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RANKIN COUNTY,
Maj. BarksdaIe at Cato and Antioch.

| BRANDON REPUBLICAN: Mai. Barks.
dale spoke to about 100 white aud Colored
men at Cato last Tuesday We did not GET
down there in time to hear him. but those
who were present told us it was the best
speech they ever listened to- The darkeys
present said that was the man they wanted
to vote for, as he talked fair and square to
everybody. Cato will be 0. X. on election
day-no doubt about that. Hill won't be
recognized at all. Maj. Barksdale is max,
in thorough canvass of this District. and
will carry it by handsome majority.
BRANDON REPUBLICAN: Mai. Barks-
dale addressed the citizens of Antioch beat
on Wednesday. His explanation of the
great questions now before the people was
received with great deal of enthusiasm.
by Democrats aud Independents who turned
out to hear him. Antioch will roll up A
handsome majority for Barksdale in Novem-
Der.
After the speaking a Democratic club
was organized, with Mr. Ellis Patrick,
President and A. o. Watson, Secretary.
Everybody was pleased with the days work,
and well satisfied that Jim Hill won't get
the votes of Antioch.
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Organization !
RATIC-CoNsERvATIvE County J
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
RAYMOND, Oct. IL, 1882,

DEMOCRATIC-CoNSER COUNTY
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
RAYMOND Oct. II, 1882.
1t has been suggested to this committee
that the same methods may be employed by
the Radicals at the ensuing election, which
marked the era from 10 to rs, and that
the whites and the intelligent colored peo-
pie should prepare in season to meet the
emergency should it occur.
1t is well known that previous to 1875,
the polls Of every heavy Voting precinct of
this county were seized at every election by
the worst elements of the colored people,
assisted by white desperadoes, and held by
them so long as It was to their intesest to
hold them; that by this movement many
white democrats were kept from voting and
many colored men who wished 10 vote with
the party of peace and good government
were intimidated, threatened, deceived and
in many cases not allowed TO vote until
properly "fxed up" by the surrounding
crowd.
The Demoratic party is in favor Of free
election and fair count, and every quail
fed voter who wishes to vote for Mai.
Barksdale for Congress on the 7ih Of No
vember next, must have that opportunity
at every hazard
To meet any such emergency as that ad-
verted to, and to see to it that the polling
places are not seized by worthless men to
the annoyance of good citizens, and that
every voter is allowed to approach the polls
and vote for the man of his choice without
molestation, this committee recommends
that the Democrats and Conservatives OF
every election precinct meet at the places
at which elections are usually held, at
8 O'Clock P. NJ, on Saturday, the 4th Of
November, and after a complete organiza-
tion, appoint all necessary committees for the
oversight of the election on the following
Tuesday, and especially committee COM
posed of very discreet men to see to it that
desperadoes, white of black, are not allowed
to seize the polls, and that all men shall
have the privilege Of voting their senti-
ments. This course is epecially enjoined
upon every precinct at which a Barksdale
Club has not been already organized.
This committee cannot permit the oppor-
tunity TO pass without eongratulating the
Democrats and Conservatives Of the county
upon the fact, that there is every prospect,
provided our friends will but be active on
election day, that Barksdale will have a
majority in Kinds county of over one thou
sand votes, and a majority in the District
Of from $500 to 5,000-and that Demo
cratic Congress will decide on his case, and
viii not count him out.
Let every Democrat and Conservative in
Kinds county but do his duty during the
twenty days that remain Of the canvass, and
all will be well. GEo. w. HARPER,
Chm Kinds County Ex. Com.
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Splendid Opening for Trouble.
Reported Proceedings nj COlOred
Church.

