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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-04-13

NOD LIVER OIL JELLY-Queru's
Mood Liver Oil Jelly and Rushtpn's Genuine Cod
Liver Oil, b. the dozen orsingle bottle, by
WOODS < PEW.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-04-13

WHITE CHINA TOILET SETS,
w Of Ever and Basin. cord Chamber .COv'd Soap
Tray, Water Pitcher and Goblet, for Thres DeHGrs'
AZ = lr.-r-E '.- M'LAIN'S.
E0UR DOLLARS. will buy q White
IL Tea sett, Sc pieces, best quality, at aLAISs.
.kl0WORTH of odd dishes will be sold
OUU at cost to make room for our rev spring stock:
bikes PEAK GOLD, Butter, Lard.
L Tallox. Eggs and Paper Rags vAn.ed in exchange
for goods, at LAIN"
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28
For the Mississppian.
Does the South Need Congressional
Protection in the Territories ?---A
Case in Point.

EDITOR MIssIssIPPIAN IL desire to cal
the attention of our candidates for Congress
and State offices, through your paper, to 8
statement made by Judge Douglas in his
recent speech at Columbus, Ohio which, il
all that has been said on this question, has
been entirely overlooked by Southern poll
ticians. Judge Douglas says:
"The Legislature of Kansas, on 9th Feb.
1858, passed an act repeating a slave code
passed by former Legislature, and, by this
act of unfriendly Legislation, abolished slavery
in Kansas"
It has been the custom, you well know, fol
men who oppose us, to speak in tone defiant
Of contradiction, that no Territory has passed
any law detrimental to slave property. They
ask, " Has Kansas, with an overwhelming
anti-slayery majority, done it, even under all
the fanaticism, excitement and bloodshed
which have prevailed there on the subject?
Judge Douglas answers yes Kansas has
passed an act m.fieadly to slavery-abolish-
ing it." The question is, what are we to do
We have been contending that if such thing
should happen, we then should demand of Con-
qess to interfere for our protection. But, now,
thos happened and the only course left tous is
to go to Congress next winter demanding its
protection-that it shall wipe out this act Of
unfriendly legislation. If we do otherwise
we at once surrender our rights.
D. MONT. BUCKNER.
HARRoDsBURG, KY, Sept. 18th, 1859.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28

We would venture the opinion that the
Constitution newspaper at Washington City
has discovered that there is no playing fast
and loose in the game of politics, without
growing the worse for it; and that it will soon
become heartily sick of the predicament of
lettering moodily about on neutral ground,
cursing all, and espousing nothing. 1t has
been in the constant habit of denouncing the
doctrine of the power of territorial legisla-
ture to exclude slavery but yet it has not
the manliness to plant itself upon the declara-
ton of the Supreme Court that it is the duty
of Congress to afford protection to the owner
of slaves against the exercise of such forbid
den power. If it sees everything to condemn
in the Douglas dogma, it has no toleration for
its opposite forgetting that if one is wrong,
the other is necessarily right What that is
useful. and beneficial to the Democratic party
and the country it can hope to gain by a
course so extraordinarily vacillating and ab-
surd, We are at a loss to imagine. 1t will
conciliate neither the advocates of Squatter
Sovereignty, nor those who hold that it is the
duty of the federal government to afford ade-
quate protection to the persons and property of
its citizens at home or abroad-but it viii be-
come byeword Of reproach, and challenge
the scorn of every one. What care the South
ern Democracy for its denunciation of Doug
las, when it interposes its scruples and timid-
tiles to prevent the adoption of remedies for
the wrongs he seeks to inflict.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28
Senator Toombs.

