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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-12
some More UufOrtunate.''

The sorrowing members of the 18th
Mississippi Volunteers, than which there
was not drawer regiment in the COnfed-
crate service from any State, will regret
to learn that A. j. Boyd, Esq.,-Jack
Boyd-formerly of the minute Men, y
and their late companion in arms, has
joined the Loyal and Union Leaguers,
and now as their candidate for the Legis
lature in Attala county, carries the Ban
ner of Radicalism in the van of the army
of Vandals who are straining every nerve
to degrade the people of Mississippi and
are bounding with secret service spies and
United States Marshals, and hireling
soldiery, the "unrepentant rebels by
whom he-Jack Boyd-was loved, honor
ed and toasted. They will indeed and
in truth regret to learn it; and remember
ing how he was among the foremost at
Malvern Hill, and never fiinched when
the streets of Fredericksburg were red
with the blood of Mississippians- and
how, when the gallant Durham fell, and
the colors of the regiment dropped from
his pulseleee hand, Jack Boyd raised them
from the ground and carried them far to
the front in the charge upon the heights
of Gettysburg; and they will mourn, as
does the writer, who was his companion
in arms, that the back of the hand that
grasped that color staff then, is turned
against them now. Had it been said with
prophetic vision in those times that he
would have done this thing, none would
have been found to believe it, and to him
it would have been a mortal insult. In
deed "the times change, and men change
with them"
Farewell, Jack. Forget old memories;
they will be but poor companions when
you meet in convention and secret caucus
with men to whom "rebel" is a by-word
and a reproach, and whose greatest joy is
to see Mississippians marching, ironed,
under guard of soldiers to prison for
political offences. Some of those who
stood side by side with you in those days
of war have already felt the iron hand of
and heard the key turned in
the lock that debarred them from enjoy
ing their birth-right of freedom, and
others are now threatened by your COM
panions and your friends; and others
have gone down to bloody graves, while
heir murderers are high in Radical favor. !
But no reproaches will be offered-''let
by conscience be thine own accuser."
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This body has met and organized under
the new regime. The carpet-bag thieves
lave left a debt of $40, 600, 900
en- the people which they are called
upon to manage in some way, neverthe-
less, they are breathing freer and expe-
renee sense of relief in getting rid of
tie authors Of the mischief. The presi-
ding officers of the two houses are both
Tennesseeans fully up the progress of the
times. Their addresses are in admirable
taste and we are sure that the Nashville
correspondent of the Appeal lis right in
saying that that "the miserable sectional
feeling thatwas engendered by the Radi-
cal party finds no encouragement in the
present Legislature, which is composed
mostly ofyoung men of broad, liberal,
;atholic views"
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The Six Hundred Thousand Dol
lars ApprOprfafiom.

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
have rendered decision sustaining the
decision of an inferior court, granting an
Injunction against the collection of tax
in tie city of Philadelphia, in conformity
to an ordinance imposing it, chiefly on the
ground that the ordinance does not spe-
officially set forth the objects for which the
appropriation was ordered. We quote
from the decision of the court, as follows:
Isthe ordinance properly and sufficiently
itersized: If it be not, is this ground for
Injunction? If no items appear In an ordl-
nance, when it is apparent various items OF
work are to be done. / think IL clear that
action under such an ordinance ought 10
be stayed by injunction. The act of 1850
DroyideS that the @Object of any approprla-
tiun ordinance should be stated in it. OF
course, this was intended as source OF in
formation to the people of the city, who
are ultimately to pay for expenditure In
this respect. it was a wise measure but too
indefinite for practical use, too easily TO be
evaled. The next year, 1856, more was re-
CURED; the items of every appropriation
are required to be given. l do not think
this was meant altogether for the account
Jag officers, as suggested. but was intended
also as means of more specific information
to the people.
1t will be borne in mind that the pres
ent Mongrel Legislature on the eve of its
adjournment passed an act appropriating
sir hundred thousand dollars out of the
Treasury, without specifying a single
item for which this immense sum was
ordered. The people who are to pay the
tai are to be kept in ignorance of the
objects for which it is levied.
Now, according to the rule laid down
by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
the tax is fraud on the people and ought
not to be paid. But there is no redress
for our impoverished and plundered tax
payers through the courts of Mississippi.
