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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18
a Savage Fight.

In the late Republican State Conven-
ton in Louisiana, some amusing scenes
were enacted. The rarest among them.
was rough-and-tumble fight between an
African politician called Lowell, and
Yarmouth, the carpet-bag Governor
so-called. Each ventilated the record of
the other, and demonstrated his antago-
mist to be a scoundrel. Yarmouth de-
nounced Lowell as ''liar," and Lowell
reciprocated by reminding Yarmouth that
for a consideration he had approved sew
eral plumber schemes which passed the
Legislature. The negro threatened to
publish all the facts establishing his vii
lainy but Yarmouth implored him not
to wash any more of the dirty linen of
the Republican party, in public
Yarmouth will be remembered as the
scamp over whom the Mongrels pow-wow-
ed "at the Mansion" and in the Hall of
Representatives here in Jackson not long
since
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18
The Pilot bas a mild wav of account

The Pilot has mild way of account
ing for the Republican route in North
Carolina. 1t attributes TO chad manage
ment, what was really due TO the mon
strous outrages perpetrated upon the
people by the Republican leaders who
were clothed with authority over them by
the federal power under the forms of
sham election. The acts of these rulers
aroused them to sense of the necessity
of organizing and uniting thoroughly for
their overthrow No management
could have been devised to cheat them
out of their purpose to rid themselves of
these agents of mischief, except prohibit
ing them the exercise of their right to
assert their will at the ballot-box.
But the Pilot ought to remember that
Holden's plan of campaign, whether good
or ''bad, had the full support of General
Grant, the head of the Republican party.
He sent troops into North Carolina armed
with the most effective weapons, and
differed by general in the L. S. Army,
to cooperate with Holden's militia.
Holden went to Washington and he
and Grant jointly planned the campaign.
The Washington Chronicle, of July 2Sth,
boosted that ''the President had ordered
troops into North Carolina to put down
1.-THE armed Democratic mobs." The
Philadelphia Press announced that "Gov.
Holden is thoroughly sustained in his
''course by the President, who, like every
"o.her citizen, thinks it is about time the
rebellion should be suppressed" Grant
sent his private Secretary into the State
to make speech which was reported in
| Holden's Raleigh Standard, and contained
this declaration: 81 can only say that
Il speak what l know in stating that the
president will give firm support to
"GOv. Holden in his efforts to suppress
disorders" And finally he sent into
the State troops, to make good his pledge.
Therefore, if Holden was guilty of
chad management" the Administration
was not only party to, but responsible
for it. Holden would never have ven
tured on his desperate experiment of
calling out his black militia, organizing
Kinks marauders -suppressing civil law
and inaugurating military commissions
and reign of terror generally, but for
the assured support of the Administration
Mt Washington. He was as much tool
of higher power to carry out Republi-
can doctrine and perpetuate Republican
III rule in North Carolina, as was Ames
himself in his corrupt measures to place
the people of Mississippi under the pres
ent Mongrel government.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

The n. Y. Herald observes that after
the termination of the impending war in
Europe we may expect that Frenchmen,
Germans, Swedes, Norwegians, Irish,
Scotch and English; in fine, Europeans
of every nation, will swell the flood of
immigration to an unprecedented height.
With our present comparatively sparse
population and our vast area of territory
we can heartily welcome all, whether
from Europe or from Asia, who shall seek
homes in free America and aid in the de-
velopment of its incalculable resources of
wealth and prosperity. And this may
be especially said in behalf of the South
ern States.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18
The Reward OF "a Traitor.

Phillips, the defeated candidate of the
Republican party in North Carolina for
Attorney General, was n recent convert
He apostacised under the delusion that
the Republican combination had secured
a lifetime lease of the government of
that State; and became the tool Of the
usurpers who had inflicted upon her peo-
pie the wrongs that aroused and united
has got his reward in the humiliating de-
feat which he has suffered, and in the
that although lac sold his
birth-right for a mess Of pottage, even
that paltry consideration at last failed
him.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

A RoMANTIC Incident OT IHE
Ia the blooming, beautiful, blIm}
1858, one Of those dread battlc-ttin'.
never to be forgotten, Gen. lllghmt-
shot dead nc the battle OF thlmp"N
CALAMITY struggling Ia defence n
principles. Ills noble life ebOcI aNh
the spot where he fell and thr
drank his blood with greedy thli
But upon that immediate spot gre" FL.
tree that reached maturity while .I
stepped themselves iu the martyr f..H 4
Singular 20 relate, the leaves hnN Az. Ia.
this tree are blood red color Snail
was transpinnted and is now boz tho n.
Of DIR. John l.. Hebron, OF this coulg .f.HE
propagatiOns from the same arg .t..rI
same peculiar color. There ia ,rtIrIf
something remarkable about this. w. fflT
seen the leaves and must conicas tIa8l
do look and even 90 us) smell INC ,gtlrF
The fact can be witnessed by those
the trouble.-VlcksburR Herald
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

