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gor Coumty Treasurer;

We are authorised to announce JOHN
n. KEITH rs . candidate for touuty
Treasurer Of Pamela County.
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Insolvent Notice.

4 7 the June Terra, 1855, q the FRO.
N bate Court u Pamela reusiy, Ms.
si.sippi, appa the report u the Asrsini..
traitor, The Es,sse " The late William j.
wrenn. decsased.. VA. declared By said
cssrs insolsenf. All creditors u the
dcc~dsn, are hereby no,iaei 70 have
thrir claim. daily prcba,sd AMI registered
ia the CLERKS okss u said cca,, by tbs
l., lag n JAY. isse, else ,hsir claim.
Willie forever barred
Issued Juae II, ls5s.
W. y. wonTrrS.
Clerk n SAID teaSt.
Juss Id. ts,t. al-6m.
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o'or luwnsy suvscyos.

Gor County surveyors
We are authorised 10 annonnoe II. II
iliNNtNr ~ q candidate Tor Cpauty
Surveyor u l'suoIa County. -
We are Authorised 10 announce W. Z.
HARRIS as q candidate for Conn,y Sur
,eyor 81 Psssls voan,y.
Fer Assessors
We are authorizes 10 ". y.
ROBERTS ~ . candidate Tor las Assss.
cor Of Pamela Cornsy. sss
wcare Authorised to announce IlENRY
=. BuRRELL a. a candidate Tor las ~.
ss..or Of Pamela County.
We are Authorised TO announce JOHN
Y. JACKSON % . candidate iOr Tax AS
SCISSOR u Pamela County. -
we arc authorised TO announce JAMES
A. VAUGHAN - . candidate for Asses
cor si Pamela County. 20
We arr authorised 10 announce q. W.
SgATvN A. q candidate for Assessor oi
Pamela county.
, kYws are authorized 10 announc,
NICHOLAS II. MORRIS ,as q esad,dss,
: for Assessor Of Pamela County. sss
G1rwc are aa,heriaed 10 announces
D. II. SIMPSON as a candidate for Tai
Assessor Of Pamela ,'osn,y. -
b We are Authorised TO asnoanc ]. \
JONES asa candidate Aor Assessor Q
Psssla county.
We are authorised 10 aasQssss !. y
RANDOLPH ~ . candidate Toe Assesso
2 q Pamela county.
.. wesrea Authorised to annoanee jUlIN.
WICK - q candidate for Assessor I,
Pamela county. ss
We are Authorised to announce J,
SEPn A. HERRING ~ q candidate Z
Assessor 81 Panols cosnsy. -
a. The friends Of PERRY J. BuCIlAl
NON announce him ~ q candidate I
Assessor Of Pamela County. ses
- We ere aashorised 10 announce JoI
suANKt.E - candidate foe Assess
Of Pamela Couasy. -
tee We are authorised 10 announce PHI
LIP n. BAuCH v . candidate fes Ass
cor Of Pamela Cosusy. -,
We ere asshevisea 10 sansssse "
" LIAM !. fARSfKR . . candidate
Assessor q pnpcla Ceuuty. -
VI ere saskssisei 10 announce AL
lies 10 q. BISHOP o. candidate fer AZ
cor 81 Psssla Osunsy. -
rOg 4Uooee0oos
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hYVlRItE Ma Decree 81 ~ Probate
Court u pssela ceuH1y, Mis<issip-
n, mada on the "a day u Aagsss, ISIS.
|, the ~unisr.sxasd Mninigssatsr of The
Estate u Robert 9. ~, dsseas~i, vii.
on n.sdAy, th- Issh day u sspsssSeer,
tsss, a IL door ef The Court nosss u
said Cousty. h-sweswleeal hossa, proved
and cell ., pahIis action, 10 the highest
bsddes, all 81 the interest u said dses--
den, 10 and 70 the following tract u land,
sia. section Ten, Township Eight Rang
N,ue, West. in sabd County. The inter-
a., Of The Diseased in said land ~as az
avsrsd under . purchase thereof ny d.
