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which mav involve the absorption to expiate its past error by a life of devoted lovo to the Union. And sition, but by those plain dictates of political policy which demand imperatively that the expenses of the Stato Government shall be kept down to the lowjst possible figure, consistent with its beiiilicent de sign, I shall refuse to entertain any about to be inaugurated hero today, is, in fact, the old polity of twenty-five thousand whites of Mississippi, who are impelled by moral gravitation to rush to fiction at ibu blast of tho bugle! Tlio heresy of secession doad, the revolution embodied In the fuiidaniPiit- ipre hand of the Stnte. But nil these citizens have at last riseu to their proper level uudcr Republican government and shall henceforth be made the special object of the stato care. The poor and the weak of the whites are Iu uoed of our fostering help. In the neglect of their education and defencelcss- BY TELEGR4P11.

THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. On the 9th Mr. Green C. Chaudler, Chairman of the Joiut Selected Committee, appointed to wait ou the Governor elect and learn of him at what time it would suit his convenience to be inaugurated, aud to make the necessary arrangement for his inauguration, reported that Governor Alcorn declared that it would be agreeable to him to be inaugurated on Thursday the 10th of March, at 12 o'clock M. MANHATTAN LIFE INSURANCE company.

NEW A TJ EE FOE, 1870., Dividends Annually After 1st Payment of Premiin. POLICIES INCONTESTABLE TIo Statement ol the Condition of the IHANHATTA im. SI IUM t'wnPA of Sew Vo.k, on Ibo 3lat day of December, A. I. INIIH.

The name ot the Company is tbe MANHATTAN LIFE INSURANCE COMFAXXt. I is Located In Hie City of New York. 'l ie Amount r.ritx Capital Stock ia tlOO.OWCO Tin' Amount of its Cpi'ul Stock paid up Is Tito Aett of The Company Are An Follow ash on liaml.or In tho hands of Agents, or other persons SMjg lloiidsowiHHl bv tho Company I nitisl Stales Bonds par SiM.MOO) Now Voik ito llonil lOU.OOOOH. New York City, anil Brooklyn Ilimds llO tuCOu. Bunk Stork-Bank ol Commerce 10.00000.

Marki Vkltie liOSiM on Bond and MortgagM, beiag Irst Ilea oa sninouov bored Kt'al Ktta'e tc list double the amount lomed Doiitj otheiwiae secured-Temporary Loans. Pebts lor Premiums as. All other ScenrltM i 1SS.1MJS. Tottl Assets tMM.fWW LIABILITIES. Amount duo, or not due to Banks or other Creditois.

None. Losses Adjusted and duo None. wn I. Adjusted and not dne Losses unadjusted Losses in tuspeuae, waiting for proa!) SJWI.tllS 00 All oilier oinims against tbe Company. Bendered SH.675 tl Total Liabilities I.11 81 The greatest Amount insured In any one risk 10,000 STATK or NKW YORR COUNTY OK NKW YOKK.I Itonry Slokes, President, and J.

L. tlslsey, Secretary, of tho Manhattan Life Insurance C'mpanv. of New York, being duly sworn depose and tsj-nil that the foregoing is a lull, true and oorreot statement of the affairs of the laid Company; Ibat tho sai 1 Insurance Company Is the bona fide owners of at least One Hundred Tli maud Dollars of actual ash Capital invested In State, and United Stales Stooss and II mils, or In Bomls. or Mortgages of Heal Kstatc, unincumbered and worth doublo the Amount fur which tlio same is Mortgaged and lhat they arc the above described offloers of suiil lusut-auco Company. blUNin HENRY STOKKi, Pretidea.

4. L.iiALSKY, and Sworn to beforo me Ibis i if ilthdyof Janunry 1810 SMMS MOSBS M08LEY. Notary Puiillc.Stateof New fovk. STATK Of MliWIftKIPPI, I WARREN COUNTY. I kM J.

H. Chappell, (lerkoftha Probate Court, in and for the said County, do liirehy con 11 that Wm. A. faircbitd, has tnls day tiled in my omce a slnteiiicnt of t'o ondition oi Manhat'an LI 'e Insurance Company, of New York, so prettier with a cerllfloato Ihe Auditor of I'uhllo Accounts: authorising Wm. A.

Pair-child, Aaent, lot ansact hutlners lor said Company, at Vlcksburg, until the 1st day 01 March A l. 1x71. i -tiivco under my hand andsoalof office, this Dili day ol March, A. I). IffTO.

J. II. C1IAPPKLL, Clerk. WM.A.FAtRCllILl,Uoneral Agent. I) ST -a Tho UrffiNt and Most Complete Stock in (he Stato Bfstiipp).

