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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-09-09

WAsHNGroN, Sept. l.-Senter and Stokes
are both here.
The President leave tonight to be dissent
two weeks, when he will return aud remain
Dent departed for Mississippi.
The debt statement shows decrease I'm
the debt of five anda hall millions. The
settlement includes eleven million Tor pen
sions.
WAsHISGToS, sept. l.-Riaz, one of the
Cuban representatives. had an interview
with Grant today. The particulars have
Bahia, attorney for certain persons now
under trial in Texas, by military commits
sions, visited the President and thc acting
Attorney General and received verbal as
surances that the arrangements In the Yer
ger case would be adhered 10 in the matter
of Habeas corpus, I'm all similar cases.
NEW ORLEANS. september E-The Picay-
une publishes IS names which George
Grindley swears are Democrats employ d
by Casey in the COstom HouSe.
The decapitated Treasury Agent. Schenck,
has gone TO Washington with the dcnounce-
menL In the meantime Casey gives Grind
ley permanent leave Of absence 10 await
the termination OF Schenck's expedition.
ST. LoUIs,Sept. l.-Rev Father Murp ny
a well known Catholic Priest, WAS killed
while getting off the cars while moving.
BOSTON Sept.-Despatches from Mount
Washington report heavy storm. The
mometer 2s deg. Two inches OF ice formed
On the leie&Edpu Mlftrs
HOar Is expected next week.
The spanish Minister Roberts and Secre-
tary Fish, visited Grant with credentials
FROM Serrano. No speeches.
Gov. Walker, OF Virginia, has visited
GIANT.
MONTREAL. Sept. la private letter from
Mr. Davis says the unfavorable accounts of
hiS health Is greatly exaggerated. He will
probably couLinuv his residence in the Uni
ted Kingdom the rest Of his life.
PARIS, Sept. THE Constitutional says
that Serrano Is daily becoming more promi
nent as a candidate for the spanish throne.
The Empress has returned to Toulon, In
good health.
MADRID, Sept. 1.-Proceedlngs will be
Immediately against the seven
Bishops, arrested for disobedience of GOV
ernment orders.
EDINBURGH, Sept. Miss Cush man Is
here quite Ill.
New ORLEANS, Sept. Lotion quite !;
sales 80 bales; receipts, 81 bales; middling
32c. Sugar Inactive; common, Il@l2c;
prime, l4@ l41sc, Molasses, reboiled, GOA
Zoe. Whisky weaker; Western rectiiied,
81 25@I 30 Coffee duh; fair, I4s<sI5I<c;
prime, l61<@l654c. Gold 1888. SIgnt "a.
ST.. LOUIS, sept. Flour, superfine 80 20
as 80. Weat, 81 O5@l 07ls Corn, S5@93c.
Oats 50@501ac. Barley 81 10. Rye sOCrS6
Whisky 81 10. Pork, S34 90; bulk shoul-
ders, l4c.@l75z@lSc; bacon l59z@ls@
1919. Lard, 1919 hams. ls@2lc.
10 IsvILLE, sept. Flour superflne, So
90. Corn S5@92l Sc.-Oats 45@bOc. Pork
S34 00@34 %. bacon, @l9@l91kc; hams
2219@ 2319c; lard 20Ac. Whisky 81 l2lSc.
Sales OF 100 hhes. tobacco at 81 90 O. rs Is.
New YORK, sept. l:-Cotton firm; sales OF
800 balei, at 35c. Gold dull, closing at 351<.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. Lotion shade firm
er; Uplands, l3l3d. Orleans, 1890 1870.
Sales of eight thousand bales; for specula-
ton and exports three thousand.
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sound Doctrine.

The NATIONAL LABOR CoNGREss
passed several resolutions that we un-
hesitatingly endorse. One in regard to
female labor"-as follows:
Resolved, That this Congress recommend
that all the trades unions make an immedi-
ate effort to secure thorough organization
of female labor, and demand the same pay
for work equally well done by women as
that done by men; that every avenue of la
Dor for which woman is physically capaci-
same terms and conditions as allowed.to any
class OF laborerss we ask for women equal
opportunities and rights in every field of
enterprise and labor.
This is all that can reasonably be de-
manded on the subject of woman's rights
as to labor.
And these other resolutions which meet
our approval-as follows:
Resolved, That the claim of the bond hol-
ders that the bonds which were bought
with greenbaeks, and the principal of which
ertheless be paid in gold, 10 unjust and ext0T-
tf0ssaxe.
Res0EUed, That the exemption from tax of
bonds and securities, Is violation Of the
just principles revenue laws.
The bond-mongers who have specula-
ted on the sweat and blood of the people,
may call this Reputation, but it is simple
justice.
Hon. A. II. West, of this State, was
a member of the Committee on ResoIu-
tiO1o.
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THE LEGISLATURES.

