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The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-12

B4rThe Louisville Journal says that
Jefferson Davis cannot be convicted of
treason by any jury that can be made up
in the nation, and adds that the OOnse,
quences of an attempt to convict him
would be evil, all evil, and only evil..
The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-12

BaT There was meeting of Planters in
Macon, en- Saturday last. Business OF
great importance was to come before them.
We have not yet received the proceedings.
The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-12

GENERAL -ORDERs.
1. Until theI proper organization of the volunteer
in the various counties hereby directed suit
and cooperate with the senior Captain, (by commits
son of each county for the pre- ervaon of the eace
and safety of the community.
IL In case of excitement danger the senior Cap
tain or other senior officer in each county will
command of the volunteer forces and, when possible
act in concert with the Federal military COM
mander.
Ill The Aidde.Camp' ofsthe iGovernor having re-
ceved special instructions the Senior Captains of
counties will in the cases above mentioned, report to
them for information of the Governor and WILL in all
cases be guided by their instructions and orders
The following are sthe kAids de- Camp of the Gov
ernor:
For the FirsaDivison.-Lt. Col G.. R. Cherry Pom
totOc, Pontotoc county.
For the Second Divsion.-Lt. Col w S. Duff Sa.
repta Calhoun, Lowndes county.
For the Third sDivision-Lt. Col. J. NJ Arnold
Columbus Lowndes county.
For the Fourth Division.-That being Central will
be made to- and instructions received from the Adiu
tant General.
For the Fifth EDivisien.-Lt. COL L M Partridge,
vicksburg Miss.
For the Sixth Division-Lt.I 1 Col' O. j. E. Isheat.
Summit Miss.
By command of the Governor.
JAS. W. KE NNARD
Dec- 1~uA" Adiutant General.
The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-12

8eA- DR.. B. Dowler will soon commence
the publication of the New Orleans Med
ical Journal, in that City.
The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-12

R6r The Macon Beacon is to be en-
to it.
The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-12
UMPEDOPHIRTHEM

The learned Oxford student endeavored
to show that the Goddess Heja was cer4
tainly meant by the word HIG, and so he
proceeded, most abstrusely and most ad-
mirably, to take in Sir Henry and other
proficieRts in hieroglyphics and Sanscrit
they working away zealonsIy at the
matter, until somo one came to the con
clusion, through the papers. that per
haps reference to Mother Goose nigh t
settle the difficulty, the inscription and
the antiquarians, all tog 4ther. 1t did.
The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-12

d. Il. Locke, resident of Findlay
ohio' is the author Of the Nasty letters,
The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-12
HOUSE AND LOT
FOR SALE.

In Clinton, Miss, Two Acres
Six Rooms, besides two Out Rooms, q good Barn and
Stables, good Cistern, Pond Garden, Sc, for
81, 100 cash. Apply to P R Lewis, Clinton, Kinds
county Miss, or'tO the undersigned at Meridian.
Dec 12d1m J. B. HAMBERLIN.
The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-12

PICKwIcK EQUALED.-Who has not
laughed at the trick played on the
amiable Mr.. Pickwick by the rude En-
glish boor, who imposed modern an
tique stone on the old gentlemen as a
real antique? :? Dickens imaginary obi
has been put in practice lately, by some
waggish student of Oxford ; and Sir Hens
ry Rawlinson, and other learned students
of antedeiuvian orthography, were COM
pletely sold thereby.
The students published a treatise in
phamplet from, and in unimpeachable
Latin, narrating the discovery of sim
gular looking stone just discovered in
Devonshire, and bearing an inscription
that was thought to be either Scandi-
navian or Druidic. The phamplet cn>
deavored to give meaning to the inscrip-
ton, which was this
HIGHDIDDLED
IDDLETH
EKATANDTHEFI
DDLETHECoUJ
The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-12
For Mayor.

We are authorized to announce ID. N. Barrow
as candidate for reelection to the office of Mayo
OF Jackson. Election first Monday in January next
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-23
News from the Front.

