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Middletown transcript., 1869-06-05
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Beans

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duce delivered in good order; and we wish 10
say that we keep constantly on hand a good as
sortment of Groceries and Provisions which VIC
will sell reasonably for cash, at the Corner of
March 2O-tf INGRAM & GIBSON
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There are said to be nearly 100 small
pox cases at the hospital on Blackwell's
Island, N. Y mainly among German and
Irish emigents who have been sent up
from Castle Garden.
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DISTANCES ON THE PACIFIC RAILROAD
The leading points on the line, and their
distance from Omaha, will be found in the
following table:
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un. .Reverdy johnson. our late Minis
70 England, is expected home about
his time. The Baltimore City Council
! xin honor bin BY pablic.reception.
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in Delaware.
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-15

The last case of Prescription which has
come to our knowledge, was the removal
of the Rev DIR. John Hunter, Pastor of
the Presbyterian Church Of this city, and
Mr.. Joshua Green, Esq, from the Board
Of Trustees Of the Blind Institute. 1t
will be remembered that Mr. Green was
removed from the Directory of the y. O..
* j. X. r., six days before the expira-
ton Of his official term; and it is known
that on the meeting Of the stockholders hc
was restored to the position. A few days
since Mr.. Hunter applied TO the District
Commander for his approval Of a requi-
sition for warrants due 10 the Institute.
The application was refused because Mr..
Green happened to be Treasurer.
The only imaginable cause OF the re-
moval of Mr.. Hunter was his dissent from
certain remarks of DIR. Crandall, Private
Secretary of the District Commander,
grossly rejecting on the people Of the
State, and the expression Of his opinion
that the "fre-cracker" demonstration at
Lexington, which Lynch manufactured
into sensation, was not really an attempt
on the life of that person. According,
therefore, to the ultra Radical doctrine as
Unexpectedly Ames, you must credit all
the ISLANDERS which are uttered against the
people Of the State, and accept as gospel
truth Lynch's sensational stories, in order
to be duly qualified for office.
What next2
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-15
The Chickasaw County Removals.

We enormously inferred that the
Woodmansee who was first appointed to
| office by Gen. Ames and then removed,
was the carpet-bagger j. b. Woodmansoc,
Of Convention notoriety. We were wrong
then, but have got it right at last. The
person referred to was DIR. c.. S. Wood
mansee, Of Chickasaw county, formerly
surgeon in the Federal army. So far
from having participated in the framing
Of the Eggleston constitution, he opposed
its ratification, as we learn by an afiida-
Wit published in the volume of testimony
before the Congressional Committee. -
His testimony showed that he voted
against it, not because he opposed recon-
struction on fair basis, but because he
believed the constitution with its disfran-
chising features contained the elements of
perpetual discord. He further depOsed
that the election was fairly held and that
the freedmen who opposed ratification did
50 of their own accord. The inference
we have drawn is that Ames appointed
him under misrepresentation of his ante
cedents, and removed him in consequence
ofthe facts set forth in this affidavit. And
we have been informed that his spite
against Jamison was not because of per-
sonal or political delinquencies, but in
consequence of his recommendation ofC.
,. Woodmansee; whose affidavit had Civ
en- objectionable ofense to all the mem
bers OF the Eggleston clan except Jami-
son.
A great deal has been justly said in
dlsparagement of Jamison the late Eggle-
ston candidate for Lieut.. Governor, but
If reports be TRUE he is an angel of light
compared to some of the appointments
which Ames has made. For instance. see
the Memphis Appeals description of the
characters he has put in Office in Latay-
cite.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-15
The Proposed Chinese hmm graz
non Convention Rt Menaphis--1 The
Great Southern Enterprise.

