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The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

Nice Distinction" The New York
Herald would seem to find comfort in the
very near approach Of the opposition in
their "last resort" to defeat the Admin
istration.
In connection with these proceedings
we publish in full the Senate bill and the
Crittenden substitute, so that our readers
may judge for themselves upon the nice
distinctions between the plan of the Ad-
ministration and the last resort of the
opposition. AS we have heretofore sta
ted, the difference between the Senate or
Administration bill, and the Crittenden
scheme, is this: The former admits
Kansas at once as State under the Lee
compton Constitution, and (notwithstand-
ing the 1864 bugaboo) leaves the people
concerned perfectly free to accept, reject
or modify it at their discretion, while by
the latter bill, as "a condition precedent"
to the admission of the State, the Le-
compton Constitution is referred back to
another test of the popular vote. Sub
stantially, however, whether this or that
plan shall finally prevail, the result will
be the same; for, in any event, the ques-
ton has been predetermined in Kansas,
so that with or without Constitution or
an enablidg act at this time from Con-
gress, she is positively, overwhelmingly
and permanently in the possession of the
free State party.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15
NOTICE TO TRANsIENT ApyERrIsnRs.

II utterly useless for transient advertisers to write
to us and make propositions unless they are willing
TO pay QUARTERLY IN ADVANCE. Its only an expense
of paying postage for nothing, We will in ease no.
flee letters making propositions for advertising unless
the writer enclose postagestamp, pay return post
age.
We are receiving, daily, letters from New York. Bos
tom and Philadelphia Advertising Agents containing
advertisements, with requests to publish &c To all
such we would say do not know whether or not
You are responsible and you responsible itmakes
no difference with il you to advertise in our
paper-the PRAIRIE NEws-you must send PAY FOR
THE FIRST QUARTER BEFORE WE PUT YOUR ADvER.
TIEMENr IL TYPE Unless you do this, we would ad.
wise you to keep your advertisements and thus save
yourselves trouble well considerable postage If
some papers will continue TO advertise for you for
nothing they do so we shan't
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15
AMBROTYPING.

T STEWART would respectfully announcets
y. the citizens of Okolona and vicinity, that 10
has taken rooms over Mr.. r. j. Denton's Store
where he will remain for short time, and is pre-
pared to take Likenesscs in the most approved
style of the Art
Price to suit the times. Have your likencsa
taken to-day, tomorrow may be too late
March 25-28-tf lllf ~
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

10 Petcrson's Magazine for April has
been received. We will copy a part of
notice from the Southern Monitor, and
apply it to our case:
at is one of the magazines you read
about. You needn't send to borrow it.,
for we havn't got it. We have sept it
away, just to keep from lending it, and
its nobody's business who we sent tito,
1t is out of the way of borrowers, at any
rate
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15


The ErH of a Bad Temper.-A bad
TENDER is curse to the possessor, and
its influence is most deadly wherever it
is found. 1t is allied to martyrdom to be
obliged to live with one of a complaining
temper. To hear one eternal round of
complaint and murmuring-to have eve
ry pleasing thought scared away by their
evil Spirits sore trial. 1t is like the
sting of scorpion-a perpetual nettle
destroying your peace, rendering life a
burthen. Its influence is deadly; and
the purest and sweetest atmosphere is
contaminated into deadly miasma, wher-
ever this evil genius prevails. II has
been said truly that while we ought not
to let the bad temper of others influence
us, it would be as unreasonable to spread
a plaster of Spanish flies upon the skin,
and not expect it to draw as to think of
a family not suffering because of the bad
temper fany of its inmates. One string
out of tune will destroy the music of an
otherwise perfect-so if all
the members of church, neighborhood
and family do not cultivate kindly and
affectionate temper, there will be discord
and every evil work.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

An hretcrate Whig-Parson Brown
low lately, in speech at Montgomery,
Ala, sad that He was a Whig-had al
ways been Whig--and would rather
now vote for the suit of clothes last worn
by Henry Clay, stuffed with straw, than
for any of the whining cringing party
demagogues of the present day.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

A Detachment from Vest Point for
Utah.-A company of Sappers and Mi
ners, sixty-four in number under the COM
mand of Capt. Duane and Lient. Alex
andre, left West Point on the 3lst ult,
for Utah. The company is in most ex-
cellent discipline, and consists of picked
men, who have been for year past un-
der the training and instruction of Lieut..
Alexandra, one of the most accomplished
and promising engineer officers in the
service.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15
NATURES SAFETY VALVES.
BEWARE OF IGNORANT ENGINEERS.

