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The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12
Organization of the Federal House Of
Representatives.

| The New York Tribune. which, more than
any other journal, represents the policy of the
Black Republican party, has significant arti-
Gle on this subject from which we extract
these paragraphs
1t is obvious that the Republicans will
have no clear majority of the House, though
they will have many more members than any
other party. The House can only be organ
lied by the actual or virtual assent Of clear
majority; and this can only be obtained by
the concurrence of members Of diverse parties
If all the Anti Lecompton Democrats would
vote with the Republicans, their joint strength
would form such a majority but this is not
likely to take place unless the candidates thus
supported and elected shall be chosen from
the ranks of both these parties. If Republi-
can candidates only are to be supported by
the Republican members, it is highly probable
that they will find themselves laboring under
deficiency of votes when the results of the
several ballotings are declared.
We entreat the Republican members not to
fetter themselves BY pledges TO support this
or that aspirant, until they shall have reached
Washington and surveyed the whole ground.
If the Republican
members persue Wise, prudent, conciliatory
course, unswerved by personal aspirations, an
early and satisfactory organization is clearly
attainabe.
From this it is evident that the Black Re-
publican leaders are relying upon a co-opera-
ton with the Douglas or anti Lecompton
Democrats for the organization of the House.
They are not reckoning without their host.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12
Scarcity Of Labor at the South.

\ contractor on the Main Trunk Road, I'M
able to procure negro labor at any reasonable
price, recently went to the North to procure
emigrant labonrs, to enable him to complete
his contract within the prescribed time. He
returned on the steamer Florida with forty
German laborers, some Of them with their
wives, with whom he contracted for six
months service as laborers on the road at $40
to S12 per month. The same contractor is
at present obliged, from the scarcity of hands,
to pay $50 per month for negroes. We men,
ton this fact merely to show the inadequacy
Of our present labor system, and the conse-
quent disparity in prices between unrestricted
white emigrant labor of the North, and the
prescribed and restricted slavelabor of the
South. The fact we have stated is sugges-
tive OF much reflection. Is it the policy of
the South to introduce emigrant labor Can
slave labor, restricted and inadequate as it is,
maintain its position at the South against the
cheaper white emigrant labor of the North ?
Is such free labor, with all its political inf1u-
ences, preferable to our own domestic institu-
tons Is there not more to be feared from
the natural antagonism of free emIgrant and
slave labor, than from a redundance of the
latter ?-Saranndh (Ga) Nelrs.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12
For the Mississippian.
Speaker Of the Mississippi House Of
Representatives.

EDITOR OF THE MIssIssIPPIAN Sir: Al
the Legislature will soon assemble, l desire
through your columns, to suggest the selection
of Hon. Hiram j. Thomas, of Yazoo, for pre-.
siding officer of the House of Representa-
tives
To those who were members of the last LIE.
gislature, and are therefore well acquainted
with this gentleman, your correspondent feels
that it would be supererrogative to recon-
mend him. Often called to the Chair by the
late Speaker, always, even under circumstan.
ces the most difficult, he conducted the pro.
ceedings of the body with marked skill and
precision. To complete knowledge of par
liamentary law, acquired by long experience
as a legislator, he joins remarkable promptness
and decision, and to these essentials of good
officer he adds pleasant address and flow
ing courtesy.
As the services of an efficient Speaker are
indispensable to the prompt dispatch of bust
ness, have ventured to bring forward the
name of Mr.. Thomas and to commend it to the
favorable consideration of the members
Sept. 9Th, 1859. A MEMBER.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12
From tie Y. o. Pieay'me
Ship Island Harbor.

