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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

The fact of the giving way Of por-
ton Of the capitol building at Richmond
has created no little apprehension among
our Solons that's similar catastrophe may
overtake the building in which the intel
ligence, patriotism, craftsmanship and
loyalty Of Mississippi are congregated.-
The mind naturally conjures up the terri
bic condition of orphanage in which the
poor people of the State would be left in
case of such a calamity; but there is not
the least occasion for it, The Mississippi
capitol is a substantial building and its
architecture is not at all similar TO that
of the antiquated building at Richmond.
Besides, there is no probability Of an
unusual pressure. The Menagerie don't
draw. In the Northern States, where
Sambo don't figure as a legislator, it
would be different.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

IF people think that agitation has
ceased with the adoption of the 18th
Amendment, they are greatly mistaken.
Sumner has discovered another occasion
of reviying the everlasting niger !"
question in the naturalization laws, from
which he proposes to strike the word
white out, at the instance of the Nation
al Executive Committee of Colored
People.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05


Col. NJ. G. GALLowAY.-This distin-
guished journalist has retired from the
Memphis Avalanche in consequence Of
political differences with his partner, who
owned the principal stock in the paper.
Col. G.. established the Avalanche twelve
years ago, and gave it fame and success.
His name is so inseparately connected
with it that the paper without him will be
like the play of Hamlet with Hamlet
omitted. We are gratifed to learn that
he will soon resume his connection with
the press of Memphis, and in that event
his troops Of friend will resume their old
places around the standard which he has
always borne with courage and often times
borne to victory. The cause of truth
cannot afford to lose the aid of his power
full pen.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

A visitor to the Legislature Halls of
Mississippi, where the mongrel element
predOminates, cannot fail to be reminded
Of the incident related by Addison, that
an old philosopher, after having entered
an Egyptian temple and discovered lit
tie monkey enshrined in it as the idol of
the place, exclaimed ssWhat magnif-
tscent palace is here for such ridiculous
.'inhabitantP
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

TIM LUNArIo AmLrr ~
TIoNs.-After much tr;b,I... 'VilsA
caucussing among the I'm. 'ad
sundry secret sessions. mi i
has confirmed the Gover.. l''.
nominations, Of which fayonJ. l"
ton has been made III TIM Il. '".a
We are gratihed to say tbat h
commendable action he wa. ~.
sustained by the Conservative u,-,
Of the Senate, 10 whose stoa5e.
port doubtless the confirmation. f.. -f
Taken As a whole, the Board c,.Ii
been improved, and our opipt.n
may be inferred when we avhs..
precisely such body a. we Womb
recommended IN the event ths .,
ing power had been Con.eryaf,.
far, 50 good.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

Do1NG WRLL.-The Conservative
members of the Legislature are doing
the very best that men are capable of
doing for the State in the adverse circum-
stances surrounding them. The people
may rest assured that they will wiring
whatever of good they are able out of
this eva of a Radical Administration
with which they are cursed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

DEATH or CoLuAmu Err
ESQ. The Holly Spring Rr-m
the 26th uIt, presented DIE ai 49,.
Of a paper in mourning ir buar-...
1t made only the Announcement dr,v.
Columbus Barrel had died Lnn.r.
with pneumonia, just a- tfe paper
10 press. lie was q native o. Sian.
county, and twcnly-.cyon years 8 r
A worthy mason and @ good Citizen
will be much missed in Che c5mmmr
which he resided.
lie leaves wife and u uIm.
young TO realize the great Io.s De- lr ..
tanned.
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''If / have so soon been done for,
What was l begun for z"