Infinite mischief has been done, is done
daily, by class of practitioners who
may, with truth, be called medical tink-
ers. These gentlemen are content to
patch up the diseased frame, instead of
renovating the system. Their aim is to
suppress rather than to eradicate. Pro-
lessor Holloway belongs to different
school. His cures are not superficial and
temporary, but complete and permanent.
His theory of external diseases is found
ed on reason and analogy. Assesses,
ulcers, and running sores, he looks upon
as safety valves, opened by nature, to
permit the escape of morbid matter. TO
suppress the discharge without removing
the cause, he would consider about as ra-
tional as to tie down the valve of steam
boiler while steam was rapidly genera
ting within. As the careful engineer
puts out the fire in the furnace when he
would stop the production of steam, so
Holloway quenches the infammatory
principle which induces suppuration, be-
fore he attempts to close the orifce
through which the discharge takes place
Hence the extraordinary cures of sore
legs, open wounds, assesses, sore breasts,
and ulcers of all kinds, accomplished by
his Ointment and Pills. These exterior
affections are the induces of internal cor
ruption, and the effect of the pills is to
disinfect and purify the animal fluids in
which that corruption exists. The poison
carried by the blood vessels to the sur
face is met and neutralized by Ointment,
and thus the disease is quenched at its
sources, and at the points where it is de-
veloped, at one and the same time. The
result is that no relapse occurs, for the
poisonous elements being annihilated,
there is nothing left, either in the recess
es of the system or in the outward integu-
ments, which can rekindle Inflammation
The disease is dead, past all resurrection
TO film over a virulent ulcer, without
destroying its cause, is to throw back in
fammation upon the vital organs. The
only name that can be given to such
treatment is professional homicide. Hol-
loway utterly ignores all skin-deep prac-
tice, the cures wrought by his remedies
are thorough and fundamentally Y
Suuday I" Mercurv."
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

reported Coalition Of Comoafovt and
IValker.-A correspondent of the N. Y.
Herald, writing from New Orleans,
March 22d, says:
Senator COmonfort, ex-President of
Mexico, and General William Walker,
ex-President of Nicaragua, both residing
in this city, have an eye on MexicO.-
Comonfort will furnish the necessary
funds to raise an army, and Gen. Walker
is to take the command. Both parties
keep still as circumstances will allow them
to do, but they cannot keep the thing a Sc
cret. One of their officers has already
gone to Texas to take up the remains of
a filibustering army, formerly formed in
that country for the late struggle in Mica
ragua. They intend to form double
headed Presidency, and to subdue the
whole country-of course after they sue
ceed
called on ex-President Comonfort
to-day. He has leased for several months
the fine mansion known as the Lasepps,
House, near the United States Barracks,
some two miles below the city. There,
surrounded by groves of orange trees and
magnolias, he is leading life of quiet re-
tirement. He spoke with regret, but
without bitterness, of recent and present
events in Mexico. He will probably not
visit the North at present.
Change Of Unyorm-We noticed sew
eral days ago that the War Department
was about to order changes in the Uni
form of the Army generally. 1t now APP
pears that such an order has been issued,
and it contains full description of the
new uniform decided upon The cap now
worn is supplanted by felt hat with brim
3 inches wide and crown 81 inches high
bound with ribbon silk for officers and
double stitched around the rim for men.
The trimmings for general officers are as
follows: Gold cord, with acorn shaped
ends the brim of the hat looked up on
the right side and fastened with an eagle
attached to the side of the hat; three
black ostrich feathers on the left side a
gold embroidered wreath in front on black
velvet ground, encircling the letters L.
S. in silver, old English characters.
For other classifcations of officers and
for the privates there are similar trim
mings, varying slightly for each distinct
i've grade or class.
The change also extends to the panta-
looms and coat, but in respect to them it
is confined to the trimmings of the latter
and the stripe of the former. Sibley's
tent is also to be substituted for that
now in use.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15
THE DuELLING CODE.