Scott, carpet-bag Governor of South
Carolina, is repeating the game of Hol-
den in North Carolina. He is arming
the colored militia and has already five
companies drilled and stationed in Rich
land county. Several white companies
were formed, but were rejected. As two
thirds of the voters of South Carolina
are black, the elections viii be Republi-
can, and no complaint will be heard in
Radical quarters of SCOTS "bad man.
agement." 1t was holden's failure, and
not his villainies, which caused Radical
dissatisfaction.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18
The Next Congress.

1t is hoping too much to anticipate that
the Radical majority in the next Congress
will be entirely overcome; but it is GER
tain that it will be considerably reduced
The n. Y. Tribune, high Republican au-
thority, says that it is conceded by shrewd
Republicans that they will lose from 10
to 20 Representatives. The present Dem
Ocratic vote in the House is 66.
The New York Nation estimates that
the Radicals will lose five in the next
Senate, and that the House will stand 40
Radicals to 90 Democrats. The Wash
ington Star RADICAL says: This con-
cedes considerable gain for the Demo-
Gratis, but after an examination of the
whole ground, we cannot see wherein the
estimate is very much out of the way"
WELL SAID.-In a recent speech at
Rogersville, Tennessee, Ex-President
johnson said that when men talk of a
third party movement they have made up
their minds to go over to the Radical
camp.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

Lively times are ahead in Republican
circles. Agitation, is the order of the
day. The colored cadet question has oc-
cupied the time of Congress and com
manded the attention of divers commit
tees, whose reports, it is said, will make
volumes. The next topic in order is
1.-THE shame to civilization" reported in
the case of Revels at Louisville And
quick upon its heels, comes the rumor OF
the election of Hon. Albert T. Morgan
and his bride from the sleeping car on a
public highway. And it all comes of the
"mean prejudice" by which the Alcorn
regulation is violated that ''the face is
not to be looked into" &C., &c
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

Alta time when the people are the least
able to support oppressive taxation; they
have been saddled with this burthen. The
taxes are most unequally laid and are
increased from four to FIVE hundred per
cent When to the State tax is superad-
ded the special taxes the imagination can
scarcely picture the distress which Will
ensue.
From present prospects, the collection
of the taxes will be an imposibility. The
people will not be able to pay them. But
the penalty of failure is he sacrifice OF
the property of the unfortunate delin-
ouent. or in the absence of property, his
Imprisonment in the county jail.
This grinding measure was passed by
the plunderers in the Legislature to en-
rich themselves and it received the APP
provaI of the Executive, who is always
consfderate. of the rights of the people.
Auditors Warrants have gone down to
from fifty to sixty cents on the dollar, I'M
der TIE profigacy of the eormorants.-
They would sink below zero but for this
law. How the people in their impover-
ished condition are to get along with it,
the wlsest among them will not venture
to predict And yet it is folly to close
our eyes to the gloomy reality to which
we are soon to be brought face to face.
To exhibit the operations of the law,
our vigilant cotGmporary of the Brandon
Republican has presented the following
facts and figures in reference to Rankin
county They will afford a correct i'm
preston of its working generally:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

When Holden, the unscrupulous villain,
was carrying his lawless measures with a
high hand in North Carolina, declaring
martial law, imprisoning citizens without
warrant, setting at defiance writs of Ha-
Corpus, his organ boosted that "Grant
backed him" And so Grant did ''back"
him: but he did not save him. He used
the bayonet. But the people used
stronger weapon in peace-the ballot.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

Hon. JEFFERSON DAvIs.-In letter
to the editor of THE CLARION, dated
Baltimore, August 9th, Mr.. Davis writes:
81 am thus far on my way to England,
'and viii sail from New York on the
"10th inst, on the steamer Russia. l
"will return early in the fall with my wife
"and children" The following is a press
dispatch from New York:
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-The Hon. Jefferson
Davis arrived to-day from Baltimore, and is
at the New York Hotel, where he is the re-
c1pient Of many attentions from the South
eTn guests. BE refuses to be interviewed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

