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Year: 1874




The Vevay Reville comes to the
aid Of the local press in the follow.
ing handsome style. The argument
is unanswerable:


Do the city papers say anything
in regard to your own county? Moth
ing. Do they contain notices of
your schools, churches, meetings,
improvements, and hundreds of 9th.
er local matters of interest, which
your home paper publishes' Not an
item. Do they ever say word cal
culated to draw attention to your
county and its numerous thriving
towns, and aid in their progress
and enterprise! Not a line. And
yet there are men who take such
contracted views of this matter, that
unless they are getting as many
square inches of reading matter in
their home papers as they do in q
city paper, they think they are not
getting the worth of their money.
Year: 1874

An exchange saws that at a revival in
Jamestown a short time ago, one Of the breih-
ren got the power" and male very impress
i've prayer. pr,of which was the following
d" O, Lord, feel like giving every poor man
in this place a barrel Of -four, and barrel Of
pork. barrel of salt and barrel of pepper
oh, but that's too much pepper"
Year: 1874

The Raymond Gazette publishes the
details of the preliminary examination
before Justice Gray, of the parties ac-
cused of the horrible murder of Mrs.
Owens, near that place. After able ar
gurment on each side; the court delivered
the following written opinion:


The finding of the court is, that the
several defendants, one and all, are guilty
as accessories to the murder of Mary
Addie Owens, as charged in the warrant,
but differing in degree:


We find Henrietta Higgs, George
Washington and Elan Robinson guilty
as accessories before the fact.


We find Robert Samuel and Levi
Washington as accessories after the fact.


The order of the court is, that the three
first named be remanded to prison, and
there safely kept, so as to appear at the
next ensuing term of the Circuit Court Of
Kinds county for the Second District
thereof, to answer the State of Mississip-
pi on the complaint before stated. And
the further order of the court is, that the
two last named defendants enter into a
recognizance in the sum of two hundred
dollars jointly, with surety, conditioned
that they will appear at the term of the
court before stated and will not depart
thence without the order of said court to
do, to answer the State of Mississippi
on the complaint before stated as to
them.


The annals of crime in any age do not
furnish the record of a murder more as
trovious than the brutchery of that inno-
cent lady as she slept with her babe in
her arms unconscious of an enemy in the
world.


The theory of the murder as related by
the Gazette is as follows:


The woman Henrietta had for many
years lived on Mr. Owens place; and
from the time that Mr.. Owens married
(some two years ago. had a feeling of
great hostility to Mrs. Owens. Henriet-
ia. however, is a cripple, unable to walk
without crutches, having had paralytic
stroke few years ago Her desire was
to get clear of Mrs. Owens, and to accom-
plish this she employed one or more of the
colored men to murder her in cold blood.
The murder was committed just before
daylight on the morning stated, with two
blows from an axe, which split the sleep
ing woman's head wide open, while her
child, a year or year and helf old, was
sleeping at her side. And what adds still
more to the horror of the transaction,
Mrs Owens, in weeks time, would have
given birth to another child
Year: 1874

The St Louis Republican suggests that
the most appropriate title to the so-called
currency act which passed Congress and
was approved on the eve of adjournment
would be s'An act to keep the currency
Just as it is.


The Republican comments on this sin
gular measure as follows:


THE bill is remarkable for what it does
not contain 1t contains no provision for
specie resum ption, however remote, and in
this respect it falls short of the great object
of the President to secure a resumption of
specie payment during his administration.
Neither does it contain any provision foEthe
free banking which Senators Logan and
Morton so vehemently demanded. Nor does
it contain any provision for retiring a por
ton of the grecnbacks outstanding and re-
placing them with national bank notes 1t
neither initiates nor contracts the volume of
currency, it leaves it as it is. 1t is mere
placeby given TO the country to quiet their
anxiety on the subject of the finances. The
bill is called compromise measure; this
means that as congress and the President
cannot agree on remedy for the existing
suspense, they will pass a law to do nothing
which. by the way, would have been as
effectually done without the law.
Year: 1874

We learn that Gov Ames before


leaving for the North, took steps to enjoin


the delivery to the Vicksburg aud Ship


Island Railroad Company of the proceeds


of the Chickasaw School fund under the
provisions Of the act approved April 18th,


