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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16
VIEWS OF SENATOR MERRIMON.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL, ETC.

Redfeld has been interviewing the Hon. Mr.
Merrimon, the distinguished United State
Senator from North Carolina. Of the Civi
Rights Bill, the Senator said:
"The white Republicans of this State will
never swallow the Civil Rights Bill, nor vot,
for anybody that supports it. That is the
main issue in this campaign. Race feeling is
high, higher than party feeling. l an very
sorry the Senate passed the measure; it has
tended so directly to the awakening of race
passion and prejudice.
"What will be the effect if the bill becomes
a law
Bad very bad. Our common school says
tenn in this State is in its infancy, and it will
crush it completely out There will be no
more free schools. OF course the whites will
not support them, and the negroes are not
able. Then will come strife and bloodshed in
all sections Of the State. Oh, it will be a
most unfortunate thing for the whole South -
'Do you think it will pass.
"The indications are that it will. hope
not, for the peace Of the country; but the
Radical party seem determined to drive it
through
'How about veto?'
''The opinion is general that Grant W Il veto
it, but the party will be most likely to drive
him into its approval. If we can keep it off
until the new Congress meets we are safe for
the November election j. going to knock down
the Republican major ty, if not entirely ami
hilate it.
The Saratoga Wife Traffic.
Extract from Saratoga letter.
Others besides Morrissey, drive profitable
trade at Saratoga. Fast horses aye trotted up
and down Broadway before the eyes of the
guests upon the hotel piazzas, and many on
both sides are ''sold." But by fan the most
speculative and frequently the most profitable
business is what may be termed modification
Of the Georgian or Circassian slave trade. How
many daughters are every season adorned with
gay appa Ell, and made to parade on the hotel
piazzas and in the parlors Of these great marts
OF fashion and sold-sold to dissipated youth
or hOary age-no matter to whom. provided
the buyer is rich What melancholy sight
is the old stock on hand the girls who did
not find a market five, four, three or two years
ago. and who are still kept on exhibition in
the feeble hope that purchaser may yet
come. Alas, he comes not and if the blase
belle does not retire to quiet old maiden
hood at home-an estate as honorable as any
in the world-if you come here years hence
YOU may see her in h. r sere and yellow Leaf,
fastened as flower against the wall, looking
on with despair at a succeeding generation !
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Also Dressmaking and Millinery OF the latest am
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11
THE LATE FATAL DUEL.

The Picayune of Sunday gives the
following particulars of the fatal
duel fought at Bay st. Louis, Sat
urday last, between Mr.. A. p. Phil
lips and MI. Aristide BIenvenu, in
which Mr.. Bienvenu lost his life:
At 10 o'clock, Saturday morning,
MeSsrs. A. B. Phillips and Aristide
, Bienvenu, OF this city, accompanied
by Messrs. DrArmas and Duber-
trand on the part of the latter, to-
gether with DR. Scott, surgeon, and
four or five friends Of the parties,
di~embarknd from the early Mobile
trains at Bay st. Louis, and retired
t. a convenient spot in the neigh>
borhoOd 10! the purpose of arrang-
ing a misunderstanding then pend
ing between them.
The spot selected was what is well
known as Nicholson Avenue, which
led to the hotel of that name. The
choice of positions having been won
by Mr.. Phillips, the distance, forty
PAGES, was measured off, and the
OF them with copy of the same,
weapons, ot-guns, loaded with
ball, placed in the hands of the
principals. At the word both fired,
Mr.. Phillips ball entering near the
eye of Mr.. Bienvenu, that gentle
man falling aud instantly expiring,
even before he was reached by his
friends, the ball penetrating back
ward into the brain.
Immediately after this unfortunate
termination of the affair, the party
returned to the city, reaching here
on the 4 O'Clock, pm, tram, the
body being Immediately removed to
Dr. Grayer's undertaking establish
ment, where it was prepared for in
terment.
The difficulty which terminated
thus tragicall, originated, 1T appears,
in IA law suit, which resulted in a
challenge being sent by Mr.. b., which
was promptly responded to by Mr..
Phillips. All the gentlemen con
nected are well known in the city,
Mr.. Blenvenu being IA broker, and
Mr.. Phillips a lawyer of some prom
inence.
1t is not thought any action will
be taken by the authorities in the
premises as the friends of Mr.. Bien-
venu express themselves satisfied
that the affair was conducted in the
most honorable and unexceptIOnable
manner.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11