The Court Of last resort in this State,
Notwithstanding the unanswerable opinion
Of Judge Simrall, have decided in the
interest of the blood-suckers that there is
40 remedy by injunction as in the Penn
ylvania case above cited. The tax-pay-
els must help themselves by the election
o: Legislature which, acting in sympa-
thy with them, will be prompt to insti-
tlte rigid investigation and afford them
whatever remedy may be possible under
fhe circumstances.
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IL, perhaps. the most corrupt body that ever
assembled on the face OF the earth. It Is
no more trouble to buy their votes than 20
buy spring chickens in the ClnclnnaI
market Being den of thieves, they nave
not among them even the honor Lnat we
are taught is customary among thieves
They sell their votes for money or stock IN
some swindling contrivance on as business
like manner as merchant would dispose
Of a bolt of calico. A gang will get up 4
swindle. and they go into the market anu
buy legislative votes enough 10 pass II III
the rouS es are left fair margin after Duy
ing all the votes necessary they go aneau
with the enterprise; but II the VOTES nap
pen to range higher than the prospective
policy to be realized, they drop it and get
al something else.
In the Capitol has been found written
agreement of some seven members 10 sell
their votes to the Slaughterhouse sWlndie
for from fifty to three Thousand dollars each
One moor devil sold out for thirLy-five dol
lars he had just been elected, and was not
up with the quotations. Then there was
the printing swindle, and the levee sWindle,
and the Backbone" railroad swindIe. ana
the city charter swindle, and the registra-
ton sWindle, and the Jackson railroad swim
die, and the NicOlson pavement swindie,
and other swindles, as the auctloneers say,
400 numerous to mention.
The printing swindle Is downright steal
ing, and stealing, too, from a people trying
embarrassments. In the last three years
in addition 70 the thieves, the people have
had floods. drOuths and the cotton worm TO
contend with, 10 say nothing of their i'm
poverished condition after the war.
How much has been stolen by the print
ing swindle don't know, but from an ex-
animation of the accounts filed in the office
of the Secretary of State, should think
that the amount would reach near half
million of dollars.
I T.nfrr
press should be fostered-and so it should
when done at the expense of the able editors
and passed law authorizing the public
laws" to be published in loyal papers, and
constituting the Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor and Speaker of the House board 70
make contracts.
have seen about a hundred of these
contracts" by which the people of Louis
lana have been robbed.
The carpet-bag Adventures are the
importers of this corrupt and wicked
system of legislation as they are the
authors of the strife between the races
resulting in many instances in the she'd
ding of blood which is on their guilty
heads.
We set out in this article by congratu-
ldIlnS Tic Peop4S VI Int h0tolO, lh''I INC
baletul influence of this despicable class
of mischief-makers and plunderers, is
waning. In lumber of counties the
blacks have opened their eyes to the
enormity Of the imposition which has
been practiced upon them in common
with the whites, and have organized for
the purpose of defeating them in the
nominations. Their example in Jeffer-
son county, under the lead of Merriman
Howard, colored man of intelligence
and force of character, is a case in point.
He is leading his race from the bondage
of the Carpet-baggers and the Mean
Whites who have adhered to them. He
has our best wishes.
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II is a hopeful sign that with al
patronage and fair promises and
majority Ga myth, by the way vi
disappearing before the incx5n.
of the registration the Wrocksr
succeeded in obtaining So smallaf
of recruits for their Bread and
Brigade. Except in two or three
ties we have not heard Of q single
ton from the Conservative rank
in these few cases the renegades ar
who had previously taken their
for Office in the nominating Conyr
Of the Conservatives. No mtr
Joined the Adventures crew and
few oflice-seekers, notwithstandn.
readiness Of the Mongrels to ac,g
their leaders men who were decu#
worthy Of position by the Consorue
They are more than welcome 20 Fl.
accession Of this sort, they can al
The cause Of the Taxpayers is sig.
ened by the absence Of maIcon,gs.
sore-heads who are mean u9a.
