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The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-07-10

UTAH.-There seems to be a con-
fict of titles between the Federal
Government and Brigham Young.
The Government claims to be the
proprietor of certain lands in Utah,
having never disposed of them to
any party, and Young claims to be
sovereign of the same lands. Of
course the government has the pow
er to settle the matter, and we trust
it will do this promptly, though in
just and proper way. The Fed
eral authorities certainly have the
means of knowing what lands are
public lands and what ones are not,
and they should no longer tolerate
the absurd and insolent pretentions
of the Mormon Chief. Let the
public lands in Utah be thrown into
market at an early day, and let thu
people OF the United States be pro
tected in purchasing and holding
and cultivating them, as fully as il
purchasing and holding and cult
vating any of the rest OF the publ
domain. As the Pacific railroad ]
now open, action upon this subjec
, should no longer be deferred.
The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-07-10

The Japanese now coming into
California promise to be a most val
liable order of immigrants. Those
who have purchased the six hundred
acres of the Ada Ranch will be
quite an industrial colony, cultivat-
ing the tea plant, the silk worm and
its tree, the bamboo esculents which
will taste like q mixture Of arti-
choke and asparagus, and the fish
harvests which will be nourished in
large lime-cemenled tanks or lakes
Their Japan silk worms feed on the
oak and other trees, producing Q
beautiful gray silk, and the tea nuts
give China oil which makes such 0
clear. pure light.
The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-07-10
A Fragment.


The debt Of gratitude
is not the best remembered where the lips
Pour forth their voluble and fluent tide
OF warm ackr cwledgemcn,s. Fair-spoken
phrases,
Graced with acourticr bow, are pleasant things,
But rarely hold much more OF grateful truth
Than the brightest slime that cunning reptiles
spread
TO catch their prcy--and they who oftcnest turn
In fierce recoil upon the helping hand,
Are oftenest those whose hollow hearts have
sworn
A changeless sense Of benefits received,
The breast where Gratitude is firm and deep
Gives least expression to the one il serves
As trees that bear the heaviest OF fruit
Yield the least rustlng to the cherishing breeze
Prayer has It's decalogue and well-sct chant
To say or sing; but prayer can offer up
A purer tribute to the mighty One
Who rules the thunder and restrains the waves
Than ever clostered walls responded to.
The lonely orphan child who steals at night
Where the round moon shines on mother
grave,
Knows little how TO mould his trusting faith
In proper sentences; but the dim eye
That sheds its binding tear upon the turf
And then looks up to tho fair silver stars,
Carries ray Of holy fervency
That will not be rejected at the throne
Of Him who suits the wind to the shorn lamb
The erring one, whose right arm has been stront
In working evil may repent "and save
His soul alive" He cannot frame his thought
In sanity code---but the pale saddened brow
That droops in silence, pcntence and shame,
Shall plead for him at the eternal bar
Where boundlcss mercy fills the Judgment sea
The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-07-10
The SCOurge OF Utah--.GrasshOp.
pers on the Wing.

Countless myriads of grasshop-
pers have lately made their appear
ance on the north and eastern
shore of Salt Lake, and are march
ing or hopping toward the City of
the Desert. The ground around
Promontory Point is literally black
with the young and rapacious in
sects. They are now about one and
three-fourths of an inch in length,
black in color, and more resembling
a cricket than a grasshopper. But
as they increase in size their color
changes to brown.
From the account given us, it ap-
pears that the city will again be Wis.
tied by this scourge. We learn that
the scourge which passed over Sail
Lake two years since, continued it
march, and the following season
made an appearance in the lower enc
Of the Great Basin, where the scene
Of the previous year were enacted
This year the hordes have appears
in the extreme Southern Mormo
settlements, where they are destroy
, ing everything before them. The
are now some five hundred mile
from Salt Lake, the localities ovt
which they passed having had or
t years respite from their ravages.
s seems that when these insects reac
maturity they deposit their eggs
The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-07-10
TIE ssu talsa I tfsv.