well have talked i'll whisper across
the Mississippi in a raging storm !;
his powerful voice was but ii part OF
the general tumult. AT two MN
utes to three O'clock. IA member an
nounced thai the bill had already
been signed by the Speaker and
Clerk, and gone to the Governor,
and denounced it as fraud and a
swindle. At this announcement, the
friends of the bill set VI a huZz,
AVID the air was filed with hats and
other tokens of their rejoicing
af er which came a lull, commit
zee from the Senate arrived and an
nOunced their readiness to adjourn;
the House sent like committee to
the Senate, and in few minutes,
the gavel gave its final rap, and the
Legislature of Mississippi for 1874
was IA thing of the past.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11

At meeting of the Canton Bar,
held at the Court House of Madison
county, IN the city of Canton, on the
Sth day of April, A. d., 1874,
Montfort Jones. Esq, was called to
the chair, and E. S Jeffrey, Esq,
requested to act as Secretary.
motion of Franklin Smith, Esq +,
a committee of six were appointed
by the chair to draft suitable reso-
buttons as to the feeling of the Bar
in reference to the Hon. Samuel
Young, Chancellor of the 18th Dis
trict of Mississippi.
The chair appointed the following
named members of the Bar to act
on said cOmmitte, viz:
Franklin Smith, j. w. Downs,
S. S. Calhoon, o. r.. Singleton,
George Il. Fearn, and NJ Il. Nc
Micken.
The following resolutions were
reported by the committee and
unanimously adopted.
Whereas, The Honorable Samuel
Young, Chancellor of the 18th
Chancery district of the State of
Mississippi, has long presided in
the Chaucery Court of Madison
county with great ability, impartial
ity and integrity, at all times and
on ALI occasions hen executing the
duties of his high Office, and has
won from all the members of the
Canton Bar respect, honor and
affection for the uniform courtesy
that they have experienced ut his
hands, whether on or of the bench:
therefore
Resolced, That the Canton Bar,
AS an act OF justice to Chancellor
Young, tender him the assurance OF
their love and admiration for his
judicial abilities, in
tegrity aud worth, and his impartial
of them all with kind
ness, without distinction as to stand
ing or rank.
Resolced, That our city papers be
to publish the proceed
ines OF this meeting, aud to that
end, that our Secretary furnish each
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11
THE SUN.
WEEKLY, sEMI-WEEkLY, DAILY.

THE WEEKLY Sun is too widely known
to require any extended recommendation :;
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it fifty thousand subscribers, and which will
We hope, give it many thousands more, are
briefly as follows:
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of the day will he found i'll it, condensed
when unimport;tnt, at full length when of
moment, and always presented in clear,
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1t is tirStrate family paper. full of en-
tertaininS and instructive reading of every
kind, but containing nothing that can Of
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pages.
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1t is an independent political paper be-
longing to no party and wearing no collar.
1t fights for principle, and for the election
OF the best men to office. 1t especially de-
votes its energies to the exposure of the
great corruptions that now weaken and
disgrace our country, and threaten to I'M
dermine republican institutions altogether
1t has no fear of knaves, and asks no favors
from their supporters.
1t reports the fashions for the ladies' and
the markets for the men, especially the cat
tie markets, to which it pays particular at
tention.
Finally, it is the cheapest paper published.
One dollar a year will secure it for any sub
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We have no travelling agents.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11
A BEAUTIFUL IDEA

