only prove interesting and in
structive to the public, but would
be profitable and pleasant. to the
lecturer.
From Mr.. Beecher's sermon last Sunday.
This great nation was divided by
an invisible line, morally visible
enough, on both sides of which the
North and South had stood in
bloody antagonism for five terrible
years. In my own judgment, when
L consider human nature, when /
consider that a proud people have
seen themselves emptled. out of
power, their political existence al
most annihilated, their property
swept out of their hands as by a
consuming flame, the ascendency of
the despised slave established over
them by what was to him a foreign
arm, should not have wondered if
there had been ten times the resist
ance that there has been to recon
structive measures. Never in his
tory has a people borne so much
with so much patience, gallantrv
and patriotism-a spectacle of moral
grandeur and of substantial good
intent and honor in those who have
been so terri6cally scourged which
is without parallel. The spirit which
would set the North against the
South, the East against the West,
the Germans against the old Puri-
tans, or the old Puritans against
the Germans, the whites against the
blacks, or the blacks against the
whites, is not only politically Grim
inal, but it is absolutely subversive
of the fundamental instincts of hu-
mainly. There is yet the power
and the honor in this country to
hold men together in charity and
unity. When it was the need of
the untempered North to be nerved
to resist the arrogance of plantation
domination, l was not wanting.
What we need now is love, charity,
union. speak again. Though L
hated slavery, 1 did not hate TIE
STAKEHOLDER. 1 loved him, and 1
still love him. 1 love all mankind,
not only for what they are, but for
what they are going to be.
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81 like the CITIZEN, but am not able
to pay for it,, Then get us five now
subscribers at 81 each and we win send
IL To Won free.
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Georgia papers are tickled over
the sale Of a 1900 acre plantation
for $4,000 cash and 40 bales of
cotton.
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The Mormon women say their
husbands are the bravest of mer.
We believe it. Here the man who
ventures on treble blessedness is
regarded as a truly heroic charac
ter, but there are no words to eX-
press the true estimate of the man
of whom 16 women are able to say
he is a darling and devoted hus-
band.
A bald-headed son of Scion was retained to
bring
Her suit
And her cavsas actio was that hubby's face
was so
Hirsute
That he tickled her outrageous, and such
freaks did not
Her suit,
And lie would not buy the bonnet that con-
trasted with
Her suit.
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The little boy knew A and B,
But, sad to tell, got lost at G;
The teacher made him haw and G..
Until he got him down to P;
He kept him in till after T,
And sent him home much more w.
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" Here you are reading a
borrowed paper again, as usual.
, 1879-12-04
PORT TOWNSEND, W. T.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1879
LOCAL NOTICES.

ES A fine assortment OF legal blanks
at Holcomb's.
GO to Waterman & Katz for the best
carpets, at reasonable prices.
lIS The ARGUS is kept for sale, recu-
larly at Mr.. tolconb's Variety Store.
Gg Two iilst-class sewing machines.
Wilson anda Singer, NEW, for sale.
Apply mt the ARGUS office.
IT, For Good cigars. go to Ilolcomb's
, 1879-12-04
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WAsHlNGION ~. ". NOV. II, lo'o'
This morning brings certainty of
complete triumph for Republicanism
in New York. Having the legisla'
ture by large majority, and all the
state officers except the least import
ant of them, we may dismiss all
doubt as to the state next year. The
same amount of work in 1880 that
has been done this year will give us
10000 majority in New York. =
Because of this decisive victory,
and the tornado Of Republican ma.
iority in other northern states max
ing the north practically "solid," it
is to be feared that too little care
will be taken in the selection of
Presidential candidate. A great ma
jority sometimes brings unworthy
men to the front. There is no dan.
ger from this source, however if
the people themselves retain
charge of affairs inside the party by
attending its meeting between this
time and the time of the National
Convention in 1880. General inter
est exhibited during that period will
do more for the purity and success
of the party than all the excitement
and expenses Of the campaign follow
ing the nomination.
Judging by what is said by Ohio
news here there is little doubt of
Mr.. Gar6eld's election to the Senate
He is very able man, has learned
and remembers much, and will at
once take an influential place in
body of which Conkliug, Blaine, Bay
ard, Edwards, Carpenter and othev
men are part. 1t is no disparage-
ment to other emineRt Republicans
of Ohio to say that the state could
not be better served by any other
than by Mr.. Garfield.
