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MISSISSIPPI NEGROES.
An Intelligent Corrcspondunt's Idea of
Hie Social Question in a Great Southern
State.
Joaquin Miller, in a recent letter to
the New York Independent descriptive
of a journey through the State of Mis
sissippi, speaks very pleasantly of the
State and its material resources, and
indulges in some hopeful speculation*
as to Its prosperity when its waste
places shall be occupied and cultivated,
and the immigration, which the people
desire and expect, shall have become
an accomplished fact. With respect to
the social question Mr. Miller says:
Here is a State with a tremendous
majority of negroes. And yet this State
insists on remaining tremendously Dem
ocratic. And because it does, the poli
ticians, the political press, the North,
almost in a body, insist that the black
man is bullied; and ergo there is a race
of bullies here.
This foolish accusation does the black
man a greater injustice than it does the
white man. The negro is not bullied;
and what is a most important fact he is
getting to be too much of a man to be
bullied. As for the white man here, I
find them a race of gallant Christian
gentlemen. Let me call your attention
to one fact. I have sat at many men’s
tables here. I have been at dinner in a
freat number of houses here in the
tate of Mississippi, that of the Govern
or in the Mansion House included:
and I have sat at no man’s table where
the head of the house did not offer
thanks. Of course I suppose there are
exceptions to this rule; but grace at the
table is the rule here. In the North it
exception.
“Tell me, Senator, how it is that the
negro votes with you, who were his
former master.”
“Well, sir, it isbecause he is an affec
tionate and well-disposed fellow-man.”
“He must be, else he had burned you
out during the war.”
“True, sah; a fact, sah; a great fact,
sah, and we will never forget it. The
Southern men went to war and left
their homes, their wives and their
children all behind them, and at the
mercy of the blacks. This trust was
never betrayed. As for my own slaves,
one of them was wounded fighting at
my s : de, and there is not one of them
living to-day that will not vote for me.
No; you men of the North do not do the
negro justice. You think him a treach
erous ingrate. You think he ought to
turn from us and against us. He will
never do it.”
“And you tell me here at your own
table that the black man votes entirely
as he pleases.”
“Entirely. True, we tell them how
we want them to vote. They often ask
us. But we do not persuade them;
because, you see, our majority is so
great we do not need to do so. If they
wanted to outvote us and turn us out
and put in the carpet-bagger again they
could do so any day. No danger of
that, sah. They have had enough of it.
Why, sah, when Governor Ames, the
son-in-law of General Butler, was here
nearly half of the State was deserted.
Enough of this State had lapsed back to
the Government on tax forfeitures to
make another Massachusetts; and the
negro was wretched. But now, after
we have driven the carpet-bagger out,
we are all prosperous together.”
“And you feel coufident that the
negro will always be with you?”
“Confident. He is our friend; and
we are his. His children go to school;
he is industrious; he has a little farm,
in many cases, a mule, a cow, plenty of
pigs, chickens, turkeys, and is happy.”
“And honest?”
“Stop a minute. In the general up
setting of things here he got an exag
gerated notion of liberty. The liberty
to take other people’s property came
within the scope of this and made much
trouble. In our State’s prison there
are more than a thousand convicts.
(Eight hundred are blacks.”
1 give the above as an example of the
many talks I have had here in this com
paratively unknown State on its social
and political order of things. And were
it not for the awkward dialect of the
uneducated negroes I would here set
down conversations had with some of
them; for I have broken bread with
them often, and seen much of their
simple and tranquil wavs. But it would
be a waste of time; for the drift of their
talk is after the same fashion. The
negro is a hero worshiper; he must look
up to some one. And that some one
must not be a Negro.
1 think you have the social and polit
ical problem here in a nut-shell. A ne
fro likes a good white man better than
e does a good negro. He has more
confidence in him. He thinks him more
honest and better able to help him.
And you may set it down as a fact, that
if a negro and a white man, both good,
honest, and of even ability, were can
didates to-morrow, with everything
fair and even and equal, the white
man would come out a long way ahead.
So we of the North had just as Well
stick a pin here, and set it down as a
fact to be remembered that the black
man down here, as long as he is well
treated, is going to vote for and with
his old master and his old master’s
children for many a year to come. And
it is wrong to disturb them in their
trustful faith; forit only brings strife and
trouble, and does no good to any one.