BILOXI, Sept. q, 1859.
MeSSrs. Edit0IS-I have been sojourning for
a few weeks at this ancient village IN the en-
joyment of varied routine of pleasures
Yesterday, through the kindness of Captain
Donald Mclean. | received an invitation to
accompany party of gentlemen in an explo-
ration of Ship Island Harbor and the new for
titication now in course Of construction on
the west end Of the Island by the L. s. Gov
eminent. Among the guests was Cen Nc
Lauren, the President Of the Gulf and Ship
Island Railroad, which is intended to connect
at Canton Mississippi, with the New Orleans,
jackson and Great Northern Railroad, like
wise with the Southern Central road under
the superintendent Of Gen McLauren. The
necessary subscription to enable them to COM
mence work has been made up, | am informed.
The region of country through which the road
will pass is possessed of the finest forests of
ship building timber in the world, besides lands
productive Of cotton, corn, &c.
We were kindly welcomed by Mr.. Neville,
the general superintendent, and treated with
true Southern hospitality. He accompanied
US through the fort, pointing out the various
buildings, and explaining their uses. We babe
adieu to our kind host, and proceeded to the
harbor. On taking soundings, there proved to
be twenty-seven feet of water on the bar, and
from seventeen and half to twenty three and
a half in the harb0r, where two hundred first
class ships could safely ride at anchor.
am informed by the Customhouse officer
here that thirty or forty large class ships
cleared from this port within the past two
years, all for European ports, with the excep-
ton of four. and those for Australia.
HANCOCK
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gress, 5th District, McRae, 2s3. Re

gress, 5th District, McRae, 293. Represen
tative, L. B. Walker, Dem.)
WAYsE.-Pettus, 256; Walter, ~. Con
gress, 9Th District, McRae, 249. Represen
tative, John West.
JAspER-Pettus, $50; Walter, l72, Con
gress, 4th District, Singleton, s77; Smith u
Representative, F. Dantzler, (Dem.)
JoxEs.-John F. Smith, Oem.) Represen
tative. No other particulars.
MAR1os.-W H. Bishop, (Dem.) Repre-
sentative No further particulars
De Soro.-Pettus, 946; Walter, $751;
Congress, LIST District, Lamar, 800. Repre-
sentatives Messrs. Culbertson and Rufin Ode
mocrats) and johnson Opp
OKTIBBEHA-No other partiulars but the
election of Dr. VIM. II. Merinar, Democrat.
ApAMs.-Pettus, 257. Congress 9Th Dis
trict, McRae, 232. County Representative
C. A. Pipes,* Opp
CRY OF acknowledgements, Doug
las Walworth,+ (Opp.)
&Those marked are elected.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12
From the N \. Ne.CS.
White Slavery.--A British Institution,

The sensitive ladies' and gentlemen in "Mer-
RE England" who wept bitter tears over the
hardshipS of Uncle Tom, are afflicted with a
wonderful lack or perception in regard to the
SuferingS of their own cnnntry-people. Not
to mention the thousands OF poor houseless
outcasts who periodically perish in the ditchas
OF Queedore and Tinvier, or the numbers driv-
en- from the homesteads Of their ancestors by
tory landlords and 1.-THE proctors, we find ma
ny instances in our English exchanges illustra-
tive Of the ahject and degraded condition OF
1.-THE lower classes" in the dominions of Her
Most Gracious Majesty, Victoria the First
The last, though not least, in this connection
must be placed a recent occurrence-one Of
half dozen similar, we may state-which
happened at the naval depot of Woolwich and
which is chronicled, as a mere matter Of ord-
nary news, by the Briton's faithful Times. -
1t conjures up strange suggestions as to the
sincerity of ''the heartfelt sympathy for the
prosecuted colored man." which the Duchess
of Sutherland assured Mrs. Stowe was "uni-
versally felt by the English people, from the
Cheviot hills to the Lands End" The tele-
scopic philanthropists, who can see with min
ute accuracy the domestic troubles of Dinah
and Sam in Mississippi, and whose purse
of Booraboolah Cha, are deaf as marble i'm
ages to the cries Of afiony and despair that go
up to heaven from Woolwich. But let the
thunderer tell the remainder of the story:
Two soldiers were hogged at Woolwch
garrison on the LIST instant. The first man,
named Green, bore his punishment, as stated
by an eyewitness, like true soldier but
the second, named Davis, young recruit,
protested his innocence of the crime of deser-
ton, beloved and screamed for mercy, and
duplicated Col Talbot and the medical officer
and others who were present to have compass
sion on him, or he should die. HIS back was
core,ed ,ciM mass Of large, red, inflated doils,
which Ued prQfusely at eUery stroke, and rel
do,,ed the ground under his feet, upon which
the cat was ordered to be withheld for few
moments, when, finding that his punishment
was not at an end, he gaze rent to ordinations
for mercy, and partly succeeded in delivering
himself by force from the straps which bound
him to the halyards. The punishment ,eas
again ordered to be continued, aohen at every
succeeding StOoke his cries and erclamatioaS
arere most lanentable, iHsOnuch that offcers and
men s1cooned array at the sickening Specta J.,
and had to be carried into the open air. One
officer and upuard of ilgenty o'a-c0mnaissioned
ofi 'ers and men long in the servi.e faintet and
others stopped their ears and closed thei es
lest they, too, should become unnerved, and
be subject to the reproIch and ridicule of their
comrades"
How does this strike the negro phianthro-
pists Of England and America
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12
Hon. Jefferson Davis.

