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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27
Revelations by "a Government
Detective.

The article copied from the Meridian
Mercury in our last paper, giving the
revelations Of a government detective has
awakened no little interest. A conspira-
cy to Gust Gov. Alcorn has come TO light
among other schemes which have been
Matched by the Radical element who have
quarreled with him over the spoiIs.
A link in the chain of evidence is seen
in the fact that Flournoy has charged
him with being Ku Klux in disguise
and to have inspired the demonstration
against his precious life. FIournoy Is IN
Washington. Superadded to this is the
terrific assault of the Pilot charging him
with having conspired with the democra-
cy and betrayed his trust. The "Emi-
nent Man" has evidently snuffed the
danger from afar. He sends no more
dispatches to Washington protesting
against federal interference with the adj
ministration of civil law in this State.
No more declarations against reports
derogating from the efficiency Of his
government He is executing a flank
-Heroding Herod in the
enforcement of the Bayonet Law and
making other concessions to perpetuate
the power of Radical despots.
Meantime let the outraged and plum
dered taxpayers whose remnant of world
ly goods is the bone over which the
Wreckers are quarreling, keep cool. 1t
is not their funeral
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27
ISSUES OF THE CANVASS.

Persons who may have occasion to enlist
in the good work, wether as Conservative
nominees, or as appointed canvassers' OF
relieving the citizens of she State from
the horde of plunderers and rascally ad-
yenturers who are in league with the rulers
that are harrassing them with kidnapping
laws, and who have plunged the State in
debt, confscating private estates under the
name of taxation, and robbing the public
treasury-are notified that the chapters
which are appearing under this head in
TIE CLARION, will, from time to time, be
prepared in pamphlet form for gratuitous
circulation. They will be published in Sc
parate numbers, each containing eight
pages. They are THE CLARIoN's contrlbu-
ton to the campaign against the Forty
Thieves. The facts they contain are COM
piled from authentic and official sources
and will not be called in question. We are
necessarily restricted to the publication o
a limited supply. The postage on eopie:
ordered must be prepaid.
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To which the Herald in the course of
comments, responds:
National Politics.

The Portland, Maine, Advertiser, a
leading New England Radical paper, has
strong article reviewing Grants Ad-
ministration, pronouncing him failure,
and recommending Senator Trumbull, OF
Illinois, as his successor. The Chicago
Tribune, the leading Republican paper
of the West, copies and endorses the
article. Whereupon the Milwaukee
Sentinel, a leading Grant paper, says
that these manifestos are part of de-
liberate design to transfer large Repub-
lican interest to the Democratic and Con-
sentative candidates in the Presidential
election, and cites the opposition OF
Trumbull to the Bayonet Bill and other
revolutionary measures of Grant, in
proof of his completely in the move
ment.
In the pressure Of absorbing local
questions, and the grinding expressions
which Mongrel legislation has rained
down upon them, the people of Missis-
sippi have but little time to devote to
National politics, but they cannot be in
different spectators of the preparations
for contest in which their own interests
are deeply involved. We devoutly pray
for such combination of conservative
elements as will assure the defeat of the
Jacobins and restore to the people their
constitutional guarantees of personal and
political freedom.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27

LEAKE CoUNTy.-The people of this
county having the opportunity at the
next election, intend Kidding themselves
of the vermin who in contempt of their
rights have been foisted into the offices of
the county. And especially will they rid
themselves of the forked-tongued carpet
Dagger Warren, who sent the calumnious
despatch to Washington in order to pro-
cure the passage of laws for the oppres-
sion and vindictive punishment OF the
white people of the State. They have
nominated sound and trustworthy men
for the county offices, and for the House
of Representatives, Raymond Reid, Esq,
an old citizen who will be terror to the
Forty Thieves instead of an accomplice.
If the District confirms the nomination
of DIR. Smythe for the Senate, and Alfalfa
does not prove untrue to her interests he
will be elected. Leake viii do her whole
duty.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27

