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Year: 1875

We had the pleasure yesterday OF
interviewing Mr.. VIM. d. Brown, who
has just returned from Resting Springs
or Death Valley mines He reports
the discovery of considerable argentif-
erous galena, but nothing very extern
sive, though there are fair prospects
when the railroad communication is
made. Coso Is the most extensive ar
gentiferous center, and all discoveries
60 to prove the existence of extension
or fissure veins of argentiferous lead
or galena, which assays high grade
In silver Two furnaces ale now rum
ming and three more are being con-
structed. The town Of Darwin has
sprung up like magic, and is now the
center of an extensive trade. Mr..
Brown will remain in the city q few
days, and may perhaps visit and ex-
anime the Winston mine. He Is an
experienced mining inspector and his
opinion on the Winston mine will be
Of more than ordinary value.
Year: 1875

FOR SALE--A GOOD PAYING BUSINESS
the present proprietor wishes to sell out on
account OF Ill health. i good opportunity y
for u man with about $3.50. For particular,
apply at this office. oct29tf
Year: 1875

Part ofthe city. The sea-breeze comes TO this
locality fresh and pare from the ocean, and
untainted with the noxious vapors and flthy
Odors that arise from cesspoois and cutters TO
DESTROY Its benefcent effect.


Numerous streets have been graded and
the means OF access to this property IL being
daily improved.


The baker and miikmaI make regular
trips through these streets.


As the city Is growing ut an unprecedented
rate and real estate daily appreciatins In val
nc, this Is a splendid chance TO obtain
Year: 1875

We will put this bluster of the Pilot
on record. Many a poor, deluded negro
has got himself into trouble acting upon
just such suggestions as this. If the
trouble breaks out afresh in Yazoo, and
the colored people suffer, they will have
nobody to blame but their evil counsel
lors. 1t will be remembered that after
they had been instigated by Packer,
(and others, to march upon Vicksburg,
he testified before the Congressional
Committee that the whites did right in
repeIling them, and that it was an act OF
mercy to the women and children, white
and black, of that city.


But to the Pilots mischievous teach
ing, and the well-timed rebuke of the
Times


The Daily Times


And now comes the Mississippi Pilot,
profussedly a journal in favor of peace
and the maintenance of law and order,
counseling general rising up" and a
resort to mob violence in Yazoo county.
The official journal says:


1.-The only way to fight rufians is to
take them by the throat and choke them
to the ground. The general rising up in
Yazoo county, and the free use of the
double barrelled shotgun properly point
ed, would do some good just now"


We submit that after the expression
of such an atrocious sentiment, the Pilots
| Ifns should he forever sealed 1t has
shown itself totally unworthy, wholly
unappreciative of the critical situation o.
affairs in Yazoo county, and incompetent
to occupy the position of public instruc
tor. 1t has placed itself on par witt
the most bitter, denunciatory and incen
diary of those of the opposition whom il
has heretofore had the efrontery tC
criticise.
Year: 1875

Before the law of 1873, the rule in
relation to the elections in the various
counties was that each elector voted in
his own precinct or Supervisors District
The entire system of registration is based
on this idea, and each certificate of Reg
istration shows in its face the voters pre-
cinct. How far has this rule been
changed.


The act of April 18th, 1873, (acts
1873, PIP. 73 and 74) provides as follows:
"And in the event of any registered voter
being out of his district and wishing to
vote on the day of any election for any
county, district or State officer, or for
President or Vice-President of the United
States, such voter on the production of
his certificate of registration shall be en-
titled to vote on making oath as provided
in section five of this act, but shall not
be allowed to vote for any district or beat
officer Of said county"


The oath prescribed by section 5, of the
act is as follows


I-- do solemnly swear that l
am the identical --- whose name
appears upon the registration book, or
ON the certificate of registration as the
case may be, that / have not voted at
this election, nor will 1 attempt to vote
at any ether precinct in this county" (act
1873, p. 74.)


| This special statute was intended, on
any fair principle of construction, to pro-
vide for accidental and exceptional cases,
and cannot be construed to have intended
to make a sweeping change in the general
mode of voting. 1t was never intended to
make voting out of the electors district
the rule, but provides an exception to
the general rule in individual and ex-
ceptional cases.