A BEAUTIFUL IDEA.-Away up
among the Alleghanies there is a
spring SO small that a single OK on
q summers day could drain it dry.
1t steals its unobtrusive way among
the hills. till it spreads out into the
beautiful Ohio. Thence il stretches
away thousand miles, leaving on
Its banks more than a hundred vii
lagos and cities, and many a culti-
waited farm, then joining the Mis-
sissipi, it stretches away some
twelve hundred miles more, 'till it
falls into the emblem of eternity.
1t is one of the greatest tributaries
to the ocean, Obedient only 10 God,
it shall roar till the angel with one
foot on the sea and the other on tire
land, shall swear that time shall be
no longer. So with moral influence.
1t is a rill-a rivulet-an ocean and
as botndless and fathomIess as
eternity.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11
ADJOURNMENT OF THE LEGISLATURE.

This august body adjourned Mon
day last, and from the description
/ furnished the Vicksburg Herald, by
| its racy correspondent, "Quidnunc,' y
its closing scene was not only a
shameful burlesque on all parlia-
mentary decorum, but IA disgrace to
the actors, and an insult to the in
teIligence and gentiIity of the mere
respectable men: bers who composed
it. OF this disgusting scene "Quid-
nunc" says:
Ring down the curtain, the play
is over, ana the players gone. The
Mississippi Legislature for 1874 is a
thing OF the past, and the good
Lord grant that we shall never have
such another
AT 3 pm. both Houses adjourned
sine die, the Senate decOrously and
orderly as usual but the House in
confusion and uprOar. About half
past - O'Clock the Senate bill re-
quiring thar no liquor license shall
he issued in any Supervisors dis
trict or incorporated town or city
was taken up, and in a few minutes
the House WAS Il perfect pande
monium. Nine-tenthS of the mem
bers were upon their feet calling,
yelling and vociferaring, "Mr
Speaker" So l have the floor" 81
rise to ii point Of Order,' "huSh up"
" sit down. take your hands off
me- {. tear the bill up," etc, etc.
From that time TO the close, con
fusion became worse COMPOUNDED, IL
lull occurring at times when IA vote
would be put and announced, and
the same scene gone through with
again. just before three o'clock
the bill was declared passed. a
motion was made to reconsider, and
the confusion was at its height.
Dozens of members were yelling
their remarks at the Speaker, who
in the din could hear none of them.
Other festive members rolled news
papers, pamphlets aud old books in.
TO wads and shot them at the heads
of the excited haranguers, whiler
tue Speakers gavel kept up a cons
tinuOus rap. rap, rap. The Clerk
called the roll upon the motion to
reconsider, but nobody answered,
nobody heard him-he might as
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11
TELECRAPHIc ITEMS.
GONE TO THE SPIRIT LAND.

