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,mt,4t&fowM ,r*in CU .tf ?o »<? at fteiLsiUleq rjUa# 'flctrOi n ..r~ iz m so mt»n .t.a- v> *£■«-.{ THE COPfAHAN. JOHN F- VANCE Editor ! TERMS: Per annum (rx advanos.)..,....$3 00 Six Months. .. 1 6(1 Three .Month*, .. 1 00 RATES OF ADVERTISING; One square (ten line* or less) first insertion,,............... *1 qO Each subsequent intortion,.....73 All bills for transient advertising due on presentation. Liberal arrangements made with those who advertise by tho year. J, F. it K VAXCE. Proprietors. Y « BROWAU Attorney at Law, Terry, Hinds county, Mississippi. Jan 2, ’(>!) rpiM E. COOPER, Attorney at Lay, Crystal Springs, Mississippi. Will practice in the Courts of the second Judicial Dis ti'ict. juue 2 jonx a. ouasos, w. u. uaujt, (jiiilatiu, Miss. Iliulchui'sl, Miss. REASON & HALEY, Attorneys at Lay. Will attend to any business entrusted to them in the various court# of the seeoml Judicial District, composed of the counties of Copiah, Pike, Law rence,Marion, Covington and Simp-' son. jan 27 i u. Harris, • ~ lit Attorney at Lav, Ilazleliurst and (lallatin. Will give prompt atten tion to all business entrusted io him in the various courts of Copiah and adjoining counties, and also in the courts at Jaekson. jan 0 I^EN.J KING, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, and Solicitor in Chancery,Gallatin, M ississippi. Will give prompt at tention to business entrusted to him in the several Courts of the county of Copiah, and adjoining counties;' also in the courts a Jack son, Miss. Jan 21 || B 31AYES, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, and Solicitor in Chancery, Galla tin, Miss. Attention given to bu siness in the courts of Copiah and adjoining counties, and in the courts at Jackson, Miss. Feb 8 C J MOKE HE A1), Attorney at Law, Ilazlehurst, Mississippi. Will practice in the courts of the semnd Judicial dis trict and Jackson. Jan 12 U MILLS A PS, Attorney at Law, Gallatin, Miss. A\ ill practice in the various courts ot Copiah and ^idjoining counties. May 25, ’(57 jyjeRAE & LAA1PKIN, Attorneys and Counsellors at Ija\y. Practice in the counties ol' Joffersou and Copiah, and in the High Court of Errors and Appeals, and in the United states District court- at Jackson. ' 1 > ADDKJESS, , _ D. W. McRAE, Uon. J*T. LAMPKIX, Gallatin, Miss. Rolmesvillc, Miss ^JKO. a. m:\vtoin, Attorney at Law, Crystal Springs, Miss. Will practice in the several courts of Copiah and adjoining counties. June 2t>, ’(>7 ^ D. RAMSEY, Attorney at Law, Gallatin, Miss. Office over Col. Cook’s Bank, Ha zlehurst, Miss. Will give strict attention to the collection of all claims entrusted to him. A hVIT RO HERTS, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Mississippi City. Will practice in the 8th Judicial district, and the courts at Jackson. Will do a gen eral collecting business in the State at large. Office at the courthouse. pllANK STlltGES, Attorney Jhaw, Iliizlehurst, Mississippi. Omee over the stole of Filler & Co. m’ch 2, ’07 ^ J. WILLING, Jr , Attoniey and Counsellor at Law, Crystal Springs, Miss. Will give prompt attention to any business entrusted to him in the several courts of Copiah county, jy 14 Dr. A- r. Buckley, Returns his grateful acknowledgements to the eitizens in the neighborhood of Rehoboth and vicinity, the liberal patronage with which they have honored him. He is permanently lo catcd at the same place, and offers his profes sional err ices to all. Dr. Buckley may always be found at hmmrs >■#«&<> not pntlWasionailj a^ sSnt, and will promptly attend upon all the af flicted who demand his services. Copiah Coauty, mar. 28, ’67 M. D. Vance. L. D. 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We went first to Mount Zion pre cinct: there we found democrats from every portion of Copiah, intimida ting by abusing, telling the voters they would stop their rations, and even drive them from the country, if they voted the republican ticket.