The following reasons are sufficient to
demonstrate this as the proper construc-
| ton of the law:


l. This law impera.ively requires the
production of the certificate of registra-
tion, as a condition for voting out of the
electors district whereas, an elector can
vote in his own district on production of
his certificate, or on making an affidavit
of its loss


II. By voting out of his district the
elector is only permitted qualified right
he can vote only for certain officers,
and cannot vote for others.


Ill In voting out of his district, a
special affidavit is required by this special
statute, which is not required by the
general law.


This thing of massing voters at one or
two points in a county was never con-
templated by the statute, and is contrary
to its plain intent, meaning and spirit.


If the Republicans propose to have a
fair and pcaceable election, it would be
we'll for them to give up this scheme of
massing their voters at one or two points
in the county. Let the election proceed
in the usual mode. We think this is the
fair and proper course. We think, on
the contrary, that this massing business
evinces an unfair purpose on the part Of
the Republicans, and is calculated to
produce mistrust in the minds of the
whites, and will lead inevitably to the
counter move of massing the white vo
ters at the same points. This but adds
&c fuel to fire." and increases infinitely the
prospect of a collision. The response
bility must rest upon the Republican
managers.
Year: 1875

Not behind their brethren in COM
mendable zeal in the good cause, the bus
iness men of Meridian, GO feeling deeply
sensible of the vast Importance of pro-
curing the proper result in the coming
election, and deeming it a paramount
duty of every citizen of the Common
wealth to put forth one united effort in
favor of freedom, hereby obligate, bind
and pledge themselves that, OF the even
ing of the first day of November, the
day preceding the election, they close
their doors and let them remain closed
until the morning of the third of Novem-
Der, the day following the election, and
that they will use all the means in their
power for the election of the Democratic
ticket"


That's the way to do it, and the way
to talk it. The pledge contains one hun
dred signers.
Year: 1875

OFF THE TRACK.-Orange Brunt, one
of the colered candidates on the Radical
ticket for the Legislature in Pamela
county has withdrawn from the race siEce
the development of the game that Ozanne
and the leaders of the Radical party in
that county were attempting to play. He
advises his race not to support such men.
Year: 1875

WHAT does the Pilot mean by its
frequent unprofessional reference to the
editorial management of THE CLARION
If its editor, or any other man, should
have any particular desire to interview
the regular" editor of this paper, he
can be accommodated at short notice.
Year: 1875

THE Times and Pilot are both
furious because we have discovered the
game that Warmers "tr4te and faithful
Registrars were to play, and have pro-
posed a remedy-nevertheless the RENE
dy will be applied if the throwing out
process for carrying the election is at
tempted.
Year: 1875

DoN'T relax your efforts in the good
cause. Remember Warmers secret cir
cular to the +" faithful" and appoint
your committees. See that there are no
false bottoms in the ballot-boxes. That
they are well sealed. That they are
watched after they are sealed That a
fair tally is kept. The rascals will count
you out if they can. Eternal VIGILANCE
is the price of LIBERTY.
Year: 1875

The public debt is still increasing and
the parasites that are sucking the life
blood of the State are growing fatter.
Shall they continue to thrive and the
State perish? Voters answer the question
at the polls.
Year: 1875

AS the Pilot and Times have both
kindly reproduced our warning to Regis
trars, Inspectors and Clerks, of what
they may expect FROM a false count, they
will oblige us further by notifying their
followers here that no insult or inter
ference with the colored Democrats who
may be here tomorrow will be permitted.
Year: 1875

The Pilot need not affect to misunder-
stand us. Nothing that we have said
has remote intimat1on that the peace
compact should not be strictly observed
by the Democrats and Conservatives
What we have said and what we repeat is
that an attempt of the Radicals to carry
the election by the desperate plot sug-
gested by the Chairman of the Radical
State Executive Committee, or the
throwing out of the ballot-boxes, or the
mutilation of records, or the massing
of Republican voters at a given box
or voting precinct, with view to
intimidate Democrats and Conservatives
and crowd them from the polls, as has
heretofore been done, will be regarded as
breach of the agreement by the Radical
managers themselves, and will justify
whatever measures of selfprotection and
retaliation the case may require. The
agreement broken on one side, will be
broken on both.
Year: 1875

No ballots have been touched nC
election held and no proposition has
been made to deprive any Democrat Of his
rights.-Times.


