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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-02-18
FIRE! FIRE !! FIRE /!
INV ELL.N GS. ~ n KITCRF.
u CAIRNS. OuTsHOtSES. FARM
PROL ICE &C.. Be-, insaasd % the Ne.
susi Plan By the
STATE OF MARYLAND
MUTUAL FIRE
Insurance Company
OF BALTIMORE,
Ofes No. II Nosek street.
BIG harris. Presidsat.

DIRECTORS.
3 q Caushy. .. Noah Wslksr& Co.
philip r George, - George 4 Jenkins
+ d Anderson, 80 Anderson B Bro
John staek Carpenter and Builder.
Hon George Brent Court Of Appeals.
George P Jenkins. Charlie. county.
George Combs, ST. Mary's soau'y.
Is. Il Harris, I" "
This 10 . Home CSmpsny. gotten mp e..
aressly In the interest Of the eiti:eEs D.
Southern Maryland. to enable them toover.
come the dilheulties they experienced in
procuring Insurance In the ordinary Incur.
ance Companies. with q majority Gifts Di.
rectors we'll known in that community.
Il has heeu In business nov over fou,
years. Al Losses accrued. and they have
been unusually large, haze been faith fully
ssd promptly psid, which - eur best guar
antee for the future.
The plan adopted IL the safest and cheap
est known In lnsu rance, and affords to all
Insurance at its exact cost, and ought to be
encouraged BY all who wish to protect them
selves against loss or damage by Ere.
lflhose interested will get ittheir patrc.
mage and interest themselves in the increase
Of its business, in few years IL wiiirsnk
among the largest Insurance corporation
in MARYLAND. credit and benefit to all,
and an honor to the State.
GEO. A. SIMMS,
General Agent for st. Marv's Co.
June IS. ls7s-tf.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-02-18
GENUINE TEA,

and. Because our command Of capital ena-
bles us TO IMPORTLARCELrF OR CASH
and thus to sell CHEAP. We buy all our Teas at
the Ports Of China and Japan. and thus save
many intermediate profits and charges.
3rd. Because We have inaugura,ed . NEW
SYSTEM OF BUSINESS. originated . New ipEA.
We save the profits Of the middlemen and
give them to our Customers, by sending direct
to any address, the finest qualities Of Tea At
Wholesale Prices.
Ar R.~ausa The
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1875-05-15
7 o. q.
SUN RIVER VALLEY.

SUN RIVER VALLEY.
The entire population of Sun
River valley seldom exceeds two
hundred persons, and in this num-
Der are included about forty resi-
dent families. The floating or
transient population is therefore
much smaller than that Of our own
town and vicinity. IN size. wealth,
population, and natural advantages
We are superior to our neighbour
but we regret to say that Benton
cannot calm to have shown the
same energy and enterprise that
Sun River has displayed during the
past two or three years. Our bust
ness men are perhaps unezcelled
for energy and enterprise in mer-
camille pursuits, but their efforts
are. seldom directed towards build
ing up and otherwise. improving
the town; while the leading men
of Sun River have spared neither
time, money, nor expensein pronot-
ing the welfare and prosperity of
their community.
Some years ago, when the future
'of Sun River looked by no means
as bright as it now appears, Messrs
John Largent and +. j.. Healy-
two gentlemen we'll known through
out the Territory, and Of whom we
shall speak more at length in a fu-
ture number built q fine, substan-
tial bridge across. the river, at a
cost Of $4,000. The bridge has not
proved a profitable enterprise to
the builders, but it IS one Of the
greatest Improvements yet made
lat. Sun River, and an invaluable
convenience to the travelling pub
lie as well as to residents on either
|side Of the. river. Our Govern
Inent, true to that characteristic in
consistency mentioned in last mum
Der, refuses to allow the military to
pay toll on this bridge, because it
happens to be built upon public
land, which is, perhaps, one Of the
fimsiest reasons ever offered to ex-
euse FRAUDULENT imposition. The
building Of q bridge across a stream
otherwise impossible for teams or
vehicles, is frequently done, even
Iby the smallest and poorest com
Imunties, simply because it is nee.
Iessary. It was different, however,
with the Sun River people, they
having the advantages. Of a good
ford, at low water, and a. ferry ca
Ipable Of conveying horses and
wagons. across at any time. Mr.
Largent and Nj. Healy are there
fore entitled TO more credit for
the enterprise, than if il had been
an absolute necessity
Messrs LaTgent and Adams have
established q water power saw mill
on the Missouri, about seventeen
miles from tie Crossing. The
difficulty Of procuring suitable saw
logs compelled the proprietors to
erect the mill sofar from the valley,
land even at this remote point they
are obliged 10 haul their timber
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1875-05-15

