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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-10-07
II. II. IIOAR,
Attorney-General.

GALVESTON, Oct. IA special from Hous-
ton saws the so-called Democratic Couven-
ton at BRENNAN, consisted Of five editors -
The Democratic party, through It's EXecu-
tive Committee. refused TO call a convention
or make any nomination for Governor. The
Democrat, party 4 Texas has nosympa-
thy OF connection with this move.
WAsHISGToN. Oct. 1.-The Supreme Court
convenos on Monday with a full bench.
Among those named for the Virginia SEN
atOrship IL that Of Edgar Suowden. editor
Of the Alexandria Gazette. Mr.. Snowden
opposes the election OF Senators until Vir-
ginia Is restored, but II the election does
take place. IL is understood that Snowden
will he supported by the Potomac Tide Wa
ter. Upper Piedmont, and large part OF the
Valley District
Me- YORK. Sept 3O.-Cotton fully &c.
lower; sales 300 bales. at ~: gold quiet
and steady. ranging from 3Oto301%.
LIVERPOOL Oct. Lection closed fat
Uplands' l21sd. Orleans, l27sd.; sales 6,0OO
bales.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct Lection decidedly
! lower; middling 2416c .tO2431c; sales OO0
bales; receipts, $3.50 bales exports. foreign.
1897 bales; sales for the week. lG $50 bales
receipts gross. 2l.320 bales net, 1885 bales
exports. foreign. 1887 bales, coastwise 1876
| bales: gold. 81
NEW ORLEANS. Sept.' 3O.-The New Or
| leans Times Brennan. Texas. special Of yes
| terday. says the editors Of the Democratic
newspapers IN convention here nave uOml-
mated Hamilton Stuart. ofGalveston. a. their
candidate tor Governor and M has accepted
A full straight out Democratic ticket VIII
be put forward. Forty newspapers are
pledged 10 their support Much enthusiasm
| prevailed in the convention.
Gen. Davis will address the peonle OF
i Brennan o-mOrroW.
Judge Coaner. Chief Juztice ~ Honduras
wa one Of Capt MOrrelrs Trade Wind mar.
| " picked up by steamship Clinton. They
! were three days witsout water, suff ring
/ Intensely Some Of the men became dalIr
/ ious- and one OF them jumped overheard and
was drowned.
WsHNGroN. Sept. 3O.-Gov. Lowe. OF Cal.
ffornia- vas appointed Minister 10 China q
leave the San Francisco Custom House easy
| of access for Gen Louis Dent the Prest.
dents brother In-law. Lowe WAS a candi-
date for the position.
VIM. A. Pile. Governor ~ New Mexico
had an interview with the President TODAY
| relative 70 troubles IN that Territory. liz
does not agre with the President IN TN
| opinion that the appointment Of Quaker
agents 10 treat with the Indians would have
the effect Of disarming their hostility. PIE
i 10 Of the opinion that the only thing that
| will have a soothing effect Is United state
| troops and plenty OF them. All the colOred
| troops at Carlisle Barracks are q Dc for
| warded Immediately 20 Houston, Texas
Iisfs Of obnoxious governments 0fncialm In
/ Texas and Mississippi are being made out
l preparatory TO their removal because OF
| their hostility 70 the admlnistration. as thr
/ President terms them Senator Wilson adj
vIsed Grant 60 forbear, but all 10 no pm pose.
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From the Macon (Ga.J Messenger.
! Word Of Advice GO Planter.


Every bale Of cotton winch is sent t0
market and sold beyond what Il needed 10
pay pressing obligations 10 factors and
other creditors OF the producer tends 10
create a false impression at the North aud
in Europe ~ 10 the size Of the crop and
tends still further ~ encourage the com
bination OF capitalists spectators and
manufacturers 10 depress prices.
We know that the crop will be cgnsid-
erably smaller than that Of last year, bee
cause we know the extent and nature of
the injury done by drought, rust, caterpil-
lars, excessive heat, and other causes. --
We know why cotton has opened prema-
turely, and has furnished 70 many bales
for market at this early period OF the sea-
son. But az the North and in Europe
these things are impcrfecuy known, or are
not credited. When 10 De- seen there that
such an unprecedentcdly large number of
bales have already reached the ports, it is
believed that the crop will be- immense. that
the stories about rust, caterpillars and
drought are eXaggeratiOns, aud that an
that is needed 10 be beLl down prices and
get cheap cotton, Is 10 tighten the money
market by locking up the currency, and
thus htarVe the couthcrn planters INTO
whatever terms the cotton buyers may
choose to oHer.
