The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-30
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Judge Balcom, of New York, decides that
n revenue stamp left off any document re-
auiring it, may be put on at any time after
the date and thus make the paper valid
A life Of John Morgan Is in active pre-
marathon bv his devoted friend and comrade,
Basil Duke The biography, it Is said, Will
fully vindiCate the personal character and
military fame of that celebrated Southern
partisan.
General Robert f. Lee has received from
CYRUS H. Mccormack, OF Chicago, SlOUoU
for the establishment Of q Mccormack Pro
fessorship OF Practical Mechanics III the cot
leue of which the General Is President
Gen. Gusts Lee holds Profsssorship in
the Washington institute, and resides with
his father Captain John Brooke, of the
Confederate Navy, aud who holds Il high
position in the world OF science as the M
ventor of Brooke guns has been appoin-
ted to a Protessorship in the same lnStltu-
tion. GEN Rosser and Colonel Avery are
students of law undeT Judge Byokenbor-
ourh. Gau Pendleton has church III Lex
ington, which has been closed for some time
past by military authority, nor is there any
present prospect OF its being opened.
"Bill Arp has been engaged to write a
series of Southern Letters" during 1866, for
the Metropolitan Record. .-.
Specimens of the new fifty cent fractional
currency are out. Each of the half dozen
or more issues of this currency have been
couuterieited, and if this last production
of the note printing Is not initiated, it will
be because the ink is poor and the printing
SO bad as to be inimitable Il its kind. The
enormous pressure generated by the hydrau-
lie method forces the ink through the
paper, so that General Spinner's head ap
pears IN black blotch, through the red
back, and the red in turn gives dirty
roseate hue to the Generals visage ON the
face of the note.
Without exception this is the least sue.
cessiul of the many unsuccessful attempts
at artistic printing issued by the note
printing bureau.
J ARREST OF GENERAL" CRAWFORD.-Tht
n O. True Delta, OF Wednesday evening, has
the following account OF the arrest OF TIM:
adventurer:
The Major General commanding the
American Division, Army of the MeXicar
Republic An individual named r. Cla,
Crawford has recently been ostentauously
styledin the news from the Rio GIande-
has suddenly come to grief We are in
formed, on good authority, that as he wa
about leaving the city, on board the steam
er Continental, on Tuesday evening, Col
Young. Chief of Generals Sheridan's scouts
quietly took possession Of him, and Informed
General" Crawford that he was prisoner
Close at hand was a tugboat IN waiting
upon which the prisoner was conducted
and, in company with his guard, was carried
down the river. By this time he Is eniOyln.
the hospitallties OF the commanding ot1i
aers at Fort jackson. The arrest is owing t
his connection with the recent Mexican
difficulties
Crawford's papers and baggage, We are in
formed, We're taken to Division HeadQuaI
ters tor inspection and 1t Is also rumoret
that some valuable souvenirs of the captnr
Of Bagdad wese found in his possession. A
account of the affair has been telegraphe
to New York paper.
EyThe libel suit of McCabe rs. the pre-
prietors of the New York Sunday Mercury
has been undergoing lengthy trial, and ha
come to result thus stated The Court hel
that an editor or reporter is not legally Ii;
BILE to prove the absolute truth of accusation
which may be embodied in fair report
proceeds before legal tribunals and tina
it is sufficient Justification To show tha
the facts reported have tranSpired as ma
rated. If the decision was otherwise, ever
conductor of newspaper could he forced
at the VIII or caprice of a litigant, to beCOn
the plaintiff or defendant alluded to in an
report whith might appear in his journa
the accuracy of which may be Questioned
The ruling thus decides that an editor is
mere publisher of actual occurrences an
cannot possibly assume in law the positio
of htigant in cases which he reports, and
the merits OF which he must necessarily b
wholly ignorant.
Friday night last, at about 8 o'clock, tw
burglars entered the Southern Railroa
ticket ofilce by a window. negro wa
watching them all the while they wer
getting in. He ilipped away from his place
of concealment and went quickly for
guard, who approached the window, but tb
door had been locked ON the inside and tn
key left in the lock, which enabled then
to open the font door and make a speed
exit, which the guard pereeiving jumpe
over the fence and fired at them. Some
the 47th Illinois were campea over across til
road, and when they went away yesterda
morning left a dead man at their camp
whose body was buried yesterday mornin;
The supposition is, that he was one OF Ii
house breakers and was shot by the guar
Meridian Messenger.