desert them for the promise OF Office
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ChnOs Come Amin,

1t is strange times we live in, under the
reconstructed Radical government of
Mississippi. On the LIST of October, the
New Code as it is called, was put in full
force and effect by special act of the
Legislature. And yet the people and
Courts have been kept in profound igno-
rance of it. On the one hand they are
required to obey, and on the other to
execute system of laws of which they
have had no opportunity of becoming
acquainted. The Courts that were in
session when the new laws took effect,
instantly adjourned; and others have
been postponed. The Brandon Repub-
ican informs us that Judge Millsaps
adjourned before getting through the
business in Rankin, and the Copiahan
states that Chancellor Peyton declined to
hold the October term of his Court in
Copiah, because to have undertaken to
expound the laws without knowing them
would have been like the blind leading
the blind.
And so it is throughout the State. The
Constitution is violated in its most essen
tial parts. The execution of justice is
delayed, and prisoners who are confined
in Jail, at the public expense, are denied
the speedy trial. to which they are en-
titled. All of this mischief is the result
of the squabble of the Wreckers over
the Printing spoils; and is due primarily
to Governor Alcorn who signed the law
under which the Pilot Ring committed
their extortions. There Is no complaint
that they charged more than the law
allowed them. Nor is there any promise
that their successors will not take advan-
tage OF Its provisions. 1t is simply
wrangle over the spoiIs to the
great injury of the public at large.
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Ell. Courtenay notifies f. p. jacob
son, Radical Leader and Man OF Venge-
ance, that if he "desires, he will let the
"people know how n certain sum Of
"money was received by jacobson and
''spent in jackson during the last session
"of the Legislature, to pass a certain
chill" jacobson cannot remain silent,
without implying guilt, under this charge.
Does he call for the facts? Or shall it
remain of permanent record against him
and the Legislature which is on trial for
for its crimes against justice and honesty.
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The henson Massacre.

In another column will be found an ac-
count of the dreadful affair Of the MUIR
der of colored man named Benson, and
the burning of his own body and that OF
two of his children in the house in which
they lived-in Lauderdale county. The
perpetrator of this atrnnity has been dis
covered to be a negro named Lewis An
derson, who has been arrested by the
Sheriff The proofs of his guilt are said
to be conclusive. The evening before the
crime was committed, he made threats of
his intention in Meridian and attempts
were made to induce him to abandon his
intention-but without avail.
The Radical leaders are in a great
measure responsible for the commission
of this and kindred crimes by the blacks.
They have imbued the minds of the ig-
norant and depraved of the race with
the spirit of hate and blood-thirstiness
towards the whites, and it is no wonder
that this fendish spirit sometimes has
malignant development in acts of cruelty
on their own race.
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1t has been brought to our knowledge
that plan of terrorism has been organ
lied by the Loyal Leaguers over colored
men who have declared their intention to
vote against the Radicals. The game
has been attempted in several counties
In Rankin county, the Republican states
that gang of desperadoes waylaid and
assaulted Charles Townsend, colored
citizen, who was outspoken in his inten-
ton TO vote against the dictation OF the
League; and we have heard of threats
which have been made against the
lives of others of this class by the ig-
norant dupes of their race whose passions
have been played upon by mean and cow
ardly whites 1t is the duty of the op-
posers of Radical misrule to organize for
the purpose of protecting the colored
Conservatives in their right of free suf-
frage. A simple affidavit before United
States Commissioner will bring the des-
oeradoes to their senses and put a stop to
their lawIess proceedings, and thus render
it unnecessary to meet violence with vio-
lence-a remedy of the last resort.
After the above was in type We found
the following, which is well said and to
the point, in the Woodville Sentinel:
A few weeks ago, at a Radical meeting
near Centerville. Amite county, negro
named Anthony Knox was cruelty beaten
by mob of Radical scOundrels OF his own
color, merely because lie avoWed himself
| Democrat. He was cut in several places
with knives and but for the Intervention OF
some of his friends would have been muir
dered. We learn that the Sheriff of Aullte
county was present, and permitted Knox to
| be badly abused before interfering.
1t is full time such lawless attempts to in
| timidate coIored Democrats, should be put
| a stop to- The white people have no right
| to invite colored voters to join them, if they
cannot protect them from the assaults OF
cowardly hounds of their own color. who
would run like sheep from real danger
| Use legal means to prevent such Outrages.
and protect colored democrats in their
| rights, and if the administrators of the law
sympathiZe with these scoundrels and re-
| fuse to punish them, then we say protect
colored Democrats anyhow.
