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DIRECTORS:
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C. D. WHARTON,
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BVON M. BARBER,
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PORT GIBSON,
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adjoining ooantk* : al»o in the Knprcme and
Federal Court» at Jaokann.
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C. A. FRENCH.
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the citizen* of Fort Oiboon and vicinity.
Fort G tboon, June 80, *30. [8m]
Mr. Regan's Amendment».
Tlie following are the constitutional
amendments offered by Mr. Regan,
Claiborne :
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
No law shall ever be passed by any
legislature of this state to organize,
charter, or permit any lottcrj* comjianv
by whatsoever name it may be styled,
to (lursuo its business, or locate its
domicile in this state.
The right to pardon, respite, and
commute punishment is recognized, but
this power shall, rest solely in a board
of i Anions, consisting of three (8) mem
bers, whose unanimous action will he
required to affect any jwlginent or sen
tence formulated by the courts of this
state.
The governor may exercise the right
of veto, and lie may veto parts of any
appropriation bill, and approve parts of
same, and the tmrtions approve d shall
be law.
The state, aud county treasurers, and
all other fiduciary agents of the state
and counties shall not hold office for
two consecutive terms : and the term
of office for all officers in this state shall
not he less than fimr (4) years.
All public officers of this state shall
lie elected by the people.
TIIE SUFFRAGE.
The political year ot the state of
Mississippi sliall commence on the first
Monday of January in each year, and
the general efection shall he holden on
the first Tuesday succeeding the first
Monday in November, quadriennially.
All elections by the people shall he
by ballot
All male inhabitants of this state,
except idiots and insane persons, and
Indians not taxed, citizens of the Unit
ed States or naturalized, twenty-one
years old aud upwards, win» have re
sided in the county in w hich they offer
to vote one year, and in the state three
years, next proceeding the day of elect
ion at which said inhabitant offers to
vote, ami who shall have paid for the
three vears next proceeding tlie year
of said election, on or before the loth
day of December of each of said years,
—a poll-tax of $2 for each of said years,
and w ho are duly registered according
to the requirements of section four of
this artiele, and who are not disquali
fied by reason of any crime, and who
liave not liven convicted of burglary,
larceny or of any felony,—are declared
to lie qualified electors.
The legislature shall proviile by law
for the registration of all voters who
conic w ithin tlie provisions of section
three of this article, as qualified clect
It shall also make laws providing
for the payment of such pill-taxes, and
shall also provi<ic for tne punishment
of any sheriff or other person who shall
issue any false receipt for the |iaymcnt
of any pill-tax, or otherwise evading
or attempting to evade any of the j>n>
visions of section throe of this article
and the legislature shall also proviile
by law for punishing anv person who
shall i «IV the p>ll taxes ot another per
son, as for a felony.
All iy»ll taxes sliall he paid and re
served into the school fund of the coun
ty where they arc collect oil.
OTS.
How to Tell a Good Horse.
Unless a horse has brains yon can't
teach him, says an exchange. See that
tail bav there, a fine looking animal,
fifteen hands high. You can't teach
that horse anything. Why ? Well
I'll show you a difference in heads, but
have a care of his heels. Look at the
brute's head, that rounding nose, tliat
tapering forehead, that broad full place
before the eyes. You can't trust him.
That's a very good mare, as true as
the sun. You can see breadth and
fullness between the eyes and ears.
You couldn't hire tliat mare to act
mean or hurt anybody.
The eye should be Full ; and hazel is
good color. I like a small, thin ear
and want a horse to throw its ears well
forward.
Lode out for the brute that wants to
hear all conversation going on behind
him.
The horse that turns bock his ears
till they almost meet at the points, take
my worn for it, is sure to do something
wrong.
See that straight, elegant face. A
horse with a dishing face is cowardly,
and a cowardly brute is usually vicious.
Then I like a sqiiare muzzle, with large
nostrils, to let plenty of air to the lungs.
For the under side of the head, a good
horse should be well cut under the
jowl, with jawbones broad and wide
apart under the throttle.
The next thing to consider is the
build of the animal. Never buy a
long-legged, stilted horse. Let him
liave a short, straight back and a
straight rump, and you've got a gentle
man's horse. The withers should bo
high and the shoulders well set back
and broad, but don't get them too deep
in the chest The foreleg should be
Rhort Give me a pretty straight hind
leg, with the hock low down, short
pastern joints ami a round mulish foot
There are all kinds of horses, but the
animal that lias these points is almost
sure to be sightly, graceful, good-natur
ed and serviceable.— Exchange.
