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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-03-23
An Incident OF tho War.

On one occasion, after the battle
of Shiloh, the hospitals of the towns
and cities on the Ohio river were 50
crowded with wounded men, both
Confederate and Yankee, that some
of them were sent to Lexington, KY,
and placed in the Southern Methodist
Home; under the care of that benev.
Olent institution. On a bright and
pleasant day, after some of the
wOuhded had become convalescent,
confederate soldier was out .'sun-
ming himself" when a Yankee sol
dier of the Teutonic persuasion also
CAME out, and after walking round
and eyeing our Confederate for some
time, accosted him thus.
"You pees Won secesh !"
"How do you know p said the
Confederate.
"YOu pc so tam fatr'
Explain YOURSELF" said the Con
federate.
"Vell I pees in te hospital myself,
and | sees some tings yot goes on.
De ladies coOme in nit the pasket
on de arm, and she coomed to me
and she say vat you pc p l say /
bees Oonion man, wounded NIT Shi-
loh.' She say vat pity for de
peoples ven de var don't shtop ?
Den she goes to you and say wat you
pin 2 you says, Il pees rebel soldier,
wounded init Shiloh Den she puts
her lily vite hand in tie pasket and
dakes out de cake and de vine, and
gives you ever vat you want. After
vile another lady cOOmes in, init te
pasket on her arm, and she goes to
you fust, and ask you wat you pin p
you say, Il pees rebel soldier, wound
ed NIT Shiloh She say wat pity
Den l dinks l goin' to git something;
Veil, she coomes to me and say, wat
you pin 7 l say, Ipees Oonion man,
wounded NIT Shiloh She sets down
her pasket and puts in her lily vite
hand, and pulls out Cot tam Met
totist tract You thinks a man git
fat on de tam Mettotist tract7 De
Cot tam secesh, da gifts de cake and
vine, and ever vat da want, and de
Oonion mems can't git to smell de
bottle"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-03-23

ENCOURAGING WbRts.-It was
the remark of distinguished moral
ist to one who lamented how small
the influence he had beer enabled to
exercise in a long life, that no man
had lived in tain who had benefited
a single human being We often for
sake the daily task, humble it may
be in character, which is appropri-
ate to our condition, regarding only
those primal duties which shine aloft
like stars, and forgetting that the
which s0othe, and heal, and
bless, are scattered at the feet of men
like flowers.-&r Thomas Phillips.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-03-23

William a, Whitmore. one Of the
of the Memphis Ledger.
died ln thai city on the l>t inst.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-03-23
(From the Cincinnati Enquirer.l
Who Are and Who Are Not Affected
by the Military Reconstruction Bill.

| W th0 AzAAAtuAy 1AoSShcsA eSSASAA SAAs
1t is matter of some importance to
the people of the South to know who
are and who are not affected by the
Military Reconstruction Bill, passed
by Congress over the veto of the
President. The law itself has tlou.
BILE character. 1t establishes, in the
first place, a complete military des.
potism over the unrepresented States.
In the second place, provision Is made
for the reconstruction of those States.
It is in this latter division that are
found the provisions affecting partic-
ular classes of individuals, curtailing
the rights of some and .enlarging
those of others. They relate to hold,
ing Office and voting.
HOLDING OFFICE:
The following persons are forbid
den to hold any Office, civil br militia,
ry, under the United States, or un-
der any Provisional State Govern.
ment, or to be d member of any con-
vention to form new State Consti-
tuition, who took an oath or affirma-
tion to support the Constitution of
the United States and afterward EN-
gagged in the rebellion, or gave aid
and comfort to those who did, ciz:
LIST. Senators and Representatives
in Congress, officers of the army or
navy, and other United States Off
cials.
I'd. Governors of States, members
of State Legislatures, and State judi
cial officers, from judges down to
magistrates.
No one is excluded from holding
an Office who does not belong to one
of the above classes.
VOTING.
All male citizens twenty one years
old and upward, of whatever race,
color or previous condition, who have
been resident in said State for one
year previous to the day of election,
shall be entitled to vote; ercept the
follo'cing persons, oiz:
l. Such as may be disfranchised
for participation in the rebellion.
2. Such as may be disfranchised
for crime.
3. Such as (above epumerated) are
forbidden to hold Office, are also for
hidden to vote for members to a con-
ventiOn to form constitution under
the provisions of this bill, and also
for officers Under the provisional
State governments.
HOLDING OFFICE AND VOTING.
No person is disqualified from hold
ing office by reason of any part he
took in the rebellion, either in holding
office under the Confederate Govern
ment, or in bearing arms, who had
not previous to the war held Fede-
raj office, or an executive, legislative
OF judicial office in some State.
No person is disqualified for voting
by reason of any part he took in the
rebellion, either in holding Office or
in bearing arms, except those who
are disqualified from holding office as
above stated, and they are disquali-
fed from voting in two cases only
first, for members of the Constitution
al Convention; and, second, for Off
GERS under the Provisional State Gov
ernment.
AS no person under twenty-One
years of age was allowed to hold any
Federal State, executive, legislative,
or judicial Office, and as the war COM
six years ago, no man in the
South under twenty-seven years of
age can be excluded from holding Of
ice or voting, by reason of any part
se took in the rebellion.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-03-23
ga ST. Louis correspondent OF