— One A. P. Barry got out to make a public speech, but there happened to be six soldiers there that stopped] ! him* Ono Jerry Taylor was deceiv ed in his vote by W. W. East, and demanded his ticket. We wrcnt next to Cascyville precinct, There was but three white republicans there ; myself, William M. Reason, candid ate for State senate,and G, Millsaps, who was intimidated so he was afraid to vote, and returned home. There was some 20 democrats from Jeffer son county there, besides the Copiah club, that followed around and bo abused W. M. Deason, that he left and went about a mile from the polls, and while he was absent there was about T>0 persons hallooing and hun ting through the woods for him, say ing lie was out with the colored vo ters holding a loyal league; and when lio returned, late in the eve ning, they rallied around him,telling him they would put the badge on him, and ride him on a rail, and all abusive ’anguage of that kind. The sheriff, Willing went out the door whore they were, bnt did not com mand the peace, or say a word. One J. Short and A. J. Norton, Newsom and A. P. Barry, seemed to head the mob of about 100 men. They were intoxicated,or a good many of them. As to a man’s voting his own yay, there was no such thing. There was some 20 pulled up to the polls, and their certificates handed to the regis trar, and a democratic ticket handed Id Hie - tL* «ela*e4 . man ever being allowed to touch it, and one colored voter was bold enough to tell them he was voting for their accommodation. Mr. L. Blue handed in four tickets, without the colored men touching or know ing anything about what kind they were voting. Witness, Ben. Smyly, A. Smyly, Col. G. Millsaps, and a number of others, and B. F. Anding, then went to Gordon’s precinct; ev erything was quiet, as no inan at tempted to vote for the constitution. Wc went to Pine Ridge precinct; there the same crowd was with their committee, taking down the name of every man that dared to vote the re publican ticket, swearing that they would starve them and drive them from the country; and out of 200 re gistered blacks only about 60 voted; and there was 23 voters that regis tcred in Lawrence CQonty and were living on the Copiah line, and told them they would be guilty of perjury if they voted; but the man they were living with could and always lias vo ted in this county. We then went to Gallatin precinct; herb their forces were increased, and all sorts of in timidations. The merchant there, M. J. Howard, said publicly that no man could buy his meat and bread that would let a republican negro stay on his plafee, aiid Mmt lie woutdjj democratic ticket, have wfypfrerlif' time; and One man came up,present ed hi? certificate of registration,and his vote was challenged by Jesse Thompson, his |ge. I objected, but he was refused, and he went out and brought in his lath er and one other colored man; they said they would «wear he was 21 fidjpf4$j£ told the year he was born in; bttlf youqg Thompson insisted that bis unole, who formerly owned him, told him he was not, and was refused to even make his statement by J. B. Groome, the rsgiatrar, and it is impossible to state all the„frauds and intimidations. We came then to, this precinct, and found the demo'* still reinforced. The morning of the election the republicans form ejgjtjfjko a. line, and war brickbatted, their banner torn up, and then drove out of town. They even marched to a|l the republican houses to take tfcNfc, and frightened their families, and telling them they would hang them, &c. The thing was quieted down, and pretending now that eve rything was taiy, and well conduct jsiroj n k: " , i -i ,-'i ihwVi * I .1 -ffim’J.'JS *1^1 .iJ - i tt , ed. Now I wi'I gjye yo*. tljqnumber • of totes oast. .T «bnu vi^h r * L Very truly, yours, s " * jrtHB P. M^theVr. Hon. Jas. Weir, Ohairmah of mittec. - ■ Hazt.bhuhst, MTSfcis&ippfP6 November 80, 1868. Deab Sib :—-In obedience'to your request and iny promise, I hasten to ■give you some of the doings of our election. Onthc24fh June last, I visited Caseyvillc precinct in the capacity of a candidate for State Senator; I was informed that no d—d rad. could vote there, white or black, they would kill him first.— Whenever I moved I was followed sand denounced, and was prevented from holding any conference with tlm blacks; I remained a few hours, and went to a friend’s a mile dis tant, and returned again in the eve ning ; during my absence the demo crats organized 40 men and sent them in search of mo in every di rection ; what their object was I don’t know. As soon as I got in sight of the precinct on my return, the mob set up such a yell as no man ever heard come from any but the fiends in the lower regions, and rush en on me to the number of about 75, both white and black, and all drunk, with sticks, ropes, aui such like, and using threats and epithets, such as “rope him!” make a demo crat put the badge of equal rights on him!