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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-24
Ohm GILLIs.
Letter from Hon. Thomas NaXey
Late of Ran kin, now of Texas.
JEFFERSON, TEXAS, Aug. 9TH, 1871.

GENTS IL feel safe in saying that the
Democratic or Conservative members were
not committed to vote for Ames on the sec
ond or any other ballot. My impression is
that such a proposition was iRtiDtdted in a
Democratic caucus, but IL met with such
strong and decided opposition that the matter
was dropped. AS a member of the Legisla.
ture, at that time, permit me to return my
acknowledgements to The CLARION for its
denial of the gratuitous charge made by
the Leader, and with the earnest hope that
the party who elected Ames Will soon see
the error of their way and unite with the
Democratic ana Conservative party in res
toriDg peace and civil law in my native
State and overturning the Nv rockers" who
are dealing rapid blows at the vitality of a
gallant and law-abiding people.
/ remain, very respectfully,
=. >. Nancy.
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j. 9. Shoup, who carpet-bagged from
Ohio into the Confederate army, and who
gained such an unenviable reputation as
(so-called) Senator in the Legislature
during its first session, has carpet-bagged
to St Louis, Mo-, and hung out his shin
gle as lawyer. So we learn from the
Oxford Falcon.
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EXECUTIVE MANsIoN.l
Jack SON Miss March Il 1871

\
Hon. \. AMEs, United States Senate, and
GEORGE ). HARRIS, j. l.. MORPHIs. and l.
w. PIERCE. House of Representatives
Washington. ID. c.:
| am informed that dispatches have been
forwarded to Washington, deroSatino from
the power of this government to enforce
the law. desire to correct that DliSrepreser-
tdtiOH and 10 state that ii finds no justification
in fact. riot occurred at Meridian, but
was promptly suppressed. The parties are
now undergoing legal investigation. Some
minor OutrageS have been committed i'm
other points of the Alabama border in the
night by parties in disguise. Ny only d;ffi-
Guilty in these crimes is to discover the
wrongdoers, but that overcome, as [ conf
IDENTIFY hope it will be, this government is
powerful TO make them fear the CONSEQUENT
ces oftheir crimes. save in these cases Mis-
siSsippi presents an unJr0ken evidence Of ciuil
obedience and order.
j. L. ALcoRN, Governor.
This is plumb and square, leaving
nothing to inference. 1t was denial of
the proposition that Federal troops were
needed to enforce the laws in this State,
and a rebuke to its authors. 1t was a
resentful rejoinder to the charge of law
lessness against the people, and of impo-
tency against the State Administration.
Except in some ''minor" instances, saws
the Governor, MISSISSIPPI PRE-
SENTS AN UNBROKEN EVIL
DENCE OF CIVIL OBEDIENCE
AND ORDER" What more could be
asked What more could be said of
any other State in the Union?
And yet Gov. Alcorn, who wrote the
despatch, not only succumbs to the en-
ployment of Federal forces to preserve
torder" in the State, but actually en-
ploys the money of her citizens to aid in
the warfare against which he vehemently
protested!
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We are gratiied to note that Colonel
Horne of the Meridian Mercury has re-
turned safe and sound from the presence
of the Inquisitorial Conclave in this city,
and is again welding his trenchant pen
in the cause Of the down-trodden people.
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protested!

