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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-06-03
LIVE FOR SOMETHING.

Live for something, be not idle;
~ Look about thee for employ!
Die not down to useless dreaming;
II Labor Is the sweetest JOY.
Nodded hands are ever weary,
Selfish hearts are never gay;
Life for thee hath many duties
IA Active be, then while you may.
Scatter blessings in thy pathway
ID Gentle words and cheering smiles
Better are than gold and silver,
With their grief-dispelling wiles
As the pleasant sunshine falleth
Ever on the grateful earth,
10 let sympathy and kindness
I'D GLADDEN. well the ddrkened hearth.
Hearts there are oppressed and weary:
M Drop the tear of ~ mpathy,
Whisper words fhomc and comfort
~ Give, and thy reward shall be
NOV unto thy soul returning,
III From the perfect fountain-head;
Freely, as thou freely gigest,
"a Shall the grateful light be shed.
y F ARM PROVERBS. DO not keep more
Fc stock ON your farm than you cal
hep we'll
House all things as much as possible
nimals, utensils and crops.
ESell when you can get fair price, anC
N not store for rats and spectators.
NIhe more comfortable You can keel
mr. animals, the more they win thrive
/. "a good COW is a valuable machine
Re more food she properly digests, tn
feater the profit.
a few roots daily to all the stock ar
i welcome as apples to boys and girls
Replace all the bars where you pas
ten by strong gates, and then wonde
Hat YOU didn't do so before.
Although, in draining land thorough,
BUR purse may be drained; yet the ful
ops that follow viii soon FIJI it again.
I always give the soil the first meal. |
Is well fed with manure, it will feed al
@e-plants, animals and men.
IA borrowed tool, if broken, should b.
placed by new one A nice sense 0
anor in such matters is much to be com
ended
Dit seems strange that housekeeper
Mn,t buy pals and tubs with brass hoop
Nj trimmings. They cost little NOR
FIRST, but last wonderfully.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-06-03

T. H. HAWKS, Ag't,
Care B. M. WooLsEY, Selma, Ala
Newspapers friendly to the above enter
prise please copy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-06-03
CHTNA1IEN,

General j. II. Chalmers offered the follow
ing resolution. which was adopted:
WHEREAS, Labor is essential 70 the deFel-
opment Of the South, and whereas. large
number of Cinnamon, the cheapest laborers
ca this continent, have recently been thrown
out Of employment by the completion Of the
Pacific Railroad; and whereas. individual
planters have not he means necessary Tor
the Importation OF foreign laborers; and
whereas, is Is believed that our railroad
duction OF this labor, and that when once
introduced it can be easily disseminated
through the country therefore be il as Is.
Resolved, That all the railroads in the
South be requested to employ upon these
roads as many as possible % the Shnamen
recently discharged on the Pacific Railroad
and that oil companies engaged in building
new railroads. Sc especially requested to
employ rs many of these laborers rs they
possibly can. 80 - 81
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Moresaeaf looking to q URfon bettseem Che Il. =
Ckauch and che II. Il. GhurcA, 6OaEh--No-
bic letter from Bishop Paine
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Col. Butler, Of Georgia, reported the

Mr.. President: The Committee on Agri-
culture and General Business, to whom was
referred 4 resolution of Mr.. Robert I. Saun-
ders, on the subject of Cotton supply" and
the appointment of suitable committee
to prepare memorial on that subject to the
Manchester Cotton Supply Association, OF
Freat Britain and to the National Associ-
alton of Manufacturers and Planters. of
America" have had the same under consid-
eration.amd deeming the subject one ofgreat
national concernnent, which well deserves
the due consideration of the convention,
have Instructed me TO report the following
resolution, and ask its adoption by the con-
vention.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-06-03

III. N. McTYEIRE. Sec'ry,
st. Louis. Mo-, May ii, 1869.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28
Editorial Brevities.

