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Clarion.
Xlvi.
Jackson, Mississippi, Wednesday, January 24, 1883.
No. 4.
iL.
The
Manning-Chalmers Case.
Judge Wharton,
(Circuit Court
iered its judgment in the Man-
.alrners case, deciding that Gen.
Us was entitled to the certificate
ion from the Secretary of State;
1472 votes from Tate county
have' been counted for him in-
Lf Chambless; and that the dec
ern the part of the Secretary of
favor 01 Vol. Manning, was
the facts as disclosed upon the
the official statements from the
pioners of Election of the sever-
kttrs composing the becond Lon-
nal District, and was void
1 stress was laid by the attorney
Hrcretarv of State upon what
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ttoa demand upon, and retusal
; Secretary of State to count the
Dunty votes for Chalmers, but the
1 Judge held that the law enjoined
I a duty upon the counting officer,
It personal demand to discharge a
Iduty was necessary. As to the
i to act, it was adjudged that the
fc to count when requested by Gen.
iters, and the submission to argu-
the question as to whether the
sheet" did not control the certifi
r statement of the Commissioners,
s suggestion of counsel for Col.
ng, was sufficient to warrant the
ition of this suit. Else the statute
; the remedy would be nugatory ;
the petitioner was compelled to
ntil final action was taken before
;ht to a mandamus was complete,
Id result that the right would exist
to be effectually destroyed. The
mid not be interpreted so as to be
structive.
s Court repeated its former ruling
e construction of the State election
and held to the doctrine lying
(foundation of our republican in-
hons, that the popular will must be
Ically carried out, and not defeated,
he object of all laws was to ascer
fairly and justly what the people
Idetermined by their ballots. These
except as to the time and place of
nv elections, wero directory, and
krror apparent on the face of state
I s-i Tl i
is by commissioners 01 Election
nutted to the Secretary ot btate
d be promptly corrected. If the
xistence of any error in the written
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t 1 1 mi 1 I m ; 1 1 1 1 1 t7 cm uu 11111 vi
canvas of votes, should correct it and
the proper evidence of such correc-
, iia Hnerornrv of Ktiire. no rule
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snouiu siana in me way 01 ins
full effect to it.
Secretary of State asked for a trial
ry of the issues of fact, and it was
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h im t.iir ve.riiiri, oi 1 1 1 1 1 : u . nit:
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the peremptory writ awarded
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require the Secretary of State to
he certificate to Chalmers and de
him elected. We learn that the
tary of State will take the case to
upreme Court.
arguments of Col. Nugent for
firs, nnn ot .iiinirt nruiuti 101 iTxaii
(or Myers) were both characterized
minn nnn n ti iirv
0
6 following citizens composed the
tt. JValer, isyaorc trauss, oonu
fr w itiim 1 iromrmi.
Southerland, J. W. Kelly, W. B.
WITT W r 1I.,,11 Jnnnh
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B indications are that there will be
riff legislation the present session
V. Butler, of Massachusetts on
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1 females of 21 years of age, in
&a h, niili.ii 11aJ rt I. Am it a
ntV nf Ilium (i ro i n ft,vnr nt it- It
become an established fact ; if not,
affronts comon sense to assume
'Supreme Court ever intended
4 -vvwivu i v una s vuuv xwj -
ground for denying the power and
of Election Commissioner to
statement. If under our statutes
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the people to have their votes
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ii tirriini i ii iaiiij iit tin t r arui
y VVHfHVU J J i
to absolutely annul them, our
are wofully defective and our
'ystem a farce. The Supreme
could not have intended to pro-
such monstrous doctrine.
on December 18th
What a Georgia Boy Did.
Meridian Mercury.
The Atlanta Constitution tells of a
Georgia boy just a little over 8 years old,
who last year cultivated with a common
goat three-quarters of an acre of land
and made 233 pounds of lint cotton.
News and Notes.
Looks Like Business.
