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the country by those who are
•ympathyzers with the agffrewors,
guilty of needless and moat wicked
"bloodshed,
we are not at liberty to
doubt.
We have, from
a
HOI
source that com-
iMMida confidence, a statement
IN due the country. Our information
ia
tlmt the active whites of Vicksburg
had
tie time since determined to
"clean out" the present officeholders.
Thrt*e of those officeholders were In
dicted by the last (Jrand Jury.
Crosby the Sheriff, was especially
afirx-d at. It was determined to put
him out of office. The papers insist
ed upon the Board of Supervisors
meeting on Wednesday of last week
and required Crosby to give good
bonds. A meeting of that body was
called, and it is known that the inten
tion
WHS
to require Crosby to give
action
had come.
By 'action" they meant force, and
by force they meant rope. No con
cealment was made in their talk
About hanging, etc. A committee
was appointed to wait on certain of
ficials and demand their resignations.
The meeting adjourned to await the
report. The officials who could be
found begged time to consult their
lawyers, but failed to reply in the
time given them. On the reassem
bling of the meeting in the afternoon,
and hearing the report of the com
mittee, they resolved to adjourn In a
Ixsiy to the Court House and demand
resignation of theo/llcero. On reach
ing the Court House all the otliccrs
but Crosby. lie signed a res
ignation. No one concealed what
would have been his fate if he had
pot done so. Ho would have been
hanged on the spot. As soon as he
got out of the clutches of the mob he
wroto a letter to Judge Powers, of the
Circuit Court, stating that he took
I sick his resignation, as he was
Compelled to sign It to save his life.
He was then out in the country on
bis way to Jacfcpon.
On the morning after
thlft
Judge Brown attempted
row,
to
hold
eourt, but the parties left In charge
of the Court House refused to let the
ieputy enter the court room, and
do oourt has bben adjourned from day
to
day since theh.
On Friday a rumor got abroad that
Crosby was about to make a good
|otul by placing his office In the
hands of some person more accept
able to the people, and retiring leav
ing all control to such deputy. Two
or three good parties agreed to take
the position, and arrangements had
been madetvith their friends to make
a bond that would be ample and he
pond dispute. When this was heard,
a meeting of the citizens in the city
Was called, which resolved to frown
down any such effort. The next
morning the papers contained notice
warning white citizens from going
on the bond, and thia too, in the face
bfrepeated assertions that no charge
was tnude against Crosby except his
failure to give a good bond. On the
Streets the threats were numerous
fcliat no man's Ufa would be safe who
weht on the boot!.
Crosby returnAl from
J* i
i
«*. s
any one not In full accord with them
to be on the street. One poor old
of Ambrose
K50XVIIXE, DECEMBER 81.1»7« ^^"'jTfr the .treet by
Capt. Cowan, a former rebel battery
commander, and being tardy In
going, Cowan deliberately shot him.
THE VICHlBlltfi N4N84CRE.
The 0tber Side of the Story.
i HM Cincinnati f^ommerwal.
Thiit a false account of the slaugh
ter of colored men in the neighbor
hood of Vicksburg has been B|»read |*nd laughter andj« «t, it was reported
over
Many prisoners were taken and kept
in the Court House, and taken out in
the morning. With winks and nods
that three of the most obnoxious had
made their escape which means that
they have simply been murdered
while prisoners.
This unqne«tlonabfy to
of the
that
the
and tbeir
the troth
massacre, and the people of
nation should recognize all its
enormities. The worst of tt is that
the persons who have been guilty of
this wholesale murder fully Justify
themselves upon the statement of
facts that we have given, and we are
bound to add that, they are animated
by the conviction that there has been
a political revolution in th®
time
a
good bond.
But the citizens, headed by a hot
headed and irresponsible set of men,
put out an incendiary circular calling
for a meeting of the citizens of the
eotfnty the same day the board of
Supervisors were to meet, and every
one knew full well that it was the in
tention that the Board should be com
pelled to do what was wanted or per
sonal violence would be used. And
the county members failed to make
appearance but the citizens held
their meeting. It was attended
mostly by younger men and irres
ponsible parties spoiling for a row.
During the session a committee of
five lawyers were appointed to re
port if all legal means to ount Crosby
had been exhausted. A majority of
the committee reported that all legal
means had not been exhausted. A
Minority report was made by two
young limbs of the law, saying that
all legal means had been exhausted,
and that the time for
A great many of them fearing that
the body may not movo fast enough
for their taste, have gone as individu
als. Whither, nobody knows. There
is no longer a vigilance committee to
look into trains that may have ani
mated hoes on board. Only it ap
pears that the roads westward from
Gorgia are sharply competing, offer
ing low rates for second-clas passen
gers, and tjiey are doing a heavy
business,w/th second-class cars.
