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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30
A Carpet-Bagger'- Lament.
He IS Lef out IN he Cold, while
Villain" gets Good appointment
and can Grotc Eat"
From the Pilot.
NATcHEz, Miss, June II, 1870

NATcHEz, MISS, June Il, 1870.
". j. HEwsoN, ESQ.,
DEAR SIR IL find the name of one T.. b.
Waddell, Oate Sheriff Of Marion county,
published as Sheriff Of Lawrence county,
and ! must say nothing ever surprised me
more than said appointments, from the fact
that he was the most bitter opponent and
enemy Mr.. Ballard and bad TO contend
with in the late canvass In Marion county,
to such an extent, that he destroyed the
registration and election notices throughout
the county, with the remark that no Radi-
cal elections should be held in the county,
ii he could prevent it He also committed
an assault and battery upon Mr.. Ballard
with a loaded whip, for receiving from the
Inspector OF Elections, the Registration
Books, in his (W.) absence from the cOun-
~ one day prior 70 opening Of said books (;
and furthermore, hc swindled and defraud-
ed the white and cOlored tax-payers OF said
county, and no doubt you saw some OF his
receipts which we collected from parties
who demanded justice, and upon said grounds
removed him on the 2Sth of November last.
lie also was the cause Of breaking uD of
two Of the Boards OF Registers OF said eoun-
TO. 1 omit further comment upon this no.
torious character, for the short space Of
time occupied in receiving an answer from
You. and in case / receive no reply, rs la
some former letters, Mr.. Ill. Ballard and
myself are determined 10 denounce this
Waddell in the public press Of this state.
And ] must now say, IL is seemingly
strange, and unjust, thai zee are actually nm
noticed, tohde such characters as Wd,ideu can
groao fat upon thar tohich tge risked Ire anil
property 20 bring about. And it seems 20 me,
that you saw our situation, and heard
enough while In Marion county, to convince
any person that Waddell tcds a villain, In
every sense of the word.
Now, ask are zoe 90 TeceiCe nothing after
tss great toss Of property ind che risk II or
IlUcs, for the advancement and success ofour
party in that uncivilized county where 9TH
er men were afraid 10 20, and do the duties
of those officers known 70 be an appointed"
/ would respectfully refer you TO letter ad-
dressed TO Hon. x. q. Powers and Hon. Mr..
Gibbs, by Mr. III. Ballard.
1 remain, yours truly,
GRO. ST. &. Huaavv In
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30
Beast ButIer'- Ven0mouS Amnesty
RiII.

Commenting on the bill of Butler dis
eliminating in the matter Of extending
amnesty, instead Of making il universal,
a Northern paper, says:
amnesty with Butler, and Buffers par
ty means nothing more or less than the eX-
tension of voting, in the south, 10 all who
will assist in the work of returning radical
candidates, and keeping disfranchised all
who will be likely 10 support any decent
men or measures that might be put forward
In the South.
In any case, amnesty from Butler Is an In
suit. Were amnesty required In the case Of
rogues before they could be admitted TO
Congress, Butler would either have under
gone the effects of amnesty, or he would be
ineligible. IL l. a pity that amnesty could
not be brought up by some individual whose
contact with IL would not be contamination.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

Horace Greeley has been to the West In
dia Islands, and he publishes a letter In the
Tribune, ia which he fairly admits that what
is called freeing the negroes" has ruined
these Islands. lie says:
But plantations that were productive and
flourishing under Slavery are wholly deser-
ted and useless under Freedom, aud have
not been succeeded by the modest holdings
of small farmers. ! do not mean that there
are none such, for there are some. l do
mean that Agriculture on this island, and
think on most Of the others OF the group,
has shrunk within narrower limits, and Is
content with smaller results, than In the
days of African bondage"
1t was not so much freeing the negroes
that ruined the West Indies, as placing
the governments thereof under their rule.
Greeley has truly described the deplora-
bic condition to which they have been
reduced.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

SENATOR DUNCAN, OF YALoBUsHA.
We are gratifed to note the return of
this able Senator to the seat which he has
so long vacated, in consequence of his
severe illness. During his stay in New
Orleans undergoing medical treatment,
he was an inmate of Hotel Dieu where
angels in human form, ministered to his
wants. He returns in time to reinforce
the Stonewall band of conservatives in
the Legislature.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30
Scandinavian Ma mfgraIiOn into
Mississippi.

