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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-09-21
RusSelI's Letter to the London Times.

Russell's last letter to the London
Times has been received by the mails
The following are the only Interesting
extracts to be found in it
At the present moment it is calculated
that the United States expenditure ex-
ceeds 100000 day. Mr.. Secretary
Chase, in bis report to Congress, stated
that the sums already voted amounted to
1913, $40, SIS, of which sum he propos-
ed to raise S24O, 900, 900 by loans, and
$4,000, 900 by increased customs and
taxation. direct tax of $50, 600, 900,
an income tax of three per cent. upon all
incomes above $500, raised to FIVE per
cent. In the case of absentees, with large
additions to the Morrill, tariff. are the
means proposed; but not one shadow of
truth has been adduced to prove that any
one of them will answer the end, while,
in the case of the Seeded States. we
know that the appropriations cannot at
present, if ever. be raised.
With all the efforts that man can
make to keep down his expenses, the
mighty spasmodic efforts of the North to
create and maintain a great military es-
Enlistment are attended By great waste;
but populations, which have been of late
extensive and active. putting devils dust
and shoddy into cloth. brown paper into
shoe soles, and INDUCING in similar prac-
tees, whereby patriotic citizens make
fortunes by their country's losses. have
not so much to do with the extravaganza
as the ignorance of those charged with
the distribution of the public money.
If l am correctly informed, the deser-
tons from the Northern army are numer-
GUS enough to excite serious apprehen-
sions. By private letter from coun
try gentleman in Maryland. I learn that
all the by-ways and roads are tiled with
men making their way home Some are
working in the neighborhood as laborers
on the farms, others are hiding In the
large towns. and that they are numerous
may be Judged from the fact of sixty-fTe
being counted going past one house IN
rather an out-of-the place in one
day. These men complain Of bad treat
ment from officers. want of food and no
paw. It is known that some officers never
stopped their career from the moment,
they turned their backs at Bull Run till
they ran to earth in their own houses, and
by their own fresides in the North. Ii
any thing could increase the sehism be-
tween the regulars and volunteers, it has
been found in the bitter manner in which
the artillery speak of the desertion of the
troops placed to support the United States
batteries. which were fought with great
gallantry. and only abandoned at the last
moment.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-09-21
Capture 90 Mere Federal FrtsaneD
Condition and NaEeneaGs Of tae Arzus.


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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-09-21
JOHN J. PETTUS,
FOR CONGREss-5fh District,
Hon. o. r. Singleton,

as a candidate for Congress in this district,
composed Of the counties of Attala, Carroll,
Holmes, Leake, Madison, Sunhower and
Yazoo. Election, 9th day of November.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-09-21

If the occupation of Columbus by the
Tennessee troops belonging to the Con-
federate Government, under q pressing
military necessity, is a breach of Ken
lucky neutrality. what do our outraged
Submissionist friends say to the occupa-
ton Of : camp in Garrard county BY 1900
Tennessee troops belonging to the Fed
eral Government, without the excuse Of
any necessity? We simply ask for ipfor-
nation Courier.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-09-21

The Northern people are the greatest
Paper tigers and Bulletin heroes in the
world. Fremont is congratulating the
men whom McCulloch whipped so terri
bly,. on their grand exploit, and tells
them they may put Springfield" on
their banners as memorial. Tyler, who
vas the FIRST man to run at Cross Lanes,
writes to his Government of the brilliant
e6air ut that place. We look tosee Bull
Run yet name of glory North a. well az
South.-Richnaoad Examiner.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-09-21
Por the Citizen:
ArGrsr 10Th 1861.

