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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
IMMIGRATION.

An important movement is being
inaugerated along tho line Of the
N. 0. st, l.. & c. r. r. by Messrs.
ID. bennett of Summit, and n. B.
Hillyard of McComb City, that de-
serves special attention and general
favor They havo organized at
Holly Springs, Oxford, Madison
Station, Crystal Springs, Brookha-
ven, Magnolia, Tangipahoc, Osyka
and at Greensburg, Welcome and
Intelligence Committees" to extend
q welcome to immigrants, and scat
ter intelligence in relation to tho
resources of this country.
Mr.D. bennett, being a Patron of
Husbandry, will put his statements
in regard TO this country before
twenty thousand northern and
western oranges, and tho truthful
ness of his information will be
vouched for by the leading members
of the Order in Louisiana.
They do not expect any immedi-
ate movement of immigrants from
the North, but they have ample
proofs that multitudes of people in
higher latitudes are preparing to
move in this direction, and they be-
licve this movement may be has
tened by preparing for it in season,
and by sending to these people the
information they call for.
Mcssrs. bennett and HilIyard will
address the members of Canton
Grange No. 272 on Saturday, 18th
inst, on the Importance of immigra-
grafton and tho way to secure it,
the resources of the South, and tho
inducements which the Southern
states can offer to immigrants.
Tho doors of tho grange will BIO
thrown open when the speaking
commences, and all of our citizens
not members of the order will be
invited to listen to the addresses.
A general attendance IS desirable.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

Memorial day was observed at
Augusta, Ga on Monday April Goth.
with unusually imposing ceremonies.
The corner stone of the Confeder-
ate monument was laid. In his
speech, Gen. Evans said: Let us
do nothing to keep alive the pas
sions of war. To study its lessons
is prudence TO profit by its teach
ings is wisdom, bu, to stir mp old
animositics is madness. The voice
Of the monument will not be for
war, but for peace. 1t will say to
us, the Confederacy has expired; its
great life went out on the purple
tide of blood that flowed from tho
hearts of its sons. We have buried
1t we do not intend to exhume its
remains. We are utterly defeated,
and We dismiss our rescntments.
Sadly we parted with our dear old
cross OF stars, which VIC followed
through many storms of shot and
shell. For it, we take with the true
hand of Southern honor, tho staff
that holds the flag OF the stars
and stripes. i respond with the
trucst feeling to day to the frater-
nal words of Gen. Bartlett, spoken
at the centennial of the first battle
of the old revolution"
Afterwards the Ladies' Memorial
Asso citation decorated with flowers
the graves of the Confederate and
Federal dead in Augusta cemetery.
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Telegraphic.

WASHINGTON, April 90. - Lever,
riere has announced to Prof. Henry
tho discovery of q new planet.
The Frecdman's Bank commits
sioncrs have 100000. 1t will r.
quire 100000 for a 20 per cent
dividend. The depositors number
10000. Many depositors are selling
their bank books at ten cents ON
the dollar.
OSHKOSH, Wis, April pa fire
here. yesterday destroyed twelve
saw and shingle mills, millions OF
feet of lumber and one hundred
and fifty houses. The burnt dis
trict is one and one-half miles long
by half mile wide. Hundreds are
homeless. Throc lives are known
to have been lost. Thieves are in
possession of the city.
MACON, Ga, April 29.-Thc Geor.
gia Grand Royal Arch Chapter OF
Masons has returned to the allcgi-
ance of the General Grand Royal
Arch Chapter of the United States,
which was severed in 1861.
ST. PAUL, MIMI, May L. Dcs.
patches from various points encour.
age the hope that the cold weather
has killed the grasshoppers.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

We doubt IF it has 3.5r occurred
to the colored voters of TIE country,
especially of the South, for there
are but few ia other sc ..ops, that
their interests are hanging by a
very slender thread. We doubt if
it has ever occurred to them that
the disagreement in Republican
ranks threatens, if not to disposscss
them of their rights, at least to
leave them IN Il most unsettled, I'M
certain condition. Republican sen
timcnt everywhere in the Union,
except IN the South, is avcrsc to
Grant and the third term and the
carpet bag policy. 1t is only a, the
South that Grant has tho undivided
support of the Republican party,
which, as compared with other sec
tons, is composed of but few white
men. The Republican party of the
South is composed almost entirely
of negroes and odventurcrs. These
adventures are enabled, or have
been thus far, 70 preserve the or
ganization of the party in the South
by holding it up to the ignorant ne
groes AS the bayonet power, the
army power, the Grant power.
which ii intcrtcrcd with, Is ready To
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
OVER THE STATE.

