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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28


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WSome of our contemporaries are
publishing with notes of admiration
aud approbatory comments, the let
tsrs Of various old Mississippians
and Conservatives who decline to be-
come candidates for Office at this
juncture Of our affairs.
II it is common dable in these life
long Mississippians-men who have
stood by her in veal and wQe-Mln
are InufssUTuuTy IuenrIueu With her III
feeling and in interest-if it is praise
worthy, and indicates a high degree
Of patriotism, we say, in such men,
to decline offices of honor and em0lu-
asent, would it not be so in a much
greater degree on the part of the aelc
comers-the recently imported-men
who have scarcely been here long
enough to have "a local habitation
or name," and who are not known
outside of their several bailiwicks,
except, perhaps, by a little telegraph
&c notoriety, a manipulation of the
wires for which they paid their mon
ey. Modesty has always been con
sidered a commendable quality, but
we see a lamentable lack of it in these
gentlemen. There is not even a spo-
radio case of" decline" among them.
They are, every one, without an ex-
ception, in search of an Office. Not
one of them has had the patriotism,
the magnanimity, the disinteredness,
the manliness, to come out and say,
al am of the people and with the
people-I wish to be only private
citizen-I am no seeker after the
tloaves and fishes Il am not in
search of personal prefermcnt." No,
indeed this self-abnegation is a SUBJ
lime virtue to which they lay no
claim.
These men, to the last one of them,
are in the avid hunt after Office"
They came down here expecting to
slide into Office on Cuffee's" back,
and under the administration of the
military satraps with which we have
been cursed, their wishes and expec-
tations have been realized.
The Dent movement, in our opin-
ion, had its origin in this hankering
after Office. There is small coterie
of political cormorants that have the
city of jackson for its centre, and
which radiates out in circumference
of not over q hundred miles, that
has fixed up nice little "hand" to
get all the Offices in the State-in
short, to put the State in their breech-
o. pocket. The "slaten is: Dent
(the Presidents brother-in-law,) for
Governor; Norman, Lieut-Govern-
or; Warner, Secretary of State and
the other two State offices to other
good Republicans. Wofford was to
90 to Congress from his district, &c
Having elected a good Republican
Legislature, Dent is to go to the U.
s. Senate with Jeffords as his left
hover, and Norman would become
Governor Of Mississippi! God save
the mark y and so forth and so OIL,
ta the end of the chapter.
1t is a very nice little plan as it is,
but as there is many a slip between
cup and lip" and
"fhs best laid schemes Of mice and mer
Gang aft aglee,"
It may fail-may be knocked into
q cooked hat" The PEOPLE may
not see it in that light may re
fuse to ratify these well-concocted sc
cret-circular, caucus plots, at tn
polls.
We are pretty well posted as t.
this scheme, and shall go after it
with gloves off, as time progresses
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28

AT the Cincinnati Exposition yarns
and cloths were exhibited from TWEEN
ty-nine factories in the Southern
States, viz 3 in South Can DINA, II
in Georgia, 6 in Alabama, 3 in Mis-
sissippi, and 6 in Tennessee.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28

EF Come and by your spring and
summer cashmere suit at A. B. Dan
cy's, where they are being sold very
cheap tor cash,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28

A city telegraph company is being
organized i'll New York. Messages
are to delivered in any part of the
city within fifteen minutes.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28
Statement

