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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-04-20

The telegraph reports that the vigi-
lance committee (Ku Klux) in Nevada,
is busily executing its work of arresting,
trying, furnishing and driving off suspect
ed persons Its DEGREES are implicitly
obeyed.
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ASONICbspla

-, - Marshall I1177lA t'PI'SEIISe1 n
our. Or L. s4st, stating that the
whole town was destroyed. We had no
intention Of injuring that thriving little
city, and we're much gratifed to learn
few days after that the damage done was
not Is great as reported in the dispatches
to the Memphis papers upon which we
based our information. Only one square
was destroyed we trust Batesyille will
not again be visited by SO severe an
affIiction.
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A Radical newspaper at Washington
CITY, says:

4kSA0HC91A A6GcOmSGE cIlOMs
A Radical newspaper at Washington
City, says:
There is a large delegation OF South Caro-
Iinians in town to make known the real sit
uation of affairs in that State. Among the
number are Lieutenant Governor Ransier,
Senators Nash, Wambusk, and Yocum;
Captain Smalls, member of the House, and
others. Senators Robertson and Sawyer,
Representatives DeLarge, Elliott, and Wal
lace, and the Hons. III. G. Worthington and
s. l.. Hoge viii accompany the delegation
to the White House.
If Reconstruction of the strictest Re
publican fashion, has been accomplished
anywhere, it has been in South Carolina.
The entire machinery of the State gov
eminent is in Republican hands, 1t is
as mongrel as Wilson, Sumner, Fred.
Douglas, Grant, or Revels could wish
There is niger in everything. In the
Legislature; in the Judiciary; in Con-
gress and everywhere else. And so it
has been for two years; and yet the crew
who are managing the vessel have openly
hedfessed that they cannot navigate it
without the aid of the Federal govern
ment. And hence they have posted to
Washington and procured proclamation
from the President declaring a state of
insurrection in South Carolina, and an
order for an armed invasion of the State
by Federal troops. What stronger proof
is needed than that Radical reconstruc-
ton is an utter failure as far as it has
pretended to provide civil government;
and that it is complete success as an
agency of agitation, outrage and villiany.
Since the above was written, we have
some additional facts in illustration ofrad-
ical misrule in South Carolina, and of the
deplorable condition of anarchy and pow
erty to which her people have been re-
duced Previous to the war $500, 900
was amply sufficient to defray the annual
expenses of State administration this
year s4,O0O,O00 is required, and that
too, of an impoverished population. The
richest plantations, says a cotemporary,
are ruined, the choicest farms are laid
waste, manufactures are dead, agrical-
ture is languishing, and every branch of
industry is crippled and well-nigh de-
stroyed-yet the combined negro and car
pet-bag legislature demand $4,000, 600,
and the money must come. The tax
books in many of the counties are already
closed, and an average of more than one
half of the property owners are on the
delinquent list without the slightest
chance Of procuring the necessary funds.
The latest intelligence is that there is a
combined movement among the property
holders, not to attempt the payment of
the tax which viii amount to confsca-
ton. The prospect before them is gloomy
enough.
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WxrKrr crAnIox-Two dollars per year, and
an er ira copy TO getter UP Of . club Of ten
or ms re-
SEMI-V KEKLr CLARIos-Four dollars per
wear and an extra copy for club Of six Or
more
In 70 ture paper will be discontinued When
time ez pires-
REM ttances should be by registered letter.
money rider, draft, or by express When 9TH
erwise. the Office cannot be responsible
An business communications should be adj
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dav night the wires brought to us the sad
fnfelliTence that B. Young, OF Salt Lake
City. had passed to that bourne from which
no married man returns, at this season OF
the year.
HIS residence Ia Salt Lake City has been
marred BY no disc0rds, no disunions, no
nothing but wives. He has always held
himself In readiness TO marry any one that
came along, his motto being never to turn
any woman away from his door unmarried.
He was kind TO fault. and his sad death
entails bitter anguish ap0n sixfy-flve wives,
and in the neighborhood Of two hundred
children.
And the poet says, and truly, to,
Mother, Is the battle over?
You betl Keno.
N " Democrat
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THE LATE J. NJ. DYER.-No man has
ever been called to his final account
leaving behind him " more stainless
record, than this lamented Citizen whose
melancholy death we recently announced.
The memorial proceedings of the bar and
citizens Of Holmes county viii be found
in another column.
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Flowers from the spIrit-land- Brandy
blossoms.
The popular Marriage.
It's surprising how sbstemious fellows get
that are sentenced 20 be hung. They prefer
not 70 take drop
The talk or sailors hardships may be
true, but 40 to their sleeping arrangements
It's all hnnk,em-
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THE ~PfoKKD" CAVALRY BrrE.- Gov
upon the fnnocent people III COUNTIES where
the hn-hlux may appear. lin simply OUT
