American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-05-15

10 extend its operations, or rather to
perfect them, the companEnow needs
about S20,0G0. What says any cap
italist III New Orleans, when the in
vcstment will insure a dividend of
twenty-five per cent. and upwards ?
The officers of this company are
Sir. ID. II. Otto, President; Mr.. G.
\. Hogsett, Secretary and Treasu-
rcr, and Mr.. 4. d. Barlow, General
Superintendent. All of these are
estimable gentlemen and competent
managers. The first named is, with
his son, a leading merchant here; the
second, for many years a citizens of
jackson, and the latter, long time a
resident Of Canton.
The population of Canton is be-
tween 2500 and 5000, and it is the
Northern terminus of the Jackson
road. 1t contains many fine resi-
dences and flower gardens, and is
still, despite the ravages of the war,
the h0me of much refinement and
comfort. The courthouse is one of
the finest buildings of the kind in
the State. The churches, five in
number, are all neat structures, and
regularly and largely attended. The
hotel, owned and managed by Mr..
Lee Pearce, is commodious, and so
comfortable, and its larder, so well
supplied, and the courtesy of the
host so invaIiable, that it may be
termed the WGyside Home! There
are also here some good schools, es-
pecially a female seminary, all of
which are doing well.
This place like most other South
ern towns, has not escaped the pre-
sence Of numbers of idle and unthrif-
ty freedmen. While the negroes in
Mississippi have generally acted bet
ter than those elsewhere, yet Canton
has a supply of the " wards " that do
little else than play marbles, scratch
/ for tleas, stand on the street corners,
and watch the going and coming OF
trains. They have but one redeem
ing trait, and that is they do not talk
politics.
At one time Canton was one of the
fairost villages on Mississippi's plain.
1t seemed as though the brightest
skies smiled above it, and its gar
dcnS and its groves were enchanted
with the sweetest warbling of birds.
Yet with all the charms, in the peace,
fIl, quiet Of happier days, there were
others more of the dream Of elysian
and dearer i'll the remembrances of a
haliowed past-and these were the
refinomentS Of its beautiful daugh
ters. Canton, however, like most ot
the towns iii the South, still feels
the blight Of war-still feels that des
olation, when what deserved to bt
dearest of all has persisted. Howe
ever, i'll the language of st. Paul
= Cast down, but not destroyed"
In years gone by Canton was tht
theatre of many intellectual eXhibi
tons, especially in the legal forum
Here the matchless Prentiss, til,
!, adr0it, scholarly and tenacious Foote
, the ponderouS McNutt, the clear
, headed Tupper, the musicallippeG
| and irresistible Glenn, the impetuou
Estelle, the clarion voiced Anderson
, the impassioned Wharton, the tren
chant blade and the peerless, intel
/ lectual acumen of Wiley Harris, th
| polish OF Hooker, and the tersenes
t and ineXhaustibility Of Wm. Yergel
! have achieyed some of their mos
:: signal trirmphs. What a history, 0
| rather biography, have some of thes
f Mississippi towns, if it was only Writ
ten
The Mississippians are beginnin
to prepare to vote on the conStitt
tion which is to be re submitted III
der the laws of Congress passed 6
{ its last session. The Objectionable
S Or rather the proscriptive and di
$ franchiSing, clauses will be vote
down, and with the aid of the neg1
vote. They oppose these odious fe;
lures Of the instrument, and will el
ter the campaign upon the platforl
to favor such constitution an
p, laws as will etfectually secure IL
=, civil and political rights of all pc
? s0ns.' The white people are ais
r. going to favor the adoption of Il
-. fifteenth amendment of the cOnstit
- - ton of the United States, and wi
4 vote for capable men to fill office,
~ respective Of race 1t appears tt
:, Mississippians are governing the
i, political affairs with more adroitne
w and expediency than did any of h
W Southern sisters. The fact is she h
:, the brain.
= The rains which have fallen in I'll
4, section during the past ten day
os have materially interfered with ag
~ cultural interests, and if they cont
y. ue much longer the consequenc
IN viii be disastrous. Big Black a
II Pearl rivers are now fuller than tn
have been for twenty years.
10 COFFIELD