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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-12-30
From the Chicago Times.
What n Northern Paper has 10 sa v
AbOut CarDet-baSgerS.

1t is popular supposition that nothing
good can come out OF a carpet Dagger, I'M
less it be the last breath. This is an idea
which Democrats have always entertained,
and it has. for the last two or three years.ob-
tanned such Roadway among Republicans
that now no one can be found to say word
in behalf of the dirty dog who eonsorts with
niggers for the meanest and worst purposes
of demagouge.
1t is very evident, however, that there are
processes by which a carpet-bagger may be
improved, or by which some carpet-baggers
may be improved. The majority of them
are totally depraved. So far as Calvanism
deals with total depravity, the great mass Of
carpet baggers are proof that Calvinism is
right They are not only proof of this, but
are proof that total depravity embraces the
SUM- total of meanness. Those who have
imagined that the devil may be very gen
tlemanly sort of person in some respects,
NAV dismiss the idea. The carpet-baggers
have proved that the maximum of wicked
ness embraces that ofall things which are the
opposite of gentleman.
One process by which a carpet-bagger,
who is not entirely given over to the powers
of darkness, may be improved, IS TO trompie
on him. Beat him in an election; turn him
out of office. and take from him the Oppor-
tunity to plumber the public; repel his adj
vances. and snub him when he wishes 10
s.unite parties which should be one = deprive
him of all political power in the State to
which he has carpet-bagged. and cut him on
from federal patronage,-do these, and you
viii see a marked improvement In him.
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A STRANGE TALE.
French Nobility and american Shoddy CT
riosity Connected.

In connection with the Mcfarland
Riehardson affair, the Sunday Mercury,
yesterday, had a rather lively story OF
sens zIi0nal nature.
Some one connected with that journal
Aas been looking into the antecedents OF
pc OF the persons who officiated at the
Neath-bed marriage in the Astor House
st week, and goes back to 1S47, and
ives the terrible story of the Duke and
Duchess of Praslin, one of the oldest and
Hpblest families in France.
The Duke became estranged from his
#nfe, and ceased to love her through the
ordinations Of Mile Henrietta de Lucy,
no was in the Dukes family as a gov
mess. The Duchess was not blind TO
pat which was going ON around her, and
pc insisted that her husbands mistress
Rould leave the family. This was done
Though Mile. did not leave Paris.
Some time after this, the Duchess was
Rurdered in her bedroom at night. and
ood-tracks from there to the Dukes
Partments led to his arrest for the slaugh-
y. Mile. de Lucy was taken as aces
Pfy' and at the trial plead piteously in
Rehalt of the Duke. He, however, COM
Rl'ted suicide before the trial was COM
le .t and hence all proceedings stopped.
Then Nile. de Lucy escaped to Amer
Il, became a governess, then a teacher
The Cooper Institute in this city, and
subsequently, became the wife of one OF
Pc parsons who performed the mockery
marrying Albert d. Richardson to the
nc Of another man.
The name of the parson is not given,
what reason we cannot tell, but oul
1Dlumns are open to the Rev. o. B.
birmingham, or any one else who may
eslre to post the public as to further
Rets.-New York Democrat.
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From the Nashville Banner.
Interesting "Reminiscences

That the ex-Presidont of the late South
ern Confederacy, and the late cx-President
of the United States, at one Time the
heads of the two armies opposing each
other on this continent, should have taken
up their residence in Tennessee almost
simultaneously-the one in the western
portion of the State, and the other in the
eastern section, is suggestive of the strange
vicissitudes of revolutionary periods, and
revives peculiar "reminiscences of the
stirring events that have transpired in this
once peaceful Republic within the last
eight years. Immediately preceding the
war strong prejudice existed in the
minds of many in Tennessee against the
Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, OBJ
liberated almost entirely by the war. Yet
we can remember when he was very nearly
mobbed while passing through the south
eastern portion of the State. A little
later, and the Hon. Andrew johnson was
also very near being mobbed while pass
ing through Virginia from Tennessee, en-
route for the Federal Capital. 1t is a
noticeable coincidence. that Tennessee,
more innocent than any other State of the
Union in stimulating the passions which
resulted in the recent conflict; which
made the most heroic efforts of all her
sister States to avert the threatened col
lision, and interposed herself as break
water between the embittered sections !;
which, ultimately involved in the dread
full carnage, furnished soldiers to both
armies, and sustained heavier losses in
blood and treasure than all others; and
among the first to engage in the work of
reconciliation and restoration, should be-
come finally the place of domicil of two
of the principal actors and directors of
the storm of revolution. Two llustrious
Presidents sleep beneath her sod, 'the
sleep that knows no waking" near and
within her capital, and two living ex-
Presidents, chiefs of two opposing powers,
whose cannonades were Numbered over
their quiet sepulchres, return to make
their home within the borders of the vol
unteer State of the Union
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One of our exchanges says that Anna
Dickinson is to marry Radical editor. Oh
we are SO glad. And yet why should we
be? Probably the poor fellow never did "a
any harm.
A contemporary takes Us 70 task for writ
ing ENQUIRER Instead of Enquirer" We
will leave him to his Els II he will let our
rs alone. No gouging, friend
The administration hasn't materially re-
duced the public debt but il has reduced the
condition OF those who are expected TO pay
1t. va
A heavy tax on dogs is proposed In several
States We wish that 1t were possible TO
submit the question TO the sheep.
Lightning, they say, purifles the atmos-
phere. IL would II it were 20 strike some OF
our public men.
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MHs@EssTPPT.

