The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-12-22

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Kosc1UsKo. MISS. Dec. 10, 1900
Nessrs. Editors The end OF the year 10
close at hand and our planters are no" i"p
idly disposing of their cotton 10 VIM
last Years business. Most all are pieP"Aio
again. with singular energy and unaninn,VS
TO do that in which they utterly 1alleo .iii9
wear, to make good crops A great u0"-
land has changed hands; many poor ih0"
buvino themselves homes who in many cases
never had owned lands before 1hiS Un0S
were enabled to do by the good prices "liion
they obtained for their cotton, ana oy Gull
tinuing to make their jeans and hohespun
at home, instead of running to the sUol00
and trading out the proceeds OF their cottoh'
and. such men will continue to advance III
their circumstances now, until IL Will noO
be long before many OF them Will pe lilo0-
pendent Freedmen are contracting lol
another year. but in most of cases al hlSnel
rates than were paid last year. They say
customary were inadequate to their heceS-
stiles; that it takes more to do them now
than when they were slaves, and they must
have higher wages or go elsewhere TO laDor'
On the other hand, many are returning VINO
had left this county for strange lands they
saw. they would rather get back to "Old
Massa.o to the old homestead, to somebody
who feels for them, and declare they Will
| never leave again.
sour Railroad" as the extension of the
New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern
r. r.. North of Canton is called in all the
counties along the line of the road between
| Canton and Aberdeen, is now the subject OF
| considerable agitation in those counties
| The necessity again of direct railroad com
munication with New Orleans has been de-
sired by the people of Central and North
| East Mississippi for many years, but more
SO now than ever, when the common roads
are so poorly worked that they are almost
impassable, and when five miles further o.
waggoning becomes an object, and, also
when the strictest economy in frelghts is O.
the utmost Importance to make both ends
meet. Meetings have been held in Aber
deem upon the subject, her City Council IL
doing everything it can to have the New
| Orleans end of the road built from the Mo
bile and Ohio road to their beautiful city
and on Saturday last We had meeting
here upon the completion of the roa
from here to Canton and its continuation
Aberdeen and the Tennessee River. Severa
| addresses were made and resolutions passe
expressive of the sense OF the meeting; cal
inc upon the Board of Directors to take step
TO build the road if they could, and, if mo-
TO lease it to those who could and woul
build it, The great complaint OF the cou1
trv is that. while the Company say they cal
not build the extension" although til
construction of that road would shorten til
distance "a hours between n Orleans and
York. and therefore command the bulk of til
through travel; that though that road woul
bring to New Orleans rich trade from tt
valleys of the Tombigbee and of the Tenne
see which it does not now enjoy; that tt
northern end of the road would pay eve
better than the road south of Canton is no
doing; and lastly, that the people of Tenne
l see hold themselves ready to construct the
portion of the road from Columbia Uia Moul
Pleasant to the Tennessee river; in view
all these facts, showing that the COmpa1
would add immensely to its resources by Il
) completion of this important artery, yet the
, have done nothing towards building the TO;
| Cly cd tn a6V W.
( tise that they will lease it for a term of year
and it is confidently believed that capitals
will quickly make propositions to the Coz
pany to lease the unfinished road There
money in that road north of Canton, and {
that is necessary to get it built is action upC
! the part of the Board ofDirectOrS. The cou
e try is not going to rest until something
done for progress, even if a new company b
to supplant the old company in the cOnstru
5 ton and ownership of the road north of Ca
8 ton. The country is not able to do much
t a pecuniary point of view, but it will do {
it can to aid in building the road. The NEE
4 ing of the Board of Directors in New Orlea
tomorrow, will have the whole questi
l brought before them by committee appOiI
4 ed for that purpose, and it's action will
} looked for with great interest May it
9 favorable.
This town, always noted for it's iveline
and the tondness of it's inhabitants
amusements, especially tripping the Zig
fantastic toe," is now all agog about t
J, Odd Fellows celebration, the public
e stallation of their officers on Thursday, t
! 9th of December, by Central Lodge of X
ciusko on which occasion an address W
be delivered by Capt. G. P. NJ Turner, o
of the most eloquent young men in the Sta
e and on the night of which day, also,
: Grand Ball and Supper will be given by
q Order for the benefit of its widows and
phans fund. Some three hundred invi
tions have been sent out, and from all in
cations both the Ball and supper will
:, among the grandest events of the kind ey
/ witnessed in the State The Masonic Lod