The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-03-05
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

Mr. Pollard's work entitled "The Lost
Cause" is treated with little respect by the
London journals. 1t is mere partisan ema
nation unworthy of respect from any quar-
ter
The English holders of the Confederate
cotton loan are still endeavoring to give
themselves the hope that the United States
may pay it. Their latest movement was to
present, on February 9th, memorial to the
British Government, asking its interposition
in behalf Of their claim The fact that their
loan had special hypothecation of cotton
which was afterwards captured by the North
they consider, placed their stock in differ
emit position from an ordinary Confederate
loan.
VIENNA, February 81, 1667.-The restora
ton Of the Constitution of l949 to Hungary
by the Emperor Francis Joseph has had the
effect to remove the troubles heretofo re ex
listing in that country. The people are now
quiet and contented
The Senate of Missouri, on the 25th inst,
passed bill by vote of nineteen to seven,
submitting to the people, at the next gene
raj election, an amendment to the constitu
ton to strike out the word white A sim.
liar proposition was introduced into the
House.
Such is the activity in the Prussian gun
manufactures that by the beginning of
May the whole of the North German troops
will, it is said, be armed with needle guns.
Mississippi river continues to rise
opposite vicksburg The high stage of its
upper tributaries indicate an overflow.
There are now thirteen cotton factories in
operation in Tennessee, representing nearly
a million of dollars, and giving employment
to over nine hundred operatives. There
are also in the State severed flouTishing fac
tories for the manufacture of steam engines,
cotton-presses and agricultural implements.
Gov. Orr writes to somebody in New York.
that in South Carolina the restitution is so
great and severe that five hundred thousand
bushels of corn are estimated to be needed |
to feed the people, over and above all that |
can be obtained within the state. Colonel |
William Nettles, a gentleman of high stand
ing in Sumter district, has been in New |
York with bond signed by about seventy
five planters, in which they pledge their
next cotton crop as security for about forty
thousand dollars worth of corn and bacon
He could find no one to take his bond, and
has left the city. after obtaining two hun
dred bushels of corn from the commission
for the relief of the very poor of his district,
saying that unless he could find some per-
sons in some other city 10 make the neces-
sary advances, he did not see how it would
be possible for the planters Of Sumter dis
trict to put in their seed the present season
The Military bill, stated on the authority
of a prominent lawyer of Petersburg that
the Supreme Court had adopted rule not
20 decide, at least within the next two years
any political questions, the decision Of
which wonld interfere with the legislation
of Congress in the matter Of reconstruction.
We learn from the Goodman Star, that lfr
J. w. shilcut, a well known citizen of
Holmes county. while stopping at Col Dick
Cooper's Wednesday night, was called to the
door and shot by some unknown person
The Star says he cannot survive.
At last accounts the Virginia Senate were
In secret session, considering the subject
calling State Convention. The result has
not been made known.