The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-23
News Items.

A Mr.. Yale says he has invented pow
der which will explode or not, ss may oe
desirable A good deal like Seidli'z pow
der, proba6iy.
Goethe trpuchantIv described the lie
NJ a newsn4per editor "It was the
eternal rolling of a stone that had always
to be lifted up again for new start
VIM. White. OF johnson county, Kan
sas, while gently correcting his son jesse
Low OF 80. administered tap over the
head with breast yoke, which was the
last of poor Jesse.
|, All troops in southwest Missouri have
been withdrawn except four companies OF
he I'd Ohio cavalry, stationed at Spring
field. which also is soon to be abandoned
as military post.
Jennison. the noted Kansas jaybawker,
has been lecturing in Springfield, Illinois,
for the benefit of the Lincoln Monument
Fund. Comment is beyond the reach OF
language.
The papers are rejoicing over the defeat
of Mr.. Gladstone, for Oxford, and also
that he has been elected to Parliament
! from South Lancashire. He Is in favor OF
popuIar suffrage and other liberal reforms.
! Michael Cummins, who was recently
| killed in q New York street fght' was
| proved by letters from Gen. Anderson
! found upon his person, to hav" been the
man who fred the first and last shot, dis.
| charged from Fort Sumter In April. lSOl.
| Gen. Pillow was in Nashville on the 18th
at the Freedmens Bureau. He had Tree
conversation with General Fisk, the Com
missioner, and we learn expressed his
desire to aid in carrying out Its benevo
! lent purpose of securing steady work at
fair wages for the colored population.
The Virginia Index has theory that if
the three or four thousand editors In the
United States would get earnestly to work
| about it. the return of good old times
would be effactualIy accomplished as no
other organization seems adequate to the
task, or indeed inclined to approach it.
The Saratoga races of the present
season are said to surpass anything OF the
| kind ever known in this country. The
attendance has been large, orderly and
entirely creditable.
The Little Rock Gazette says: within
a short time. town talk says, municipal
election is 10 be ordered, and we are to
have civil law again. Before this can oc-
cur the summer will have gone, and we
shall be we'll along in the fall. but its should
be the duty of the new council, whomso
ever they may be, TO do something that
will be tangible living thing that will
reflect credit on the place"
We saw Yesterday says the Little Rock
Gazette, of the 10th. letter directly from
Marshall, Texas, which states that every
thing in that section is plentiful-the
crops of every kind of grain being very
bountifnl Great herds of beeves arc be-
ing driven toward Shreveport. There was
at first some little trouble between the
soldiers and citizens, but it has been al
layed. Large bodies of troops. probably
} fifteen thousand men, had passed through
3 the place on their way to the Rio Grande.
By private letter from New York we
learn that Msjor Cumming, well known
in the leading cities in this section as
] successful operating quartern1aster in the
c. s A., has turned up in Wall street
New York as money changer He has
secured pardon, for what we cannot
| imagine, and is now aspiring 10 be one oI
' the gold kings of that metropolis, and il
is said that he bangles a million upon the
point Of his pen. Such is life, or at Least
the result of life in the very lucrative
branch of the public service in which the
Major was engaged.
A suicide mania is just now alarmingly
. prevalent in Connecticut. An elderly
= man, name Coffin, belonging to Wes
, Hartford, shot himself in the head or
Friday last, and will probably die. NJ
reason is given for the act. lucus Car
penter, of Ellington, shot himself on the
i 25th ult., after disposing of his property
, and writing a farewell letter to his wife
! in which he said Tell my friends tc
beware of rum, Tor it has killed me-" T
Case, Of Canton, who had been Tilted by
i young lady of that town. attempted sui
d eide by taking laudanum a day or TIVE
f since, but stomach pump saved him.
S The Mobile News speaks of the reviva
- of business in that Southern metrppoli
o in manner highly encouraging. Tn,
cotton presses are in complete running
> order, and daily turning out large quan
r titles of compressed cotton for shipmen
V to Europe and the North. The boats ar,
!, doing brisk and lucrative trade between
this point and New Orleans, and all tn
e rivers. Cotton is coming down rapidly
5 and the return cargoes of freight ar
e good and full. Freights have been pu
q up to Sl5 per bale on the Alabama river
with strong probability of a still furthe
advance IN rates.
S The following are the claims of the re
a spective States for reimbursement by tn
s. Government for expenses incurred il
a. raising, subsisting, and equippin,
troops az the outbreak of the rebellion ii
s 1861: Indinra, 81, 927 1867 90; Ohio, 50,
2S9. l54 80: Massachusetts,, S3,501, &c
so; Iowa $64,575, 7s: Wisconsin, 81
= 100, 9l3 43 !; Illinois, S3,SO4, ,6l3 Ii New
York, %, ,9S4,963 &c Vermont. S7lS. .09C
! Oh; Pennsylvania, S2,llS,4l9 3S; Mich
d igan $652, 902 %; Connecticut. SI,940
n 6l3 SO !; Kentucky. S2l8, 8,49S 90 Wes
Virginia, SIG, ,9lS, 81 New Hamnshirs