Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-10-15
Letter from Mr.. DilWOrth.

"ANA-lO' MISS, cPl' 20, 1902
Coz H. S. Foote
SIR; have just read communication from
you to the public, issued from Aberdeen, in reply
to Col. VIM H. Muse, in which you have seen
fit to indulge in the following language relative TO
the nomination of Col Muse, viz
''The fact had been we'll known to me, for sew
"eral months previous, that he owed bis nomina-
''tion, for the dignifed station alluded to- alone
''to one of the most corrupt and profigate political
bargains ever contracted by reckless and un-
"blushing tricksters."
Now, Sir, connect this with some of your form
er declarations, and | can find no other location
for this assertion, than certain telegraph sent by
me to Messrs. Barksdale IL Jones, respecting the
nomination of Col. Muse. If l am right in nv
conjecture you know full well the zenith is not
more antpodal to the nadr, than is this assertion
to your declaration, made in my presence, in this
place, on the 13th inst, at which time and place
l told you, ''that Hon. B. n. Kinyon called on
me few days previous to the meeting of the
Democratic Convention, and asked me if would
support Col. Muse for Secretary of State, if nom
mated. l replied that would most cordially;
but thought the chances against him, as his name
had not been canvassed in connection with that
Office (he being then candidate for District At
torney in this district.) However, We agreed that
/, each of US should use, with respective po-
litical friends, what influence might have for
, bring to BEAR if possible, the friends of Gen.
r Whitmore, (he and Muse being competing cand-
| dates for District Attorney Mr. Kinyon attend
ed the Convention, but business engagements
| prevented me. promised Mr.. Kinyon to write
4 to of my friends, and it being too late for
/ letter to reach jackson in time, chose medi
/! UNI, a telegraph, which was based alone upon the
: conversation held between Mr. Kinyon and my
. self. After had written the dispatch, walked
To off cd bo
would accept the nomination for Secretary of State.
He replied that he would: though the pay was
r not much, it would give him some position in the
State. | then read him the telegram, and in
formed him was on the way to the Office to send
S it to Jackson. Muse replied, have it charged to
S me. 1 said no, will pay for it, but with much
earnestness he replied; Il cannot suffer my friends
o to ineur expense on my GccOant" Col. Muse gave
t me no pledges, nor did ask any from him. - =
$ Now, Governor this is the head and front of
It my offending, and for the life of me, cannot see
n corruption, I" "profgacy, "recklessness y or
h ''trickery," in any Of this. Be it remembered,
= too, Governor, that / must be prodigy of stu
pidty, and the nethermost Ounce in the world, if
Col. Muse could bargain, sell, alien, and convey,
e by and through. me, all his Union principles to
the "Secessionists' and wholly ignorant of the
e fact 'ttt fA -+. s -' 4lA
l. My motive in addressing you, sir, is to know,
positively, whether you intend any of those op-
If probious epthets to apply to me, in any manner,
e shape, or form, and trust you will respond uDe-
N quivocally, at your earliest convenience.
y A. B. D1EWoRTH
A Man WITH TWENTY WIvEs.---A man calling
Is himself DR.. VIM. Hunter, but whose real nameis
Nathaniel J. Bird, is in jail at Camden, n. j. on a
= charge of bigamy and various other charges.5uOn
- Sunday Elizabeth Harrington, ladyfof Philadel
VI pha visited him in prison, and ascertained be wa:
As the man to whom she was married on the 9thsoi
&c July last. On the same day he was visited by an
00 other lady from Kensington, named Mary Thomas
y to whom be married in May asta tits asosair
9 that he has wife in Reading, anotherin Whining
'e ton, Del and another yet in Philadelphia. The
y prisoner is only about % years fage, and, it i
a stated declares that he has twenty wives. state
} ment which may be true, as more than one-foarll
x of that number has been found within few days
1t is alleged that he abandoned each wife"soon al
ter marriage, and that they never heard Of him al
a. ter until his recent arrest The affair creates tn
y greatest excitement in Camden, and has induced
an immense number of people to seek admission
for the purpose of seeing hm44fGi oEs5lIs esao
~ soRHowrrL RrGRETs-The renowned BulWNiet
man of genius, admired at home and abroad, said
letter to gentleman in Boston, in 1919 5t',la
~ 81 have closed my career writer of 6etIons 9
ne Bur gloomy and unhappy, have exhausted the pou
IN ers oflfe in chasing pleasure were ii IS net toll
les found" ESQ rssef ney ala eauoy - s q.
irs Here is the confession of gifted mind, whose 81
ng peror powers were employed through HE, IN veal
US, ehhg 'he CoruS u Eue' anu IA ldnlig INTO q ar
nat u in passions As ne Iet5es from the Wa'Ks
=. Richard Baxter said such thing al 1.-The close
er his useful and eventful life John Bunyan made
an such record at the close Of his pons career Ws
ION said in his diving fnoulents stke beSt of al God
do .ofh u.s. Men viii reap as they sow in spite Of
red their hopes and efforts to the cohnary And aft
y We have all run or races, and had victories "a
be defeats in politics. and in fortune hunting, life
voted to useulness,a life of honest pety, is the on
7ou 0i'e oO..es = Psllui
is TIE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA., it's said, is abo
m to send to the Crystal Palace the banner Of 4
in State. Itis made of board stripes of white al
yer mazarine blue satin, with rich silver fringe and Ell
en- CANT light blue drapefy, which is held up BY q
bat beak ola handsome silver eagle at elten Of ID