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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-28

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHU-
- SETS. WORCESTER, IS. Probate Court-r0 the
Hers at law Next of Kin and all other persons Interested
In the Estate Of ALBERT CLAPP, late of Grafton
in said county, deceased:
hereby cited to appear Probate Court to be held nj
Worcester, in said County, on the frst Tuesday OF
september next, at nine O'Clock in the foreman 10
show cause, ii any you have why an instrument nur-
porting to be the last will testament of said deceased
should not be approved
And the said petitioner is ordered to serve this clt
ton, by publishing the same week, three weeks
successfully, in the Worcester Daily Spy newspaper
printed AT Worcester the last publication to be one day
at least before said court and TO send cause to be
sent written or printed copy of this notice DrOperIy
mailed p4stagei paid to each of the heirs devisee or
known to the petitioner days. least before said
court. ~
Witness, HENRY CHAPLIN Esquire, Judge of said Court
this fifteenth day of August in the year one thousand
eight hundred and seventy one.
,o CHAS. L. STEVENS, Register.
1auIG o.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-28
COMMONWEALTH or MASSACHU.

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- SETS. WORCESTER, IS. Probate COurt,-To the
Next of Kin, Creditors and all other Persons inter-
esled IN the Estate of BRIDGET FLAlIM. otherwise
called Brdset Flehive late OF Worcester in said county,
deceased, mtesta e, greeting:
Upon the petition of Richard johnson, You are here
ny cited to appear at Probate Court to he held at Wur-
cester in said County, the third Tuesday ufSepember
next, at nine O'Clock in the forenoon, to cause
If any you have why letter OF administration on the
estate OF said deceased should not be granted said
petitioner.
And the said petitioner ordered to serve this citation
by publishing the same once week. two weeks
sivey, in the Worcester Daily Spy newspaper printed
at Worcester the last publication to be day ut least
before said Court, and 10 send. to he sent
written or printed copy of this notice, properly mailed,
postage prepaid to each of the heirs devisees lcga
tees of said estate or their legal representatives, known
TO the petitioner seven days at least before said
Witness HENRY CHAPLIN, Esquire Judge of said Court.
this twenty third day August tile year one thousand
eight hundred and seyenty-On
CHAS. T. STEVENS Register
au24 dau24E2s 7
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-28
WORCESTER AND NASHUA R. R.

On and ater April I'd, 1871, Passenger Train will
,etNe Foster street station Sunday A. ~ for Gro
ION junction and way stations. This train Will connect
al GIolon junction with train for Boston ami mtermej
que stations on Fllchburg Railroad; also with Train tnr
Lowell Boston, and intermediate stations On SfnrI,
Brook and Boston Lowell Railroads Living
returning; Will connect at GrotOn Junction with
trains rom Lowell and Boston, and viii arrive at Wor-
ecser at SIS JPN O. s Ti1ENER Summt
Worcester, May q, 1871. diff arj
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-28

pAClFlC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPA-
Il N6'S THROUGH LINE
TO CALIFORNIA, CHINA AND JAPAN
IOhchtng at Mexican Forts and carrying the United
Vt LeB Mail
FARES GREATLY REDUCED.
Steamship on the Connecting on the Pacific
Atlantic: with The
ALASKA, COLORADO
ARIZONA, CONSTiTIPI'IoN
HENRY GlGAUNCEY GOLDEN cry
NEW YORK, SACRAMENTO
OCEAN QUEEN, GOLDEN AGE,
NORTHERN LIGHT, MONTANA &c &c
COSTA RIGA.
One of the large and splendid steamships of tbis
lne whl leave Pier No. i2, North River foot of Canal
street nj II clock, noon, the 18th goth of every
mouth Except when those dates fall on Sunday and
then on the preceding SATURDAY. for ASPINWA ALI
PIny Steamships from Panama for SAN FRANCISTO
touching az MunZauilIo
VI departures connect at Panama with Steamers for
SOuIH PACIFIC and CENTRAL AMERICAN
fohiS departures of the 18th touch at KINGSTON
For Japan and China Steamer leave San Francisco
nrsl OF every month, except when it falls Sunday
then on the day preceding '''
- One hundred pounds Baggage allowed each Adult
Baggise-Maslefs accompany Baggage through and at
tend TO ladies and children without male protectors
Baggage received the Dock the day before sailing from
down early.
An experienced surgeon on board. Medicine and at
tendance free.
For Freight or Passage Ticket or further information
apply at the company ticket Office the Wharf r.
r. BABY, Agent; to SUTTON Il WHEELER, Lincoln
Block, Worcester or to agents for New England
&. l.. BARTLETT IL CO.,
O29 DIT Ii Broad street. Boston.
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w ESTWARD, HO i Tickets for the
West by all routes and for all points South on he
y Klyer at the lowest rates. Apply TO JOkA
pa bAkHAkp y. = and Canada Express oaice Cromp
be cheerluY given. Dr. ioh NIh
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-28