The Holly Springs Reporter says that
eighteen marriage licenses were issued by
the Probate Clerk of Marshall county from
the lst to the 18th of December.
The Pamela Star complains of the difficult
ty with which servants are procured in that
place. Jackson is suffering from the same
cause.
The Iuka Gazette recommends that all
eX-Confederate soldiers give Miss Mary
Cherry, who so distinguished herself during
the war by her Iberality and kindness to
Southern soldiers. cherry sum as a debt of
gratitude. We cherrily second the notion
Lexington Advertiser.
The Prairie News says: ssWe are pleased
to learn that the surveying party on the
route of the Grenada and Okofona Railroad
VIII reach this point about the first of next
month, and that the work of constructing
this ROAD VIII be pushed forward as rapidly
as possible. The gentlemen at the head of
tins enterprise are energetic and persever-
ing. and VIII leave nothing undone that will
tant road.
The Goodman Star says: "a serious ac-
cident happened to one of the brakemen on
the northern bound freight train on the 18th
INST. In attempting to couple Two cars his
arm was caught between the couplings and
badly crushed. DIR. Field was sent for and
dressed the wound so as to enable the man
TO go onupthe road.
The Macon Beacon say: 1.-TWO negroes
have been severely wounded lately, IN this
vicinity, by the careless handling of fire
arms; one man shot his son in the head. and
last Saturday boy was badly shot in the
leg.
The Natchez Democrat speaks of a ham
mer invented and made by Mr.. Geo. Stock
well, citizen of that city. which, without
being made at all cumbersome, combines
the qualities of hammer, claw tool rule,
compass, screw-driver, guage, gimlet, chisel,
cau-opener, cutting Suage, rivet hammer.
and square and scribe. Mr.. S. has applied
for patent.
The fernando Press says that the resi-
dence OF Mr.. Gray Laundry near that place.
in DeSoto county, was DESTROYED bV fire on
the night of the 9th inst. No insurance.
The Fayette Chronicle SAYS that during
the election in Jefferson county a Yankee
officer offered TO beg pardon on his knees
for some offense.
AT the Orphans Fair in NatcheZ there is
a handsome gold thimble, to be voted to the
young lady who will use it most.
The little son of Mr.. f. III. Hicks, of JET
ferson county, while recently practising the
art of shooting selected a chicken in his
fathers yard as his mark and '"peppered" his
little sister with small shot The Chronicle
announces her happy recovery.
Our newly enfranchised citizens are de-
termined upon exercising their freedom to
its full extent On last Friday night two of
them were engaged in a difficulty on sub
urbs of our town, in which colored man
known as Sol. Stampley shot at another
known as Nichols, whereupon, the latter cut
the former with knife.
They were both arrested, and Sol. Stamp
ley bound over in the sum of $500 to appear
at the next term of the Circuit Court.-Fay-
cite Chronicle.
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PREVENTING WmIrE BUTFEH Dl GmUn NC.
BY raising a temperature Of cream high, you
get white butter. In SIMMER the tempert-
ture is apt 10 be this especially in the qoe-
days. and hence there Is white, n0thy Dl.-
ter. less of H. and II takes longer % b1nB ";
SO la winter with hot water yGu
your butter. a. Il a. called All W lh we
temperature. This, when high causes INC
sugar TO ferment and produce aela' siactle,l
and the acid acting upon tne SAFE - ~ ~
the casein or cheese principle, which then
cnrdies. ana You have your white mass Of
cheese and butter, much Of The butter re-
naming 10 the churn ln t1e mlik Whue .l we
remedy- "A. take care ~ the Temperature, n0t
only fn the churn, but In the milk and
cream. before they gee there There win
then, absolutely, be no difficulty. Finy- ave
to sixty degrees Ia the point ~ be aimed ~
from the time the milk leaves the COW tlt
the butter has come. BY keeplnRyQur WV
dows shut In warm weather and open Wusu
cold. this temperature u secured'T-loilalii
Rural World.
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Sd 90 PER YEAR
ssDas Ole Retche viOuS
Emfgrants On n Yankee Railroad.
From the Toledo Bladel

