The daily Mississippi clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-04-14
JOURNAL OF THE STAT
JACKSON, MISS.
Saturday ::::::::: April IA, 1866
z The CINCINNATI Cnmmercial tn.es a


very just view of the stupid and impertinen
examination of Gen. Lee by the Reconstrnc
tion Committee, but is guilty of one lapsus
Think of the vacuity 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 = deliberately put to a citizen of a
State where to teach a negro the alphabet
was a msdemeauOr, and where to impart
even rudimentary knowledge of the com.
| mon branches was regarded as not less a
| social outrage than penal offence.
Does it not seem strange that Northern
men of reputed intelligence and informa-
tion, 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 to
read with the full knowledge of their mas
| tiers, and generally with the assistance of
| their young masters and mistresses We
recollect in particular an old lady in Al
/ ALBANIA who used to make her servant Girl
read the Bible to her, until from many wears
practice She became very expert reader,
but Iad up other idea than that of reading
| aloud. She highly amused company
once ny turning over centre table full of
| fashionable magazines and trying spec
linen of each; but her good taste revolted
| from the scnselcss trash, and she kept on
until She lighted upon Virgil-perhaps
showed in her way by a mischievOus school
boy The way she stumbled over Trina
rpHmq"e caRo, was n caution to all ped
T1.,4 .
conceive but she kept on, and would have
finished the first book of the .Eneid but for
the irrepressible laughter of the listeners.
~
70 The papers of Memphis, Mobile and
New Orleans, for some days past, have been
having triangular game of battledoor and
shuttle-cock; the part of the shuttle-cock
by a well.known lawyer of Memphis. whom
nobody seems to know-even his age being
yariously stated at from 30 to CO. The cir
cWmstanccs which have caused this notori-
ETY. Gfnotoriety it can be called are the re-
moval of the gentleman from Memphis to
Mobile, with the avowed intention of prac-
Using his profession the seduction of an
orphan of fifteen years old their clopement
to New Orleans; the mans arrest (by tel
cgraph; pursuit by the girls brother, and
her return to her family Such, in one mel
ancholy paragraph is the substance of this
tale of three cities over which the scrib
blars Of said cities have been gloating. if
not altogether after the style of the New
York Herald, Yet quite too much So we
think, for the unsophisticated taste of our
New ORLEANS RACEs.-On Wednesday, |
the first day Of the races over the Fair |
Grounds courses the Crescent purse. mile |
heats for three-year-olds, was won by Gilrov. |
beating Maiden; time-2lf-l:52I. The |
Coffee House purse two miles for all ages, was
won in "A by Gen. Rousseau, beating A. w.
bay FLY y. O., by Norburn, dam by
Albion, and Refusal v o., by Reserve. dam
by Voucher From the time made it is OBJ
vious that the track was very heavy
y a condemned "ulprit in Massachusetts,,
who committed perfectly unprovoked muir
der and robbery, has become an object of
and strong interest is being made
Tor ms pardon or mitigation of his sentence
IN the ground, not of insanity, but that the
'reed nat run OFT his grandfather and two
II three of his grand-uncles having been of
lnsound mind, as well as several of their
children, and two of the mans uncles-aU
his on his fathers side, while or his moth
RS, one Of his uncles is under guardianship.
us grandfather was idiotic, and his grand
ncIe committed suicide in fit of insanity.
here has also been insanity in his grand
lother's and great-grand-mother families.
lis mother was a drunkard and his father
tile better than a gOod-natured imbecile.
nd lntermarriages were common in the line.
We doubt whether a person of such ante
7dents can be found in the United States
inside OF Massachusetts, and as the man
GEMS not to have sense enough to travel far
ON home, it is to be hoped they will turn
I'm loose, and see what the breed for he is
iarHed) Will come to by like iudicious cuI
Walton for few generatins more.