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The National Game.

Mr.. Jack Littlegdnle's opinion and experience IA
| regard TO Bass Bal as q busiResS-Hts de-
scriptton Of the game.
Who should / meet bat Sam Skingame
black. stOve-pipe hat patent-leather boots
and all.
whats the lay, SAM" seq 1. whats
yer little gamer"
.sThe Nashunal Game" sez Sam. sim q
member an stakeholder of the Dirty
Stockins."
"Yes, but what's the game? Is it bones
or papers ?" SEE /, kinder ignorIn the stock
@It's the one-ban game" seq Sam. 1.-The
Nashnnal Game of Base Ball. Want 20
| jine ~
"Well. / don't mind" SEE ], AZ but I'd like
TO be left out of wearin the stockins tin
cooler weather"
"Stow that" seq Sam. ''Dirty Stockins is
the pet name-of our Professional nine"
|. So Sam agreed to let me have some of his
stock an some brads to pay for membership,
an we went up to the Cheatem grounds TO
see the fust game for the championship bet
veen the Dirty Stockins and the Soiled
Shirts of Sedalia- 1t was hot as blazes, but
you may pick me up for a fiat if there warn I
more than three thousand people sitting
| there in the sun.
Pretty soon the game began. The first
thing they did was to select an umpire.
An umpire duty is to stan out one side an
once in while he sings out, sOne bawl y
Two bawl!- After they had stood the UNI
pire out i'm the sun, one ofthe Dirty Stocking
picked up big club and stood over little
iron plate like pavior with a rammer.-
Three other chaps went and stood on three
| little sail-cloth cushions three other fellows
winked at each other and got as far out In
the field as they could another man planted
himself about fifteen feet from one of the
chap on the little cushion. Sam says they
n. =, n
stop there long before his head is caved in
| by thssbill. Then player stood behind the
| chap on the little iron plate. an. another
went in front of him an'began to pitch a ball
| at his head, an he'd dodge il, an then the
chap behind would chuck it back.
Bim-by the Teller that held the full hand
| of clubs got mad, struck the ball an drove ii
| into the Short Stop mans stomach, flung his
| club back an knocked out the front teeth OF
| the man behind then he ran at one Of the
chaps on the little cushions, knocked him
down an stomp ped on him, an went for the
chap on the next cushions but the ball get
down there somehow before him. an the chr
on the second cushion grabbed it-an' fetched
him q Delt side of the head as he come up
Then the I'm ire yelled. ssOut y The crowd
cheered. the wounded was carried of in an
ambulance, new men put in their places, an
they beganl MI over again.
1ssked Sam If anybody ever got hurt
playin' the nashunal game
- Not enough to interfere with the game. y
says Sam. We've located our grounds
pretty near the City Hospitals, have our
own ambulance, coroner and undertaken,
/ and the doctors bring the medical students
over 20 all the matches to study surgery.
We did have life and accident Insurance.
agent ba1fhe frat two matches failed bis
Sam says that when the nashunal game
was fnst introduced, men used to play for
the fun an, exercise but sense Jonl Nor
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sHrr rHE DooR SOFTLY.

- the door softly, mothers asleep,
- fever Is broken, her slumber Is deep,
- in her pale face, and see there no pain
ling be thankful, we've mother again.
- the door seftly, and come to her side,
Ehst should we do if our mother had died
II who has loved US our weary lives
II through;
gt the door softly, and kneel with me
Il Him NV who has spared US our own mother
10 ha; given her back to our arms once
,rre Il her through danger and softened her
pain.
n the door softly,and look in her face.
III Zee how it gathered in health and in
.ho not handsome, this mother of ours,
sIing 20 life like the budding of flowers
4 NJ lose all in this fast flying life,
a. and brother, and husband and wife,
Etber's love only, all times has defied;
~ the door softly, and come to her side.
=, the door softly, mothers awake, -
= rom the shores of the fathomless lake /;
earv with travel, but laden with charms,
r~n;ng 10 clasp us within her arms.
u ,6er dear motherl we loved you before,
,a- we shall love you thousand times
LEONE dear heart from the shadowy land
~ me door softly, and kiss hear dear
hand.
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The Dangcr- Of ChIornI.