From the Aberdeen Examiner, June I6.
We received visit from Rev. II. G. Blich-
feldt. agent OF immigration on the line OF
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad on Monday
From him we obtain the most favorable re-
ports In regard TO this pet scheme of our
people, aud Of all who desire the advance
ment and prosperity of their section. Mr..
Blichfeldt has introduced to our State 3. $50
Scandinayians. and of this number over
1000 have exhibited the spirit of true men.
and have settled down to be of us. We
learn that there are at present sixty families
of Scandinavians domiciled in this CITY and
its suburbs, representing about one hundred
and fifty Of these admirable people. With
this immigrant nucleus of actual settlers
and householders we may confidently hone
within the next three years to see every
acre of land in the market and every spot
that is now waste blooming with the
promise of wealth.
We learn further from the Examiner
that the Scandinavians in the vicinity of
Aberdeen have organized Society for
their social advancement and the cultiya-
ton of the pastimes to which they were
in father land. Isl 1
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

The report Ofthe superintendent o.
Garden shows that. last week. tne
OF emigrnnts from Liverpool was 80 u
North Germany, BBl: from GlA.g' i,1~
London, 1908, and in sailing vesel..
Total, ll.S22. Out or this number V'nsfG
have gone west or into the interior ~ lr9
the year ending May 3isrs over 1lp,f 30
grants arrived at Castle Garden -sg.il
more than a twentieth were 5canu.e Ue
VI these latter twO-thirds have EranN~
They brought with them nearly 1890 d
There has been n gain ~ The ~ w.. Or
this city from the Influx Of f0fe'h .6fr'~
ing tho Last twelve months 81 ovel M 1s
Out or 10000 cmlWrmnts who 49,
month, New York got lA000i lliin.i- Az
Iennay lvania, nearly G000s Wien rl
Ohio. 1000; California, 600; hee 81
1000; New England statea JJyy -
States l7OOi and the other went ""
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

Coon ADvIcE.-In a recent letter to
friend in New England Mr.. Goodwin
Smith took pains to advise Englishmen,
emigraiing to America, to seek homes in
the south, for the alleged reason that the
American prejudice against England and
Englishmen is less in that section than
in any other part of the republic. Mr..
Smith has number of countrymen al
ready in this section, some of them in
Mississippi, who will testify to the warm
welcome aud generous treatment English
men will receive and of the prosperity
which frugality and industry can accom-
plish
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

"PARTY OF THE MOUNTAIN. "-Un-
der this caption the Chicago Tribune
Republican1 says, the dictation of a
self-appointed regency, composed of Nor
ton, Drake, Howard and Thayer, has
divided the Republican party into two
distinct bodies in each House. 1t is
thought that the conservative wing will
unite with the Reformers in the Presiden-
tial election and assist in driving the
corruptionists from power. -
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

Yarmouth, of Louisiana, one of the
creatures who have been imposed on the
Southern States by the Radical rulers,
and who have been rightly classed as
"vermin" by leading Radical paper,
the Chicago Tribune, presented himself
at the Capitol of Mississippi recently and
was the reeipient OFFS loving attentions
as his congenial Mongrel brethren in
authority could afford him. So long as
the State House continues to be the
nursery of '.villaiuy"', and fhe temple of
social and political Mongrelism, it win
be an attraction for the tribe of War
mouth. f-ege
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