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has
lately published very piurirnt ar
ticle against Lord Byron, under the
guise of defending Lady Byron
which is exciting much comment
among the press.
Geo. Peabody has recently endow-
ed Washington COllegr with sixty
thousand dollars, to ena' 'e General
Lee to establish an agricultural pro.
fessorship. This is but another link
in the great chain of gratitude that
binds him to the hearts of our people.
The season has been an unusually
warm one, i'll every quarter Of the
globe.
The press of the entire country are
publishing scathing articles on the
petty malicious tyranny of General
Ames.
Grant has at last given the Mis-
sissippi turn coats to understand
that they can't catch him by using
his brother-in.law, Dent, as bait.
He is yet under the thumbs OF Bout
well, Sumner, md other Radical
leaders, too completely to aid them,
so they will probably pass Dent by
" on the other side" So far, their
sycophancy has availed them little.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28
Mr.. Jefferson Davis.

Mr.. Jefferson Davis passed through
Dunfermline on Wednesday,. He ar
rived with the - noon train from the
II noon train from the East and de-
parted with the West train for Cal
lender at 3:45. During the short
time he remained he visited the Alb
by Church and ruins, and expressed
himself highly gratified. On seeing
the monument erected to General
Bruce, he spoke of him in laudatory
terms, and also of his brother the
late Earl of Elgin, stating that he
knew them both well. 1t oozed out
in the town who the visitor was, and
our streets were in state of excite
ment for short time. Some of the
more notable inhabitants had the
honor of shaking hands with him.
He was accompanied by DR.. Mackey.
Our Stirling correspondent writes
Mr.. Davis paid a visit to Stirling and
Stirling Castle on Wednesday after
noon, and left for Calender in the
evening. Previous to leaving town
the distinguished visitor was pre-
sented with a SOurenir of his visit
from Mr.. j. f. Crawford, bookseller,
King street, consisting Of a beautiful
copy of Sir Walter SCOTS poem of
the Lady of the Lake" bound in
wood grown near to the battle of
Bannockburn, a fac simiIe of the sou
reRir that the same gentleman pre-
tented to the Princess of Wales on
the occasion of the visit of the Prince
and Princess in 1866 The news soon
spread that the eX-PreSident was in
town, as he left per train in the even
ing three hearty cheers were given
by the large concourse of people con
gregated on the plattorm.-Glasgo,c
Herdid, Aug. 6.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS,
wRlrrES FOR TnE CITIZEN BY "CHrnnn.'


A castor oil factory is in success
full operation at Gonzales, Texas.
The annual production of black
PEPPER is about 100000 pounds.
The acreage Of wheat in Iowa this
year is 224,00O larger than in 1868.
The 1000 miles of railway in Brit
ish India have cost $3.50, 100000.
The annual sugar crops of the
world is estimated at 100000 tons.
Tue women and girls of Massa-
chusetts earn S25, 100000 per annum
in the factories.
Manayunk, near Philadelphia, has
10 cotton mills, employing 3137
hands.
New York city is receiving 10000
bushels ofpeaches daily, principally
from Delaware and Maryland.
A firm in Worcester, Mass, has a
contract for manufacturing45, 900, 900
envelopes, the price being 100000.
The WOODEN mills of Oregon last
year consumed 1000, 900 pounds of
wool, and turned out goods to the
value of 100000
A coal deposit in the State of Mis-.
souri, is estimated at 10000, 900, 900
tons, or 10000 tons per day for 12,-
600 years.
Fruiterers in New York city, have
received $50 crates of Bartlett pears
from California. The freight was
S120 per ton.
Liverpool had on hand 18th July,
go, 3G5,000 bales of cotton, against
an average of 100000 bales for the
twenty years preceding 1860.
Great Britain produces annually
200, 100000 eggs, and in addition
pays 36,000,000 in gold for eggs, to
France, Belgium and Holland.
There are 80 factories in Phil adel-
phia, making silk trimming. New
York has fifty mills engaged in the
manufacture of various kinds of
silk goods.
1t is estimated that the Bavarlans
pay annually for beer consumed s23,
334 900, using 4,967 1854 barrels of
beer, or about barrel to each indi-
vidual.
A mandatory near Boston en-
ploys thirty operatives, and turns
out daily fifty cases wooden tooth
picks, each case containing 100, 900.
The woods used are maple and will
low.
The trade of British India in 1884
amounted to s31 100000 imports,
and Si1, 600, 900 exports. In 1866, it
had expanded to 1926 100000 i'm
ports, and 1921 900, 900 exports.
The "Two Republics says " the
sugar lands of Mexico are not only
the most productive in cane rich in
saccharine matter, but are accessi-
BILE to all the sugar purchasing parts
of the world. on the Atlantic and Pa
ciic oceans"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28
The Great Medical Mista Ike

