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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

On Saturday. the 14th. the dignified
halls of our ancient tribunal resounded
to the cracked e%lOguence OF the SAGE anc
oracle of Greenbackis. n. Mr., J.. NJ. FL.
Martin.
Qnite a number OF the rnral and
town citizens had collected to hear the
PIatonic theories Of the venerable pa
~trician on the verdant merits of the va
| ried issnes of his faction. @
notwithstanding the pregnant 40,
phi stry of bis logic. the chaste rhetor'
ical diction employed. be failed tt
create any enthusiasm in the bosom OF
the trled Democracy assembled.
Tn comuliancA with many urgent re-
quests of friends, our chivalrous and
forensic young votary, MIR. Dickson,
agreed to reply.
In a brief discourse of three quarters
OF an honr. wherein he displayed ths
adroit and polished traits of an expert
enced politician and consumate orator
he launched the incisive shafts OF re
Ifutation against the feeble stronghold
Of his op0uent's arguments. and with
exploit aud emphatic reasoning, thu
fallacy and prscarious system upor
which the principles Of Greenbackism
was founded.
In closing. with well measured sen.
fences, clothed in the richest foral
decorations Of language. Mr.. DICKSON
brought his brilliant speech to a close.
and descended the rnstrum amido the
Wild aud enthusiastic applause Of his
constituency NJ. Q.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

Hon. Thomas M. Norwood, the
Democratic boilers nominee for
Governor of Georgia, on Monday
addressed a letter to Gov. Colquitt,
proposing to Withdraw his name %
candidate FOR Eioyernor, providing
Coiq9itt would Join him in asking
the executive committee To caH an
other convention. This Gov. Col
quit declined to do, because he
said, "the people had spoken" and
quoted the minority's language
'that they would never consent to
his nomination,i'' denouncing his
administration, and he said that
.s'self-respeet, andregard for the will
Of the people, already expressed
forbid his withdrawal. The two
candidates have agreed to meet in
joint discussion at various points in
the State.-Mobile Register.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

When the news of Hancock's
nomination reached the country,
the Republican press began to at
tack him because he was a soldier,
and had no civil record. Hancock
is, and a 4 true soldier, and
while clothed with full power to
trample civil law into the dust, he
showed that he was also a states
man, and understood civil affairs.
These attacks have done him good
service, and the st. Louis Republl-
can speaking on the subject, says:
"they have drawn out his rec
ord and made it quite plain that he
has had q great deal to do with
civil affairs, and has been on the
right side of every great issue. His
order No. 40, and his letter to the
reconstruction Governor of Texas,
were no more creditable and strik-
ing evidences of his ability to hand
lie civil affairs than his letter to
Gen. Sherman, which the constant
barking Of the Republican press
brought into print. The latest
on his record is the paper he read
as presiding officer of the court of
inquiry, which Grant ordered while
Babcock was indicted as a member
ofthe st. Louis whiskey ring. The
plan was TO get the evidence out
i of the courts here in St. Louis and
intothe hands of sympathetic mill
tary comrades where il would do
| Babcock no harm. Hancock re-
! fused to be a party to this transpar-
ent trick and the court of inquiry
did not serve Babcock's purposes. 1t
did put Hancock on record once
more, however, as y soldier who
knew just when to bow his head
obediently to the civil authority.
Hancock, as q candidate for Presi-
dent, represents the very antithesis
of the soldier in politics, for his
whole record shows that he is the
one soldier who knows how to keep
the army out ofpolitlcs."
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26
THE LUMBER BUSINESS

The lumber business Of Soutt
Mississippi is growing to be Of con
siderable Importance. % From TIT
Pascagoula Star wye learn that Pos
cagoula shipped last year two
hundred and thirty thousand dollars
worth Of lumber, and that Handsbo
bro is shipping, weekly, one hundred
bandi fifty thousand feet, worth al
tleast, one hundred and Ave ithous
and dollars, which, il Kept up tht
year round at the same rate, woule
exceed five million dollars. d This
portion of the State is also doing al
Immense business. and the timber
being of . superior quality, No eeY
pect to see the landsalonG the lin
of this road furnish the supply fol
the Northwest. ,sa
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

u GEN. WALKER, the census com
missioner, should have the census
taken over, for our Northern friends
are not satisfied with the count, be
cause it so happened that there is 0
increase ofabout % per cent. in oul
population since lS70-they looked
for a decrease. Which means 6
decreased representation in Congress
and just because we increased
little too much, and did not die fast
enough, they cry fraud, as they
always do when we-develop strength
and union of purpose.-New Era.
Perhaps we have a secret process
of manufacturing representatives o.
Democracy superior to negro exc
d~uses--at any rate the increase is
patent.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26