I talked to some black men about the
late Presidential election here in the
capital of this State. They were well
informed, and told me, I never
knew before, that Blaine and Logan
had both lived in this one as a
clerk and the other in some other ca
pacity; but they did not vole for them.
And when I asked why, they gave the
edrious reason that the State was Dem
oeritifc, and they thought they would
gO with the State. •
AN APOLOGY DUE.
Why the Late Republican Candidate
Should Apologize for His Augusta
Speech.
It is declared with a marked degree
of vehemence by his friends that the
health of Mr. Blaine was never better,
that his eye is bright and his cheeks
ruddy and that he bears his defeat with
a philosophical calmness. All this, it
mint be acknowledged, is fortunate for
Mr. Blaine and pleasing to his friends.
jßverything does seem to indicate that
tfhe Maine statesman is in good order
physically, and the blessing doubtless
came to him as soon as the worry at
the campaign was at an end. But if ho
is restored to mental equilibrium, it ia
the result of later influence.
When the defeated candidate deliv
ered his notoriously false screed against
that large portion of the public which
voted against him he gave indication
of a distressing lack of mental power.
Many .of his closest, friends recognized
this fact and deplored it sincerely. But
if Mr. Blaine is now in good physical
and mental condition he is perhaps will
ing to confess, to himself at least, that
in his Augusta . peech he was both unfair
and untruthful, while at the same time
he demonstrated a lamentable ingrati
tude towards the many loyal Republic
ans who voted for him in the South.
It will be remembered that his re
marks w ere very general, and while he
falsely arraigned the Democratic party
in the South he neglected to particular
ize and consequently included his Re
publican friends, both white and black.
Especially is this the truth since it was
his party which helped to give to the
South the voting power which it now
possesses.
If Mr. Blaine is in good health, as,
there seems to be no reason to doubt, he
should be frank enough to confess his
error, especially as it was glaring and
unreasonable, from beginning to end.—
Harrisburg {Pa.) Patriot.
SLOW AND SURE.)
The Next President Conspicuous for His
Sincerity and Good Sense.
The German proverb says: “ Speeoh
is silvern; silence is golden.”
Some of Governor Cleveland’s critics
affected to regard him as a stupid sort
of person during the campaign. Yet he
has sense enough to recognize the wis
dom of the German proverb. Before
his election he preserved a golden si
lence. He wrote no impolitic letters.
He uttered no impolitic words. Slan
der could not divert him from the course
he had determined upon. When its
forked tongue struck him he met the
blow with three simple words: “ Tell
the truth.”
Since his election Governor Cleve
land’s speech has been silvern. Every
thing he has said has been conspicuous
for sincerity and good sense.
When questioned a day or two ago as
to what he contemplated doing after his
resignation of his present office, the
Governor said: “On laying down the
duties of Governor I shall listen to
whatever my Democratic friends have,
to say. I shall divide mv time between
AlbanyUtnd Buffalo until the day arrives
to go to Washington. I intend to give
due consideration to the counsel of our
party friends. It may be that when I
enter the Presidential office some
things may not move as fast as some
Democrats wish. But I think it will be
better to go slow and be sure. We can
not hope to avoid mistakes, but if we
proceed slowly we will make fewer mis
takes than if we go with a rush.”
This is sound, sensible, safe. The peo
ple elected Grover Cleveland, not that
he might merely seize upon the public
offices and parcel them out among his
friends, but that he might check the
spread of public corruption, restore the
Government to Democratic simplicity
and purity, reform abuses, and by wise
and honest administration relieve the
business of the country from its present
depression and the people from unnec
essary burdens. It will be his duty to
prevent the dangerous growth of greedy
monopolies and corporate power which
have attempted to control elections and
to corrupt the public service by the use
of money.
“Go slow and be sure,” is a good
motto for the Democratic President to
adopt. Hemay not, as he modestly
suggests, hope to avoid nffstakes alto
gether, but with caution and prudence
to back honest intentions he will make
none of a serious nature.— N. Y. World.
A BETTER UNDERSTANDING.
The Effect of Governor Cleveland's Elec
tion North and South.
A Southerner recently remarked that
he was glad the Democrats had carried
the country for the reason that it tohl4
enable the people of the South to show
that they were good and loyal citizens.
