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SATcniuY.~" Tur.y 25, isit
" KAIILYUFK
In Mississippi—A True Slory
BY SI'.NKX.
My first recollect ion,of w hat j
w as oTieo a noble State, dates I
back to 1824, In November
of ’' Yd . - following my
i.nthcra *iu'i ,-j, t wagon
from t-outb Carolina,I placed (
n,v bare feet across the line
which divided Alabama lrom
Mississippi, a few miles East
of Columbus.
Fifty years ago! What an
immensity of history is com-,
pressed within that narrow
limit. Families have lived, j
id passed away. Politicians
have had their diiy. States-j
:l ,1 have strutted their brief
hour and are already num
bered among the things that'
were. Fifty years ago! What
do the hoys of to-day know, i
~ .or even dream of wvhnt the;
5next fifty years may bring
forth.
1 am not writing history,
but sketching “ K<arly Life
in Mississippi,” in the hum-!
hlo hope that my experience
may lie of some benefit to
youthful friends who stand]
to-day, where I stood fifty
rears ago.
Columbus in lbs-l was a
mere hamlet. There were
some white houses in it. lint;
whether they were painted,or
white-washed, I have no re
collection. I only know that
it was a town; and it was the'
tirst one I had seen,after lea
ving Greenville in Houth
Oarolina.
-After leaving Columbus I
do not think my father’s fam
ily encountered a white set
tler until they reached Jack
son. The Chiekasaws, and
Choctaws, bad undisputed j
possession of the Country I
above what is now the lower J
part of Madison. The Choc-1
taws bad left Copiah, and a
part of' Hinds, but they still
lingered in the upper, or Nor
thern part of their cession ro
the United States.
Jackson bad a name, and
that was about all. I do not
call to mind but a single fam
ily in the town. They were of
’' the K£ine of Wmt^sifws.—.
If any of the des**e»>4a«ts of
that Ikniiiy survive, 1 taYcF"
this late opportunity to re
turn thanks in the name of j
my mother, and her infant j
children, for certain hospital
ities which were doubly ac
ceptable in view of the fact
that we had for sieve nil weeks
known no other friends Ilian
the Indians.
\\ hei;e the City ot .Jackson j
now stands was a wilderness.!
'l'lie cite of the Capital was a
reed-brake. The Fairground
was the habitation of bears
yml reptiles. Where thechief
business is now done was
known only to wild beasts]
and the more adventurous
huntsmen.
, I remember that my father |
drove his wagon across ‘Town
creek’ at a point near where:
the Railroad now crosses it
under anarch of immense
cane made by a friendly hand
in an attempt to cut a road
way to the lower country.
There is an anecdote now
almost forgotten which tells ]
what Jack so 14 was.
Old Col. PeFranec kept a
Hotel at a little later date
than that of which I speak.
The Colonel was fond of a
dry joke. One evening, a tra
veler threading his way from
Natchez to Nashville, diverg
ed somewhat from the old Ro
binson road to spend a night
at the new Seat of Govern
ment.
traveler: "Jttatncr a wild
looking country tliis landlord
‘Landlord: ‘Well yes! a lit
tle so.1
‘Aliy game around here?1
‘Oh' ves plentv, plenty.1
‘What kind?1
‘Well all sorts of small game,
and then we have lots of deer,
and bear, and —1
‘What! bpar, and do you kill
bear here?’
‘Certainly.1
‘How? with dogs, and ^uns?1
‘Xo; nonsense/
‘How then?1
‘Well you see Ave can just
get a long pole,and fix a spike
on the end of it, with a sort
of barb so as to make it keep
its holt, and then avc. can go
doAvn to the thickest part of
that cane brake a ml com
meuco ramming it in; ram
ming it iu” — ■*,
•Wka.t* and kill bear that j
•w*y!r' - \ *■ j
"H-!"!1'™ J1 J-L.J
m we never kill nin
th ing (lint Wily." r
After leaving Taekson rrn*1
father passed two settlements •
befote lien ached (ialiathi—j
Tralieri! seven miles south of
Jackson, and «Tosiah Shipp’s'
thirteen miles south of the
same place.
Aaron Miller was camped
six miles north of Gallatin, i
wHliin two hundred vards ofi
where he lived afterwards for'
more than fifty years, and j
there died universally respec- j
ted, as an honest man, si good
citizen, and a pure patriot, j
Gallatin at that day was-a!
verv small oitv. "If'there was i
any thing in it except the j
court house i did not see it.:
I was a small boy and had my!
eyes about me, and as the j
town bore a part of my name,j
T do not think I am mistaken j
in saying That I took it all in J
at a glance.