9200,000 WORTH OF DRY (iOODS BOOTS AMS, N0T10I1C, Ju tt Io(Mlved and in $tore, lor nalo at the Soutliern Baiar, known un tlie Popular Establishment of it it II. BODMIIEni A Washington Street, Vicksburg, Mississippi, one door touth of Washington Hotel, -0 II AVINO done luisiuesss in of our activo capital. In fact, a mania of speculation thrcatnns us; and if we do not treat it with firmness and foresight, may, as it ever has done elsewhere, not only plunge us into financial disaster, but may result in such bitter disappointments to individuals oj enterprise as to leave behind It, for many years, a heavy discourage ment upon measures ol even healthy progress. The new administration, act ing as a drag upon a progress oi dangerous rapidity, will set its face Against additions to the publia debt. it will discouuteuance all measures designed in a speculative temper to open the doors for burdening tho future by an iucreaso ot the liabili- ics ot the people of tho btate.

When tho State shall have been enabled to place her business on a basis of cash, and her counties aud cities shall have reached a fiuauciul position from which they can meet their ordinary expenses, not at a discount of twenty or thirty per ceut. on their paper, but at tho par amount in money, we will have reached a point at which it will be time enough for a spirit of even wise enterprise to think of plunging us iuto a policy of municipal loans. The North aud South have long beou distinguished by general divergencies of mind. The Southern thinking took the direction of a pure intellectuality. That of tho North followed the loss lofty but very much safer flight of material wisdom.

Southern statesmen liavo ever sought, and even found strength amongst this people by achievements iu political theories while the statesmen of the North pursued the less brilliant, but moro judicious course of achievement In behalf of industrial greatness. The one group of thinkers gave their section doctrines ou the theory of government, while the oilier group gave thoir section flshiug-bouuties, coasting-laws, harbor-iui prove-ments, steam-ship-subsidics, navy-yards, rifle-manufactories, railway-grants, and all those gifU of practical wisdom by which they had been enabled to accept the triumphs of Southern theories with the assured pationco of men who had entered on tlie policy of erecting a physical strength which could, at its own good pleasure, crush those theories iuto powder under their heels. John C. Calhoun's genius was of the very noblest. It has loft to tho Southern people the elevating influence ot brotherhood with a tran-scendant intellect.

But with this tribute to the memory of a great man, what, let mo ask, have the triumphs of his wonderful mind given the people he loved well, if not wisely 4W Iu tendorness for his fame I do not ask you to turn yonr eyes for an answer to his beloved South. Look for an indirect reply to the canul, the railways, the harbors, the fishing-fleets, the coastlng-ftcets of the If these do not speak out to you a plain answer as the results accomplished by Southern devotion to political abstractlonB, while the North followed paths leading to national strength, look for a more pointed summing up of all these In that climax of the comparison of Southern with tho Northorn school Of statesmanship, presented to us on an occasion of profound humiliation under tho apple treo of Appoinatox. War is the school master of nations. Attic philosophy followed the footsteps of the Greek phalanx. Latin learning keeps pace In its expansion with the advance of tho Roman leglou.

Oriental art planted itself iu the battle-fields won by" the scimeter of the Moor. And to cite a ho less notable Instance in our own day, the defeat of Sadowa has taught the obstluate despotim of Austria the grandest knowledge of all a knowledge which has effected a revolution in her political thinking! Shall It be said that tho Southern people have been made an exception in history by a fac-tiobs blindness that resists the plainest lesson of history a lesson which tells them as plaiuly as the letters which Constantino saw surrounding, In tho Heavens, the Cross of our Salvation, that they must abandon their political theorizing for the wiser statcmanship, which devotes itself, in the first place, to the fosterage of material interests. The old constitutional parties of the country are dead. The Democracy retains, it is true, a sem blance of life, but can never become a living power again until it shall have entered on an existence totally distinct from that of the past. The propriety ol this occasion does not, therefore, forbid my dealing with the two old parties of the Booth, as freely as I might with Egytian mumies- The Democratic party inherited the theories which have beeu pronounced by the war a system of brilliant follies.

Like the eift of the genii, those shining treasures have turned in our bands to withered leaves The existence of that party as it now languishes out of life, is a fact tied up in the dazzling ab stractions which the war has de clared to be utterly impotent because utterly unwise. The De mocracy of the South is thus seen. on general grounds, to stand drawn up across the true road of Southern progress. Thus, it is seen, that the Democratic leaders occupy a position in the way of every Southern man's interests, inasmuch as their thinking has directed, and, while its nature remains unchanged, ever must continue to direct the whole energies of our people to the accomplishment of the unreal. The inal dissolution of the dying Democracy of Mississippi, ought to become, therefore, a consummation most devoutly to be wished for, by all those Independent thinkers who, though acting with It, fall not behind that capacity for instruction which has raised the people of Austria, in a few short years, from the depth of crashing defeat to the height of political and material grandeur.

