The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-14
Correspondence Of the Clarion.l
letter from New Orleans
NEw oRIEANs. March llth, ls

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Mp EDITOR :-To-morrow Is our oay t
&c General election for city officers. tne t
Grs+ we have had for five years. Ontl lIio
advept of Butler we were governed by our r
aors chosen by us in 1861. Since that event 4 :
our city government has been IN the hahts haid
| of military appointed Mayor, clotlga
yvith absolute powers, subject only 10 MN
80 coutrol 1t is true that the present one
Us appointed by Gov. Wells, but the iat-
| +ar has Imbibed taste for military. gov
/ ernnent with so-called Union sentiments,
/ and he is not an inhabitant OF the city, anu
/ his civil government Is even more af
and destructive of popular rights than tnat
of the military authorities pure anu 0''-i
pie No. ord
| Common Council tomorrow, and We VIII I
then have men whose duty 1t will be TO con- I
splt the interest of the people; but under
universal suffrage l fear that we are not /
! l;I-aI> +o have an economical wise and just {
administration of the city's affairs. Neither
ticket as proposed, contains the names OF
our best citizens, very few excepted. Ihe
. . bulL5 of each ticket is of men whose interests
centre in the expenditure of money and the
: MULTIPLICATION of offices Universal suffrage
does very well in the country, and III j State
with few and small cities but is ruinOuS TO
public morals and economy in one like tins
; The great fault of the South is wastetul-
ness and this is especially true OF the ad-
I / q
; The State is full of dTOnes, who live on the
|, public stores, and the working bees either
: do not watch to keep them out of the hive
. or are too few in number to be able to 90 -
: when they desire. As the drones are gener-
: ally persons who spend all they make. re-
d strictiye suffrage would soon remedy lHe
evil.
One of the sad results of the present con,
= test has been the dangerous stabbing ana
final death by stabbing of Mr.. Fred Grnpef'
+. well known to YOU probably as a Conteder-
g. ate QuartermaSter, and great 1aNoll,e
If here among our citizens and especially tho
firemen, in of the discuSslohsi "H'oi'
H. scrambles for Office produce.
,r 1t is understood that he was stabbed oN
ne some of the Kennedy party's secret poice,
who are reported to be ban!eo 10Y -
ore out of Office those who surrendered l''9'
a. Sprinr to the Federal army, and to keel
of in those who deserted at an earher daN
NV Those now in are the same class win YOU
- ..Mossv Backs and are determined 10 hoi'
,at on if they can. -: =,
ia We had Yesterday a monster procession
,ur mechanics, to celebrate the beginning ="
nh the eioht-hour system of labor by the sui
trr and house carpenters and Goiners, touhGr9
mon Dainters plasteTers and some oIhe
,,o1 mechanical branches. The printers talloi
ac- shoemakers and most Others dId n0V tar
,ev part in it. Undoubtedly tins VIII u~li, ~
as away to other places much OF thG WIZ W. 10
nee done mere, as Ii wiz 'o0U IN ~ ,+ II, mo,
~ tai improvement, and not in balls and core I'
md houses, the community will he genef,
YER gamers in the improvement of the mh'
0four working men If the time gained
ma not spent in moral and mental lllllloi prov
nni, ment the community ald the mechanI
and especially his family. will be gre'
Su- loser. -.
hat | am sorry to chronicle continu
the dropping of cotton and gold. l hope o'
Iarv planters will be warned by t to raise mo
any corn, potatoes and their home supplies.
''''' nuote you cotton at SO to 81 for ordinary
heir 50 to 40 for low middlin@ to strict low nj
onr ding. and this with a moderate stpPl
Gold l27 to 100. GREENS.