Memphis Avalanche.
About 2,000 laborers will be at work
this month on the Memphis, Selma and
Brunswick railway bet ween Holly Springs
and Aberdeen.
The grand jury of Pensaeola, Fht, km
presented the Board of Health of that city
and county for having been "grossly negli
gent of their duties, in that they did not
take proper sanitary precautions previous
to the introduction of yellow-lever into Pen
saeola ia 1881."
Afraid to Touch Them.
Denver Tribune.
Neither silver nor lead arc in danger
from hostile legislation. The Republican
party in Congress, dare not touch them.
Without the silver States it would have
no hope at the next election.
The Internal Eevenue Tax.
Aberdeen Examiner.
We4hink, that it is more than likely
that Congress at its present session will
repeal all Internal Revenue taxes but
those upon whisky and manufactured
tobacco, and reduce those items materi
ally, while some progress will be made
towards unloading the excessive bur
dens incident to the protective tariff.
Death of Mrs. W. A. Purdom.
Lexington Bulletin.
Mrs. Elizabeth P. Purdom, relict of
the late Wilson A. Purdom, died at her
home in Calvert, Texas, Tuesday night,
the 9th inst. She was for many years a
resident of Lexington, her many friends
amonir the old citizens of this county
and Jackson, where she subsequently
resided, will be pained at the news of
her demise.
Polk's Lineage.
The following is published in the Milan
Exchange as showing the lineage of Uol.
M. T. Folk: A latty resides here, who
was a child in Bolivar with our abscond
ine treasurer, and has known his family
for many years, tone says his name was
ornrinallv Marshall late, and not folk;
that he was a poor relative ot rresiaent
Polk, and that the president adopted
him into his family for the purpose of
educating and making a man ol him
So it seems that he was not far wrong
when he gave his name m lexas
Tate."
River Mews.
fparl river is still blgli, but falling.
The Oliver Clifton.Capt. Charley Kerr
at the wheel, arrived late Saturday even
ing from Carthage with fifty-five bales
of cotton, nine turkeys, sixty dozen eggs
and a lot of hides, tehe returned jester
dav.
The 0. R. Singleton, managed by that
clever gentleman, Capt. 11. I. Brown
came puthng in Monday trom idinburg
with a fair load, consisting of 182 bales
of cotton and a lot ot other treight
She will return to-oay.
Officers of the N. J. & C. Railroad
Natchez Democrat.
The following are the officers elected
by the directory of the Natchez, Jack
son & Columbus Railroad on luesday
last, viz:
President Will T. Martin.
Secretary Jas. H. Fitzpatrick.
Treasurer Geo. W. Kooutz.
The superintendent, general freight
and passenger agent, etc., are all appoin
tive officers, and President Martin as
sures us that there is such satisfaction
with the present incumbents that no
change is contemplated so far as they are
concerned.
A Congresman on A Bust.
Memphis Appeal.
Washington, Jan. 19. Congressmen
behave themselves pretty well here as
a rule, but let them get on a railroad
train a few miles away, and they make
things lively. A gentleman who just
came in from Baltimore remarked that
Gen. , a member from one of the
Southern States, was on the train "drunk
as a boiled owl." "He was lying down
in the aisle in the front car," Be said,
vellim?. We finally got
him up and into a seat and managed to
keep him moderately quiet until we got
here. He told me a hundred times com-
inir nloncr that he was going out of Oon
cress with clean hands as pure as the
i riven snow, lie sam lie coum lime
made millions, but he wouldn t take it
The Greenback.
MEETING OF CONGRESSMEN TO PREPARE
AN ADDRESS JO THE COUNTRY.
Washington. Jan. 19. The Green
back members of Congress held a con
ference this evening. A committee con
sisting of Rice, of Missouri; Brumm, of
Pennsylvania; Jones, oi lexas, ana
l,dd. of Maine, were appointed to pre
pare an address and report to a future
met ting. All agreea iiini me pruim
and the organization of the party should
be preserved, as all signs point to a finan
cial panic in the near future, when the
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principles tnev advocate m uc uuuci
Btood and appreciated by the people.
