Canton Herald

HERALD.
CANTON. : : Friday, November 3.

FOR GOVERNOR,
DR. J. B. MORGAN, of Hinds co.

FOR CONGRESS,
S. S. PRNTISS, of Warren.
T. J. WORD, of Pontotoc.

ELECTION FIRST MONDAY IN NOVEMBER.

TO THE POLLS! TO THE POLLS!

FREEMEN OF MISSISSIPPI! Next Monday you will be called upon to elect those who are to serve you for the next two years. You are then to perform an important duty—to exercise one of your greatest privileges—and fulfil the ennobling trust, which characterizes you as Freemen. Be cautious, then, how this great duty is performed. The trust reposed in you is not exclusively your own, it belongs alike to posterity, and it will be claimed untarnished, at your hands.

We trust that every enemy to usurpation and tyranny, every friend to popular rights, every advocate of the maxim, that the representative is bound to obey the will of his constituents, whether in the State Legislature or in Congress, will come up with alacrity to the polls, and do his duty to himself and the country.

S. S. Prentiss and T. J. Word are the People's candidates for Congress. They are men who possess a high order of talents, and are eminently qualified to do the State good service. Having long resided among us, being intimately acquainted with the wants of the community, and having acquired a character for unimpeachable integrity—they will, if elected, prove themselves the true representatives of Mississippi.

J. B. Morgan is the candidate for Governor—a man whose correct habits, political integrity and eminent qualifications for the office, are unimpeached and unimpeachable.

We would also recommend to your notice Judge James Phillips of Jackson, as a candidate for State Treasurer—General Silas Brown for Secretary of State, and Gen. T. F. Collins for Attorney General.

The voters of the Seventh Judicial District will also be called upon to elect a Judge and District Attorney. For the first office Hon. C. R. Clifton is a candidate, and we candidly believe that a better selection could not be made in the State. For the latter office, Gen. John N. Drake and John H. Rollins are candidates. "Choose ye whom you will have to serve you."

We were requested by a friend to republish the letter of M. F. DeGraffenreid, Esq., declining to be run as candidate for Governor. We do not see the propriety nor advantage of doing so. If any of our readers, however, wish to know his reasons for declining, we can give them in a single sentence, as expressed by himself. He says, "I am in full and perfect accord with Major McNutt, in all his principles as exposed in his circular, except his views in regard to the amendment of our State Constitution." So it appears that the union of the party and the election of McNutt was the object in view. We trust that in this instance, the object of Mr. De Graffenreid will not be attained.

Texas.—This country continues to flourish like "the green bay tree," and is gradually assuming an important stand among the nations of the earth. She has already her diplomatic agents at the court of St James, and in the United States.—Her commerce is beginning to increase in importance, and to attract the attention and enterprise of other nations. Her navy is already more than adequate to cope with her Mexican enemy; and the field of San Jacinto has proved her army to be fully equal to the task before her—that of maintaining her independence.

Our latest advices from this country are the Texas Chronicle of the 30th Sept., and the Houston Telegraph of a previous date, from which we have made several extracts, on the first page of this day's paper.

AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.—We take this occasion of recommending Mr. Samuel Hosmer to the favorable consideration of the whigs of Madison county. We have seen a letter from a gentleman of high standing of Mr. Hosmer's own county, who recommends him as "a gentleman of sterling integrity and great moral worth, and in every respect qualified to discharge the duties of the station to which he aspires."

We acknowledge the receipt of several public documents from Mr. Gholson and among others the Message of the President transmitting the correspondence he had with the Texian Government on the subject of annexation. The letters of our friend Gen. Hunt, the Texian Minister we think very ably discuss this important question, and we trust they will be duly appreciated by Congress, when the question comes before them for their decision.