There will be great effort made
as soon as Congress meets to have
the Indian Bureau transferred to the
War Department. The old argu.
ments will be reinforced by the per-
sistent assertion, true or untrue, that
Secretary Schurz, under whose
charge as Secretary of the Interior
the BureaSs now is, has developed
notable incapacity for the manage
ment of its affairs. On the whole
think it very likely the transfer
will be made.
Gen. Fitz John Porter, the bill for
whose restoration to service will
come before Congress for considera-
tion next session, will find less
trouble in securing the favorable ae.
tion now that Senator Chandler is
dead. The Senator thoroughly be-
lieved in the guilt Of Gen. Porter.
But ! believe whatever Senator
Chandler might have done, or said,
Congress would have ratified the &C.
tion Of the officers, who after patient
investigation, reported favorably to
the General.
Senator Blaine said a few days
ago since that he wished to 60 Lou
isiana to discuss political affairs, and
believes he should do 90. He
and other prominent republicans
have been Invited. So far as know
only two Of them have stated their
intentions in the matter. Secretary
Sehurz says that his official duties
will make it impossible for him to
20. Probably four or FIVE leading
Republicans will consent. LEO.
, 1879-12-04

wilderness, and you have only then
begun to get faint glimmering idea
of the museum this sanity old man
carries about within his hat.
Good old DR.. Burchard was there,
who after forty years of pastorate
surprised his people with resigna-
tion, which nobody has asked for,
simply because he wanted to drop
out before people had wearied of
him, and getting surprise himself
in purse Of some $4,000 as love
offering from his church.-But | must
talk about Cough, if ! am going to.
The awkward young man in coun-
try clothes has left wonderful i'm.
print on the times in which he lives.
He has addressed more people than
any man who ever lived except Whit.
field, and probably more than even
him. Lecture bureaus unimously de-
clare that he draws better houses and
pays better than any other lecturer,
and he has travelled and lectured till
total Of his travels represent jour-
ney three times the circumference
of the earth. For fifteen months he
has been iaboring in England. Just
before his departure | was present
at temperance meeting in Cooper
Institute, when Cough mads IS ap.
psarance quietly at rear door and
tried to reach back seat unobserved
Some one recognized him and called
out that "Gough was present." when
the entire audience turned round and
demanded thar he take the platform.
He reluctantly came forward and
made twenty minute speech. more
powerful aud Tremendous that any
big oratory l ever rdlfrom pulpit,
bar or platform. His magnificent
sloquer 0 burst over that vast audi.
ence like a swelling tornado, and
swayed and swept aRd overwhelmed
his hearers till every ordinary ex-
preston of enthusiasm seemed mad.
equate to convey their feelings, and
his auditors abandoned themselves
wholly to his magic influence, and
were swept along helpless upon its
tremendous and resistless torrent.
Cough is an old man now, and
while he promises to live many years
yet, ten years more will probably see
his honored name stricken from the
lecturebureau lists, and the silver.
tongued English boy will have struck
his last hot blow at Intemperanco
and made his last public appeal to
the citizens OF his adopted country.
He went to Europe for rest, expect
ing to deliver but thirty lectures, but
before reaching the dock at Liver
pool he was bcseiged with commit
tees from every part Of the kingdom
all uttering the same cry, "Come up
and help u.s." The condition of af-
fairs was so stirring that, deferring
his rest, he plunged into the work as
never before in his life, and delivered
over one hundred and fifty lectures.
lie told us of the Lord Bishop
lately sspousing the cause of total
abstinence, of Spurgeon at last add.
ing his vast influence to testotalism,
OF the Lord Chancellor himself pre-.
siding at one of his meetings, of the
mighty work among the lowly in
London on the model Of and copied
from Jerry MeAuley's Water street
Mission, and of many other things
which all us with renewed hope FOR
the suffering middle ard lower
classes Of our English cousins. 1t
was a memorable night, a notable
company and Cause so worthy Of
every good mans sympathy that
TeUrrt mora cha. -. 81, -. -
, 1879-12-04
"M0RLEY'S" LETTERS FROM NEW
YORK.