seas~i. On the l6sk day Of June, ies,, o.
sae Paul n. psvrir9rv, FOR The sssa 81
/ Th,r,y.tve handss1 DclIsrs, or-.fsur'h
sf which vas by tpeeased paid al par.
chase. aud potss q dseessci exeessed
fov the halancs, 10 equal snms of Eight
Hundred Dollars ssrh, doe l, ed
|, wears after date. With interest, d<e~isnl
taking boad fer feea ~ valid Del o
Csnsssancr from ~hssIsinef.
Tsans-Ths purchaser will Be reguise'
. 10 pay ons-,hird ef parehae money .
|. sale and execute he notss With spprsvs'
security for the balance, Q, | and , vess
fvvn iay Of sale, as1 Ne Satisfactory he
rcsniuei o. the land.
ASpRgW J. WILLIAMS,
Assa.s n. -. se-4~.
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TINS nAIIRnAns ASp sNui BASK
learn that the Memphis,
Charleston and the Memphis and
10 Railroads have given lnslrae'
h. 10 their agents to receive The
Ves Of no banks for passage or
|ighi, cSccp, those equal 70 specie
VI. here, and that the Memphis
Ohio road will receive no notes
,lcr Eve dollars after tho j., OF
p,embcr proSimo. This Is the
|rcc, policy. Refuse the swIndline
b, and they will soon cease e
r%ala,c, while gold aud silver will
their places. No friend Of
Is,cr currency" can ohjec, to ,hi'
icy, aud We publish Il Tor TIE ben
Of the travelling pablie.- Mem
b .hdaache.
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W. are Authorised 20 aanWihoe t1i
JosNrn ". rLAsluN - q candidate
faf Probate jadee a Pamela county
We are authorized 10 annlanee Judge
J. r. N, 1T ilIllnuk a. . candidate fpf
Probate Judge n panula County -.
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a,zt ~r<s.s1 n pNltspsIiir
.an.f. M. IH tfFAt~'
f'", 3(sssss' is<'i q 'hs't fglfs
s.ssltls. tsru#s Z sgetf W.
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go D. iFaE fasal ssss.4 ~
shs 49, a ~ ssHAf hse'hsf
eefuuHH. 4 sgslriisf y ssH'
a. efssamsi lhs islleslnf fef
es..s h he l,ss aisrssssiian u
$3.50 NJ ida - masif s'.i -
a, l,a.e ~ ~ 49, M fflehi .nd
a.. NJ n. nsHfe ~, ~ ~ ~
49, Isaf, - ~ De fesll'l's y "
! saflis
seIssi, fhss shlIe g. submit 70 ~
Az, sargsme iifani Waslsfi W
81, aaplafs H. asAih " eaf "''H'I
ssI fkst ~, 'hs .sfrring mfm
skls Il sslss, a. e%sfilslig sael ffa
I'll, Aeilea,S aaf heaf,s' ese'lplsn's
..'las sympathy a. he iislfssssl
[,su.s ani - If ses, ~ Fss.Inf We 49,
sfisal n thalf lale Nv eilen ani
sull al.a pslm lhem u uafs Wofi
|pa~s,l. Tha, hy ne death y us'
ar ~Isttufnal ~ ain hes lest Z
[llse i'm anil nj community az -
|s~i citizen, -
~ss,nIas fof shlts days that . eurl
,t..s s~s.alstlsns " seu' " h. pafen,'
mai w. Pamela star and hemph''
=. friendly /. Masonry, be- foqaes'e'
aahllsA ill., SAME
urU. H. HUNT,
\ 90 Mrsirn, se'g,
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Cor1oS CRor or LAFAYETTE.