The Boston Medical and Surgical journal
Of July 20 has communication from Or
n. X. Smith, OF Baltimore. showing the
poisonous effects of hydrate Of chloral when
persistently used for the purpose of produc
ing sleep and fatal results of large doses -
Five eases of death froLd its use, four Of them
ia Baltimore, some OF them very sudden. are
mentioned. When given In small doses,
and continuously for some time, IL seems 10
produce gangrene of the eXtremeties. Civ
en- in large doses, and especially where the
system may have been charged with IL by
its previous administration, it exerts it,
deadly effects upon the heart or brain, per-
haps Oh both. aud causes immediate death.
1t Y believed chloral. entering into the blood
develops chlOroform in that fiuid, the amount
developed being determined not merely by
the quantity taken, but by the condition OF
the fluid. As 10 the use Of chlorolorm itself.
this experienced surgeon says the more he
come in its harInlessness.
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Register or You
Vote.
A Voice from Newton.

NEWTON, Miss, August Z, 1871.
EDITORS CLARION: Perhaps it would not
be very irkseme to the readers of your jour
nal, to know something of the acts and do
ings of the officials of this county, and OF
the political prospects of the Opposers OF
tyrants, traitors, and perjured thieves that
are now lording it over our people.
The taxpayers, or those of them who
were able, have recently finished paying the
enormous tax of two and one-third per cent
on the valuation of their property, exclu-
sive of the poll tax; and, Notwithstanding
the exorbitant taxes levied and collected
from the people, the county is filled with
county warrants; and having no Court
House or Jail to build. nor railroad incorpo-
rations to be made rich at their expense,
the question is frequently asked how it is
that the people are
TAXED To DEATH,
and yet the county owes more to-day than
it did the day j. i. AlCorn was inaugurated
Governor of the State. The impression is
that at least one-half the warrants in circu-
lation have been issued upon bogus bases, or
CoUNTERFEITED STRAIGHT OUT.
No good, honest and reliable citizen of
this section who knows G. S. Swan, the pres
ent incumbent of the Clerks Office of this
county, believes otherwise than that he is
capable of doing any act known in the
CATALOGUE OF CRIMES.
Judge Leachman has dismissed two sets
of grand jurors in this county on account of
beins packed or composed of the most
IGNORANT AND CORRUPT MATERIAL
that could be raked or scraped up inside the
county.
Judge L., by his acts of justice, and in
favor of law and order, has incurred the
deadly hatred of the unprincipled officers of
the county. Or it may be he has lost his
standing among them because he would not
connive at their
DAMNABLE ACTS,
nor affiliate with them in their Shiny filth.
The Board of Supervisors have done many
little filthy acts; and on one occasion ap-
prcximated on a small scale the thieving
measure known as the Penitentiary bill.
East Mississippi will roll up
MAGNIFICENT VICTORY
over the Radical misrulers despite all efforts
that the thieves may make to the contrary.
Nothing can prevent it except bayonets and
the locking up of all Democratic voteFs-as
now seems to be the probable programme of
the tyrants. Respectfully,
A PRIVATE IN THE MARINE CORPS"
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TIE CANVAss.