of the Condition of the Continental =
life Insurance Company, of .Vew
York, on the 9th day Of February,
1863.
TINE name of the Company, is /" The Con-
i tinental Life Insurance Company of
New York"
Its location is in the CT Of New York.
The amount of its capital stock is One
Hundred Thousand Dollars.
The amount of its capital stock paid up
is One Hundred Thou sand Dollars.
The Assets of the company are as follows:
Cash on hand and in bauk S42332 20
Real estate unincumbered, 1882 %
Bonds owned by the Company, to- wit:
United States per Ct Sl69,646 %
Atlantic National Bank stock, 3,l04 09
Loans on bond and mortgage be-
ing lien on uHincumbered real
estate worth double the amount
loaned 1919, 100 90
Debt otherwise secured, 1888 10
Cash in hands of Agents in course
of transmission 1872, s2O IS
First Premiums in course of col
lection 294.3Is 81
Amount of deferred Premiums 6OO,Os7 10
Amount OF Premium loans secur-
ed e96,l75 Os
Office furniture at home and in
branch Offices, 1923 81
Accrued interest 1923 50
All other securities 1929 81
Total Assets S2,l6l .e2l 90
LIABILITIES:
Amount due or not due to banks
or other creditors, None.
Losses adjusted and due, None.
Losses adjusted and not due $4,000 90
| Losses adjusted, 5000 90
Losses in suspense waiting for
further. proof, 900 90
All other claims ag aust Company, 800 90 :
Total Liabilities S22, 500 90
The greatest amount insured in any one
risk, one half of which is reinsured, S20,-
900 90.
STATE OF NEW York, g.
County of New York. 90
Justice Lawrence. President, n. C. Frost,
Actuary of the Continental Life Insurance
Company of New York, being duly sworn,
depose and say that the foregoing is a full,
true and correct statement Of the affairs of
\ the SAID company that the said Insurance
company is the bona Jfde owner of at least
, one hundred Thousand dollars of actual CASH
capital invested in State aud United States
; stobks and bonds, or in bonds or mortgages
. of real estate unincumbered aud worth dou-
BILE the amount for which the same is mort
gagged, and that they are the above described
officers of said Insurance Company.
JUSTICE LAWRENCE, Priest.
R. G. FROST, Actuary.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day of March, 1869, Commissioner in
the city of New York to take affiiaviis. etc.
CHRISTIAN Won HESSE,
Commissioner for Mississippi in New York.
State of Mississippi.
!, Thomas 7. Swami, Audiror of Public
. Accounts of the State aforesaid, dc hereby
certify that the foregoing statement OF the
Continental Insurance Company of New
York is truly and correctly copied from the
original on file in my office.
r, Given under my hand and official
L. 81 seal, this the 10th day of June. 1869.
THOS T. SWAMI,
Auditor of Public Accounts.
. Aug. IA, lS69-3t
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28
FOR SALE.

NINETY acres of good LAND, miles
~ from court house on Central R.R., with
one of the largest and best ponds in the
county. Fo. terms, apply to
T. SEMMES, Agt
Aug IA, 60 If
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28
Attachment Notice.

The State of Mississippi, Madison
County.
In Circuit Cdurt Of said County, TO Scptem
Der Term, 1869.
J. R. Powell,
S2l6 Us.
W. H. Meek
M HEREAS an attachment and garnish-
w ment were issued from the office of
the Circuit Clerk Of said county, on the
Ttoenty-secenth day Of August, 1869,
for the sum of one hundred ID thirty seven
dollars and fifty cents (Sl37 SOY against the
estate of w. II. Meek, at the suit of j. K
Powell, returnable TO the 4th Monday of
September, 1869, that being the return day
OF said Circuit Court. Notice is hereby Civ
en- to the said Meek, that unless he be and
appear before said court at the said Term
thereof, to be holden at Canton, in the court
house thereof, on the Ash Monday in Sep.
TENDER, es69,and asnwer, plet d or demur to
SAID attachment and garnishment, judgment
will be entered against him, and the proper
ty levied on will be sold to satisfy said
demand and all costs ofsuit.
l.. In testimony whereof herewith
affx nay hand an1 seal said court, this 9th
day of August, 1869.
r. j. ROSS. Jerk,
T. c. TUPPER, D. G.
R. c. SMITH, P. @.
Aug. 2S-4w.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28

There are fifteen thousand depos-
ltors in the Freedmen's Savings and
trust Company of Washington.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28

800 for case Of chis which Dromgoole 4 Co
cannot cure with their King Of Chils
permanent cure, King OF Chills.
Ont shaking, by using King of Chills,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28
BROOKS IMPROVED
COTTON. PRESS
AND
WROUGHT IRON SCREW,

A WARDED First Premium at New Orleans
IN Fair. over ELEVEN Of the most popular
Presses in the South for Efficiency Simplicity,
Cheapness and Convenience.
DR.. Walden. of Carroll county, says of this Press:
d" have never seen any that would exchange
this for. can pack as heavy bales upon it as
desired. 1t will last century without repair"
Sam F. Boaz, of Canton, says: THE Brooks
Press bought of you last year gives entire salts
faction. 1t is simple in construction, easily man.
aged, and not liable to get ont of order"
The frame and screw is of the hest wrought
iron-box only being of wood. Can be placed un-
der high gin hon'e at pick room dhor. Is work.
ed by hand exclusively, or horse power. either.
Can be token down and put up in three hours.
Recommended by New Orleans and Memphis cot
ton factors Price $l75 for irons, or 5000 with box
complete. Address, with stamp,
G. d. BUSTAMENTE,
Mississippi Machinery Agency
And Agricultural Depot,
Aug II, go 4w jackson, Miss.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28

FA. b. Dancy has on hand a
large lot of fine shirts which he will
sell cheap for cash.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28
WENTWORTH
FEMALE COLLEGE,
BROOKHAVEN, MISS,
viii Reopen September 22d, 1869.