The Vicksburg Herald has reproduced
OPPORTUNITY the following challenge made
by Gov. Alcorn through the Leader, his
Own Organ, to all corners in the canvass
which he proposes to make jointly with
Lit. Gov. Powers. The invitation par
takes of Bombastes Furioso style and its
taste is questionable, reminding us of the
incident recorded in Scripture, illustra-
ting that it is not wise for one to boast his
victory when he puts on his harness for
the battle. Nevertheless, waving this
point as a mere question of taste, we
have put upon record the material mat
ter, which is the CHALLENGE and will
suggest that in order to secure an oppor-
tunity of free and fair discussion at the
appointments, it would be well for the
two Governors not "to hunt in couples. F"
1t will be more convenient to provide
each with a competitor if separate APP
pointments are made
Governors Acorn and Powers will stump
the State in the coming campaign. They
are i'm full sympathy and accord on every
subject touching the political interests OF
the people, and will make pull, steady
pull, a strong pull, and pull altogether,
for the overthrow of Democracy. They
will throw shot and whiZZing rockets into
the molly ranks of LOcofocoism TO an ex-
tent that will cause its champions to trem-
BILE, as did BelshaZzar, when lie saw the
handwriting on the wall. They toiH con-
front the enemies Of our party and play Nth
them as q cat does Nth mouse. They tctH
lit them out Of their trousers, and basic them
up one side and doton the other, until there is
not a spot on them as large as picayune
that is not done brown"
To which the Herald in the course of
appropriate comments, responds
We reproduce the paragraph of the Lead
er for future reference, and when Alcorn
has the offer, which he toH have, to soon
front" some champion of correct principles,
we shall know what Importance to attach
to the oracular and pompous utterances of
the personal organist of the "eminent
man."
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

The statistics which we will present In
this article superadded to their experience
of the actual operation of the existing
tax-laws, will enable the taxpayers TO
form an estimate of the enormous spolla-
ton to which they have been subjected
under Radical misrule. 1t will be seen
that from $3.50, 900 to $3.50, 900 per an
mum were sufficient to carry on the State
government for the twelve years Prece-
ding the war and that from S4OO, OOO TO
$500, 900 were ample to meet all its re-
quirements for the years Immediately
succeeding the war before the rule OF the
adventures commenced. And that now,
according to their own showing, these
plunderers are collecting from the peck
cts of the people and appropriatlng up
wards of one million one hundred and
forty-one thousand dollars for the same
purpose, exclusive of the poll and privl-
lcge tax which the law requires shall con-
stitute the School Fund. and which the
Auditor estimates at s400, 900.
These statistics are obtained from the
reports of the Auditors Office, and ex-
hibit an increase of taxes and expendi.
ture, exclusive of this Fund, of nearly
tooth ,mdred per cent. and this, too, up,
on a property valuation of the State
which has been reduced from six hun,
dred millions to one hundred and eighty
millions of dollars.
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT.
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1t is known that the Superintendent OF
Public Instruction Of Kinds was dismissed
from Office on the ground of obtaining
money under fraudulent pretences, ac-
cording to such Republican authority as
the Attorney General and Secretary of
State acting under their oath of Office.
This game seems to be a part of the
general scheme of Mongrel depreciation
on the funds raised in this State and
elsewhere by onerous taxation under the
pretence of establishing Public Schools.
The Central Star mentions a report that
the Superintendent of Holmes county
has defaulted for some two thousand
dollars.
In Louisiana the immense fund raised
on that account has been entirely squan-
dered by the carpet-bag cormorants.
One of the effects of their rule in South
Carolina has been to close the schools for
an indefinite period in Charleston and
and they will not be re-opened until pro-
vision is made for paying the teachers
what is due them, and for the support OF
the schools in future. The money for
the support of free schools is raised by
general tax, and by law is set apart fol-
the purpose. The State Superintendent
of Education declines making any state
ment as to what has been done with this
money, or why it is not forthcoming
There are grave suspicious that the school
fund has been sacrificed by the officers
who should have guarded it, in satisfying
the profuse appropriations of the late
corrupt legislature.
In Tennessee they plundered the trea
. sury of the School Fund of 500, 900 il
specie, which was saved during the wal
by the men who are now outlawed al
''rebels," and that immense sum of money
having found its way into the pockets O.
the Wreckers, is now entirely lost to the
people who contributed it and to the class
who were designed to be identified.
These are but examples of the way il
which the adventures have managed thu
/ school funds in the Southern States who's
governments they have usurped.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27