! According. % previous notice. q l4rge
meeting Of the Democratic party OF IHaga
| county assembled at b o'clock 81. Jult Gi.t
ISL, In The Court House at EIlisrlllo. to
nominate candidates for County and District
/ offices.
ON motion. william Baylis was called to
the Chair, and Thomas 4. Garner selected
/ Secretary.
At ths request OF the President and Of tbo
meeting Chas. A. Smith. Esq, was called
upon To address the mcrting who ably and
eloquently explained aud advocated enc
meeting aud the purposes aud aims OF the
| Democratic party.
On motion, IL was, Resolved. That tho
Ihalr appoint delegates from each Bent iu
the county 70 meet and confer with the Cove
ington county delegation lu order AZ uouI
cate candidate for representative from
this and Covington county. Whtrpuuau
TIE CHAIR appointed the following named
delegates:
Beat No. flames W. Graysou, delegate
ID. ID. PTidgen, alternate.
Beat No. 2-E. A. smith, delegate; To-.
HUI. alternate.
Beat No. Ball c. Smith, delegate; D..
Melborn, alternate.
Beat o.a-A. McGilbefy. dpIpuatp. A TT.
Irest, alternate.
Beat No. 5-willlam Hood, delegate. ..
A. Pisdale, alternate
On motion, the Hon. v. A. collins una
recommended as thc choice of fhe tunttu-
On motion. Il was, Received THAT each
supervisors beat be- Recommended to huIH
Beat conventions prior to che fret saturday
OF september, 1871, and select dtlrgnfr~ tun
County convention, Cd bc held at ElIis,ille.
on the first saturday OF ,@eptphHFF, 1871. CD
nominate candidates for the various .Cuuty
Offices
ON motion, 10 was, Resolved, That M is the
sense Of tho Democratic party uf Jones
county that =. III. Terrul. Eco. 81 Clarke. b.
the choice OF our people for thc office oi Dls-
trict Attorney.
Resolved, That a delegation Of I've be ape
pointed by the Chairman 90 attend District
20 nominate b. candidate tuh lIs-
trict Attorney, whenever and wherever thn
same may be- held.
Whereupon the Chair appointed The iol-
lowing named delegates. tO-wlf.
Beat NO. III. k. Shaw, delegate; r.. M.
DuYalL alternate.
Beat No 2-WW.H Turner. delegate; vs..
+. Harper, alternate.
Beat No. 3-J"hn Smith, delegate; A.. T..
McGill. alternate.
Beat No.4-Walden Lewis. delegate. sto-
phen jenkins, alternate
Beat No. b-John W. Grayaou. delegate
J. NJ. Baylis. alternate,
On motion. Shuhuta was recommended nH
a suitable place for holding enc judicial
District Convention, aud Reddock'a storp al
a suitable place for holding BeprrteuIa-
tive Convention.
Resolved. That the proceedings of hls
meeting be published in the Shubum Times.
On motion, the Convention adjourned.
WM. BANIlS, Chairman.
THos, j. GARNER Secretary.
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STRONG EMoTIoN.-Strong emotion ex-
presses itself In the body as well the face.
and in every master piece the whole human
form is made 10 speak, the hand and feet are
eloquent. Manhood aud wOmanhoOd Ga
hours of exultation will flow TO the our
skirts Of their kingdom. and Undue every
attitude and gesture with significance and
power.
Have you not sometimes, In listening to
sweet sounds, had such conceptions OF love,
and truth. and JOY, as no earthly experience
ever brought you, and such suggestions Of
the boundlessness OF your being a. almost
overpOwered your weak, bodily lilel DO
not regard them as fanciful momentary eff
fects. No faintest idea Of power, or beauty,
or affection beyond that Of earth, ever
crosses the mind, bnt IL has its reality In the
life beyond. 10 take courage. hearth This
Is one OF Gods ways Of teaching thee, and
these things shall begin 10 be verlties when
thou shalt see Him as He is"
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FARMING.

have often spoken of the importance
l dignity of farming as a pursuit, and
i IN the face of the great advancement
n mas been made in late years, there are
many farmers who regard themselves
literally, "toilers." without aspirations
higher attainments and without Prom
OF improvement in the future. We
Fat what we have often said, that farm
Is not simply profession, but of all
lesslons, IN its practice, it embraces the
n widest range of scientific truths and
lai facts, and it cannot be disputed that
A hls pursuit we have afforded the widest
ior the exercise of the analytic mind.
now few of those who own vast acres
ever pause to inquire into the influence
ley start to work, or ask concerning the
e which lead to such important results.
4 at present conducted, there is a large
punt of very difficult labor required to
performed in farming. There is no ex-
Hfnce attainable without effort, and the
.her who can command the respect of his
PW-men and the confidence of the entire
munity. by the success he achieves, has
cause for pride. Science and human
are required TO effect the results we all
re TO See, and when our farmers, gem
y, with a higher appreciation of their
Aclties, and a truer estimate of the re-
they bring about, will earnestly labor
naSe their pursuit attractive and profit
There will be the less cause for COM
Pc remark oft-quoted is, that farming is
most independent of all the callings of
Ihis may be true sometimes, but it Is
Irue in every case. To become really
essfuly in farming, the latest develop
Of science, bearing on agriculture,
oe properly estimated. Care, attention,
lestness, and industry, are the qualities
banded, and we speak of this now only
nPress on the minds of many that sue
y attainable only by unremitting ex-
on. There must be a constant desire to
Prove, but, unfortunately, too many
ners think that when they attain q
Eger an incentive or inducement to in
fsea exertions.-Farmers'H Home journal.
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copy.
HERNANDo, Misi., July 31st, 1871 =.
IL IL VI n
Chairman Executive Con

HERNANDo, Misi., July 3Ist, 1871.
IL ii. CHALMERS, ESQ., Chairman Executive
Committee Of Opponents Of Rddicdlisnc
SR-Your communication of this date is
al hand, and in reply we beg leave most re-
sDectfully to decline your Kind and thought
full suggestions, for the following reasons,
to-wit:
LIST. At Mass Meetings and Barbecues Civ
en- by party. it is not customary to give a
division of time to the opposition.
I'd. Plenty of speakers have been invited
to occupy the entire day, and having been
invited expect To speak; and they would
consider themselves uncourteously treated
we're the time given to others.
Sd. If the Republican party had been de-
sIrous of division of time they would have
requested it OF the "Oppobents of Radical
ISM on the Sd of July; but judging of the
future by the past, we suppose that the OPP
ponentS of Radicalism would feel as they
did in 1868 when they refused to let Re-
publican be heard. For these reasons we
had nothing to ask then, and we have no
time to give now.
Further, we recognize no such political
party as that to which your Committee pur-
ports to belong, to-wit: Opponents of Rad
iealism." Respectfully,
G.. +. HARRIS,
MARION CAMPBELL,
A. w. SMITH.
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HrRNANDo. MISS. Aug. a. is