This, and the nationality of their party,
as compared with the sectional prcjuuices
governing the old parties, will constitute
the leading features of the address.
Railway Rioistbb: President Acker-
. .1 - a .1. I IL. ....ai. Viuf Van
man denies me irnw """""
derbilt is purchasing stock in the Illinois
Central with a design of obtaining control
of that system of liaei. The rumor itself
was improbable on its face.
St. Lor is. Miss Zeralda Garrison, who
fell into the hands ol lhc mashirs and was
reported to be abducd, has been taken
East by her uncle, O. L. Qarrtson, by advice
of the family physicians, to be placed in an
asylum fur treatment for nervous disease.
A card signed by Drs. G. S. Walker and C.
V. Stevens will be published in this atter-
oon's Post-Dispatch, in which they stite
thnt a full examination of her uieiital con-
ition showed that theyjwng lady was de
cient in the development of her mental
faculties to such an extent as to make her
irresponsible at times for her actions. Ir-
egularitiei in natural functions, well known
to the family physicians, easily account for
this. With regard to her physical con
dition, an examination warranted the con
clusion that she was not subjected to any
physical violation during the time of her
disappearance.
At St. Helena, Cal., J. O'Rourke shot and
fatally wounded his wife.
At Pittsfield Mass., Joseph Butler, mar
ried and 27 years old, plead guilty to the
charge of raping his niece, aged 11, and In
tent to rape two others, aged seven and
eight. He was sent to the State prison for
life.
At Trenton, N. J., Rev. John D. Miller,
in opening the proceedings of the House,
prayed that no member might be foroed to
explain to an inquisitive constituency when
he returned home how, having come to
Trenton poor, he went back rich on a salary
of $500 for the legislative session.
Governor Ludlow, of New Jersey, wants
the railroads of that State to pay $100,000
more taxes, and suggests legislation for that
purpose. He says the taxes on private
property and on the railroads are unequal.
Col. Greenburg L. Fort, ex-Congressman,
died in Lacon, Illinois, last week, after a
short illness.
The Lower House of the Missouri Legis
lature contains forty attorneys and fourteen
editors.
Women stenographers of the highest
elaiat "orr man. I and receive salaries of HOflO
a year anH upwards, when employed in
large establishments.
In a corn-raising contest near Rome, Ga.,
five young men took part. The winner of
the prize raised thirty-seven bushels and
8iven ounces on a half aorc.
Maj. Campbell Wallace, one of the mem
bers of the Georgia Railroad Commission,
celebrated recently the seventy -seventh an
niversary of his birth. He has an extended
experience in railroad aflairs as Superin
tendent and President, and is now a bank
President at Atlanta, as well as Railroad
Commissioner in all positions commanding
respect and confidence.
Contrary to reports, tracklaying on the
Southern Pacific Railroad in Texas, is not
yet completed. A gap of 3,600 feet remains
to be closed. Construction is impeded by
the unfriendly nature of the ground.
Kitty Marsh, the Vermont girl who ran
away with a mulatto, lias been found with
him in a small village in New York State,
and reluctantly consented to return home
A meeting of colored men in North Caro
lina has been held to inaugurate the first
railroad enterprise ever started exclatively
by men of that class. Several thousand dol
lars were subscribed. The projected road
is to run from Wilmington into the eastern
counties of North Carolina.
News comes of the death of Mrs. Emma
Stillwell, the confessed Ohio murderess of
so manyf her relatives. Up to the last the
maintained the truth of her confession.
The first cargo of corn in bulk shipped to
Europe from Savannah, Ga., was loaded on
the 17th.
