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Important Medical and Santa
riam Convention.

The sixth annual meeting of the
American Public Health Association will
be held at Richmond, Va, from the 18th
to the 23d of November, to consider the
course and causes of the prevailing cpl
demic in the Southern States and to
discuss the sanitary measures for pre-
venting a recurrence of such calamities.
The report of the Commission of Inves
tigation now at work in the infected
cities will he the first subject discussed.
Invitations to attend this conference are
extended to all State and municipal
boards of health to any citizens inter
ested in protective measures against yell
low fever; to physicians, naturalists,
civil engineers and other scientific con
tributors to sanitary science.
We would respectfully suggest TO the
Mississippi State Board of Health, the
importance of having this State repre-
scented in that body by physicians who
have had opportunity of personal expe
rience in the treatment of the disease.
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Ehe Epidemic in jackson

For the week ending at ? o'clock this
dav. Wednesday 23d, there have been
1876 cases. Whites, SO; colored, III.
Deaths for the week whites and -
colo. ed Total deaths 20 Number Of
cases since August 31st 1873 Whites
III, colored 2Z7. Total deaths Al;
whites Is, colored 10. Whites now IN
der treatment 80; coIored 20I. New
cases last SO hours,5 whites and IS color
cd. Deaths last "A hours, whites none,
cgi0red , For further details see our
columns.
The deaths for the past week have av
cgagcd nearly , day-a slight increase
over the week before. On the nights Of
the 17tb, 18th aud 18th, there were
light frosts without any perceptible eff
feet upou the disease. The sick and
death rates have somewhat decreased
among the whites, and have largely in
creased among the colored during the
past week Last night there was another
light frost, with what effect remains to be
seen Unless nature has reversed her
ordinances, cool weather will extinguish
the disease ere long. Our people who
have borne their trials so calmly will not
despair now The darkest hour is just
before daybreaE.
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rhe esreenbac kerS "a tEae Ia D'~'
aricI in Council
WATERFORD. Miss. OCT IA. 1873.

