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JUNE 11, 1SG1: VOLUME I. NO. 10.
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N o 253, main-street,
MEMPHIS.TENN.,
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MEMPHIS, TENN.
Oct. 10.
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jan 18—tf] J- C. MORRILL.
CONSTITUTION
OF
T H E PR AIRIE COUNTY
AG RICULTUR AL 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, Sim
Horne, B. B. Allen, J. C. Davie, B. M
Barnes, D. P. Black. A. Ragland, R. Mc
lver, A. F. McCain, D. VV. Munroe, C. D.
Taylor.
Building Committee.—D. P. Black, A. 0.
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 nr.
§ 1. The President. Vice President, Secre
tary. Treasurer and Directors, .shall compose
a Rniirit nf Maiiasrers. a rnaioiitv 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
of Agriculture, Horticulture, the Mechanic
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
hi.-' absence.
ATTICI.E 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 Boardof Mana
gers, and to perform such other appropriate
duties as may be assigned him by the Society
or its Boas d 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.
§ l. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to
receive'all monies and property due the So
cietv 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 Muuageis 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.
§ 1. Any person may become a member of
this Society for one year by paying into the
treasury tlie sum of SI, 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 $i 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 Manageis.
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 ar'icle 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 oi
before the annual meeting in March will be
considered as donations to the Society.
8. Copetition on all articles open to the
State.
Infernal Scheme to Poison the State
Volunteers at Jefferson City.
The Examiner gives the following de
tails of this diabolical attempt at wholesale
murder, which has been briefly referred
to in our colums :
A negro woman who resides in the vi
cinity of the bakery at which the bread for
the volunteers at Jefferson City is baked,
informed some of our citizens that a cer
tain white man living here, had made pro
posals to her to poison the troops by pla
cing arsenic in the flour of which the
bread is baked, stating to her as an in
ducement that Frank Blair would then
come here and set all the negroes free.
A plan was at once set to catch the
gentleman, with such evidence ns would
convict him. The woman was told to
make an appointment to - meet him again
that night, which she did, and when the
hour arrived, a Dumber of our most respec
table citizens were so placed around the
house, as to overhear what was said with
in. The man conversed freely with the
woman, stating his,whole plan and object.
He said he had been disappointed that day
in getting the poison from St. Louis, but
that a man would certainly be up the next
day with it.
When she demurred to the plct as too
dangerous, he argued with her to show
how easy it could be done without detec
tion, her vicinity and access to the bakery
giving her ample opportunity of putting
poison into the flour without being known.
Having heard sufficient evidence to insure
his conviction, the house was entered and
the scoundrel secured. Ho proved to be
a man named Amos Cope, who hu£ been
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here with his family, Iasi winter, from
Kansas, in destitute circumstances, and
has been employed since then as a labor
er, his wife taking in washing to aid in
their support. He was a member of the
Home Guard, recently formed, and is said
to have been useful and efficient. He has
been supposed to be a quiet inoffensive
man, and is generally regarded in this
matter as the hired tool of more designing
miscreants.
Of course, when the discovery of the
diabolical plot was made known, the troops
here were greatly exasperated, and were
with difficulty restrained from a summary
execution of the miserable wretch. But
fortunately belter counsels prevailed, and
the law will be allowed to take its course.
The man is now in jail and strongly guar
ded. There can be no doubt of his con
viction, as the evidence against him is pos
itive and overwhelming.
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Senator Hunter, of Virginia, in a
speech in Congress about a year ago, es
timated the annual exports of the slave
Slates at two hundred millions of dollars;
freights paid to Northern vessels on these
exports, fourteen millions; freight paid to
Northern vessels on return cargoes, seven
millions; freights paid same in the coast
ing trade, twenty millions ; manufactures
by the North consumed by the South an
nually, four hundred and eighty millions
of dollars! He then shows that—
Ala moderate estimate, between three
and four millions of the people of the
Norlh-ea.-tern States owe their subsist
ence entirely to the commerce of the South,
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L)Ul lor WlJIUIl nicy WUUIU uc tumpcucu
starve or emigrate. He shows almost that
seven millions of the inhabitants of the
Northwestern Slates are also supported by
the market for their products afforded by
the South, and that the money paid by the
Northeastern States for the products of the
Northwestern States is obtained mainly
from the South; and he thus shows that a
large portion of the population of the
Northeastern and Northwestern States is
sustained by slave labor. Mr. Hunter
then proceeds to show that the operation
of protective tariff’s, and even tariffs for
revenue, have thrown the burden of the
Government, unequally upon the agricul
tural States of the South, who, being the
chief consumers of the protected articles,
have paid the increased price into the
pockets of the Northern producers.”