SCoTT CoUNTY.-We have not been
idle observers of the preliminary steps
which have been taken to reclaim this mis-
represented and grossly abused county in
the pending election. Among other
signs of the times we have noticed that
at recent Democratic Convention in
Beat No. 5. it is officially reported that
Capt. John r. Owen, candidate for
the Office of Sheriff, (and present incum-
bent by appointment of Alcorn) addressed
the meeting in plain and appropriate
speech, defining his true position as can
didate before the Democratic party, sub
jet to the nomination of the Democratic
County Convention. In the event that
he lost the nomination, he expressed
himself willing to support the Democratic
nominee, as also the entire Democratic
ticket
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27

The loss of position with his party by
Governor Alcorn, was signally demon.
strated at a Radical meeting to organize
Club in this city, on Tuesday evening.
A resolution having been offered by one
of his spoilsmen, endorsing the admins
tration, it was bitterly assailed by Others
of his party, who charged him with hav.
ing played double game, and declared
him no longer worthy of its confidence.
An angry debate ensued. and but for the
timely championship of a member of his
military family-S. j. Ireland, ''Col. "
Ireland-("Big Yaller, } lately import
ed from Pittsburg 1--WE believe), the odds
would have been decidedly against the
Eminent Man" AS it was, there ap-
peared to be about an equal division,
when the question was put on the pas
sage of the resolution. As this drawn
battle was in the castle of the Governor.
where this Bread and Butter Brigade are
camped round about, the demonstration
has amazed u.s. 1t shows that as his
gubernatorial sum gradually approaches
the horizon in whichit viii soon set, and
set forever, his followers are rapidly
dropping away, and that soon there win
be none 50 poor AZ TO do him reverence. .
Even his own organ admits that there is
another brighter luminary than his.
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Is 1T TRUE?-The Jackson CLARION, in
its last weeks issue, contains an article uD-
on the squandering OF the peoples money
and the causes OF high taxes. II charges
that the Pilot Office received for printing
book containing some 600 pages OF the de-
linquent lands OF the State, $4,000, and
ury for that amount. III this charge IA
true, we are OF the opinion that Gov. Al
corn did a noble act in choppinR on the
Pilots head.-Prairie News (Republican.)
The statement is true. The charge
was made and the warrant issued. But
if Gov. AlcOn chopped off the Pilots
head in consequence of the extortiOn the
fact has not been stated. No exception
has been taken to the fraud 30 far as our
information extends.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27

A FIRsT-RATE TICKET.-The opposers
of Radical misrule in Marshall county
have made excellent nominations for
county officers and the Legislature
Among others selected, we notice the
name of Geo. B. Myers, the one-armed
soldier, who was expelled from office by
satrap Ames. The people will restore
him to it. The ticket for the Legislature
is composed of young men of tried and
approved devotion to their State whose
nomination shows that the inspiring SEN
timent of the Convention was that
"Mississippians shall rule Mississippi"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27

Regrett!ng that AttomoyGr
S. Morris, who has prcscnteiar
cord since his election IN expo
mercantile operations of Pae
gang, as the columns Of Tm @.
will attost-hnd made some r
creditable statements iu d. tetn
fore the Outrage Committee, ur
in The Washington Chronicle
preparing 10 make them thc
some pointed commcnts BuIwr
lieved Of the unpleasant perform
observing a card over III. onn
in subsequent number of lho C..
alleging that the report b. iuacaa
And further by the folloviugt
his testimony IN the Washington \
which present il 10 q far differed
though not by AZ y means whua
10 have been
The KU KLuX fNyEsIIGAI0N.-T
kluN Committee yesterday oam.uH
ia s. Morris, Attorney General 0f 4
sippl, native OF Tennessee. tNtr
years a resident in Mississippi a.
federate judge during iho war u-
tleman had no personal ku0ulcIa.
ku kluX, but knew of their gK.H
the State, the organization being
lattcrly 90 two tlers OF cuuutir uH d.
bama line. The great mass of lHa
are well disposed and orderly. DIN.
themselves 10 be Influenced by theo.
ers.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27