The Court House was built j
of pine poles. The bark had
been taken off, but the spur
ends had not been sawed i
down. The floor was of pun- j
clieons, and the roof of Hap- j
boards weighted down with '
small poles. The .Judge’s
Bench was constructed of!
boards split out of pine tim- ■
ber and pegged together. The
House thus rudely eonstruet
j ed served" the triple purpose
of court house,sheriff s office
and clerk’s office. The .Jail
was \ Stump to which the
prisoners were chained, and a
small thicket in rear of the
court house served thcdouble
purpose of Jury room, and
Stands for retail groceries.
Windingoiir wav along,af
ter a travel of two days, or
more, my father found him
self at the house of James
Craves on Foster’s creek,
whom I may as well say just
here, was the father of that
most excellent lady the wife
of our mutual friend, B. T\
Nelson.
A* v. i ftj* it WtmttST
man, pioneered us through a
wilderness and brought us to
a camping ground on land
which my Father had enter
ed from the United States.
This I remember was on
the 24th of December 1824.
The weather had boon propi
tious. But the next day—
Christmas, the gates of Hoa
jen seemed to be opened. The
| rain fell, the winds blew,and
I the thunder rolled. 11 seemed
to me in my childish simpli
joity, that wc had got not only
into a new country but to a
place where *hey had the har
dest rains, the fiercest winds,
and the Loudest thunder,that
any mortal people had cvci
i encountered.
1 We were in a dense forest
with not a stick amiss,and in
the midst of this fearful storm,
leaving my mother, and her
little children, with very
slight help to shift for them
selves, my father set out in
search of food. The nearest
'point was Port Gibson. With
incredible difficulties he rea
ched that point only to learn
that no supplies were to be
had there, lie had to go on to
•Bruinsburg* (The poin t where
Grant ciossed the Mississippi
before taking Vicksburg in
the rear.) Here he purchased
such meagre supplies as his
poorly filled purse would al
low. Then lie took up his
weary wav back to his family
in Copiah. The Heavens low
ered. The rains, descended
but the stout heart of the pio
neer pressed on.
Those who have traveled
the road from Port Gibson to
Linden, need not be told bow
many streams there are across
that road. Let them consider,
that at the time of which I
speak, there were no bridges,
nor ferries, nor even fords
across those streams; and
then take into account that
there wore fe v willing hands
to help and they will have
some faint idea of the difficul
ties which my father encoun
tered in getting back home.
He got home at the end of
three weeks, or more, and
footid his family in an almost
starving condition, it might,
be interesting to tell, how,
with the aid of some others1
in like condition with hfje
£*lf, rafts were- constructedj
- - --"MSS-Jf. -L...
wagons wwyfi
&»»• *mt would draw
out my story too long.
During my father’s absence
we suffered almost inconceiv-j
able hardships. I would re
late them. But even a stolid
imagination can fill np the
hyatus. When I state that |
hying without meat, the wild
deer looked tantalizingly into |
our camp, and other game [
was plenty but we had neith-j
er powder nor shot.
An old man—a sort of her \
mit—a woodsman, came to ■
our camp and gavefny moth-;
or permission to take pump-j
kins from a pen of his. Hoi
pointed in the direction, and ;
then disappeared through the !
cane. It. took us several days
to find the pen, and when i
found, it afforded us a very !
m eag re s ubsi ston ce.
My father returned in the
latter part of January, 1825, i
to find little or nothing done ;
towards linking a eroi—in j
truth nothing could he done !
had we been stronger in hand. 1
1 recur now for the first time I
in this form to a eonversa-!
tion, which as a child I over
heard between my father and
mother.
The point was,as to whether |
under all the diificnltcircum- j
stances it were nut better to
retrace their steps and go
back to South Carolina. My
mother, noble woman that
she was, ended the discussion
with the emphatic declara
tion: “We have risked every
thing on this move. It is too
late to look back now.” That
| short speech decided my fa
Ither. And (>! how often I
have from the deepest recesses
| of my heart, thanked my mo
ther for making that speech.
From that hour forward
every thing was put in motion
for a crop.
I leave much to the readers
imagination, simply remark
ing that he is not likely to
exaggerate \ he real story of our
hardships.
