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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20
California;. next senator.

A California correspondent writes
there is no use to count the next Sena-
tor from that State as a Republican,
and says not more than one>third of the
present Legislature of that State is
Republican. He closes:
But under the new Constitution of
the State a new Assembly is chosen in
one year, which, in conjunction with
the present Senate, will choose the
United States Senator. AS we have
every hope and expectation that the
opposition will unite against the Re
publicans next year, we intend to carry
the Assembly by a large majority.
The Republican vote is sixty seven
thousand, while the combined opposi'
ton is ninety Thousand. Count CALI
fornia's next Senator doubtful but in
all probability a Nottingham of Demo
cratic antecdents.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20
ExeiSementin Maine.

AUGUSTA, Me-, November 15.--Rum
ors i n regard to the Governor AMI coun.
Gil intending to count out the Republi-
can majority in the legislature, is ex'
citing general attention.
Notices were filed with the Governor
Yesterday for hearings in the disputed
cases in Franklin, Lincoln, PenobscoI
and Washington counties.
1t is reported that no hearings viii
be allowed in the disputed cases. bu'
certificates be issued as already deter
mined. Carefully compiled lists show
that the Republicans have eighty-nint
members in the house and u vacancy
by death, while the Democrats have
sixty-one in the same branch. In the
Senate the Republicans have nineteen,
Democrats, twelve.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20
Nigger-s

The following tribute to the negro is
taken from the Lemars, Iowa, Sentinel,
ono of most ultra Republican papers in
the North. The editor Of that paper is
Disguised with the negroes because they
no longer belong to the Republican
party:
The ridiculous fancy of n;ggers for
the word ''colored" is one of the strang
est phenomena.
Ypu may kick a niger from New
Orleans to St. Panl and back il you
only call him q ''colored gentleman"
There is nothing on earth will rifle n
niger quicker or more etfectually than
to call him a niger.
all.
We get several nigger newspapers in
exchange, and the fellows talk about
C"lored papers!
The darkey editors are talking about
holding n convention Of
COlored papers.
Just think of it.
CoIored papers!
Aud We read about
Cnlored bands,
COloreu schools.
Colored votes, and all kinds of coior>
ed things.
Meaning at the same time niger pa
pers. bigger bands, etc.
II Sambo. after getting his eys-teeth
cat, bad insisted on calling himself a
negro all right.
BIT be is nearly as much ashamed, or
at least he gets as mad when called a
negro, as when dnbbed 4 Niger.
He must be colured or nothing,
the word is meaningless.
Coiors vary from that of a frozen
pumpkin 70 trat of a hrIndle steer;
And a "coiored individually may be
any tint from a yaller dog to black
shame.
Negroes, mulattoes, quadroens and
octoroons are specific and well-known
names that mean something.
Niger is 81 generic name in short, ex-
pressive and sociable.
There is m aroma of hail fellow
we'll met and ever tenderness in the
despised word.
Niger.
That is dissipated by the Flora Me-
Flimsey atfectstion 'colored."
How many, many millions of rs in
youth have been touched with the
song.
There was IN old Niger, and his name
was uncle Ned,"
aud mourued over the good uncle's de-
parture?
The word "nigger' is immortalized in
a Thousand songs that awaken kindly
and tender thoughts of the darky.
The p~laintive melodies dwell in u
enrs,
And the niger lives on their sympa>
thetic strains.
If we were black we would insist on
being called a niger.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

What Pre>iHeRt Hayes Has 10
A$av.


