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Probable Death Of President Grant.

The Radical party nominated for
Vice President the man ColfaN, in
anticipation of the removal by i'm
parchment or death, of Z. S. Grant.
= We want no more doubtful Vice
Presidents" was the warning of
Wendell Phillips. The party denied
that Wendell Phillips was authorized
to issue the word of command, and
then proceeded to obey it. "Cir-
cumstances compel u.s." they reflect
ed, d" to head Our ticketwith speech
less sphynX; but even sphynXes can
be removed, and may die. We must
have, for the second place, a man of
our own choosing" And so the choice
fell upon poor, simpering ColfaX.
The probabilities that Grant will
be removed by impeachment are dl-
minishing in proportion as the pro
liabilities of his removal by death are
increasing. Private advices from
Washington indicate that Grant is
failing in health very rapidly. 1t is
even doubted if. he will live to per
form the Presidential functions a
year, although he may not before that
time be III his grave. The malady
under which he is suffering is of the
kind that kills the mind before the
body dies, although the death OF the
body inevitably follows
The symptoms in Grants case are
both mental and physical suffering,
He has had to :" shut up shop six
times already in as MANY weeks
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The Mississippi-Its characteristics

Very remarkable, not to say para
doXical, are some of the physical
characteristics of the Mississippi ppi.. It's
average width between Cairo and the
Arkansas. at high; water, is 4470 feet:
between Bayou Lafourehe and tile
Passes, several hundred miles below,
it is . 009 feet less. From bank to
bank, up at Island No. IS, is $500
feet at n a>.pQiut between Bonnet
Carre and New Orleans, the river has
IA width of but 1900 feet, and at low
water, only 1850. st .Vicksburg the
river rises, durin% the spring floods.
some 40 feet above the low water
mark; at Natchez, in 1851, the vari
alton was 81 feet; at New, Orleans
the difference between the high and
low stages of water is rarely more
than a dozen feet. During the low
est stage of the MiSS~. i,pi large
ships experience but li-t'" difficulty
in crossing the bar ni' southwest
Pass; during the highest stage of
the river the same ships can hardly
be got over.
Below the mouth ofRed river, hay-
Ous run ont of the MisSissippi river
instead of rivers running into it. In
the Delta the Mississippi does not
run i'll an ordinary channel hrtwccn
hills, hut partially on the crest of Il
! ridge OF its own formation. Although
the source of the Upper MiSSisSipni
/ is $50 feet above the level of tht
Cult of Mexico, it must he about tw,
miles nearer the centre of the eArtl
than the mouth of the river, thereby
causing the water torun up Hill tn.
great basin of the Mississippi is co
ctve to the skv. IT'S river, rrp con
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vergent; the tendency consequently
is to constellation, to unison, while
the central portions of Europe and
Asia being convex to the sky, their
rivera diyerge and tend to Gif.usiDn;
to variety. The largest river in
North America, the Mississippi, was
the latest in formation, yet. the head
waters of the Alleghany flow from
one of the oldest geological regions
in the world and the sanIains and
ganoids of the Lower Mississippi be-
long to remote geological ages.
New Orleans has 4 mortgage on
the great West and the Rocky Noun,
not in the corn of Illinois, the wheat
of Nebraska, the gold of Colorado,
hHt in the mud banks and hatturea
in front Of tha Glty Witch has netted
her millions OF dollars. Not only
that; a steamboat can lard anywhere
along the Lower Mississipni, the
bank OF the river Icing { natural
wharf. The innumerable hayous of
the Delta also cover it with net
work of navigable streams. Lnnjsi-
aha has, at least 90, 600 miles OF river,
lake and bayou navigation, furnish
ing in this respect facilities for ira,
vel and transportation unequaled By
any other State in the Union.
The planter living on the banks of
the, Mississippi .,qi cannot HoFaplaaia Of
its boanties, bo;inties incidental and
supplementary to its purpose of
draining one third of our national
territory, and furnishing over 10000
miles Of inland navigation. He
might also say that the Father of
Waters builds wharf IN tro,iL Of his
plantation, and digs a canal in its
rear, furnishes a wood pile in front
Ct his house, and supplies a 4" heap
of lnanure.o
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Ext acr binary Statement.

