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Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17
From the Index.

From tue Index.
ApOstFOphe 90 Beast Butler!
Hail. lying thief offspring OF Hell. earth
Or OF the eternal cOsternal beast,
May expIess thee sin, since thou art But.
Or, being here in earthly tenement. vlcs.
gerant,
And satan's minister plenIpotentiary for
those damnlng depths,
Where dark relRnS snpremei
NO wonder, envOyl thy mission being sin
And sin the emblem Of Hell's darkness,
The asgro's champion thou shouldst be,
The GOI Of those poor sable tools
For that most sulph'rOus crew
Tht alekeIlhg expiaIIon Of republican
For dss6ncy, called CoAOrsIS but, more tru.
ly, Hell.
sOab q humanity. uIcerOu' inCrustAtiOn of
That PaademonIum ever bredi
HaIpy, jAekall, Eu'tuFr, buEEard, skunk,
Fesuiorous, vip'r0us, baleful ctmblnatiOn,
Art the qnlntesssnce, boiled down,
OfAll the BrownlOWs Of your race.
Thy gallantry 10 women anu quarter master
skill,
Thy taste for pianos and silver ware,
And all thy victories gained DER wsmen and
O'er sp0ilki
'TWere great injustice not 10 mich
These glories with thy Gamei
Taught by pc heavenly muse to venture
The dark descent, and stir with heavy wing
The pe'tiul exhalatl0nS thy carcass send.
eth forth
! reascond 70 pureF atmosphere,
Where thought revOlts me not, nor bids me
feel,
In this most beastly contemplation,
- That human kind, perverted BY Rmbl.
tlOn or
Unjust revenRo, may stencil the country
With their heavlnos, OF sin.
sHVLLEY
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17

(if not quite) impossibility Of ss.
curing residences here check the
tide Of incoming population and
send 1t other ways? We fear II
mayl
OF course land owners will only
reduce their prices when 0 sale can
not DO made otherwise, or when
"hard up" and forced to sell.
There are times when property
here is low in reality. Could not
such a season be availed Of by en-
terprising persons to form q com.
pany and buy large tracts conve-
nient to the business portion of the
city, and dividing It into lots, sell
1t of at only slight advance on
cost?
Ls there generosity and public
spirit enough in Vicksburg to do
this thing9 Can any plan OF this
sort be devised ? From one to three
hundred dwellings could be rented
here between this and January, If
reasonable rents were asked, and
the dwellings to be had.
Let us put a question to capital.
lists: Do you want q good prOflta-
BILE and safe investment? Then we
offer you this: For every $1,000,
purchase an acre of ground cOntigu-
GUS to the city; divide into six
building lots; place thereon
six neat dwellings, and rent
them at $500 q year-which can be
done instanter. The $1,000 would
do the business Thoroughly and leave
0 good surplus of one or two thou
sand, and the result would be \ clear
income Of eighteen hundred dollars
safe aud sure year after year.
Suppose q kind of colony or su.
burb be formed near town by some
such plan as we have alluded to.
If there were q sufficient number of
families they could own and keep
an ambulance or omnibus or two at
slight cost to each, to carry them
to and fro between home and town
two or three times q day.
The want ofresidences has become
a terrible one--a matter of great
Importance to our city and her peo-
pie. The people should and must
take somo action in this matter II
they would see they city prosper.
The late action of the Aldermen
looking TO opening Of several city
streets, will, when carried out, add
considerable space for the erection
of residences in the city limits, and
we hope the streets will be opened
at once.
And we will say, further, il any
one has any building lots for sale
about the city at anything like a
cheap price, we will advertise them
without charge in an editorial.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17

this when it is pointed out to them
by those who have reluctantly
left those thrifty communities Of
the North, for the sole purpose Of
doing US good, it is evident that
such blindness can be due only
ITO hatred Of the North and
Northern men" and the absurd
notion that there are persons
amongst us who are literally "liv-
ing upon their hatred Of the
South and Southern men.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17

WE learn that yesterday morning.
a difficulty occurred near Bolton
Station between Mr.. John Clingan
and Charles Caldwell, negro Sena-
tor for Kinds county. The facts, as
we learn them, were that Caldwell
got on board the train at Belton to
60 TO Clinton. When his fare was
demanded he refused to give 1t,
stating that being a member OF the
Legislature he was not required to
pay for travel over the road yet he
could exhibit no pass. Mr.. Clingan
insisted that Caldwell should pay,
at which Caldwell became angry
and, drawing u knife, cut Mr.. Clin-
gan across the cheek. The train
was instantly stopped, and the train
hands coming to Mr.. Clingan's re-
lief Caldwell jumped of and ran
away.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17
DEmOCRATIC sENFImR N.
PIatfOrm eF tas mIChigan Dsmo.