LII IS time the people of the several
Counties were directing their attention to
the choice of proper persons to represent
them in the first Legislature under the
new constitution. As we have before
argued, if the iron-clad oath should be
exacted as condition Of eligibility, how
ever unwarranted by the reconstruction
acts and the provisions of the new con-
stitution itself, it will be wise to restrict
the choice to the class of persons who can
take the oath. To elect members who
will not be permitted to take their seats,
will be equivalent to the abandonment of
the Legislature to the control of the Dis
franchisers at once For the diabolical
ingenuity of the clan gave birth to the
clause in their constitution, in order to
enable them to steal victory which they
knew they could not win in fair fight,
declaring that if candidates receiving the
highest number of votes are ineligible,
the persons receiving the next highest,
shall be entitled to the Offices.
1t will be an easy matter to select can
didates capable and worthy of trust, who
can take the oath, if rendered necessary
by the unjust ruling of the military com
mander. The Legislature must be Sc
cured. On that body will devolve the
necessity of putting the machinery of the
new government into operation. 1t will
impose taxes. 1t viii organize the mill
tia, and the public schools. 1t will elect
United States Senators. The Senate will
pass on the nominations Of Judges.
An error in the choice of a Legislature
will be fatal Let good men be selected,
who can qualify, without reference to past
political antecedents. Only be sure to
make choice Of men who will, in good
faith, accept the condition, and put the
State through on the shortest line to re-
admission into the Union, on the best
attainable.
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complished and courteous accountant Mr.
III. H. Hines, who n always more willing %
receive than to pay ont money-an indls-
pensable qualification in good boOK-keep-
er.
THE EDITORIAL ROOM
Is conveniently located, and appropriately
fitted up where our brethren Of the press.
and friends generally win always be greet
ed with frateTnal welcome.
OUR BUILDINGS
Were erected by the following well known
mechanics of this city: Brick-work, w. II.
Sohnson; carpenter-work. II. NJ. Taylor
plastering, Geo. Switzerland; tin-work.
w. W. wishart; painting. c. ii. Manshlp.
We have also availed ourselves. for several
months past, OF the services Of Mr.. Dan.
Eshleman. a superior carpenter, who has
made all the shelving, benches, tables, dumb
walters, and other convenicnces for the Of
flee.
IN CONCLUSION,
We viii add that notwithstanding dull times
has required a working force Of seventeen
persons, besides the proprietors, to carry on
the several departments of our office during
the past summer. For all which we feel
under due obligations 20 the citizens of
Jackson, and to the people Of the State at
large. for The CLARION is AS familiar 90 the
citizens in the ''hills Of Tippah" as IL Is TO
the citizens Of Kinds.
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From Fragments Of an Autobiography m the
Times.l
Hemry -. Rn mond's Stars Ga
LOmrmmlinum.