We make ha f,ltpelas sttifsri
rpashus Hfsls IN tlia Hahifnn
efy fAh HaA rtefafsd bY atsfson
wtp .sam Gm.iiaf with tha aias
fpn
Tta .ui'on .fup # isfp sill p
hs ihti 1sa tial n isas
rhis may b isrIlnr bai Il j. neg
sriheloa ffue i,si ~. kut n ibgI
tasons for entertaining ihIa belief
~ The ieamn hH leeu m1si nu
favorable Tho vet spring baa r.
iarlsd ihe ploving anil preparation
~ lhe lnnd and iu sonie instances
prevented " altogether until lately |
The sumo causc has prevented ihe
same numlefoi acrea hcing planted
as IN 1873 The heavy rlovinR
rauscd hy continuous mus has
greatly iatigued and worried The
stock The imperfect blowing given
much Of the time has q tendency Ia
dwarf the cotton plant and make
the crop gmssy
"2. The labor IA much less In
numbers and effectiveness than last
year. Experience teaches us that
every year takes from the number
aud efficiency Of the hands. The
= women have almost entirely left the
fields. Many hands who saved
money from last years crop are this
, year spending il in the enjoyment Of
ease. Of the others who saved
= money, some have gone 'to farming
to themselves. Now these negroes,
while valuable as members of society
in their sphere, do not produce as
> much cotton as when they are work
ed with the large planter.
= :. "Thcy produce more corn, mor'
:. peas, more potatoes, and less cottol
y than formerly. tits true they max
as much, and as good support a
y those who plant more cotton, bu
= - they make less cotton. We ma
" safely assume that for every han,
" who goes to HIMSELF that his pre-
" duetion of cotton is lesscned one
Nv half. Take the number of thos
"' who are playing gentleman and W
y. have quite a deduction from IL
-, force of 1868.
wv "Again, the natural decrease mac
- by death must be considered. II
y, young men ndyouths,wh sudden
,'' became masters of themselves, di,
q, ~ away in large numbers from impr
"'' dence and want soon after the 81
" render. For instance, those at t
, s' camp just across the river; a
'eo' again, we all know how fatal I
" smallpox was to the negro in 1S
'''' Disease and want have taken av
''i the generation which should fill
'"' places of the old and those who {
''''' The increase does not keep p
VIC with the decrease.
anu "3. The seed is very bad this yC
Some singular fatality seems to hi
VI attended the efforts of all who tr
'lio- to save seed. Few planters hi
'he enough seed; some have only /
'ry. enough. The delay and trouble
'nps getting seed have put back plant
~ Vi in some instances at least two wee
eau The same cause, the rottennes
ien' seed, will cause bad Stands repla
ns 40 ing and late crops. The worms
WIN WI. get a fair showind."
The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-07-10
How sui Loyengood Killed His Dog.

When | wer a boy dad fotched
home burned, wuthless, NANCY,
fle-bitlen, gray old fox houn, good
for nuthin but to swaller up what
ortcr lined the bowels of his brats.
Well, | naturally took a distaste to
him, and had sorter hankerin arter
hurtin' his feelins and discomfertin
of him every time dads back was
turned. This sorter kept a big skeer
alters afore his eyes, and an awful
yell ready to pour out the first mo-
ton he seed me make. So he larnt
to swaller things as he run, and al
ways kept his legs well under him
self for he never knew how soon
he might want to use them to tote
his Internal carcas beyond the reach
of O nyin' rock. He knowed the
whiz Of a rock in motion well, and
he never stopped to see who threw
, it, but just let his he'd opin wide
enuf to gin a howl room to cum
and set his legs agwine the way hi
nose happened to be apintin. He''
o shy round every rockhe seed in th'
a road, for he looked upon it tas a ca
= lamity to cum arter him sum day.
3 tell you, Georgy, that running ar
:. the greatest invention on yeartl
y when keerfully used. Wizard |
'e bin by this time, ef | hadn't relic
e. on these ere legs? Dye seem
GO Don't they mind you Of pair 9
cumpasses made to divide a mil
r. into quartersp They'll do.
'e Well, one day tuck pigs blad
I'd der nj unto the size ov a ducks
70 aig, and filed it with powder, an
If corked it up with a piece Of spunl
in rolled it up in a thin sculp of mel
lg and sot the spunk fire, and thre
Is. it out; he swallered il at a jerl
of and sot to got away from doin
It. | heard noise like bustim sun
i'll thin, and his tail lit on the top
my hat. His he'd was away dow
the hill, and his teeth touk dea
D. hold onto a root. His fore lie
were fifty feet up the road makil
runnin moshnns, and his hind on
y a straddl ov a fence. Els to I
", dog himself, as dog ! never'se
',n n him agin.
IN, !. Well, dad, durn his unscantifi
0, soul, flung five or six hundr
nd under my shirt, with the dried hi
lck of a bulls tail, and gen me the
in mainder the next day with
md waggin whip what he borrow
tn, from a feller while he was waite
ing his hosses the waggoner got Sol
But for me, and hollered for me to 7.
,lor my begin and squallin into +
late runnin, which ! emejutely
an thanks to these ere ham stin
Wis and the last lick missed me abb
hat ten foot.
The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-07-10

DdEUoE OuVps
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Fashionable
Barber and Hair Dresser, respectfully informs
his customers that be is prepared to attend to
them a al times. Shop over J. H. Yates 4
Co.'S Store, Bstesville. M fe6
The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-07-10
Across the River.