the Chicago Times says: ........l
Quite an inaccurate pen-and ink
portrait of General Price has been
going the rottnds of the papers from
the pen of George Alfred Townsend,
which represents the General as poor,
brokendown, downhearted and seedy;
The curious can see the General about
ten o'clock every morning, walking
down Olive street. He stands erect
and fully six feet. His hair is silvery
white. His air and manner are the
mildest Of any m an ever met. From
beneath a beating brow a mild blt1e
eve peers. full of kindness, while his
voice is as musical and pleasant as a
woman's. Said one Of his men to me
one day, That's General Price," as
he came in sight, dressed in the most
scrupulous black, carrying a gold
headed cane, "and only say what
every man of his command will tell
YOU, | love that man." He stopped
and greeted my companion warmly,
and with such a glow of pleasantness
in all his manner, that wondered
how TO such a man the barbar0us lies
and Misrepresentation of brutality
and cruelty could be imputed, as they
we're during the Generals stay in the
State during the early part ofthe war.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-03-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

In a certain ladies' moral reform
society, existing not many miles from
the bank of certain river, the mem,
bers were required to sign a pledge
not to "set up" as it is termed, OF
do anything else that might be. SUP.
posed to have tendency, however
remote, to Immortality. One even.
ing, as the president was calling
over the names to know whether
each member had kept her obliga-
ton, beautiful and highly respect
able young lady burst into tears, and
on being questioned as to thu cause.
said she feared she had broken her
pledge. "Why, what have you
done p asked the president. "Ohp'
sobbed the lady, "Ur. kissed
me the other night when he waited
on me home from meeting" "Oh,
well, that is nothing very bad" said
the president; his kissing does not
make that you have broken the
pledge" "Oh! that isn't the worst
of it," exclaimed the conscientious
young lady, Il kissed him back
again."
Manners said the eloquent Ed.
mund Burke, "are of more import,
ance than laws. Upon them, in q
great measure, the laws Depend
The law can touch us here and there,
now and then. Manners are what
Tex or soothe, corrupt OF purify, exalt
or debase, barbarize OF refine, by q
constant, steady, uniform, insensible
operation, like that of the air we
breathe in."
"Who made you" inquired lady
teacher of lubberly boy, who had
lately joined her class.
81 don't know said he.
Don't know You ought to be
ashamed of yourself; boy fourteen
years old. There is little Dick Full.
ton; he is only three, and he can tell,
l dare say. Come here, Uick-who
made You
"Dod," isped the infant prodigy.
~ knew he would remem ber."
"Well he oughter,' said the stupid
boy, sit amt but little while ago
since he was made"
A short time since we published in
our columns the following conun.
drum, perpetrated by some incorrigi.
bic wag; ''Nhy is beard like com.
mon sense Because, no woman
possesses it, This piece of wit has
attracted the attention Of some sharp
lady correspondent, who "goes for
it, in the following style; "Why ia
the author Of the above like a certain
worn out musical instrument Be.
cause, he is an abandoned lyre-fliar.)
A good bit that Mobile Tribune.
The latest thing in winter bonnets
s a postage stamp with ribbons.
The hair is tastetully c5mbed back 80
rs TO expose the whole ears and neck.
This style is highly recommended
Iy physicians A box OF neuralgic
ointment accom- panies each bonnet
A little four year old was told that
Iod made him. Measuring a few
nches Cn his arm, he wrathfully re-
Dhed, "No he didn't! God made
ne little mite of a thing, so long,
md l growed the rest myself"
AT a negro jollifcation, few days
ago, not far from Hannibal, Mo-, one
If the bucks offered the following
loast: Mister Fletcher, de Gubner
10 de State-he cum in wild little
opposition; and him will go out wild
lone at ALL Very truthful, if not
complimentary.
Thurlow Weed has experienced
'eligion.
"While the lamp holds ont TO burn,
The vilest sinner may rethrn.'
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-03-23
The African and the Oyster.

