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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14
Wholesale Slaughter.

The Western papers are publishing the
sickening details of the wholesale massa-
ere of company of negroes in Iowa, by
band of whites with whom they became
engaged in quarrel. OF the merits of
the quarrel, we know nothing; and we
only know that it existed; that the ne
groes were butchered and that but one
of the party who did the deed has been
arrested
Suppose this massacre had occurred in
Mississippi, Alabama or Georgia, instead
of the loyal State of Iowa, what howl
would have gone up from all Radicaldoml
And how petitions would have gone to
Washington for U. s. troops And what
a hurrying to and fro there would have
been of armed men with all the pomp and
circumstance of war And how scalawae
Governors would have called for an effec-
tive Militia and Secret Service Funds to
bring the guilty to punishment, and to
subject to rigorous inquisition, those who
are not guilty. And how the Beast who
has charge of the Reconstruction Bust
ness in Congress would have CRASHED his
teeth, and demanded that the offending
State be made subject to the pains and
penalties of being ''set back" in the class
of unreconstructed commonwealth and
her government recognized.
But the blood of the Amounted, luckily
for the quietude of the country at large,
was shed within the precincts of loyalty ),
and the massacre will serve only to fill
half column of the newspapers with
sensational item, to be heard of no more
forever. 1t occurred not within the linz.
its of the reconstructed" communities
and outside of them, who cares for the
poor African. Beyond their domain
where he has no votes worthy of being
he is deemed fit for nothing ex-.
cept food for powder
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

The Radicals are defeated in Connec-
ticut. Her vote is the first that has been
given in response to the Presidents
Proclamation of the adoption of the 18th
Amendment. When it was proposed that
the provisions of the Amendment should
be applied to the North as well as to the
South, we said, Amen let the chalice be
commended to the lips of those who gave
it. With. universal suffrage as the law
of our own State, We could interpose no
objection to its becoming the rule of
Others. Besides, we have had JOY, not
wholly unnixed with malice perhaps, in
seeing how the physie would work. And
it is workingl
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14
n Proposition 10 IIle I.eoTsInfure---
The Petition OH. ballard.

COLUMBIA, Marion Co. Miss, April 3, 1870
Editor Clarion Having seen that one,
IL. Ballagd, has lately presented a petition
70 the Legislature TO be reimbursed out Of
the public treasury, for losses alledged 10
nave been sustained from outlaws in Marion
county, l, who am well acquainted with III.
Ballard, and with the extent OF his losses,
propose to make through your columns an
oier 70 the Legislature. / will pay 20 the
sald Ballard, out of my own pocket, the par
value OF every article Of property belonging
10 MIN that was lost or damaged By the
criminal act Of any person or persons ia
Marion county, on condition that he will
Immediately relieve the State Of Mississippi
OF his presence, and / will submit the cues
ton of damages to a mixed jury oGwhites
and negroes.
The whole loss that Ballard sustained In
Marion county through the criminal net ~
others, was the value OF four buQQv-tans
which probably now repose at the bottom OF
Pearl river.
In case judgment should 20 against me.
IL the above offer is accepted, / give notice
that shall offer evidence OF A partial offset
TO his claim In the shape Of money that ne
cheated me oat OF when he left Marion
county More Of Ballard anon.
THOMAS s. FORD.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14


HoN. JAMES b. BEcK.-It will occa-
sion regret among our people to learn that
this distinguished Democratic member of
Congress has written to friends in Ken
lucky that he will not again be a candi-
date for the position which he has so
faithfully and ably filed.
The people of Mississippi will not soon
forget with what zeal he worked to defeat
the Ubiquitous scheme of the Committee
of Five. They had no representative
there, and he, with a heart filled with
love for his oppressed Southern brethren,
gave them the assistance they SO much
needed
The Kentucky People, an ably edited
paper, in speaking of his letter says:
1--WE are clearly of the opinion that
this district should order Mr.. Beck to
''remain in Congress two years longer.
AT his solicitation we sent him there,
"now at our solicitation he should stav
''there."
We trust that the voters of the district
will act upon the advice Of the People.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14
CoMM1ssIoNER OF IMMIGRArIoN.-W

COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION e
have seen with regret the announcement
in the Pilot, of Gen. A. M. West, that
he has withdrawn as candidate for this
office. His qualifications were indisputa-
BILE and his long residence in the State and
his thorough identification with her peo-
pie through all the vicissitudes of good
and of evil fortune, had naturally drawn
to him the:favor of the public, who regard
the office in question by far the most i'm
portant within the gift of the Legislature
and one not to be filed in consideration
of partizan service.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