Of former days utter neglect of sanitary precau
tons No efficient means adopted for the pre-
vention of sickness Sewerage unknown in cities
drainage rarely attempted in the country Heaps
of o were left to rot in the public and domes
tic cleanliness the great antidoe fobrile diseases
was sadly neglected II is not now. Wise laws,
phanihropc institutions, and vigaut sanitary police
have to great extent remedied the evil Nor this
all PREVENTIVE MEDICATION has helped materially
to lessen the rates of mortality. 1t is much to
say that TENS OF THOUSANDS escape sickness in uu.
healthy seasons, in consequence of having ISvIGoRA
TED THEIR SYSTEMS IN ADVANCE by a course of HOS
LETTERS STOMACH BITrFRS This pure and
powerful vegetable tonic and Alternative comprises the
extracts and essences of variety of roots and herbs
renowned for their strengthening soothing, vtalizng
and purifying properties. These medicinal agents are
Incorporated with spirit absolutely free from the
poison which deiles OF less, all lhe liquors
commerce. their effect is diffuscd through the
whole hy this active, yet harmless stimulant
The result is such condition of the system renders
1t all bm impcrr0Hs to the exterior of disease
such damp, fog, sudden alteration of temperature
etc.-Strength, and the perfect regularity of all the
functions of the body, the best safe guards against
atmospheric poison, and the effects of unwholesome
water, and HOSrETTERS BITTERS are the best
strengthening and regulating medicine at present
known For dyspepsia and bliousness they are
sfECIfF ABSOLUTE
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28
The Fifteenth Amendment.

The Radical paperSpubiish strange
ly incorrect lists of the States which
have ratified or assumed to ratify
the Fifteenth Amendment. What
object is TO be gained by repeatedly
asserting that Tennessee, Minnesota,
and other States which have taken
no action, have fully accepted the
amendment, passes conjecture. The
action taken thus far IS as follows:
Alabama, said to have ratified.
Arkansas, ratified March 10.
Connecticut, ratified May 13.
Delaware, rejected.
Florida, ratified in June.
Georgia, rejected.
Illinois, ratified March 5.
Indiana assumed to ratify May IA.
No quorum present.
Kansas, assumed to ratify Nav q.
The Second section was imperfect.
Louisiana, ratifie,l March l.
Maine, ratified March 0.
Massachusetts, ratified March u.
Michigan, ratified March 5.
Missouri, assumed to ratify. Ger
tificate OIL file at the State Depart
ment is informal and insufficient.
Nevada, ratified March 1.
New Hampshire, ratified July 1.
New York, ratified March %.
North Carolina, ratified March 5.
Pennsylvania ratified March 26.
Rhode Island, the Senate ratified
May q. The amendment will proba.
bly, be rejected, because the Rhode
Island radicals believe that under it
they can no longer cisfranchise their
Irish Catholic laborers.
South Carolina, ratified March 10
West Virginia, ratified March 8
Wisconsin, ratified March 5
This makes only twenty one States
that can possibly be claimed for the
amendment thus far; and of these
only seventeen have legally ratified
it. The assent of seven more States
will be necessary to force negro sui.
frage upon an unwilling people.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28
Call a Convention.