The barbers of Nordhausen, 8axony,
arc cooBfielled by law to cleanse and dis
infect their brushes, (»mbs and razors
immediately after use, and before they
are applied to the hair or beard of an
other customer.
BROWN'S IRON BITTERS
Cura Indigestion, BIUou*n«ao, Dyapeptia. Mala
ria, Nervou*ne»», and Oen«r»l Debility Phyti
datu recommend It. All dealer» »ell It. Ger.uli*
bu trade mark and crua»ed red Une» on wrapper.
A Glowing Tribut«.
The Colored Journal, of Jackson,
publishes a letter from a Bran Jon cor
respondent complimenting the editors
of the Journal on the part they took
m tlio recent railroad election. We
of
quote verbatim el literatim:
I believe I voice the sentiment of all
the good colored people of Brandon
when I say noble soot you liave done
well, and "he who does the best his
circumstances all >a does well, acts
noble, angles can do no more." The
election as held traverses a bountous
timbered
mechanica
soccs of birth Brandon and Jackson
will I believe be mcterally bettered by
the early completion of this direct out
let to the cost. For the pillows of the
Journal , wc must say you have laid
a precedent as lastiug as time which
even your enemies will acknowledge,
and your posterity will feel proud of.
Yonhavc laid a side all prejudice, mat
ters not how encumbered, you liave
shouldered your load I say like patriots,
march on, keep true to the line like
men ; let the eagels flight ere be Ihine.
region, almost untouched by
1 hands. The financial re
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Fishes in High Lakes.
It ia a mystery how fish get into the
little lakes ujwii top of the mountains.
There was never a lake so high that it
did not have fish in it. Barefoot Pond,
not many miles from Lake Ilopatcong.
N. J., is over 1800 feet in the air and
yet it is chock full of bass and perch.
They certainly did not get in by going
up stream, and if anybtxly took the
trouble to cairy them up he had a
mighty hard time of it, for the lake is
two miles straight up from everywhere.
Fish will get into lakes without be
inji carried by men or without swim
ming up stream. It is well known
tliat water fowl wiH distribute yellow
perch by earn ing the sticky eggs on
their feet. Bass do not liecome dis
tributed except by the hand of man or
going un stream. Trout go anywhere
where there is water enough to float a
chip, and pickerel get moved around
from place to place the same as jierch
do.— Pittsburg Dispatch.
Bible Teaching in Public Schools.
There is uo question as to tlio fact
that the Bible ought to be taught. But
the question does arise, where sliall it
be taught ? and by whom ?
Public schools, in many instances,
are supplied with irreligious teachers,
and they are not proper persons to read
to pupils, or instruct them, out of the
Bible.
of Aaron in the beginning, and farther
on, in the hands if the prophets, ami
lastly, Jesus Christ put the work into
tlie hands of the uewly-mivde church,
and sent them out to preach to, ami
disciple all nations, encouraged by the
words, "lam with you nlway.'^— Amer
ican Sentinel.
God j Hit his law in the hamls
Glued to Their Seats.
When the contribution plate was
passed at tlie dedication services of the
new Congregational church at Moor
land, la., last Sunday, not a single |>er
son arose to leave Lis scat. One rea
son was because the varnish on the
seats was not sufficiently dried, and the
entire congregation was tightly glued
down. At the close of the service it
t<»ok three-quarters of an hour to free
all the prisoners. All the ladies' toilets
were ruined, and a large portion of
them still decorate the newly-varnished
pews.— Exchange.
A Horrified Indian.
A correspondent of tho Helens
(Montana) Lulc/wiulent gives an amus
ing account of an Indiau's first expe
rience at a theatre. The red man was
under arrest for some misdemeanor,
and the officers brought him to a fron
tier town, arriving Ihorc about dark.
There being no placo to confine the
prisoner they had to stay with him,
and were forcod to take him wheu they
went to tho theatre, an honr after
reaching town. The correspondent
proceeds :
"We went np to the hall and got
seats iu the gallery, the Indian being
seated between Bill and me. I forget
what the play was, but it was one of
the old-fashioned kind, where the com
pany was killed off wholesale. The In
dian kept quiot until ths killing began.
When the actors began firing pistols
and showiug knives, he got nervous.
And finally, when the people ou the
stage began falling thick and fast, he
could stand the show no longer. Sud
denly he made a lump from the scat,
and before Bill and i could stop him,
that Indian had jumped through a
window near and out on a sort ot plat
form. He got down to the ground,
stole a horse and went home Again to
bis tribe. Bill never caught him, but
we beard afterwards that the Indian
said the reason that he left was be
cause he was afraid of being killed.
