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

NEEssfsslpplmms ana IHae Memphis Come
mercfal Cenventi0m.
From the Memphis Sun.
The Rev. G. K. Marshall, partici-
pant in the empty discussion of yesterday,
is one of the extraordinary men Of the
age and country. He it is who has de-
vised mode of drying sweet potatoes,
as our Yankee fellow-countrvmen do
pumpkins along the shores of the distant
Connecticut The man himself Is not a
small potato. He has physical solidity
of appearance as if after he was finished
by the manufacturer he had been driven
down and compacted together His head
is huge and is glowing furnace full of
burning thoughts, and eloquent words fall
from his lips, and men are ever enraptur-
ed by the natural, unstudied oratory of
the vigorous, earnest thinker and speaker,
c. K. Marshall He will not be forgot
ten if he make speech, by any visitor
of Memphis.
GEN. FEATHERsTON,
Near Marshall sat Gen. w. S. Feath-
erston, from the same State Feather
ston Is one Of these men who wins all
who approach him. He is kind, gener-
Gus; full Of tender sensibilities, and at the
head of 2 regiment, brigade or division
was the bravest Of the brave. On Peach
Tree creek, ON the Goth of July, 1854,
near Atlanta, Featherstone won immor-
tai fame. Most Of his followers sleep on
that battlefield, which, in obedience to
orders, was made the scene of the blood
lest conflict of that bloodiest year in all
the annals of time Featherston is tall,
slender, very fair, with light hair and
eyes, with all the kindly traits of a fault
less character written in his intelligent
face. Long ago, at period whereto we
are wont TO revert for happy memories,
Featherston was one of a glorious body
of knights of the Corkscrew" who often
sat together and made nights, days, and
noctes ambrosiane were those hours of
delightful revelry and of song and story.
Barry, the most eloquent man Of his day,
the matchless coloquist, and wit, and stO-
ry teller; Blythe, the tasteful scholar,
who fell at the head of his regiment at
Shiloh; Isham Harrison and VIM. Banks
dale, who breathed their last on fields of
battle; Randall Blewitt, the noblest youth
that his State produced, who fell at Will
liamsburg-all these were of that circle
of friends who in years gone, were devo-
ted to one another and alike, this same
Gen. Featherston.
H. W. WALTER.
Near Featherston is gentleman whose
head is white, whose heart VIII never
grow old He is even more kindly tenn
pered, if we may measure kindness by
genial smiles, that Featherston. He was
Bragg's confidential friend through all
the vicissitudes of extraordinary fortune
that befel this extraordinary General. -
He is the clear-headed, adrOit lawyer, and
has superadded to professional attain
ments a thorough acquaintance with all
railway and commercial questions. Of
men who have thought deeply and studied
thoroughly subjects which will be discus
sed by the Convention, none have clearer
or broader intelligence
all great questions than Col. II.
w. Walter.
JUDGE y. NJ. CLAYTON.
This distinguished jurist represents
Holly Springs, Mississippi, in the Com
mercial Convention. He was born sixty
eight years ago in New London, Virginia,
became citizen and lawyer of Missis-
sippi many years ago, and has filed every
position of honor or profit i'll his State to
which lawyer as such may aspire. After
place on the Circuit Court |
bench he became Chief Justice of the
State, and sat upon the woolsack with
Yerger, Handy and Harris
through twelve or fifteen years. Under
Andrew Jackson's administration Judge
CLAYTON was Federal Judge for the Ter,
rit0ry of Arkansas, and under Pierce he
was Consul at Havana. He is one Of the
most quiet, unpretending, modest gentle
men one encounters in the Hall of the
Convention. He will never think of
speaking until he has something to say
peculiarly of habit and decency which
must be deemed very wonderful by GER
tain politicians whose voices, repressed
for some years at the hustings, have be-
melody for all save the audience
and reporters. Mr.. Clayton is very slen-l
der, his hair grows gray, and his thought
full manner and bearing are indicative of
the habits of recluse, to which he has
been addicted. Judge C.'s intellect is a
mere machine. 1t grinds out dry logic
much as a gristmill does dry meal. There
is not a cog in the whole running gear of
his chrystallile thoughts that does not
fit perfectly in Its place, and the whole
mechanism is perfect in its regular, state
", and intricate operations. In private
social life Mr.. Clayton is kind as wo-
man, full of tender sensibilities, modest
or reserved to a fault, and incapable Of
evil His life is model for the young,
and we would fain hope that he may be
spared many years to illustrate the good
and greatness that may be achieved by
steady toll and tireless energy.
CULTIVATION OF BEETs.-The subject
Of beet culture is attracting some atten
tior, as may be perceived by the follow
ing letter from a wealthy farmer near
who writes as follows:
Il have imported seven tons of Ger
man seed with part of the necessary ma
chinery and have contracted for enough |
more Of the latter in this country to COM
plete the outfit of a siXty-ton house &. e., |
one consuming sixty tons of beets per day. |
bv October next. have made arrange |
ments to plant 800 acres of my own land |