Mr.. Edward atkinson, the dis
tlnguished Boston economist, 80
recently written a letter 10 thew
York Herald, in which he gives il
formation and opinions ii rSgasd
to heSouth, which ase in r%efresil-
ing contrast to the partisan colored
statements that SO often, at present,
are found in Northern journals.
MI. Atkinson, however, is not q
politician, but a politico-eeonopist
Of enlarged views and Unparalleled
opinions, and this makes all the
~diffsreiiee III the world, Speaking
of our section. he says
"The true forces now in action in
the South are industrial forces. y n
The 9true reconstruction and the
real union that are now being con-
sumated are by means of these in
ldustrial forces, fsrt4sr -e.r. TIE
mo misrepresentation of a dead
past" he adds; "who may for a
time infest the houses Of Congress
can long delay the conclusion. All
opposition to the great industrial
forces must go down before them.
Corn and cotton are now our rulers,
not colonies or ~brigadiers. 10
The Noble Register, in com
menting on the above, says that:
industrial forces are certainly
each year drawing the people of this
country closer and closer together.
These have indeed been the true
restorers of the union, the bands of
steel, compared with which military
government and reconstruction laws
have been but, slender cords. The
effect of industrial forces has been to
bring the people ofnthe two sections
into closer contact, to form be-
tween them the maryelously bind
ING ties Of, q common interest, and
particularly TO turn the attention of
many at the North to the wonderful
resources ofthe South, as yet but
partially developed" .,lg. H..
In this work of industrial recon
struction, cotton must be the most
important factor Since the abol7.
ition Of slavery, its cultivation has
been enhanced, the system better,
more economical, and more salts
factory TO all classes. Mr.@n4tkin-
son proceeds to show that prosperi-
ty at the South will cause greater
prosperity at the North. He says;
at should he considered that
there was never so great a field sud
denly opened for the introduction
Of new tools, new cotton gins, new
presses, and for every variety of
implements and processes. Whence
are they to come if not from the
North? If the new conditions
make the independence of the sec
tions essential and imperative, what
more is needed to fuse the solid
South and the solid North into II
solld nation?' %" .
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26
NAZARETH ACADEMY,


This well known institution IL situated
in a pleasant, healthy loca ity. The bull
ding aud grounds are rxte, sive, and the
Academy affords every facility for a first>
class Young Ladies' Boarding School. 1t
is conducted by the Sister, Of tharity, re-
C wing since its foundation in 1914 a large
patronage from the Southern aud Western
States. Nazareth il open for pupils at any
line OF the year The cars run daily from
Louisville to Bardstown, passing by the
Academy The year ia divided into two
sessions OF five months each. Terms:
Board and tuition per session In the high
Ter grade, including French or German,
bed, bedding. washing stationary, with
use OF class books and Joctor'pfee Sll4;
lower grade, includingas above. SOB. Mu.
sic on piano forms an extra charge Of $50
per session. Glasses will be re>umed the
first Monday o. September. For further
particulars address the
july 70 I'm MOTHER SUPERIOR.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

The Democratic party has good
cause to be satisfied with It's candi
date. Thus far he has made nj
mistakes l.9TB73 do bfbHsg9p "Ha3
Nor is this all. Everything which
has been developed of the past his
tory Of Gen. Hancock rebounds t.
his credit. His letter 10 Gen. Sher:-
man alone ought 20 elect him, M
bribery, no fraudulent transactions,
taints his name. He appeafs by all
that is brought to light about him
to be a man Of sound sense and re.
|markable clear and Intelligent views
of personal rights and of constita.
ti6naF law. QUAR- 'e1 ~
II GET. Hancock continues on
the discreet course he has thus fal
pursued he will be regarded and
spoken Of as the Model candidate.
And there is good reason TO snip,
pose that the Model Candidate vii
make a Model President! - ~.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

