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N 0 253, MAIN - STREET,
MEMPHIS.TENN.,
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most reasonable prices, the
Finest Assortment of
GUNS AND RIFLES,
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HUNTING INSTRUMENTS,
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SILVER.WARE,
— YOUR—
Table Cutlery !
CASTORS.
—AND—
CLOCKS!
Wife bought them at
253 Main Street.
l'he Ladies all think they can get rather
BETTE SI BAUUAUVS ...
—AT—
M ERRIMAN’S
I1 HAN AT iSf¥ O I I*VIt PLACE.
J. E. MERRIMAN & CO.,
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MEMPHIS, TENN.
Oct. 10. _
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r 119 E . V T 1 E T n 1 • E. E
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)ur leading articles are
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SPECTACLES,
CLOCKS,
■ GUNS,
PISTOLS, &C.,
[1T7'ITH the usual variety of Goods in our
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DESPATCH!
F. H. CLARK & CO.,
fO. 1, Clark’s Marble Block,
»E!»IPHIS.TENS'.
Jan. 2, 1861. [6m
At Cost and Carriage.
[AM offering my entire stock of DRY
4*4)4) DS at cost and ten per
;ent. Everybody is invited to call and see
or themselves. My goods are inferior to
ione in this market, and my object in selling
iff at cost and carriage is to enable roe to re
deni sh with a stock which will be bought
xclusively with cash,
augl If LEVIN HARRISON.
CONSTITUTION
OF
THE PRAIRIE COUNTY
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
OFFICERS.
President, B. F. Ford ; Vice President, A. O.
Edwards; Secretary, R. C. McCarley;
Treasurer, G. A. Mclyerj Corresponding
Secretary, T. B. Kent.
Directors.—S. R. Brown, J. C. Morrill, Sim
Horne, B. B. Allen, J. C. Davie, B. M
Barnes, D. P. Black. A. Ragland, R. Mc
Iver, 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 in.
§ 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
of 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
nf A irriaii Illll'Q H /irUoiiltni'O f ha Maahanin
Arts and Household 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 he 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 he 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 tiie 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 Manageis 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 vm.
§ 1. The Board of Managers may make
such Rules, Regulations and By-Laws as they
may deem prop r, consistent with the Con
stitution.
ARTICLE XI.
§ 1. Any person may become a member of
this Society for one year by paying into the
treasury the 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, w’ill 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 aii
departments of the exhibition during its
continuance.
2. Stock and articles must be entered in the
napie of the bona fide owners, and Grain,
Fruit, Vegetables, Dairy Froducts 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.
Metes and Bounds.
A map of the Confederate Slates will
very soon be indispensable. At the pres
ent moment the facts on which to base
that map are incomplete, but sufficient is
known to enable us, with almost positive
certainly to sketch the outline.
Assuming, as a matter of course, that
Tennessee and Arkansas, which have just
seceded from the old Union, and North
Carolina, which will undoubtedly secede
immediately after the assembling of her
convention on the 20th inst., will be at
once admitted into the thriving family of
Confederate States, the metes and bounds
of the Southern Confederacy, on the hap
pening of those quickly coining events, will
be as follows :
Our coast line on the Atlantic Seaboard
will extend from the capes of Virginia to
Cape Sable; and, in continuation, on the
Gulf of Mexico from Cape Sable to the
mouth of the Rio Grande. This exten
sive coast line is spread over more than
eleven degrees of latitude and twenty-one
degrees of longitude. It embraces the
well known and important ports of Rich
mond and Norfolk. Va., Elizabeth City,
Washington, Beaufort, Wilmington and
Smithville, N. C.; Georgetown, Charleston
and Beaufort, S. C; Savannah, Darien,
Brunswick and St. Mary’s, Ga.; Jackson
ville, St. Augustine, New Smyrna, Key
West, Charlotte Harbor, Tampa, Cedur
Keys,St. Marks, Apalachicola,St. Joseph
and Pensacola, Fla.; Mobile, Ala.; Hands
boro' (Ship Island) and Shieldsboro’,
Miss ; Pontchartrain, New Orleans and
Franklin, La.; and Sabine, Galveston,
Matagorda, Indianola, Lavaca, Corpus
Christi, Brazos Santiago and Brownsville,
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important ports.
This coast line includes and gives us
command of the waters of Chesapeake
Bay, Hampton Roads, the North Carolina
sounds, Cape Fear, Great Pedee, Santee,
Ashley, Cooper, Edisto, Savannah, Alta*
maha, St. John's, Suvvanee, Cbattahoo
che, Alabama, Atchafalaya, Sabine, Bra
zos, Colorado, Nueces, Rio Grande, and
many smaller rivers with their innumera
ble affluents. More important for purpo
ses of commerce limn all else il includes
the waters of tiie mighty Mississippi-.
From the. grand indentation made by
that great inland sea, Chesapeake Bay, to
the mouth of the Rio Grande, the coast
line abounds in noble bays and sounds and
fine harbors. Some of the hitter ate, (or
naval as well as commercial purposes,
vastly important. We need only mention
Hampton Roads, Virginia, where the com
bined navies of the world could ride safely
at anchor sheltered from the rude storms
which so olten vex old ocean ; Beaufort
Harbor, South Carolina, and Brunswick
Harbor. Georgia, whose great capabilities
tor naval purposes the Confederate States
will doubtless in good time take the prop
er measures to develop ; Pensacola Har
bor, the importance of which is known
throughout the world; and Key West and
Tortugas harbors, the twin formidable na
val outposts on the Gulf that guard the
gates of the Mississippi.