y prominent clergyman of Man
chester, n. H., in discourse dclIv-
cred before his society last Sunday,
stated that the Protestant population
of that city was about %, 900, and tho
Catholic about 1000, yet that tor the
last three years thA Catholics there
"A large portion OF whom were day
laborers-had raised III p,e money for
religious purr oSrS than all the other
denominations in that place com,
hined. The .gentleman-who is Il
Protcstant-turther averred that tho
Catholic clMrch property III Man
chester was worth dou' lie that be
'onGipg to the Protestants, and that,
Notwithstanding the disparity IN the
population between the two iheie
were about as many CathollGS IA
that city who attended church as
1 Protestants These statement Sre"'
almost incredible, bnt we have them
from a persons WHO heard the clrr@y-
man alluded to p,ake them. Pos'cn
t Tn,s..p.yf
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y e.
Draining the Lakes
ON the Water Valley Sgnal.l ]

From the Water Valley signal.l
One of the most important works
yet suggested is contained in the fol
laWiug extract from q Buffalo paper,
on the subject of letting lie waters of
Lake Michigan into the Mississippi
river:
" 4 Leavenworth paper breaches
grand project, by which Chicago
proposes to distance all its rivals. A
ship canal, one thousand feet broad
and sixty feet deep, is to be constrgc,
ted across the State Of Illinois, to
slme point on tic Mississippi river,
enough below the level of Lake Mich
igan to admit of steady flow of wa
ter into the Mississippi. The follow
ing results are. to, oAsDe:: The riyea
st. Lawrence will Become buta brook.
Niagara Falls will stand a lamp wall
OF rock, if indeed the water does not
flow back over them, forced by the
tremendous suction, Chicago, Ruf-
falo, Cleveland, Detroit and MilWan
kee, will be sixty feet above the pre-
sent high water mark, and millions
of acres of new land will appear in
the shallow lakes. New York would
be nowhere. The largest vessels in
the world Wpnld navigate the Mis-
sisSippi, and steam tugs of eXtraordi-
nary power would bring sailing YES
sells from New Orleans to Chicago in
four days" The work will cost ouly
$S4 10000 and Chicago with the
help of Leavenworth, will raise this
little AMOUNT in a few days"
What a grand change such vast
canal would produce in inland naYi
CATION! The Mississippi would be
come, as it were, q narrow sea nearly
two thousand miles long, along whose
hosQm would float the product o.
fourteen degrees of latitude, embrac
ing the most favored climes Of nature
But the question ,niay be asked
can such an enterprise be accom-
) plished7 Would the volume of wa
ter poured into the Mississippi from
Lake Michigan not inundale the loy
lands ON the lower banks of tha
stream ?. How, would they proven
the whole country from being tioode'
when the periodical rises occur in tn
Mississippi! To prevent this tn
banks Of the whole stream from Cair
down, with little exception, woul
r have to be strongly levied, and Ch
4 cago would find that $S4, 100000
+ would go but, a little way in such
). grand enterprise. If, however, tn
e work could be accomplished it woul
f be project that would eyentuall
/ enrich the whole Valley Of the Mi.
/ sissippi, as well as cast uncounte
d millions in the lap of Chicago. w
:. would like to see the work completed
T. for its Importance is not second eve
l. to the grand Suez Canal or the col
n templated one over the Isthmus ,
+ Daripn
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APPOMATTOX.
-F-~
BY J. AUGUSTINE sIGNAIGo.

SY J. AUGUSTINE sIGNAIGo.
rom the Memshis Appeal
The Iive-long night, solemn man
With martial air and bearing.
Whose noble soul had led the van
Wbele vanr most WIS daring,
Vas pacing sadly in his room
And shudjering at tomorrow
For Appomattox, full of gloom,
All who will know the woe, the pain.
The anguish of the thinking,
The rackng of that peerless brain
To see a nations sinking?
But than conqueror there stood he
At Appomattox, grander-
Our chosen, God like Robert Lee,
Surprising Alexander.
Well could the victor claim no sword
Which might more pain onstnder,
For nought sublimer but the Lord
Than Lee at that surrender.
He gave up all save honor, truth,
And that divine behavior,
Which through ths worlds relentless ruth
Was symbol of the Savior,
We curse not Appomattox-no
For Fame shall tell the story,
And Freedom. rising from that blow,
VIII yet proclaim our glory.
That woful days sndeared the name
or him so brave an tender.
Fer ns'er Ron chisftslp EranaeF fama
Than Lee at that surrender.
The world, from its first dawn of light.
Ne'sr felt such sore affiictiou,
As was that agoniz;ng sight.
Except the Crucifixion.
To see Lee. meath Virginia's sky,
Furl up Truth - stamped upon her
The Gag whose fame will never die,
Surrendering all but honor.
GRENADA, Mrss., May Z, 1869.
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TERMS-Three Dollars per annum.