That is all right. If there is no at
tempt made to throw out Democratic
votes or Democratic boxes there will be
no hanging.
Year: 1875

IF any street-corner loafng negro Rad
ical insults or interferes with a colored
Democrat who comes to the grand barbe
cue tomorrow he will get himself into
trouble. Pilot and Times let the boys
know what they may expect.
Year: 1875

BoTH the Times and Pilot are raving
over our warning to Registrars, InsPec-
tors and Clerks of what they might ex-
pect if they attempted to make false re-
turns by throwing out Democratic boxes.
They raved when we warned the negro
members of the infamous Legislature of
1875 that they were building up wrath
for themselves and their race by their
insulting conduct and votes in that body.
They encouraged the poor fools to go on
with their deviltry. The consequence is,
there have been some men missing since
then that could now easily be found, had
they listened to us and not to these Rad
ical journals. We will see upon whose
advice the Registrars and Inspectors act.
Year: 1875

Not the least fortunate event of the
canvass is the course of this well-known
citizen who, having mingled conspicu-
ously in the political contests of other
days, had withdrawn from politics and
devoted himself to the development OF
the industries, and public and private
enterprises of our State. 1t is no ordina-
ry occasion that would call such a man
from his retirement and induce him to
take part in the canvass. It shows the
importance of the issues at stake and
is recognition of the high and
conservative ground on which the De-
mocracy have placed themselves, and has
entitled them to the sympathy and sup
port of all good citizens irrespective of
old party ties. Gen. West never was a
Democrat in the partisan sense; but he
is Conservative in the true meaning of
the word, and what is more, he is a
MIssIssIPPIAN and has thrown himself
into the breach to help save his State
from the vandalism of her foes.
Year: 1875

WILL either the Pilot or the Times
tell US something about the stealing of
the Registration books of Pamela, and
what Sheriff Ozanne was doing with
them when he was caught in the act.
Year: 1875

The Bessemer steamship, which was
to abolish the horrors of the channel,
has been tried and is, fear, only half
success-for the present. She went
this week from Hull to Gravesend in a
gale Of wind and proved an excellent
sea boat and fast. Her two faults ap-
pear to be an excess of draft and the
unsteadiness of her movable saloon
The former is partly accounted for by
an extra supply of coal and may be
got rid OF one way or anOther-must
be got rid of before she can enter
Calais on an ordinary tide. AS to the
saloon, 1t appears that the machinery
intended to control it and to neu trail
ize, so far as 1t is concerned, the move
ment of the ship, is in some way de-
fective. The saloon can be handled
with ease, but cannot be kept still; in
other words, partakes of the motion of
the ship. What we know about it is
mostly from a letter written to the
Times by Lord Henry Lennox, who
came in the ship and who explains
that the present trouble arises partly
from some wrong arrangement of the
levers and partly from the inexperi-
ence of the man who works them. He
and Mr.. Reed believe, or at least hope,
that all may be made right, but the
public is just little incredulous. But
whether the saloon prove perfectly
stable or not, the ship will be vast
Improvement over those now in use.-
Corr. ~ Y Tribune.


The object Of this invention is to
obviate sea-sickness by neutralizing
the motion of the ship. We hope they
will succeed.
Year: 1875

bA PAz, March 20th.--It seems us IL Mexl-
cans We're themselves conspiring to ruin their
country by. the imposition OF domestic and
import duties. The municipal duties levied
at Guaymas and Mazatlan are 80 outrageous
as TO put n stop to our trade with these ports
What we need is a reciprocal treaty with the
United States, to afford US q market for our
produce. The distress among the lower
classes in Sonora and Sinaloa IL greater than
ever before. Thousands are actually starving,
who are accustomed to living on tortillas and
frijeeas, The abolishing of the copper coin
seems to have been great mistake.