True, at present, the Confederate States
have not yet obtained undisputed posses
sion of Pensacola harbor, and they have
vet to wrest from the Northern Govern
merit the command of Key West and Tor
tugas, but llie accomplishment of these
tilings is only a question of lime. While
it is absolutely necessary that the Con
federate Slates should possess the great
naval station at Pensacola, it is equally
necessary that they should possess Key
West and Torlugas for the freedom of our
commerce, and for purposes of defense.
We have occupied so much space in
thus sketching the metes and bounds of .
our coast line and its most prominent fea
tures, that we must stop here. To-morrow
we will resume the subject.—[N. O- Pic
ayuue.
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Falsehood Exposed.—Judge Doug
las, in his late speech at Wheeling, is re
ported to have said :
“Walking down the street in Washing
ton, I met a distinguished gentleman, a
member of the Virginia Convention,
whom I know personally, and had a few
minutes’ conversation with him. He told
me he had just had an interview with
Lieut. Gen. Scott; that he was chairman
of the committee appointed by the Vir
ginia convention to wait upon Gen. Scott
and lender him the command of the forces
of Virginia in this struggle. Gen. Scott
received him kindly, listened to him pa
tiently, and then said to him: ‘I have
served my country under the flag of the
Union for more than fifty years, and as
long as God permits me to live, I will de
fend that flag with my sword, even if my
own native State assails it.’”
We will state, on the authority of a dis
tinguished member of the Virginia con
vention, that there is not a word of truth
in the above statement, so far as the con
vention is concerned. No committee was
appointed by that body to wait upon Gen.
Scott for that purpose indicated, or for any
other.—\Richmond Enquirer.
Preparations for the Hegira—
Meeting of Congress at Chicago.—
One of the Chicago papers.contains the
following paragraph :
“ It is rumored that President Lincoln
has sent a private secretary to Chicago for
the purpose of ascertaining if suitable ar
rangements can be made for the assembling
of Congress here on the fourth of July
next.” It is more than probable that the
extra session of Congress called, will not
assemble in Washington. Old Virginia
has ranged side by side with the Confed
erate States in opposition to Lincoln and
his policy of subjugating the South, and
the vulgar hords that now defile the high
places in ihe once proud Capital of the
United States, will not long be permitted
to scheme and plot against our peace apd
safety on Southern territory.
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ALL SORTS.OF PARAGRAPHS.
A now State, embracing the ter
ritory of the Indian nations and a part of
Texas, above the latitude of 33 degrees,
is seriously contemplated. It will attach
itself if formed, to the Confederate States.
Advices from England, recently
received at Norfolk, state that British bank
ers are ready to furnish the Southern Con
federacy with any amount of money that
may be required. The producing resources
of the South are appreciated abroad.
8©“ The Richmond Whig has the fol
lowing caution: “We beg to suggest to
all Southern papers the propriety of omit
ling all mention of the movements of
troops within our borders. A word to the
wise !
John Mitchell writes from Paris
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to the Charleston Mercury that there is no
doubt of the Confederate States being re
cognized by France and England.
A dispatch from Montgomery
says that the Virginia Commissioners are
urging the removal of the Capitol to Rich
mond. They assert that policy demands it.
Flour, manufactured from Texas
wheat of this year’s growth, has been re
ceived at Galveston.
The Montgomery correspondent
of the New Orleans Delta says: “The
capital cf the Confederate Slates will pos
sibly soon be removed to Richmond. I
have heard it slated that the object of this
contemplated change is to place the seat
of Government convenient to the seat of
war.
l^iT* In 1850 two of Lincoln’s Cabinet,
Seward and Chase, voted in the United
States Senate for a petition that “ some
plan might be devised for the dissolution
of the American Union.” Are these gen
tlemen any better friends of the Union
now than they were then ?
t&igr The London itcview takes a more
sensible view of American affairs than
most English journals. In a late number
it says: “The best thing that the North
and South can do is to shake hands and
part. They never have agreed, they never
will agree, they never can agree.”
Mr. John A. Klien, of Vicksburg,
says that any of the Confederate States
can get as much lumber and timber as
they desire, to build fortifications on the
Mississippi river, at his saw mill, upon
the order of the proper authority. He
says payment can be made after we whip
the Northern rascals. He wants no pay
now.
Jg@°‘TheNew York News publishes
President Davis’ late message to Congress,
which document it calls “ an olive branch
from the South,” and says that nothipg
could “be more dignified, and in mpre fa
vorable contrast with similar documents
from the Chief Magistrate at Washington,
than this effort of the head of the Mont
gomery Government, to elicit responsive
conciliatory feeling.”
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The following is the rate of pay
sf the United States’ regular troops. A
part of it only is in cash, the remainder
being made up in rations, fcc., at a fixed
value :
Colonel, per month.*.$2*®
Lieutenant Colonel, per month. 194 00
Major, per month. 1^ rr
Captain, per month...
First Lieutenant, per month. no
Second Lieutenant, per month.. 10d 00
Brevet Second Lieutenant, per month- 10jJ no
First or Orderly Sergeant, per month- 29 l U
Other Sergeants, per month. 27 00
Corporals, per month. "
Privates, per month. oi 1C.
Musicians, per month. -1 ou