There are several cases of attempts to in
! timidate voters in this county that ought TO
| be presented before U. 5. Commission
| Let the white Democrats take hold of this
| IN after and teach this class of Williams that
| colored Democrats have right to think and
| vote as they please and that they must and
shall be protected in them.
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The Shubuta Times says that A. ].
Hyde of that town sold out to the RAIDS.
for nomination for the Office of Sheriff
of Clarke county. Whereupon, John
Champenois, who heretofore has been
associated with him in business, and has
been a closer and stronger friend to him,
perhaps, than any other man that could
be mentioned, refused to do business with
him any longer; vowed he would have
his right arm cut off before he would vote
for him.
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IOHNT DISCUSSION Al HOLLY
SPRINGS.
THE EMINENT MAN DRIVEN TO THE
WALL AND ROUTED.
HIS EXTRAORDINARY POSITION AND NIR-
TUAL ADMISSION THAT RADICAL
RECONSTRUCTION Is
FAILUREl
GLORY ENOUGH FOR ONE DAY
SPECIAL TO THE CLARIoN.l

HOLLY SPRINGS, Oct. 10, 1871.
The discussion yesterday between AIcorn
and Lowry drew an immense crowd.
Alcorn took the position that the South had
sacrificed every right by war and had no
right to talk about Constitutions; that we
are doing all we can to prove we are not
capable OF self government; that the world
would have endorsed the Government If 1t
had treated us as the French did the Com
munes, Chung u.s. and that the restoration
of Conservatives would undo all he had
done, by placing the State in opposition to
the Republican party.
Lowry's speech was mastery effort
and completely demolished the Governor
He proved that the Governor has done more
harm to the State than all her citizens put
together; that his administration had been
extraYagant, unprincipled and corrupt.
A discussion was had at night, when the
gallant Lamar whipped the Eminent Man
at every point. Lamar's speech was with
cring. convincing and unanswerable-
Monday was gala day for the friends of
law, peace and economy. Alcorn has had
enough of Marshall county. +.
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AnOtder Ra dicaI Ticket i'm Lau-
derdaie.

The negroes of Lauderdale county
being disguised with the ticket which had
been made of purchased Democrats for
them, without their consent, met in
Meridian on the 18th to the number of
two hundred or more, under the leader
snip of Detective Cunningham, and
nominated a full county and district
ticket, which the Mercury reports to be
IS follows: For Senator, CLARKE and
Lauderdale) Jas. F. Cunningham, car
let-bagger for Representatives, John
Cole, colored, and w. H. Jones, colored;
DR. Sheriff, Jos. Eakins; for Chancey
clerk, r. E. Leachman, scallawag;
Leachman is on the other Radical ticket
DR. the same office;) for Circuit Clerk,
7. j. Grandgust, carpet-bagger; for
assessor, Jas. Moor for Coroner, Geo.
Weir, and a general ticket for the minor
dices. Go it, Edmonson! Go it,
Cunningham! We are for the bottom
cog in the fight.
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]. NJ Coates, Republican nominee for
sheriff, is one of the men who caused the
arrest of Tarbell for violating the en-
forcement act, and Tarbell spread him
self to defeat his nomination for Sheriff.
as he had succeeded in undermining
Messrs Kerr and Jones and procuring
their removal for cooperating with
Coates. Butt was Of no avail. The col
ored folks didn't see it, and Tarben and
his man went under.
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G-AssING.-The RAIDS have several
Windy7Jims in their travelling MENACE
ries-but the windiest of all the Jims. is
Jim Lynch, who prints in the Leader
that the Mongrels are going to carry
Marshall and other counties which he
mentions, and intimates that he himself
is performing wonders. To show what
credence is to be placed in the statements
of this Windy Jim, it is only necessary
to quote what is said Of him by j. C.