It will put at rest a great many lies
about the Southern people. It will in
that way remove prejudices which hare
been created for political purposes, and
it will go far towards ending the sec
tionalism as to parties which has be
come so dangerous. The blacks of the
South have been taught to believe that
if the Democrats oame into power they
would be sent back to slavery, and the
terror thereby created has brought
damage to a great deal of Southern
property and threatened a great many
Southern lives. At every election ef
forts have been made to create a war
of races, that the prejudice of the
North against the Southern whites
might be vindicated and encouraged.
With these outrages in vogue it has
been impossible for the South to estab
lish the fact that it means to be fair.
Bad politics have subjected it to a con
tinual misunderstanding, and one that
with all its loyalty it fougd it impossi
ble to remove. We doubt if there is a
large amount of political f&nbition in
the South—at least there is not more
than it has a right to entertain. The
desire of the Southern people is natu,
rally to live peacefully, for they have
had war enough; and in order to live
peacefully they know they must live
honorable lives.
Under the administration of President
Cleveland there will be that good un
derstanding between the North and
the South that business and justice de
mand. If there is to be the grand out
burst of Southern malice which has
been predicted; if there is to be any
measure providing for such absurdities
as the payment by the Nation of South
ern war debts, which have been pre
dicted by Republicans as a result of
Democratic ascendancy year in and
year out; if the blacks are to be per
secuted and if the ballot is to be trod
den under foot, the Democrats will fro
out of power a great deal faster than
they went in. But there will be noth
ing of the kind. There will simply be
good government and good citizenship;
old prejudices will b# sponged out; the
Eeople of both sections will learn to
now each other better, and there will
be such progress and prosperity as the
country has not known during the past
twenty years.—A’. Y, (trophic
A NEW CRIME.
How An Arkansaw Justice of tlie Peace
Resented Interference With His Judicial
Prerogative*.
When old Anderson Brumley an
nounced himself as a candidate for
Justice of the Peace, the people of
Buck Short Township felt that the time
when they were to have an able and
upright administration of judicial af
fairs had arrived. Old Brumley had
never opened a law book; therefore he
was regarded as honest. He had never
hesitated to take off his coat and tight
the best man in the neighborhood;
therefore he considered able. He
had never been backward in denouncing
his enemies, consequently he was re
garded as a citizen of wisdom. With
these accomplishments, his election, in
the expressive parlance of politics, was
a “walk over.” Shortly after Brumley
took his seat on the red oak woolsack,
a man named Billy Malone was arrested
for stealing a grind-stone.
“This here is a mighty important
case,” said the magistrate, when the
culprit hail been arraigned before the
court. “In lookin’ over these here law
books I don’t find no mention o’ grind
stones. It was a big oversight in our
Legislature not to put down grind
stones *in the books, fur it mout have
been know’d that some blamed rascal
in this part o’ the State was a goin’ to
steal one. Folks in this here part o’
the country, let me tell you, will steal
anything. Wa’al, in the absence o’
any statuary barin’ on the subjeck,
reckon I’ll make this here charge man
slaughter in the first degree.”
“Your honor,” said a lawyer, “that
would be impossible.”
“Wood it? Wa’al, I’ll jes show you
I’m running this here court.”
“Your honor —”
“Call me Jedge, if you please.”
“Well, Jedge, there is no such thing
as manslaughter in the first degree.”
“Ain’t thar? Wall, I’ll jes show you
I’m runnin’ this here court. Prisonex
at the bar, I have longed fur a oppor
tunity o’ teachin’ a lesson to the risin’
generation. You have given me that
chance. I don't delight in seein’ a
man fall from grace, but when he does
fall, thar ain’ nothin’ that pleases me
so much as to tangle my hand in the
ruffles o’ his calico shirt. Manslaugh
ter is a mighty serious charge, young
feller.”
“I ain't slaughtered no man yit,
Jedge.”
“Shet your mouth, impudent violater
o’ the sacred law o’ the land. No mat
ter what you done. 1 say it was man
slaughter in the fust degree, an’ when
a man disputes my word, w’y, he’d bet
ter wush that his bones was made outen
Injun rubber an’ his back kivered with
the skin o’ a yalligator. Young out
rager o’ the principles of civilization,
fur this great crime of manslaughter in
the fust degree, I sentences you to be
hung next Friday.”
“Judge,” exclaimed the lawyer,
springing to his feet, “this proceeding
is impossible.”
“Is it? Wa’al, I’ll jis show you I’m
runnin’ this court. When you git to
be a Jedge, I won’t come round tellin’
you what you can do an’ what you
can’t.”