Emigrnnts on n Yankee Railroad.
From the Toledo Badel
The fast trains going west from this city
few nights since carried n couple Of
Germans who were destined for Edgerton.
Their baggage was checked TO that station,
and the Coupons" which they clutched
in their hands secured them a ride 10 that
place. When the train reached Edger-
ton the Teutons did not leave it, quietly
remaining in their seats when the brake
man announced the station. After n
brief stop the train started, and was thun-
dering along at a furious rate, when the
conductor made his appearance in the
coach where the Germans we're sitting,
and, instantly noticing them, he approach
ed them, saying:
"You should have got off at Edgerton. "
"Yah, das ole recht," replied one of
the Germans.
While the conductor was examining the
tickets of passengers, the Germans quiet
ly left their seats, and, going out on the
platform Of the coach, jumped off,
The passengers and conductor were as
sounded at the recllessness of the Ger
mans, and before they could fairly COM
prehend the danger that the fellows had
braved, the train approached a station,
on reaching which the conductor tele-
graphed to Edgerton instructing the sta
ton agent to send parties TO look after
the Germans. A thorough search was
made, but without finding any trace Of
them.
The next day the Germans appeared
at the station-house in Eegerton, and,
presenting checks, demanded their bag
gage, which was given them. The agent
informed them of the great risk they as
sumed in jumping FROM the train; that it
was surprising they were not killek etc.
The men listened to his remarks until he
had finished, and then, with yah, das
recht," shouldered their boxes and walk
ed away.
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The largest wagon ever built on the
Pacific cast has recently been completed
at Hamilton, White Pine, and is to be
used for transporting ore from the South
Aurora mines TO the Stanford Mill Here
are some of the dimensions The spin
dies are 4 inches in diameter, of the best
quality of iron; tyres, inches wide by
il inches thick; spokes, 8 inches thick !;
hubs, 10 inches In diameter, by 20 inches
long; height of the hind wheels, 6 feet
8 inches. The bed is capable of holding
SO, 900 pounds of ore, and the wagon Is
estimated to bear up 10000 pounds over
any ordinary mountain road. When
first built, 81, 500 pounds of quartz were
hauled on it from Gold Hill toone of the
mills about Dayton. The two larger
wheels weigh 1864 pounds each, and the
entire rig upward Of 5000 pounds.
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A JAPANESE PROTEST AGAINST
CHRISTIANITY. The Independence Beige
says that the following protest is being
extensively circulated in Japan. 1t pur-
ports to be signed by number of Bones,
or Buddhist bishops:
''The perverse religion of Jesus, the
teacher from Heaven, is calamity which
menaces the empire. 1t is useless to re-
peat IL vnUo again, and nor long time
there have been everywhere protests
borne against it. In spite of that the
fools who submit themselves to this doc
trine are found in no small number among
the populace. Furthermore, the men
of foreign countries seek in every way to
propagate it and it is difficult to say that
they will not resort to violence and force
of arms. We have learned that the
Mikado is full of anxiety on this subject
We are profoundly afflicted about it, and,
with the desire of bringing to bear per-
petual prohibition against this doctrine,
we, most unworthy as we are, who have
already with Buddhism made the strength
of Japan, are determined to live and die
with the empire; and, despite our use
lessness, are resolved to serve it at the
cost even of our lives. For this reason
we beg and request upon our knees that
this protest may be published and posted
everywhere.
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1ht ddteklp GlariOu.
HEARTH-GLOW.


