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HOUSE.
TUESDAY, January 20, 1871.

TUESDAY, January 20, ISL.
House met pursuant 20 adjournment
Present, GG absent, 3s.
The judiciary Committee reported unfa.
vorably on an act 10 stay the collection Of
debts contracted for the purchase Of slaves
The same Committee reported favOrably
on an act TO change the time Of holding the
several Chancery Courts I'm the Fourth
Chancery Court District of the state Of Mis-
sissippi. Passed.
The following bills were sent 10 the Gov
ernor, for his approval:
Relating 10 officers acting without com
missions :" San act to incorporate the Scott
County Savings Institution :" "a joint rcso-
lutiOn requesting our Senator'S and Repre-
sentatives in Congress 70 favor the granting
of aid by an appropriation Of money 10 the
Board Of Regents Of the American Printing
House for TIE Blind, and the American Cni-
versity for the Blind - s'an act 20 incopO-
rate the town Of Garner, In the county OF
Yalobusha;' san act to incorporate tho
town of Oakland, in the county Of Nalo-
busha - San act 10 remove the disabilitie,
of minority of Edward Minor Watson, o
Marshall county :" fan act TO authorize tht
Board of Supervisors of Newton county Il
receive the assessment rolls for 1870, and foi
other purposes :" ian act 10 incorporate IN,
African Methodist Episcopal Church, al
Friar's Point, in this State"
a message was received from the Cover
nor, of his approval of the following bills
III. X. No. ~, an act 70 authorize the BOarl
Of Supervisors OF Newton county 10 receive
the assessment rolls of 1870, and for Other
purposes; III. X, No. AZ, an act 20 remove
| the disabilities of Edward Minor watson o
Marshall county; III. II. No. 3js, an act t'
incorporate the African Methodist Eplsco-
| pal Church at Friar's Point, in this state.
The senate being announced, both houses
went into joint session for the election o
State Librarian and Keeper Of the Capitol
when after several ballots for Librarian,
and no election arrived at, the Senat'
retired.
1 Adinnrup1-
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don't think that fortune has got any
favorites. She was born blind, and no
tice them who win the oftenest go it blind
too.
The heart is wife of the head, and we
who have tried it, all know how persuas-
i've the wife is, especially when she wants
something.
consider a weak man more dangerous
than a malicious one; malicious men
have character, but weak ones don't have
any.
/ have noticed one thing, that the most
virtuous and discreet folks We have
among us all are those who have either
no patience at all, or very tame ones; 1t
is great deal easier to be a good dove
than a decent serpent.
Hunting after health Is like hunting at
ter feas, the more you hunt them the
more they flea.
Take the selfshness out of this world,
and there would be more happiness than
we should know what to do with.
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4 MOVEMENT IN THE RIGHT
DIRECTION.
The eAgricuItnrists of Georgia In
vito the Cooperation of the
ASricuIturists of NEis-
sissiPPi.

OFFICE OF GEORGIA STATE AG. SoCIETY,)
ATLANTA, January 19, 1871.
DEAR SIR: The State Agricultural Soci-
ETY., composed as it is, under its new Con-
stitution adopted last year, of three dele
gates from each County Society, will hold
its Spring Convention on the 22d of Febru-
ary next, in the city of Macon. / can as
sure you that the indications now are that
the meeting will be full one, and composed
of men directly identified with the prosper
ity or the misfortunes of the tillers of the
| soil, and whose depressed interests now i'm
peratively demand that they should meet in
general council and consider alike the
causes and remedies of the present state OF
things.
The President of our Society, Hon. B. c.
Yancey, has instructed me to invite you to
| attend the Convention, and also to request
you to appoint Delegates from your State,
gentlemen whose intelligence and whose
occupation and feeling would identify them
! in interest with those with whom they are
invited to deliberate.
Our railroads take all delegates to this
Convention and return without charge. If
l were furnished with the addresses of the
gentlemen you may appoint / could pos
sibly procure and send them passes which
would give them transportation free after
reaching the limits of this State.
There are two important considerations
in favor of better organization and more eff
ficient cooperation by those who are de-
voted to Southern Agricultural progress
If we would place the Legislature of the
State in harmony with the great primal in
| terest, Agriculture, We so perfect the organ
ization of our State Societies as to enlist the
greatest number of the people. Have we
| done this? If we have, come and see, and
adoptit. Have you done it in Mississippi
If you have, let us Georgians go there and
learn. If neither of us have done it, then
surely it will be well for US to meet and
counsel as to the best modes and measures of
| its accomplishment. The interchange of
Delegations between the State Societies will
be good step in this direction, and the
| Georgia Convention at Macon, 22d Febru-
ary, good time and place to make the be-
| ginning.
| Is the legislation of the Federal Govern
ment in harmony with the Agricultural in
| terests of Georgia and Mississippi? / can
| not think il so. If our interests are ever TO
have justice, would it net greatly assist
such result te have good representative
body composed of the ablest material which
the State Societies could delegate to South
ern Congress such as the Cotton States Con-
gress is designed to be? And can we not at
Macon take measures for the more perfect
| working and organization of this Congress
In addition to the questions alluded to, the
peculiar features of the present agricultural
situation may well engage attention and
elicit profitable discussion.
| Let me hear from you.
Yours Respectfully,
DAv. w. LEWIS,
Secretary.
To j. L. POWER, Secy. State Fair Associ-
alton, Jackson, Miss.
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Married on the Cars.
From the Des Moines Register

