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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-11-09

The Kinds County Gazette, which de-
selves commendation for its vigilance in
guarding the interests of the people of
the county, calls attention to the fact that
there are thousands of dollars in school
warrants now afoat in the county, issued
since June 8, 1871, and signed 81. c.
Tucker, superintendent schools, Kinds
county" and says, they are, for the most
part, in the hands of the ''poor teach
ers" to whom they were first issued for
actual services performed.
The Gazette states, on the authority of
the written opinion of the Attorney Gen
eral, that such warrants were illegally al
lowed and Illegally issued-were allowed
and issued by Mr.. Tucker after he had
been removed from the Office of Super
intendent" by competent authority-were
allowed and issued by him when he had
no lawful authority to exercise any con-
troll or action IN public school matters in
this county Whatever. The inevitable
conclusion, therefore, is that these war
rants are spurious paper; but the Gazette
cites the following clause from the law in
force at the time the warrants we're is.
sued, by which the holders of these was
rants, may be protected from loss:
art. 1874. The official acts of any person
in possession of any public Office. and exer-
cising the functions thereof, shall be valid
and biading as lawful official acts, in regard
to all persons interested therein, or affected
thereby, whether such person be lawfully
entitled to hold such office or not, aud whe-
ther such person be lawfully qualified or
noe; but such person shall be liable to all
penalties imposed by law. for usurping or
unlawfully holding said Office, or exercising
the functions thereof without lawful right,
or without being qualified according to
law."-Revised Code of 1857, p. 13S, art. "a.
1t will be seen that while the innocent
holders of the warrants are protected
from loss, the ''Mournful Fact" who
usurped the functions of the Office of Su-
perintendent after he had been dismissed,
is liable to penalties" should be enforced
with the utmost rigor.
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I ours truly.
l.. I. BASKET,

Whenever the colored people show
Willingness to throw OF the rule OF the Car
pet-baggers. who, with their INSCRIPTIONS
renegade allies. are the enemies OF both
races, they deserve to be encouraged and
sustained by the whites.
Such is the language used by THE CLARION
in relation to the nomination of Merriman
Howard for the Office of Sheriff Of Jefferson
county land to tie citizens of Jefferson
county do we most earnestly commend
thsse words as words not only OF eX pediency,
but of sound wisdom. If there is any thing
that we are sincere and uncompfomising
about, il is our hatred and aversion to the
carpet-baggers, and we are DESTROYS. above
all things on earth, to see our county and
State rid of the rule of the carpet Dagger.
To obtain this end We have published sever
al articles asking the colored men to throw
aside the hungry horde, and fill the offices
of the county with men of the county, or if
they would not concede to this TO fill them
with men of their own race and color; land
that while we could not approve We would
not condemn" This is the position we have
assumed, and it meets with the appreciation
of the majority of the thinking Intelligent
white men of the county.-kayette Chroni
Gle.
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The Ku-KIux I'm north Mississippi

1t viii be remembered that some time
since an outrage was perpetrated in Al
corn county by desperadoes. They went
to the house of an ex-Confederate sol
der and Democrat, in disguise, and
fired into it, woundIng him and his sister
Five Of them were arrested and confessed
the crime, and informed upon their ac-
completes. who had already started for
Texas Upon this the whole Radical
press of the State, not excepting the
Leader, whose editor is known to be the
Grand Giant of the Ku-K1ux, comment
ed upon the outrage very much after the
style of the following, which We take
from the Vicksburg Times:
Texas seems to be a Van Dieman's Land
for the reception of mule thieves and Ku-
klux, and this probably accounts for the
recent Democratic gains in that State. If
the hu-kIux bill is rigidly enforced, it will
have the effect to make Texas permanently
Democratic, but the Kidding OF the other
Southern States OF thieves and ku-kluX
ENSURES them permanently to Repu blicans.
Texas loss is their gain.
mus attempting 10 make the Demo-
Gratis of the county responsible for the
crime, and at the same time to make po-
litical capital. 1t now turns out that the
perpetrators were Radicals.
And from the following, which we take
from the Iuka Gazette, a stanch Demo
eratical journal that has fought the good
fight nobly, it appears that they we're not
the only Radical Ku-Klux in the country:
kU-KLUx. ETC, IN TIsHEMINGo.-On
Monday last, Capt. Pierce. United States
Marshal for the Northern District of Mis-
sissippi, was in Iuka. Capt. Pierce is
much more decent Radical than is generally
seen in the South, but some how or other,
il became necessary for the Captain to come
into Ti$h to hunt up some of the bhays
who had been accused of Ku-Kluxing, i'll
lcit distilling, etc. and it happened that
about one-twentieth part of hundred or
Just five, were arrested and carried off for
having been guilty, or for having been
charged with guilt, of the aforementioned
crimes or misdemeanors. or whatever name
they may be classed under. But what is
most remarkable, all five of the gents so
charged and so arrested belong TO the Radi-
cal party Now, all the request we have to
make of the Captain is, TO keep these gents
out of the county until the election is over,
and then as much longer as the ''best gov
eminent the world ever saw" may think
wise and Drtdpnt
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ANOTHER VIOLATION OF THE
ENFORCEMENT ACT.
A RADICAL NOMINEE THE GUILTY
PARTY.
AHssSslvft made against Him by n
Prominent Radical and eX-
Member of the A-egisAa-
fure.