CONE TO GRIEF The closing up of
the account Of Gen. Howard, the head
and front Of that den of knaves and kna-
very, ''the' Bureau of Refugees, Freed
men and Abandoned Lands" exhibits the
fact that Gen Howard was guilty of the
same crimes, on large scale, that were
charged upon 50 many the minions.
Mr.. Wood, member of Congress, has
arraigned him before the House upon fif-
teen different specifications, charging him
with misrepresentation of funds (Which
means stealing entrusted TO him as Super
intendent of the Bureau varying in
amounts from five hundred thousand to
thirteen hundred thousand dollars. This
miserable abortion known as the Freed
mems Bureau was never of any benefit
except to its agents. Conceived in in
EQUITY and brought forth in sin it dies,
carrying with it into disgrace all that
were connected with it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

The RAILROAD ACCIDENT NEAR
PIcKESs.-The. Water Valley vallonian
states that the recent accident near
Pickens by which several cars were
smashed, and number of persons were
bruised and narrowly escaped with their
lives, was occasioned by the removal Of a
rail- by some malicious persons and not
by any defect In the tnestle from which
the cars were preciPitated. The occur
ence win suggest to the road the necessity
of the utmost diligence in guarding
against repititions of similar outraees. and
If possible Of bringing the guilty to pun
ishment. The ssime Of visiting upon
innocent people in the most secret and
cowardly manner, untold sufIsrings, to
appease . grpdge against Railroad cor;
peration is monstfous. ~ silgs )
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

A well informed citizen of Louisiana
informs us that the extravaganza and
corruption of the Mongrel Legislature in
that State exceeded all examples of VII
lany in the history of even Mongrel
legislation in the Southern States. They
have saddled the people with debt of
not less than sixty millions of dollars.
vi course there can be no moral obliga-
ton resting upon the people to redeem
these liabilities which have been incurred
to pamper set Of drones who have been
quartered on the public crib contrary to
law and justice by the strong arm of mill
tary power. The so-called debts. with the
pinnderers who have created them, win
be repudiated by the people as soon as
they are permitted execute their will at
the ballot-box
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

The Radical project of the appropriation
of an extraordinary fund to organize an
inquisitory system among our people, as
corrupting, as it is hateful and anti-Re-
publican, has become law. FIFTY
THoUsAND DOLLARS is the sum thus lad
ded to the contingent fund of the Execu-
tive Department to be expended Tin the
enforcement of the criminal laws of the
State" No similar measure has ever be-
fore disgraced the code of the State
The Pretext for its passage is the SANDER
Gus assumption that the people are extra
ordinarily reckless Of their obligation to
observe the laws and keep the peace
To conceal the defOrmities of this hideous
bantling Of Radical malignity. its authors
have discarded the name of Secret Service
and christened it Contingent Fund, as if
the people could be deceived as to its OBJ
jects and cheated out of their righteous
contempt fpr them by a device 80 shallow
and stupid. S. sos sssi sissss
-%@-s-S,--.---------- 1870 5gsts 81
A Female swimmer 10 giving exhibitions
~ 1EOVk4Hh. ~ fea ~ n #ss 80 r.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

The Executive Proclamation appoint
ing the 23rd day of April as day of
collation. TO the Lord throughout all our
borders" has been a topic of no little
comment by the press within and without
these borders" The public have not
found a way to reconcile the declarations
of this manifesto that the madness of
the people has been stilled' and that they
now 'have peace" with the statement of
his GOvernorship that the people are
turbulent and that the extraordinary ex-
pedient of a Secret Service Fund is de-
manded by the necessities of the times.
But the jewel in the head of the toad,
is the passage wherein everybody is con-
graduated that the people are enjoying
the precious rights of freedom" and the
franchises of free government, under
the rule of agents who were
foisted into office in the most despotic
manner and in contempt of the popular
will.
proclamation has elected the following
comments from the Brandon Republican:
We are an unfortunate individual. We
try to look at things through the same spec
tacles that the Governor looks through, but
we can't. for the life of us, see things as he
sees them. He says tGod's wrath has been
sore against the State of Mississippi" We
think God has been kind and merciful to u.s.
He has blessed us with abundant harvests.
health and strength, sunshine and showers.
and every other temporal blessing that He
is in the habit OF bestowing on His creatures
The ''wrath" that has "been sore against the
State of Mississippi is not the wrath of
God, but the wrath of those who control the
Government of the United States. God has
nothing to do with controlling the actions
of our rulers. As well might the Governor
say that the wrath of God was against a
man who had been robbed of his money by
thief. God does not control the actions of
men. He allows them to steal, commit
murder, adultery, and all other species of
crime. and only Furnishes them after DEATH
The Governor says, "the government of our
beloved State is once more that of the tree
choice of her citizens" This we DENY in
toto. Our present State government is not
the free choice OF our citizens. 1t is gov
eminent thrust upon as BIZ Federal bdu0nets
for such blessings as He has bestowed upon
us, but we have too much reverence for HIS
sacred name to confound His actions with
those of our temporal rulers.
Quoting the above, the Louisville
Courier-Journal aptly remarks that the
true Mississippian who does not accept
the doctrine as part Of his religion must
have very unworthy opinion of the wis
dom, the justice and the mercy of the
supreme Being whom he worships.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