It is to compel us to continue this trib
ute to the elid of time that the North pours
down its hordes.
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g@“Two months drilling of new troops
is considered, in France, long enough to
bring them into great precision of move
ment.
g@** In addition to the list of 214 vol
unteer companies in Georgia to be found
in our paper, there have been forty-nine
companies formed, and to which commis
sions have been issued by the Governor,
within the last thirty days, making 263
companies ready for the field—a force noi
less than 18,000 vigorous men, now anx
iously awaiting orders to strike the com
mon foe. There can be 50,000 more rais
ed in less than a month, should the exigen
cies of the service Demand this contribution
from Georgia.—[Milledgeville Recorder,
0=” The Texans have seized the coast
survey steamer Twilight, at Aransas.
The N. Y. Post decares that
“there is a great deal of secession materi
al in New Jersey,” and advises its friends
to “mark the traitors.”#
KSaF" The London Standard aptly char
acterizes all the private armed vessels
that Lincoln is employing to enforce his
blockade, as “privateers.” This fs excel
lent. They are privateers, and no such
blockade, the Standard says, will be re
garded !
There are still two southerners
on the bench of the United Slates Su
preme Court, both from seceded Stales—
Hon. James M. Wayne, of Georgia, and
Hon. James Catron, of Tennessee.
The capitol building was to be cleared
of troops by the 1st of June, and the work
of renovation commenced, in preparation
for the extra session of Congress.
The farmers of Ohio are putting
in seed of the Chinese sugar cane, for the
purpose of having a supply of molasses
and sugar independent of the south.
The Way Texas Rangers Siioot.—
A Charleston correspondent of the Rich
mond Dispatch furnishes the following
interesting item for the Northern merce
naries :
A friend of mine, an officer of high rank
in the army of the Confederate States,
iiiot rotnrnprl from Monlnnmerv. and
says that while there, some twenty of
these Rangers exhibited the following feat:
A loaded revolver pistol was thrown upon
the ground ; The Ranger puls his horse
up to full speed, and as he passes picks it
up without slackening speed; throw him
self, “a la Camanche,” on the side of the
horse opposite to his enemy,, being invisi
ble to him, and under the horse’s neck,
fires each barrel of his pistol successively
in the direction of the enemy.
Will they not make the dandy troops
of Broadway, the Wilson shoulder hitlers,
etc., open their eyes.
The steamer Persia arrived at
New York on the 21st. By this vessel
the Federal Government expected to re
ceive from Europe a large amount of war
freight. It was not, however, shipped,
because the agents on the other side con
sidered it would vitiate the insurance, and
they wish to keep in a neutral position.
It is stated that President Davis,
in his recent visit to Pensacola, was sur
prised and delighted at the admirable con
dition of the army, and complimented Gen.
Bragg and his staff in the highest terms
for the energy, tact and vigor which they
have displayed in organizing and disci
plining the large force concentrated at
that point.
A Sout hern Fleet.—Our Cairo cor
respondent yesterday informed us that the
fJnvHmment was in the market for boats
nt that place, and that half a dozen were
wanted. The City of Louisiana has been
taken up here, in addition to others, and
rumor has it that at least thirty will be
chartered or purchased. What use is to
be made of them—whither they are going
—if South, for what purpose—whether to
take Memphis, or New Orleans, and thus
open the way to the Gulf—are questions
which exercise those who make themselves
busy about such things.—St. Louis Repub
lican, 26 th.
Fiiance and the South.—The Paris
correspondent of the London Chronicle,
writes on the 1st of May, says:
In consequence of the gravity of the po
litical situation in the Southern part of the
United States, the Government is, I am
informed, about to send them an eminent
diplomatist, to observe and report on
what may there occur.
A correspondent of the Richmond
Dispatch says that the Virginia cavalry
company taken prisoners at Alexandria,
were handcuffed, sent to Washington on
a boat, and marched through the streets of
that city. When it is considered that five
thousand men succeeded in capturing for
ty-five, the magnanimity of.this treatment
will be apparent.
The Lake Providence (La.) Her
ald says, Capt. McIntosh, commander of
the U.'S. Arsenal at Fort Smith at the
time of its late surrender to the Arkansi
ans, was in Lake Providence a few days
ago and that, having resigned his commis
sion in the “Old Concern,” goes to join
the Confederate army.