Yes, times have changed. The
animated hoe, In the good old days
that are gone, was not permitted to
go "off the place" without a permit.
The absent hoe was looked for with
dogs. Of course, under these circum
stances, the question of treatment
never arose. To keep the hoe in fair
working condition—that was the only
requisite. Pleasant times, those, for
people who liked hoeing. But now
the hoe has legs, and may go where
it likes. Also it has civil rights—
though what it should want with at
tributes of that sort uo one of "the
citizens" can understand. And it
votes, and occasionaly is elected to
oflBcc. This, of course, is a mockery,
an outrage, and an insult to "the citi
zens," who have by nature and by
"tho Constitution-as-it-was" an ex
clusive monopoly of all those inalien
able rights aud that equality with
which nature and the Creator endow
ed all men." But, hideous insult
though it be, we see it offered day
after day. And if, as in Georgia,
"the citizens" coutrive to regain
their niouopoly, and to leave "all
men" except themselves out in the
cold, then the animated hoes meet in
convention and resolve to migrate.
Next season there will be shrieks
from Gorgia about the "scarcity of
labor," and a million more acres will
cease to yield, and the State will
take another slide back toward bar
barism. Why do not "the citizens"
cultivate the acres themselves? In
tho first place they cannot and then,
they are not hoes. They are "the
superior raco."
One of tho misfortunes of the supe
rior race is that it eats. One cannot
live or support a family solely by
denying rights to the other people,
even to animated hoes. Georgia is in
a fair way to learn that tho culti
vation of tho earth is desirable In
order to support life, and that human
beings, are useful In the cultivation
of the earth. It seems a littlecurious
to us at this distance, tiiat Georgia
should have these simple things to
learn at so late a day. But Georgia
learns so slowly!
One other thing
Jackson mi
Friday, with Instructions from the
Governor to take possession of his of
floe, and to call in the aid of the mil
itia to sustain him. Ho serit hews
16 the negroes to come in on Monday
And report at the Court House. They
oa'srie, were met at the city limits
uqd butchered—simply slaughtered
and btitchered. They were chased
through ibe woods and fields and
ahot down like dogs. Many were shot
after they gave up, and some were
shot while on their knees begging for
mercy, l^ie spirit of demons was
in the people. It was not safe for
Georgia
tertiary class,
Jforth,
has come.
•oci with Lege.
The trouble at the South f* that
the hoe has got legs. If It Is not
treated as a fifteenth amendment
should be treated, it gets up and
leaves. Those beings Democratically
culled "niggers," who used to be con
sidered mere animated hoes by the
other class of persona now called by
telegraph agents "the citiaens,"
have acqui red, under the Constitution
oftho United Htates, the right to go
somewhere if they please. They do
go somewhere, when they are not
Matisfied in Georgia, and hence pro
pose to migrate in a body to some
other State—Mississippi for example.
There In
must learn
or be depopulated. It is this that
human beings will have to be treated
like human beings, or they will mi
grate. The useful colored person,
whose service in the cultivation of
the earth has been the basis of what
ever civilization Georgia enjoys,
has been awakened to the fact that
as a human being he is entitled to
some things which were formely de
nied. If Georgia wishes to continue
to deny those things, the useful col
ored persons will retire, and Georgia
aristocracy may feed itself if it can.
White persons of the laboring de
scription Georgia
will
not get.
shootlnga great deal too
nothing
As
the Irishman
said, on his return from
the South the other
day,
"they are
earless down
there."—St Louis Democrat*
A Human ftkull la Solid Kock Every reader of the Burlington
A very strange discovery, interes- Hawkeys for the past year has recog
ting to geologists. Is reported by the, nized in its local columns the work
Owge Minion, (Kanma) Journal. A'of a genius. His Mine In Burdette.
human kuU wu recently found A correspondent of the Chkngo Eve
near that plaee, Imbedded In «olld "Ing Journal baa recently been wrl
rock which was qroken open by blast ting up the funny men of the pre®,
ing. Mr. Wierly, Osa^ Minion, including Mark Twain^ Bailey, Mu
compared it with a modern .kull Adder, and others. Of Burdette, h.