eRAoYs
The following are the resOlu
tons adopted unanimously by the
Democratic State Convention Of
Michigan, on Wednesday week:
!. That we recognize, now as
ever, the right Of the people to de-
eide all questions relating to the
distribution and exercise or their
political power, and We render to
their decision, when constitution
ally and legally expressed, . cheer
full obedience.
2. That we denounce the domi-
nant political party for its corrupt
use OF the power and money Of the
people; for its unnecessary multi
plication of officers; for It's unpre-
decented extravaganza; for its
prostitution Of the public trust to
subservep private ends and personal
interests, and for its utter failure
to administer the Government In
accordance with the spirit Of our
institutions or for the benefit Of
the governed.
3. That the destruction of our
commerce, the prostratlon Of our
agriculture, and the increasing
stringency Of our financial affairs,
bears common witness TO the in
competency Of our rulers.
4. That a tariff for protection is
a system Of plunder whereby labor
is compelled to pay tribute TO cap.
ital, and that a tariff for revenue
only is all that is warranted by
justice or the Federal Constitution.
5. That the public domain il a
great public trust, which should
be administered in the interest OF
the people, and public policy, as
veil as common interest, requires
that the trust should be held for
purposes Of settlement and culti-
walton, and in its disposition the
landless and the homeless, the sol.
diers and sailors Of the United
States, and those made widows or
orphans by the wars Of the Union,
should be preferred to spectators
and monopolists.
8. That to maintain the honor
and good faith of the nation, II is
necessary that the public debt be
paid strictly in accordance with its
terms.
T. That the present system Of
sO-called national banks is a mo.
nopoly, whereby favored States
and favored persons are unduly
benefited but il the system is to
be continued we demand, on be-
half of Michigan and the West,
that it shall be so modified as to
make its privileges free to all.
8. That specie or its equivalent
is the only sound currency, but
we should return to specie pay
ment no sooner than 1t can Be
done consistently with the laws or
trade and the interests Of the great
debtor class.
8. That the hest financial policy
for the times is honesty and fru-
gality-honesty in the appropria-
ton Of public money for proper
purposes, and a rigid frugality in
its expenditure.
10. That the interest on all de-
posits Of the State funds belong
to the State, and should be put
into the State Treasury, TO be
used with other State moneys for
the payment of appropriations and
the reduction of the State debt.
IL. Taxation of citizens with,
out their consent for private pur.
poses is q violation Of the funda.
mental principles Of justice.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17

Bulwor says that poverty is onln
an idea, nine cases out 81 lan.
Some men with ten thousand at.
lars q year suffer more for the
of weans than others With ~
thousand dollars. The reason s.
the richer man has artificial wana
His income Is ten thousand dollars
and he suffers enough from boiha
dunned for unpaid debts 20 kill
sensitive man. A man who earnaa
dollar a day and does not run Is
debt is the happier Of the two.
Very few people who have nsVss
been rich win believe thls; but q
true. There are thonsands and
thousands with princely ineomts
who never know amomenl's poads.
because they live above their means
There is really ymore happiness
the world among the working PEG.
pie than there are among those who
are called rich.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17
HOMES ron THE HOmELEss.