G. F. Norris, late Radical member OF
the Legislature from this (Hinds) coun-
ty, and prominent colored politician,
Yesterday, November I'd inst, went before
VIM. f. Fitzgerald, Esq, United States
Commissioner for the Southern District
of Mississippi, and made affidavit that
Monroe Bell, Radical nominee for the
Legislature had violated the Enforce
ment Act by attempting to bride prom
inent members of the Radical party TO
support him during the canvass. We
presume that Commissioner Fitzgerald
will issue warrant for his arrest imme-
diatelv. We viii also call the attention
of the Justices of the Peace of this coun-
tv to the fact that Monroe Bell has been,
if Norris charge against him is true,
guilty of gross violation of the lawsiof
the State, and it is their s@orn duty to
take Bell in hand as soon as the United
States authorities are through with him.
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A Specimen scaIawaE.

The West Point Citizen presents an
admirable wood cut of III. B. Whitfield,
renegade of Lowndes, and thus explains
the devices in the picture:
The cut represents but moiety of his
peculations Frank Shepherds and Wins
ton & Co.'s money, and the widow Roberts
cotton-all obtained under false Pretenses-
fill the picture. He bought the widows
cotton one day. and directed her to call the
next day and receive pay for it, and that
nis Int filed his petition in bankruptcy. He
obtained many thousands of dollars from
J. A. Winston q Co., for which he stands
indicted for obtaining money under false
pretenses f. shepherds money, George
Wbitield's (his brother) money, and the
money of a eumber of others, he obtained
i'm the same way, and paid them in bank
rupt notice.
The Citizen aptly inquiries if this is
the sort af man to be elected to posi-
ton of honor and trust?
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The foregoing comparison, it will be

The foregoing comparison, it Will be
borne in mind, embraces the year of Git
liens Rule selected by the Governor
himself. 1t presents an extraordinary
and alarming increase of expenditure
under the regime of the Mongrels, who'll
ly without justification, and for no other
cause but the enrichment of the thieving
Adventures and their venal allies at the
cost of the oppressed and tax-ridden peo-
ple of the State. God in his Providence,
grant them deliverance from the yoke OF
the constituencies plunderers He has
given them the power to work out their
deliverance, if they viii but exercise 1t
at the polls.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-11-09

SOME WALKING.-Weston, The pedestrian
accomplished yesterday the remarkable feat
of walking iiity miles Ia nine hours forty
one minutes and thirty eight seconds, tho
last half mile being walked Backward
Though there was nothing very CNriunE
about the walking itself, sull We look upon
il a. "A feature OF no small muvuitudr
la the programme ot me i are l' com
mcnccd walking 40 O'Clock, Ao.irfdhN
morninp. and at minutes and = seconds
TO 3 O'Clock, in the afternoon, bad actually
walked tty miles. This De- rud lo Jog ihn
best time ever made Coz America. The walk
ended. Mr.. Weston assembled the music
stand. and after making icw rrmnrh. snld
that ~ any cnterprit ing young man ieit in
clincd 10 take walking lessons Doe WuulI
give him the first one from there tU thc Ia
nier Aouse. lie looked as fresh as though
lac had not walked % mile, and escorted Dos
Mayor Hun and tha Second Infantry Band
walked OF very nimbly for hir boarding
house, showing no sign of fatigue whatever.
Macon lGa) Telegraph. Oct. 1l.
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WILKINSON COUNTY.
From the Woodville Sentinel.

