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TUTTF8
PILLS
TORPID BOWEL8.
DISORDERED LIVER,
and MALARIA.
rram theee eoaroee ariae Ume-IUmtlnol
the diaeaew of the human raoe. These
ymptome ladloate tbeir exutenoe : lose ot
afppattta, Sewtli eoatlva, Blek Haad
eke, feUlaeaa after eating, ln a
exertiM bedy or mind Eraetatloa
to, Im-itaMlity of taanpar, Low
apirlta, A '-U of havlnc neglected
" r. JMaaiiieaa, jriuttarlMji at the
Heart, Dote feeferk the eyes, highly eoU
or,i rjrima, roattTIPATIoivr and de
Baand the nee of remedy that acta dlreotly
OftthaUver. as sIavm mediotne TETT'S
PI LI.8 tiava no eaiutl. Their action on the
Kidneys and Skin la also prompt; removing
appe.
skin and a vigorous body. TITTS PII.UI
eeoaa no nausea or griping nor Interfere)
aoleap
vmo wKiiy von ana are a peneoi
ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA.
tta miJi 1 .1KB A RRVT HAH.
I have bad Dyspepsia, vrlth ConlMp.
Moo, two years, and have tried ten different
kinds of ptlla, and TXTT'S are the first
hat havo dona ma any good. They have
eleaned me out nloely. My appetite la
splendid, (bod dbraate readily, and I now
have natural passam. I fuel like a new
man." W.JO. JSlJWA'U, Palmyra, 0.1
idevrrrWe,(e. Offloe.etMnamySt.Jf.'S?
TUTT8 HAIR! DYE.
0AT Hatb oa v7mKM Chan red In.
atantly to a Utwtsr Black bv a aliiglo ap
pnoanon ot this Itb. Sold by Drugglsaa,
cc aent by axpreaa on raoelpt of L
Offlon, it Murray Street, Xw Terk.
TBn'S MAMDAiOF ISEFDL RECEIPTS FRIE.
Tha only known specific for BpllrpUe Tits. "3
Also for Spasms aoa Falling Blekneas. Harrou
Voakaess st Instantly relieves and oama, Cleanaas
blood and qulokoas sluggtaa elroaUtJoa, Veuve.
Uses germ dueaie and saves sfcknesi. Caret
A SKEPTIC SAID
agijrblatolwa and rtabboro Wood sores. Eliminate
Bella, Cartraoales and Boalda. tVPennatMntlr and
promptly euraa paralysis. Taa , It la a oharmlng and
Healthful Aperlast. Kllli Barafula and Kings Km.
tela broehers. Oiangot baa brcattio good, removw
tog the came.' Boots Mitral tendencies and rnakst
elaar oomplaKloo. gqnallod by none In the dotlrlma
of few. A charming naolrent and a matchless
lamtlve. It orlvee Sink Hai'laehe Uie the wind.
tCooeajMnooattleoetliarUooropiate. ItcUeves
(THE GREAT)
MEiBViElCiSiNiQUfiRiORD
the brain ot morbid faades. Promptly ettresBbeu.
maUmi by routing It. Boatoret Uf eivtng proper
tiaa to the blood. Is guaranteed to cure all nervous
disorders. tVBellaMo when all oplatea fall. Be.
f rwbea the mind and Invigorates she bgdy Caret
drspepala or money refunded.
IhiemeibiJIaITO
Plaaates of the blood ownltaconnueror. EnrtorMQ
In writing by over fifty thousand loading ettlsene,
elargymoo and pbymotam In V. 8. and Snrope.
UT Jor sale by all leading drutalMa. tijg, (U
Tbe Dr. S. L Rlc&mbnil M Co.St.Jossp!i.Hii
TIIE STAnOABD.
FIFTY YEARS
Kadlerne or Black Draught U I
ixuttirafAotturadl at Chattanooga, F
Sens, tr tha Identtoal recipe I
feted, by Dr. A. Q. Stmmoea, la I
the rirannractnre of Ida Uve V
Hedlelne,aaeU'lyalBVSO,UU I
M. A. Tnunvnan A C Jl rrfijtwjmt
Bavtag been one of Dr. A. Q. 8un
Sons' earliest arentt (or his Live
edlclne, and also agent lor It slnoa
uia aeam, i oo cneenuiiy recon
I mend It to the nublio as the genuine
I and beat Liver Medicine in the world.