Gazette
Rumors reach us of a large meeting
of colored people at church between
Auburn and Edwards, this county, at
which temporal affairs were freely dis
cussed. The number in ATTENDANCE is
reported to have been about 600, and
it is said resolutions were adopted with
wonderful unanimity.
Two demands were made upon the
white people of the county, to-wit; l.
That the colored people must be permit
ted to vote as they please "a right that
has never been denied them) 2. That
the colored people must be allowed TO fix
the rates for the lands they rent; and
3. That in the event the colored people
are not allowed to fix the land rates and
to vote as they please, they will seize
the lands and work them without pay
ing any rental all.
As the colored peopleof Kinds county
have always voted just as they wished
to vote, we cannot but think the first
proposition was injected into the pro-
ccedings as a blind-to operate upon
the diseased Northern mind-and that
proposition is the only one at issue
And that there is real cause Of COM
plant as to land rents, we cannot admit
ltl is our Judgment that this land rent
business is but Of piece with that
communistic spirit which has been grow
ing in all parts of the country, North
and South, for years, and which has
been developed here by white men who
are Indifferent as to the trouble which
its development may visit upon the
blacks.
This movement, if movement it may
be called, is an. unlawful one, is a sense
less affair, and cannot claim respect or
countenance at the hands of the white
people of the county. And besides, it
cannot but. be regarded as a threat and
menace. 1t strongly resembles the
of lS74-75, and will be met
just as they were, but with more rapid
ity and with less forbearance.
The whites are in no frame of mind
at this time to submit to dictation and
menace as to the valueof their lands,
and if any number Of colored people
have combined and adopted resolutions
as reported, the truth will come out,
and the leaders of the plot would do
well to get out Of the way as speedily rs
possible. Our land owners will not
their lands to colored or
white mob, nor will they permit white
Or colored men to remain among them
who are plotting for Wrestling the lands
Of the country from the hands and con-
troll of the rightful owners.
We hope to obtain more reliable and
information in reference to
this matter in season for the Gazette Of
next week.
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A Deserved Rebuke.
Copiah Signal

Copiah Signal.l
In his speech, in Hazlehnrst last Satur
day, r. J. Alcorn, Esq, charged the Demo
cratic party with ingratitude to Young mer
who worked in its ranks, and to illustrate
his position, fixed upon the editor of the
Signal-in the absence of a better subject.
After a fulsome eulogy of our character
ability and laborious work for the Demo
cratic party, he said, "such man should
be honored by the party whom he
has served, but his head will grow gray
in service, and should he offer for office
some old Democrat, covered with the lep-
prosy of sin and political indignity will step
in and bear off the prize"
Were men actuated by no higher ambi-
tiOn than greed for Office, such words
might have an influence but the Judge
only insults the patriotism of our young
men by such an appeal and it is an evidence
that he neither understands the temper of
our young men, nor appreciates that prin-
cple of patriotism which inspires the heart
of every lover of his country-that adheres
to truth and right which sent martyrs to
the stake Thank God, our young men are
imbued with higher, nobler, purposes in the
espousal of the Democratic cause, than an
ignoble lust after the "fesh pots;" and we
sincerely believe that we voice the senti-
ments of nine-tenths of the white young
men of the land, when we say we would
rather be remanded to the most obscure
ranks of private citizenship all the days of
our life, than to purchase Office by the sac
rifce of principle. Office is not so sweet as
to be purchased at the price of radical mis-
rule-such as we had in I871-2-3 and 4.
We have not forgotten those dark days.
when ignorant and corrupt and irrespon-
sible men were chosen our rulers; when our
best young men were arrested upon
trumped-up charges and incareerated in
loathsome prisons, without the privilege of
bail the right of habeas corpus (for the
first time in the history of our State)
denied taxes increased to alarming proper
tions, our State sinking yearly deeper and
deeper in debt with riot and arson rampant
in the land. Such is the government to
which the Judge would unite us; such are
the effects of the rule of the party our
young men are invited to Join, oT, be denied
Office. No, no, Judge, rather than Office
upon such terms, we would prefer to work
in the harness of that party which gives US
good government, low taxes, protection to
life limb, and property, and all the rights of
an American citizen unimpaired.
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BAYARp.
The Delaware Senator Sees Rift in
the Cloud Enveloping His Party.