IIERNANDo, Miss, Aug. 4, 1871.
Hons. GEO. f. HARRIS, MARION CAMPBELL,
and a. w. SMITH:
entlemen-Your favor dated July 3lst.
which seems to have required four days to
be transmitted by hand distance of one
hundred yards, was this morning received.
Recognizing to the fullest extent, your
right to avoid discussion. if you think it
best to do so, and without stopping to
comment on the taste of your reply, beg
leave to inform you that l shall myself adj
dress the voters of this comfy at Dixie. on
tomorrow, when and where shall be pleas
ed to afford a fair division of time to Re
publican speakers, and upon which occasion,
should you honor me with your attendance,
| shall try to persuade you to 'frecognize''
the existence of such party as the ''Oppo-
nents of Radicalism."
Very respectfully, yours. ETC.,
III. III. CHALMERS.
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CHESTERFIELD AND MusTc.-No iady's
education Is considered perfect at the pre-
sen&-day without music as one OF her accom-
plishments. And happily for the promotion
of she finer susceptibilities, the taste for
music has Of late years made rapid progress
amongst all classes in this country. But Il
may be curious 20 note that Lord Chester
field, In his Letters TO his SOn"-the title
Of which every body knows-had an opinion
decidedly adverse 20 musical education. for
he writes" III love musick, bear it; 20 20
operas. concerts, and pay fddlers 20 play Cor
you; but must insist upon your neither
piping nor adding yonrslf Ii puts a gem
tleman in very frivolous and contemplate
light, and brings him into a good deal Of
bad company, and takes up great deal Of
time which might be better mployed. Few
things would mortify me more than 20 lsee
you bearing part III q concert, with a Id
die under your chin, or q pipe Ia your
MOUTH This almost rivals DR.. johnson
contempt for the = flddlesn an Instrument
which, he said, took q man q lifetime 70
lenrntnnd when learnt was not worth the
trouble which it had cost.
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The Republican party of Louisiana di-
vided into two Conventions in New Or
leans on Wednesday last. The adherents
of each wing were very bitter in their de
nunciations of the other. As usual un-
der Radical rule the bayonet was a proni
nent feature of the entertainment II
affords us pleasure to know that that pc
tent INSTRUMENT Of oppression which hai
hitherto been used only upon Democrats
has been turned upon its friends W.
have no choice between the wings, a.
each is composed Of Wreckera who have
been despoiling the people Of Louisiana,
Particulars win % found u another col
umn.
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uApnov COUNTY coNvrvrIov.


Pursuant 20 notice the delegates elected
az the several Beat meetings assembled a.
the Court House in Canton on Monday,
Aug. 7th. aud organized bv the appointment
OF l.. u. Montgomery, President and John
). Robinson and jas. II. Duulavy, secrcta-
rie-.
on motion Of John r. BoswOrth lt was
Resolved, That the delegates elected 90
the primary meetings report their names 10
the Secretary.
on motion Of NJ. b. McAIicken. q was
Resolved, That upon questions arising ~
this Convention aud iu the nomination OF
candidates each Police Beat be entitled 70
five votes, which votes shall De cast for
delegates present from each Beat and that
all votes shall be taken BY Beats.
ON motion 81 John Handy, DO was
Resolyed. That ID n the sense Ofthis Com
vention. that In the nomination ofcandidate8
for the Legislature AID for County Ofncca,
at least one halfOf those nominated, should
come from the ranks Of the colored citizens
II they desire Il, they being a majority Of
the voters OF this county, and inasmuch as
the cOlOred citizens have not had sufficient
time 20 consult a. 10 their wishes Ia thla
respect, therefore resolved, that when this
Convention adj0nrns it be 90 meet on thH
first Saturday Ia September next.
In obedience % a resolution 0i the con"
ventiOn. the following Executive Committee
n. j. semmes. Chairman; w. q. Kearny,
L. +. Montgomery, John 4. Cratin, and +.
u. Hamblin.
The following gentlemen were appointed
a committee 20 draft a series Of resolutions
TO be submitted % the Convention 60 itl
adjourned meeting.
j. b. Tell0wly, q. w. OTeary, p. r,
Hamblin, SamI Brown aud Powell Camp
bell.
On motion, it was
Resolved, That THE CLAhiohi canton NAH
and Citizen be requei ted 90 publish tha
proceedings Of the Convention.
On motion, Convention adjourned.
i. II MONr90hEhfs President.
gN9' y, hon,heoA Secretaries.
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UNIVERSITY OF THE SoUTHl