We copy below two paragraphs paying
! handsome and just tributes to this distin-
guished son of Mississippi One is from a
political foe-the famed Occasional" who
writes from the city of Washington, for the
Philadelphia Press. The other is from a
school Innate, and friend of Col. DaYis's boy
hood, Mr.. Reese C. Fleeson, of the Pittsburg
Dispatch, who was reared in Woodville and
educated in the Wilkinson Academy His
cotemporaries and friends in this State will be
gratfied to hear Of him and surprised to find
him SO far North of the home of his childhood,
publishing newspaper. His brief article
shows that the affections of his youth have
not grown cold amidst Northern SHOWS and
as Mississippians, so long as he feels for US,
we can but take an interest in him, and To
hope that his influence may be productive of
good in the region where he has cast his lot:
From the Pittsbug Despatch
OCCASIONAL" of the Philadelphia Press,
pays high tribute to Jefferson Davis of Mis-
sissippi We learn from it nothing more, how
eNeii IildH IildL tne PROMISE Oi OOJHOou - lul-
filled in the man, as nearly as possible, amid
the adverse circumstances and influences Of a
busy, active, eventful career. We knew him
as school mate-brave mpulsive frank and
generous close and honest student, with
great natural abilities Then, as he is now
described, he was keenly sensitive, refined and
gentlemanly. Nobody in all the school ever
met with injustice from jeff Davis. Occasion
al says:
Jefferson Davis, who has been i'll at the
residence of friend in Maryland, is now in
Washington, and, regret to say, in state of
considerable debility. No purer patriot than
Mr.. Davis ever lived, l believe. Indeed, his
history certifes that on any opportunity he
would unsheath his sword in defence of the
Union, against which he is SO constantly
quoted by his enemies. He is man Of re-
markable requirements, and Of delicate SEN
sibilities His tastes are all refined, his man.
rers those of gentleman Of the old school.
While Secretary of War, he was one of the
most correct, decorous, and entirely syste-
matte of men, yielding nothing to fayoritism,
and never failing to do justice to an enemy"
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12
From the Illinois State Journal
Squatter Sovereignty---An Item of His.
tory.

