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The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29
Rock Me to Sleep, Mother.
BY FLORENCE PERCY.

backward. turn backward, o. Time, in thy nignt
Make me child again. just for Tonight
Mother. come back from the echoless shore,
Take me again to your heart as of yore,
Kiss from my forehead the burrows OF care,
Smooth the few silver threads out OF my nalr,
Over my slumber your loving watch keep
Rock me to Sleep mother-rock me to sleep!
Backward. flow backward; o. tide of the years
am so weary of toll and tears
Toll without recompense-tears all in vain
Take Them and give me my Childhood again
have grown weary of dust and decay,
Weary Of finging my soul-wealth away
Weary of sowing for others to reap;
Rock me to sleep, mother-rock me to sleep!
Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue,
Mother, O mother my heart calls for youi
Many summer the grass has grown green,
Blossom'd and faded, our faces between;
Yet with strong yearnings passionate and pain,
Long to- night for your presence again;
Come. from the silence so long and so deep
Rock me to sleep, mother-rock me to sleep!
Over nv heart in the days that are flown,
No love like mother love eve has shone;
No other worship abides and endures
Faithful, unselfsh, and patient, like yours;
None like mother can charm away pain
From the sick soul and the world weary brain;
Sumber's soft Gains DER my heavy lids creep
Rock me to Sleep MOTHERHOOD me to sleep!
Come let your brown hair, just lighted with golc
Fall on your shoulders again as of old;
Let it drop over my forehead Tonight,
Shading my faint eyes away from the light,
For with It's sunny edged shadows once more
Happy will throng the sweet visions of yore.
Lovingly, softly, its bright visions sweep
Rock me to sleep, mother-rock me to sleepi
Mother dear mother! the years have been long
Since have slept to your lullaby song;
Sing then, and unto my soul it shall seem
womanhood's years have been only dream.
Clasped to your heart in ur loving embrace,
With your light lashes just sweeping my face,
Never, hereafter, to wake or to weep
Rock me to sleep, mother-rock me to sleep.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29

With to-day's paper we will claim a
respite from political discussions for
at least brief season. The principal
political editor leaves, to attend as a
delegate to the Democratic National
Convention. The election in refer
ence to the proposed Constitution, is
closing; and discussion of its provis
ions will no longer avail. Our col
umns, for the present, will be almost
exclusively, occupied with the reports
of the great victory which the friends
of Constitutional Freedom have won,
and with the current news of the day.
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WAITING FOR YOU.

Two lit lie lambs in the upper fold
from the heat of summer, and winters cold.
oaie from earth's guile and its dreams untrue.
Two little lambs are waiting for you.
Two little darlings whose pattering feet,
With the prophets of old tread the golden street,
Or wander forever mid Eden's bowers.
awaiting for you through the golden hours.
Two little angels that only came
Earthward to mnrmur their mothers name,
Luring her heart to the land above
In the broken accents of baby-love.
Two little lambs from all sorrow free
Through the long years of eternity
From the heat of summer, and winters cold
Arc waiting for you in the upper fold.
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Hf the f'onSfffuti0m IL Defeated,
will Gem mcdowell Permit flae
bling of the Convention
an tlle Expense OF the People.
By section IL Of an Ordinance of the
Convention, it is provided that the
.ConventionSsmay be-reconvened''.
the COMMITTEE of Five," if the pro-
posed Constitution should be rejected.
The exercise of this pretended author
ity to recall the Convention, would be
gross usurpation of power. 1t
would be wholly illegal. The func-
tions of the Convention, which was
permitted to exist by law of Con
gress, ceased with the formation of the
proposed Constitution. 1t was en-
powered to do nothing beyond the
framing Of that instrument and sub
hitting it, through the Military Com
mander to the voters qualified under
the acts of Congress. Having done
this, it's mission and authority as a
Convention, have terminated.
The Committee of Five" by which
the Convention essayed to continue
its existence, is an illegal body, and
the members of the Convention hav
ing discharged their trust, should
they assemble by its order, will be
vested with no more authority than
any other promiscuous assemblage of
persons. They can pass no ordinance,
nor draw pay from the State Treasury
as public officers, nor transact any
public business whatever. If they at
tempt it, their acts will be wholly out
side Of law, and revolutionary. This
fact is so apparent that we do not be
lieve the Commander of the District
will recognize the Convention as q
legal body, or permit its members to
draw their pay from the public Treas
ury. The have already imposed a
burthen of nearly, if not quite, quar-
ter Of a million of dollars on our i'm
poverished people, and we claim the
protection of his power as the executor
of the law of Congress, against this
threatened outrage.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29
KTN A LIFE
INSURANCE co.
OF HARTFORD.