AUGUsT 18th 1861.
II j. j. Nicholson, Esq, viii permit his
name to be used as a candidate for the Legis-
iature from this county (Madison,) at the en-
suing election be will be supported by
MANY VOTERS.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-09-21

SAD TIpNGs.-We find in the Memphis
Avalanche of the 18th, notices of the deaths
Of Col. e. G. Payne, Capt. James Hamilton
and DR.. J. A. Jordan.
Col. Payne was resident of Memphis,
and late senator from that district in the SEN
ate of Tennessee. He was born in Cuipep-
per county, Virginia. ae ,sHeIi
Capt. Hamilton died at Columbus on Sun
day, 18th, from sun-stroke, caused by the ac-
tive discharge of his duty. He was native
of Georgia, and a graduate at Yale college.
DR.. Jordan died at Little Rock, Arkansas,
on the 10th. He was extensively known as
most intelligent, energetic and successful
planter--a man of great wealth, . liberal
public spirited citizen, and Jealous and de-
voted friend to the cause of his native south.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-09-21
Clothing for the Soldiers.

The Soldiers Aid Societies in the different
parts of the county are requested to send in
the clothing they have made up, on or before
Wednesday next, the 25th inst. The clothing
made up by the ladies of Canton and vicinity
for the "Confederates and the " Madison
Guards" will be ready by that time, and it
is desired that the Agent, Mr.. A. W. Clark,
shall leave here with it on Wednesday night,
If possible.
The Clothing, of course, should be packed
In boxes, and properly directed.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-02-15
Important Decisl0n..The Three Years
Redemption Law Sustained by the
Supreme Court.

We print in another part of this weeks
paper the opinion of the Supreme Court,
by Chief Justice EMMETT, affirming the
consti,utionality of the Three Years Re-
demption Law. This decision was delivered
in the case of HEYwARD vs.. JUDD, appealed
from the District Court of Ramsey County,
in which the law had been decided uncon.
stitutional. A great deal of interest has
been manifested in regard to the decision of
our Supreme Court upon this law; but
whatever may be thought of the process Of
reasoning by which the Court arrives at
the conclusions set forth, there can be no
doubt but that the decision will be hailed
with delight by the people.
In the United States Court, in this State,
the law is treated as nullity, having been
declared unconstitutional by Judge NELSON
in November last. 1t will thus be seen that
nonresident creditors enjoy decided ad-
vantage over creditors resident in the State,
as the former class can obtain relief in the
Federal Court, while the latter are confined
to the State tribunals.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-02-15

= "a
the bud. "The SUPPLEMENTARY Of his
incumbency," in that case, may not prove
to be 90 salaried laziness" any more than
the Indian Office was but he will be sns>
tanned in his labors by the proud conscious
ness Of doing his duty in circumstances Of
the greatest peril. Let Representative
BANNING move the matter in the Legisla-
ture. He will not, probably, be over
burthened with railroad Legislation this
winter and if he can aid in extricating
Minnesota from the pilferiDg paws of the
British Lion, he will have achieved glory
second only to that which he won when he
blotted from the map of the State the name
of the traitorous TooMBs.
If anybody wants to put himself in the
condition of Mons. MANT1L1K1, and becomes
dem'd, damp, moist, unpleasant body"
let him come to Chicago at this season of
the year. He will be sure to gain his
point, unless he has India-rubber lungs, and
q gutta-percha hide as the weather alter
nations are regularly, sleet, rain, fog, with
occasional firts of snow, by way of variety.
Humidity, E. S. G.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-02-15