We regard this Convention As the most
important movement of the day. Its OBJ
ject is to supply need which is felt be
yOnd any other in the South Her peo-
pie have capital in the shape OF fertile
lands and the courage and fortitude with
which they have borne themselves in their
adversely; the fidelity with which they
have discharged their obligations under
the adverse circumstances by which they
are surrounded, would serve them n
means to provide themselves with labor II
within the control Of money. But none
Of these instrumentalties have produced
what does not exist. The white and
black labor here is not sufficient for the
requirements of their soil the demands
of their manufacturing and railroad en-
terprises; and the necessities OF commerce.
But the teeming millions of China offer
the opportunity, and this Memphis move
ment is the first step that has been taken
for embracing it, The Convention will
be attended by the leading Agent of
Chinese Immigration in San Francisco,
who will supply our people with all the
information which they will need in refer
ence to the labor of the Chinaman, its
quality, peculiarities, and cost.
We are gratiiied TO learn by the Vicks-
burg papers that the people of that wide
awake city have taken this movements in
earnest, through their Chamber of Com
merce. Doubles they will be represented
at Memphis. And we hear that they
have in contemplation the sending of an
agent to the Pacific coast 10 put to the test,
without delay, this great and all-impor-
tant Xperimenr-erpeT we have said,
but it is an undertaking that cannot fail.
The Coolies will supply the necessities of
our condition. Our readers must recur
to a letter published in THE CLARION
some weeks ago, written 10 our townsman,
Maj. Hunt by his brother in California, a
former Mississippian, who has grown with
the growth of the great Pacific State
Writing Of his own experience of Coolie
labor, he says that it is the thing the South
needs and must have. And the Memphis
Appeal Of last Tuesday, speaking of the
Chinese-labor meeting in that city, says:
We have seen letter from ono of the
| wealthest and most successful citizens OF
| san Francisco, dated the 18th inst. on the
subject ofChinese labor for our cotton fields
| The writer is a man who has control of one
of the largest commercial enterprises on the
/ Pacific coast. and now has in his employ
| hundreds of these laborers. lie says ''EX-
| perience in California has shown the Chinese
| TO be an industrious, Woodworking, obedi-
ent and frugal people. They never get
| drunk. They readily adapt themselves to
| the manners and wants of Americans, and
| are as useful in domestic service as i'm the
| more laboriOus occupations of the field. The
| supply is inexhaustible" On the subject OF
the best and most practicable mode OF get
| ting them here he says: Their services can
be obtained only through their own contrac-
tOrs-their principal men. \ special propo-
>ition made to one ofthese men will be salts
factorily answered.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-15
=. Il. AIcOrn-s Issue with the
People.

I join issue with the (white) people Of
Mississippi. / deny that they are law
abiding j. L. Alcorn's speech, July Sth
More could not be required in the way
of calumny, of the most INSCRIPTIONS
et-bagger who has been imported here
by Gen. Ames to fill office, to cultivate in
the hearts Of the blacks enmity against the
whites, and to misrepresent to ''the ma
ton" our white populations than the fore
going slanderous imputation. Carrying
it ON the end of his tongue, would he not
be fit representative of Mississippi in the
office of Governor, or in the Senate of the
United States?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-15
offIae EEgIestOn- Ames
Faction.

The description copied from the Mem
phis Appeal of the persons the District
Commander has imposed ON the people of
Lafayette county, TO FIJI the offices he has
vacated, is fair example of the course he
has marked out for himself
The carpet-baggers' organ here, boasts
that he made his appearance in the Con-
vention of the Eggleston faction, and de-
clared himself its partizan, pledged to do
its work in the coming canvass.
This fact gives coloring to the charge
that he is Candidate for the gubernato-
rial or a Senatorial nomination. at the
hands of that faction, in violation Of the
policy of the President, who declared that
the reconstruction acts must be admins
tered by an impartial officer of the army
and not by a mere partizan having his
own axe to grind.
Having taken his stand as a political
manager, with his eyes turned to the flesh
pots, the District Commander has natu
rally resolved to select agents most fitted
to accomplish the work for him. Conse
quently, he has retraced the steps which
he took when he first entered on his duties
with the impressions created by the often
expressed views of the President. His
first order extended an invitation to all per-
sons who could qualify under the iron-elad
test to retain their places. In response,
many of the capable incumbents then in
office, continued in the discharge Of their
duties. But this policy has been revers-
ed; and sweeping change has been made
without reference to the qualifications,
political antecedents, or party designations
of the incumbents. 1t is not enough that
they were Southern Unionists, and re-
constructionists on the Grant platform.
1t was not enough that they had served in
the Union army and belonged to the Re
publican party. To conform to the new
standard, they are required to acknowl-
edge allegiance to the Eggleston faction,
wear the Games" collar; and take their
places in the cages with the rest of the
collection of rare animals to be stirred
with long poll and to give forth curious
sounds for the amusement and edification
of the rabble.
1t is useless to read the Platforms of
the Eggleston-Am faction to understand
its policy Ruthless wholesale proscrip-
ton, not conf ed to conservatives, but in
Guiding Republicans of the better class, Is
the programme of that faction. The
removal of such Union Wings as Hop
kins and Catchings, in Claiborne and
Rankin-of such Grant reconstructionists
as Rogers in DeSoto-of such Northern
Republicans as McCloy in Kinds, together
with the appointment of such characters
as have been imposed on the people Of
Lafayette, foreshadows what may be eX-
pected of this desperate and Inscriptions
faction should they succeed in establish
ing themselves permanently in authority
over the people of Mississippi.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-15

