"I hereby respectfully resign my office of governor of the State of Mississippi." "ADELBERT AMES." After the reading of the resignation, Mr. Pryor, attorney for the resigning governor, spoke as follows: "Mr. Chief Justice and Senators--At the instance of my learned associates, I rise merely to return to the chief justice and the senators the expression of our grave sense of the courtesies and kindness which we have received, both from the learned chief justice and senators, and especially from our honorable adversaries, the managers on the part of the house." By his resignation Ames practically admitted his guilt, and soon after left the State in disgrace. Hon. John Marshall Stone became governor of the State by virtue of his position as president pro tem. of the senate, one day after Ames' resignation. A better man was never made governor of any State, and with his administration commenced an era of peace and prosperity that continues to this day. GLIMPSES OF THE PAST. BY MRS. HELEN D. BELL From my youth up "Historical Mississippi" has possessed a never failing charm__ books, papers and manuscripts I have faithfully searched, and my gleaning has brought me sheaves from many a field, where stronger hands have wrought. I shall leave chronology and statistics to the members of the Association who are more capable of dealing with them, and shall give a few current events that interested our ancestors some sixty years ago. In one of Irwin Russell's inimitable dialect poems, he makes an old negro preacher say: "An' when you sees me risin' up to structify in meetin'; I's just clumb up de knowledge-tree an' done some apple eatin'." My "knowledge-tree" proved to be an old file of newspapers published from 1836 to 1843. As far back as 1838 an active interest was taken in Historical Mississippi, and this Association, is not the first to try and preserve records and deeds, facts, traditions and legends of our beloved state. A Lyceum flourished in the Natchez district, with Mr. Dubuisson as president. A notice of a meeting that was to be held in Washington, Miss., June 2d, 1838, says: "There is a proposition before the Lyceum to change its name to that of 'The Mississippi Philosophical & Historical Society.' It should be incorporated, as it bids fair to be the nucleus around which the taste and talent of this section of our state may rally."