-’ “Ride him on a rail!” I thought I was gone up, for I was completely hemmed in on all sides; I was tantalized in that position with all the vile epithets that a man ever heard. There were peace officers there; they said not a word, but seemed to enjoy it very much.— There was not a republican vote ta ken there amongst the whites, there were several there on the ground but they were intimidated. At Hazlehurst the democrats had their banners, flags, <fec., and were marching all over town. We, in the simplicity of our hearts, thought we could do the same ; we wen t to WoirKin way1 amf "Imi *dBF flags and banners. Grant and Col fax, and started to the polls to vote, but had got but a short distance, un til a large number of Democrats pounced upon us with brick bats and bludgeons, tore up our banners, aud our party had to flee to the woods for safety, hotly pursued ; some were pursued to my house, at least half a mile distant; several of them were hit with brickbats. I remain yours, very respectfully, W. M. Peason. Hon* W. H. Gibbs. ! iEHURST, Miss., June 27, 1868. My Dear Sir I must report to , you this day about the election in , Crystal Springs. I went there to day, and was drove away. The democrats drnmmed ine away from there. I will tell you that will not do. All the black people that went to vote for the republicans was drove away from the polls. They drove me like a dog. And all the voters that were there said they would’nt vote at all; they say that they will stay away fipm the polls. They say this is not a free State. Weare not free if we can’t vote as we please. We will loose 100 votes at that box on that account. I think git is a shame that ’we black men isan’t vote as we please. The Sher lfF wAlilMiU j him !” I do thick he ought to be turned out of office. We can’t live here if we vote a republican ticket, .so I don’t intend to go totnore elec tions if I have to be treated in that '•way.. . '/TX’lish I am sir, yours, very respectfully, I; j Emanuel H a-xdy. HAiLEHURST, COPIAH, CO., MlSS., “jrsSSv W*. m. Dear Sir :—As commissioner of election, appointed by your commit tee, for the county of Copiah, I have the honor to n>rske the following rc pfttC««Mlfct? \ J - di I attended at the following p?c-' cincts with Registrar flauueiuan • Kennedy’s Store, Monday, June 22 ; Georgetown, Wednesday, the 24th; Rockport, Thursday, the 25th ; Sal ter’s, Saturday, the 27th ; Beaure gard, Monday, the 29th$ Eaaiehurst, Wednesday and Thursday, July let ag,d 2nd, 1868. At Keaaedyjp Store precinct there was but one vote fer the constitu tion, to wit: “A black man.’’ who, 191 ima - ;hI fi .if? | .uisbfsdO ftsfooflt tow ,-jjfeo aiid} 1o irn-•—rr«—•— after?* hod voted, was publicly iff? suited and threatened with violeiji/ if he did not leave the grpnn'4 and the county. Mr- Harvey, th« republican candidate for the legisla- j ture, woe also publicly insnlted, ancM could not pass among the voters without meetings^ith insults on ail^ sides. A white gentleman, a Mr. ‘Collins, told me he wanted to vote for the constitution, but after seeing the insults to republicans said, he feared if he voted for the consulta tion personal violencehe went away without voting. There was quite a number of men preedit from. Crystal Springy with arms; the; ^sheriff did uot tfy, nor he could nm ' have disarmed them I must say.-~ There would have been 20 votes or more for the constitution but for in timidation, some of them voted against the constitution, and someof whom left without voting at all. At Georgetown precinct all pass ed off quietly , there was no intimi dation, except the blacks were told if they voted lor the constitution they, the whites, would not furnish them supplies; there was no vio lence. At Rockport precinct the Regis trar held the election in a store gal lery. Early in the morning, just af ter the polls were opened, a Mr. Middleton Beasley stood up in the gallery, and cursed and abused any man who would support the consti tution, threatened the blacks, and said lie was ready to sink any man white or black in the bottom of hell who would offer to vote the repub lican ticket. A Mr. S. I). Ramsey made a speech within three feet of the Registrar, in which he told the blacks that ho was taking their names down, and all who voted the republican ticket would be watched and remembered, and would be com pelled to leave the country; that they would be turned out, and ought to be turned out with their families to starve. The insults and threats became so numerous that Mr. liar* the iffiiuiblicpn candidate Jbrj the legislature, left the grounds' at’ 11 o'clock to p.