Congressman Hammond, of Georgia, while
at home for the Christmas holidays, said to
a friend - "I am hardly as sanguine of a
Democratic victory in 1884 as most of my
party colleagues are. You sec, while the
Republicans lost a great many votes in the
Fall electionc, we did not gain them. We
carried New York by an overwhelming ma
jority, not because we recruite our party,
hut because something like I SO. 000. New
York Republicans didn't vote."
Fifteen matrimonial associations in Louis
iana and Mississippi have been declared
fraudulent by the Post Oflice Department.
Bishop Joseph C. Talbot, of the Episco
pal Diocese of Indiana, died at Indianapo
lis, on the 1 th of paralysis, aged 05.
At Shelbyville, Ind., a divorced couple,
tired of going it alone have become man
and wife again.
Gen. W. C. Pendleton, chief of the artil
lery army in Northern Virginia in the late
war, is dead.
Prof. Mitchell, before the Mississippi
river committee, exprcssud the opinion that
when the Mississippi improvement is com
pleted, under the present plan, a channel
15 to 20 feet deep would be secured in places
now the most shallow.
At Lynchburg, Va., Gen. Odin G. Gay
died at the Nor veil House on the 18th, in
the 82d year of his age.
At Palestine, Texas, Dr. Weat, aged 70, a
prominent physician, was arrested and tak
en for trial before the court at Tyler, chaiged
with sending improper letters anonymously
to Miss Sadie Cogswell, aged 30.
Dr. and Mrs. Durham and Mrs. Shanks, of
Thompson, (ia., ware poisoned by a colored
girl 10 years old. The girt was bound to
Dr. Durham, and in revenge for punishment
pt poison in tha coffee at dinner. The
Dr. is In a critical condition and the other
two are net out of danger.
Wu, Graham oiinniitted sniaido at Lar
kinsville Ala, by blowing out his brains.
Caused bj ruined fortune, brought about by
paying aecurity debts.
In the Arkansas Legislature, a number of
b lis have been introduced regulating freight
and passenger rates on railroads runainc
through the State. The present rate is 5
cents per mile, which the bills roduce'fa 9
cents, and freight rates proportionately.
Col. Paraniore, President of the Paramore
narrow-gungc system, will, it is said, appear
before the Legislature and advocate the
proposed reduction.
Girls in the Iowa Agricultural College are
taught to cook.
Oswego, N. Y., January 19. John Hiokey
and his wife were arrested for inhumanly
ti eating a girl named Osee F.verett, aged 19
years, who had been a domestic in their
household for some years.
Chicago, with sixty square miles of terri
tory and 600,000 people has 444 policemen,
about two hundred and fifty being avail
ablo for night service. Hence Chicago is
fast becoming the wickedest city in the
country. '
THE ELECTION CA8ES.
On Trial Before Judge Hill, of the
United States District Court, at
Oxford.
Over the State.
Kemper Herald : T. W. Brame Esq., of
DeKalb, is soon to leave DeKalb for Scran-
ton Miss., which place he will make his
home in the future.
At Austin, Tunica oounty, on Tuesday,
16th, a fire broke out in the general mer
cants' store house of J. N. Nathan A Co.
The building and contents were destroyed,
as were also the dry goods house of J. M.
Phillips and the saloon of J. C. Evans, part
ly insured
Delta Review : We want no landed aris
tocracy in this county.
At Mavenville, three prisoners, Jack
The Tn-pictmkxts QrArnisn BStUTJM
Defective in Several Important
Pajitculaiu.
Special to the Appeal.
Oxford, Miss.. January 17. The
eases of Ed. M. Watson, William M.
Strickland, A. V. Drown, J. ft Boxley
and Henry E. Williamson, all of Holly
Springs, wore called for trial to-day in
the Federal Court. These, gentlemen
were Indicted for violating the Federal
election laws in the recent Pounces tow
id election in the Second District of this
State. The attorneys for the defendants
moved to qua-h the indictment on the
ground of tnsufficiancy in the allega
tions, vagueness, uncertainty, etc.