There has been and is, political proscrip-
ton, in our midst. The blatant Radicals,
who have been whining prescription. pro
seription, have been and are now proscrib-
ing men because OF their Democratic faith.
COLoRED DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN MoBBED
simply because they voted or attempted to
vote Democratic ticket, or expressed
Democratic sentiments.
few weeks since Berlin Foley, a col
ored Democrat from NatcheZ. visited our
town. He was known TO be a Democrat by
ue people here. This man. barely escaped
great personal violence the hands of the
eolored Radical ''roughs" of this town. And
why. iorsooth was he so threatened? Sim
Ply because he gave utteranee 10 Democrat
ic sentiments. The 'roughs" said, that he
SHOULD NOT TALK"
Democracy here. Where then is the free
aom Of speech YOU boast of We Radicals
We blasted boated hypocTites!
snort time since, we were credloly IN
formed that prominent white Radical of
our town. was rebuked by his brethren OF
,ht carpet-bag cloth. because he drank ana
AoO-nobbed with Democrats" This IL a
sood Joke on the Democrats. We may, IN
political charity, account for this phenome-
non either on the ''sour grape" principle, or
ch the ground that the :. brethren feared
yae hayward brother, would, through his
democratic associations, 'forget his cum
Alng'' and thereby lose his usefulness to the
crsIt. II the white Radicals will cut them
on from us, we think We can stand IL,
al least We'll try.
But il is high time that hiss intimidation,
/ ofoW-beating and
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From the Meridian Gazette,
WAYNE and Clarke.

We have very cheering news from these
counties. In Clarke, the whites are unit,
and the lines are distinctly sIrawn. The
Radical ticket will not receive a single
white vote outside the little ring of office
holders and office seekers. while a large
number of sensible eolOred citizens will
vote the Democratic ticket. In Wayne. the
Democracy is thoroughly united, while the
Radicals are distracted by the differences
between Mr. VIM. Ieoman and Hobbs. and
his claR-a fight between nativism and car
pet bagism. Mr.. Yeoman wields power
ful influence in his party which he will cast
against the Hobbs faction, the latter having
gained tho nomination over him by fraud
and ehicanery. Mai. Gaines. the Democrat
ic nominee, will be elected by a large ma
jority.
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Proclamation Not by the Cover
nor
From the West Point citizen

From the West Point Citizen.
WHEREAS, The people of the city OF
Meridian have undergone sore visitation
OF Divine Providence, having been burned
out the third time, and are greatly i'm
poverished; and
WHEREAS. The heart Of the nation has (not)
been stirred by this misfortune of the
people of Meridian to a benevOlence that
would do honor TO humanity:
Now. therefore. 1. James l.. Alcorn. Gov
ernor of the Satrapy OF Mississippi, do issue
this my proclamation, calling. earnestly on
all the loyal people Of nay Satrapy to let the
Democratic. ku-klux city take care OF her
self or remain in ashes as a monument of
her rebellion against the Radical party, and
that the good people of my Satrapy. who
can contribute even a cent from their shat
tered fortunes. to come TO the relief of our
beloved fellow-citizens OF Chicago, as. il
may help me to the Presidency of the
United States.
Given under my hand and the great seal
of my Satrapv. affixed at Jackson this the
18th day of October, a. ID. 1871. and the
second Of my reign j. l.. ALCoRN.
jim LYNCH, Grand Scribe.
Leader, please copy.
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TAXES! TAXES !
The ssCerfiGicates of Ind ebteIness''
EnOrmi1y.

In the collection of the second tax, for
which the collectors are now clamoring
at the top of their voices, the people will
be made especially to feel the burden of
the law, against which we have warned
them, authorizing the issue of the exclu-
sive currency known as Certificates of
Indebtedness. Modest Muss has sent
out to the collectors, instructing them to
collect, in addition to the thirty cents on
one hundred dollars worth of all proper
ty, real and personal, not exempted, ten
cents on the hundred dollars, IN green
backs, for the redemption of the aforesaid
certificates.
In this connection our vigilant cotem-
porary, the Raymond Gazette, gives the
following facts, which must carry a
weight of sorrow to the hearts of the tax
ridden people. The case of Kinds is an
example of every other county in the
State:
This new levy, payable in currency"
will increase the taxes of Kinds county,
PAYABLE before the LIST of December next, in
the very handsome sum OF S2S 600, which
we are free to declare is pillng up taxation
quite handsomely. Add this new levy to
the list. and we have the following taxes to
nav on each loo of assessed property:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-11-09

