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AVING secured
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MEMPHIS ADVERTISEMENTS.
J. E. MERRIMAN & CO. ~
N O 253, MAIN'STREET,
MEMPHIS.TENN.,
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Together with all kinds of
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MEMPHIS, TENN.
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IMPROVElTPROPERTY on REE
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Buena Vista street, in Des Arc, is offered for
sale on reasonable terms. The building v\as
formerly occupied by J. W. Wallace, as a
Family Grocery. The location is one ot the
best in town. For terms, &c., apply to
jan 18—tf] J- C. MORRILL.
CONSTITUTION
OF
THE PRAIRIE COUNTY
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
OFFICERS.
President, B. F. Ford ; Vice President, A. O.
Edwards; Secretary, R. C. McCarley;
Treasurer, G. A. Mclver; Corresponding
Secretary, T. B. Kent.
Directors.—S. R. Brown, J. C. Morrill, Siin
Horne, B. B. Allen, J. C. Davie, B. M
Barnes, D. P. Black. A. Ragland, R. Mc
lver, A. F. McCain, D. W. Munroe, C. D.
Taylor. .
Building Committee.—D. P. Black, A. O.
Edwards, D. W. Munroe.
Premium Committee.—John S. Pearson, R.
McCarley, R. Mclver, J. S. Williams.
Ring Master.—John S. Pearson.
Herald.—W. W. Wair.
Marshal.—J. G. Warner.
article i.
Title of the Society. — This Society
shall be known by the name of the “Prairie
County Agricultural Society.”
article ii.
§ 1. The officers of this Society shall con
sist of a President, Vice President, Secretary,
Treasurer and Directors.
§ 2. Officers and Directors shall hereafter
be"elected by ballot at the Annual Meeting of
the Society in March, and shall hold their
offices one year, and until their successors are
chosen.
§ 3. In the election of officers and direc
tors, a plurality of votes cast shall be necessary
to elect. Vacancies may be filled at any
meeting of the Society.
ARTICLE III.
§ 1. The President, Vice President, Secre
tary, Treasurer and Directors, shall compose
a Board of Managers, a majority of whom
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction
ot' business, and it shall be the duty of said
Board to manage the property and business of
this Society as shall best promote the interests
of Agriculture, Horticulture, the Mechanic
Arts and Househi^d Industry; and they shall
hold and conduct Annual Fairs and Exhibi
tions, and distribute premiums to the persons
exhibiting the best and most meritorious speci
mens in these several departments.
ARTICLE IV.
§ 1. It shall be the duty of the President to
preside at meetings of the Society, and of the
Board of Managers. The Vice President
shall perform the duties of the President in
his absence.
atticle v.
§ 1. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to
make and keep a neat record of the proceed
ings of the Society, and of the Board of Mana
gers. and to perform such other appropriate
duties as may be assigned him by the Society
or its Board of Managers.
§ 2. The Secretary shall keep a book for
the special purpose of recording the names of
the Annual and Life Members, and the names
of donors, and the amounts contributed by
each; he shall as soon as practical pay over
all monies received by him to the Treasurer.
article vi.
§ 1. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to
receive all monies and property due the So
ciety or donated for its benefit, and to dispose
of the same only as directed by a resolution
of the Board of Managers, certified by the
President and countersigned by the secretary.
He shall Keep an account of his receipts and
disbursements, and report the same with
proper vouchers to the Society, at its annual
meetings, and to the Board of Managers as
often as they may require; and shall give
bond for the faithful discharge of his duty
in such surety and sums as they may deem
proper.
ARTICLE VII.
§ 1. The Annual Meetings of this Society
shall be held on the 2d Monday in March of
each year, at such place as the Society may
designate.
ARTICLE VIII.
§ 1. The Board of Managers may make
such Rules, Regulations and By-Laws as they
may deem proper, consistent with the Con
stitution.
article xi.
I § 1. Any person may become a member or
this Society for one year by paying into the
treasury tile sum of $1, or may become a life
member by paying at onetime the sum of $10.
ARTICLE X.
§ 1. This Constitution may be altered or
amended by a vote of two-thirds of all the
members present at any Annual Meeting, or
at a called meeting, provided thirty days
public notice of the same be given.
GENERAL RULES.
1. Life and Annual members of the Society,
and all others who shall pay $1 into the trea
sury, will be furnished with badges entitling
them to compete for premiums, admission
with the bona fide members of their family
with carriages to the Show Ground, and all
departments of the exhibition during its
continuance.
2. Stock and articles must be entered in the
name of the bona fide owners, and Grain,
Fruit, Vegetables, Dairy Products and Domes
tic Manufactures, must have been raised and
made by the exhibitor thereof, unless excep
tions be made in the published list of premi
ums offered bv the Board of Managers.