An Army Chaplain sends us the following
items. We hope he will send more of a SINH
lar sort: sAA-tie 4aA
During the engagement near Jarrett,s
Station, on the 10th of December, an Irish
man, who had been sent for ammunition, was
rushing at break=neck speed back to the bat
terry with shell close Rugged under each
arm, concealed by his blowse, when he was
stopped By an officer of the Provost Guard,
who demanded what he had there. "Sure.
your honor" said Pat, "and isn't it hard tack
for the rebels ?"
"The average Of desertions from the rebel
line in front of Petersburg is from thirty to
forty every day."
Squads Of rebel prisoners are composed
largely Of old and young, sallow and striped.
lean and lank, while those of rebel deserters
are composed chiefly of the middle-aged.
sleek and intelligent
"Gen. Grants last move on the left accom-
plshed a two-fold object, viz. it prevented
Lee from sending portion of his troops
South to oppose Sherman, and by extending
our lines several miles 1t made it necessary for
Lee to extend his, and to retain his men to
hold them"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-23
Cotton Speoulators.

We know that many of the charges against
Gen. Butler have been disposed of, and shown
to be harmless calumnies. We hope all others
may share the same fate; but fidelity as a
Journalist will not allow our partially for a
man to blind US to his faults, or to withhold
from our readeas revelations to which they
are entitled. With this preface we give the
following paragraph from the special Norfolk
correspondent of the Philadelphia Press:
GA singular Circumstance connected with
General Buffers cotton speculation has come
to light. 1t seems that the chief of General
Shepley's staff, G.. H. Johnston, resigned sew
eral months since to enter, as Buffers chief
agent, into the business of buying cotton from
the rebels in North Carolina. He remained
at this long enough to make over two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars as his share,
which he deposited in the First National Bank
OF Norfolk. A few days ago the military
commission instituted by General Grant to in
vestigate the proceedings of General Butler
relative to cotton, got wind of Mr.. Johnston
He heard that they would call upon him soon,
but not intending to be outdone by them he
drew all his money from the bank and de-
camped in the Baltimore boat. They tele
graphed to the authorities at Baltimore to ar
rest and send him back to Norfolk, but the
shrewd Johnston did not go on the boat far
Their than Fortress Monroe, where he took the
Washington boat, and landed at Annapolis.
No one knows his whereabouts, although he
is anxiously awaited here. The commission
has proven that Butler received two-ffths of
all cotton brought here, his hrother-in-law
one-6fth, and middle-mer, of which Johnston
was one, two-fiths, the Government getting
but one-half of that which was righifully due
it. You may expect even more astounding
revelations than these,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-23
A Hopeless Cause.

In his speech before the recent Richmond
war meeting Mr.. Hunter is reported as say
ing:
venture to say that there was never such
a contest, and never such glory as we may
win from it. We haze the ,1orld against as.
1t has been said that its parallel may be found
IN the Dutch Republic; but they had the sea
open to them, and the French and English as
allies. Our forefathers had the French to aid
them. We stand alone, presenting the spec
tacle OF brave people, contesting foot by foot
with double their numbers, excluded CONNER.
cidtty and sentimentGlly from the acorld.-
With our success we shall establish a system
OF government that shall challenge the respect
of the world. fHsfd
Upon this frank statement of one of the
ablest and most candid men of the South, the
Washington Chronicle remarks as follows:
Could this state of things be If the people
of the South were really fighting for liberty |?
Would the Southern people have the sympa-
thy only of the oppressors of mankind if their
cause were just? The thing is preposterous /;
and the very exclusion from the sympathies OF
the world in which the South stands, by the
confession of one of her most able and can
did champions, Is her condemnation. Her
cause is loathed by the disinterested spectators
of other lands, by the truly noble and free ev-
erywhere, because it is unjust. But it is not
true that the rebellion is without SYMPATHY
Tyrants and enemies Of freedom are every
where anxious to take sides with the oil
garchs; but they dare not because their en-
terprise is held in universal execration by the
masses of men. Mr.. Hunter could have said
nothing more severe against the cause in
which he is engaged than to acknowledge
that the world is against him; that the Con-
federates "are excluded, commercially and
sentimeutally, from the world"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-23