1t is reported on undoubted authority,
that Gen. Grant having determined that
the ratification OF the constitution and the
election Of candidates should be submitted
to the people of Mississippi, has also re-
solved that he will preserve an attitude Of
neutrality between the Liberal Republ-
can and ultra Radical candidates in Mis-
sissippi and Texas; and that he has in
structed the Military Commanders of
those States to deport themselves accord
ingly.
That Gen. Ames has trampled upon
this rule of the President, he himself will
admit He has entered the arena as the
champion of the Extremists and in viola
ton of justice and propriety, mounted the
rostrum in the convention, and pledged
them his support. He has undertaken to
run the machinery Of their organization;
and we call upon the Pilot to admit that
he has prescribed their plan of campaign.
He has removed men from office who
were avowed reconstructionists ON the
Grant pladorm-who were faithful to the
Union side during the war-and are
members of the National Republican par
ty, because they would not conform to
the behests of the Proscriptionists and
were consequently suspected of having the
sympathy of conservatives who want their
State restored to the Union on a peace"
basis.
All we ask is the rigid enforcement of
this rule Of impartiality, by the President
Let him require that Gen. Ames shall
call off the dogs he has turned loose upon
Republicans as well as conservatives, be-
cause they would not adhere to the Clique
whose programme has been repudiated by
the President himself, and by Congress,
under his lead Let him do this.
and we pledge that Mississippi. following
the example of Virginia, viii requite his
honorable and patriotic dealing by reor-
ganizing her government under a eonsti-
tuition that will secure |'the civil and po-
litical rights of all the citizens of the
State" and under the guide of agents who
will have the interests Of all her people
at hear, and Will conduct her in the path
of peace" and prosperity. VIII not
this be a triumph of his Administration,
worth achieving?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-15
Tennessee.

The contest for Governor in Tennessee,
wakes warm Leatherman, independent
conservative candidate, has Withdrawn,
and left the field entirely to Senter, Lib
eral Republican, and to Stokes, Bitter-End
Radical, of the Alcorn-Eggleston stripe.
The conservatives are rallying to the sup
port Of Senter, afer the example OF
their brethren in Virginia. With the
hands of eighty thousand conservatives
fettered by the infamous laws of the Rad
zeal party denying them the right of suf-
frage, it is almost too much to hope that
Senter will be elected. But there are
encouraging signs of such result A
Nashville correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Gazettee Republican, says, Success
''of Stokes though not likely, is not i'm
possible" The same correspondent
mentions as a feature in the canvass, that
the Liberal Republican candidate, twill
receive the largest portion Of the North
Germ born men," These are the men
who came into the State after the war, to
stay, and to share the fortunes of the
great body of the people. Their desire is
peace" They are a distinct class from
the carpet-bag beats who infest many
parts of the South and expect to live by
DISTINGUISHING the whites through the
agency of the blacks
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-15
Judge Den1 for Goyernor.

Accounts leave no room for doubt that
judge Dent will be the candidate of the
Liberal Republicans for Governor He
has unequivocally accepted the offer of
the nomination which a number of the
leading men of that party have rendered
him. The Liberal Republicans have been
as fortunate in selecting a leader in the
canvass, as adopting a platform of princi-
pies Indeed, they have simply followed,
not directed, public sentiment. A short
time ago, that far-seeing conservative, }.
M. Wesson, in the interest Of peace
proposed through the columns of the
Pilot, carpet-baggers' organ, Judge Dent
as compromise candidate for the sup
port Of all parties But the Pilot rejected
the proposition, and assigned as protest
that he was ''driven out Of his State for
q being a rebel sympathiser during the
war" The true reason was, his efficient
advocacy Of Gen. Grants policy last
spring to reject the scheme of the Com
mitlee of Sixteen, and to give the people
of Mississippi an opportunity to vote on
the constitution with its Objectionable
features marked out; and because furth-
er, he belonged to none Of the proscriPtive
rings, and like old Zach Taylor, has no
friends to reward nor enemies to punish.
As the Eggleston ring would not ac-
cept Judge Dent, it will be beaten by
him. The popular mind is made up, and
it is as good as recorded. Let us have
neape
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-15
Cotton NTanuf:i cGurer-s' md Plan
IeT-S' I'm Council.

The National Association of Planters
and Manufacturers assembled in New
York few days ago. The chair was oe-
cupied by the Hon. Amos Lawrence, of
Massachusetts. Members were present
in the persons of solid men from the
Southern, Middle and New England
States A report was read devoted to
the want by the South of additional la
borers for the cultivation of waste lands,
and railroad and manufacturing enter
prises. Other subjects were also discuss
ed-among them, the introduction of new
and improved cotton machinery; strict
legislative protection; and the abolition of
the tare on cotton, as it is in England. =
Addresses were made by several of the
members who mainly conceded with the
principles set forth in the report.
MISSISSIPPI was represented in this
meeting of substantial men. Col. j. NJ.
.WEssoN was in attendance The New
York Tribune reports his speech.to have
been especially interesting as showing
1.-THE wants Of the South, by one
..who is connected in her prosperity"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-15
Running 1he E.gIeston Machine