DROVISlON will he made for all ~
Il who apply for admission. AAA.
To send your daughter here will
cost you $500 90 for the Term of Ten $
Months, NJ Forty We.k.. This am I 1
will pay for Board. Fnel, Lights
Washing. Tuition in English, English Text Books,
Sla es, Pencils. and u the Stationery used in the
schoui ruum.
All the branches are Taught.
Our Music Teachers believed to be uncxcell-
ed.
Music and the Languages are extra.
" Send for Circnlar.
II. F. JOHNSON,
Aug 2S4w President
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28

A. new manufacture is about to be
introduced into Lyons, namely, that
of ladies chignons in silk, by aid Of
the Jacquard LOOM.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-05-13
The Tune Of"DiXie.n

In the first place, the song and chorus
Of Dixie was composed and arranged by
| Dan Emmett member of travelling
minstrel party, who, while at Mobile in
the winter of 1847-'48, heard some color
ed laborers singing on the levee while
loading a steamboat with cotton. The
thought struck Dan that with little change
of measure it could be made good song
and walk round, which generally winds up
negro minstrel concert. Dan arranged
it and produced it. 1t became success,
and was sung and played all over the
country by all the bands
''In the spring of 1861 Mrs. John
Wood came to New Orleans to play an
engagement at the Varieties Theatre
During the time she appeared in Brough-
ANS burlesque of Pocahontas. At the first
rehearsal Of the piece everything went
well till near the close of the second act /;
Tom McDonough (now agent for the Lief
fngwells,) the prompter, got up Zouave
march and drill by twenty-five ladies, led
by Susan Denim. Everything ran smooth
but the music for the march could not be
fixed upon. Carlo Patti was leader of
the orchestra and he tried several marches
but none suited McDonough-one was too
slow, another was too tame, another not
enough spirit. At length Patti struck up
the air Of Dixie That will do Patti
the very thing, said Tom, and Dixie
was played, and the march gone through
with, and the chorus by all the characters.
At night it received double encore, and
Pocahontas had run and from that
time out the streets and parlors rang with
| Dixie The war broke out that spring !;
and the military bands took it up. and
Dixie became to the South what the Mar
sellaisc Hymn was to the French. Ana
that's how Dixie became the popular
war song of the South"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-05-13
NO. 80.
Curiosities of Memory.

Strength of memory has ever been high
ly esteemed, from the days of Romans to
our time. Pliny mentions it frequently as
one Of the brightest qualifications of his
most talented friends Fhe perfection to
which this power was possessed by some
of the ancients must be called incredible.
A Greek philosopher is mentioned in an
old letter who after delivering long har-
rangue extempore could repeat it again
without losing word. Seneca says that
IN his younger days he could repeat two
thousand names exactly in the same order
they were read to him, and that to test his
power Of requirement and retention the
audience who attended each Of them give
him verse, which he would instantly re-
peat, beginning with the last and so on
to the first, to the amount of two hundred.
He tells pleasant story upon the occas-
ion of certain poet, who having recited a
poem in public, person who was
present claimed it kor his own, and, in
proof of the assertion, repeated it word
for word, which the actual author could
not DO. The same trick is said to have
been played upon Voltaire by the king
of Prussia, who placed an Englishman be-
hind screen when the poet read new
poem of considerable length The En-
glishman repeated the verses correctly,
much to the authors amazement,
and claimed them for his own The king
enjoyed the joke greatly, and for some
time would not explain his stratagem.
Any number Of instances might be
taken from the ancients to the same pur-
pose. Themistocles va master of the
Persian language in years time NTH
ridates understood as many tongues as he
commanded nations, which numbered
twenty-one. Cyrus retained the name of
every soldier in his army. Aristides
could name every citizen in Athens and
Tully says of Caesar, in his Grafton of Lii
garius, "that be never forgot anything
but an injury
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-05-13
AgrifaltataI and Domestic.

Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground.
In planting out flowers don't take them at
once from the hot house to the open ground,
set the pots out for few days in cold frame
with plenty Of air, or under tree in a shell
tered place. Before surning them out of pots,
water, and when set in the earth, press the
soil very hard about the flower roots. # the
ground be dry, the earth cannot be pressed too
hard.
Deeidaous trees can De safely transplanted
after the leaves have pushed, and up to the
first Of June but the new leaves must be ta'
ken off, and the young shoots shortened In'
few weeks they will push out new cropeoe
leaves According to natural laws as LAID
down in the books, it would i1jure the trees
very much; but, after ten years observation
Of the facts, we do not find it hurts the yitali-
ty of the trees very much, while few ever die
so treated. Evergreens seem to do better ina
May than in any other spring month. Of the
newer evergreen, Thujopsis borealis, Cupres-
sue hawsoniana, Libocedrus decurreus, Thuja
ericoides, are really good additions to our list.
Tuberoses, Gladiolus, Tigridias, Dahlias, and
other Dubious things which cannot be put out
till the ground gets warm, ought not to be kept
out of the earth any longer than necessary
II was once supposed they thrive best in poor
soil-an error; they love rich food.
Now lawns very early the first moving; or
at every subsequent moving the lawn wiki
look brown. A thin sprinkling Of salt is good
for the lawn, just enough salt to see the grains
on the surface about quarter of an inch apart.
An overdose will destroy the grass. Frequent
rolling is one Of the best ways to get good
close sod. When coarse weeds get in the lawn.
hand wedding is the best remedy.-Gardener'
Monthly
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-05-13
gpetry.
RAIN so NC


Is the rain sad All, no
Not the dear April rain,
The sweet white rain;
These are glad tears that fow,
Not tears of pain.
Though the blue heavens take
The clouds their bird-swift way:
Their white, pure way;
The clouds that part and break
In diamond spray.
The clouds thai die in showers,
Hues of the rainbow give,
It's beauty give,
That in its dyes and flowers
May brightly live.
Faint oders of the Spring,
The subtle breath of fields,
Scents that to MOSES cling,
The sweet rain yields.
The song Of its delight
To the warm noon it sings,
Tenderly sings,
And TO the quiet night
Its music brings
All happy things rejoice
In the bright April rain
The freshening rain,
Exulting that its voice
Is heard again.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-05-13

AAoHh ASSH OiI0au95 Ad', VIZ IcCGlFe
an account Of a thrilling scene at the bat
tie of Gettysburg. The writer says
We were formed in line of battle on
that memorial morning, and were waiting
orders with feverish eagerness. Every
soldier knows how trying is such time,
and how even the order to advance in the
very face Of death is felt to be relief
from the suspense and anxiety of inaction
A Virginia Brigade was drawn up, and
manifested some of the natural restlessness
under such a state of uncertainty An
hour passed, and then another, but still
the expected orders did not come. Their
nervousness had reached a high PITCH
when a mounted orderly was seen dashing
up, holding aloft an envelope. The Or
ders have come p cried the men along the
line. The orderly galloped up, inquir-
ing, Where's the 10th Virginia regi-
ment?' Hundreds of men called out to
him, Here's the 49th Virginia = but he
rode rapidly on, calling out, Where's
10Th Virginia regiment All order was
at an end, one-half the brigade broke
ranks and deployed as skirnishers to in
tercept the bewildered orderly with those
mysterious orders. Back he came, riding
furiously, and still holding up his dis
patch. All attempts to stop him we're
vain. He galloped through the 10th
Virginia, shouting with all bis might,
"Where's the 49th Virginia regiment?'
The men caught at his bride, yelled to
him to stop, but he eluded them all, and
never Stacking his speed, went out of sight
of the brigade. The excitement was be-
You'd all bounds Officers and men were
all inquiring, who is he? What does it
all mean? p Some said that he was one of
Lees escort others were sure that they
had seen him with Longstreet. While
the discussion about the mysterious stran-
ger was being vehemently carried on, he
made his appearance again, riding at the
same furious pace, and holding up his
dispatch. Kill him or stop him this
time arose from hundreds Of determined
men. The orderly was halted at last, and
conducted to the regiment he had been
fnquiring for SO long. rs this the 49th
regiment 2 be inquired, waving omini-
ously the big envelope. Yes, yes, it is
broke in many voices. Well then 49th
Virginia regiment, lie dol0n for they are
Jiotne to shell ye 2 And off dashed the
mysterious orderly like shot from
1Iotchkiss gun. 1t was that graceless
scamp, -, Of the Louisiana Guard
Battery. He had picked up an official
envelope somewhere, aud had borrowed
aergeants horse, and thus equipped had
been playing orderly for his own amuse-
lhent A. Nj.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-05-13

HElFER AND BULL CA1yss.-A correspondent
at Washington D. c., writing on this subject,
gives the following secret for producing Leifer
or bull calves;
u will tell you a secret about the sex of
calves SO that people may have more heifer
calves to sell and net so many bulls. If q
heifer calf is wanted, lei the bull to the cow
before she is milked if male calf is wanted,
let the bull TO the COW after she is MIXED
The proper way to manage bul is never to
let him loose to wander about and break down
fences, get lost, Sc, but to either keep him
up to serve COWS, evening and morning, or
pair of cattle are a useful article on farm,
yoke him to another steer and work him kind
ly, and thereby keep under control and make
him earn his keeping
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3.

