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Where.

The act 10 incorporate second
edition of the Pearl River Navigation
Company, reminds US of the twenty-iy
cents per acre for lands patented which
said company was required by act Of Leg
islature, passed at the instigation of those
interested, to pay into the State Treasury
on or before the first day of October IS
70.
Where is the money!
We wonder if the Investigating com
mittee will find out where it is, and why
the State has been so long deprived Of her
just dues?-Vicksburg Times.
These questions were properly asked by
the Vicksburg Times during the session
Of the Legislature, but were not an
wered.
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Especial to the Appeal.

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, April H.
George Yarbra killed Joseph Wooten
with knife, yesterday. Both are young
men of this county, and We're reared by
most estimable parents, who lived in the
same neighborhood Yarbra is under
arrest.
Whinel Daniel, n son Of G. G. Daniel,
of this place was stabbed and killed yes
terday in New Albany, Mississippi. The
murder is not named
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A freedman named Mack Mackaboy,
living with Alfred Thomas, near Artesia,
had his house burned down on Monday,
destroying all his earthly possessions, and
burning to death his two children. A
little child Of his brother, at play in the
same house with the other children, was
also burned to death. Columbus Index.
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Messrs. Mcfarland & Stinson and
other leading merchants of Canton have
published a timely notification to planters
that after the present season they viii not
advance corn, or money to them TO pur-
chase corn. This step is taken to check
the unwise custom in vogue of planting
cotton, to the neglect of provision crops
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law Of their States! Is it strange that
the enemy came and sowed tares while
the people whose welfare was at stake
went to sleep on the idle boasts and alb
surd promises made by the men who put
their trust in JohusonY Alas they were
given over to delusion. They were named
Ichabod, their glory had departed
We wish some "hidden thunder red
/ With uncommon wrath" might blast the
creatures who are revelling in the mis-
( fortunes of the unhappy people represent
ed by the Committee; but we confess
that we can see but two ways out Of their
troubles. One is TO establish a good
understanding with the blacks and em-
brace the opportunity Of reform held
out by Elliott and others OF their race who
are pledging themselves 10 drive the "un-
scrupulous adventurers" from power; and
the other is to shake the dust from their
| feet. and immigrate to Mississippi, where
chain of ProyideItiaI events have, to
some extent. overruled the wickedness OF
the adventures; or TO Texas; or to some
other State where hospitablewelcome will
be extended and a prospect afforded OF
lettering their condition.
The following is the st. Louis Repub-
lican correspondents version Of the attack
on the President above referred to:
1t has leaked out that President Grants
alleged uncourtliness towards the delega-
lion from the South Carolina taxpayers
convention which called on him last week,
is attributable to luminosity occasioned 10y
the knowledge that among the chief ac-
tors in the taxpayers movement were
several of the violent and indiscreet an d.
reconstructed ex-confederatCs one O.
whom, Gen. Gary had let off IN q polit
cal speech allegations 10 the effect that
Gen. Grant had prostituted his family
for his own personal gain in certain mat
tiers. The president, it seems, was IN no
humor to receive the representatives of
such men with cordiality. or with appa
rent Indifference to the vile charges
against him. He exhibited a good deal
Of anger, and if he were at all inclined TO
cooperate with the better class of the so
CtIitG ldA Nttss llt NOui'A l'babif w
detel red from 50 doing by the recollec-
;ion Of the slanderous abuses heaped ON
him by some of the less scrupulous per-
sons who were participating in the con
vention
A petition setting forth the grievances
of the taxpayers was presented to the
House by Mr.. Dawes, Republican, Of
Massachusetts,, whereupon Mr. Randall,
Democrat,) of Pennsylvania, inquired,
"what can you do about such matters? He
said he had always opposed interference
g by Congress in the affairs Of the States.
Mr.. Dawes replied he "did not know eX-
. actly what could be done, but thought
+" it just and proper to receive the petit
." ton"
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Now, that is strange, that the Governor
should veto the bill reducing salaries of
Judges and Chancellors Where is his
message, where is his inaugural? Has
he wickedly "held the promise to the
ear and broken it to the hope?"-Meridian
Mercury
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Henri AsOCIIclnrf.