A great draw back to the in
crease Of the population of Vicks-
burg is the extreme difficulty that
families have In procuring homes
by renting,purchase or building,
owing to the exhorbitant price of
houses and lands.
The lately inaugurated Building
Association will in time tend to an
alienation Of this condition of
things, and it is expected will DO
the means of adding many families
to our population by settling in
homes many now here, thus reliev-
ing the pressure and creating va
canCies that will be filed by new
comers.
But this Association has but
limited power and cannot strike
etteCtually at the root OF the evil.
The grand trouble is the mon
strous prices asked for building
lots.
A lot upon which to place an
ordinary dwelling costs nearly
double the expense of the house.
An usual sized building lot Of
say 50xl5O feet costs from twelve
hundred TO three thousand dollars.
A comfortable dwelling for small
family OF three or four can be
erected for from six hundred to
fifteen hundred dollars.
We are not writing Of rich mems
palaces, or OF anything snowy or
gorgeous, but Of houses fully suit.
able for the working class of pop
ulatioA, and, in fact, good enough
for anybody who considers comfort
and economy more than pride apd
show.
Common, rough, unimprOved
lots on the inside edge of the cor.
pOratiou limits are held at from
twelve to twenty-five hundred
dollars, according to location
chiefly.
Such lots are worth in real value
not over six hundred dollars, and
that would be a large price.
There are 44,lOO square feet in an
acre, and a building lot 50xl50 feet
contains 1900 square feet.
An acre OF ground would cut up
into, say, five building lots. At
rate lots are now held (and selling y
that makes an acre, on the outskirts
of the sity (ten or twelve thousand
inhabitants), worth from six
thousand to twelve thousand five
hundred dollars.
When It is remembered that these
very lands lie nearly one mile from
the centre Of the business portion
Of the city, then the exhorhitancy Of
such prices can be seen. But what
can be done2 The owners of the
land cannot be blamed for asking
and receiving all the lands will
bring. If they could get double or
treble as much they would natu-
rally and, in a business view, right
fully take it.
That these prices are out Of all
proportion to the value of the lots
there can be no doubt; but, we
again ask, what can be done TO help
the case? People must have houses
to live in and If they cannot be
rented or bought they must be built
and land must be had to put them
on at almost any price; aud thus
men are forced by their necessities
TO yield to the demands of owners
Oflots.
This state Of thingS-the impera'
tive demand for building lots and
6r residences indicates with uneer'
Ing certainty, the rapid growth Of
our city; but win not the almost
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17

= |.| e.
MAJOR GEzERAL's srAFs.-Tia
following are, says the Jackson
Pilot, announced as the s.aR e
iicers by appointment Of the AFa.
jor General Of Militia Of Miuals.
sippi:
Hiram 7. Fisher, Colonel ana
Assistant Adjutant General. g.
JOhnA. Galbreath, Colonel aud
Assistant Quartermaster CEN
eral, &
Dr. J. Z Carter Lieut. Colonel
and Assistant Surgeon General
A. K Long, Major and Aid-de.
Camp.
:; K. Stafford, Major and AID.
de-Camp.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17

FIVE years ago Gov. Yarmouth,
Of Louisiana, was "a poor cuss.5
To-day he is worth a half million Of
dollars. The Charleston News says
Gov. Scott, ofS0uth Carnlina, when
be first went TO the State, paid
axes only on 9 horse and chase,
As Governor Of the State be has
for two years received q salary Of
thirty-fve hundred dollars per yeaF,
and now according TO bic Owl "a.
mission; has property 20 the palsie
Of one hundred and thirty thoas....|
dollars! The carpet-bagRers knoW
how 70 accumulate money, but Il
would be interesting to know 70
whom all this belongs.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17

bodybuilding on the western
rivers Is on the point Of q ravolu.
tion. Between fire and water,
snags, collisions, explosions, and
the thousand dangers through which
the traveller on the Mississippi must
run the gauntlet the old style Of
navigation has lost most Of its At.
fractions. IL view Of tho ever.in-
creasing composition Of the rall.
road, some improvement In boats e
obViously needed q keep the high
way Of the nation from being az.
serted. Itisclaimed that this need
ed improvements an iron sleamer.
constructed on the Eneiiah nla1i.
with different Compar nohIs. ne
Ha4 ~ lhfa hfaI - .....
aIz waters Is aeH ha'I|||
Iaha
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17

They havea nolSeless street pava
ment in London. A part Of Holhorn
has been laid with Q smooth. npat
ent asphalt,F over which the wlistlS
Of cabs aud wagons roll without
clatteE The Daily NeW1 demand
that q fair trial should be given q
this pavement, and indnlees n
dreams Of the day when traffic n
London shall glide through tha
streets ''as nOiseIessly Is tie gons
dolas Of Venice
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17
TnE FInE m Irrrrnaon. -

AHB FIRE IN JEFFERSON, INKta
-8irteen Large Busiasss Hon1ae
Destroyed. The flre IN JeRalnon,
Texas, on the morning Of Anenst.
26, destroyed an entire block IN
which were sixteen Of Che larrA
business houses OF the city, oaun-
ing q loss estimated ct from $3.50.
600 to eS00,O 900, $126, ,0O0of which
are covered by Insurance.. The
Jimplecute says the fire wan uns
doubtedly the work of an ineandi.
AIRY, and that the affair ID TO baln-
yestlgated. The same paper gives
the following list Of snisrerS shA
amount OF their policies, and ihn
agents representing the companisa
in which they are insured. The
buildings were all new and of
brick:
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17

Wrsuggest that when he Lee.
isiature meets next wlnsaf. Il
either ake important ollanoesis
its Revenue law, or eana
name thus: San Act g nis
the property Of The 81 hTis-
siasippi." i.".-lHinds n
zette.
, 1870-05-28
ADJUSTMENTS
A'v1CEER'5 THEATRE


