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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-31
Grand Total, $IS6,52O 81.

Grand Total, $IS6,52O -!
for the period of thirteen months and
fifteen days as above stated!
This, it will be borne in mind, does not
include the first six months of the car
pet-baggers' regime of 1870, the amount
of which we will not venture to estimate,
so far have we fallen short, heretofore,
of the actual facts, when we have under
taken to grope along to conclusionsiwith-
out the light of unimpeachable figures.
Hereafter we will endeavor to itemise
the accounts of printing the laws, jour
mails and documents printed by order of
the Legislature, and compare them with
the cost of corresponding items under
citizens rule. Meantime we ask the
people of all Neutrality-suspicious.
colors and conditions to look at these
figures, and decide if they can afford to
keep in power party which thus reck-
lessly squanders for partisan uses the
taxes which they are compelled to pay
under penalty of having the little wreck
of their desolated homes sacrificed at
the Sheriff's sale:
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THE ENORMOUS
PRINTING PLUMBER
FACTS and FIG CURES
Exceeding all our
FORMER ESTIMATES!
S16o,52o 81!
IN THIRTEEN MONTHS !

We copy below startling exhibit of
the cost of Public Printing to the tax
payers under carpet-baggers rule, from
the 23rd June 1870, to the 9Th of Au-
gust 1871, thirteen months and fifteen
days, which includes the term of service
of the present Pilot Ring.
The statement foots up ONE HUNDRED
AND SIXTY THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED
AND TWENTY DOLLARS AND EIGHTY
SEVEN CENTS.
These figures are really appalling
They have put to fight all the estimates
which we have heretofore made of the
extravaganza of the carpet-baggers re-
gime under this head. 1t will be seen
that the items accumulate with as
founding rapidity. They come thick
and fast as hail-stones in a wintry storm.
Hundreds of dollars and thousands OF
dollars and tens of thousands of dollars
were piled upin swift succession, day after
day, and week after week, until the
mlnd DeWldered, pauses to take rest
at the contemplation.
But even these figures fall short of
telling all the tale!
By letter of the Auditor we are in
formed that the Senate and House Jour
nals-which include the Appendix as a
part of each, are not yet paid for; though
the work has been done for weeks. In
reply to an inquiry as to the cost of print
ing those documents in letter dated
28th inst, the Auditor writes
81 would state that neither of the
Journals have been paid for" Estimat-
ing their cost each at S13, 900 the follow
ing conclusion is reached:
Total as below, ........ s16O, $50 81
Journals, ............. 26, 90
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REPLY.

Our correspondent could not have
served in the Office referred to without
taking the oath to obey the constitution
of the United States He is therefore
ineligible under the proscriptive rule of
the dominant party. His willingness to
forego his personal aspirations on the
altar of the common cause, is the best
evidence that he Is worthy Of the nomi-
nation rendered him BY his friends.
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About these times look out for
squalls, as the old almanacs used to say.
About this time look out for accessions to
the Radical party in the large negro coun-
ties from men out of employment, with
without means of living, and too lazy to
work for it. They have. hit upon the
idea of running the niger party as
they express it, and consequently these
intruders are causing lively time in the
Radical kennel in divers localities.
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DOCUMENTS FOR THE CANvAss.-Ihe
editors, individually and collectively, are
Frequently requested to furnish official
documents in the form Of journals, mes
sages, reports, etc, for use in the canvass.
TO save much writing, we have printed
this notice, that we have no duplicates,
and ale not able to procure them; and
that the statistics we have printed have
been obtained from public records in the
State Library, which are Of course not
removable.
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Warn the white voters.
Enlist the colored voters.
Remember The lesson Of 1868.
CARRY THE ELECTION.