GONE TO THE SPIRIT LAND.
NEW YORK, April 6.-Ex- Judge
Edmunds, a well known lawyer and
spiritualiSt, is dead.
BAYOU LAFOURCHE CREvASSE.
New ORLEANS, April 6. The
crevasse on Bayou LafOurche, two
miles below Thibadeaux, fifty feet
wide and six feet deep, will proba-
bly, overflow Morgan's Texas rail
road.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
l. SAN FRANCISCO, April Ga trag-
edy has just occurred in picture
gallery. One Condor, prompted by
jealousy, entered the room and shot
Charles Kingsley through the head,
killing him instantly, and then blew
his own brains out. Kingsley was
an usher at the theatre.
BISHOP OF PERNAMBUCO.
NEW YORK, April 6.-Mail adj
the Bishop of PernambucO was
attended at his trial by the Bishop
of Kansas. Six of the court stood
in favor of condemning the Bishop
TO four years imprisonment at hard
labor; one for a lighter punishment,
and one for acquittal. 1t is hoped
the Emperor Will commute the SEM
tence to Punishment
CONNECTICUT ELECTIONS.
HARTFORD, April ct is i'm
possible to give anything definite
about the result of the election.
The weather is fine and travelling
good, but the vote will not be a
heavy one. In this city, it is pro5-
able the Democratic majority will
be from 400 to 500 for Governor;
but the Republicans have a chance
for Mayor. The Prohibition vote in
the State Will be much larger than
last year. Advices to day show
that the PrOhibitiOnists are working
hard in several localities. 1t is gen
orally supposed there will be no
election by the people.
New HAVEN, April 6.-Notwith-
standing the fine weather, the vote
in this city is light. Harrison, the
Republican candidate for Governor,
runs well, and will nearly equal In
gersOlI here, the Gallagher Demo-
Gratis casting 500 votes for Harrison.
l.. B. Morris, Democrat, will prob
ably be elected Senator. The strug
gle over representatives is very
close, aud probably one from each
ticket will be elected. The Prohi-
ton party is polling a heavy voie III
this city, probably three times that
of last year. Ii the vote is Of the
same character throughout the
State, it is likely the State ticket
will be thrown into the Legisla-
ture.
HARTFORD, April 6-The State
has propably gone Democratic
State ticket, Legislature and every
thing. Democratics claim IA major
ity Of forty Oh joint ballot.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11
SCRIBNER For 1874.

THE uneXampled favor accorded to this
Magazine by the public, enables us to enter
upon the coming year with the means of
making it more attractive and valuable than
ever before to its large and increasing num-
Der of readers on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Serial Story of the year,
X A L III L Il n Z E A r l. E,
by Miss TRAFToN, is a charming Love
story by gifted writer, which is destined
to a wide popularity
There will be Brilliant Novelties and
the Best Short Stories, by SAKE HOLM,
BRET HARTE, and other delightful story
tellcrs.
A series of striking and unique POEMS,
with illustrations, 'OLD TINE MUSIC.'
by benjamin L. Taylor, known for his bril-
liant contributions to the Western Press,
will sing to us again the music of the Spin
ming wheel, the Flail, the Stage Coach, the
Mill, etc.
Portraits and Biographical Sketches Of liner
can -1uthOrs; Papers on Dairy Farming and
Stock Raising in Europe, on Household Decor
alton and Furniture, besides more than fifty
other illustrated articles are now in prepar-
alton.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11

The following structures from the
pen of Col. John Forsyth, the able
editor of that dignified Journal, the
Mobile Register, corrOborates so
fully our own expressed views on
the woman's crusade, that we can
not resist the impulse to reproduce
them, although we have already
bestowed more attention to the sub
ject than its merits demand, at
least, for the present. Col. Forsyth
being man of family, and a
worthy christian gentleman, per-
haps his views may be received
with more favor than were ours, and
with this hope we respectfully com
mend them to the thoughtful atten
ton of those who have been so
swift to condemn us for like ex-
preston of sentiments concerning
the movement. After describing
their mode of procedure and the
obstinacy with which they pursue
the "salOonatics," as their keepers
are called, he says:
Often the besieged will call in the
help of his hardest drinkers, to
drown the musical and praying Sis
terhood with drums and trumpets
and choicest and loudest topper
slang. On many occasions the
women have been insulted and as
sailed and forced to relinquish their
designs This is about the sum of
The great crusade. While lately in
New York We think we about hit the
philosophy and the practical utility
of this popular female frenzy Oh the
head, in a letter tO-the Register.
Granting the integrity of the mos
tives, which, in general, have driven
the enthusiastic daughters of Eve
upon their war-path, we were per
suaded from the beginning that as
ii movement for any lasting good in
the cause of temperance, it Was
sure to prove failure. In the ma
ture of things, female limbs and
lungs cannot stand the rack of ac
tive crusading long, especially of
that class of women who have do
nestle duties to discharge at home.
We do not think ii at all hard on
the sex to say that he best OF them
would prefer to take care of their
children and households, and the
worst to seek notOriety, or what they
would call fame in an undertaking
that in its nature must to some de
gree harden them into mascullmty.
if not wholly unSeX them. For our
own part of the two evils give us to
endure a good deal of drunkenness,
rather than the loss of the delicacy
and the dutifuluess of the angels of
our domestic temples. We should
be sorry and surprised too, to see
the Ohio crusade spirit break out
among Southern women.
Our brethren of the press, as well
as the most intelligent of good men
in the pulpit and in other fields of
philanthropy and of human anchor
alton, are rapidly coming to the con
victiOn that the crusade viii fail of
any permanent conquest over the
vice of intemperance; and that,
when the prayer-cure shall have
fairly blown itself out, or shall have
in closing all drinking
places by moral stress or sheer force
of law, that still the natural appe
lite for drink, inextinguishable in
many constitutional temperamentS,
will not be eradicated, but will find
its qualification elsewhere than in
and
.Then men would drink who never drank
before,
While those who drank would drink the
more"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Granqer's Notice.

