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MISSISSIPPI GOVERNOR ADELBFRT AMES RFLAX\'S AT SHIELDSBOROUOH August - 1871*
(Letter from Governor Adelbert Ames to wife, Mrs.BLanche Butler Aces, at Lcrwell, Mass.)	^	__
August 2^, 187^ ? Shieldsborovgh, Miss.
Sail Ride Over Rajl.roa^ Bridge to Henderson Point
... Yesterday we did almost literally nothing. After the six o'clock train passed, we took a trip across the bridge in the sail car. We had a good breeze going over, but our captain had to push us back. With a fair wind, it is a very agreeable way of travelling.
Ne>* Orleans Papers Provide News
You can imagine I am having a quiet time here, one entirely free from annoyances of any kind, when I tell you that the only news of the outside world we get is from the New Orleans papers, and that we read only the telegraphic dispatches.
No business comes to us. However, I feel and know my time is being wasted. It goes into talk, talk by the hour. . . ? ?
August 25, 187^ ? Shieldsborough, Miss.
Cordoza Arrested for Fraud
.... By the morning*s papers I see that Mr. Cordoza (Mississippi State Superintendent of Education, a colored man) has been arrested for frauds chaasd to have been committed a year or so ago when he was Circuit Clerk of Warren County (Vicksburg). He was required to give $5*000.00 bail, but could not and was sent to jail.
I am mortified and chagrined at the event, but can do nothing. I hope he is innocent.
His former clerk and present deputy has been arrested and is now in jail because he could not give bail. I removed him and appointed another person.
I am here out of the atmosphere of the transaction, and wherever I may be shall try to avoid thinking of the matter.
But it is an illustration of the character of the material we have to work with, and gives me new cause to wish to be . absolutely separated from it.
This morning's papers also give an account of the hanging of three Negroes for committing a rape on a white woman. Such lawlessness is common in other states, but has rarely occurred here--again I find cause for wishing myself in different community. But all in good time, my dear. . . . .
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