He said Mie white folks iu Helena were
killing each other on a platform in one
end of tho room, and the rest of the
people were sitting around laughing
at tho slaughter."
An oil well has been opened at Find
lay, 0., which flowed over 1000 barrels
the first hoar, and in seven hours filled
6340 barrels. This breaks the record
of oil wells in Ohio if not in* the world.
ponular clergyman in Philadel
delivered a lecture on "Fools.
Lecture on
There was a
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Fools—-admit one.
large attendance.
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Disillusion.
Ah ! what would youth be doing,
To hoist his crimson Mils,
To leave the wood-do tbs' cooing,
The song of nigbtingsles ;
To les re this woodland ijuict
For murmnring wind« at strife,
For wares that foam and riot
About the seas of life ?
From still bays sileer-samled
Wild currents basten down
To rocks where ships are stranded,
And eddies where men drown.
Far out, by hills surrounded,
Is the golden haren-gate,
And all beyond unbounded
Are shoreless seas of fate.
They steer for those far highlands
Across the summer tide.
And dream of fairy islands
Upon the further side.
They only see the sunlight.
The flashing of gold Ian,
But the other side is moonlight
And glimmer of pale stars.
They will not heed the warning
Blown back on every wind,
For hope is t>orn with morning,
The secret is behind.
Whirled through in wild confusion,
They pass the narrow strait
To the sea of disillusion
That lies beyond the gate.
At Last.
When on my dsy of life the night is falling,
And,in the winds from nntnnned «pace* blown,
I hear far voices oat of darkness calling
My feet to paths unknown,
Thon who bast made my home of life so pleasant,
Iieave not its tenant when its walls decay ;
0 love divine, O Helper ever present,
Be Thon my strength and stay !
Be near me when all else is from me drifting,
Earth, sky, home's picture, days of shade and
shine,
An I kindly fares to my own nplifting
The love which answers mine.
1 have bat Thee, O Father ! Let Thy Spirit
Bo with me then to comfort and uphold ;
No gate of pearl, no branch of palm, I merit.
Nor street of shining gold.
Suffice it if, my good and Ul unreckoned,
And both forgiven tb rough Thy abounding
grace,
I find myself by hands familiar beckoned
Unto my fitting place ;
Home humble door among Thy many mansions,
Some sheltering shade where sin aud striving
And flow» forever through heaven's green ex
pansions
The river tif Thy peace.
There from the music round about me stealing,
I fain wonld learn the new ami holy song.
Ami fiud at la*t, Iwueath Thy trees oft beating,
The life for which I long.
— Whittier.
Judge Chrisman's Plan.
Editor Reveille:
Dkaii Silt:—Having just rend judge
Clirismnn's suffrage plau. I nm much
pleased with it L'annot withhold this
public expression of my admiration.
It's a step iu tiic right direction—to
wards tiic rcigu of the saints on earth
—toward that millenium to which wc
all look with longing eves—hilt thougli
the judge lias evidently got the "root
of the matter in him," his proposition,
on account of haste doubtless, is iu
choatc ami incomplete. I would there
fore respectfully submit by way of
amendment the following: "Provided
they or their wives, or their fathers or
their mothers, or their grandfathers or
their grandmothers, or their brothers
or their sisters, or their stepfathers
or their stepmothers, or their step
brothers or their stepsisters, or their
fathers-in-law or their inothers-in-law,
or their brothcra-in-law or tbeir sis
ters-in-law, or their uncles or their
aunts, or their cousins either by the
whole or the half blood, shall be pos
sessed in fee simple of unincumbered
real or personal property ot the value
of $200—honestly acquired, listed for
taxation and not delinquent for the
taxes due thoreou.
"It sliall bo competent for the legis
lature to make any violation of the
decaloguo or of the laws of this state,
a forfeiture of the right to the elec
tive franchise.
"Heforc any one shall be allowed to
register he shall publicly demonstrate
the 49th problem of Euclid and shall
take and subsoribe the following oath
in affirmation : 'i do solemnly swear
or affirm that I have read and compre
hend the Athauasian creed and am
not debarred from getting into Heav
en on account of any of its provisions,
so held mo God.'"
If anyouo will attentively consider
this iu connection with judgo C'hris
niau's plan, ho will find it is merely the
latter amplified. It accomplishes com
pletely aud effectively the object
sought. It gets rid of the nigger iu
politics, and of the white mm also.
if after at ten Mv« aud prayoiful con
sideration any benighted soul still ob
jects, it goes to show that he is yet in
the gall of bitterness and bond of in
iquity. Let us sing.
