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The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-05
Dissolution Notice.

THE partnership heretofore existing between
the undersigned, under the name and style
of Hoffman 6 Zelnicker, is this day dissolved by
mutual consent
Either of the partners is authorized to use the
name of the firm in liquidation.
j. HOFFMAN.
S. s. ZELNICKER
Yazou City, Sept. 1st, 1859.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-05
MsW aDWsg91ssQNgW1s.
Wanted.

A SUCCESSFUL and wel-recommended Over
a seer (who has had nine years experienced J
wishes to get steady employment. Strictly sober.
Enquire of HARRISON & HYATT.
Yazoo City, November s, 1859.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-05
ST. NICHOLAS HOUSE.

Gs9>eJ
@S >s@ -
TNHE subscriber respectfully informs the citizens
| of Yazoo City, and the public generally, that
he has opened in the Cellar, under s. H. Wilson's
Jewelry store, new and elegant
U2@ @AUR2 AN~a
which will be kept constantly supplied, through
out the season, with the choicest Meats, Wild
Game, Fish and Fowls, that the New Orleans
market can furnish, together with OYSTERS
served up in every style.
Experienced Cooks and attentive Walters have
been secured, and the public may be assured
that nothing will be left undone to deserve theiI
patronage, which is solicited
B6s~ Fresh FISH and OYSTERS received daily
from New Orleans. Families can be supplied Oh
the shortest notice.
Bay" Suppers furnished for Balls and Parties
F. j. NICHOLS.
October 90, 1852
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-05

1Ht quaIlty OF the pFInCIpdI PUTVIUH Vi WIG
receipt is Middling, there being much smaller
proportion this season of Middling Fair and Fair
than usual-scarcely any of the latter class has
been offered for sale.
Freight on Cotton continues at 81 o5 per bale.
Notwithstanding the low stage of the River, small
boats with careful pilots, carry out full loads of
Cotton.
We give below the New Orleans Cotton quota
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-05

Y
The ordinary drawings of Wood, Eddy & Co.'s
Lotteries will take place at Augusta, Georgia, IS
olloWs-
CLASS As
Draws on Saturday, November 5, 1859.
CLASS 46
Draws on Saturday, November II, 1859.
CLASS Is
Draws on Saturday, November 26, 1859.
CLASS 40
Draws on Saturday, December 3, 1859.
CLASS so
Draws on saturday, December 10, 1859
GLASS 50
Draws on Saturday, December a. 1859.
CLASS SO
Draws on Saturday, December . l, 1859.
CLASS "a
Draws on Saturday, January I, 1860.
CLASS 55
Draws on Saturday, January IA, 1860.
CLASS 81
Draws on Saturday, January 2S, 1860.
ORDINARY DRAWING.
To take place as above specified
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-05
NEGROES FOR SALE.

T HAVE lot Of likely young NEGROES
for sale Several good House Girls and X
a good Carpenter. onco
October 90, 1859 9 5t*.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-05
New Firm.

New Firm.
TTAvING purchased the entire interest of Mr..
]. Hoffman in the late finn of Hoffman &
Zen:cker, will continue the business, as here
tofore, on my own account.
S. s. ZELNICKER.
Yazoo City, Sept lst. 1869. (Sept. 8.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-05
In Ordering Tickets or Certificate.

In Ordering Tickets or CertifiCate'S
Enclose the money to our address for the
Tickets ordered, on receipt of which they will
be forwarded by first mail. Purchasers can have
tickets ending in any figure they may designate.
The List of Drawn Numbers and Prizes will
be sent to purchasers Immediately after the
drawing.
Bsy- Purchasers will please write their sigma
tures plain, and give their Post Office, County and
State.
6y" All Prizes of $1,000 and under paid
Immediately after the drawng-other prizes at
the usual time of thirty days.
Address Orders for Tickets or Certificates te
WOOD, EDDY CO., Augusta Ca,
or WOOD, EDDY CO., Atlanta, Ga,
or, WOOD, EDDY & CO., Wilmington, Del
B4~ list of the numbers that are drawn
from the Wheel with the amount of the prize that
each one is entitled to, will be published after
every drawing, in the following papers Augusta
! Geo. Constitutionalist, Mobile Register, Nash
vile Gazette, New York Weekly Day Book,
Richmond Dispatch, Paulding Miss Clarion,
and New York Herald 0ct.30, '6S-ly
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-05