The New York Times, leading Re
publican paper, deprecates the periodical
cry of its party press about the reign of
lawlessness in the South and charges
that il is for political effect in the North
and designed as device of unscorupulou-
Radical plunderers to divert attention
from their own profigate schemes. 1t
declares frankly that "criminal incidents
(Which are passed unnoticed at the
''North, are invested with political sig
''nificance when they occur at the South -
From which we infer that the Radical
cry Of "wolf' will no longer avail to
deceive the people of the North into the
support of party whose leaders are a set
of banditti who live by plundering both
sections V
The following extract is a truthful pic
ture of the condition of affairs in the
| South
AS whole, the South is as free from law
lessness as any other part Of the country
There are bad localities in the reconstruct
ed States, but so there are in this city and
in this State. The general condition of
things is, however. one that the Southern
people have no reason to be ashamed Of
Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia. Alaba-
ma, Arkansas and Mississippi may safely
challenge comparison with States similarly
situated in ordinary respects, at the South
and West. The main body OF the popula-
ton have applied themselves TO industrial
pursuits, with steady determination which
has already borne good fruit. They are re-
building villages and cities, cultivating
farms, and familiarizing themselves with
enterprises which will yield more than the
old prosperity. Let us concede both the ex-
tent and significance of those indications,
ungrudgingly.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

The Mississippi Central says that the diff
ference between the Dent movement in
Mississippi and the Union Reform move
ment in South Carolina, is that one favor
ed the ratification of the Radical plan of
reconstruction, including the 9th amend
ment, and the other simply proposes to
abide by what has already been accom-
plished. Our cotempOrary cannot fail to
see that the difference is imaginary. So
far as Mississippi is concerned, the plan
of Radical reconstruction had been
accomplished. The 18th amendment
had been incorporated in the Constitu-
ton of the United States; and negro
suffrage, the main feature of the 10Th,
had been imposed upon the State. Its
incorporation into the Federal Constitu-
ton had become a certainty without the
vote of Mississippi. To have remained
under the intolerable despotism of Ames
would not have warded off single one
of the measures of the Radical party
But the movement had the motive
which the South Carolina plan does not
possess, of compelling through federal
agency the neutrality of the Military au-
thorities which would have enabled the
conservatives to carry the State ticket
and secure a majority of the Legislature
In the absence of such influence, success
on any platform or with any set of candi-
dates was impossible.
But really, we do not discover in the
differences which existed in the last can
vass, among the opposers of Radicalism,
any cause for divisions in reference to the
present issues, and since the Mississippi
Central has repudiated, or rather ceased
to advocate, the plan of separate action
by portion of the conservatives (Which
originated with Radicals to prolong their
ill-gotten hold upon the government of
the State) the dividing line between us
has been so narrowed that there is moth
left to base a controversy upon.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

THE WAR.-The accounts of the OPP
erations around METz are conflicting
Decisive reports may be expected at an
early day. The French government
seems to be as much in danger from the
popular ferment in Paris, as from the
Prussians in front.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

NEW MARSHALL has been reported for
the last ten days, that the Governor had
appointed a new city Marshal for Meridian.
but he did not put In his appearance until
last evening. He came here with Lieut..
Governor Powers, who Is his friend and Is
urging him on the Board.-MerIdian Mer-
curry.
This is certainly strange proceeding.
We are informed by the Mercury that
Meridian has already Marshal in the
person of that old and excellent citizen,
Gen. w. S. Patton. To supercede him
without authority Of law, and for a mere
adventurer at that. would be an outrage
on the people of that city.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

The election news from North Carolina
is fully confirmed. The Republicans
who were lifted into Office two years ago
on the bayonet by a pretended majority
Of fifty thousand, have been routed; i.
Holden and his crew went up like rock
ct, and have come down like a stick.
And what is more, they have fallen never
to rise again.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

Here are two count. NJ m. mI.e
against Scott, the Republican N
Of South Carolina. They uH.n.
the Secret Service Fifty Thousand
lars, and the outrageous oyT7'
cobson and Lea, IN thi- State.
?. That be has infested thc state
spies, under the name of rOu.flHH.A.I
3. That t.esc spies. paid WifH fI.
OF the state a. peace officer, 1ra lN..
gagged in stirring up strife aua i""
discOrd.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

SIGNIFIcANT'-A correspondent of the
Handsboro Democrat states that the "few
"dour) who lately got up the call in the
"Pilot for meeting of old Line Wings
"Gn the interest of the Radicals) are
''erery one GppOintees Of ALcorn." 1t is
rumored that one of these "few" was
Gen. starke, lately appointed Sheriff of
Bolivar county, who the Times of that
county says is ian avowed Republican"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

CROPS on THE MIssIssIPPI.-Th
Times reports that the crops in Bolivar
county, are good, though it fears that not
a suficiency of corn was planted.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