3. Animals and articles that have taken
premiums at previous exhibitions will not be
allowed to compete except for a higher pre
mium, in case they are adjudged best after
having received the highest premium a certi
cate of the fact will be awarded. No animal
or article can compete but for a single pre
mium.
4. Premiums will not be paid on animals or
articles of inferior merit although there may
be no competition. No premium shall be
paid on any animal or article owned by a firm,
unless each member of said firm is a member
of the Society.
5. No person shall act as a judge for award
ing premiums for which he is any way a
competitor.
6. Any person who shall knowingly violate
the regulations of the Society, or who shall
seek to obtain a premium by false pretences,
or by improper inteference with the Judges,
shall be excluded from competition; and if a
member, from the Society.
7. Pemiums awarded and called for at or
before the annual meeting in March will be
considered as donations to the Society.
8. Copetition on all articles open to the
State. '
mvm »WIWUiail. —
[From the Lexington (Mo.) Epositor.
That Avalanche of Northern Soldiers.
The Chinese and the Yankees, says the
Richmond Enquirer, are exceedingly alike
and we have always thought that they
were much more nearly related than the
Japanese and the almond-eyed people of
the flowery kingdom.
When a Chinese prepares for war—
measuring his enemies courage by his own
— he attempts to work upon his fear. He
puts on a hideous mask, arms himself with
a huge shield, upon which he paints some
unearthly monster; and, when thus ac
coutred, he goes forth in a C(|ld sweat to
meet the enemy. As soon as he beholds
his adversary, he utters a fearful roar,!
broadsides his shield, and if he does not
at once lake to his heels, John Chinaman
always does.
The wars of New England have always
been conducted upon the Chinese plan.—
To hear their orators and read their news
papers, one would suppose that he was
looking at a Chinaman, clothed with all
the pomp and circumstances of mask,
shield, and stink pot. The yankee orators
are only equalled by the yankee editors
in deeds of valor. Let war be breathed,
and they first swear to a man that they
are ready and anxious to exterminate cre
ation, whilst the latter, not content, like
Alexander, to sigh for more worlds to
conquer, threaten to destroy the laws of
gravity, and lay violent hands upon the
whole planetary system. Yet, the war
mandarins are all members of the pence
society, and would no more think of resen
ting a blow on the cheek, the seduction of
a wife, or the dishonor of a daughter, than
iIipv would nf flvintr. We have not for
gotten how all Massachusetts collected in
Boston when Anthony Burns was to be de
livered to his Virginia master, and swore
that it should not be done. A single file of
soldiers, however, marched the fugitive
from Stale street to the lower end of Long
Wharf, through miles of streets, packed
with valorous fanatics, who did nothing but
sing old puritan hymns with a most hid
eous and barbarous disregard to metre.
Since the capture of Fort Sumpter, the
people of ihe free Slates generally, and
the New Englanders in particular, have
been gojng through one of their peculiar
war dances. Their menaces and threats
are terrible, but their acts thus far have
been like those deeds of valor performed
by that fleet in command of Yankee cap
tain which was sent expressly to reinforce
Fort Sumpter, and remained at a safe dis
tance from the scene of combat, without fir
ing a gun.
Nothing can be more ludicrous, looking
to the character of the people, than the tre
mendous offers of men and money by New
England.
Does anybody believe that New Eng
land will invade the South, at this season
with anything hut a cargo of ice or Con
necticut notions? If he does, he is poorly
read in the history of his country. The
mo.'t striking peculiarity of the New Eng
lander is his aversion to fighting outside
of Ins own State. They never have done
it and they never will. The war of 1812
tested that matter. It was fought for the
protection of yankee commerce, and yet
die governors of the New England States,
yielding to the wishes of the people of
those States, contended that the govern
ment had no right to force the militia of a
State to leave it. The New England sol
Jiery never have, and never will, attempt
even the winning of victories upon South
ern soil.
There was a time during the revolution,
when the South having stripped herself of
men and money to aid the North, asked,
but asked in vain, that a few yankee sol
diers would come South, to replace the
thousands upon thousands of Southern lives,
cheerfully laid down in defending New
England. But none came—none what
ever.
During the winter and spring of 1781,
Virginia found hergelf suddenly invaded
by a hostile armament. When her maga
zines, her arsenals,her coffers and her mil
itary stations were empty—all having been
expended to defend the Northern States
—Virginia, naked and unsupported; was
ravaged by Cornwallis, from the south,
and Arnold and Phillips, from the north.