The benefit Of MI. Chanfrau, last evening. Was q
"reminiscences Of the oden time, for It recalled the
immortal 1bodtes, the Jolly Protean jerry Cir. and
the characteristic Hose, the New YORK fireman,
whom Cfanfrau, yea1s ago, made the Jurore OF the
atage- The large audience were kept In good
humoE throughout although ali three Of the pls,s
pelong 70 s!elmeI generation and the hea1iest en-
association. Ills 1oodiet was full Of broad humor,
although It followed the conventional STAGE hnsl'
ness Witch Burton used TO give It. Ills Jt17y clip
u some Instances. were wonderfully true to lie.
His Nose was the old Nose, the only Nose, and the
familiar characters Of Sykesv and Liz were there,
Streets Of New York; WAS Interpolated This
evening Nj. ChanfrHu closcs his engagement ~
"Fcnande,r which nsauA Is iSs b1t OF Tho seaaon ia
Still On the boards at the Museum.
DEARBORN THEATRE
-, Jne 81 Mnstfes close taeir season this evening"
the largest ever known III that theatre.
THE HALF-ORPHAS coNcERT,
The concert for the ha1f-orphRns, tonight at
Farwell Rail, promises to be one Of the best ever
onered BY local TALENT and quite equal to the best
ne have from the most distinguished foreign
ms %usical shtaity OF Gnlcaso has rescaed thai
IKE this Is possible. 4 few years ago Concerts 5y
local talent were generally very dreary Affairs,
and i required strong love Of the cause for
which they were given 70 induce auy real lover Of
music to attend them Now 1t IL far different.
and with artists Ike Mrs. Huck, Nj. Pease, M,
concordis, q most attractive Programme can be
produced. We hope to see a laIge attendance
10th as compliment to the artists who so Kindly
our most deserving and useful charities, which is
greatly In need OF assistance. The programme
10r this concert Is as fel1eT7: saES
N'sA' GS.1efaia xGsat1eo1.
2, Tcrfetto, from William Tell n n----..- Rn.,Ir3
, 1870-05-28
BUSINESS NOTICES.

Crosby's Music xanll.-Dr. Warren,
whose wonderful gift Of healing without the si,l
OF medicine, simply b5 the magnetic touch, Will
exhibit bis extraordinary power at the above hail.
commencing Monday, May 80, from 10 to 12 q H.
each dag during the week. The poor OF this city
are invited to cnme and be cnred fire. Of charge,
and the public may witness these operations, also
free. Pain il Instantly relieved lost voice at once
II Bofcd many forms OF deafness Instantly cured
blindness, WHEN not total, remedled; many afl1lct-
ed with lameness leave their crutches, and all af-
fIcted with no matter what d8ease caim to feel
st once the benenctal effects Of the treatment
We could publish columns Of these most MI
raculous cures, but prefer to let the pub.
nc witness With their own eyes the work
lnQs Of this magic power. Those diseases
which Seem TO yield most speedily to the remedial
agency ofthiB treatment are asthma, palplEa1ion
Of the heart, bronchitis, neuralgia, rheumatism,
all e1asses Of liver disease, dyspeps!s, headache,
nervousness, female weakness, cataIrh, notsc In
the head, irritable bladder, seminal Weakness cpl
leptic nta A single operation often suf1ce8 to ~
store the lost equilibrium Of the Vital forces Rud
often In an Incredibly short space OF time, health
II the result The public exhibitions sometimes
are crowded to the utmost capacity Of the hail,
and the miraculous cures then performed {open
to the inspection aud crfttcism nf the 41dieuce)
never fail To excite their wonder and aMazcnent
No medicine gtFcn. No surgical operations per
formed. DR.. Warren can be consulted at the Mat
teson House by those who desire to pay, every
day, from Till p, m. No charge for second
treatment, when found necessary. Patients will
pay IN proportion to property.
, 1870-05-28

! In favor Of The measure, and characterized tbe
arguments which hzd BEEN zdduced ag1inst it
- unfounded and fDoonclusSva- The member
for North Wuwicknhire claiMed-and the
claim gAve rise to Bome meuiment-to be dis
tinguished from ether members OF the House
Tor the "obetinacy" which he had exhib-
tied in his determination to protect
women against any restraint, a any
loss Of liberty, or Gvil privilege, and
lieve that be wonld not oppose any measure
that was really for their advantage. Nj. Glad
stone did not enter at any length into tho gen.
eral considerations upon which the bill wss
recommended or opposed, bnt expressed bis
its necessity. and announced his inten-
ton to vote against going into
mended the measure to the House as one
which WAS necessary for the protection Of wo-
men andrepeated the argument which he sd
vanced upon the second reading-that until it
was passed we could only hava sham, and
not the real household suffrage. When d.
viaion was taken the bill was rejected by q ma
jority Of 1920 to o.. The other business
was rapidly disposed Of, and the House ad-
joutned.
, 1870-05-28
RNNGA
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TIE RED STOCKINGS ToER