Prof.. HITCHCOCK found some fine amethysts i'm
the neighborhood of the PassacOnnaway slide
He considers Waterve the richest place in
geology he has ever struck. This secluded nook
among the mountains has for many years been
a fayorite place Of resort for New Hampshire
nennIe
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-28

The latest and most indecent example
of bargain and sale we have heard of, is
the nomination of w. III. Edmondson,
and his acceptance, for the office of
Senator from Clarke and Lauderdale.
Edmondson up to the day of his nomina-
ton was an open opposer of the Radical
party, and especially of the present Mon
grel State Administration. He was a
delegate to the Convention that nomina-
ted Col. Steele the Democratic candidate
and expressed no dissatisfaction at the
result. Nevertheless he has accepted a
Radical nomination and permitted Judge
Hancock to pledge him to a faithful
support of the men and measures of that
party The resort to such an expedient
by the Radical leaders is confession of
the weakness of their own cause.
As for Edmondson, it necessarily fol-
lows that he was bought up by the prom
Use of Office and its perquisites, by the
RAIDS, or that he has acquiesced in their
choice to betray them should he succeed.
He has played false to one side, and
there is no guarantee that he will not
betray the other. In any event, he is
not fit to be trusted. His treachery has
aroused. the opposers of Radical misrule
and plumber to the highest pitch of in
dignatiOn and they will redouble their
efforts in behalf of Col. Steele-a good
and true man-whose election We con-
slider assured.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-28
K K X.
ou..tlon, for the editor or the
Leader.


The following Inquiries are from
responsible source, and are respectfully
commended 10 the attention OF the eul'Oi
IF the Leader-who has been installed
as official organist Of the Radical e'a'e
Administration
FpIroaeCLARtoN: some time since y""'
column. were u-ed Tor the purpose OF ashl'lI
M C.mpton. Editor Of the LEADER u
was NOT ana officer OF high rank In the n"
Klux Khan. These questions he has no
.a,.n ur,,,cr 10 answer; aud a. consider
This refusal upon his part As an ndinissi"i'
of tie charge made In tire qnrsuohs' 'i"'
he Is a Graud Giant In the Kan, now oe-
sire the use of your columns for TIC puI po'e
of asking Grand Giant Wm. NJ. Compton |"
few other questions:
lst. Did you. or did YOU not. DR.. Com ptont
when you Joined the ku klux. take an oath
70 obey the rules aud regulations " Wv
Klanf
"a. Did not these rules and regulations
expressly prohibit a member OF the hiah
from afHliating directly or Indirectly Win
A Loval Lacquer. aud bind members OF tne
Khan TO forever oppose the Radical hepubil-
can partyy
Sd. Having taken this oath voluntarily
and sswithout mental reservation, or equiFo-
cation" do you not consider IL bindingf
4th. Did you not after having Joined the
Organization. use the influence you haa
gained. by your gallant fight with the Mon
9rels I'm the Black -and-Tan Convention. 20
Induce others 10 JOIN the kianF
9Th. Were you not active In your endea-
vors TO increase the organization, not only
In your own county. but In other counties
9Th. Did you not give written authority
TO a mum Der of persons In different counties
TO initiate membersg
9TH. Did not the rules and regulations
which accompanied your said written hu~
| thority expressly declare that the organize
ton did nothing 'that violated the laws 81
| God or manf
Sth. DO you not. DIR. Compton, know that
| this declaration was, and Il true. notwith- r
| standing the assertions that have been made
! to the contrary by the Leader and other
Radical papers, and by Coy. Alcorn upon
the stump
9th. DO you not know that the ku hluN
| Khan did NOT, and are uot committing the
'outrages" that have been charged 20 itk
10th. Knowing the facts that are contain
| ed in the 9Th, Sth and 9th questions. do you
| not think IL would be more manly TO retute
them In the journal you control than 90 per-
nit its columns TO be used In OBTAINING those
of whom you are one. particularly 80 when
many OF them were Initiated into the order
by you?
18th. Is not Senator Payne, Of VI lrshAll
! county. Grand Cyclops of the ku kluX, and
was he not initiated by your
18th. knowing as you do shat II Is mover
too late 10 do right" will you not boldly
proclaim in your paper that the ku kluX
Khan Is not, aud never was, "a lawless band
Of midnight assassns" and that all asscr-
tions of Loyal Lesguers, GOV. AlcOrn aud
other leaders of the Republican party 20 the
contrary are false aud have no foundation In
factf
X X X
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-28