How Lincoln is to be Inaugurated.
The editor of the New York Express,
who is now in Washington, thus writes to
that paper from the Capital City. He
says:
"The city begins to look more and more
like an encampment. The President elect,
it is clear, is to have such an Inauguration
as none of his predecessors ever had-in
artillery, light and heavy dragons, and in
fantry. Republicanism thus begins its
necessary advent. The less Congress is
disposed to accept Crittenden,' the more
need of guns, rifles, dragons, artillery. So
reasons, doubtless, General Scott, the snspi.
ration Of all these scenes. '--
"The army quarter-masters have just
entered into contract for barracks for one
hundred men near the Capital, and for sta
bles for one hundred and twenty-five hor>
ses. These are to be for the light artillery;
and, as Lincoln takes the oath in the front
of the Capitol, the grinning artillery will
be ready to rattle grape, if necessary, among
the gaping lockers on. Pleasant inaugu-
ration day Nice time for women, fashion
and crinoline {! .Da1s4 5"" a5'A
General Scott is making this city his
headquarters and the headquarters OF the
United States Army. The quarters of his
Aids.de- Camp are engaged, and all, in all
respects. are to be ready, as Justice fancy
administers the oath, to do their duty with
grape if necessary" $3.50 a 'i1 >" ~
:. Why cannot Congress dispense those SOL
diers, and restore peace by adopting the
Crittenden Compromise? Il II s..g =.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-02-15
The Territories.

The annexed table has been made out
from the report Of the Commissioner OF
Public Lands, and shows that the division
of territory proposed by adopting the line
sc deg. 30 min. would be fair arrange.
ment, giving to both the North and the
South quantity very nearly in proportion
to their respective populations-to the
North 1,795, 1865 square miles for popula-
tion of nineteen millions, and to the South
1,203,71l square miles for a population of
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-02-15
Negro Population I'm New York City.


The New York Herald of the 25th gives
the census returns of that city so far as the
negro population is concerned. The re-
turns in 1850 showed population of 49,
831. In 1860 there were 1885. De-
crease in ten years 3,0l6.
Of the colored population in 1850, 1896
were mulattoes. In 1860 there were 3,Oo5
mulattoes. 1t will thus be seen thst while
there is decrease in the black population
of 1926, the mulattoes have only decreased
SO. Of the whole 10000 colered popula,
ton, there are but IS who own real estate
valued at $3.50 and upwards -four of whom
have liens upon their property, reducing
the value below $3.50, and ten are women
reducing the number entitled to vote to 81.
Of the whole population, l,l65 are SER
wants; CSC walters; GIL washerwomen !;
SIS laborers; 252 cooks, 243 porters; l28
coachmen III whitewashers 81 cham
bermaids "a chimney sweeps, and 6,99l
in other occupations. By the census re-
turns we find the great body of the colored
population servants or walters; scarcely q
dozen of them are engaged in any of the
higher pursuits of life; no mechanics or
artists among their number. Take the
same number of blacks in any section of the
slave states, and you will find greater
number of mechanics than you will among
our free negroes. ID. r3i..-s ....... ...
The Herald adds: wis 4 SIS.
We cannot shut our eyes to the fact that the
true position of the negro in the United States
ia one of servitude. As q slave he is happy
temned. Labor, iD the Northern States, is the
property of the white man and women. Stern
necessity is driving the black race from every
honorable field of employment among US. The
field of labor for the negro is gradually but
certainly growing narrower and narrower.
Forty years ago negroes carried the hod, were
our BARRIERS and shoe blacks, and had variety
of occupations that the necessities of the white
laborer, native born, Irish and German, have
compelled the black man and woman to aban-
don. C0lored society in this city offers wide
field for philosophical reflection /; that in the
Fifth ward is perfect brothel. o
There are thirty-two white women living
with negroes as husband and wife, but not
one white man has been married to negro
woman. Of the thirty.two white women
whose husbands are black, eighteen were
born 10 Ireland, five in New York, three in
England. two in Scotland, one in Virginia,
one in Delaware, and one at sea. They are
generally young women, and but lately mar.
ried-some ten Of them this year, and not
one having been married ten years.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-02-15

Isolated IN THE WoRLD.-The Senators
from the seeding states Except Jefferson
Davis-have called at the White House to
take leave of the President. An affecting
scene took place between the President and
Mr.. Fitzpatrick of Alabama. The former
said: "Governor, the current Of events
warps me that we shall never meet again on
this side of the grave. l have tried to do
nv duty to both sections, and have dis
pleased both. I feel isolated in the world"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-02-15

Population, l9, 100000
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-07-06
Number 25.
From our Extra Of Saturday Erentng.l
Eastern Dates o } n n Q D tn.

