The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-03-14

negroes have been kldna pped IN
Florida, carried to Cuba and sold rs
1t is also said that the Presi.
dent has sent Judge Leonard, of Lou
~isiana. on a special mission to Cuba to
investigate, so as to ascertain if there
is any truth in the statement. As the
Cuban slaves have been emancipated
the slave trafc will stop, if it ever ex-
listed.
CAPT. EADs now proposes to deepen
the Mississippi from st. Louis to New
Orleans to the depth of at least twenty
one feet at all places. Let him finish
the %ietties before undertaking another
job on the father of waters.
AT the last term OF the Circuit Court
Of Pike county, Mrs. Ratcliff, of Lib
eity, we learn obtained a judgment
against the Chicago, st. Louis & New
Or:.ans Railroad for S25. 900 damages,
for the death of her husband.
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The Board of Supervisors of Mar
shall county has been authorized to
publish their, proceedings at q cost cot
exceeding $500 per annum.-E.c.
Fewell'strowd must not have been in
the Senate wen the bill was up. They
should have been on the alert and pre-
vented any bloody paper from receiving
pay for work that should be done in ev
cry county.
Secret E~mIssarie. The Gre1S
National Para.
WASHINGTON. d. c., Mar. 10, 1873.
Editor Broohharen Ledger:
One half the bills presented in Con
gress are in direct violation, either in
letter or spirit of the Constitution.
These bills are prepared by people with
special interests to be served, by public
officers who wish for intended powers,
or who have theories they wish to test,
or by an active lobby which sees a pos
sibility of plumber in every deviation
from simplicity in Government. Every
public officer is watched by an officer,
who, in his turn, is watched: every
Court in some sections of the country
is at once aided and spied upon by Off
GERS, and all these spies and aids are
the unnecessary and vicious creatures
of u system of legislation not thought
of in this country before 1861, aud
which, if ever necessary, ceased to be
years ago. Every Department of the
Government has its secret agents scat
tered through every State, forming an
irregular and irresponsible body of men
whose very employment suggests to
tham the corrupt use of power. 1t may
be that most of those who will read this
letter, have in no appreciabie way, eK
cept in the amount of their taxes, suf~
Tered from this evil, out all of them
may at any moment suffer. 1t is a
wonder that Democrats in the House
and Senate content themselves with
feeble opposition to new usurpations of
4 Republican administration and do
not attact existing wrongs. Senator
Thurman, or Senator Baysrd, or Sena-
tor Beck, Oh Representatives, Glover,
Eden, Stephens, Springer, Cox, Lynde.
Morrison, Potter, or any OF the hundred
other able men in Congress could co
no better work for the country or their
party than by a thorough exposure of
the changes that have been made in the
methods of transacting the business of
the Federal Government. Exposure in
this matter would at once force reform
alton. The Senate yesterday passed
the bill authorizing the Issue Of a long
bond for the inves ment of savings,
which provides, that in lieu of the four
per cent. bonds authorized by the act of
July IA 1870. the Secretary of the
Treasury issue a sum not exceeding
500, 900, 600 of coupon bonds of the
denomination of $25, $50 500, and of
equal sums of each denomination, res
deemabie ID coin fifty years from date
and bearing interest payable semi-an-
nuallv in coin at the rate of four per
cent per annum; said bonds to be tx
empt from taxation. The Secretary
shall keep the bonds for sale at the diff
ferent sub treasures, National Banks
and money repositories of the United
States, and shall dispose Of them at par
and accrued interest in coin or U. S.
legal tender notes at their nominal val
ne. 1t is of course impossible to say
what action the House will take on the
measure, but it would seem that favora-
BILE action could do no harm
I am indebted to Prof, Hayden, for
several years past engaged in surveying
the yellowstone National Park for
the following information concerning it.
1t is the largest National Park in the
world. 1t was set aside and dedicated
as a public park and pleasure ground
by Act of Congress of March 1,1872.
1t is situated at the sources of the
Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, in the
Territories of Wyoming and Montana
and comprises a territory of 6fty>fve by
sixty five miles (three thousand five
hundred and seventy five square miles)
and it's general elevation is more than
six thousand feet above the level of the
sea, and some of it's peaks rise to the
height of ten thousand or twelve thou
sand feet.
1t derives it's interest not only from
it's great elevation, but from the vol
canic character of the whole region
about the Yellowstone, and especially
from the two great Geyser Basins with
in its limits all the various manifesto
ti,ps of volcanic activity, except the
| fire volcano, can here be found upon a
grand scale. In addition to its volcan-
ic characteristics, the natural beauty of