OEOUOAT1oNs
The Texas Democrats in their
state cSEveption last week declared
the maint lnance of aaprasticsl
system of public free schools NJ the
utn3pst impo ftance, and tdthH end
favor ths1argest appropriAtiohwitNs
in constitutional limits justified by
the financial condition of the State
The Democrats of Tennessee in
their state convention also say; ave
regard q thoroughlyforganized sysT
tenn Of public instruction as a mat
ter Of the utmost Importance, and
we pledge Gun united Support to the
States institutions of learning and
to the maintainance aud better per
lection and development Of our sys-
TEN of public schools" fhhi 2
It is a fact not to be disputed
that every Southern State has taken
the same ground assumed by these
two State Conventions. Although the
whites, the property owners, have te
shoulder the burden Of taxation fol
school purposes. they do so cheer
fully, and utter no complaint be
cause the colored race become bene
ficiaries Of the same" The Southern
people have broad and eulightended
views, and are emphatically commit
ed to the side of popular education
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

The Georgia Democrats are falling
out among themselves. It is next &c
Impossible for them to agree on n can.
didate for Governor. as we'll as on Other
matters which they have 70 deal with.
The trouble with them is their majori.
ty in the State in too large. If it were
half what it is. OF il it we're but q few
thousand they would get along better;
wonld realize the necessity Of harmony,
and 30 realizing would take the proper
steps 10 put . stop. to divisions IN their
ranks. as rapidly IS such divisions
spring up.-Columbsss Indegi
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26
Z. F., HOOKER.
Fifth Congressional District.

THE Executive Committee of the
National Democratic Committee met
Yesterday in New York CITY. The chairs
man Senator Barnun. made a state
ment of the result Of his observations
in h's recent trip through Ohio. Indiana
and Illinois. His report was of most
cheerful character. Indiana he consid-
ers absolutely certain for the Democra
~, and Ohio and Illinois not absolutely
certain to go for Garfield. Mr.. Brown.
the Indiana member of the comm ittee.
assured the gentlemen that there was
no doubt of Indiana. Mr.. Cleveland of
New Jersey said that State would give
Hancock at least $4,000 majority.
Other reports were nf equally encour
aging nature. The committee seem to
be satisfied with the situation and to
have no doubt whatever of Democratic
success in November st. LonH Re
publican.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26
Jpprrkso.e,R possev aane of

q JEFFEksoNsB Possey one of the
sons of Gen. Carnot Posey. the first
Colonel of the 10th Mississippi Reg.
iment, was among those who lost
theirlives last week on the Bonnie
Lee, the steamer which exploded hel
boilers on Red River. Mr.. aPosey
was clerk ofthe Bonnie Lee. aw hnl
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

There Is som some reason for believ.
ING the. Republicans mediate the
surrender 81, tue Presidency in order
to secure. Congress, Their apathy to
Garfield and Arthur is too plain a
Fact to be disputed; but to suppose
that they arc ready TO yiela every
hold to the powerthey have welded
for nineteen years would be on nn-
excusable mistake. They are not
20 hopeless as that IT they are to
bas ropted from the Executive office
they will attempt to secures com
spensation for the. loss by regainlng
their authority in Congress-St,
Lonis Republican. ssflsd Hre
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26
MARION
FEMALE SE.WE.V.1R y.
MARION, ALA.

Rev. Il, R RAYMOND, D D President
This institution begins its 44th year on
Monday. October 4th, 1880. Faculty full
and experienced in all departments. Mus
sic, Art. Languages receive special atten-
ton. Terms moderate; health record I'm.
PARALLEL, no death having occurred among
teachers or pupils at the seminary for more
than a quarter Of a century. Send for cata
logue
References: Gen John T Morgan, (Sena-
tori Ala; DR. Joseph Bgrdwell, Meridian,
Miss; Rev B NJ Palmer, New Orleans.
iuly2g Pm
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

THE Hartford Courant, speaking of
the soldiers reunion at Columbus, Ohio.
says: ut is significant that never since
the war has so much interest been man
Tested in these reunions as since the
rebel brigadiers came to the front in
their effort to capture the government.
We think the Significance rs to these
rfunions lies in the fact that the Radl
cal organs always endeavor to give them
a political complexlon.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26
II POPULAR FEELING.