1 graduated in August, 1910, and
though could not vote, ! spent the next
two months in stamping the immediate
vicinity Of my native town for "Tippe-
canoe and Tyler tOo." After the election
/ traversed the same region IN search Of
select school 10 teach and Il was only
upon the downfall Of all such hopes, and
in despair of finding anything 10 do there,
that / "hied" 10 New York city, Of which
had heard, but which 4 had never seen
but once, and in which / knew but one
human being, and he a student in law.
yer's Office in Wall street.
had once seen Mr.. Greeley, in the
Journal Office in Albany, while ON my
way home from the vacation after the
college commencement in 1888. had
stepped in TO inform the editor, as q piece
of news, that the college had conferred
the degree of Ii, ID. upon Silas Wright.
| found Mr.. Weed and Mr.. Greedy both
there-both hard AZ work, and
both greatly disguised at the bestoW-
al of such an honor upon 80 notorious a
locofoco. The thing had not struck me
in that light before, but / began 10 be a
little ashamed ofhaving supposed Lshould
do them favor by giving them piece
Of news which pleased them 10 little.
But had sent n good many literary
ntributions--mainly critical, though
some Gas then thought poodc-to the
New Yorker and / therefore felt ut lib
erty on my arrival in December, 1910.
10 call upon Mr. Greeley and ask him il
he did't want an assistant. He said no,
he had Just engaged one, n young man
from Pennsylvania. But he readily as-
sented 10 my request that 4 might be &C
the Office whenever ] chose, in return for
which promised 10 help in anything that
might turn up in which could be Of as
sistance. And / did.
/ forthwith advertised in the Washing
ton Intelligence for a school in the south.
and while awaiting replies arranged 20
"study law" in a downtown lawyers
office. But / was at the New Yorker
Office every day, and somehow or other a
good deal Of the work fell into my hands
/ added up election returns, read the ex-
changes for news, and discovered q good
deal which others had overlooked made
brief notices ofnew books, read proof, and
made myself generally useful
At the end Of about three weeks i re-
ceiyed the first reply to my advertisement,
Offering me "A school OF thirty scholnrh pa
North Carolina. ! told Mr.. Greeley at
once that should leave the city the next
morning. lie asked me 10 walk with
him TO the postofiice, whittier he always
went in person 10 get his letters and eX-
changes, and on the way he inquired
where / was going. told him 90 North
Carolina % teach a school. He asked
me how much they would pay me.
said $500 a year. ooh, said nc, "stay
here-Ill give you that" And this was
my first engagement on the press, and
decided the whole course Of my life.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-09-09

A writer in the National Republican,
who was present at the discussion between
Judge Jefords and Col Musgrove, gives
a glowing account of the victory won by
the champion of the Liberals. His ac-
count is sustained by other witnesses, and
by reports in the Meridian papers. Mus
grove, the Bitter End representative, be-
came sick under the wholesome bitter of
the medicine which Jeffords administered,
and resumed his seat, says the Gazette,
without consuming his allotted time. T"
OF the speech of Judge j. the Gazette
says: " 1t was an able effort, and did
him great credit" The speech of Viii
liams, the colored orator, was an able ar
gument to his race, against their cooper
ating with the Proscriptionists. His OBJ
servation of Carpet-bag politics, and of
its effects elsewhere, enabled him to give
much useful information for their guild
aOca
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TarbeIIs revelation.

Evidently Mr.. Greedy thought there
was something wrong in TarbelI's strange
story. Here is the way the Tribune in
PRODUCES his amended statement:
'sGen. Tarbell takes the pains to telc-
graph that THE TRIBUNE's publication of
his account of his talk with Gen. Grant,
requires correction. His correction is
that we should have stated that the re-
port had been submitted to the President,
and by his request given to the Associated
Press. Inasmuch as we did print precise
ly that, we are impelled to give notice
that whenever anybody shall hereafter
call Gen. Tarben an ignorant fellow, are
shall haste, foraUGrd ,pih The correction that
he Is not so mise or go aceK informed as he
thinks he l."
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A MOurnf0l Picture of Radical
NMi@rmIe.

Citizens of Mississippi, are you awke !?
Are you aroused? Do you realize the
importance of the pending election :?
You are in the agony of a struggle which
will decide the veal or the woe of your
State for years, probably for generations.
You cannot strive too energeticaIly nor
contribute too freely of your means, to
defeat the desperate and INSCRIPTIONS
scheme of the Proseriptive Radicals, to
secure possession of the permanent gov
eminent of the State.
Last Spring, pending the scheme of THE
COMMITTEES to get control Of the State
through Congressional agency, Wash
ington correspondent of the n o. Plea
yune, thus described the rage of the clan:
''Eggleston who is to be Governor, and
his crew here, who are to be Representa-
tives and Senators, ARE ABSOLUTE
LY BRUTAL IN THE CURSES
WHICH THEY UTTER AGAINST
THEIR CONSTITUENTS, (the people
of Mississippi.)"
To say nothing of the political proscrip-
ton and personal outrages which the
Radical dynasty will make it their chief
occupation to practice, the system of
legalised robbery which they will at once
put in operation, will be truly appalling.
The people already impoverished, will be
made poorer. For example, take the
condition of Arkansas, whose government
has fallen into the clutches of the cormo-
rants. 1t is thus portrayed by writer
in the Cincinnati Enquirer:
The trouble is now coming which we
feared from the first. Our lands are all
being forfeited for want of money to pay
taxes. We believed from the commence
ment that the party IN potgel' aroUld rob MS
Of orr lands, and no,g It Is being done In
this country two hundred thousand acres
of land will be sold to pay taxes in July.
These lands will be sold to the State, as
no one wishes to purchase what he can't
make profitable. The next Legislature
viii pass some law to girc these bu,ds to
some emigrant society aUhich qrW be composed
Of officials and Radical .fororites. Then
taxes will be reduced, emigration invited,
carpet-bags will turn to big trunks and
travel North again.
This is the party of progress and great
moral ideas. Is there no mercy for as? 1t
does seem to me that after eight years of
suffering they might have left us the poor
pitance of land upon which we once
dreamed of settling our children; but that
dream Is gone, and there as no mercy no,c
bit the mercy cfthe grare."
This is mournful picture; but it is
not in the least exaggerated. 1t contains
fearful warning to the people of Missis-
siOpi
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-09-09