Who are the natural successors in this State, of the men whose statesmanship has been stamped by the ondemnatioo of the war? What class of thinkers of the South represen that of tho North Is it not the class which battled rinet Bouuern incomings wuatpo- uucai oi tue was always in accord with the states manship which the lessons of the war command as to enthrone on reconstruction? Is it not the set of minds that concurred hero with tee minds of the other section, in insisting on the polity of Internal improvement by the General Gov The polity which Is well do I know that the generous old Unionists of the South who sur rendered to overwhelming force, with unconqnered souls, will, when the bitterness of submission shall have passed away, stand with me, touched iuto adnuratiou in every fibre of their hearts by a magnificent mercy never shown before by a government siuce established authority first dealt with rebellion after the fierce fashion of "a short shrive and a long rope." 1 he Union has brought us back, pardoned children, into its bosom. It bids us go forward this day, to the reconstruction of a government ou the ruins left by our own mad ness. Restored to our lost place in the sisterhood of States by the grace of the Nation, that grave has Drougni us oacK aa equal among Sovereigns! Erect and free, Mississippi goes forward now to work out her destiny in a fellowship of States, the peer of the proudest! And in approachiug the duty made incumbent on us as representatives of a Sovereign authority, our first worn is to carry out iu good taitli, the principles incorporated bv the revolution just closed, in the letter ana spirit ot the Constitution. The Northern Democracy have overthrown the Southern Oligarchy This is the measure of the fact accomplished by the action of the United States. Entering on our duty in acceptance of that result, we must go forward to make the overthrow of the old system that had reigned amongst us, a practical reality by eusuring all the blessings of free government for the masses of the people.

The obligations resting on us un der the new order of things, ex tend very greatly the breadth of the State government. The "pa triarchal" groupings of our society in the days of slavery, confined the work of our political organization, to a very great extent, to the heads of what we called "fam ilies." But every individual of those "families" comes under the cognizance of the present regime, a distiuct entity, where the State government bad been called on in the past by discharge of its functions in reference to but one man, it Is called on now to discharge them iu reterenceto each individual of that man's "family of twenty or five hundred. And thus it it maybe seen that the number of people falling under the direct operations of the State government, are under tnis regime ot Ireedom, largely increased. The poor were not treated with fully the same consideration by the old system as the rich. Under that organization of our society, gov eminent, actuated by no fostering spirit toward the humqler classes, was to a great extent, counned iu its functions to the wealthy.

And in this point of view, we find our selves face to face with the fact that, whereas the system which has been overthrown was one of duties limited, to a great degree, to twenty thousand slave-holders, that which we set up to-day will extend the full play of its powers to an additional population or tor ty thousand adult whites, and ighty thousand adult people of color adopting the voting basis. The numbers subject to active care under the new system exceed the numbers subject to active care under the old, aye fold. But this is not the full comparison of the breadth of service in each case. The new system has its work still further increased by the benevolence of its spirit. The poor white children of the State who were permitted in the past to grow up, like wild flowers, without training, the administration which we are about to inaugurate to-day, is determined" to expend a large pro portion ot energies In educating.

And so also, will the government TUlcii reigns over us irom this hour, devote a large proportion of its energies to the training of tho rising generations of the colored people tor the higher duties ot lite, under an enlightened system of public schools. In giving breadth to the operations of magistrate's courts, in organizing a department of public works, and In establishing a sedentary militia, the func tions ot new btate government are made, by the fostering activity of its spirit, very much greater in not only the increased breadth of the field, but in also the greater num ber of its duties. The amount of government very much greater in each individual case, and also the number of indi viduals embraced by that government very much greater, the cost of the new administration will be very much greater than that of the old. While the' equivalent for taxation formerly was but partial in the case of two-thirds of even the whites, the return henceforth will be a full equivalent to every tax-payer a full equivalent of benefit to his prop erty, his industry, nis children. But the increased expense of the free government of to-day will necessarily be -so onerous, compared with the expense of the slave government of the past, that everv effort should be made, consistent with the objects of en lightened policy, to reduce that ex-, pense to a minimum.

The men charged with setting in motion the machinery of civil law of this btate, in any event, at disadvantage by comparison with tho old regime, on the basis of cost. They owe it, not only to the State, but to themselves as a party, to reduce the disadvantage to the least possible dimension by gauging every project of legislation in the light of a severe economy. No more honorable reputation can be won in the Legislature, no more patriotic objeet of ambition can. be reached, than that of. the legislator, who, having applied the spirit of a wise providence to all questions of disbursements in perfecting our work of revolution, shall have deserted the distinction of beiSg called the guardian of the treasury.

At a means of economy proper to my own department of the government, 1 shall use the most conscientious care in my appointments to office. Competency ou the tart of its individual agents is one of the first essentials of a government in the administration of its affairs with providence. But the competence of official in the transaction of public business is not more im- portant in order to reduce me Bur den of taxation, than their hones ty. No consideration shall torn aside my fixed determination to scrutinize every appli cation for office under these two nnliits of view. Actuated as I am by not only an honest prids of po claim for office which cannot be ni lintaiiied iu the face of every question ot competency and hon-e esty and I may, furthermore add, and of sobiiety.

