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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC

MITTEE.-AnOther member of the
committee writes as follows under
date of March II: 81 think the Ma
tiOnal Executive COmmitIee should
be convened at Baltimore or ST.
Lonis. The hesitatiug and waveIing
policy, which characterized the can
vass in 1865 as to changing candi-
dates, &C., should be IA salutary
lesson to us. l am in favor of as
sembling The committee tOdetermine
the time and place of holding the
National Convention. The policy
TO be adopted ought, in my judg
ment, to be determined by the con
ventiOn'
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06

Most TRUE.-The Iuka Gazette
has the following notice of the Cor.
NTH Neaes, a paper that is so ''dig.
nified" that it cannot stOOp to expose
official malefactOrs. The Gazette
says:
The COrinth .Ne,cs is never heard de
nOuncing such uDmitigated Sound
rels as jacobson and his associates
In viilany, but saves its lightning to
fash at the Ilka Gazette and other
Southern papers, which think prop
er to speak well of their own section,
though it may give Offense to the
whole pack of Radical freebOOters.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06
A Snecial to the Chicago Tribune

A special to the Chicago Tribune
stases that ''Chief Justice CHASE is
in New York, insisting Oh "A Dem
Ocratic Convention, and a nominal
ton by that body. He is tiercel.
opposing Judge DAVIS. The latter
is working vigorously for himself,
and is talking somewhat indiscreet.
~. He regards TRUMBULL his chief
rival, and says if the people outside
of Illinois understood his trickerH
as well as it is in that STATE, h-
would not he dangerous Thus the
rumOrs go, yesterday it was an
nounced that Judge DAVIS had de-
clared against all Presidential hon
Ors. and that Judge CHASE. by
reason of declining healt., had set
his affections Oh higher objects than
the White House. But We must
look to the papers for the newsstand
either do without the article entire
ly. or take it as it comes Louis
ritle Ledger.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06
What are the Facts ?

The questions of slavery and Sc
cessiOn having been settled for all
time to come by the war, and by the
voluntary action of the Southern
States, through Constitutional Con
ventiOnS, these issues are dead,
never to be renewed. 1t has, more
over. been decided that the Union
under the Cons tuition is indissOlu-
HE, subject. of course, to the right
# revolution. AS matters now
-tand, no State can withdraw from
the Union, nor can it he dissolved
by Congress. In word, there
should not now be any cause for
continued animOsity between the
sections, and it is the mission of the
Democratic party to restore AMIGA
ole relations and place the Federal
and State Governments in such
hands as will secure the prosperity,
which is the happiness, Of the peO-
pie.
The Radical party was born in
corruption. will live in corruption,
ami will soon die in corruption. II
is being deserted by its best men,
and the moment is approaching
when patriotic men of all shades of
political opinion will band together
10 preserve Constitutional Govern
ment.
The people are crushed down by
oppressive taxation. They must be
relieved by a diminutiOn Of expend
lures, by reducing the expenses of
the army and navy, by remodelIing
the tariff, while atfor,ling ample in
cidental aid to all industrial pnr
suits, thus increasing the prosperity
of the same, which would give an
increased revenue, and enable us to
iisband the ell ire army of tax gath.
"rtrs, and oaway with internal tax
alton, except, perhaps, on whisky
and tobacco, and a just tax upon
national banks and bonds, in order
that taxation can fall upon wealth
and capital, and not on labor. The
people consider the present mOnOp-
oily in favor of National banks as
oppressive and unjust, and the same
privileges which they enjoy should
be open to al! who comply with the
DToNISIDlS Oh Tue Jaw.
The Democratic party is the en-
bOdimrnt of the Conservative Re
form element in the country, and
whatever may, or may not, occur in
the future, the salvation of the
country will be due to its well sus-
tame organization. 1t is the great
party of the people, seeking to add
TO the prosperity and glory of the
entire country.
Under the Democratic adminlstra-
tions of Jefferson, Monroe, Polk and
Pierce, our power, wealth and area
were quadrupled, carrying our flag
ard boundaries to the Pacific and
Cult of Mexico.
The people must understand that
on the present Struggle depends the
final solution of the vital question
whether Republics can maintain
written CONSTITUTIONS, or whether
they are traced in sand, to b.. swep.
away 10y the angry surges of party
faction and strife. They must know
that if the Radical party succeed in
the coming Presidential contest, the
is expunged. all the re-
served powers of the States, so es
Sential to the harmonious working
of our system, W II be annihilated,
and we shall have a centralized
in which all power
civil and military will be cOnsOlid
ated. The life of the nation is in
the hands of the people. Will they
take it !-Bdit. Ecen. Journal.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06
rIt is rumored that the RI