r. the fireshine, at the twilight,
The pictures that l see
Are less with mimic landscape bright
Than with life and mystery.
where the embers flush and flicker
With their palpitating glow,
see fitfuller and quicker,
Heart pulses come and go.
And here and there, with eager flame,
A little tongue oflight
1rnreacbes earnestly to claim
a somewhat out Of sight.
know with instinct sure and high,
A somewhat must be there;
FIse should the fiery impulse die
In ashes of despair.
Through the red tracery / discern
4 parable sublime;
. eoiemn myth of souls that burn
In ordeals of time.
How the life-spark yearns and shiyers
Till the whiteness DER creeps!
Till the last pale hope outquivers,
And quenches into sleep!
TIL mid the dust Of what hath been.
IN Iieth. dim and cold,
VET holdeth secretly. within,
Heart feryor, as of old.
AZ from the darkening fireside
/ slowly turn away,
7 think how souls of men abide
The breaking of the day.
When morning touch shall stir again
Those ashes of the night,
That gathered DER our hearts of pain
T0 Keep their life alighti
Hours at Home.
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IMMENSE AGGREGATE OF RAILRoAD CARS.
In the suit of Joseph III. Ramsey and others
against the Erie Railway Company, it is
stated I'm the afidavit that the road possessed
last year three hundred and seventy -one
engines. two hundred and fOrty-three pas
senger cars, sixty baggage cars. ana SIX
thousand and forty for freight. making
total Of six thousapd seven hundred Az
fourteen engines and cars. Allowing thirty
feet TO each. the aggregate lengtn won,u ~
two hundred and one thousand Iour nun
dred and twenty feet, or over thirty Eight
nIles. The mum Der Of carD h now PROBABLY
the same a. last year, IL not greaser'--Ne"
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The Last Hours Of a Dying Chris
tfan.

Mr.. KendalI's dying moments were
peaceful and quiet, he retaining concious-
ness to the last Until II o'clock last
night he slept very well, but after that
seemed more restless. He awoke shortly
before sunrise this morning, and request
ed that the blinds of his room be opened,
in order that he might see the sun rise, the
sight of which he seemed to enjoy
About s o'clock he began to breathe
heavier, and it was evident that the end
was near. His family were gathered
around the bedside, of whom he took af-
fectionate leave, and expired about 81
o'clock, his last audible words being "Joyl
Joyi"
When be first awoke this morning, he
seemed somewhat confused, evidently
thinking that he was about to start on q
Journey, as he cautioned his daughter,
Mrs. Stickney, to hasten with the packing
of the trunks or they would be late fol-
the train. He soon frightened up, how
ever, and was perfectly conscious unit
the last He has been entirdH resigned
for several weeks past, having taken leave
of his family about three weeks ago, anC
constantly prayed that the Lord would
soon call him home, though begged fol
grace to be resigned until It should be the
win of Almighty God to take him.
Mr.. Stickney approaching his bedside
yesterday asked him if all was clear? t.
which he replied, eyes, yes, all is clear
all is clear.
DR.. Parker, of the Calvary Baptis
Church, upon entering the room subse
quently, asked him if all was bright h
replied, ''Yes, allis bright, all is bright.
Wash paper.
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floating MEADow.-In the Atlantic
Rcean, little to the west of the Azores,
Pere exists a space seven times larger
fsn all Germany, according to Hum
plot, completely covered with a dense
pass of marine vegetation. NJ. Jules
kavlmere has proposed to the Socieie d.
griclltttre to make these floating mea-
ows, as they are called by Aviedo, sub
ervlent to the purposes Of agriculture.
rs suggestion is that the ships occupied
'nring the summer in cod-6shing should,
otner seasons be employed in convey
thls abundant manure to the Azores
mere an eatrepOt could be established
weeds pressed and dried, and thu
neTal salts they contain extracted. HI
lculates that these floating meadow
loauce annually sufficient vegetable
after to manure 900 900, 900 hectares
1ectare being about an acre and half
The Polytechnic.
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SPECTATOR.

STORY OF AN INDIAN CAPTIyE.-The
Junction City Kansas) Unien says
Charles Brown, who has been captive
for three years among the Cheyenne In
dams, and who has Just escaped, states
that there are in the hands Of that tribe
more than twenty white boys and girls
captives, among them Henrietta Floyd,
aged is years, a daughter of VIM ID
Floyd, furniture dealer of Boston
This girl was captured while visiting some
friends in Kansas with her brothers, who
werekilled by the Indians.
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PARTING.

We clasp our hands; we turn and go,
Our footsteps echOing years between;
We meet again; we hardly know
These ghosts of loved ones long unseen.
We clasp our hands; we turn and go,
Far travellers with strange hours and
years;
The face, the form, the voice we know,
They come not back from time and tears
Ne clasp our hands in loving trust;
We send our voices DER the wave; e.
30 hand can reach us-from the dust;
No voice can find us-in the grave.
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One big lie-Gen. Terry's report of affairs
in Georgia.
Dominique Lanata, and old merchant of
New Orleans, died recently. leaving a for
tune of million and quarter.
The registered vote of Augusta Georgia,
is l.06l-whites ZOOS, blacks 50. decrease
of the total vote since 1S6S of 2,S0o.
James Jeter Phillips, confined in the Rich
mond, Virginia, Jail, under sentence of
death, has been respited eight times.
young son of General J. larry, at
Marion, Alabama, was run over by heavily
loaded wagon, last Saturday, and killed.
Palmetto leaves are a new article of eX-
ported in South Carolina. Forty tons were
recently sold in Liverpool. at two hundred
and tifty-six dollars per ton.
A sGold Mine" in South Carolina, 565
acres has just been sold for SLIGO; so the
Charleston News reports.
Two opera-houses We're opened in the
South, recently one at Charleston and the
other at Augusta, Georgia. The latter is the
old theatre remodeled, at cost of $4,000.
The bed OF the Ashley River in South
Carolina is composed of tertiliZing phos-
phate rock, and a dredge has been invented
to bring it up in quantities sufficient to make
it valuable to commences.
Captain George w. Harris, (Sut Loven-
good,) is dangerously i'll in Knoxville
Delaware Furnishes tigamy with $4,000
fine and one years Imprisonment.
The gas-works of Nashville propose to
furnish light for the city at two dollars and
eighty cents per thousand cubic feet
A man near Mobile Ala. has raisedtwo
crops of fine potatoes, this year, off patch
of ground twenty by one hundred and ten
feet the yield pei crop being twelve bushels,
which is at the rate of four thousand seven
hundred and fifty-two bushels to the acre
for the entire season. The first crop was
planted December IS, and the second, Au-
| gust 20.
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KEEPING WEvILs OUT OF WHEAT

KEEPING WEvLs OUT OF WHEAT.
"A writer to the Southern Cultivator
says:
81 will give your readers simple rem
edy for keeping wevils out of wheat.
When your wheat is housed, cut some
elder sticks, say four for common sized
wheat house, and stick them end-wise
into the wheat; the wevils will not trou-
bic it, have seen it tried often. Say to
the ladies, if they want to keep the we
wills out of their bean seed, when they
gather them, put them in boiling water
for minute, then dry them, and they
will keep for number of years"
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LIE COLORADO RRGIoN.--The people of
Eae 5 south have taken d fancy to the Colorado
Nv ~. 1lla regions, and we hear from Texas
N ~ !, considerable emigration to the valleys
nose rivers has commenced. They are
EsSaaued as the natural field TO receive the
';s1 of Southern civilization, and it
~ not be great while before we shall
.p,Ilness thriving settlements in the beauti-
|sr,aasd fertile valleys watered by the tFibu-
4es Otshose wonderful rivers. Exchange.
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Tomato Worms Poison Ous..-.A
Warming 10 Vegetable Raisers.

DR.. Fuller, ofSyraeuse, says'the Carthage
On. Y Republicans informs us, ''has IN
his office tomato worm measuring hive
inches in length, and weighing an ounce.
1t was taken from tomato vine In his
garden, and is now securely inclosed in q
glass bottle. 1t cats and digests twenty
times its own weight of tomatoes and to-
mato leaves. 1t eats constantly except
resting occasionally, from one to two
minutes. This worm was first discovered
this season, and is as poisonous as a rattle
snake. 1t poisons BY throwing spittle,
which it can throw from one to two feet.
This spittle strikes the skin, the parts
commence at once to swell, and in a few
hours death ends the agOnies of the pa
tent Three cases of death in conse-
quence of this poison have recently been
reported. The medical profession is
much excited over this new enemy to hui
man existence. It is advisable for per-
sons picking tomatoes to wear gloves
The question arises whether or not to-
mato partly devoured BY one of these YER
min. and then afferwsrd eaten by per-
son. may not have sufficient virus left up
on It to poison the one who eats it?