PARIS, April ., 1874
The government has received despatch
es from the governor Of New Caledonia
confirming the report Of the escape Of
Rochetort and his companions, which was
effected with the connivance Of several
colonists.
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The surgeons OF the Confederate army
and navy are to hold a convention at At.
lanta, Ca, on May 20, for the purpose
of embodying in permanent form the
important medical and surgical facts
brought out by their war experience,
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LATEST PROV VVAsIIINGTON.
The south and West Trium-
plant iu thc HEousc.---u'Ilc Cur-
rency GBiII Passed.

WAsHrSGToS, April H. The House
by majority Of 80, passed the -euat.
Currency Bill, and it goes directly 90 the
President for his signature
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Secretary Council.

Some one suggests that Give Dem
ocratic paper" Is needed at Meridian, and
another at jackson. We move that the
gentleman who makes the suggestion be
permitted to establish paper at each
place and as many more Give papers
as he thinks essary.-Hinds Co. Ga
Zette,
We second the motion.
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ST.. LOUIS. April 10. 1874.

EDITORS CLARION: VIII you be
kind enough to notice the fact that
the Mississippi Central Railroad has re-
duced the rates of fare from this CITY
and that corn and all grain are now trans
ported over this road at the same rate as
per carload, or less than carload.
A NJ. HARDIN.
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An undelivered speech of Charles
Summer explaining the causes of his per-
secution by the Administration, has re-
Gently been published. This posthumous
work ID creating great sensation.
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MCCOmb City.

This place, the most beautiful, pictu-
rescue and prosperous on the line of the
Railroad from Cairo to New Orleans, has
sprung up, as if at the waving of an en-
chanter's wand, within the past two years.
1t bears the name of its founder; and is
one of the many monuments of his skill,
energy and public spirit. A full descrip-
ton of the thriving young city, repro
dueed from the n Y Graphic, will be
found on our first page.
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From Memphis TO the lowest REGION
washed - the Mississippi, there IS uni
yeraIappraheasiau and distress on account
of taeoyeIbow. Tae river hasreaehed the
highest water Of former years OF devasta-
ton bv tho floods and it Is feared that
the worst has not come. On both sides Of
the -iyeran not alone on the main river
bat lis tributaries. thewaiers are running
over the banks at intervals and drowning
Ont he plantations. On the Mississippi
side Che breaks are numerous but the
worst are Bolivar and Husbpuckanee
Ievaas. The cravaszes in the latter. not
withstandinaits base of300 feetaud height
of25 lcet-is irreparable. 1t is appre-
beu5ed that immense damage VIII result
10th Suuh9wer ana \ zoo bottoms, In
the lower louisiana parishes the eonse- /
auences are still more serious. The
breaks are iunumerable; and notwith- /
standing the immense efforts put forth
by tlaN. O., J. s CT. \. R. r. Co,
under the personal supervision Of Gen
erI Manager Frost, aided by skillful
engire GERS, serious apprehensions are felt
that be track from Kenner item miles
above The city, to New Orleans viii be
inundated 80 as 10 interfere with the
running Of the trains. Even the City
itself is seriously threatened and its ap-
are fortified and guarded by
a large force of laborers day and night.
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The absorbing topic at the nations
capital and ia the great money and com
Inercial circles Of the country, is the Cur
rency Question On the part Of the mo-
nopolists and money lords of the East
aud North it Is proposed 70 contract the
circulating medium aud increase the
zringency Of the money market; on the
part Of the producers Of the West and
South ii IS proposed so to enlarge the cir
culatiug medium as to correspond with
f the necessities Of trade aud the wants of
the toiling masses.
The vote in the Senate on the bill for
( a new issue of currency shows how COM
plotely party lines have been lost sight
Of in this absorbing agitation. The
West and the South stood, with occa-
aloual exceptions, as firmly united in
favor Of the bdl, without regard to for
mer divisions, as the North and East
were united in favor Of it. It was GU
nous and instructive tumble Of political
oppo-ites. The following classification
wll show:
FOR INCREAsE OF CIRCULATION.
Democrats -Bogy, Goldthwaite, John
stou, McCreery, Merrimon, Norwood. =
Abseat. but tcot,id haze poted yea-Dennis,
Gordon, Rausom-9.
eDu5licans-All ison, Boreman, Cam
eron, Carpenter, Clayton, Dorsey, Ferry
Mich. ), Harvey, Hitchcock, ingalls,,
Lewis, Logan, Morton, Oglesby, Patter
son, Pease. Pratt, Ramsey, Robertson,
Spencer. West, Window. absent, bat
mould haze Uoted yea-Sprague, Brown
low, Couover, Gilbert, Wright, Mitchell,
F Ale0ru-Z9.
LtberaJ-fipton-1.
ANrINCREAsE.
Republicans Chandler, Con
king, Cragin, FreH9ghuysen, Hamlin,
Howe, Jones, Morrill,, (Vt.), Sargent,
Scott, Sherman, Stewart, Wadleigh.--
ABSENT, but aUould hare eoted no5-Buck
ingham, Ferry, Comm, Boutwell,, Ed
munds, Morrill, (Me.), Flanagan-20.
Democrats - Cooper, Davis, Hager
Hamilton (MdD, Kelly, Salisbury, Thur
man. Absent, bit teould hare ooted nay
Bavard, Stockton, Stevenson-l0.
LfJeraIs-Fenton, Hamilton Texas
Schurz-3.
1t will be seen that Democrats and Re
publicans alike supported the measure;
from Virginia, 2; North Carolina, ?; South
Carolina, 2; Georgia, 2; Alabama, ,;
Florida, 2; Louisiana, /; Mississippi, 2;
Arkansas. 2: Tennessee. l; Kentucky, /;
Missouri, ]; Maryland, 1-or u in all.
And these Southern men, voted with
such Northern men as Morton, Logan,
Cameron. Carpenter and Ferry, (Repub
licans. andagainst such Northern men as
Conkling, Frelinghuysen, Hamlin and
Sherman, (Republicans), and Thurman,
Salisbury, Bayard aud Stockton, Demo
Gratis.
The vote according to the old party
classification is thus given:
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AInbnmn Crnnn.