tary in the Grant family. But that
loss of reason which results from
what is called softening of the brain
is not, properly speaking a form Of
insanity; but rather the effect Of d
physical disease, that may result
from a great many different causes.
Excessive iptemperance in drink, or
in any habit that exhausts the hef-
vous system, is a very prolific cause.
The intemperate use of opium or to-
bacco has the same effect. Ordina-
rlly, the effects of using these poi,
sons are not visible, or peIhaps 10
Drought nIr3i' ct9are. Acknowledgment is
the element oxygen is necessary to
the combustion of phosphorus. In
Mr., Grants case, the vast resp0nsi.
bility of the Presidential office, and
the unuspal exercise of his mental
faculties, which it involves, have
doubtless supplied the element Which
in a system already prepared for it's
entrance, has developed the fatal
disease. As writer tersely exp:e IS
es it, the presidency has proven "too
much for him." :,
Such is Mr.. Grants state of health
THAI the country need not be sur
prised if he should be disqualified to
perform the duties of President be-
fore the next meeting of Congress.
oe6 WhsetheT a hat sasf e1nErsss % ins
rate Mr.. ColfaX or not, would perhaps
depend upon the opinions of medical
expertsas ,othe possibility of Grants
recovery. The reasonable presump-
tion, however, is, that the only hope
of his recovery is in the retirement to
q nriyate and perfect quiet life, As
President Of the United States; the
indications clearly are that he cannot
live to the end Of the term:-ChicagO
Times.
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PUT A HOLE THRouGH Ir.-Onc

PUT A HOIE THROUGH IT.-Onc
night Gen. -- was out on the line.
He observed light on the mountain
opposite. Thinking it was the sig
nal light of the enemy, he told his ar
tilIery officer that hole could easily
be put through it. Whereupon the
officer, turning to the corporal in
charge of the gun said,
Corporal, do you see that light ?"
Yes, sir"
"Put Il hole through it,"
The Corporal sighted the gun, and
when all was ready, he looked up
and said:
General, that's the moon"
Don't care a darn put a hole
Trough it any way
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-05-22

not weeping, nor pity, not even pray
ers. The disease seized him, after
nlne days he must debut in truth
ne dled only to awake before the
throne of God to a more beautiful
and more glpeious life.
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L o THE PUB !,IC.
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EUREKA I.EFE-BLOOD ELIXIR /!

HAS at last made its way into this country after
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China has 81 last consented TO his great CEINtsE
RFaEDY being introduced on this continent, and
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towns ond cities Of our CO Intry. This great Blood
Medicine has performed cares (the most astohi>h'
ing). where every other remedy known in matcTid
Mdica has most sgndlly failed.
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SENSATIONAL,

Coalition Of England, France
and Spain Against the United States
-Ercitement Produced BY the Ne,cs
IN WdShiRgton-Ho1c it acas Re,
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RY 1T ON C z,