I have Died the medicine ud b$
Dr. A. 0. fitsammi Umtetf. and also
I that mad by tha parents cl U. A.
f Thedfora, nrs it no iMeme$ M
Iasm: so I know the madimnA marta
by you It the genuine and orlgliiaJU
aj inada by Dr. Bijnmoua,
IToor Truly, 1
AWELOTfiSAiVl
A1 fiuMQi Iletvaay tot Ootv
UpatloB, Dyrpepsla, Indinvte.
Hon, Ure Complaint, ul all
Uvbt IHseaaea, bag been In
onitant nae by the publio for
Bftj yeare, and la mora popular
to-day than ewer becore. Buy
none bat M. A, Cbedford Oo.'a
original and ganulna, mannxae
ured by tbe Chattanooga Hedb
no Co., at CnatfoooKm, Teno.
very package) enclosed la Yel
low Wrapper. . . ,
If
rtai pttokac bf mO, 80hb
Stories on the Road.
O011MKHCIALTnAVrci,in AT A WAVKIDH iw
HOMB-1HIKO TO ev e IK A OKIPSAOK.
"Gentlemen, I almost euvy you the positions
you fill: your experience of the world; your
knowledge of business; the ohaugiug sights you
see. and all iliiit,you know.7
This warmly expressed regret fell from the
lips of an I'Merly iileasure touriHU last Aueust,
and was addressed to a scmicirclo of commer
cial iravelerH seated on the porch ol the IJndell
lloiel, HI, l.oiiiH, Mo.
"Yea," responded a New York representative
of the profession, "a drummer Isn't without his
pleasures, hut lie rims Ills risks, loo-rlsks out
side the dinners ol railroad collisions luul steam
boat explosions."
"Wliatrlakx for Inslnnee?"
"This, for iustnuee," said Mr. W. D. Frank
lin, who wiMthuiilmvf'liiijshii -an liashTU house,
kwl Is known to ineMiuuts la nil tarts of the
ewmlry: "flie risk- lileh. iml I, amounls
almost touueruihiiy of ueilinn Hie ilvspuimia
(mm nei iietiial eliaiiKe of diet ami water and
from liavuiK no lixed lioum for euiiiiR and sleep.
iiiR. 1 myself was mi (ouuHjile. 1 say was, for
1 am all nhl now."
"Noillseoiintoii your dlnestion?" broke In a
ClileaKo dry uuoils traveler, liulilniug his cluar
afresh.
"Notaquartcr percent Hut I had toeiveuu
travelliu! fur a while. The dyspepsia ruined niy
paper. l''iuullv 1 eame aeross an advert ist-uieut
of I'AHKKlt 'S TONIC i tiled It anil it llxe.t m,,
up Ui perieelioii. There in imiiiiiMr on enrlli In
my opinion. eiuitl to II as n eure tor dyspepsia."
Messrs. II IrW'OX &('(!., of New Vortt, the pro.
prietors, hohl a lellei' from Mr. l'Tunklin st.-it-liilMliai
tuiTisefaet. I'A UK nil's Ti iNllt aids
(liliesl inn, cures Malarial Fevers, Jleartliiiru,
lb'adaelie, f'ouKlis and folds, and all chronic
clisea-a-s of Hie Li verand Kuinevs. Put a hoi Me
In your valise, l'rlees, auilil. li. onoiuv iil
arjferslgr:
THE ABERDEEN EXAMINER.
VOL. XIX.
