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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14

In the year 1878 there was an In
creased yield, and in 1879 the wheat
btodttct amounted to about 80, 900, 600
bushels, making Indiana the banner
wheat Stats Of the Union. During
these years of steadily increasing pro-
duction there was nowhere q demand
for farm laborers in excess of the sup
ply. On the contrary, the supply of
labor was largely in excess of the de-
mand. There was not county paper
published i'll the State that advertised
for farm laborers to come from a dis
lance. Thousands of honest men were
out of employment, mechanics as well
as common laborers, who would have
been glad to obtain any kind of work,
at almost any price, but it could not be
had. In view of these facts the mon
strous proportions of the wrong intend
ed the white laborers of Indiana by the
Republican knaves who have been and
the State can be appreciated. The
population of Indiana in 1870 was L.
CSC, 637. The gain from 1860 to 1870
same ratio of increase has continued
during the decade just passed, the pop
ulation of the State Is now about 2,000.-
WV VI toOuD oiAIy pOiSoho W DAO
square mile. The population of North
Carolina in 1870 was 1.O71, 361; the in
crease during the decade from 1860 to
1870 was something over seven per
cent, and the present population of the
State may be estimated at about l., 49,
$50, or something over twenty-five per-
sons to the square mile. Here, then,
we have the fact that the Republican
knaves are kidnapping pauper negroes
in North Carolina where the population
is twenty-five to the square mile to ship
to Indiana where the population is sixty
to the square mile, ostensibly to better
the condition of the paupers, while the
real purpose is to have them vote the
Republican ticket. These Republican
knaves and kidnapers disregard every
law that influences the legitimate mi
grafton of human beings, they violate
the laws of Indiana, they violate the
laws of humanity, and they violate the
laws of Christianity. They have in
fiicted untold cruelties upon the pauper
negroes, and to gain few votes are
willing to force the white laborers of
Indiana into pauperism and crime-I,a-
did7adpOliS Sentinel.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14
Facts About the Negro Exodus.

The organs of the Republican kid
napers who visited North Carolina for
the purpose of enticing to Indiana thou
sands of pauper negroes to vote the Re-
publican ticket have time and again
sought to make it appear that Indiana
requires the assistance of these pauper
negroes to cultivate the soil. The black
Republican rascals who were the agents
of white Republican knaves were guilty
of the most UNANIMOUSLY barefac ed lying.
They told the North Carolina paupers
that homes and lands were awaiting
their coming; that land could be had at
from one dollar to one dollar and htty
cents per acre; that six or seven
months provisions would be provided
gratuitously; that men were wanted at
from two to three dollars per day, and
women at from twenty to twenty-five
dollars pei month. These lying repre-
sensations were well calculated to in
duce the pauper negroes to make tho
venture The black rascals were par
ticular to tell the pauper negroes that
no Democratic niggers were wanted,
and that when they arrived in Indiana
they would be expected to vote the
Republican ticket. That the black
agents of White Republican scoundrels
made such statements can be estab-
lished, and that every one of them cx-
cept those which relate to voting is
lie, can be proved. That it was Re-
publican scheme, the Chicago Tribune
has unwittingly shown by statements
in its editorial columns. and that 1t Is
the most infamous piece OF business
ever engaged in by a political party to
change the political complexion OF a
State is easily demonstrated. The only
party that could by any possibility en-
gage in such an execrable proceeding
is the Republican pnrty-a party that
elevated Hayes to power by fraud, for
gerry and perjury, would not hesitate to
ill Indiana with pauper negroes by
means equally vile.
The report of the Auditor of State for
1873 shows that there were in cuitiva-
ton in the State of Indiana about o.
639, 67S acres of land. The cereal pro-
ducts of these lands in 1877 were as
follows:
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Rev. Mr. Cowley of New York, man.
ager Of the Shepherds Fold" has been
committed to Jail upon % separate indict-
ments, charging him with ill treatment of
and cruelty to the children placed under his
care. Bail was fixed at $500 upon each in
dictment.
Near Barcelona, in Spain, recently,
rich land -owner, his wife, three daughters,
son and two women servants were all
found murdered in their beds. The deed
was apparently done with Ratchet. The
house was ransacked. A swineherd and his
two sons have been arrested.
A Fort Buford dispatch says the I'm
capapa and Gros ventre Indians have
had bloody fight, growing out of the
attempted recapture by the latter of a
herd of ponies stolen by the former
tribe. Fifteen braves were killed. Great
excitement prevails along the Yellowstone
on account OF the fear Of general Indian
uprising.
A delegation of Southern Utes, under
the charge of Col. Page, arrived in Wash
ington on the 31st.
At Eaton, Mass, on the morning of
the LIST, John D. Gardner and wife were
burned to death in their house.
The newspapers of Minnesota are gen
| orally advancing their price from $1.50 to
500 year, on account Of the recent great
rise in the price of white paper.
The House Committee on War Claims
has decided to report adversely upon 30
| Southern claims for amounts ranging
from 5000 to $780, 900.
Freeman, the Pocasset fanatic and
child murderer, has been declared insane
and sent to the State Lunatic Asylum.
The Milwaukee (Wis.) County Hos
pital, located on the County Farm, was de-
stroyed by fire at an early hour on the morn
/ ing OF the I'd. There were some 90 inmates
! in the institltion, all but two of whom were
rescued. These, Mrs. Christine Nelson,
aged 90, and Fred. Scharff, an insane man,
were burned to death.
| The severest storm of the season oc-
Cured throughout New York and along the
! Atlantic coast on the night Of the I'd. Snow
drifts 10 feet deep in places are reported, and
the wind blew hurricane. A brakeman ON
the Hudson River Railway and a newsboy
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14
WIT AND WISDOM.