A DESIRABLE RESIDENCE FOR SALE
OR RENT.
T OFFER for sale my RESIDENCE in f!a
Yazoo City. The House contains seven s.;iIl
Rooms; a good Kitchen and Servants Rooms, a
good Cistern and necessary out buildings, choiSe
selection Of Fruit Trees, and about 81 acres OF
frst-rate Land, in cultivation.
If the above is not sold by the LIST of January
next it will be for rent.
A. NJ. TRAINER.
October %, 1859. til.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-05

,.dav Morning, November 8. 1853.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-05
COMMERCIAL.

corroy-Thcre has been no falling off in re-
eeipts Of Cotton during the last week, and we
are pleased to note the frequent appearance Of
wagons in the street from distant counties, who
are attracted here by the high prices paid for
Cotton, and other advantages this market offers.
Sales since the date of our last, have reached
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-05

ZOO CITY. MISSISSIPPI.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-05
Grand Capital Prize OF $4,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
.S6I5.OOO

5, $50 Prizes amounting to.........$6I5, 900
Whole Tickets $l0 Halves So; Quarters S22,
The ordinary drawings of Wood, Eddy & Co.'s
Lotteries will take place at Augusta Georgia, as
follows
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-02-17
An Affecting Letter from an Unfor'
innate Female.

At the burning Of house OF ill-repute
in Cincinnati few days ago, a young.
accomplished and beautiful girl, stran-
ger in the city, persisted in the flames.
The following deeply affecting letter was
subsequently found among the ruins of
the building. and issupposed to have been
written by the poor, unfortunate girl who
fell prey to the flames:
Home 20. home magical, all-Pow-
erful word, home Oft have l wished
for home-one that i could return
to after long absence, when, as now,
wearied anil perplexed with many cares
of this cold world, | could find re.lre-
ment there and be welcomed by kind
friends-begreeted BY those have known
in innocent childhood. But, alas those
Joys are not for me. have heard others
talk of their pretty homes and aristocrat-
ic palaces, but wish not for these, nor
could l wish for proud palace for my
home, only for an humble one /; yet have
not this. have never known kind
fathers or mothers care-a sisters or a
brothers love- These have al BEEN lost
to me. My infant steps were not guarded
by a mothers hand. or my infant lips
taught by a mothers gentle voice to lisp
a prayer to Ged. ] am all alone, without
friend in the world, for i have place,l an
insurmouniable barrier between me and
all that is pure. i can never associate
with those that ave respected and esteemed.
Ny home is in the vile haunts Of the
abandoned my companions are the de-
PRAYED ones whose vices are mingled with
oathS.
Oftimcs / have heard others say this is
a gay life. with all its helIish excitement
and all its would-be righteousness, but
God has said. 1.-THE wages Of sin is death. ="
They do not think that when they come
to die, poor, forsaken outcasts. without a
lrieud-fOr when their beauty has faded
and their health has gone, even their vile
companions will forSake them. and leave
them to die in the aospital and be buried
in the POlter's field. 1t makes me wretch
ed to think that this may soon be my fate.
A few more short years, and j will be
forgotten by those who now call them
selves my friends. There are many who
profess to be my friends. but would give
naught for their friendship. Too oft have
seen the look of pity, mingled with
scorn, cast upon me by those who think
me far beneath them They. too. have
often laid their heals upon my breast,
and swore, by the God that gave them
life. that they loved me but little do
they know how | regarded their oaihs
| have met kind and generous men whom
have liked very much yet when think
under what circumstances | have met
them, cannot think of them with a
pleasant Thought, but remember them
with hitter feeling. which makes me
miserable. / shall soon leave this place,
and hope to find home where / will
be more happy, and will try to forget
many, many things, and look upward to
put my trust in my Father which is in
heaven" and he will not desert me, al
though earthly friends may vanish like
the dew before the morning sun.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-02-17
(From the Cincinnati Commercial, Jan. 49,
BODY SNATCHING.
The Body of the Unfortunate Josephine
Ellison Disinterred by Resurrection
ists-Arrest of the Parties.