The public are anxious to know what
amount of the Secret Service Fund was
paid to jacobson and Lea, for their servi-
ces in prosecuting the young men who in
terposed to prevent the armed mob from
cleaning out" the town of Wesson. =
The facts of that UBIQUITOUS proceeding
will yet be brought to light.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

General Hunt, commanding the troops
sent 10 North Carolina by the President,
was directed to place himself under the
instructions Of Gov. Holden but Holden
did not prove TO be a successful leader.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

A BAD ISvEsTMEST-The money ex-
pended in favor of jacobson and Lea,
the carpet-bag Attorneys, for prosecuting
the Wesson prisoners.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

1t is encouraging news we publish from
Georgia. Bullock and Co. have been de-
feated An election will be held this
fall, and she will follow the example Of
North Carolina, and place herself perma-
nently in the column Of Conservative
States.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

Governor Alcorn has appointed Gainoy
the murder Of DIR. Tully Gibson,
Marshall Of Meridian. This is the re-
ward a carpet-bagger who has brutally
murdered one of Mississippi's noblest sons
gets from this excellency "the friend Of
the old citizens Of the State"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

The Meridian Mercury cad. Nof
exploit, Mississippi shame y.
Mississippi does not consider har
ponsible for the conduct 0f aaN 4" "
gan's sort.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18
II2S52 90
Total

From the above, we observe that during
the Democratic reign the yearly taxes of
Rankin amounted to $S,0S7 &c; and under
the dominion of the Radicals they will
amount to the startling sum of Sll2s52 co.
exclusive of county levies imposed for
county purposes, or about S4l for each vo-
ter in the county, provided every IMAM pay
his taxes; but ifthe whites only pay-which
is an exceedingly probable event-the tax
will then amount TO about $50 for each white
en- franchiZel Citizen in the cnuntX.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

THE CoTTON PICKING season will soon
commence, and farmers should bear in
mind the importance ofcareful handling
so as to send their crops to market free
from trash and dust. BY reference to the
price list, it will be seen that there is no
demand for inferior qualities. They are
scarcely quotable. The markets abroad
are deluged with an inferior article from
India and elsewhere. The Southern
States can retain their supremacy in the
markets of the world only by cultivating
the higher grades and handling them
with care If these considerations con-
troll, the culture will continue to be re-
munerative and they can defy all compe-
tition.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

In Tennessee, as in Mississippi, the
Radicals are endeavoring to get up what
they call an cold Line Wing movement"
In the former State, they are prompted
by motive to regain power; and in the
latter to hold it. Elsewhere we have
printed an able letter on the subject from
Col. Robertson Topp, distinguished
Old Line Wing, in response to a call
from number of his old political associ-
ates, Judge Foute, formerly of this State,
among the number. 1t is a sufficient
commentator Of this letter that it comes
to us with the endorsement Of our own
distinguished fellow-citizen, Hon. VIM.
L. Sharkey, at whose instance it is re-
produced in our columns.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

ANOTHER RADICAL LIGHr.-Con-
gresham Butler, of Tennessee, who was
charged with selling cadetship to West
Point, but escaped expulsion, has been
guilty of more serious offense. He is
charged with forging the name of poor
widow to papers in the Pension Bureau.
and drawing the money due her without
her knowledge.
A United States Marshal has served
on Kirk writs of Habeas Corpus, issued
by Judge Brooks, to bring his prisoners
before him at Salisbury. Kirk replied
he would answer after consulting Hold
en-, his master; and epresume after the
wholesome lesson taught him by the peo-
pie, that Holden will instruct him to pro-
duce the prisoners that they may be re-
stored to their liberty.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

The Copiahan suggests that the citi-
zens of Hazlehurst hold meeting for the
purpose of organizing a volunteer COM
pany.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18

The Pilot complains of the dad man
agemenT of Grant and Holden in
North Carlina, as il it was an exception
to the general policy Of the dominant
party and its tools in the treatment Of
the Southern people Was it any worse
than the conduct of Ames who arrested
without cause and imprisoned without
trial. Was not the recent proceedings Of
Alcorn and his minions in the vindictiye
prosecution and illegal Imprisonment Of
citizens Of Copiah county, part and par
eel Of the same management - Was
not Brownlow guilty Of similar crimes
when he lorded il over the people of Ten
nessee2 Did not Clayton, supported by
Republican bayonets, torn loose his
blood.hounds on the people Of Arkansas?
Davis of Texas is playing the same role;
and Scott Of South Carolina is drilling his
black bandits, under the name Of militia,
to retain his ill-gotten power.