We learn by correspondent in the
Winona Democrat that Hon. Kenneth
Rayner has accepted an invitation to de-
liver the annual address Of the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical Association of Car
roll and Choctaw, on Wednesday the LIST
of November next-being the first day of
the Fair-to be held ut Winona.
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X. y. Woody, Esq, Superintendent
lie Schools for Choctaw county. wa m.
city to-day. lie brings "a most cheering
count Of educational matters in hi local.
Pilot.
Probably Mr.. Woody can give he.
PLANTATION sought in the following rs
ton adopted at a recent meeting q.
taw:
Resolved, That the taxpayer 0i & nt
require an explanation Of the tnDt fHlf ~.
are Fix thousand dollars of Deprecated
per, better known as "Alcoru money
the school fund now in the hands 0lI
County, Irensnrer.
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There is constant inquiry for the exact
phraseology employed by Gov. Alcorn in
his celebrated despatch deprecating Fed
eral Intervention in the affairs of this
State as a reflection on his administration,
and solemnly testifying that she "pre-
''sents an unbroken evidence of civil
obedience and order" Here is the
document:
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an extra copy to getter up Of club OF ten
or more.
SENI-WEEKLY CLARIOx-FOur dollars per
year, and an extra copy for CLUB OF SIX or
more.
In future paper Sill be discontinued when
time expires.
Remittanees should be by registered letter,
money order. draft or by express. When 9TH
erwise. the Office cannot be responsible.
All business communications should be adj
dressed to Power Barksdale, Jackson, Miss
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JOURNALISTIC r.. II. Henry, Esq.
late of Brandon, has issued the prospec-
tus Of a Democratic Journal called the
Ledger, and to be published at Newton.
1t will make its appearance on or before
the goth of September. We wish it sue
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THE DESTROYING INSECTS. have
fearful accounts of the appearance of the
boil worm and caterpillar in Mississippi
and the adjoining States. The commence
nent of their depredations thus early,
foreshadows dreadful catastrophe to the
already depressed planting interest.
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A "GRAND GIANr"-Po. ibg
inquiry Of our correspondent. "K
will explain why the editor of the J..
er sprang into the arena with bu#
"demolish' us. Oh, it is g.onou
have a giants strength but I'll. cra
use II like a giant.
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To CoRREsPoSDESTs.-Th names Of the
editors OF The CLARION are at the head of
its columns. They are entitled to equal
recognition and consideration Communi-
cations for the paper are frequently ad-
dressed To one of them individually and II
he happens to be absent, they do not receive
prompt attention. Matter for publication
should be sent to Editors OF THE CLARION"
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The fernando Press contains rich
account of the fzzle and complete break
down of the Mongrel Pow Wow in that
place. 1t will not spoil by keeping for
another number.
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The attention Of the citizens Of Kinds
County Is called to the registration no.
tice which appears elsewhere. DO not
fail to register. You cannot vote unless
you do.
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Letter from Hon. -. IA. Mcleod,
of Greene.
III. c. GREER.

EVANSVILLE. Miss, Aug. 10th, 1871.
| GENTS Il will simply state that the Con-
| sentative members did not commit them
/ selves to vote for Ames-all charges to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Respectfully,
j. X MCIEOD
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Letter from Hon. John GiIIis, of
COVingtOn.

WILLIAMSBURG. Miss, Aug. sth, 1871.
GENTS The charge that was commit
ted, or that had caused any one TO beiieue or
eUen think that would have voted for Ames
under any circumstances whatever, is "A
MALICIOUS FALsEHooD.
Respectfully,
JOHN GIIIIs.
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The New York Tribune is down on the
Administration for taking hand in the
Radical squabble in Louisiana.
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MAILING THE CHARGEToT THE CoUN-
TER
LETTER FROM REPRESENTATIVE r. W. JONES,
OF YALoBUSHA.
CoFFEEvILLE, Aug. 10. ISL.

CoFFEEvILLE, Aug. 10, 1871.
GENTS Il cannot speak for members as a
body, but / can for myself-and do here
state most emphatically that was not COM
mitted to vote for Ames or any of the batch
on the second or any other ballot.
Very truly yours,
ROLAND w. JOINS.
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Wishing for relief from Radical %
will not accomplish anything Re.Ida
only be gotten at the ballotbox Be
ter.
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III. III. SMYTHE.

/
Yous respectfully,
III. III. SMYTHE
! This certainly is great news the Pilot
parades before its readers. Nobody ever
doubted or disputed that the reports of
the various departments are invariably
printed in the Journals. The Pilot need
not have gone to anybody's book-keeper
to develop the fact. 1t had only to go
to the Journals published and put away
en- the shelves of the State Library to
get this information No one has made
an issue about its insertion of the Au-
ditor's REPORT in the Journals. What
we are talking about is the insertion in
the Journals Of the document of six hun
bred pages which was prepared and fur
nished by resolution of the Legislature,
and ordered to be printed 5000 copies)
for special circulation in pamphlet form.
This job cost the taxpayers S28, 900;
and without any authority or precedent
it was transferred to the Journals, at an
additional cost of $13, 000-making a
grand total of SAL 900. 1t was not the
Auditors Report" and had no more
business in the Journals than would have
had the various volumes of Geological
Reports which have from time to time
been ordered to be printed by the Legis-
lature nor the Code itself, for that mat
ter. The gravamen of the charge is that
this useless matter was ordered by the
Mongrel Legislature to be printed at
enormous public expense, for the benefit
of partisan newspaper, and that, with
out authority, the irrelevant matter which
it contained was put in the Journals at
supplementary cost of $4,000. This
transaction of a profigate Legislature
cost the people as much as an ordinary
session of the Legislature did before the
war, and about sir times as much as
the. average annual cost of printing
under citizens rule.
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The Political Complexion of the
Legislature OfIs05.

