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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18
WORKING OF THE 18TH Aurxnv,

WORKING OF THE 18TH AMENDMENT.
There was a local election at Louisi-
ana, Pike county, Missouri, on the 21st
for Clerk of the City Council; and as the
Radical majority in the place had been
increased by the addition of $50 coIored
voters it was confidently expected they
would elect their man. But they did not.
He was beaten by John d. Thurmond
Democrat, by majority of 80. All the
negroes but two voted for Rodgers, Radi-
cal, but all the white Republicans did not.
The 18th amendment had done the work
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18
summary Of shc North Carolina
victory

The Legislature will stand as follows
Senate Conservatives, 81; Republi-
cans, Is.
House Conservative, 30; Republic
cans, -.
Congressman Conservatives, 3 Re
publicans, ,.
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THE LOST CmLD.-It viii be seen
that a negress named Louisa Murray re-
siding in Mobile and having sister in
New Orleans as an accomplish, has been
identified as the abductress Of the lost
child The penalty for the offence is
five years imprisonment in the Peniten-
tiary. 1t is moderate, compared with
crime
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

Our East Mississippi correspondent,
eWilliam," contributes another of his
interesting letters in to-days paper.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

A letter from Charleston. s o.
that the reform party charge GoE
carpetbaggcr OF that staf. WH. H
pardoncd quite a numbcrorwaI 0
conyicts in that State 90 hapIm
political campaign uoH g1.uem
-3@r-
Here g. kentucky and then. q. h..
oiina-onc under Democrat. lHa ..
under Radical rule. Which NY ..I
-Loni-yillo ConficrJuuHHI N.
election.
We feel like giving lma I..
for both.
.~@@r+
TErE. The Washington D"
Grants organ, says tho 'ru..
"late election in North Carolina
"the Republicans 10 the South
(which ought o. bo warning
Their crimes certainly wn n.
but has not the Chronicle been ...I
slant allyy
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18
The NVesson Prisoners Discharged.

On Thursday, at II o'clock, Henry b. Bost-
wick, ct al, were discharged from the GUS
tody of the Sheriff of this county. and from
Gallatin Jail, the Grand Jury of the county.
composed of blacks and whites, of radicals,
republicans and conservatives, having fail
ed to find a true bill against them. We learn
that the decision of that body setting the
prisoners at liberty was without a dissent
ing voice, and they returned to their homes
on that evening after being incarcerated i'm
the county Jail twenty-four days. Had bail
been granted them at the investi2 alton. they
could have given it TO the amount Of one
hundred thousand dollars, but it was doci-
ded by those in authority, "gentlemen
learned in the law above their peers" not to
be bailable case. We congratulate the peO-
pie of the county for restraining their i'm
dignaton in the matter. In doing so you
have shown to the world that You are "A law
abiding people. And ii the editor of the
jackson Pilot thinks the Wesson bows arc a
set of outlaws, we invite him to lay aside
his radcalism for few days. assume the
garb OF gentleman, and visit that place and
see the yOung men who defended the place
against the black mob. and he will see sober.
industrious and intelligent young gentle
men, the most of whom are members of the
church. We announce with pleasure that
District Attorney willing and Sheriff Mat
thews acted the part OF gentlemen with
these prisoners.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

A newspaper states that next winter
Mr.. Sumner, the representative man Of
the ultra Republicans, will press his
''bill for the equalization Of races. This
"bill is intended TO secure for the negroes
admission into the public schools; 10
"'force them upon the conductors of the
public transit and upon the keepers Of
"houses of public entertainment on the
'same terms which regulate the travel
"and Judgment of the whites; 10 sanction
"and encourage inter-marriage between
the races
The contest upon this issue will there
fore become national, and form a prom
inent topic in the next Presidential cleo
ton. We are gratifed, at least, that
it will not be confined to the South.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

Admiral Farragut, died at his home in
Portsmouth, N. H., on the 18th inst.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

Certain election officials were arrested
in Memphis by the L. ;. Marshal, ON
a charge of violating the enforcement
Act in the recent election; but the L. $.
District Attorney entered a mol. PROF. and
discharged them. The malignants who
passed the law clearly ovorreached them
selves. Its so full Of extraordinary and
excessive pains and penalties for imagin-
airy offences, as to be Intellectual.
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rhe FiunIe of the wesson Affair.