r4geous. and Its attemrEeI execution will
klndle storm, compared Mi which all thMt
we have seen since the WAR VIII be as Moth
ings-Aberdeen Examiner.
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AMNESTY DEFEATED.-On yesterday
the amnesty bill was defeated in the
United States Senate-the Republicans
voting against it.
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NKw YOnE. April l5.-The corporation
the Texas Pacific Railroad Company
meeting at the Office Of Mauual o. l.
erta Among Che prominent peron. W.
cnt were General Fremont, John W. lofN..
OF the Philadciphia Press Senator Nyfl
Nevada; ThOmas A. Scott 81 iho Penny
vanla railroad; General Rosccrane aeD
number OF other capitalists and failfptA
hamnel Sloan was appointed treasurer
gave bonds for $500. 900, Judge Hleutl.
and Marshall q. Roberts being the -t
ties- s
BY unanimous consent 1000 out Of ...
$1,000 shares Of stock were allotted to
shall an. Roberts thus FlrlpalN
tho entire control 81 fhe restlpncyi iN
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The New York Tribune does not ex-
pend many words in reply to Gov. AL
corn's letter in response to the " ibels"
of Ames and of its Mississippi cores
pondent, whom he has published as a
knave and swindler, and who is notorious
as a lobby vulture. The Tribune only
says:
We print herewith letter from Gov. AL
corn, of Mississippi, defending his admins
tration. Though ostensibly addressed to
US, it is really an attack on Gen. Ames, his
predecessor and prospective colleague, who
will doubtless pay his respect to 1t in his
own time and way. So will Col. Huggins.
Gov. Alcorn conceals the more important
part of the truth with regard to Northern
officers and local taxes. He conceals the
fact that large part of these taxes are re-
quired for school purposes; and Gov. AL
corn's fellow-planters hate to be taxed to
school black children. Hence the outrage
on "carpet-bag" office-holders.
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We have been puzzled how to construe
the following language employed by
Gov. Alcorn in one of his late messages.
"While regarding with calm Indifference
1.-THE violence and vituperation of a
''press which represents in its vapid ut
''terances no portion of the people," &c.
Flournoy of the Equal Rights, who,
according to Greedy, edits ''the only truly
Republican paper in the South'-the
veritable Old John Brown of the Mongrel
party-says that his is the 'press" so
venomously stung by the Governor, and
that he is the man who is to be "struck
down." Whereupon the doomed martyr
bravely responds:
There is no installing the man he means
or his determination to strike him down."
Now let us be directly understood as saying
to him, that he may cause us to be struck
down by mob. or we may be assassinated,
or ia personal rencounter ne might strike
US down, but he cannot intimidate US.
We feel relieved. We apprehended
it might have been some of our Demo
cratic cotemporaries-Frantz, McCardle,
Davis, or Horne-at whom the Eminent
Man" had discharged his piece; and we
feared the consequences. Fortunately
they are safe. Flournoy was hit, and
the CALLED jade winces.
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The Force BnL.-The q. S. Senate
amended this bill, which had passed the
House, by inserting clauses taxing the
people of any county in which violations
of the peace may have been alleged to
have occurred, and requiring jurors to
take the iron clad oath. These provis-
ions were expected by the House, and a
committee of conference asked for. The
Democrats in both Houses have contest
ed every inch of the ground, and to their
opposition is due whatever modifying
features the measure may possess. New
ertheless, the hell-broth will be duly pre-
pared.
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The Chronicle, the administration or
gan, don't like the letter of Gov. Alcorn
in reply to Ames. 1t says:
Governor and United States Senator-elect
Alcorn, of Mississippi, is out in another
letter to show that the lines of Republicans
In that State have fallen In pleasant places.
Only Democrats think the effort asnccess.
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BILLS PASSED.
HOUSE.
INSTRUMENTATION on nILLs.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
A Joint Resolution relative to publishing
the Acts of the Legislature.
The consideration of the Revised Code
occupied the day.
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The TAxEs.-A gentleman residing
in this city has given Us a statement of
the taxes be has paid during the last three
years on piece of land near this city.
There has been no improvements made
upon it that would cause it to appreciate
in value.
For 1868, under military rule, 1918 50
"s 1869, +" !" % so
sc 1870, under the present adj
ministration. 81 20
Nearly three times as much as it was
in 1868. What blessing is carpet-bag
rule
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rxTRoDpcrToN on BILLS.
An act fo incorporate the Mississippi Land,
building and Labor Association.
An act "a authorize the State Treasurer 70
issue bonds In exchange for State warrants
An act to amend m act 70 establish the
counties OF AIe0rn ard Prentlss. and tor re-
moving the seat Of Justice or 1lsnomlngo,
aud for Changing the boundary line Of said
county, approved April Is, 1870
BILLS PAssED.
Anact to incorporate the Mississippi Land
and Immigration Company, and ior other
purposes.
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Making ! total o..

