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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

THE YAZoo DEMOCRAT having been
recently revived under the management
of Robert Campbell, Esq, has been en-
larged and improved in its typography.
1t is spirited, independent Democratic
paper, devoted to the advocacy of the
principles of its party, and is besides a
good newspaper.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

EscAPED.-The Meridian Mercury an
nounces the absconding of Price, the
Loyal League Radical school-teacher,
who was arrested, and held to bail, on
the charge of Ku Kluxing the negro,
Adam Kennard. He left his bondsmen
to foot the bill. The Mercury learns that
the prosecution will prefer claim against
the State for the reward offered by the
Governor for Ku Klux arrests.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

Thursday has been fixed as the day
for the consideration by the lower branch
of the Legislature of the resolution re-
curing an immediate report in relation
to registration. 1t is well understood
that the resolution is an initial proceed
ing for the elections which the Constitu-
ton requires shall be held the present
year.
In recent number of the Pilot, the
official paper Of the Radical party, the
public were positively assured that it
would be an Outrage" to withhold from
the people the right of elections, and that
the Legislature would take the necessary
steps to secure its exercise. But the
hating and uDgracious reception of the
resolution to take up the subject, by
leading Republicans, coupled with omin-
Gus iptimations, have created apprehen-
sionE that they will not faithfully execute
the pledge of their organ, We trust,
however, that better councils will prevail.
The Pilot does not characterize the
enormity of scheme to seize the offices
which properly belong to the people, by
the present regime, strong enough in
calling it an Outrage" Under the
circumstances, it would be monstrous.
The present Legislature itself was born
of an audacious usurpation. But it was
installed for the time prescribed by the
Constitution under which we live, in ac-
cordance with the forms of law. One
third of the white taxpayers of the State
did not participate in the election A
large number of them were not permitted
to vote. Nevertheless they have yielded
their submission to the authority thus
fradulently established. But to prolong
this authority in defiance of the Constitu-
ton framed by the very class who are at
present executing it, beyond the time
prescribed for an election in which all
will have the right to vote, would be
revolutionary. 1t would be an act for
hidden by the whole spirit and tenor OF
the instrument Of their own creation. The
members of the present Legislature, in
session next year, and assuming to act
in virtue of their election in 1869, would
be a mere mob whose edicts would be nc
more entitled to respect than those of any
other voluntary, unauthorized assemblage.
Its seizure of power outside of law, would
justify the people whose rights were
usurped, to travel outside of the laws fol
their own protection and to rid themselves
of the usurpers and robbers as best they
could.
But we trust that no such extreme
measures will be provoked, or rendered
necessary-andt that the persons now in
authority will not venture upon step sc
trying to the patience of the people and
full of peril to the peace of communities
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02
sANTO DOMINGO.
ARRIVAL OF THE COMMISSIONERS
Interesting Descriptions Of the
Country and Inhabitants
From the Correspond. of the n. Y. STANDARD
SANTA BARBARA DE SAMANA.l
SANTo DOMINGO, January %, 1871. !


At IL O'Clock in the morning we wereonly
seven miles from the entrance OF the harbor,
and as we slowly sailed between Cape Sa-
mana and Cape Raphael, entering the mag
niticent gulf, we thought we. could under
stand the feelings of Columbus when he
beheld the same beautiful green hills, and
kissed the earth with transport. AT IS
o'clock (exactly seven days after leaving
New York; we anchored In SANTANA Bay,
about two miles from the town of Santa
Barbara, commonly called on American
maps SANTANA. By-the-way, we had found
a very great diversity in the biographies
charts OF this island, and the only correct
guide is probably the map prepared at the
town lies upon SANTANA Bay, a little harboI
about three miles in depth on the south
eastern portion of the peninsula which
bears its name, and the Gulf has the same
dimensions.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

The Republican leaders here and in
Washington, who are trying to Legislate
against nature by Mongrelizing the hotels,
schools, railway travelling, etc., etc.,
ought to learn a lesson from the example
at West Point, the nursery of loyalty
Referring to the effort which has been
made to keep negro in the academy on
terms of social equality with the white
cadets, Gen. Pitcher of that institution,
writes:
81 have carried burden, in the effort to
harmonic the social relations between the
colored cadet and his companions which no
one else has attempted. That effort will
prove one of magnitude to any one who at
tempts it. 1t will be realized in Washing
ton only when honorable members are in
such close relations as these under which
cadets live,
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From the vicksbnrg Times & Republican
HIM m 0ummdary.