| SENANEE, 1ENN.. aug. otL. 1871. \
| REV. DR.. CRANE-MY DEAR SIR:-Ou1
| Examination, or rather commencement,
is just over, and l know that you will re-
| joice with me at the honors won by our
Mississippi boys.
RosC0E BARNETT, of Vicksburg, took the
End Distinction both in Scholarship and
Department, in the University Department /;
and would have shared with the LIST, if he
had added Greek to his other studies. His
untiring industry will not fail to elevate
him to much higher honors in after life.
ALEXANDER VIRDEN attained highe
rank for both Scholarship and Department
than any one ofhIs fellow-students in either
the University Department or the Grammer
School, Numbering together nearly two
hundred) having reached 81 37-lO0 when the
perfect or highest possible mark was 100 Not
one Demerit mark has blotted his rec ord
since his naturalization year ago.
Two golden metals were awarded him:
One by the Trustees, and another presented
by Col. Duncan as reward to the best
scholar from Mississippi. A third distinc-
ton was also heaped upon him, but do not
remember for what it was given.
send the foregoing as literal copy of
part of the "Annual Report" read out on
Commencement.
AS a Speaker, or Declaimer, CHARLES
HOOKER promises to keepup the reputation
of his father.
One of the Professors remarked to me
yesterday that the Mississippi boys, taken
together, were more distinguished for
S,hoIarshin ana Denortment than those
from any other of the Dioceses.
We ended the Spring Term a week ago
with HSO students. Already on this the
first day of the Fall Term, we number 200.
or upwards. Ia haste,
Yours truly,
w NJ GREEN
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The Mississippi DIgest-HmPOrtan I
Information 10 Lawyers.
LETTER FROM col. J. z. GEORGE TO GEN. T. J.
WHARTON.
CARRoLLroN, Miss, Aug. 5,


CARRoLLToE, Miss, Aug. 5, 1871.
Ny DEAR SIR I'm answer to yours and
similar enquiries from various pwts of the
State, in relation to the Mississippi Digest,
state, that am engaged daily on the same
and have more than three-fourths of the
labor behind me, and l expect to put the
book in press during. the coming winter. L
know there have been complaints of delay,
but whoever will consider the amount of
work necessary TO the completion of the
Digest. will not grumble at the delay. The
reading of AZ Volumes Of Law Reports is no
slight lob, and when this is done with the
view and purpose OF understanding eacn
case and makinga synopsis of its contents.
the time is greatly increased. After tins
is done, then comes the further labor OF
arrangement and the compilation of the final
text for the press accompanied by cross
references so essential to good Digest
This work ought not to be done in hasfy
or careless manner.
complaints of unnecessary delay. The book
when published will not pay me ten cents
day for the time employed on 1t. and can
not therefore abandon my practice In order
I have promised many of my friends TO
complete the work. and am endeavoring to
redeem that promise; but owe ie to the
professions, as well IS to myself, not 70 be
hurried into q publication without the
necessary time and care 70 make the Digest
nc least useful.
Judge a. M. Clayton win prepare the
Title on LimiEation OF Estates, and this is q
guaranty Of the value OF that part OF IL.
With that exception, the entire labor tails
on me; and whoever thinks that 10 e 9
holiday matter may convince himself py
making Blgesk IL he can. at bis leisure
holiday moments. a
very truly yours; !.
10 Hosx T. J. WHAnroN.
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VENTILATfoN.-Fresh air by day and
night. strong and nourishing food, dry soil
on which TO live, sunlight aud warm cloth
ing. are the means OF saving many lives
which would have been hopelessly lost In
the preceding generation. IL our cOnjec-
expected to continue. and everybody can
help to make IL greater. Ventilate the
school-room, and the workshops, and the
stores, and the houses. In cold weather,
let air, comfortable and equally warmed,
be generally supplied from without ia a
constantly flowing current. Let those who
can provide IL IN their homes remember that
an open fire. which sends thirds Of the heat
up the chimney, furnishes the best ventIla-
tion for a room OF moderate size which the
ingenuity OF man has yet devised, and that
the heat escaping by the hue IA the price "a
be paid for it. Let in the sunlight, and
never mind the carpets; better they should
fade than the health of the family.