which he had in his office, and found
4
"t,^rt-^u«md'uLuy "n
pat by of tho neighborhood was with
the boys, and tin only terms for the
But this, with quill pens, boarding
round, spelling schools, hard tlog
King and sundry other amusements
have lost place in tho live school of
I. The teacher lifts his hat in si
lence, but sht ds not a tear at their
grave!—Oskaloosa
s
that though it reeembled the latter i The Burlington Hawkeye has a fel
In general
shape, it was an inch and low of infinite zest on its columns,
a quarter larger in greatest diameter, His name is R. J. Burdette. During
and much better developed in some the last three years Bob has origin*
othef1 particulars. He says of the ted some of the best local and domes
relic "It is that of the cranium of tic stories of the day. His latest, Mr.
the human species, of large size, im-' Middlerib's dog, is fully equal to
bedded in conglomerate rock of the anything Bailey ever wrote
and found several feet most brilliant moments. Two or
below the surface. Parts of thefron- three years ago, Burdette, who had
tal. parietal, and
occipital
that seems to
revive the spirits of the lute rebels
like a DetriotTHtic victory. A Con-
federate reunion was recently held
«t Augusta, Oa., and that distin
guished ex-rebel, General Hampton,
made a speech in which he said
"the clouds wore now lifting from
over them, ami that the Democrats
had not
docs look mightily HS though the ex-
bones were been earning a precarious livelihood
carried away by the eiplooion. The P»P*™. determined to
piece of rock holding the remains
weighs some forty or fifty pounds,
with many impressions of marine
shells, and though it runs a vein of
quartz, or within the cranium of
PETERS'
'Ji
y Boun(1
4
an(
teacher were to stay out all day, be i that are notel frr their neat beauty
4 4 I a n i i n n a i i e i W e a e a e a
ducked in the nearest creek, or treat. jU|
in
YICBU 1'IAMFCT.
bJ
SIIWH*
in
BIDDLE'S IMPROVED FEED-MILL
For corn or am all grain it superior to any other cast mill
for tho following reasons
It is twenty-five dollars cheaper than any other mill of
same capacity in the market.
Being all iron, it is more durable, and less liable to get
out. of order, as the frame of the mill consists of but one
single canting.
The driving pulley being fiicentcr of spindle, both
bearings will wear alike.
rfhe
a self-adjnsting driver, allotting perfect freedom of motion,
and the standing or upper grinder, also self adjusting, will
permit all the driving power that is applied to this machine
to go direct to tho work of grinding without aide strain or
binding of parts.
THIS MACHINE
is 8Q simple in construction that an
can operate it, the working parts
mistake can be made. It h#s
his
get married. He veni-ed, vidi-ed,
vici-ed the girl, but the old man
veto-ed Bob. So one night he stole
the girl away from prayer-meeting
and married her. Now it has always
!een customary in this country, on
like occasions for the irate old man
crystallized organic matter, and by to immediately go a gunning for the
the aid of a microscope, presents a
beautiful rppearance." Neither
Lyell nor Hugh Miller, it is stated,
nor and of the subterranean explor
ers, report anything so remarkable
as this discovery at Osage Mission.
The Neanderthal bones Were found
in loam only two feet belotv the sur
face. whereas this Kansas skttll was
discovered in solid rock.
base deceiver. But Burdette revers
ed the order of settlement. Taking
his new-made wife on his arm, he
swung along to the post-office where
he found his old ariny captain, Sam
Lowe, making up the night malls.
From Sam, Bob borrowed a douhle-
i
barreled shot-gun, and loading both
barrels with buck-shot, started to the
home of his wife's father. The old
man
WHS
taking his evening nap be­
fore the Are, and didn't wake up till
Boh and his wife stood before him.
41
but many amusing incidents will re-: j^» same time bring
cur to older readers. It is not: ing the shot-gun conspicuously to the
strange that such a custom should frout. The old man drew his ba
have existed, nor is it more strange
^"'IkpKblast
Now look here, old man," said
"Barring Out the Master." Bob, me and Sophronia have gone
a* till, nnf and got married, and I've come
At mention of this I doubt not,
M(! you,re e„|n(!
1 t,hJef'
®.
,, .. I crick Dhu and—wilted. Bob
that it has now almost wholly disap- most obedient father
peared. It belongs to the past, in-law he ever had.
