The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-20
MEMS ITEEIS.

The Commits sioner of the Pension Bureau
has decided that a pensiOner of the war OF
eighteen hundred and twelve forfeited ms
claim to further pensions, by the Confede-
rate service.
The claims of John Ross to the Chiettain-
shin of the Cherokees were ignored by the
AGENT recently sent out to form treaties with
hostile Indian tribes. He lately had long
interview with President Johnson Ross
mission to Washington Is SAID to be to Sc
cure his recognition as chief OF the Chero-
KEGS, by the Government.
A Washington special says that the Com
mittee on Banking will report in favor OF
compelling the National Banks to surrender
the interest-bearing notes, and substitute
LEGAL tenders This will be the first move
toward the contraction OF the currency
The Tyler (Texas) Reporter announces the
arrest at that place, by military authority,
Of Major Geo. w. Chiffon, of the late Con-
federate army. The cause is not stated.
| The Legislature of Kentucky, during its
present session. has declared vacant the seats
! of ten or twelve members, on the ground
| that they were elected by military inter
| ference In every instance where the
parties ousted ran the race over, they have
been badly beaten.
The Richmond Sentinel says that several
well-defined eases of cholera have occurred
| in that city.
Abill to encourage the growing of timber
| in Iowa has been introduced i'll the Legis-
lature of that State. 1t provides that any
| farmer who shall plant five acres of timber,
or the seed of timber, and cultivate it in a
farmer-like manner, shall have twenty-five
acres OF his land exempted from taxation,
and any larger number of acres so planted
to timber, shall exempt from taxes pro-
portionate number OF acres.
| hos aN-i-
dence of the existence of very extensive
conspiracy in Canada and Europe, designed
+o iniuriously affect the finances OF the
. limited States Government. The intention
r is TO use all possible means to create a pane
I in Furopean markets in regard to American
securities and as a consequence to force
home our bonds held abroad The hope
seems 10 be cherished by the conspiratorS
: that they may in this way bring about Ii
rorc;al crisis in the United States, and
5 nrostrate the commercial interests OF the
: country. The principal Canadian agent Is
an individual named Vernon, and the hrst
4 movement towards the contemplated worE
! | -b;I,;+S itself in the proof sheets which are
in nossession of the Department The tenol
of the work may be inferred from Its tItlt
nace: which is as follows: "Repudlauon
tthe national debt nevitabie-impossible t.
nav the interest and support the Govern
ment-the farmer artisan and laborer slave
- [ IN ShOudY
. tbat this government is now i'll correspon
!. dence with Rothschilds on the subject, an'
other leading European banking houses ar
n imnlicated in the plot; it also appears tina
tba conspirators have opened correspon
-, dance with Earl Russell, the London Times
and the Pope, &c. at Amsterdam and IN
n Paris Journals, with the intention ON tn
mart of the plotters to destroy the credit Q
% the Government The evidence Is tull an
complete.
N The trial of Major McGee, the Confederat
commandant of Salisbury prison, for a
N leged cruelty to Union prisoners, will con
menee at Raleigh, y. c., in a day or TIVE
1e A number of officers and soldiers and seN
eral newspaper correspondents who sutfere
Imprisonment there, have been summone
,y as witnesses for the prosecution
he Seventy or eighty hands are now daily a
pork at the salt mines on Averys IsIan'
!" about thirty miles from this place, and tie
ae miles from New Iberia, near the Gult coas
ne They will have their machinery ready L
ot crushing thousand sacks daily, IN le
- weeks. They intend to sink shafts fiitet
: or twenty feetdeep, and mine regularly WIT
oil out removing the earth above Ihey w
M take the salt to market by way OF q eaSt
leading through the marsh to the Gun. L
q. NaIlet scientific gentleman OF acknoV
edged merit, who has visited the salt MN
u.s. of Poland and other parts of Europe,
ch nerintendS the mining and other operatlo
of this Island-Frankhn (La9 Banner. -