THIs COMPANY was established andchar-
L tered in the wear 1920 being the OLDEST
existing Life Insurance Comp. ny In the ohiVeu
States.
Be, anne an Institution for the Insurance Of
Lives, EXCLUSIVELY, In the year 1890.
Adopted the MUTUAL principal IN the year
Accumulated capital, $6,OOO,OOo.
Paws to its Policy holders an Annual DIV
dend of so per cent, which is as large a !ivl 1--WE
dend as is paid by any Company in the United
States. an ooo
does business throughout the United states
and Canada in every state and Territory from
the Atlantic to the Pacific; has paid osses 70
an immense amount during the past 10 !eHI
The ETNA LIFE INSURANCE CoMPANl'
has long been knuwn to the American P G;,PjE
lis name is familiar wherever American Cl'lll'
cation has extended. 1t has and deserves ~
have the confidence Of the public:
The IEtna Is liberal in its PO'lcleS' anu a..
com odating in its modes of receiving pay llien,,
of Premium. Payments may pc maue AZ Ill III
cash. and the dividends will then be pald az
in cash or the Company will give credl' VI
one.half the price of Insurance to De pau Iii
the Dividends as they become due OF II :, VIZ -
issue Policies at reduced rate on the stoch u
non-pariicipating plan. ALL ponctIeSS. or
by this Company are either non-iorieitad
NAV be made so at the option of the lnsureui.
Life Insurance is already done 10 an an .t tn
mense amount throughout the United sta.es'
aud is rapidly gaining in the puDhc IaI NJ;
ALL classes of citizens insure from tne l -
dent to the day laborer it needs but 10 NC ''l'
derstood to be avaiIed of by every one. os for
This ompany has been paying l9 9s:stsot red
for sfortg-eiqht gears, and has never tt''g'''"
C aim. ,,-o,.e
All information N regard to Life Insurance &C.
cheerfully give and business attende" ~
promptly, and with strict fidelity by
BARROWS 81 SMYTHE, Agents
New office in the old Post Office Rooms W
posite The Capitol
Jackson, June 26, 1S6S-u'
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Democrats, Keep mp Your Organ
iZafiOras.

Friends Of Constitutional freedom,
you have won glorious victory. We
do not think that even Radical ingenu-
.ity can deprive you of its fruits.-But
whether successful, or not, you must
keep up your organizations. Do not
disband your Clubs, nor discharge
Committees. You must improve upon
the advantages which you have gained.
If the State is forced under the in.
iquitous law of the Mongrel Conven-
ton, it must be redeemed in the Pres
idential election. It can and must be
carried for the nominees of the
National Democracy. She must swell
the vote which is destined to carry
Hancock, or Chase, or Pendleton, or
some other good and true Democrat
into the Presidential Office.
The election just closing has demon
strated that the freedmen will not
affiliate with knaves and adventures,
who have come among them to use
their votes for base and selfish pur-
poses. if proper efforts are employed
to enlighten their minds Many
thousands have voted with the Democ-
racv in this election; but the number
would have been immensely increased
if the election had been postponed one
month, or if an active canvass could
have been earlier commenced. The
work now auspiciously began, must
be prosecuted with vigor. We must
repair the errors, or omissions of the
past, by redoubled efforts in the fu-
ture.
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STILL THEY COME!
From the Louisville Journal
mississippi.

The news from Mississippi is most
joyous. Certainly the returns, so far
as yet given, are of the most cheering
character.
And now the question arises, what
will the radicals of Congress do if the
intelligence from Mississippi shall be
fully established. AS things stand,
they may hesitate as to what they will
do. But they must not hesitate long.
Time presses. Events are fastening.
The Radicals don't think that they
can afford to let Southern State re-
main outside of their system of resto-
ration. Thad. Stevens, it seems, says
that MississippTs recusancy, if size is
recusant, will create a necessity for an
other reconstruction bill. But then
neither Old Thad nor any of his
frie ids can know exactly what sort of
reconstruction bills would answer their
purpose and yet not be so manifestly
atrocious as to shock and disgust the
nation. And, besides, they want to
finish up things if possible before the
close of the present session, and an
o.her reconstruction bill submitted to
the people of Mississippi would re-
quire very considerable time. We in
cline to the opinion that they will do
with Mississippi as they have-done with
Alabama. They will probably declare
in regard to Mississippi, as they have
declared in regard to Alabama, that
she has adopted the scalawag consti,
tuition, and haul her in, like the rest,
by the heels or the hair of the head
But let them commit whatever out
rage they please. The worse perhaps
the better. Let them choose from the
whole circumference of the circle of
outrages. Their conduct is soon to
be passed on by a tribunal next in
power and authority to that of God.
And they must already fancy that they
hear the terrible word, "Defeat -
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29
1n MemOrium OF Hon. a.
Ventress

