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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

In reproducing Col Statforfs exposi-
ton of the shortcomings of the Legisla-
ture, we omitted the concluding para
graphs which nevertheless, have not
spoiled by keeping, and are copied below.
The performances of the Legislature con-
sidering the magnitude of the duties de-
vOlving upon it, call to mind the remark
of Sterne, that it is ''mere malice when
fortune, in one of its freaks exalts con-
"ceited poor devil to the pinnacle of
grandeur, knowing that he will so MUIR
"der his part that the disguised specta-
''tors must see him to be the fool of the
"play." In this instance the ''play" is
costly exhibition to the plundered and
oppressed people of the State. They
cannot be amused at performance which
is increasing their burthens and which
will add largely TO their pecuniary dis
tress, to say nothing of the social demon
alization which must be the consequence
of ignorance, recklessness and profigacy
on the part Of those who are empowered
to make and execute the laws of the
State. The only consolation that we can
derive from the existing order of things
is that in inficting US with the present
incapable and profigate rulers, fate has
done its worst; and in the right OF the
people to choose their own agents here
after, without the interposition Of the
bayonet, they are enabled to catch a
glimpse of light in the surrounding dark
ness:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

A Coon MEASURE. Senator Bennett
has introduced bill into the Senate for
the appointment of Commission to cod
ify the laws of the State. Ifpassed. and
the work be committed to competent
hands, several hundred thousand dollars
will be saved to the people, besides vast
good accomplished in bringing order out
Of the present chaos which, under the
rule of ignorance and selfshness, Is be-
coming confusion worse COMPOUNDED.
P. S.-Since putting the foregoing in
type, we have noticed in the proceedings
of the House, that AIr. Maxey, of Rank
in, has introduced in that body measure
for similar purpose.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21
The Alleged PecuIatiOnS of How
ard.

The Congressional Committee have
commenced investigating the charges of
corruption imputed to Howard, the Chief
of the Freedmen's Bureau, in the man.
agement of the funds committed to his
care. The first days report is decidedly
damaging to his reputation, and will
strengthen the belief in the public mind
that he has made his office a convenient
agent for his own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT at the
expense of the public. The FreedInen's
Bureau has been a prolific hive from which
have gone forth deluge of plunderers to
riot on the substance of the toiling masses !;
and it is not to be supposed that the CEN
trail person around whom these swarms
clustered, was more honest than his sat
elites. The following are some of the
specifications in the Indictment against
him:
First. That he has taken from the appro-
priations made for and the receipts of that
without authority of law, for the Howard
University. hospital, and lands.
Second. That portion of the land alleged
to have been sold for the benefit of the How
ard University fund, were disposed of i'm
properly to members of his own family and
officers of his staff
Fourteenth. He has discharged the duties
of the office of Commissioner of the Bureau
with extravaganza, negligence, aud in the
interest OF himself and family and immedi-
ate friends.
Fifteenth. That he is oneof a ring known
as the -'Freedmen's Bureau Ring" with con-
nectiOns and influences with the Freemen's
Savings Banks, and freedmen's schools of
the South, ana the political machinery of a
party in the Southern States, and whose
practice has been to devote the official au-
thOrity and power OF the Bureau to person
al and political profit.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

Add to these figures proportional es
innate of %, 900 dollars for the Senate
and We have total of 66, 159 dollars fol-
single month on account of the Legis
lature alone. Look at the items, 500 dol
lars for stationery. Messenger Of Judi
ciary Committee $50 dollars-an EN-
pIOyee hitherto unknown in all the legisla
ton of the State. Twenty-Five clerks Of
SAND DOLLARS, an unusual and
enormous expenditure. Heretofore,
except in rare instances, the Com.
mittees have themselves performed their
own clerical duties But this body pro
vides itself with TWENTY-FIVE Clerks
at a cost of $4,000 per month. Is
this money expended to fasten twenty
five hungry leeches upon the State treas
ury, in addition to the other blood-sucBers;
or is it to supply the incapacity Of the
committees to read and write for them
selves?
But this is not all the Legislature has
done, and is doing, towards squandering
the public money. 1t has appropriated
the extravagant sum of twenty-five thou
sand dollars upon the building known as
the executive mansion. -Four years ago
with a reasonable appropriation, the
building was put in a good tenantable
condition. When Gov. Humphreys oc-
cupied it there was no complaint that it
was not fit for the residence of the Gov
ernor. True, since that time it has been
put to vile uses For a time it was
cage of unclean birds Ames and the
crew that herded with him, made it their
abode; and the scene of their orgies
1t needed ventilation. 1t required free
use of disinfectants. But its present oc-
cupant ought to have been the last person
to have turned with disgust from the foul
atmosphere engendered there; and if he
wished it purged of ats impurities it was
an outrage on the people to appropriate
$4,000 dollars for that purpose. He
cauld better afford to endure the odor
than they to bear the burthen. And
swift upon the heels of this extravaganza
comes the business of the Secret Service
Fund, an iniquity at the contemplation of
which its authors themselves became
abashed and whose enormities they feebly
endeavored to conceal by cunning use
of terms in giving it a title.
And thus day by day, while the people
are struggling to rebuild their waste
places and secure something from the
wreck of their former prosperity, the
sappers and miners are busy at their work
undermining the foundations which they
are laying, and reaping where they have
not sown.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

