The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-10-01
THINGS TO REMEMBER NEXT MONDAY

! THINGS TO REMEMBER NEXT MONDAY
REMEMBER, that our fellow citizens in the val.
ley Of Yazoo county have been forced to pay a
eyee tax of $25, 600 this year, and that they are
condemned by the present leyee law to pay
that amount yearly for the next four years to
come.
REMEMBER, that whether the proposed levee is
built or not, nothing but manifest injury can ever
accrue to our fellow countrymen in the valley by
the operation of the present law. If the leyee
is ever built, their lands will be inundated by
backwater from the Ya7oo and Sunhower rivers,
and if it is not built, they are damaged to the
full amount of the levee tax paid by them.
REMEMBER, that the enormous levee fund so
raised is not properly appropriated to the object
for which it was levied, but that large amount
of it is profigately squandered in paying extrava
giant salaries to a hungry horde of officers created
by the Board Of Levee Commissioners For in
stance the President of the Levce Board is paid
a salary of $4,000 per year; and has under his
control and subject to his individual draft the
sum of $4,000. The salary and perquisites Of
the Board is estimated to be worth at least $40,
600 per year, and the board only meets quarter
ly; the salary of the Chief Engineer is $4,000
per year, and that of his assistants chow many
not stated, is $1,000 each per year, for every
FIVE miles of the levee Conseryator is appointed
at a salary of 5000 per year, (and the leyee i,
designed to axtend from the Tennessee line to tht
mouth of Yazoo, meandering with the Missis
sippi). The levee line is divided into eighteen
districts with an Inspector to each district at
salary of 81 per day, each, making S72 per day
for oil. or $2G, $50 per year.
REMEMBER, that Peter B. starke, Senator from
this District, and who is candidate for re cleo
ton, voted to tax large portion of our county
to build levee on the banks Of the Mississippi
contrary to the known wishes and earnest remon-
strances of his constituency in Yazoo county, thu.
setting at defiance the voice of the people of thi,
county, comprising, rs it does, two thirds of the
voters of the District
REMEMBER, that in order to carry through Tho
Legislature this abominable and outrageous bill
the counties of Holmes and Warren were left
out OF IT'S operations, although having as much
swamp lands as Yazoo, in order to silence oppo
sition to it from those counties.
REMEMBER that it is proposed by the friends
of this iniquitous law, to extend its operations
from five years to twenty, aud to include the val
ley lands cast of tho Yazoo, thus taking sucl
rapid strides towards raising levec fund as t.
warrant the supposition that they intend ultimate
y to include the whole county, if a check is moi
soon put upon their unhaowed designs.
REMEMBER, that Col. WIN. R. Hill, our can.
didate for Senator is opposed to the levee law,
and if elected which he surely will be, will dc
everything in his power to repeal the law, and il
he cannot do that, to lop off many of its obnox.
iods features as possible. Then to the polls, ye
voters of Yazoo, and let US elect one who will pay
some Difference to the wishes of the people, and
who will be an ornament to the Senate and an
honor to those who sent him.