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, 1867-12-27

A DARKEY JURY-A friend of ours YOU.
ches for the truth Of the following:
At a recent session Of one of the courts in
South Carolina, an entire colored jury was
empaueIed A case was brought before
them-the witnesses examined, aud the at>
torneys made their respective arguments.
The Judge, after laying down tie law, and
recapituiatins the testimony, gave the pa
pers into the hands OF the Foreman-an in
leligent lookin darkey-with Instructions
that, as soon rs they found verdict, to
bring it in without delay.
Thirty minutes or more elapsed when the
Jury returned, headed BY the Foreman, aud
stood before the Judge.
AS the Foreman appeared to hesitate,
aud to wear a disappointed look, the Judge
asked
MIR. Foreman, lave you found verdict z
No, Massa Judge, we habent found EN-,
replied the ebony juryman.
Its very plain case, said the Judge.
Cant help i, ma,sa, couldn't see it,
'On what grounds z
'We didn't look into the grounds, Massa
Judge replied the foreman. de ossifer didn't
take us into de grounds, but he took us into
a room, and locked us in, and lole us when
we found verdick. be would left us out.
SO we began to fnd de verdick, and search
ed cherry nook, corner, creblco, and emery
ting dar was in dar, was in dat room, but
we found no verdick-- no, nofin Oh de kind
dar 7
, 1867-12-27

In free country, and under just sys
tenn, the cheaper everything is the better for
the people; but in despotic country, with
gigantic monoooly, everything is too high
as compared with labor, which is pauper
paid, and the toiler starved il order thai na>
bobbery may flourish.
, 1867-12-27
NUMBER e.

PREPARING GROUND FoR 0NIoNs.-Iu
recent number Of the Iowa HmeQead, &C.
A. 5 of Dubuque, gives his practice in the
autuunal preparation of the ground for ou-
IONS Prepare ii in the fall by ma nuring and
blowing, working it ill thesoi is well mixed
and~eommingAiug with the manure to the
depth Of eight or ten inches. Then roll or
tramp the ground hard, top dress it with
ashes, and leave it till the ensuing season.
When the frost is out in the spring aud the
the ground is sufficiently dry to work, rake
1t over with an iron tooth rake to the depth
of three or four inches. and mt in the seed
Tbs Is all the spring preparation required.
The most successful onion grower we ever
saw,,maaged about in the way here recommen-
drd, though the fall preparation was omitted.
The onion beds were well manured, and ths
ground stirred to good depth. 1t was then
rakrd and trampled down compacrly. An
onion planter, with two iron shovel teeth.
set apart the width of the onion rows, and
handled like hoe. was drawn across the
beds, aud the seeds dropped in the furrows
and 'ed an inch deep, or thrreabouts.
Tho result was that the onions grew upon the
ground-profu,e in quantity and excellent
In quality We should think the Iowa plan,
of the fall preparation of The ground, an i'm.
provement. 1t is certainly worth trial.
, 1867-12-27

A Frcuchman, being about to remove his
shop, hi, landlord Inquired his reason sta>
ting at the same time that it was consider
ed very good stand for business. The
Frtnchman repli d: oh, yes, he's very
good stand the busiuess-by gar, me stand
all day, for nobody come to make me move.
, 1867-12-27

The Boston Journal, the leading organ of the
Radical tax. grinders OfNew England, throws of
all disguise, and openly brags Of the success OF
the radical party iu making the negroes equal
socially and politically with the Germans. The
Journal says;
"Although it has taken great deal Of time,
and cost us vast amount of money, we have at
last got the stold Dutch of the Western States
educated upt the higher law standard. When
few years ago they spat upon us, the ode
spsed Abolitionists" we determined that the
negro las they called the colored MANI should
be made their equals or we would crush the Un>
ion. Colored suffrage is fixed fact. The foot
of the negro is now on the necks of our ancient
revilers, and those who are not in our tolls mu ST
stand from under.
, 1867-12-27

An editor wrote an article on the fair sex,
in the course of which he said: Girls of
seventeen or eighteen are fond of beaux
When the paper was issued he was rather
shocked to discover that an unfortunate typo
graphical error had made him say: Girls of
seventeen or eighteen are fond of beans
, 1867-12-27

In Kansas the Democracy gain two mems
bers Of the Senate and twelve members of the
House. Negro suffrage is defeated by about
$500, and female suffrage by about $500
DISTINGUISHING disloyal persons is carried BY
about 600.
, 1867-12-27