“Great Caesar, Judge, such a course
as you are taking is a violation of the
State Constitution.”
“Isffi? Wa’al, I'll jest repeal the
State Constitution right here. This
feller oughter be hung, an’ if I had
catch him ten days ago, whuther or
not he had committed manslaughter in
the fust degree or stole! a grindstone in
the second, which is the same, I would
have sentenced him to be hung. Mr.
Constable, take charge o’ .this man an’
see that he is hung up in respectable
mannen|. Any lawyer what don’t
wanter bp sarved in the same way had
*betfcr keep his mouth shet. I'm run
nin’ this court.”— Opie P. Read,
Texas Siftings.
NATURE’S ZOO.
The of the World, and the
Grandest Out-Door Museum of” Natural
Curiosities.
The country of the Upper Nile was
par excellence, the wonderland of the
Roman world, as it is still thffgrandest
out-door museum of natural atriosities.
Zoologically there is no more densely
populated country. All the wild beasts
and birds, made homeless by the de
vastation of Northern Africa, seem to
have taken refuge in the Nubian high
lands. In the terrace-land of the Nu
bian and Abyssinian Alps there roam
herds of elephants, buffaloes, wild
sheep, and fourteen different species of
antelopes. Further below the hippo
potamus and white rhinoceros haunt
the river swamps. Professor Blanford
enumerates 290 species of water birds.
With these harmless settlers less de
sirable guests have crowded in, the
spotted hyena, the jackal, the black
and yellow lion, four species of smaller
cats, wild dogs, and above all, the
cynocephalus, the wily and mischievous
baboon. Three varieties of these Dar
winian pets inhabit the rocks of South
ern Nubia; the little babuin, the cyno
cephalus proper, and the celada or
mantle baboon, a fierce and powerful
fellow, whose shaggy mane protects
his body like a cloak, and enables him
to brave the climate of the upper high
lands. Professors Kuppel, Hotten and
Major W. C. Harris agree on the fact
that a troop of these brutes, in rav
aging a cornfield, will not only hold
their ground against all comers, but on
the slightest provocation take the offen
sive in a way not likely to be forgotten
by the unarmed natives.
Dogs have no chance whatever
against a full-grown baboon. The old
males do not wait to be tackled, but
charge them at once with an energy
and skill of co-operation that would do
credit to a troop of well-drilled sol
diers. The hyrax, a queer pachyderm,
allied to the European badger, coin
habits the rocks with a hibernating
marmot, and the coast jungles swarm
with wild hogs that multiply undis
turbed, for the Abyssinian natives
share the pork prejudice of their Mo
hammedan neighbors.— Prof. Oswald.
♦- ►
—A citizen of Troy is said to have re
ently papered the stalls in his stable
with paper that cost him $60,000. Part
of the covering consisted of bonds of a
defunct i>eam-heating company, and
tne balance was bonds of other “busted
bubbles," Trou Times.
The Orthodox Oyster Supper.
Mrs. Fewbolder was holding a con- |
ference with Miss. Simple relative to
having a supper at their church, for the
usual purposes and objects made and
provided for such occasions.
“You think a supper will be better
than anything else?'’ asked Miss S.
“Ob, yes,” replied the elder lady.
“What kind of a supper would you
suggest?”
“An oyster supper, of course.”
“But, my dear Mrs. Pewholder, you
can’t have an oyster supper.”
“Why not, pray?” .
“Because there isn’t an oyster to be
found in the whole town.”
“We will have it, all the same.”
“But how can you have an oyster sup
per without oysters?”
“Miss Simple,” replied Mi’s. P. with
severity, “this is po time for explana
nation; you have evidently not been a
member of the church very long, and I
should say you never had any experi
ence at all on a church supper commit
tee.”—Merchant Iraveler.
IT WAS ABOUT TIME.
Engaging Manner in Which a Young Lady
Made a Treaty.
The fire in the grate burned cheerily
and there was an air of comfort about
the room which enwrapt young Mr. Al
gernon Fitzjoy and made him loath to
brave the winter storm which was rag
ing outside. The little French clock on
the mantel-piece was ticking away mer
rily, and its hands had just passed the
witching hour. *
“Miss Adelaide,” said he, throwing
his most winsome expression into his
countenance, “isn’t it about time—about
time—”
“Yes, Algernon, I don’t know’ but it
is. Ma will be very cross, I’m afraid.”