1873. 1t will be remembered that the
act required that the loans heretofore
granted to the several railroad companies


in this State by the law of 1856. should
be transferred to the Ship Island Compa-
ny. The motion to enjoin the delivery
of the funds, will, OF course. he resisted
by the Company, and the case must ul-
timately be disposed of in the Supreme
Court. The issue is entirely between oppos-
ing factions in the dominant party. The
transfer of the loan to the Company was
the act Of a Republican administration,
as the scheme to annul it Is also a Re
publican measure. For nothing has the
former regime in this State been so severe
ly criticised by the existing order as the
loan of the Trust Funds for railroad pur-
poses. We have always held that the act
was wise and has resulted in immeasura-
BILE advantage to the State in promoting
the completion of'greatrailway enterprises
indispensable to the development of
its resources but the present rulers
have pretended to see in the policy an
act Of bad faith on the part of the State.
Our surprise may therefore be imagined
at the passage of the act of 1873, after
the occasion for such disposition of the
Funds, had, in large measure, ceased
to exist. Gov Ames, however, is not
inclined ito follow in the footsteps of his
illustrious predecessor, j" and hence the
legal proceeding to which we have re-
ferreo.
Year: 1874

A proposition was made at the late
annual gathering of the Army of the
Potomac, that at the next meeting the
survivors of Longstreet's corps, of the
Army of Northern Virginia, should be
invited to join them in friendly celebra-
ton. Gen. Wilcox, the author of the
proposition, advocated it in a strong
/ speech from which we will make an extract
as follows:


But it may be asked, he said, why
these yearly military meetings? Do they
not tend TO keep alive the wounds of the
war? Do they not renew the boasting
spirit and reeollections of our own men,
as well as the humiliating scenes of defeat
on the part of our Southern brethren ?
I Well, then, let US frankly invite our late
opponentssto meet with US, and together
recount our mutual admiration of one
another's valor, call up the frequent in
stances where the rigors Of war were mltl-
gated on the picket line and in the field
! hospitals, recall the jokes given as they
appeared at the time, talk over the long
and muddy marches and disclose many
things that went on behind the scenes, the
secrets of mysterious march and counter
march on the great stage where our re-
spective parts were performed in the
bloody drama. Surely this might serve
to rekindle the old fires of a common ma
tionaity, and we might come together
like lovers who have been estranged and
made it all up again.


As one step To this consummatlOn, am
in favor of rendering to that Confederate
corps to which the Ninth was most fire.
quently and obstinatelY opposed hearty
invitation to meet with Us at our next
yearly meeting. Let us say to the men
of Longstreet's corps, Come up with US
and let US have good time together. In
this way we shall bury the hatchet so deep
that the Archangel at the last day shall
90 about with his trump in one hand and
lantern in the other hand in vain to find
it. "


1t is stated that the proposition thus
generously urged was warmly seconded
by all present except Gen. Sheridan; and
that it was especially favored by Gems.
Grant and Sherman.


The circumstance reminds US that the
men who led the Union armies and did
the fighting have not been the leaders of
the opposition to a policy of magnaaimity
to the South since the war closed. 1t is
well remembered that when President
johnson demanded the arrest and impris-
onment of Gen Lee and the inhiction
upon him Of humiliations similar to those
of which Mr.. Davis was the victim-Gen.
Grant demonstrated, and thwarted the in
tention And after the surrender OF the
Virginia Army, when fighting was no
longer possible on the Southern side, Gen
Sherman, signed treaty ofpeace. .embody-
ing the most liberal and generous terms to
the defeated party.