Which deducted from the negro
leaves -----.s.-------------- zsZ5Snegro
majority
It is possible that among those who are
set down as disqualified, there may be
1000 above twenty-one years Of age !;
and this number is composed of unnatu-
rallied, persons and persons convicted of
crime. This estimate viii subject both
lists to a proportional deduction from
the foregoing sums total.
Under the Constitution, all classes
with the exceptions convicted of crine)
are voters, and the officials who were
charged with the business Of enumeration
could have only arrived at the conclusion
that there are several thousand disfran-
chised persons in the State, through
ignorance Of their duties. The law did
not instruct them to institute such an
inquiry, and if it had, the result would
not have been as stated.
Tho Report shows the number of white
and black voters in this State to be al
most equal and in contest of race,
makes the issue doubtful.
The Report, which Is of Radical origin,
will open the eyes of many persons. 1t
viii 81, Wv that the boosted negro majority
of tens of thousands in this State. is a
myth. It viii inspire with renewed hope
the hearts of those who had lost faith in
the redemption of the State from carpet
bag-African domination under the infu-
ence of this delusion. 1t will strike
terror to the hearts of those who have
INDUCED the dream of perpetuating their
ill-gotten power by marshalling the brute
force Of ignorance in deadly hostility to
intelligence and property. 1t will show
that the African Dagon to which scala
wags have been offering incense, on the
idea that it rests on the secure founda'
ton of invincible numbers, will fall tC
the earth and put to shame the idolators
who have sold their birth-right for 9
mess of pottage. And it must convince
the blacks themselves, if they can bt
made to understand the fact as it exists
that their way of peace, safety anc
prosperity is not in separate organiza
ton of race under the leadership o
corrupt and craven Adventures, agains
the white people of the State, whose in
terest is identical with theirs, and win
prefer to live with them in harmon,
under laws which viii extend protection
Of life, liberty and property to all.
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The carpet-bag and scalawag Represen-
tatives claiming to occupy seat, in Con-
gress to which they were not elected by
the people Of Mississippi, voted for the
|9u tors measure restoring martial law
r tie writ Of Habeas Cor
from and after its pAssage ~ lhs ulscre-
: 1ed the Senate, March rs hard that
use of Ventcd by
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A despatch states that the proposition to
refuse 60 pay the taxes, which are so exorbi-
tant as to be eQui valent TO confiscation, has
been taken gener ally all over the State and
Qnleted the more turbulent in some sections
who were seeking redress In violent way.
In making up the form of our last
number, the foregoing paragraph was
detached from an article Oh South Caro-
lima affairs, and inserted IN such way
as to produce the impression that It was
intended to apply to this State. II il
proper to add that although the Radical
thieves have sorely tried the patience of
the people with their oppressive measures,
we have heard of no violent resistance.
They are quietly abiding their opportuni-
ty of deliverance by the peaceful agency
of the baHot-box,
sStill as the breeze, but dreadful as the
Storm"
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ent of the Vicksburg Herald, sayE:
The Radicals are privately discussing adj
journment till December, when they want
TO return and have IL out TO the last day Of
per diem, thus securing enough 20 pay trav-
cling expenses TO I" Hum" up North.
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We have before us the Address of
the State Central Committee of the Re
publican Party" of Mississippi issued as
late as the 9Th December, 1870. As
Radical testimony touching the condition
of affairs in this State, it ought to be
credited by Radicals everywhere. 1t is
of truly loyal origin. 1t bears the names
of Henry Musgrove, Chairman, and
James Lynch, Secretary" and is there
fore cross between an Indiana carpet
Dagger and Philadelphia Fifteenth
Amendmenter. As an answer to the
libels which Ames q Co. have circulated
on the people of the State, it is COM
plete.
This Musgrove-Lynch Republican
Address" was sent out as an exhortation
to the Loyal Leaguers to come totime in
the then pending special elections, in
which by the way, the Conservatives made
large gains. We will quote as follows
from the document:
TO THE POLLS!
sThe State Central Committee in behalf OF
the Republican party, do most earnestly
call upon the Republicans in the counties
| in which elections are to be held, to bring to
| the polls their full strength"
BENIFIcENT RESULTS.
Zone year of Republican administration
of our State government has almost expired
and even our political opponents are COM
PEELED to acknowledge its benifcent results.s
| What whopperD
HEALTHY SENTIMENT.
"A healthy public sentiment in reference
| to free schools is being fostered. Men OF
1 appreciation Of the education of the masses
ALL is LOVELY.
$50 thoroughly has the administration o
| the government been in the interest of al
classes of the citizens of our State, that those
who in ANY LOCALITY 'sc0aILd excite unlGacfa
opposition to ciUiI authority, HAVE FAILED tt
RECEIVE THE SUPPORT OF PUBLIC OPINION
The colOred people are conteHted and hopeful
And much more of this sort of pear
to the era of peace, prosperity, hopeful
ness and contentedness reigning among
all classes in Mississippi, was chanted b.
Musgrove and Lynch. How does i
accord with the Warren telegram tina
outrages and lawless violence are of con
slant occurrence in all parts of the State
and sent to headquarters to bolster u
the ISLANDERS of Ames acting as the mouth
piece and henchman of Beast Butler
We would like to be informed if Mus
grove and Lynch were members of tn
caucns by whose authority Warren pei
petrated his calumny; and if they sane
toned its proceedings.
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hi. w. WARREN.
President Of Republican Caucus.