The New York City correspond
ent of the Boston Heraid, an indie
pendent journal with Republican
procliyities, thus notes his own OBJ
servations. He says that if one
were to take Il tour in and around
the common people Of New York he
would tindit for Hancock FROM cir
conference to center. The thought
full and observing, as well as the
ignorant and enthusiastic, insist
that he will carry the State. The
cheers which go up from the Coney
Island boats when they pass the
huge collar-box fortress on Govern
or's Island are something of an in
dication of the popular feeling. No
less so is the fact that one of the
medallion manufacturers in New
York is selling IL thousand little
Hancock miniatures all over the
country where ne sells a hundred of
Garfield. And everywhere~you go
there are like indications of the
Hancock boom. Whether it extends
into the rural districts or not | am
unable to say, hut 1t is very preva-
lent in the metropolis and suberbs.
Snch indications of the popular
feeling for Hancock are not confined
TO New York City. They exist over
the whole country. The current
|of thought and feeling is for the
election of the man who fights and
writes so well, and whose political
principles accord so properly with
the American idea Of popular Hber-
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

The climax of the canvass has
been reached. Garfield and his
brother in the Credit Mobiliel
frauds Colfax, have been brought to.
gether upon the same platform in a
big camp meeting in New York
Joined their melifous voices in the
same songs, and introduced to the
congregation as "brothers in the
Lord" fatii
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26
New York Republicans Consul
so tlfS PlA ting SR3 'EH4
INV York. Aug. "a.

NEW ORh, aug. Il.
At an early hour this morning
groups of Republican politicians
We're discussing the situation in the
State committee rooms. Among
the first. on hand were Senator W,
Robertson and Gen. Arthur,
When asked as to the probable acs
ton of the State committee, Senator
Robertson Said; aafWe have been
called together TO decide about hold
ing a State convention. / am oppos
ed to it, as u deem it unnecessary,
but the committee may decide other
wise We also meet to discuss the
situation in this State and compare
notes. Shortly before moon the
Republican State convention went
into session In the gentlemen's par
lor. at the Fifth Avenue hotel.
meeting was called tic" order
bv Gen. Chester A. Arthur 7a-'y
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

SINCE the publication Of Gen
.Hancock's letter to Gen. Sherman
there is not quite SO much talk in
the Republican papers about Han
cock being a .'stupid blockhead' as
was before These gentlemen
will discover within the next four
years that Gen. Hancock is a man
of ideas and one who knows how to
execute them. ..r
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

The New Orleans Times contains
an article referring to the arrest OF
the postmaster at Martin, Miss,
forty-three' miles northeast OF
Natchez, by government detectives
who is charged with robbing the
mail; the arrest occurred last Tues.
day. The detectives are very reti-
cent in regard to the matter. 91a lH
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

~ VERMONT, the hot bed of kepubli-
canism, shows the smallest increase
in population since 1870. The in.
Icreasei in ten years has been only one
per cent. Ain'tit about time fol
Edmunds to stop crying about the
depopulation of the Southa
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26
Mrs. HAYES, during her reign as

Mrs. HAYES, during her reign as
mistress of the White House, seems
to have been exerting almost as
great an influence as the august
Rutherford himself, although in q
very different and more praiseworthy
direction. She has, by the abolition
Of wine at state dinners and by her
temperate example in other re
|spects, almost broken up the sale of
that beverage in Washington, there.
by seriously injuring the trade of
several well kncwn New York hous-
es and calling forth their grievous
cOmDlaint
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26
IMPORTANT CORRESPOND ID.
ENCE.
Gen Weaver Invited TO West
Tennessee.


JACKSON. Tenn, Aug. 3rd. 1880.
Gen. j. 3. Wedcer,
Dear Sir:-Seeing the good results
of your labors in Alabama, We respects
fully invite you to deliver as many
speeches in Tennessee as your duty of
visiting the South will permit, and we
promise YOU if you run short of funds
while visiting u section to use our in
fiuence with the Republican Executive
Committee to get them to concede to
you the amounts assessed against Fed
eral employees at this point. We are
in favor of an equal distribution of air
and light and water. but we disagree
with you about the equal distribution
of the lands of the country. unless the
Just rewards of labor shall make the
distribution. Anxiously awaiting your
response, we remain with due respect.
B. A. ENGLoE,
RoBT. GATES,
and many other straight Democrats.
Mississippi extends the old blowhard
n similar invitation.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