The Gate City has the following ac-
count of young couple getting married
at the rate of twenty miles an hour:
Among the passengers on Clark Liv-
ingston's down train ON the Valley road
Thursday afternoon, was an afectionate
couple who had pledged themselves to one
another for life. The preliminarics had
been arranged previous to their departure
upon their bridal tour, but just for the
novelty of the thing, they decided to have
the ceremony performed while on the
train. So they secured the services of a
worthy j. p. at Monroe, and while the
train was whizzing at the rate of twenty
miles an hour, between that place and
Otley, the candidates for matrimony
stood up and solemnly obligated them
selves to be to each other a judicious and
loving companion through life. They
were as sincere in the matter we presume
as though the nuptials had been perform
ed inside the walls of some church
The motion of the cars rendered it some
what difficult for the parties to main
tain their equilibrium, but if holding
to the car seats wasn't sufficient, they
had the alternative of holding to one
another. We have heard of weddings
on horseback, in carriages, on board
steamboats,, and under various and
sundry other peculiar circumstances, but
this is the first instance on record, to our
knowledge, of matrimonial transaction
on board train of cars steaming away at
2:40 rate. If the newly married pair
maintain that gait through life, they may
safely be expected to accomplish some
thing. The names of the parties are
Madison Pace and Sarah Rolenbaugh.
The name of the officiating j. P. is j. w.
Honnald. The passengers on the train,
although somewhat surprised at the
maOdaGs operGndi, enjoyed the wedding
hugely.
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HOUSE.
"WEDNESDAY, Jan. 25th, 1871.

"WEDNESDAY, Jan. 25th, 1871.
The House met pursuant to adjournment
Present, 81; Absent, 43.
Mr.. Sptlman (colored) gave notice that he
would at an early day Introduce a bill to
incorporate the Cantor, ,Kosciusko and Aber-
deem Railroad.
Under the head of Presentation Of bills
the following were passed:
Mr.. Landrum introduced III. II. No. GU, an
act supplemental TO an act entitled an act
in relation TO Justices of the Peace, approx
ed July llth, A. ID. 1870.
Mr. Hart introduced III. r. No. 62, an act
70 confer Jurisdiction upon the Chancery
Court of Grenada county, In the matter OF
Gen. William +. Bradley's VIII, and for 9TH
Mr.. Catchings introduced the following
resolution. That the judiciary Committee
be instructed TO inquire into the expedien-
cy of enacting a law requiring all foreign
Insurance companies. doing business In this
State, to deposit with the State Treasurer
thousand dollars, In currency or State
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! paper. upon which the State will pay the
companies making such deposits interest AT
the rate of - per cent. per annum, the
State also 10 guarantee the payment Of all
losses of policy holders In this State, not
exceeding the amount Of such deposit; and
that the said committee have liberty 70 re-
port by bill or otherwise. Adopted.
a message from the senate on the passage
OF the following: a bill TO be entitled an
act relative 10 recording deeds and other
conveyances and contracts In the county al
Hinds; an act for the relief Of Kate l.. Mi
nor; also Senate Joint resolution In refer
ence 10 selling old furniture of the Capitol
In which concurrence Il desired.
The following bills were approHed by the
Governor, originating ia the House: An act
To incorporate the town OF Austin, Mlssls-
sippi, and for other purposes; an act q
amend the charter OF the town OF SenatOblA,
in the couty OF DeSofo, state of Mississippi
approved July Is, 1870.
The Governor returned TO the House with
his disapproval, an act TO suspend the work
on the Court House and Jail OF Clarke
county until the question Of the location OF
the same shall be submitted 20 a vote Of the
people. aud for other purposes
MIR. Catchings moved 10 postpone further
consideration of the above bill until Mon
Gay next. Carried.
message was received from the Secre-
tary of state, stating that the following
bills not hayiag been signed by the Cover
nor and not having been returned within
the time prescribed. after having been pre-
sent"d 10 him. have become "A law OF the
State of Mississippi, by operation OF the
Constitution: An act 10 authorize ~ IL
Wood aud Frank Souter TO erect a mill aud
cotton gin In PontOtoc county, and for other
purposes; an act 10 incorporate the Phaa-
nixbuTg Manufacturing Company, in Ita-
wanda county; an act 10 Incorporate the
Vicksburg Street Railroad Company; Con-
current Resolution relating 10 the notifiea-
ton of his Excellency, the Governor, OF his
Senatorial election.
;. j. X. No. Is, In relation TO selling old
furniture Of the Capitol, was passed.
An act 10 incorporate the VieksbuTg Pio-
neer Manufacturing Company. Passed
An act 70 incorporate the Meridian Male
Institute was taken up, and with the addi.
tion OF the following section, was passed
BE it further enacted, That this act shall
remain la force for period OF ten years.
Adjourned.
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The Radical Lenders Renewing
their War ON the South.