SACRAMENTO, June 20, 1861.
The following is from the Union extra
Fort CuURCHILI, June 29.
Pony Express arrived at 8 o'clock this morn
ing with the following dates:
ST. LOUIS, ria Fort Kearney, June l9.-On the
18th inst the Governor OF Missouri issued proc
lamation calling for 5000 volunteers to oppose
the Federal forces
He went to Boonville and collected volunteers
for first stand. There he was attacked by the
Federal forces under Gen. Lyons, and routed,
with loss of three hundred killed. and large
number of his men taken prisoners
There was n skirmish near Fortress Monroe on
on the 10th of June. Col Phelps sent three
companies to drive In cattle belonging to seces-
sonsts. They were fired upon by company OF
light horse, wounding three.
The rebels are landing large bodies of troops
seven miles above Newport News C).
New YoRK, June II.
Steamer Peerless arrived from Toronto o-day
under American colors. Flying rumors tonight
state that fight took place on the Louden Rail
road, near Vienna, between an Ohio regiment
and a band of rebels Probably an engagement
without serious results
WASHINGTON, June IT. 1861.
1t is reported that the Legislature of Maryland
will attempt to pass act relieving the State OF
Virginia from paying damages to the citizens oil
Maryland who sustained loss by the destruction
of railroads and canals.
Several heavy guns have been mounted on new
batteries at Aquia Creek
New York, June 10.
The Bavaria arrived from southampton on the
9TH, bringing $4,000 stand of rifles for the Gov
ernment.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-07-06
IMps OF THE PERvERsE.-we will draw public

IMPs OF THE PERvERsE.-We will draw public
attention to one curious fact that there are sew
eral journals in this State so essentially South
ern"-so foolishly and absurdly so-that what
ever dispute arises, these chivalric journalists
necessarily turn up toward the sun with "South-
ern proclivties." If the impetuous South should
indecorously pull Uncle Samuel's nose, these es-
sentially Southern gentlemen would be compelled
to pronounce the proceeding all right. We have
journal of that sort in this city other sections
of the State oppressed with similar nuisances;
and the most repusive part of the story is not
told, until statement is added, that these essen
TALLY " Southern gentlemen" are either migrated
Yankees or Europeans who have fled from the
ravenous jaws of famine The South can do
nothing wrong The South may take our re-
spected Uncle Sam by the scalp-lock, and jerk
him out of his venerable boots, and it is d" all
right"-because it is the South Now, this is all
humbug. Nobody has any well-grounded fear of
these chivalric Southern emigrants Even the
South doesn't expect the extreme toad-eating
propensity. Southern men are, usually, men OF
courage, and of impulse but, unhappily, the
fercest Southerners" are cold blooded adventu-
rers who were born in the austerity of Northern
December. These fellows, born among the SAVIOR
of Wethersfeld onions, and where white oaks
split with rigorous frost, are the fercest of all
" Southerners"-th are the most irrepressible
advocates of South Carolina. In possession of
types and pens, they " buzz" the public ear with
"Southern" sentiments, and disgust men of sense
with their ravenous toad-eating.-S. f. Evening
Journal.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-07-06

CHILDREN, look in those eyes, listen to that
dear voice, notice the feeling of even single
touch that is bestowed upon you by that gentle
hand Make much of it while yet you have that
most precious of oil gifts--a loving mother.
Read the unfathomable love of those eyes the
kind anxiety of that tone and look, however
slight your pain. In after life You may have
friends-fond, DEAR kind friends but never will
you have again the inexpressible love and gen.
tleness lavished upon you which none but a
mother can bestow. Often do sigh in my strug-
giles with the hard, uncarng world, for the sweet,
deep security felt, when on an evening, nesting
10 her bosom, listened to some quiet tale suita
BILE to my age, read in her tender and untiring
voice. Never can forget her sweet glances cast
upon me when 1 appeared to sleep never her
kiss of peace at night Years have passed since
we laid her beside my father in the old church
yard; yet still her voice whispers from the grave,
spots long since hallowed to the memory OF my
Enthusiastically.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-07-06

