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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
The bold stand that Mr.. Cleveland
has taken, so fully set forth in his
recent messaget to Congress, must be
gratifying to every honest American
citizen. His determination to hol(
sacred his high trust, and to exercise
exclusive discretion and the executive
functions for which he is responsible
to the people, who elected him, and no
to partisan Senate, stamps him a bold
upright and fearless friend of the peo-
pie, an executive In whose hands
the affairs of the government
are safe. There Is the true
ring Of unadulterated Democracy in
his remark: THE pledges 1 have
made were made to the people, and to
them l am responsible for the manner
in which they have been redeemed; l
am not responsible to the Senate and l
am unwilling to submit my actions
and official conduct to them for judg-
ment."
The New Orleans Picayune Of the
I'd says:
The President fully understands his
rights and is determined to maintain
them. The issue is now squarely
Joined, and the President goes before
the country on a question of preroga-
tive in a manner that the people can
readily appreciate. The revolu-
tionary proceedings by which a
Republican Senate tied the
hands of Andrew johnson are i'll
adapted to the present time, and the
present situation in Congress itself.
The Senate can neither impeach the
President mol return to office those
who have been removed. It can only
embarEass the administration, but can
not seriously cripple it, or break down
its policy In its essential featuresI
Senator Beck, of Kentucky, says in
regard to the removals controversy:
The Presidents refusal to give up
the papers for which the Senate is
asking is, he thinks, a matter of policy
and not Of right. "These papers," he
said, "are not on file. No paper is on
Gle for which the law does not provide
q place. Can the President destroy
these papers If he wishesP That is the
best test as to his rights. The President
cannot destroy any paper which is
on file in any Of the departments with
out rendering himself liable to pun
ishment under the law. Suppose he
should take all these papers relating to
removals and make a bonfire, could
any one stop him or punish him? They
could not. Then these papers are not
on file, and the Senate has no right to
them. No one has a right to them but
the persons who wrote them. If the
President wishes he can put a card in
the papers tomorrow announcing that
he will return all these papers to their
writers. Nc one could prevent his
doing 50. The Senate could not make
the people to whom he returned the
papers tell what was In them, and the
Senate has no right to these papers.
The law says the President may re-
move il his discretion. These papers
concern only that act Of removal.
Whether the President abandoned that
right Of removal id his letter to Curtis,
y 4 question Of policy. As a matter
4 right, the Senate Is not entitled to
heae papers"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

OUR railroad supervision law, like a
circus tent, covers a good deal of
ground, but it is not staked down so
tight that the small boy cannot Peep
under the canvass and get a view of
the clowns in the ring.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12
Honors to Gen. N. H. Harris.
TO the Commercial Herald.

DPNNi"l " VhO OOhLhClCldL Cia w {
PORT GIBSON, March 6.-Gen. Har
ris spent the day in Port Gibson, hav-
ing only this day to enjoy a reunion of
the boys of his old brigade living here,
He came to bid a fond farewell to
those who love him, and he loves most,
and after a day pleasantly spent in re-
newing old associations, he took his
departure on the $50 pm. train for
Vicksburg, where he was followed by
his surviving veterans, while the artil.
lery pealed forth a farewell to the hero
of Fort Gregg,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

MANY Republican Senators pro-
ounce President Cleveland's late
message "audacious'' and say "he has
violated the ethics of the Senate, but
will doubtless make for himself an
amount of public sympathy which will
more than atone for the condemnation
he will meet"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12
The New York Times Very Severe
On the Superintendent Of Police

n new YORK Times very severe
On the Superintendent Of Police
and the Commissioners.
New YORK, March 6.-The Times
this morning says: "Police Superin.
tendent Murray, we are informed, was
tired but triumphant when he return
ed to his office on Thursday evening,
He had reas0n to be tired, perhaps, for
he had done a very brisk afternoons
work, but he had no reason whatever
for feeling triumphant. In short the
superintendent's behavior on that
afternoon demonstrated his incompe-
tency for the very important post he
occupied: He, neither the superin-
tendent, nor the commissioners, seem
to have had either a clear idea of the
duties they were called upon to per-
form, or the energy and courage to
perform them effectively. The mob
they failed to dispense was not formid-
able in numbers or ugly distemper, and
yet the mob had its own way almost
completely IS the Lexington mob over
which Scotland yards lost its head a
few weeks ago.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

