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To gentleman who indulge in the
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respectfully announce, (and do so
concientiously,) that we have, and
are determined to keep on hand, the
BEST brands of Chewing and Smok-
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MARKERT & CLISBY.
Mar Is # IF ~ '---.---'f2 -
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AUGUST A HOTEL.
MURPHY 81 WAY, Proprietors.

Wv E take this opportunity Of returning our
thanks to tho citizens cs Edgcfcld for their
past kindness to US.
Our House is thoroughly renovated for SUM-
MER AcC0MMADATIoNS-Rooms largo
AID airy, and Table always supplied with the
Best the market affords.
We will be pleased TO welcome our EdgeGeld
friends and customers, and will use every
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ant and agreeable.
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If you desire a good article of
OLD JAMAICA RUM or HOLLAND
GIT. ,all at the Drug Store Of
MARKERT & CLISBY.
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J. NJ. NEBLErr. w.H. GooDR1cn.
.COttOnGin
L-.sasUFACT0RT.

FFHE Undersigned respectfully an
Il nounce to the people of Edgefield
and adjoining Counties, that they are still
engaged in tho manufacture Of
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Cotton Gins,

OF the wcllknown and highly approved
OGLESBY PATTERN.
MR.. NEBLETT, who has fourteen
years. practical experience in making
these GINS, will give his personal atten-
ton to the business, and we feel conf
dent of giving entire satisfaction to those
lavoring us with their orders.
EVERY GIN WARRANTED.
Old Gins RENOVATED or REPAIR
ED in the best manner.
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originally, but tlthey are honest as a
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-05-25

A correspondent of the New York
Herald, writing from Columbia, un.
der date of the Sth instant, furnishes
that journal with the following Per-
sonnel of the Tax-Payer's Conven-
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13

JACKSON, Miss April 8, 1871.

JACKSON, Miss Aprli ., ISL
EDITOR PILOT AT a meeting of the State
Republican Executive Committee, held or
the 9TH inst, the following resolution was
adopted:
sResolved, That it is the opinion Of this
Committee that an election should be held
in this State In November next for county
officers, aud for members of the Legislature
whose term of Office expire on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday In January
next"
This action is the tardy submission Of
the carpet-bagmen to a popular opinion
which they discovered they dare not,
with all their audacity, oppose. 1t wa:
not taken until they were assured thai
the Governor intended to execute the
clauses of the Constitution requiring
an election this fall, whether they
passed a law to facilitate the operation
or not and the Legislature in usurping
the prerogative to prolong their term
beyond the constitutional limit would be
regarded simply in the light of a revolu-
tionary mob.
May we not hope since the first step
has been taken in the right direction, that
the Radical leaders will follow it up by
measures which viii assure fair registra-
ton and free and honest election?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13
Plain talk. To .he Poiut.

The Winona Democrat, in the course
of an excellent article on the burden put
upon the people by the present legisla-
ture, points out the only reliable remedy,
saying:
And now, while on this subject, we will
take occasion to tell the people plainly, the
only way to prevent the continuance OF
these enormous and outrageous tax laws,
is for them to unite in the coming election
on reliable. conservative candidates for the
Legislature, and elect thsn-men who are OF
the people, and thoroughly identified with
the interests and well being of Mississippi.
While such oppressive and unjust laws are
upon the statute books. it is the duty of all
good citizers to obey thelaws. 1t is equally
their duty to be united i'm the next election.
and elect men good and true, who will, i'm
mediately upon the meeting of the Legisla-
ture, repeal every law which levies taxes
upon the people. except Just 80 much as Is
necessary 20 pay the expenses of the State
and counties, economically administered.
VIII the people do THAI f
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13

A weekly newspaper called the Leader
is soon. to be published at Kosciusko. by
Mr.. Jos. w. Garrett, whonhas been
connected for some time with the Canton
Mail. 1t will be Conservative-Demo-
cratic in politics. We trust the citizens
of Attala county will give it cordial
welcome and substantial support Attala
county has too long been misrepresented
in the counsels of the State. 1t is full
time the Democrats and Conservatives of
that county assert their manhood and
put their shoulders to the wheel to resist
the infamous measures which are being
forced upon them in common with the
other citizens of the State. The way to
begin the good work is to support and
sustain the paper of your county which
proposes to battle for your right of self
government.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13
The Fruits of Radical Recon.
SIructiOn.