EACH Ute Indian has retinue of IL
to 20 dogs.
IT makes boy mad to observe that
many people who write books are so ig-
norant they spell bumble-bee with an h
-Hasokeye.
THIS simple medical advice for curing
a pimple is given by the Rockland
Courier: 60 First hold the pimple over a
slow fire until it comes to q boil; then
bust it."
SAID a parent TO his little son who
had committed some act of indiscretion
ado you know why am going to whip
youP'' Yes," said the boy, " suppose
you are because you are bigger than l
am. ''-Bosto,a Punch.
A NEW man in the country newspaper
business publishes under his editorial
heading: This paper furnished for Sl.5O
per year, If paid in advance; 81 if paid
at the end of the year, and $3.50 if not
paid at all.-SyrGcuse Times.
PROFESSOR in Philology-a staid D.
D.-.sMr. b, can you give us an ex-
ample containing conjunction coordin-
atep'' Mr.. strengthening up
I" Tom and jerry" Professor That's
good, let us see what we will have next"
Voice in the rear: "Beer.n
Two pieces of orange peel on the
sidewalk represent pair of fancy
slippers.-Neso Orleans Picayune. And
the ornamental work that you feel on
the back of your head after stepping on
said orange peel, represents the embroi-
dery.-Neso HdUen Register.
THIS being leap year, Main Street
young lady thought she would make a
proposal-an she did. She proposed
to young man who had been keeping
her up nights, that he clear out and
give some one else chancei and he
cleared. Bridgeport Standard.
THE New York Observer tells of
new and horrible variety of donation
party. A large can was provided, into
which the farmers of the congregation
should pour their offerings of milk.
Each man came provided with jug OF
water, sagely thinking that his particu-
lar iugful would pass unnoticed among
the outpourings of milky abundance
from all the rest But when the can
was turned out, there was nothing but
water in it. The poor pastor who was
the victim of this iberality will prob
ably provide big glass vessel before
the next donation party.
MARY had pair of bangs,
They matched her other hair,
And every night before she slept
She hung them on chair.
She wore her bangs to school one day,
Which made her classmates sore,
And hints went round that Mary's pa
Had worked n dollar store.
This kind of talk produced fuss
The teacher took it up;
She locked the bangs within her desk
o full was Mary's cup.
Chicago Tribune.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14