THE members of Canton Grange
Il No. 272, are notified to attend
Stated Meeting at the Grange Room,
in Canton, on the third Saturday,
18th day of April, 1874, punctua.ly
at 10 o'clock, m, and on the third
Saturday Of erery month until fur
Their notice. The roll will be called,
and all absentees charged as per
the bylaws.
Il. II. HOFFMAN,, w. NJ.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11
TEMPERANCE TRurMpuANr

TEMPERANCE TRIUMPHANT
Senator Suliivan's bill, giving wo.
men the controlling power in grant
ing license to retail whisky, occu-
pied the last hours of the session i'm
the House on Monday. The friends
OF the measure were large in the
majority, and fifteen minutes before
adjournment, the bill passed by a
vote of 46 to q. 1t received the
signature of the Governor
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11

and that he also present II copy
thereof to Chancellor Young.
On motion OF $. S. CalhoOn. Esq,
the meeting adjourned sine die.
MoNTFORT JONES,
Teste Chairman.
f. = JEFFREY. Clerk,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11
ETRAYED.

.LNROM the undersigned, three miles
~ north of Breckville, Sunday, April 5th,
A Dark Bay Horse Mule,
about Is hands high; name about two
inches long, rather bushy; scar from old
sore on right part of neck. Last seen near
the residence of DIR. McAlister A liberal
reward will be paid for the delivery of the
above mule to either of the Canton stables,
or to d. NJ. GRAf ION.
aprl1-tf
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11

AS the flint and Steel strick en- to-
gether produces fire, so the cons
hicts OF mems minds elicits truth.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-04-11

The most beautiful and elegant
assortment of cloths for gentlemen's
Spring and Summer wear may be
found at X. Y. Seater's, next door to
Mail office. Give him call.
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-03-26

this people. Since the deaths of Clay and
Webster, in 1852, this nation has not been
called upon to surrender greater statesman
,purer patriot; an ADLER jurist; ripel
scholar, or more. accomplished gentleman.
No more win the halls Of the Senate cham
Der reverberate to the sound of his sonorous
voice, as his gigantic intellect impelled il
from his lips, until, with admiring grandeur,
his audience would become, as it were, spell.
bound and enchanted.
The great man is dead! He who was q
bold and fearless champion of oppressed
race; he who disinterestedly battled nobly
and CALAMITY for the elevation of down trod-
den people, has gone "to that undiscovered
country from whose bourn no traveller re-
turns" His friends upon earth will sing
p:eans to his memory, in which even many Of
his enemies will join while the SAINTS and
angels in that beautiful world of light will
strike their bright harps and sing praises and
shout loud hallelujahs unto God and the
Lamb forever; for we can say: He has
fought the good fight he has finished his
course and gone to reap the reward in res.
ervation for those who have observed so
strictly that most beautiful of all rules-''Do
unto others as you would that other should
do unto you." J.S.F.