The LEGISLATURE any reader is
inclined to believe that we have in any
manner misrepresented the course of the
Radical majority who have everything
their own way in the Legislature or
have moderated their capacity to perform
the duties assigned them-or have exag-
Grated the purely selfish and partizan
spirit by which their actions are controlled,
we refer him to the article copied in an
other column from the State Register,
Col. Staford's paper. 1T is the testimo-
ny of a leading Republican, a man of
ability, and of standing in his own party,
and who probably did more than any
Radical in the State to inaugurate the
Radical plan of campaign in the late
election. In language not less strong
than the occasion warrants, this leading
and active Republican deprecates the
manner in which the Legislature is trihing
with matters of grave public interests
and subordinating them to schemes of
personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. He calls upon
that body to reform its conduct. But
will his counsel be needed Is it within
the range of possibilities that it will be
needed? Can the Ethiopian change his
skin? Or the Leopard his spots
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

CoTToN.-In consequence of the late
ness of the spring, farmers generally are
unusually backward in planting their cot
ton. They will very generally finish this
part of their labor the present week. And
while they are busily preparing for an
other crop, the following intelligence con-
corning their last, will not be uninterest-
ing
The increase over 1s6S is now nearly 80
per cent. The receipts for the week, were
1880 bales gross, and 17,496 proper, against
l9,Sl7 proper last week, q, 202 the week be-
fore, 20143 three weeks since, and IO,427 for
the corresponding week last year. The
prospects are still quite favorable for a total
at this port for the season of 100000 bales
Middling now stands -922c. against 2SIxd
Sac. at the same date last year.-N. u,
Picayune.
The crop of last year will probably
reach 2,7OO,OOO
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

A GRAVE QUESTION. understood
that j. Tarbell, the military judge of this
district, is an applicant for re-appoint-
ment. Now the question arises, has he
not, IN pronouncing the homicide of
James Tuck, and at the hands of III. E.
Sizer IAN atrocious murder" shown such
disregard of the proprieties of his Office
as to display his incapacity for it2 Has
he not disqualified himself to sit upon the
case of Mr.. Sizer when he is arraigned
for trial? Upon the strict impartiality
of the court, the prisoner on the one
hand, and the commonwealth on the 9th
er, must rely for justice, and the faith
full administration of the laws; but how
is this end to be accomplished under the
direction of a court which has already
pronounced Judgment ON the cases
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21
Col. ChandIcr's Gard wherein hc
Speaks his Mind.
J,CEsoN Miss Anril 9th $50

10 he People of Lduderddie County.
In the face of my cordial support Of your
Court House bill, against the wishes OF one
of your Representatives. the Meridian Ca
zette OF this date makes my supposed Opp0-
siti0H to il, pretext for a most cruel and
extraordinary assault upon me personally.
As the means of verifying his statements,
by an inspection Of the Journals of the Leg
stature. were Ofeasy access, am constrain-
ed to regard this assault upon me as utterly
wicked and unprovoked, and TO brand the
writer liar, ScOURdrCi anil assassin 0f chur-
0rfpT.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21
Another Message.