Considerable inquiry has been made
touching the political complexion of the
Legislature of 1865; and we have COM
piled the following statistics from an
authentic tabular statement prepared at
the time.
For purposes of their own the carpet
baggers and scallawags are charging the
acts of the Legislature to the Democratic
party as now organized. The truth is
there was no such organization as the
present Democratic party known in the
State at that time. The party was for
mally organized by State Convention
lover which Hon. A. r. Johnston presi-
ded) of anti-Radicals, held in this city,
in the month of January, 1868. These
statistics will show the original status of
the members composing the Legislature of
65. 1t will be seen that the original Demo-
Gratis were in decided minority as against
Old Line Wings. AS against the original
Union men they were nearly trebled
OF the men selected from the old citi-
zens to fill the offices by Gov. Alcorn, it
so happens that he has drawn more
largely from the members of that Legis-
lature than from any other source. He
himself was a member of the body, and
so much in favor with it, that it elected
him to the U. S. Senate He never
uttered word of condemnation of its
acts until they were resurrected by the
carpet-baggers for partisan use in putting
his old friends under their base yoke.
We will not be diverted from exposing
the rascalities of the Mongrel party in
power, to a discussion of these obsolete
matters. 1t is sufficient to say that the
legislation, whether good or bad, served
its purpose and was repealed in 1866 by
the same body which enacted it, and
that, too, without the aid of the out-at
elbows Adventures who had not then
turned their faces Southwark in search
of plumber and were plying their ca,lings
in the Northern slums whence they have
since swarmed:
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From Hon. Ill. c. Greer, orNe-hoba
COFFEDELIAH, Miss, Aug. 9th, Is

COFFEDELIAH, MISS, Aug. 9th, lo7I.
GENTS IL can only say there was no
committal to vote TOR Ames on my part I;
and il such a thing was spoken OF knew
nothing of it.
Yours,
II q
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STATEMENT.

SENATE.-Old Line and Union Wings. II:
Cooperation Wings, 2; Breckenridge Wing
and Secessionist, 1; States Rights Wing, /.
Total Wings, 16.
Democrats, 4; Union and Douglas DEM
oerats, q; Breckenridge Democrat, / :; Seces-
sion Democrat 1 States Rights Democrats,
/. Total Democrats, Is. Secessionist l.
Grand Total, 80.
Or they can be classified as follows:
Old Line and Union Wings. II: Co-opera-
ton Wings, 3; Union and Douglas Demo-
Gratis, 6. Total Unionists, 70.
Democrats, a; Breckenridge Wing. l :;
states Rights Wing, / Breckenridge Demo-
craft, Secession Democrat States Rights
Democrat, Secessionist 1. Total Seces-
sionists, l. Grand Total, 30.
Household Line and Union Wings. IL /.
Cooperation Wings. 2; Conservative Wings
2; States Rights and Secession Wings. ?
Total Wings, 81.
Democrats Is. States Rights Democrats.
IL; Union Democrats, 8; Conservative
Democrats, 3. Total Democrats, 80. CO.
operationists, 3; UnIonists, 4: Secessionists
:; Minor /. Grand Total, 100.
Or as follows:
Old Line Union Wings, Is; Cooperation
Wings, 2; Conservative Wings, 2: Union
Democrats, g.; Conservative Democrat. &:
Co-operationists, 8; Unionists, 4. Total
Unionists, 65.
Democrats Is; States Rights Democrats.
l3; States Rights Wings. 2; Secessionists. 2.
Total Secessionists, s.. Minor, l. Grand
Total, 100.
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In Richmond Indiana, Judge fined a
woman. and she found his nose and pulled
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Queries for Dr. Compton, fhe Nd
ifOr of Gov. AlcOrn's
O~m Organ.