| The doctrine Of Squatter Sovereignty as
now advocated by Douglas and his adherents
was first preached in an address before the
| Legislature Of the North West Territory by
Gen. Arthur St Clair, the then Governor, as
| follows
For all internal affairs we have complete
Legislature of our own, and in them are no
more bound by an act Of Congress than by an
Edict of the First Consul of France"
| What did the Democrats of that day think
of it? Jefferson was President, and James
Madison, the father of the Constitution. his
| Secretary Of State. When this clause of St.
Clair's speech was shown to Jefferson and his
Cabinet, what did they do =? They addressed
Mr.. st. Clair the following significant docu-
ment:
"SIR: The President, observing in an adj
dress lately delivered by you to the Conven-
ton at Chilicothe, an Incorporate and indeco-
| rum of language towards the Legislature of
the United States, and disorganizing spirit
and tendency every evil example, and gross
ly violating the rules of conduct enioined by
your public station, determines that your
commission of Governor of the Northwest
ern Territories shall cease on the recent of
this notification. :
am, &c, JAMES MADISON.
Arthur ST. CLAIR, Esq, Chilicothe.
Such was Jefferson's and Madison's opinion
of "Squatter Sovereignty" and they were
good Democrats.
MAssACHUsETTs.-The following are the
resolutions adopted by the Massachusetts, Dem
ocratic Convention :
Resolved That the Democrats of Masschu-
sets are proud to assemble, by their delegates,
i Al L
National Democracy, and here re assert IN
wavering fidelity to the Federal Constitution
as it has heen understood by the fathers of the
Republic and decided by the Supreme Court
Of the United States.
Resolved, That the two years amendment
of the Constitution Of Massachusetts, by which
the law of naturalization is extended to seven
years is fragrant violation of the Constitution
and Laws of the United States; narrow and
bigoted policy, unbecoming an enlightened and
free people, and a gross insult to the white
men who are thus attempted to be placed be-
low the negro in the scale ofbeing and human
rights.
ResolUed, That we find no necessity for any
addition or change in the great doctrine of
Popular Sovereignty as declared by the Mas
sachusetts Democratic resolves in 1913; that
we are opposed to the exercise of any iuris-
diction by Congress over the matter ofslavery
in the Territories, but are in favor Of leaving
to the people who inhabit them the right to
establish and regulate their own domestic in
stitution under the general principles of the
Constitution"
Resolved, That the administration of James
Buchanan by its fidelity to the Constitution,
by the firmr ess and success with which it has
governed our foreign relations, and the tri-
umphant manner in which it has indicated
the supremacy of the law, merits the approba-
ton of every patriot of the country
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12

SUGAR There is still good demand, and
$50 hhds. have been sold, nearly all from first
| hands at steady prices, fully fair to prime
ranging at TOTO p fb.
MOLASSES-W hear of nothing doing
Little CT none on the levee.
FL0UR-Inactive but very firm We no.
tee sales of about 1000 bbls., of which 427
in two lots and 375 extra all at, and 100
extra at Sc rs 2 Dbl. We quote superfine
at SIS 50@5 rs.
WHEAT-A lot of lis sacks prime red
sold at 81 Is p bushel.
C0RN-Sales confined to 167 sacks white
at 81 121s and 265 sacks new at 9Oc y
bushel
OATS-Some 1900 to 1900 sacks st. Louis
have been sold, including 176 at SIC; 1850 in
two or three lots at 56c, and 800 at 6Oc p
bushel
BRAN-Sales 200 sack at 81 10 and 800
inferior at 81 p 100 lbs.
PORK-We notice good retail demand for
Mess at SIT y Dbl.
BACON-1'he sales included 20 casks
Shoulders at 83Sc p tb-an improvement.
LARD-We hear of no sales of any con-
sequence.
WHISKY-A lot of 68 bbls rectifed sold
at 29c p gallon.
COFFEE-Sales confined to 100 bags at
19c q tb.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12
For the NisslsStppiaI
California Correspondence.
SAN Francisco. Sept. 8, L

San FRANCISCO, Sept. y, 1893.
EDITOR OF THE MIssIssIPPIAN:-On the
It'll inst, we met the combined forces of the
Opposition and the result is that the whole
Democratic State Ticket is elected by major
tiles ranging from five to fifteen thousand.
Returns CONE in slow, but we have heard
enough to justify the above.
San Francisco has given the Lecompton
candidate about one thousand majority over
both the anti Lecompton or Republican cam
didates. Yours. truly. J. S. S.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12
A Good Example.

At the late Diocesan Convention of the
Episcopal Church, in the State of New York,
some member introduced resolution condem-
natory Of the African Slave Trade. The
proposition was almost unanimously secuted
out of the Convention. Not that the MEN,
bers were in favor of the slave trade-but be-
cause it has always beer. the policy of the
Church to forbid the agitation of this question
in their ecclesiastical assemblies. The Epis-
copal is one Of the few Churches which has
never permitted its harmony to be disturbed
or its councils to be distracted by the intro
duction of the slavery issue.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12

Crops IN GEoRGIA-The Columbus ga. }
Times, gives a gloomy account Of the crops
in that State saying:
The excess of rain in August, succeeded by
drouth of three weeks, has materially modr-
fled the calculations of the planter. We
know not how far the estimate may be affected
by an increased quantity of cotton land, but,
this item ignored, the cotton product of the
above sections will fall far short of last year
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12