E. II. Stilks.
Fort Gibson Aug. 31, 1830.
Uncle Benjamin Butler lifted up his
voice for more pensions at the Grand
Array meeting in Boston, Uncle Ben
jamin has all the cheerful confidence of
a warrior who honestly believes that he
can thrash the life out of the biggest
surplus the country ever saw.— Ex.
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The Missionary Revolution.
A call for more missionaries comes
to the Imtependent from mission sta
tions of the American Hoard in every
part of heathendom. The universal
appeal is for more men nud more mon
ey. The same cry ia sent forth by the
missionaries of every Protestant de
nomination, ami it is heard ns often
in England as iu our own country.
The late missionary conference at
Shanghai called upou the Protestant
world to send ouc thousand recruits to
China during the next five years. The
Independent exhorta the Congrcgatiou
alists to double Micir contributions for
missionary purposes, declaring that
'•the Master's business requires baste."
The llcv. Mr. Farnsworth,writing from
Turkey, reports that souls arc "pcrisli
iug tor lack of a little of the Lord's
moucy." The Churchman is tryiug to
raise $1,000,000 for missions, home
nud foreign, and baptists, Methodists
aud Presbyterians aro appealing with
unwonted energy for more money for
licathcu evangelization.
It is evident that the purpose of this
general movemeut is to rekindle the
missionary enthusiasm, which the re
ligious discussion of the period litis
undoubtedly had a tendency to cool.
In the first place canon Taylor of tiic
church of England has shown Mint tiic
heathen aud Mohammedans of Asia
and Africa are increasing at the an
nual rnteof more than ll,U(M),000,whilc
the number of native converts made
by Protestant missionaries, at an ex
pense in monoy of $10,000,000 is not
more than 60,000 a year. Tiic present
missionary methods seem to him a
great practical failure, and lie likeus
the situation to M thc tortoise racing
will» a railway train ; the longer tiic
race continues the further the tortoise
is left behind."
Hut the drift of theological opiuioti
during recent years has exercised a
more potent intliiciicc than those hard
and cold statistics. Formerly tiic con
viction was universal among orthodox
believers that the heathen would bo
doomed to hell and everlasting tor
ment if they were not converted to
Christianity, and from the first that
has been tiie great inspiring force in
missionary enterprise. Now the sen
timent is growing more aud more
prevalent that justice requires that the
heathen should have a chance for sal
vatiou by means of a sccoud probation
in tlio world to eome. One of tiic
prime objects of the movement for the
revision of the Westminster coufes
siou is to get rid of the doctrine of
licaMien damnation.
Tho Andover
school of Congregationali.sts also stand
out against a decree so terrible. Prof.
Uriggs of the Union Theological
Seminary thinks that the theory of a
second probation has not received suf
ficient consideration. Young men of
fering themselves as candidates for
missionary appointments are horrified
at the teaching that heathens are pass
ing into the torments of hell at the
rate of many millions annually. A
tendency toward un i versai ism appears
throughout the Christian world. The
love of God is the favorite theme, uot
the terrors of His justice. Modem
sentiment, so fonder and so sympa
thetic, recoils from the thought of ev
erlasting suffering for anybody.
Hcnco the main motive for heathen
evangelization is passing away. If the
heathen are uot to be damned because
they arc heathen, but are to be saved
by angelic instruction iu the Hie to
coine, pious pcope have uo longer the
reason to sacrifice themselves on their
behalf which they had when they be
lieved that the fires of hell wore burn
ing for the wholo heathcu world. Ar
tificial methods to rekindle the mis
sionary euthusiasm of the past may
produce some temporary effect, but if
the present drift toward sccoud pro
bation and univcrsalism continues,they
will have up lasting power.
How different was the case when
these words ot tlie Westminster con
fession expressed tho coinnfon ortho
dox belief: "Much less can nieu, uot
professing tho Christian religion, be
saved iu auy other way whatsoever,
be they never so diligent to framq
thoir lives according to the light of na
ture, and the law ofthat religion they
do profess ; aud to assert aud main
tain that they may is very pernicious
and to be detosteil."—AT. I". Sun.
