The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-04-25
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

Chas, w. Greene, Of Columbus, Ky, makes
the following announcement, to which w
invite the attention of our readers;
VIII you please give notice through your
columns That i am engaged in collecting In
formation relative to the restitution of the
South, with view to organizing measures
in the Northwestern States for relief Re
ports from County Commissioners othert
In authority in the suffering districts, art
particularly desirable, IO VI mo y
Robert Toombs is now in quiet at his home
in Washington, Wilkes county, Georgia. He
writes in private letter that he prefers the
political advantage Of America to living
anywhere else in the world and that no true
patriot Of the South will forsake his native
land. Let us remain here" he says, "and
endeavor by the favor Of God to build up our
waste places" S
The work of emancipation has been begun
in Brazil by decreeing the freedom Of the
slaves on, the, public domain about three
thousand in number, on condition that they
enter the army. The wives of those that
are married are also freed. None have yet
declined the offer.
The New Orleans Crescent states that
there are not $500 acres of dry land in West
Baton Rouge parish, and that an equally
large proportion of Carroll, Madison, and
Tensas is under water In Iberville, many
people are actually suffering for food and
the same may be said of half dozen or
more parishes.
At meeting Of the stockholders of the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company on Sat
urday last the following named gentlemen
were elected Directors Messrs. P. Hamilton,
Alabama Charles P. Gage, Alabama Chas.
Il Rushing, Mississippi James A. McDear-
man, Mississippi; JAP. Walker, Kentucky;
j. b. Caruthers, Tennessee; Abraham Muir
dock, Mississippi s. Humphries, Mssis-
sippi; James Crawford, Alabama Robert
w. Smith, Alabama John J. Walker Ala
bama F. B. Clark, Alabama; N II. Broun,
Alabama.
The prospects of the tobacco crop around
Lynchburg are reported favorable.
THE stand of wheat in the West and
North is represented as generally looking
better than it did last spring, although the
plants are not very forward.
Dispatches from General Dix to the State
Department, are said to represent the rela-
tions between France and Prussia to be in o
very critical condition.
The Greensboro (Mss.) Falcon says there
is scarcely foot of land visible from Yazoo
City to Greenwood, save an occasional soil
tary mound, covered with wild and domestic
animals. The whole country presents
scene of blank, watery desolaton, positively
fearful to contemplate.
The following treason cases have been or
dered dismissed by the United States Dis
trict Court at Memphis, upon the payment
of costs by the defendants Gideon ]. Pill
low, d. C.iAdkins, R. " Richardson, Jesse
Forrest, John B. Cross, Reuben Burrow, Jr.
A. G. Wurzbach, Capt F. A. Cole, Joseph
Perry
THE MOBILE AND OHIO RAILRoAD.-At q
meeting of the directory of this road in Mo-
bile, on the 10th inst, the following exhibit
was made: The income for the past year
from passengers, freight, mail and express
was s., 449, 2SO 90. Expenses for repairs of
roadway, rolling stock conducting transpor-
tation, and taxes, $l,390,398 46, leaving a
not revenue of 81 ,O5s.ss7 SO.
CHARLESTON, s. c., April 16.-A large
meeting of the foreign residents and adopted
citizens of this State was held here tonight
to hear the report of General John A. Wag-
ner, Commissioner of European immigration
A resolution was adopted approving of the
report, and inviting immigrants to settle in
South Carolina
The Lexington Advertiser makes a strong
appeal to the people of Holmes county in
favor of the construction of railroad to
Lexington and Dnrant, on the Cen
tral Mississippi.
The report of the Superintendent of
schools for the freedmen's bureau for six
months, ending with the 3lst Of December,
Ihows the whole number of schools, officially
eported, 1907, with l,4O6 teachers, and 49,
56 pupils the number of industrial schools
lot officially reported, is 1872, with 228 teach
rs, and 1855 pupils, making an aggregate
f 1891 pupils of whom only 1902 were
rec before the war. The freedmen own 266
chool buildings, and sustain wholly or in
art 623 schools, of the pupils 15,248 pay
uition, which amounts to $l1 SLIPPER month
If the teachers 400 are colored persons. The
lumber of Sabbath schools is reported as
81, with 7O,6l0 pupils
There is now living in Lawrence county
hio, gentleman who separated from his
life, in Pennsylvania, many years ago. He
lme to Southern Ohio, and married Miss
-, of, Marietta. After the second wife's
cath, daughter by the first marriage brought
,out reconciliation between her father and
er mother, and they were remarked more I
AN twenty years after the date of their sepa-
tion-the first wife becoming the third.
The news from Mexico is daily be-
)ming more and more exciting, and Z