Senator Bayard has just returned
from the land of geysers and wonderful
scenery of the National Yellow Stone
Park, and is shaking hands with him
self because of the political change
wrought during his absence. He says
tsThese few weeks that I have spent in
wandering so far away from home have
been busy in events. left the Democracy
| in New York divided, uncertain and yasci-
Iating; return and find it united, hope
full and powerful, with strong ticket IN
the field, and every omen for its success
favorable. The Republican party is hope
lessly divided, with man at the head of
its ticket whose past public career does aot,
I think, invite confidence for the future. l
believe there has been a sentiment. within
the Republican party working for long
time of pronounced dissatisfaction with the
methods and the measures used and the
class of candidates which have been forced
upon them by the machinery OF their party,
and think that the sense of self respect oi
a very large body, comprising the best e.e-
ment of the Republican party, has long been
disposed to revolt at the supercilious and
corrupt dictation of handful of official
leaders. l believe that the time has at
length arrived when they intend to emanei-
pate themselves and follow their conscien-
tious opinions in political matters am
only surprised that they have not done
this long before. This involves, Of course,
the defeat of the Republican organization
and its candidates in Pennsylvania and
New York My anxiety now is that the
Democratic or opposition party shall com
prehend the true condition of affairs, and |
realize what hope viii be ar enduring fact,
that there is a political conscience among
the people of the United States which can
and will break the power of any party or
ganization which threatens to become dam
gerous to the character and welfare of
society -
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VOLUME xiv.

/ BRUCE, and we viii not hold him re-
Isponsible for the opinions he expresses
as he only speaks what he is directed by
a power he cannot disregard, Bruce,
B. K, tells the white people of Missis-
sippi, who do not understand their own
interest, he assumes, that their opposi-
ton to a protective tariff is senseless /;
that they should match their industries
to the tariff; that they should engage
in those that are protected and abandon
those they now follow that are taxed.
Branche K who is well qualified to
advise, both by reason of his knowledge
of the subject, and his interestin US would
have us abandon the production of cot
ton in which we have so much invested
and to which our climate, soil and labor
are all specially adapted to compete in
the production of wheat with all these
conditions against US. If we would
prosper, according to B. K. we must
manufacture croton oil, duty 1876 per
cent, and champagne, duty 80 per cent.
He would have US extracting sunbeams
from cucumbers, hunting diamonds,
raising tea and bananas. A Daniel has
indeed come to judgment. Yea,
Daniel
But while this modern Scion advises,
the system he advocates really COM
mands. 1t permits no man to pursue
unmolested the path his fancy may in
cline or his necessities constrain him.
1t taxes one industry TO foster another.
1t demands tribute of Mississippi that
it may shower favors upon Massachu-
setts. With unrelenting severity, it
grinds the faces of the poor. With un-
merciful exactness it compels US to
abandon avocations we can pursue with
profit and pleasure and engage in indus
tries against our tastes and foreign to
our interest.
1 tell you It's rigor and not tar.
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Federal Interference.

st. Louis Republican.
Federal interference in State affairs is
unhappiIy, no new thing, but never before
in American history-with the exception ol
the dismal period Of Southern reconstruc-
tion-has that interference been so open,
bold and insolent as it has been and is in
New York. But for this interference
Judge Folger would not have been
nominated BY the Republican Conven-
tion, and on this influence, vigorously
and unscrupulously exerted, hangs his
only. hope of success. In other words. the
federal government has named the Repub-
liean. candidate for Governor inlNew York,
and is using all Of its practicalIy y incaIcula-
bic power to elect him. IF elected he will
be as much the creature of that government
as if the President had appointed him, in
aecordance with the Hamiltonian idea,
without consulting the wishes of the pop
ulati0n over which he is to rule. At Yari-
Gus circumstances heretofore, federal influ-
ence has been seen and felt in political
affairs of States but never SO completely
undisguised-neTer in such shameless and
dangerous fashion.
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California, which cast its vote for Ham
cock, and has two Democrats and two Re
pubiicans in the present House, gains two
members, and these are divided between
the parties. The Republican States of
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont each
lose member, and the count was thus left
sixteen and sixteen increase to the two
parties. This calculation has been disturb
ed in two States which have held elections.
West Virginia, which it. was supposed
would add one to the Democratic column,
has given its increase to the Republicans,
and Ohio has reversed its record and given
a large majority of its entire delegation to
the Democrats. Of the eleven States set
down in the Republican column above,
seven are expected follow the example Of
Ohio to some extent and give gains to the
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Proverbs About Women.