Druggists throughout the S':Ith and West can be
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B. ~. Hcpserdam, of Pekin, China. with J. 3. Was
aon & Co. of the Wholesale Drug Emporium. Of
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gitSir, IL you ask for the lady that
lodges on the second floor, you will be
sure to see her, .,-.f,--.l...... u.
pfisel, and not very well pleased, at
what seemed q want ofconfidence. But
he was a man singularly cautious and
candid In forming his Judgments; so he
Forbore all comment, and delivered his
final instructions. Here Is a bottle
containing only q few drops OF faba
Ignatii in water. It's an innocent med
icine, and has sometimes magical ef-
fect In soothing the mind and nerves.
A tablespoonful three times aday. And
this 10 sedative, which you can take II
yon find yourself quite unable to sleep.
But wouldn't have recourse to it un-
certain In their operation; and when q
man is. turned upside down, as you
have been, they sometimes excite.
Have q faint light in your bedroom:
Tie q cord to the belsrope, and hold It
In your hand all nigh, Fig your mind
Is to remind me thai / am eleven miles
laRe, safe Hom all harm.1 Il StToemorrow,
walk up to the top Of Cairnhope Peak,
and inhale the glorious breeze, and look
over four counties Write to your
mother at night, and, meantime, III do
my best to relieve her anxiety. Good
Memory sometimes acts like an old
Hint gun: It hangs fire, yet ends by GO
ing of. While DR.. Amboyne was drtv-
ing home, the sWarthy, but handsome
features Of the workman be had be-
fr1ended seemed to enter his mind more
deeply than during the hurry, and he
said to himself, jet black hair; great
black eyes; and olive akin; they are
rare in these parts; and, somehow, they
remind me little Of her,
Then his mind went back, in a mo-
ment, over many years, 20 the days
when he was stalwart, but not unwieId.
~, and loved dark but peerless
beauty; loved her deeply, and told his
love, and was esteemed and pitied, but
another was beloved. 4, 49,. :. -.
And SO sad, yet absorbing, was the
retrospect Of his love, his sorrow, and
her own unhappy lot, that it blotted
out OF his mind, for time, the very
youth whose features and complexion
had launched him into the past. a5
But the moment his horses feet rang
on the stones, this bQrly philosopher
shook of the past, and set himself to
recover lost time. He drove rapidly to
several patients, and, at six pollock,
was at 10 Chettls street. and asked for
the lady on the second floor. yes, sir;
she Is at home,' was the reply. But
don't know; abe lives very retired. She
hasn't received any visits since they
came. However, they rent the whole
floor, and the sitting~room fronts you.'
t-..l ITO BE CoNTINUED.l
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DISEASES OF IMPRUDENCE,

Whom the misguided and imprudent vota.
" OF pleasure nnds that he has imblbed the
seeds Of this painful disease It 100 often hap
pens that an M-tImed sense OF Shame or
dread ofdiscoVefY deters him from applying
10 those, who from education and respectful
blllty, can alone befriend him, delaying tlO
the constitutional symptoms or this horTl.
disease make their Appearance, such as ulcI
rated sore throat, dleaSed nose, noctuTnAl
pains In the head and limbs, dimness OF sight
deafness, nodes on the Rhln-bOneS and aTIns,
blotches on the head, face and extrerniL1es
progressing with h1ghtIu rapidIty, till al
Last the palate of the mouth or Tie bones
OF tho nose tan Ina and the victim OF this
awful dLAease becomes . bOrrtd object
COMMUNICATION, TIL death pun period LOha
Undtscoyered County from Whapce No
traveller retutns.'' r.
1t Is MELANCHOLY FACT that h0u1
sands fall Victims 70 this terrible disease OJg.
ing 10 the nnskInf1lneR OF ignoIant prt.,
tendeH, who, ny che use Of that DEADLY
POISON, MERCURY, min the CONSTITUTION
and make the residae Of Life miserable,
DR.JOH ABTOHs
once 40. 2 South Frederick BtnaeG.
LslI hand Gide going nom Baltimore strest,s
few doors nom uae corner, FRll mot % Or
0orye thenan0e and number. ~,
~Ho lsttaH E6CeiVed unless post paid an
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Persons writing Gnould state age, and send
pardon OF advertisement desribtnE Tmp.
Tho Doctors DIPLOALA hangs In his once.
81. 4. ENDORSEMENT OF THE PRESS.
Tho many. thousands cured ut this astah-
uGhment within the last twenty ReRrE md
the numerous important Surgical Operations
Ieporten of Tbs Sun and many other papers
notices Of which have appeared again and
again before Iss P9Dne, besides his standing
blhtY Is q sufficient guarantee toithG afflicted
SKIN DIHEAHEs SPEEDILY CURED.
naarlS-1y ya5t -. -. H..
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pR. IOHNaON,

Member OF the Royal College OF Surgeons
London, Graduate OF one OF the most emil
nant Colleges In the United states, and The
greater part OF whose Life has bean spent in
Lne hospitals OF London, PRr1B, kh1laueI phla
and elseWheres has effecGed some OF the most
astonishing cures that we're ever Known,
eal8 when asleep, great neFVouHe0s, being
alarmed at sudden sounds, na8hIulnekS, with
frequent bluGhlng, attended sometimes with
arrangement OF mind, were cured lmIne-
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rAKEPARTICULAR NOTICE.