WATERFORD. Mss. Oct. IA. 1873
FpIroRs CLARION On the first al Octo
Der six white men aud four negroes me'
here for tie pIrpose OF nominating aOreeh-
back candidate for Congress from TINS dis
trict
One negro claimed to represent Lal1ye'ss
county, a white man represe nted Benton
three white men and one negro did the non
ors for Marshall, and two whites ahd t"o
negroes appeared for Panola-ten All foid
/ AS there are ten counties IN the district II
would have appeared more lib raj bad one
delegate been asst gned to each county
| a. il was Tate. DeSoto. Talithatchie, L ALTO
/ bushs Tippah and Union were entirely un-
represented.
| The theory that small bodies Of men WORK
together more harmoDiously than large
ones is forever exploded. 1t seems the rep
resentative from Benton wanted Col
Wright nominated, but the other nine
"eould not see it, and thereupon the Ben
ton delegation unanimously withdrew from
the Convention.
The iIlusrrious four from Marshall said
they would take West 'i.. theirn," but g-eaI
men sometimes differ and the other fiye
shook their heads and said they would not
go West. The Marshall delegates said their
banner bore the inscription Westward
the star of Empire takes its way aud II the
Convention could not subscribe TO that
motto they felt il TO be their duty 10 them
selves and their constituents to step down
and out-4nd they stepped. The little band
was now reduced to five, three colored and
nm
stood at their post. and the result OF their
labors was the nomination of the Rev. Mr..
Amacker.
For the information of your readers who
are SO fortunate as not To know who the
Rev. Mr. Amlcker i, it may be necessary
to state that he is resident of this county
who was unfortunately elected to the Leg
islature by the Democratic party in 1875
The people soon became ashamed of him and
OF themselves for supporting him
Since that time he has been counting favo~
with the Radicals, negroes, independents,
greenbackers and any body who will recog
nize him.
1t is proper to state that the better por-
tion of the Democrats who acted with the
Independents in this county last year utter
ly repudiate the Rev. Mr.. Amacker, and the
So-caIted convention tnaC nominated nun
The prevalence of yellow fever AT so
many places in the district, has prevented
Col. Manning from making an active can
vasS; but he will commence in few DAYS
and speak at many places possible up to
the election.
MARSHALL.
eve are quite sure that the name of
Gen. West was used without his knowl-
edge. or consent. aud that he would have
Indignantly rejected the nomination if it
had been rendered him-ED. CLARIoN.)
The Louisiana Democrats Clear
Their Skirts of AcIkIeD
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Northern States for partisan effect,
to revive sectional passions and thus
inure to the advantage of the Repabh-
can party which owes its origin to sec
tionaI- measures and its continued eXis-
tence TO sectional influences. They are
infamous, moreover, in the motive OF
the authors TO create an utterly false lm
preston in regard to the people OF the
Southern States. 1t is untrue that any
effort has been made or even thought of,
by Southern Democrats TO control the
elections by other than legal and peace
full measures. If there ever was time
when instructions of that character from
Washington would have been in order,
il was FIVE or six years ago when the
ignorant and debased myrmidions of the
carpet bag plunderers We're in the habit
of packing themselves around the ballot
boxes to exclude Democrats from the
polls. Thank God, that day is over
never to return again, in this day and
tenn of Federal interference with cleo
tons is wrong. 1t is matter which
belongs exclusively to the State govern
ments. This law which the Administra
ton is now endeavoring to revive, is
relic of the worst era of Radical rule,
and the first duty of the Democrats
when they obtain control of Congress,
will be to repeal it.
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Providence makes opportunities. Men
improve them. In war men of heroic
mould come to the front, who would
otherwise live and die "unhonored and
unsung." In epidemics, when pestilence
walketh in darkness and destruction
wasteth at monday, men in whom the
elements Of courage and genius and
humanity are mixed, display the metal
they are made of, who without such OPP
portunity would descend to their graves
in obscurity. These have been APPLY
called Heroes of Humanity. During
the present calamity, many names have
been inscribed high upon the roll Of these
Heroes. Prominent among them, is
DR. Robert ". Mitchell, of Memphis,
the physician to whom a faculty as able
as there is in the United States, unani-
mously assigned the position of Medical
Director during the terrible scourge that
has swept over that Inflated city like a
simeon of the desert, sparing neither
age, sex nor condition. The position
required rare combination of qualities
skill in the science Of medicine
GOODNESS in the midst of danger-forti-
tude amidst trials=7a knowledge of men
"a tender heart, aud above all, execu-
tive ability, and the God-like faculty of
bringing order out of chaos That DR..
Mitchell has displayed these qualities in
the trying circumstances by which he
has been surrounded, the opinions of
physicians who have served with him
and under his direction, and of citizens
who instinctively find the right man for
the right place, are concurrent.
In selecting Commission to investi-
gate the causes of the yellow fever, the
best means of excluding it from the
United States, and of successfully
treating it, DR.. Mitchell was designated
as enc of the three, who were to compose
it, with salary of $500 month and
travelling expenses. His reply was tina
duty bound him to the suffering people
with whom he lived. The position was
declined. 1t was an honor that any man,
however high in his calling, might well
prize to be selected from the entire pro
fession of the country as one of three to
serve upon such a Commission. And
yet DIR. Mitchell had the magnanimity
and the selecontrql TO reject it.
A North Carolina contemporary, the
Raleigh Standard, claims DR.. Mitchell
as a son of the old North State. The
writer of this article happens to know
thAt the Standard IS mistaken. He has
known the subject eff these comments from
his earliest hOyhoOd. Hels native son of
Mississippi and was raised from infancy |
to manhood in this State The older
citizens of Jackson SID FeHember Prof. |
G. D. Mitchell afterwards Gen q. o.
who about thirty-two years
ago was copnected with Female School
n this city and aftergards resided in
Warren county. This gentleman ~as
he father Of the distinguished physician
nd Medical Director at Memphis. The
on was then youth. probably fifteen
ears old, SO modest retiring and gentle /
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why Should I PafrOnfxe MfssfssiD
Pi College?