Sheriff, Mr.. W. s. Mckee,
has lately travelled oil over the
Nv, informs u that the prospects
4 good cotton crop this year are
n shsn they have BEEN for fifteen
P. Our planters ere al in On
PCT hamor, and consider st least
= bswers'' and . high trump i
lAnds fa winning . "fat pot
~tsll.-O1ford Mercury.
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W. are authorised 10 II. II
llNNANT ~ q candidate Tor Cosuiy
Surveyor u psuoIa County. s's
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We are Authorised 10 announce PHIL
LIP h. BAuCH ~ . candidate fes Asses.
cor Of Pamela County. sss
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"0GV@S
uVANgN UP hy \. ?. sss9lf. on Lssg
Crvei, one SNML. BtAcK HONS.
sbou, IL hssds Aieh, avc yeas old. brand.
FL wi,h o. n. Vimresfesss on " f,Sh,
shoulder, both lore Tea - ~ lsss h.nd
foo, vhiss; the lefs hook enlarged. Ap'
Pr. JONES, Raagsr ,. &C.
August 4. lsss. s-sv.
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We are authorised 10 announce W Z.
HARRIS ~ o candidate Tor Comfy Sur
veyor ~ psnela County. -
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We ere Authorized 70 announce JOHN
suANKt.g - . candidate fcs Assessor
Of Pamela Coaaty. -
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]. n. MILAN,

Sole proprisssr u " Cordial,
A,.a. nrlssn's Volcanic Oil Inimest.
ppsissipsl dspe, - ne esss.s.s Of
Third .nd Pine .%sssess, -. Louie, -
e5r ros sale 10 Pamela, Mississtfyash ~
Tuos. X. CLARKE,
Al SAs nvtck Cssosvs
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The friends Of PERRY J. BucuAN-
NON announce him - . candidate for
Assessor Of Pamela County. sss
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We are au,horised 10 W. y.
ROBERTS as . candidate Tor rax tssss.
sor Of Pamela Comfy. sss
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We are authorised to announce 10.
SEPT A. HERRING ~ q candidate for
Assessor 81 Pamela COUNTY. -.
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sA,s.b =, sssssss Httasss. ~Nssss.ssf
"a kssafHa $50 sli. Mssssss sssstsf
ffam . HfsH ssffsa tfffr - stsntstht

sAfssfs 10 sNtfsess Hftnffss ufsssussf
IA ktsasHa $50 at Uassss sssstef
ffam . nisssss1ss tsssr - ~tsassshs
Dyspepsia, Heartburn, Inward Piles, Ae
dis % sickness et the stomach, Fall
nesl u nleul 10 the lIeai, Tall faiu OF
swimming In III Head, rnlvliailon u the
Heat, lullnessel Weight " lha stomach,
kanl lmatallnns, thet lnH ~ ealeeallns
ceiling when lying down. hfsne.s % Vel.
luwnfss ~ tia Hkia and fyes, Night
swtats, Inward lrtess, Pain IL tho small
II tbs llaeA 4 hes, " side, sudien hushss
# heai, Depression " spidts, ffiMhtiul
dreams, %i,snaaef, Dependency, % any
Nervous Disease, sarcs pt Nloiehe. un
The shin, aud tc,et and Asue ~ chill.
and re,esl. II will nlsa eate h1oAsc. u
ihe nlailrf and Nomh, such ~ seminal
wealnpss. Ircer,mence q Urine. S,tan.
euat,, Inflammation or Wesknos. ~ tho
Womb W bladder. Whites, 40.
tAs.s 10 w .sSsssAs sesee ~
This cordial sill nesrt Tail 10 cure any
~ tho above diseases. " taken A. per d..
r%ec,ions IN each bottle, 10 Ucrmsn, hn.
ss.s psss . .ssAuss ~ sssssss
have been sold during the past els months,
AMI In no instance has u failed In giving
entire saisfscsicn. VIA, then, viii at
Ter from wcakress ~ debility vhcn Nc.
Lsss', N~rsnyiAesiag Cordial Will ess'
xoat
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We arr Authorised 10 announce y. W.