The Copiahan publishes the supJoined
account of the release of the citizens who
were so iercely prosecuted by emissaries
employed with the Secret Service I und'
and thrown into prison and confined there
by the arbitrary ruling of a partisan
judge for repelling an armed assault upon
their town. concocted deliberately and
with murderous intent. Without divi-
sion. a jury composed of white and black,
made up after the most approved pattern
of loyalty, without reference to the "color
of the skim" and upon full investigation
have found that the prisoners were guilty
of no violation of law at all, much less of
crime deserving punishment as decided
by the Learned" Judge in refusing them
bail
What is now to be thought of the scan
dalous proceeding of the Governor in
mixing himself up in disregard of the
proprieties Of his Office, with the prosecu-
ton of the young men? And what of
his expenditure of the public money to
reward the hirelings, Jacobson and Lea,
who went on a mission of strife, and in
the security of their positions, outraged
decency by the character of the haran-
CUES Of which they delivered themselves?
And% of the conduct of the Judge
who violated his constitutional obligation
to release the prisoners, in order TO sub
serve a partisan end? The conduct of
the whole set is scandalous; and as to
him, there can be but one answer. He
deserves impeachment:
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-08-26
HUMORS OF THE DAY.

Patience Oh a monuments slow
marble cutter.
,I 4" Do you enjoy good health, Zacha-
doesen't?"
If you wish to flatter fool, ask his
| advice: if you wish to be one follow
it.
A curious Western visitor inquired
if the State prison was reckoned
among our institutions of charity ?
Certainly" was the reply" it COW
ers a multitude of SINS"
How may a man become four-hand-
ed? By doubling his fist.
The man who sat down on a paper
of tacks said they reminded him of
| the Income tax.
It is not necessary that a postman
should possess good voice, but it is a
most essential thing that he should
have good delivery.
During peace a regiment is quar-
tered; during war it is occasionally
cut tC pieces.
The boy who undertook to ride a
horse-radish is now practicing OH
saddle of mutton.
An Irishman said he did not come
to this country for want. He had an
abundance of thatin his own country.
Teacher-" Why was Joseph pus in
the pit?" Thomas (who goes to the
theatre OH week days." Because
there was no room for him III the
family circle.
A German baker of NGw-RocheIle
got on the lightning train, which
didn't stop at his place, and jumped
of while the train was on the fiy, i'll
the air. The undertaken said it was
moral impOssibility to make band
some corpse of him, as he seemed to
spread around so.
There arc TWO reasons why some
people don't mind their own business.
One is they haven't any business, and
the second that they have no mind.
Miss" said Il gentleman prohering
his arm and umbrella to a lady in a
shower, "permit me to be your beau" 3"
"Thank you for your pOliteness," was
the reply, "and as l have plenty of
fair weather beauX, will call you my
rain-beau."
A politician boasted that he could
! ICtl any hlllNl VI w 4liC VI Ulllus
! folded, merely by the taste. lie was
tried with one kind after another, and
readily named them. At last a glass
of water was handed him. He tasted
it, hesitated, tasted again, smelt it, re-
tasted it, and then said, " l give it up.
That's brand of liquor l never got
hold of.
a girl hearing the lady of the house
at dinner ask her husband to bring
home Dombey & Som with him
when lie came home to tea, had two
extra plates OH the supper table for the
supposed visitors.
"This is George the Fourth" said
an exhibitor of wax work, pointing
to a slim figure. :" thought he was
a very stout man." said the other"
" Very likely; but if You had been
without victuaIs half so long as he
has, you'd be twice as thin"
y lady who sings in the choir of a
! certain church in New York, having
been laughed at for marrying a very
small man, remarked that she had al
ways found shcrt metre hims the eaa
siest to get along with.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-08-26
What Young Men Should Do.