We have charged that among other
corrupt practices of the present Radical
Administration was the custom of dupli.
eating offce-holders by the appointment
of members to the Legislature who held
on to one position while they farmed out
and received the emoluments of the 9th.
er. The charge is verified by the Pilot
which says:
Members Of the Legislature were appoin-
ted TO office, and thus the State Legislature
became controlled by the Executive. The
i.eglsiaSiFe power became nothing, and the
judicial power was in danger of beino
swallowed up too, In the Executive De.
partment of the State.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27
Our kidnapped Citizens and the
Secret Service Fund.

The communication of 'Mississippian'
and MississiPpidn he is, every inch Of
him and in every pulsation of his heart
reflects the indignant feeling awakened
among the citizens of the State by the
uncontradicted report that the funds col
lected from them for the support of the
State government, have been diverted to
the prosecution of citizens taken from
their homes by federal bayonets on char.
ges of violating an atrocious federal Bay
onet Law provided for the punishment
of political offences.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27
The Latest from the Winston and
NeShOha Prisoners

AS we go to press, we learn that the
Grand Jury after aprolonged examination
of the witnesses brought down to testify for
the indictment of these prisoners have
failed to find true bills against Hon.
Hugh MCQUEEN and Jas. l.. Moore, and
that they have been Internationally dis
charged. The cases of Mr.. Kirk and
DIR. Chatham, which stand on the same
footing, have yet to be acted vpon. These
gentlemen are still confined in the felon's
cage from which Messrs. MCQUEEN and
Moore have been relersed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27

The Leader swells with indignation
that THE CLARION dared to enter its
protest against the infamous attempt
which was made to pack the Grand Jury.
1t waxed wroth, and foamed at the mouth.
1t is shocked at our daring to have an
opinion of the manner in which the
Grand Jury was first organized, and for
expressing that opinion. We are charged
with having written the protest with the
deliberate purpose to keep alive " the
q fires of hostility in the bosoms of South
ern men against the government of the
"United States" No such purpose was
intended, and the Leader knew that il
was not, when the charge was made.
But it was written to show that the pow
er of the government had been placed in
the hands of minions of the administra-
ton for the purpose of prosecuting Mis-.
sissippians for opinions sake. If this
was not the object, and no attempt was
made to pack the Grand Jury, how did
it happen that so many Federal office
holders and appointees of the present
servile State administration were placed
upon it? This the Leader does not ex.
plain.
1t is well known that THE CLARION
does accept the 18th, 18th and 10th
appointments to the Constitution, as ac-
complished facts; but it does not follow
that we endorse the gross perversion of
the powers conferred upon the Federal
government which are now being prac-
ticed by the administration, that the Rad
ical party may control Mississippi and the
whole South.
In its frantic rawlings the Leader forgot
I'D to mention that we gave Judge Hill
credit for improving the appearance of
the Jury as soon as his attention was
called to the material of which it was
composed, but it did not forget to offer a
sugar-plum to the Administration in the
following: eve would be sorry to think
''that the authorities at Washington
"would regard the fre-eaters of THE
"CLARIoN as the exponent of public
"feeling and sentiment in Mississippi"
There is the whole thing in nutshell.
What "the authorities at Washington
regard" is of greater moment to the
Eminent Man" than what all the people
of Mississippi together may think, or feel
or suffer and of course his man Friday,
who is grinding his organ Immediately
strikes up a tune whose dulcet strains
will lull the wrath that was kindled
against Gov. Alcorn when he telegraphed
a few months ago to Washington that
Mississippi presented an unbroken evil
''dence of civil obedience and order"
The assertion was truthful but ''the
authorities at Washington" did not regard
it in the light that was expected and con-
sequently the organ of Gov. Alcorn now
sees the condition of affairs in Mississippi
in another light and we are informed that
"there is no denying that Irregularities
edo exist in some parts of the State" and
eve cannot have peace until they are
corrected" We will be sorry to think
that the authorities would regard the
Leader as wanting any quality which
is necessary for the SUPERFICIAL to have
after it has made the assertion above
quoted.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27

