The Republic Of Jones

"There was a government in existence within tbo limits of rny state during the late war that I find no niention of in the histories, " said Mr. F. M. Holden of Mississippi. "In the early days of secession the county of Jones, tbrough its leading citizens, withdrew from the Confederacy, declared themselves a free and independent people, organized a governnient, adopted a constitution modeled after that of the United States, called this new governrnent 'the republio of Jones,' elected a president and a f uil quota of officials and refused to furnish men or inoney to th southem cause. On the approach ui Confedérate troops they would retreat to the swamps and otber inaccessible places and remaüi in hiding till the danger had passed. They kept up this queer attitude of hostility to their own brethran, so far as I am informed, to the close of the war, but the republic of Jones passed out of the memory of men with the event of Appomattox, and the mention of it now in that locality