Gov Alcorn discharges his broadsides
into the menagerie with the rapidity of a
field battery. That rare assemblage of
learning, wit, wisdom and patriotism,
will surely expire under his infections
He is saddling it with responsibilities to
which its enormous capacity is wholly
unequal. We have had his Inaugural
which embraced all things in the Heavens
above, in the earth below, and the waters
beneath the earth. And in quick sue
cession have come his Militia and Secret
Service Message, his Penitentiary Message,
his Asylum Message, and how many more
we cannot at present recall. And now
comes this effusion in regard to Common
Schools in which its author seems to have
dlved deep into the lore of Northern
prophets of light, and INDUCED largely in
high sounding twaddle which it will take
a commission of school-masters to analvze
and comprehend
1.-THE Legislature undertake to perform
all the work required by the Governor
there is no telling when it will get through,
if we are to infer from its progress the
past six weeks and we are overwhelmed
by the fear that the people will not be
permitted to enjoy sense of relief from
its continued session during its entire
term. The Governor ought not to for
get that the heavens and the earth were
not made in single day Nor can the
spirit of this luminous agent yclept the
Legislature move upon the dark waters in
an instant and set up the new dispensa-
ton upon the ruins of the chaos which
the carpet-bag emissaries and their home
satellites have discovered to exist in this
heather Southern land.
From statements contained in the
Message we learn that an appropriation is
wanted right away for the training of
teachers and for purchasing certain prop
erty belonging to the American Missiona-
ry Association at Tugaloo, at $40, 900
which we will venture to say did not cost
the aforesaid Missionaries exceeding that
sum.
We are told that the cost of school
buildings, sites, &c, i'll Mississippi will
be 5000, 900 of dollars-and that 2, 400
male and $500 female teachers will be
needed to but the machinery into success
full operation.
The Governor thinks that "justice to
"both races demands that the schools
should be kept absolutely separate. >
An opinion in which we heartily concur.
1t ought to have been so written in the
Constitution itself, and would have been
but for the adoption of the motion of
Strlnger, an ambitious delegate of the
colored persuasion, to strike out the word
separate" from the report of the School
Committee in the Convention. Stringer
did not want the distinction which God
had created between the races, to be re-
in the laws of the State. and by
the use of the lash upon his obsequious
followers carried the day. But now the
great Mogul of Radicalism, in the most
formal manner protests against ignoring
God Almighty in this business. and
Stringer will have to succumb unless re-
inforced by Fred Douglas, Abby Foster, |
Forney & Co. To this '.oompleriion it has
come at last"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

They that carried us away captive requir-
cd OF us mirth, saying sing us one of the
songs of Zion. Psalm CXXXVII. l.
Next Thursday is the day fixed by
Executive proclamation for'the mockery
of a hypocritical thanksgiving by the peo-
pie Of this State for the infiction by mil
itary force of their present rulers upon
them. In the GOODNESS Of the decree we
know nothing to equal it in history, mod
ern or profane, unless it be the demand
ofthe Babylonians, that the people whom
they had carried away captive, and held
in bondage-whom they had wasted and
subjected to every manner of insult and
injury sing them a song.
If our people are disposed to make the
time named day Of religious Observance,
they sohuld not affect before their Maker a
cheerfulness they do not feel. But they
should do as all other religious communities
are exhOrted to do in a season of calami-
~, ciethe themselves in sack-cloth and
ashes, and with fasting and prayer, de
voutly petition that Il better time may
speedily come when they will be deliver
ed from the curse of their oppressors, or
the sorrows whatever they may be, that
affiict them.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

The Cincinnati Enquirer remarking
upon the malignant fabrications concern
ing the alleged lawlessness in the South
says truly that accurate statistics,
1--WE believe, would demonstrate that
''crimes against life and property are not
''more numerous anywhere in the South
ethan among an equal population in
New England. 1t is time that the loyal
'1ie factories should suspend operation;
tbut if they viii not stop, then let the
''slandered Southern people see to it that
1.-THE fabrications are exposed"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

Wilson, of Massachusetts,, in his place
in the United States Senate recently said:
"Since Lees surrender more men have
''been killed in the late rebel States, on
account of race and color, than were
'killed in battle during the rebellion. =
This absurd fabrication is of piece with
the ''ofieial information" from the South
on which the President says that an act of
Universal Amnesty should be indefinitely
postponed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

The RAIDS in the Legislature are show
ing signs Of trePidation at their prema-
ture removal of the Court House of
Clarke county, to Enterprise, and Of the
step they have taken from the creation of
the new county of Chandler" They
have discovered that they are committed
to an arrangement which will secure at
least three counties to the conservatives,
in two of which they have had hopes of
maintaining their ascendency.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

To show what the Minnesota authori-
ties are doing to promote immigration in
to that State, we will mention that the
board of emigration have voted 10000
copies of a pamphlet setting forth the re-
sources of the State prepared by the As
sistant Secretary of State and have au-
thorized the State Irish Emigration So
ciety to print 10000 pamphlets. They
have alreado employed agents in Europe;
and besides have resolved to employ them
IN Chicago and Milwaukee the coming
season.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21
Salaries.

