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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-28

nor SALE-SAw, SINGLE and planning
MILL, situated II miles Worcester near rail-
road; splendid water privege-ll feet tl-new Lefell
Wheel rated 36 horse power; mill building large, nearly
new, stories, well calculated for any manufacturing
businessi full line of machinery of the most approved
Makes for saving planning, and shingle work every
thing pertaining to the establishment in complete
working order, with good run of business
For further particulars apply to
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-28

= FOR SALE-Cottage Il rooms), in
i; good repair; large stable; good lot; on Chandler
" st., near Main. l.. A. ELY Il co.
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NO LET-Tenement No. 10 Newton st., of
Il rooms Possession any time. Rent SlS per MONTH
Also Stable il wanted; city water.
A. KELLEY,
ieT dlw* IA Merrick ST.
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4 FOR SALE-.New 2-tenement House,
!; 10 rooms, ON Etna ST., near Providence st.
l.. A. EIY& co.
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- FOR SALE-New 3-tenement House
;;i on Armory st. Price $1,000.
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'NO RENT-A tirst-class Lower Tenement, 5
u rooms. Rent $50 per month no children Apply
to NJ. FAY,
leG DIFF No Allen st.
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Two LET-A flrst-class Upper Tenement of
Il rooms. Also, a Cottage House containing 5rooms
Apply at No. ?, corner Ash and summit stS.
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STORE TO RENT-Formerly occupied by
~ US, No. sos Main ST. Inquire of
J. II. CLARKE & CO..
1eI div Main at
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09

The Mongrel Legislature Of Louisiana
has adjourned The N. o. Times en-
braces the occasion to make this record
of its career:
'sThe body which has been engaged In
this city for sixty days, at an expense of a
million of dollars, in the business of selling
votes and acts to rings of jObbers and spec
ulatOrs, terminated its existence last night.
Its career viii be without parallel in the
history OF civilized communities, for public
dagitious, shameless venality, corruption,
fraud and treachery. No den Of forty
thieves ever enclosed more vicious and
dangerous elements. Scarcely measure OF
any necessity to the State, or proposition
boxing to the general welfare, the good
government of the people, the tightening
their burdens, increasing the resources and
improving the credit of the State, has re-
oeived the slightest attention. The whole
time and business of the body have been
taken up with bills for the relief OF claim
ants, who have no legitimate claims, and
the enacting of acts to plumber the State
for the benefit ofindividuals.'
The same description will apply to ev.
cry other body of carpet-baggers and
negroes who have pretended to sit SIS the
Legislature of any one of the recon
structed States.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09
"The EagIes'' (:) i'm Council.

There was considerable gathering of
Radical leaders (of the genus earpet-bag
principally at the capital on or about
the 4th of March. The carcass which
attracted the eagles" was understood to
be the Senatorial prize. AT the bare
prospect of vacancy in an Office where
a vote commands enormous fees in the
market of jobbers, the pocket nerves of
these worthless thrilled delightfully."-. tits
rumored that they deliberated in caucus,
and waited on the Governor with Com
nittee to ascertain definitely what he in
tends to do. 1t is rumored further that
his reply embraced programme which
if carried out will withhold from the
present Legislature the power to elect a
successor to Revels, and will at the same
time exclude from the control of the Ex-
ecutive Department, until an election is
held in which all the people entitled to
vote shall have participated, the person
who under the constitution would sue
coed to the place if the present incum-
bent resigned. 1t is rumored.' that the
eager expectants departed, each with a
flea in his ear, disconsolate.
Whether these rumors be true, or not,
or if true, whether the programme indi-
Gated will inure to the State, are mystic
ries which time will unravel.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09
Gov. AlcOrn Remains i'm the Elk.
ecutiVe Office.