AN IriShmau was summoned Tor refusing
TO pay doctors bill, when he was asked
why he refused TO pay. What for should
pay /? said Mike; 'shnrc be didn't give me
anything hut some emetic, and biVer one
could | keep in my stomich at all at all
, 1867-12-27

Sometimes on musing upon genius in Its
simplest manifestations, it seems as If the
greatest of human culture consisted chiefly
in preserving the glow and freshness Of the
heart.
, 1867-12-27

hypoorite may sTis, 80 f..i- th-~~l %
to deceive his own eye. He may admire the
cobwyb, aud not know bimse!f to be the sPi>
der.
Give us what you think The finest speci .
men Of gold in the world, and we will wager
its value that it can be beaten.
A punster passing by the shop of GER
tain Mr.. Taswell, observed that his name
would be As-welI without the T.
A shurt time ago a man became wrapped
in thought, aud he was tied up, labelled, and
sent of ON the train Of ideas.
Naval architects are discussing the ques
tion what shape is best for vessel Un-
doubtedIy it should be ship-shaPe.
There is an efficacy in calmness of which
we are unaware. The element of security is
one which We peculiarly need.
A physicians rule of reversion-patient
under monument.
Slanders coming from beautiful lips are
like spiders crawling from the blushing heart
of rose.
No man has right to do as he pleases ex-
cept when he pleases to do right.
The love that has nothing but beauty to
sustain it soon wiihers away.
Be careful how you jest. The richest
joke of the season may be very unseasona-
bic one.
, 1867-12-27

A PERSON, who was sent to prison for mar
rying two wives, excused himself by saying
that when be had one she fought him, but
when he got Two they fought each other
, 1867-12-27

DO you believe il the appearance OF sPlT-
its. father?' asked Il rather fast young man
of his indulgent sire No, Tom, but be-
lieve in their disappearance, since l IN s'ed
nv bottle Of Bourbon, last bight, replied the
old gentleman.
, 1867-12-27

A DutcLman, with bad wife, told his
master that she was trOnk all te day Satur>
day night. and all to night Sunday morning,
aud vOs so Wild dat kick ter stairs right
down her,
, 1867-12-27

THE ancient cooks carried their art to the
most whimsical perfection. They were able
to serve up whole pig, boiled on one side,
and roasted on the other
, 1867-12-27

Jones fell out of saddle, and has he lay
sprawling on the ground he remarked, 1
thought had improved in horsemanship but
l fndI have fallen off,
, 1867-12-27

'Ab, my brother, said Tennessee radical
to freedman, you ust not judge always
by appearances; mp face is white, but my
heart is black.
, 1867-12-27

Why is a young lady from boarding
school, like building committee Because
she is ready to receive proposals for cOnsid
Grafton.
, 1867-12-27

What is the difference between the doc
Of barn aud an over talkative persouH On
is barn door, and the other is darn bore
, 1867-12-27

The question is often discussed whether
the savages enjoy life. We do as thy Of
ten seem anxious to take it when they get
chance.
, 1867-12-27

A henpecked husband says that Before
marriage faHced welded life@would be all
sunshine; but afterwards found out that it
was all moonshine'
, 1867-12-27

Il am afraid said lady to her husband,
that am going to have stiff neck, Not
at. all improbable, my DEAR replied the
spouse, l have seen symptoms of it ever
since we we're first married"
, 1867-12-27

An exchange says: One reason why
Gen Grant don't say more is because he
cannot smoke and talk at the same time.
, 1867-12-27

THEIR CHOICE "A vote was taken foI
President of the United States at Fair in
Missouri, and the choice fell upon Lucy
Stone.
, 1867-12-27

Some malicious persen asserts that the let
tets NJ d., which are placed after pbysi-
clans names, signify Money down.
, 1867-12-27

The man who sang, 4 am lonely since my
mother died. isgt quite SO lonely now. The
old nan married again, and his stepmother
makes it lively enough for him.
, 1867-12-27

In the matter of plain speaking, we are
many of us like the soldier who, in his INST
battle, was afraid to fire off his musket lest
he might hurt somebody. r.
, 1867-12-27

There are three kinds of friends-friends
who love you. friends who do not trouble
themselves about you, and fhe friends who
hate you.
, 1867-12-27

The worlds experience breaches in vain.
every man thinking himself an exception to
all general rules.
, 1867-12-27