EDITORIAL MATTER,
From Trl-We ekiv Issues o 1 Mon day and F riilay
We may be vastly mistaken in oar
interpretation f the signs, bnt it
looks to ns very mnch as thongh
Ulysses S, Grant is to be the Kepab
lican Presidential nominoe. HiB
friends are not making any fnss
abont Lim, and are not traveling
with a brass band at the head ef their
column, bnt they are lying around
loose and thick ready to take ad van
tage of any development that may be
favorable to the fortunes of their
ohief. It seems to be very well set
tied that neither Blaine nor Arthur
will have a majority on the first bal
lot, and equally certain that the od
herants of neither will go to the
other, hence the deduction that all
roads that go from Blaine and
Arthur, lead to Grant
Thb House of Representatives by a
vote of 140 to 138, on the 15tb, resolved
to oossider the Morrison Tariff bill. Tbe
Mississippi delegation all voted in favor
of its consideration except Judge
Jeffords. An analysis of the vote show
ed five Republicans in favor of consids
ering the bill, and about forty Demo
crats opposed to its consideration. This
vote does not bowever indicate the views
of all the members iu regard to he
merits of the question, for some five or
six Congressmen who are known to bo
strongly opposed to the bill voted in
favor of considering it for tbe purpose
of getting an opportunity to make a re
oord against it in debate, and by finally
voting against it. It will probaoly con
sume a week or two of the session, and
enable many Congressmen to got in their
campaign work in the way of spoach
making.
Elgin, Illinois, comes to the top
with a gang of boys between, the
ages of ten and fifteen years, who
have banded themselves together for
purposes of thievery and arson. Thoy
are representatives of respectable
families. The boys are all under
arrest, and were found to have re
volvers on their persons and large
quantities of valuable plunder stored
at their head quarters.
The Northern speakers and jour
nals have much to say in regard to
"Southern civilization," but the daily
disclosures go to show that our peo
ple are in all essential particulars a
long way in advanoe of their North
ern fellow-citizens of the Republic.
Our boys may perhaps be a little
more pugnacious than theirs,but they
don't band together as robbers and
poisoners as has so frequently been
the case of late in the North and
West; and what is stranger yet, they
do not carry concealed weapons to as
great an extent as the Northern boys,
though perhaps they handle them a
great deal better.
TnE probabilities point to a dead
lock between the two Houses of
of Congress upon the subject of the
Senate amendments to the Naval and
Post Office Appropiation Bills. They
may be able to compromise on the
latter but the contest threatens to be
long and fierce in reference to the
amendments to the Navy bill pro
viding for new steel cruisers, and it
would not be surprising if Congress
adjourned without making any ap
propriation for the navy at all.
The reports from Western Texas
are not encouraging: Cattle are
suffering and large numbers are
dying for want of graBs and water;
that region having Buffered from
drought while the rest of our coun
try has been delayed with rains,
buried by snows or drowned out by
overflowing rivers. Myriads of cat
ter pillars are also reported in
Western Texas, and they are making
destructive raids on vegetation of
all kinds.
Edwdc Booth is said to be in very
bad health, and consequently will
only act next year in Boston and
New York, He has entirely recov
ered from-his financial embarrass
ments, and is now the possessor of
the comfortable fortune of a million
of dollars. By the way, he has cover
visited Washington or even passed
through it since the death of his
brother, Wilkes Booth he comos to
Baltimore every year his birth place
and playi a week in that city, end
during this annual engagement the
railroads sell excursion tickets from
Washington, and thousands of peo
ple go over to Baltimore from the
Federal Capital to see him.
Lonnos "Truth," say: "Mary An
derson has made up her mind to
neither marry the Pope nor take iu
washing." This remark is called
forth by the frequent announcements
of her engagements to members of
the British nobility, all of Licli ilo
iinind cards of denial or afford op.
1'ortuniUeg for pres iuterTiuws.
THE RIGHT: JYOll CQVRT1JSQ FJtVOIi, A Gil FEJ1RIJYG CODEJtJJYTMOJV,
Agriculture r Rrpreneutatlve In
tbe Cabinet.
Even New Hampshire presents to
the Unitod States Senate resolutions
in favor of Col. Muldrows famous
proposition to make the Chief of the
Department of Agriculture a Cabinet
officer. This movement is not sleep
ing, but the bill which passed the
House at the last session will be re
ported at an early day by Mr. Hatch,
of Missouri, Chairman of tha Com
mittee on Agriculture.
Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Missis
sippi, when Secretary of the Interior,
created the Bureau of Agriculture,
and Mississippi in the person of Hon.
H. L. Muldrow, has the honor of first
urging the elevation of its chief to
the dignity of a Cabinet minister.
Tbe Demand lor 1'ure Batter.
The proprietor of the restaurant
of the House of Representatives, has
ordered a large amount of butter
from the Jersey dairy of Hon. H. L.