Judge John W. 0. Watson opened the
argument on the- part of defendant, and
was followed by den. James li. Chal
mers, the recently appointed assistant
district-attorney. Mr. James H. Wat
son replied in support of the motion, and
was followed bv District-Attorney (i. 0.
Chandler. .Indue Watson closed the
argument in u speech ot great ability
and power, which was raaarded by all
present as the citort ot tnsjauy. juage
HU1 sustained the motion quashing toe
indictment, and deciding that it was de
fective in a number of important partic
ulars. The prosecution immediately
gave notice tliat they would proceed
against the defendants upon an informa
tion founded on Judge Hill's construc
tion of the law. The trial upon the in
formation is set for the next term of the
court.
Carroll Watchman: There should
be a law in every State requiring search
ing investigation of every rnate orace ot
trust at each session of the Legislature.
No good reiiHon can be assigned in oppo
sition to such investigations if the of
fices arc properly conduetca no harm
can bo done and the people will know
that their servants are faithful and are
not abusing the confidence reposed in
them if improperly conducted, an in
vestigation will expose tho irregulari
ties, and faithless public servants, who
have taken advantage of and abused the
confidence of the people, will be held up
to the public gaze and conaemnea as
they should be.
RI RV ME in thi: mormim;.
Bnrv me in the luornine, mother;
th ! let me have the light
Of one bri.rht day on my grave, mother,
Ere vou leave me aloue with night ;
Alone id the night o( the grave mother
Tis a thought of terrible fear!
And you will be here alent mother,
And stan will be shining here.
So bury me in the mem, mother,
Aud let me have the light
Of one bright day on my grave mother,
Ere 1 am alone with night.
Yon tell of the Saviour's love, mothe
I feel it in my heart ;
But. oh t from this beautiful world, mother,
'lis hard tor the young to pan!
Forever t part when here, mother,
The soul is fain to stay.
For the grave is deep and daek, mother,
And heaven seems far away.
Then bury nic in the morn, mother,
And let me have the light
Of one bright day on my crave, mother.
Ere 1 urn alone with atgM.
Never unclasp my hand, mother,
'till it fills away from thine
Let me hold the pledge of my love, mother,
Till I feel the love divine.
The love divine oh ! look, mother,
Above its beams I see.
And there an angel's face, mother,
Is smiling down on mc.
So bury sac in the morn, mother,
When sunbeams flood the sky
For death is the gate ef lite, mother,
And leads to light on high.
"Friend and Foe,"
Manager W. H. Power takes pleasure in
presenting to the Jackson public a true Irish
Comedian, Mr. W. J. Scanlan, in a new
Comedy Drama, entitled "Friend and Foe,"
by Bartley Campbell, Esq. Mr. Scanlan is
one of the most talented Comedians upon
the stage, and the only actor that elevates
the Irish Character. Iu speaking of Mr.
Scanlan, the N. Y. Irish Nation says : "If
the Irish blood of America sternly repudi
ated actors who presented carloatures of
their race, and supported those who gavo
faithful delineations of Irish life and char
acter, much good would come to the eauso
of Ireland and the education of publio
opinion in favor of a much maligned people.
A rare enjoyment is offered iu Friend and
Foo and Mr. Scanlan, in whose perform
ances Donnybrook brutalities have no
place."
MeneL Edmund Jones and Walker Thomp
son, confined in the county jail at that place
under the charge of murder, effected their
escane bv filing an iron bar two inches
thick and swinging from the window.
The Chickasaw Messenger regrets the
death of one of Chickasaw's oldest citi
zens, Mr. Mumford Bean, at his residence
near Buena Vista, on the 15th inst.
llrandon Republican : Mrs. Susan Wil
liams, widow ot Thilander Williams, deceas
ed, died on Sunday last, in the 67th year of
her age. Mr. Jon Holmes, au old resident
of the county, died a few days since.