A vacant mind is open t" all suggestions,
as the hollow mountain returns all sounds.
, 1867-12-27

i DRoVERs VS.. FoPs.-zDiHner was spread
in the cabin OF the New World, and splen.
did company was assembled about the table.
Among the passengers thus prepared for gas
tronomic duty was little creature of the
genus fop, decked daintly as an early but
terfy, with kids Of an irreproachable char
acter, miraculous necktIe, aud spider.ike
quizzing glass on his nose. The delicate an
ina turned his head utfectedly aside wilh,-
Waitah? 2
'SahH
'Bwing me pwopeah of female woos-
tah'
'Yis, sahr
'And, wairah, tell the steward to wub my
plate with vegetable called onion, which
will give deHciDus fayaw to my dinnah.'
While the refined exquisite was giving his
order jolly Western drover had listened
with open nouth aud proIuding eyes When
the dimlnutive creature paused, lie brought
his fit down upon the table with force that
made every dish bounce, and then thunder
ed out
Here! you gau darned ace of spades
'Tis sah
Bring me a tLnndcrin big plate of skuuk's
gizzards {"
sab =
'And, you old ink pot, tuck horse blank.
ct under my chin, and rub me down with
brickbats while feed
The poor dandy showed a pair of strait
coat tails instauter, and the whole table join
ed in a tremendous roar
, 1867-12-27

Be TRUE--Be true. True to ourselves
true to each other-true to God What
more abhorrent vice than dece ption? The
face covered with smiles. and the heart rot
ten as a sepulchre. The hand first blind9sg
your eyes, and then leading you to the brink
Of the prccipice. The tongue beguiling
your face with honeyed words, aud shaping
its arrows 10 launch at your back.
Oh, that inestinsble jewel Of truth--truth
in the tongue, in the lie, in every maniIes>
tation of the reason-she loves the passions
of humanity.
Terrible to the young heart is the first de-
ception. She who looked all purIIy, ali nn.
gelic goodness, betrayed her trust, aud left
the soul desolate. Heaven only knows
through what depth of darkness the bruised
spirit struggled to light aud JOY again. But
the light has never been as pleasant, the joy
rekindled bnrns not ike the bright fires Of
long ago. The tears, the sleepIess nights
the hours of keen despair, when hand
seemed even on your throat, snd dagger at
your heart--for what would you live them
over? Death would be more welcome
We could bear with petulance, smile at
unkindness, the assaults of harsh temper, or
the moody silence of frowning brow; but
treachery, failhfulness, trust belrayed-thank
God that we have never yet known the full
import Of these terrible words
BE true, then, if you would be respected
No power on earth can change the fiat that
even the wo:ld gives the deceiver. He may
weep tears of blood, but the monuments of
his shame still stand to testify against him.
Once liar, always a liar. A very child
eau tell where deception cOncea's itself, and
a casual thought, lightly expressed, ierrets
it from the foul hiding place.
Be true if you would be loved The heart
is like an armory; beautiful aud harmless
seem the long rows Of bristling steel, but
every one of those polished shafts may be
used as an instrument of torture. So ii you
deceive, the heart that beats warrnest for
your ove, your appreciation, may be convert
ed into gallery oi deadly weapons, and you
will be responsible for the mischief that re
suits through lilies long battle. Let truth
be as near to you as the apple Of your eye;
and when tie blush springs net to your
cheek, and your tongue fnlters not even at
the unuttered thought Of deception, then be
sure that you are fit for neither earth or
heaven, for the society Of men or angels.
, 1867-12-27
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onco Statesman Building, Third Street
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1867-01-10

The Congressional excursion party
reached Washington City on Thursday
morning, highly pleased with their trip
and the treatment they received at the
hands of the rebels down in Dixie.
Ben Wade seems specially delighted,
having declared he would not take ten
thousand dollars for what he learned
on the trip. He is now willing to adj
NIT us upon the adoption of the con-
stitutional amendment; and Senator
Ramsey announces that Gems. Forrest
and Cheatham believe this measure
should be adopted as condition OF
the South being restored to all its
rights and privileges in the Union.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1867-01-10

SEVEN NEGROES KILLED.-A Cairo
telegram advises us that for several
months past negroes from Mound City
have been making thieying raids
across into Kentucky, principally for
hogs. These they would bring to Cal
TO and sell. The people have organ
lied to defend their property against
the thieving scoundrels. The other
night they came upon gang of seven,
who were loaded down with stolen
hogs. They ordered them to halt
whereupon the negroes fired upon
them. The citizens returned the fire
killing every negro.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1867-01-10
Fhe following is cited as an in
stance of drunkenness saving life in q