A laughable incident occurred at
the depot in Savannah, Ga. The
train from Mobile brought up several
barrels of shell oysters. A number
of country negroes stood by, and
never having seen oysters before,
were somewhat surprised at the ap-
pearance of the bivalves. "Where he
moufi" exclaimed one of the most
Iinquisitive. "How um eatf Golly /!
| think am nothing 'cept gum. Yah !
yah !" he continued, laughing at his
wit. "I spec some white man tink
nigger fool when he call that
oster.r Just then he discovered an
open oyster, and seizing it, he eyed
it closely. Not satisfied with the ex-
animation he placed it to his nose,
but no sooner was that organ insert
ed between the shells than they clos
ed. Nigger howled with pain, and
called out, "Pul um off pull um
offr' but the more the oyster was
pulled the more he would not let go
and as poor cuffe danced and yelled
his frantic efforts to rid himself lof
his uncomfortable nasal ornament
we're both ludicrous and painful.
"Hit um wild a stick,' suggested a
buxom wench, and in a moment the
oyster was knocked right and left
with a hearty will; but Cuffee's head
went with it. "Pinch his tail,' cried
a little mig, land he sure to let go!"
But there was no tail to pinch, and
poor Cuffee seemed doomed to wear
the oyster forever. At this moment
an "intelligent con:raband' whipped
ont a knife and with it soon severed
the oyster. Cuffee looked at the
shells with amazement, and finding
the oyster toothless, threw it away
with the remark, "Um got no teeth,
but he gum is powerfulp
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-03-23

People who brood over their sor.
rows are usually successful in hatch
ing q numerous family; and those
who nurse their rage to keep it
warm" arc sure ofa comfortable TEN.
rerature Of Indignation.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-03-23

We suppose that with the Military
Government bill before their eyes
there are few who will deny, if they
take the trouble to think, that our
political state is that Of a very dis
tinctly marked revolution. Now,
whether or no revolutions ever 60
backward, one thing is certain, that
they usually go forward until those
who promoted them and have any
thing to lose are thoroughly tired of
the enterprise. The end of such
progress as we are now making is
inevitably the annihilation Of
wealth. Agrarian anarchy in France
drove out or cut off the heads of the
nobility and capitalists, b greater
share of whom had subscribed to the
to the doctrines of the revolution,
and confscated their estates; to say
nothing of the short work 1t made of
national debt, by process which is
sometimes called repudiItiun.
1t is thought by some that an
archial violence to such an extremity
is impossible. in the United States,
because the people are SO peaceful
and quiet. The ruling party can do
anything without the slightest dan
ger of popular turbulence. We can
stand by and see the Constitution
violated, and even justice itself re-
pealed-see the vilest and most
palpable wrong inflicted upon ten
millicns of our fellow-citizens, and
not even utter a remonStrance.
This is the perilous feature. When
the finances give way, as give way
they will, the party in power will
need money, and while it will be not
afraid to rob for it the people will
look on and see the bankers, the con- |
tractors and capitalists, who encour /
aged the beginning of the progress,
with great and laudable indifference.
II Cincinnati EpqH'rer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-03-23

Articles of impeachment against
Governor Wells, have been reported
in the Louisiana Degislaturei
The governor general Of Virginia
recommends a convention under the
Sherman military hill.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-03-23
Foolish Use of Cossets.

The corset is not necessary part
of a woman's wardrobe; and alas
when a woman does begin to veal
corsets she will wear them too small,
and will tug at the laces until her
breath comes short, and she feels il
necessary to refrain from anything
like a comfortable meal. We say
nothing against a well-shaped corset
worn loosely, but there lies the diff
Guilty.
A loose corset Injuries the appear.
ance instead of improving it. and
and people wear cotsets that they
may have small waists. All we can
say is, don't squeeze, whatever you
do. You may have small waists,
but you are exposing yourself to a
dozen misfortunes which are as bad
as a large waist. First, you'll surely
have dyspepsia; and grow yellow and
cross and unhappy; secondly, your
hands will grow red; thirdly, your
nose; fourthly. you will be unable 20
walk d mile at oncei filthy, dinner
will be misery; siXthlS, your sheul-
der blades will grow weak; seventhly,
you will break down at thirty or
thereabout, and be sickly old wo-
man frum that time forth Ii these
truths do not frighten women from
tight cOrsets, perhaps the infOrna-
ton that gentlemen generally do not
admire what dresSmakers call a
pretty figure" so much as a natural
one, may have some influence.
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C. a oAIL6rAY ND A. II. CAGE N. D
.s-~--.s...---.---.--. - --
prs. GALLOWAY & GAGE,
1RsIDRNT PHYsICIAHs,
CANTON, Misc
aTee ss-th-siss of Public Square.
'osssbsf o. 1865 ly.
DIR. N. C. ORRICK,