Muldrow, in Oktibbeha county, Mis
sissippi It is his desire to obtain
for his patrons the best and purest
butter that can be purchased, and if
the express charges prove satisfacto
ry upon the first invoice, and he
finds that the delivery can be made
with a reasonable degree of prompt
ness, he will endeavor to make a per
manent contract for his entire sups
ply from the Jersey herds of Missis
sippi.
The domand for well puUup bnt
ter, that can be guaranteed as abso
lutely pure, is almost illimitable now;
and there is no difficulty in contract
ing with oonsumors in the large
oities at figures ranging all the way
from fifty cents to a dollar a pound.
If reasonable rates are offered by the
express companies, -our Mississippi
dairies will soon control as much of
this trade as they are able to handle.
We reproduce from tlio Vicksburg
Horald this morning tho frank and
manly lottor of Attorney General
Caterings, giving his reasons for not
appearing on behalf of tho Commis
sioners before tho U. S. District
Court in the litigation involving the
constitutionality of the so-cal!od su
pervision law. His action was in all
respects commondable. In this con
nection we havo no hesitation in say
ing that bad he appeared for the
State, and the case resulted as it did
for his presence could not have
affected the decision he would have
boon loaded -with abuse; and the
Governor would have been severely
condemned for entrusting the vindi
cation of tho measure to a lawyer who
had publicly and openly condemned
it.
Representative Money's bill for
providing for cheap correspondence
by telegraph, is the subjeot of daily
discussion before the Committee on
Post Offices and Post Roads of the
House. All of the prominent tele
graph men in the country have been
heard upon tho subject.
This bill proposes to contract for
telegraphio service for the publio at
the rate of twenty-five cents per
message, with a company that will
establish an office at or near every
post offioe. Tho Government will
sell telegraph stamps which will be
attached to messages in the same
manner that postage stamps are ap
plied, and will make all settlements
with the company for messages.
And now tha opponents of silver
coinage are using all of their efforts
to induce Congress to suspend the
coinage of silver dollars for two years.
The efforts will be fruitless the
convenience of the metropolitan
bankers is not to be consulted when
the prosperity of the South and West
is at stake. The resumption of silver
coinage was tho death blow to gold
speculations, and it made the resump
tion of specie paymont on tho part of
the Government easy and practicable.
To the coinage of tha silver dollars
our country owes much of the pros
perity that has come to it in the last
few years, for it has quickened every
artory of trado, and maJo the move
ment and handling of crops easy as
compared to tho preceding period
when the markots were bare of small
notes and coins during tha harvest
season.
Ouit ladies should devote as much
of tlioir time as possible between now
and the middle of October to prepar
ing exhibits for the Mississippi De
partment of the New Orloans Exposi
tion, We hope to 8oo many a glass
show case filled with the offerings of
their neodlos, and that thov will con
tribute liberally to the collection of
paintings, drawings, etc., besides en
tering as competitors in all of the
other holds of skill, boaaty and industry.
ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI, THURSDAY, MAY 8. 1884.
Adulterating Food.
The report of the city chemist of
Boston, is to the effect that but a
small part of the milk sold in that
city is genuine. "It is skimmed,
watered, re-colored with cbarcoal,and
adulterated with boracic acid, to keep
it from souring."
The adulteration of articles of food,
should be punished with the greatest
severity. There can be no higher
crime than that which for gain poi
sons the food of the people for our
part we can see no moral difference
between killing a man through the
medium of slow poison in order to
obtain possession of his estate, and
the act of putting deleterious com
pounds in his daily food in order to
make a few cents a day out of him
until the drugs carry the victim to
his grave.
Bajor Burke, Director General of
the New Orleans Exposition, is in
Washington working with the energy
of a Corliss Engine in the interest of
the gigantio enterprise he represents.
On the 21st, a bill similar to that
passed by Congress for the benefit of
the Philadelphia Centennial Exposi
tion, was introduced in the Senate by
Senator Jonas and in the House by
Representative E. John Ellis, and
every effort will be made to get it
through. It is understood to be
favored by all of the champion "ob-
jeotors," on both sides, in the two
Houses.