-cvcnt personal vio lence. Just after he left, the said S. I>. Ramsey publicly proclaimed that the scallawag carpet bagger had left, and that if any person on the ground expected to vote for the con stitution he had better leave also.— There was plenty of whiskey on the ground and the men were drinking; and at half past 12 I also left the ground to prevent personal violci|pc. There was not a man, white or black up to the time I left the ground, that voted or dared to vote for the constitution or the republican ticket. At Salter’s precinct no violence or intimidation. At Beauregard precinct there were United States troops wJj,o made some arrests; there waa but one vote for the constitution. I was in sulted and pointed at during the day, and was cursed and abased by Haivey Dodds, and but for the sol diers could not have remained or even got there. Many black and some white voters told me they had been told that if they voted the re publican ticket they would be taken out and hung, and would not be per mitted to remain there longer than the troops remained. The ejection was held at Wesson, one mile South of Beauregard, on Tuesday, June 30, 1868. I was advised by some tqjy||C most respectable citizons pU the place ifot to attend the idec»K at Wesson, that my li'e would danger; tyat they believed that I would be attacked either going or returning from the election that placb. t did not go at all to Wee son, for I must judge from what 5 heard, and the advice from ^riemfc, that my life was in danger. At HazMmrst precinct there were a great matiy persons present from all parts of the county there were some United States with us, hut- the number small they could hardly do only near the places of v ’the boxes. There were some dred republican blacks procession near the resident^of pr. Harvey, for tbepurpose of mareliifig to thie poMs ;; they were proceeding with banners, picture, and quite a numbe* of United State flags,With out music or any yelling or noise of any kind whatever; they had not got fifty yards before they were met by a mob<; their, banners, pjctow, and flags taken from them-and torn oMatilH^fe tm 'P:- , irokcn op. ihd then brick-batr of Mr. Harvey. I learn that >f Llie men composing the mob leputy sheriffs of the eoonty, appraising (1the riot, as they u duty bound to do under the ut enconragiug. the mob by ihouts and yells. It was ap i to. me that the republican late* were not permitted to go iCtkmeering as the democratic lates were, but were subject, if they loft the presence of the troops* to Insult and abuse. , 'h'here. were gof the republican blacks eth&t |' ,in the procession who were J^Sed out of town apd kid hot rtt all. I learn there wfcre very ijMy more who left without voting, ana gome were even followed out of town and flew to the bushes, or took she ter in private houses for protec tion, I cannot undertake to cite to you particular outrages committed lira and. elsewhere on persons, it hafibeen so general,: I deem it un necessary, however ; if you wish, I ca^i establish what I have charged hy_ the written affidavits of both white and black men, and can fur nish you should you want it, names of persons witnessing the charges above. 1 haVc the honor to be your most obedient servant, Samx J. Scott, Commissioner, ^IIazlehurst, Copiah Co., Mias. July 4th, 1808. Dear Sir: In obedience to direc tions from you to me, as commissioner of elections, I have the honor to sub mit the'following report: As we were not together, we tho’t itbpst for each commissioner to make a separate report as to the conduct of the election and what occurred in the way of intimidation and fraud in each of our election districts, to gether with a joint report ot ser vices, list rf votes, etc. |Por your information, the report which follows is submitted: / t * Qtyflod my district with John £ts i-e^tstpa r Jtr tiro tbfao w-1 ing places: commencing at Linden, hear the Claiborne line^mn Monday, 22d; we arrived and opened the polls. I found we had nO; ratifica- j tion tickets, notwithstanding I had made every effort to get them before leaving home; however, I commenced to write them, but in the course of one hour the tickots came, and re lieved inc of this labor; I took charge of the tickets, and distribu ted them among the freedmeu; I soon found, however, that the thing was a one-sided affair; that there was no one here who dared to open h&niouth. Handy made his appear ance soon, but was soon surrounded by the democrats, and not allowed to get out to say a word to his friends but the democrats kept him arguing with them. I saw the intention,and passed through the crowd of colored men freely, and told them that they could vote as they pleased, and that jj had republican tickets, and that I would protect them as far as I could in voting as they wished. I soon found that there was so much intimi. dation that it was almost impossible to get black men to vote. Persons who had them hired told them prob ably that they would stop their ra tions and turn them off if they voted the republican ticket; there were some few democratic ireedmen who were doing as much as any white man in this manner, and in fact this was the case at all the precincts.