UIt is rumored that the rela
tives of the late Charles Dickens
are by no means satisfied with Mr..
Forster's lite of the novelist, and
that u history of his career, pub
lisned under dleir auspices. will APP
pear in the pages of +" All the Year
Ronnd." the magazine which MIR.
Dickens conducted, and of which
he Was editor at the time of his
death.
s., PEOPLE would do well not to
spend their money for this book, as
it is evidently of Ii. lie or no valne.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06

If any one doubts the position Of
the Pilot on the subject of the social
equality bill, says the Vicksburg
Herald. let him read the following
fion that paper of Sunday:
We learn that a new bill, similar
tu the one which passed both houses,
and WAS stolen from the desk of the
Enr"lling Clerk, has been introduced
liz the House by Mr.. Carter, OF War
T.u cuunty-the author OF the orig
i.al bill-and if the Republicans
sfrnd united, as they should, upon a
mens"re Of this kind it ,eiH pass the
House in time to reach the Sendfe
carly "ert sccek, rhen zee trust erery
LepHLiicax .ScRdtOr aciU be in his seat.
NJ one who has ever read the
Plot could ever for a moment doubt
lIs position on the question Of social
equality. Old Peter Bailey and his
editorial associates seem 70 think it
:. high honor to associate with ne
grocs on all occasions,-they are
uever 30 much i'm their element as
When ''defending' the negro against
ssH-e imaginary wrong inflictedu upon
L,m-aud if a difficulty occurs be-
tween negro aud q white man,
tuey always search out the negro
uuI get his version OF the affair as
the true one. The editors of that
miserable maudliu sheet are all for
the negro. s'first, last and all the
time" and it is great pity Nature
made y mistake and gave them white
skins and straight hair instead of
black skins and woody heads Per
hapsNature will correct her mistake,
Ms far as she can, in their progeny.
The descendants of such a vile set
of miscegenationists, amalgamation-
lists aud negrOphOlists, should GER
ssiuIy be rs black as the ace Of
SPADES,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06
The Size Of London.

According to the last census. Lon
don has a population of $685., O92.
This is more than the combined pO-
puiatioh of New York, Philadelphia,
Brooklyn, st. Louis, Chicago. Balti-
more, Cincinnati, Boston. Buffalo,
New Orleans, San Francisco, and
Allegheny City, Pa. To lodge this
vast multitude, III, 900 dwellings
are required, aud the people con
sumo annually about 4.4SO,OOO bar
rels of flour. 42O, 900 buIlocks, 2.O75,-
900 sheep, 40, 900 calves, 81 ,26O hogs,
and one market alone supplies an
nually 1913, $50 head of game. This
together with 100000 salmon, be-
sides other fish and flesh, is washed
down by 75.65O,OO gallons of ale
and porter, 3 800 900 gallons of spir
its, and lib, 100 pipes of wine; ~,
$50 COWS are required to supply the
daily consumption OF milk. The
streets of the metropolis are about
1900 in number, and If put together
would extend abou. 1000 miles.
They are lighted by 63O,OOO lamps,
consuming every twenty-tour hours
22,27O.O7O cubic feet Of gas. The
wafer system supplies 1850, 1874
gallons daily, while the sewer sys
TEN carries off $685. 40 cubic feet
of refuse matter. A feet of 1,SW
sail is employed. irrespective Of
railroads, in bringing annually
$3.50, 900 tons of coal. Bituminou.
coal is exclusively used, and thu
smoke arising from this immense
quantity is said to be so dense tina
it can be seen thirty five miles from
the city To clOthe the inhabitant!
requires 4,169 tailOrs, 5O,4GO boo
and shoe makers, and nearly 7O,OO'
dressmakers and miliiners. Berlin
according to the recent census, ha
a population of s2s,O13; Paris il
1867, the year of the Exposition
Universelle, 1889, 465 and COnstan
tinople, in 1864, 1.O7j,OOO.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06
TThe New York Herald saws