Nobody expects this erratic man to
follow straight course. His chang es are so
requent and his somersets so complete, that
fthey have almost ceased to attract attention.
1t is now stated that he is wondrous kind to
Douglas and his squatter sovereignty dogma,
although, in the last Congress, he was as
bitter against both as he was capable of being
In 1848, placing the squatter sovereignty
construction upon the Nicholson letter of
Gen. Cass, he denounced it as the emanation
of demagogue, and said that its doctrines
were worse than the Wilmot Proviso but
true to his destiny, if not to principle, he is
shifting his ground and making ready for
new political operations. For what port he is
now shifting his sails nobody knows and but
few care. 1t seems that in one of his late
speeches-the same in which he became the
eulogist Of the Illinois apostate-he discovered
the traits of the hyena and went down into
the grave of the Patriot Quitman. 1t was
appropriate that the panegyrist Of the one
should become the reviler Of the other. His
last exploit is thus appropriately noticed by
the Alabama Spirit of the South
Mr.. ToombS is reported to have said in his
late speech at Lexington, that he could draw
from the Grand jury box of OglethoLpe
county, two as good political leaders as Quit
man and Bonham.'' IF so, we hope that the
people of Georgia will see to it, that these
Oglethorpe Grand Jurors are speedily drawn
from their obscurity to represent the State at
Washington City, where such political leaders
as Quitman and Bonham are sadly needed
We should be quite resigned even to seeing
one of them substituted for the eloquent
Senator himself To say nothing of Gen.
Bonham, who is at least faithful and efficient
Southern Representative in Congress, was it
quite in good taste for Mr.. Toombs thus to
disparage the memory of man illustrious
alike by his gallantry in the field and in his
wisdom in council, the weight and dignity of
whose character extorted the respect even of
Black Republicanism ITSELF and whom the
Georgia Senator, be his fortune ever SO bright
and successful, may never hope to rival in the
affections and esteem of his countrymen
After all, it is not so much slur on the fame
of Quftman, as it is satire ON political
leadership, for what is it but saying that stub
born honesty units man for politics, and
that the qualities of head and heart that most
adorn humanity, are not reckoned among the
requirements of political leadership? We
are not so much surprised that this is Mr..
ToombS's opinion, as that he should have
found it necessary to proclaim it in a public
speech.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28

FATAL AFFRAY.-Last evening, at soon
after O'Clock, DR.. Robert M. Graham and
Mr.. Earnest Teledando casually met at the
Ruby Coffeehouse, on Common street, and in q
few molAents after the latter entered, the form
or having been there some time previously,
Toledano drew q revolver and discharged i've
shots at Graham, four of which took fatal effect.
The Doctor staggered into the street, and fell
dead.
We learn from the statements of those who
witnessed the occurrence that, upon the en-
trance of Toledano with some friends, Dr.
Graham, upon seeing him, put his hand into
his side coat pocket, as If to draw weapon.
The mark of shot, was pointed out to us, On
the wall. as having been fired by DIR. Graham
at Toledano. A Derringer pistol was found
upon the floor of the cofeehouse, and another
like it was taken from DR.. Grallain's person,
after his deceased.
We are informed upon good authority that
an animosity had existed, on the part of Dr.
Graham, towards Mr.. Toledano, for some time
part arising out of an irpressing on the doc
tors part, that it was to Toledano's influence
that DR.. Hart's appointment as City Physician
instead Of himself was attributable. We hear
of frequent threats of hostile character as
having been publicly made by the deceased
against Toledano, within few days, and of
well grounded apprehensions, entertained by
the latter that bis life was in danger. As
soon as the doctor fell, Toledano surrendered
himself to the custody of the police, ayowing
that he had committed the act, and that be
had done it in self defense-N O. Picdyuae
20M.
The unfortunate man who fell in this afflay,
was the same person who took the life Of Col.
Loring at the st. Nicholas Hotel, N. Y, in
1854, for which he was sentenced to the New
York State prison, and was subsequently re-
leased on petition Of the Governor Of Louisi-
ana and many otherprominent citizens Of that
State. He was eminent in his profession, and
as the Delta remarks, Sin his social inter.
course he was man ofrefned and even win
ming address, which qualities, however, were
known todesert him, when unfortunately the
demon alcohol was ct work IN his brain.n
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28
Banks.

That the Democracy of Mississippi in their
opposition to the Rag Money system, are in
advance of the party in its progress towards
reform in most other States, is not to be ques-
toned. But the gratifying fact is equally ap-
parent that the cause is moving forward, and
will ultimately triumph. The Memphis Ava
lanche, one Of the leading Democratic journals
of the country, reproduces the views which
were urged on this subject in recent issue of
the Mississippian, and tells US that we are
"right"-saying
It were better that war and pestilence and
famine should sweep over your beautiful State
than that it should be again cursed with rot
ten, worthless and corrupt rag money system.
If the lessons they have learned at home have
not convinced your people of its dangers, or if
those lessons have been lost sight of and for
gotten, point them to Tennessee bank
ridden Tennessee-where they may learn
another, and, if possible, more bitter one
than has yet been taught them.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28
King Cotton.