The new Congress has met and organ.
lied, and Gov. Alcorn who was elected
last winter to fill the new Senatorial term,
commencing ON the 4th, failed to put in
his appearance at Washington ard re-
mains in the Executive -thusdefn-
itely settling the mooted question OF what
he intends to do.
His action viewed in the light of a
choice of position with reference to the
public good, is declaration of want OF
confidence in the party to whom the reins
of government would be committed in
the event of his resigning the Executive
chair. 1t admits of no other colstruc.
ton. That his distrust is well-folnded,
the people have ample cause to be as.
sured.
This decision coupled with his recent
message exposing the outrages which have
been practiced on the taxpayers under
cover of the Revenue law, and his mess
age vetOing the bill to deprive the Gov
ernor of the power of removing officers
who owe their places to executive ap.
pointment, we construe to be significant OF
the policy which he has marked out.
THE CLARION has never spoken in
delphic phrase on these subjects Its
readers have inferred what it thinks OF
the policy indicated from its comments
on the messages referred to at the time OF
their delivery. We have extenuated
nothing, nor set down aught in malice
We will not sickle about nonessentials.
If the policy be substantially carried out
of rescuing from the VandaIs the public
treasury coined from the blood and sweat
of the toiling masses, if the peoples
rights be saved from the profigate rule
of their oppressors-if dishonest and in
competent men are turned out of Office
and good men are not excluded because
they do not worship at the shrine OF Radi-
calism-if the right of free and fair
election the coming fall be secured to
them-the people, who are keenly alive
to every act of devotion to their cause
viii have abundant reason to be gratifed,
and viii manifest their approval without
stint.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09

1t may astonish our readers but it is
nevertheless true, that in the loyal State
of Illinois where it was to have been sup
posed no vile prejudices" between the
mixing of races, had been permitted to
exist for moment, the Social Equality
agitation which Mongrelism has origina-
ted in the Southern States is in full blast.
The following is an extract from recent
proceedings in the Legislature of that
State:
Mr. Root offered bill in the House to-
to-day, prohibiting distinction on account
of race, color or Nationality in the admiss-
ion of pupils to the public schools, anC
prohibiting the establishment of separate
schools for children of color. Mr.. Philip:
intoduced bill to provide for and Regulate
the establishment of separate schools fol
colored children. Both bills were referred
to the committee on education.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09

Hon. z. p. Landrum, of Lowndes,
excoriated carpet-bagger French unmer-
cifully during the debate upon his 0an-
drum's) substitute for the resolution of
fered by that member to suspend Hon. r.
w. Jones, last Saturday. He defined
mongrel" to mean mixture of races,
and said that French's party was compos-
ed Of black men, white men, and
crosses between both races, and there
fore the term was properly ap-
piled. He asked if French was ashamed
of the association that he should object to
its being used by its correct name; and
remarked that he was responsible else
achere as well as upon the floor of the
House, for what he said.
During Dr. Landrum's remarks he was
frequently interrupted by "pints" OF
order. The truths he was telling were
bitter. The Speaker always sustained
the pints; and his manner indicated that
he would have allowed whole quarts of or
der at that time if they had been, in the
language of Radical Scion, sparlime,s-
tsm."
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09

We have the pleasure to provide oul
readers with rare feast of reason in the
letter of Hon. L. @. c. Lamar to the
committee of Vicksburg citizens. 1t is a
life-like, and therefore magnificent, des-
cription of one of the grandest of all the
characters that have illuminated the
worlds history since the beginning of time.
The whole people of the South whose
sympathies and affections were wrapt up
in the cause to which Lee dedicated his
great faculties, viii pay their tribute of
thankfulness to the author of this letter.
Nothing could could be more beautiful
and true then the. lines Of comparison
which be draws between the Confederate
chieftain and George Washington, the
other illustrious Southron whom Virginia
gave to q common cause. Nor could any
thing be more just, than his eloquent
protest against the appropriation of the
virtues, and genius, and fame of Lee to
America, when they are exclusively the
property and the glory Of the Confederate
States.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09