~The New York Herald says
that GOvernorWarmO has defined
his position in a warlike prOnuncla-
mentO against General Grant, EN-
bracing the declaration that " I in
tend to support the nominee of the
Cincinnati Convention" Governor
Gratz Brown, Senators Trumbnll,
Schu,z and Upton are four, and
Warmoth makes five. Tally five for
the Cincinnati Conventions.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06

~ The Minority Congressional
Ku-Klux Committee thus report
upon the condition of Mississippi:
Mississippi had no debt before the
war, but is now heavily involved in
all sorts OF ways. The school tax is
uselessly enormous. Mr.. Barterville
testified that it took all the cotton
he raised in 1870 to pay his taxes,
and he is one Of the largest planters
in Noxnbee county.
With government imposed upon
them By military rulers, headed by
General, now United States Senator,
Ames, under tie dictat ion of Con-
era placed in authority over their,
under the reconstruction acts, by
the votes OF their former slaves,
when they we're DISTINGUISHED; with
all their local officers sent from other
bsates and sharing none of the bur
deus they imposed; with political
emi>saries assOcIating with the ne>
grOes and poisoning their minds
against the white man; aud when,
al last, law was passed by the
Radical Legislature inaugurating
the Aigantic school system to which
We have alluded. whereby they were
to he sold out OF house and home,
aud turned out it'll their wives and
little ones az beggars, the poorest
class became desperate. and in a
number Of cases violated the law,
by whipping and sending some OF
their tyrants packing"
Aud such action was that of the
Ku klux! 1t was all of the Ku Klux
there ever was in Mississippi.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06
The Last of the Stuarts.

Queen Victoria and Prince of
Wales may now siUmber in security.
The last of the Stuarts has just dis
appeared, and the House of HanO-
yer is consequently now the legal
heir of the English throne, from
which it has no chance of being
driven except by the designs OF
Dixie, Bradlaugh, and Odger. The
unhappy gentleman, John SObieski
Stuart, the death of whose brother
we short time ago recorded, has
now followed him to the tomb, and
with him forever disappears every
member of this ill-starred race.
There is no doubt whatever that, in
so far as legitimacy of descent was
concerned, he was in every respect
entitled to be considered as King OF
England bit fate forbade him from
occupying the position, and like his
celebrated relative, the Cardinal OF
York, he might have struck a medal
in his last hours to console him by
the declaration that he was King
OF Great Britain, France, and Ire
land, by the Grace of God, but moi
by the will of men,"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06