It's nothing [ said, and sneez4d
again.
We'll, be as quick as you can. I wa b
to introduce you to Miss Mountjoy'
'Hag you. Ib already acquainted wit i
Bliss Bountjoyv
Already! 0, you sly wretch, vhe4 {
have you seen her 2
Travelled with her I gotthis cold If
my head, by taking off my overcoat, fPl
her to reast her feet upon!'
Travelled with her Where? When
In the stage from Delford's Corders tP.
day
But she came day before yesterday ?
Day before yesterday echoed, N J
establishment checking the fit of the sne$
zing which trembled in my nossrils 'Thd(
who was it cabe id the stage with be, /
the black alpaca dress?'
That girl. why, that was the ne /
cook ?
The dew cook Codfusion seize it all
and I prid her fare, and gave her \,
seat, and babe love to her thikig all til
while she was Bliss Bounjoy'
Leonie burst into an hysteric fit .
laughter.
oh, Egerton you, with all your fastid
ious ideas, not to know servant womaE
from Miss Mountjoy. Why, Ida is tai
and pale, with face like Greek statue
and this girl is-oh, goodness gracious
Some people would have groaned il
theatrical despair I only sneezed, AMI
better sneezed, as the canny Scots say.
| 'Sed be up sub bustard water, ad
bowl of hot gatnip tea-ad I'll go to bed
said, CURLY.
And not see ida at all ? and GRAM
Morrall has been here two days.
Grad Borrel be hagged'
So | turned Leonie out of my room be
fore she could utter any further remon
strances.
| kept my room one week with that in
fuenza, cheered only by aehidg bones ant
throbbing temples. Mary Jennings, the
new cook sent up several dainty dishes
and hoped the gentleman that was SO
kind to her was better, but designed
Meth er to taste her knickknacks nor an
swer her message; and when at length
emerged from my apartment, looking very
much the worse for wear Miss Ida Mount
JOY was receiving the congratulations Of al
the guests at Knelford. She had promis
ed to become Mrs. Grant Morrall
Of course the prottysOuntry place hat
no further attractions for me but when
casually spoke Of my intention to take ar
early departure, Grant Morrall looked
very wise, hoped that Mrs. Wharton S
discharging her new cook so suddenly hae
nothing to do with my going
I looked daggers at him, but condo
scended no reply. And Miss Mountjoy''
soft little laugh added to my discontinue
Women never can keep secret from one
another and dare say Leonie had told
her all about it.
But what matters It Don't we all kona
that, in this world,
1.-The best laid plans of mice and men
Gang aft aglee ?"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-05-13

If any woman of us all,
IF any woman of the street,
Before the Lord should pause and fall,
And with her long hair wipe his feet
He whom with yearning hearts We love,
And fain would with human eyes
Areand our living pathway move,
And underneath our daily skies
The Maker Of heaven and earth,
The Lord of life, the Lord Of death,
In whom the universe had birth,
But breathing of our breath one breath
If any woman of the street
Should kneel, and with the lifted mesh
Of her long tresses wipe his feet,
And with her kisses kiss their flesh
How round that woman would we throng,
How willingly would clasp her hands
Fresh from that touch divine and long,
To gather UP the twice blessed strands
How eagerly with her would change
Our idle innocence, nor heed
Her shameful memories and strange,
Could we but also claim that deed
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-05-13

How THE DUTCH WAsH.-They do not wash
with machine. They would seorn the idea.
They use simply refined borax. Dutch women
are well known as models of cleanliness, at
least in their own country. They get up linen
winter and nicer than any others, and they do
it by using refined borax as washing powder
instead of soda, in the proportion of a large
handful to about ten gallons of Boiling water.
They thus save one-half in soap. Cambries
and laces require an extra quantity of powder,
while for stiffening crinoline and underskirts
strong solution is necessary. Try it, as L
have, and see for yourself.