UNwARRANTED.-T doubts that are
entertained by some that the Legislature
will not be able, on account of the warm
weather, to transact as much business du-
ring this, as they did last month, are
wholly unwarranted. We feel convinced
that with the same energy and intelligence
which they have displayed there win be a
falling of OfinOt more than one or two
joint resolutions, and three or four acts,
if any. c
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

Colonel Baker, Shcridan's tool, an
nounces that the women and children
killed at the Piegan villages, were killed
accidentally. We suppose Sheridan's APP
proval of the massacre was an accident.
We would like to know if the Outrages
perpetrated during the war by Sheridan's
orders in the Valley of Virginia were
accidents also?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

The Jackson Clarion has not been received
in our Office for more than week. What
are the reasons ?-Handsboro Democrat.
The fault is with the men in charge of
the mails who have been appointed with
more regard to their loyalty" than their
efficiency. The CLARION is mailed reg
ularly to the Democrat. In justice to
our Postmaster, Mr.. Fisher, we must say
that the fault is not in the jackson Office
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

HowARD's UNIvERsITY.-T insti-
tuition, founded in Washington City, for
the purpose of teaching amalgamation
and other crimes against nature, was most
appropriately named. Gen. Howard, its
patron, has been shown to be the equal of
Beast Butler in appropriating that which
did not belong to him.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

A short time since we announced that
Thos L. White, of carpet-bag fame in
Carroll county, who murdered Mrs.
Hobbs, in Boston, last fall had pleaded
guilty to manslaughter and had been sem
fenced to fifteen years Imprisonment. We
now see it stated that his case has been
carried to the Supreme Court of Massa-
chusetts on the plea of insanity.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. Scoo-
ba Spectator says that until it saw in Gov.
Alcorn's thanksgiving proclamation that
''the hand of God has been laid upon the
"Nation-His wrath has been sore
against the State of Mississippi" it was
under the impression that the Devil was
after u.s.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

The road from Selma to Montgomery,
Ala, will be finished by the first of May.
Then the line of railroad hence to the
Atlantic seaboard viii be continuous and
complete.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

Our Legislature is determined to be
economical. So they say. We believe
it. The House have spent the whole OF
only one day this week discussing, in
Committee of the Whole, the, to them,
important subject, oftheir compensation.
The Committee on Finance could have
settled it in thirty minutes. That is what
they call economy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

That excellent paper the Vallonian
published at Water Valley has placed
THE CLARION under obligations for
very kind notice.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

Elder Lynch in his late glorifcation
speech over the 18th amendment says that
the Democratic party stinks in his nos
trils. Some how on other his ebony Sec
retaryship awakens a similar sensation in
the olfactories of the Democratic party.
This disgust is mutual.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

A life picture Of the late Edwin NJ.
Stanton Of execrable memory, drawn by
a master-hand, viii be found in another
column
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

Gen. John G. Breckenridge is speaking
to the people of Kentucky on Railroad
matters. BY and by he will speak to
them, and for them, on other topics and
,1por other arenaa
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

We observe that j. Tarbell, Judge of
this Judicial District, who will probably
preside at the trial of Mr.. Sizer for taking
the life of the late Sergeant Tuck, pre-
sided at recent meeting which referred
to the act rs "a cold-blooded atrocity. %
VIII he be competent Judge, after this
expression mi advance Of the trial?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

Radical papers attribute the defeat Of
their party in Connecticut to a snow-storm
which ragged in that State on the day of
the election. If it be true, the event only
shows that the elements combined to visit
retributive justice upon a party whose
wlckedness and corruptions have become
proverblal- A contemporary IN remarking
upon this explanation of the cause, saws
that the popularity Of the flakes that re-
Gently whitened the soil Of the Gland Of
steady habits" are thus described bv the
poet; - "a
There is a weapon surer set, si
And better than the bayoast-- .is-a
weapon chat comes down ms still
As sA0ac flakes fall upon tine sod,
anu executes afreeman's will
AS lightning does the win of God.
weapon thai no bolts. no locks,
Ian BARR rs THE BALL0T-Eoxt
VI 1850.
The bell was recently stolen from the
for Tow. DIT = s''s
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

WoEDERFUL.-The amount of work,
the Mississippi Legislature, has done in a
month.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

Monroe, colOred man, sustained A con-
siueraDie loss by Ore a few days ago losing
ms house and contents. The flre reached
Ms corn-crib, destroying II and all his corn.
Carelessness of the cook.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