They have our hearty sympathy.
The above is the language of the poor
in every county which adopts the in-
sane policy of establishing import
duties and revenue tariffs. All the
free trade countries in the world are
prosperous, virtuous and, happy ,,while
those which collect import duties are
eternally in trouble, and the poor la


borers are often brought to the verge
of starvation. Next to Mexico, the
United States to-day presents the
most melancholy picture of any
country on earth. The suffering of
our people is widespread and intense,
and the most gloomy prospects for the
future. All of which Except those
who We're assited by floods and grass
hoppers) is traceable to this suicidal
policy of the Government. Even if
such policy was honestly carried
out (Which never has been done), it
would amount to nothing more nor
less than stealing a revenue fund from
the peoples pockets without letting
them know it. The people are made
to contribute to the Government by
every purchase they make of articles
for domestic use, from spool of
thread to a wagon. We could be rec
onciled to it, until our national debt
was liquidated if the money thus stolen
from us went into the treasury of the
nation. But we believe we can safely
say that not five per cent. of the
amount fllched from the pockets of
the people ever reach the Government
vault. At least three-fifths of the
whole goes into the pockets of the
manufacturers and two-thirds of the
Remainder into the pockets of officials,
secret service detectives, revenue coll
lectors, revenue assessors, gaugers and
clerks. Every county in the United
States has from three to dozen and
some counties as many as fifty Of
these Government attaches. If this
army of officials were placed in line,
allowing six feet to each man, they
would occupy space over forty miles
long. The average salary of these
men is over twelve hundred dollars
each. This is the little machinery
used by the Government to collect
import duties and revenue tariff from
the honest people of the United States.
If all the money that has been taken
from the people, directly and indi-
rectly, during the last ten years had
been paid into the hands of one tax
collector in each county and appropri-
ated to the payment of the Govern
i..e--. .a~i.' WE would not be owing one
dollar to-day. No wonder the people
are suffering.
Year: 1875

We hear many inquiries about the
Star family fruit dryer. Everybody


wants one, and they say they will
have it; but they are postponing it to
the last day they can do without it.
This fruit dryer will be a necessity In
every family. The owners will re-
quire some time to make them after
the order comes in, and if the order is
delayed until the dryer is wanted,
only q few can be accommodated.


The cost is so trifiiDg that any one
able to buy common stove can have
one. Any person owning a garden or
orchard will save the price of one in q
week. WORKMAN Bros. or HARPER
g. DALTON are ready to receive orders.
Year: 1875

HAVANA, June 2-The Argentine trans
port Ping, with seventy two political pris
oners. arrived here on Sunday from Monte
video, making the passage in ninety four
days. The prisoners comprise those who
were implicated in the Flores rebellion.
Flores and several persons who had been
banished from Cuba in former years as
enemies of Spain.


The government refused to permit the
prisoners to land. alleging as reason for
this action the informality of the ships
papers. The Ping being in reality Spanish
merchant bark, which had been chartered
by the Argentine government, Captain Cen
eral Vam aseda has telegraphed to Madrid
for instructions, and the Ping remains under
the guns OF a Spanish iron clad. Twenty
five of the prisoners were allowed to en-
bark on the steamer City of Mexico which
left for New York today. Some of the
prisoners are reported to have been men of
wealth and position i'll the Argentine Re
public.


Fire Mt Sen.


The steamer Crescent City, from New
York, arrived here yesterday evening. On
Tuesday at 7:30 p NJ, when the steamer was
opposite SombrerO light, some fiues in the
the furnaces and threw the burning cinders
from three Of them into the coal bunkers.
The coal instantly took fire and the bunkers
were soon in a blaze, the flames rising ten
feet high and rushing up the ventilator to
the upper deck.


The engineer closed the ventilator before
the woodwork above was ignited. The
alarm was given, but owing to the admira-
bile discipline maintained by Captain Curtis
every man was at the post designated for
him beforehand for such emergencies in less
than two minutes. In three minutes three
streams of water were pouring on the fire,
and within ten minutes the flames were ex-
tinguished. The chief engineer closed the
door OF the engine room to prevent draft
Of air and locked himself in with his men,
while the captain directed the hosemen
where to play upon the fire.