Fhe following is cited as an in
stance of drunkenness saving life in q
dangerous position
'.On Saturday morning last, as the
Eastern train on the Shore Line from
Providence, r. T., was about a mile
from that city. the engineer discovered
the body of man lying between the
rails. Owing to the icy state of the
track the train ran about mile before
it could be stopped, when it was back
ed down, and it was found the man was
unininred. He was dead drunk, and
the whole train passed over him with
out waking INN from his SUPER
The following is another remarka-
BILE instance of the preservation of life
in sober person, and who was saved
because he was sober
'On Friday evening last, as the, train
from Richmond reached Petersburg, a
small boy jumped from the truck I'M
der a car, covered with frozen mud
from head to foot. An inquiry re-
vealed that he had slipped under the
train when it started from Richmond,
and getting upon the rod to which the
breakes are attached, had placed his
arms through the truck, and in this
position rode the whole distance"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1867-01-10
ma.,lc. FatInes..

N.
ILL., 1,he , aea ther, come home with me noWi
ya,, - s a;9 fhe steeple strikes one;
the = were coming right home from
Our firr a. your days work was done.
d is ali out, our house Is all dark,
", Id mothers been watching since ten,
lth poor little Benny 50 sick IN her arms,
! And no one to help her but me.
s- Come home! come home! come nome!
- Please,father, dear father, come home!
Father. dear father, come home wfih me now!
The clock in the steeple strikes two;
The night has grown colder, and Bennle 10
!. But be has been calling for you,
Indeed he il worseAAIa says he will die,
Perhaps before morning shall daYnl
And this is the message slIrsent me to bring
Come quickly, or he will bsgonel
Come home! come home! tome laomel
Please father, dear father, CONE homel =
Father. dear father, come home with me now
The clock in the steeple strikes three;
The house il so lonely-the hours are SO long
For poor weeping mother and me!
Yes. we are alone--poor Bonnie IS dead!
And gone with the angels OF light;
| And these were the very last WORDS Thai ~
said:
"I want to kiss Papa to-nightW
Come home! come home! come nome;
Please father, dear father, come home!'
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1867-01-10
From New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, January Sd, 1927.

NEW ORLEANS, January Sd, 1897.
Editor of Clarion:
We are all shivering with cold around the
CRATES this morning. Snow fell during the
past night, and this morning it is several
feet-in circumference. tits affording much
sport for Yong America.
Gen. Price and daughters have arrived
from Mexico and are stopping at the st.
Charles. The General. is much reduced in
flesh, so much so that he does not present a
physical difference from his fellow men as
wide as during the days of the "Confedera-
BY Misfortune has not soured his DISPOSE
ton, however, and he still wears that pleas
ant and agreeable countenance which can
only be inspired by benevolent and gen.
erous heart May his days yet be long and
prosperous
e The investigating committee are still en-
gagged at their labors, and if this writer is
not mistaken they will close their investiga-
tions with the impression that the people of
New Orleans are not such set of barbarian
disloyalists after all, as they had been led to
believe.
Business has revived to some consid cradle
extent, but still it is not as in days of yore.
Sales are extremely limited and there seems
to be lack of confidence among business
Baen which can only arise out or rne facr-
that the shadows cast by coming events can
not be fathomed People snrmise and pre-
dict but With hesitancy that affords no in
ware satisfaction.
The new wear which wa havo iust ortorod
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1867-01-10

The mysterious departure of Mr.
Fred. Seward, the Assistant Secretary
of State, and Admiral Porter, in the
the steamer Don, a few days since,
has caused considerable speculation in
the New York prints. Some say the
object is to purchase the bay OF Sa-
mana, in Hayti, for a United States
harbep<5thers ftttsst the Don is to con
1Vey to Napoleon dispats Hs ezplana,
tory of Secretary Stewards message !;
and another report, which is circulated
with as much confidence in it's correct
ness, is that he has simply gone on a
pleasure trip. The former, however,
is very plausible suggestion, if not
the correct statement upon the sub
ject.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1867-01-10