Mrs. Charlotte Smith, of Wash
ington.the President of the Woman's
Labor League, was largely instru
mental iu passing tbe Educational
bill through the Senate. Finding
that Warner Miller and many other
Republican Senators were o, -posed
to it, Bhe put herself in comm .nica-
tion with the Knights of Labor and
othor powerful organizations, send-
ind over a hundred tolograms at her
own expense, and brought to bear
the united demaads of eighty thou
sand laborors. Telegrams poured
into the Senate from every town ot
note in the Union, and the Stalwart
Republican enemies of the bill suc
cumbed like little mon, and gave up
their efforts to so amond the bill
that Sonthejn Senators could not
support it,
Mrs. Smith is a Southern woman,
and an acknowledged power when
ever and wherever she exerts ber
ability, Suo claims that this bill
will add to tho employment and re.
munoration of Southern women, and
therefore she fights for it;
The Magnolia Gazette expresses
its Presidential preferences thusly:
"Hancock and Lamar." Tbe Clarion
would favor reversing the order and
making it "Lamar and Hancock."
We would gladly take the ballot iu
either form if the time had arrived
for experimenting with the name of
a great, typical Southerner, on
Presidential ticket.
The South Carolina Republican
delegation to the Chicago Conven
tion is uniustructed, though the Con
vention that appointed them which
was composed mainly of Federal
office holders kept itself solid with
tile appointing power by passing a
resolution endorsing the Administra
tion. Thi Legislature of New Jersey has
passed a bill providing for a tree
planting day in every year, such as
has long existed in Nebraska. On
that day all of the publie schools are
to be closed, and the teachers and
pupils are expectod to join in cele
brating the day by planting trees for
timber and foliage.
As one passes through the moun
tains of West Virginia on the Balti
more & Ohio Railroad, nothing im
presses him as much as the evidences
seen at almost every station of the
immense development of tho lumber
ing resources of that heavily timber
od region; and yot the sight is as
nothing to what must greet tho eye
of the traveler in the near future
who passes over tho new railroad in
our State from Meridian to Now Or
leans a road that traverses a vast
forest of virgin pines of nnusual
girth and heighth,
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri,
tendered Gon. Sherman who is now
on the retired list and living in St.
Louis an appointment as Briadior
Gonoral in command of the militia of
tbe Eastern Division cf tho oUto.
Gen. Sherman demonstrated the
possession of more sense than tbe
Governor, by promptly declining the
proffered commission.
Greek county, Ohio, had a cyclone
on tbe 21 ih of April, that killed six
poraous,
iKEUMIirtt.
The House of Representatives
last week took a long stride in fur
therance of the theory of'free ships,'
that tho Examiner has always advo
cated: The Dingley Shipping bill
was so amended, on mation of "Sun
Set" Cox, as to admit to Americn
registry steel and iron ships of 4000
tons measurement or npwards,bonght
in any country in the world, The
restriction to four thousand tons will
not amount to anything, as that is a
standard ocean measurement, and a
future Congress may repeal the limi
tation; but if the bill becomes a law
it will result in the rapid restoration
of our merchant-marine.and America
will again compete with the great
powers for the carrying trade of the
world. Under our present laws no
vessel is admitted to American reg
istry or permitted to fly the Ameri -can
flag that is not built in our own
ports, while the merchants of all
other countries are free to enter the
markets of the world and buy vessels
like any other article of trade,
wherever they can buy the best ship
for the least money.
Tbe Senate should sustain Cox's
"free ships" amendment.
When we get the State Female
College, the Memphis, Oxford and
Columbus railroad, a cotton factory
and the Georgia Pacific completed
to Birmingham, how would it do to
make a sort of surburban attache out
of Aberdeen? Let it be to Columbus
what Jersey City is to New York;
what tho West End is to St. Louis,
or what Carrollton is to New Orleans
a nice quiet place where we can
build our mansions, and after busi
ness is over run out every afternoon
and get a breath of pure country air.
Columbus Dispatch.
We hate to have to accuse our
amiable noighbor of downright pla
giarism, but it must bo evidont to
any reader that the above paragraph
simply embodies the substance of tho
old joke of "tho tail trying to wag
the dog," and yet our neighbor sings
that anciout song to a new tune.