THE quickest Guide to Breakfast,
Dinner and SUPPER" is the title of a
new book published by I. Fisher I'm
win, Of London. In this country tie
quickest guide to such pleasant en-
ployment is a lively bell or gong.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

AUFDEMoRTE, the embezzler of $685.
600 government funds at New Orleans
has been convicted and sentenced to
pay a fine Of $4,000 and also serve a
term Of FIVE years. Imprisonment.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

FRANK HATToN, ex-assistant post
master-general, heretofore noted for
his luminosity to Blaine, announces
in the Chicago Mail : "If the next
National Republican Convention, in
its wisdom, should nominate Mr..
Blaine, the Mail will be for the party
and the candidate"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

THE COllum Interstate Commerce
bill has been amended to prohibit the
issue Of any form Of passes to mem
bers of Congress, or employees Of the
government or their families.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

THE Irish patriots should not be dis
c%ouraged. Married men have strug-
gled for home rule for twenty GEN.
turtles, and have not yet succeeded in
getting it.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

CHICAGO pickpockets have been
benefited by Rev. Sam Jones revival
services, in that city, if nobody else
has. 1t is said they have realized
some $4,000.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

Mr.. CoNKLNG says that he not
only does not propose to return to the
Senate, but that nothing could tempt
him to return to politics.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12
LegIsIatlng for Warren County.

Leglslating for Warren County.
Special to Commercial Herald.
JACKSON, March 6.-The following
local bills for Warren county passed
the house to-day: A bill authorizing
the board of supervisors to gravel the
streets bounding the courthouse
square; a bill to pay the Volunteer
Southrons transportation expenses
to Mayersville; a bill to exempt from
county and municipal taxation money
loaned at eight per cent. on lands; a
bill to allow notaries one-half of one
per cent. OF collections of notes deliv-
ed for protest, but paid and not pros
tested when presented; a bill to change
the name Of the Fireman's silver cor
net band to Volunteer Southrons' sill
yer cornet band.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

CHAs. J. WEBSTER 6 Co., the pub
fishers of General Grants book, say
that the widows profits will reach
100000 and probably $4,000 within
the next year.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

A TIDAL wave Of religious revival
is sweeping over Southern Illinois. 1t
will not strike John Logan ; he is 10
Washington.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

TIE crowd of sinners to the Moody
and Sankey meetings in New Orleans
was so great that they had to be ad-
mitted by tickets.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

CLARK THoRToN was recently killed
near Washington, Ga, by gas that
escaped from his mothers grave, along
side Of which he was digging.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

SECRETARY LAMAR has requested
the Attorneys General to begin suit
against the timber thieves on the
school lands in Washington Territory.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12
THE LEGISLATURE.
The Free Pass Bill Defeated In the
Senate--Conflrmations Etc.
Special to Commercial Herald.
SENATE.

JACKSON, March 4.-The senate has
been engaged the greater portion of
the day in discussing the free pass bill.
1t refused to adopt the house bill re-
pealing the law by a Ycte Of 81 to ~.
SO the law remains in full force as
passed by the last legislature.
The senate passed an act comforting
on the railroad commissioners an aud
itor power to act as a board of equal
lzers for the State to equalize taxes
in the various counties and see that
property is assessed at something like
its value. D..
The following combinations were
made for levee commissioners of the
4azoo and Mississippi delta district:
G. L. Robinson and G. G. Crews, of
Tunica; Thomas W. White, of DeSoto;
Thomas H. Collins, of Sunhower; B
W. Sturdivant, of Tallahatchie; B. S.
Kicks, of Yazoo; j. F. Townsend and
W. II. Stovall, of Coahoma; W. A.
Turner, of Quitman.
An act to prohibit the courtesy of
free passes to officers of the State, in.
definitely postponed.
Combinations as Superintendent of
Education-J. B. Dobbs, for Choctaw
county; j. l. Lamkin, for Pike county
j, NJ. Grafton, for Lincoln county.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

NIss5, forty-sight counties in this
STATE paid 100000 for retail liquor
licenses
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

SERvIA objects to the Turko-Bul-
garian treaty because it refers to the
"re-establishment of friendly relations
between SerVia and Bulgaria"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

The Legislature has set down on the
proposition to create the new county
Of Singleton.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12
[ CONSTITUTIONAL CONVEN
TION.
TION.