“Oh, it isn’t that. Isn’t it about time
that there was a reciprocity, a sort
of—”
“A treaty of l’eciproeity, you mean?
Oh, well. Goodnight.”
There was a sharp sort of noise in the
room as it' the fire had bui’st out in a
new crackling glee, and the “conven
tion” was rati lied. Hartford Post.
How He Conciliated Her.
A conductor on the Boston and Provi
dence Road tells the story on a young
lady of this town who entered the noon
train for Boston the other day. She
seated herself opposite a gentleman,
who, from the first, with one eye at
least, seemed to be staring fixedly at
her. She became indignant at length,
and inquired: “Why do you look at me
so, sir?” He said he was not aware of
having done so; she insisted. “I beg
your pardon, madam, but it’s this eye,
is it not?” lifting his finger to his left
optic. “Yes, sir; it’s that eye.” “Well,
madam, that eye won’t do you any
harm; it’s a glass eye, madam, only a
glass eye. I hope you will excuse it.
But, upon my soul, I’m not surprised
that even a glass eye should feel inter
ested in so pretty a woman.” The ex
planation and compliment combined to
put the lady into a good humor.—Mans
field News. ,
“ I do not like thee. Dr. Fell, -k
The reason why, I can not tell.”
It has often been wondered at, the bad
odor this oft-quoted doctor was in. ’Tv as
probably because he, being one of the old
school doctors, made up pills as large as
bullets, which nothing but an ostrich could
bolt without nausea. Hence the dislike.
Dr. R. V. Pierce’s “ Pleasant Purgative
Pellets” are sugar-coated and no larger
than bird-shot, and are quick to do their
work. For all derangements of the liver,
bowels and stomach they are specific.
Max O’Rell thinks the best burglar
alartn is a pretty cook, as with that the .
police will keep a good eye on the house.—
Harper's Bazar. •
J. W. Graham, Wholesale Druggist, of
Austin, Tex., writes:—l have been hand
ling Dr. Wm. Hall’s Balsam forthe Lungs
for the past year, and have found it one of
the most salable medicines I have ever had
for Coughs, Colds and Consumption.
When a cashier becomes unsteady a do
pes tor is in danger of losing his balance.—
N. Y. Journal.
French Grape Brandy, distilled Extract
of Water Pepper or Smart-Weed, Jamaica
Ginger and Camphor Water, as combined
in Dr. Pierce’s Compound Extract of Smart-
Weed, is the best possible remedy for colic,
cholera morbus, diarrhcea, dysentery or
bloody-flux; also, to break up colds, fevers,
and inflammatory attacks. 50 cts. Keep
it on hand. Good for man. or beast.
Socks with openworked heels and toes
will be worn by bachelors as heretofore.—
Life.
THE MARKETS.
Cincinnati, December 39, 1884.
LIVE STOCK—Cattle-Cou;monsl 50 @ 250
Choice Butchers 4 00 <&) 4 75
HOGS —Common 3 40 @ 395
Good packers 4 25 @ 440
SHEEP—Good to choice 325 @ 4 25
FLOUR—Family 3 20 @350
GRAlN—'Wheat-Long-berry red @ 78
No. 2 red 76 @ 77
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Oats—No. 2 mixed 28 @ 28*4
Rye—No. 2 @ 55
HAY—Timothy No. 1 10 50 @ll 00
HEMP—Double dressed 9 00 @9 75
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Apples, prime, per barrel.. 1 50 @ 200
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Oats—mixed 33 @ 37
PORK—Mess @l2 50
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No. 2 Chicago Spring 72H@ 73%
Corn—No. 2 35 @ 3514
Oats—No. 2 25%@ 26
Rye @ 52
PORK—Mess 10 75 @lO 87‘4
LARD—Steam 650 @ 6 62%
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Corn—mixed 47%@ 47%
Oats—mixed 32 @ 33(4
PROVISIONS—Pork—Mess @l2 75
Lard—Refined @ 8(4
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Corn—mixed @ 35%
Oats—mixed @ 3*5%
LOUISVILLE.
Flour—A No; 1 $4 15 @ 4 .35
GRAlN—Wheat —No. 2 red @ 73
Corn—mixed @ 40
Oats—mixed @ 28%
PORK—mess @l2 50
LARD—steam @ 7
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