When for me the silent oar
Parts the silent river,
And I stand upon the shore
or the strange Forever,
Shall miss the loved and known7
Shall | vainly seek mine own?
Can the bonds that make us here
Know ourselves immortal,
Drop away like foliage seres
Atlife's inner portal2
What Is holiest below
Must forever live and grow.
He who on our earthly path
Bids us help each other,
Who His wcll-beloved hath
Made our Elder Brother,
Will but clasp the chain of lovc
Closer, when we meet above,
Therefore do not dread to go
Ger the silent river,
Death, thy fastening oar ! know
Bear me, thou Life giver,
Through the waters to the shore
Where mine own have gone before.
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a ihaa iha ifigalliifa "A dfe.s ahi /.
isig fifal aeaHf5 Ghm hsF iiHf
II ~ sa,fel dHfls ~ wif fhd
mother eshnot H,Hse WoneH e. F.
lhouaitfsIm aHd salf.sty WY .
shaull we expect angthhr better
frgm o. stormy excitement ~ f'i .
itief lfibey afr unvilfhg iaetsf
eias ptitalc ,ifiuea. why ,leuil W.
btlicge tliai ibey vii w. more f'iih
~ 10 publ, tfustsi women who
afc 40 eaecY I,r " videt fcl'ls IN which
toesefcise their iaeultie. and ppwes
have no, yet awakened 10 lhc u.
spmsibilliics n private lile
Lie said II old time lha, u man
who does not provide iar his own
house u worse than Nm in6del, and
the community generally would
endorse the saying bui q woman
has no more rightto fail In this re-
spcct than man. The household
il the wifc's place Of business, and "
she IL uulaithful to the duties that
| lie bcforchcrtherc, she isasworthy OF
condemnation aa the man who neg
lects the duties of his calhsg rcgnrd-
less of the ties that bind him to main-
tain his wife aud children.
Unexpected asa matter ofcoursc
that every man should havcan occn-
patton TO which he should give his
best energies. lie may not love II
ardcntly; he may feel that he should
love some other employment better
but il he is a manly man he work
diligently, and applies his bcs
strength of mind and body that h
may be successful in his calling what
ever it may be. Now the wife o
such a man has no right to thinl
that she is not just as much unde
! the law of Coincidence to do her par
y in relation to the family as her hus
band. Because she loves dress an
c society, or books, mnaic, drawin!
: or "agitation," she has no right I
leave the economy of the house
u the carelessness of her servants,
" the training of her children to tt
. ignorance of her servants. 1t is
y selfish in her to follow out her ov
u tastes, without regard to the comic
~'e " and welfare of the family, as itwou
III :. befor her husband to spend his da
III at the club house or the libral
~ while his business is in the han
~ of clerks or shop boys. A man W
I'll devotes his life to the pursuit of
"S own selfish pleasure is not consid'
ed respectable; but many won
gu seem to think they have a peri
Oh right to give to books, to art or
"a society the best years of their liN
10 and to leave the comfort of I'll
Vi homes, the training of their childr
IAN in the hands of hired substitu
're Can such woman expect to hear
Oh award of "Well done good
hce faithful servant 7"
eo' The virtues of the men
Is the country form the sta
,or . ard by which we may measure
ies' virtues of the women of the coun
'faf Women who look with confer
~ upon the duties and employment
vi domestic life are women who
ons never elevate the morality of n
h"y Home is the basis of the State.
our the homes of a country are, 80
.iSe the whole body of a country be
'lns country is only a large numbe
''e homes united into one great C
nen 80. Co.. .ho o,roroor good
The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-07-10
LIFE,

Like to tho falling ofa star,
Or as tho flight Of eagles arc,
Or like the fresh Springs gaudy hue,
Or silver drops Of morning dew,
Or like a wind that chafes the food,
Or bubbles which on water stood
Fen such is man, whose borrowed light
/. Is straight called in and paid to night,
The wind blows out, the bubble dies
The dew dries up, the star is shot,
The fight is passcd--the man forgot
Bishop Kin
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sif m4nihs.
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sis months. 49,
Tesiss maaihs iF'tNP
Marriage and oiliuafy notices. n noi mote
,hsn tsa inss nee and oyef zen linssl ehafasd
al fefnlsf advefiisine rates
All Advertisements Of strictly pefsonal
character vii he shafsed ., ,he rate of twsn'f
sehts psf line
Edliorlai notices In local column, twenty-five
cents per line, -
joB wUnK ef ssssy description done with
neatness and Dispatch
Advertisements payable In advance, and job
work, on delivery. -..-,
To CORRESPONDENTS ..-Wtlie plain, With inki
and on hu, one side Of the sheet Ten llnee Q
ordinary manuscript, on letter paper, viii make
one square.
The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-07-10