The evil fruits of Radical reconstruc-
ton are abundant in this State if the
messages of the Governor describing the
Oppressiveness and injustice of the
leading measures that have been passed
by the Legislature, and the abuses that
have been practiced by corrupt and in
competent oficials-are to be received as
proof. And they are thick as sands on
the seashore if the multitudious reports set
afoat by Republican leaders in other
reconstructed States, are to be credited.
The murders, robberies, imprisonments,
and nameless outrages that have sprung
from it in the Carolinas, Florida, Ala
bama, Louisiana and Arkansas, are IA
miliar tales to the public. The thieving
and murderous exploits of the agents of
this boosted reconstruction, are matters
of exultation in the Republican newspa-
pers. Thus the Washington Chronicle,
the organ of the Administration, records
the achievements of the Radical rulers in
Arkansas and glories over them-say-
ing:
The militia thus put into active service
was of comparatively small expense to the
State Tres sury, for they tcere Qtdrtered on the
enemy and upon the people in the disdfected
districts-the quartermaster giving receipts
for whatever was taken, to be paid for. we
believe, only upon proof that the holder of
the receipt was in no way responsible for
the disturbances.
MARTIAL LAW WAS. OF COURSE
PROCLAIMED, AND MEN WERE
PROMPTLY TRIED, CONDEMNED TO
DEATH, AND EXECUTED.
Which was cruel. cold-blooded,
atrocious murder. The proclamation of
martial law is the destruction of civil
law, and the trial and execution of per-
sons not in the military service, by
military commission, is murder. And
yet the desperadoes who are guilty of
these crimes, taking advantage of their
own wrong, have the audacity to COM
plain of the retaliatory measures which
they have sometimes, but not often,
provoked at the hands of their outraged
victims,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13


Among the most Important measures
ofthe session il bill which has Just
passed the Legislature entitled, q an
act to amend the chartered the New Or
leans. jackson and Great Northern Rail
road company, TO insure the completion
of said road through the State.
The act provides that on the compile
ton of the road to Kosciusko within two
years from the LIST January, 1872, by the
assistance Of the people along the line to
the amount Of s2 500 per mile, the State
shall cede to the said company all the
stock owned by the State in all the Rail
road companies-thaactuaI cash value of
which, in their present deprecated con-
dition, amounts to several hundred thou
sand dollars. The State had ample Sc
eurity for the completion of the road in
the terms of the charter which required
the forfeiture of its rights and franchises
to the State on failure of the execution of
its contract By this scheme its mana
gers therefore have procured their own
bribery to perform a work which they
could not have avoided. The State is
not only robbed for the benefit of that
corporation, but the act gives it a con-
trolling influence in the management of
all the other roads in which the State
owns stock, and creates huge monopoly
under which the public interest which is
protected by competition, must suffer-
The deed was done with the skill of an
expert. 1t was boldly conceived and
rapidly executed. Its author manipulat
ed men-set his machinery in order-and
generated the steam that sent his monster
train whizzing like lightning express
through the Legislature-while the pub
lie slept.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13