Our friends Stringer and Mygatt are re-
ported to have been thrown into quite q
fiusfer by the passage Of the Senate resolu-
ton. designed to shake of the too eager
pap-suckers. They can't think Of resigning
their harbormasferships, deputy cotton
weigherships, county treasurerships, etc.
and vet the prospect of deprivfng the dear
people OF their invaluable services (and
themselves of rcpudiated bond bounty and
other plunder) Ia horrible to contemplate.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

Fred Douglass was not passenger on
the M-fated Tennessee, but his son Fred
was.-The Paper.
We presume that The Paper will
amend by saying MJreighted since the
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

And thus the Social Equality doctrine
of Sumner, Wilson and other shining
lights of the Republican party looms up
above all others. 1t is now the Radical
shibboleth. The men claiming to be
Republicans. who are not willing to pro
nounce it clearly and distinctly, win have
to seek other political associations. They
must choose between God and Mammon.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

We were slightly in error in stating
that the bill in relation to collecting the
tax, suspends its collection for sixty days.
1t suspends for that length of time the
operation of the clause imposing penalty
of fifty per cent. additional for non pay
ment, and this practically amounts to a
suspension of the tax.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

ANOTHER HERO GoNE.-The Gal
weston News of the 18th comes to us in
morning for Gen. j. B. Magruder, who
departed this life at his home in Houston,
Texas, at 8 o'clock on the morning of the
18th inst.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

Elsewhere will be found the distinct
answer of the Vicksburg Herald to a
question propsunded by the Kosciusko
Chronicle. We hope the Chronicle will
understand the reply.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

Mrs Harriet Pierson, of Hudson, Michi-
gan, whipped colored orphan so severely
as to leave II gashes and scars on the child's
body.-Chicago Times.
We would like for the Outrage Com
mittee of Congress to take Michigan in
hand also, and require the State authori-
ties to see that the monstress is sufficient
IY punished.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

WEEKLY CLARIoS-Two dollars per year, and
an extra copy to getter up Of club Of ten
or more.
SENI-WEEKLX CLARIox-Four dollars per
year, and an extra copy for club Of six or
more.
In future paper will be discontinued when
time expires.
Remittances should be by registered letter,
money order, draft, or by express. When 9TH
erwise, the office cannot be responsible.
All business communications should be adj
dressed to Power Barksdale, Jackson, Miss
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02
smith. A Model County.

A correspondent of the Brandon Re
publican publishes the following facts
concerning Smith county which entitle it
to the appellation which we have given
it. The facts suggest conclusions which
every impartial mind will draw:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

A bill which passed Congress providing
for territorial form of government for
the District of Columbia, was signed by
the President, and Is now law.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

The Income Tax Repeal hin has been
abandoned. BOUTWELL, has arcured ~
result In accordance with his prouramme
OF high taxation. But the dav "A 1hf -
distant when he will wiah that he was les
successful In this matter.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

1t is very evident that the Southern lead
ers are now excluded from place and power
not because they were Confederates, but be-
cause they are not Republicans. Gen.
Longstreet was appointed to a good fat office
in New Orleans the moment he became a
convert to Radicalism.-N. Y. Democrat.
A truth which our New York cotempo-
rary might have found out sooner. 1t
might have stated further that for every
Southern leader" who has joined the
Republican party, one can be named who
has received his mess of pottage.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

TAxEs.-A meeting of the citizens of
Marshall county will be held on Saturday
next, March 4, 1871, to solicit at the
hands of the Legislature, a reduction of
the State Tax.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02
Arkansas matters are still unsett

Arkansas matters are still unsettled
Clayton, the carpet-bag adventurer who
ruled with high hand for a time, has
come to grief. He has betrayed all sides
by turns, and has been deserted by ALL
Democrats and Republicans alike distrust
him, and the administration has sent
troops, not to uphold his ill-gotten author
ity, but to keep the peace.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

BRET HARTE's SHeathen Chinee,n which
has made him famous, was kept by him for
several months as not worth printing, and
only published upon an occasion to ELL mp
the Overland.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02
SMITH COUNTY.
The following are facts

The following are facts:
l. That there have been fewer violations
of law in Smith countY,since the surrender,
than in any other county III the State, ac-
cording to population.
2 That there is not a carpet-bagger in
that county, nor has been for years.
3. That there are not enough Radicals IN
that county, who area at all competent, to fill
the county offices.
4. That the whites have large maj ority
over the blacks at the ballot-boX in that
county.
3. That the Democracy have an over
whelming maiorlty.in that county over the
Radicals-or Republicans, if you please.
6. That there are fewer law suits between
the whites and blacks of that county than
any other county in the State, according tC
tile number of negroes.
z. That, according to the population
Smith county furnished as many men to the
Confederate army as any county in the
State.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02
THE EFFECTS OF CIVIL WAR.