On one day, Julian, Radical Con-
gresham from Indiana, introduced a six
teenth amendment extending suffrage to
females. On the next day, he was thrown
overheard by his party and a successor
nominated in his place.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14
Willis BARFIELp


A Radical paper, the Coahoma Delta,
states that the 'splan Of importing labor
'sers from foreign countries does not meet
with general approval in the Legisla-
ture. We trust it is q mistake. ]. The
Radical party are fully committed to the
policy Of immigration, and created the
Office of Commissioner in order TO pro-
mote it. .sf ss.ssIsss + :.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

The sheriff yesterday evening received an
order from the Governor TO remove Yerger
and Sizer 10 the penitentiary. which was
done at once. RumOr says that fears were
Pilot.
Let us have more light on this subject.
by whom was this violence threatened.
if threatened at all. Certainly not by the
citizens of jackson.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14


The Nicksburg and Meridian Railroad
Company desire to have their charter 30
amended as to enable them to extend their
tract to the river bank at Nicksburg, with
view chiefly to the forwarding of through
freight. We hope for the convenience of
the people along its line of road, that
their wishes may be granted. The Vicks-
burg Times, of Saturday last, has the fol-
lowing in reference thereto:
Ii is very well known that the Vicksburg
ana Meridian railroad few month ago COM
menced the building of an extension Of their
road from the present depot down Mulberry
street TO the river. and had the track laid for
several squares. A writ of Injunction was
sued out against them, the work stopped
and the track taken up. The road, without
surrendering its title of way TO the Mulber-
ny street way. Immediately took steps TO Sc
cure another route, and, IL we mistake not.
selected one running south down Mulberry
across William street, and touching the river
somewhere below the Fair Grounds. In
wishing to extend their road to the river
bank, the officers of the Nicksburg and Me-
ridian railway do not desire. nor have they
any idea OF removing the depot from its
present location. Their sole object I'm dcsi-
ring river terminus Is to Increase their
through freight business. They believe, and
we do not doubt it. they can by snch an Inn
provement double that branch Of their bust
ness. which, As II Il, il increasing rapidly -
Their passenger depot and freight depot for
all city business VIII still be just where they
are. The need Of the river extension Il felt
more every day.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

A bill for the "beneft of the Planters
Insurance Company has passed one
house of the Legislature. This is the
Planters Insurance Company Of Mem
phis, and we understand the bill confers
extraordinary rights and privileges, which
should alone be accorded 10 a home cor
poration
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

THE INCOME TAx.-Disregarling the
petitions ofall classes people from all parts
Of the country for the repeal of this obi
Gus, unequal and inquisitorial measure,
the Radical majority in Congress have
determined to continue il for the year
1870, without change.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14
A True PicIurc.

In the division of the public plumber
which they have seized, the spoilismen of
the Radical party are falling out in sever
al of the Southern States and are fur
nishing each against the other the testi-
mony which is needed to convict them all
of the crimes of which they are guilty.
The scalawag Governor of North Caro-
lima who isrunning his infamous career
in that State, is thus 'arraigned by the
Rutherford (N. c. Star one of the ablest
of the Radical organs:
There has never been in the history of
Republican governments parallel to the
administration of w. w. Holden. the pres
ent Governor of North Carolina. His ad-
ministratiOn has been one of tyranny. 1sur-
patton, treachery and corruption. He has
usurped powers that did not belong to him.
and he has exercised those powers with an
utter disregard for law or constitution. He
has tyrannized over the people. the State
and even the Supreme Court of the State in
way only suited TO a despot and tyrant
He usurped the powers belonging TO the
Superintendent of Public Works in the face
of law and public opinion. He has exer-
clsed those powers with corruption by MIA
cling irresponsible and corrupt men in con-
troll OF our railroads, because he was afraid
to trust men OF honesty and ability to such
appointments. knowing that they would not
be made tools of in speeulating uDon and
swindling the people out of their MONEY!
He used these powers treacherouRIv. be-
cause he promised the people to put honest
and responsible men in charge of these i'm
portant Offices, which he ignored in his ap-
pointments from A to 4.
The picture will answer as well for any
of the rest of the scalawag tribe who are
clothed with authority in the Southern
States, as for Holden. On their pima
cles of infamy, they are fit objects forthe
finger of scorn.
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OFFIcE NEW ORLEANS, JACKSON ANDl
GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD.
New Orleans. April 9. 1870.

The Republic of Bolivia IL shaken by a
revolution: Thus far the Insurgents have
troops. At the latest dates, they were ad-
vancing on Carkcas. - r :.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-14

Senator Drake intendsto take the stump
in Missouri against the proposed enfran-
ehisement ofal the white people there.