The old notion that the challenged
party has the choice of weapons, distance
and place, is pronounced by those famil-
lar with the rules of the duell to be alb
surd, and ridiculous. The opinion that
no weapons should be used except pistols
and swords is also being advanced
Ben Lane Posey says these are the only
weapons which should be used among
men of honor The pistol for civilians,
and the sword for soldiers.
The following which we find in the
Marion American is an extract from the
only written code, and settles this ques-
ton at once:
l. After all efforts for reconciliation
are over, the party aggrieved sends a
challenge to his adversary, which is de-
livered to his second.
2. Upon the acceptance of the chal-
lenge, the seconds make the necessary
arrangements for the meeting, in which
each party is entitled to perfect equali-
ty. The old notion that the party chal-
lenged was authorized to name the time,
place, distance and weapon, has been
long since exploded, nor would man of
chivalric honor use such a right if he
possessed it. The time must be as soon
as practicable, the place such as had or
dinarily been used where the parties are
the distance usual, and the weapon that
which is most generally used, which in
this State is the pistol.
3. If the challenger insist upon what
is not usual in time, place, distance and
weapon, do not yield the point, but ten
der in writing what is usual in each, and
if he refuse to give satisfaction, then
your friend may post him. a
4. If your friend be determined to
fight and not post, you have the right to
withdraw. But if you continue to act,
and the challenger name distance and
weapon not usual and more fatal than
the ordinary distance and weapon, you
have right to tender still more deadly
distance and weapon, and he must &C
cept.
5. The usual distance is from ten to
twenty PAGES, as may be agreed on, and
the seconds in measuring the ground usu-
ally step three feet.
6. After all the arrangements are made
the seconds determine the giving of the
word and position by lot, and he who
gains has the choice of the one or the
other selects whether it be the word or
position, but he cannot have both.
The author of this code was the Hon.
John Lyde Wilson, Governor of South
Carolina. He collected and codiied the
rules of the duel in America.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

IV r. A. Murdoch & Co., have re-
ceived new Spring and Summer goods,
which they will sell low-very low, to
their friends. Give them a call; they
have large stock, and can suit the tastes
of all. See new advertisement.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

@We ask special attention to the ad-
vertisement of Messrs. MCGEE & Fooshee.
They are prepared to furnish horses and
vehicles to the public of the very first
order; besides, they are gentlemen in
every way worthy of liberal patronage
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

10 Mrs. Prewett, the sharp editress of
the American (Yazoo) Banner, is a
"brick," out and out. Hear her talk of
her neighbor of the Observer. Listen !!
"Our ncighbor of the NATional Observer
wants Mr.. Everett to come up to YazOo
City. just think of his making the re-
ception speech as Mayor of our town =
Wouldn't Mr.. Everett be sort O. shamed
to speak after such an imposing and gift
ted orator. r. That's right bad, but she
says he is a Democrat, if so we tell her
to latherhim. Bye the bye Mrs. Prev
EFT is, as every woman ought to be, a
strong advocate of Union
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

20 We viii furnish either Peterson or Ar
thurs Magazie and the Prairie News one year.
to subscribers, for $500 Thus giving the sub
scriber $4 worth for $500. Persons desiring to
take us up at this proposition, should send in
their names Immediately. This offer is made
only to new subscribers
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

Holloway's Ointment, unlike those eu,.
ward applications which relieve pain for the mo.
ment by paralyzing the nervous organization Of
the skin,) pierces through the absorbents to the
seat of inflammation, and thus extingushes tho
fire which feeds the eruption, boil, or ulcer from
which the patient suffers.
Sold at the mandatory, No. 80 Maiden Lane.
New York, and by all druggists, at Csc, &c., and
$l per pot
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

10 Williams & Darden are opening
their stock of summer goods. If you
want good and neat, or fancy and
flashy suit of summer clothes, go and see
them. See new advertisement.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

MARROW EscApE.-A Mr.. Ishes, near
this place, had his horse killed from un-
der him on Thursday last, from the fall
of tree, while he escaped uninjured.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

ER Whenever anything a1es you just
go to Ward & Jones Drug Store-they
have articles there which will gin the
disease ont of anybody in the world.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

The atlantic Telegraph.-The Lon
don Times stated that the four hundred
miles of cable ordered to replace the
three hundred and eighty-four which were
lost last autumn off Valentia, have been
completed, and it is intended, in order to
make better provision for casualties, that
an additional three hundred miles shall
be at once proceeded with. The opera
ton will be commenced in the middle of
June, in which month, it is said, there
are five or six consecutive days during
which gale in the Atlantic was seldom
or never known to occur. The line will
be joined and laid from the centre of the
ocean, the Niagara taking her end of the
cable to ireland, and the Agamemnon
conveying hers to America. On this oc-
casion the cable will not be piled away
in one huge mass, but will be distributed
equally in the fore, midship, and after
parts of the vessels, in coils of five hun
dred miles each.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

to fear no evil and when deaths cold spray b,d
settled on his brow, bis head was affect;onatev
plowed on his Saviors breast, and he "breathed
his life out sweetly there"
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

CUTTING-A case of cutting took place
on Sunday last, at the Clopton House, in
this town. AS the boarders were assem-
bling for dinner, Mr.. Paylor, who was
standing at the desk in the barroom, was
approached by Mr. Stuart, who made
some marks on his P's) head with peck
ct knife. There was an examination held
before Justices Dismukes and Gray on
Monday, who held Mr.. Stuart in bond
of 1000 for his appearance at the next
court. Domestic matters was the cause
of the ill-feeling between them Beacon.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