I he taxation will Lie, after the employment of the most zealous economy, extraordinarily Inrjre. Its application, will, however, tend not to impoverish its but to enrich us, for it will be directed to devel-ope the productive powers of the And productive result can receive no greater impulse than that accomplished by the education of Tlie world has adoped the "industrial college" and tho "public school" in concession of tho principle that the highost production of wealth follows the combination of muscle and intelligence. Outlays on public education yield high return in tho increased production of au educated people While the economies ot the question show it thus to be a wise poli cy, the popular government which is plautcd amongst us to-day, preferring prevention to care, superceding physical power for uioral power, seeks from its expenditures on education that priceless return which comes to a people in die growth of the virtue that springs, perennial, under tho fostcrngo ot a government which sets aside tho policeman tor the school The Board ot Public call ed for in the Constitution, is a sub ject of -outlay special to the new administration', bo great are the demands upon the people for other services of (he State, that the present conditionof things is not opportune for any considerable ex penditure from the public treasury, on internal improvements. In view of this, the wise economy which I have no doubt will govern legislation, Will, it may be assumed. follow the suggestion made by tho mode of constituting tlie Board of Education, by designating two or three officers of the administration to constitute the Board of Public Works undor a President bringing to the duties of the position the skill of a civil engineer.

Tho Militia is another subject which involves the Incoming government in new outlays. The Leg-islature will, undoubtedly, discharge its duty by organizing a citizen-soldiery in this Stato, as they arc organized in other States. Tho economical spirit which will, no doubt, actuate -our law-makers, will place this force on the footing of, I presume, a sedentary body liablo to bo called, on extrnordiua-. ry occasions, into active service. The public may, therefore, feel assured that the in catling for a Militia, does not involve necessarily any very grievous additions to the burden of the public Lawlessness, may however, make the Militia a source of crushing taxation.

But the improved temper shown by the people leads me to hope' that they will not force upon the incoming authority of the State, any resort to armed power. Personally, such a necessity would affect me with profound resrret. But so Ion? as I shall have tho honor to govern the State, the law shall be oboyed. Even poverty and helplessness, shall, while I preside over the government, be held sacred within our borders from -lawless Old citi zens or new, black citizens or white, native or foreigners, coming into the this State shall be sbieldod by the law as with a panoply of steel. The Immigrant who comes among us, and the traveler- Who passes over our domain, may feel assured, that henceforth, having nothing to appreheud from tho pis tol and knife, thoy will bo in the inevitable keeping of a civil power at onceomuisceutaud'omnipresent.

within the limits of the per centage of crime incident to the best ordered societies, I shall not attempt' repression by agencies other than those of tho Courts. Let lawlessness, run riot, jot criminals escape by reason of either the cowardice' or the sympathy of the people of a Beat or a County, and I shall pot hesitate to bring that people to a sense or their obligation to law and or der, even though tbey shall have left me that duty of government, no means less painful to mv own feelings than that of calling out the Militia. And here docs the question of economy pass beyond the control of either the Governor or the Legislature, to receive its limit directly from the. moral sense of the people. blavery is dead.

Free labor de mands the abolition of a code based on bondage. The past must be swept away from tlie statute-book to be replaced by tho- present. And i quality before the law must now be established by legislation in a form which shall throw open the oaiiot-oox, the ury-box, aud the offices of the State, to the "compe tent" and "honest," without of color. The colored citi zens must be protected In all their rights of person and property and being placed, not only in theory, but in fact, on exactly the same footings in the courts as' all other citizens, aud shall be left free to pursue the race of life Under a code Which shall throw open all the rewards of success, or industrial, to be worn regardless of the previous condition of tho winner. 4 The colored population are an infant people struggling to maintain themselves in the presence of intelligence more advanced than their own.

And the first duty of wise and paternal government- is to protect the weak against the strong. From me, individually, the colored people of Mississippi have every reason to look for a profound anxiety for the realization of their new In the face of me monies that might have separated them from me as the wronged from the wronger, they oflered nie Jhcir confidence offered me the guardianship of their hopes in a trustfuUnesa whose very tion. In response to that touching reliance, the most profound anxiety with which. I enter my office as Governor of this State, is that -of making the colored man the equal, before the law, Of any other man he equal, not In dead letter but! in tiving fact. a 1 i iv And the weak and poor amongst us are not confined to the people of Thousands of our worthy whites have ever remained, to a great extent, a stranger to the help- past twenty years, anil attained an enviable reputation among our competitors for FAIR DEALINGS, LOW PRICES, BEST GOODS, ami liii'Kcsl stock, wo are dcHii mingd to maintain our far famed popularity, la tbe future ns woll as the past.