Although the town is nearly two centu-
ries old-one, of the most ancient on the
continet-there are no old buildings. and
not stone editice in the place. During the
innumerable revolutions and faction fudes
with which this unfortunate island has been
visited. this place has been RACED to the
ground many times, and the inhabitants
plundered and driven away. The history of
this unfortunate place is one of bloodshed
and war. There is no exact record as TO
when it was first established, but It must
have been nearly, two hundred years ago,
when the Spanish first settled here. IL Is
known that the settlement was afterward
abandonded, then resettld by the French.
then taken by the Spanish, only To fall into
the hands OF the enemy, who ut last retreat
ed, leaving it to its former owners. 1t was
several times burned and bombarded, and
in short, has suffered calamity in every
form.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

Al anti-klssing society has been formed
~ the delena, liz girls. @No klssing be-
fore marrag" Is their motto.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

We don't know which Wo
the character of fhe mw Hi.
Mississippi running thc ONE.
denca Or their careIc uc
In which the public money
Just think Of 1.-THE chp
i07 IS tor the purchase oI
office for Peasei is ituoI
such wagteiulness 90 De- ll
County Gazette.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

The custom Of exhibiting bridal presents
at wedding receptions il no longer general
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

The very buildings are overgtowun In many
places with grass and shrubs. Some OF these
buildings and large ruins are pictulosque,as
showing the architecture, state OF ciyiliza-
ton and colonial grandeur OF spain several
centuries ago / shall mention these more
in detail hereafter, aud merely advert 70
them now to give an idea OF the impression
such place must make az first upon Amcri-
cans who had never seen anything like lt
before.
RICHNESS AND FERTILITY OF THE ISLAND.
a party who have Just arrived overland
across the island, report the most beautiful
! and luXuriant vegetation and evidences Of
great mineral wealth. They saw mahogany
satin-wood and lignumyitae la abundance.
The latter, which sometimes sells for 500
per tun, was used for tre-wOOd no one
place. a merchant here to-day showed me
handful Of gold-washings, one piece a.
| large as a lima bean, obtained from the bed
of the shallow Hina River. IL Is procured
! by the natives with the rudest implements,
and some times Ia one day three or four
ounces of pure metal ere offered for sale IN
| the town, az Sl4 In silver per ounce There
were also shown me pieces of very rich cop
per ore taken from an old abandoned mine
/ IN the mountains only few miles from the
city.
THE vARIEGATED Personal or THE COM
MISSION.
From the y. Y. Herald's Correspondent
But to give the Commission the complex
1 Ion and all the shades, Individually aud pc.
litically, TO serve the purpose Of the adj
ministration, two colored persons - tbs
| famous mulatto orator, Fred Douglass, ana
his son-are attached 10 L., the former a,
assistant Secretary and the latter rs mes
| senger. This Is at once a stop 60 the Radi
Gals at home and Precipitation 20 the col
ored citizens of the Dominican republic
How can the Domieians refuse the embrace
! of the great American republic WhcI
| they see one Of their own race ant
color a dignihed official and put. on an
equality with distinguished white men II
this Commission?
PRACTICAL AMALGAMATION.
May not any one of them after this hop
TO be member Of Congress, a minister eN
traordnary or anything else under th
glorious stars and strpesY lt was al
adroit stroke OF policy 20 give the colore,
father and son an official character on tn
Commission. Nothing shows more the eN
traordinary social and political revolution
our country has passed through within th
last ten years than To see individuals of
race that such a short time ago was en
shaved and had no political rights now place.
on an equality with the proud officers OF th
navy and some of the first men Ia the land
l.Who. ten yeare ago, would have suppose,
that by this time men OF the negro rae
would sit at table and be OH an equality h
every respect with those wearing the goli
lace uniform of the United States aud th
high civil representatives OF the govern
ment? 1t must be said, however, that Free
Douglass bears his newborn elevation witt
dignity, cquanimity and propriety.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided the cotton tax to have
been constitutional.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

Referring to a statement of the Pilot
that the Bond paying movement in the
interest of certain spectators originated
with persons "whose names these same
"criticising, condemning, Democratic
"journals would hardly be pleased to see
Sin print" the Vicksburg Herald says :
We would be glad to see the names of al
these bond spectators in print" We
have the names of some of the original
movers in this stupendous bond saoindIe and
we intend, in due season, to publish them
We invite the cooperation of the Pilot. If
it knows the names of the spectators, or
their oqents in Jackson, it can do good ser
vice by sending them to the Herald. Per-
haps the Pilot can furnish us with the name
Of The agent. lcI,o sent dozen baskets Of cham
payne to the lodgings Of a certain negro member
of the legislature
If there is in Mississippi. single citizen,
who, calling himself a democrat, is in favor OF
robbing the people of thirty millions of dol
lars, wherewfth to pay the repudiated bonds,
we advise him to join the radical thieves,
for assuredly he is on the high road to the
penitentiary, and that leads directly to the
bosom of the radical party!
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

Several Southern papers do no such
thing, but number of papers, publish
ed in the South, by aliens and enemies
to her people manufacture lies upon the
Southern people, for the benefit of the
Radical party.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02
SANTA BARBARA.

