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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. 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