"LOYAL SOUTHERNERs." We are
gratifed to see that two attempts have re-
Gently failed in Congress to commit that
body to the scheme of paying a class OF
gentry known as "loyal Southerners'
for damages alleged to have been sus-
tanned by them during the war. These
claims have been for the most part
trumped up and ale dishonorably pre-
ferred by INSCRIPTIONS agents. During
the war there were class of scoundrels
who sang good Lord, good Devil as
either side happened to be in the ascend
ant, and who preyed upon both. AT its
close, they threw up their caps, shouted
Justify for the Union, and professed to
have always been its fast friends. Some
of them have managed to obtain allow
ances of claims for services to the federal
government during the war in the despi-
cable capacity of spies at the very mo-
ment they were enjoying the favOrs of the
Confederate authorities. They even
move in respectable society and affect
piety; but the finger of scorn is pointed
at them, and they can no more escape it
than they can find hiding place from
themselves. Congress by its recent votes
has put quietus on the schemes of these
harpies, and entitled itself to the thanks
of all good men for so doing. 1t was one
of the weak points in Johnson's pro-
gramme that he took to his embraces the
men who betrayed the people among
whom they lived, during the war; and
while he managed to inaugurate ''poli-
ey" which lost him the favor of the
North, he failed to receive the sympathy
and good. will of the South.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

ITO HUM."-Mr. Senator Gin.
made a direful threat of what h. III
do in a certain contingency pBdr
consideration of q recent message 20 <.
Governor. contained ID the.a..
:" We are required by law fo do.
things, and We are lcn t0 do fIa..
way as 10 us may seem proppr All.
20 bring up this thing again ut Hs
~ Ms G0reruOr, would hp tO conceal,
stead of being "a coordinate hr4n,l u.
government the member, az ug
turc are but Tie r0ss9s ~ MI. E.-.
State. But when have br0ueFf ...
believe that We are thr Dfclnr..
man, ! shall then ask permission ~.
my sean here aud ~ home. Ih4t.r.
ton we have 20 meet and UcEI ..
meet it fairly and squarc.y. and Fl
shall not shrink from ASSERTING IL.
tanning my rights at auy co.L mi
hazards, against even tIp ua.t
assailants. My own sell-re.prrr IA
spOnsibility 10 my coustiIuoutsa..t
this at my hands,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

It is remarked that in the recent elec-
ton of member of Congress in the Third
Kentucky District, all the negroes at
ROck6eld precinct, numbering fifty, voted
the Democratic ticket.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

The tongue of rumor is busy with Its
recital of the proceedings of ga caucus"
at the Executive Mansion" to which the
negroes of the Menagerie were invited,
and from which the carpet-baggers were
excluded. The ubiquitous reporter of
TIE CLARION viii probably furnish a
sketch of the proceedings, if the Pilot
does not.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

In his recent election 90 d Fifteen.
Amendment celebration 90, Ngn
Chas. Sumner, gave this vnmm o..
vice to the negro voters:
at Is not enough, merely 90 fgIahn.H.
day. We must all vow ourselves um.r
tain and advance the cause which h. Dob
umphed. 80 that the victory shalI -haH i.
fail In any ofits legitimate FRUITS TH
Is one practical rule which must uof lo NJ
gotten. We cannot put trust in oHreHeH
We cannot vote for them. This s uM
borne In mind at AN elections
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Hon. Mr.. GIBBS.

JACKSON, MSS, April ~, 1870.
SIR Your note of this date received, and
in reply have TO say that whatever state
ments were made by me In the Senate to-
day were taken down by the reporter at the
time, and the answer to your interrogation
les can be found there.
Respectfully, w. III. gibbs.
Mr.. NJ. B. HEWsoN.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

1t is understood that Governor Alcorn's
message in reference to the election Of
State Printer was aimed especially at the
Pilot concern, and that he makes no Sc
cret of his opposition to it. We are not
advised of the cause of his hostility 1t
certainly has been tuned to sing his
praises in the most charming notes of
which it is capable, since the election /;
and during the canvass it was as unscru-
pulously energetic as Radical organ
could well be i'll promoting Radicalism.
Besides, it was the anointed of Ames
who fed it constantly with the public pap.
AS recognition of its services in an infa-
nous cause, the mongrels in the Legisla-
ture in spite Of the energetic opposition Of
the Conservatives, elected it to do the
State Printing. And not content with
the present prices, they were in the act of
passing a bill which, we understand,
would have immensely increased the ex-
pense to the State, when, alas, here came
this executive missile, !, scattering its an
ticipations to the wind. For time, as
the "organ," it lived in clover-but just
long enough to make a miserable voice
before going out Of the world, and to pre-
pare itself for the epitaph:
s'If have so soon been done for,
What was L begun for!"
AT least, so we read the signs. But
we may read them amiss after all. We
can only say that in this squabble be-
tween the Pilot and the Executive favor
lite, whoever he may be, we don't care
straw who bears off tile spoils
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