The editor of the Leader is growing
desperate in his search after material for
assailing Gen. Lowry whom the Eminent
Funct. has objected to meeting in debate
because he is "private citizen"-or was
not lifted into Office on the bayonet of a
shoulder-strap, by dint of ballot-stuf1ng,
like the Functionary himself. The
Leader has searched the record of Gen.
Lowry to prove that he was for putting
''deserters" In the Confederate army
We never expected to see the day when
a Mississippian would make that argu-
ment against Mississippian before the
people of Mississippi. 1t would
sound badly in the mouth of Mournful
Fact-and even the Pilot-carpet-b bag
gers organ--has disdained to use it. The
next offering Of the Leader on the altar
of the Truly Loyal, We infer will be an
assailment of Gen. Lowry for volunteer
ing to fight against the cold flag" and
his gallantry in that service at Corinth,
Bakers Creek, Vicksburg, Franklin,
Nashville, and other "foughten fields. "
If the editor of the Leader imagines
there are any advantages to be gained in
that sort of attack, he can proceed with
it. But We will venture to predict that
the crowned Champion" himself will
not take any stock in it in the pending
discussions between them.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-28
The Laws Of Iss5.

We repeat that these laws whether
good or bad were repealed by the same
body that passed them before the Radical
party in this State was organized and be-
fore the carpet baggers who have made
such clam6r about them, were lured
hither by the scent of plumber. 1t will
surprise our readers to be informed that
among the prominent appaintees OF the
present Radical State Administration are
to he found the names of persons who
were chiefly instrumental in introducing
and passing those laws. The proof shall
be forthcoming.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-28
Hnereawe OF Expenditures Under
Cnrpea-Bag Ruie.
/. ecHAxPsoS- PLEA THAT DOES NOT skAA
THE TEsr.oF FACTS AND FIGURES
In his fernando and other sPeech


In his fernando and other speeches
the champion" Radical pleads that the
large increase of expenditure of public
money by the carpet-bag regime over
the expenditures under citizens rule, Is
a necessary consequence of the addition
which freedom" has made TO the num-
bers who are brought directly under the
operation of the laws. Thus, he says
s'under the old system there were $780,
600 to be governed'-now. there are
"above SOC, COO" Hence, he concludes
that if the necessities of the old regime
required $3.50, 900. the ordinary expendi-
lures of the carpet-bag government,
which he places at 81 100, 900, are in the
same proportion.
The plea is entirely faulty. 1t has no
foundation of reason, nor truth to stand
on.
In the first place the average exPendl-
lures under Citizens rule for the ten years
preceding the war, are put down greatly
above the reality. They did not exceed
$500, 900 per annum. And the exPen-
ditures under Adventurers rule are put
down too low. They exceed 81, LOG, 900.
But let this pass. We will take the
argument on its merits and test it not by
the shallow theory of a criminal pleading
to ward off just verdict against his cor
rupt and dishonest clan who are on trial
for plundering the taxpayers, but by
actual and ascertained facts and figures
which cannot be disputed.
In 1910 the white population of the
State (Which the champion" assumes
was the only one effected by the laws)-
was 1904. For ordinary purposes OF
State government, the expenditures from
the 18th December, 1889, to the 18th
November, 184O-were s215, 9O4.
In 1860, the white population had
more than doubled. 1t had increased to
375,631. The expenditures for that year
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-28

In trying to produce a diversion IN
favor of the Radical-Scallawag party
who have been detected in all manner OF
rascality according to the proofs FUR
nished in his own official documents
Gov. Alcorn for the first time has DIS
covered that the Chickasaw School Fund
Law of 1856, was great outrage ana
that the party which Is now opposing the
aforesaid misrulers of whom he is the
crowned champion" is responsible for
il. Now it 60 happens that Gov. Alcorn
was a member of the Legislature OF
1856 and and rOtei for this identical
CAiekdsa,o School Fund Ldsol Its chief
engineers in the Senate were Gen. a.
NJ. West, and Gen. p. b. Starke.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-28
emOcratic-COns ENecu-
live Committee Of HazOO
County.