From conversations with Hon. S. s..
Scott, and Maj. w. $. Gordon of Russell
and Gen. Geo. ID. Johnston, of Perry.
officers Of the State Grange, we learn
that the area Of Alabama lands devoted
to corn, wheat, oats, DC, is greater by
far than was ever before nown.-Mont-
gomery Advertiser.
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Modification of Freight Charges.

The following letter from Col. A. NJ.
Harden, Mississippi Agent of the Gran
gers at St Louis, contains matter of inter-
est to the public. The action of the Rail-
road company mentioned fully accords
with the liberal and just course it has in
variably adopted in the management ofits
business;
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The District of which Hon. Hiram Cas-
sidy, Jr., has been appointed and con-
frmed as Chancellor, is composed of
Franklin, Jefferson and Claiborne ooun.
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The Enterprise Courier asks.

The negro is voter; he is a legisla-
tor, he is judge; he is governor, and
We submit, the query: Has ne benefited
himself or others? Are our present af-
fairs an improvement upon the status OF
1860? Is the negro better of? How
about the white man? What Of public
and private morals? What effect has the
new order of things had upon the
general prosperity!
Well, friend suop ose the question is
discussed and all the arguments arrayed
on either side, according 10 the convic-
tons Of the parties to the discussion,
what good will result from it, Ca boJtos
Hon. Mr.. Wilson, (Republican) Of In
diana, in the course OF a speech in the
House of Representative in favor Of free
bankinga and more currency said this good
thing:
He warned New England that the
South and West could control the govern
ment if they chose, but if they did it would
be on principles of justice to ali and equal
rights and privileges to all.
There are volumes of sound sense in
this remark. The West and South are
united in interest, and by natural
laws, and whom God has joined together
let nothing put asunder.
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Herbert f. Poindexter, for several
years the editor Of the Herald, died at
the residence Of his mother, Mrs. v. O..
Cowdin, IN this place, ON the morning of
the 9th inst.-Liberty Herald.
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RICHMOND, Va. April 9.-Hon. r..
NJ. T. Hunter was elected to-day, bv tho
General Assembly, State Treasurer. vice
Mayo, removed.
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1t was stated, with pretence of truth,
that the President was pledged to veto
the bill to expand the currency. 1t is now
stated that he will approve it.
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Col. w. a. ChampIin.