sufficient for the purpose, and this
is a small sum to ezpend consider
ing the permanent benefit that will
result, It's strange that an effort
was not.made long ago to secure
the consummation Of SO important
an enterprise.
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1875-05-15
FORT BENTON AND THE CARROLT,
R0TITEa

~
1853, to establish a town near the
mouth of the Musselshell river.
which was to be the terminus Of a
new wagon road from the mining
regions of Montana to the Missouri.
According to Montana custom
and a most ridiculous custom 1t is
the single log cabin. erected was
called Kercheval city. There was
70 saving power il the misnomer,
EoWeYer, and after a sickly exis-
tence of a few months Kercheval
9ity died, and the Missouri river
undermining its site, soon gave it
Tree burial in its surging food. In
1868 the attempt was repeated,
under other auspices, and this time
the town enjoyed a temporary pros
pefity, which It's modest and appro-
prlste title Of Musselshell entitled
It te, but the project again fell
through. Carroll is therefore the
third rival Of Benton that has
sprung up il that region with the
design of intercepting. the. ascend
ing boats, and diverting transpor-
tation from the route by which it
naturally flowed from the time that
Montana came into existence.
These three efforts to open a
route through the Judith basin,
with a view to attracting thefreight-
ing business Of the Missouri, were
evidently made for the reason that
between Benton and Carroll numer-
GUS shoals and rapids forbid all
navigation except during the sea
son Of high water, while boats may
ascend freely to Carroll from April
to October. Carroll therefore en-
Joys a boating season twice aslong
as that possessed by Fort Benton,
and it is. to profit by this fact that
Carroll and It's predecessors have
been created.
From this showing therelappears
to be. some reason for the existence
Of Carroll, and perhaps = fair pros
pect for its pernanenee and pros
peritg. There is one fact, however,
which is. generally overlooked or
misunderstood. twill cost much
less to remove the distractions to
the free navigation of the river to
Benton than to build the bridges,
make the cuts, and perform other
labors necessary to make the Car
roll route a good wagon road; and
If this proposition is true, there is
no adequate reason for the e1is-
tenee Of the Carroll route, for all
things being equal, it will certainly
be cheaper to transport goods by
water to Benton and thence by
land to Helena, than BY water to
Carroll and thence BY land to Hell
ena. Upon this point no argu-
ment is necessary.
The Missouri is as capable of
navigation to Fort Benton as to
Carroll. The distractions are con-
fined to certain points, and # these
were removed, boats could freely
arrive at and depart from Benton
from the first Of May to the last Of
October, bringing river navigation
one hundred miles nearer 20 the
heart Of settled Montana than t
Carroll were the highest port On
the river. We have considered
these distractions II detail, show
;no. fIo;,, lora flor, and character and
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1875-05-15