!" nc M 7" II - "S
rs prepared to practice his profession in al
lie branches.
All diseases Of the gums and mouth tres
ted sFou scientific principles
Beeayed teeth carefully filed. Artificial
teeth inserted upon Gold or Vulcanite.
Temporary sets can be furnished on the day
after extraction.
Teeth extracted without pain, BY the use
Of Gas or the Narcotic Spray.
(OsTIcr OvER MosBY, RICHARDS l. Co.'s
DRuesroRE
Refers to the physicians of Canton.
Jsn5-tf
T-.TT-NT7Sy
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gafa for lbs Psychological parents, and,
all desire for character. He sank fast !!
leopard Wed Ga ibis very life / He
became feeble IN body, his brain softened,
and he became a poor, worthless, help
less outcast. l suppose he is not now
living, and if dead, not a human being
is sorry! These temptations beset all
boys. They seem as harmless as kittens E;
but let the. boy once yield to the temp
tation to lie, to steal. to swcar, to gamble,
to drink. to 90 to the theatre, and the
leopard is upon him He has no rcvol-
yer with which he can shoot him. Let
me beg my Young readers not to have
any such pets, rot TO let any II get the
! taste of bIooa-for if lie does, there will
be no stopping till the soul, as we'll as
the body, is sacrificed to his appetite,
and that iorever.-S. S. Times.
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LIONS HERALD.

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and is the recognized organ Of orr church Ill
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of Christ. without receiving any fee >r re-
ward whatever orthcir services. Cnlik,moSt
other Methodist papers. the Hcrald lasleVer
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own patronage. If. after paying the lsces-
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accrue. they are paid to the New En-; land,
Maink, New Hampshire. Providence. |er-
mont. ana East Maine Conferences.
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weekly. at $3.50 per year, lnrariable@ oo
cance.
2. All Travelling Preachers in the aethoT
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3. All communications designed fApuh-
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and letters on business should be adt4Ssed
to the Agent.
4. All biographies. accounts of re5Sals'
and other matters involving facts. must nc
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W. We wish agents to be particular ~
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8&RsdGa4p U~seseEeyvso
The ,Drunkards Wife.

<At+%S~ ~ -
Lay i:er down gently
Uniier the snow;
- SofrYw and anguish
'rhs grave eannot know.
Tie ills so long swollen
Eahsseepnlg, WE claSe;
IL. weary nnds-fpld them
III iipfecious repose.
Clos by her loved ones
Whose little graves show
How early they left her.
Foo tl;ll for earth woes.
No Walking to sorrow.
It'll, not y dream.
She has crossed the dark river
AM caught tie bright slen.
ff1st light IN tthewlndow'
HbWa Offer she sought
~ HsssFsather has foura Der.
Efrsa's wee is forget
- ssssweY p not foS;the sleeper;
hit oh! weep 70: cac
ssWslb Ill her Young life
NsomthcssAvect shining sun
The Banner.
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Further Unsolicited TeSti-
- MOnv.
FAIRFIELD, Me-. April IS, 1864.
SETH W. F'OWLE Il Co.

MfSSr. SETH W. fOWLE Il GO.
Gentlemen: Seeing numerous certificates
in de Maine Farmer endorsing the merits OF
hat Crc"; lang Remedy. WISr.Ak'S BAL
SAN OF WILD CHERRY. am Induced.
and | take Great pleasure in giving publicity
tut!ie great cure it accomplished in my talni-
" in year lS5G. During the llnmcr OF that
year my son, Henry 4. Archer. now Post
master at Fairfield. Somerset County. Me-.
was attacked with splitting OF blood, cough.
weakness of lungs. and general debility, so
,,;"cl, so that our family physician declared
him TO have q SEATED COHsuMpTIoN.'
He was under medical treatment fora num-
Der of months. but received 10 benefit from
it.. At length. from the solicitation of him
self and others. l was induced to purchase
one bottle of WISTAR'S BALSAM OF
v~11D- which benefited him so
much that l obtained an other bottle, which
in a short time restored him to his usual state
OF health. | think | can safely recommend
this remedy to others in like condition. for it
IS. think. all it purportsto be-TIE GREAT
LING REMEDY FOR THE TINES!
The above statement. gentlemen. is my
volun airy Offering to You i'll favor Of your
Balsam. and is at your disposal.
As ever. yours.
ANDREW ARCHER.