The speech of Representative Conner,
of Choctaw, the lone Star Conservative
who glimmers obscurely inthe constellation
of niggers and carpet-baggers in the sup
port of the Railroad bill, justifes the dis
appreciation which he expressed of his
course. His essay upon the general adj
vantages Of Railroads, are not in place be-
cause nobody disputes them, and, they are
wholly irrelevant to the monster monopo-
lies which this bill proposes to create, =
The opposition of Mr.. Conner to the AL
corns has betrayed him into worse COM
pany, and besides, Con this occasion at
least) into an abandonment the funda-
mental principles of his party which are
at war with all schemes aggrandizing the
few at the expense of the many; and es-
pecially with the forced Social Equality
abomination which he admits is engrafted
upon the bill.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

The Conservative Press Association of
Mississippi met at Oxford on Wednesday
last. The attendance was large, and the
deliberations of much interest to the
craft. We hope to have the proceed
ings for publication in next paper. The
Association adjournded on Thursday
evening, after the election of officers for
next year. The next Annual Meeting
will be held at Winona on the second
Thursday in May, 1871.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30
The Social Equality Clause i'm the
Railroad hill.

Contrary TO all reasonable expectation,
the Governor not only did not veto the
Railroad bill in consequence of its Social
Equality provision, but he really affected
a puerile and Aimsy objection to it on the
very opposite ground, viz: that in profess
ing to prohibit the recognition of race by
common carriers, it failed to do so and
therefore fell short of the just measure of
rights to the dear people of African de-
scent.
Admitting that the first part of sec. 40
forbids such recognition, he assumes that
it is Cancelled by the proviso permitting
Railroad companies 'to establish separ-
late cars for ladies and gentlemen and
separate ears for smoking" Clearly
this proviso does not authorize dis
elimination on account of color or race
Even the Monkey looking darkey who
represents - county, has sense enough
to understand this. 1t simply authorizes
the assignment of white and black smo-
1O4 A1cA VI 01l0GT race u03ccOm-
panied by females, or of females of eth
er race, to separate apartments. Nothing
is said about color, and the bill cannot be
construed to warrant its recognition. To
convey the belief to the discontinued
Mongrels, that he is sound as Sumner
himself, on the Social Equality doctrine,
he contends that 'sthe conductor should
not look into the face of a man and
brother to investigate his complexion, and
that white man or black man, white
"woman or black, having frst-class
ticket, have right by the law of Missis-
"sippi to afrst-class seat" But railroad
companies nevertheless In preparing
equal accommodations now have the right
to provide separate apartments for white
and black and it is this right the bill
proposes to take away.
The Governor must have painfully ex-
perienced that honesty in politics is, after
Ill, the best policy, and that there is no |
playing fast and loose in any game with
,ut being the worse for it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

The fable of Action torn by the hounds
he had fed, is reproduced in the treat
ment which the Republican Chief Gas
his organ is prone to call him) receives
from his carpet-bag friends. For
two mortal hours yesterday one
of them pelted him mercilessly
with the evidences of his own in
consistency, and they were so incontro-
vertible that the members who are sus-
tanning his veto were placed at great
disadvantage. But for his lame duck of
message, they could have gotten along
better
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

THE MILITIA BILL.-This measure
having passed the Senate by the mere
force of Republican numbers, will I'M
doubtedly pass the House; and the peo-
pie had as well set their houses in order
for the vexations, outrages and enormous
taxes which viii result from it. AS a
measure of the Republicans, and intrin-
sically infamous, it was sternly opposed
by the Democrats in body, but SO OBJ
noxious were some of its provisions that
even so advanced Radical as Senator
Gibbs denounced it--saying:
II consider the powers gfanted to the
commander-in-chief as Republican in
their character, and an unwarrantable and
unheard of surrender of the rights of free
men to the control of one man.
And following the conviction thus bold
ly uttered, the author of the sentiment
voted against the bill.
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The richest thing in the illusions which