At about half-past IL O'Clock, Thurs.
day night, a covered wagon was observ-
ed in the vicinity of the Eclectic Medical
Institute, on the corner of Plum and
Court streets, containing four men, who,
from their cautions movements, attracted
the attention Of the Fifth Ward watch
men, oneof whom went to the Ninth street
station house for reinforcement. In the
meantime the wagon was driven into an
obscure alley in the rear of the Institute,
and by the time the additional force oil
policemen had arrived, the men had align
ted and were carrying what appeared to
be heavy weight in sack. which upon
recognizing the watchmen, they lot drop
and ran off. The driver, who had remain
ed in the wagon, whipped his horse and
started at fast gait down Cont street,
but was overhauled on the corner of Wes-
tern Row, where upon searching the ve-
hicIe, spade and other tools necessary
for the trade of the resurrectionist were
found. Returning with him in custody
to the alley where the mysterious sack
had been dropped, and which, by this
time, they were certain contained dead
body, they placed it in the wagon and
drove to some premises on Eighth street,
adjoining the city buildings, where their
suspicious were confirmed, for, upon ex-
animation. the sack was found to have
secreted the nude body Of female. Ths
coroner was sent for, and he almost i'm
mediately recognized the remains Of the
unfortunate Josephine Ellison. who lost
her life in the recent FIRE on Western
Row.
She bad been inferred in the Methodist
Radical grave yard, three miles out upon
the Reading road the first two nights,
some Of the friends of the deceased, who
suspected that her body would be sought
for by the doctors, watched the grave,
and not perceiving anything calculated to
excite their suspicious, they had no fur
Their fear bus the earthly portion Of the
unfortunate woman would be allowed
to rest in peace. 1t seems, however.
that they were mistaken.
The officers, beside the driver Of the
wagon, whose name is John Winters,
succeeded in srresting a couple Of Suspec-
ted individuals named William Cunning
ham and James Cormor, the former g
notorious resurectionist, who in default
of procuring bonds in two thousand dol
lars each to answer an examination this
morning. were committed by Judge Pru-
den yesterday. Another party, Patrick
Lilies, is suspected, but up to last evening
he had succeeded in GLIDING the vigilance
Of the police.
The body Of poor Josephine was con-
veyed to the premises Of the undertaken,
Mr.. Soards, on Sixth street Rev. G..
T. Flanders, Of the Second Universalist
Church, Plum street, below Fifth, has
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-02-17

GooD.-A bill was before the Legisla-
ture, to establish road from Fort hiley
to Pixies Peak, but It proved . flash IN
:he pan. Three members from this Coun-
ty were deeply interested in It, as they
had it all planned out. that two OF said
members and SON of the third were to
be of the Commissioners 10 survey and
locate the road. They could thus so to
the mines at the public expense. and then
dig for themselves. These three members
hung together. and seemed to have nc
other idea than Pixies Peak. They would
listen to or talk about nothing else. and
did precious little else than look out fol
this and similar schemes by which they
could make 3 speculation. They vii
now have 10 go to the mines on their owl
hook. Ft-f
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-02-17
The Presidency.

The question. "Who shall be the nav.
President ?" is one which we long -"
decided not to discuss, nor even de6ni,1SIoo
consider, until the opening of 1860
which year it properly belongs. W.
make no pretentions to prophecy. and
none but a prophet can be quali6eJ -
determine which among our state>msO
the Republicans ought to present as ,L.;"
candidate for the next great Na,ion,,
struggle. For we are among those rLa
hold Success. when att.inable. to be or
ten a pslitical duty, as we hold il en-;
nenily TO be duty incumbent on IL.
Republicans in 1860. They arc s,ro"~
enough to elect the right man. who,ys,
he may be; they are not strong enopob
to elect any other. Who the man 2
will be made manifest to those wbo
without partiality, prejudice, or alloy Of
personal aspiration. ob>erv unity awa;,
the proper time Of choosing: a speech -.
vote, a proposition Of the right stamn
and made at the right moment, NAV IN
dictate him, so that the clear.eye,l can no
longer doubt. And that man, wboevsr
he may be-whether Seward, or Chase
or M'Lean, or Banks. or Fremont or
BiSSell, or COllamer. or Bates, or Fessen.
den,-nay, should he have not been hi,h.
erto regarded as technically Republican
such As General Scott, or John Bell
or Horace F. Clark, or John NJ. Bor,
or Henry Winter DAVIS. provided he bs
openly anil unc1uivOcally anti. Slavery.
Extending. anti-Cuba- Stealing, anti, FL.
! iluster-we shall heartily support, both
his nomination and his election. W.
give fair notice that practical triumph
in 1860 over the Sham Democracy anil
its master, the Slavery Propaganda, !,
the end for which we labor, and to wbi,b
we hold not only personal aspiration,
but party names, wholly subordinate
And whoever hears or reads that the Tn.
hume, or its Editor. is engaged in anv in.
trigue or manruvcr TO put up or pnt down
either Seward or Fremont. Chase, Dong.
las. or any one else. will oblige Us bv ne.
mcmbering our explicit contradiction Of
the rrport-a contradiction which will be-
none the less emphatic that we shall MT
take the trouble Of repeating i;.-X J..
! Tribune.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-02-17