Since the last meeting ofour Boera
it has pleased Almighty God in Ill.,
Providence to remove one of onr mn Ta'
Der, the Hon. j. ALIEN. VENTRrss U m
was one of the original members n &c
the Board, and in its early orosn;7o
ton was one of its most active and 80
ficient members.
AS a mark Cf our appreciation 81
his worth, and our regret for his Iosa
be it ''
Resolved, That the Board wear tbo
usual badge of mourning for 30 davs
and that the Faculty be requested ~
unite with US, in this Testimonial Of
respect for his memory.
Resolved, That the editor Of tbo
CLARION be requested to publish these
resolutions, and that the Secretary ho
requested to furnish the family of the
deceased with copy thereof, and that
the same be read on this dav as part
OF the proceedings.
A copy from the minutes.
j. NJ. HOWRY,
Sec of the Board.
UNIVERSITY OF Miss, June, %, 1868.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29
An Illegal yote-A Case i'm Point

We feel it our duty to call attention
to what we positively knoV to have been
an illegal vote which was polled in this
city on Saturday last. A very ignorant
freedman, by the name of Prince Per-
~, was induced by some Of the Radi-
calls, to vote their ticket, who resided
last year in Madison county, and was
registered at Madison Station, but who
now resides in Rankin county, where
he is under contract to live the remain
der of the year, and who has not spent
a dag an Kinds county, before Satur-
day last, since the first Of January
This fact the editor of this paper per-
sonally knows, and will testify, under
oath, and it will also be testified to by
numbers of white and colored persons,
who reside on the same place with
Prince and in the same vicinity
By the law of Congress, and the
order Of the Military Commander, his
vote is illegal. Section of Election
Order, is in these following words:
V. In accordance with the act of
Congress which b+came a law March
l., 1868, any person duly registered
in the State of Mississippi will be per-
mitted to vote in the election precinct
aDhere he offers to U0te, aUhen he has re
sided therein ten days nert preceding the
election, uEOn presentation Of has certif-
cate of registration, showing that he has
not voted at this election, and upon
making oath before the Commissioners
that he has resided in said precinct for
the time specified.
We have felt it our duty to bring
this case to the notice of the authori-
ties, because we are personally cog
INFANT of the facts. We are informed
by Mr.. Clayland, member of the
Committee of the Democratic party,
that he challenged the vote when it
was presented, but for reasons known
to themselves, the managers persisted
in receiving it, and thus positively
and directly violated the law of Con
gress which they are sworn to sup
port, and the order of sthe Military
Commander.
The freedman who has committed
this illegal act, is entirely ignorant,
and we acquit him of intentional
crime; but the blame rests with the
INSCRIPTIONS knaves into whose
hands he fell, and with the managers
of the election. How many more
frauds of similar character are being
perpetrated, we are not prepared now
to say, but we ,apprehend that this is
only one of many.
We call upon the managers of the
election to correct this fraud, or to
give us an opportunity of establishing
by sworn testimony, and by the ad-
mission of Prince himself, the truth
of our allegations. If it is not done,
an appeal will be taken to higher
authority.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29
TO THE RAINBOW.
BY SIR JOHN F. W HERsc

BY SIR JOHN F. W HERsCHEL. BART
Fair bowi that DER yOn clouded height
Hast pouie ed thy various ray,
To gild, with sweet and holy light
The tear of parting day;
How bright, DER spire and mountain top,
The mingled dyes are flung,
Where, firm upon the falling drop,
Thy beauteous arch is hungl
where flaming sunbeams wide are hurled,
Where milder glories fly,
To shed thy solace DER world
Where night and gloom are nigh.
Comfort and hope are in thy beam,
Light out of darkness wrought:
Inc hope that cheers the saddest dream.
The joy by suffering brought.
GOD will not aye that hearts should pine:
But in our saddest hour,
He bids us look upon thy sign,
Nor doubt His saving power
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29
A LITTLE BOYS SPEECH.
BY J C. BOWER.