Some of the Republican papers are
talking about their victory in North Caro-
lima, in defeating the bill for a Constitu'
tional Convention, and are claiming the
old North State as certain for Grant in
the Presidential canvass. What defeated
the Convention project is thus stated by
the Wilmington IN. O. Journal
1.-THE Convention has been defeated by
Conservatives and Democrats, who were
influenced in their opposition 20 the meas
ure either from dread Of Federal Inter
vention, as foreshadowed by Attorney
General Alderman, or through fear OF
losing their homesteads. Thousands Of men
the Convention who never have and never
will give their support 70 the Radical party
or their candidates"
The Conservatives only failed in their
effort to change the Constitution so as 10
relieve themselves Of the immediate
pressure Of the tax which will bring
their homesteads to the block. And this
in consequence Of the irregularity Of the
law calling Convention, and the menace
CT the Administration. The devilish
machinery left as legacy TO the people
by the carpet-bag thieves, will still be
worked; and will heap up wrath against
the day of wrath Tor the final and complete
demolition of the infamous party which
they organized.
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The Democracy Of Chir.aaH
made their nomination eu..
their selections for the Lcg..aum
j. X. Mcintosh and DR.. d. J.. Ee
the Prairie News, Cmoderata li.Ta0.
says "thoy arc men ofintcultg .H
and ability, and If elected uI. O..
the interest Of tho whole -un
men are incapable Of being h0M
any faction at the sacrifice of Doe .ae
Of any part Of the people"
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Again we entreat that no man icons

Again we entreat that no man jeopar.
die the fruits of a victory over Radical
ism by running for Office with the SEM
blance of a disability resting upon him.
Remember of the case of Gov. Vance of
North Carolina. He was elected to the
U. s. Senate in defiance of the law dis
qualifying him, and was not admitted to
his seat Consequently North Carolina
is deprived of her voice in that body.
The proscriptive law is grievous injus-
tice, but we must accommodate ourselves
to it, or do worse.
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THE CANVASS.
70 THE COUNTY E1EcurrvE COMMITTEES


In the absence of State Executive
Committee, we will be pardoned for ma
king some suggestions to the Coun'y
Committees which are deemed important
in the management of the canvass.
Alta suitable time before the election
n series of meetings should be appointed
in every county-one for each beat-and
eliminating in a Grand Mass Meeting
and Barbecue Of practicable,) at the
centre. The colored people who may
not have provisions to furnish Tor the
Barbecue, if given, will doubtless con-
tribute their part in assisting in the labor
of preparation. !.
Speakers should be selected and notl'
fed in time with due order 50 that the
attendance of the requisite number and
no more, will be secured.
In each county there are men able and
competent enough to address the multi
tudes on the issues involved in the
canvass; and here at the Capital there
are also well-tried and approved men who
will doubtless give what aid they arc
able to the common cause, If summoned
by the Committees.
No county should be given uP as LOST
because of the predominance Of colored
voters. These voters are waking up e
the delusions practiced upon them by the
carpet-bag adventures. They are suf
fering from the effects of the hard times
which the Wreckers have brought upon
all classes. Their minds are more sus
ceptible of reason than heretofore. They
are assured and confident in their politi'
cal privileges upon which no man-noi
set of men-nor party are making war.
The old scare-crow game that they are in
danger of being returned TO slavery,
deprived of their political rights, and all
that, is as much played out as the carpet
Dagger shibboleth Of "forty acres and a
mule"
Warn the white voters.
Enlist the colored voters.
Remember the lesson Of 1868.
CARRY THE ELECTION.
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The Charleston Beat Convention
met on the 10Th inst. 10 sDIpa. d...r
70 the Tallahatchio County Couaru
Convention, which met on DE- 2lE H
appointed six white and five ao.orsI
egates, and five white and fg. ro..r.
ternates.
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And some other Facts sho"~s1
the Difference between Chu-
xens- and CarPet-Haggers'
Rule I'm the Matter Of
Spending Ihe Public