BosroN, Nov. I6.-Fred r. Guern-
sey, a reporter of the Boston Herald,
to-day interviewed President Hayes
at Washington on the political sit
nation. In answer to question
whether popular confidence in his
administration did not in part IN
derlie the Republican reaction, the
President said that probably that
was the cause to some extent. He
thought that the Republican party
had been strengthened by its strict
adherence to Republican principles
and by the refusal of the .dminis-
tration to submit to Legislative CO.
exion. The Republican victories
are however, he said probably due
to the popular belief that the North
.ern Democracy uphold the Southern
Democrats in their practical nuliti-
cation of the fifteenth amendment.
If the Southern Democrats were in
Congress they would insist upon
fair elections in thea South, and IL
great and desirable pshange would
be quickly brought about. For
instance" said the President, "let
them insist that the member from
the Shoe-string district in Mississ-
ippi be elected by a full and free
ballot. But the Northern Demo
ccrats seem only too willing to profit
by Democratic ac~cessions from the
South, however obtained"
The President said he heartily
approved the proposal to send lead,
ing Republican speakers to the
Southern States. He wanted to see
the time when Republican orators
would go 20 Louisiana as freely as
to Iowa. He had urged in his own
State Garfield and Foster and others
to go South, buj the trouble was
that our own Northern Republican
speakers had calculated on being
free from political work after the
Northern State campaigns were
over, and shrunk from undertaking
new campaings.
The President spoke in terms of
warm approval of the liberal course
of the Vicksburg Herald. All over
the Soash he thought he detected a
growing liberality in journalism.
my Youngstown, Ohio, speech"
he remarked, was considered pref
ty Stalwart, even by Republicans,
but some of my Southern friends,
Democrats, too, say that it was not
unjust or unfair"
The President said that he was
glad to learn from the correspond
ent of the personal good will felt
toward him by leading Democrats
in the Mississippi Valley. Il have
he said. IA great many callers..from
the South, but probably Ionly hear
the sunny side from them, for they
call upon me in a friendly way"
He thought it a good sign that SC
many representatives Southern pa
pers had denounced the lazoo out
rage, ven papers published in Mis-
sissippi itself. Il get pretty quick
ly," he said, "the tone OF the press,
when favorable to the administra-
ton: for editors, when they say 4
friendly word, are likely to mail M,
a marked copy Of their papers"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

A Washington correspondent OF the
New York Sun asks:
Aud, after all. what have the Repub
licars gained since last year? Cali
eornia was carried by the Kearney bolt.
Maine on the popular vote is against
the party. Fosters majority in ONO,
on a vote of ove SIX hundred and sixty
thousand, is less than fonr Thousand
clear, with an open detection against
Ewing by the hard money Democrats.
Pennsylvania. Iowa, .Nebrasky and
| Wisconsin are carried as usual. The
Legislatures of New Jersey and Con-
necticut are unchanged. Massachusetts
has come down from a majority OF fifty
thousand to a mere plurality, and the
great pivotal State of New York has
notified Mr.. Conklin9 that he does moi
carry the Republican party in his peck
ct. There may be some hidden causes
for Boosting in these results, but Ger
tainly they are not visible on the sur
| face.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20
PICTORIAL
3 A Z NJ !.

Consumption, Co"ghS and CO'ds
! ASthm", Bro"chjtis, Splitting Of
Bi0od. Pam amt Soreness Of the
BreoSt, HoarSeaess. PhHisjc,
Uho0ping Co"gh, anil
All Diseases of Throat aud Lungs.
Hundreds Of letters have been received
certifying to the wonderful cures effected
bv the use of this Invaluable medicine. The
following is a specimen:
New ORLrASs. April 18th. 1865.
7. w. MARsDEN, EsQ.-Denr .Sir:-How
can | express tho gratitn le | feel when 7
consider to yon I am indebted for health =.
and | NAV saw life. Having left Chict-n
nv The advice Of DR.. H., to try the beneficial
effects OF 4 Southern winter on my disease
decentralization success, | wa.
about to return home to die amnnr4t
friends. when | saw yonr advertisement in
the daily papers eulogizing the merits Of
Pectoral Balm | purchased a bottle, and
language cannot express the feeling of res
lief which followed the use of this tru'v
valuable medicine. | have taken three bot
ties, and. feel myself hourly improving in
health. mnch to the surprise of nv phvsi-
clans and friends. would recommend ALI
who are Suffering from diseased lungs to
try Pectoral Balm, being satisfied of Its
extraordinary curative virtues.
Your tr1e frien1.
j. HENRY MALLERY.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

Col. b. F. JONES, of the Winont
Advance, lisa candidate for Sergeant
alarms of the Senate, and not the
House, as reported last week. We
might have known that a man OF his
ability and high standing would prefer
a position in the Senate to that OF the
House. The Senate is the place fol
him. 1t would not be too great a com
pliment to elect him by reclamation
Aside from Jones' mental ability, he is
physically able to waltz out any unruly
Senator, or bring in a half dozen, tc
make up a quorum. He posses every
qualification for the place.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