New York, Nov. 10, '79.
From our regular correspondent

1t was my good fortune to be pres
ent at notable gathering the other
night. 1t was parlor reception to
John B. Cough, OH his return from
lecturing campaign in Great Britain,
which has eclipsed every former bril-.
liant triumph of his wonderful ca
reer.
There was the slight, nervous fig
ure and diminntive head and face
Of the merchant prince, William E.
Dodge, whose twinkling eyes dance
one moment with merrmsnt, and are
suffused the next with melting ten
derness we are accustomed to look
for only in woman. Beyond him
stood the solid figure and striking
face OF the Judge whose sentence
hurled Tweed from place and power,
and consigned him to a, prison cell,
Chief Justice Noah Davis. Without
fear and without reproach he treads
the oft-polluted halls of Justice with
spotiess ermne, and carries on his
face the soft cross.lines of a gentle
ness so singular that you feel a
strange facination in his presence.
He says that Cough has done more
to prevent crime than any other man
living, and that he knows no higher
possible need Of praise to award to
man than that. There, too, was DIR.
Taylor, successor to DR.. Thompson
as pastor of that old Bulwark of
Freedom, tho Broadway Tabernacle.
Impartial critics generally pronounce
DR.. Taylor the best preacher in New
York, Notwithstanding his habits of
thrusting hands and arms down into
his capacious pockets and drawling
through his nose. One of the few
people who do not admire him once
said to me me: "Why, I'd be will.
ing to drawl like that for $4,000
year ~
Then there was DR.. Newman, late
OF the Metropolitan Church at Wash.
ington; friend of Gen. Grant, ex in,
spector Of Asiatic cousulates, with a
strong failing for "Hima-alyan SHOWS
and ."rhe Cosmos;" portly, kindly,
scholarly, with real title to great
ness which the world would more
gladly recognize if the Doctor could
only seem less conscious Of its valid.
ity. There, too, was he of the pro-
life pen and rattlipg, ringing ora,ory,
DR.. Theo. L. Cuyler, who carries in
his face and department no signs of
the wonderful capacity lodged in his
brain, or the boistorous humor that
keeps him, old man that he is, acting
like mischievious, fun.loving boy.
He calls Mr.. and Mrs. Cough
"BRoTnER JOHN AND SISTER MARY"
for he has known aud loved them
tenderly ever since an awkward
young man in country clothes began
stirring with his eloquence the peo.
pie of the Foundry Chapel in Wash.
ington over thirty years ago.
DR.. Ormiston was there too-with
that head of hair Did you ever see
THAT hair? Well then do you never
visit this wicked city and 90 away
again without hearing ono of the
Doctors good old fashioned, solid
ssrmons-and see that hair Imag.
inc Kaiiir, Bushman, a South Sea
Islander aud a Jack ina box com.
bIned--as to hair; then scalp the
front half Of him in straight line
across from ear to ear aud polish the
bare part with sapolio; then comb
all the hair on the posterior part of
the head out eight inches at right
angle with the skull, line without a
single hair reclining agains,its neigh
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-28
OLD TIMES.

There's beautiful song on the slumberous air,
That drift through the valley Of dreams;
It comes from cline where the roses were,
And tuneful heart and bright brown hair
That waved in the morning beams. 4
Soft eyes of azure and eyes of brown,
And snow-white forehead are there;
A glimmering cross and a glimmering crown,
A thorny bed and couch of down,
Lost hopes and leaflets Of prayer.
A breath Of spring in the breezy woods
Sweet watts from the quivering pines;
Blue violet eyes beneath green hoods, ,
A bubble of brooklets scent of buds,
Bird warblers and clambering vines.
A rosy wreath and dimpled hand,
A ring and sighted vow;
Three golden links of 4 broken band,
A tiny track on the snow white sand,
A tear and sinless brow.
There's tincture of grief in the beautiful song,
That sobs on the slumbrous air;
And loneliness felt in the festive throng,
Sinks down on the soul as it trembles along
From cline where the roses were. ..,.