The Lockport, New York, Journal con-
tains the following practical suggestion -
..Now that the croq1et and bas6 ball sea-
son Will ere long be over. we would sug-
gest. in order that the muscle developing
process may not stop. or that the amount de-
Teloped By the summers exercise may not
lie dormant during the long winter months.
that the base ball athletics turn their atten-
ton to saving up the wood piles of widows
and sick folks during the winter. The ex-
ercise ia fully as healthful. Is not 30 violent,
dangerous nor tiresome as base ball, and We
are sure the results will crafty a curious
public fully as much, aud we would prefer
10 give the sscores of wood saving class
TO that OF o base ball club, in our colnmns.-
What say you. gentsS
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From The Yicksburg Herald.

WHICH?-The Jackson Leader has an
article in re ference TO old Jonathan Tarbell.
an appoiltee of Alcorn, who dishonors the
Supreme Court, which is just as clear as
mud. InOne paragraph the Leader SAYS :
I'VE know nothing of Judge Tarbell's
record as amilitary mani In another para
graph. the mental photograph man, for
getful OF what he had previously said. de-
clares that"Judge Tarbell has war record
that any nan might well be proud OFF, Ii
adds. "he stands vindicated and honored on
the rolls ofthe country's bravest defenders,
and is far above the calumny of any man y
This is about as shameless and braZen eff
frontery. az the editors eternal twaddle
about the blood stained villains" OF the ku-
klux Khan, over which he used TO preside.
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From the Central Star

The annual meeting of the Stockholders
of the Mississippi Central Railroad came
of at the Company's office, in this city. on
Wednesday. The old Board of Directors
were reelected, excepting Col. Paul I.
Jones, OF Bolivar, Tenn, in place of Jno. ).
Polk deceased.
The following is the present Board of Di-
rectors: Gen. A. NJ. West, Col. j. Il. FAINT,
DIR. T.. J. Malone, A. II. Pegues. Montford
Jones, DIR. c. NJ. Walden, Hon. Jno. a. Bin
ford, w. a. brennan, L.Q. c. Lamar, X.
p. Nicely, Paul L. jones, NJ. ID. l.. Stephens
Il. b. Hurst By Governor of Tennessee,
Thos Boyle, c. III. Anderson, w. J. Smith.
The Board also held a meeting last night
and re-elested their former officers, viz:
Gen. A. NJ. West, President.
" r. p. Nicely, Sec'y and Treasu'r.
" &c. Walthall, Gen. Attorney.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-11-09

The Pearl river is one of the main water
courses in Mississippi, and for the i'm prove
ment of that river TO jackson, the Capitol
of the State, the Legislature IN April last,
passed an act, which was approved by the
Governor, on the Sth day of that month
granting 10 the Pear River Improvement
and Navigation Company, 100000, acres OF
land in the counties of Hancock, Lawrence,
Edward Evers, a resident OF ST. Louis, has
recently purchased about one-half, with the
object of establishing "A lum bcring compa-
ny, as these Mississippi lands are unsurpas-
sed on this continent for their quantity of
yellow pine timber. 1t is estimated that
they will average at least 100000 feet OF
sawed lumber 10 the acre, and ii we COM
pare the same with the value at which pine
lands are selling in Wisconsin and Mich-
gau-about 50 per 1000 feet in the tree
these Mississippi pine lands are worth $500
per acre Tie Missouri Democrat from
which we gather the above facts, is also in
formed that the purchaser, MIR. Evers, is
now organizing an international company,
composed of heavy bankers and merchants
of Chicago and London, which will be
chartered under the general manufacturing
law of the State of Illinois. In the South
ern States there are very large tracts OF eX-
cellent timber yet untouched, and If Eng
land and home Capitalists commence oper-
ations in those vast forests. the South will
rapidly march to new improvement, and
the woodsmen of Maine and the Northwest
will soon be joining hands with their South
eTn brethren.-The Daily Patriot, Wash
ington City, -. {.
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Thc En.i.rants TO nraziI.