Meridian Mercury: Gov. Powers,
while acting as Foreman of tho Nox-
ubee county grand jury, had his
pocket picked of a considerable sum
by fellow juror of the colored per-
silasion. That grand jury indicted
some fifty odd thieves-a most no.
table verification of the adage: "Sct
a rogue to catch rogue"
Vicksburg Herald Poor old ia
son Niles, the wretched renegade
who disgraced himself by voting
for Grants Force Bill at the last ses-
sion of Congress. is wandering
about in the Fourth District looking
out for reelection. If there is !.
white man in the district who is
shameless enough to vote for Jason
Niles, after no voted for and pock-
etcd tho back pay seal, and then
voted 10 give Grant the power to
pin the people OF Mississippi down
with bayOnets, he deserves to be
kicked by drunken negro from
ono end of the district to the other.
A correspondent Of the Mobile
Register was recently in Jackson,
and while there visited the Peniten-
tiary, and here is what he learned
found four hundred and forty four
convicts Ofthese, how many do you
suppose were negroes? Notwith-
standing the tact Of the law and or
dcr(D prevailing all over this Radi-
cal reconstructed ncst-holo, there are
three hundred and nincty-eight ne
groes in the State pcnitcntiary, GU,
of four hundred and forty-four, or
in other words, there are but forty
six white corvicts in the institution.
Every train brings in new arrivals,
as much attached to each other as
the Siamcsc twins, only tho binding
ligamcnt is iron, not flesh.
Meridian Mercury Day before
yesterday, in the Circuit Court, at
Macon, Judge Orr presiding, there
was case of prompt justice,in which
we see the spirit of tho presiding
officer of the Court. In the trial Of
some negroes for some offcnsc,
negro witness was put upon tho
stand and committed obvious and
fragrant perjury. That was about
10 o'clock IN the forenoon. The
case was Immediately brought to
the attention Of the grand jury, he
was indicted, tried and convicted
before adjournment. On his trial
he introduced q negro woman to
testify in his defence, and she too,
committed obvious, fragrant perjury.
She was indicted for the perjury
before the grand jury adjourned at
the end OF the day, and was to have
been put upon her trial yes erday.
Aberdeen Examiner: DIR. B. l..
Hatch, whose farm is about three
miles from the city, on the Black
Swamp road, has, in our opinion,
one OF the most admirably pitched
crops in the county. In addition
to seven hundred acres on his place,
in cotton and corn, which ia cult
waited and controlled by renters, no
has one hundred and twenty acres
in cotton and fifty acres in corn,
which is being cultivated on the
share system, he giving the hands
ono tbird-but what we particular
ly allude to, is his individual crop,
cultivated by hands who receive
money wages at the rate of 25 cents
a day and board; this is pitched as fol-
lows: so acres in wheat, 90 acres in
rye, 20 acres in oats, II acres in clo-
YER, IL acres in herd and orchard
grass, 6 acres in gouberpeas, l acre
in Irish potatoes, 5 acres in sweet
potatoes, 60 acres in cotton, 40 acres
in corn.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
We are always Glad to hear tha

We are always glad to hear that
our paper Is appreciated wherever
ii is read, but wero hardly prepared
for the gratifying statement recent
ly made by Northern gentleman
bow domiciled in our county, and
an appoiBsee of Governor Amos, to
this effect: He said that he received
a great many letters from people in
the North making inquiries concern
ing this section, how northern men
were treated, etc. lie said he got
SO many letters thab he did not pre-
tend to answer them. but sent in
lieu thereof u copy of the CANTON
MAIL Now, wc all know shat q
glorious re-acttca las taken place in
Northern sentiment Of late. and We
should not he blamed for tho pride
we iccl in contributing our quota TO
this reaction.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

