The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-14
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etates are said to represent COLLECTIVE 10
strength of nearly four hundred thousand ,i
souls al
The censorship of the press has eI
h.en suspended by the powers that be. t,
Northerners are rapidly pouring tt
into Georgia and investing capital. e
Annexation clubs being form u
ad all through Canada East, the French a
Canadians being strongly opposed to
British domination.
bill is to be introduced in Con-
ereuu 70 bridge the Mississippi river al 0'
Louis. ,
Isaac A. Van Amburg, the famous
lion tanner, died Wednesday IN Phlladei-
phis, suddenly and Unexpectedly. lie
was native of Fishkill, New York.
California papers mention among the
noticeable features ofthe autumn fars IN
that State, displays Of silk and SILK CO.
coons. The manufacture of silk is be.
ginning to attract much attention IN some
parts of the State, the climate being well
adapted to its culture.
The Cuban authorities brought IN the
handsome little bill of eighteen thousand
dollars and upward for their trouble and
custody of the ram Stonewall, during her
stay in the harbor at Havana.
A Joint resolution has passed to the
second reading, in the Indiana Leglsla-
ture, recurring the Governor, or his sub
stitute. to enforce the 18th article of the
constitution, prohibiting the immigration
OF negroes into the State, and authorizing
him to call upon the militia for the pur
pose, and holding him to fines, penalties
and impeachment if he don't do it.
The Canadian French Minister in a
speech told the Canadians that if Canada
was annexed to the United States her
.hare Of our National debt would be
$500,000,0 900.
POPULATION OF NEBRAsKA.-We are in
formed that the census returns already
received from different portions OF the
Territory indicate aggregate popula-
ton of between $4,000 and 10000. Thl
result shows a very salts factory lncreas
ofpearly 100 per cent. in five years. Ne
braska is advaacng, with rapid strides, IL
all the elements of prosperity. Sh'
should lose no time in assuming he
proper position as one of the States c
the Union.-Omaha Republican.
Big NUcGEr.-The editor of the Omf
ha Republican has baen shown q nugge
of gold, taken from Confederate gulct
~bout $50 miles from Virginia City, Nor
tana, weighing twenty two and a ha
ounces-va.ue about 1926, at the preser
price of gold
Mrs. Col. CASTOR Mears M axes the TO
lowing announcement in the Wilmingto
n. c., Dispatch "In consequence OF tn
reputation by the representatives, OF tn
people of North Carolina of their fair
and honestly contracted debts, l and N
children have been made losers to ii
extent of $94, 900, in bonds authorized
the Legislature of 1860, in favor of Il
WiIming+o Charlotte and Rutherfo
railroad. This compels me to offer NJ
self as an instructor in French, music {
the piano, and singing at the residence
my father, DIR. A. J. De Russet, corner
Second and Dock"
Hon. William A. Graham, Ex Cove
nor of North Carolina, thus argues &C
eerning the test oath "If they can ]
ouire that member shall not have Dor
arms in the Southern army, or other"
given support to the rebellion, (whetf
this is proved by his oath or his refusal
be sworn can make no differnce,l c
they not likewise require that he sh
have served at least two years in the ar
of the United States-possess freeho
or be without property altogether-hs
taken o. collegiate degree from Harva
Yale or Princeton-oT that neither
nor his ancestry participated in or sym
thiSed with the whisky insurrech
Burr's consl Tracy, or the Hartford G
vention-or any other test that the /
iority of the House, no matter from
wookiva shall imnose