Both parties in the State of NwYa
have made their Judiciary nomination
and the election will take place rr
month. The result f.. important D.
dicative Of the waning or increasing
strength Of the Badicals
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

che Richmond Enquirer says that the
salary Of the Attorney General Of that
etafe. "a one thousand dollars and some
inconsiderable fees.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

But Revels' term expires in 1871.
Therefore he does not fill Mr.. Davis
place because his term commencing in
'69 would not expire until rs. Nor
does he fill Gov. Browns place whose
term commencing in 81 would not expire
until '73. Whose successor is he then I?
Or is he Senator at ans Probably he
is only myth.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

The Supreme Court of Missouri has
decided that when wife goes into bust
ness without her husbands consent, he is
not responsible for her debts.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

Mr.. EDITOR viii you have the kind
ness to insert the following notes and state
ment I'm reference to the matter between
Mr. Hewson and myself:
JsCKsoN, Miss, April %, 1870.
DEAR SIR A gentleman reports that
you have said openly to-day that / had Of
tered you an interest In my application for
the Public Printing, or words To that effect.
| write TO ask il you done so? He reports
further that you stated that / had informed
you the Governor intended To send In a
message on the subject of the Public Print
ing. Please inform me on this point also.
Your obedicnt servant.
NJ. Ii. HEwsoN.
Hon. Mr.. GIBBS.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

Beggar woman" Please, sir, give me 3
penny 70 keep me FROM starvingF'9
Gent" Can't stop; I'm . hurry; I've got
70 make speech ut the Society for the relief
of the destitute"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

1t seems that we were mistaken in re-
ferring to the gentleman who was
arraigned by Senator Gibbs in connection
with the printing matter, as the present
Private Secretary of the Governor. Our
inference was drawn from the remark OF
Gibbs that he chad been heretofore
known as the Private Secretary" and it
was strengthened by the following note
published in the Pilot:
Ececuttre DEPARTMENT.
Jackson, Miss, April %, 1870. I
DEAR SIR:
May ask you 10 call TO see me at the
Mansion some time to-day-in the forenoon.
If convenient. L should 20 up To you but
that am not only pressed by business, but
am also not well.
Yours respectfully
NJ b. HEwsoN.
Hon. Mr.. Gibbs.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

The Massachusetts, House of Representative
has rejected female suffrage amendment 70
the State Constitution by . vote Of So TO 133.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05
Cmmna1amffOmmH Mbrowinfoms ~ rehMr
fRom 20 holding EIcctinnw
and mHEfmw OmceS.


One of the most important duties de-
volying upon the Legislature, is the pas
sage of law providing for the election
of officers by the qualified electors in all
cases in which they are permitted by the
constitution to elect.
QUALIFIED VOTERS.
The Constitution provides that call
inhabitants of the Stae, except idiots
''and insane persons, and Indians not
''taxed, citizens of the United States, or
"naturalized, twenty-one years old and
upwards, who have resiced in the State
"sixmonths and in the county one month
preceding the day of election, at which
''said inhabitant offers to Tote, and who
"are duly registered, anc who are not
disqualified by reason of crime, are de-
cleared to be qualified voters" The con-
stitution further declares hat "the Leg
"islature shall provide BY law for the
Registration of all persons entitled to
''vote at any election" and that persons
registering shall be required to take no
other oath but that they have resided in
the State and county for the time pre-
scribed in the Constitution, and twill
faithfully support the constitution and
laws Of the United States and Of the
State of Mississippi"
By these provisions, it will be seen that
no person is prohibited from voting for
political causes, as in the elections prelim-
mary to the adoption of the present con-
stitution. The number who will be adj
mitted to the polls in future elections,
that have been heretofore disfranchised,
is variously estimated at from ten to
twenty thousand.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