The -Newburyport Herald concludes an ill.,
teresting history Of the various substitutes for
the large and costly pipe organ with the fol-
lowing well deserved notice of the Cabinet
Organ: "All these inventions were, however.
but little more than series of experiments, a
striving after an ideal, which should combine
all excellencies and reject all imperfections.
which, according to the universal testimony Of
the greatest musicians throughout the world.
has at last been attained in the sCabinet or,
gam of Mason y Hamlin, Those who have
had their ears panied by the thin, brassy sound
OF the oid=lashiened seraphine, In which the
wind was forced instead of drawn through, or
melodeon, but wishing there was more of it,
can hardly realize that an instrument OF the
same class should be capable of such power,
ricnness OF tone, and surprising effects as the
Caolnet Organs. 1t is fortunate, too, that
thelr expense is so low as to place them with
IN the means of almost every family in the
land; and their influence will. we doubt not,
De unbounded in musical, aesthetic and social
culture"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-23
What a Coming Down Stairs

How interesting it must be to Gov. Magrath
to read over the proclamation he issued not
long since! And how pleasant it must be to
the Charleston nabobs and slave. drivers to
look over the document and note the contents
at this timer Where is all the boosted cour-
age Of "the moral South Carolinans ?" We
can imagine how those darkies who can read
will look, and what peculiar grimances they
will exhibit when reading this proclamation.
On such an occasion there must be sou.e fine
acting and some negro melodies sung, which
would delight all loyal hearts. The following
Asa specimen of this rare document. Ii is q
rouser, but, alas. Sherman has taken all the
marrow out of it:
GU nave led the way in those acts which
unite the people OF your sister States in this
confederation of States and their secession
from the Government of the United States.
You first fired the gun at the flag OF the IJui.
ted States, and caused that flag TO be lower.
ed at your command. As yet you have snf-
fered less than any other people. You have
spoken words of defiance; let your acts be
equally significant. In your sister States.
with the people of these States you have
common sympathy In the determination to be
free, and in your hatred of the foe you will
not falter in that stronger sympathy which is
derived from common suffering. Hal
You have defed tyrant; do not apprehend
his power. You have dared to do: fear not
to die. No worse fate can befall him who has
pride in the ancient honor of his State than TO
see it governed by those who hate it and in
suit, with their vices, the virtues we have
been taught to cherish.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-23
The Gulf Stream of the Pacific.

Every one is familiar with the effect of the
warm waters of the Gulf Stream in mitigating
the severity Of climates in Northern Europe,
Norway and Sweden, Iceland and the Ork-
neys, and even portions of Scotland would,
but for this warm current, be nearly uninhab-
liable. The mild and equable temperature of
places on the Pacific coast of North America
is attributable to the influence of similar cui-
rents. The most important of these flows out
from the great equatorial current stretching
nearly across the Pacific ocean, sets north
ward and eastward along the coast of Asia,
then nearly due east past the mouth of Behr
ings Straits, then tending southeasterly it in
warns with subdued breath of the tropics
those high ATTITUDES where else would reign al
most unbroken winter. Northern California
and Oregon owe to this cause their pleasant
and beautiful climates. The westerly winds,
which prevail throughout great portion of
the year, laden with moisture from their pas
sage over these warm waters, strike the high
cold mountains in their path, and this moist
ure condensed, is poured in copious food
over all that noble agricultural region, the
same cause thus conducting to iertilize the
soil and soften the rigors of the climate
Even as far north as Puget Sound the winters
are SO mild that snow rarely falls there. On
the Columbia river farmers are doing their
ploughing early in February, and their plant
ing by the middle of the same month, while
To A IN do of tho IL,
latitude several degrees lower, are still buried
In snowdrifts.
The wide expanse of the Pacific is travers-
ed in many directions by these beniicent cur
rents, bearing warmth and fertility to regions
which without them would be barren wastes.
They are rivers in the ocean, flowing over
liquid beds, bet Teen banks of crystal water,
yet their course is as distinctly marked and
may be as surely ifnot as easily traced as it
they flowed over continent. Where the cur
rent is rapid, the dividing line between the
warm and cold waters is SO sharply defined
that bucket of water drawn up on one side
OF a ship has been found to differ perceptibly
in temperature from one taken from the oppo-
site side. In many instances the difference in
color is also so strong as to be apparent to the
least observing eye.
This whole matter ofocean currents offers
most interesting field OF observation and
study, though it is one which can hardly be
brought Within newspaper limits. For much
valuable information on the subject, however,
we refer the reader to q report of Commander
Rogers, U. S. N, ofexplorations made by him
in Behring's Strait, looking toward some sat-
isfactory theory OF an open Polar Sea; and al
SO to the discoveries of Lieut.. Bent who ac-
companied the expedition to Japan under
Com Perry in 1856, and whose reports are
among the most valuable relating to that ex-
pedition. The latter was, we believe, the first
to trace out with any degree of accuracy the
course OF the great Pacific current spoken of
above.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-23
Justice to whom Justice is due"