The only town upon the peninsula is San
Ia Barbara. opposite which we are anchor
ed. 1t nestles at the foot of the hills, on the
beach, and would be called a village in
America, and a very wretched one. too. IL
has about one hundred small houses or cab
ins, most OF which are made of strips of
bamboo or palm wood, the cracks stuffed
with mud or straw, and matched with
pieces of bark and leaves.
THE INH ABITANTs-MosTLY NEGRoEs-HALF
CIVILIZED.
There are three hundred inhabitants,
mostly negroes, butof various shades aud
nationalities. and very scant as To clothing
which is of picturesque nature when worn
by adults; children not being burdened
with il at all. 1t was a matter of surprise
to many of us when we found that English
is very generally spoken, and that some old
negroes here were part of the colony of
colored people sent out To the island by the
American Colonization Society over iorty-
five years ago.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

Several Southern papers admit the fact
that the lives of Union men are unsafe in
certain portions of the South.-Washingto
Chronicle.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

The Independent South says that the
Board of Supervisors recently appointed
for Marshall county, most of them, are
old citizens, highly esteemed, and will
make good officers.
We wish the same could be said of
"most of the appointees in other coun-
ties /"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

and dilapidated old town. containing seven
or eight thousand inhabitants. II IA the
oldest place built by Europeans ia America.
&c IL much like Panama and other old fov~r
built by theSpaniards, except perhaps, that
u - IN no worse condition OF decay and has
more perishing blight resting upon it,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

FINE FURNITURE All PrH.
Pease, the adorable psI
the School Law iu tu.. -.a.r
the 3lst Of December l1..
ed from the public fund .H
est appropriation;
Salary Superintendent NJ f
ton 49,. .-tt-
Salary Secretary B0arioi -
ton .----.......--... s.--r.
Salary Clerk to SuparIu'cl...
Printing ................-.
Stationery ..................
Furniture for OnIcc....-.......
Labor in office .-....--.-..
Drayagc. .........-.-...-..... -
Total .......
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

A great protection to the colored child
and great assurance of his education will
be that he is educated on the same benches ana
Jy the same teachers 1oith the 1chite children
You may give him an equivdleRt in another
school, but this not equality. His right is to
EQUALITY, not EQUALITY. He has equality
only l0teR he comes into your common schoO
skin.
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PRED DOUGLAS SPEAKS TO THE NATIVES.

On Saturday afternoon the extraordinary
sight of real American mass meeting in
the midst of a tropical island was witnessed
mt this little place. Mr.. Fred. Douglass was
invited by the authorities of the town 10
ADDRESS the citizens, and the pulpit from the
Catholic church was taken out into the
Plaza for him TO speak from. Most Of hi
auditors were negroes and half-breeds. and
he spoke to them of the condition of their
race in our country, describing how they
had been exalted from wretched slavery to
the right of suffrage and an equality with
white men He expressed no opinion on
the annexation question, but said that the
Commission had been sent down here to
hnd out their views upon the subject, and
asked all In favor Of hescheme to raise their
hands whcreuDon there was a unanimous
show OF hands, of all sizes and colors.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

There is not wheeled vehicle of any
kind on the peninsula, and the 'stoting" that
is not done by the darkies on their heads is
left to horses and oxen, both of hich are of
very small breed, peculiar TO the island,
as their masters, as | know OF my own
knowledge. Having mounted horse To
ride TO a mountain top, | became Disguised
at his slow pace, started him back alone and
reached home first.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-03-02

so the taxes OF the comfy, for 1870 (noy
the taxes Of 1869 paid last year.
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SMALL COMMERCE FOR A COUNTRY ABoUN
ING IN NATURAL WEALTH.

There is one steamer the Tybee, plying
between Santo Domingo City, SANTANA.
Puerto Plata aud New York. and a small
trade is carried on which is slowly increas-
as 1 said before, there is very small de-
mand,) flour, smoked fish and liquor (for
which there is a large demand,) and taking
back tobacco, hides, dye woods and mahogs
any in small quantities. On her last trim
but one the Tybee took from this place ?. 500
seroons (of ll2 lbs. eacb) Of tobacco. LOO
hides and 300 gallons of wild honey, which
abounds in the peninsula.