The Republican party, seeing that 1t
has lost control Of Congress, will make
n most desperate effort to elect its
President next year. 1t is we'll fortified
for the work, having the army, treasu :
nv. and one hundred thousand officers,
and viii use all it's power to the best
advantage, 1t cannot afford ia be
beaten, for then its rascalities would be
expose to the world. Speaking on this
subject, the New York SUI adds, that
as long as the Republican party can
hold on TO Office and manipulate the
puclic accounts, and make the records
of the departm 'uts conform to their
necessities, there will he no full expos.
ure of the overwhelming frauds and
rascalIties that have been perpetrated
since the close of the civil war. The
lame explanation of Mr.. Boutwell, aud
Mr.. Sherman in regard to the appall-
ing discrepancies in the off, ial state,
ments of the Treasury as to the public
loans aud the other issues, have only
served to excite increased suspicion aud
to fix attention more closely on that
point. Under the greatest disadvanta-
ges, the Committee of which Senator
Davis of West Virginia is Chairman
L,,., oranoolnl -, ofn1l,ohtn onrtatn
facts which, when put before the COINS
try in the form of u report, cannot fail
to create a profound impression.
They have found millions improperly
entered, end balances forced to cover
up these fraudulent charges. Volumes
OF the most important accounts are
missing, and it is evident from their
connection with the public loans that
they were ~purposely carried off and
destroyed, to hide villalny. In some
of the existing books whole pages are
torn out, and they are otherwise mutt
lated. aud ensures visible to the eye,
and others to On ordinary magnlter,
NAV be counted bv thousands. All
these charges, this thievery, this nut
%lotion. and this destruction relate tic
the most important books and accounts
of the Treasury.
Can ANYBODY believe that such Grim =
NAL tamperirg with the records OF the
Treasury, extending only over a limit
ed period of years, and all pointing to
intentional fraud and forgery to exces-
| sive issues, counterfeiting and stealing.
was the result of mere accidents? No
wonder the Republican leaders seek to
solidify the North against the South
in a sectional crusade, and totgnore all
those material questions upon the solu-
ton of which the general prosperity
depends. No wonder they cry ont for
a "strong man." who will trample the
| Constitution under foot. use the army
to crush our opposition Oh the slightest
of pretexts, and suhvert the Governs
ment to the worst partisan objects
| This is their game to win the next
election, to bury out of sight the in'
louities which blot the career OF the
party and of many of it's prominent
leaders, and to prevent the punishment
| which an indignant people would adj
minister after o full exposure.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20
Choosing Electors by the a-cgis
lnturC.

Some of the more cowarlly sort o'
politicians are advocating the selection
of Presidential electors i'll this State by
the VickSburg Her"td.
We don't know what the Herald
means by ttho term '-cowardly sort OF
politicians but we agree with 1t IL
opposing the selection of Presidential
electors by the Legislature. TIE Leg
islatures have too much power already
If this is a government of the people
for the people, let the people choose
their own electors at the ballot box. as
tine United States Senators ought alse
to be elected.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20
BE More Tolerant.

1t seems to MS there is entirely too
mnch elimination and reclimiuation
among our State exchanges. Would it
not DO better to be q little more toler-
ant to n anotherl Let MS allow every
mar to conduct his paper as to him
seems best. We are no champion of
the Vicksburg Herald, but it seems to
us that many OF our exchanges have
been rather severe in censurlng it; and
we can't see why there should be any
extraordinary occasion for rejoicing be-
cause it's editor was beaten for the State
Senate. We do not euaorse all that he
has written for the last six months
but we cannot forget that he is a Dem
ocrat and has done yeoman service for
our party. "Iiet us respect the rights
Of others as we would have a own
respected"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20
Returning Prosperity.