We hope that cvcry citizen OF
Madison county who is a voter will
feel it his duty from this time for
ward to the day of election to use
evory exertion, every honorable
means in his power to the end that
the county may be carried in the in
terest of honest rule and wrcstcd
from the ignorant and oppressive
domination Of tho party now in
power. Let no man say it is USE
less to make the effort. 1t is worth
trying. The battle is not to the strong
alone-it Ia to tho vigilant, the &C.
tive. the brave. Lot us BIO all of
these. If VIC fail, VIC cannot be
worsted. If wo succeed, the benc-
fits to be derived will be incalcu-
able.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

On the 18th inst, there will bc
Conservative citizens of the state nj
jackson, when we hope line Of
policy will be adopted that will in
sure eseape from the wilcs and tolls
OF the opPr essors OF our people and
the mal-adM Illustration of our laws
We hope that there will be no disa-
gr''cment between factions, and that
our delegates will he unit in pur-
pose Lot the xim be To unite all
classes, for honest and just rule let
color line and AL that be left out of
the discussions; Ie. liz have a plat
form and adopt policy calculated
10 draw men to us and not drive
,1rem away from us. We do not
mean by this to tody or pandcr to-
any particular race or color, but to
adopt a line ct poE,J- that will be
honorable to ali honest men, and q
guarantee to en- ry class of our citi
zrns that their legal aud political
rights will be re pectsd. When we
have a unioa at sentiment aud a corr
rect Understanding betwesn all
classes, we will have union of ac-
sion. ami receive the reward al "'ir
lahcr- and PLEDGES.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

assert itself Thus the negro has
been induced to believe that Grant
and tho government and the bayo-
nets constituted the Republican par
", and that all else must bow and
fall before it. The carpet-baggers
instil this into their minds; they live
and fattcn, hold office and prosper
on the strength of this impression
made upon the negroes. The ne
grocs believe that all things are
possible with the party. That might
be So if the Republican party was
thus constituted the whole country
over. But, alas for the negroes, the
intelligent masses in other sections
do not think so. They are opposed
to Grant. to his third torn aspira-
tons and to his Southern policy.
They are opposed to the carpet-bag
governments that have been set up
in the Southern states and bolstered
up and sustained by ignorant uncd-
ucated black men, who are the tools
and dupcs of the adventurer.
The reaction has set in, and when
the great wave floods the country,
when the opposition north, east
and west sweeps Grant and his adj
herants from place and power, we
ask the colored men where do they
suppose the carpet-baggers that arc
now in tho South will be then
What will become of the faction or
small minority of the Republican
party in the South? What then ?
1t will be too late to cry kuklux,
banditti and all that 1t can t be
said that the homo white people
turned against the negro, but on
tho other hand it can be said, and
truthfully too, that the colored peo-
pic turned against the whites, and
lost all by their unfortunate turn.
Let tho colored men align them
selves with tho people whose inter-
csts are common with their own.
Let them declare for honest and
just rule; let them turn their backs
against the carpet-bagger, scallawag
and robbcr, and join in the struggle
to save our section from the hands
of the despoilcr, and our reward
shall be their reward.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
Another Stab at the Civil Rights
Bill-Judicial Emasculation Goes
Bravely On.