We note that Senate Bill, 24O, provi-
ding for the registration of the voters Of
the State, preliminary to the coming
election, prescribes the following oath to
be taken by applicants for registration
Il do solemnly swear that i am twenty-one
years of age Tor over) that am a citizen Of
the United States, that have resided in this
State six months next preceding this date
and precinct where Il was to vote ten days
and that am not disfranchised by reason
Of any crime. or for any exception in the l4fh
Article Of A1leRdmeRt Of he Constitnttcn o.
The United States.
Now, as the 18th Amendment does not
disqualify any person from voting, We
cannot understand why the authors Of
the bill have sneaked in the clause rela-
ting to exceptions" in that article unles:
it be for the purpose of confusing the
public mind and furnishing pretext fon
arbitrary and illegal denial of the right
of suffrage to certain classes Of our peo-
pie by ignorant, or interruptions, regis
trars.
Moreover, the prescribed oath is not in
accordance with the Constitution. That
instrument specifically prescribes form
of oath which the Legislature cannot
depart from without wilful perjury. II
is in these words, Cart. z, Sec. 3:)-
The Legislature shall provide by law fol-
the registration of all persons entitled to
vote at any election, and all persons entitled
to register shall take the following oath:
l do solemnly swear that / am twenty-one
years old, that l have resided in the State
six months and in - county one month
that win support and obey the Constitu-
ton and laws of the United States, and oil
Mississippi and will bear true faith and
allegiance to the same.
Not a word about disfranchisement ''fol
any exception in the 18th Amendment.
This feature is inserted in the present bill
evidently for sinister purposes. The
author could not have been ignorant OF
the constitutional requirement.
Another departure from the condition
prescribed in the Constitution is con-
tanned in the words fixing the term Of
residence in the place where the appli-
cant seeks to vote.
We appeal to the majority to stick to
the letter of the Constitution. They
have no authority to adopt any other
form of oath than the one therein pre-
scribed. 1t is plain and simple, and
constituted the chief merit Of that instru-
ment.
NoTE.-After the foregoing was put
in type, We learned by the Senate pro-
ceedings that on motion of Mr.. Hardy
the obnoxious oath was stricken out and
the constitutional oath substituted, in
which form it passed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13

SsThe Case of Mississippi Stated -
Under this title, Gov. Alcorn has adj
dressed the letter elsewhere copied, to
the N. Y. Tribune, to refute what he
terms "the ISLANDERS that have been put
upon this State" through the Tribune
and other Republican newspapers, and
which are ECHOED (by RAdicals) in high
"places." The letter is an able and
triumphant demonstration of the false
hood of these charges; and besides, it is
a singing excoriation of its guilty authors
and the corrupt, malicious spirit in which
they have been concocted. The compa-
rison of the results of military and OF
civil administration is confined to the
Ames and AleorH regimes. The argu-
ment would have been strengthened if
recourse had been had to the administers
ton Of Gov. Humphreys, when the Leg
islature was in the hands of the intellect
and honesty of the State, and the laws
were expounded and administered by a
just and capable Judiciary OF the peoples
own selection.
1t will be remembered that the necessi-
ty OF this letter to the Tribune, has been
produced by '1ibels" originating with the
leaders and organs of the party which
accomplished Radical reconstruction.
The closing paragraph of the letter
will show to the public that it is not a
Conservative, or Democratic, manifesto.
Its author even stultifes himself by
proclamation of his adhesion to the party
which adopts as the basis of its unconsti
tutional and proscriptive legislation the
very ISLANDERS he reports, and compels
the derision of the intelligent people OF
the State by predicting that they will
support its candidate for the Presidency
in 1872! Lame, impotent and absurd
conclusion
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13
Ames VS.. AIcOrn.

On Tuesday last Senator Dowd, OF
Coahoma, who is, if we may SO define his
political status, an AleOrn Republican,
offered resolution censuring Ames fol
endorsing the letter which he read in the
United States Senate and declaring the
letter itself to be ga libel upon the people
''of Mississippi" This letter, according
to Senator Dowd's resolution, ''tends to
''shame our people and place the ban OF
"barbarism on the brow of our State, y
and yet when the resolution resenting
such an infamous insult to the whole
people of Mississippi came up for discus
sion, there were men in that body base
enough to oppose it and to defend the
letter. The night before last the clans
were gathered together in secret conclave.
What was said of course we have no
means of knowing, but the Pilot of yes
terday informs us that ga large and en-
''thusiastic meeting" was held, and that
the following resolution was unanimously
adopted: -
Whereas, The Hon. A. Ames recently
delivered in the Senate of the United States
a speech on the condition of affairs in the
South, and advocated legislation on the part
of Congress for the protection of loyal
citizens in the South, Therefore be it
Resolved, That this caucus endorse the
Hon. A. Ames and his course in the Senate.
Ames has wilfully and with malice
aforethought slandered the people and
the State that he misrepresents. He
has declared that the Governor encourages
lawlessness and that the whole State is
rife with outrages and bloodshed, and yet
he is endorsed by the leaders of the So
called Legislature of Mississippi.
We neither expect nor desire the car
pet-baggers, white and mongrel, to repu-
diate this caucus resolution in fact we
prefer that they endorse it and vote
against Senator Dowds resolution but
there are Mississippians who have hither-
to acted with the mongrels and ours of
low degree, can they do SO longer and
vote for the resolution sustaining Ames ?
Let there be no lodging when this reso-
luton of endorsement of Ames comes
I'M.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13