If the lowest prices ami largi st stock be an evidence ol onr statement, and an imliici'ijit-nl) to purchasers. 1 has beou customary in Vicksburg for the past year or two, lor the proprietors LITTI.K "shebangs," whose entlro stock does not uxceed ten or I tcen thou and dollars, to publish flaming advertisements pregnant with misrepresentations, humiiug and deception, in the hope ol decoying an unsuspecting and crudi.lousipulillo into their ingeniously woven NKT. Now, tills Is not the manner in which we built upour bnlllness iu tbe past, aor do we intend 10 do In the future. Hut we feel that the public lias been mlsledlong onough by humbug advertisement; and in order to protect the pubho In I ut are we have hereunto appended a price list of our prices for tbe guidance 1 1 all, especially planters visiting tbe city with a view to muklng purchases, aud assure them that no deviation Irons prices la price list will lie tolerated In our establishment. When we say we sell goods as auvertil' we uieaa it.

al 1 iw, th passions which winked at violence passed away, theiucoin- if authority in ihebmtool Mis sissippi enters on Its functions at a time when it may claim the unanimous support of all men who stand ready to rally to-day, as they did in tho past, for "the Union, tho Constitution, and the enforcement of the Laws." Tho attention that 1 have bestow ed here on the great practical qucs- bctoro mc, lias but stilled lor the time tho emotions awoke in my mind by the greatness of this occasion. Standing ns I do, in tho position 1 am about to assume in tho iutorest of law and order, on the very threshold of revolution and violence, 1 am profoundly sensible that I stand here to-day, an humble instrument In the hands of Providence. Hoping earnestly that my heart may be -kept, a.id my rniuo may be guided, by tho ltulor of the I am prepared now, in tin name, io pledge the righteousness of my purpose to tlio people of Mississippi in the solemn oath presi'iihcd by Law. J. I j.

ALCOKN. Si PEl I I. i II if A I I. Jackson, March 10th. fcENATK Prayer by the lev.

Mr. Emery. Seuatois Bennett, I lardy and Kushidg, appeared and took their seats, ut 20 minutes to 12 iu, The Senators proceeded in a body to tho Houso of Knpresonln-tives. After the inaugural, tlio Senators returned to their chamber, when Mr. Morgan offered the following resolution which was adopted: Resolved, Tho House concurring that 10,000 copies of tho Governor's inaugural address to the Legislature this day, be ordered printed fur tho use of members.

On motion of Mr. Little tlio Senate adjourned to 10 o'clock tomorrow. House Ten additional inetnbors appeared aud qualified. On motion of Mr. Chandler, Gen.

James Longstrect, was invited to a scat within the bar of the Houso. After tho oath was administered, tho Scrgvaiit-at-Arma proolojmod the "Inauguration Ceremonies uow ended," and the Governor with his Private Secretary, followod by tho Senate, rotired from tlio Hall, a brass band tho wliilo making dcB-pcrate efforts to drive 'Tho Star-Spangled Banner" through thoir Wind instruments, but tlio thing was certainly "wadded'' and would'nt come out. Gen. Alcorn rotired to the Executive Office where he held a levoo for an hour, many of his friends paying their respects to him, Gen. Jamos Longstreet was on the floor during tho inauguration.

and I learn is the guest of Gov. Alcorn. An hour after tho ceremonies wore ended, the belching of a 12 lb brass Held piece was heard on the outskirts of town, which your correspondent Is charitable enough to suppose was in honor of the new Governor. Jeremiah, Wood! Wood! Wood! ROWELL Ri nAY iivn Buif.iuuiib VI liry Hai-rl Wmm! Rt thftir Brtril. tmit.

nf Itreet. L)ry can lie lound at Ihe yard. niart-lm LUMBER LUMBER I CHEAP! CHEPJ ON hand, it all timet, to suit bills, al UFl'Ktt SAW MILL, on tbe liayog noxt to Chiim'i Wood Tard Coma and st Ivsi-nr S. OUIMKa TO SAVE LAB01C AND INSURE LARGE CROPS DSI Stern's Raw Bone Superphosphate and Fine Ground Bone rnn GREAT FERTILIZERS. Hanulaotnred by LOUIS HTKBN4 BHOS, NewOrloins, a.

11011NTHAL Asonts, marl-tf Vietnam, Mm. North Louisiana and Texas RA1JJIOAU. DKI.TA, Kdbruarv ltllh, 1070. ON and after Tueailsy, the W'i Inatant. a train on this road will mhlm mini, weekly trlpn (Tiits.luys and TliurMlayn) Irom terminus of track to Helta, as lol.

lows: Leave terminus of track at 8 a. m. Arrives at Delta at 10 a. in. Keturning tame Hcltn'at 0 p.

m. A eonstroctinn train, wiiich flhlppera may Bake available, will leave In In on Mondavi, at 12 and ai rlve at Helta Irom the weal on Saturdays, at 4:80 p. Tbe Company buvioK not yetestuMihep agendo on tlie line ol tlie road, freights received by the conductor will delivered at the designated itatlona, AT 1 1I RISK OF THBOWNKR, whethir there lie any portion tbere to receive It or not. muat be pre-paid The attention of Hi p. rrs It Invited to tho ca-d of Messrt.