Whon our neighbor gets "the State
Female College, tho Memphis, Ox
ford & Columbus Railroad, a cotton
factory and the Georgia Pacific com
pleted to Birmingham," wa will, if
permitted Ly the powers behind the
shades, come to him from tho mould
and dust of centuries yet unborn,and
gonlly murmur, "shake."
Dr. Talmage devoted his sermon
in the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sun
day to vigorous denunciation of
spiritualism. If the spirits had car
ried out of their mundane shells any
of the "old Adam" of resentment,
they would have materialized during
the delivery of that sermon, and
given the Dr., a lively fight for su
premacy. Dick Putnum obtained a divorce
from his wife, in Jordon, Now York,
on Sunday last by the aid of two
cartridges out of his gentle little ro'
volver; then he put the seductive
gun to his own thoughtful brow and
"climbed the golden stair to glory.
And now those who were so ruthless
ly separated here in this wicked,
wicked world, are united again bo.
yond the stars, aa it were, for ever
and ever, amen. Sing.
Tue Mississippi Horticultural So
ciety will have a grand exhibit in
place in the Mississippi Department
of the New Orleans Exposition next
December, and this line of exhibits
will we hope be increased by many
volunteer contributions from various
portions of the Stale.
Ma. Ed Wat3on, of the Holly
Springs Pottery and Crockery Ware
Manufactury, will make an exhibit
in the Mississippi Department of tho
Now Orloans Exposition that will be
highly creditable to his city and
State.
Tuk excise Commissioners of New
York have refused to renew the liquor
licenses of Harry Hill, and Billy
Madden, the keepers of houses thBt
have obtained wiJo spread notoriety
for their basenoss.
Thkke are many Art treasures in
Mississippi that we hope to see on
exhibition to the credit of our State
at the New Orleans Exposition, and
we have no doubt but that the com
mittee of ladies appointed in that be
half will succoed in securing tho
majority of them.
Turj House of Bishops of tho Pro'
testent Episcopal Church of the
United States, convened ut Grace
Church in New York on the 22nd,
for tho pnrpeso of electing Mission
ary Bishops to nil vacancies.
In the U. S. Court at Charleston,
South'Onrolina, last week, four ex
deputy Marshals were indicted for
prcujg frUiirtCiit aew-ittts.
Tbe PotteriP9 of Itawamba.
Our neighbor county of Itawamba
is rich in commercial clays as well as
in stout hearted and frugal furmers,
and that she is making the most of
this advantage, is evidenced by the
establishment and successful cons
ducting of four manufucturies of ex
cellent pottery that finds ready sale
throughout this region and needs
only to be known to meet with active
demand in the leading markets of
the country.
Three of these establishments are
located at or in the vicinity of the
village of Tremont, under the fol
lowing named proprietors:
E. N. & A. J, Davidson, Dickson
Robertson, Solomon May.
Tbe fourth establishment is located
in the vicinity of Fulton, and is own
ed by Mr. Chaney of that town.
It is expected that each of these
potteries will prepare an exhibit to
be placed in the Mississippi Depart
ment of the New Orleans Exposition
where it will do much to advertise
the county and its resources and in
dustries.
The most egotistical of the United
States, "Me." Lowell Courier. The
most religious,"Mais." The IIatcht.
The poorest in health,"!!!" Pretzel's
Weekly. The father of all the States,
"Pa." Holly Hock. The prettiest,
"Miss." Uolfast Journal.
The moat astounded (especially
since the Cincinnati outbreak), "O,"
Vicksburg Post.
The silliest of all tho States, is
"Neb."
The one most venerated by the fol
lowing of ElMahdi, is "Ala."
The one that should be looked to
in the event of the quarantine failing,
isM'd."
The one that a man seeking seclu
sion should hido in, is "Del."
The one whose fleas and soot! ticks
riddle a follows hide, is "Fla."
Tiiu Tammany Democracy cf Now
York expoct to go t Chicago in
force when tho Convention moots:
Their treasurer has secured -IK'
rooms at tho loading hotels for tbe 1
delegation.
i li.s or,
'diiization .d .v
ll)'s
sends a largo representation tej tho
National Conventions.