SALARIES. valuable article on this
subject, showing the enormous addition
which is made to the burdens of the peo-
pie in the form of compensation allowed
to assessors and collectors under the exist
ing law, is published elsewhere. This
exhibit is not partizan document. 1t is
an unanswerable demonstration of the
ground on which the Governor in his re-
cent message recommended a reduction
of salaries. How this can be accomplish
ed bv the friends of Reform has been
shown by Taxpayer" 1t is to insert in
every bill legalizing assessments o clause
reducing salaries las well as taxes As
before shown, the assessments are all ille-
gal, and no collections can be made if re-
sisted through the Courts until they are
legalised. 1t is estimated that the cost of
executing the revenue law, on account of
assessors and collectors, is not less than
$3.50, 0OO-which is nearly equal to the
sum required to carry on the entire Gov
eminent of the State before the war.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09

The impeachment movement in the Ar
kansas Legislature against Gov. Clayton
has completely broken down. The man.
ayers have reported that they were una
BILE to obtain testimony with which to
substantiate the charges that were prefer
ed against him in the articles that passed
the House; and upon the heels Of this
action, Clayton has sent a communication
to the Legislature announcing his purpose
(not to accept the Senatorship buD to re-
main in the Executive Office on the ground
that he had discovered that if he aban-
dons the place, his Republican successor
will turn the control of the State Gov
eminent over to the Conservatives.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09

THE FoRTY-FIRsT CONGRESS has ex-
pired. The Forty-second will organize
Immediately. The roll call of members
viii show an accession of at least forty to
the Conservative side in the House, and
of several in the Senate. For the first
time in six years, the Republicans are
without two-thirds majority. An effort
viii be made to prevent the seating of the
carpet-bag members who will claim to
represent Mississippi in virtue of the cleo
ton of 1869. There is no shadow of
ground for their pretension to rest upon !;
and besides their election to this Congress
would have been in violation of the Con-
stitution of the United States. They
have no legal credentials authorizing
them to represent Mississippi in the forty
second Congress-the Governor having
refused to commission them.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09

The Carrollton Conservative in motto
ing the pilgrimage of the Sheriff of Car
roll county on a pious mission to the
Capital to have the assessment Of that
county legalized so as to grind the people
between the upper and neither millstones
of paying the enormous taxes levied or
Witnessing the sacrifice of their property
at Sherifrs sale-hopes that he will not
succeed, and adds:
The tax is too heavy for our people to bear
and Governor AlcOrn should veto every bill
Iegalizing excessive and unjust taxation.
He has q golden opportunity to serve the
people, for a bill cannot be passed over his
veto, and the fact Is beyond debate that the
duty Ia imperative to give relief
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09

1t is amazing to witness the number of
schemes that are constantly cropping out
in the Legislature for robbing the State
Treasury. Within the past few days a
brood of these Hydras have shown their
heads and been readily warmed into life
by the Ring. One of them is scheme to
pay the persons who we're appointed by
the authority of the black-and-tan Con-
vention of 1868 to superintend the cleo
tons of that year, In the interest of the
Radical party, and ostensibly to perform
duties which were imposed on the aP-
pointees of the Military Commander. The
Commander refused to sanction these
pretended claims on the treasury for
purely partisan service, and now after
three years they have been revived by
interested parties, though many of the So
called Commissioners have long since left
the State and others have gone ''where
the woodbine twineth."
Another most unreasonable claim is
the extraordinary allowances modestly
asked by the Legislative Committee on
Public Buildings for themselves for super
intending the repairs of the Capitol and
Lunatic Asylum. In their report the
Committee state that they employed Mr..
Willis, Architect, to superintend the work,
and that he did so to their entire satisfac-
ton, and yet they have petitioned for an
allowance on their own behalf costing the
people how many thousands We do not
know as their bill has not been published
in the official journal-for doing what he
is paid to perform-and what they were
incompetent to do if they had undertaken
the work. For his clerical duties, the
Secretary of the Committee is entitled to
compensation adequate to the labor per-
formed; but this is the full extent to
which an appropriation should go.
Another useless and extremely preposter-
Gus scheme is the measure to print the
journal of the Black-and-tan Convention
of 1868. The authors ofthe scheme could
not for their lives give aplausible reason
for embarking in this extravaganza. The
Convention is dead and all of its work
in which the people have an interest, (the
Constitution has been printed and re
printed, and printed over again, until il
has been put into the hands of every
man, woman and child who would read
it. To print the journal is simply al
: appropriation for the benefit of individ
uals and not of the public, and is an
outrage on the taxpayers of the State
If the parties who are proposed to bt
benefited deserve reward for meritoriou,
services, let the appropriations be made
directly, specifying their object, and di
! vested of shallow and dishonest pretext
Mr.. Roane of Calhoun, from the Com
mittee to whom the subject was referred
presented a strong report against it in the
House but we presume without avail
We do not suppose the protest of TIL
3 CLARION against these injurious scheme.
to appropriate the public money fol
personal uses will arrest their progress
But We desire to make note of the pro
ceedings. They will come up again.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09
TAX PAYER.