About the time the war closed con-
siderable number of Southern people EN-
igrated to Brazil. The majority Of them
soon became disguised with their new
quarters, and those who did not die from
hardships and the pestilential climate
made their way to the country of their
birth a. speedily as possible. We now
have the news that the last remnant Of
these emigrants sailed from Rio Janeiro
ongthe 9th of September. .
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-11-09

The substitution OF slate for lockwood In
engraving has been lately found 20 be both
economical aud efficient Tor the desired pur-
pose. Especially il Is adapted for engray-
lngs i'm relief. IL j. stated that while
blocks Of slate are easily cut, they viii wear
well as electrotypes, and furnish over one
hundred thousand sharp impressions with
out loss of detail. The plates are not effect
ed by oil or water, do not vary their temp
erature, and become warped, which j. the
great fault with lockwood under certain
conditions.
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Andc- Insurnncc Company
cncnxArr. oetoler alth. ~

CfNcfNNArt, October 18Th, 1871.
MISS. BARHOWs a SMlTuE, Agents.
Jackson Miss
DEAR sHs :-Nou favor or the 2Jth iust.,
received and contents noted. Reports you
mention are false and malicious, and with-
out foundation. The ANDEs D. stronger
than ever, by half million dollars addition
al assets from stockholders. Every director
in the city has taken his pro rata -ub.crip-
ton. Our business d now about half MIL
lion dollars premiums per month, at rates
% per cent advance. In short time we
will send you the exact lgure Of our losses,
and you can rest assured that wc will make
the ANDES the first Company on the Amer
lean continent.
Yours, truly,
). b. BENNETT,
oc27swJt President.
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Mr.. Hetiodoro Ruiz, of Opin in Columbia
New Grenada,) reports TO his government
the successful treatment Of snake bites by
cauteriZaton. That country abOunds la
venomOus snakes, and their bites are quite
frequent. In all, this gentleman had treat
ed some seventy cases. His method Is 10
drop melted scaling wax on all the fang
marks, and lac looks upon the result as due
not 50 much 10 the cauterant action Of the
hot wax as TO the omplete exclusion Of the
air which the adhesion Of the wax secures.
well as applied 70 the wound, but that part
OF the treatment has long since been ADAM
doned As useless.
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Church Notice.

Rev. c. G. Andrews, late pastor Of NJ. f..
Church South, in this city, and recently
elected to the Presidency of Centenary Col
lege, Jackson, La, Is now in our city, and
expects 70 remain here untit the next meet
ing of Conference at Meridian, on the 18th
of December next During this time he
bath, commencing next sunday, November
-tI
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The Radicals in DeSoto county, as in
Marshall, becoming convinced that they
could not carry the county by fair means
have resorted to one of their schemes of
rascality.
The Registrars did not suit them and
che Board of Commissioners, consisting
of the Radical candidate for Sheriff, the
Radical candidate for Treasurer, and the
Chancery Clerk, have assumed the au-
thority to remove the Registrars and ap-
point new ones upon and Immediately
after this action the Board of Supervisors
met and, as the fernando Press, says
''by one stroke of the pen utterly wiped
'.out and abolished three of the strongest
Conservative election precincts in the
county"
Upon this villainous trick to deprive
the Conservatives of DeSoto of their
right to vote, the fernando Press COM
ments, as follows:
This was done in the hope that the white
voters of those boxes might be deprived OF
their votes. Wherever the news of these
outrages has gone, it has aroused stern
spirit of indignation throughout the county.
All fair-minded men denOunce it as the des-
perate trick of desperate men, who see de
feat staring them in the face and are vainly
fioundering about Tor some device by which
they may escape the fate that Is about to
overtake them. 1t has infused fresh zeal
and renewed enthusiasm in the ConserVa-
tive ranks. Serene, confident and undls-
mayed, they feel that the party that resorts
to such schemes as this, is already beaten,
We thought that we would whip them De-
fore-we know that we will do it now.
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ICON ~ Memnhls Anneal.

Mr.. Price, of Grenada, Miss, Is a model
carpet-bagger. lie Il Grants post master.
receiving i've huHdred dollars per annum.
His wife superyises well and carefully this
branch of the public service. lie Il also
justice of the peace by the grace Of Alcorn.
He is mayor Of Grenada, aud owes thanks
TO the negroes for this little office. lie u a
candidate for the State senate. and Sambo
reigns In his county. He IL an applicant for
the place Of internal revenue collector, and
will be school commissioner. He Is good
man, and il Grant or Alcorn, or any other
man. have a sinecure TO dispose Of, let them
aOt forget the Price.