Dundas Floyd, who are prepared to receive and forward freight. J. W.GREEK, tehtt Chief Knaincer. FOR SALE. A A KOK and ommodious new brick V.

store on WaiblngtOD street, stories high, with cellar, i iantatlore on Bouef Bayou. Rayon liar, tholomew, Bayou Maopn, Mississippi river, and in Uadlaon county. Miss. For terms, rto. apply to BltUrOKU.bUOtKKTT WAI1K, feM Washington street.

$100 REWARD. mHB burning of tbe Constitution fire I Engine house Is supposed to ho the act of an I therefor offer Ihe above toward lor the apprehrnMon of the parties, or any Information which may lea1 so tlie apprehension of any person who may beoonvicted as aiding; In any way iu this act of incendiarism mai-s-lw EBBN SWIFT. Mayor. WAREHOUSE. DELTA.

February 19, TUB undersigned take pleasure in aa. nounolng the public lhattbey bsve erected a commodious Warehouse, and are Srepared to receive and lorward heights cstmed for etuti.ws on tbe North Iii'siana and Texar Kailroad, or for any pointon the. Mississippi river. All consignments win receive prompt attention 'terms moilerato toW UUNDAS (PRIN) WHKKLS. Wholesale and re.

CT tall by bull LRU BICHABHSON A CO uess of their industry, they must command the tender solicitude of tho political system, which is plant-od. this day, in Mississippi, not up-oii-its point, but upon its base the whole people. Aud we pro-ceod lo this work regardlesi of considerations of race going forward with it in hearty good faith uudcr the mission of men who bring mercy and justice to the weak aud lowly. The Legislature of the State, will no doubt, do Us duty earnestly to the new order of things. But laws are of very little value in the practical establishment of new systems unless they bo committed to an administration which combines the necessary conditions for embodying those laws in facts.

Our legislation in the interest of the poorer classes wilt be confronted, iu tradition of ceuturies by a great force of virtual nullification. While Icgislativepower is vorygreat in organized States, we must know that, under precisely such circumstances as those by which we are surrounded, moral powor is sometimes more real. Wealth, intelligence, social position have been always, as I trust they ever shall be, great powers In the State. During tlie present moment of passion these are arrayed in larae masses against the spirit of our forthcoming laws. They threaten, therefore, to mako those laws, to a greater or loss extent, a dead letter, if any unwise policy shall influence me in my selections of the officers of the law.

The laws for tho protection of tho rights aud privileges of the poorer classes of our population must not be lett subjoct to the interpretation of an opposition bar whoso eminent ability does not scorn to enforce subtle logic by bold brow-beating ntid arrogant cxclusiveness. Our Judges muBl be men of a standing that society cannot presume to ignore. They must bo men learned iu tlie law beyond their fellows, men of courage and of conscience, in hearty accord with tho mission of the men charged with tho consolidation, in this btate, ot the work of reconstruct tion. The Chancery courts will em brace iu their practice, not only exclusive Chancery Jurisdiction, but also exclusive jurisdiction in cases ot J'rouato. Adjudicating as they will, all the subtle questions of principle afl'i'Cting the rights of the widow and the orphan, these courts will necessarily be of the most direct importance to owners of estate.

And while we devote the utmost solicitude to tho Inter ests rif labor, we must see to it that we bestow no less anxious solici tude on the interests of property. The incoming order of things is that of a well ordered society iu which, while the working class are made to enjoy tho fullest rights of wise and tree- government, the propertied classes are made to enjoy the fullest rights of wise and strong government. The men to be chosen for the administration of the Chancellor's courts must, therefore, be, under the very highest consideration) of sound polioy, men distinguished for probity and learning amongst the members of the bar. In the still more important court, that which decides, beyond all appeal, on questions involving the property, the liberty, the life of the citizen, the men to be placed upon the bench shall be men of the highest order of courage, character and legal ability. The Constitution of the State has taken tho selection of our Judges out of the hands of the people.

In this it is inteuded, evidently, to withdraw the choice of those highly important functionaries from the passions politics. It clearly sought by the change, to bring to the selection of our vJudiciary all the elevating influences of deliberative judgment and individual responsibility. Aud under this view of the objects of the Constitution, I feel it to be my solemn duty to hold of less binding force than ordinarily, any restraints that may so narrow my choice for the Supreme Bench, as to confine me to men falling below a very high standard of fitness, morally and intellectually. Tho duty which the incoming authority of the State owes to the poor, is iu every instance, a duty to the rich. The.

establishment of a Militia in the interests of strong government, Is in fact, not more a measure for the well-being of labor than it is for the safety of property. Tho organization of a Board of Public Works, even limited though the duties of the Board will necessarily be, is not more com mendable as a stimulant or industry, than it Is as an enhancer of estate. And public education, in a society whose political power rests lo so great au extent in the bands ot men without property, is cer-tainjy not called for more as a benefit to the poor, than as a safeguard to the rich. The mutuality of the interest of labor and property in the reforms of the rfew order of things, is not greater in other particulars than iu that of a wise re-adjustment ot the old system of taxation. Under every principle of Justice aud policy, the State ought not to impose any incumbrances whatever, that may prove in the least injurious to tlie productive energy and labor.