A contemporary aptly says that the temporal
ruler of the globe par excellence is the Amer
ican cotton plant. 1t speaks cities into exis-
tence, constructs railroads across barren des.
erts and through sky-capped mountains, en-
compasses civilized States With magnetic
wires, whitens every sea with the sails Of
ships, enters alike the palace and the hut for
the dispensation of blessings. In short, the
world would be "a mighty maze, and all
without plan,' were it not for the cotton
fields of the South.
About the year 1890, the first bag of our
great staple entered the port of Liverpool,
then city not exceeding population of U.s.
600, with Manchester twenty-seven miles dis
tant at its back, with still smaller number.
Now it is the recognized first port of the
world. Cotton, which created Manchester
which has population of about 10000 at
the present time-advanced Liverpool to the
unriyalled position which it now enjoys in
commerce and navigation. From an authen-
tic publication before us, it appears that in
1857, out of f122,O0OOO0 of expectation
from England, 955,OOO,0oO were exported
from Liverpool, about half that amount from
London, &16,0O0OO0 from Hull, and the rest
from Glasgow, Southampton, &c. The pop
ulstion within four miles of the Liverpool
Exchange at the present time is about Co.,
000 o,7d fha ,-ofa of anpraI ~ o,ao,o obo,+ IN
900. The property and income tax paid by
the inhabitants in 1857, amounted to upwards
Of 100000, or $35,OOOOOO. The amount
Of tonnage belonging to the port in the same
year was 936,022 tons, being greater by 76,-
882 tons than that of London itself The
amount of shipping which entered and cleared
during the same year was upwards of 9,0OO,-
600 tons Of the vessels which arrived from
abroad, the United States sent by far the larg-.
est and most numerous, viz: 934 ships of an
average burden of more than one thousand
tons. There were from Italy Iva vessels,
from Russia 102, and from France 317. One
great branch of the shipping business of Liv-
erpool is the shipment of emigTants to for
eign and colonial countries. The tide Of Ger
man emigration even now flows through Eng
land and escapes through Liverpool, in pref
erence to Hamburg and Bremen. OF the
212,S75 British emigrants in 1857, nearly
10000 sailed from this port. OF the above
number, the United States attracted 126, 6,905,
British America $1,000, and Australia 61,-
248. The number of emigrants who left the
shores of Great Britain from 1915 to 1857
was upwards of 4, 100000
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28
Massachusetts,.

Atthe Massachusetts, Democratic State Con-
vention, General Benjamin s. Rutter, of Low
ell, was unanimously nominated as the candi-
date for Governor, and Stephen G. Benis for
Lieutenant Governor Caleb Cushing, Issac
Davis, Oliver Stevens, and JAS S. Whitney,
were chosen delegates to the Charleston Con-
vention. We have not received the full pro-
ceedings Of the Convention but have seen it
stated that resolutions instructing for Douglas
and endorsing Squatter Sovereignty, were vo-
ted down. IF the Machussetts Democracy
cannot help to elect the nominee in the elector-
al College, we trust that at all events their
delegates viii aid the Democratic States IN
making nomination at Charleston which they
can support.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28

JOHN MITcHELL.--The Charleston Mercu-
ry says that rumor prevails in well informed
circles that the real purpose of John Mitch
ell, late editor Of the Southern Citizen, in visit
ing France is at the instigation Of leading men,
bers Of the slave trade party, to induce the
Emperor Napoleon III to relax his opposition
to the trade under the French flag, if not to
legalize it.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28

0sT The Vicksburg Wing, in the phrenzy
of despair, puts forth an Opposition State
ticket, and lays down as its platform Sub
mission to Black Republican rule--no protec.
t;on to slavery in the Territories We be-
lieye we won't meddle in State politics this
wear but will attend to the kettle Of fish thai
;s stewing in our own county. The platform
laid down by the Wing is somewhat opposed
to the Fillmore maxim Of resistance to . sec
tional President and the old wing doctrine
Of aprotection to slavery in the Territories y
The foregoing is the discouraging reception
which the Prairie News, an Opposition journ.
al gives to the platform and the nominees q
the vicksburg Wing.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28

or The Memphis Avalanche Of Monday
last, in very able editorial, nominates Gen.
10. Lane, Of oregon-"The Marion Of the
Mexican wara-Sor the Presidency In 1860.
Gen. Lane deserves all that the Avalanche
says in his praise We cordially agree with
our contemporary that his political record is
without stain, and that his nomination would
be hailed with enthusiasm BY the Democratic
masses in al sections Of tho country.--Nask-
eiRe linton.
1t isconceded generally that the next DEM
ocratic nomination IS due the South. Webe-
lieve that the South should furnish the man,
but If one IS taken from the North, then, in
our opinion, General Lane IS pre-eminently
the man for the crisis Louisville Courier.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28
Letter from JEFF. Davis.