Mr.. Wendell Phillips is glad that
the Indians are tearing up the rails
on the Pacific road,
The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-07-10

,,..,.. iaease.i II IIass.silIs, zen.
-. 80. n. esofselgnal sefSlfes = ne
80 fyR The sHsae one laei
2 Fs''g.sl ''''.,llsi b ~. = 7. LesssF.
mhIi sim
The Hickman courier., 1869-02-27
TIE NATIONAL BANKS.
How IL is that Congress LeSis-
gafeS in their Interest.

Tn his last letter to the Cincinnati En-
ouirer. "Mack" makes the following dis
closures
The voters of the West-and / sup
nose of the East. too-have good reason
Since the last election to know the lniu-
ence of the National Banks, when array
ed for oragainst particular party lhey
have seen in Cincinnati, to my certain
4 knewledqe. that if any set OF men Will
come forward as the champion OF these
institutions, they need not be beaten at
the polls if money will save them from
defeat. How much greater this influence
must be in the halls Of Congress, where
they have but comparatively few to oper'
ate upon and convince" to their SIDE
will be apparent to the dullest reader
But what will the people think whei
fhev are told that in the present Hous
of Representatives there are sitting q
members si.rty National Bank D'rec
f,rs General Butler in his war upo
the bondholding and banking monopoc
lies. has zone to the trouble to ascertai
this fact. There are sixty he knows an
d he thinks there are sixty-two. ! hes l'.-
e men of course vote right when 'i
: question involving the franchises or PR
ileces of the banks comes up. The
/ we're elected for that very purpose, al
ID not only that, but it may readily be co
at ceived that they do not confne thel
t. selves to their own votes, but easily
: Auence the votes of others. Sixty bal
=. directors in body of which ninety co g,
We stitutes quorum, and majority Of ii
ne ninety constitutional majority for
of passage of a bill Butler has not
bs consented to publish the names OF tn,
gentlemen, but | hope he will do so
.'n fore the close of the session. l am y
lai too. that the next Congress VIII De "u =
to instead of better, in this respect.
of banks will have still stronger dele
tion to operate for them.
The Hickman courier., 1869-02-27
Lcgislatire Dtcey-1nn

4 number sIye Sge1I a1a naemostsTc member
% our ) follow them in 3heitre out in {
scard & fioupderipg in @ostion of Jas
W. Tatcs - philosoRbent, to the
Office of State fSe6raer. The action
OF these members is unprecedented; and
coming from democratic members
savors too much of dictation to please
Democratic people. Our people are not
accustomed to such ruling, and have
delegated no power to senators or rep
rcsetatives to name officers required by
the Constitution to be elected by the
people. They have reserved to them
selves the right to choose such at the
ballot-box. There are other men in this
Commonwealth equally as competent
aud deserving as Mr.. Tate, and the ac
tion of the people in choosing from
hess-s's~.a.la -, h, Los.ss-,
lative edicts. This card has the impress
OF wireworkers at Frankfort. who fear
an opsn contest; and, may be, have good /
reasons for desiring to keep the "strong
box under the present management.
We certainly do not mean to inpugn the
motives of the long list Of senator's and
representatives whose names are signed
TO the card, but at the bottom of the
plot some are fawning that thrift may
follow. The names of Turner, Lindsay,
Miles, Corbett, and others, insure us of
the honorable purpose of The signers.
but we fear, they have thoughtlessIy
Ialien into trap sctby the wireworke kers.
If men haGs Of tlfe State Legislature
nay die between-rle ,olectiop Of State
HE sho- - : A'-'"'0
feasurese~--lea; Ifhey not name any )
''her offleer? WY not appoint their +
wn successors? ? Y
The Hickman courier., 1869-02-27
To Unmarried Men

1t IS fact, perhaps, not generally
known, but interesting to young men.
that the solitary riuglet, which floats
fr''s',s-c Is.any waterfaffs. IS a nutYfffssfi;on
on the part Of the wearers that thew are
not engaged. If it is extremely long the
wearer Is supposed to be very desirous of
getting spliced at once; if only moderate
~ long 1t shows that only good offers
Will be entertained; an extremely short,
!neagre ringlet indicates that the wearer
IS very particular to whom she accepts.
but nevertheless shows that She Is not en-
gagged.
The Hickman courier., 1869-02-27
TEE MAN IN vEEvE r
BarmOre's Remains arc Found
ia the Bottom OF HBucE River.