kindly consented to allow the use OF has
Church and assist in the burial rites
The body viii be conveyed thence to the
cemetery at CumminsvilIe. but II is intend
ed this time to secure it in the vault Tor
three months before consigning it to the
earth. Considerable excitement prevail
ed amongst the frail sisterhood yesterday.
and one Of them set forth to collect sniff
cient fund to. give their late companion a
decent second burial. Seventy four dol
lars were subscribed. which will be ap-
propriated to that purpose
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-02-17
The Poe Family.

Deacon Adam Poe, a worthy citizen Of
Ravenna. Ohio, died in that place on the
9Th inst. In noticing his death. the Dem
ocrat gives the following interesting sketch
of his ancestry:
deacon Poe was born in Green Town
ship. Beaver Co, Pennsylvania, April 4,
1871. and at the time of his death, had
nearly attained sixty eight years Of age.
He was the son of Andrew and Elizabeth
Rutan Poe, whose family consisted OF
eleven children. nine daughters and two
sons. Adam was the sixth child and ED.
est son.
His father was born in Maryland, in
1742, and had two brothers named George
and Adam. George was the eldest. An.
drew the second and Adam the third son.
In accordance with the old law Of prim-
ogeniture in vogue in those days. the
family property fell to the eldest SON.
Geo. Poe was a very wealthy man, and
the father Of the much lamented and
brilliant Edgar Allen Poe, who was a first
cousin OF the subject Of this sketch.
The father of Deacon Poe was a very
large. athletic and active man, and quite
popular in the neighborhood in which he
lived. He is the Andrew Poe, so famous
for the single handed conflict with the
Indian, Big Foot, Chief Of the Wyan-
dot tribe-s man of herculean strength,
and an inveterate foe to the white man.
In July. 1855. big Foot" and his
four brothers were committing depreda-
tons in the vicinity in which the Poe
family lived. and the brothers, Andrew
and Adam, in company with others, turn
ed out to rout them. Andrew Poe had
a hand-to-hand encounter with "Big
Foot" and proved himself the best man
Of the two. Big Foot was shot by Adam
Poe. who came to his brothers aid, and
by this death the Indian difficulties in
that section were forever quoted"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-02-17

ANOTHER IDEA.-It has been clearly
proven that the Pixies Peak country is
the veritable Garden of Eden and now
an exchange comes TO us, with another
theory. 1t mentions the fact. that De
Soto wandered weStwardly. impelled by
the idea that gold existed in great album
dance, in that direction; and it thinks that
Pixies Peak must be the region he dream
ed Of To be sure, De Soto was an en-
thasiastie adventurer |; but the fact Of his
hunting gold in tina. direction. is no proof
that he would have found it. De Seto
went no farther than the Mississippi river,
where he died, and was buried beneath
the waters Of that river; yet the idea is
advanced, that Pixies Peak is the place
he dreamed Of ! If it is to be regarded
as fixed fact, that gold actually existed
to the westward, because De Soto dream
cd of il, why not conclude at once that
California is the place /? That is west of
the Mississippi. and the abundance Of gold
there has been established beyond doubt,
which is not the case with Pixies Peak.
There was another dreamer, in early
times, called Ponce de leon. He came
to Florida, as did De Soto. but he was
in search Of the Fountain Of Touth-a
spring whose waters would preserve or re-
store youth in those who partook of them.
If We accept the theory about De Soto,
it is just as reasonable to suppose that the
visionary Ponce de Icons Fountain Of
Youth will yet be found bubbling up in
the new gold regions. We would rec
ommend that emigrants thither partake
of the waters Of every spring, lake, pond,
pool and puddle which they may discOv-
err. In this way they may may at length
stumble upon the Fountain of Youth.
The old German Alchemists at one
time undertook to discover what was
termed the "Gold Stone" or the art oil
turning other substances into gold. Who
knows but what the identical Gold
Stone" lies imbedded somewhere about
Pixies Peak.
The Perpetual Motion is another myth
which has been pursued for centuries by
dreamers. As all efforts to discover il
have heretofore proven futile, we recon-
mend that search be made for it on the
summit of Pixies Peak
If there is any other impossibility
which has ever been dreamed of by tho
imaginative or superstitious, Pixies Peak
is the place to go to look for it.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-02-17
Rv Nc would invite the Intention 0