The Natchez Democrat is another Of
the solid papers of the State that il
"forninst" a constitutional convention,
and in a recent issue concludes a most
sensible article on the subject as fol-
lows:
The present is an unfortunate time
for assembling a State convention.
The State, in the first place, cannot
afford the expense Of such a useless
luxury. If there is need for changes
in some features Of our constitution,
and we do not deny that there is, the
inexpensive mode of making them
can easily be resorted to, and required
changes will be endorsed by the people,
and the taxation necessary to defray
the expense of a convention will be
saved
Again, while the Democracy is ON
trial, as it were, it would be well for so
ultra a Democratic State as Missis sippi
to 60 slow in the way of making rad.
ical changes. They might not tell
f~avorahly on the nation, and it is not
impossible that important causes of
division in the State itself might arise
from the action Of the convention.
Upon the whole it seems to us that it
would be much wiser for the present
at least, for the young politicians Of
the State to confne themselves to
making laws which can be repealed by
a succeeding Legislature if they do
not work well, rather than to try their
abilities in constitution making. I'm
wise legislation is easily repealed, but
unwise constitutional clauses remain
long "to plague their inventors"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

PROF. HUXLEY has an article in the
Nineteenth Century on the "EVOlu-
ton Of Theology"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12
PHILADELPHIA belle has been par
alyzed by the use Of cosmetics.

BLAINE has finished his book and is
now engaged in oyerhauling old le.-
tiers.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12
EVENING SESSION.

Act to secure manufacturers and
owners of railroad equipment and roll
ing stock in making continual sales,
passed.
To amend chapter ten of the code in
relation to publishers and compensa.
ton of officers, passed.
10 secure payment of wages to
laborers on railroads in the State,
passed. =
To grant extension of time for pay
m9nt of debts of certain persons.
Adjourned.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12
The Investigation of State Officers
Completed.
CnooiaI IN NOmmaroi,l Hawaii

The Investigation of State Officers
Completed.
Special to Commercial Herald.
JACKSON, MISS, March 6.-The com
mittee to investigate the auditors and
t%reasurer's offices, after two weeks
hard work, has completed its labors.
The committee has not yet made its
report. but will do so next week, as
Don as it can be written. Senator
Simonton is chairman of the Joint
committee and personally superin-
tended the investigation, doing the
great proportion of the work himself.
He is a practical business man and a
fine bookkeeper and as he was chair
man of the same committee of the last
legislature, he thoroughly understood
the work. Senator Sim0nton was ably
assisted by Mr.. J. G. Hill, DR.. Byrum
and others. The report will state that
the records, books, etc, in both offices
were found regular and correct.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12
Victory for the Advocates of this
LeVee System.

Dp5CIdI 10 OUnIIItICIdI HtIdIU'
WASHINGTON, March 6.-Gen. King,
of the committee on levees and i'm
provements of the Mississippi river,
was by unanimous vote of that com
mittee to-day authorized to report the
bill introduced by him appropriating
three millions of dollars for building
the levees on the Mississippi river.
This is considered a great victory by
the advocates Of tie leYee system.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

The U. S. minis issued last week
sSO5,OOO against s186.5OO, Of the cor
responding period last year.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

TIE New York papers say. "it is
now positively known that Gen. Han
cock left no will"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

VIEW HAMPSHIRE Democrats saw
I1oug the State committee that the
in agitation is going to upset patN
lines In that neighborhood.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12
Judge Cowan ReappoInted.
ecial TO Commercial Herald.