The planters have only one way 10 cor
rect this uilsapprehensiOn and defeat this
combination, and that il by Withholding
their cotton and not selling one bag be-
yOnd what they need b discharge their
! obligations. They have the matter enc
tirely in their own hands. They can do
without money much better than the cot
ton spinners can do without cotton; and
if the latter can combine with capitalists
10 make money tight, the planter can
combine among themselves 10 make cot
ton still tighter.
Our agricultural population has labor.
ed hard under all sOrts OF adverse ciroum.
stances 70 make the little which they pos
sess. They are justly entitled 20 the full
value Of their prOduoe.
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The Picayune very timely suggests that
the thousands Of returning citizens and Wis
itors who are fiocking to New Orleans from
all sections OF the country should bear in
mind that they have much that is rare and
beautiful to see and admire at the superb es-
tablishment of Messrs. Griswold & CO., cor
ner of Canal and Royal streets. This is one
of the largest jewelry houses in the South,
and thoroughly reliable in every respect
Their opinions on all matters pertaining to
iewe their value, etc. are looked upon as
conclusive, and the taste displayed by them
in the selection and manufacture OF their
goods is fully recognized. They have re-
Gently imported fine assortment of the
finest time-keepeTs in the world, direct from
the celebrated factories of NJ. j. Tobias, I.
F. Cooper and spear in England; Appleton,
Tracy & Co.. Bartlett & Howard, in Amer
lea. They have on hand, also, the celebra-
ted Jurgensen, Montan6on. Nardin. and Pa
tex watches, together with all kinds of fine
iewelrv, diamonds, clocks, bronzes, vases,
silver and plated ware, cutlery, guns, pis-
tolls. etc.
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THE WALKER LETTER.
From the Vicksburg Republican.
WASHINGTON CITY. ID. CT
AuUuSt 1894

august L. 1000.
Dear Sir: have pleasure in acknowledge
ing the receipt eff your letter of 18th ult.,
directed to this place. When wrote to you
last and to which yours is reply, haG
reason to fear that the Republican party of
Mississippi was about to share the fate OF
that party in Alabama, Louisiana. Tennes-
see, and Virginia, where few calling them
selves Conservative Republicans have placed
themselves at the service OF the Democrats.
AID, with the heretofore seeming approba-
ton of the Government. are about TO con-
sign the republicanism ofthe country to the
tender mercies of the Secessionism of the
South. | can see how the combination has
elsewhere been formed. l could plainly
trace the manipulation in Mississippi If
this CON bination succeeded in Mississippi,
feared the worst results. / feel that ruin
has laid the foundation of second work in
the South when the reins of government
shall be given the Democracy. Their pro-
fessions of love 70" the government and for
Grant are hyPOcriticdL-they wish power.
then their purposes will be established The
colored people, In spite OF all guarantees ty
the Constitution, tciH be prosecuted. This will
drive them from the State-our only labor
will depart-the Northern people, unles they
shall PROSTATE themselves to the demands of
Democracy, will be driven from the State
hatred to the General GOUernne16 tciH then be
OPENLY taught The 1ohite children IF the South
are this dGy beng tdagd contempt for the Tor
eminent OF The United States. strive Tor the
end OF these things. the thought that they
are to be permanently established makes me
sad.
1t was not, beg to assure you, that was
not to be the chosen leader. l know there
are others more capable than l. | claim
there are none more devoted more true, but
more able. On my part there shall be no
strife. / meant only to say that | would
not make, or be the means of making a
breach in the Republican party. L can be
Republican without office. l wish for sue
cess, to lay the foundation of party in the
bond of craftsmanship, party in harmony
with the spirit of the age, one that will live,
that will give the vote in ~ and rs for the
maintaiDance of Republicans in the South,
one that by the exercise of its manly power
will forbid the thought that the secession
will again rule the State
j. l.. ALCORN.
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existence, except that of the political creep
Ing thing so low in the scale of life that the
naturalist fails TO classify 1t. Half loyal,
nali dlsIoy al-dRythiag-always dissatisfied
with themselves and every body else. and ii
relied on in an emergency will probably re-
fuse 70 do any thing. Desperate in their pros
poets. but impelled by their surprising L0Ue
Tor the Constitution and affection for good
laws $50, Judas kissed his Badster,3 that tn.