The solution of these facts which have
become historical, is found in a principle
of the human heart A true Knight
scorns to strike a fallen antagonist. 1t
is only the coward who does it.
Year: 1874

Without further introduction than we
have given in previous numbers, we have
printed on our first page, Col. Lamar
speech on ''Misrule in the South The
leading opposition journals have pro-
nounced it a mastery and statesmanIike
exposition of the subject II ne is not
called by his countrymen to a wider and
more exalted field of usefulness, his con
stituents responding to the wishes Of their
brethren in other portions of the State,
will continue him in the position on which
he has shed lustre
Year: 1874

have an estimate of the number of houses
in the city, which have been advertised
for sale by the Tax Collector, and u l
were to mention it, your readers "ouIo
charge me with exaggeration. Her mis-
cradle state recalls the description OF the
doomed city in Holy Writ. How doth
the city sit solitary how has she become
as a widow She that was great among
the nations and princess among the
provinces, how has she become tributa-
~ ON-THE- Wing
Year: 1874

Just at this writing, we are in the
midst of dry spell of weather, but dur
ing the past month, we have had frequent
showers in different parts Of the State,
which have improved the crop prospects


All our inquiries confirm the opinion that
the acreage in corn has been largely in
creased; and that our producers viii be
able, with one or two more good rains, to
supply themselves with that essential ar
ticle the next year. The acreage in cot
ton is at least 10 per cent. below that Of
last year, but the tilIage has been better
and we would fain hope that greater care
Will be taken in handling and preparing
the staple for market than heretofore.
Year: 1874

The New York World quotes the fol:
lowing extract from Gen. Grants last
inaugural to show that there could have
been no foundation for the report that
he would have vetoed the Civil-rights bill
if that measure had not failed


The effects of the late civil strife have
been to free the slave end make him Il
citizen. Yet he is nOt ,,os sessed of the
civil rights which citizen should carry
with it. This is wrong, and should be
corrected. To this correction / stand COM
mitted, so far as erecutive influence can
oUaiI


Social equality is not thing to be
legislated upon, nor shall | ask that
anything be done to advance the social
status Of the colored man, except to give
him fair chance to develop what there
is good in him, giU8 him access to the
schools and achen he traveiS let kim feel as
sured that has conduct ,UU requlute the
treatment and fare he loM reeeiUe.


1t would seem that if there was any
State in the Union where an abiding
confidence would be felt in the prowess
of the Democratic party, it would be
Kentucky, in which few years ago the
party rolled up a majority of $4,000.
And yet the Louisville Courier-Journal,
the ablest anti-Radical paper in that
State, holds this language:


"'The Democratic party shows no signs
Of substantial life. 1t is at this moment
half ready to take Grant as nominee,
which is really, after ALL the only sure
way of beating him. The Republicans
and the Liberals are at sea. The only
strong party, compact party only
party with an aim, a motive and
methods the Grant party, silently and
watchfully working beneath the surface
of affairs
Year: 1874

Gen. Grant does not show disposition
to abandon his friends. Recently he APP
pointed Gov. Shepherd who has been
convicted in the court of public opinion,
at least, of connection with disreputable
rings, as one Of the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia. The Senate re-
jected the appointment by SO votes to g.
Thereupon the Cincinnati Gazette staid
Republican paper, makes bold to deliver
the following lecture to the President,
who has begun to realize with what a
wonderful difference the human heart is
prone to regard a setting and a rising sun


When informed that only SIX senators
voted for Shepherds confirmation, and
when he heard the names of those six he
must have asked himself "Who or
where are my friends?" The best friends
of the President are those Republican sen
ators who stood up like men and de-
nounced the nomination and voted with
an emphasis against it. The thirty six
senators who voted nay uttered the voice
of the people. That was a warming voice,
too and we feel confident that we represent
the mass of the people of the United States
in saying that the President, in upholding
or seeming to uphold such men as Shep-
herd, is running upon rocks that, if not
avoided, will destroy his reputation. The
senate has saved the country from the
Shepherd disgrace, but it can not save the
president unless the President decides not to
take another step toaeard the breakers 1chich
eUen lo,U, threaten has destruction.
Year: 1874

[From the Kinds Co. Gazette.