JACKSON, March Gov. Lowry to-
day reappointed Hon. Warren Cowan,
chancellor of the eleventh district. Mr.,
Mayer, of Leaore, was appointed levee
commissioner.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12
HOUSE

Report of special committee ap-
pointed to abolish the office of swamp
land commissioner and for other pur-
poses. recommending the office to be
abolished, was adopted. The bill was
subsequently passed with amendments.
Act to improve the school facilities
OF Madison county, referred.
The request of the senate that the
house appoint a committee of confer
ence on act for relief of Judge Wat
son, was agreed to.
Act to secure the faithful perform
ance of their duties by the clerks of
boards of supervisors, passed.
Act to repeal the act to incorporate
the British and Mississippi Valley Free
Hold Land and Mortgage Company,
passed.
Actto authorize the governor, attor-
ney-general and the attorney
for the railroad commission to
settle with certain railroad companies
on account of expense incurred by
the State in prosecuting the railroad
supervision case, passed with amend
ments,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12

SENATOR JAMES K. JONES. of Ar.
kansas; 1.-THE report of the majority of
the Judiciary Committee is practically
a censure of the President. n was
aimed at him and no one else.
regard the Presidents message as q
very strong document. It is clear
pointed, and logical. He plainly saw
that the Republican Senators. led nv
Mr.. Edmunds, very trying to place
him in a false position before the npo.
pie. l am very glad that the Presidents
has taken prompt opportunity to ex.
press himself in words that cannot he
mistaken. He is clear in stating The
prerogatives that belong to his Office,
ana his intention to maintain them
The Republican Senators. I will not
say all of them, are attempting to
snow that the President is NOT, cor.
slstent in his pledges, that public office
is a public trust. The attempt is for
party effect and to serve partisan
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12
The Employment of Convicts !
Mines Creating TronhIe

The Employment of Convicts ne
Mines Creating Trouble.
LOUISVILLE, March GA special to
the Times says Gov. Knott sent a
special message to the legislature at
Frankfort this morning, stating that
he has just received a notification from
Louis Craig, State inspector in charge
of the convict camp at Greenwood.
Pulaski county, telling of the desperate
state of affairs in the mines. The
convlcts are worked there and
yesterday two hundred orderly armed
free miners, IN a body, informed the
inspector and Mr., cambridge, one of
the convict %lessees, that they would be
given two hours to take the convicts
and property away, as they intended
to burn all the buildings in the camp.
They said they did not desire to resort
to violence, but would do so if necas-
sary. The inspector asked for two DAYS
n his request was granted. The in
spector telegraphed for the governor to
either send troops at once or order the
removal of the convicts, before Sunday
noon, as the free miners were desper.
ate and determined. AT 2 o'clock thel
governor ordered five companies {h6
State militia to the Greenwood mimi
to protect the convicts and State prom
erty.
Companies A, G, D and E. of the
State guard, left tonight to protect the
miners and convicts at Green
wood Ky. Governor Knott this
fternocn Issued a proclamation,
commanding the people Of Pulaski
county to keep the peace and ordering
The mob to diSpurse. Two hundred
conVicts are employed in the mines.
No trouble is expected before to-mor-
row, when the free miners swear thew
Will destroy the convict camp. The
conVlcts are at present guardedin their
quarters. The Greenwood mines are
six miles from the Cincinnati South.
ern road, and are owned by capitalists
IN London, Cincinnati, Lexington and
DanVille.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-02-20
MARTHA WASHINGTON.
The wife oi our Tirst President, and
Her characteristics.