Col. w. III. Luse, Chairman Of the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS nominating
Convention of Yazoo county has, by the
power invested by the Convention, APP
pointed the following Executive Com
mittee ::
J. II. Bell, Reuben Polk, j. b. Hart. Or.
Henry landsll, Richard Ledbetter, Jesse
Holmes, +. Barksdale, Saml Watts, n. IL.
Luse. j. +. Williams, Morey Watson, Grin
Swayze, l.. A. Campbell, Prince Miles, Col.
VIM. Battaile; +. BaTksdale, Chairman.
We know that one of the Committee,
(Sam'l Watts) is a colored man, and we
believe others are.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-28

The Leader, Gov AIcorn's own organ,
arraigns the Democratic party for the
Declaration" of the causes which pro-
duced secession in 1861. Even if the
Democratic party Of that dag had been
responsible for what was the joint action
of both parties-the present Democratic
party composing the elements of opposi-
ton to Radical misrule, with such repre-
sentative men of the two Old parties as
Humphreys, Sharkey, Lowry, Hudson,
Yerger, w. I. Martin, Watson and
Walter, on the one hand, and Feather
ston, Brown, Lamar, Hooker, George,
Harris, Walthall, Reuben Davis and
Gholson on the other-conjointly with the
vast numbers of young men who have
come on the stage of action since that
time-could not be held responsible for
the action then taken
But we started to remind the Leader of
a fact In connection with that Declare
ton which it seems to have overlooked,
viz: that Gov Alcorn himself was a
member of the committee which reported
it; and that he voted for it as he did for
every other measure in the Convention,
which had for its object the prompt seces-
sion of the State!
If it be plead for him that he was
swept along by the ruling passion of the
hour into the advocacy of measure
which his better judgment would not have
approved, We will reply by referring his
Organ to a resolution which he introduced
in the Legislature during the session of
1856-fve years before the final step of
secession was taken and when there was
comparatively no excitement on the sub
ject of the dissolution of the Union.
Pending the consideration of resolu-
tons which had been transmitted from
non-slaveholding States to Mississippi on
the subject of slavery:
MR.. ALCORN, of Coahoma. (the present
Eminent Man and "Championh of Radical
ism,) offered the following amendment:
"A md also advising the Executives OF the
non-slaveholding States if they shall cause
Congress to repeat the ftgittUe stare iGt1 or TO
aErOgdte the compromise measures Of 1850,
MISSISSIPPI WILL CAUSE, IF IN HER THE
ABILITY LIES, A Dissolution OF THE
UNION.-House Journal Miss. Leg, Sept.
1855. r. 63l.
Here was a movement for "dissolu-
ton by Gov. Alcorn when the public
mind was entirely serene on the subject
"a defiance, and threat thrown into
the face of the North when there was no
occasion for it whatever. The threat to
dissolve the Union was in reference to a
measure about which the Northern mind
was more sensitive than any other, viz.
the return of slaves to servitude who had
escaped from their masters into free ter
ritory. He held that if this measure was
repealed Mississippi would dissolve the
Union. We will further state that his
resolution was referred to Committee
and was never heard of again. Never
theless they show that the champion"
of the present Radical party in Missis-
sippi defined himself to be a prompt
"dissolutionist" long before he voted for
the Declaration quoted by his organ, or
for the ordinance of secession, or proposed
building a Chinese Wall which would
serve perpetual barrier to intercourse
between the two sections.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-28

: U. S. Senator, Carl Schurz, the great
German Republican leader spoke in
Nashville on the Doth. The gist Of his
speech was that the Grant Administra-
ton has violated its pledges; and is a
failure. He advised the formation Of a
third party. This testimony of one of
the chief architects of the Radical party
and builders of the platform on which
Grant was elected, as to the corruption
and unsoundness of that organization,
will do.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-28

We have received the first and second
numbers of the Newton Ledger. 1t is a
sprightly sheet which has been started at
Newton, by r. II. Henry, in the interest
of Democracy and the taxpayers. From
the number of home advertisements
contained in 4he issues we have seen, we
have reason to believe that it will receive
a hearty support from the people of New
ton. We trust we may not be disap-
pointed in our belief, and that the Ledger
will prosper beyond the expectations of
its proprietor.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-28
The PennentIary Q-e-uIo..