State Government shall not be transferred
TO the machinations of the selfish and dis
honest Republican party, they hare been in
ducSd, some OF them, TO allow their names IA
go before the people for their sutfrages. Ii
a vote were taken to-day in this State ths
Republican party would win, but unless We
can get pecuniary aid from freedom loving
friends outside of the state. victory will Be
snatched from US BECAUSE the opposition
are wealthy. and their money VIII De freely
spent. Already the village fences. country
stores, court houses and bar-rooms, are
loaded down with the names of their lead
ing candidates.
Columns OF statistics are invented on pur-
pose TO suit their arguments and distributed
To every body's door. Colored orators are
hired and imported from Tennessee, Arkan-
sas and Canada, and every train from Vir-
GINA, creaks under the weight OF " alkeT
men. The party is thoroughly alive aud not
a thing will be left uHdone which possesses
a single element OF strength And yet, while
they have done much, the Republican part!
has done more. And still il has work To do.
A vigorous canvass must be kept up IN all
its appointments until election shall nave
passed. To effect this in a way that the OPP
position shall smart under it, and they shall
yield peaceful submission at the baliot-boX.
we shall have need of at least twenty-five
thousand dollars from the friends of our
party elsewhere. The poor whites and the
colored men are the most numerous class in
the State. Many of them are starving, and
our political enemies are providing them
with bread. Many are sick, and they nurse
them. some are naked and they clothe
them. Others are thirsty and they drink
them. Thus, danger, fearful and threaten
ing, hovcrs over us, and TO avert it we Dausi
have money,
With money. party success Will be certain.
With party success the damp thick fogs of
the malaria OF Democracy will be dispelled
by the clear sun of truth, and unYeil to our
eyes Il regenerate and smiling country.
Very respectfully, your ob't serv't.
A. WAY KELLY,
n, B.-Direct all communications to A.
Way Kelly, care of Republican State Cen
trail Committee, Jackson, Miss. Remittances
should be in postal money orders or drafts
on New OTk.
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Mr. w. r. OLIvER.-This gentleman, late
President ofour Board of Police by appoint
ment of Gen. Ames, has been removed by
the same authority that appointed him.
Mr.. Oliver. is New York man of property
and education, who settled in our country
II months ago, and by his gentlemanly con-
duct and strict attention TO his own business,
had won the good will of our people. We
understand that he was removed from office
because he dared, while in the city of Jack
son. to publicly denounce the conduct of
Gen. Ames in the terms that it deserved. 1t
is also understood that he refused to pay his
portion of the amount which has been asses
sed by the Radical State Committee against
the office holders of the country. and because
he refused generally to engage in the low
down dirty work which is required of the
Radical office holders.
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THE FALL TRADE has opened yer

The FALL TRADE has opened very
lively in our city. The merchants are gem
orally receiving new goods. bat, with few
exceptions, they do not avail themselves of
the local press to let the public knOwit. We
will nevertheless. make gratuitous mention
of the fact and can assure the people of the
surrounding country that in every depart
ment, the Jackson merchants are abundant
" stocked, and will sell at prices that can
not fail to control the trade which rightful-
ly belongs here. There is no truer maxim
in business than that small profits make
large sales; and this is so well understood
by the house of Messrs. ROBINSON & STE
VEINS that they enjoy that liberal patronage
which necessarily attends enterprise in bu-
siness. For the last few week, great cases
of goods have been daily arriving at their
store. containing the latest novelties in dry
goods, clothing house-furnishing goods,
grocerses, &c.-all carefully selected by
Capt. Stevens in the best Eastern markets.
and more particularly mentioned in their
advertisement in to-day's paper, TO which
weinvite the attention Of our readers.
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/
The following correspondence shows
the INSCRIPTIONS means to which the en-
emies of both races of our population,
are resorting in order to carry the cleo
ton. Nothing could exceed the malig
nifty which this appeal to sectional hate
and fanaticism breathes. 1t emanates
directly from the Radical Executive Com
mittee, and will show the spirit which
that party, if successful, will carry into
the administration of the State govern
ment. 1t is in the same diabolical spirit
of revenge, and purpose to establish
.carPet-baggers monopoly for the plumber
of the people, in which they framed the
DISTINGUISHING constitution which they
sought by foul means to impose on the
people of the State Under the lash of
the President and Congress, these adven-
turers have professed to abandon Pro
scription, and they speak with honied
words to the voters, but mark you, they
have returned to the charge, by flank
movement it is true, but impelled by the
same vindictive and destructive aims.