While cur lawmakers are fixing the
salaries of public officers, we will give
them the benefit of publishing the rates
recently established by the Legislature of
the great and opulent State of Iowa, as
follows: Governor, $4,000; judges OF
supreme court, 5000; Secretary of State,
Treasurer, Auditor, Superintendent of
Public Instruction. Register of State
Land Offices, 2,200 each; deputies of
these officers, 1000; judges of the dis
trict court, 1920: of the circuit court,
|, 800.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21
Col. Shannon "DisfrancIsiscd.'
JACKSON, Miss, April -, 1870.

j. j. SHANNON, Esq, Meridian
SIR:-lour challenge of yesterdays date
has just reached my hands. In reply 10
your inquiry whether 4 am willing TO give
yOu satisfaction In the way usual amon
gentlemen" | have TO say while / am not
opposed to duelling, unfortunately you drc
diStrdRchiSed md ! am not. and this fact pre-
cludes our meeting on the terms OF equality
by the duelling code. IL app
pears To me, however, that another method
will readily suggest itself to you, whereby
you can obtain any satisfaction" you think
you are entitled TO in the premises. Public
business will detain me In Jackson several
weeks longer.
ReSpcctfully.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21
Col. simmons An~NN cr---PiStOIs
and Coffee.
MERIDIAN, April 18th 1870.
"H's1'I II ~ = IT ~ ~
NDLER. ESQ. jackson:

G.. {. CHANDLER, Esq, jackson:
SRI have seen your card, published In
the Mercury of to-day. The only reply
can make to IT, mt present, Is to inquire ifyou
hold yourself sponsible for IL, aud are will
ling 20 give me the satisfaction i'm the way
usual among gentlemen. Ifyou are willing
to this course. as soon ~ | can hear from
you, you will be waited on by friend, with
a view to make such arrangements as may
become necessary Respectfully,
j. j. SHANNON,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21
vfcksburg and Meridian Railway.

The excellent management of this
Road has elected general commentator.
We are glad to know that its business is
ON the increase; and its success assured.
When it becomes a link in the great
Southern thoroughfare between the At
lantic and Pacific Oceans, its Importance
and value will be inestimable. We learn
that Col E. F. Raworth, the General
Superintendent of the Road, has recently
purchased several locomotives, and Or
dered one hundred more freight cars,
and several irst-elass passenger coaches
for the accommodation of the public. In
order to facilitate communication with
the West for the speedy transportation
of freights, he is making arrangements
to connect with the Road fast freight
line to St. Louis.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

The North German Lloy d steamer, Ham
mover, which reached New Orleans ON the
5th, had but l02 passengers on board-thir-
ty-two Of whom left on the 9TH for Texas,
and about twelve for SC, Louis, while the
rest win remain in New Orleans.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

A negro killed white man named Bolton,
near Roberts Ferry, In Green county, about
TWO weeks ago. The full particulars we are
NOT IN possession of. The negro was arres-
TED and lodged in Leaksville Jail, but &c Is
rumOred here that he had since broken out
and experimentation Democrat.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

We learn from the Nallonian that the
Swedish population of Water Valley,
who were introduced into that commune
ty by the Messrs. Burglund, are building
a beautiful church edifce, the frame work
of which was manufactured at the shops
of those enterprising citizens.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

The colored enfranchised of Cincinnati
have decided that sit is not advisable to
pledge themselves to support either the
republican or democratic party"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

A colored man named Harper, Jelss.I
county, Indiana, was attacked BY 49,
white men on Friday night near ea
and brutally beaten. until be beoauip ip'
sible.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

When we urged that the laws of God
Almighty making the distinction between
the races ought not to be ignored in fra
ming the Constitution, the NLongrels in
sisted that we were heretics; but what
have they to say now since the oracle of
Radicalism has endorsed our position and
declared that Justice to both races de-
"mands that the schools should be kept
absolutely separate"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21
The Confederate Dead at Geffys-
burg.

Some weeks ago we performed the
grateful duty of publishing an address by
a lady of Virginia in behalf of an Asso-
citation in Richmond, embracing a letter
from Gen. Lee, appealing to the people of
the South for aid in collecting and appro-
priately interring the remains of the H.
lustrious Confederate dead at Gettysburg
who sealed their devotion to the cause
they loved, with their lives. The party
in control of the federal government have
employed the public funds, collected alike
from all sections and peoples, to establish
what is called a National Cemetery at the
battlefield in which are buried the fed
eral dead with all the honors of marble
and inscription, while the bones of the
Southern heroes are uncared for and neg
lected. Gen. Lee, whose very name fills
the true Southern heart with floods of
unutterable emotion, writing to the no
bic women of Virginia who have under
taken the task of accomplishing the re-
moval and burial Of these sacred relics,
says that they are engaged in a "pious
work" And they in turn are appealing
to the men and women of the South for
help to accomplish it. Shall the call be
in vain? If the men will not act, let the |
noble-hearted women in every hamlet and |
village and city, take the matter in hand,
get up subscriptions and send back their
response with liberal contributions
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

They that carried us away captive requir-
ed OF us mirth, saying sing rs one of the
songs ofZion.-Psalm CIXXXVII. l.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-04-21

A. T. MoRGAR.