EF We wSuld invite the attention OF
our readers to the new "AGUE CURE" ad-
vertised in our columns. 1t is from such
a quarter as will givethe public confidence
in its efficacy, and we have learned from
reliable sources, that its virtues will sus-
tain their fullest expectations. Citizens
o. the west cannot fail to appreciate the
paramount value to them, of a safe and
certain remedy for the affecting distemper
without either Quinine or minerals, and
consequently without injury to the con-
stitutional health. We have more than
ordinary satisfaction in proclaiming this
remedy, because we are convinced it will
answer crying want among us. and serve
to relieve great amount of suffering
Republican, Wdrsd,c, Ind. u
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-02-17

The WASHINGTON STATES on THE Gu
BA QUEsTIoN.-WAsHISeTos, Jan. 2S.-
The Washington States. douglas or
gan, commenting upon the proposed ac-
QUESTION of Cuba, says:
1t is perfectly we'll understood among
all parties in this city, that the thirty
millions bill is q sham demonstration
Everybody admits the utter absurdity oil
an attempt to purchase Cuba in the pres
ent condition of affairs. A distinguished
Southern Senator enphatically expressed
the universal sentiment, when be declared
that Mr.. Buchanan might as well essay
to carry himself from the White House
to the Capitol by the seat of his panta-
looms, as undertake to acquire Cuba for a
pecuniary consideration. What then is
the object of the movement? Every
body in Washington understands that
the thirty millions bill originated in the
desire of demsgouges to propitate public
sentiment by an apparent zeal in popu-
lar enterprise. Any overture for the pur-
chase of Cuba at the present moment,
will only result in postponing its acqui-
sition to an indefinite period. That is
the opinion of every man at all CONVEX
SAINT with Spanish politics.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-02-17

ANOTHER NEGRO Observation-Disclosures
Of the murders of masters by their slaves
have become alarmingly frequent of late,
and retribution seems to be dealt out to
the perpetrators with dispatch, and in the
form to which only people wrought mp
to the highest dc ;ree Of indignation and
excitement would resort.
The Democrat Of yesterday, contained
short account Of the murder of Mr..
Simon d. Thornhill, of Lincoln County,
in this State, by one of his slaves, and the
subsequent lynching Of the negro by the
excited citizens. We received Yesterday
some further particulars of the affair,
which are as follows:
Mr.. Thornhill owned negro, who, by
his recklessness, had frequently overdriv-
en- his cattle and injured his wagons
Having occasion to get something hauled,
he hired a person to do it, which exas-
perated the negro. He went into the
road, and as his master came along, az.
tackled him with knife, and stabbed him
fourteen times. The sounded man ran
to fence, which he was attempting Ia
scale, when the ruffian came up behind
him and cut him again and again in the
back. The wounded man managed 10
crawl to house, and was there taken
care of, but he died shortly after. The
murderer was secured, and committed To
Jail in the town of Troy. in Lincoln Co.
The people Of the vicinity assembled, and
in great fury and excitement, took the
wretch from prison and burned him to
ashcs.-iH Louis Dem, I1M.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-02-17

STARS AND STRIPES This is the
name of large octave weekly, the first
number of which we have received. 1t
is to be devoted to Literature and the Fine
Arts. The very best writers aud artists
have been employed by its publisher, and
no effort will be spared to render it one Of
the leading papers of the country. Sew
eral intensely interesting stories are COM
menced in the first number. The price
of the paper is $500 year. Address
Frank Leslie, Is Frankfort Street, New
York.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-02-17

The kind and afable department Of
Gov. Medary. his respectful conduct to-
ward the Legislature, his prudent man
agement Of serious and exciting questions
of public policy, and his evident desire
to keep within the appropriate duties Of
his Office, are so unlike what the people
have been accustomed to, from his preds-
cessOrs, that, if he pursues the same con-
ciliatory and prudent course which be has
so happily commenced, he will be. and
justly so, the most popular Governor
Kansas has ever had.-L0sCrenee Rep.