Editors Clarion II am in want Of definite
information, which DIR. w. Nj. Compton,
Editor OF the Leader, can give, aud there
fore profound to him the following ques-
tons in order to obtain it:
lst Do you personally know that there was
in this State since the late war ku klux
organization or any other organization of
like kind and character by any other name.
and if SO, when was it organized and when,
il ever. dissolved, so far as you know?
End. Were you or not Grand Giant or
other ofic r or a member of any organiza-
ton mentioned or embraced in nv first
question, and if so, which; and when did
you make and dissolve your relation there
with?
3rd. Are you at full liberty and discretion
to answer the above questions truly and
correctly, and from any surviving obliga-
tions to the contrary, and if you answer the
questions, do you pledge your honor that
they are entirely true?
4th. Have you ever written letter OF
letters to any one of this State and especial
ly to DR. J. c. w. s., declaring in substance
that you had Joined the Radical or Republican
party as a means or nth purpose Of breaking
il EotoR, or ,cords to that effect
COMMENTS:
The foregoing inquiry may for ought
We know trench upon very ticklish ground
to the editor of the Leading organ OF
Radicalism, and especially the Organ Of
Gov. Alcorn, in this State. We will
add that if as matter of conscience, he
prefers not to answer the first three
questions, we will not press them, and
certainly we will not clamor for his
consignment to the county prison if he
takes that view of his case. But we do
hold that unless he is prepared to show a
clean hand in the Ku Klux business, his
taste in demanding victims from the
real, or supposed Khan, is rather ques-
tionable. Let him make the inside OF
the platter clean before he commences to
scrub the outside
As to the fourth inquiry, it is differ
ent matter. If it be true, (Which we do
not affirm, but will leave him to deny
or admit, as the case may be- that he
joined the Radical party to break it down,
we have not given him credit for as much
patriotism as he really possesses. If this
was his motive, we can only say that he
has made an immense sacrifice to himself
personally on the altar of the public
good. We will further add that whether
he intended to break it down, or not, he
is succeeding admirably.
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August, 1871.
citizens

A. NJ. Paxton. Benz. G. Humphrey
B.N. O'Brien, W. ii. McCardle.
+. T. Henry, ii. shannon,
ID. w. Booth, b. Hardaway,
J. w. Gray. w. III. Miller,
William Crutcher, w. Ii. Barnett,
w. Il. Ingersoll, J.J. Cowan,
Allen n. Beasley, j. {. Bedford,
NJ. Marshall, p. +. Whitehead,
X. V. Booth, Saml b. Fairchild,
VIM. +. Gibson, J. G. Booth,
ID. b. Mailer, +. K. Turley,
r. Mailer, }. w. Goodman,
Jeff. Mailer, Hardy Hendon
+. Ill. Porter, Abe b. Powell.
j. V. A. Cramer. L. Nj. Young.
A. H. Herger, o. A. Luckett, Sr..
b. j.. Hume, w. +. George,
Ii. ). Foote, JT.. K. G.. Smith,
Isham konkel, Robt. Powell.
j. Mcfarland. ;. :. CalhOon,
w. r. Chambers, Thos. y. Phillips.
w. B. Stiuson, W. A. SemmeS,
sc. Witherspoon. Will. ;. Bailey.
Sol. Coulter, +. NJ. Baldwin,
Singleton Garrett, Il. i. Norman,
w. Ill. Magruder, \. l.. Couch,
o. Van Vacter, - Jno. w. Ieargain.
NJ. b. McMicken. Emmett L. Ross,
Joshua Green, B. I. Ramsey,
VIM. w. Porter, j. l.. Morris,
j. l.. Power, Jno. n. Fewell,
VIM. b. Taylor. A. q. Horn,
John L. Stevens, 4. w. Gallagher.
l. Strauss, j. NJ. Roberts,
III. NJ. Taylor, W. F. Brown.
G.. l.. Potter, Sam'l B. Watts,
I. j. Wharton. j. ". Smith,
Harris Barksdale. SAm1 /. Randell,
Marion Smith, l.. A. Ragsdale
=. NJ. Wilkinson, j. ). Hamm,
e. N.Jones, ). Evans.
B. +. Harrison, J. j. Shannon.
l.. w. Fife, Tho. Green,
Augustus ID. Wright. j. w. Robb,
j. b. Cadwallader, c. Il. Dickson,
Matt. r. Ash. ID. NJ. Wilkinson.
|. +. Harrington, J. W. Fife,
II. l.. Saunders, c. Winkley.
W. b. E4t;man, Jack MeCallum.
j. II, Rily, q. c. Fore.
And many others.
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RetrIbutIon.

The employment Of Federal hun
suppress the Yarmouth faction nL
isiana, however inhinsically urgent OIL
despotic, is nevertheless great reu a
upon those against whom they wu "a
ployed. II would have been an H.a
their eyes, if the game had been Ia.
upon the people whom they hawu
with an iron rod, and robbed B..ba.
hand. Their own chickens hlye
home TO roost. They have 0w
wind, let them reap the vh.rIvinI
Docs your less informed nos
know that he must register to vote H
do you know that be knows Ity Hl
you told him so?
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The $4,000 Job.