Madam Paropa Rosa "a 10 import
troupe for the next winters oampaign'
Some Of The Southern women take the.T ~ 4.
ting 70 church. They probably belN
much Interested in their own as in tha
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

The very mail which contained the
bloody manifestos of Morton, Drake and
other leading Radicals foreshadowing the
scheme ofthe dominant party in violation
of all their pledges to establish federn
military police in the reconstruction States
on the ground that the people thereof
were lawless Cor to borrow the language
of Gov. Alcorn) "turbulent'-brought
Western exchanges from which we have
gathered the following items of murder,
in the ''loyal" States, constituting in the
expressive language of a Republican
Senator, what may be truly termed, a
"tableax of horrors"
La SALE. ILL, April 1s.-Last Saturday
evening Joseph Ramsey former resident
between Granville and Hennipen, who had
been arrested and was on his way tofhe
Hennipen Jail was taken out of the hands OF
the officers by vigilance committee and
hanged.
ODrN, Ill. April 21.-Last night vigi-
lance committee forced the Marion County
Jail, at Salem, ILL.,, and took out and hanged
q notorious desperate named Hank Leonard.
alias Rogers, who was awaiting trial for the
robbery of an old and respected farmer near
Odin.
DENVER. COL. April 21.-At Los Vegas,
n. NJ, on the 10th inst, two Mexicans were
arrested for stealing groceries. ETC., and
brought to town the same day. Irons were
pa { on them and they were lodged in jail.
Yesterday morning they were found hang
ing to a beam in the jail yard. They had
been taken out of the Jail during the night
by parties unknown, the men wearing
masks.
THE coRoNER's JURY,
summoned by Esquire Breuster TO examine
the case. returned a verdict that deceased
came to his death at the hands of VIM. K
Davis, alias Bill DAVIS. and that the deed
was committed feloniously and with malice
aforethought.
WHITEHALL, ILL.,, April IS 1870.
THE VICTIM,
Avery Ballard-a brief account OF whose
murder was telegrsphed you OH Saturday.
was farmer over seventy years Of age, but
hale and hearty. He quit farming some
time ago, and purchased property adjoining
the western limits of the cOrpOrtiOn. He
has large number OF children and graud-
children residing in this vicinity, and was
respected by all as an honest, straightfor-
ward man, harmless, inolleusive, and as far
as known was without an enemy i'm the
world. In his case there appears to be q
total absence ofany motive which could in
fluence rational man to seek his life.
These things are reported as having
occurred in the '1oyaP States, as matters
of course. They are not even commented
upon by the local papers. But suppose
the scene had been changed to Mississippi
where life, under strong provocatioR and
in the heat of passion has occasionally
been taken, what a howl would have
gone up from the lips of the "annointedr
How Morton would have spread himself
in the u. S. Senate How Drake would
have called for a United States police,
and supplementary reconstruction bills
How "loya" Governors would have re-
commended the immediate organization
of the Militia and above all of "Secret
Service Funds" to preserve the peace and
''enforce the criminal laws !" OF such is
Radical hypocrisy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

The days are four hours and o half longer
than they were on the 10th Of December.
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CONNECTS.

COMMENTS.
This is the example set by the head of
the Radical party who is President of the
United States. After his practical illus
tration of the Social Equality doctrine,
who will say that the principles avowed
by Gray, Stringer and other negro men,
bers of the Legislature, together with
divers and sundry carpet-baggers, and
proposed to be engrafted in the laws of
the State, are not in accord with the
principles and practices of the authorized
opponents of Radical doctrine? The idea
of ignoring the memorable laws of nature
in the conventionalities of life and the
regulations of society, and thus producing
anarchy, confusion, corruption, rotten
ness, and degeneracy in consequence of
their violation, is the favorite hobby of
the progressive Radicals and of the men
who lay down the laws of that party !;
and the attempt of the home RAIDS who
are ashamed of their party, to make it
respectable" by disavowing the corner
stone of its faith, is simply ridiculous. The
man who joins the Radical party whether
to obtain Office or from honorable motives,
does not commit himself to the principle
of equality before the law and the right
of al men who are taxed to have voice
i'll the government, but to the Blaok
Republican plan of ignoring natural dis
tinctions and establishing Social Equality
as the Higher Law. Gray, Stringer &
Co., are Simon Pure Radicals and the
men who have been foisted into Office by
the votes of negroes will have to come up
to their standard sooner or later, or they
Will go overheard.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