Tnu Indiana Republican dolorrates
to Chicago will favor a Proc:clc"t:al
,. , n . , ,, " " .' ,"
candidate from that State, either
Senator Ben Harrison or Post Master
r, i ,,r , , r- , i ,
General . y. G-reshum, but u they
fail to niako hoadwuy for a lloosier,
.:n n .i,i:i;. n
will in all probability rally upon
Dlatne.
Mn. Charles E. Coon, of the loan
division, has been appointed to suc
ceed John C. New, of Indiana, as
Assistant Secretary of tho Treasury.
He has teen connected with the de
partment for over twenty years.
Charles Friekc, of Chicarro,an aged
man who is too feeble to got out of
his bod, obtained a divorce from his
second wife last wock. The pro
ceedings were conducted with a club
which he used in slyly beatinr? out
J J
her brains.
The Northern and Eastern cities
are rejoicing iu strawberries from the
sunny South. With the present
transportation facilities, New York
ought to enjoy a strawberry season
of about six months duration.
The Evening Times, a new daily
paper, made its first appearance in
Louisville on tbe first of May. It
claims to be "the only aftornoon
paper below tho falls containing the
associated press dispatches
Mixnie Palmer, tbe actress, has
just been celebrating her"ninet8eutb
birth-dny'' again. She does this
every fcw years, and has done it so
often that it is beginning to be a 'it
tie monotonous.
Gatii, iu one of bis letters to tho
Cincinnati Enquirer, says: "I do
think that in the lower portion of
the Middle States there is more
back-biting than anywhere I have
over been."
The inquest over tho victims of
the Cincinnati riot, is still progress
ing In that city, An immonso num
ber of witnoHoes have been csamiued
thus far, but no developments have
bocu made.
Sk steamships, carrying ovor four
thousand emigant3, left rrilisii ports
for Canada lust week. This is double
the number that over sailed for that
destination in auy one week before.
The adoptiou of the First Amend
ment, to tho Louisiana Constitution,
is the first instance on record whore
a people ever voted to increase tho
rate of interest oa their public debt.
The ground hog was right in his
theory with regard to tho wuiithwr
, tits y tar.
NO. 4
The 20th of April, the Sixty-fifth
Anniversary of the organization of
the order cf Odd Fellows, was gen
erally celebrated throughout the
United States and British Provinces.
Van Gassy, a banker of Effingham,
Illinois, has gone on a spring excur
sion to Canada with forty thousand
dollars of other peoples money in hi3
little pocket.
The House of Representatives of
Massachbssetts, killed on its third
reading, a bill providing for bienniul
sessions of the Legislature.
Attornrj-Uonra! ('atrblngM and
Kaiiroud Muprrvlnlou .
FHOMTHB VICK3BL-KO EEEA1.1)
After Beveral pnblic jonrufils in Mis
nisiiippi bave indulged m uncompliment
ary criticism of the Hon. Thomas C.
L'atcliiugs, the able and oonncientioui-Attorney-General
of the State, in oou
nection with his action in regard to the
suits instituted by the railroad compa
nies against the Board of F.ailwny Com
missioners, it affords us pleasure to pre
sent to the people a brmf note from Mr.
Catchiugs to the editor of Tub Commeb
ciAi Herald, and his letter to Gover
nor Lowht. A perusal of this correspon
dence will satisfy the most ardtnt cavil
ler that the course of Mr. ditchings was
prompted by a high sense of public duty
as well as a lofty Bentimont of profession
al and official honor and propriety, We
cannot doubt that our bretuern 'cf tbe
press, wbo, utider mistaken view of the
facts, have harshly criticized the Attorney-General
for a" neglect of duty, will
take pleasure in making the amende
iionokablu by repubhhliicg this corres
pondence. Justice to a dit.;:nguibliti
ollicial and a patriotic citizen demands
this much.
Vickgbcbo, Miss., April 29. 1861.
Editor Comiarrcial Ikralil.
Several papers in the State havo lately
commented with more or less severity
upon my supposed course with reference
to the suits of the Railroad Commit-siuu.
These commeuts seem to be billed up
on the aser.ru j tion that I liEia'SBD to op
pear for the Commission, Lecunse I ro
gardod the law as unconstitutional.
I band you herewith a cupy of a letter
written by rr.e to Gov. Lowry'wUcu these
suits were commenced, which fully ex
plains my course. I did not muse to
defend the Commission, and had the
Governor differed wih me as to the pio
prioty of employing eiv-'in! counsel, I
would have defended it to the best of my
abihty nudei the circumstances.