Tucker, Superintendent of Public Schools
for the county of Kinds, in card pub
ished June 18th, 1871:
aYou are a drunken, licentious, hypocritI-
cal scoundrel, and a most contemplate liar,
and were it not that you are so degraded IN
character, and 50 utterly devoid or the in
sfinets Of q gentleman, would horseWhip
You in public"
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The RAIDS have nominated DR.. Cart
man for Senator in the Lincoln. Pike
District Gartman is a scallawag of the
purest ray. He voted for the Abomina-
tons of Mongrelism, and was a faithful
helpmate of Morgan, Gibbs and other
Carpet-Bag Wreckers. In Leake and
Attala, the RAIDS threw overheard Rush
ing. scallawag confederate of Gartman,
as a tub to the popular whale. But Cart
man has been put in the forefront of the
battle that he may be cut 10 pieces. He
deserves his fate. Cassidy, the brave
young champion of the People, viii be
elected by sweeping majority.
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1t is with more than ordinary pleasure

1t is with more than ordinary pleasure
we announce that Capt. Thomas Woods,
of kemper county, has been nominated
by the Democratic Convention of the 9th
Judicial District for the office of District
Attorney. Capt. Woods was member
of the 18th Mississippi Regiment in the
army of Northern Virginia. He bears
upon his person more than one honorable
wound to attest his devotion in those
terrible days to the interest of Mississippi.
His opponents, Col. Thos. Graham and
Capt. j. P. Walker, the present encum-
bent, both ofwhom were gallant soldiers
during the late war and served in the
army of Tennessee, withdrew, and Capt.
Woods was declared unanimously the
nominee of the Democratic Convention.
which in that District, composed of the
counties of Kemper, Neshoba, Scott,
Newton and Lauderdale, means that
Capt. Woods will be the next District
Attorney.
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HISDs County RADICAL Now
TIoNs.-We copy below The nomiHaa.
which were made AZ Raymond yca'er.
as far as they had progressed u
Convention was 10 have rcaHcmb.a
day TO complete the ticket for Che Deg
lature. Three others were 20 Doe uu
mated and tits rumored the coIoroi n
who furnish ninety-ninc hundrcdM
the votes, claimed them all.
The race on the Home man and q
pet-bagger issue was made Ia tho DOL
nation for Sheriff, and Coates, H.
man, came out long ways ahead u
competitor, Lake, carpot-baggor
present incumbent by appointing.
Alcorn, threw up the sponge before
ballotting commenced: j. NJ Coo.
Sheriff; n. Hodge, Circuit Clerk
NJ. Peyton, Chancery Clerk; w.
Smallwood, (coloreD Assessor il
Fisher, for Legislature Jno. w. ta
ton, Treasurer VIM. Jefferson lc0,r
Coroner and Range.
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1.-THE ex-rebel soldier, whose appoint
ment to clerkship in the Interior Depart
ment made such stir, has been removed
Cincinnati Chronicle and Times.
The facts in the case are these: An ex-
Confederate who had professed Radical
ism was appointed to a clerkship. By
some means his war history leaked out.
Immediately a mighty howl was raised
by the truly loyal. They howled upon
the streets, in their Republican club
meetings, in the meetings of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and they howled
in letters to ''the peoples column" of the
Washington Chronicle. They vilifed
and abused the malignant '.rebels,"
whether they were ''unrepentanf" or
not, through the correspondence furnish
ed for loyal journals. They dug up the
bones of the so-called martyrs who died
for the Union, until the howl reyerbera-
ted and was re-echoed from every den
where the truly loyal meet throughout
the land. At last the loyal papers took
up the refrain and the leading organ of
the Washington Chronicle. |
joined in the howl. The consequence is |
that the poor fellow who sold his birth |
right for a mess of pottage had the re-
ward filched from him before he could |
make use of it.
You ex-Confederates in Mississippi.
who have prostituted yourselves to Radi-
'alism see what has been done with one
If your number in Washington by the
hoguls of Radicalism and learn from it
low those you herd with would treat Won
{ they could do without your sarviees
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JOINT DISCUSSIONS.

In compliance with an arrangement mu-
tuaIIy entered into, Gov. Alcorn and Gen.
Lowry will address the people at the follow
ing times and places:
Senatobia, Wednesday, Oct. 18th.
o. &. FRENCH,
Secretary State Executive
Central Committee.
GEO. J.. POTTER,
For Committee.