For, amongst other reasons, any flagging in the earnest application 'Of that power of production, in volves a direct loss of the Income of the wealthy. And therefore does the iy stem of free labor which we bava crowned with political supremacy to-day, demand that our taxation shall be made to bear with the least possible burden on industry, in order io keep that industry up ts the highest level of activity called for by the real in-teres of property. All classes of our society are interested in the wise employment of our capital. The surplus income which had been absorbed of old in the purchase of labor, will henceforth, aggregate Into large accumulations. Domestic capital will thns for the firt time in onr history, become an element in the State; and even already shows signs of its presence in the nmerous projects presenting' themselves for, its employment The restless activity in that direction is a cause of apprehension and suggests that tlie wisest and severest scrutiny be ap plied in dealing with, projects la pursuance of arrangements of this Committee, the House of Representatives met and prepared for the reception at 11 A.

M. yesterday. The committee of arraugeraents repaired to the Executive office at twelve minutes before .1 o'clock, and there awaited until informed by the Sergaut-at-Arms, that the two Houses were convened, and were ready to receive the Governor elect. The procession was then formed and proceded to the hall of the House, in the following order 1st. The Governor elect and his private Secretary, preceded by the Sei-geaut-at-Arms of the House, on the left.

2d. The Committee of Arrangements. 3d. The Judges of the High Courts of Errors and Appeals. 4th.

Judges, State officers, and other distinguished individuals. On arriving at the entrance of the bar of the House, the Sergeant-at- Arms announced the "Governor elect," on which' announcement, the President of the Senate and Speaker of House proceeded to conduct him to the Clerk's Desk. The Chief Justice sat en his right, aud the Associate Justices on his left. 6th. Oath of office administer edby the Chief Justic? After which Governor Alcorn arose aud delivered the following ADDRESS: Gentlemen: Tlie installation 'which yon are called to witness, is surrounded by circumstances by which it is invested with special solemnity, farty triumph would, necessarily, prompt the emotions in the minds of those present on similar consumations of political victory.

ao with us, Such emotious sink abashed in iprcsence of the great events of which this extraordinary passage in the records of Mississippi, de clairs the accomplishment The. Muse ot History closes to-day a chanter of passion, bloodshed, and sociul revolution and proceeds to writedown the facts of this inauguration as the first event of anew chapter a chapter which, "with her pencil of light," she heads by halcyon words of Peace and Hope. Tho balmy days ot my lite div long to Mississippi; The friend' ships of twenty-five years tie me to her in love. A sacrifice of con viction, made by men in a wrestle with the madness which plunged hor into bound my soul to hers in a common lot of sunering, and sorrow, and humiliation. A on of American liberty, whose heart is glowing with the blood of 177Q, I may, therefore, be pardoned for feoliiicr.slruiraling for first ut terance ou this occasion, the pro found emotion with which I ceive from the baud of a conqueror the crown of civil law that, iu a blending of palu and pleasure, I bind, this blessed hour, upon the Queenly brow of Mississippi.

Secession I have ever denounced as a fatal fallaoy. In casting my lot with my own people iu the late war. 1 souirht not justification ue hind the logical subtleties. When I said "The Rubicon is passed 1 join the army that moves to Rome," I spoke not as a sophist after the fashion of Calhoun, but as a rebel nftnr the fashion of Cffiar! The rstep I took, I took in full view of the fact that it was one of simple rebellion. Iu that exercise of the riarht of revolution.

I accepted all its risks with my eyes open to the fact that those risks included, in lintli law and fact, the penalties at taching to treason. And during even the first hour of defeat, when I lav with my people crushed un Anr the heels of thunderinsrarmies, I accepted tho fact that one end of the rope arouna my nee mm their necks, bad been grasp- by the hand of a triumphant In heart and soul, I am a man of the South. aflections, my uv terests, my habits of thought, ider iifv Indivisiblvwith the South' cmneoDle. The conqueror of the armies iu which one of my sons won a Maior's star aud another a Martyr's crown, is, as that conqueror, no more a subject of love with me than with any other Southern soldier. The military government, which I have the happiness to now this dav out of the State, was no mnrn atibiect of pleasure to me than it was to any other Missis- oSnnion 0 00(1 C10WS, mine does, 'with the iustincts sfilf-eovernment.

of ti.a nnaninna nrooer to a man born to freedom, I would suffer death rather than trim to any suggestions of policy. But they throb hinnri. snbiactto the dictates of Justice and Reason. Theydo not hide from me the fact that hnrnn tn the earth. Flay pros trate with my kiodred of the Rmith un heel crested upon my breast, no sword-poiut bricked my throat, no hand tightend the rope that mv own reason naa uuhw around my neck! The Sneeram whom mv people and my' coif had raised our hands in rebel lion, stood over us as we lay upon- h.