The richest thing in the effusions which
sparkle in the carpet-bag organs of the
day, is the letter of one of the tribe, COM
planning that man has been appointed
Sheriff of Lawrence county, who commit
ted all sorts of outrages on the freedom
of election to the jeopardy of life and
limb of self-sacrifcing RAIDS, while the
complainant who "worked for the adj
vancement of the party of moral ideas
Eve know what that means) is left out in
the cold.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

Ninety thousand white men In the state
Of Missouri are not "loil" enough 10 vote
but they can pay four cents on the dollar la
taxes 70 Support the Mongrels who rule
them with an Iron rod. The great question
of this hour Is, how long viii the peopIe AZ
low the heads Of the sconndrels who do
these things 70 remain on their shoulder
Day-ROok. Uf1T M
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

AMEEsTY.-In Beast Buffers bill, the
people of the South, have another exam
pie of the way in which the Republican
party is fulfilling its pledges. Its leaders
in this section have constantly pledged
that the vindictive measures of their par
ty would be repealed as compromising
condition of Radical reconstruction hut
this bill proposes to exclude large class
of the representative men of the South Of
both the former political parties, from
the enjoyment of the rights accorded to
their former slaves. 1t constitutes an
other claim of the Republican party to
the undying hatred of the people who are
the objects of its prosecutions.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

STAND FROM UNDER to
high Republican authority the same vile
disease that brought disgrace" on the
Republican party in one State and con-
signed it to ruin in another, is develop
ing itself alarmingly in Mississippi.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

The Senatobia Times, which has until
now been one of the half dozen ''no
party" papers, has been purchased by
Thos. l.. Yancey, Esq, and will hereaf-
ter advocate the great principles of the
Democratic party. 1t says:
''Our artillery may be of light calibre,
''yet its intonatiOns shall be heard amid
"the laundering of mighty columbiads in
''behaf of Democracy,
May it prosper in the good work it has
undertaken
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

The Mempis Appeal announces by au-
thority that it is not the intention of Hon.
Jefferson Davis to. deliver an address be-
fore the Mississippi Agricultural Socie-
ties, as he has no desire or intention to
participate in public affairs of apy kind
Neither is he engaged in writing novel,
nor in the preparation of memoirs of his
political career. ~
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

Speaking of Alderman, the new At
torney General, the Columbus (Ga. ,
Sun, says:
If Grant wanted an active officer, he has
made asagacious selection. If he desired to
exhibit his own hatred to the people ofGeOr-
gia, he has been eminently successful. Ii
his intention was to make sharp mannu-
vre in radical politics in Georgia, he has
Numbered wofiIlIv ..r..
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

A few days ago the question of discour-
aging Coolie labor in Massachusetts, came
up in the Legislature of that State, on
bill prohibiting contracts with Cinnamon
for longer time than six months. 1t
was defeated by a vote of 122 to 40.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

The Radical plunderers who have got
ten possession of the sword and the purse
of North Carolina, are prosecuting their
exploits in the true fashion of the high
wayman-your money or your life. 1t
is shown by actual statistics that the Rad
zeal Administration is costing the people
of that State upwards of 100000 per
annum more than were required to de-
fray their expenses before the Radicals
were installed into power. From present
appearances, the difference will be cor
respondingly as large in Mississippi.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

Our people need not hope to derive
any special political advantages from the
divisions of the Republican spoilsmen.
Their party is a mammoth ring, organized
in the name Of loyalty" for the purpose
of plumber. Its members constitute a
sort of mutual insurance corporation and
for the successful working of their
schemes, they are compelled to hold to-
gether. Each has need of the other.
For instance, how can Shocks of the
Defunet Committee of Five get along
with his scheme, if he is not assisted by
Sneak who has Levee or Railroad pro-
iect on hand? 1t is only when their
schemes conflict that the tug of war
among the spoilsmen begins and then
they call each other hard names but the
bond of union-the cohesive power of
public plunder-nevertheless remains.
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We observe the publication of letter
written by Ames of evil fame, who by
corrupt manipulation of the baIlot-box
and the use of the bayonet foisted him
self into Senate as the pretended represen-
tative of an unwilling people-to one of
the young negro appointees for West
Point advising him to ''stick," and at the
sametime, guarding him against the un-
civil treatment to which he would be
subjected by the loyal youths at that
institution. But the young darkey did
not stick. The examining Board were
not up to the standard of the party of
moral ideas of which Ames, ReYels & Co.,
are the representative men.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