Gen. w. T. Sherman is favorablv
spoken of by some of the conservative
newspapers of the country in connection
with the ensuing presidential election
Sherman's march through Mississippi in
1864, and that "march TO the sea, are
not forgotten, but it is claimed that he
afforded better terms to the Confederates,
when the day for surrender arrived, than
any other federal officer, and that, unlike
the great mass of the northen politicians.
he considered the war over when the
Confederates laid down their arms and
surrendered. We think a great shaking
up in political elements Of the country
will occur before the next presidential ele-
tion-a shaking up that will pretty well
destroy the political lines which have been
drawn for years past-and while we are not
prepared to say that we shall be for or
against Gen. Sherman, or for or against any
other man, weare free to say that we shall be
for the man and the men who promises best
for the country-for the peace and quiet
of the country, for its prosperity and hap
piness, for the destruction of the robber
rings, and for competency and integrity
in public officials, National and State.
The next presidential election in our
Judgment will present united West and
South, against united North and East.
The West and South will prove the
stronger power of the two, and will elect
its candidate. We expect to support the
man for President, who is named by the
West and South, whoever he NAV be.
and without stopping to inquire into his
past political or military career. We
shall only demand that he be competent,
honest, and faithful to the laws, the con-
stitution and the whole country.
Year: 1874

The Pilot is out of humor The Pilot
is mad. The Pilot IS in fever heat of
Indignation. It don't understand all
these rumors about the Federal appoint
ments which have recently been made for
Mississippi. Particularly Is it indignant
that Capt. Lake has received the ap-
pointment of I. s Marshal Capt. Lake
Of the 9 riverside newspaper-Capt.
Lake who had the temerity to advocate
the election Of Messrs Alcorn, Musgrove
and other Republicans of that ilk in the
last election and 10 perform the service
of manager-general Of their campaign.
The Pilot says that he was Chairman OF
the Democratic Executive Committee,
fact of which We never heard before,
being under the impression that Gen.
Lowry last served in that capacity, and
that Captain Lake, a Republican Of
very pronounced type, could not have
been qualified tor such place even if he
had been willing to serve.


The Pilot gives notice that it is going
to ascertain if these reports. are true. .
We imagine the Pilot has 'ascertained" TO
its hearts content Well what dreadful
thing is it going to do about it Capt
Lake is an original Republican, sup
porter of Gen, Grants administration
Off that is prerequisite) and his qualifi-
cation, apart from his political views, is
admitted on ali hands. We see no redress
for our aggrieved neighbor His only re-
course is to g grin and endure it.


From the Pllo..


Rumors have been thick upon the
street during the past few days, that the
L. S. Marshal and U. ). District Attor-
ney for the Southern District Of Missis-
sippi, and the Collector Of Internal Rev
enue for this District, have been summa-
rily removed, and other persons appoint
ed in their places The same authority
also says that the Chairman OF the Dem
ocratic Executive Committee, in the last
State canvass, has been rewarded for his
treason to the Republican party by an
appointment as T. >. Marshal and an
other member OF the same committee,
has been rewarded by the District Attor-
neyship. We have taken steps to ascer-
tain it the reports are true, and who OF
our Congressional delegation favored
their appointments, and when the proper
time arrives, shall give the matter due
attention. If treason to party is to be
rewarded in this manner and the Repub-
lican party Of Mississippi is to sustain
the men who offer and give such rewards,
nothing is more certain than that party
has very short lease upon the govern
ing power Of the State. So far as the
Pilot is concerned, its course is marked
out and its reputation established. 1t has
no compromise to make with traitors
Year: 1874

Our immense pine forests which few
years ago were without profit, have been
utilized, and have become sources of un-
told revenue to the enterprising parties,
who have been so fortunate as to become
their proprietors, as in many instances,
they have. for mere song The mills
between Crystal Springs and the State
line, are innumerable. Immense piles
Of lumber are ready for shipment at
frequent points along the route and the
best of it is, the Western markets,
which are the main reliance of the lum-
bermen, offer demand without bounds.
There is no estimating the value of this
pine region, which before the establish
ment Of railway communication, was lit
orally barren waste.