To tbs Rdi'or Of the Press:
You have done great injustice s't) whom
justice is due" by admitting an article signed
"Falmouth" into your columns, on Tuesday,
rejecting upon the decision of an able and
fair minded magistrate, Judge Kngsbufy, OF
the Municipal Cou of Portland, in imposing
fine upon one E. Fl. Ramsdell, a school mas
ter in District No. 8, Falmouth, for "brutally
beating" child eleven years old with a cooc-
hide without any provocation. t
This schoolmaster, according to the article
of Falmouth" chad occasion to" and did
"whip him before several times" with the re-
mark She should be whipped more severely
every time he the MASTER had occasion TO re-
peat the operation"
| On the occasion of the last "whipp.ng,'
this amiable teacher-a ix-footer-seized the
little boy because he stopped under his seat to
pick up slate, laid him PROSTATE over his
desk, face down, and with all the strength he
could muster struck the child eight or ten
successive blows $50 it was proved by scholars
of the school) over his back and thighs, cut
ting through two thicknesses of cloth and
causing an abrasion of the skin, from which
the blood flowed freely, and leaving the boy =
back black and blue.
The physician, DR.. Lamb, testified in Court
the beating was a severe one,--that parts oil
the back were swollen and discolored by the
blows, which must have been smartly laid on
that the severity of the punishment must have
caused great pain to the child, and was neces-
sarily injurious to his health.
Another witness testified that the boy was
groaning and crying out in pain all the night,
and could not rest in his bed. In short. the
proof was not only that the master committed
gross outrage on the boy, but that the boy
was free from fault and did not deserve any
punishment whatever.
Even the school teachers counsel was salts
fed that his client was TO blame, and advised
him to settle the case and not appeal II he
is too poor to settle his fine, and has allowed
voluntary subscription to pay the amount
of his fine and COST" this is no reason for sum
pathy. He grossly abused his power, and If
he or his friends fancied the decision of Judge
Kingsbury was not strictly correct, he had a
right to appeal to the Supreme Court in
March. His not ding so shows that the
Court did "justice to. whom justice is due"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-23
The Attitude Of France.