Some of the men by his orders removed
the furniture from the saloons, SO as to
leave the fire nothing to feed upon should
it spread. Preparaiirns were also made to
run the steamer ashore in case of necessity,
but the fire did not extend beyond the en-
CINE room from the moment the yentilatOr
and door were closed. The passengers give
the highest praise to the captain and chief
engineer for their cOolness, courage and
presence of mind and to the crew for the
promptness and order with which they
acted.


ENGAGEMENT with l0surgents.


A body OF 400 insurgents attempted to
enter the town of Las Tunis, on tho twenty
fifth ultimo. They were driven back with
a loss SO far as known of three killed and
several wounded. The garrison lost three
killed.


An Abandoned Schooner.


The naval authorities having charge of
the abandoned schooner, Mary Chiffon,
which has been tloated, are prepared to
turn her over to the proper parties.
Year: 1875

LONDON, May Pin the House of
Commons to-day, DisracIi rcpling to tho
question put by the Marquis Of Hunting
ton, said it was true that the Govern
mcnt had addressed the Queen to make
representations to Germany, respecting
the relations between that power and
France. These representations had been
made and were of such nature as To cor
rect misconcopuon and to insure peace.
England received satisfactory reply,
but it would not be- convenient to lay the
correspondence before the public at
present
Year: 1875

INDIANAPOLIS. May 24.-The formal
laying OF the corner stone of the grand
Masonic temple took place this afternoon.
The ceremonies were interesting and im-
posing and were conducted by the officers
of the Grand Lodge of Indiana. Visit
ing brethren were present from this iand
adjoining States in large numbers and
took part in the exercises.
Year: 1875

A prisoner in Auburn Jail, whose term OF
service had oxpired liked his quarters so well that no
refused to 40 out nor did tho ilior know hoy to ses
rid OF him. so he was sent out with broom TO sweep


the side ak when they locked the Jail door upon n.
Aier many atieupis break TO- Lo ooAIe1ea Sot-
rnwtulv " seek other Qdarte.s
Year: 1875

TEMPTATIONS OF TRADE.-A dry
goods clerk was on trial yesterday on a
charge Of dishonesty preferred by his EN-
ployer. The latter gave woman two
one-dollar notes which she was to hand
the young man as il by mistake for "A
single note. The trap was we'll baited,
and the youth fell into it, putting the odd
dollar into his pocket. But he was not
without defense. In his own behalf be
stated that he had been educated to dis
honesty. His employer had been selling
damaged goods" representing that they
had been wetted at fire, when in fact,
the hydrant in the cellar had beer bro't
into requiaiton to damage them The
clerks were compelled to tell falsehoods
about the goods, and were thus trained in
school ef rascality. If law and justice
were synonymous, the young man who
had simply followed out his employers
teachings ought to have been invited
down and out of the prisoners docket,
and his employer should have been sent
to Jail. As it was, the accused was ac-
quilted. But the moral of this trial is
worth its cost to the city treasury. A
business man who cheats his customers
may be sure his clerks will rob him.
Year: 1875

ONLY MIsTAKE.-A young man Of
the town, who parts his hair in the cen
ter, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, is said
to have made a slight mistake at the op-
era last night. In order to obtain a
clearer perception of high note, he
reached in his coat tail-pocket and bro't
forth what he thought to be an opera
glass, but what proved to be revised
compilation of Derringer. People in his
immediate vicinity were surprised and
somewhat frightened to see him elevate
the ordnance to his eyes, and steadfastly
gaze down into its dark caverns Of death.
L was, upon first impression, thought to
be a cool, deliberate planned suicide, but
when he quietly put it back into his pock-
ct and brought the real article into requi-
sition, the horror melted from before
their eyes, and il became apparent that
it was only a mistake after all. A few
hairs, which lay on the larboard side Of
the young mans skull, had by some
means get on the starboard side. Hence,
the slight alteration Of mind.