The Republican says that a Swede, named
Brady, living on the old Necly place, was
tried at the last term of the Circuit Court,
for unlawful cohabitation with a nefrro
woman, and was convicted and fined. Last
Thursday night, as we are informed by re
liable authority, he was married to the negro
woman by Adam Lewis, a negro preacher.
The Republican thinks that Brady stands a
fair chance to go the penitentiary, as the
law does not permit such marriages.
The Holly Springs Reporter regrets much
to learn that Capt. Ed. Kuhl, of Wall Hill,
Marshall eounty, intends removing his fami
ly to Florida the first of next month. He
is one of Marshall's best citizens.
Winona Advance : We notice this week
the departure from our midst, of C. O. Hoi-
man, Esq. He goes into the far West, and
intends hanging out his- shingle in the
flourishing capital of Colorado. T. B. Mur
rell made an assignment here to-day to W.
T. Townsend. Capt. Sweatman and Mrs.
Psrker were made preferred creditors.
Macon Sun; Mr. Mat. Mahorner sold off
of his plantation during the year 1882 one
thousand dollars worth of stock.
At an election for aldermen at Brooks
ville, in Noxubee county, the whiskey issue
was up and the whiskey men carried it by a
vote of 35 to 28.
The Copiah county Agricultural and Me
chanical Association have elected for officers
for the present year: Dr. R. W. Huey,
President; J. D. Cranberry, 1st Vice-President;
H.C. Conn, 2d Vice-President; H.
II. Cook, Secretary; A. B. Guynes, assist
ant Secretary ; T. J. Ramsey, Treasurer, and
Dr D. W. Jones, E. A. Rownn, P. J. Young,
B. C. Williamson ond II. Garth, a board ot
directors.
Dr. II. A. Moody, a former mcmbtr of the
Mississippi Legislature from Panola county,
has removed to Florida. The Star warmly
endorses him.
The Corinth Snb-Soiler says that Col. J.
A IMair has been uppoiutcd postmaster at
Tupelo.
The property of the Mississippi Valley
Improvement' Company, situated at Mc
Comb City, end consisting of a hotel, briok
store and a number of very comfortable
dwelling houses, has been transferred to the
Illinois Central railroad.
Canton Citiaen: Mr. Wm. McK.ee, of
Madiionvllle, left on Wednesday night for
Hill county, Texas, whero he goes on a
prospecting visit, thinking to leave Missis
sippi for the Lone Star State.
Of the fifty millions of persons in tho
United States,thcre are less than thirteen
million who can vote. 1 he exact nuni
ber of males twenty-one years old and
over by the last census report, 12,S20,811),
ot whom li,:i43,(H.owcre;wlutoan(i 1,4,
M4 colored. Of the whites 8,270,518
are of native birth, and 3,072,487 of
foreign birth.
The Horticultural Convention.
Jackson, Jan. 18, 1883.
EDITOH8 Cr.Anio.v: On the 25th,
there will assemble in Jackson an imjMir-
tiuit convention. I mean tho meeting of
Horticulturists and fruit growers, from
different portions of our Htate. Hy the
citizens of Jackson and vicinity , it
should be welcomed with open hearts.
With a climate and soil unsurpassed for
the growing of fruits and vegetables,
i e at 11 iL
we seem to be lagging tieninci an otner
sections. The far famed strawberry
raiser, oavut rvnignt oi wicnigan, Kays:
"We (in Michigan) are fortunate if one
acre of land returns to us $50, clear
profit, the land being worth $80." In
the vicinity of Jackson, where the straw
berry grows to perfection, land can be
bought at $5. per acre, and where the
profits from each acre, will bring an
annual return of $100., as proven by the
McKays and other cultivators, near
Madison Station. These men, the Mc
Kays, have made a name in other States,
by inaugurating a new industry, and
they have made Madison Station the
"loveliest village of the plain" and to
them be the praise for striking out a new
path.