Gould anything be more desperately
mean than the conduct of this carpet
bagman Warren in, sending forth this
slanderous statement on its vile mission
OF mischief. He claims to represent a
county which has white population
more than double that of the negro. He
is now drawing salary of sixteen dol
lars a day from the treasury, forty-nine
fftieths Of which is drawn from the
white people Of the State. He owes to
the hberality of the Conservative mem
bers the place he now occupies. In the
treatment of which he himself has been
the recipient, he had reason to know that
this libellous report which he was send
ing out would create false impression in
the public mind to the prejudice of the
white population of the State, whom he
charges with outrage and violence in
all parts" of it. The slimiest reptile of
the carpet-bagger tribe could not have
been guilty of lower thing than the
preparation of this outrage by Warren,
under the circumstances. To the voters
of Leake county his case is submitted for
q verdict when they have opportunity of
rendering it,
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'rhe Removal OF aIr. mclaughlin.

The Removal of NAr. Mclaughlin.
The so-called Lit. Governor Powers,
temporarily filing the Office Ex-Governor,
has exercised his brief authority in a
way peculiarly characteristic of carpet
bag malignity and meanDess by the re-
moval of Mr.. M. Mclaughlin from the
board Of councilmen of this city. We
understand that various pretexts are as
signed for this act of petty prescription,
one of which is, that Mr.. Mclaughlin
does not reside IN the ward in which he was
appointed. 1t is known that this point
was raised, and decided, fayorably to
the retention of the Office by Mr.. Nc
Laughlin, Immediately on his appoint
ment, nearly year ago. But it lily be-
comes the newcomer from Ohio, who is
the temporary incumbent of the Execu-
tive Office, and Modest Musgrove, who is
understood to have been at the bottom of
the affair, and who himself is a man Of
yesterday in this town, and was called
hither to FIJI State office, which he oc-
cupies by force of Ames' bayonets, to
raise this objection to Mr.. Mclaughlin,
who is an old citizen, owns property in
every ward in the city and pays more
taxes into the treasury from which Mus
grove and Powers are feeding themselves
fat-than all the rest of the city council
combined. We suspect that there is a
deeper motive still, at the foundation of
his removal.
The act-all the circumstances consid-
ered--is wholly indecorus to the Cover
nor whose appointee is removed in his
absence-and it is a fair illustration of
carpet-bag cunning and malignity.
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EIGHTHY-EIGHTH DAY.
SENATE.
MONDAY, April II, 1871.

MONDAY, April IL, 1871.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
An act to provide for the leasing of the
State Penitentiary.
An act in relation to persons under SEN
tence for offences against the laws of the
BILLS PASSED.
An act to authorize the Mayor and Alder
men of the City of Columbus to work pris-
Oners on the streets.
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From the slarkvIlle New Era, Sd

The Authors Or sc Mischief Es-
cape yEiahout BHoIe~smtion-
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POSTSCRIPT

After the foregoing was put in type
we were informed that the PoaCers that