Every young man should make the
most of himself, physically, inteIleCtu-
ally, and morally.
>. He should depend upon his own
efforts to accomplish these results.
3. He should be willing to take adj
vice from those competent to give it,
and to follow such advice, unless his
own judgment and conviction, proper
Iy founded, should otherwise direct.
1. Ifhe is unfortunate enough to have
rich and indulgent father, he must do
the best he can under the cirCumstan-
ces, which will be to conduct himself
very much as though he had not those
obstacles to overcome.
). He should never be discouraged
by small beginnings, but remember
that all great results have been wrought
out from apparently slight causes.
6. He should never, under any cir
cumstances, be idle. If he cannot find
the employment he prefers, let him
come as near his desires as pOssible-he
will thus reach the object of his ambi-
ton.
8. All young men have inalienable
rights" among which none is more sa-
cred than the privilege to he some
body. damn.
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An Important Discovery in Cancer The,
rRpeutles.

At the recent annual scientific meet
ing held at the New York Medical
University, Professor Scott read an in
teresting paper upon an entirely new
method of treating Cancer, which gives
promise of the alleviation of much hui
man misery. The treatment of can
Ger has hitherto been empirical and un-
isfactOry-chlOride of zinc, nitric ac-
id and arsenic, the remedies usually
employed, being painful, dangerous,
and unreliable.
Professor Scott's discovery consists
in applying to the surface of the sore
the chloride of cItrCn1iltnl-a new salt
of this rare metal-incorpOrated into
stramonium ointment. This prepara-
ton, in a few hours, converts the tu-
NOR into perfect carbon, and it crum-
bles away. Specimens of cancers thus
carbonized were inspected by NUM-
Der of physicians present, which had
the appearance of charcoal, and were
easily pulverized between the fingers.
The remedy causes little or no pain,
and is not poisonous. A considerable
number of cancers have been cured by
this means, and an agent of such mar
velous efficacy must ere long be adopt
ed by the entire professionalism York
Commercial Advertiser.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-08-26
Relative Resources OF France and
Prussia.

The conflict between France and
Prussia makes itinteresting to compare
the relative resources of the two cOun-
tries. France is considerably larger
than the Confederation, not only in
territory but in population, for the last
census gave the numbers as 3S, ,OOO, 900
Frenchmen against 26,000,0O0 Prussi-
ans. In France, however, the normal
rate of increase in population is very
slow, 160 years being the time occupied
in doubling the number, while Prussia
takes but forty-two years. In financial
matters the advantage is on the side of
Prussia, whose Budget has never been
very heavy. The Incidence of taxa
ton in Prussia may be put down at
about one pound q head, while in
France it is nearly two pounds. The
national debt of Prussia is barely two
pounds a head, while France has to pay
interest on fifteen pounds head. In
one case the interest is $4,000, 600;
in the other it is no less than Ed, 900, 900.
France excels Prussia in her economic
position. The commerce of France is
greater than that of Prussia, and it has
been computed that while the annual
income of each Prussian is G22 per head,
that of the Frenchmen is &27. Prussia,
however, is in advance of France, and
in fact, of all the European States, as
far as education is concerned.
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2UEtEM.
ACROSS THE WAY.

BY J. II. JOHNSON (' YUBA DAM
Across the way are two windows bright
With curtains white as snow;
And DER their folds of spotless white
The dancing flames, with ruddy light,
Fantastic shadows throw;
Shadows that come and go.
But the shadows that OfteneSt linger there,
As the midnight hours draw near,
Has the graceful form of q lady fair,
With tapering waist and curling hair,
Bending with listening ear,
A weu-knoWn step to hear.
And as the night wears on apace
Comes another shadow tall,
With hasty step and manly grace,
STOPPING to meet an upturned face
ClaSping the waste so small,
Blended, the shadows fall.
A moment thus, by the chee iul light,
Is the blended shadow tn own,
Then darkness shades those windows bright
In curtains OF the gloomy night,
And am left alone
No shadow but my own.
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IKE GOOD sHEPHERD.

4 giddy lamb, one afternoon,
Had from the fold departed;
The tender shepherd missed 1t soon,
And sought it heavy-hearted.
Not all the flock that shared his love
Could from the search delay him
Nor clouds of midnight darkness move,
Nor fear of suffering stay him.
But night and day he went his way
In sorrow till he found it;
And when he saw it fainting lay
He claSped his arms around il.
And closely sheltered in his breast,
From every i'll to save it,
He brought it to his home of rest,
And pitied and fOrgave it.
And so the Saviour will receive
The little ones who hear him;
Their pains remove, their sins forgive,
And draw them gently near him;
Bless while they live, and when they die
And soul and body sever
Conduct them to His home on high,
To dwell with Him for ever.
GChildren'S Friend.l
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The Most Destructive Military Weapon
known.