We most emphatically second the
demand of the Vicksburg Herald. for
a Democratic Convention on the 21st
of September, and regard such Con-
vention as of the utmost Importance,
at or about that time.
The recent address issued over the
signatures of twenty or thirty men
who actually signed it, and hun
dred or more who authorized friends
to append their signatures, and never
read it until 1t was published to the
State, increases rather than lessons
the necessity for the assembling of
those in Convention, who were vic
tors in the last political campaign.
The people of Mississippi are I'M
willing to take it for granted, even
upon the assurance of the "address-
ers," that the nominations of the Ma
tional Republicans on the Sth of
September, will be such as they can
readily endorse; for unless these
"addressers are of the Republican
Convention, how can they expect to
control its policy?
The Conservative Legions of Mis-
sissippi must be hurled en- masSe upon
the enemy in November, and if the
great Democratic party is to with
hold from nominating a ticket, it
must at least move as a unit; and it
cannot be expected to rally it's
strength, and work for the cause it
espouses, with enthusiasm, until its
representatives from all sections of
the State, shall have met and dis
cussed the position.
If it is understood that the ticket
to be nominated by the republicans
ON the Sth, must be thoroughly Con
sentative, in order to win the conf
dence of the Conservatives and Dem
ocrats who will meet to pledge their
constituents on the 21st, it will be
composed of the very best material :;
but if we act hastily i'll the matter,
and by endorsing the premature
action of those whose names are APP
pended to the recent address, signify
to the National Republicans our vii
lingness to support any ticket they
may present, why then, depend upon
1t, that each pigmywho has a hatchet
to grind, Will be presented to lis, as
a claimant for our support, and a
ticket nominated, that the people
will not enthusiastically espouse,
even in these days, when enthusiasm
is essential to success.
We hold, with the Herald, that it
is the duty of the Democratic Ex.
eeutive Committee, to call a Conven-
ton and if it will not, then the bur
den must be assumed by the Press
of the State.-Aberdeen Examiner.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28
COMMUNICATED.
Extension Of the Miss. Central R. R.
to Vicksburg.

Messrs. Adams and Hunt have re-
turned from New York and reported
to the citizens of Vicksburg the re
suit of their visit, touching The ex-
tension of the Central Road to the
Mississippi river. They say the
lessees of that road all pre- fer Nicks-
burg, and Messrs Adams & Hunt
say this extension will depend upon
Holmes and Yazoo counties, as Vicks-
burg is all right and will do her part.
This means that the branch will start
from Goodman of course, and go ria
Yazoo City. We are satisfied our
Vicksburg friends would as soon
have the extension from Canton as
from any other point, and we think
they will readily see that the dis
lance from Canton to Vlcksburg is
so much shorter than from Goodman
to Vicksburg ria Yazoo City, to rem
der the route more desirable, even
though they should build two, or
even three bridges over Big Black.
Besides, Holmes county is now in
tent on building road passing di
rectly by her county seal. and entire
ly through her limits for 80 miles,
while the Goodman route would
pass through one corner of the coun.
ty. If Vicksburg is i'll earnest foI
the extension, Canton and Madison
county will roll up good subscrip.
ton for the road starting from Can.
ton. Distance, dfrectness of route.
important connections at Canton, all
point to this as the one from which
it should begin; and if Vicksbure
says mo" she will reconsider it in
twelve months.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28
NOTICE,

At meeting of the Mayor and Selectmen of
Canton, in Council assembled, held on
the LIST day of August, A. D. 1869, the
following resolutions were adopted
Resolved, That all persons holding war
rants on the Treasurer of the city of Can
on are hereby notified to present the same
to the City Clerk for registration and en-
sealing the same.
I'd. That it shall not be lawful for the City
Treasurer, City Marshal or Tax Collector to
receive any warrant on the City Treasury,
heretofore issued. until the same has been
registered and unsealed by the City Clerk
and so endorsed on said warrants
Sd. That these resolutions be published
for four weeks in the American Citizen.
HENRY r. SMITH,
Aug. IA, '69s4w City Clerk.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28
1t is reported that Dent will he