The following resolution has passed the
I. S. Senate by the votes of the Republi-
can members. Its mover is the rec
Ognized mouthpiece of the Administra-
ton in that body:
Mr. Morton.-Resolved, That a select
committee of five Senators be appointed, to
which shall be referred the documents anG
papers recently laid before the Senate by
the President in reference to the condition
Ofthe Southern States; and that such COM
mittee have power TO employ a clerk and
Tenographer, to send for persons and pa
perS, administer oaths, and investigate the
matters referred to in the documents and
papers aforesaid; and the truth or falsehood
Ol the crimes and outrages of political
character alleged to have been committed in
the Southern States; and whether there be
IN those States security for persons and
property.
The resolution was opposed by the
Democratic members as a measure of vim
dctiye persecution of the South and to
revive the fires of sectional animosity in
the North to subserve the purposes of the
Radical party. Their appeals and argu-
ments were unheeded. The speeches of
the carpet-bag Senators, Warner of Ala
bama, and Sawyer of South Carolina,
We're especially bitter and calumnious
towards the people whom they misrepre-
sent.
The resolution was passed, and a COM
mittee was appointed consisting of Messrs.
Scott of Pennsylvania, Wilson of Massa-
ehusetts, Chandler of Michigan, Rice of
Kansas, (all Repubhcans), and Bayard
Of Delaware (Democrat.) Oaths will be
manufactured to order and any amount
0 testimony will be paraded to show the
Insecurity of loyal persons in the South.
This system of manufacturing ''out-
ages' for partizan effect was played out.
rs revival by the Radical rulers is proof
their desperate condition. 1t is un-
aistakeable evidence that they have ut
sfy despaired of securing the Southern
Sates to their corrupt and proscriptive
party. The movement can give the peo-
Heof the South who are the objects of
1e malicious proceeding no alarm
Sf apprehension of danger. Let
ven steadily pursue the even
euOt OF their way, scrupulously OBJ
ssrVng all the duties that devolve upon
Den as law-abiding citizens. But they
Tea : not expect to change the plans Of
= Radical spoilsmen. Do as they may,
VII be fabricated, and volumes of
sS0cOus calumny viii be heaped upon
%rune. Still it viii all avail nothing.
l. @' iate of the Radical party is sealed.
: : : falling to pieces by its own corrup-
~ and can no longer be called a ma
u'aal organization.
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Franklin and Wood. two carpet-baggers
who wormed them selves into our State Leg
isIature on negro votes, died during the fall,
and now the jackson Pilot contains nye
columns OF lamentation-all at the expense
Of the State Treasury OF MISSES PPlVt.o ~ 10
raorIe IN the State to have two such fellows
ppensioned on them while life was In them,
bnt 10 have to bleed to the extent OF nun
dTeds OF dollars in their behalf after their
death, in hollow and ostentatlous olSPlAy' -
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The duplicated Omce-HoIders