The AIitTailleur, which is as yet un-
tried in practical warfare, is considered
by the French as the most destructive
military weapon known. Recently,
800 wretched horses, already condemn
ed to the pOleaX, were purchased at the
rate of four or five francs each, and
ranged at a considerable distance.
Two mitrailleures were brought to
play on them, and in three minutes af-
ter two discharges not one of the ami
mails remained standing. On a second
occasion 500 horses were brought down
at q single trial. This formidable wea-
pom is constructed as follows:
1t is light 37-barreled gun, arranged
that it's barrels may be discharged sim
ultaneOusly, or cOnsecutively. The 81
cartridges, intended for one charge, are
c cJntained in a small box. a steel plate,
with corresponding holes, is placed on
the open box, which is then reversed,
and the cartridges fall points foremost
into their respective holes. They are
prevented from falling through by the
rim at their bases. The loaded plate
is then introduced into the breech-slOt,
and when the breech is closed by le-
yer number of steel pins, pressed by
spiral springs, are only prevented from
striking the percussion arrangement in
the cartridges by plate in front of them.
When this case is moved slowly by a
handle, the cartridges are fired one by
one. If the plate be withdrawn rap
idly they follow each other so quickly
that their discharge is all but simulta-
neOus. The invention seems very well
adapted for use in forts or other peTma-
nent places of defense or offense, but
its carriage and management in the
field would present many and insupeTa-
BILE obstacles to its general use.
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sOUTHRRN NEWS ITEMS


across tRG&4abama river will be &C
pleted October Ist.
Judge Boiling sentenced whit
man at the Wythe county CVa.) cour
last week to receive thirty lashes, anC
negro who had been previously sen
| fenced by him 10 receive thirty lashet
had the punishment inflicted upon
him on Tuesday last.
An effort was made recently to
throw the Chesapeake and Ohio mai
train off the track, at a point ncaI
Hanover Courthouse, Virginia. The
engine ran against bar of railroad
iron laid across the track, but, fortu-
nately, pushed it off. There were
piles of wood on the track at intervals
for hundred yards or more. Two me-
gro boys who were found near the
place, were arrested, when the young
est, about twelve years of age, con-
fessed that they had placed the OBJ
struction on the track to stop the train,
so that they might get on and ride to
Richmond.
Recently current of wind or heat
ed air passed over and through four
acre field of cotton, in the neigbbor-
hood of Pomaria, South Carolina,
from the effects of which in a few
hours the whole field whitened and
died, no life being left in it. The
same current, it is said, prOstrated two
pieces of corn, turning over one-half
to the right and the other to the left,
the section being divided by q fence,
without doing other injury.
Tennessee is to have thirty-fve adj
ditional mOney-Order offices.
A negro boy deliberately murdered
his brother the other day in NeWber-
ry, South Carolina. They were work.
ing in Clubhouse, when one said to
the other "Why can't you work with
out cursing every word," whereupon
the reprOved one deliberately chop
ped the other in the head with hoe,
causing his death soon after.
The second exhibition of the Agri-
cultural Fair Association for the Cher
okee country of Georgia and Alaba-
ma takes place at Rome, Georgia, Oc-
tOber 1lth, 18th, 18th, and 18th. This
Association embraces twenty counties
Georgia and Alabama, and is loca-
II in tho heart of the most prosper
GUS region of these two States,
a people alive b the necessity
of improved implements of every
kind, in country adapted to the sue
cessful culture of cotton, corn, tobac-
co, wheat, oats, barley, clover and
grasses; in soil, climate, minerals, wa
ter, ETC., unsurpassed, and we'll adap-
ted to agriculture and the mechanic
arts.
Memphis has come very near hay
ing a second Nathan tragedy. Mon
day morning about half past two,
some of the inmates of boarding
house were awakened by noise of
persons being engaged in scuff1e i'll
al adjoining room. They Immediate
ly procured light, and on entering
the room found young gentleman,
the occupant of the room, sitting up
right in bed, his shirt torn almost
from him and bloody-blood in spots
on the bed clothing and mosquito bar.
He gave incoherent replies OH being
questioned, and all that could be as
certasned was that he had been at
tackled and had defended himself as
well as possible, and his assailant or
lants had fed on the approach of
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-08-26
How to Treat Scarlet Fever.