be" acting on the maxim that discretion
is the better part of valor, reconsider
ed their course and cancelled the order of
dismissal which they had served on Mr..
Mclaughlin. By their own admission,
their prostitution of their little brief
authority merits the language we have
applied to it.
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FnlpAr. April a, 80.

EreHT1-sIxTH DAY
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4 RoLAnD ,toa ILL., OkrvEE II tie
United States aenate on tie 18th inst.
Mr.. Nye, u Nevada, presented char
acteriatic Radical report Of Southern
outrages. manufactured for the occasion.
whereupon Gen Blair admonished him
not TO shed all his tears over the South,
and produced the proceedings Of = Kn
Clux Committee IN Nevada, and record Of
the numerous crimes Of recent occurrence
in that State In one county as many
as two hundred had been committed and
but two of the guilty parties had been
punished lone by law. and the other by
violence. The Nevada Senator caved.
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.speaI1er. VYarren's Telegram.

Ia the course of his speech in the ..
S. Senate to bring upon the white people
Of Mississippi the vengeance Of the Fed
era government, and to secure military
Intervention in their affairs, Ames caused
the following despatch to be read:
JACKSON Miss, March 8, ls7l,l
Received March 10, IL m.
Hox. SENATOR AAIEs, Senate Chamber:
The Meridian riot seems, from informa-
tion by most reliable persons, to have been
the result Of a combined effort of the whites
to overthrow the city and county govern
ment. Result is eight or more eoiored per,
sons killed. BraInlette, white man, killed
by accidental shot. Senators Gleed and
Henderson, members, arrived by train from
Meridian this D. m, report colored men iy-
infr out hidden in the woods, whites patrol
ling the streets, trains and surrounding
country armed. Large Republican caucus
earnestly urge on Congress the necessity OF
prompt and thorough measures to suppress
outrage and violence in all parts OF the
State. -
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From the StarkvIlle New Era, sth
Our usually quiet, orderly aud law-abld-
ing village. has been the scene o. quite
lively excitement during the past week.
Cause, anticipated trouble with the colored
population, threatened through the machin-
atoms and teachings of man who has been
IN our midst for the past eighteen months,
by the name of
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reliable when Il came TO the test.
We are proud to speak of the orderly
manner In which our citizens conducted
themselves under the peculiar circumstances
they have been placed, for the past few days.
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This man came here as a school teacher
and preached 10 the colored people, and
from the day of his arrival has made them
ing, drinking and sleeping with them, not
even seeking or attempting TO associate
with our white population-fhis was a mat.
ter OF taste and his right-dolng many
things that were
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slipped of and it is supposed made his way
alone through the by-ways TO the railroad.
have no more such characters, we will have
a quiet, peaceable, orderly law-abidlng
community, of both black and white. Nc
Laughlin expressed himself as not believ-
ing