A e in one of the departments al
Washington, receiving n nndred
dollars per mouth. found only eighty
dollars in his envelope on July l. There
was a note however. stating that as he
had not responded to the invitation &c
contribute to the Garfield campaign
fund, an assessment had been made or
him
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

The New Orleans Democrat pertinent
ly remarks: "When the farmers of the
West realize the Importance to them Of
improving the Mississippi; when they
understand that a deep and permanent
channel in this great commercial artery
mean cheap transportation, means the
carrying of their grain to the sea fol
perhaps three cents per bushel instead
of fourteen and a half cents, re shal,
doubtless have the work done, and then
the amount of grain that will seek
European markets via New Orleans will
be larger than from any other port in
the United States"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26
The Census at the South.
Columbus Index. ItHl Ut-- ~.

Later and fuller accounts receiv
ed at Washington indicate very
clearly, that the population of the
South during the last ten years has
Increased in proportion large
enough to justify that we will hold
our own in the matter of representa-
ton, and perhaps make gains. IT
has -futher been discovered that the
census of 1870, which was in the
hands of carpet baggers, did not Go
the South justice in that it put, for
party purposes ~ our "' population
much lower than it really was.
Those who have charge of the cen
sus bureau this year seem to be dis
posed to deal fairly all around, and
we have no doubt that in their
hands the South will have ample
Justice done it. Speaking ofthe'im-
preston which has got abroad to
the efct that the South would lose
by the Forthcoming superintendent,
by reason of its not having kept
pace with other sections, the st.
Louis Republican has this to say:
superintendent of Census Walk
err attributes current charges of cor
ruption to political motives, and
SAYS he has no reason to be 'dissat-
isfied with the work done, OF to
suppose that dishonesty has been
practiced. IT will be found. we
think, when the full returns come
in, that the educational, CONNER
cial, agricultural and general adj
yancement fully comport with and
sustain the increase in population.
The South has thrown off the in
cubus of Radical misrule, and. is
growing and prospecting despite the
efforts of lying politicians. The
rascally Republican scheme to, in
a measure, depopulate the South by
the negro exodus has signally failed;
many of the poor deluded blacks
havesreturned, and the number of
miserable victims Of partisan venal-
itv who have remained in the North
has been doubly Offset blythe thou
sands of industrial and other classes
whohaye cast theirlot with South
erneStates. 9 hTH3eH r9h al IS 9sBE9
t Ifothe figures Of the censuslshow
an increase in population it .issbe-
cause it is there, and the South will
receive the benefits to accrue there
from in increased representation
In congress-, Radical howls Of fraud
notwithstanding. sa1oT 9ff s@Ja'
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26
Annapolis Naval School.

JACKSON. MISS, AUG 20. 1880.
To the Editor of the Comet.
DEAR SRI have just been advised
of a vacancy in my Congressional Dis-
trict, at the Naval Academy at Annapo
lis; and wish You to that
there will be a competitive examina-
ton to fiji the vacancy. at Jackson on
the 9Th day of September. 1890.
All yopug gentlemen over IA and I'M
der1S years of age. permanent residents
of the district will. have II right to com
pete for the position,
A competent board will be appointed
TO condnct the exaination. For furth>
er information apply to Gen. J. A.
Smith. State Superintendent of Educa-
ton.
c. F.. HOOKER.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

The Utica, N. Y. Observer re-
marks: The battle of Gettysburg
was fought, on the Rebel side, main
ly, by Longstreet's troops. This
eminent Confederate is now drawing
the comfortable salary Of $500 as
Mr.. Hayes Minister to Turkey.
Meanwhile the Union, soldier who
won the battle at Gettysburg, and
saved Pennsylvania and the North
from invasion, is being denounced
by the Republican press as a traitor
and rebel sympathizer. Somehow ii
seems as if things had been mixed
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

The St. Louis fair opens Monday,
October 4, and. closes Saturday, Oc
tober 8. The aggregated premiums
amount. to $4,000. aoAll railways
propose to reduce transportation to
an from st. Louis on this occasion
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

ta The CincinnatiJG Gazette is aston
|ished at the gaindin population in
the Southern States. 1t had made
mp its mind to have things other
wise, and Is satisfied there is some
fraud about it. ,.iA.gsa tR4nasaq4q