l. Because it is home institution. Il i
better to educate your son at home thar
away from home, and have him come back
out OF sympathy with his own people. am
they out Of sym patty with him
=. LII Is one of the cheapest schools In all
the land A bow is apt to spend less money
In Mississippi College than anywhere YOU
can send him Board is cheap, and the style
OF the place is plain.
j. lt Is thorough school. The teaching
Is COED and il your son graduates in Miss-
Issippi College. ne viii be very sure TO
know something worth knowing
4. The moral aud religions influences in
Clinton are stronger and purer than at any
other College seat within our KNOWLEDGE
The temptations, to vice aud idIeness, are
fewer. ~
.. Clinton is one Of the heaIthiest loca-
lions In the Southern States 1t ia not
healthier on the Blue Ridge. This fact has
been demonstrated Tor forty years past. and
the testimony ofeveIy one, who ever lived
In the place, goes to prove the fact
1ut all these reasons together: A heaIthv
location; the purest moral and religious in
nneaces; thnronghuess of instruction..
cheapness. and the fact that it Is a home
school, and you have the reasons WHY Won
should Patronize Mississippi College.
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that he scarcely impressed himself upon
his associates, though they liked him for
his gentleness. they did not suspect
the heroic elements of which he was
made. They were dormant for the want
Ct opportunity 1t came with the yellow
fever epidemic which ragged in Memphis
in 1873, aud Robert Mitchell won bis
spurs. In 1878, with one accord, he
was assigned the post Of honor He had
already established the qualities of
leader in such combat with the pesti-
lence. Not only so In bis love for hui
mainly and his desire to do good, he had
showned the disregard of self which
makes heroes and aeeomplishes wonders.
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The EIecGIoK-Tuesday November
Fifth.

Six members of Congress are to be
elected from Mississippi on the 9TH of
November next, less than two weeks from
this date. In four Of the districts there
is no opposition to the regular Democrat
ic nominees, but it presents itself some
what formidably IN the First District UNI
der the lead Of an able man, Gen. Reuben
Davis, with a gallant lieutenant, Mai.
Fasser, to stand by him, and two news
papers improvised for the occasion to do
his bugling. Our information is reliable
that Col. Muldrow is making a splendid
fight and will gain an overwhelming
triumph. Gen. Tucker, Judge Bates,
the Aliens, the Sykes, Gholson, Meek,
Tison, Capt Field, the chairman Of the
district committee, are all in the field
striking yeomens blows for the integrity
Of the party in whose continued ascen-
dency are centred the hopes Of tue State.
In the Second District, Col Manning, Is
enjoying the Kilkenny cat fight of his
two opponents, and will whip them singly,
or in pairs, as they are mind to come
Mississippi must send solid dclega-
ton to Congress, pledged to have a fair
count Of the vote for the next President
or to cast the vote Of the State, for
the Democratic candidate if the cleo
ton should be thrown into the House OF
Representatives, and pledged to unite in
correcting the abuses by which privileged
moneyed classes, with their Golfers full OF
United States securities, have accumula-
ted their ill-gotten gains and enjoyed ex-
emption from the burdens which have
fallen on other classes-pledged to de
stroy monopolies-pledged to correct the
villiauies of the civil service--pledged to
wipe out the enforcement and other kim
dred infamies which were devised by the
Radical party to bedeviI and Cypress the
South-pIedged against another burglary
of the Presidential ofice--and pledged
to secure for the South fair proportion
of federal appropriations, for objects
strictly legitimate.
liz numerous counties the epidemic has
diverted attention wholly from these i'm
portant public matters. This misfortune
will impose upon the counties that have
not been disturbed by the pestilence, the
duty of rebuilding their vigilance and Of
doing the work themselves, that would
have devolved upon the whole. Let
county committees bestir themselves from
this time forward and give attention to an
election which involves the weightiestcon-
sequences TO the State and Union.
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-rhe clnrion ana the Epidemic.

-Four brave young men, Messrs. vii
liam McCdIum, Saml Knight, Sam'I
Barr, aAd Is. c.. Beaullieu when the
yellow fever excitement commenced,
agreed to see US through in the publica-
zion of The CLARIoN, God willing, come
what might William McCallum was
one Of the first to succumb to the destroy
er. Next, Sam'l Knight was stricken
down. and has pulled through after a
hard struggle. At this time, Sam'l Barr
Is wfiahing in the tolls of the monster,
with uncertain fate. Young Beaullieu
alone OF the four remains unscathed and
is on duty Mr.. Beauijeu, Sr., another
attache. IN addition to his labor as press
man. has done yeoman service as a
nurse, ministering to the sick. Our Office
has been reinforced by Capt. J. W Fife
and Mr.. Wallace Wood, and we trust
that we viii. still be able to weather the
storm, which, from the signs, has well
nigh spent its fury.
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The following Is extracted from p letter
from Mayor +, L. Baldwin, Of Bolton. dated
10Th inst:
on Tuesday last, Mr.. d. H. Wcs ana
myself went 90 the Lebanon Church relgl-
oorbood eight miles below Raymond. on
inc Utlca road. We found affairs there 'N
= terrible condition. AT rhe Lott place.
mere were eight sick, and no olo well 1l.
Mr. MoncuTe, and at the McNair place, tit-
Teen Ia the whole neighborhOod, forty
ohe-aIl whites bat tw0--Ncrs -Ick. ahI
there bad been eleven deaths. They ual
scarcely any supplies, and almost 90 msII.
cat attendance-the physicians who l0 fItH
Rt,raGtlck having refused 10 attend on ih'il,
supplies.
There have been seven deaths from yer
~" leVer, out OF fifteen ca,er-alI W"its7
On tne joe lane place, about twelve ilII5
.north-west OF Jackson, iu the edge of MAC
lson. The remaining eases are said to "a
cetohVaiescent. The ply sician who atleha.a
disease"
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MARSHALL
ACKLIN REPUDIATED.