A carpet-bagger, Landon Cor Langdon, J
within one week from his departure from
New York, was appointed States Attor-
ney of the Vicksburg District He was
not warm in his seat, before the District
Commander transferred him to quite a
different branch of the service. Capt
Fisk, who had resided in Vicksburg since
the close of the war and had become per-
manently identified with the City, was
removed from the Office of City Marshal
and his place assigned to the same Ian
don or LangdOn. Capt. Fisk was a Re
publican, but not of the Eggleston stripe
He had spent his time and money to de
feat the scheme of the Committee of Five
to force the rejected Constitution and
candidates on the people of the State
he had advocated ''Peace" and amnesty
would not wear the Games" collar, nor
serve in the Menagerie.
In this District, one Simon Jones has
been appointed District Attorney. His
card locates him as lawyer
or lawyer seeking praetice-in New Or
leans, which city he essayed to represent
in Congress, but his claim was not recog-
nized by that body.
He now turns up in Mississippi, in the
Games Menagerie" in the capacity of
District Attorney.
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DGEDENR-S LETTER Oh AC.
CEESEANCE.
Extract of a letter of Judge Dent to
NofIord and \. j. Jenks.)

Extract of letter of Judge Dent to j. L..
NofIord and \. j. Jenks.)
sJfI can. in the least, be instrumental in
restoring the State of my adoption to her
normal place in the Union, and securing to
her good local administration, you have
my permission to use my name for any posi-
ton within the gift of the National Union
Republican party of your State. The plat
form adopted by your Convention at jack
son on the 23rd of June last, most heartily
approve and endorse"
In publishing the foregoing letter of
Judge Dent, accepting the nomination of
the conservative Republicans Cor as they
are technically called the NATIONAL RE
PUBLIcANs,) we unhesitatingly endorse
the views expressed in the following article
from the Meridian Mercury:
The great mass of the intelligent people
ofAIississippi have intelligently and deliber-
atey made up their minds to make no fac
tiOuS opposition to any reliable man of con-
servative views that the moderate men of
the Republican party might select to head
their ticket. They will accept Judge Dent
unhesitatingly, from the hands that give
him to them tolead IN the coming StIHyg{c 90
reconstruct the State on the Grant CORgTeSSiOA-
al DIdR. For US, without unsaying a word
that we have sal upon the great questions
OF reconstruction as tney arose While they
were debatable, we accept Judge Dent with
confidence that he is Il true representative of
the men and ideas we SO aIdently wish to
succeed in the issue that has been made up
between the opposing elements in Mssis-
sippi.
as it was in Virginia. the other day. so
we confidently expect it Will be here, Il tri-
umph for the conservative spirit which seeks
to do justice to all men. And, rs it was
there, the white and the black man will Join
hands, and bury forever in the forever past,
the animosities which never should have
been, and never will be again.
We have placed Judge Dents name at the
head of our columns. and we are committed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-15
Gen. ALCRRN.

\ branch Of the Menagerie, divcrged
from here in the direction of Meridian
and Columbus, with Gen. Acorn as chief
manager, supported by Eggleston, Aaron
Moore and others. 1t is stated that the
audiences consisted almost exclusively of
freedmen, and they in very small mum
bers
Gen. Alcorn's speeches are represented
to have been in the most approved style
Of carpet-baggery The Conservatives
were fercely assailed, and the prejudices
of the negroes were played upon. They
were admonished in bitter terms not to
permit themselves to be counseled in refer
ence to the subjects on which they are to
vote, by the Southern whites, against whom
they were especially warned. AMEs'
NEWLY IMPORTED were recommended as
the only fit counsellors for colored people.
They might obtain their means of living
from the Southern whites and the North
ern Republicans who have become perma-
nent settlers and will not affiliate with
the disfranchisers, but they must place
themselves exclusively under the training
Of the lately imported placemen.
Gen. Alcorn was always a bumgler in
politics. His name is the synonym of
failure in that line The ultra Radical
faction might possibly have prolonged a
Wretcbed career under the nanao,nmnnt
of Gibbs, Fisher d Co., but it cannot
survive the leadership ofAlcorn. 1t will
make a horrible noise until election day,
and then 90 off the stage in commissions.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-15

THE CHINESE QUEsTIoN.-The New
York Tribune is frightened, when it re-
members that 10O,O0 Mongolians on
our western coast are the thin end of a
wedge which has for its base the 500, 900,
600 of Eastern Asia. zone hundred
thousand AIongolians on the Pacific coast
means so many less Of our own race now
and hereafter to be, and FIVE or six mil
lions would mean that ''all but the crown
Of the body polite would be MOngolian. /"