on New Jersey road were blown from their
trains and killed. The damage to shipping
was enormous.
At Lucan, Ont, on the night of the
Sd, so-calcd vigilance committee muir
dered in cold blood an entire family, con-
| sisting of James Donnclly and his
wife, Judy; Thomas, son; and Brid-
get. n niece. They then set fire to
the house and burned the remains. At
about the same hour another party went
to the house of another son, John Donnelly,
called him to the door, and shot him dead.
The Donnellys We're charged with having
burned number of buildings in the neigh
borhood, and Were generally in bad repute,
At the time of their murder they were I'M
der arrest, charged with incendiarism.
The House Committee on Agriculture
will report bill making the Department of
Agriculture an Executive department.
The report of three deaths from
starvation in County Louth, Ireland, is con-
tradicted.
Israel Boothley, Cashier of the First
National Bank at Augusta, Me-, on the Sd
shot himself fatally, after jumping into a
cistern with weights attached to his feet.
The Directors say that his accounts are prob
ably all right.
Welch's business block at Fort Collins,
Colo, was burned on the night of the Sd.
Miss Title Irwin and Mr.. a. f. Hopkins,
who occupied apartments in the upper story,
We're burned to death. Eight others es-
capped by jumping from the windows.
The House Banking and Currency
Committee will recommend for passage the
bill introduced by Representative O'Connor,
authorizing National banks to make loans
upon the mortgage of real estate.
A negro cabin on the plantation of
Capt. VIM. Stack, IS miles north of Column
bia, S. c., burned one night recently, and
two men, a woman and six children persisted
in the flames.
Wabash, Ind, has contracted with
the Brush Electric Light Company of Cleve-
land for an electric light of 10000 candle
power, to be placed in the dome Of the
Court house, for the purpose of lighting the
principal business portion Of the city. The
cost is to be 81, 800.
Eleven or more Cinnamon lost their
lives by the burning of wash house in San
Francisco on the morning of the 9Th. 1t is
supposed they were stupefied with opium.
A terrible railway collision occurred
on the Circular Railroad at Clichy, France,
on the night of the Sd, by which IL or more
persons were killed outright and some 60
injured, many of them seriously. Among
those killed is the Count de Puyferrot and
VI. Monet, an eminent architect.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14

ONION SoUP.-Peel four medium
sized onions and put them to cook in
cold water; let parboil for ten minutes
then drain the water off and when cool,
slice and put them into two quarts of
cold water. Cook until the onions are
soft enough to rub through the colander,
when there should be about three pints
of soup. Return this to the fire in a
clean saucepan and add four boiled po-
tatoes rubbed through the colander and
mixed with a pint of rich milk and n
large tablespoonful of butter. Season
to taste with salt and white pepper and
put in tablespoonful of chopped pars-
ley five minutes before serving. Fry
some tiny diamonds of stale bread,
drain them and have ready in the
tureen, then pour the soup over them
and serve, always remembering that
soup can not be comfortably eaten when
boiling hot. Use less water and more
milk if you choose, and have the soup
when done about like thick cream.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14

EDWARD DwYER GREY, Lord Mayor
of Dublin, and Chairman of the Mansion
House Relief Committee, Dublin, tel
egraphs Richard O'Gorman, Esq, of
New York. Secretary of the Irish Relief
Committee, that the distress in the west
of Ireland is rapidly increasing, and IS
assuming calamitous proportions. Mr..
O'Gorman said that he was daily
in receipt of information from
Ireland, all to the effect that
he destitution in Connaught and
the Northwest and Southwest and the
Islands lying off these parts was rapidly
developing dimensions far exceeding
the worst fears of the people. In
some districts the distress had almost
taken the character of famine, and
the greatest fears are entertained for
spring and early summer. A London
telegram of the 30th says that three
deaths from starvation have occurred
in County Louth. The Pope has contrib
uted 10000 francs to the relief fund.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14
CURRENT TOPICS,

IT is said that the summary removal
OF Indian Commissioner Hayt was due
to the fact that he was shown to be cor
ruptly interested in silver mine that
had been found on an Indian reservation
in Arizona. Gen. Hammond, Indian
Inspector, had, at Hayt's request, re-
surveyed the boundaries of the reser-
walton, so that the mine should be left
out and upon the public domain. Ham,
mond at the same time was in
Arizona investigating charges of
fraud against Agent Hart of
San Coulas Agency, and Hart
became aware of the transaction about
the silver mine. In order to close his
mouth, by direction of Commissioner
Hayt, in July last, Gen. Hammond
wrote a letter to Hart, promising not to
prosecute him. This letter came into
the possession of Gen. Fisk, one of the
Commissioners. General Hammond
meanwhile resigned his position, and
when called upon to explain the letter
declared it to be a forgery. but subse
quently confessed that it was gen.
uine, and was written by him
at the direction of Hayt, and that it was
at the latter's earnest solicitation that
he had at first denied its authenticity.
Gen. Hammond exhibited great mental
and physical distress while making this
confession to Gen. Fisk; and before he
had concluded sank into state of un
consciousness, produced by rheumatism
of the heart, as stated by his physician,
from which it was at one time thought
he would not recover.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14
How to Make Friends.