The tide of battle had rolled south, and the
opportunity was a good one for Yankee
soldiers to have tried their hands at "fight
ing at the South.” They refused to help
them then, and stood off, as cowardly as
lid Abe Lincoln’s fleet when the shelling
of the fort which they had been sent to de
fend, was going on within two miles of
them. Even the Virginia Legislature of
that day upbraided the New England sol
diery for refusing to come South. Thus
spoke Virginians of yankee courage and
fidelity. We quote from the remon
strance of the Virginia Legislature of
1781 :
"Ere the war began, we heard the cries
of our brethren at Boston, and paid the tax
due to distress. We accompanied our
Northern allies during almost every pro
gressive stride it made where danger
seemed to solicit our ardor. We bled
with them at Quebec, at Boston, at Har
lem, at White Plains, at Fort Washing
ion, at Brandywine, at Germantown, at
Mud Island, at White Marsh, at Sarato
ga, at Monmouth and at Stony Point. We
almost stood alone at Trenton and Prince
ton, and during the winter campaign
which followed. But when,” adds the
Legislature, “tee come to look for our
JVorthern allies, after we had thus ex
hausted our powers in their defense, they
were not to be found. We felt that they
were absent at Stono, at Savannah, at
Charleston, at Monk’s corner, at Buford's
defeat, nt Eanneau’s Ferry, at Camden, at
King’s Mountain, at Cowpens and at
Georgetown.” The Yankee soldiery
were “absent” from every Southern bat
tle field when their services were needed.
The fears of the timid may make this
idea of the North’s invading the South a
lion in our path, but it is a lion like that
which frightened Bottom, in “Midsummer
N.ght’s dream.” A yankee invasion of
the Southern States ! Connecticut, Mas
sachusetts, Vermont and Company,
spreading terror and dismay in Georgia,
Mississippi and Alabama! What an
idea ! If there were no men to fight such
invaders, the climate for the next seven
months would put them to rout. Think
of what enemies that vast family of South
ern fevers alone would be, if once let loose
among an army of onion-raisers from Con
necticut, hay-makers from Vermont,
pumpkin-growers from New Hampshire,
and clam-catchers from Rhode Island.—
A lively spectacle they would present, if *
“yellow jack,” “break bone,” “intermit
tent,” “bilious,” “congestive,” “swamp,”
and a score of other fevers were to seize
them. They would be smitten worse than
the Assyrians ever were. The fate of
the Amalekiles would be mild compared
with that of an invading army ofyankees,
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II 1.11 V/J IU I CUIUI k^vuvu III IIIU
spring, summer, or fall months. Jeff.
Davis’ army might stand quiet and let
the yankees and the fevers have a fair
fight.
Let any man travel by land or water
from New Orleans to New York, a few
days after the family of Southern fevers
have commenced their spring, summer
and fall campaigns, and watch the migra
tory herds and flocks of unacc-Iimated
Yankees who dash northward pallid with
terror, and say that he is afraid of an in
vading army of Yankees.
The climate of the Southern Confeder
acy protects it, if there were not hundreds
of thousands of brave men there, trained
from boyhood to old age to wigld with
deadly accuracy the rifle, the Colt, the
Bowie knife, and the musket—men not
enervated by inactive lives, nor made cow
ardly by trade, but men so thoroughly ed
ucated in the art of killing, that the South
ern militia during the Mexican war was
cooler in battle than the trained mercena
ry. When Jeff. Davis leads his lines to
battle, fighting on their own soil, and fired
with a sense of the accumulated wrongs
of half a century, God save the invading
army from New England which oppose
them ! We care not how much the odds—
they may be as great as was that of Persia
against Sparta—but when a Southern ar
my first comes in sight on one of the
bright savannahs of the Cotton States, of
a Yankee army, there will be one pause,
then a fierce yell of rage, a furious charge
and a wild flight of affrighted yankees.
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The Telegraph.
Congress has passed an act authorizing
the President to tak^ such control of the
telegraph lines and offices in the Confed
eracy, as will enable him effectually to
supervise the communications passing
through the same, to the end that the suc
cess of our military operations be not en
dangered, the cause of the Confederacy
not injured, and aid and comfort not giv
en to our enemies. The following sec
tions of the bill are sufficient for a full un
derstanding of its provisious:
Sec. 2. The President shall appoint
trustworthy agents in such offices, and at
such points on the various lines as he may
think fit, whose duty it shall be to super
vise all communications sent or passing
through said lines, and to prevent the
transmission of any communications deem
ed to be detrimental to the public service.
Sec. 3. In case the owners and man
agers of said lines shall refuse to permit
such suspension, or shall fail or refuse to
keep up and continue the business on said
lines, the President is hereby empowered
to take possession of the same for the pur
poses aforesaid.
Sec. 9 That no communication in cy
pher, nor enigmatical, or other doubtful
communication, shall be transmitted, un
less the person sending the same shall be
known by the agent of the Government to
be trustworthy, nor until the real purport
af such communication shall be explained
Lo such agent.
Section 10 imposes a penalty of not less
than $500, and imprisonment for not less
than one year, for a violation of the pro
visions of the act..
A hundred ladies of Jackson,
Penn., have offered their services to the
Southern army, to take care of the sick,
ind wounded.