— This mode of electioneering was re sorted to generally by all. I saw no violence committed: one black man said that a whiteman had jerk: ed some tickets out of his hand and told him that if He was seen with any more he wouM be kuocked down; I told him to show me the man and I would report him, and that he must go ahead with his tickets and give them out, and that ho would not be molested again. I did not see him any more until we armed at Burtoton precinct, and he said be had forgotten the name. At Bur tonton, we had nearly the same thing over—no violence, bat the same manner of intimidations. A crowd -0* --JUsTrId oi colored mn cam e to Jim ton ton with their tickets and aaiiibeywere loyal leaguers, and that they intend ed to vote; and it was said that they used some intimidation, in threaten ing to kill those who voted the dem ocratic ticket, but I did not hear anything of" the kind. I saw the t i o£owa of freedtnen with their sticks, and asked them if they had tickets; ^ioy said they had tickets; I told them to go up oad.Fote, and net to be intimidated by any one. I think, as nearly as I can recollect, there were some fifty colored men at Lin den-, who did not vote,- and at Bur ton ton not so many .quite; everything was more quiet at Burtontdn. One great thing was that there was no whiskey t» be had at these two pre cincts. At Pine Bluff, our next box, everything went off well; no intimi dation, except in tiie general way, as mentioned above. At Crystal Springs box, on the morning of the Action,the thing, I saw about one hundred colored democrats in line, with fife and drum at their head, marching around town, shout ing “fall in democrats,” creating a great deal of noise and bombast.— Handy, the repoblican candidate lor representative, made his appearance, and the crowd gathered round him, shouted for him to make a speech; but he saw that he would have no chance, and he moved off, the crowd followed, calling for the drum, and they literally drummed him out of town; from that time until the elec tion closed, this squad made it their business to jump every republican they could find, and run them out of town. This squad was composed of colored men principally, some few white men at ihcir head. I think that whiskey was pretty freely circulated at this box. I suffered some abuse frome those whom I supposed} to be intoxicated, cursing and calling me a damned scalawager, etc. We were, however, received at all the other precincts with some re spect, or at least were not abased openly; but at this place, Crystal Springs, we had it poured into us heavy. It was said some fights cc currcd, but I did not see any fight ing, and I am of the opinion that if any fight occurred it was among themselves, as there was no one else to fight, for I saw no chance for a re publican who would qrrine out open ly, I ani of the opinion that there were neat colore* inen who «1<I 'not vote ^t this plact) only two re publican rickets were cast, and I atn convinced that they were afraid to come up to the polls, or even in town; in fact a gentleman told me that he met some freedincn, and they were afraid to come in town, but I think it would have taken a regi ineutof soldiers to have done any thing in the way of seeing fair play. Our next precinct was at Coor’s Springs; everything went off very well at this place, as it was a small box, and no excitcriieut, but every body was calm, and did nothing wrong. Our next place was at Hazlehurst, and I must say that I dreaded the scene we would have to go through with here; for on Tuesday night, the night before the election, a grand display was made—a torchlight pro cession, etc., everything was ripe for Wednesday; the same crowd from Crystal Springs was engaged, with bands and drums a*d all manner of transparencies; and the colored dem I ocrats commenced marching around and making