If these carpet-bag petitioners do not
realize the twenty-five thousand dollars"
for which they have sent out their appeal,
it will not be because it is destitute of ex-
agerated statement. 1t contains but one
fact and it seems to have dubbed up in
consciously to its author. 1t is that many
of the (colored) people for whom the car
Pet-baggers pretend to display sympathy,
"are provided with bread" by the very
class against whom they are seeking to
array them. Many are sick" quoth the
writer, (who is quartered on the treasury
of the town without the consent of the
people who pay taxes) "and they (the
abused rebels) nurse them. Some are
"naked and they clothe them. Others
''are thirsty and they drink them" And
all this charity is performed by people
whose homes were desolated, or destroy
ed, and who were reduced to poverty, by
the war
These men take occasion to speak of
"the poor whites" Their appeal is APP
plicable to no class of our resident popu-
lation. Thousands of them are 'poor."
But their condition is not so destitute, nor
are any except the unenvied few renegades
who have sold their birth-right to the
Radical dispensers of patronage, for mess
of pottage, SO abject as to crave the fruits
of such an appeal as the following. The
''poor whites" for whose benefit sectional
prejudice is kept alive, are the family of
G. Baggers, who, in the language of a
leading Radical editor, have come South |
"and squatted on the Offices" which they
are fearful of loosing:
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YAEGER & Co., ST. LoUB.-The card
of this widely known firm will be found in
ogr columns to-day. Flour. is the speciality
of this house and by reference to their card
it will be seen how very extensive their fa-
cilities are for filling orders. With the An
Choir and Union Mills alone, which are To-
Gated in ST. Louis, they have a capacity Of
seven hundred barrels OF -four per day, and
besides these, they are agents for large
number Of Mills in Southern Illinois and
Missouri The house lie already too well
known to the -four dealers of this section to
require more extended notice. By their
prompt and liberal dealings, the house has
long SINCE pulled itself into an erviable
notoriety.
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The SOUTHERN CULTIvAToR, for Dc
tober. has reached US. We can do our plant
ing friends no greater service than to call
their attention to this agricultural magazine
1t is the leading representative of that rev.
olution in Southern farming, which has been
inaugurated since the war, with such happy
results. Its editors, though progressive, are
evidently cautious men, attaching great
weight 20 experience, a. is shown by the
large number of articles in every issue,
written by practical farmers in all the
Southern States. Its corps of contributors
Is unrivalled. We notice that the publish
ers continue to furnish to new subscribers,
the letters contributed by Mr.. Dickson, en-
bodying his experience and practice. These
alone are worth twenty years subscription.
If you have never seen the paper, send n
stamp to Southern Cultivator. Athens, Ga
for specimen copy. and examine it for
yourself. Price % 90 year. The Guilt
vator aud Weekly Clarion win be sent to
one address for 81 so per year
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EXIT TARBELL THE name of the
Grand Secretary does not even appear in
the proceedings of the Radical pow-wow.
He has discharged his Parthian shot, and
precipitately fed the field. The Pilot in
terposes word for him, and innocently
asks why are we larruping Tarbell His
defamation of the people of the State
would be sufficient pretext for what the
Pilot calls ''vials of wrath" We have
no spite against Tarbell. He don't excite
our anger. He arouses our pity. But
he is a representative man of the Bitter
Enders, the author of the July edition Of
their platform, the Grand Secretary Of
their State Committee, and we are com
PEELED to refer to his written statements Il
show the position occupied 10y his party OF
the issues of the canvass.
We will not let TarbelI retire. HI
was the ready witness of the Committee O
Sixteen before Congress. He is our wit
ness now before the High Court of thu
People. Come back, T;nbeIll we ar
not done with you.