Just twenty years ago," on Christ
mas morning, the boys were sure to
gather at day dawn to close the door,
and nail tho windows, prior to the
coming of the masted. Indeed they
often would "hold the fort" the!
most of the night if the teacher did
not anticipate them by lodging in
the school house during the night, i
If the boys were on the offensive the
scene can be better imagined than
described. If the teacher was long
headed he would a board over the',
chimney to smoke them out, or
R/K
PETERS' PETERS'
PARIi'Rl"
Melodies.
PuMi»}Tl month
ly, ?lvinilU f'iH»
of V»*
Ml II u I n by
Ut) Oinki
Thomn*. etc.
dc la
MHJJO.
CRE.HE.
PnMtufcM wroth
y. ct»ln^ 24 full*!
PuWi«h'J month1,
•its p|rr.*« ot e'.ny !y, frl*l»(r 34 full*
rl m'Xler»t«*ly of olait*
iiffl-iilt pianoiviR *n1 ii0leult
iniinlc. Trine
I'ricn (4 pir an
num. dingle cop
ten 50 null.
t*
i t*no mii.l'-. Si
per Annum. sln-,pT annum «ln»
ilc co^ie* 60 ctn iglvnopiei .'0 eti
PUBLISH ID
AND MAILBD,
POBT-PAIB,
ST
J. L. PETERS, BROADWAY, N. Y.
Volumes of Music.
Among th* many thouaaoda of Ballada
piM0 Piece* tbat publish, there »n
ga
i#0tj0„
0
th««« pieoei, and offor them
ieoei, and
at a low piiee, in volsmes, namely
SHINIHU
LIOHTIfifteen
a Collection of Sacred
Songi Udi.DBN LIVVES, Vol* I. and II.,
by
W. S. Hay» HKA*TH
bidb
AUD
KCMOKD,
IIOUK, Fim-
and
SWKRT
SOUSDB,
PRICKI.col-Srbthree
lec of Hnme Songf and
OKtionx
tiUmrbird.
Ma, a fine collection of Ballada,bjr Thorn*
as, Keller, etc*.
HWallace,
FiNfiRBS,
OI.B,AIUY
and
PKABL, DBOPB, MAOIOCIB-
Four collections of
•aity irniaio, as general tbing, without oc
tnveg, and suitable for the Reed Or
gan, or Meloiieoa.
MCBICALPiano,
RUCKP.ATIO.NS,
collection baocaa, and
board* $4 in cloth. Al»o,
(Jonfederate* and the Democrats we're I MBLODY, price $3 in boards $4 in clotb.
Joint sharers in succew.—A*dre«'
W-'Z. I J. L.PKIKRS,'4M Bread way, N. Y.
IMPROVEMENT IN
Grinding Machines
a
GOLDBN
BBIM.IANTof
OKMB,
CsiMKsand
for more adranoed players,
Kinkei, eta.
Tui» valuable eolleotion is isaaed ia two
bindings.
Price of eaob, In boarda, $1.76 eloth and
gilt,
(2,60.
alone." It
We oaa alae reeoinmend Tn Orni
running grinder is driven by
of
Received the First Premium at tie State Fair,
and also at the Marion county Fair. For particulars, address
the inventor, LEOPOLD BIDDLfcl, or
KEEFfE, HEBE RUNG Sf BITTEN BENDER,
Marion County Foundry and Machine Works, at
KNOXVILLE, IOWA.
ordinary skill
ing so arranged tliat no
New Store! New Goods!
FACTO FBICBS!
ewalt & wright
hm yuilawl Ik*
SMk offao4» ftranlf mrf fcy
Klswl. m4 wW
PtMtoa UM
#r
SOUTH SIDB
Tb«y have Wn Sa*t ltd porrha»WI a large (took
New Quod* 1* addiUoo, aa4 have new a (tell llae
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
HATS AND CAPS,
100T8 AND SHOES,
NOTIONS, ETC.
•ltd wilt Mn at Mk frteaiL QUI aa4 tea tk« New
«to« T24 If)
HOBEKTS ft DICKIE,
Mttns i*
U S
Herth aide efSqMM,
KNOXVILLE, IOWA.
a FULL LINK
OF
DRUGS, CHEMICALS.
PAINTS, PERFUMES,
OILS, SOAPS,
BRUSHES, VARNISHES
PA2XVT XEDICI1IE3,.
1AMP8 AffD FIXTURES.
SCHOOL BOOKS,
STATIONERY,
WALL-PAPER.
Purehanera will find ia oor stock every
thing in the drag lino, of the parett and beet
qnulitirs, and at lowest eash price*.
Preeeriptionacarefully eompoundei.
