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LIFE OX THE MISSISSIPPI.

Southern climate; but if you keep putting new hands at the editorial
desk every year or two, and forget to vaccinate them against the
annual climatic surprise, that same old thing is going to occur right
along. Each year one new hand will have the disease, and be safe
from its recurrence; but this does not save the newspaper. No, the
newspaper is in as bad case as ever; it will for ever have its new
hand; and so, it will break out with the strawberry surprise every

ST. PAUL.
February as long as it lives. The new hand is curable; the news-
paper itself is incurable. An act of Congress—no, Congress coald
not prohibit the strawberry surprise without questionably stretching
Its powers. An amendment to the Constitution might fix the
and that is probably the best and quickest way to get at it.
authority of such an amendment, Congress could then pass an ari$j^
imprisonment for life for the first offence, and some sort a^