Cnsc1SfA71, May s1.--The Red Stockings Iesye
On Monday morning. on their third annual tour,
They VIII play the following clubs on the dates
announccd: Forest City, Cleveland, May 81:
Flour City, Rochester n u, June I Ontario
OsFego, y. T.. Cd: Oil E1m, rttsneld, Masa, Sd: :
Harvard, Boston, 4th; Lowell, Boston, 9Th; III
mountain, Boston, 7th Clipper, Lowell, sth; Yale.
New HareD, 11th: Mutual, New Tork. .1sts; Cnion,'
HS1lsanta :ssh; Ress,1te, Ellzaosth, y; J., 18Th:
Eedord, NeH fork, 18th: Starr, Brooklyn. 18th:
Amateurs, Newark, e0th: Intrrpd. Philadelphia,
21st: Athletic PhiladelphtR. ed; Keystone, Phil
aaelphia, 25d; Pastime, Baltimore. e4tA; sylaul
Baltimore, e5:h Olympic, Washington, as1h; and
then home
TIE ROCKFORD BOYS NJ NEW YoRx
NEW YoKx, May 27.-The game Of base ball to-
day, between the Forest City Club, OF Rockford,
Ill, and the Unions, Of Mor1isania, was called at
the close OF the third inning. on account Of &C.
we're rain storm which Set in The score stood 10
4. with prospect Of the Western boys coming ont
victorious.
GARDEN CIT vs- AMATEUR
These clubs will have a contest to-dar, at Ogden
Parf, and The game will undoubtedly be yery pref
= and exciting. Both clubs have good mines, and
their records thus iaE this year show that they are
capable Of doing some very 1ne playing. ltcau-
not fail to be an interesting game to ali who take
an interest In base ball
THE BALTIC AND BECKKTR CLUBS
grounds, corner OF May and Taylor streets.
, 1870-05-28
miscellaneous.

Q. e. Glbhs, Secretary Of the Chicago Relief aud
Aln society. writes thar "tWo young women, one
q .hom gives the name OF Wills, are soliciting
money lot an eI-aoIdier named Scott, the latter
represented to be In needy circumstances H.
curry ct The place where he IL said to live shows
nat the5e Is 10 one Of that name IN that locality
lne aalne sNludle was perpetrated last year "
People will always be justified in Withholding coz
triontlons 10 such cases until the game have been
The Board Of Public Works opened bids YES
terday Tor curbing. ezcayatIng, M1ng, and paving
North avenue, from Wells street to the river
There were nine bidders, ranging from Is TO 30
cents per foot for curblng, from nothing to five
cents for excarattng from 90 to = cents tor filing
per CUBIC yard. The bids for paving ranged from
s1.s6 to $50 for The .usual way = from tl.so to
sl-o3 for prepared lumber; from f1.3O to $16p for
converse pavement, and from $1.60 to $173 for
converse preserved
-Mrs George Francis Train, who has been
and forwarded to her home at the East, TWO pairs
about s, ,0Cn-
As sample Of tha fish he catches, aud Of his
skin as fisherman, ". T. Durant, Esq, on yes
terday, Eens some nne bass and pckcrel 10 the To-
cal department OF this paper. They were caught
At Lake oe1nom1Woc Ssaa some 50 miles west of Nil
Colonel r. ~ uoQgh, formerly prominent
merchant Of Chicago, 1s now managing his farm Of
1860 acres in Bloomingdnlez DuPage County. He
has 115 mich coH8 and 100 horses.
"A silk-plush lap robe Was found BY police
man In front Of No. 40 Twenty-secoud street yes
terday morning. 1t is now Ut the Armory.
Mr.. Baum, who resides at No. SC South Wells
street, had his pocket picked Of watch worth k45,
while riding On Madison Etteet car, yesterday
afternoon.
a sncsk thief entered the residence Of MI
King, No, IS Sedgwick street, between aud 6
O'Clock, yesterday afternoon, and stole $50 worth
Of clothing.
"A bay horse was picked up on Rush street.
and taken to the A1moEy, where It awaits an
owner,