We have observed the course of this
gentleman in our State Legislature with
sincere pleasure. While OH political
questions he has gone with his party, as a
| matter of course, he has never in a single
instance manifested factious opposition,
but has evidently supported what he be
lieved to be right-thus sinking the mere
politician into the genuine and patriotic
law-maker. We believed that he had
the good sense to pursue this course, and
hence we expressed qualification at his
election.-Seashore Republican.
The foregoing from apolitical opponent
is we'll deserved compliment to one
of the purest and most useful public men in
Mississippi.
The organs of the monetary capitalists
of Wall Street and the Shylocks Of the
East are perfectly frantic on thecurrensy
question. One of them holds this ian
guage:
Limitation is ruin, dishonor, disgrace.
The West shall not rule Us i'll this thing
making US beggars at home and disrepu-
table abroad /" "Shall the West be al
lowed to consummate this crime against
the outcries Of all the old States, which
made the West what it is p ''Infiation
means war, just as slavery meant war all
the time from 1910 to 1860.
Signs increase that the question which
calls forth these impassionate utterances
will be the Aarons rod Of the next Presi-
dental election.
This is the way the Bourbon Pope, the
n. Y. World, leads off in column of
invective against the Democratic Sena-
tors who voted in favor of a larger sup
ply Of currency. When it is remembered
that nearly all the Senators representing
Democratic States in the South, voted
for the measure, the conclusion will
be drawn that they have wandered far
from the fold, or that the World is no true
of genuine Democratic faith
We disdain to palIiate the public crime
of the six Senators called Democratic, who |
disgraced themselves on Monday, by /
voting for initiation The crime, as we
have said before, is greater than the |
crime of the twenty-three Republican /
Senators whose lead they followed For I
these six Senators, falsely calling them
selves Democrats, were bound with anoth-
er bond besides the bond which bound
all patriots and all honest men to oppose
every form and semblance of initiation.
These men were not alone, like the others,
traitors to their country; they were trail
.ors to their party also The unbroken
of their party back to It's foun
lation. until now bound them to be ''hard
money men.
Now, if the World is a true Democratic
organ, and its position on the currency
question is the standard of Democratic
orthodoxy, the Democrats of the South
Is we'll as the West, will hereafter have
o be counted out.
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LATEST FROM HONNET CAHT
RoNNEr cARHE LAar NLnur.

1t was stated in the city last oyaun
that the crevasse az Bonnet Carrie .
by no means abatcd, bat was mu.
growing in width in spite of every .H..
to close it, and no hope was entou#a..
Of success; the water having r.aa...
back into the Lake, which was even u.H
being tinged by the turbid flood.
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The six g recreants" communicated
by the Bourbon World, as punishment
for their votes on the Currency Question
are Messrs. Bogy of Missouri, Goldth-
waite of Alabama. Johnston of Virginia.
McCreery of Kentucky, Merrimon of
North Carolina and Norwood of Georgia
To these may be added Gordon of Geor-
gia and Ramsey Of North Carolina, who
were absent, but would have voted with
the rest All these Senators represent
States in which the whites have large
majorities, and the Conservatives, or anti
Radicals, are in the ascendant. If the
World succeeds in reading them out, the
party for which it pretends to speak will
have beggarly account of empty
States in the South.
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The Compulsory Temperance Leg
isiaGiOn.