There are few subjects which have
been more written upon and less under
stood than that of friendship. To follow
the dictates of some, this virtue instead
of being the assuager of pain becomes
the source of every Inconvenience.
Such specialists, by expecting too
much from friendship, dissolve the con-
nection, and by drawing the bands too
closely ut length break them. 1t is
certain that the best method To cultivate
this virtue is by letting it in some meas
ure make itself; II similitude of minds
and of studies, and even sometimes Il
diversity of pursuits, will produce all
the pleasures that arise from it. The
current of tenderness widens as it pro-
ceeds, and two men imperceptibly find
their hearts filled with good nature foI
each other when they We're at first only
in pursuit of mirth or relaxation.
As THE grandmother slipper is bent
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14

PRINCE MILAN of Servia, who enter
tains, as is well known, the most ex-
travagant notions about the divine right
of kings, became recently greatly ex-
cited at reunion at his palace, while
advocating the unlimited prerogatives
of his order, and addressing his Prime
Minister, DR.. Ristick, who ventured to
differ with him, exclaimed with much
heat of manner: "Ristick, if l order
you to jump into the sea, you will GER
tainly plunge In head foremost" DR..
Ristick bowed respectfully, and moved
toward the door. "Whither are you
going, Ristick?' inquired his Highness,
bending his brows in displeasure. Your
Highness will pardon me-" replied the
astutc statesman, d" am going to learn
to SWIM
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14
THE Ingalls, Investigation.


WAsIIINGI0S; Feb. g
Ex-senator Pomeroy OF Kansas appeared
before the Committee on Privileges and Eiec-
tions ana asked to be sworn in reference to
the testimony given at Topeka by Charles s.
Aidr1ch and Joun NJ. Phi e. lie was allowed
to testify, and contradcted the statements of
both Aldrich and Price, who testified that
Pumeroy mad loaned J. q. Horton, who was a
Senatorial candidate, $4,000 to carry on his
canvass. lie also contrddicted tue stntene mt
OF AIilich that he tIoDeroy) had furnished
money to pay Murtinj member OF the Leg
islaturc from klngInan County, Tor his vote
against Ingalls,.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14
Exodus Evidence.

I'M ..,. .Il
Inc s1aItilns, lnoush by no means
;nioApec.eu, 'e , tt y. .nJ oA ,I
tfnvesIlSa,ion SLOW 'ile WY anu ~n S
lore VI nePuulican oPPosi.i9n " FL ~
aIoI voorhees, tiiileiy aiu sehsipie
actlon. democrats nave contenaeo
rom tne outset tiaI the elhlSratlon
,nt IN Inene LIE mos sPoH ;a;otnd was
~. .fos liz 49, " ~ III n'S ,, ~ ~
L III 10. n"nd;t;on =; p 81 80 ~
p... .s ~ ~ & Wy
nu. "a' .:a..! du nos ..o =. t w.
~, pn,sLI;- at;a,."-,,,:: 80 :,
hiSn hepooiicaI eioc.ioheeiiuS Ahitoiiai
and carry the Republican ticket in GER
t;, Jo,1h.f,I ct.+o, Tho o,;donoo
Iain uouoliui o.a.eS' Ing eNiuehco
thus far produced abundantly confirms
the Democratic view of the case The
witnesses. most of whom are colored,
admit that the condition of their race
in North Carolina is and has been un.
exceptionable: that political and social
rights are fully secured, and that those
willing to work and economic are quite
as prosperous as the whites. They also
acknowledge that the exodus there has
been started by Northern agents who
have tempted the most ignorant and
shiftless class to remove to Indiana by
living promises. and that the process of
III,
mony of Charles N. Otny is specially
interesting and valuable. He is a col
ored man, the editor of the Washington
Argus, Principal of the Howard Uni
versity School, and one of the founders
OF the Emigration Ald society. AS
native OF North Carolina he had ire
ouentIy visited that State. and knew
from personal observation and inquiry
that thera yyoS no provOcatiou for the
axoduS He docs not hesitate tn say
L. -, - e.
SIN fact, every Intelligent colored man in
the State is opposei to it. and the six coIored
it, and say that. although an exodus from
Southern States may he n blessing the ey-
odus from North Carolina is fraud and a
NJ a.. r., Al.
MI O.hy iur.lerihore says 'ii,''
though the Aid Society was primarily
intended to assist the emigrants from
the Lower Mississippi region into Kan
sas, at one of the first meetings a man
named Mendhall made speech sug-
costing that it would be advisable to
..send about five thousand into In
the coming election He (Otny) was
the only person present who objected
to this, and the consequence was that
the Mendhall plan prevailed. The fol-
lowing from correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer at Greensburg, Ind,
shows that the Republicans there I'M
derstand the matter:
Iasked leading Republican ring-master
Yesterday the e, meaning Of the exodus: His
P ss noob sf6 is sne o his
fall, and don't You forget it, .
The same correspondent says:
~If the leaders of the opposite party expect
70 profit at the polls by this wholesale intro
fnoIad 81 Said yana o Renubca m leader WbS
is a bricklayer BY 1riie to me the other day:
Il can pledge y3p twenty votes that our party
impoptstion, too: am one of them, and ali of
them are hard workers, TOO, on election day.
MS Is Idlr specimen ol tue preSstliiiS seHti-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14

