The daily Mississippi clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-05-06
Correspondence OF the Clarion
LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS.
Nrv ORLEANS. Nav 9.


rience of your own on the subject at |
jackson l have seen Jackson very
dry at times, especially after the pass
age of Foote'S gallon law; but with
gas, etc., YOU can see better now how
to get along in a dry time.
Among other things l notice is that
in this dry time business is drying up.
Moody the shirt king, a sharp and
shrewd man, is selling out, sat and
below cost" "deed and double this
time" but not so much l think as he
says it is, to import his next stock di-
rect, as to buy at the approaching
specie rates, at which it is said our
planters must expect to sell their cot
ton Another, large clothing house,
Gathwaite, Lewis q Co., have closed
their place of business, to mark down
their goods. Like a simpleton l
bought at high water mark. So we go.
learn also that much of the report
ed sales of real estate at auction are
fiction. Property is reported sold,
which is not taken by the nominal pur
chaser, but is held for private sale in
the hope that some one will come in
and try to ''take it off the purchaser
hands" That most of the property
offered is bid in, is at all times true,
and this is one chief reason why the
practice has prevailed here of the auc-
tioneers dividing the advertising
charges with the papers which they
patronize, because their patrons would
not agree to pay their commissions
unless they effected a sale The large
number of newspapers and the great
rivalry between them easily enabled
| the auctioneers to make this arrange
ment and this even extended to force
sales by the sheriffs, constables, and
for succession" as we style the es-
tates of decedents True, that in all
these cases there was that making a
personal profit out of the true estate,
which is so flagitious in English equity,
jurisprudential eyes; which having
been the practice under the civil law
for centuries, people of Latin origin
do not seem to mind it.
How about politics? Don't you
begin to think Colonel, that if the
Southern people had not concerned
themselves so much about sending
men to Congress, and about Congress
sional action, and had gone to work
raising a little cotton, just for their
own use and to furnish freights for the
Liverpool steamers, and a heap OF
corn, to feed themselves and their
horses, mules and cows, for / think
since the trjchina has wiggled into ouI
calculation that Bacon is not so pro
ftable, that it would have been better
for us We wanted the Yanks to let
us alone and they wouldn't do it.
think the next best thing we can do is
to let them alone. The only variation
| could think to suggest would be tC
have sent sensible, intelligent freed
men mot free negroes) of pure Afri
can blood, who believe in Southern
rights, as Senators and Representatives
in Congress, and we would have
achieved such a victory as has not beer
known since Cromwell drove Praise
God Barebones and his parliament ou
of Westminster. Perhaps after all
the best thing we could do would be tc
say nothing about them-let then
alone
The General Conference of wha
was styled the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, and is hereafter to b,
the Episcopal Methodist Church, i
: about to close its session of over
month most usefully spent in thi
. city. Its members are men of grea
, moral and intellectual worth, gathered
| from all parts of the country, som
5 even from New York and San Fran
l cisco and their ministrations in tn
f various pulpits Of the city have bee
most acceptable. They have regular
2 ly relieved our Presbyterian and Bap
e fist ministers as well as those of thei
own denomination on Sundays, du
e ring their entire stay, and while GU
!. Episcopal clergy are prohibited b
. their theory of the sacerdotal offic
j. from calling on them to officiate i
o their churches, their intercourse wit
e them has been that of brother wit
brother, and of the kindliest character
> The important acts passed by thi
= General Conference in the eXtensio
n Of the pastorate, the more Catholi
name which it has given the Church
the cordial reconciliation which it ha
q effected with the African NJ. T
e Church, thus foiling, in great mea:
s. ure, the unchristian wiles and snare
u of the Northern Methodists, VIII
/ strove to break up both, and finally i
e the election of such men for Bishop
{ as Doctors Weightman, Dogget
q McTyeire and Merwin, men Of intelleC
. tual training, force of character an
. moral fitness will doubtless redoun
to very great good, not to our Soutl
ern Methodists only, but to all OF
." Southern country.
. Since inditing the above, 1 lear
l. that o-day they have agreed to tt
. admission of lay delegates, four frol
u each district, to each annual Confe
q ence, and four for every twenty eigl
~ ministers in each annual to the Gene
Ii al Conference.
e will let you know in advance {
= the expected row, that the Tribun
~ the Free Negro and Radical organ, {
: to-day, announces that the negroC
- here are going to claim to vote, ei
~ at the public tables in the hotels, sit
~ the dress circles of the theatres, rit
70 in the no star cars, and 1 presume I
4 sleep in the beds of the white peopl
p, all under the Civil Rights Bill. The
st will have jolly time of it , for pr
a sumo they will need and will get tt
- assistance of Gen. Candy and Jude
q Duvall to attain their end. By IL
way the Judge and the General are
"A logger-heads about some cotto
~ claimad hv one Tweed who was ssln,