Two miles below the now famous man.
ufacturing seat of Wesson, is the lumber
mill of a man whose name ought to be, if
it is not, historical. refer to
Year: 1874




| founder Of the celebrated Bankston Mills
IN Choctaw county-a mammoth establish
ment which he projected and carried for
ward to a condition of success which left
the question, whether the manufacturing
of our chief staple in Mississippi would
pay, no longer an open one. He, it was,
who solved the problem and held up his
light for an example to Others The
history of the rise and progress of his
great enterprise before it was blasted by
the war, would be curious and especially
instructive. After the war, he instinct
lively turned to his old pursuit; but with
out capital and compelled to pay enor-
nous rates for the money necessary to be
employed in building up new estab-
lishment-and with the depressing effect
of financial panics and PROSTATE industries
all around him-how could he have sup
ported the burden which he had taken
upon himself? The result is that the,
establishment which he projected soon
after the war, and located at the thriving
seat of industry which bears his name,
two miles below the town of BeauregaTd
on the n. o., j. q G. n. r. R.-has
passed into the hands of capitalists who
are succeeding even beyond their own
most sanguine expectations j. NJ. Wes-
son, the author of the enterprise, modest
ly tolls at his unpretentious lumber mill
hard by; and though he does a large bus
mess in his line, the public look upon
him in his present pursuit and recall the
story of the square pin in the round
hole. He is out of place He ought
to be at the head of a large manu-
featuring establishment where his ca
pabilities would have full play, and
where they could be employed for his own
and the public's good.


PONCHAToULA.


This village is but suburb of New Or
leans. To the beholder it presents the
appearance of many other railroad towns,
whose ambition has outstripped their
means. Immense frame houses, vacant
and dismal, attest the miscalculation of
the builders in the trade the place would
control. The principal industry here is
getting out timber for the New Orleans
market, but as the demand is poor, bust
ness is dull and money scarce. 1t may
well be imagined that but few improve
ments are going forward in a city whose
every other door-post carries the dismal
sign ''to LETT or ''for SALE" Misrule in
New Orleans has brought that boasted
emporium to a dreadful condition. In.
dustry is paralyzed, and millions of prop
ert6 Is being eaten up by high taxes. II
Year: 1874

is located. 1t was first established in New
England, and the Outlet Gin was not
long in taking precedence of its rivals.
But the enterprising head of the estab-
lishment soon discovered his mistake in
manufacturing his Gin so remote from
where the staple, which it is designed to
prepare for market, is produced; and
consequently he selected this place several
years ago for the headquarters of his bus
mess. Here it is accessible to the heart
of the cotton region, and possesses facili-
ties far superior to his former location
for carrying on an establishment of the
kind. The works are extensive and the
established supremacy of the GulIet Gin
will insure ita popularity and sale enjoyed
by no other patent.


No branch of industry has grown more
rapidly under the influence of Railroad
communication than the
Year: 1874

continuing through four days of severe or
deal to thS students, Was never more salts
factory, and from the lowest class in the
preparatory department to the highest in The
classical and ornamental branches. evidence
was given of the thorough training and per
feet system of education ia this school but
of these facts educators and teachers visiting
us on this occasion, including our worthy
superintendent OF Education, bear the most
satisfactory evidence.
Year: 1874

PoNcHAroULA, La, June %, 1874.


Coming down the Road a few nights
ago, your correspondent noticed the un-
usual detention of the train at Terry,
Hazlehurst and Beauregard, and on en-
quiring the cause, was informed that
large quantities of peaches We're being
shipped from these points for the New
Orleans market. At Terry a full car of
this delicious fruit was attached to the
train. In order to expedite delivery,


THE FRUIT CROP


is sent forward by the passenger train.
1t is thus received fresh and fragrant by
the consumer before decay sets in, and IS
very much relished. At this season you
will find peaches-the product OF our
soil-at all the markets, and the huckster
stands of the city. They command ready
sale, and all parties aTe remunerated for
their trouble. The fruit crop has become
an important branch of industry in the
neighborhoods which have named, and
at this season of the year, when money
is scarce, it is great relief to the farmers
exchequer.


The extension of the Mississippi Cen
tral to Cairo and the establishment Of
direct and through connection with Chi
cago and the Lakes, will greatly increase
the facility for the quick transportation
and sale of this fruit in the production of
which orr own State, by the way, holds
supremacy. Those distant markets where
the demand is unlimited, have been
brought to our very door by the enterprise
and intrepidity of McComb, West, and
their coadjutors.


On the line Of the Road between Terry
and this point, one is struck with the
marvellous signs of material development
which meet the eye on every hand. Two
miles below Amite City, the