GALVESTON, May 3.-In the United
States District Court for the Eastern
District of Texas, Judge Morriles in
al opinion in relation to the civil
rights bill given in the charge to the
grand jury says By the constitution
OF the United States it is provided
that all persons born or na,uralized
in the United States and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, arc citizens
of the United States, and of the state
wherein they reside. No state shall
make or enforce any law which
shall abridge tho privileges or i'm
munItics of citizens of tho United
States nor shall any state deprive
any person of life, liberty or prop
erty with proof of law, nor deny to
any person within It's jnrlsd. ction
the equal protection of the law.
This section Of tho fourteenth amend
ment of the constitution is simply a
prohibitation against any state from
passing any law that has a tenden.
cy to injure any person, but it does
not pretend to furnish q penalty for
the commission of any Of the acts
done by individualr in States where
tho law is silent relative thereto.
To meet this omission, on the lst of
May, 1875, Congress prepared an
act to protect all citizens in their
cird and legal rights, l have itali-
cized "civil and legal" for the pur-
pose of showing that these rights
only, and not social rights, are IN
tended by tho act. The first section
of thi. act provides that all persons
within the jurisdiction OF the United
States shall be entitled to tho full
and equal enjoyment of the accom-
modations, advantages, facilities and
privileges of tavcrns, public convey
ances on land and water, theatres,
and other places of public amuse-
ment, etc. l take this to mean that
all persons have IL legal right to have
board and lodging at an inn, trans
or stages, and an entrance in the
atre while they have these legal
rights they do not thereby acquire
any social rights. A landlord of an
inn and a conductor of a railroad
train or a manager of Il theatre must
have due regard to the social posi-
ton OF those who patronizc him;
while he must respect the legal right
of all he must also respect the social
rights OF all.
To hold that a conductor of rail
road train cannot assign special
car to ladies' and children and their
attendants, to the exclusion of all
others, provided other passengers
are furnished with other cars with
all necessary facilities for travelling,
would DO to stab social rights, pri-
ileges and immunitics. Therefore
my view of the act is that it was
not intended to affect social rights,
but civil and legal rights.
If it shall be made to appear that
an innkeepcr has refused proper
facilities to any one on account of
race, color or previous condition,
or if a railroad conductor has failed
to furnish proper seats in his car, or !!
a manager of a theatre has exclud-
cd from his theatre any one for a
similar reason, you will be author +!
lied TO find a true bill against them. |
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
Still tho gratifying news comes T.

Still tho gratifying news comes TO
us from all parts of our county, that
farm work is progressing favorably.
Our country friends are employing
every possible hour from rise to set
of sun in getting their crops in tho
ground or under cultivation. The
young corn, we arc told, is doing
we'll, and then there IS SO much Of
it. We trust that favorable seasons
and markets will reward the indus
trious toll that is being bestowed
upon our fields, and that abundant
harvest and good prices will be the
result of all this earnest labor.
When our gamers are stocked and
our now empty pockets arc filled
we can dictate our own terms, and
the question will no longer concern
us, who shall lord over us but who
shall be the servants of the people,
to do their will, and not the will of
the robbcr and ask-masters.
Wealth has always been a power
and had its influence. Wealth was
never yet subservient, and never
will be. 1t is only tho impoverished
who are subservicnt. Poverty is an
Athletic n, though it was never count
ed q. disgrace until these latter days.
In their poverty the Southern peo-
ple have been disgraced by mis-
rule, oppression, misrepresentation
abroad and in the councils Of their
state governments. Robbed, slam
dered, lied against and ruled by ig
norant officials. Taxed to death,
dispirited and almost ruined, they
have borno with patience and long
suffering the ills heaped upon them.
All hail to the day when these
things shall end. We believe it is
near at hand, and with the gather
ing of our crops, we believe the rob-
Der and adventurcr will gather his
traps about him and silently steal
away.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
We are glad To see in the

We are glsd to see in the NV
Orleans papers that Gov. Kellogg
has rc-appointed Mr.. Gustave Bou-
ligny, Democrat, Flour Inspector
oi the port of New Orleans, posi-
ton held by our editors father, the
iato James Ross, for forty-f five years.
MIR. Bouligny is a worthy gentle
man, u competent man for the Office,
having held it for tho past fifteen
Jears. We commend Gov. Kellogg
tor his good sense and congratulate
our friend B. upon his success.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton has adj
dressed a letter to Judge Nelson,
asking TO be allowed to testify, tina /
she may explain the iaisehoods she
eaya have been heretofore wrung
from her by Tiiton. The judge re-
turned the letter aud refuses Ia com
Ply witt, her request. Some of the
Northern papers assert that tho
letter is q forgery.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

Judge Brooks of the United
ssates District Court at Wilmington,
n. c., in his late charge to the grand
jury, decided that the civil rights
bill, in its criminal aspect, the only
shape in which il could como before
the grand jury, WAS unconstitutional
and void. A few more decisions
anil the thing is dead.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
Cut this QUIT may Save Your Life.

