The daily Mississippi clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-05-06
correspondence OF the Clarion
LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS, May 2, 1866.

rience of your own on the subject at
Jackson. l have seen Jackson very
dry at times, especially after the pass
age Of Foote'S gallon law but with
gas, etc, you can see better now how
to get along in a dry time.
Among other things 1 notice is that
in this dry time business is drying up.
Moody the shirt king, a sharp and
shrewd man, IS selling out, Eat and
below cost sdeed and double this
time" but not so much 1 think as he
says it is, to import his next stock di-
rect, as to buy at the approaching
specie rates, at which it is said our
planters must expect to sell their cot
ton Another, 0 large clothing house,
Gathwaite, Lewis d Co., have closed
their place of business, to mark down
their goods. Like a simpleton l
bought at high water mark. So we go,
learn also that much Of the report
ed sales of real estate at auction are
fiction. Property is reported sold,
which is not taken by the nominal pur-
chaser, but is held for private sale in
the hope that some one will come in
and try to take it off the purchasers
hands, That most Of the property
offered is bid in, is at all times true,
and this is one chief reason why the
practice has prevailed here of the auc-
tioneers dividing the advertising
charges with the papers which they
p~atronize, because their patrons would
not agree to pay their commissions
unless they effected a sale. The large
number Of newspapers and the great
rivalry between them easily enabled
the a%uctioneers to make this arrange
ment and this even extended to force
sales by the sherifs', c~onstables, and
for succession" as we style the es-
tates of decedents. True, that in all
these cases there was that making a
personal profit out of the true estate,
which is so hagitious in English equity,
jurisprudential eyes; which having
been the practice under the civil law
for centuries, people of Latin origin
do not seem to mind it.
How about politics Don't you
begin to think Colonel, that if the
Southern people had not concerned
themselves so much about sending
men to Congress, and about Congress
sional action, and had gone to work
raising a little cotton, just for their
own use and to furnish freights for the
Liverpool steamers, and a heap of
corn, to feed themselves and their
horses, mules and cows, for l think
since the trichiBa has wiggled into our
calculation that Bacon is not so pro
ftable, that it would have been better
for us? We wanted the Yanks to let
us alone and they wouldn't do it.
think the next best thing we al do is
to let them alone. The only variation
l could think to suggest would be to
have sent sensible, intelligent freed
men mot free negroes of pure Afri-
can blood, who believe in Southern
rights, as Senators and Representatives
in Congress, and we would have
achieved such a victory as has not been
known since Cromwell drove Praise
God Barebones and his parliament out
of Westminster. Perhaps after all,
the best thing we could do would be to
say nothing about them-let them
alone.
The General Conference Of what
was styled the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, and is hereafter to be
the Episcopal Methodist Church, is
about to close its session of over g
month most usefully spent in thi.
city. Its members are men of great
moral and intellectual worth, gathered
from all parts of the country, some
even from New York and San Fran.
cisco; and their ministrations in the
various pulpits of the city have beer
most acceptable. They have regular
ly relieved our Presbyterian and Bap
fist ministers as well as those of theiI
own denomination on Sundays, du
ring their entire stay, and while oul
Episcopal clergy are prohibited by
their theory of the sacerdotal Office
from calling on them to officiate il
, their churches, their intercourse witt
2 them has been that of brother will
brother, and of the kindliest character
The important acts passed by thi.
General Conference in the extension
!, of the passionate, the more Catholi.
name which it has given the Church
the cordial reconciliation which it ha
effected with the African NJ. Z
Church, thus foiling, in a great meas
ure, the unchristian wiles and snare
l of the Northern Methodists, VIII
strove to break up both, and finally il
E the election of such men for Bishop
E as Doctors Weightman, Doggett
McTyeire and Merwin, men of inteIlec
: tual training, force of character an.
moral fitness will doubtless redoun,
; to very great good, not to our South
ern Methodists only, but to all GU
Southern country.
> Since inditing the above. l lear
t. that to-day they have agreed to tn
; admission of lay delegates, four fror
i each district, to each annual Confer
ence, and four for every twenty-eig
. ministers in each annual to the Genel
u al Conference.
( Twill let you know in advance c
: the expected row., that the Tribune
the Free Negro and Radical organ, G
to-day. announces that the negroe
L here are going to claim to vote, ea
: at the public tables in the hotels, sit /
i the dress circles of the theatres, rid
in the no-star cars, and / presume t
sleep in the beds of the white people
,, all under the Civil Rights Bill. The
i will have a Jolly time of it for I pre-
a sumo they will need and will get tn
! assistance of Gen. Candy and judy
! DuvaIl to attain their end. By tn
way the Judge and the General are q
=, logger-heads about some cotto
u claimed nv TwaaJ who was ..lOv