A writer in Good Health gives some
valuable hints for the treatment of this
fearful disease, which is now making
such ravages among children. He
says Undress the child and bring
it to bed at the very first sight of sick
ness. If it has fever give nothing but
sourish lemonade, with some gum ara
bic dissolved in it; then cover its abdO-
men with dry flannel. Take a we'll
folded sheet and dip it in hot water;
wiring it dry, and put this over the
flannel on the child's abdomen. IlFen
cover the whole and The hot
cloth will require repeate& Ac-
cording to the severity of the q and
its stage of progress, perspiratioW will
commence in the child in from ten
minutes to two hours. The child is
then saved, and it's recovery will be as
steady as the growth of a greenhouse
plant. AS the inclination for food re-
turns, help the bowels by injections OF
warm water, oil, and little CASTLE
soap. These directions are for the ear
Iy symptoms of the disease. If the
child has illusions of the heart or brain,
these will not save it; but if these rem
edies are applied in good time, not one
i'm a hundred children will die of scar
let fever"
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mics learn the same truth which was
so clearly shown in our war of the re-
belliOn, that young men are the best
Generals. The Crown Prince of Prus-
sia, who has the chief glory of the de-
feat of the French army, is not vet
thirty-nine years old, and before he was
thirty-five he had made himself a
great name at SadOwa. Prince Fred
erick Charles, the Kings nephew, who
commands the Prussian right, and is
esteemed the ablest of all King Will
iam's Generals, is forty-two years old.
Most of the fighting at SadOwa was
done by his army. Nearly all the
French leaders are old men.-M y
Tribune.
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According to the table of maximum
and minimum temperature in the
month of June, prepared by the Smith
sonian Institute, Michigan and Kansas
during the hot days in the latter part
of the month exhibit the highest range
of heat. In both of these States the
thermometer marked 106 and 103, South
Carolina 95, Virginia 102. The aver
age mean temperature for the month,
however, is the most reliable for COM
parison. Texas was the highest, 81,
and Maine the lowest, 6S ,; Michigan
was IS 8; Georgia 10 8; Alabama 76 ! /;
Florida 80 9; New York Al Z, etc. Rain
fell in Tennessee to the average depth
of 9.2inches; in California OO.1-equiv-
aIent to none at all. In Kansas, Ne
braska, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota
less than inches fell; in Michigan,
3.5 inches. Next to Tennessee, Ala
bama, Florida, South Carolina and
Florida had the most rain, little less
than z inches.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-08-26

A EuropeauaHls aHlslgespondent writes of
the commaIS a for the demolition
of all the fine villas on the Rhine which
occupy positions favorable to the play
of artillery. These sumptuOus estab-
Iishments are almost numberless: " 1t
is dreadful thing to tear up by the
roots the adOrnments of a lovely land
scape, and still more distressing to
think that the commanding points so
lately crowned with the highest en-
bodiments of artistic culture are likely
to be made the points d'appuj for
bloody cannonades; but such is the
fact. The owners of these villas have
been given three days in which to lev
eI their fair structures to the ground.
Should they fail to perform the work
sian MnItr troops Se viii SSS do it for i them. ~
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EARLY RISING.
L'HoTEL NAPOLEON

One of his favorite resorts was tav-
ern well known to the pleasure-lovlng
HObokenese since called "L'HOtel Ma
poleon." It was kept at the time by a
Frenchman, and was a favOrite resort
of the small French colony ia the
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-08-26
YOUTHFUL URBANITY.

There are many old residents of HO-
bOken, and even of Hudson county
generally, who remember him quite
well, and there are several French fam
lilies in Hoboken with whom he has Of
ten lived for spells. They delight just
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-08-26

Besides his " Journal" he was an in
cessant exponent of pidee NapOleonie,1-
ne in newspapers, magazines and re-
views-nay, even books. He made it
the rule of his life when not in exile to
spend two or three hours daily in writ
ing, and he carried it out with the per-
tinacity of purpose that characterizes
him beyond all men of his age per-
tinacity that could not be shaken by de-
feat, or, what is harder to bear, ridi-
cuIe.