The Leader insists that every blow
aimed at the Radical majority in the
House for passing the Penitentiary Bill
strikes some ofthe Conservative Senators
who voted for it. But the Deader fails
to perceive that the latter voted for the
Richardson Bill in preference TO the
Stanton scheme which contemplated a
still larger grab from the Treasury. The
House Mongrels voted for it in prefer
ence to the Starke proposition which
pledged the lessee to pay $4,000 IN
money and 1920, 900 in machinery to the
State for the use of the Penitentiary.
Gov. Alcorn knew the Starke PROPOSE
ton was pending; when he refused to
veto the Richardson bill which instead of
saving s195, 900 to the people actually
takes away $4,000! Is the big
Eye" of the Klan so bleared that he can
not see this ?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-28
Anaile County.

Col. Nelson's Liberty Herald says the
prospect (of defeating Radiealism) is
cheering. We have every assurance OF
an easy and complete victory. But one
thing can defeat us, and that is ourselves,
If every man will do his duty, our vic
tory is certain"
Alcorn, by the aid Of Federal bayon-
ers,carried,Amite county by 1870 majority.
But then, there were 800 Conservatives
who ,OOu,H not .xOte, and 80 who could
not
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-28
r,.,c,.co homa- scanIan.

Thomas Seaman, the political prisoner
of Newton county, has been released by
Judge Hill on a bail Of one thousand dol
lars. The public are familiar with the
facts of the case. He has been deprived
of his liberty for weeks. in consequence of
his resisting the inquisition of the Grand
Jury into his political principles and asso-
Citations. These were matters of con-
science with him which he refused to sur
render on the demand of the Conclaye
which, sitting as a Grand Jury, prosti-
tuted itself to base partisan uses.
Mr.. Seaman has preserved his honor
untarnished, rs becomes a true son OF
Mississippi, and deserves the plaudits Of
his countrymen.
In this iniquitous proceeding of the
Conc!ave, we do not wish to be under
stood as duplicating all its members. Its
deliberations were controlled by ma
iority who were themselves members Of
the Loyal League Association; but we
cannot be mistaken in the supPosition
that their action was opposed by such
men as Q. p. Wright. Henry Muller,
w. II. Taylor, and others we might
name.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-28

IL.
The senior Radi.af6rgan here states
that Judge Morris and Gen. Featherston
are to meet at an early day in political
discussion in Marshall county. As both
were members of the Democratic party
before the war, and did not differ politi-
cally until the organization of the Radi-
cal party in this State for the purpose of
forcing a Constitution on her people which
would have disfranchised two-thirds of
the white population, and whose career
since its accession to power by fraud and
violence has been characterised by sys-
tenn of plumber and oppression which has
no parallel except in the examples of the
other Carpet-bag- Scallawag governments
the issue between them can be distinct
ly drawn upon the living questions of the
hour. Upon some of the fragrant abuses
of the present Radical Administration
which is on trial, the Attorney General
himself is a strong witness. He has pub
licly testified to the corruption existing in
the management of the School Fund
and the authority of the State Board, of
which he is member, has been noto-
riously set at defiance and spit upon
Having testified that the present Admin
istration in some of its essential parts is
very bad, the best he can do in making
an argument for its continuance in power,
is to suppose that some other party might
succeed it which would be worse-and
that is not supposable case.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-28

The subject of paying these Bonds
which never constituted binding debt
on the people of Mississippi, for it was
created in violation of their organic law
and the money for which the Bonds were
sold never went.into their treasury-was
revived by the Mongrels, with other rob-
berry schemes, at the last session of the
Legislature. And Gov Alcorn has in
troduced it into the present canvass with
the view of keeping the question well
stirred.
Its agitation by him at this particular
time is peculiarly significant. In the ses-
sion of the Legislature of 1856, he intro
duced resolution for the payment of the
debt by the people who were to be made
the innocent sufferers by an iniquity of a
previous generation.-(House Journal.
ses. 1856, p. 577.
Coupled with these evidences of a pre-
meditated snap judgment in favor of the
spectators in these Bonds (who have
raised Bribery Fund of several hundred
thousand to procure votes in their inter
est)-is the following statement of the
Vicksburg Times of the 18th, a leading
Radical paper:
There is one matter we desire to call es-
peeiai attention to. and upon which every
candidate for the Legislature In the State
ought 70 be called upon TO define his position.
We refer TO the repudiated debt OF the State.
these old bonds are now in the hands of
spectators who had representatives. In Jack
son at the last session OF the Legislature,
ana zoe understand that eceyy possible effort
srSI be made 10 secure Edrorable Le0fslzt,or 81
tbs matter az the coming session.
To~ r,ox,a~z L.