With a great deal of toil,
a few acres of ground was
“cleared, and fenced.” The
clearing meant,cutting down
and burning the cane, and
under brush,foiling the smal
ler trees, and “killing,” that
is girdling the larger om s.—
Fencing wasdonewith brush,
poles, -and a few rails. There
was no attempt to remove
the fallen timber from the
land; corn was planted, by
making a hole in the ground
with a irp stick, dropping
in the g ain and covering it
with the heel of a barefoot.
There was no chance to use
plows, and the cultivation
was done exclusively with
hoes.
After “the crop was laid
by,” my father turned bis at
tention to building a house.
How this was done I "willnot
consume space in relating.
There were no in'" ' *he
i countrt of any ki.
• niy elJnnce for n. to
! ptsfie fhe corn in a *econ
fri vance called a wc »■. lea mor
tar, w hich caused ltfy Father
to tell us we ought to be sat
isfied, as w e had ‘pound cake’
every day.
A year or two later, an old
gentleman named Flowers
erected “a horse mill,” a few
miles away. A picture of that
mill would be a great thing
for the Graphic, or any other
pictorial newspaper. Funny
looking as it was, it caused
me many a bitter tear. It
very soon became my busi
ness to go to mill. There was
no water to swim in, and no
boys to play with. If I gotj
to mill before the old gentle-!
niau went to his work-in the
morning be would put the
grist, about two bushel,in the
hopper,hitch in the mule,and
leave me aloneto grind it out. j
If I succeeded in getting;
through the job by the time
ho was ready to go out from
dinner, he would up the bag,;
mount me on the mule, and ;
start mo home, and then 1.
was happy, lint if I failed as!
often happened, I would not j
get off for homo until after,
the old man come in for the!
night. He was a Baptistprea-!
eberof the old school, and
would as soon have Baptised
an infant three days okl.asbe
WOttkl ii ' Wtl hi8 ^
put ni- biv , bag. Ho inner
{kongrik of -barging any de
fault to the mule, but would
insinuate that I had idled it
way the time. I forgive the
poor old mail. He didn’t
know Jack as well as I did.
Jack, that was the mules
name, was never in a hurry
w hen there was any thing to
■ do, but if you could have seen
him hurrying off after he had
piled me, and my meal bag
up by the road side, you wo'd
have thought him ths most;
go ahead sort of mule to be ;
found in the state.
\\ hen we went tiomeln the!
day time, Jack behaved well i
enough, but if we went at. j
night, as often happened, his!
conduct was despicable. He
would shy at something in
the bush when there was no
thing there, and then lit; wo'd
pretend to see something in
his front, and make that an
excuse for bowing his head,;
and iioaching lus back. Ini
either case 1, and the bag,
went to the ground. Jack
would then gallop off home
to spread the news, and leave
the bag andT, to watch off
the wild hogs. There is where
| the tears always come in.
I have long since forgiven
the good <dd preacher, but I
have a suspicion to this day
that Jack was rather a tricky
mule.
The foregoing is a true, and j
not Over drawn story of Early*
: life in Mississippi.’
j Well says the old Grand
; Father, ‘What of it? Ji/dVdi
: 1, and my folks so#\ the
[same. ‘Exactly, that is just,
what I was about to say.—
All the early settlers went
through about the same orde
al. But how is it, now? that,
is the question which points
the morel.
We have railroads, trading
towns, telegraphs, mail feeib
iti-vs, market roads, hi'hlogsL
cleared lands, comfortable
houses. Well about every
thing tiial any reasonable
; people ought; to ask, and yet
we hear complaints on al sides
of hard times. How is this?
| Has the present generation
i of people no knowledge of t he
| trials through which their
[fathers went. Are they dwarf
[ ed. Have men lost their eour
ago, women their -adherence
| to duty. Boys, and girls,
their will, and their ability
, to make themselves useful.
[Heaven forbid.
The Yankees say slavery en
ervated the men oftheSoufh,
and made dressed up dolls of
the women. I deny the soft
j impeachment. But it it be
true, I would exhort my
countrymen fo thank God
every day of their lives on
bended knees that “slavery
is dead.”
| T want to see revived in
all its power, the energy that
gave vitality to Mississippi,
and espccialy to Copiah fifty
years ago. There is a cloud
over us. But there is also a
bow of promise, “There is
life in the old land yet.” To
the fathers I would say defy
the storm, to the wives and
mothers hold up the hands of
your husbands,ami train your
children to habits of indus
try, and economy. To the
daughters prepare yourselves
to become what your grand
mothers were, exemplary
wives, and mothers, and to
the sons, who after all are to
become the solid support,and
main stays of the country in
1 after years, “Pluck my bovs,
! Pluck.”
