The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-08-30
Editorial and Other Items.

at Washington, up to the close of til
past week, is S2SS,403,775.
The Attorney General has prepare,
an elaborate argument in support 0
the Presidents right to appoint, dur
ing the recess, persons who have beel
rejected by the Senate.
Theodore Tilton says the object o
convention recently held at Saratogi
was to do as nearly nothing as coulC
be called something.
The Cincinnati Commercial state'
that cholera is abating and that of thC
number attacked a many more
recover than when the disease first
appeared. The greatest number OF
deaths was on the 18th August, 50
Since then the number has decreased
to about 40.
Great Britain during 1865 paid SAG
233,800 in gold for raw cotton, OF
which S77, 416, S05 came to the United
States. In 1861, Great Britain ex-
pended S193, 266,790 for cotton, OF
which more than two-thirds came to
the United States.
The Louisiana Star says that the
great alarm about the army worm in
that region bias subsidized, it being the
grass worm, which very much re-
sembles the great pest of cotton, but
preys upon the grass alone. The
same paper states that crops for fifty
miles around Amite City are excellent.
Rolfe 5. Saunders has been appoint
ed Collector of Internal Revenue, vice
Rouel Hough Masland L. Perkins,
IT, S. District Attorney, vice j. L. Will
hanson and Sam B. Jones, U. S.
Marshal, vice M. T. Rider, removed.
These men are stockholders in the
Post, the Radical sheet of Memphis
and should have been removed long
ago.
There were two deaths from Cholera
in Memphis on Thursday.
Twenty-Five deaths from Cholera
occurred recently at one plantation in
Concordia Parish, La. There have been
some cases on Red River. 1t has not
appeared yet in Baton Rouge.
In Tallahatchie county there are
20,500 acres planted in cotton. The |
crop is said to be very promising.
Daniel Underwood, of Attala county,
was crushed to death 10y steam saw
mill few days since. The lumber
car caught his leg when he fell and
the saw crushed him to death
The Holmesville Independent has
been enlarged and II. L. Bridges has
become associated with our friend
Bonney in its management. The indie
pendent is one of the few Mississippi
journals that was published regularly
during the war Wehope it may con-
tinue to prosper.
w. H c. King, editor New Orleans
Times, has written a letter to the New /
York Tribune contradicting the state
ment of its Washington correspondent
that he had written to some one in ,,
New Orleans that the President threw
q dispatch from Gen. Sheridan under t
the table. +
A passenger on the New Orleans :
train from Canton, yesterday morning, c
vas robbed of 5000 1
Louisiana State Treasury notes are J
It a discount of from fifteen to twenty
per cent They should not be con
founded with the New Orleans city
1iIls, which pass at par
The Southern Relief Fair, to come
1ff at St Louis next month, promises o
b rival the one held in Baltimore a n
ew months since The Republican
avs the humane efforts Of the manag-
rs have already been so well seconded
hat they are assuming proportions
nd commanding results considerably i
,eyOnd the original calculations of the
Members"
The Associated Press has entered d
hto an engagement with the Atlantic f
Telegraph Company to receive two &
luudred words a day, for the stipu- 8.
ated annual pay Of $4,000 in gold. r,
These dispatches are being given in Il
ull in the Clarion w