lSC1 u6I dDONG GIlG lllOQIn Ol .5lOn-i
kin Creek. Only twenty inches Of
water at low stage. Gould be i'm
proved by a wing-dam thrown par
italy across the channel, deepen
ing the water for the remainder Of
the distance. Sufficient rock close
at hand. Expense $400.
2. Marion bar, where the steam
boat Marion was wrecked, in 1886,
about five miles above the coal
banks, below Benton, The wreck
was the result Of accident, and the
bar is no barrier to free navigation.
3. Lone Rock rapids, about
eight miles below the mouth OF the
Judith. A series of diagonal bars
throws the channel against the
south bank, where it is. obstracted
by a considerable rock some twelve
feet IN diameter. The rock can
not be passed in low water, but
could be removed by blasting, at a
cost,of $500.
4. Gallatin rapids, about twelve
miles below the. mouth Of the Ju-
dith, where the steamer Gallatin
sank, il 1867. The boat was sub
sequently raised. The rapids are
about half a mile in length, render
ed dangerous in low water by a
number Of small rocks scattered
over the bottom Of the stream. The
rocks could easily be lifted and re-
moved to the right and left. thus
opening q safe and deep channel.
Expense 5000.
5. Island rapids four miles be
low Gallatin rapids. Several small
rocks obstruct the channel, which
could be removed as IN the. case of
the GalIatin rapids. Expense $40o.
s, Dauphin rapids, three miles
below Island rapids, the chief obs
tacle to the navigation Of the Up
per Missouri. For. some two hun
dred yards the. channel is divided
into two by a bar the north chan
mel having the deepest water. The
upper end Of the main channel is
broad and shallow, the water flow
ing over a bed of. soft and broken
slate rock for a distance Of more
than a hundred yards over which
a boat can not pass In. low water.
This part Of the channel could be
deepened by removing the slabs OF
slate rock to the head Of the small
channel, thus increasing the flow
through the main channel. Below
the reef the channel narroWs and is
broken by Numerous boulders, over
which the water rushes with great
impetuosity. These boulders could
be readily lifted out, rendering the
channel deep and safe. 4 little
blasting might be necessary IN re-
moving the slate rock, though
probably not, Total expense OF
improving .Dauphin rapids not to
exceed $4,000.
Z. From Dauphin to MagpIe
rapids, a distance Of about twelve
miles, the channel is occasionally
obstructed by small rocks, which
could be readily removed Ez-
pense $400.
8. Magpie rapids, similar IN
character to the Gallatin, and to be
treated in the same manner. tx
pense $500.
9. Birds rapids. about three
miles below Magnie. caused BY a
The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1875-05-15

COMPRISING the river into d mar
row channel about twenty feet wide
IN low water. The channel IS
abundantly deep, but needs to be
Widened BY removing the loose
rocks from the north bank. Ex-
pense $500.
10. At Cow Island the stream
IS divided by the Island and two
bars at its lowest end into two
channels, each about twenty inches
deep at low water. 4 dam should
be thrown across one Of the chan
nels, thereby deepening the water
il the other. There is sufficient
rock near by for the purpose. Ex
pense $400.
IL. Busick's bar, two and a
half miles below Cow Island, has
about twenty inches Of water at
low stage. A wing dam on either
side Of the stream would increase
the depth sufficiently on the other.
Rock near at hand. Expense $400.
y. At the head Of Grand is
land a bar reduces the water to IF
teen inches at low stage. By clos
ing the chute north Of the island,
or building a wing dam il the main
| channel. plenty Of water would be
secured. Rock would have to be
brought some distance, but the ex.
pense would probably not exceed
$500.
l3. near the lower end Of Grand
island, the main channel is divided
into two by Hammond island, with
a depth Of fifteen inches at low
water. The channel between the
south bank and Hammond island
should be closed, which would af:
ford abundant water in the other.
Expense $500.
IA. Chippewa island, sixteen
miles above Carroll. Below the
island there is a succession of bars
affording about twenty inches OF
water at low stage. The remedy
is a wing-dam to increase the depth
| Of water. Rock would have to be
brought some distance, but the ez.
pehse ought not to exceed $500.
By the above showing, which is
made upon excellent authority, il
appears that the Missouri river can
be rendered nayigable to Benton
for as long a season as it is to Oar.
roll, at an expense Of about. ST 400,
not inclusive Of a boat and appli
ances, which, if not furnished by
| the Government, would cost proba
bly, an additional sum of $4,000
A wagon road by way Of the Ju
dith basin could not be built fol
the same money, but if it could, il
is not worthy of comparison with
the riverroute, which forsiz months
OF the year would denver frelgh1
within one hundred and forty miles
Of the metropolis Of Montana. Unit
the Territory has railroad eommuni
cation, such aroute is the best that
Montana can have, and even viii
railroad, it would always prove {
powerful auxiliary to her prosper
| ty. Itshould be an object Of Ter
ritorial concern to have the river
improved at once, and we earnestly
commend it to our delegate to Con
gress, as one Of the most important
and beneficial enterprises that
could engage his attention. vii
E IL If.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-14
The Whites and the Common
SchOe1 System.