JOLLY'S
(P»$«ntrl
AT
HOME, a coileetion of Vocal fcfuclc, price IH
o
P»ARLSOK
Very
RIDSII
,n
B)«-ao»
th. mu-i uUr moremeat
chllilren a*
of tt«ir ochool
I B. WOUii*L »r.
FTIIILC
•QVARE, KIVOYTILLB.
Hardwati
Eaat Side gf Poblic s,,
ia
writing A* fh«* twin hcut the tree It Im-lint-d.
I'u^illa will
Practice what they Learn.
WMII AH
aiiultx aosjuiro an «x
fellrnt irnvrujf*Dt by tho use of Ublft att&ohoient
Without a Teacher.
It i* Keut-rHl com plaint that writing It not
tauxlit in our public •rhuol*. but thl» la ju.t as It
atioiild hm'au.w anjr lyncher know, that it la al
U»ont Iropuaxible to farh 11 auc^exxfully in our
ondi-r the preapnt arramcpm^Dt. Why appin] from
t.n
to fifteen fi-arn In a fruit I run att.rapt to l.arn to
writ, a practical haud whxn. by the
of
it will rquir« but a f.w
propsr
WMIL.?ui«
Ilow pupIlN ha*c aucwwlwl. In practicing
•trry
day
nearly
IIT.k,
nialu
Ut hotel r»trtiit.ra
otht-r siinHtur«H anJ »ritioi?
tlmt ml^lit ^ivco.
and
attMt.
Tti« FIRADV
WK iTKH works «»tl»fa'.U rll v parurita should ar«
that
children ua« it
iioti
proper habits ar« natural
Prof. Uiretia. of th. Oakalro«a Buxin.M Cel*
had hi* xehool aupplivii and n*y» he In '«fiiily
viiivinr*d that
for It.
It will do all that le claimed
and thi-
it
uiily
on.of
thousand* of tfxtunic
The Ready Writer
le worth If* wright In
tald.
It nimff.lt th«* pupil tu writ«* an h. »houid. 8ent to
aldr«.a. fluikbnd In tiood iityln with (In. cwlar bold.r
for 60 eta. yoll Inntructiona ac.couipau it. Agscta
wanted. Addrxaa
S.
W.
JOLLY, Onceola, lews.
Insure
YOUB OWN
PROPERTY
BY U8INO
It l« iieqnalM fet ttt krUIlM«gr ito
light Mid 1U aafety.
It urpuM »»y ethw edla Ik*
atrtet far
naaoajr.
PBICB, C««l« pw Gallon
For Bale by all Fint-Clasa
Dealers.
•OLI PROPEIBTOEA,
JOB. L. TAYLOE A 00n
Ottuwia,I«w*.
Knoxrille.
"ESS*
Shelf and Heavy Hanl%
IRON AND STEEL,
NAILS ANDBlit
TABLE AKD POCKET CUTl^j
Builders* Material,
STUDEBA2ER WAGOrJ
WAGON-WOOD,
BOPB-}lol!W|,
Least Money,
fj
V
EUREKA WRINGER,
{Plows, Cultivators.
Only Agents la the County for
HARSH HARVE8TER.
l|C^»The Best General 8s
in the County, and sold for
Is
-t-
A§ the season
is
laying
it
M»y 26. IST-ii
Is Designed to Aid Beginners
aad Ifl.rncra c-nrrally In arquhi.K proper po»ttlem
the h.ncl ami [rn
and
th
k
4i
In
at
at
N E W S O W
OP
near at
in
will
hand I
winter supplies, of
UM|
be of some interest to kiw
where to find a good stock
We are now receiving large snip!*
of
FALL GOODS,
and
purpose keeping
a
much fuller
line than heretofore, and making
prices that cannot fail to be
popular
We keep a full stock of
n 0) Si
in llae and heavy calA fl°e
heavy kip, and shall kt^ep afifll
of lined goods. In women's inlaw
and children's custom calf
s II
tro have the largest stock in town»
and very cheap.
We carry the largest stock of
from the Bonaparte Mills of any
house in town. Cassimeres, Satin
netts, Jeans, Repellants and Flan
nels, and a very large assortment of
yarns from the same mill*.
Also keep constantly
oa
hand
good line of fancy cassimeres, cloths
and suitings, which we get op 1°
suits to order.
We carry a fine stock of
and can show suits at all pricf%
freiSf§A¥§»
We think we have the inside track
In the way of prices in this line.
In other departments you will
find our stock full and complete, and
at prices, we think, as low as can be
found.
COLLINS if REED.