and liftinir bia visor to tell us that he gave ns our lands, our liberties, ior cue, 1 flonl to the sublime bene- that I beheld at that mo ment of supreme apprehension vari ance of HeaV' eu on the face of the government of my fathers! My heart swelled at .1,0.1 kietaut to the dimensions of the patriotism of Henry nflj knowing no North, no South, no ut no Vest, rcsolyed thenceforth PARTIAL 1IKI0 pieces standard Pi uit at HI MO Merrimack and Sprsguos 11 4 4 Wh'te Domestic Utf S-4 1(1 4-4 1 ancaster llx Slater 18 7- good Krnwn Domestic 1 4-4 best quality 18 111-4 Brown Sheeting 46 Pillow Ca ecotlon 18 Linen Crash Toweling Ticking Uinkory Stripes U), Cotten Chock 1A 8 4 Ilrown Table Damask 75 8- 4 White 1(10 Cottouades Krtglish Barogos plain and Oguied, Klal" Mozamli'ines '5 Lawns and Organdlea .18 figured Llnon Lawns 30 Whlto PiiU IW Spring oullnets Ill Bluek Alpaccas 40 -0- tlie City of Vicksburg for the PRICE LIST. Silk Poplin Patterns Lsdics' Corset renob Corsets Kid Gloves Ladles' iCotton Hose English Hemstitch Handkerchiefs Plain 1 inen, per doa Ladles' Pegged Shoes Buwed Mon ceo Shoes Best quality Calf Cloth Congress (jailers Linen Napkins, per dot Towels, per doi i Silk Belting Mnen Cuff, and Collars White Mars, guilts, 10-4 Honeycomb, 10-4 Men't Calf Sewed Boot Pegged Kips Hrogans Ltce Shoos 14 00 in 100 160 ii TO 100 1 3 00 BO 1 1 50 1 00 5l 50 50 .100 00. 150' 1 100 Washington Street, Our White Goods Department Comprises a full line of Jaconets, Nainsooks, Mull Muslins, Swisses, Organdy and Irish Linens. ALSO, a varied assortment el Linen, Jaconet, and Mull Edgings and Insertions. Also, a complete stuck ol' GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, Such as Casslmore and Linen Stilts, Plaited and full bosom Shirts, Undershirts, Half Hose and the ct lebrated Judson and fowlers Hand ktlKked Draw, ra, and an elegant selection 0 "i In Cium mures and Tweeds, Plain tnd Fancy Linen Drills from 80 cent per fMd up, Mat- tiny "tn lo anil Carpet iu entllw variety, All oi which will he nltl in prop to atiove price lUt AH weabi aa ex ami union oi our prlcja t' convince tliose wtto doubt our ftUtemeat.

II. BODENHEIM CO 7 marO One Door South Washington Hotel. RUG GISTS HARRISON, Wholesale and Retail Druggists. ftf-PHESC'ttlFTIONS PREPARED DAY AND NIGHT. Jani.ly WASHINGTON HOTKL BLOCK.

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Ml Mack or brewn. Sold bv all Druggist and Perfumers, and properly at the wig i v.ifi Bond street, New York. "Used Up. K8SAYS FOtt YOUNG MKS-tbe ener vated aad used up, who have lost (heir energy, ambition, and bodily vigor, In the pursuit of HOOiiL lictjiTRi, wltli words ofcheorand sanitary aid for tbe seemingly hopeless. Sent free.

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II ALL CONSTITUTION FIBK 0 JJO. Vicksliurg.Mlss., iiarob S.JBIO. A call horn the memhers of the Constitu. tlon Fire Company No. 1, there will be a meeting held st tlie V- un Home.

Mareh 11th is at 7 o'clock. Alltbeonlcersand members' ere requested to be present, as there It oi wrHa ueiore we Company. JOIIN.CROOM, Foreman. sHiSr, Ccretarv. Mario- SASH, DOOR AND BMHI VAOTOBY.

SI nlNO established Sash, Door en1 ml Factory in this city, we are pis pared all all orders at low prices oa Wi notice Sawh, Doors and Blindn, FEAMK8. MOULDING, J. FLOORIMd, SIK1NH And every1 arttola used le I always oa baad. Give as a One square below im Prentiss House. aMsf RYAN A HMO PLOWS I PLOWS! Celebrated Doage'a Perfect Meet flaw.

In hreakinir anil log the stillest and moat ailheslvst soils, it) has Inot an equal. Every Plow ia warranted. Kstra PMnt and laml-Hrs can be bad at a low njture. By removing tbe mold board and points a bull-tongue, shovel, scraper, or sweep nay ee attached, Ihareliy wu.ur.llic UIO riUWS 1SW OUlHVaUSff US ItlumAntc a For sale by TAPPAN CO Piano and Singing. 1 SCHILLINGS, Professor of MusK teaches Piano, and butbla up tlia voice ajtev he met hod used slo of Leipzig.

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