rhe wife OF our first President, and
Her characteristics.
III nlunne' Of Martha Washington are
said to have Leanm1 engaging. She never
assumed to be anything extraordinary intel
lectually, wasn't much of a reader, but her
elegance ofSmannar has been mentioned
again and again in descriptions of that his
toric time when she was the first lady Of the
land, the wife of the revered first president
of the United States
She is described as having been rather be-
low medium height, but daintily formed, with
a pleasing face and dark hazel eyes The
taken from Gilbert Stuarts painting in her
later years Perhaps the best sketch of her
now in print is the one in Laura G. Holo-
ways popular book, "The Ladies' of the
White House, which also contains fine
engraving of her in her youth, as well as
one when she had become a white-haired
grandmother, engraved from Stuart's pic
ture. Therein is charmingly told the story
of her first meeting with the illustrious
Washington, then young colonel. 1t was
in 1858, at the house of Mr. Chamberlayne,
at New Kent Va, while Washington was
on his way to Williamsburg, attended by
body servant.
She was 26 beautiful, rich and widow.
He was near the same age. famous and hand
some. They were mutually pleased, and
after few meetings arranged for mar
riage.
Martha cambridge was the daughter of a
Virginia planter, and was born in 1872 Her
education was such as the limited facilities
of the times afforded her social pleasures
compassed by the society of Will tmsburg.
When very young she was married to Col
Gusts, q refined, polished and generous man.
They lived not far from the plantation Of
Mrs Custis' father, happy and blessed dur
ing few feeting years. They had three
children, the eldest an unusually bright boy,
who died q few months before his father.
Col Custis died of consumption, leaving his
young widow the possessor Of rich estate.
Her country home, where Washington be-
came engaged TO her, was called the White
House. From that the executive mansion at
Washington took its name.
The Washingtons began life at Mt. Ver-
non. They were wealthy and refined, and
the b9st society of the country was glad to do
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-02-20
WAsHlNeToN's BIRTHDAY, FEB. 20,
1886,

Send thundrous sound. ocannonl from your throat
and iron lips
To the life that led chained Freedom from tho
shadow OF eclipse.
Mock with brazen throated iaushteron this glorious
natal morn,
Sounds Of woe and battle. travail. midst which Free.
dom's state was bornl
Bloom with red and white. o bannersl on the cold
and wintry air
Shine, stars in fields OF axure on the deeds which
placed thee there.
Bask, freemenl full enfranchised, In the light of
Thank again thegod OF battles for the gift Of Wash
ington
Shout aloud till they can hear ye-cowering meath
despots rod
That through him whose birth ye honor ye arc men
before your God.
Ali thou Father OF our Country not dost thou our
homage need
We who reap the glorious harvest from thy sowing
OF the seed.
For thy fame shall grow in luster is added age to
age,
Through the splendor of tho scutcheon which thou
left as heritage.
Never hand Of thine hadst carved thee out path to
fame more clear
Hadst thou grasped again the sword hilt cast away
by Belvldere.
For for Freedom thou unsheathed It, and it's strokes
Than that miracle Of splendor, Arthur's brand
Excalibur
when thy patriot hand withdrew it from the hiding
scabbard's shade,
Shone the CLINT OF Freedoms sunburst on the glory
OF its blade.
Never sought thou blood of fellow, that Ambitions
ghouls might gorgei
Not the sword OF Freedom tempered was for this ut
Valley Forge
Bright it flashed at storied Trenton, smokeeclipsed
at Brandywine,
Cleaning with fery splendor Yorktown Csw Its
meteor shine.
Not till Phrygiancapped was Freedoms brows with
olive crowns enwreathed
Was the blade drawn for thy fellows back returned
unto Its sheath.
Never thou braved wlntry waters for7eho honOrs
As the mighty Roman Caesar passed of old tho
Rubicon.
We shall see the breath OF cannon, when from out
grim mouths tits rolled,
10 thy whtened locks transmitted, which thy fore
head aureoled.
And when on the nations birthday It the flag thou
gav'st enshrouds,
We shall see thy face of grandeur looking down
from out its clouda
Thou vert grander than the Roman when he thrice
refused crown,
Where by ha ks of singing Severn there thou laidst
thine honors down.
Lapse with requiems. o Potomacl on Mt, vernon's
storled shore,
Where are urned his sacred ashes, Freedoms Mecca
eyermore.
Though through camp the nelds Of heaven may by
others still be won,
He amidst all consultations still shall shine as cen
tral sun
He whom Freedom named as Father stlll is Father
of the State,
Though the Nation claims OF heroes now great tri
umvirate.
Never shall his name rank lower on Fames mighty
muster rolls
Who goes to claim valhallas apotheosis of souls
BRS D. HOUSE.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-02-20
WILMINGTON TO

And corresponding ali other points West Northwest
and Southwest