FRANKLIN, La, October l9.-At a meet
ing OF the parish executive committee OF St.
Mary, held here to-day, the following reso-
luton was passed:
Resolved, That the executive committee
of the Dem ocratic Conservative party of St
Mary, hereby approve the finding OF the
Democratic committee chosen by Hon. J =.
Fl. Acklin to pass upon his conduct in relas
ton to the Palfrey scandal, and we request
other parishes to act on the finding OF said
committee:
Resolved, That, in view of the i'm posi-
bility ofcalling a Congressional Convention
tor the third district, we hereby call upon
the Central Committee of the Democratic
Conservative party to select = candidate
vice j. II. Acklin.
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A Military Scamp.

The Legislative Committee appointed
to investigate the thieving ring during
the carbet-bag saturnalia in South Carroll
ma has fixed lasting disgrace upon one
OF the petty military tyrants, who at the
same time orded it over the people by
the grace of federal bayonets-on Col.
Lewis Merritt, Of the United States
Army, who seems to have been as rascal
" as he was mean and cowardly, He
took large sums Of money under procla
nation issued by so-called Gov. Scott of
fering 5000 for any Ku Klux detected in
violating the enforcement act. Merrill
drove a large business in that line; and
saved 81, $50 for MS valuable services.
We do not know what has become of
him. If the Indians have not got his
scalp, nor the devil his due, he ought to
do penance the balance of his days in the
penitentary.
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NEW YoRK. October I5. Isl,
10 Ibe AuthOritir~ aud tIfi,..
Tow ns W here yellow Tr,.-
has prevailed.

AIIIIII II
MISSISSIPPI STATE BotEuu I H...-
Jackson. Miss OH. g. ..-.
As the time approaches when r....
! have fled from the Uu-l.'gHOa HuI #...
returning 10 their homes. Il M....
duty as guardians of tUe uuI.. I....
warn them of the danger ts F.II.. ....
bc exposed 10y returning Too p.r.y .
offer some words oi advice. It.m..
to know that the yellow fgyur g....
main in state Of activity iu.IU...#
even when the temperature 600 fU..r.
has reached point sufficiently uH. t..
strOy IT, il may adhere III u.I.#..
ing, carpets, cushioned furniture r..
long time. Thus the disease u..
tracted after an epidemic m. #.
abated. 10 has been asserted I.......
mild winter the germ may remain H.....
OF inactivity nm the warm atmu-rH.f. .r...
of houses, to be reNIyiiiuI nv fH. r.l... .
summer and thus am epidemic anr..u..
We earnestly suggest 90 aIO to observe.
following rules:
!. DO not return to your homes m
after freeze. A frost may orF r...
the disease for time. not .I#..
arresting IT, and tho weather a
ing warm again, IL starts alr.-u. W....
disease abatcs before cold wcatH.rI..a.
ly for the want of material AMID t.. ...
furnish fresh food for BE-.
III. Before you occupy your house. ...
them well ventilated by up.nu. a| did.
doors and Windows, including tHu.. It'll. ..
lars and closets Trunks and b,,.. .....
be opened and their contents .ynu..#,....
air. This ventilation should lr a.....
for several days. Bedding clothing ..
pets, etc, should De hung ogt doors. ....
and linen fabrics may uc tII.ufp...I h. .....
placed in boiling water WHOM. n... .....|
remain for at least 30 minute.
III Houses or apartment THAT H.r. I.r
occupied 10y yellow fever utiuuf. ..unH .a
subjected 10 suphurous umImuu which
is effected as follows. Place ~ .u ..r.tr
vessel or iron kettle containing .#I
quantity of ashes. "a few H., coal. .rn
which place from one to mur UaHa.at ...
phur, in powder on fragments. aauma. f.
the size of the room On. and H.
ounces is the proper quantity mf g.4 Dob
cubic feet of -pucc. lu .em AGAINST ...
dent by fire, il is well tD plae. .nr l..... ..
some iirc-proOf article, or suspend fuar .
tub Of "Ftcr A. SOON a- lI" sulphur r
nlJed, the room having previously been r.
dered tlght, should he closed au1 r.H.H
CLOSED Tor LWelNe or twenty tour h"un Up
ne eHeclu" ~ destroy IuE disease germs ...
Iunles must be 40 strong that iADN H..I
destroy human life, -ulphumU. He.I poo. .
a powerful bleaching agent and caro- .00HI
he taken 70 remove such things as would he
manages ny IT,
EehlllaIIon ana painting Cine "o'I.Hot.
mniVe' Washing ana fe-PapnHE Mo- "a.a
Will complete the process and UI OBJ. sH..r..
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MANroN MARBLE does not strike Of
ten. but when he does somebody gets
flocre1 His letter on the electoral com
mission enonstrating that Mr.. TiIden
nor only did not favor that infamous
agency Of usurpation aud fraud, but op
posed T. aud originated plan for carry
ing into effect the will of the people as
expressed at the polis-bas never been
coutroverted nor even answered. The
politicians who undertake. to cover their
OWE delinquency with the mantle of Mr..
Tiiden's name, have permitted judgment
to go By default. Mr.. Marble has come
before the public with another letter
equally As conclusive.
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- ~ -
AckIen's Duck.
n. Y. World.1