Is it genuine hospitality to invite inno-
cent and unsuspecting people into the
folds of party which is infected with
'distemper" that brings disgrace" and
s1rnin ~
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

Crop PRosPEcTs. DR.. c. NJ. Walden,
Of Carroll, under date of June I'D, writes
to the Picayune that there never was a
better prospect for corn and small grain
crops in north-central Mississippi than at
present. The prospects of cotton are re-
ported to be unfavorable.
In South Mississippi, the prospects of
corn are unquestionably better than the
average of seasons. Cotton is not forward;
but it is too early in the stage Of the
crop to predict the probable yield. Zip
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

The colored RAIDS of Pike are dissatis-
fed with their Roane. They have pass
ed resolutions declaring him to be baIky
steed, and they propose to take him off
the course. WhereupOn the Governors
organ notifies these men and brethren of
Pike that they are verging upon Urea
som to the party Of moral ideas.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

Caleb Gushing, the power behind the
Grant throne, was President of the
Charleston Convention of 1860; and af-
forwards presided over the Breckenridge
wing of the Democratic party at Balti-
more
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30
A Fair Fight.

Repu5Hcanism and Democracy are pitted
squarely against each other in the campaign
for Mayor. One or the other will rule the
city, according to the result of the election.
EUery Uote cast for Emery is cote giUeR for the
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

The Holly Springs Reporter, by request,
calls meeting Of the 10Th Mississippi
Regiment at Holly Springs on Wednes-
day, August 3rd- 1t is hoped that every
surviving officer and enlisted man of that
gallant Regiment win be present :,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

Geo. St c. Hussey, carpet-bagger at
Natehez, says the people of Marion coun-
ty are unciyilized. Doubtless they
win interchange courtesies with him if he
gives them the opportunity. -
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

The tax ON salt imposed by the Repnb-
ican rulers alone takes from the people
of this country three million nine hum
dred thousand dollars per year.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

W ELCOME.- 4nursuay lasb COM
pany of seven Scandinavian immigrants
reached here en- route for the home of Rev.
Green G. Fore, of Rankin county, in this
vicinity. This party came at the instance
of relatives and friends who were procu-
red last winter through the agency of the
Central Mississippi Association, for en-
ployment with Mr.. Fore. The number
is small, but we chronicle the fact of their
arrival at this the most unpropitious sea-
son for immigration, because it illustrates
what we have often observed, that new
settlers, if treated in such manner as will
satisfy them with the country, viii them
selves prove the most efficient agents of
immigration.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-30

Judge Bradley, of the Federal Court,
in commenting upon an act passed by the
Republican Legislature of Louisiana,
recently remarked that 1.-THE injustice
perpetrated by the legislation of irrespon-
sible Legislators, has become curse to
our country" This is painfully true of
all the reconstructed States.
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The Election of Bowen Essential
TO a VindicatiOn of RePub-
Iicam ism.

Hon. Sayles J. Bowen, would be regarded
in the light of a full Vi1edtcdtiOa at the Nation
al Metropolis o. the principles Of the Republican
party. while the success of his competitor,
Mr.. Emery. would be hailed throughout the
country as a triumph of the Democracy
Letter of Lewis Republican Senator.
This is conclusive as to the position of
the candidates-the party from whom
they derived their support land the issues
involved. Now let us see how the Chron-
icle announced the result of the election