Pm not as duh, perhaps, as you suppose; -
That dies the soonest which the soonest grows,
The lightning's flash, the passing meteor's glow,
Are dazzling, but their brightness soon is DER.
The sun comes slowly, but his constant rays
Continue, and his glowing brightness stays;
A little cloud may time float on,
And make shadow, but it soon is gone,
And suddenly again the sun displays -.
Its hidden disk, and sends forth brighter rays;
So may it be with me-in Gods good time,
The cloud may pass away, and may shine.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29
For the Clarion.
A Card TO the Teachers of Nlissis-
siPpi.

Upon consultation with those who
have been most active in the enter
prise Of State Association of Teach
ers, it has been agreed, with unusual
unanimity, that it will be most prudent,
and in every sense advisable, to post
ponf the meeting of the Association,
which has been appointed for the first
Wednesday of August ensuing. The
unsettled condition of the country
the scarcity of money-the refusal of
the Railroads to extend any facilities
to Teachers, in travelling, and the ne
cessary absence of some teachers, are
among the reasons that have brought
about this conclusion
Due notice will be given of a meet
ing when it shall be considered best to
call one in future. t1A
JOHN n. WADDEL,
President of the Asso citation.
Oxford, Miss, June 81, 1868.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29

THOMAS LANIGAN, the Navasota
correspondent of the Sherman Cour
Ter, thus divulges the secret of the
milk and butter patent for new fresh
butter: Alter seeing the performance
he went home, and in his own lam
guage, q took common milk pitch
err in pot of warm water and warmed
the milk to temperature which would
melt the butter. Then a pound ofbut-
ter was put in the milk. then churn
ed until the milk and butter were mix
ed. Next / added the yolkes of three
eggs and fifteen grains of tartaric acid.
In twenty minutes / had better butter
than the great butterer made to avon
dering public.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29
DUC UI IIkt DOafu.
UNIVERSITY OF Miss, June, %, 1858.

The PRISONERS. Prisoners.
whose arrest on Tuesday we noticed
yesterday morning, were yesterday
sent under guard to Atlanta.
We learn that one of the soldiers of
Capt. Mills command was also sent to
Atlanta with them as prisoner This
was Orderly Sergeant Marshall, who
has been absent for several weeks on
furlough-and was arrested on his
return a few days since. We do not
know the cause of his ARE st, but it is
said that he had a personal difficulty
with @. W. Ashburn II short time be-
fore the latter was killed, and slapped
Ashburn's jaws. Sergeant Marshall
was highly thought of by our citizens,
and we trust that the charges against
him are not serious.-Columbus ga. J
Sun, 18th.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29
TRUST SALE.

10y virtue of a Deed in Trust, executed ,a p!
BD. j. saIley on the 9th day of March, 1902 .;
to secure to William Stevens, the payment mn =.
"a cert in obligation therein deScr bed; NV ~ NIB
dersigned Trustees will proceed 10 SCI. a az in
lie auction to he highest bidder tor fssIson,
front of the Capitol, in the elty ol foiioNing
described land in the county of Carroll 81. a.is
The 4 and u of section 49, ana e Tue y i q
of e q of the w Il and = ofw q % % renge
section Is, all in township Il north ., aa'
east, containing four hundred 4oo I'D a.ld in Us
We will convey such title as is vesIeud
as Trustees, which is believed to ne e,lg IgTTTs
,- 10. BELL.
.June3wtds iruse---
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YAzoo COUNTY.

YAzoo CRY, June 2S..--To Clarion.
All precints but Yazoo City heard
from, and give Democratic majority
of $50 In Yazoo City, 400 colored
men Joined Democratic Club on Satur-
day. Expect 500 color ed votes for
Democracy, Monday. Grand Barbe-
cue On Saturday. a
STILL THEY COME
The Houston Record states that DIR
Kerr, a Republican member of the
Convention from Calhoun county, de
clared against the Constitution, and
that his name to that instrument was
forgery.
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"wIDOWED."
BY RACHEL.