The charge,that the white people are
opposed to the common school system is
refuted by the fact that in Georgia where
they have entire control of the State
government, the system is in full blast
with 45, 900 white, and 80, 900 negro
scholars. The census of 1870 shows
that the whites numbered 638, 926 per-
sons and the colored $40, 142, or only
90, 1874 less. The disproportion is prob
ably now larger than then. Hence a
larger number of colored children in
proportion to population, are enjoying
the benefits of the system, than of whites.
1t should be borne in mind that the
whites in Georgia, as in Mississippi, pay
ninetv-nine hundreths of the school-tax.
What they object to is not the system OF
education itself, but the wholesale rob-
berry which is perpetrated by the Radical
rulers under pretext of carrying it on.
Large expenditures have teen made
without adequate returns on both the Uni
yersities and the $40, 900 which has
been spent upon the Alcorn concern have
been worse than thrown away. 1t has
been expended in building up gigantic
temple of lust, unrighteousness and ras-
cality, if the Legislative Committee which
investigated the condition of, the estab-
lishment, were not widely at fault.
Undercover of the system as conducted
in this State, swarms of blood-suckers are
quartered on the public treasury, and
while the taxpayers are saddled with the
burden of furnishing teachers to the
children, they are leeched to death by the
drones.
The negro members of the Legislature
with amazing incapacity to comprehend
the true interests of their race, instead
of trying to popularise the system by
Kidding it of its nuisances, violently OPP
posed every measure of reform that wa.
proposed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-14
Assessment all Wrong.

1t will be remembered that our prede-
cessor, Col. Frantz, warned the good people
of Rankin two years ago, to defeat Frank
Cooper, mulatto from the North, for
Assessor of the county. AS alleged then,
he was, and is, totally unfit and incompe-
tent to perform the duties of the Office.
He was elected by white Radical and ne
gro votes, and by the white people staying
away from the polls. The consequences
of his election are now upon us. he has
wholly failed to comply 1Oith the la,C-has
not assessed half the people of the county
as the law directs, has not had his roll
filed for inspection, ard in short has made
a general failure, and the result is that
many citizens of the county are filing
their objections, whilst many others are
waiting for the Assessor to assess them,
and the whole thing is in muddle, that
it is impossible to correct. The Board of
Supervisors, if they have the slightest
regard for the interest of the county,
can't receive the assessment, and if re-
ceived in palpable violation of law, it
would be next to an impossihility for a
Collector to collect the taxes from it.
Brandon Republican.
If the facts are as stated by the Repub-
lican (and we do not doubt it, they
should operate as bar to the collecting
of taxes in Rankin county. A legal
assessment is essential to collection. The
latter can not be made, without the for
mer. Let the taxpayers stand on their
right, and if the taxeaters complain that
their rations are cut off, they will have
nobody to blame but themselves, for the
election of incompetent and unfaithful
officials.
A subsequent member of the Republi-
can party states that the Board Of Super
visors unanimously rejected the assess
ment rolls.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-14
IncOnnpetency i'm Office.