The following items, CLEANED from a
single number of the Courier Journal,
afford pretty good evidence of the im-
proved condition of business i'll the
South:
Gainesville, Ga. is to have two cotton
factories.
Union City. Tenu., has just started 8
bank With, $50. 900 capital.
Handshoro, Miss. is making prepare
tions to start a cotton and wolen fac
tory.
Warren county, Mississippi, in three
years and nine months, has reduced her
indebtness $145, 095.
An unusually large number Of build
ings is going up in Jonesboro. Tenn.
The Oxford Torchlight says the mass
of the people of Granville, N. G., are
better fed. clothed. housed. and enjoy
more of the COMFORTS of life. than at any
period before or since the war;
Little Rock Gazette: An old citizen
of Little Rock, who has lived in the
State for more than forty years, and
been in active and successful business
pursuits all that time, says that he has
not seen times so prosperous sine 1877.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

A MAN named Myers, a painter, from
this county, stole a suit of clothes and
some money, over a year ago. and was
sentenced to twelve months imprison,
ment IN the Jackson penitentiary and
to work ont the costs of the suit. His
year expired a short time ago, having
thus far made no attempt to escape;
but the other day, being at work on
the courthouse building at Brookhaven,
he unceremoniously took his leave.
He was recaptured, and in addition to
the costs of his first trial, be has now
To work ont the expenses Of rearrestine
him. One instance more Verbnm
sat.-MedduiHe Banner.
Myers was not at work on she Court
house, button Lucich's building.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20
yicLsburs and Ship island ae. Il

Work is progressing rapidly on the
vicksburg and Ship Island Railroad.
Big Black, it is said, vii! Don be reach.
ed and bridged. and then the road will
90 on to Port Gibson. We are not adj
vised where, exactly, Big Black will be
crossed. but perhaps in the Hakinson
Ferry neightorhood-in which event
we may yet see Hakinson Ferry loom
lug up as u city. Kinds Co. Gazette.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

AN unfortunate accidental killing
| occurred near Osyka. on Monday last,
the particulars are as follows: About
0 O'Clock, q. m. of the 10th inst, as
Andrew Jackson, colorsd, and his grown
son we're walking along the Chatawa
road, east of the railroad. about one
and a half miles from Osyka, when
they met Young Henry Jenkins, color.
ed, who shook hands with them and
turning to the younger Jackson. In
quired the reason he was carrying a
gun, and was answered he was. ''looking
for squirrels" Henry then took hold
of the gun in fun and attempted to
take it away from young jackson. in
the scnfde that followed it was dis
charged, and the whole load entered
Henry's breast killing him instantly.
Young Jackson surrendered himself
at Osyka aud Coroner Stratton was
telegraphed for at the date of our in
formation to hold an inquest. Summit
Times.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

ROBERT RAYFoRD, Assessor elect OF
Sunfower county, was burned to death
at q little place in that county called
Eureka, a few nights ago. He was
sleeping in a store by himself. The
store was discovered on fire during the
night, but all efforts to save it proved
unavailing. When daylight broke
nothing remained but the ashes of the
building and the charred remains OF
Rayford.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20
E~sun,hng.ed Again.

| saw so much said about the merits
Of Hop Bitters. and my wife who was
alwas do~ctoring, and never we'll, leased
me so urnestly 20 get her some. l Con
Guided to be humbugged again; and |
am glad | did, for 10 less than two
months use of the Bitters my wife was
cured and she has remained so for
eighteen months since. I like huns
bugging, Fl. L., st. Paul. uov. a0-2t
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

The Sun says the rumor has been
current for several days that extensive
frauds against the Government had
been discovered at the New York Gus
tom house and that custom officers of
high degree were implicated. Collector
Merritt and Appraiser butcher went to
Washington to make the preliminary
examination, and they returned Saturs
day but are reticent as to the result.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

CoPIAH county has "a large crop of
strawberries growing now, and has
been shipping them to Chicago and
else
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20
roRTY.sEYENrH CONGRESS-

People of both parties here are
laughing at the Presidents good
natured prediction that the next
Congress will be Republican. The
prediction, however, has stimulated
speculation, aud the more the mat
ter is considered the more certain it
becomes that the Democratic MAORI
ty will he overwhelming. III the
Senate which will hold over through
the Presidential election, there are
A Democrats, incIniing Senator
Davis, and 30 Republican,. lh the
House there are AS Democrats. and
l3o Republicans and G%reenback Re
publicans and 6 G~reenback Demo
Gratis. OF the Democrats, including
Delaware and Missouri, there are
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