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The COahoma Delta, edited by one of
Gen. Alcorn's family, and member of
the Convention which passed the disfrarl-
chising constitution, has labored defence
of his record" 1t insists that he was
Union" man. 1t would seem so, from
his rejoicing when the Confederate flag
went down. But why did he vote against
Judge Yergers Peace Proposition in the
convention of 1S61-why did he vote for
straightout occasionally 'oensure South
Carolina for hesitating to fire into the flag
floating from Fort SumPter- why want a
Chinese Wall between the South and
Enthusiastically insist that Mississippi
should ''spring into the conflict with an
elastic bonnd7"
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To Chairman RepubI;can Ez. Com,

SR-Never did party deserve more cor
dial support than the Republican party OF
Mississippi. Poor, patriotic, energetic. en-
terprisirg and honest. IL is the party OF
equality against injustice, labor against
aristocracy, OF right against wrong. Near
Iv all who to-day oppose it were sympa-
thizers with secession. if not seeessionists,
and to-day are patrons of the plantation ar
rorance They muster under the same ban
ner with the whisky ring, the depreciators
of our currency, and defrauders OF our rev.
enue.
In but one thing have they been consis-
tent, and that is, in advocating at all times,
what the changing interests. of the leaders
of Secession Democracy dictated. Glorylng
above other men in their devout reverence
for the Constitution Of their country, An
drew Johnson's, / supposed they fancy them
selves the Constitution incarnate. the SUI
preme law of the tand. and hope TO decelve
the negro. who Is ever loyal. by adopting
National Unica Republican" for party
namc.
This party shows aclear comprehensive OF
their spirit and manliness by their continual
appeal to their jealousy Of the colored man.
The objection 10 him, is not his Ignorance,
for they have made ir e-penal offence 20 teach
him 20 read, and they cannot ntO tauit win
the work Of their own hands. IL is NOT pc
cause he he poor, for they have taken his
earnings themselves, and they cannot taunt
him with the poverty that has made them
rich. No. the objection 10 him Is deeper
than this, he Is loyal, he e Republican This
party is directed by Southern Democrats,
and led by political adventures from the
Northern States. This 10 permitted to be
So because, it ID supposed that they have
great power In Washington, and that Wash
ington has great faith in them.
Until recently. they were advocates Of the
Republican party, but since their Unsuitable
greed and ambition could not rule. nor their
- IN Hxa4rn q Anw for uorr To-.
principles and taken stand on that doubtful,
oozy, unwholesolne soil, between solid earth,
on either hand, from which noxious gasses
and noiBome yapors rise. destructive Of all
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The demand for the letter written by
Gen. Alcorn to r. H. Walker, on the LIST
of August last, induces US to republish it,
When it is remembered that the
term Democracy" as applied by the
Radical politicians, embraces all the
Conservatives who were organized in that
name last year, including the Sharkeys,
Johnsons, Simralls, and Watsons, as well
as the Democrats of former years, and
therefore embracing the entire resident
white population of the State, this letter
of the Rabid Radical candidate for Gov
ernor, is indeed a remarkable production
Outside of the organization thus described
there are not zone thousand" white per
sons, according to high radical authority.
(the PILOT The estimate is verified by the
fact that Gen. Ames, in order 10 secure
the appointment of Radicals in the coun-
ty offices which are vacated, is compelled
10 import his appointees from other States.
The term therefore includes the entire
resident population, particularly men who
fought in the army and have come TO
mans estate since the breaking up of old
parties in 1861.
The letter distinctly charges these peo-
pie with hypocrisy" in their professions
towards the government 1t goes so far
as to impute to the people who are alleged
to be guilty ofthis deception, the teaching
of their children the same corrupt prac-
tees. DO the acts of the people justify
this calumnious imputation? In 1865,
Gen. Grant made a tour of observation
in the South and reported to Congress
that the people were law-abiding and true
to their pledges to the Government In
1866, Gen. Alcorn himself issued a cir
cular in which he stated that the people
of Mississippi had given every evidence
that could be required, of their determin-
alton in good faith to abide the results of
the war. But now in 1869, since he has
formed conspiracy with the carpet-bag-
gers, the vile herd of spoilsmen who have
come to prey upon them, he contradicts
his statement of 1866, and sharpens the
sword of their malignant and fanatical
prosecutors. And to make the insult
more grievous, he asks them to vote for
him for Governor, as short cut for his
election to the United States Senate, and
thus endorse the accusations against them
selves
There are other portions of the letter
no less significant of the blind and I'M
reasoning fury of its writer. But they do
not require comment Mark his lament
over the Tennessee election whereby 100,
900 citizens were relieved from bondage.
Nothing worse could have been expected
of Beast Butler, Sumner, Wendell Phil
Ups, Fred. Douglas, or any of their tribe.