KU KLUx.-The indignation professed
by the Radical leaders in consequence o.
this reported organization, is all hypocrit-
ical, and manufactured for the occasion.
1t is known that these schemers origina.
ted the Loyal League, which was the
first secret society organized In the
South; that its members were armed,
and were sworn to obey the edicts of the
Lodges whatever they might be. In the
investigation of the North Carolina
troubles instituted in the u. 8. Senate,
the horrible fact was revealed that the
Leaguers had been instigated by Gov.
Holden to rob, burn and murder. The
Ku Klux, if it has an existence, has
been organized as counter-mOvement, to
the Loyal League conspiracy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13

TIE TAX AssEssMENrs,--The following
from that excellent newspaper, the Kinds
County Gazette, win prove OF undoubted
interest TO our leadees: w
I" The law with reference 70 the tax a.
seasmen. rolls, approved Feb. rs, 1871. does
mot ieBhAize the Assessments ln the several
counties OF the State a. has been stated
~ lSEAhzea she rctnEna only as Co time, che
crowded. that said assessment. mIlltia and
eensns have been made and returned ~ an
respects according 90 law, eWcenrinR "A 10
the tine Tor the returning aaid roIIs.B- Ia
what particulars the assessments are Illegal,
We are not advised, but Il e stated but few
Of The rolls will stand when lrn,, vhf inso
the courcs, and hence the dcternfnation II
many ~ the Counties TO enlofn the col
lection or che taxes now payable" WI
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13

The Legislature has passed over the
Governors veto the bill TO rob the Urea
sury ON pretence Of indemnifying the
Sheriff Of Leake county for the public
monies represented to have been stolen
from him under circumstances that
caused many to believe he was particeps
criminals. One other recourse remains
TO the Governor, and he Is bound to re-
sort to ii, If heSbelieyes the Sheriff u the
recipient of money unjustly appropriated
from the State treasury, and that Is, re-
moyal. - "a 1904
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13
LocarrD.-Little COck-sparrOw Boy

LocArED.-Little Cock-Sparruw Boyd
Of Alfalfa, of the House Of. Representa-
lives, after having lodged about fol-
some time between Conservation and
Radicalism, located himself this morning
in the debate, and upon the vote, ON the
social equality clause of the bill regulat-
ing public carriers He made q little
talk-he can't make an argument--in
favor If perfect equality upon railroads
and steamboats,, and proved his faith By
his vote Does he represent the white
people Of Alfalfa countyf sd Orr
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13

1t seems that old Simon Cm
Grants right hand man BOO oboe -H.
the author Of the creed which H..
baggers have come South u m.
practice. Says Don PiaHo . M. D.
natl Commercial lRcpubI"uH
As Secretary Of War. Dog InuHm'
system OF stealing that hls -IUr. HWI
stroyed our Government lI .|. .-
consists of Il c0ujugatiou Uffh. Nuf. ..
II steal thou stcalc-t hr. .U. .r
we steal ye or you steal tH.N r
SO on down "a the imperative m... .
"Steal thou or let him steal
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13

For two weeks, the weather has been
all farmers could desire for the prepare
ton of their grounds and planting crops.
Not discouraged by the unfavorable re-
suits of last season, they have entered with
renewed zeal upon the labor ofthe present.
Our information leads us to believe that
in Mississippi more attention will be paid
than heretofore to the production of pro-
vision crops.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13
The " Picked Cavalry. bin has pass