A aS'cw Haven malefactor
! lias been sentenced to ayear’s
| imprisonment for stealing an
i umbrella.
Iowa reports that Paris
green is utterly inadequate
t« make the locusts take
French leaves.
Brigham Young’s favorite
wife has an outfit in the way
of horses, harness, and car
riage valued at $52,000.
A lady residing near Da
venport, la. has a beautiful
green lizard in he** stomach,
and it still discontented.
Tho building
ams Female Ad
ry, X. H. are uL ■
animation. 1
-us
■ ,v;
to. June ^2. ,74
J.jght;
srir—* * * I am tKs
ginnmg to donm-fhal Lower
California possesses any ad
vantage over tins section.—
We, in central Cal. arcin the
lino of travel and commerce, j
in th&midst of largo and grow-1
ing eifies. Our section is not;
so dry and irrigation is not |
go essential. The capacity to;
produce tropical finite is ah- j
out tip only advantage Low-:
er C -f. has over us; and yet j
yfgMah|ngegrows even in this j
STM.* •sibn *$e-ss m»* j
el to me On the 14th,and!
loth, of‘Ms month the weath
er was quite hot,— 00 dg. F.
Since then for eight days it
has been April weather, ther
mometer from 68to80. Im
possible to wear linen clothes!
with any comfort. ^ 1 here
have beeu tUvcchot days since
my arrival here-a period of
four weeks. It is never hot
more than three days at a
time and this js generally fol
lowed by a week of delight
fully cool weather. The only
disagreeable tiling in the cli
ui a to here isjthchot dry parch
ing north wind. This brings
the hot weather and will dry
a wet blanket in about two
minutes. Wo have bad to use
covering eve w night since
our a n ival. No matter how
T'oTllfe day, about 0 o’clock
\hc"fc VP rings up a cool South
h indvlnch is indescribably
delicious.* * *
' Yours Truly,
(’. Ciiamijkkijx.
Sacuamexto, July 3, ’71.
Dear Friend.—1 have just
returned from a flying visit
to Santa Clara valley and
San Francisco. The Santa
Clara valley is about tbrtv
miles long and twenty wide.
San Jose is the comity seat,
and has about 12,000 inhab
gijfciiiiji, X-i-*?■«*.iu.-- trt-mtr a-Frtr
adise, it tiieie is one on earth;
not a foot of it is out of culti
vation. Lands are held at
§100 <<> §300 per acre. rl'Iie
mountains are under cultiva
tion 1500 feet up. I saw farm
houses, hay stacks, and such
like specks dotting (liemoun
tains even to the top. I as
cended the court house, a
magnificent building,costing,
1 sappuso §100,000. From
this point 1 could see the
whole valley, with its cities,
villages and farms, surroun
d d by a magnificent frame
work of mountains. It whs
ai enchanting scene.
1 was astonished at the
size and costliness of the lions
es in the city and on the fa mis.
There is no air of dilapida
tion about anything. Every
place nearly, has a beautiful
garden. Innumerable foun
tains throw their spray over
tho flowers and green grass
plots. Orchards loaded with
fruit, vqdgtay stacks, pilesot
grain, liortMLcows, and veg
etable gareiMw are seen on
every nlace.
And yet all this beauty is
inaccessible to a poor man
Who can afford to give $100
an acre for land?
I hear such conflicting
reports here as t» thequanti
ty and quality and prices of
the land in murktt that I am
unable to give any advice, to
those wishing to come here
to farm. There is plenty of
land in the extreme northern
part of the state; but there is
.u with |M ' # ... o they
ould get a f- . 1 wish
ed far yon to be by my sido.
I get quite homesick at times
and wish I was back home
for an hour or two at a time;
but when I think that one of
these daws I mav be domesti
%r *
eated in Santa Clara, that
Paradise, mv home sickness
vanishes.
Let not this glowing pic
ture however hanisli from
the mind of any one w ho may
read this, that the most im
portant question is in Cali
fornia, as in Mississippi,
“wherewithal shall I be fed
and clothed?’’ Situations
and business and schools are
hard to get here, though the
salaries are good. Good lands
are high and hard to find.—
Every thing in nature and
society is so radically differ
ent from what people in the
South vre accustomed to that
dissatisfaction w ill be liar >
to repress. I would liky'-vo
write you about SanErnaicis
co but time fails. 1 rode out
to the Pacific, saw the huge
See Lions floundering like
huge snails upon the rocks;
saw the “mighty waves dash
high upon the rock bound
shores,” and, b r e a k ing
into a thousand streams of
foam, rush hack into the sea.