SEATvN as q candidate for Assessor oi
Pamela county.
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We are Authorised TO announces ]. \.
JONES asa candidate Ar Assessor Of
psssla eoasty.
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We are authorised 10 saaQussu ]. ID.
RANDOLPH ~ . candidate fos Assessor
u Pancla county.
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wesre Authorised to annoanee JOHN.
WICK o. q candidate for Assessor VI
Pamela county. ss
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weare Authorised to announce HENIsi
y. BuRRkLL as a candidate for las ~
sss.or ~ pancla County.
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ESrw We are aa,hsrised 10 announce
d. II. SIMPSON ~ a candidate Tor Tan
Assessor Of Pamela ,'oan,y. -
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Dclay not : moment, wy II And !cS VIII
be essvineed.
n pulscscrs 70 sAap.
EvEkY CODNT1Y MERCHANT
should NO, leave the city Mneil Ne Ass pro-
cured asarply d sst.esa's Ssvcnfsheol9g
Cordial II sells rapidly, bcesass y
way. cures. A liberal disccap1 viu Be
male 20 those vho hwy V sell eRekob
CAUTION Beware of drsrRises ~
dealers who may Try TO palm vpoe yoa
some Bitter or SassarsriIs srs.hI which
,hsy can buy cheap, BY ssyiae : h i.st
rs good. Avoid such men. Ash TOT No
L<an's Strengthening Cordial, and ssls
noshirg else. II b tbe cnly venedy that
will partly the hlcea thoroughly ssa al
tho same time ssssegtheu the systsn.
0ne tablespoonful ,skss esesy nssn'
iss, fasting, is q esssaio p~rssessi.s fo'
Chalesa, Chills aud fsve, fsIsv Fever
or n Ise,alat disease.
Prize only u per bossle, y sis bottles
fur y.
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"0Ex0Ne
rlVAHEN UP BY Henry Miller, near
plcasank Neanl, one nORSE Mulsk,
q o, IL kasds nigh, 4 years old, black
color. : scar % The right thiFh-suersss.
Appraised 10 elOo ~.
y. D. JONES, Resssr.
August II. os5s. 3-5w.S
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k7rw We are authorized 10 announce
NICHOLAS II. MORRIS, rs . esad,dss,
for Assessor Of Pamela County. sss
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10 you wish 10 be henisly srd strongly
Thou 20 ., once and get ~omecf McLraH's
Cordiat II will Strengthen and tnsisc.
rate your blood 10 how through cscty
vein. and the rich, rosy bloom 70 mount
10 your cksshs again. kssy bottle wss-
rsn,eA 10 riye .a,isiss!'.n:
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We are Authorised TO announce JOHN
Y. JACKSON % q candidate Tor Tar Is.
sssssr VI Pamela County. -
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-15

BRowNLow ON DANCING.-In the edito-
rial correspondence of the Knoxville Wing,
Parson Brownlow glvesa graphic description
of the brilliant festival and BALI which came
off at Memphis, on the 18th ultimo, to GEL
ebrate the opening of the 'Gayoso House.
Among other things, the Parson thus dis
courses of the waltz and polka:
i am no advocate of dancing, and never
tried the exercise in my life, but could not
resist the temptation to look on at this scene,
for largely upwards of an hour. My 'vul.
gar curiosity was satisfied, however, in see.
ing fifty fellows with long boards, goatees,
and huge whiskers, playing the waltz or polka
with as many charming ladies. he quad.
rilles-she polkas'-was the exclamation !
One feature of the waltz got me. 1t was to
see young fellow, dressed and perfumed
within an inch of his life, squeezing lady
tight around the waist with one arm, and
with the other, as they mingled with and a.
cross each other in pairs in the dance, gently
lifting her dress, and she occasionally raising
it higher, all, however, to keep it off OF the
floor, and the lady leaning up to him like
sick kitten to a hot brick! In these squee-
sing quadrilles, I noticed the hoops were
rather in the way
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WONDERFUL IF TRUE.