1t is reported that Dent will be
present at the convention of the
National Union Republican Party,
and will proceed from thence to
stump the State in behalf of "my
brother in-law's policy" if he get
the nomination. But if he don't get
it, what then 2
The letter of Judge Dent to Sc
cretary Boutwell,, which we publish
to-day, is certainly the most impru
dent and incautious production that
we have ever known from the pen
of even a fourth rate politician, like
himself. He has given his enemies
u sword with which to smte himself
and his party.
a correspondent of the FickShurg
Herald calls for fair play, and says
the people "are unwilling to be cajo-
led or led by a Sc! demonstrated dicta-
tor1dl committee, and feel that it is
their prcrogative to decide for them
selves in matter of such import
auce" as the policy to be pursued in
the coming contest. Amen !! say we.
The Herald, speaking of the Dem
ocratic Executive Committee, and
the action of eleven of its members,
says, "We have anxiously looked to
see this body perform its duty, but
ana haye looked in vain 1t las fail.
ed to perform its duty to its pal ty
and its constituents, when by a ma
jority ~ of barely one standing Gle
ven for, to nine agalnsUit, has under
taken to "Sell out to the Conserva.
tive Republicans without calling a
convention of THE PEOPLE; a con.
veution of the Committee alone was
not sufficient. The right ofthese ele
ven gentlemen to affix their indirM
udl signatures to the recently pub
lished address of the Republicans
may be questioned when we view the
Importance, that their official char
acter is apt TO lend to their actions
Let the Committee Immediately issue
a call for convention of the peoples
delegates on the 21St proX. The peo
pie are clamorous for it. They don'l
hold themselves and their suff'rages
as SGleable property of the majority o.
eleven.
We learn from the Appeal that 6
riot occurred at Macon, Tenn, OF
Sunday last, arising from difficulty
between a negro and white boy
Several whites and negroes joining
each party, the fight soon became
general. Pistols were freely used
One white man and several negroe:
were wounded, and one of the lattel
killed outright. The negroes finally
drove the whites from the grounds
The Sheriff and posse arrived from
Somerville this morning and fount
one hundred and fifty negroes armed
with guns and pistols. The Sheriff
ordered them to give up their arms
which was replied to by Il volley from
the negroes. The citizens joined tn,
Sheriff's party, and general figh
ensued lasting an hour. during whicl
four whites were wounded aud TIVE
negroes believed to be killed. Dis
patches were sent to Memphis for ;
body of armed police to come out, bu
the negroes had in the meantime dis
persed, and all was quiet. No sigl
Of another outbreak.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28
HEMoses Hopkins. the negro ap

~ Moses Hopkins. the negro ap-
pointed route agent on the Miss.
Cen. K. Il. in place Of Mr.. WIN. Ian
cashire, has come to grief The Mem
phis Ledger says:
Nose Hopkins the illustrated col
ored politician in this city, whose
services were lately rewarded by an
appointment as route mail agent
between Canton, Miss, and Jackson,
Tenn. has been indicted by the grand
Jury for perjury, and it is probable
that Moses will soon be on that well
travelled route the road to the pen.
itentiary-where he should have
been. long ago. The facts are these:
N colOred man named Richard Ag-
new, who had been in the army, died
some time ago, at the house of ne
gro named Jim Butler. The latter
personated Agnew. aud on his papers
drew money from Meyers & Derrick
the well known claim agents of this
city. Nose Hopkins swore that But.
Ter was Richard Agnew. Butler was
prosecuted by Meyers & Dedrick.
and was sent to the penitentlary, one
daE this week. for a term of three
years. Butler also deadbeated the
Bureau agents in this city out Of
s2l0, but They took no steps against
him.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28
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N. O., J. & G.. N. r. r. co.

OFFICE OF THR New ORLEANS. JACKSON. d
GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD Coz BANY.
NEW ORLEANS. July Al. 1863.
THE following resolution adopted by the
i Board OF Directors of this Company, a: their
meeting. held on the 18th inst
Res0irrd. That sixty days notice be Civ by
publication in two newspapers in the city Of New
Orleans. and tive papers published in Mississippi.
that, in case of non payment Of instalments the
Capital Stock Of the New Orleans Jackson 4
Great Northern Railroad Company. now over due,
within six months from this date. the Company
will proceed to exact the penalty imposed on de-
faulting Stockholders, BY the Sth section Of the
charter. which also provide1 that stock older
shall be permitted to vote whilst in default
r. 8. CHARLES
Aux 70. lS69-2m Secretary.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-08-28

VThe Canton Citizen copied our
article on the "People's Party" but
failed to give proper credit.-HandS-
bero' Democrat.
That's SO. We discovered it, and
fully intended 10 give the credit SUBJ
sequently. That the omission was
unintentional,. and we didn't intend
tD.steal your "thunder" was mani
fest fbom. the fact that it was "set
solid" and published on the outside
Of the paper.