The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-01
OUR N1IssISsrpPI LETTER.

OUR MKSSISSIPPI LETTER.
SARDIs, Miss, Dec. II, IA.
The disturbances of last summer in this
State seem to have set in for the winter.
The Legislature convenes, under the law,
on the first Tuesday in January; but the
Governor has, suppose, deemed the emer-
gency sufficiently urgent to demand an
earlier assembling of that body, and he
has issued his proclamation, calling the
members to the capital in extra session on
the 18th inst. The wisdom of this act is
seriously questioned by thinking men;
but as everybody who knows the Cover
nor knows that he is person Ct very small
calibre, doubt if anybody is surprised. or
would be at even greater folly than this.
There has been disturbance and blood
shed at Vicksburg, il is true, and 1t might
have been anticipated after what occurred
there a few months ago, and what has
been going on there since. Some of the
| negro officers have been acting very badly,
| and several of then; were indicted by the
| grand jury at the last term of the Circuit
Court. The records upon which the in
| dictments were based are said to have
| since been surreptitiously removed or de-
| stroyed; and as they were i'll charge of the
very officials themselves, the presumption
and the only natural one--is, that these
| men did the deed. In addition to this, the
negro Sheriff, who is also tax collector, and
| the collection of hundreds of thousands of
dollars, was proceeding to collect the taxes
without having first given good bond
| (which the law rcquiresl, and lie Board
| of Supervisors tnegrOes also. or a majority
| of theInl, refused to meeet and compeii the
| Sheriff TO make the bond: and the tax
| payers, having been so often swindled by
| dishonest office-holders, demanded that
| the Sheriff should either make n good bond
or resign, and charged that the carpet
| bag Judges of the county were shielding
| rasc.ilitv give You the facts as / hear
| them The negro being largely in The
majority in this State. corrupt men, white
as well as black, truckle 10 him to get his
| vote and influence. especially II he Is a
popular one among his race. In this Dis
trict last spring, Anies promised the office
| of Chancellor 70 n yOun.s Ohio muiattO
who, although he had gotten license as
lawyer, had never been seen in a court
| house except rs spectator, and rarely
even then, and who was actually thief at
the time fthough the Governor didn't
| know it and was convicted of larceny
and paid the pen Iii V the very week before
he was to have received the appointment.
This same fellow ieilow1palned r rieS.was s ,h; sub;
school or college. at Holly Springs, receiv-
ing the vote OF Secretary of State for the
position; but when he went to take charge,
there was q reconsideration by the Board
of Trustees, and he was beIten by one
vote. This latter occurred while was in
1
| of an act of for9er:u which he committed,
while actually on his way to take charge
| once. but / was told yesterday that he got
back here the night before. and Is some
where about town now, though not as
| visible as lie used to be. Now, honest and
| conscientious Republicans cannot and do
not endorse these things, nor such men :;
and yet sucll things are endorsed, and the
men who do them are endorsed and up
| held by some who cali themselves Repub-
licans.and this is what is breaking down
| fTNG1R 17.3 n :
down any party who supports or even
countenances them. ''Howl long, oh Lord,
| how long"
Well, 10 go back now to the fuss. at
Vicksburg. A public meeting of the tax
facts. a committee was appointed to wait
ON the Sheriff and Chancery Clerk and re-
quest them to resign. OF else get the Board
of Supervisors to require good bond of
the former. The Sheriff fatty refused to
resign, and the Clerk could not be found,
nor could the members of the Board of
Supervisors. When the Committee re-
ported these facts to the meeting. it was
and demand his resignation. And this
was done accordingiy. and the Sheriff
went to Jackson, where he made such a
statement as created quite Juror. and
caused the Governor to issue a proclana-
the mean time Crosby's friends got to-
gether large bodies of negroes and started
into vicssburg arm armed ID ana equipped. and
consequences. The current report is there
was one white man killed and one woun-
ded, while there were fifty or sixty ne
| groes killed, and some wounded. Matters
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