The daily Mississippi clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-04-14
TIE DAILY CLARION
7FICIAL JOURNAL OF THE STAT
JACKSON. MISS.
SATURDAY :::::::: April "A. 1866

OFFICIAL JDI kNAL VI he oAAA l.
JACKSON. MISS.
Saturday 4: April A. Iso6
r. The Cincinnati Commercial takes
very Just view Of the stupid and impertiuent
examination of Gen. Lee by the Reconstruc-
ton Committee butts guilty Of one lapsus.
Think Of the vacuitv Of the head, says the
Commercial that would PROFOUND this ques-
ton DO they show capacity TO OBTAIN
knowledge Of mathematics and the exact
sciences g. deliberately put to citizen OF
State where 10 teach a negro the alphabet
was a misdemeanOT, and where 10 lmpart
even rudimeutaTy knowledge OF the COM
mon branches was regarded as not less a
social outrage than a penal offence.
Does it not seem strange that Northern
men Of reputed intelligence and informa-
tiou, even when DESTROYS ofspeaking kindly
concerning the South, should fall into such
errors 1t is notorious that all over the
south slaves have at all times learned 10
read with the full knowledge Of their mas
tiers. and generally with the assistance Of
their young masters and mIstTesses- We
Iac5Iect in particular an old lady in Al
ALBANIA who used TO make her servant girl
read the Bible toher. until from many years
practice She became very expert reader,
but ... -u other idea than that of reading
aloud Size highly amused a company
once Boy turning over a centre table full Of
fashionable magazines and trying a spec
linen of each but her good taste revolted
81. D. nd 1He kent
until She lighted upon a Virgil-perhaps
showed in her way by a mischievous school
boy The way she stumbled over trina
si,guuyae ouao, was caution to all ped
agogue-. What it meant she could not
conceive but she kept on, and would have
finished the first book Of the -Eneid but for
the iweprcssible laughter of the listeners.
~ The papers of Memphis, Mobile and
New Orleans, for some days past, have been
having triangular game Of battledoor and
-huttlc-cock; the part of the shuttle-cock
by well-known lawyer of Memphis whom
nobody seem, to I<uow-cven his age being
vaIiously stated at from 30 to 60. The cir
cuustauccs which have caused this notori-
etv .ifuotolietv it can be called are the re-
moval of the gentleman from Memphis to
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using ms l.l'''7s''i '',9 7','''l ''5" - an
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NEW ORLEANS RACEs,-On Wednesday,
the first day Of the races over the Fair
Grounds courses the Crescent purse, mile
heats for threr-ve3r-Olds was won by Gilroy.
beating Nlaideu time-2:l4-l:524 The
Coffee House purse, two miles for all ages, was
won in IA by Gen. Rousseau, beating A. w.
Smalls bay lilly y. O., by Norburn, dam by
Albion, and Refusal y. O., by Reserve dam
by Voucher From the time made it is OBJ
vious that the track was very heavy.
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who committed a perfectly unprovoked muir
der and rolIary has baconoa an oliac+ of
s'usa'l'"' ana s'iong interest IS oelhS Iuaue
Tor his pardon or mitigation of his sentence
on the ground, not of insanity, but that the
byg,f I15 15.s .3,f. his GRAND father and two
or tbrae of his srand.,,cIes bo,-i,,c, baar If
,lr,.o,n5 mind as vr.Il ne several of tbai,.
children and two Of the mans uncIas-au
this on his fathers side while on his moth
er's. one of his uDcles is under Guardianship.
ms ,,rar5-f,tr,ar v-ae idio+ic and his Grand
n7or, .-,,p,i+r5 s,,ici,}, y, d. a. IF ;,,sori+,-
Thor. has ,1., 1,se,, i,,sa,,i+,- i, bis o-~ond.
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or+.i1o ~ Nf,ss.cI,rs.++s and - M 80
ss.r,s n,+ - r., -, - c.
from home, it IS to be hoped they viii turn
him Loose. aud see what the breed (for he is
married) viii come to by like iudicious cul-
uNatlon Tor few generatIns more.
G go lll'li- ,2 liitGliiG' IeAs,S, SAYS;
the herd imported some fifteen Years aGo
from Egypt, excite the curiosity Of all
strangers, lueE number about seventy, and
rg an s.zsS S.iIsts, some sun unweaned-
Inc ulmlhlJoh OF the imported stock Is
probably due to the process of accIipa+i,p
anu ''''en' ny unSAllIea persons
"H''' the laIEe increase OF the natives shows
ihat lheN are Wei suited TO the climate. In
numerous recent notices of these camels we
have seen no aIIusion to the fact that tho