THE CENTRAL REGISTER

Kosciusko, Miss. \\|||// April 11, 1840

   We are authorized to announce William Need Esq. as a candidate for the office of State Treasurer, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the late incumbent, Col. James G. Williams.

  We are authorized to announce Morgan L. Fitch, Esq. as a candidate for the office of Judge of the 10th Judicial District composed of the counties of Leake, Attala, Holmes and Yazoo, all the next Nov. election.

BLACK LIST--NO. 1
  ANDERSON HUTCHINSON, is justly indebted to me for printing done for him during the late canvass for Chancellor, to the amount of $30, which he refuses to pay. Supremely mean must that fellow be who, when able, refuses to pay the Printer his honest demands. This is my only resort, and I hope that the public press throughout the state will guard well against such base and treacherous knaves - such dishonest wretches as this man has proved himself to be. Having thus expunged this vile aspirant to judicial honors from our catalogue of honest men, we shall let him dwadole on with our $30.
      Wm. E. Smith

State Debt Resolution
  The Benton State Debt Resolution just passed by the Senate of the United States declare,
    1st. It is unjust for the people of the United States to assume the debts of the people of the several States.
    2nd. That for the people of the United States to pay the debts of the people of the several States, would be inexpedient and dangerous.
    3rd. That to do so would be against the Constitution.
    4th. That for the people of the United States to pay the debts of the people of the several States in any way direct or indirect would be unconstitutional.
    5th. That the people of the United States do not deny to the people of the United States, the right to go into debt as far as they please, nor to insinuate that the latter cannot pay their debts when they are due.

A WHIG CATECHISM
  In his eloquent speech on the 8th of Jan., Gov Carroll, one of the heroes of New Orleans, Enotochopco, Emucfaw, &c. after giving the character of Gen. Harrison, as coming within the pale of his own personal knowledge, asked "who fought the battle of the Thames?" I answer (said he) "Col Johnson." "And who fought the battle of Tippecanoe?" I answer (said he) "Joe Daviess and the Indians." The Govenor was so warmly applauded, that we have thought proper to annex a few other questions of a similar character, which we find in an Ohio paper.
    Question. What General encamped on ground chosen for him by his enemy, and was afterwards caught knapping in his encampment?
    Answer. Gen. Harrison
    Q. Where was Gen Harrison at the battle of the Thames.
    A. In a reserve corps and "out of harm's way."
    Q. Who reconnortered Fort Stephens in person and found it so commanded by the high ground in its neighborhood, as to be utterly indefensible against heavy artillery; and learning that his station was about to be assailed, thought it proper to withdraw the garrison of 5,000.
    A. Gen Harrison.
    Q. Who, after he was arrested for disobeying Harrison's orders in respect to evacuating the fort and burning the provisions, convinced Gen. Harrison that he could successfully defend the fort with 133 men, and did so.
    A. Major Croghan.

    Q. Who was appointed Envoy Extradinary and Minister Plenipotentinry to Columbia, and was recalled for his medling interfearance with the Government of that country?
    A. General Harrison.
    Q. Who objected to the nomination of Gen. Harrison as Minister to Columbia, on consequence of the incompetency of the nominee?
    A. Henry Clay.
    Q. Who received $14.65 per day for living quietly at home on his own farm below Cincinnati and attending to his own business?
    A. Gen. Harrison
    Q. For how many days did he receive that sum, while living on his farm and neglecting the duties assigned him as minister of Columbia?
    A. One hundred and twenty-six.
    Q. How much did Harrison's mission to Columbia cost the U. S. for which he rendered no services?
   Will the whigs be so good as to cypher it up?
    Q. Who became so obnoxious to the Government of Columbia and her citizens, that he came near being assasinated?
    A. Gen. Harrison.
    Q. Who was a supporter of the Administration that passed the alien and sedition law?
    A. Gen. Harrison.
    Q. Whose name was stricken out of a resolution in the U. S. Senate, voting honors to the officers of the late war?
    A. Gen. Harrison.
    Q. Who was denied a sword as a badge of General-ship, by the citizens of New York?
    A. Gen. Harrison.
    Q. Who was a candidate for the Govenor of Ohio, and only received 4,000 votes out of 50,000?
    A. Gen. Harrison.
    Q. Who prayed for war, pestilence and famine, in preference to a military chieftain being elevated to the Presidency?
    A. Henry Clay
    Q. Who now supports Gen. Harrison for the office on account of his military achievements exclusively?
    A. The same Henry Clay and the whole Whig Party.
To which may be added:
    Q. Who voted for selling white men into slavery by the hands of the Sheriff for the non-payment of "fines and costs or both"?
    A. Gen. Harrison.

CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES

As an act to amend the act "to provide for taking the sixth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States," approved March 3rd, 1839.
  Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the enumeration shall commence on the first day of June, in the year one thousand eighteen hundred and forty, and shall be completed and closed within five calendar months thereafter. The several assistants shall within 5 months, and on or before the first day of November, eighteen hundred and forty, deliver to the marshals by whom they shall be appointed, two copies of the returns of the enumeration and statistical tables, and the marshals respectively shall, on or before the first day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and forty, transmit to the Secretary of State one copy of the several returns and statistical tables, and also the aggregate amount of each discriptions of persons within their respective districts or teritories and an aggregate also of the statistical information obtained within the districts.
  Sec. 2. And it be further enacted, That in the enumeration of trancient persons, the name of every person who shall be an inhabitant of any district or teritory, without a settled place of residence, shall be inserted in the column of the schedules which

is alloted for the heads of families in the division where he or she shall be on said first day of June, eighteen hundred and forty.
  Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the compensation of the marshals of Missori shall be three hundred dollars.
  Sec.4. And be it further enacted that in lieu of the five dollars heretofore provided as compensation to the assistant for each of the two correct copies of the schedule containing the number of inhabitants within his division, to be set up in two of the most public places withing the same, that there be allowed for said copies, and each assistant shall be entitled to receive, at the rate of five dollars for ten sheets, or in that proportion for a less number, and at the rate of thirty cents for every sheet over that in the copy of the return. And in cases where the assistants to the marshals shall have performed the duties and made the returns required by the thirteenth section of the act for taking the sixth census, they shall be allowed for a sum equal to twenty per entry on the allowance made to them respectively, for the enumeration.
  Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the copies of returns and aggregate amounts, directed to be filed by the marshals with the clerks of the several district courts and supreme courts of the teritories of the United States, shall be preserved by said clerks and remain in their offices respectively, and so much of the act to which this is an amendment as requires that they shall be transmitted by said clerks to the Department of State is hereby repealed.
  Sec 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to cause to be noted all the clerical errors in the returns of the marshalls and assistants, wheteher in the additions, classifications of inhabitants or otherwise, and to direct to be printed in the manner provided for in the act to which this is an amendment the corrected aggregate returns only.
  Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That so much of the thirteenth section of the act of the third of March, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five as restricts the weight of packages by mail, shall not apply to the transmission of papers relating to the cnesus of enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, and upon the transmission of said papers by mail, between marshals and their assistants, it shall be lawful for the post-masters to charge peridical pamphlet postage only.
  Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the marshals of any district, to take part in the enumeration of a portion of his district and upon his own doing he shall have the benefit of the compensation allotted therefore as if it had been done by an assistant.
  Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the compensation of the respective persons who are employed by the Secretary of State in executing the provisions of this act, shall be fifteen hundred dollars to the superintending clerk per annum; to the recording clerk eight hundred dollars per annum; to assistant clerk six hundred and fifty dollars per annum; and to the packer and folder six hundred and fifty dollars per annum; and the said salaries shall commence from the date of their being so employed, and that of the persons to be employed, to examine and correct the returns from the marshals and their assistants at the same rates as were paid for the like services rendered under the act of taking the fifth census, to be paid out of any money appropriated for carrying into effect the act for taking the sixth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States.
  Sec. 10. And be it further enacted that all acts and parts of acts whose provisions are inconsistent with the enactment of this amendatory act are hereby repealed.
        Approved Feb 6th, 1840

Central Register, Kosciusko, Miss., April 11, 1840

The above is a representative reproduction of a portion of a page of the Central Register newspaper that appeared on April 11, 1840, Kosciusko, Miss.
The Central Register was established on November 30, 1839 by William E. Smith its editor and proprietor. The Central Register was the first newspaper published in Attala County.

Some additional information with respect to the article "A Whig Catechism" that appears above; William Henry Harrison is the General referred to in this article and in 1840 he was the Whig party candidate for the presidency to be held the following November, 1840.
William Henry Harrison's main claim to fame is a victorius battle during the War of 1812 at Tippecanoe. When running for his party's nomination, his slogan was "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!" He won the election in 1840 but died one month after assuming office.
The Whig party was formed in the second quarter of the 19th century to oppose president Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party. The Whig partry was led by Henry Clay of Kentucky and Daniel Webster of Massachusetts. The term whig came into common use in 1834 and persisted until disintegration of the party following the 1856 election.
The origin of the term whig goes back to England in 1680. The Protestant element in Parliament was opposed to a line of Catholic Kings and was attempting to stop the succession of Catholics to the throne. The group became known as Whigs after a radical Presbyterian group in Scotland, The Whigamores.
In 1840, the opposition party to the Democrats was known as the National Republican party, but because they opposed Andrew Jackson's "kinglike" presidency, the name Whigs came into wide spread use among the citizens.
In the 1850's a new Republican party was formed when the nation beame increasingly divided over the issue of slavery. The newly formed Republican party attracted many anti-slavery Democrats and drew off so many Whigs that it effectively killed the Whig party. The Whigs were also badly hurt by the short-lived Native American or Know-Nothing party which was primarily anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic. The last year that the Whigs had a presidential candidate was in 1856.

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