EscAPED.-W. f. MCGOWAN, Probate
Judge-and President of Board of Police
of Rankin county, and Assessor, tax col
lector and Treasurer of the Corporation
Brandon-alI under appointment from
Gen. Ames and who has been in jail in
default of bail, for attempts to misapply
the scrip of Rankin county; made his
escape last Tuesday night-thus saving
the powers that be the perplexing duty
of protecting him from justice.
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]. TARBELL, Secretary.

By what authority does the Vicksburg
Herald persist in making the following
statement?
1.-THE State Democratic Executive
Committee, composed of the leading and
prominent gentlemen of hesitate, is not
an unit in favor of supporting the ticket
of the National Union Republicans
This body stands eere1s ia faror Of this plan
and nine opposed to IT,"
The Herald draws the inference on
which it makes this statement from
the fact that but eleven of the twenty
members of the Committee signed the
Address. We will inform the Herald
that this fact has no other significance
than that the Address was not presented
to all the members of the Committee
1t was not gotten up as Committee Adj
dress. 1t was prepared without reference
to the Committee. We happen to know
that members who did not sign it, have
expressed their entire concurrence in its
objects. But two to whom the matter of
its publication was referred declined to
sign it; one, for reasons purely personal,
and having no reference to it as a pollti-
cal movement and the other, Mr.. Wat
son, who declined because he thought it
ought not to be issued prior to the State
Convention of the National Republicans.
In a meeting of members of the Com
mittee in this city, he had previously ex-
pressed his decided opposition to the as
sembling of Democratic Convention,
and the nomination of a Democratic
ticket.
We repeat, that if single member Of
the Committee is opposed to the adoption
of the Virginia plan, which is the sum
and substance of the Conservative AID
dress, its authors are not aware of it.
Our neighbor of the Herald, with
characteristic impetuosity,. has drawn on
his fancy for his facts.
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Our old friend and opponent for Con-
Tolerate Congressional honors, Judge
Robert Leachman, in reply to the mo-.
mentous inquiry, (which of the Repub-
Iican parties in Mississippi are you with
states that he thinks the chest interests
''of Mississippi will be supported by the
Republican party that is in accord with
''the Administration, and not with the fac
"tion that seems so anxious to foist Judge
Dent on the people as candidate for
9Governor." He might have found it
a little difficult to have discovered sub
stantial difference between the Platform
of the National Republicans and the spe-
cial message of the President on recon
struction wherein Congress was advised to
reject the Ubiquitous plan Of the Disfran-
chisers, and to submit their proscriptive
constitution to another vote Of the people.
The Judge it should be known, holds
his Office of Judge Of the 9Th Judicial
District by the grace Of Ames and he is
entirely too sharp TO fall out with his
bread and butter.
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The Natehez Courier asks why it is that
the National Union Republican party
"object to the convention" Is not our
contemporary in error here? We have
conversed freely with National Republic
cans-and have read their journals close
ly-and examined the proceedings of their
various meetings, and have never heard,
or seen, a word of dissent from that quar-
ter to the proposition to hold a Democrat
ic convention. On the contrary, they
have observed becoming reticence on
the subject, and have given no expression,
one way or the other.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-09-09