CAREER OF MEMPHIS GAMBLER,
SwINDLER AND DEsPERADo.-A. special
dispatch fromSt. Joseph, Mo-, dated
3Oth December, ito the Missouri Re-
publican, contains the following rela,
tive to man named Brantley,, WE11
was we'll known in this city as the pro-
prietor, about six months since, of a
gambling saloon on Jefferson street,
and who embarked, at the time, in an
extensive swindling business here,
ordering goods from our me, Chants,
to be shipped to various points. Up
on the arrival OF the goods at the des-
ignated points, Brantley would lay
hold of them and dispose of them as
best he could. Fortunately, his
Schemes were frustrated before he
did much damage. He left here, and
from what this dispatch says, has evil
IDENTITY been carrying things with high
hand. In st. Joseph, Brantley; who
claimed to have been a Colonel in the
Confederate army during the war, was
brought there Friday night from
Chicago, under arrest, and is now con-
fined in Jail, to await his trial for OBJ
tanning money under false pretences.
He arrived there some three months
ago, purchased fine residence, fur
nished it in palatial style, opened
faro bank, borrowed between 81 900
and S., 900 from leading business men
there and finally decamped without
settling. Detectives followed his
track and came upon him at Chicago.
Brantley hailed from Mississippi,
where it il said he killed two men at
the close of the war; He went to Min
nesota, where he had desperate fight
with a brother gambler, literally cut
ting his antagonist to pieces. The
authorities at st. Joseph, will in all
probability put quietus upon his adj
yenturous career-Memphis Ava
lanche, 1st.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1867-01-10

LET THE SOUTH ALoNE.-The New
York Herald seems to have given up
the territorializing and the Constitu-
tion-amending policies in reference to
the South, and to have become a con-
vert to the policy of letting the South
alone: In it's issue Of the 25th It says
What, then, can we do with those
people? They rebelled against the
Constitution, they appealed to the
Sword, they have been defeated ald
disarmed, and now they fall back upon
their constitutional rights as they were
before the war. Taking the hint from
President Jhonson's greatest mistake,
they demand these constitutional
rights in their restoration just as they
stand. They may be taken in hand
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande,
as the people of great unorganized
territory, and cut up and recast into
new territorial divisions but this will
be troublesome and costly process
We may establish the constitutional
amendment by three-fourths of the
loyal States, and then reorganize ter
rltorially each of the outside States ON
this basis; but we shall gain little time
by this plan. The only course re-
naming, then, is to let these outside
States alone, only interfering to pre-
vent their whites and blacks from cut
ting each others throa.s, and so give
them as much time for reflection as
they may require. After being two
or three years out in the cold, or five,
ten or twenty, reason and common
sense may prevail among them, and
they may come in on the terms of the
amendment. If there is no hope in
the present Southern generation we
can wait for the next. By that time
there will be Northern leaven among
them sufficient toAdeaven the whole
lump. Time and emigration will set
tie the question.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1867-01-10
WasI,ington Corleee.

This institution, at Lexinoton Viyo;n;o
now under the presidencyof General Robc,t
y. Lee, ls stated to be ina flourishnu co,,di-
lion. Founded in 1884. General Washing
o ool' q aIter y was named gave to il $50, 1000
ana the Cincinnati Society S20. 900 more more.
From that timetill 1896, itiwas il, !. growing,
vigorous condition., and then it's funds were
augmented bye legacy of $4,000 fEeG
John hobinsnpA Of Yitrir
Washington College 0nl. 49,
The exercises were the s4l1a. Up 70 1901,
opening Of the war, mMeadily hourlshed.-
following General Stonet suspended by the
the Confederate army. ,pst of the students
Hunter wantonly destrQ wall jackson into
and philosophical appaI In 1864, Genera!
lion or 1tfesiar Jlik-fz. yed its chemical and
lied, in 1865, and Gen atus, and wasted It's
president; professorshil Is. After the cessa-
three of applied scieI tuition was re9ggan-
literature. were added eral Lee was chosen
and four of them have BIS of modern history
Among the contribut ices, one of modern
Gently have been tho to the former CHAIRS,
mick. of New York been already filed
Warren Newcomb, ons to the college re-
and Mr.. Rathmell Use of Mr.. G. II. Meteor
who contributed OF $4,000; that Of Mr..
volumes to the of New-York, $4,000;
timely given has Wilson, of Philadelphia,
the-coIiege on be thousand very valuable
The UNIVERSITY libraries The aid thus
to choose til enabled the trustees to put
been purS s footing of the first order
stress is 81 system of allowing students
practical heir own courses of study has
and az bed with advantage. Especia
The q laid upon studies, such as relate
prof fly, yet scientifically, to the minera
ma lricultural resources of the State
Cd aculty at present numbers seventeen
Zessors and tutors, and includes sue
mes as have impressed themselves on tin
) snfidenee and scholarship of the country
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