The Washington States publishes the sub
joined letter from the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Of
Mississippi correcting certain statements con-
tanned in Douglas recent Harper essay.
The work goes bravely ON, and we think by
the time the people have to vote for Presi-
dent, the precious little demagogue from Hli-
nois, viii have been shown up so thoroughly,
that he will not be able 70 command the
support Of corporal's guard.
EreiuiasA
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28

OFThere are now in the United States
$4,000 miles of completed Railroad, and 16,'
600 either under construction or projected
requiring $780, 600 for their construction
The total cost of completed roads up to 1855
was $365, ,45207 of which large sum it il
supposed one-third has been wasted in con
struction.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28
CIT CITATION NOTICE.
THE SFATE M Mf1oToQTppf

RANKIN COUNTY.
1852 % ---s-. - -
10 Epnfaim d. lombard, guardian I'd liEem oi
r'ofenee d Pleasants, Robert st. George Pleas.
ant and Samnel Peasants, miaors, fhos. Bib
T"rser Bib, AdaIine Bradley, s. 4. Mills, james
:: tle4sants, Arthur n Hopkins and Eliza Hop
Eins, ais wife; D. Cressweli and Julia Crsssweil
aus vile: W. (. fill and Emily Hill his wife
samuel Pieasents, Robert Sc. George Plsasants
Aud florence n Pleasafts, minors above named,
ana al others interested II the estate Of Roberi
u. bioo, late Of Rankin county, deceased
loa are hereby cited to Be and personally appear
before the honorable Probate Court Of Rankin
seanty, At the Court House thereof, on the second
Aondsy OF Nosembsr next, l.. d. 1859, on the first
Iay Of the term Of said court, then and there to
snow cause, Il any you can, Why the prayer Of the
peation OF Wm. ID. Bib, administrstor of the es-
tate Of said Robert 7. Bibb deceased for the sale
oil the slaves and other personal property Of said
Tor the purpose Of division, should not then
and there be granted, and an order and decree
mAoe thereon accordingly.
HIS WITNESS, the Hon. WIN. b. Clark Judge
Of said Court, this second Monday Of Au-
gust A. D. 1859. Issued August 10, 1859.
Aug 10 ,59-WoW. W. "A ALLIST0N, Clerk.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28
A Long MINDED Affair.

A satirist once suggested to an inexhausti-
BILE pamphleteer that the conditions of human
life had changed since the days of the antedl-
luvians; that the years of man were now Inn
tied to about four score years and ten, and
that no one with shorter span of existence
than was formerly ayouched to Methuseleh
could read and digest the interminable platl-
tudes with which he (the pamphleteer) was
in the habit of vexing the public. Mr.. VIII
liam C. Smedes, of Vicksburg, is wholly un-
mindful of the same prudent considerations;
he has no perception of the revolutions in the
worlds history wrought by the Deluge of
Noah |; and he writes now with the same
blissful Inconsistencies of the value of time
that he might have enjoyed if he had been
contemporary of Jared and Lamech. Not
long since be inflicted upon "a Memphis Com
mittee'' "a letterf Heaven only knows how
long, IN which he commenced at the beginning,
came down to the end, went back to the midi
die, began at the beginning again, and finally
wound up where he started. It was perfect
riddle, masterpiece of unmeaning babble-
dreary wilderness of print into which he
carried the Memphis Committee" but they
deserved no better fate ? Why did they pro-
woke MIR. Smedes to the act by gravely invit-
ing him to help them celebrate a victory
which was won over them by their enemies
What the specific point or points were which
the writer endeayored to establish by his la
bored demonstrations, it passed our patience to
discover. 1t had something, however, about
formally resolving to put stop to the agita-
tion of the slavery question and sletting it
alone in the territories But we should as
soon think of attempting to state the reason
why the submarine telegraph would not work
or to penetrate the secret of Macalster's mex
haustible bottle, or his never-failing hat,
whence issue at will every variety of liquor,
flowers, pigeons, guinea pigs and confectiona-
ries, as to seek for the meaning of this marvel
lous mass of words.
When Mr.. Smedes had eased his mind by
giving birth to this production, we supposed
that his exhausted faculties would require re-
pose but not so. Our friend DIR. Covington, |
Of Winston, having intimated desire for more |
light Mr.. Smedes forthwith takes the pen in
hand again and makes the interesting fact
known to the world that he is still alive and
kicking
No man can avoid his destiny. 1t is evil
iently Mr.. Smedes' destiny to write letters
md his unhappy fate pursues him. In his
'xuberance he may have said some things that
we're important may have unravelled the
mystery of the hitherto plain and unmistaka-
de decision of the great Taney in the Dred
Scott case-and he may not. In such an in
erminable proGxity-in such an ocean of
gords-in such mountain-heap of chat,
Who will venture to tell
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28
Quick TIME FROM New ORLEANS TO CIN-
clNNATI.-The Cincinnati Commercial says ::