The money questiop.--Is the money laid cut
BY young ladies in trihing expense miss
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

THE N. O., J. & G. N. RAILROAD
The correspondence of Gen. Beauregard
on the subject of this Road, published in
another column, will be read with interest.
1t will be seen that its managers are fully
alive to the responsibilities of their posi-
ton, not only in the matter of satisfacto-
rily arranging its Indebtedness but in re-
Stunning the work of its extension at the
earliest practicable moment.
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THE IIENVSON ---- gibbs CON
IROVEEkSN.

CARPETBAG VS.. SCALAWAG.
The Other Side Of dhe story.
PISTOLS AND COFFEE FOR TWO.
From the Pilot.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

A Sceng at the White HOuse-A Gained Cob
bier at q State DtnRer.
From the Eastern Arg

Mrs. Senator Revels. the wife of the dis
tinguished @man and brother who sits in
the seat OF Jefferson Davis in the Upper
House at Washington arrived in that city
on Thursday last, the 18th instant, and was
entertained the next day at a State dinner
party by General Grant General Butler,
General Schenek, General Garfield, aud
other military imbeciles Of note, aceompa-
MED by their wives and daughters were
among the company. Mrs Revels passed
from the drawing room to the dinning
room on the arm of Senator Sumner, and
occupied a seat at the table between that
gentleman and the President. Her CONVEX
sation charmed the company even more than
her appearance. although the refined and
instructive taste in dress in which the ladies
of Guinea are distinguished was sweetly
apparent in the decoration of her person
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-05

The Message of the Governor on this
subject, together with the proceedings in
the Senate on Wednesday, viii be found
IN another column. 1t appears that the
information communicated to the Legis-
lature in the Governors message of
March 10th that the election of the pro-
prietors of the Pilot was illegal and there
fore void and instructing that body to
hold another election, has been entirely
disregarded. The parties claiming to
have been elected, have, with singular
inconsistency, assumed to do the duties
of the Office and receive the benefits, but
have not given the bond required by
law.
The Governor now declares the Office
vacant, and informs the Legislature that
if it do not at once proceed to elect a
Printer, he will fill the alleged vacancy
by executive appointment. He declares,
however, that under the law Shannon *
Co., or their representatives, are the
incumbents: or would be, if they had not
failed Ito assume since the incoming of
"the present administration to discharge
''the duties of the office" The letter
which the successors of Shannon & Co.
have addressed to the Governor, herewith
appended, will disabuse his mind of this
impression and show that his information
is incorrect. They have in good faith
held themselves ready to perform the
obligations set forth in the bond executed
to the State by complying with all the
acquisitions of the law, and if they have
not executed the printing it is for the
reason that it has been illegally withheld
from them not only by the Legislature
but by the Governor himself who by the
law of their appointment is required to
execute the printing of his department
through them.
Article %, Revised Code, page %,
declares that, if the estate Printer shall
''fail to perform the services and duties
required of him, in the manner pre-
''scribed by law, the Secretary of State,
",cih the approval Of the Governor shall
Contract with some other suitable per-
''son to perform the work, &c" Now
if we have ''failed' to do the work why
has not this provision been carried out?
But have we ''failed? ?" Assuredly not
except in consequence of the Failure" of
the Governor and his Legislature to do
what he himself admits the law requires
at their hands. He ought to have known
Officially" and unoficially, that we have
held ourselves ready to do what was re-
quired of us, and if he has not known
the fact, it is because he has endea-
vored not to know it. Henceforward he is
in possession of it, Officially" and we
Will see if he continues to blunder on in
violation of the law as he himself defines
If:
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ENUMERATION OF VOTERS.

By sec. 33, of art. 4, the Legislature
is required to provide for the enumera-
ton of the whole number of inhabitants
and of the qualified electors of the State
once in every ten years and the first emu
meration shall be ordered at the first meet
ing Of the Legislature anlder the neac Con-
stithton.