Spending the Public
Money.
The Pilot makes an attempt to palllate
the insertion in the Journals of the SIX
hundred page pamphlet, at an additional
cost of $1S, 900, by citing an exceptional
case in 1858, which, it alleges, is prece-
dent. There is no practical similarity
in the cases. BY resolution of the Leg
islature of SO, quoted by the Pilot, the
document is described as the Auditors
Report, giving list of lands held by the
State" etc. OF this document 800 cop
les we're ordered to be printed-thus
showing that the object of general In
formation" which is plead by the Pilot in
extenuation of its transaction, was not
attained under the order, and furnishing
sufficient reason for printing in the
Journals at the trifing cost under the
prices then charged.
In the case of the Pilot, the proceed
ings show that the document was gotten
up by special maneuvering in the Legis-
lature at large additional expenditure,
three extra clerks having been set to
work on the job-that fue thousand copies
were ordered to be printed in pamphlet
form ''for general information" which
was done at cost of $2S, 000-and after
this large edition had been printed, it was
still further supplemented by insertion
in the Journals at further cost of $751;
900, making in all s41 900.
And now, since the Pilot has referred
to the matter of printing in 1858, it is
worth while for ''public information, F"
and as an example of the prohigacy of
| the carpet-baggers' regime, to compare
the cost of printing for that year 1859
with the expenditure on the same account
for six months of the present year, 1871 /:
Public Printing in 1S5S............s9, 004
Public Printing, six months
1871, ..................$7O.OOO
We will observe that this last item of
$40, 900 is estimated from the best data
we have at hand, and if we are not cor
rect the Pilot can furnish the exact figures.
The excess under carpet-baggers' rule is
shown as follows =
Six months of 1871, $4,000
Whole of 1858, g.. 1901
Excess, SCI, O96
A difference of sixty-one thousand ninety
six dollars in six months-or at the rate
of S122, 1892 for one year
We will state further that the cost of
public printing for six months of 1871
at the expiration of which time the work
was overwhelmingly exceeded the
entire expenditure under that head for
the years 1854, 50, 90, 81, '5S, 80, go,
(and part of 81 embracing the
full term of service of the
present Senior editor of The CLARION.
We will go still further and assert that
the expenditures on account of printing
for eighteen months of carpet-bag seal
awag rule is DOUBLE the cost TO the State
under that head for the entire ten years
of Citizens rule from 1850 TO 1860
inclusive, during which time there were
several extra sessions Of the Legislature
and Conventions held and unusual ex-
penditures on account of the Code of
1857.
Viewed in every phase, the rule of
Mongrelism is a heavy tax on the pock-
cts, and a severe trial on the patience of
the taxpayers of the State.
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CROPS IN ALABAMA.-Says late Col.
umbia GA Sun: '4On our trip about
twenty-five miles distant from this CITY.
in Russell county, Ala, on Friday last
we found the crops on the route very in.
feriOr-bOth cotton and corn. The sight
was melancholy to look upon, especially
when we know the pecuniary condition Of
the planters"
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THE ARMY WoRM.-We were inform
ed by gentleman who resides in Pike
county and has travelled recently IN the
counties adjoining, Lawrence Amite and
others, that the regular army worm Is dep
relating fearfully on the cotton crops Of
that section. From all quarters, the re,
ports Of its ravages are rapidly accumu'
IatinD
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FINS II. Little, Of Aberdeen
fishes a card in the Examine, lH
the Washington Chronicle report d.
testimony before the Ku Kluz Conn
tee. He charges the author of DER
port with gross misreprescnmaaa
falsehood.
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SIGNWIcANT.-Wo observe fha' e.
Kemper county Mongrels although
sided over by an Alcon appoIniee r.
got TO endorse his Administration W..
forgetful these placemon are getting
be Of the "Mmminont Man" as hif .e'
OF Elk ecutive service approaches in ell
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EDITORS CLARION: was once, before the
war, Deputy Postmaster, and engaged in
the s0-called rebellion. have been nomi-
mated for County Office. Am ineligible
do not wish TO be i'm the way of my party's
success If l am disqualified by the 18th
amendment Reply in your paper.
j. NJ. GRAFToN
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"Uh Whcn I thlnk OF Whht I am,
And what use 20 was,
Oh then | think I'm used up man.

THE CLARION, we are under the impress
sion, does the carpet-bagRers great injuttice
IL calls j. &. Shoup "a carpet Dagger" We
think he is only scalawag.-Columbus In
dex.
Give the devil his due. Shoup was
carpet-bagger of the purest water. lie
was born in Ohio and resided there until
the war brake out; and then, carpet-bag
in hand, came South, joined the Confed-
crate army, and received a commission.
After the war he was an ultra Democrat
until he found it would pay to be Re
publican. lie has now carpet-bagged to
st. Louis.
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No doubt the Governor made tho ns.
selection in his cho ice ofCol Alanloy
whip out out the carpot-bagger p.
the trouble with the Eminent Funel
that he has drawn The Grst blood I5a
the scalawags. Thus do the schemo q
mice and men 60 conrarywiso.
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ISSUES OF THE CANVASS
The So.CaIIed Change of Vemue
Hill.
A FFighGfuI Conspiracy against
the Lives, Liberty and PRO.
perry Of the People.