Or. ]. addresses All those who have injured
themselves by improper indulgence and soil
tarY habits, which rum both body and mind,
uniting them for either business, study. So
ciety or marriage. -ar-, - ri .a %
effects produced by early habits of youth
viz: Weakness of the Back and Limbs, Pains
In the head, OtmneSs or sight, Loss OF Mus
pepsia, AerV ona Hritability, Derangement or
the Digestive functions, General Debility
Symptoms OF Consumption, 90.
mind are much to be dreaded. Loss OF Menu
oEy, Con fusion OF Ideas, Depression OF Spir1tR,
EVIL FOrebOdinRa, Aversion 70 Society, Self
Distrust, Love OF Solitude, Timidity, GO, are
some OF the evils produced.
Thousands OF persons OF all ages can now
judge what IL The cause OF their declining
health, losing thsir VtHor, becomlng weak,
pale, nervous and emactateds having q sim
gular appearance about the eyes, Tough. and
SYmptOns Of Consumption.
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: OCEANIC WEAKNEss. :

Immediately cured ana rall v1Sor restored.
This distressing affection, which renders
life miserable and marriage dbla, = Lha
penatty paid by the v1ct1msof Improper In
dulEencea Young persona are too apt "a
commit exca6seS nom not being aware OF the
dreadful consequences hat may epsue. now
who that understands the subject VIII pre-
tend TO deny that the power or procT6ation IL
lost sooner by those FILLING INTO Improper
habits than by the prndenrf Besides bGlnE
deprived otGhe pleasure OF healthy odspnnE,
the most serious ana destructive AynnptornS
OF both body and mind arise. The system
beCame8 deranged, the PHYSICAL and AenLal
Functions Weakened, LOA OF RrOcreatIVa
Power, Nervous 1rTitRbiHty, Dyspepsia, Pal
pitation Of the Heart, indigestion, ConstI-
E9Ilona1 Jenny 2na IMaSng o. me frame
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YOUNG MEN

Who have injured themselves by o certain
practice, INDUCED In when alone, . habit ire
qpently learned from evil companions, or at
school, the effects OF which are nightly felt,
even when asleep, and, II not cured, renders
marriage impossible, and destroys both mind
and body, should apply Immediately.
What pity that young man, the hope OF
his country, the pride OF his parents, should
ments OF Life by the CONSEQUENCES OF devii.-
ting rom the path OF nature, and INDUCING
IN = certain secret habit. Such persons mus |,
haf mis-
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MARRIAGE.

reject that sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connu-
bal happiness. Indeed; without these the
journey through life becomes weary ptl,
gr1mRRes the prospect hourly darkens TO the
view, the mind becomes RhadoWed with do.
SPAR and filled with the melancholy reflec
ton that the happiness of another become
bH3hted with our own. .r
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Maxrfed Peryons, or Young Men contena
plating marriage being aware Of PhYncial
Weakneass Organic Disability Derorlnittes,
speedily cured go
He VINO places himsalf under the care Oh
Dr.. ]. may ralLg1ouRly c0nnde In his honor
bis Adj &c q nhY6icARn. .- -.-f LI-...
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cEnF-HELP FOR THE ERRING.-
- Words OF Cheer for Young Men. who
having fallen victims to SOCIAL EVILS. de-
letter envelopes, free OF charge. Address
HOWARD ASSOCLATION, Box p, Phlla-
delphia, Pa. ..-,. JUL e
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YOUNG MEN

especially, who have become the victims OF
SOLITARY Htoef that dreadful and DESTRUCTIVE
nahat Wh1eh annually sweeps to an unIimalY
grave thou9and9 OF SounS Aen or the most
might otherwise have entIAnced HGtenin0
Senators with the thundeEB OF eloouance AZ
walked 70 eC9tacy the living Tyre, may caIl
With full condolences.