We invite taxpayers in the several
counties to inform us, each for his own
county, whether the assessment rolls have
been legally made out, delivered to and
certified by the Board of Supervisors !;
and whether all the conditions of the
Revenue Law have been complied
with, specifying particularly errors of
omission and commission, by those
charged with It's execution.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09
Brute Force i'm the LegisIature,

twill be seen by reference to the pro-
ceedings of the (so-called) Legislature
that gross outrage was perpetrated up
on the people of Yallobusha county by
the lower branch of that body last Satur-
day.
The circumstances are these: Hon. X.
w. Jones wrote letter some days ago
mot for publication) to the editor of the
Mississippi Central in which the very
proper and expressive term, when appli-
ed to the majority which compose that
body, mOng7el was used. This letter ap-
peared in the Centf2J-
An opportunity was offered the ''Mon-
uels" to indemnify themselves by de-
- Mr.. Jones of his seat for five
They have never been known to
4,portunity to do a disreputable
az of course they improved this one.
eprivation of the right to represent
those who elected him by the votes of a
pack of negroes, mixed-breeds, and mean
whites can reflect no dishonor upon Mr..
Jones. His duty to his constituents re-
quired that he should be in his seat, but
he has been prevented by brutal force
from fulfilling it. Every gentleman in
the State will admire his manly refusal
to apologize for the use Of correct term
in referring to the Radicals in body.
Mongrel they are and mongrel they will
remain to the end of the chapter. The
men who vince under the application Of
the term will scarcely compel the respect
of their political opponents by such dis.
play of malignity as was made in the
case of the Representative from Yallo
busha. They can better accomplish it by
reforming their creed. But can thu
Leopard change his spots, or the Ethiopian
his skin2
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09

We understand that the members of
the majority in the Legislature promise
that they viii certainly reduce the taxes
for the next year, but that no further re-
lief than a suspension of the fifty per
cent. clause for sixty days, is admissible
the present year. We are amazed to
learn further that some Conservative
members are inclined to doubt the prae-
ticability of a reduction the present year.
If this be the sense of the Legislature,
the people have been outrageOusly triAed
with. The Legislature has held the word
of promise to the ear to break it to the
hope. Mere suspension is nothing but q
postponement of the evil day-a pro-
longation of the agony.
The people are not concerning them
selves about next years taxes. 1t is the
crushing load which is noao upon them,
from which they are praying to be re-
lieved. 1t is cruel mockery to tell man
who is writhing in the agonies of death
that you will relieve him at some flu
ture day. II is brutal to tell the people
after the remnant of the property they
have saved from the wreck of the war, has
been confscated, that the taxes will be
lessened at some future day.
And yet this is what the political doc
tors of the Mongrel party are saying.
From them, nothing better can be ex
pected. 1t is their vocation to enrich
themselves at the axpense of the people
and they are making hay while the sur
shines. But what apology can be Offered
for a Conservative who is weak enough tt
fall in with the shallow pre+enee that it il
impracticable to reduce the taxes
now, or who is wicked enough to LEND
himself to the uses Of the Plumber Ring
in this supreme hour of the peoples suf
fering.
1t is alleged that the Auditors est
mate of expenditures the present yea
forbids a reduction of the tax. We re
ply the Auditors estimates are not Law
and gospel Reduce the estimates, ant
then reduce salaries-abolish sinecures-
and cut down expenses to conform t.
them. 1t is said that many persons hav'
paid their taxes at the rates now fixed
To this we reply, so frame your law as t.
give them credit on their next years take
for whatever sum they may have paid il
excess of the new rates.
The way of relief is easy. The Acil
only wanted. And it will be the duty o
the press to mark well the men who, hav
ing the power to reduce the taxes, ar
deaf to the popular petition.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09