THE following quaint and beauti-
full thoughts on the grace of Christ,
we extract from the writings of the
Rev. Samuel Rutherford, who lived
during the reign OF Charles L. of
England:
Jesus Christ, who perfumeth and
f1Owereth the heaven with His royal
presence, and streweth the heaven
OF heavens to Its utmost borders
with glory, is commended that He
was full of grace. But there is not
rose out of heaven. but there is a
blot and thorn growing out of it. ex-
cept that only one rose of Sharon,
which blossOmeth out glory. Every
leaf of the rose is heaven and
serveuh for the healing of the ma
tons; every viii e and red in it is
Incompatible glory. Christ is the
outset, the master flower, the un-
created garland of heaven, the love
and Joy of angels and men. But
the fonntain-love, the fountaln-de-
light. the fOuntain.jOy of men and
angels is more, for out of it floweth
all the seas, springs, rivers and
floods of love, delight and joy.
Imagine all the rain d dew, seas,
fountains and flowers since the crea-
ton where in one cloud, and these
multiplied in measures to many mil
lions of millions, and then divided
in drops of showers to an answer
able number of men and angels, this
should be created shower ana end
in a certain period of time, and this
huge cloud of SO many rivers and
drops should dry up and rain no
more But we cannot so conceive
OF Christ; for Christ cannot tire or
weary from eternity to be Christ,
and so. He must not, He cannot but
be an infinite and eternal flowing
sea, to diffuse and let out strea ms
and floods of boundless grace. All
our happiness that groweth here on
the banks of time is but thin SOwn
as very strawberries OH the sea sand.
What good parts we have without
grace are like a fair lilv, but there
is worm at the root of it. Grace
is so much the more precious and
sweet that though it he the result OF
sin, yet it hath no spring but the
bowels Of God, stirred and rolled
within him only by spotless and
tOly goodness. Grace IS of the
Kings house from heaven only /;
Christ for this cause especially left
the bosom of God and was clothed
with our flesh and nature that he
might be mass, sea and river OF
swelling up to the highest banks not
only of the habitable world, but the
sides also of the heaven of heavens
to Overwater men and angels.
So that Christ was, as it were,
grace speaking, gr, ice signing, weep,
ing, crying out of horror, dying,
whitening for sinners, living again,
and is now glorified grace, dropping
down, raining floods of grace on his
members.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06
AGAINST PASSIVISM.-OD of {

AGAINST 1ASSiVISM.-Onp of the
most influential Northern Demo
cratic COngr, -ssnen writes under
date of 10th OF March, from Wash
instOn: "No symptom of BELMONT's
committee being called, although he
has been written 70 by several mem
bers of Congress-, who urge an early
meeting of the committee, even
though a late day for the conven
ton should be named. This would
a'lay the fears and approximations of
very many"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06

L. OF all the German papers IN
this country, numbering more than
one.hnndred and thirty, only six are
still for ,irant and his admIniStra
ton. We make this statement upon
the authority of the Washington
Patriot.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06

- Hon. ID. w. voorhees, i'm his
letter declining theDemocratic nom
inatiOn for Governor OF Indiana,
predicts the overthrow Of Grant in
the Presidential election.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06

~ The Cincinnati Courier, a
leading German paper of that city,
and a supposed supporter of Grant,
has just declared against the Adj
ministration and in favor of the
Liberal reform movement.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06

~ The Charleston Is. c. Re
publican, nOmiuates Gen. Grant and
Governor Scott for President and
Vice Pre-. ident. They would GER
tainly make strong team, i'll their
way.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06

r. The Courier Journalsays that
the ramie plant continues to enlist
considerable interest in many parts
of the South. 1t is now generally
conceded that it will be a profitable
crop, more profitable than rice, su-
gar, cotton OF tobacco, when there
is a machine invented which will be
TO the ramie fibre what Whitney's
saw gin was originally to the cotton
fibre. A machine is all that is nee
essary to make it i'll u few years
one of the most valuable crops in
the South.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06
BY TELEGRAPH.


Special to tie vicksburg Herald
JACKSON, April 1.-The only thing
of importance in either branch of
to day was the passage, by the
House, of the bill mentioned Satur-
day to incorporate the so called
Greenville and Vicksburg Railroad
Company, but which in reality is
the Civil Rights bill. 1t went i'm
mediately 10 the Senate. Bennett
offered a substitute to the civil
rights portion of the bill, suggesting
that railroads and hotels provide
separate apartments for the accom-
mediation Of cOlOrcd people. This
would not begin to do, and the sub
stitute was rejected. The Senate
adjourned without any definite
action. 1t may reasonably bo ex
pected that the whole matter will
be squelched when it comes up
again. KENEWKA.
NEW ORLEANS. April This
aft ernoOn the whole Of the St. Thorn
as front of the city water works res
ervOir gave way, suddenly releas
ing the bulk of the water, half a
square, twelve feet deep, doing
S5O,OOO. The lower floors of many
houses in the vicinity were almOs
instantly flooded, causing grea
alarm among the occupants. ! b.
centre walls of the reservoir re
manned firm, SO that only half thu
supply of water escaped.
NEW ORLEANS, April 1.-Th'
runner of the Citizens Bank va
robbed at the Canal Bank thi
morning, of the money book cou
tanning S6, 700. The runner place,
the book on the counter, some sn'
asked him question; while answer
ing, his hook was taken, and anOthe
substituted. No arrests.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06