When the 25th arrives, let the citizens
of Jackson feci that a body of intelligent
men have assembled in their midst to
encourage a new departure, which, if it
succecda, will cause the country around
Jackson and all of those locations near
the railroads, to bloom again and blos
nom as the rose. Agbicola.
More Deaths from Eating Diseased
Fork.
Special to the St. Louis Republican
8an Astoxia, Tkx., Jan. 1 Jacob
Schricvcr, a German of Fredericksburg,
and his family of eight children, partook
heartily of fresh p'.rk for dinner last Satur
day and were taken violently ill Saturday
sight. One ot the children died today,
aud the others are in a dangerous condition.
It is thought they cannot recover. The pork
is supposed to have contained trichina;.
A. and M. College.
Agrkcltural College, I
January lfi, 1883.
Ge.v. H. D. Lee, President Ihnt Sir:
In reply to your questions of this date
my Record snows mat aw students nave
matriculated during present session;
242 are now in attendance ; 34 have en
tered since January 1st, 1883.
Very respectfully,
T. F. Watso. Sec'y.
Inter-State Commerce.
PROPOSED GENERAL INQUIRY INTO THE
MANAQEMHM' OF RAILROADH.
Washington, Jan. 15. The joint
resolution offered bv Mr. Dunn, of Ar
kansas, and referred to the Committee
on Commerce, providing for an investi
gation of the subject of railroad trans
portation in all its r; i . i ions to the agri
cultural, commercial and industrial in
terests of the United States, directs tho
Commissioner of Railroads to consider
and investigate the subject and inquire
generally into the conditions affecting
sommeree with foreign Nations ana
among the States ; character and extent
of the discriminations made bv railroad
corporations, anil the rates charged ly
them, whether exhorbitant oi unequal,
and the sufficiency for traffic throughout
the country; to ascertain, as nearly as
may be, n cost. ofthe construction and
equipment of roads, amount of stocks
issued in excess of the cont of construc
tion and equipment, and the rate and
amount of dividends declared and paid.
The resolution also directs that the
Commissioner shall have power to send
for persons and papers, to administer
oaths and examine witnesses and, in tho
prosecution of his Inquiries, visit such
portions of the country as he may deem
advisable.
Natchez, Jackson and Columbus R. B.
Matchez Democrat, Kith.
The annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Natchez, Jackson & Columbus
Railroad was held at the office of the
company yesterday. The stock of Adams
county, that of the city of Natchez and
most of that owned by private individ
uals, was represented, but there were no
representative of the stock of Hinds
county present, and the stock of that
county was not voted.
The election of directors of tho Com
pany for the following year resulted as
follows: W. T. Martin, T. Otis Baker,
Ceo. M. Brown, R. F. Learned, J. N.
Carpenter. Tiuis Botto, A. Rawlings, J.
C. Schwartz, James Surgct, Oeorgo W.
Koontz. R. L. Saunders. T. T. Hart, W.
R. K. Kirby.
After the directory had been chosen,
this body assembled and proceeded to
elect the officers of the company for tho
ensuing year. The new directory, we
are pleased to say, pave strong evidence
of its confidence iu the old officers by
re-electing them all to their respective
position
Another Assault on the Silver Dol
lar. A bill to regulate the coinage of silver,
introduced bv Mr. Fisher, of Pennsyl
vania, to the House of Representatives,
provides: " That from and after tho
passage of this act, and until an interna
tional agreement on a coinage ratio for
the use of ailver in full legal-ten ! i
coinage shall be made by tho lead 'x
commercial natioiif, or until the equiv
lencv of bullion value between the stan
dard silver id gold coins of tho United
States in the markets of the world shall
be otherwise secured, the Sacrctary of
the Treasury shall cause to be coined
only such number of the standard silver
dollars, authorized by the act of Feb.
28th, 1878, as may be required to supply
the demand for actual circulation, in
lieu of the minimum coinage provided
by that act."