We heard it first at dawn of day,
And it mingled with matin chimes;
But years have distanced the beautiful lay,
And its melody tloweth from far away,
And We call it now Old Times.
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earnestness that left no doubt of the
truth of his communication.
Master" said he, II am main glad
you kept your head yesterday, and did
not lean out of the winder. Had you
done SO, missus and l meant to have
pitched you out, and taken our chances
after of getting off,
3."I was not very likely to he SO easily
put off my guard" was my laconic
answer.
GAY, but, master, your danger was not
over then; for missus and I had made it
up that she was to pin your arms and
she could done it easy-while was to
smash your head with the 'darbies. We
should then took the key, got off the
bracelets, and heaved you out winder
afore you could come to yourself. That
pistol fairly put us out, for it cowed mis-
sus, and she isn't easily cowed, tell ye''
| "But the pistol was not loaded said I
nothing but cap and an empty bar
rel" rs
"All the same, master, I'm glad we
failed. Now I've thought it over, I know
could not have escaped. 1t was known. !
was left in your charge, and that missus
joined us. When your body was found,
we'd been spotted at once,
and most likely both on
us would swung for it. I'm main glad,
tell you, that you got out O. the mess,
and l dent bear you no ill-will for
having done your dooty as a man and a
hofficer'' -@> 7:@ IT, -E3.s
Never before to my knowledge, had I
been in such deadly peril, and truly
thankful did inwardly feel for the provi-
dental escape learned I had just made
was glad to give my murderous- minded
charge over to the care Of the officers of
the Defence; and am thankful to add
that never heard more of him, or wished
to do SO. - W.. -
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Babylon.

1t is usual for travellers to dwell upon
the utter desolation of Babylon, and to
paint its site as strip of desert especially
woe-be-gone and unfertile. But the elo-
quent gentlemen who dwells upon this
aspect of the place could not have seen it
in the middle of April. The date groves
and gardens along the banks of the Euph-
rates are then things of beauty in their
fresh spring verdure, and the plain itself
is laid down with crops. Irrigation can
ais cross there and there give trouble to
the horseman. No grade grows upon the
mounds, and there are patches of the level
white with the nitre which is to be found
here as in other parts of Mesopotamia;
but the surface of the soil is on the whole
green and pleasant to the eye The glad
waters of the river flow on in the bright
morning sunshine, with palm and null
berry hanging over its bank, drinking in
sap and life. The great city which
counted its population by millions, and
filled the world with renown not vet
forgotten, has disappeared under the dust
OF twenty centuries, but nature is as fresh
and jocund as when Babylon was still
unbuilt Birds sing overhead in the
spring air; butterflies fiutter about in
search of flowers; balmy odors regale the
sense. It is difficult under the circcum-
stances to feel as one perhaps ought to
feel for the great capital which once cum
bered this ground. Nature does not
mourn for it, and it is hard to be sad at
the bidding Of sentiment when the bright
spring hides its grave. #a@~ 49, q
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Nevada newspapers announce that vast
number Of grasshopper eggs are incubat-
ing in TERRA Valley. A spadeful Of soil
is represented to have contained hundreds
Of thousand of eggs deposited in clusters.
The farmers have not turned a furrow
this spring, knowing that with these pests
in the soil their work would lie fruitless
OF results. Grain crops will only foster
the scourge while to let the ground re-
main idle may starve the insects into emf
grating. Fears are expressed that they
may sweep down upon the fertile valleys
OF California, but whether they can cross
mountains of such altitude as the Sierras
is doubtful. It is proposed to dig
trenches before they are able to fly, and
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driving them in, to cover them up. This
plan worked successfully in Utah two
Woo nc ooo 1as &
THE TREE TUBA.

From the Golden Rule
Is ls written on the howery page
OF lslam's visionary sage, &
That Tuba, tree of happiness.
Whose fruit shall MI believers bless
Hath roots whose fibres strong and deep
Beneath the worlds foundations sleep.
Yet never wind or earth shall blow =
The odors from one spicy bough.