Tho excite ment over the ualural gas
explosion near Shclbyvillo,'lud., *tHl
prevail*. The soil for many miles n
round is impregnated with gas,aml by
piorcing it with a stick the gn* may be
iguitod aud a blazo produced large
enough to produce considerable illumi
nation. The ga* has broken into the
water wells, and tho use of the water
from them has been abandoned. Some
of the farmers cased thoir wells and
aro using the gas from them for Aid.
Seneca Falls lievei/le.
Children Cry for Pitched C*$tori«u
Why People Leave the Country.
The desire to cscnjMJ the solitude of
the farm is often Hie chief motive in
drawing people to lise city. The hope
of tortune actuates many, hut many
coûtes* that they have no such ho|>e.
A man w ho abandoned a farm up the
llmlsoti, which had been in the family
for generations, mid came to New
York, and who was found l»v an old
neighbor some time afterward serving
as conductor on nhoraecnr, was a 1 >|h;
ofa large class. Apparently ii had never
occurred to him that the position he
occupied uns far interior to that of
the independent farmer.
What satisfied him was tlie fact tlint
he had become a part of the rushing
life of the great city. In like manner,
it is often the dread of solitude which
keeps in the city those who might bet
ter their coudiliou immensely by go
ing into the country. M I couldn't
stand the quiet," "1 should Ihj lone
some." Such arc the protests which
one hears, over ami over again, when
offering opportunities of higher wages
ami greater comfort : hears, moreover
from those who have no tics of family
or friendship to bind them to the city,
but who are belt! only by the attrac
tions of the crowds, the street kpmh,
the petty incidents which diversify (ho
course of events where there is a great
aggregation of people.
It is the simple truth that thousands
of men and women would prefer scanty
food and poor lodgings in a large city
to abundant fare and good quarters
in a small village, or in comfortable
farmhouses. A New Yorker became
interested iu a tenement-house family
dependent upon charity, secured them
a farm iu Now Jersey, rent free, and
established them upou it. They made
n living, but not a year later, he dis
covered that they had abaudoued the
farm aud returned to their wretched
existence in the city. Finding the
mot iter, lie asked why they had not
remniued where they were so weil ofl.
'•Well, there wasn't much company
there." This was the sole reason slio
had to give. Nor is this phenomenon
confined to the United States. The
same disproportionate growth of the
cities and towns, at the expense of the
rural districts, is observable iu Eng
land and on the continent, and may
be traced to the same causes there as
here. People llock from the country
into Uoutlou and Paris as they do iuto
New York, not merely because they
arc badly oil'iu the couulry, and ho|>o
to better themselves in the city, but
also because they U cau*t staun tlio
quiet" of a monotonous existence, and
arc willing to risk tlio loss of present
comfort iu order to secure change of
sccue. lias the whole world, then,
wearied of solitude, grown iutolcraiit
of quiet, become enamored of crowds
and noise?— Aityif.it Century.
Kangaroo Breeding.
It would seem Mint the project of
importing kangaroos into this country
is seriously entertained by several en
thusiastic and wealthy sjrorlsmcn iu
the west. The first rumors of such a
plan were received almost universally
with smiles, but later details show that
sportsmen have decided that the pro
ject is entirely feasible. The extinc
tion of tlio buffalo has left the plains
without any big game of importance,
and liiiuiiug the kangaroos, as it is
done iu Australia, is second in cxcile
and interest only to killing the bufla
lo. Kangaroo leather is exceedingly
valuable, and the animals breed rapid
ly. They have been successfully accli
mated in Kuglaud and France, aud it
said that there is nctunlly no reasou
why they should not thrive here. The
idea of the promoters of this plan is
to introduce the kangaroos at the be
ginning of the warm season iu Yellow -
stono Park, ami givo the breed gov
ernment protect! ou for a few years so
to bar out tlio pot-hunters. A wild
Indian brought face to face with a
kangaroo for tlio first time would bo
sight worth traveling west to sec.—
Exchange.
Don't Cut the Little Girl's Hair.
Children's hair, of course, needs pe
culiar attention. That of the boys
may be kept closely cut, so that it will
present no problems to tlio mother or
maid, but with girls it is quite differ
ent After their hair lias been allowed
to grow long it should not be cut, ac
cording to good authority, as it will
never afterward attain the length it
would have reached; yet many a moth
er thoughtlessly allows the hair of her
little daughter to Ihj shorn Iu order to
save trouble in properly caring lor it.
In the case of children, even more es
pecially than of adults, a frequent and
thorough brushing of the liait* is es
sential to ils best condition,
brush should not bo too harsh and
should be judiciously used. Under
these conditions a child will delight in
the proper care rather than be repel!«
c<L— Good Housekeeping.
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