The Conservative Of Marshall
have nominated Cen. A. j. Vaugal
Sheriff, and Col. Geo, b. Mln
Circuit Clerk. AS soon a. the pr
ings come 10 hand we will pubI.s'
in fnll.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27

EDITORS CLARION: There Is n doubt IL
the minds OF a good many citizens, whether
persons who held office before the war,
such as constable to Probate Judge, and
who Afterwards did not take up arms
against the u. 5. A. but did hold civil Of
flee such as Collector OF the Money Tax,
and Collector OF Tax in Kind, for the Con-
federate Government are disqualified from
holding Office now. Your views expressed
in THE CLARION, would crafty many OF
your readers.
Very Respectfully.
ENQURER.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27

The Vicksburg Times makes the reve-
lations of the late Convention of the
Mongrel press gang in Louisiana, who
are quarreling over the printing plumber,
the occasion for some pointed comments
on the general subject of establishing
and buying up partizan organs with
funds from the public treasury. This Is
rather cool for Radical journal in view
of the fact that the policy which it de-
nounces as corrupt and dishonest is pecu-
liar to the Radical party. In proof we
will cite the Printing Abomination which
passed the present Legislature of this
State, at its first meeting. And in view
of the further fact that with the ex-
ception of the Times probably there is
not a Radical paper in the State but
owes its existence TO treasury pap,
or the expectation of it, and is not able
to live month without it, We suspect
that the Times is striking hard at the
abuse of its party generally in order TO
make special hit in a particular diree-
ton. Says the Times;
This Is a contemplate piece OF business
| for any man or any set OF men 10 be en-
| gagged in. It Is an attempt 10 corrupt the
press and hamper its freedom that VI not
criminal by statute law Is doubly so by the
cannons Of morality. IL is striking mean
and cowardly blow at everything manly
and honorable. lt Is Offering reward for
| infamy. 1t Is poisoning the wells of public
virtue and public intelligence. IL Is a con-
fession at once OF imbecility and criminali-
ty. Ii Is n two-fold robbery Of the people
Ia that Il uses their money 70 bride their ser
wants. It Is crime combining too many
elements OF wickedness for definition and
can only find inadequate expression In that
| telling word-OutrRQe.
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ANSWER

There is no doubt but that persons em-
braced in the category described by our
correspondent are disqualified for holding
office, but not for voting. They certain
ly took an oath to support the Constitu-
ton of the United States before en-
tering upon the discharge Of the duties Of
the office they held before the war, for
they were required to do 20 by the State
laws then in force. Having taken this
oath they subsequently Gin the war; gave
laid and comfort TO the enemies Of the
United States by exercising the func-
tons of office under the Confederate
Government. We will again quote the
18th Amendment:
"No person shall hold Of
flee, civil or military Office, under the Uni
ted States, or under any State who having
previously taken an oath as
a member OF any State Legislature or an
executive Orjudicidl officer OfGnv State 10 sup
port the Constitution of the u. >. shall
have engaged m insurrecti0n or rebellion
against the same. or gireR aid and comfort 20
the enemies hereof
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FIFrY THousANp DoLLARs-

FIFTY THOUSAND DoLLARs.-Auditor
Musgrove in his report to the Legislature
estimates the cost of printing for the
year 1871 at $4,000. Compared to
former expenditures on this head, this is
most extravagant estimate. But we
charge that it is far below the real figures.
As we want to be precise in our state
ments, We ask the Pilot, in the name of
the taxpayers, respectfully but earnestly
to state, what they are to date, with the
work not more than half executed?