An old Spanish proverb expresses charac-
teristically the high-bred courtlness which
was once peculiar to the race "The cQun-
sci of woman is not worth much, but he
who does not take it is worth nothing" In
Puttenham's carte Of English Poetry" a
curious and interesting work, published
about the end of the sixteenth century, the
author, speaking Of the tender-heartedness
ofthe female sex in general, alludes to the
common proverb, "a woman will weep for
pitie TO see a gosling go barefoote." There
must have been a touch Of real hum1r
about the'originator Of this ancient prove b
ridiculng, but nevertheless loving, the
prodicality Of tenderness which caused him
such amusement. The preference generally
given in the seventeeth century TO the gray
mares of Flanders over the finest coach
horses Of England gave rise to the vulgar
proyerb, "The gray mare is the better
horse. George Herbert gave the world
many proverbs which aredescriptiye Of the
lives and qualities Of women. Among
others we select the following: empty
chambers make foolish maids" 4 proverb
which, Of course, like so many others, only
expresses a half truth; for we are will
ling to believe that some very wise
little maidens have grown into woman
hood like moOrland blOssoms, which
only the grouse, and the adder and the
humble bee have looked on; but foolish is
no doubt used here in its slighter signif
canoe of bashfll, in which case the proverb
is Of course a true one. "a fair wife and a
frontier castle breed quarrels" reads like the
sigh Of some baronial Benedick who fruit
lessly thirsted after quietness in the weary
ages of warfare. mills and wives ever
want" was no doubt the miserly conclusion
Of some medieval Harpagon; one can al
most recognize the snap with which it was
uttered, in the laconic breyity Of the phrase.
"Who lets his wife 60 to every feast and
his horse drink at every water, shall neither
have good wife nor good horse to this day
accords with the sentiments Of many mar
ried men. "Choose house made and a
wife to make" said some stroug-minded
gentleman, who fattered himself thatThe
moulded the character of the girl whom he
had married, who very probably all the
while had gained entire ascendancy over
him in essentials by fattering his weak
POINT of moulding her in non-essentials.
For that is a way these dainty creatures
have
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% y09 t0or YOU have asked for tle eo.llie.t

10 Jon 1s;n snow you have asked for the costliest
Ever made by The Hand absre-
woman heart and a woman's iite
AND woman's wonderful lovel
: oe y9a knOw yOu have asked for this priceless,
- As child might ask for a Toy
DyHa,.anding what others have died 20 win
hllA the reckless dash ofa boy?
iSq M nave v! written my lesson os duty ont
" -- N-@L -tIAe, y0n have questioned me:
onul shall question thee;
iou require that your mutton shall always he
Your socks and your shirts be whole.
require your heart to be t-r,e a. y cos !ioiS 49,.
And pure as His heaven your soul.
ou require cook for your mutton and h.er
require far greater thing
a seamstress you're wanting for socks aud for
look fora man and q king
\ king for the beautiful realm called home
And man that the maker. God,
Shati look upon as he did on the first
And say, 1t isyery good"
| am fair and young, but the rose will fade
From my soft young cheek one day;
VIII you love me then mid the falling leaves.
As you'd mong the blooms OF May?
Is your heart an ocean, so strong and deep,
may launch my all on its tideg
loving woman finds heaven OF hell
On the day she is made bride.
require all things that are grand and true,
All things that a man should be;
Il you give this ALL would stake my life
To be all you demand Of me-
If You cannot be this--a laundress and cook
. lou can hire, and little to pay;
But woman heart and wOman's life
Are not to he won that way.
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"OLD IRoNsIpEs. {"