The qnestiouc inv )lveJ were of great
importance, and in as much us ir.y views
had been orliciallv expressed, uud were
gunerallv understood to be adverse to
the validity of many portions of tho law,
I felt that common iustice to the frietnix
of tho measure, entitled thorn to have the
uefeD6c made by some lawyer, who be
lieved that it was iu all respects lastnl
and constitutional.
explanation, when I ub first advise,! of
i "Je misapprehension as to my course,
hinder which some of the gentlemen of
j the press were laboring, but cmclude.l
j tbit it would be best to defer it uytil
Judge HiU had rendered his decision.
j wiI1 HUT iu Uiis connection that I did
not advise the Governor that the law was
unconstitutional. Ou the oontrarv, I ad-
iseil him tHt it wa3 uot mcoutit;ati, ,u.
al upon its face. I said to him that if it
should be construed so as to embrace
property shipped from this to another
State, orvicit vbksa, it woald'e uncon
stitutional, but that simh a construction
was uot required by the terms of the law.
I said to him also, thai I did not think
that any railroad iu this State was pro
tected by its charter from legislative
oontrol, and I am of the same opinion
still.
Please pardon ine for taking up so
muoa of your valuable space.
Respectfully,
T. C. Catch:os.
Hon. Robert Lowry, Gov. of Mississippi,
Jackson:
Dbab Sin I have to dav received from
Mr. Mc Willie, one of the Railroad Oom
uiissioners, the snpctma served upon him
In ll,.ounl tha Illin,D nr,t.-,.l
road Company against the Commission,
together with a notice that motion for an
injunction will be mnde before Judge
Hill, the 10th inet., at Aberdeen.
1 presume that it is my ollicial dn:y
under sotion 252 of the Code to defnuil
this suit, bat I fee! that auder the circum
stances the interests of the State would
ba subserved by having the State defend
by special counsel. You have the pow
er under seotion 2,'Ci't, to engage counsel
whenever in your spiuiou the interests of
the State require it.
The features of the act of the Legisla
ture assailed by this suit, which are
deemed by those who advocate it, as of
the most importance, are those having
for their object the supervision of the
taiifls of charges of the railroads, and
the imposition of penalties, etc,
I am of the opinion that the Mate can
not interfere with tariffs for the trans
portation of auy freights except suco as
is to be carried wiiwUy witiiiu the State.
Freight to be transported from another
Stale to this, or from this to another
State, cannot, m my opinion, be con
trolled by the State.
1 am also of the opinion that the act in
so far as it seeks to create ihe offense o(
extortion, is wholly incapable of enforce
ment, by reason o: us vugwuess and un
certainty. If I am correct m ir.y viewa, !
the hill will fail to accomplish what itti
friends intended it to eject. Jly opinion
in this repe5t are well known, nnu are
the result ef much thought by rce.
I could not advocate ihe bill therefor
exospt iu a very p.nluuetory wiyv, for 1
oould not say to ihe oourts that i beletv
ed it to be a valid law.
lawver who wo-.ld riake Bu'b a state-
niont unless true, would be unworthy of
his profession.
lhoro are able lawyers in tho State,
who believe the law can be enforced in
all respect as written, nnd I am sure it
would have a better cluMce if advocated
by some of these, than by myself. Again,
T am obliged during the next week to
prepare my orimiiml docket for the Su
premo Court, for the following Monday,
and 1 cannot, therefore, give the neces
eary attention to the case. Moreover, it
is not my duty to go to Aberdeen, or to
to appear in any ease, except at the soat
of Government. It was uot the intention
of tbe law that I should bo required to
try any case, exoept at Jackson.
Under the foregoing circumstances, I
respectfully request that yon employ
counsel to represent the Commission.
I would Ruggest the employment of
Judge Watson, Capt. Walker or Hou.
Uobert Taylor.
Please edvisw me if I will be 03pe;r,rt
to take any steps in the mutter,
Respectfully,
'A'. O, CilCDWOS,
Ifl IBNUMD OH 1
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Tiii-brred Lands,
May an! U to tho:r intertMt to
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