Among the arrivals at the Burnet last even
ing, by the Ohio and Mississippi train, was
Thomas Simms, Esq, of New Orleans, who
purchased the first through ticket by the now
perfected land route between this city and
New Orleans, via the Great Northern, the
Mississippi Central, Mobile and Ohio, Ito Co
lumbus, KY, thence by steam ferry to Cal
ro,) Illinois Central, and Ohio and Mississippi
roads.
Mr.. Simms left New Orleans on Saturday
morning last, and at 10 lastevening furnished
this office with the dailies Of that city, ISSUED
on the day of his departure. This is the irsi
time that the passage between the two cite:
has been made in two days and a half
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28
FARMER.

0F John Ingersoll, Esq. died on the 9Th
inst, at his plantation, Ingleside, Yazoo coun-
ty, aged forty-eight years. Mr.. IngersoIl was
son Of Hon. Charles j. Ingersoll, Of Phila-
delphia, had resided in the State for nearly
twenty-five years, and was successful and
scientific planter.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28

AN ABoLITIoNIsT RODE ON RAIL-A
young man recently imported from the North.
but Of foreign birth, we are informed, was rode
out Of town on railon Saturday night on &C.
count Of repeated expressions Of abolition cpln-
ions indulged IN after being warned that PEI
sistence in such conduct could not be toiers-
ted. He was released on the other side q tns
river, as black as the sable friends. Wnoee y
vor be was seeking EaVala (Atd) sPssss@
The South.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28

DIsTREssNG DEATH.-We reported last
evening the sudden death of A. W. Selnmes,
young LAWYER from Canton, Miss, at the
City Hotel, but gave no particulars, because
the Coroner had not concluded his inquest up
TO the time our paper went to press II was
Of first supposed that he bad died from anon
lexy but upon moving him, phial, which a
physician recognised as having contained NOR
phine, was found under his pillow
a post-motrem examination was then held.
and q verdict returned Of Death. causad by
congestion Of the brain, produced by mornhins
taken voluntarily .n.-M o. Della 2Ot6.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28
PROCLAMATION.

CRY OF AcKsoN, Aug. 18th, 1859.
HLLLAN lie WILLIE, Governor of TIE Slate o
Sts,tss5PPi, 70 The Shefs Of TIE sereraI eountie,
q tAe Ndte-GRRErrHa:
WHEREAs, The law has designated the frsi
" Monday in October, 1859, as the day for
holding Elections for State Officers in this State
and Whereas il Is mads my duty to issue writ re.
curing you to hold said Elections at the time and
places selected by Law,
Nesv, therefore, l. WILLIAMMcWILLIE, Govern.
or OF the State Of Mississippi, do issue this my
writ requiring yeu to hold an Election at the sew.
erai precincts in yeur counties, the fret Nond4
n October nsrt for the following O6icers to serve
Tor the term specified By law-to.wit:
One Governor;
One Secretary Of State:
One Auditor Of Pablic ,ccounts
One Treasurer;
Representative ia the Congress Of tae United
Ssstss; and Senators and Representatives in the
State Legislature.
At said elections sUu will notice and carry uut
sll she requsitons Of An Act Regulate Elections
Ut this State, contsinei in ths Revised Code, =,
kts,l FslaE E4t1eatien Is ksreb3 eelizsl.
II Iks1fHoSF WHEREOF, T. hare lsreunto SET my
- had and caused the Great Seal { the
lis State 70 be adxsd. 50 the city Of Jackson,
on this the tweuty sixth day of August
1859, and Of the sovereignty Of Mississippi the
forty-seeond.
By the Governor, WILLIAM McWILLIE.
a. B. DILwoErH. Secretary Of State.
aug. 80 SIT