There is no person living but what snf-
fers more or less with Lung Disease,
Coughs. Colds or Consumption, yet some
would die rather than pay Is cents for Il
bottle of medicine that would cure them
DIR. A. Boschee's German Syrup has late
ly been introduced in this country from
Germany. and its wOnderOus cures aston
isl,es every one that try it. If you doubt
what we say in print, cut this out ard
take it to your druggists. Cassell &
Baughn. and get a sample bottle for ~
cents and try 1t, or a regular siZt. for 10
cents.
G. G. GREEN, Woodbury., n. J.
36-eOwl22
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

In the municipal election at Mont
Eomery, Ala, last Monday. the city
vent Democratic by majority OF
fur hundred. This is the first time
since the war that the Democrats
have carried that city. An earnest,
persistent effort achieved this signal
victory. Let the bona fidc citizens
at Madison county mako a similar
effort in tho forthcoming campaign
and like results will follow.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

f.Fx Governor English, of Conncc-
,icut, who has just returned from =
Southern trip. gives it as his de-
liberatc opinion that Texas is
bound to be one Of the most -four
ishin.r of states"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

Letter, note and bill-heads, visit
ing and business cards, circulars,
posters, dodgers, in fact, everything
from a visiting card to full sheet
poster, executed with neatness and
dispatch at the MAIL Office.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

The good people of kosciusko arc
making preparations TO receive and
rntcr,ain tho Mississippi Press As
sociati0n that holds it's annual con-
wmtion there the al of June next.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
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fFha I.ouiSiana Aasociofed We

The Louisiana Astoeisted Vote
rams Of the Mexican War held their
quarterly meeting at the Mechani IS
and Dealers Exchange on Sunday,
the I'd inst. There was an UNUSUAL
" large asscmblage OF gallant sol.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

The vioksburg Monitor let's its
gums off daily in broadsidcs against
.taud and corruption, and some how
vr another it has got the Herald i'll
range OF it's batteries. Don't get
angry, gentleman.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
01Mon, Mississippi, May s, 1915.

Tho name Of Judge Ii. Ii. South
worth n suggested as 4 can,li late
FOR Congress III tho ID District. Good
ruggestion, and good man.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

The Southern policy Ut tho Ad
minisir,tion has lost another con
sistcnt and conspicuous supporter
We mean the Hon. ID. ". Keil ",
OF Penns, lvauia. Il member Of the
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

Jackson has got the spelling match
fever bad. No less than three
matches arc advertised to take place
III that city within the next few
jnCs
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08

diers. Col. J. b. Deason, how Chan
cellor of tho state of Mississippi, ad-
dressed the meeting.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-08
IMMENSE ARRIVAL
NEW And SEASON Able
6 q q ! s
By
mAYS0N FLANDERS

THEIR STOCK of Fall and Winter Goods now
complete and having been bought in Eastern Cities
prices at any time since the late Unpleasanness
prepared to meet the necessities of their customers
offering them goods at very small advance cost for
cash They have also marked down the prices goods
their present value Their facilities purchasing goods
unsurpassed by house this city, they guar
antee satisfaction to all who give them call
MAYSON & LANDERS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-22
4 Short Chat With the Boys.

BOYS, don't you know it's the most nat
ural thing in the world to be wondering
what sort of a man you are going to be,
after awhile? Don't you often find your
self wondering if YOU will be as rich as
Thompson, or as famous for great deeds
as men you read of You feel very sure
at any rate that you are not going to be as
mean as many you know; that you won't
stagGer along the street like Tom Jones
with a red nose and bloated face, owning
nothing but the worn-ou5 and dirty cloth
ing he wears. oh, no, you are sure you
won't be as lowdown as that Yet all the
criminals looking out of those gloomy
cells and the drunkards and gamblers you
see have been bright, merry boys once
with great plans for their future. | am
not going to make q, sermon here about it,
but ina friendly way l do want to ask
you to remember when the boys who are
older than you propose that, just for the
fun Of it, you take a friendly drink, that
whisky is the key that hasopened the jails,
poor-houses and the penitentiaries to more
than three-fourths, of all the criminals
within those walls. Remember, boys, it
blights homes, bringing trouble and sor-
row and poverty. DON'T forget the first
drink leads to the second, third and on
down to common drunkenness with the
certainty that day follows night. If men
who ask you to drink are prominent and
| influential men, don't try to get out Of it
by making excuses, but be manly boy,
| look them square in the face and say dis
| tinctly: Sir, do not drink" Don't be
afraid the man will think less of you. In
his heart he will commend you and your
manly refusal will give you higher
place in his regard. Have the courage,
boys, to look men square in the face when
you refuse to take. the first step toward
| drunkenness.-Ka Farmer