The following story which we find in the
Memphis Ledger, should properly be pub
lished on the LIST of April, but like many
good things, it will not bear keeping:
The following remarkable circumstance is
now the subject of considerable excitement
in Columbia county, Arkansas, and the facts
as set forth are said to be literally true
We have heard of navigating the air by
machines driven by electricity and by steam,
but this extraordinary story beats anything
we "ever went a-fshing." Read it all ye
St. Thomases:
OAK GROVE, COLUMBIA Cry, ARK,
February 26, 1858. I
Editors Memphis Evening Ledger
GENTS: Our section of the country has been
thrown into considerable excitement, within
the past few days, by the most unheard-of
affair that was ever known. At first, no one
would believe it, until the man, Mr.. Ben
Jones, produced such proof that the most
sceptical were fully convinced that it was
true. The facts are these. On Thursday even
ing last, some persons were working in field
(burning logs) some eight miles north of
this place. Their attention was attracted
by singular looking object flying through
the air at most astonishing rate. They
ceased work, and watched it until it came
fully into view, when, to their rastonishment,
it proved to be a balloon drawn by wild
geese. The geese few languidly, and after
few circles they alighted in a field near the
one in which the laborers were at work.
They rushed up, and when they arrived
found man standing up, holding on to the
balloon to keep it from rising. The crowd
soon gathered about him, and elected the
following facts.
He had witnessed the ascension of an
aronaut in St. Louis some time past, and
since that period had been experimenting
in various ways upon the subject He
lived in Harrison county, Missouri, and near
his house there was large lagoon setting in
from the-river. Numbers of wild
fowl covered the water, when mild spell of
weather set in, and the ice melted, leaving
the water free. During late thaw he set a
net and succeeded in drawing thirty wild
geese into trap. He manufactured bal
loon sufficient to sustain some FIVE hundred
pounds, and when he finished it, he formed
the idea of attaching the geese to it. Ac-
cordingly he fabricated a set Of harness
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SM(i SM(ist&uan&ous 8&aaing
bow TWO households BECAME ONE.

Mrs. Benoni Benson was fat, fair and
forty-four, when her husband, soap-boiler
in very good circumstances, was called from
his life-task of contributing to the general
publication of mankind. Mrs. Benson took
refuge from her grief in pretty cottage
situated on the principal street in the town
At first she wasinconsolable; as she used
to say, with solemn emphasis, which car
ried conviction to the hearts of her hearers,
that nothing but the thoughts of her daught-
er Florence would have prevented her from
terminating her existence by the interven-
tion of poison.
Mrs Benson was in no small measure in
debted to her daughter since in less than
three months she threw aside her mourning
and became as lively as ever.
Touching Florence, she had now reached
the mature af nineteen, and began to think
herself manageable. She was quite pretty,
and tolerably we'll accomplished, so that her
wishes in that respect were very soon likely
to be fulfilled.
Just over the way lived Squire Markham,
the village lawyer, just verging upon fifty,
with his son Charles, who was about half
his age. Being young man Of agreeable
exterior, the latter was quite favorite a.
mong the young ladies in the neighborhood,
and considered in common parlance, quite a
"catch." As yet, however, his affections
had never been seriously entangled and
might have remained so, had it not been for
the sudden apparition, one morning, Of Flo
renee Benson riding by on horseback.
1t struck him at once that she was remark
ably graceful, and really quite pretty
Thereupon he cultivated her acquaintance
with increased assidity, and after awhile
asked the fatal question.
Florence answered in the native; and
instead of referring him dutifully to her
mother, limited (being romantic young
LADY, how charming it would be to steal
away to the next town, and get married
without anybody being the wiser.
Charles Markham caught at this hint
which chimed with his own temperament,
and resolved to adopt it.
In order that it might be carried out with
perfect success, it was resolved to seem in
different to each other, until the day fixed,
in order to ward of any suspicion which
might otherwise be aroused.