I came pretty near freezing
to death with a heavy over'
overcoat on in riding out
there. Our weather to-day
is delicious. Yesterday the
! thermometer stood at 00 dg.
hut of 0 o’clock a south breeze
sprung up and the evening
and night was as perfect ns
could be desired.
Yours Truly,
G. ClTAYR^KUN.
Letter to ft Young Gen
man in Copiah county,
Los Angelos June22.187-1.
I Friend Samuel.—Your fh
| vor of 23, ult. has interested
mo a great deal. I would life
j TO 'seeTirti fn California,would
like to have you desert forev
er your present abode. Life
in Mississippi and Louisiana
most be'fearful. But I will
not advise you to come to
California. I was speaking
to a school-superintendent a
day or two ago. He appal
led me b y a statement of the
number of applications for
vacancies in one of the com
mon schools. Yet there are
occasional openings, but the
party seeking employment
must be on hand, and _take
his chances with the others.
I cannot advise any one to
| come to California without
some means. The state has
long ceased to be a virgin El
Dorado. It islilled with ear
nest men and womeu who are
struggling many of them,for
bread. Land is high in this
region. Theic is no place on
the Footstool so overestima
ted as Los Angelos. To pur
chase and conduct a fariri here
demandsa fortune. You must
not come here impoverished
or you Will become broken-1
hearted. Oh! but I have seen
so many crushed in hopes
who had come here relying
upon the flowery and exagge
rated accounts they had seen
in the papers.
Yours Trulv, v
4 7
H.
---M»H---i—
A Fish Story.—We met
a boy ort the streets and with
out the ceremony of asking
our name he exclaimed:
“You’d just older leen
down to the river awhile
ago!”
“Why!” we replied.
“Because a nigger was in
shimming, and a big cat-fish
came up behind him, swal
lowed his feet,and wen:swim
ming along on top of thewa
ter with him; andthere came
up behind another big fish,
and the nigger swallowed his
tail, and the nigger and the
fish went swimming about.”
“Well, then what?”.
“Why, after awhile the
nigger swallowed his fish and
the other shallowed the nig
ger, and that was the last I
saw oftbem.” 4,
“Sonny,” said we, with a
feeling of alarm for the boy,
P of a eadc€A£
*
:; Darkey.
*.<io -liu ' imberat
tells the- following amusing
story of an enterprising dar
key who was anxious to en
joy the luxury of paying his
taxes:
A negro living in a neigh
boring county, having been
fortunate enough to aecunm
lateconsiderable of this woiTs
goods, desired, as all loyal
subjects should, to pay tax on
the same. It being a new
business to him, he did not
know there was a proper of
ficer for receiving the tax,and
concluded all that was neces
sary wa« to liyd with u
white skin, sW* pay it to filin'.
Conseque’*!^ he hailed tho
first niap ne met, with “Say
boss, jjR^ant to pay my taxes;
it to voul” On be
ii it would be received
ifl rvr'.vrpfehended white
^entieman lie gave him $25,
and asked if that was enough.
“j suppose it is, said the
white limn. Again the wits
of the white man were at
work, and lie soon handed
the negro a slip of paper with
the inscription: “As Moses
lifted the serpent out of the
wilderness, likewise have I
lifted $25 out of this negro’s
pocket.
Xot long after this (he ne
gro met the tax collector prop
er: “Done paid it, boss, and
here’s the Yeipt,” at the same
time handing the piece of
paper to the officer. He read: |
“As Moses lifted up the ser
pent in the wilderness, like-1
wise have I lifted $25 out of
this d—d negro’s pocket.”—
“Hold on, boss, you read uni
wrong,” ejaculated the aston
ished darkey, as ho snatched
the paper and cat vied it to
another man, who began to
read, “As Moses lifted—
Here he was interrupted by
the negro, who exclaimed:
- -Look - a -war, j o S* gim m e
dut paper, I’m gwino to lift
| dat white man out’r his boots,
’fore God 1 is.” With this he
left, and not having been
heard from since, it is sup
posed he is still looking for
to whom he paid his tax.
Southern Pine Lands.—
In speaking of the wonderful
resources of the southern
country .the magnificent pine
forests are not to be omitted
as a source of wealth, and as
furnishing a profitable in
vestment tor the capitalist.
