The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-15
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

Secretary Seward, in recent letters, states
hat the Department cannot recognize an
attorneys interest in a pardon, and that
he Government has no officer in its employ
nent who is authorized to procure pardons
.rmake charges for doing so.
SOUTHERN ENTERPRIsE.-Says the Selma
Times Our energetic and enterprising
riends, Messrs. Shelley, Wright & Co, yes
erday closed a contract with NJ. NJ Brooks,
$50, ofNoxubee county, Miss, to put up the
eeessary buildings for large steam cotton
lctory, to be located three miles below En-
erPrise, Miss, and they Will at once begin
be work
The citizens of Kentucky are about to
resent to the wife of Hon. John c. Breck-
ridge, home within the borders of the
tate
The military scenes witnessed in the
.reets of Paris, moving of military wagons,
uns, gun carriages and munitions, are
mIlaI to those seen just previous to the
rinsag y asrlRdeS he, Italian campaiqs-. e.
Prussia is making war preparations steadi-
7 and without any noise or excitement, but
q q very extensive scale. Orders for the
loollization for the guards, and the 9th, Sth,
-h, 10th, and Il army corps are made.
The Commissioner of the General Land
flee has received returns showing that
7,27o acres of public lands We're were dis
osed of during the month of April last in
Ichigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin. Arkansas
nd Florida. The greater portion of the
nd was taken for actual settlement and
lltivation
The Southern Baptist Convention met at
emphis on the 9th Thirteen States are
presented by 200 delegates. Rev. P. H.
ell, Of Georgia, was chosen President.
In Indianapolis the Democrats have gained
We councilmen.
In Richmond, Indiana, Democratic May
has been elected.
The Democrats elected their entire ticket
Terre Haute. Ind.
When Marshal Bazaine announced the
ithdrawal of the French troops from Mex
o, Macmillan is reported to have said,
hey have placed me between disgrace and
choice is made"
Governor Orr, of South Carolina, furnishes
T publication in the New York papers ex-
acts from over 100 letters received from
tferent parts of the State, and says that lie
in constant receipt of others, all detailing
lie destitution and suffering that prevail in
lie South.
Abiding to the suicide of Judge Hise, the
ouisville Democrat says: ut is remark
Die fact that his father, who was German
erchant of Russellville, committed suicide
: cuttiag himself across and up the aldo
en- with a razor.
The statement of the public debt for May
lows the total to be 8. Gee. SIS, O5S. and the
mount of coin and currency in the Treasury
4s'oS90O0. By comparing this with the
prll statement an increase in the total debt
shown of S5I6I, 724
The latest advices from Arizona report
lat war of determination has commenced
galnst the Indians, who have been unusual.
! active agd hostile in all parts of the in
erIor. Gen, Gregg had inaugurated Wig.
rous campaign, and was about to issue an
rider declaring Indians outside the reser
alton, except the Mojaves and Chemahue
IS, hostile
Gen Ord, commander of the Filth Militia
District has instructed Gov. Murphy &c
otify the members of the Provisional Leg
stature of Arkansas, lately in session, that
aeIr reconvening is Incompatible with the
CT OF Congress TO provide more efficient
oFeFnment for the rebel States, passed
aaFch :, 1867, and that they therefore viii
i0t Reasonable. The governor, in agree
lent with these instructions, has by pro
'anauon declared the Legislature dissolved
uu That any reassembling thereof will be a
io'auon of the Reconstruction act of Con.
Tess.
ooLoRED RECRUITs.-The Montgomery
idli OF the 7th says; About 100 negroes, Ie-
entity recruited in this city for the Z. S
Il ny we're marched down to the river yes
7fday evening in charge of sergeant.
The following Committee on the Religious
lstruction of the Colored people was an.
ounced in the Southern Baptist Conven
on Brethren A w Chambliss, Miss. n
Crawford, Ky; A. NJ. Poindexter, Va.
p. Boyce, S. c.; Josephus Shackleford
la L B. Seaton, Mo-; g. W. Young, Tenn
A Washington dispatch to the st. Louis
dated the 9th, says the Hon. S. s
iarshall, of Illinois, is not dead, as dispatch
from the West state. He is in Washing
On, attending upon the daily sittings of the
judiciary Committee, and has given good
art OF day to reading obituary notices
mich every mail has brdught