The Paris Temps says that Europe can DO.
nothing in the matter OF intervention. and
even tho most chimerical minds have almost
ceased to think of it. This struggle of our
government against formidable slave aris-
tocracy, has furnished many most valua-
BILE lessons to the Old World. The TEMPS
thinks the cost now imposed on the United
States 10 extirpate slavery, displays the terri
bic justice OF history and shows by what feay-
full sacrifices nations expiate the. proloD ged
tolerance OF wrong and injustice. True
enough; nations in all ages have been COM
PEELED to make tremendous sacrifices before
their sins could be blotted out; and it was not
reasonable to expect that our nation should
be more favored of Heaven than others. and
form an exception to the general rule To
hold human beings in bondage, to sell them
like goods and chattels, and to eat the bread
that has been rung from the sweat of the
slave is great sin, and its explation demands
a great sacrifice. a Mai
The editor of this journal is much surpris-
ed that we have exhibited an incredible facili-
ty of sacrifices and an abundance of material
and resources of which the Europeans had no
conception. 1t is shown, also, how little loss
OF liberty has been involved and that it is not
destined to perish in the tempest of civil wars.
Upon this point all European eyes are com
pletely bewildered. They cannot see how it
the midst of such terrible strife, and herein
Europe has been taught great lesson which
will animate tie Liberalists of the Old World
and urge them on to greater exertions in be-
half of the cause which is so near their hearts.
The Absolutists also will learn lesson
which may teach them to be more lenient, and
not act as if the people were born with sad
dies upon their backs, and all they have to do
is to mount and ride. This matter is getting
better understood and our struggle is throw
ing much light upon it.
The Temps says: "The reelection of Mr..
Lincoln, and the manner in which it was ac-
complished, are the pledge Of an indistructible
liberty and will Yemain in history as an i'm
perishable pledge of political and moral great
ness" This is undoubtedly great truth
we Sick uOb 10 lOOk UeHllu Ile curtain anu
see what would have been our state and con-
dition In case the election had resulted differ
emily. In the order of a good Providence we
have been spared from gazing upon such a
scene, and the democracy of Europe has also
been spared from receiving such shock.
The Temps now believes there is no longer
1 any room for to doubt Of the re-establishment
of the Union, and yet it thinks the final sue
cess, and above all the pacifcation appear to
be still work of time. No doubt of that, but
we trust that time is not far distant The
Union will probably be reconstructed and the
United States become free in their movements
before the Emperor Napoleon is quite really
for such contamination or "disengaged from
Mexican Affairs"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-23
Col, Gilmore all Right.

A few days since we published letter from
the surgeon of the goth regiment, giving the
casualties in that regiment in the battles of
Feb 9TH and 9th, at or near Hatcher's Run.
In that letter Col. G. d. Gilmore was reported
wounded and prisoner" This, we are
gratifed to learn, was mistake. We have be-
ore us letter from Col. Gilmore to Mr..
Henry Quincy, of this city, dated Feb. 18th,
in which he gives brief account of his ex-
perience during the battles referred to, and
from which we are permitted to make the fcl-
lowing extract: ~ 42 ii1 @
"We had running fight on the afternoon
of the 9th for an hour and a half or more,
with Pegram's division of Rebel infantry, over
a low, swampy ground, thinly covered with
trees. The brigade to which my regiment is
attached fought this ground over for three
fourths of mile three times. At one tim
we were nearly surrounded 1.-the enemy fir
ing on three sides of us and his cavalry en-
deavoring to gain our rear, which obliged us
to retreat at fast pace. Again we rallied
and drove the rebels back, and in turn were
obliged to retreat again.. This time your
humble servant got into the enemy's hands
owing to the nature of the ground and being
obliged to dismount and send my horse to the
rear and not being "last man." Thinking
the fare at aLibby' would be poor. deter
mined not to go there. Having fallen with
one Of our own men who was shot, as soon as
the enemy's line had passed over me, crawl
ed as far towards the flank of their line as l
desired, and then up and ran to our own
troops under q severe fire of friend and foe.
fortunately escaped quite safe, much to my
own and fellow officers delight"
Col. Gilmore speaks highly of his regi-
ment, says the result of the battles of the 9Th
and 9th. is the extension Of our lines four
miles further tc the left and that much nearer
the South Side Railroad, and that his men are
now building winter quarters for the third
time this winter. q
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-23
DIED.

:, In this city, Feb %. of lung and peurisy fever
s mrs Sarah L. reot OF the late Capt Paul Hall aged
IN this city. Feb ~. Mr. Cotton Owen, aged so yrs
EB-Funeral on Friday afternoon, at "a O'Clock
at his late residence, No SO State street Re,st;vS
and friends are invited to attend 'ss
robabs MiRd anS Jan saan Isabel daughter of
In bangor, Feb ri. Mrs po, ssse years ~ mos
Portland, aged 70 years. NA'i'e Vi
In Liverpool, Eng, Feb 6, from effects of n fan
Patten, of Bath W. W Oap' Lincoln
g.. In Sreen, Lorenzo Daley, ESQ, formerly Regis.
Yer TO 81 peeSs Tor Sagadahoc County. -''s
aged 40 years, - '10Oo nA'ey'
g. Inc funeral services of the late Mrs Uora,jo
SoStngste, will take place this (Thursdayl afternoon
~ O'Clock, at her late residence ON Pleasant street