W We spent delightful evening last
Friday, in listening to the examination
of Mr.. McCURDY's Female School
This was not regular examination, only
the first of series which the teachers
propose holding monthly.
We are not deeply versed in the mys-
teries of the French language, but from
the ease with which the young ladies
read and translated, We feel confident they
have a very correct knowledge of this
beautiful language, and the glibness with
which they carried the verbs through
their almost interminable variations, i'm
pressed us with the idea that they were
perfectly familiar with the most difficult
part of the grammar.
A class in Philosophy seemed to re-
fleet talents only equaled by the beauty
of its members. Other classes stood ex-
cellent examinations.
The Mobile Price Current is unavoid-
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

EY The revival mania is spreading
over the whole United States. A great
many have been converted in several
Southern cities. We may soon hear of
it spreading in the interior.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

II The Eagle & Enquirer takes
things as cool as cucumber. The Ava
lanche talks and rails about the Eagle !;
but the Eagle unframed, and wrapt per-
haps in deeper thoughts, pursues the even
tenor of its way. BY the way, the Ava
lanche is one of 'em-says its editorial
blunderbuss is of such heavy calibre that
it mutilates too badly when turned loose
upon small thingsl A lofty opinion, that.
We often think an enquiry as to what
has become of Crisp's Gaiety. Did the
Avalanche's Avalanche of criticism over
whelm it?
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

- The Mercury is mistaken about
the age Of A. w. Orm. He certainly
was not the individual mentioned by Cow
per, as we never had the pleasure of read
ing that poets works-even if we had,
can the Mercury imagine for an instant
are would transplant an admired charac-
ter of any poet from the white pages of
a neatly bound book, to supine position
beneath a muddy wagon wheel More
over it was fact A. w. Orm was kill
ed-we saw the body. Poor fellow Re
gnescat IN pace.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

MOBILE AID ONO TELEGRAPH LINE.
We are happy to learn, says the Mo
bile Mercury, ofthe 9th, that yesterday
the Directors of the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad Company granted the right of
way over their line, from this city to
Cairo, to the Magnetic Telegraph Com
pany, who will commence putting up a
telegraph line without delay, at their
own expense, without calling upon citi-
zens for subscriptions. The terms of the
grant provide that the Railroad Company
shall have the use of the line free of
charge, and the Telegraph Company
are obligated to put up seperate line for
the use of the road whenever it shall be
required.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15
BUSINESS LOTS,

ISS LOTS,
Situated in the most beautiful and commanding
portion of the :. Prairie City," also few Dwell
ing and Business Houses. -
The terms are one half cash and the balance in
twelve months, with per cent interest
Okolona is healthy and fourishing place. with
good schools fine churches, and the surrounding
community cannot be surpassed fdr wealth, in
teigence and refinement. The neigh Of the q iron
horse" is now sounding in our ears, and in few
months will be with us; 50 all persons wishing
a pleasant home or Lots on speculation, GOMEZ
come !!
April LIST, 1853. 90 81
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

MILITARy.-The martial spirit of Oko-
Iona is evidently looking up. In less
than almost no time, thirty or forty men
have been enrolled, and the ranks of the
"Chickasaw Rangers" present an appear
ance that would put to flight fifty aboli-
tiOnistS.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

The Mobile Price Current is unavoid-
ably crowded out of this issue.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

WIZARD & JONES have Just received their
w new goods; amongst them will be found
Chocolate, Cocoa, Porter, Ale, fue medical bran
dy, &c. April Is. s
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15
THE PRAIRIE NEWS.

THE PRAIRIE NEWS,
Published Immediately on the line of the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad, at
OkOLONA CHICKASAW, CO., MISS,
Is THE BEST Advertising medium for Chick.
asaw, Monroe, ltawamba, and Pontotoc coun.
ties, has large circulation in North Mississippi
generally, and is well known in most parts Of
the Southern country. II is respectfully re-
commended TO the attention of men of business
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-15

WThe LaGrnnge (Ga.) Reporter en-
tertains the same opinion of editors who
publish Northern stories that we do. In
speaking of what we said about them, he
says:
1--WE agree with the News exactly.
We have been furnished with the same
sort of " copy 4" for our paper, but have
invariably laid it aside without notice, be-
cause we could not feel that we were do
ing our patrons justice in giving them a
portion Of a story, and thus compel them
to subscribe for paper they perhaps do
not want, or do without reading it-espe-
cially at the price of three cents per line.
We expect always to do justice to our
patrons, and if we cannot do that, we will
surrender our space and place to some
one who will"
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70 NJ. Herman has excellent cigars.