They bore him to her silently
That dark and stormy night;
Her bridegroom of a few short days,
The hero of the fight.
Another martyr to the cause,
With glory on his brow;
That morn so full of life and hope
Cold, dead-all silent now.
Be still, let every voice be hushed;
She comes-the widowed wife
To meet her love- her spouse, her lord,
Returning from the strife.
She comes-with brightest hopes to him,
With eyes of sweetest mirth,
With painting heart and blushing cheek
Loves image upon earth.
The tent was dark, the men stood back,
\ horror on all fell;
How tell her? what to do? who cant
Then one who knew her we'll
Madam he said, "your husband dear;
The gallant, noble, brave"
Ali God. that shrek so terrible
win haunt him to the grave.
And then in voice so strange and chilled
HE is not dedd-say no.
Dost hear me, soldier? answer quick;
want my love-" All, woe!
She saw the form she loved so well
His brave men crowded round,
His martial gear upon him still,
His sword upon the ground
All, dreadful hour of deep despair
With form bowed in the dust;
With clenched hands, and Wild, dry eyes
In God her only trust
And then again-"Gone, gonei oh, Christ
Forever gone? My Heaven!
Let me awake this horrid dream"
MAY mercy now be given.
All grief, all passion, all of bliss
Has been her lot to know.
And nobly does her duty well;
Her heart died meath that blow:
How she has suffered who can tell?
Who probe that covered woundP
Her darling gone, her country lost,
Her bark of hope aground
sweetest on earth, beloved of him
Who died for truth and right;
Enough widowed here, above, beyond,
Day shall succeed thy night
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f4 From the Memphis Ledger.
Northern DisfFamchi semenf.


Every Southern Radical scalawag
Constitution requires an oath from
every voter as precedent to an exercise
of his franchise, in substance that he
will never vote to disfranchise the ne
gro thereafter, in any event. 1t fol-
lows that Northern men entitled to
vote at home can not move to the South
and avoid surrender of their right
to a free vote in doing 50. When the
fact is taken into view that some North
ern men are disposed to emigrate south
ward from their section, and when it is
also remembered that majority of
Northern men are hostile to negro suf-
frage as affecting themselves, the eff
feet will be seen. These oaths fixed
once on the Southern States inform
them that they must remain at home
if they would retain their freedom to
vote as they please on that subject.
They must come South on the penal
ty of disfranchisement, or submission
to negro rule. That is to say, they
must come not only to live under gov
ernments now Radical, but also under
governments which must ever remain
SO, and which are never to be reform
ed, let the experiment of negro gov
ernments be for good or evil, as it may.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29

The Herald states, that by order of
Gen. Mcdowell, the polls were kept
open in Vicksburg last Saturday night
until after ten o'clock. The Herald
advises that they be kept open until af-
ter Christmas, so as to give the negroes
who visit the city during the holidays
every opportunity their convenience
demants.
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$50 REWARD.

STRAYED OR CTOLEN.--A SORREI
~ HORSE MULE-about IA hands high;
four years old; works WELL Will give the
above reward for the delivery of the Mule, or
Fifty Dollars for Mule and Thief. with proof
sufficient to convict. The Mule has been in
the pOsse-s sion of Peyton Swami, alias Robin
son, for the last four months.
WILLIAM S. LEMLI.
Jackson, June -, 1S6S-tf
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29

Mr.. Whitfield, one of the Conyen-
ton candidates for the Legislature in
Tishomingo county, publishes card
in the Corinth News stating, if elected,
he will vote against the proposed Con
stitutional amendment. He says fur
thermore, that he will not be driven
into the Radical party,
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29

w. M. Pollen. of Water Valley, who
was for time, an independent Radi-
cal candidate for the Legislature, voted
an open Democratic ticket. So says
the Eagle ~. 700 t-la
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MARSHALL COUNTY.

Cornersville only one Radical vote /;
Waterford, 2l2 Democratic majority ;
Chulahoma, Radical majority -
gain of fifty TOUR; Oak Grove, 80 votes
no Radical; Bell Dazel and Early
Grove, no report; Tallalusa, 20 Radi-
cal majority; Red Banks, Democratic
gain. -. s--
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29

SMITH COUNTY.
Smith county gives 800 majority for
the Democracy.
PERRY COUNTY.
Returns from Perry county give the
Democracy 234; Radicals Sc. Demo
cratic majority 17S.
TIPPAH COUNTY.
Hickory Flat Bottom-Dem. 400,
Rad. 3.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-29

The Central Democratic Executive
Committee are requested to meet at
my office this evening, at 5 O clock, On
business of importance.
A. r. JOHNSTON,
Chairman, pro tenn,
June 30, 1868.