We have called attention to the fact
that a number of the carpet-bag members
of the Legislature, negroes and mean
whites, who have been appointed to office
we're still clinging to their il1-gotten seats
in that body in violation of their pledges,
and Of the spirit, if not the very letter of
republican institutions. A similar game
is extensively practiced by the Barnacles
in the Louisiana Legislature and it is so
indecent and disreputable that even the
n. 0. Republican, the official organ of
their party, has denouncedit.
We have expected that a movement
would be made in the Legislature to
purge that body of these duplicated spoils-
men and that the Governor would in
some signal manner, attest his repugnance
10 their course. He can at least remove
them from the offices to which they were
appointed. We will take early occasion
to obtain and publish their names
Among the number we are reminded by
the following advertisement in the Vicks-
burg Times, that old Stringer, the saddle
colored 'surreptitious" Senator from the
populous and intelligent county of War
ren, is classed
shall necessarily be absent from the city
in attendance on the Legislature, and have
appointed A. ii. Arthur, Esq, Chancery
(lpFE my fn orr fn hns
All persons having funds to pay to me, or
those having orders on me, will please call
on him. Any official act of his for me will
be sanctioned and approved.
THOS. w. STRINGER,
Treasurer of Warren County.
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Louisiana papers report murderous
affray in Claiborne parish, between two
planters in consequence of the interfer-
ence of one 90 break up the contracts
which the other had made with laborers
in his employment. The Picayune di-
rects sctention to the sad affair in the
hope that some good may come out of it.
Last year complaints, says the Picayune,
were loud and general of the hands
abandoning their contracts and making
other engagements and, as We are in
formed, the hands in many instances,
Welded to the blandishment of other par
ties. Now, this thing should be frowned
down, and entirely abandoned. This Sc
ducing Of laborers from their engage
ments is not only unneighborly, but dis
honorable, and at war with the whole
planting interests of the State. The
planter who practices it this season sue
cessfully may himself he the victim the
next, even, indeed, before the close of the
present season. 1t is at war with the
planters best interests, because it robs
labor of its reliable. character, puts ex-
travagant notions in the labOrers heads
as to the value of their labor to the en-
ployer, and must end in making the col
ored laborer but of little more worth
than tramp.
So long as proprietors themselves en-
gage in this worse than sneak-thief prac-
tice, and thus set the example of dishon-
orable dealing before ignorant and unex-
perienced freedmen, they need not ex-
pect the latter to observe their contracts
with them.
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Thereceipts of cotton at all the ports OF
the United States on the goth January
since 1st September last were, 2,048, 600
bales, against 1, ,634, 900 for the same pc
rod last year, showing an increase of Al, =
900 bales, or about 26 per cent. The
total exports TO January goth were $50, 900
bales in excess of last season.
These figures do not encourage hope
Of an advance in prices, nor do they war
rant transactions for the year 1871 on the
basis of prices higher than the present
But they admonish planters to diversity
their crops; to produce less cotton and
more grain and give better attention to
their hogs and other stock.
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1t is uow understood that Congressional
committee is to take the Ku klux in hand.
By all means. And let this commission not
rest until il has nabbed Grand High Cock
alorum of this fraternity, or at least Sub
Exalted Gnome, and when nabbed, let the
captive be put in a cage and shown through
out the country. The columns OF newspa-
ners have too long had a monopoly of these
Curious beings.-N. Y. World.
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The Legislature

I'll 7 oe,;slo...-- - oiuung at a daily
cost of several thousand dollars to the
people; and yet after a session of several
weeks, embracing half the usual time of
former sessions, it has not yet fairly COM
menced the main work, which the major
ity profess their intention to accomplish.
lii putting the case too mildly to say
that the popular discomfort is deep and
universal
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A Poor SHow.-It is noteworthy that
the papers accompanying Grants mes
sage sounding the note for the renewal of
the war of prescription against the South,
bear date from four to six years ago. 1t
Is the old story told over again.
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There is a very general outcry against
the enormous wages paid in many of the
counties to teachers of the public schools.
In many instances their salary is fixed as
high as $3.50 per month. Competent
+eschero can be employed for half the
amount.
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YALOBUSHA COUNTY.
From the Valonian.