THE Republicans are excited overa ru
NOR that their party will be counted ont
in Maine. They don't deserve any bet~
ter. as they counted the Democrats ont
in New York.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

The public are not probably aware of
the fact that the meteoric shower was n
prearranged newspaper Joke. Halstead,
of the Cincinnati Commercial, started
it. 1t was the best joke Of the season.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

The Democrats have o a glorious
victory in the proud State of New York.
Out of all the officers they have elect
ed o Surveyor. We can stand to be
beaten for every thing else, except
Surveyor, but to have lost that officer
would have been a blow thats The party
could not survive. So long rs We elect
Surveyors we are happy.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

d G. LAuDERpALE, of Scott county,
has been arrested for forging S. II.
Kirkland's name to a bond.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

a

A notable social episode which re
Gently occurred was the marriage. on
Sunday evening, of Mr.. Leopold Mll-
Ter, of Brookhaven, Miss, and Miss
Camilla Kaiser, a sister of Marks Kai-
ser, the celebrated violinist. Tho Ger,
emony vas made the OCCASION for a
large assembiage of the friends of the
bride aud the groom in the splendidiy
decorated parlols OF the brides parents,
and a merry party accompanied the
happy couple to the train which bore
them to their new home. -NeW Or
leans Times.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

A Mr.. TAFT, of Meridian. was founl
dead near the Railroad track. Sup-
posed to have been killed by a tram.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

SOME of Gen. Chalmers friends have
proclaimed for him for the United
States Senate.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

IT is all nonsense to argue that Til
den is dead. If so, why would some Of
the papers be. firing their wads at him:
Surely they would not shoot at a dead
lion. Like the Democracy, Tilden will
prove himself about the livelieet corps
that his enemies ever beheld.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

THE 18th inst. was Il big day in Port
Gibson, it being the OCCASION of the
re>union of Harris brigage.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

GRANTS welcome in Chicago, on the
18th inst. was only equalled. by that of
San Francisco.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

On the morning OF the 18th inst.
M. F. Minis, station agent at Lauder
dale, wa shot and severely wounded by
q negro.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

FROM Sept. 1st, to Nov. 9Th, inclu>
sive, there has been hipped from this
point 1854 bales of cotton. We would
like for Brookhaven to speak out in
meetin. ''-Summt Sentinel.
Brookhaven has shipped 5,OI7 bales.
How do you feel now?
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

By virtue OF a decree of the Chancery Cont
Of Lincoln county, l will on Monday the 23n |
day of December A. d. 1879 at the Court House
door in the town of Brookhtven, b tween the
hours of IL O'Clock a. m. and ) O'Clock p. M, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for ctSh
the following lands belonging TO the estate OF
Floyd Williams deceased, tO-7it:
Mex OF sell and % acres on the south side OF
the nwI of sehall in section - town 6, rage s,
and II acres in sell of sc ;and sw4t of set or
section. %, town. s. r I, and sell of swL of sec.
90, town, 8. r S, and sS acres on north side II
nwA OF swli sec. 90, town 6, r $ and the nek Of
OWL and IS acres on east silt Of nwL OF nsli
sec. 81, town. s. r s. east. AMI sw or OF ne or an |
re or OF sc or OF sec. 81, 8, r S. east
JANIS b. WILLIAMS,
nov. 20-t-w, Administrator.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

This is n striking and signiHcar
paragraph from the Philadelphia Times
"The election Of Cornell is a Republi
c,n suicide. 1t is not q triumph c
Republicanism that a stand the ties
of the considerate Judgment of patrio
tic people. On the contrary 1T is a vic
tory of banded plunderers from bot
political camps, and q reproach to th
party that is likely to end Republica
supremacy in the Empire State"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20

overdose OF morphine. but being &C
cidentally discovered before he was toe
far gone, was saved by Drs. Craft and
Johnston. He told them that his fa>
Their. three brothers and a sister had
committed suicide, and that though he
was prevented from carrying out bis
design now, it would only be a qnes-
ton of time as to when he would carry
it into execution. He appeared to be a
man Of education, said he had n family,
and talked nationally enough, but from
the foregoing it would seem that the
whole family are monomaniacs on the
suhient of Suicile.