speeches before sun-np, and from that time till sun-down, it was almost dangerous for a man— black or white—to come out and de ' elate himself to be a republican. I , could go on at great length, to ex plain and mentiou hundreds of things that took place here. I was among the crowd all day, frying to enforce the purity of the election; but I am confident that it would have taken a brigade of soldiers to have accom plished anything. I did not take any notice of the insults that were offered and heaped upon me. I have seen the report of, Mr. Scott, and it is useless for me to go over the same ground; it would be a useless waste of time for you to read the same thing. It would not be far wrong for me to say tlmt both civil and military officers were slack in the performance of their duties, or they wero afnaid to interiere. I would hot be compelled to uct in the sane capacity again for any amount. I have tit*e honor to be, very re> apectfully, your obedient servant, F. Thomas, Commissioner. Hon. Jas. Weir, Chairman. *Ui Vlk’m ,;--f ■ ff " \ ; iff ■'*} . j» , Gallatin, January 18,1869. Drab Sir :, Having heard that parties in this county are making ex phrfe nffidavits for the purpose of 'KJOf? iem.SMjr m&m. ffia 1 showing to the reconstruction com* "hi Mo«m6»rt «4i wbm "mam f JoqyiKgurw ian| A ---~TT--!' mittee of Congress that the late election in this county for the ratifi cation of the new constitution was in all respects, free and fair, w^deein it our duty as residents of this county and voters at said election to make our statement to said committee through you. We were all at the election in this county, and at different precincts therein, and saw the movements of tho opposition preceding and at said election. There was an organized system of fraud, threats, and intimidations be gun and earned out for weeks be forcctiic election. There wore clubs forn\ /who avowed tb|W§rtcntkHr not tt) s|)cak to a repnbircan, counter nance him, aid, or give him employ ment in any way- Next they said no republican should make a public speech advocating the adoption of the constitution. The Sheriff of the county let the democratic committee have the pow er and influence of his officejo sub serve their purposes, au the under signed believe. At any rate, the most violent democrats were appointed deputy sheriffs in the various pre cincts just previous to the election, a thing unheard of, to levy and collect the tax then alleged to be due; and whenever they could hear of a re publican who had not paid his tax, they instantly levied upon his last pound of meat, or his week horse, saying now you see what your con vention has done; but if the republi can recanted and said he would vote against the constitution, then the levy would be released, and some one would be found to stand for the tax. On the days of election a demo- | cratic committee was appointed to sit at the polls with pen, ink and paper, and to take down the names of those voting the radical ticket for the purpose of spotting them ; and threats were made that those so voting would be turned out of employment, and many were turned out without anything. Large and - u*,»’dt,UOU£. til£ eloeaEPTfom freeing ^^precincT’ with pistols and bowio _ Jte threat ening to kill any radical virLVrould vote for the constitution. In some instances these crowds would gath er around one supposed to advocate the ratification of the constitution, and together with the beating of drums and scoffing and hissing and hooting, so annoy him as to compel him to leave the ground. Instances were known where a crowd would get around a republican, place a democratic ticket in his hand, hoist him from the ground, carry him to the box, and some other democrat would then take the ticket and hand it in. Many were knocked down af ter voting the radical ticket, and run off. Tht prominent republicans were often surrounded as they ap peared at the polls by these tumult uous crowds, and annoyed by in. suits, scoffs, hoots, and hisses, until they wore compelled to leave for peace. Jn the town of IlazUhur&t, on the day of election, after the democrats had had their procession with drums and banners, for hours and hours, marchiug and remarching through the town, the republicans quietly appeared in their procession, to the number of 150, when a crowd of overwhelming numbers of democrats attacked them with brick bats, pis tols and sticks, and droTC than to the woods, tearing up their flags, <fec.; and as tljey were retreatiag, fired off pistols at