Too much prominence cannot be given
to this Bill of denominations. 1t IL one
of the favorite features in the general
plan of oppression and misrule invented
by the leaders of the Mongrel party. In
the rush and confusion which prevailed
among them In the division of the spoils
which they we're gathering up from the
wreck" of once splendid prosperity, the
Mongrel clans failed to pass it through
the House in the closing hours of the late
session of the Legislature having al
ready passed the Senate.
The scheme with all its atrocity is espe-
ciallya pet measure of the Governor,
who continually piled the Legislature
with messages urging its passage. In a
special communication on the 4th of May
last, he said:
| 81 call your attention, earnestly, to the
fact that you have not yet supplemented
those powers wiz: tie powers asked foI
TO suppress crime,) by giving me authority
in certain cases to change The venue,' and by
| giving me further powers asked for in my
annual message of last January" -Appen-
dix House Journal p. 1918.
In his recent speeches at Natchez
Vicksburg and fernando, he lamented
the failure of the passage of the meas
ure, and gave that as a reason why he ha'
joined the pack of Federal bloodhound
who are pursuing our people in theil
peaceable avocations; dragging then
from their families, and subjecting then
to torture of mind and body on account
of their political principles.
In divers numbers of his Own Organ,
established here to be the official gazette
of his administration in place of the Pi
lot, his support of the measure, and the
necessity of It's passage, has been con
| stantly heralded. 1t is a Radical meas
ure in all the essentials of its origin and
support, and will become a law if that
reckless party of oppression and plumber
should succeed i'll obtaining another
lease of power in the legislative depart
ment of the State.
That every reader may see for himself
the hideousness of the measure, we will
append copy Of the bill as it passed the
Senate
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-31

A NUIsAscE--Ihe Radical leaders
admit that the Grand jury, alias Smell
ing Committee in this city, has become a
nuisanoe. They are now praying good
Lord deliver Us.
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The Carrollton Conservative advises
the Pilot to let Modest Mus (Auditor's)
Report alone, because ''the more it is
stirred the worseit stinks.
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Nays-Messrs. Bennett, Castle. DuncarS
Lyles, Seal, StoIe, and Watts.
VOTE on TTs FTxAL PASSAGE.
Yeas-Messrs. Abbott, Ballard, Caldwell.
Dowd, Gartman. Gibbs, Gleed, johnson,
Little, Leaehman, Miles, Miilsaps- Packer,
Paine, Pierce, Smith, Stringer and Williams
is.
Nays-Messrs. Bennett, Castle, Duncan.
Lyles, Seal, stone, StricKlin, Warner and
Watts-9
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THE CLARION on figures again. '-Pi-
lots standing editorial head.
The CLARION is again on figures to-
day. How does the Pilot like them
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Col. Manlove charges the Governor
with Misunderstanding. The single blow
ne has dealt the Governor in return
makes them even.
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WEEKLY CLARIos-Two dollars per year, ana
extra copy 10 getter up Of club Of ten
or more.
syNr-WyEKLY CLARfoS-Four dollars per
wear. and an extra copy for club Of SIX or
more.
In future paper will be discontinued when
Remittanees should be by registered letter,
money order, draft, or by express when 9TH
erwise. the office cannot be responsible.
All business communications should be ad-
dressed 10 Power & Barksdale, Jackson, Miss
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The Kosciusko Leeader has been pub
fishing some of the Koscusko Chronicle'u
comments upon the carpet-baggers when
it was Conservative paper. To which
the Chronicle replies: "You have not
published near all we said about the
"carpet-baggers Of 1868. Come down
"and get our file. We like to see our
ARTICLES copied. 1t hatters our vanity.
We have no doubt that it gives the
Chronicle pleasure to revert in memory to
the days when il battled for the right, and
had not sold its influence. We wonder
if the Chronicle editor does not often
when alone, sing:
"Ohl when l think Of what am,
And what 1 use 10 was,
Oh! then I think I'm used up man"
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A Radical editor offers 30 "pul
for an exchange. Wen be bloWed q p
do.
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The Governor and the Ku Ia