JACh5UN, Aug. IbIIIi IoI 1.
MEssRs. KIMBALL, RAYMOND & Co:
GentIemen-In reply to your question,
will state that during the many years l was
connected with the offices of this city, doing
the Public Printing, it was an inUdridble
rule to insert the reports of the various De-
partments in the regular Journals, after they
were printed in pamphlet form, and were
charged for accordingly; with one exception,
where resolution was passed in regard to
the Pcnitentiary Report of one year.
YOus respectfully,
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THE CANVASS.
Important Correspondence.

With a view to full and fair discus
sion of the issues involved in the pending
elections, a large number of citizens of
the State, with Gov. Humphreys at their
head, have addressed the subjoined letter
to Gen. Robert Lowry, requesting him to
enter upon joint discussion of these is
ues with Gov Alcorn, who, it has been
announced by his organ, is prepared to
meet all corners in the canvass which he
proposes to make. Gen. Lowry with the
characteristic promptitude with which he
has always responded to the call of his
countrymen, has accepted the service
assigned him, without reference to the
sacrifice of his private interests which it
will necessarily involve We are sure
that the people in whose cause their
representative will appear, will every
where greet him with the plaudit which
trleu anu true HcdTleu SON Oh MISSES
sippi deserves, who has followed her for
fortunes through the most perilous trials,
and who is ready in this civic contest to
perform the part of good citizen in res
cuing his State from the "misrule, OPP
preston and corruption" by which she is
cursed:
August, 1871.
GEN. ROBERT LOWRY:
Dear Sir: Reposing entire confidence in
your ability to discuss the issues involved
In the pending election, and knowing your
Jealous and steadfast opposition to the cor
Euption, arrogance and tyranny of the party
placed in power in this State b. the bayonet,
we earnestly request you to permit us to
invite Governor AlcOrn to enter upon joint
discussion of these issues with you in the
canvass which it has been announced he in
tends making. An early and favorable re-
ply is respectfully solicited.
We are your obedient servants and fellow
The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1871-12-02

NATIONAL LABOR UNIoN.-There is pros
pect that the first candidate for President OF
the United States. to be voted for next year,
may be nominated in February. The Ma
tional Labor Union are to hold Convention
at Columbus, Ohio, on the third Wednesday
of February, 1872 ''for the purpose of nom'-
mating candidates for the Offices of President
and Vice President of the United States and
the transaction of such other business as may
properly come before them" In the present
condition of parties there is any quantity of
room for speculation as to what may be done
by the Convention OF Columbus. The Ma
tional Democratic Committee will meet soon
to determine upon what action shall be laid
down for the Democracy. Should they adopt
the passive" policy and no straight out
Democratic nomination be made, great i'm
portance will attach to the programme map
ped out by the labor interests Ct the country
that will be represented at Columbus.
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BE Guided by what You KNOW.

There is an old proverb which says, EEK
perience is the safest guide" To this guide
the sick and ailing naturally turn when cast
ing about for relief. They enquire what a
medicine has done for others, before they
adopt it themselves. Of all the remedies ana
representatives. in use, Hostetters Stomach Bit.
tiers meets the test most triumphantly, and
hence its immense popularity and vast sales.
The sufferer from indigestion is sure to find
some one among his friends who has been
cured of that ailment by the famous vegeta-
BILE stomachic. The victim of fever and ague,
liver complaint, constipation, nervous pros
tration, or general debility, has only to make
inquiry in the neighborhood where he resides
in order to discover what this standard re-
storative has effected in cases similar to his
own. In the published testimony to its mer.
its he will find volume of proofs of its san
itary properties, which it is impossible for
common sense to resist. lie tries it, and the
effect it produces on his system adds another
to the host of witnesses in its favor. Thus,
its reputation, founded on facts, not asser-
tons, continually grows and spreads. Char
latans and imposters, some Of them mere
local tricksters, and others who take some
what wider range, attempt to thrust into the
hands and down the threats of invalids, their
haphazard connections, as substitutes for the
tonic which for so many years has been
medical staple throughout the United States,
Spanish America, Canada, and the West In
dies, but only succeeded to very limited ex-
tent. In this reasoning age, the people hav.
ing ascertained what is really deserving of
their confidence, decline running after
strange gods"
Nov IS-I-1m