As an instance of the oppor
tunity thus presented,if may
bo mentioned thatthese lands
can be purchased at from 50
cents to $2,50 per acre, and
will average 20,000 feet to
the acre. Portable saw mills
can be furnished on the gr<>’nd
sot up and ready to run for
$300. A matcher, jointer
and plainer may be had at
an expense of $2,500. The
lumber, including all expen
ses, price of land, machinery,
catting, hauling, etc. will
cost dressed and bundled rea
dy for shipment from about
$12 to $11 per thousand, in
cluding all exponses, and
will bring in this market $60.
It will thus be seen that few
safer investments and few
yielding a larger return co’d
be made than in the pine for
ests of the South. — The
South.
Out of season—The crcina
tion discussions.
Epitath foi an aeronaut—
“Gone up.”
The early advertisercatch
08 the worm.
A handsome store is a good
advertisement.
Twins, like misfortunes,
never come singly.
A flourishing business—
ornamental penmanship.
“Tempest Tossed”—Theo
dore Tilton.
Full of intorest—a long
note overdue.
Young Grant is to he Cook
ed in October.
Moke Light. — Oatis &
W arrell have Lamps of every
variety, and coal oil in any
quantity can be had at aU
times, cheap for cash,at their
drug store hi Haauefenrst.
'. i
5p
the love existing between tbo
colored people and the car
petbag fraternity around
Jackson. Elijah Robinson
is a well behaved, sensible
and polite colored man, and
as the parties fie denounces
think themselves no better
than negroes, ve presume
they will call for pistols and
coffoO:
A Card from the President of
the Jackson Republican
Club.
Jackson, Miss. June 24, Vi.
Editor Vicksburg Times:
My attention has been
called to an article in the
Copiah Heral.l of the 20th
inst., iu which, under the
caption of “Proposed Official
Changes,” after speaking of
the action of the Jackson Re
publican Club in endorsing
and recommending James
McKee, Esq. for U. S. Dis
trict Attorney and Oapt. J.
Ij. Lake for U. S. Marshal of
this district,the writer makes
an uncalled lor and very dir
ty fling, not only at the gen
tlemen named and others,but
also at the Jackson Republi
can Club itself. Allow me
to call attention of Republi
cans throughout the State
and decent people generally,
to this filthy and perfectly
gratuitous attack of the Co
piah Herald, made wholesale
and indiscriminately upon a
Republican Club composed
of three hundred men, and
the first and only Republican
[Ciubattho capital of tho
| State. It says that the club
I is “a bastard body,and large
ly run by”—certain two gen
tVemen whom it names.
In reply, 1 beg leave re
spectfully to inform the igno
rant and mendacious writer
for the Herald, and all that
class of unprincipled mendi
cants to wh ich lie belongs,the'
association of which be writes
is one of the oldest and -most
l effective worki
wt'g u r« i OliS
some vf the s
empty heads,
proprietors nn-i-nnrjn—« -ri iik
Pilot are a fare sp^cimomaw#
other members of the disrep
utable rings about tbe capi
tol have tried to “run” it,and
have always failed. No indi
vidual (those named nor any
other) can control its actions
or recommendations; and for
tho very obvious reason that
it is the peoples own uupnr
chased and £unpurchasable
Republican organization.—
And I will add that this club
though not “run” by Judge
J. S. Morris or Hon. H. Mus
grove, has the highest respect
for both of these gentlemen,
personally and politically, as
well as for Mr. McKee, Capt.
Lake and Senator Alcorn.—
The club knows them, and it
knows also the miserable lit
tle played out ring that con
trols the Pilot and the Copi
ah Herald, and while it en
I dorses the first, it is fully pt e
pared to denounce and expose
the latter.
Permit me, also, to say
that the authorities at Wash
ington City have already
shown their appreciation of
this Club by appointing and
confirming one of our candi
j dates, Oapt. Lake, and will
doubtless appoint Mr. McKee
(the first president of our club)
to the district attorneyship
for this district whenever a
vacancy in that office occurs.
Regretting the necessity
which calls £forth this letter
from me, I am, Very Respect
lolly, your Ob’t S’vt,
Elijah Robinson,
President Jackson Repub
lican Club.
The melon colic days are
coining, the saddest in the
year.
Charged with seven differ
entoffenees an Omaha person
went off.
Scheuectada gives eight
policemen twenty-six miles
of sidewalk to patrole.
About Pes Moines the
grass-hoppers are behaving in
the most Pes Moiniac man
ner.
Kew Albany editors eat
with their knives.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee objects
to women as Granges.
Pebt is ncr-er dignified.
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