Far up beyond the walls OF time m
The star-bespangled branches climb,
Up through the musky gardens where
Eternal sunshine gilds the air,
And winged Hours flutter BY ~ If
To low, delicious melody. ~ .aaag.. ~
There, over every palace door,
The boughs of Tuba fragrance pour
And sweet bells hung amid the flowers,
Ring in and out the joyous hours. '
Has not the orient sage declared
A truth which every soul has shared? 81
We pluck the green leaves of delight
The branches reach beyond our sight:
The germ Of happiness is ours, - ..
But airs diviner hide the flowers.
Here, disappointment, gaunt and gray,
Salutes US daily on our way, e.'. &C.
The truest love knows direct loss,
The surest triumph bears cross, -
And yet the soul may smile on fate
And with most loyal patience wait,
Or sit in solitude and sing .-..... r ..
10 keep the lips from murmuring.
Relieving that on heights unknown
She yet will come unto her own
Where 1slam's tree, TRANSPORTED, CLEANS
With fairer fruit than Islam dreams!
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NEW YORK BY GAsLIGHT-

Ulysses s. Grant, Jr.. Boss Shepherd ana
John I. Davenport Take in the To,rn-No
Truth in the Rssnaor Of POlier I:,ferfer-
eMce. I..-=.
The Boston Herald of the 18th contained
Theodore Allen, the somewhat famous
gambler and Republican Politician, lately
opened large and gorgeous pretty waiter
saloon on Blocker street, near Broadway
Last night Ulysses s. Grant. Jr., and ex-Gov.
Shepherd, of Washington, we're in the city
and John I. Davenport, the federal super
visor of elections, took them out to see Men
York by gaslight. They visited Aliens,
place after midnight. At o'clock the doors
were closed, in compliance with the excise,
law, but the distinguished party remained
inside until much later. It happened ON.
Saturday evening that the police had one OF
their periodical spasms of enforcing the law,
against the sale of liquors in variety theatres
and Harry Hill whose show is close 70,
Aliens, was notified to cease business. sThis
led to q rumor that police raid was to be-
made on Allen for tue express purpose OF,
catching Grant, Sh. pherd and Davenport.
and it y said that they were panic stricken.
for q while. 49,
Inns evening reporter was instructed TO-
inquire into this piece of news. He dis
covered that Boss Shepherd and Ulysses s.:
Grant, Jr.. did start On Saturday night ~
see New York BY gaslight. They were under
the protection of John I. Davenport and =
Central Office detective, who has become
famous for his ability to show distinguished
visitors the sights in the city. They did mo-,
however, 60 to 'tThe." Aliens dance house,
The party went all over the city, and shortly
before midnight we're at Harry Hills. There.
they learned the orders sent out by Superin--
tendent Walling about enforcing the excise,
law, but they showed no alarm. After leev-.
ing Harry Hill's they were driven to the fire.
station opposite the Market street police
station, and then they were lost, sight Of,
going in the direction Of Capt. Williams.
precinct.
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SCeadlly into her eyes and said, with en-
phasis, eff you attempt to stir before we
reach the next station, you will certainly
be a dead woman!'
1t was something fearful to notice the
immediate change on that woman's coun-
tenance. She became OF a pallid white
ness, and her lips had the purple blush
tinge that indicates so Enthusiastically an
excess of deadly fear. In the highly dra-
matte positions 1 have just described we
sped on until the next stopping station
was reached, and that occupied more
than twenty minutes. The moment the
train came to stop I thus addressed the
woman, keeping her ''covercd" with the
muzzle of my pistol: ''Leave the carriage
and, if you value your liberty, make what
speed you can to get into hiding" 80
She disappeared instanter; and felt a
heavy load of anxiety lifted off my mind
as she left us, for all the encounters
most hate, an encounter with woman is
so be classed foremost. From the moment
| saw the change in her face, indicative
OF such intense fear, knew I was master
OF the situation; but still I was glad to be
rid of all further risk of struggle. Not
a word passed between my prisoner and
me during the remainder of the journey
to London, which we were no great while
in reaching, and where I duly delivered
him into safe keeping at the Bow Street
police Office.
Next morning I had to conduct nv
prisoner to Woolwich, there to deliver
him to the authorities of the hulks. from
whom he had obtainedhis ticket-of-leaye.
He seemed to have recovered from his
scare of the day before, and on our Jour
ney spoke freely enough, and with an