Daily Mississippi clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-08-04
correspondence of the clarion and standard
FROM EAST MISsIASsPPE.

WAYNE Co MISS, August ID, Sc
Nr EdtorS:-I have not for the
last two months received more than
two numbers of your journal. 1t is
| hardly worth while to forward it so
long as the Postmaster Generals Or
der is in force, forbidding the delivery
| ofmail matter at POstoffices where men
could not be found to take the official
oath required of Postmasters. The
Radical members of Congress seem to
have determined TO rule or rum the
country, and their rule evidently tends
to utter ruin; and most Of the heads OF
departments seem to have discharged
their duties according to the malignant
spirit Of their party.
| an pleased to see everywhere in the
Southern States a disposition to send
members to the Philadelphia Conven-
ton on the 14th of the present month,
Notwithstanding the cold shoulder
given us by those who got it up, and
the Democratic members of Congress
who recommended it, in harping upon
the Ra lical cant, loyal men, loyal Union
men, etc trust that all the South
ern States will be fully represented in
that Convention, and if their delibera-
tons be in the spirit of peace much
good will come out of it.
The South having been bulleyed into
the late war, by the Radicals of the
North, it is not strange that they should
continue to speak of us as they do 1t
is unfortunately an instinct of human
nature to hate those we have wrong
fully injured. But it is strange to me
that sonnd conservative States rights
men, who are endeavoring to heal the
wounds of the war, should taunt US
with disloyalty. The President knows
very well, and the Democratic mem
bers of Congress know very well, and
Montgomery Blair, who is not afraid
to speak the truth, knows
very well, that South of the
Bor Ter States there are none that the
Radicals call loyal men," who have
remained among us during the war,
worthy a seat in Congress, or the pro
posed Convention. Then why do they
indulge their imaginations, in creating
such party in the South
| Your long residence on the border
of the pine woods region, must
cause you to feel some interest in us.
We had a sort of spasmodic life
since the surrender, in the demand
| sprung up for cross ties, bridge tim
Der and other lumber on the railroad,
and for saw-logs at the mouths of our
rivers on the coast; but great reduc
ton has taken place in the price of
1 lumber, and it is very difficult now to
obtain the means for the purchase of
corn and the stock of horned cattle,
and hogs, having been so much ex
hausted by the late war, meat has be
come a rarity with most of us. We
have been looking for some aid from
the State, for destitute families, but
none has come to this section. Two
merchants, at our Station, have been
furnishing corn to their customers at
profit but little more than pays for
the handling of the corn, receiving
payment in poultry, eggs, butter, pigs,
or anything which can be turned into
money, when sent to Mobile, thereby
enabling many families to eat bread,
who could not otherwise obtain it.
These merchants gave an order,
through friend, for a lot of corn, to
Messrs. Halliday Brothers, of Cairo,
Illinois, who, hearing of the good they
were doing to the poor, presented one
hundred dollars worth of the corn, to
be given to widows, who had no means
of purchasing this necessary article.
Such acts of liberality, and returning
good feeling to the South, are worthy
of record. WAYNE