REPRESENTATIVE PARKER, OF ANTE
We copied last week paragraph from the
Brandon Republican, charging MIR. Parker,
Representative from Amite county, with
@some very disgraceful conduct
In the Republican Of Thursday, the editor
acknowledges that he was mistaken, that
was afterl
In justice to Mr.. p we write this para
graph 70 place him right before the readers
Of the Misunderstanding Herald.
And, for the same reason, we transfer
the above TO THE CLARION.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09

A lot OF arpet-baggers arrived ...
San Antonio, Texas, aud during w H.
they picked up a copy Of the -i-nr {.
lished there, and noticed half co.'llhl -l
slngular-lOOkinR hieroglyphics Wn''ls a5
could not understand. They hello , IL. q
of war, and came 10 the concluslgI
Ku-klux order for their assassin g.re 3.
they left the town that night W. = /
Austin, they reported the case W fIidrH
tary authorities, when they Wele VI Aa'
they had been frightened out " e..r
tonic by advertisements OF MeAi'
brands and car-marks for catue'
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09

The Kinds county Gazette mentions a
report, and asks if it can be true, that
"the teachers in the public schools in
that vicinity have recently received let
tiers from either the county or State SUI
perintendent, in which the teachers are
ordered to adopt in their schools certain
list of books, discarding all now in use
and all kinds that are now on sale by
our merchants. The orders (says the
Gazette are accompanied with the threat
that if the requirement is disregarded the
teacher will fail to obtain certificate for
his or her pay. The books ordered to be
used are the same against which solemn
protest has been urged by Mississippi
gentlemen who have examined them, and
the same in the sale of which certain OF
our school managers are supposed to have
q deep pecuniary interest"
When it was charged by the Attorney
General, who is member of the State
Board of Education, that Pease, the SUI
perintendent, had issued circular using
the influence of his Office to promote the
sale of set of books at cost of many
thousands of dollars to the parents and
wards of children attending the schools,
1t was denied that the step was taken as
the official act of its author; and subse-
quently there was pretence of the SUI
perintendent when closely pressed, of
a withdrawal of his recommendation
But here we find it reported that the
game has been renewed in more OBJ
iectionable form. To what further trials
is the endurance of the people to be sub
jected by the scheming creatures who are
in a position to plumber them?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09
The School Managers in Clarke cou

The School Managers in Clarke county
employed among others, a man named
Glenn, and his wife to teach white chill.
dren. The teacher and his wife proved
to be Radicals of the pure stripe, and
practically illustrated their amalgamatiOn
or social equality doctrines, around theil
fire-sides and in their family circle. Re
Gently, the school-house took fire and waf
burned to the ground. Our cotempora
ries in Clarke do not state whether the
teachers were saved.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09

The following incident in the discussion
in the Senate of the Social Equality Bill,
reported by the correspondent of the
Mobile Register, did not appear in the
official proceedings:
During the discussion Stricklin was about
to pull the nose of one Gray. eolored, who
seemed TO feel his oats rather too much.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-09

TIE oar CROP,-If the oai cieatra d
has been and Ia being largely prH D.
this country, falls this Spring tngti' perhaI
much difficulty experienced Alil.aaend 81
much suffering. Many farmer -,tis ub..
them fOr the support of their lna-iouf bat
making a crop. It will be 2 abo1d q
ness III rust and other casualllllf9 Esyo 81 at
cur. Then many animals wyl fGal aaA'
pend on grass aiCnes-~goiuiip~+