THE AMERICAN FLAG.-After Washington tool
command of the army of the Revolu tion, Al
Cambridge, January I'd, l776, he unfurled the
new flag of thirteen stripes Of alternate red and
white having upon one of its corners the red
and white crosses of st. George and st. Andrew,
on field of blue, and this was the standard
borne into Boston when it was evacuated by the
British. BY this union of embems we claimed
to be part of the British empire. On the 4th
of July, 177G, this connection was cut by the
Declaration of Independence. On the 18th of
June, 1777, Congress resolved, q" that the flag of
the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes,
alternate red and white, and that the Union be
thirteen white stars in a blue field" The flag
first made and used in pursuance of it, was that
which led Americans TO victory at Saratoga. In
1884, there having been two new States added, it
was voted that the stripes and stars be fifteen in
number, and, as thus altered, it was borne thrO'
the war of 1872.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-07-06
In letter of Daniel Webster, dated June 18th

In letter Of Daniel Webster, dated June 18th,
1850, the following sentence is found =" Bunker
Hill Monument-May it crumble to the dust, be-
fore it shall look down upon a country dishonor-
ed, disgraced and ruined, by the breaking up, by
sacrilegious hands, of that Union which has Sc
cured its liberty, fostered its prosperity, and
spread its glory and renown throughout the
world" In another letter of Mr.. Webster's, dat
ed November 23d, 1850, we find the following
sentence =" Virginia true hearted Virginia
stand by your country, stand by the word of your
fathers stand by the Union Of the States, and
may Almighty God prosper all our efforts in the
cause of liberty, and in the cause of that united
government which renders its people the happiest
people on whom the sun ever shone!"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-07-06

Ellsworth.
A BATTLE HYMN FOR EIiswoRru's 2ouAvES.

Who is this ye say is slain?
Whose voice answers not again
Ellsworth, shall we call in vain
On thy name to-day?
No from every vale and hill
One response all hearts shall thrill
Ellsworth's g fame is with us still,
Meier to pass away"
Bring that rebel banner low,
Hoisted by treacherous foe:
Twas for that they dealt the blow,
Laid him in the dust.
Raise aloft, that all may see,
His loved flag of liberty.
Forward, then, to victory,
Or perish if we must
Hark to what Columbia saith:
"Mourn not for his early death
With each patriots dying breath
Strength renewed is given
To the cause of truth and right,
To the land for which they fight.
After darkness comcth light,
Such the law of Heaven"
SO we name him not in vain,
Though he comes not back again
For his country he was slain
Ellsworth's blood shall rise
To our gracious Savior King
IT'S a holy gift we bring;
Such sacred Offering
God will not despise.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-07-06

The present trouble is likely to dissolve two
popular sectional errors which have long existed.
There has been a very general impression at the
North that one Northern man can whip three
Southern ones and an equally general impression
at the South that one Southern man can whip ten
Northern ones. 1t is very likely that both Sec
tions are destined to be mistaken. We are emf.
nently warlike people all over the country, and
one man is just as good as another, when used as
q stopper for bullet.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-07-06

SOME paper having said that the secession
cause is gaining ground in Virginia, Prentice re-
marks " We trust that it will soon gain ground
to the depth of about six feet and that the earth
will then be shoveled over it, covering il forever
more from the eyes OF men.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-07-06

IN some of the Southern journals we see much
stress laid upon the fidelity of the slaves, and the
cheerful assistance they will give their masters.
There is great room for doubling the assertion ;
the terror John Brown awoke in the South is good
evidence that their boastings are all Cannon.