The daily Mississippi clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-04-28
Nrw Op1rANs Anril o6th 1s6I

outside the lines got IN only by stealth, Dan
used to amuse us with the stretchingest
stories of great Confederate victories you
ever heard. Grant was annihilated before
Vicksburg at least ten times, and every
where else there were overwhelming vic
tories over him, Sherman, ROsencrans, etc.
At last the people got to doubling every
thing they heard, until the reply was usual
ly made, as to an alleged success, that's
one of Dan Hickock's stories 2" So this
last crevasse turns out not half as bad as
reported by Dan, and is likely to be easily
closed, and to do little damage before closed,
but unlike the victories, it is a sure enough
crevasse.
Sometimes / cannot but wish that the
crevasses were let alone until the annual ac-
emulation of soil, which the river would
bring to them, and finally all become high
land Straighten the river almost like a
canal by cutting through all bends and let
it go over the banks when too low naturally
to prevent, and in a few years we would
have a permanent channel and high banks
OH either side, and ten times as much tilla-
BILE land as we now have. By the present
system the interests of the whole State and
of posterity are sacrificed to the annual
wants of few front propretors, who would
themselves be benefited by letting the river
flow over their lands if they would mean
while go TO the highlands and raise crops
until their river lands rise above the level
of overflow.
Our people complain heavily of your
Legislature requiring so heavy a license for
steamboats, to communicate with Missis-
| sippi's sea shore line. As the people from
| here may be said to have supported all that
part of Hancock, Harrison and jackson
counties-very near the whole of them
they look on it as tax on charity, if not on
| knowledge. 1t is very poor plan to drive
! away customers who might prefer in such 4
| case to keep on to Point Clear or Pensacola:
| There is new boat now running to the
Mississippi watering places, the beautiful
steamer Camelia, which is as pretty as its
name and as swift as bird, and it is under
the command of Capt A. P Boardman who
used to run on Pearl river when you were
boy, Colonel, -...
Cotton has the sore shin now in this
market, and seems likely not to recover soon
from it. l beseech all who were planters
not to hold on to the idea of cotton planting
| with so much tenacity-to change theiI
course and make all the corn and other pro
! vision crops they can. If we would only
raise cotton when we were sure that we
would not have to buy any provisions from
| the North OF West, how soon would we find
those regions willing to do US justice We
have preached the kingly character of cot
! ton so long that we have deceived ourselves
but bread and meat are k4g after all II
we raised cotton only to manufacture it
ourselves, and bought only such things as
We could. not furnish the material of its
| growth or manufacture, we would be indie
pendent, andfn few years we would have
the votes to declare us so.
We have little later news from Mexico.
The few troops in Mexico are gradually
thinning off the bands of marauders If
Cortina and the Canales family could be
killed. mon who have been notorious rob
bers for three generations, Northern Mex
leo would see some peace. 1 can see no hope
for Mexico unless Maximilian's or some such
government succeeds. The people of that
country are, as mass, indOlent and vicious,
and the educated and intelligent minority
| cannot control them. A few of them are
| imbued with the widest red republican and
| infdel notions of France and Germany, and
are in that sense republicans, but the mass
of them see safety and sure progress only in
government which shall bear strict and
just rule over the idle, lazy, thievish and
| dissolute multitude. / should like to see
Mexico "americanized," if by that phrase it
| is meant only that the order and industry
and love of law and justice, which once
prevailed here should be established there
but think it just as well that it should be
| Germanized to the like extent and
| purpose Whenever a law and order
loving population prevails there is
sufficient numbers to control the masses,
Mexico will become one of the most useful
countries in the world to other nations, and
to us of the South, from contiguity, more
than to any others. Ishould like to see this
population composed in part of men of all
civilized nations, added to the enlightened
and educated Mexicans, who are the equals
of any in all the arts to which they apply
themselves, and therefore 1 hope to see
Mexico not only Americanized but CALI
| cised, Germanized, Anglicised, Hibernicised
| and Maximilianised, but still remain truly
distinct Mexico of the Mexicans and bull
wark against the progress of fanaticism, red
republicanism, and the tyranny of mobs and
| popular tumults.
have written you heretofore of our nom-
nations for parish officers for this city and
Algiers. There is some doubts expressed as
to the success of the Democratic" ticket.
The fact is that there is no old Democrat on
it-that mo Irish need apply" seemed to be
the handwriting on the wall The Demo
cratic working mems" nominations do not
suit very well it is true, for man by the
| name of Bell, who was in the late Tory
mayoralty, for while, is nominated for
Sheriff, and fellow named Bovee, who was
a member of the notorious legislature of
| 1S64-5 and who came here as an Iowa or
Wisconsin soldier, for clerk of the 5th Dis
triet Court; but as the Uuion men will sup
port that ticket, and as the malcontents
with the other are numerous, it is feared
| that some names on the National Democrat
ic ticket will fall behind the requisite vote
to carry them through. 1 regret this very
much, because it will throw immense pat
ronage into the hands of men who grew
rich on the spoils taken from our people.
A little more hberality on the part of the
new allies of the Democratic party, who Sc
cured the place of delegates in the conven-
ton, would have remedied all this The
spirit displayed is just that which / am
sorry to see exhibited by my good friend,
Judge Sharkey, in his testimony before the
miscalled Reconstruction Committee, who
regrets that all the officers chosen at the
Mississippi election had not been Wings and
| original anti-secessionists. When a minori-
| ty demand that not only share of them but
all the offices be given them, because the
majority have been physically overpowered,
1 think republicanism is well nigh played
out Perhaps it is. Yours,
GREENS.
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