The frigate Constitution, "0ld IronsiIes, %
which has been lying in ordinary at the Navy
Yard for some time past, is about to be removed
from her present moorings by order Of the
Secretary of the Navy and towed by the Pow
haitian TO Portsmouth, N. II. Several years
ago the Navy Department concluded to break
her up, but the republication at that time Of the
following lines Of the old poem Of Oliver Wen
dell Holmes aroused popular feeling Of in
dignation and she was repaired and converted
into a school-ship:
Ay, tear her tattercd ensign down.
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eve has danced 10 see
That,Banner in the sky;
Beneath it rung the battle shout
And burst the cannon's roar;
The meteor of the ocean air
Shall sweep the clouds no more
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The elections of 1882 are repetition
of those of 1874, when the Republicans
were flung out Of Congress by a people
justly outraged by Credit Mobiliers,
salary grabs, whisky rings, ct ed ou'n,
genus. The vote that year was a tre
mendous call of awakening. It rever-
berated ike continuous peal of thun,
der. But its lessons have been disre
garded. The Republicans have for
gotten their experience. The Keifers
and Robeson's, the Hubbell's and the
Brady's and DOrsey's have been per
mitted to come to the front. They
viii be put down again.
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The wool grower demands protection
to stimulate production. The Eastern
manufacturer of wollen goods asks a
reduction on this commodity, that he
may compete with foreign carpets and
cloths. Yet We are told that protec-
tive duties at the same time stimulate
production and make manufactures
cheaper. Generally high duties on the
rawmaterial increases the cost to the man.
ufacturer, and to that extent discourage
the manufacturing industry. The man
ufaeturer, cognizant of this fact, de-
mands protection against protection; !;
he demands such a reduction of duty
on the raw material or such duty on
the manufactured article as will neutral
ize the duty on the raw material. This
treble duty the consumer pays. He
pays one man to grow, and pays this
bonus over again with an additional
duty to another man to manufacture.
Down with protection! Let every man
tote his own skillet, and every tub stand
on its own bottom.
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N. Y. Herald.
When several men combine to pro-
duce book they should consult fre-
quently enough to prevent absolute
contradictions being made in print.
Mr.. Hubben and his associate authors
of that very amusing book known as the
6 Republican Campaign Text Book for
1882 seems to have neglected this pre-
caution. One section of that book is de-
voted to- Republican Economy" It occu-
pies but two and one-half pages of the two
hundred AMI forty that the book contains,
but even two and one-half pages were
more than the man who prepared the
copy seems to have been equal to. The
appropriations of 1880, 1881 and 1882
wears for which the Democratic ma
iority managed the national expenditures
are compared with those of the three
preceding years, when the Republicans
were In power, and an apparent aggre
gate excess of seventT-three million
dollars is attributed to the Democrats.
But the excess upon examination is
proved to be more than covered by In
creases of appropriations for pensions,
for these aggregated seyenty-six million
dollars-three million dollars more than
the total increase of appropriations of
every kind. Here would seem a chance
to lay the entire blame of the pension
swindles on the Democrats, but, un-.
fortunately, IN another section the book,
entitled ssPensions and Bounties, the
pension swindle is claimed as re-
publican measure which would have be-.
come law under the Forty Con-
gress Republican-had not the bill
been passed too late to receive the
Presidents signature.
There are many bright sch0olboys.
who would like to add few pennies to
their limited supply Of pocket money.
Mr.. .Hubbe1I and his associate editors
should employ one Of these to look over
tables Of figures before a new edition Of
tho campaign text book i printed
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NUMBER 43
Kinds County.
BARKsDALE c1UB oReAyTzrn


Pursuant to call, a meeting II the voter.
OF Beat | was held at Stems Creek. on S,t
u-tay, October l4sh, for the purpose of or
ganizlng a Barksdale Club. The meet;no
being called to order, p B. Berry was elected
President, DR.. Wm. Allies, Vice-Presidant
and Z. X. White, Secretary. The Secretary
was Instructed TO enroll the names Of mem.
bers of the club. One hundred and torty-
two were enrolled. A committee Of finance
and arrangement was appointed, consisting
Of w. G. Ellis, J. Ii. Riley. aud w. w
Lowther, for the purpose of making prepar-
alton for the reception of Mai. Barksdale
en- the 18th inst. A resolution was passed
inviting all peroans of every party who NAV
desire to hear the issues of the day intelli-
gently dircussed, to be present on Thurs.
day, the 10Th inst. On motion of w. {.
Ellis the proceedings were ordered to be
published in the Jackson CLARION and
Brandon Republican. On motion, the meet
ing adjourned.
?. B. BERRY, Pres't
+. x. WHITE, Sec'y.
SrEEN's CREEK, Oct II, 1882.