The timeliness of the Copiah resolu-
ton that none but men of capacity and
integrity should be selected for office, is
constantly illustrated. The case of the
Rankin county carpet-bag negro assessor
is familiar to the public, and here is an
other instance of the same kind reported
in Washington county:
The Assessor of Washington county,
negro named Young, has completely
exhibited his utter incompetency for Of
flee by making an assessment which is
so very incorrect as to be truly wonder.
full
For Instance piece of property valued
at $16,0 900 is assessed at $40, 900. A per-
son owning twenty mules and one horse
was assessed with twenty mules and fifteen
horses, and so the assessment went on
sublimely regardless of the description
or value of property. Finally COM
mittee of citizens were appointed to revise
the roll and the assessor very willingly
consented, confessing his own incompetent
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-14

: We are told BY the Radical organs,
and we would judge SO from the clatter of
the n. Y. World, the organ of the money
ring in New York, that there is differ
ence of opinion between the Democrats of
New England and of Ohio and the West,
on the currency question. What if there
is, provided they. are agreed in the main
purpose of cooperating for the overthrow
of Radicalism! The Democratic party,
unless it is untrue to It's great traditions
will not sacrifice the main object of its or
ganization in disagreement about a
single issue.
Every well posted man knows that the
Democrats of Pennsylvania were always
in favor of tariff for protection, though
a majority of the party elsewhere adyoca-
/ ted free trade; but Pennsylvania was the
| keystone of the Democratic arch. Who
does not remembers James K. Folks cele-
brated "Kane letter, and who has forgot
ten that through Democrat of anti-pro-
tective antecedents, Pennsylvania gave
him majority and turned the Presiden-
tial scale in his favor? Why? Because
it was the political religion of Democrats
to permit no side issues to come between
them and victory. A little of the old
leaven of union cancellation and harmony,
will leaven the whole lumpin the pending
| CANVASS.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-14

Speaking of the Copiah resolutions ON
the subject of the color line, the Vicks-
burg Monitor, which claims to be the
original "color line journal in the State
says:
We again repeat, the color line which
the Monitor advocates and believes in,
means no i'll will to the blacks. Il be-
lieves in cooperating with the blacks
auhen the blacks give proper evidence of
a sincere desire to thus cooperate. But
the blacks have hitherto deceived the
whites, in their political alliances, and
therefore we must have suitable proof of
their sincerity before we can again trust
them. In the meantime the whites must
be self-dependent and self-reliant, and
this means that, while the door shall
stand wide open for the blacks who mean
right, there shall be no brides of office,
or other means used to win over the ne
gro and that we are done talking and be-
seeching for negro votes,
This shows the little difference which
is discovered between the color liners and
those opposed to the line, when they
come to compare notes. We do not be-
lieve there is an anti-color liner in the
State who would object to the position
laid down by the Monitor.
Then, again, the Vicksburg Herald,
says that the following resolution adopted
by the Democracy of Copiah is virtually
what the color liners are contending for
g ResOtued, That we are in favor of
voting for no candidate for office unless
he is qualified to discharge the duties of
the Office intelligently, and with a char
acter for honesty that will secure the
faithful discharge of the duty"
After all, the question will regulate
itself according to circumstances and the
exigencies of the canvass, without the
agency of platform makers. The Demo
oraoy of Warren and Lee will make the
fight on whatever line they please, no
matter what State Convention may I'M
dertake to prescribe. And so in Copiah
and Adams, Chickasaw and Carroll,
they will do what to them may seem
right and proper. Aye, more, the can
didates, who go in to win, will choose
their own mode of canvass; and if they
have not the tact and courage to select a
plan of action and execute it bravely,
without having it written down for them
in what is called a Platform" they
are not fit to be nominated.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-14

A Washington special says that num-
Der of clerks in the War Department
have been employed for some time in
searching the records of the Confederate
War Department and.preparing therefrom
a detailed military history of all The Con-
gressmen elected from Southern States
who served in the Confederate army.
The muster roll of the various regiments
in which any of these Confederate officers
served, were examined to find the number
of engagements in which they participa-
ted, and in like manner all the reports
were gone through for the same purposes
This work was done by order of the Sec
rotary of War, at the request of the
of editor the kitchen organ. The object
is to use it as campaign document.
From this collection of scarecrows, the
Offices and honors heaped upon Gen.
Longstreet, Gen. Lees right arm after
Stonewall Jackson's death-by Gen.
Grant, the head-center of the Republican
party, should not be omitted.