Taking it by and large, as it were, it
seems that the Republican tidal-wave
of 1879 amounted to about sixty thou
sand less than the Republican tidal
wave of 1876. which wasn't big enough.
The Republican popular progress is
singularly like the mill in the story,
which ground with such rapidity that
the owner ate the flour as fast as it was
produced, and went on eating it till he
starved to death.-N Y World.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14

THE New York Republican State Con-
vention has been called to meet at Utica
on the 25th of February. The State
Committee are said to be almost unani-
mously in favor of Grant or Conkling,
and will use their influence to have the
delegates TO the National Convention so
instructed.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14

AN Indian maiden has been driven
out by her tribe, in Oregon, because she
married Chinaman. A San Francisco
Chinaman has lost the respect of his
countrymcn by marrying Il negro wom-
an. Virginia mob whipped a negro
for marrying a white woman.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14
INVESTIGATION PROCEEDINGS.
1s Hayt Investigation.

D., 4.
The committee of Indian Commissioners
who are investigating the charges against
Commissioner Hayt were in session all day.
EX-CommissiOner Hayt, accompanied by
his counsel, Judge Bcdie, was before the
Board. lie was Questioned very closely con.
corning his connection with the Arizona mine
and other matters ut San Carlos Agency, which
nave been Investigated, especially the part al
legged to have been taken by his son IN these
transactions. He declined 10 answer many of
the questions, and asked the privilege OF
brinSln. witnesses to aid his side OF the ques-
ton. This WAS granted. Huyts counsel made
the point that his client having been re-
moved from his position as Indian Commas
ceased.
Edward Knapp Hayt, defendants son, testi-
neu that W H. hagencaInp, OF the Second Ma
tonal Bank, Jersey City, arranged with INN
TO 20 to Arizona to buy the mine for him, and
that these arrangements were made iii the
presence of the elder MIR. Hayt. He further
testified that the latter instructed Inn crop
the name of Hayt, and use the name of Ed
ward knapp. He stated that il his father had
any interest in the mine he knew nothing of
1t; that he took letters of introduction 90
Gen Hammond, who was Indian Inspector
under Commissioner Hayt. Gen. Hammond,
he said, met him at Florence, Arizona, and
accompanied him to McMiians, n small min
ing settlement where the Washington mine
wis bought the witness giving drafts Ha-
gencainp i'll payment and signing them Ed.
ward knapp The mine, he SAID, was pur-
chased from Henry l.. Hart, x-Indian Agent
at San Carlos, VINO was then under serious
charges, which had been preferred against
HIM three months before by Gen. Hammond.
HuSencamp's testimony WAS to the same ei-
feet as that OF young Huyt. but his memory
WAS not clear as to now lie found out Hum.
mond, or where he found him.
1t was stated that at the session to day q
letter was recciv ed from the Secretary of the
Interior thanking the Board for the thor
ouSh investigation they had made in the
matter, and suggesting that inasnuch out
OF this scandal false allegations mig Int be made
against the Indian Bureau, that the Board
appoint IL committee to investigate all meth
DDS vi administering Indian affairs.
The following were appointed such COM
mittce: Cen FIske, Chairman; VIM. Ii. Lyon
aud Albert H., SInitv.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14

The St.Louis morning papers recently
advanced their subscription rates, and
now the Chicago dailies have done like
wise. The great advance in the price of
paper and other material necessitates
the advance.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-14
PRESIDENT IN 1876.

*Vote for Governor; the Electoral vote was
ast by the Legislature
Upon again referring to the returns
of the local elections of 1879. we find
the follow ing table: