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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

Inc recent rains have rendered the eron
prospects In this portion Of the country as,v
t snlng Dut neutrality-suspicious. (Co.) BuIle-
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

The Charleston Courier thinks that the
southern cotton crop win not exceed 1000
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

The following letter from tb,,
Of Public Accounts to Mr.. Will.
Kosctusko Chronicle, impart bf
which may be Of value to tax.p,.
OFFICE AUDITOR PUBLIC Ar,.
JACKSON, Miss. Mavrs'.
5. +. WILSON ESQ. -Be8y
favor Of the 10th Is received. ana -.
noted.
My construction of GcncraOr...
Is, that Il reduces the state tax Il.
one dollar--all0ws the collection T..
ceeding) fiity per cent on The sam.t
ial purposes, and does not interiers
collection Of one hundred per cat
state taN for county purpose
Board has levied the last named fs7
amount OF 100 per cent, 90 tho -aa.'.
GO per cent, the following ars.
collected on polls, VIZ; State ..
special 80 90, county 81 OO-tou' /.
|. all purposes. Yours truly.
THos. 4. -a,,.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

The Pilot is calling for. a Marshall
Ney." 1t wants the rear of the Radical
army protected IN its predpitate retreat
from Its own plan of disfranchisement. /.
plemenx to Poland. : 49,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

Gen. Butler denies the story t0Hm
urging the administration Co uu
with the civil and military aatho1.."
Georgia in the punishment o0 GRIM.
offenders, alleged by the @paluaw.
10 be 50 fearfully ON the rampage .H'.
State.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27


a letter was laid before the Congress
sional Committee that Mr.. John Owen,
OF Scott county had lost his eyes by
rebel violence during the war, though
1t Is known in the county, as stated by
the Brandon Republican, that 81 Mr..
Owen had his eyes gouged out in a
fight at Jas. H. Sribbling's grocery, in
81 the town of Hllsboro, during the
April term of the Circuit Court of
" Scott county, for 1S57-.toar gears b.
".fors the tcay, and at a time when there
'was no political excitement in the
" State
This is Of q piece with the general char
acter of the testimony laid before
Congress by the enemies and culminators
of our people
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

A FREE BRDGE.-This is one of the
prime necessities of jackson. Its bust
ness has suffered seriously for the want of
it. We understand that Messrs. Green &
Tapley are prepared to transfer Pearl
River Bridge to the corporation for this
purpose, on favorable terms and we
suggest that Messrs. John Hart, Isadore
Strauss, w. III. Allen, and j. w. Robin
son, merchants largely interested in the
trade East of Pearl River, confer with
those gentleman, and arrange some terms
for the accomplishment Of the object.
We are sure that we speak the wishes of
our entire community in pledging them to
any taradIustment of the matter. When
shall we be authorized to announce to the
public that Jackson like other towns be-
low US, has established Free Bridge?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

These items, however mutuna
derstood to include the special n.
ton, pistols, guns, bOwie-kuiyes. a5.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

The st. Louis Democrat "a b;tter
Radical paper bears testimony to the
reign of peace and good order in Missis-
sippi, Notwithstanding the absence of off,
GERS in many of the counties of the State
to enforce the laws, or to execute process
1t remarks upon the fact that our State
sis as quiet as if no blood had been shed
"since Cain killed Abel which is draw
ing it rather too mild 1t has forgotten
the story of the boys at Lexington and
their fre-crackers. 1he' ~
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

REMOVAL OF DIR. CATCHINGs. We
share the general surprise which is express
ed at the removal of DIR. Catchings from
the Office of Probate Judge of Rankin coun
ty. Having been consistent member oftht
Union party in former political divisions
and an advocate of reconstruction on the
Grant platform from the beginning, ht
could have been obnoxious to none other
but the most ruthless spirit of proscrip-
ton. As to his qualifications, the Bran
don Republican truly says of him dc
sis gentleman of standing and ability,
a man of irreproachable moral character,
a christian gentleman, and man IN whom
our whole people could confide."
From what we know of public sent
ment in Rankin county, we do not hest
tate to say that for any office within the
gift of the people, he would receive nine
teen-twentieths of the votes Of that coun-
ty. Still, with all his consistency as a
Union man-with all his zeal as Il recon
structionist on the Grant basis-with all
his qualifications, he does not meet the
requirements of the managers who pro
fess to have taken prescription out OF their
platform
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27


The editor of the Clarion says the Re
publicans will probably select for then
leader in the coming campaign, some
@ renegade er-sLoue driuer from the
Mississippi bottom, Z
who during the war carried; his slaves
handcuffed- beyond the reach of the
Union forces. "--CoahOmian.
No names have been mentioned, but
the shoe seems tohave pinched somebody's
foot. THE CLARION has not said who
will by the carpet-baggers' leader. No
matter who he is, he cannot win the race
loaded with the dead weight of the self
condemned Committees, But prompted
by an intimation of the Pilot, we wonder
ed if the adventures who last year begged
the colored people to rote for Eggleston on
the ground that he acos Yankee General,
lcho nerer o,rled Stare and 1rhO fought to
set them free, would now, seeing that that
device did not serve them, reverse their
own tactics, and ask the votes of the col
ored people by nominating an er-slars
oocner from the Mississippi bottom, ochC
fought against setting them free. When the
issue is thus presented by the carpet-bag.
gers themselves, and Southern man ac-
cepts the responsibility of such a service
and consents to become the Instrument
of imposing upon them such body OF
rulers as composed the mongrel Conyen,
ton and its Committees of Sixteen and
Five-it viii be worth while to apply
their own test and to inquire what there is
about him any more than the Yankee
General, to commend him to their favor
His nomination would be made to. retain
their support. Nobody supposes that the
Eggleston party will be able to command
the vote of white citizen which it die
not receive before. If the resident white
population regarded it with SO much hor
ror as to spurn it almost to a man las
summer, it may well be imagined how
their opposition has been intensified b,
the subsequent scheme of the Committee
of Five and the Committee of Sixteen
who acted, spoke and made oath, by au
thority of the Radical Convention, of las
November 25th.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

4 resolution was offered ina ODE Dr.
phis Convention by Gen. W. s. FMM
ston, and referred 10 the Commute
Railroads, instructing the Comma.
enquire into, and report upon, the T
dicncy Of constructing Railroad I.
Canton or jackson, to Mississippi. cry
the Gulf coast.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

1t Is curious, as well as significant, that
the Pilot selects for its model as a leader
of the carpet-bag-scaIawag forces in the
coming contest, celebrated historical
character Of French revolutionary times.
who was notorious for fighting on all
sides-who betrayed all--and was finally
tried, condemned and executed!
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

TENNESSEE PoLIrIcs. Tho Ea.
cans have had a split m Tmuc.n...
Radicals uniting on Stokes and ,ho NJ.
ais on Senter-for Governor zach
published a list Of appointment and
make a thorough canvas
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

II the statement Of Lynch a. 8.
that the conduct OF thc Radical
in this State, brought down on .hn
contempt of a Radical Couuos
the Radical nation generally um.
have thcy 10 complain of tbo Opinion
conservatives have expressed oI .U.
Many of the colorcd poup.. #
abandoned all hope ~ getting ..o
acres" promised them by the carpet
gers, are laboring with the ospoaH
purchasing homes themscIyc- Bm
will il profit them, if the Radical p.
eXorbitant taxes m HHi A
be carried out2
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

Our old time Union Wing friend OF
the Brandon Republican, referring to the
proposition which we have made i'll good
faith to the Pilot, to nominate a straight
out Old Line Union Wings on the Grant
platform for State and Congressional Off
ces at the approaching election, and thus
to adjust all divisions on the subject of
reconstruction, and to restore to the
Union on an unexceptionabiy loyal
basis
"This seems to US a very fair proposition,
aud if the Radical organ will accept it will
not only prove the honesty of its professions,
but prevent unnecessary trouble, expense,
excitement and ill-feeling.
The Clarion has pledged the Democracy
to the support of such ticket and it now
rests with the Pilot TO say whether or not
the Radical party is willing to have peace
OH those terms, and thus avoid heated can
vasssd during cropping time"
The Republican adds:
but if nothing else but scramble will
satisfy the -baggers-if you are de-
termined to have a stranger cor u scalawag)
for Governor, just pitch in, and our word
for it every honest old Wing in the land will
vote against you"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

Our friend of the Brandon Republl-
can, in introducing for graceful and gen
erous comment, our proposition 20 the
Eearpet-baggers to solve the whole prob
lem of reconstruction by nominating 4
Joint ticket of Old Line Union Wings for
the support of all parties, speaks OF HE
CLARION as having been leading or
gan of secession Democracy in former
times" But it must not be forgotten
that times have changed; and that the
present CLARION has strong interest IN
whatever remains of the glory of that
party of great ideas and noble memories
1t so happens that Col. J. L. Power, OF
this journal, was never anything else but
a Whig, and was the conductor of the
leading Union paper here at jackson
when the ordinance of secession passed
The present CLARION combination not IN
aptly represents the times. 1t consists
first, ola secession Democrat; second, of a
Union Wing and third, of one, who
though old enough to bear his share IN
the field, was yet too young to have Pc
litical record extending beyond the com
mencement of the New Era.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

ANYTHING with the carpet-bags poilsrnen
Il get away. from the true issue Of the
cauxass. acknowledgements and pFoscriP-
ton, as they themselves have made It
sLet US talk" say they, "about the quesr-
sstions that divided Wings and Democrats,
oand which died and were buried ten
wears ago or more. Let Us revive the
tissues of bank and tarif-quarrel about
"anything and everything only don't
.smeption the REAL ISSUE as it is writ
8 ten in the Eggleston Constitutions II
.ewas made bv the Committees and as 1t
s.has been presented for another decision
ssbv the President and Congress"
These topics are disagreeable TO the
spoilsmen. Just drop them, old Demo
sscrats and Wings" says the lanky car
pet-bagger, land get up little fight
..among yourselves about the issues which
lyon discussed before we came here TO
s.trouble the Southern waters, while we
"are getting our bills deep down into the
..Aesh-pots. Do that, Iand we will promise
| $50 prescribe nobody. Eggleston himself,
Outrageous cuss, shall 60 overheard.
"Gibbs shall be driven a wanderer on the
.sfaee of the earth. Fisher shall be ex-
espeIIed from the Executive Committee
latter all his horrible Oaths. We will
esepdorse the worse things that have been
| uwritten of our late candidate for Lieu
.stenant Governor. Mygatt shall not
sshave place wherein to rest the sole OF
"his feet. Barry shall be quietly stored
Sin little nookery where he will cease
q from troubling. We viii even call
s.Wofford good fellow, and by setting
aFisher and others aside endorse and
execute the dreadful sentence he has
pronounced against them For all
q these sacrifices nothing is asked except
g little skirmish among yourselves; and
''your silence about the iniquities of the
Z" Eggleston constitution.
Positively, gentlemen carpet-baggers, we
cannot accommodate you, as much as you
deserve to be recompensed for all your
loving kindnesses towards the people OF
Mississippi. Grave questions involving
their fate are to be decided. They mean
business. They intend to have "a con-
stitution that will secure the civil and
political rights of all men"-white as well
as Garnet baggers- Caucasian as well as
Ethiopian-and the ticket that represents
the spirit of disfranchisement and pro
scription, of hate, and Of perpetual dis
cord, must go down as the Eggleston con-
Germ went down last summer. The
names that are upon it, will be as
feather in the storm against the irresista-
bic will of an aroused PEOPLE.
Tho aJitOr of tho Clarion SAYS the Re-
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

The carpet-bagger's are in council here
to-day. We are anxious to see what f,,r-
ther concessions they have to make to
public opinion. We would not be sur.
prised if they confess the judgment which
Wofford has pronounced against them by
throwing some others of their Leaders
overheard. Whose stock is at a pre,n;n,,s
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

The National Republican. a.a
end Radical organ 40 Washingim
believes that the proscriplyc CLAUSE
the constitution framed by the a
baggers for Virginia, and marked o
Gen. Grant, are founded in v
" and that the best good of the Cou
" wealth requires just these restrict
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27
The Republican adds

Have the carpet-baggers really repudi-
ling? If they believe their o,Ca Oatls, a
large majority of the voters of the State
are in favor of it. Fisher, chairman of
the State Executive Committee" swore
before the Congressional Committee that
they were in favor of the constitution as
it was originally submitted by 10000 ma
jority! CASTILLO swore that they deman-
ded more than that
'Question by Mr.. Beck. Are tho negroes
in favor of disfranchisement.
Mr.. CASTILLO. Yes, sir, they are in favor
of patttinytie disfranchised out Of the State
Mr.. Beck. Do you mean driving them
personally out of the State?
Mr.. CASTILLO. les sir.
This was the carpet-baggers' platform
at Washington couple of months ago.
The order of the President for the Vir-
ginia election, names the 9th day of July.
Separate votes are to be taken on the dis
franchising clauses of the proposed con-
stItution. 1t is a reasonable inference
that the same course will be pursued in
regard to Mississippi. If the President
adheres to his recommendation that the
States be ready to report the result of
their action to Congress at its meeting on
the 1st Monday of December, he will
necessarily order the Mississippi election
soon. As we have before said, the indus
try Of the State will be the least interferod
with if the election be held in the interval
of the laying by and the gathering of the
crops, say between the 1st and 10Th of
August.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-01-12
FROM SAN FRANCISCO,

SAN FRANCISCO, January l4-2 p. ~
The engagements at the Labor Ex.
change yesterday were 1876 men and ls
women. All Of the men but 10 were
sent to Nevada for the Central Pacific
Railroad. Since April the Exchange
has given employment to l0,457 mon
and 2,l37 women, at IN average e1.
pense of $3.50 per month.
Freedoms Defenders have resolved to
continue their organization intact.
Joseph Shirley, from Astoria, Oregon,
was washed overheard from tho bark
Oceidont, while coming over the bar,
and drowned.
The Board of Supervisors last night
appropriated $4,000 to dsfray the eI.
pense of cleaning the streets as q sani-
tary measure.
The Chinese theater is to be closed at
midnight hereafter.
Tho Odd Fellows will erect q small
pox hospital for the benefit of their Or
ganization.
All slaughter houses are to be re.
moved to Islais Crock within ten days.
The Commissioners are to meet this
afternoon for the purpose of appointing
II additional policemen.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-01-12

MHSARp, the colored man who claims
to have been elected to Congress from
Louisiana, asserts that he is the grand
son Of General Menard, who emigrated
from the Province Of Louisiana to Illi-
nois Territory. Meuard laborsd on n
farm in Southern Illinois until ho was
nineteen, when he removed to the north
eru part Of the State. There he worked
during the summer months and attended
school during the winter. In 1859 he
entered Liberia College, Ohio, where he
remained until 1861, when he visited
Canada, returning to the United States
States in 1868. He entered the army
as hospital steward, but remained only
O few months, when he was assigned a
desk in the immigration Bureau of the
Interior Department. The prejudice
exhibited toward him in his official pos
ition soon induced him to resign, and
he sailed for British Honduras. Here
he was employed by the British Hondu-
ras Company to make an exploration of
the country, which duty he performed
satisfactorily. He next visited Jamaica
and Hayti, returning to New York in
1865. He then removed to New Orleans
md commenced his public political ca
reer.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-01-12
Rental Murder ar n Farmer,

| From the Marietta co. Register, December IT.
Thomas 4. 7. Jett, Of this township,
was murdered for his money last Satur.
day evening, on his farm, about Eve
miles east of town, on the Little Nus.
kingum, just above Long Run. He had
been in town that day to get his two
horses ,hod aud to pay his taxes. he
had considerable money with him,
probably $500, or perhaps $500. He
started home, and just at dusk was
seen at the Brick Church, some two
miles below his place, Ho was a bach
| elor, and at the time was living alone.
On Sunday morning a German woman,
q ~neighbor, went to the house to carry
him a plate of meat, and finding no one,
went to the stable door, which was
swinging, and there lay Mr.. Jet, across
the passage at the rear Of the horse
| stalls, with his head in the second stall
from the door. She was alarmed. and
without waiting to examine, went for
her husband, who came, when he was
discovered to be frozen stiff. His head
was badly beaten up, the back of the
skull and the forehead both beaten in /;
also the right check bone and jaw both
broken besides, there were several
cuts and bruises, evidently done with
some sort of q club. The bleeding was
profuse. DR.. S. D. Hart, Coroner, held
an inquest and the jury found that the
deceased came to his death by violence
at the hands Of some person unknown
to the jury, using some heavy, blunt
weapon.
1t appears that when Mr.. Jett arrived
at the stable, just after dark, he turned
his horses in they went past their
stalls, and one of them was found the
lex morning with his bride still on,
and said to be shivering with fright. as
if from the violence and the smell Of
blood. Doubtless the assassin was con
cealed in the stable, and as Mr.. Jet
went into the door he received the dead
ly blows. 1t would seem Us if the MUIR
derer had laid the dead body with the
head at the foot Of the stall, to create
the impression that the violence had
been done by the horses heels. A year
and q half ago, Mr.. Jett had $40 stolen
from his house, in the day time, while
he was out on his farm. Since that he
had, as his friends say, carried his mon
ey with him. He was seen to have a
large roll Of bank notes in town on the
| day of the murder. No money could be
| found about the body or the premises,
after the murder, but o purse was found
in the house that was not his. Mr.. Jeti
was q son Of the late Deacon Thomas
Jett, was born here, and was nearly 30
years Of age.
Simeon NJ. Devol and Lafayette La
grange ian uncle Of Devol's) were ar
rested Tuesday evening, and lodged in
Jail that night, by Marshal Darius Tows-
lev and Constable L. X. Dut.on, on the
affidavit of Wesley T. McKibben, broth.
er-in-law of Mr.. Jett. AS we 60 to press
they have not yet had their examination.
The affidavit charges the parties with
killing Mr.. Jett, robbiug him Of $500 or
$500, and four or five pounds of tobac-
CO. Mr.. Devol has a family in the
n%eighborhood Of the murder, and La
grange a family at Moss Run.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-01-12

WILL 1T ISJuRE SACRAMENTO 1--WE
often hear the inquiry, will the White
Pine Excitement benefit or injure Sacra-
mento? Many suppose that it will re-
,ard tho increase of our population, and
depreciate the price Of real estate, which
has advanced so rapidly in the last few
months. We think it will benefit our
city and vicinity, and particularly our
merchants and farmers. The supplies
needed for the immense population that
will congregate in the White Pine coun-
try next spring, will have to be drawn
from this city. 1t will afford a market
for all the products Of the fertile soil of
this valley at highly remunerativs
prices. Our merchants will reap q rich
harvest, for goods of all descriptions
will be required in immense quantities,
as is the case in all our new mining To-
Snlities. The merchants Of this city can
Ind will successfully compete with those
OF Chicago" and outstrip those of San
Francisco, as the expenses Of our mer-
chants are not moro than one-quarter
those Of the latter city.-Sde. Record.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-01-12

SoxE wag tell, a story Of an old gen.
tleman whose eight or ten clerks bored
him constantly with conundrums. Co.
ing homo one evening be was stopped
in front of a closed store by a country
a
"Can you tell me, my friend, why
this store is closedT'
"Go to blazes with your conun-
drums" cried he. I've been bored 10
death with 'em these three weeks J!
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-01-12
FROM EUROPE-BY CABLE.

LONDON, January H. Indications,
from the first day of the Conference on
the Eastern question, leave little doubt
Of ultimate success. Tho Turkish Gov
eminent, through its representative,
has consented to maintain the present
status until the close Of the Conference.
The general impression is that but one
more session will be held, and that war
between Turkey and Greece will be OBJ
Waited.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-01-12

SINGULAR CASE OF SNALL-Pox.-A few
days ago q man died Of smallpox in
San Francisco, who was frightfully
pitted with the scars left by an attack
of the same disease a few years ago /;
besides, about a month before his death
he had been vaccinatsd, which took
perfectly and left a "splendid" mark.