The " Picked Cavalry" bill has passed
the Senate. 1t was introduced by Old
Stringer, (negro.) 1t provides for quar-
tering the regiment of picked" men,
proposed to be raised, on any county in
which maskers may make their appear
ance, and thus puts the good people there
of at the mercy of any Loyal League con-
spirators who may conceive the idea of
bringing this punishment upon them
This christian measure for robbing and
numbering the good people for their own
sake is pet scheme of the Emminent
Man" whose apologists shrewdly say that
it is merely intended as a tub to the
Northern whale, to keep away the blue
coats-you know. We viii see.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13

At last accounts tou.0I.r.. ..
progressing at the loyal tom OBJ. sa
in the loyal State of Pennsylvania
large number Of lives hud H.u .
hundreds Of thousands OF do.H
Of property had been I'M rog. a
Geary had called out the ml.m
the fury Of blood and carnage $780, a.
turned loose. Compared la lI l0. M.
dian riot PRODUCED by Warren I..
and the other loyal saints. Iamr..
cumstance.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13

for hin 49, 1 ~ ~ ~ klicst,6g NJ tarrI
The card says, " am a man RI
have always worked in t1f iN.
peace.n .....
Not 9aicdys,n Aaron. lou 1IN. tta.
peace, Aaron, that night, when w.. ~.
Sturges and an unlawful assem- ~ IA. Ell.
RrOes at Sturgos' house, pasf m'uh
consented t0sthc programme ol
= body OF thirty on more armed u.0..
organized company, known As AAl 7. r.nlr
70 march through the streets h.. ..fI d. 4.
the town, with special instructor. ..r.. /.
20 Horns house, and there L. Ne
songs. Don't say always
ridian Mercury.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13

We are told by The CLARION. that on the
Committee on Resolutions in the National
Convention of 1868, there was but one man,
and he from a hopelessly Radical New
England State, who favored opposition to
negro suffrage.-Mississippi Central.
The Central does not state the facts
correctly. With the exception named,
the members of the Committee were
unanimous in the opinion that the regu-
lation of suffrage was a question which
belonged to the States exclusively and
that it was not the province of the Ma
tional Convention to declare who they
should, or should not invest with the
privilege of voting. Thus, it was held
that Massachusetts had the right to es-
tablish property and educational quail
ifcation; and that to Kentucky belonged
the right to fix such conditions to the
suffrage as she might deem best. 1t was
upon this principle of recognizing the
doctrine of local self-govenment and of
leaving to each of the several States the
management of her own affairs, that the
Convention declared the reconstruction
acts unconstitutional and void in the
light of the supreme law of the land.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13

NEWTON CoUNTY.-We are informed
that DR.. Longmire, an old and respected
citizen, has been appointed Sheriff of
Newton county in place of one ---
Gray removed-much to the qualification
of the citizens of the county.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13
Come roGrieT

Another carpet-bag luminary has fall
len-D. c. Kearns. He may be re.
membered as an attache of Ames' provis-
ional Government of Mississippi, member
of the Republican" Executive Commit
tee, and man of all work for the Radical
party here at the capital two years ago,
and from that time to the present, in
Jefferson county where he has been
quartered on the public crib. The fol-
lowing from the Fayette Chronicle tells
the balance of his melancholy story:
At the present term of our Circuit Court
suit was brought by s. n. Preston, internal
Revenue Collector for the 18th District.
against ID. c.. kearns, his deputy tor this
county and Claiborne. and j. Nj. Ellis. M
Howard, p. Balch and o. s. Miles his sure
ties for the sum of about five thousand dol
lars, in which amount it is alleged Mr..
Kearns is In default.
Thus it seems that another one of the
Radical officials has come 20 grief: and has
only followed in the footsteps or many OF
his ilustrious brotherhood.
Among the securities We recognize the
names of Howard, NEGRO, Balch and
Miles, Radical members of the Leeisla-
ture.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13

THE CONNECTICUT ELEcTIoN.-The
latest news is that English, (Democrat)
is probably elected Governor, notwith-
standing the Radical party was recruited
by 1900 negro voters. His majority
last year was 500. The State went for
Grant by 4. 600
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-13

No wonder the taxpayers who are the
victims of the oppressive laws put upon
them by the Radical authorities, are
writhing under their accumulated bur
dens. Read that part of the Governors
messagewhich exposes these crying abuses.
What stronger proof can be given that a
change of lawmakers is absolutely es-
sential