We have taken some pains tocOllect from
our excellent Sheriff, DIR. Montgomery, the
amount of tax he is cOlleetingin this coun-
ty and we will give the figures in such a
way, as we think all can understand them,
and from these figures, each me can make
an approximate estimate of their taxes, If
they know the value of their ZEAL and per-
sonal property.
The State Tax as fixed by tie recent act
of the Legislature, is One-haF of one per
cent. on the value of real and personal prop
erty, or fifty cents on every hundred dollars,
IOr five dollars on every thousand dollars
value of property. Then the regular coun-
Ity tax is one hundred and twenty-five per
cent. on the State tax or sixty-two and a
half cents on the hundred or six dollars and
la half on the thousand. The Pauper Tax
lis 25 per cent of the State tax, or l213 cents
on the hundred or 20 on the thousand
dollars. Then comes the School Tax, which
is, for Teachers fund ONE hundred per cent.
or same as State Tax,-SchOol House fund
is one fifth of the State tax or 10 cents on
the hundred dollars. Thus we foot up:
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or $3.50 on every thousand dollars valua-
ton of property.
The Poll Tax of $500 on each male in
habitant over q and under 80 years of age,
is added but once and that is TO the State
Tax.
The tax on privileges as provided by the
4th Section of the Revenue Law of the
State, has nothing to do with the regular
taxes, now being collected by the Sheritfs of
the several counties.
All taxes must be paid by the 1st of
March, after that date, 80 per cent may be
added by the Sheriff as the law provides.
And the Interesting "Bill of Venice" pro-
vides for the "pound of flesh" too.
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The radicals in congrss talk about abolish
ing the iron-clad oath. They need not
trouble themselves about that. It doesn't
stand much in the way OF democratic
victories, and the democracy VIII Abolish II
themselves In very short time.-The
Pittsburg Paper.
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TAXES OF FRANKLIN COUNTY, 1869.
Grand total, 1870. ....... .. .s22,949 u

THIS it will be seen that the people of
Franklin county have been assessed $751;
S47 4: more for the year 1870 than the pre-
ceding year, or more than three times the
amOun. assessed in 1869. To enable our
readers to form some idea of what their
taxes viii be under the present assessment.
we will state that some men who only paid
nine and ten dollars taxes for the year 1869,
paid here few days ago, on the same prop
erty, at the sam9 valuation, on the assess
ment of 1870, forty and forty-two dollars. :.
And while the statement above exhibits
an amount equal to three tines that as
sessed in 1869, it seems that the taxes of
some individuals, for 1870, are tour times
the amount of that paid the preceding
year.
The county, special and school teachers
taxes, each, will correspond with the amount
of whatever your State tax may be, exclu-
sive of tour poll. The schoo house tax
will be just half the amount OF the school
teachers tax making the amount assessed
for school purposes in this county about
seven thousand dol lars.
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The Secret Service Fund--What
has gone with ia?
Adjourned
From the Meridian

EOul tic %tA~iNAA
The fifty thousand dollars Secret Service
Fund, placed at the private disposal of the
Governor, IL said 10 have been all expended.
Nobody has seen the fruits yet. IL Is proba-
bly, bread cast upon the water. Whether IL
Is or not, It IL easy to imagine there Is some
missing bread from the scant tables OF some
poor Taxpayers.
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tum in certain portions of Mississippi. Let
US have law against the smaller, il not all
classes of quadrupeds. What say the mas
tiers of the soil TO the rulers of the country!
7. @. r.
Clinton, Miss Jan. 10. 1871.
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THE REvENUE LAWS.
FrightfuI Increase of Taxation
The Burthen InsuPPOrtabIe.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.

As the subject of taxation is one in which
nearly all persons are interested, we pro-
pose to give a comparative statement for
the benefit of eur readers, and 10 show
them the increased amount they are com.
PEELED 70 pay under the Radical rule, and
for the privilege of living under officers
chosen mostly by the non-taxpaying people
of the State-or at least the majorities were
ruled by that class.
The statement we give has reference only
TO Franklin county; but we presume the
same ratio of increase will apply to any
other county in the State.
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THE SPECIAL ELECTIoNs-We have
heard nothing from the special election
in Choctaw county which came off on the
oath. Yazoo county, it is reported, has
elected Republican.
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The Conservative says q negro girl was
burned to death near Carrollton recently.
She was sleeping on pallet in front of the
fire.
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snne sne year 1871 will be the 2 ,183d year
lie q 0reclan era, and the last year of
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TAxArIoN.-Special attention is called
70 the startling exhibits published else
xbere, under this head.