TTNHlS is . House of twenty one yea 9 standing.
1 and Tor Central Business Location has no
equal. Theatres and places OF Amusement. rail
road and telegraph Offices, and the Texae Railroad
ONCE are only one square from the Hotel. | am
prepared III take guests for the season, and furn-
18Th them with Rooms with without Board.
The street pass by the Hotel, to and from
the Jackson Railroad Depot. (Fsb, l7-n
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-06-16
THE BULLETIN.

The undersigned has purchased the
half-interest heretofore owned by NJ. c.
Saunders in THE BULLETIN establishment,
and will hereafter conduct the business in
his own name. His partner, residing at
Memphis, Tennessee, could not con-
tribute in any way to the prosperity Of
THE BULLETIN, and retires now that the
undersigned may receive all the rewards
his own lsbors may bring TO
him. and alone bear the bur-
dens his ventures in business may
entail upon him. The partnership, which
has been entirely harm onious, is dissolved
by mutual consent, but with regret, also
mutual that the interest of each Of the
partners should render dissolution neces-
sary.
Heretofore the actions Of the undersign-
ed have been somewhat constrained in his
business conduct by a desire TO not step
beyond the wishes Of an absent partner
whose interests were at stake with his
own; but now this embarrassment has
been removed, and he will not fail to avail
himself OF the liberty brought to him by
the consciousness that his own well
fare is alone at stake, TO risk all he has in
an attempt to make The BULLETIN print
ing establishment one of the most COM
plete in the State He has already pur-
chased very valuable printing materials
presses and type and has had bull, splen-
did steam engine. He may low point to
The BULLEriS oi'ice with some degree
of pride; bu, his efforts shall not be re-
laxed IL the business men and the good
people OF Cairo sustain him by liberal
patronage.
In few days THE WEEKLY will
be greatly enlarged and improved, and
The SUNDAY BULLETIN be made well
come visitor to every family in the cit,
Both these editions of The BULLETIN
will receive especial attention, and will be,
we have little doubt, acknowledged by
everybody TO be entitled TO the support Of
every Cairo man and woman who takes an
interest in the city ana pride in her meri-
,orious institutions. JoHS II OBERLY.
IT Is SAID Theodore Tilton wrote
Woodhulrs letter OF acceptance. We
knew il was Tilton or Demosthenes.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-06-16
THE BULLETIN.
every nernisg, Monday en-.
cepted.
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.

Notice is hereby gwen that the co. partnership
heretofore existing between John n. obcfIy and
NJ. G. Saunders, under the firm name of John II.
0berly 4 Co., has been dissolved by mutual con.
sent, John II. oberly purchasing all the interest
ofM c. Saunders in the Cairo BnlIetn printing
and book binding establishment, assuu ing all its
liabilities and receiving all accounts due to said
firm. JOHN II OBERLY,
May 10, 1879. NC. SAUNDERS.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-06-16
NOTICE.

All persons indebted to the late firm Of Eichoii
Bros, by note book account or otherwise are re-
quired to make immediate pay ment to the under
signed and save costs and ex penses. I have, by
decree OF the Alexander county circuit court
been appointed receiver OF the effects OF said
hrm, and ordered TO promptly collect the debts
II can be done. No other person is author ned
to transact any business OF said firm, or collect
any debts due.
JOHN Q. HARTMAN,
5.5d3t Receiver