OPENING OF THE USIvERsITY-Two Hun
DRED STUDENTs.-The University of Missis-
sippi commenced its twelfth session last Mon
day, and we learn that up to this time t'co
hundred students have been admitted. This
is fully one-half larger than was ever admit
ted during the first week before. We stated
a few weeks ago that .tive hundred were ex-
pected during the session, and from present
appearances fully that number will be here.
The peaple Of Mississippi and the South
have at last found out that the University of
Mississippi affords as many educational facili-
ties as are to be found in any institution in
this whole world, and it seems they are de-
termined to give it their patronage Oxford
lNercNrN
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12

Gov. SEYMoUR's SPEEcH-We give in our
columns to day an eloquent extract from a
speech delivered short time since in Mime
sofa by Hon. Horatio Seymour of New York.
The speech is instinct with sound doctrines, and
lofty patriotism. The Charleston Mercury
aplIy ikens it to one OF the immortal efforts
of Burke, to arrest the madness of British
policy in driving our ancestors into revolution
and Independence. Mr.. Seymour's speech,
like Burke's, may also be remembered as a
memento of noble efforts, which proved in
vain to save Union, which every motive of
policy ought to have impelled the aggressors
to perpetuate forever.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12

OF By reference to our telegraphic col
umn it will be seen that Senator Broderick
has fallen in . duel with Judge Terry, Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of California
Judge Terry is naive of this State, ard
though Chief Justice, is Jet young man
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12

MASSACHUSETTS FREE-NIGeERrsM. - The
House of Representatives of Massachusetts,
BY a vote of one hundred and forty-two te
thirty-one, have expunged the word white
from the militia laws. Whereupon an aboli-
ton journal remarks that this gives eolored
men chance to train when they have mind
to, and allows them to organize military COM
panies as well as their white brothers"
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12

SENATOR TooMBs.-This wayward and
clustering politician has reconciled himself to
the last diet which, as Punch says pride is
willing to eat-humble pie. In recent
speech he took occasion, in his wholesale style,
to attack the newspapers, but with result
which has made it necessary for seven Of his
friends to publish explanations and denials,
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12
m,..,..,,,, crvra.r. Ro.n.-Tbe Holly

MISSISSIPPI CEsrRAL RoAD.-The Holly
Springs Herald of the 9TH, says:
We are pleased to learn that the gap IN this
road is being finished rapidly. There is now
about rs miles of staging, and by, or before,
the first of January the last nail viii be driv-
en-, and the iron horse will not be stopped in
his rapid movements, between New Orleans
and Holly Springs.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12
Sea Shore Correspondence of the Mis-
sissippian.

EDITOR MIssISsIprIAS The election III Ian
cock passed off quietly. No Opposition ticket
was voted. Maj. Willis II. Claiborne is elect
ed to the Legislaturc-no opponent. only a
small vote was cast. there being no excitement
whatever. Gov. McRae made his last speech
here, (Gainesyille) on the Saturday preceding
the election, and voted the State ticket at
Shieldshoro, being unable 10 reach ms own
county in time
Henley is reported to be elected TO the l-e-
gislature in Harrison county, Notwithstanding
prodigious efforts, chiefly at Mississippi City,
to defeat him. lie was regularly nominated
by the same county meeting that nominated
James B. McRae for the Senate but II vio-
lent opposition was made to his election, and
the Sea Coast Democrat would not hoist the
name Of Henley or McRac, although both
were nominated as Democrats.
Our town has met with sad loss, by the
burning Of Bradford's fine, new turpentine
distillery. Some people think this was the
work of an incendiary. After close exam
nation | think it was accidental We hope
the enterprising proprietor, who resides in
Aberdeen, will not be discouraged.
We have just heard thak.an order has been
issued at Washington for the removal of the
land office from Augusta to Paulding. The
removal is universally condemned, and will
operate sorely on our people, who are CON-
PEELED to go to the land office to prove up their
prescriptions, and pay the expenses of wit
nesses. Few of them can afford the long
journey to Paulding.
Who ordered this movement and why was
it ordered