On Monday, the 11th Of January
! Seymour Barmore, detective of Nash
vile, went down to Pulaski to attend t,
some business connected with the trial o.
a negro whom he had arresteda few days
previous on the charge of having been
implicated in burglary committed in
that place. After attending to the affair
which took him to Pulaski, the detective
took the night train for Nashville. When
the train stopped at Columbia, a little
after midnight, it was boarded by a
squad of supposed Ku klux, while Il
large gang kept guard near by. Barmore,
who was asleep ia his seat, was roussd
up, dragged from tie car, and carried
away by his captors. That was the last
seen OF him. As our readers will re-
member, the most Intense excitement was
created by this event.
After more than 4 month of doubt and
uncertainty the great Barnore mystery
has been ut last cleared up. The remains
OF The missing detective were found in
Duck river, two miles below Columbia,
on Saturday night, by colored man,
VINO Mt once Communicated the intelli
gence to Major Freidenburg, the com
mander of the United States troops sta
toned ut Columbia. The Aody was
brought into the town and coI Iveyed 10
the court house, where an inc best was
held
Squire Thurneck received a Aspatch .
asst evening asking what should So done
With the body, and Immediately sent
back word TO have it sent to Nashville
or interment. NaShrjHe Press and
Times, 22d.
The Hickman courier., 1869-02-27
Another Novelty.

Young mechanic of Dubuque, lowGr. {
has invented and constructed a yehlcle
which he terms the velocycle, and whlch
he claims will supersede the fast becom-
inc nonular velocipede. The velocipede,
i is known. has two and three wheels.
His machine has but one. The yeloei-
nede is ridden upon-this veloeycie Is
I not but transports its rider in the posi-
/ ton of " walkist. -,
W. have not seen this novel vehicle,
brt will describe it as it has been de-
seribed to us by familiar friend Pf the
inventors. el
~ ,he forms common to the vel ipede,
and imagine wheel 5 feet 10 lp{hes III
/ diameter Nay, the lmagInailaf 2 mus mus
90 further and comprehend tn Thee'
to be, as it we're, two wheels of tAls olain-
9 eter. and of proportion not uhiiAe
driving sulky's-that the two are nia1e
). unit by light rim Y inches "loc,
running around and within two lhcueS
n of the outer circumference OF tle t"o
. supposed wheels. This comprehension
e will enable the reader to understand that
!. this wheel is IN reality rim D feet ~
- inches in diameter and about II wlde'
!, with two fanges, Of two inches depth
= nroiectipg over tie edges. Having en-
a teriained this form, we proceed further
- Inside of this rim or Wheel light pu'
~ strong frame is hung, by novel deFlce
" which keeps it independent, so lar as no
a,- 70 obstruct its (the whecls) motion
- From the bottom of this frame, which
square. and running to the top OF 1t at a
= - anole of nearly 90 degrees, is ban
in that may be properly called the endles
~ ladder. The band, it will be understood
,n passes over a pully below and aboy
~ ,n On the edges of this endless ladder,
the close proximity and parallel to each othe
,,ot ike strings of great beads, are seri
oee 20 of friction pulleys. These puHeys a
- 90 arranged as to impinge OH sinil
~ peculiariy contrived pulleys on NJ inn
-loo circumference of the main wheelNlr ri
rhe RI, near to the intersections ofethe fpng'
- The revolution Of this band, or Rdle
. ladder. through the medium Of theN p'
lcys, causes the main wheel or rin
volve. :
inc We have now given sufficient i6
,aTe of this novel machine to enable US to g
NET the method of its use. The opera
.np- stems within the wheel or rim, and bel
rant ready for a start, commences 70 asce
u he the ladder. III peius my 49, /.
} ap- mere band-ot course ne ~ ~ :. =
but great wheel IN motion, nus, % - y
also in the actof walking, he furnishes pow
,eral The inventor claims BY his arran
he ment of pulleys that each step will e
man a complete revolution to the great " n
Ma which makes every step equivalent
aver stride of eighteen feet and that
sdav effort is not greater than the force
them muscles required in ordinary loeomot
ny Of He aims, also, that iie eau a..
Gen. grades equals to those of Lorimier
out. ,ue with case. The entire machine
nj not weigh over 80 pounds, and can
lq made for about S40.--Dubpqac Itmo
The Hickman courier., 1869-02-27

THEREis great influx of Office seek
ers into Washington at the present time.
The number is already larger than has
been known for msny years. Z" Where
ever the carcass is there viii the eagles
be gathered together"