The recent elections in the West show
an emphatic reputation by the people OF
the plan of compelling people to abstain
from the use of ardent spirits by legisla-
ton Thus, out Of ninety-two towns
which have been heard from, and in
which straight issue was made, sixty
three voted to allow liquor to be sold,
and only twenty-Dine refused.
This, says the Chicago Tribune, is not
so much condemnation of temperance
as it is condemnation of the manner in
which temperance agitators and enthu-
siasts are working. 1t is a lesson which
should be studied by them, and can be
studied with profit. There is but one
way to effect Temperance Reform which
will last; and that is 10 address argument
to the reason and Judgment of the peo-
pie. 1t will never be accomplished by
with the right of private pur-
suit.
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Total ..................... 80
If the foregoing vote shows that old
party lines were obliterated, it shows that
the elements of sectional divisions in
which the West and the South we're ar
rayed against the East and the North,
were strongly predominant. The causes
of this division are thus wildly described
by the Cincinnati Gazette, leading
Republican, paper Of the West:
The money creditors are in the East
The money borrowers are III the West and
South. The National Bank circulation
is mostly in the East The great amount
of bonds are also there. The great
majority Of those who are to pay the bonds
and maintain the interest upon them are
in the South and West. 1t is from these
people, also, that the enormous profits of
the National Bank monopoly are derived.
In commenting upon these sharp antago-
nisms of interest, Horatio Seymour, in
his speech in 1868, spoke of the East as
the creditor. and TIA West and South as
the debtor sections of the country. We
do not admit that in this fight the real
industrial interests Of the East are repre-
sented, for they are naturally with the
vs. est and South. But the monetary in
duence is so strong that they cannot
struggle against it, and they are misrep-
resented
All the great Eastern newspapers, as
we'll as many in the West, are in the in
terest Of the monetary capitalists of Wall !
: treet The shareholders were not more
emphaticaIlv the South, and did not con-
troll It's political action more certainly, |
than the National bankers and bondhold |
ers do the East at this time They want |
money scarce and interest high. The /
West and South want money cheap and /
interest low. One favors monetary mo- /
nopolv. The other is against it. This |
question is rapidly coming to dominate |
all others The business panic and indus
trial depression are steadily leading to it. /
Democratic and Republican members of /
Congress from the South and West, for I
getting other differences of opinion, are /
together. shoulder To shoulder, demand I
ing some relief for their suffering constit- /
uents Democrats and Republicans from I
the East, representing Wall Street and /
the bondholding and National Bank /
are united on the other side.
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There are no new developments in the
Massachusetts Senatorial contest The
matter still bears the aspect which it
presented to us at frst-that neither
Dawes nor Hoar would be elected, but
that compromise candidate would be
brought mat last. st. Louis Globe.
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How fhe Vote Stood In the United
STATES Senate Io Increase tine
CURRENCY.
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Grievances OF. the south Carolina
r.x.Dayer--The Presidents Re
x,4~ 40 :, kbeIasyatfoB OF Citizens
The Prospect IT Executive Or
Legislative Interference.
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The first Mutual Cremation Society
(for burning instead Of buying the dead
has been formed at New York. BY n
singular coincidence, the first signer OF
the agreement which aims to destroy the
trade Of grave-digger was Mr.. Sexton.
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What IL CONSERVATIVE Sentiments
-on the Qnes1ioE Of Reducing
Salaries?
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The Hon. James b. Beck, Of Ken
lucky, has authorized the Woman to say
that he will not be candidate TOR re-
election to Congress
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The condition of the water iu front u.
the city remains about the same aa ..
Saturday and Sunday, with pcrhaH o.
slight tendency TO rise. and % strong pr"#
pect of increased danger. lu many places
il has been necessary 90 construct small
embankmonts on the topul lhe loyeas. a.a
in others the water has been running ucr..
into the cutters.
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and below there is higher than ha- eN..
been known before Almost thc oHHm
western portion of Loui-iaaaissuum...|
The officers of the Frank Pug0ud r...I
the river rising again at GrecuNI.a ...
all points below. The swell in tho OH.
will be much greater than was at hrs0 ..
ticipated, and will come down OH uF M.
the present swell. The
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-16
SUICIDE AT NEWARK.

Derwin Hall, prominent citizen of
Newark, took about thirty grains of
morphine on Friday the 9th, and died
the next day. He was about sixty years
of age, and was undoubtedly insane at
the time. Some years ago he attempted
to take his own life with a pitchfork,
but was unsuccessful He had shown
some indications of late of diseased
mind, caused mainly, it is believed, by
the misconduct eff son. He hae be-
come very nervous, and unable to sleep,
and his wife had given him morphine to
quiet him. On Friday she thought she
discovered signs Of approaching nervous
state. and told him she would get him
another dose, when he told her he ha6
already taken some. On going to the
phial, she found it empty. As near a:
could be estimated he had taken about
80 grains. AS it had already been dowr
some time, all efforts to save his life
were unavailing. - aledonian.