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eSV
VIM. G. JOHNSON.

The UTAH ExpEDITIoN.-The Boston
journal has been favored with the perusal
of private letter to agentleman in the city,
written by an officer of the I'd dragons, now
encamped on Henery's Fork of Green river,
Utah Territory. The letter is dated January
80. The writer says the Utah army con.
sists of only 1,700 rank and file, according
to the official reports. From Mormon priao-
ners and other sources, he judges that Salt
Lake City contains about SO, 900 inhabitants,
divided as follows: 5000 males, from the
age of Is to so, which comprise the army;
$1,000 other males, older or younger than the
above; and $4,000 females, of whom 49,
900 are wives of 5000 men.
We copy the following from the letter,
which curiously shows the Importance of
transportation as an element of prices:
81 will give you list of prices, as charg-
ed by our storekeepers, or suffers, as we
term them in the army. We have three
stores, viz: Livingston & Kinkead, suffers
for the 5th and 10th infantry; Kerr & Car
ter, for our regiment, I'd dragons; and
VIM. Garrish, Bostonian, for quartermas-
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which, without being heavy, was sufficiently
strong, and then took the whole into the
meadow near by. He carried his acids and
iron during the day, and on the following
morning commenced initiating his machine.
In few hours it was filled with hydrogen
gas, and he began to stone it; which done,
he secured his steeds, and getting in, cut
the cord which confined the balloon. 1t at
once arose, the birds being very much
frightened, became entangled in their har.
ness, and created good deal of confusion.
Gradually, however, by stocking the
cords which attached them, he got them in
to line, and, as the-machine arose in the'air,
the flying steeds Strengthened themselves out
in line and commenced circling. A few
times they sailed around the field and then
laid their course for the West. A smart
breeze now began to blow, and the birds al
tered their course, uttering their peculiar
cry, and stood towards the Southwest. His
sensations be described as delightful, darting
through the air with lightning speed, and
without fear, as he we'll knew by easing it of
gas be could descend. The birds now rose
some half mile above the earth, and after
an hour or two appeared to have lostalI fear.
He passed over fields and farm-h houses, and
could see the people running out to gaze
after him, wonderstruck. He could see
numerous streams of water, and as he had a
compass with him, he knew the course he
was travelling. He passed over Missouri
river, and his course stood towards the
Southeast. When about eight hours out,
he saw large stream of water, and knew
he was over the Mississippi, as there we're
two boats in sight. Again the birds turned
their course, and night came on. BY the
course of the wind he thinks that they
turned once in the night, towards the North
west, but again steered South. He kept on
in flight until 8 o'clock the next morning,
when he commenced letting off the gas, and
as the balloon sunk the geese did the same,
until they alighted, as we have stated.
However improbable this story may seem,
it can be attested to by many witnesses, and
they are men of integrity.
Respectfully,
VIM. G. JOHNSON.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-15

MERCANTILE AGENCY COMMUNICATIONS G
PR1v1LEaED.-The Supreme Court of New
York has given the opinion that communi-
cations of mercantile agencies affecting a
mans business are "privileged,' if there is
no malice in the statement made. The court
said:
eff four bankers in Wall-street should
associate themselves together for thepurpose
OF ascertainiDg the character and standing
of their correspondents in Boston, and should
select one of their number, and pay his e1-
penses to Boston for that purpose, and he
should, on his return, state that he ascer.
tanned Mr.. Jones, of Boston, was a man of
bad character-that he had committed many
outrages against society-thst he was a for
ger-and he communicated that to his four
associates in the confidential relation in
which they stood, it would be privileged
communication, and no action would lie, un-
less express ma!ic were shown. Now, it is
difficult to see how there would be any diff
ference between four men and twenty-four,
or any number, associated for the purpose of
gaining honest and truthful information Of
this description, and without malicious mo-
tives; and am not able to see why the in.
given by this commercial agency,
80 far as it appears before the court, may not