A correspondent of the Washington
Chronicle, speaking Of the late army re-
union at Gettysburg, says:
Although we have very few Of those here
who were met rs the enemy In 1858 we 1.-THE
federals1 always speak OF the rebels as Of
the Southern army of Tine .other nrmys =
q " s5ny q IT, , oe,ss,ee'y q e
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-09-09

There are not ten bonafde white citi-
zens in Lafayette who will vote the Rad
ical ticket There are some, we under
stand, who say that they are indifferent
as to the success of the Conservative tick
ct. This number Is small and they are Of
a class that worship the almighty dol
lar.-Oxford Falcon.
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Death OF Non 4. a. Lever.


We are panied 10 learn that Hon. G.
A. Levers died last month at his resi-
dence in Calhoun County. BE was a
member Of the Legislature for two terms
and was also q delegate 10 the COnstitu.
tional Convention Of 1865 aud discharged
the duties Of those positions with honor
to himself He bore an active part in
the stirring canvass Of last year and the
large majority which his County gave
against the Eggleston Constitution was,
In a great measure, duo 10 his cxerti0ns.
He was possessed Of many noble attrib-
utes Of mind and heart, and we deeply
denlore his death.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-09-09

GIvNG II UP. The Anti-EIavery
Standard. the ultra organ of the ultra-
Radicals, admits that the Bitter Enders
are destined to defeat, everywhere. It
says: Virginia i lost; Tennessee fol
lows Virginia Mississippi also, Il II fsas-
ed I; and Texai, most certainly
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A Washington correspondent Of the
New Orleans Picayune, writes:
The recent triumphs of Boutwell, and
Rmes amount to nothing unless they are
bllowed up by false registration, false
|ounts, throwing out of counties on vari-
BUS pretences, garbling the returns, and
Inally, in exacting test oaths. All these
|hings are events of the future and de-
pend much upon the whims of the White
House and the War Office"
All this is true. Ames cannot count a
Fote which he has gained for the Disfran-
fhisers by his proscriptive course. On
ne contrary, he has confirmed thousands
h their opposition to the Bitter-Enders,
nd furnished in his own acts which they
pave endorsed, indubitable evidence Of
'he hypocrisy of their latter-day profess
Pons Of hberality. AS for Boutwell,, his
pane is term of reproach; and his puny
fffort at dictation has been answered with
Defiance. AL that the friends Of Univcr-
Eal Amnesty, Impartial Suffrage and an
Equal Rights constitution have asked is a
Eree election and an honest count. The
PRESIDENT has promised that much and
re don't believe he win go back on his
pledge.
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Commodore Vanderbilt was married On
Saturday morning AZ London, q. NJ.
to Miss Frank Crawford, q Mobile Ala
bmma. 6evonfy-Beven 20 seventeen. Whqas
Jamunry7--P0morcyu Dumoernf
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adicaK Carpet.bag Abuse Of Col.
Ored Men,

H Whenever a colored man choos es to ex-
|fcise the right of thinking and speaking
1br himself, and refuses to become the
laye of the Radical carpet-bag fraternity,
hey begin to hiss and throw venom at
i'm like nest of enraged vipers. They
Rall Joe Williams a ''nigger" they re-
|pice that Highgate is made to stand ON a
barrel by one of Ames subordinates for
.peaking of Corliss, the carpet-bag Sher-
NJ of Rankin as a ''thief," though ac-
sprding to the Pilot, he is guilty of
Rswindling and bribery, and Manaway
accused Of being mule thief on the
latement Of a Radical carpet-bagger in
Virginia.
Colored citizens need not be afraid of
Aeing injured in public estimation by the
Rstimony Of Radical carpet baggers, or
heir scalawag allies. The people were
Fought to know the stuff such testimony
insists of by the evidence they gave I'M
'er oath, before Congress, in regard to
he Mississippi election. These calum-
tators swore that the whole white popu-
hton of the State were guilty of "fraud"
II the ballot, box, because they righteous
used whatever influence they possessed
b defeat the infamous scheme of pros
fiption devised by the Radical elan, to
|erpetuate their bondage; and it is not
b be supposed that the baffied conspira-
prs will be less moderate in their accusa-
|ons against colored men who exercise
dependence and discernment enough
D refuse to become their blind and ODE
lent dupes.