The Governor and the Au Ai"A'
fit should prove to be true-and 1t
looks very much that way-that the En-
inent Fynct. in his search after Leader
of his faction has gone down into the dens
of the Ku Klux Khan and secnred the
Head-Devil, G. G., or Big Eye Of the
Khan for the position, is it not likely that
the whole " kit and billing" Governor
and all. will be led to the sulphurous re-
aions before he is done with them p?
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Many mysterious charges are laid at
the door Of the KuKlux; but they have
done nothing so unaccountable as to man
euver their G.. g., or Big Eye into the
Leadership of the Gubernatorial party.
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1t seems to be quite certain that with
his train-bands the Eminent Functlonary
will succeed in getting an endorsement by
the Mongrels as the head of the Radical
marty in the State. But what is to be
done with Ames, who charged him with
having been the direct instrument OF the
'skilling of tens and hundreds OF the
faithful? The endorsement of the one I'M
plies the condemnation of the other; and
silence is a reputation of both.
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VOTE on rae AMEypMENr.

Yeas--Messrs. Abbott, Ballard, DoWd,
Gartnlan, Gibbs, Gleed, johnson, Miles,
Millsaps, Packer. Paine, Pierce, Smith,
StTinger, Warner end Williams-16.
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sound of the axes ceased, his hopes left
him but as kind Providence had order
ed it, woman was out near the edge ofthe
woods, looking for her COW, her husband
being absent and heard Remington,s cries.
Her husband returned home after dark,
and she told him what she had heard, and
earnestly besought him to go and get help
and ascertain what the trouble was He
declined going, saying that the noise she
heard was that of screech-owl. But she
insisted that it was a human voice, and
begged him to go.
At length, yielding to her entreaties, he
mounted horse and rode into the woods
in the direction she pointed out, and soon
gotwithin speaking distance, calling to
him to inquire what was the matter. On
being informed, the man replied that he
rather thought he was only frightened,
and advised him to come down. At that
moment the bear hearing the mans voice,
commenced to grOwl furiously, which so
frightened the horse that he reared and
pranced around, throwing the man to the
ground. Fortunately, however, he held on
to the bride reinS and remOunting started
off for help, calling to Remington to be of
good courage, and he would return as soon
| as possible with help.
Remington had given up all hopes of q
rescue and sunk into dspair. He now felt
his hopes revive; but it was forlorn
hope. He doubted not that help would
come, but his strength was so nearly ex-
| hausted, and his nerves so disordered, that
he feared it would not come in season to
help him. He thought he would not keep
| his hold upon the tree but a short time
| longer.
! In about three quarters of an hour after
| the man left him, he heard the distinct
sound of voices, and soon saw the CLEAN
of light through the trees. A large party
had been raised who with guns, ammu-
milton and torches, fastened to the rescue.
They were accompanied by large num-
Der of men, women, boys and girls, all
with torchlights. ......I
The remainder of the story is soon told.
They built up a large fire, by which they
could take good and certain aim at the
bear, who was still on her perch in the
tree, and now remained there to keep out
of harms way; but she had not been mi
| tiated into the science of gunpowder and
ball. They soon brought her down, but
not until they had fired ten or twelve shots.
Remington came safely down, though at
great hazard of falling. He was carried
home next morning to his anXiOus friends.
| The fright and Over-eXertiOn he had en-
dured had shattered his constitution and
| his nervous system, and though he had
been an uncommonly strong and athletic
youth, he was ever after comparatively
! weak He would never venture into the
woods alone, and the mere chipping of a
bird or the chippering of @ squirrel would
make him nervous. He died in 1920, or
| Whereabouts. before reaching his siXtieth
year. .. .....- ...,- .-...,..-
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TERMS OF DAILY PAPER.

Per month. by carrier or by mail,
Per year. by mail, ................-...... 500
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