The Magnolia gazette., 1873-05-30


In reply to the fourth--We do not know
what bysfander remarked either We
suppose there might have been a good
many standing around
We know nothing about the fifth, only
that tie Senator from this district amended
the bill just before it passed the Senate, BY
striking out Magnolia, leaving the people to
vote lur removal Or no removal, but il re-
moved, To -----. This blank was to
have been filed up with Summit, but the
bill was given 50 many purgatiyes that ii
died with the close Of the session.
We hope these answers will be satisfac.
tory to the Times. We believe now that
we have answered all the important points
10 the Times editorial Of Last week, except
the cotton and the tickets, and now shall
proceed to notice them.
Now, in regard to the cotton statement,
Summit claims to have shipped Of Pike
county cotton, 1891 bales. All right. Then
the editor Of the Times deducts this amount
from the 4300 bales, reported by the Field
and Factory, as the annual product Of cot.
ton in Pike county. He proceeds then to
deduct 80 bales more, which he estimates
as having been shipped BY the producer,
allowing only 2l9 bales Of Pike county
cotton to be shipped BY the merchants Of
Magnolia. This statement is ai absurdity,
and we will prove it such before we are
done. And what makes the absurdity Of
the statement more enormous, the Times
does not even allow that the merchants 10
the eastern part Of the county, at Conerly's
and China Grove ship even single bale Of
Pike county cotton. The statement does
not admit that Holmesyille ships a single
bale, and further, according TO the state.
nent Of the Times, il is not even allowed
that single bale Of Pike cotton is shipped
from 0syka, Chatawa or Johnstous Sta.
tiun We know there is an amount Of
business carried on at those places, and the
feelings Of those gentlemen who conduct
the business, as well as those who have an
INTEREST," in the welfare and prosperity Of the
respective places referred to, must be very
much mortified, on account Of their com.
merca status being treated in such a man.
ner. It is great injustice to the business
meu and vicinties Of those places, and ia
stead Of being an argument in favor Of To-
eating the courthouse at Summit, il is in
our opinion, exactly the reverse. The
Times does not pretend to doubt that 345l
biles Of cotton were shipped from Magno-
liza up 10 the 18th inst, as we have stated on
former occasion; but adds, that "Messrs.
Brashear 4 Mcdowell from Amite, as also
Mcssrs. hampton s. Packwoud from the
extreme eastern portion Of Pike, make
that station (Magnolia) their shipping
point, and this cotton must surely come
from Amite and Marion Counties No
tice the language 'and this cotton must
surely come from Amite and Marion coun-
ties" Now from this assertion Of the
Times it appears that our eastern mer-
chants does not ship single bale Of Pike
county cotton. Now in their vindication
We will proceed to show that they do.
In a former number we gave the nun.
Der Of bales shipped by Mcdowell and
Brashear, and es the statement has not
been disputed it is unnecessary to repeat IT,
We should have given the number Of bales
in the same issue, shipped by. Hampton &
Son, Of Couerlys. and J. Il. Packwood, OF
China Grove, but we did not have the ex.
act statement at that time. However, we
have letters before US from those gentlemen
now, from which we are permitted to learn
the number Of bales of Pike county cotton
they ship, and we presume the Times will
be generous enough to accept the statement
as being correct. hampton & Son, writes
under date Of the 26th inst, that they have
shipped 252 bales Of Pike county cotton.
J. IL. Packwood, writes under date Of the
25th inst, that he has shipped All bales Of
Pike county cotton. Herring & Ryals have
shipped 27 bales, 20 Of which are said to
be Pike county cotton. w. !. Mcdonald,
ships "a bales of cotton, part Of which are
from Pike. We have aot been able to learn
the amonnt of Pike county cotton from
Holmesyille, but we have learned enough |
70 show that all the cotton shipped by our
eastern merchants does no. come from Ma
rion county, as the Times asserted it did.