n. Y. World1
The Republican committed which ba,
been investigating Cougr essmAn Acklen's
moral character nndS it
"chaste as he cicle
That's curded.by the frost from purest snow.
And hangs on dams temple
The charge OF seduction brought against
him is attributed by some of the committee
to purpose TO levy blackmail and by 9th
ers to desire for revenge. Mr.. Acklea is
unfortunate in becoming the subject of so
many scandals, but fortunate in establish
ing his innncence The story of the honest
German who whipped his son, who was al
ways finding something Of value, merely
because ne was so coufoundedly lucky,
should be carefully considered by the Lou
isiana Representatives His party may be
com PEELED To discard him if scandals con-
tinue, not because he is guilty of any i'm
proPriety, but because he is so confounded-
ly unlucky in getting accused it.
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The Fever nt bolton.

From a statement Kindly furnished US by
Mr.. Walton. we learn that the total NUN Der
or yellow fever cases In Bolton ana vicinity
il l45i total deaths, IS. The TolioWing &
q correct list OF the whites who h ave died.
10 22d inst: Mrs. 4. A. Myrick, Z. X.
Myrick, Mfss Annie Walton, Miss Ida y.
Mckay, Mrs. T. NJ. PEBBLES. Clinton resblea
Mrs. DIR. Alexander, M. schwartz. Total
q sss.Alf8 fedaaett- 81 y LII
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EXTRACT FBoM A LETTER FgYu A gEy.
E. DAVIS, DATED oCroBus IlIH.
The yellow fever seem. 10 be a5H.us
at Barnes Hotel, Mississippi City, anj ls
not spreading on the beach At Iaals
boro it is of very mild type, and las
only deaths have been from impruleacs
Indeed, SO mild is it that il is scarcely 10
be dreaded.
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The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has decided case of interest to travel
ers on highways which are crossed by
railroad traeks--the case of Schultz
against the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany. 1t may be of interest to people
ontside of that State:
SIN this case the train of defendant was
passing through Il village al the rate of
twenty-five miles an hour, and the signal
required by statute was not given when it
approached the crossing. Plaintiffs intes-
tate that is the person for whose death the
suit for damages was brought was APP
preaching the crossing at the rate of twelve
miles an hour, in covered carriage, and
he SACKED Up, bpt did not stop before going
on the track. The COURT lIeld that defend
ant was entitled TO q nonSnit. 1he court
says at the i'm proper speed of the defend
ants train, inexcuss bic as 1t was. had its
counterpart in the inexcusable speed with
which the deceased entered upon the track,
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Last Hour Trick.

As we go to press, the Natchez Dem
ocrat has been received with the notice
of a Radical ticket for the Sixth District,
bearing the name of Z. J. CASTILLO. Let
the voters of the Sixth District be on
their guard.