the®; and as they scattered in the retreat squads of them followed half a mile; and the rioters were Only kept from en tering private houses by force of arms; and all this, although the military was on the ground, and die civil officers, who were under or ders to keep die peace. policy, but only desire that they have’ the facts before thenj. We remain, dear sir, J 1 * 1 ***ii Yourg mart reppectfalty, K , U. Millsaps, S. P. Harvey, , ... M. II. Peyton, Hugh Dunning, !J. M. Matthews, W. M. Dbason, J. Pi Matthews, J. R. Matthews, Hon. A. Aldehson, Washington, D. C. — ■ '»>'■:—-— Here’s Your Money Back! Prom the Copiahan, Juno 20,1U8. Col. Vance: — Learning that I am suspected of being a Radical, I adopt the only raeana 1 have to con tradict a rumor, which does me great injustice. I have stated that I am no democrat, and from that statement, 1 suppose persons have inferred, that I belong to the Radi cal Party .which is a false impression, as I could not be a Radical if I would, I would not if I could. Your obedient servant, Hugh . Bu\n’r\- _T1' Hafclehurst, June 17tp, r —— ' — .-— Gossrp About Corfox.—The Ma con (Ga.)TelegrapFi-3oys that an in telligent cotton planter has recent1 ly expressed the opinion that four bales of cotton could be grown up on an acre, instead of one, as now. His plan is to raise the plants in hot beos, and have tliem ready to set out as soon as the frost is out of the ground, aud manure well in the setting bed. By this process the-' bo]]s would commence openiug in June, and continue to develop new ones till November, and thus treble * or quadruple the ordinary yield per 1 acre. The Natchez Democrat says the * first political fight of the year will occur in Connecticut, April 5th, and both parties now have tickets in the' ’ field. The Republicans have nomi nated the candidate defeated last year, Marshall Jewell, a highly re spected merchant of Hartford. The ’ Demorcats have nominated the Gbr- * ernor elected last year, James D. English, a wealthy manufacturer of New Haven. The contest will be ‘ close. Col. Dan. Russell of Carroll Co." -' . Miss., bids fair to be one of the " most successful inventors in this country. He has perfected, or i3 on * the point of perfecting, five inven tions, each of which will doubtless prove of great utility, especially the one for keeping the dust out of rai 1 i why)?raTfiS. *We j>Vrier$rety! trust _h£ inayWiceed with all lVVe, but more * especially the dust-queller.—Water Valley Eagle. The Civil Officers.—VVc learn< from a gentleman who received his information from Military headquar ters, that the object of the circulars recently sent to the different civil officers in Mississippi is simply to elicit information. They are not intended to work removal from of fice. It is desired by the military that the present incumbents remain in office, until positive orders are re ceded for their removal.—Holly Springs Reporter. A buxom widow of New Jersey has won $5000 in a breach of prom ise caso at Jersey City, against a widower of eighty. A printer of. St. Louis has also won $5000 in a similar case against a damsel of > twenty. A private letter, to ns from Wash ington contains the following : “I; had a talk with Eggleston last night, and he seems to be in very.-low spir its—Congress, he said, seemed more-' inclined to favor rebels than loyal - men.”—Aberdeen Examiner."'* A Virginia lady Who recently saw' the “Black Crook" in New York, says ladies can go to sett it with a good deal more propriety than -gen. - tlemco can. | ’ ':,r -•■■»«<*» 4 I A few nights ago a person in U«r disguise of- the K* Klux garb ’was 1 captured in Lawrenonburg, Ten».-~ ThnofRoers of the jaw lost no time in removing his mads, when lo 1 ;aad behold, be turnedwot to bo a negro, black as See of spades. He was plac’d J m confinement. and will have a trial. “If you had eighty years to live,1 how would you spend it so as to be perfectly happy here below ?” asked a French writer, and > answered it f himself: “The first thirty years as a > pretty woman, thirty more as a great general, and the rest as a bishop.’ Reduced Prices.— Wishing to' close oqt my winter stock at goods before receiving my large spring and: summer stock, I have determined to sell cheaper than ever. Please give os a call before purchasing elsewhere. M M. B*tc*ei/>r. i>!i|,msii.t—, -~r C. W. Birdsong & Co., have just received a lot of singly and double baiTHjf gens; pistol,- tub^ tqb^ whMMMkdkk»H:tfd) < 1 ?*a.A fM*. 4 • .v 5ft 3*® aos ftca mm 40m^| V ’ll Ife* ,<*fV