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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03
The Foreman of the Grand Jury
which Indicted the Newton
County Prison ers.--HOvvH His
Bull EOred the Secretary
of States Ok.
THIS AND THAT!

! Mr.. Hoy retorted insulting and pro
voking language of an imported clerk in
Newton county who had refused to give
him a receipt for money he had paid as
agent of another party in the redemption
of lands, that if he were mot under
bonds he would slap his jaws"-which
was equivalent to saying that he was not
in a condition to resent the affront
Mr.. Carleton complained to the Board
of School Directors in his own behalf
and that of other teachers that the said
clerk had removed the warrant book of
the school fund from the office in which
it was kept, to prevent an exposition of
fraudulent practices of which there were
grounds to suspect he was guilty, and
intimated his intention to have the con-
duct of the said delinquent clerk inquired
into by the grand jury of the county.
Mr.. Keith did nothing-said nothing
and before Gods innocent of even
assisting in any civil prosecution of the
delinquent, much less offering him per-
sonal violence.
Now, these gentlemen, on the er parte
testimony of the said clerk and his accom-
plces, have been seized by the u S.
authorities, imprisoned and afterwards
indicted under the Bayonet Act on the
charge of cOnspiring against the rights
and liberties of the said clerk
The foreman of the jury which found
this indictment is none other than John
c. Tucker, who holds the office of SUI
perintendent of Education in Kinds
county in defiance of the legal order of
the Board of Education dismissing him
on the ground of having drawn public
money upon fraudulent pretences! And
more, by confession in his own published
letter, he is guilty of having used the
following violent and intimidating Ian
guage to his superior officer, Rev. James
Lynch, Secretary of State, and Repub-
ican of the SUPERFICIAL and truly an
nointed stamp.
You are a drunken, licentious, hypocriti-
cal scOundreL and most contemplate liar;
and were 1t not that yen are so degraded In
character and SO utterly devoid Of the in
stincts of gentleman, / WOULD HORSE
WHIP YOU IN PUBLICl.
We repeat that the man who used this
extraordinarily violent and threatening
language TO the second ofiaes in the Gov
eminent of Mississippi, IS The foreman Of
tie grand jury soEich indicted Msssrs. Hoy.
Carlton and Keith Haven't strange
times betallen Us
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

The Louisville Commercial the Radical
paper in which originated the absurd
scandal about Mr.. Davis, has had the
manliness to retract it. That paper says
As Mr.. Davis passed through Knoxville on
the 10Th inst, on his way to Memphis, he has
taken the earliest opportunity to make the
denial, which he found, 1pon his arrival
there, was deemed necessary" As he has
met the question like the gallant gentleman
which we have never doubted him to be.
and has given the story as promptly as he
could denial in the most emphatic and
will be consigned henceforth to that limbo
reserved for such stories upon men who are
called on to bear the burden of unenviable
conspicuity.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

The taxpayers have had a hard time
the present year to raise money to sup
port the Radical spectators in theil
extravagant and profigate consumption
of the public revenue; and many OF
them after all, have failed. Their lands
are now advertised for sale by the
Sheriffs, and they will have to redeem
them at an enormous sacrifice, hereafter,
or lose them forever. This would have
been spared them but for the outrageous
exactions of the Mongrel plunderers
whose occupation is ''to gather up the
wreck" under the admonition of the
Chief of the Band of Wreckers.
But the trouble for the present year is
not yet over By law made and provi-
ded by the Mongrel Legislature, double
taxes are to be collected the present year.
This coming fall, just about the time
your little crop OF cotton is ready for
market, the tax-collectors, like pack
Of hungry wolves, remorseless as death,
will be upon your track, bowling for the
proceeds which you have secured by long
months of toll III health and in sickness,
in sunshine and in storm, for the educa-
ton of your children and the substance
of the loved ones that cluster around
your hearth-stOne.
Two collections of taxes in single
year This is Radical device to satisfy
Radical rapacity. If the taxpayers do
not wish to continue this system of plum
der let them register and vote the anti
Radical ticket and strive with desperate
energy to expel its authors from power
There is no other remedy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03
The Newton County Prisoners.

Out of the facts set forth elsewhere
and which will be attested by unimpeach
able witnesses if Messrs. Keith, Carleton,
and Hoy, of Newton county, are evel
brought to trial, indictments have been
found against them in the Federal Court,
under the Bayonet Law, for conspiring to
deprive loyal carpet-bag vampire OF
his civil rights Necessarily the testi-
mony was er pdrte, and there was no OPP
portunity to confront and overwhelm the
afidavits, whatever they may have been,
of their accusers. 1t was deliberately
planned conspiracy of the adventures to
deprive these citizens OF their "civil
rights" in the coming election, with the
hope that'it would in some way operate
to the advantage of the spoilsmen. They
are reckoning without their host. The
anti-Radical majority in Newton will not
only be confirmed but largely increased.
Mark the prediction.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

The CLARION says that it knew nothing
about the understanding which was had
among the Democratic members of the
Legislature, to vote for General Ames on
the second ballot should his election fail on
the first. This is gratifying, as showing
that Democratic members of the Legislature
had the independence to think and act for
themselves without consulting the editor of
THE CLARION.
1T The CLARION desires to investigate the
matter, we refer him to the whole delega-
ton. Should any of them see this, they can
reply to it or not as they may see proper. -
Leader.
This is all we have been able to extract
from the editor of the Leader in response
to our call for names and facts in support
of the preposterous allegation that the
Democratic members of the Legislature,
who have invariably denounced the cleo
ton of Ames as an outrage, had stultifed
themselves by a promise to vote for him
themselves, on the second ballot. In the
absence of the least intimation of the sort
from any of those members, and in the
presence of their declared opinion that
the election was-a great wrong to the peo-
pie of the State, the conclusion we an
nounced was irresistible that the state
ment was deliberate fabrication of the
editor of the Leader, designed to palliate
the guilt of those to whom the Odium
properly attached. However, to fortify
against a repetition of the charge, we
will take steps to test its truth in form
which will not admit of doubt or equivo-
cation, and then our readers will hear
from us further.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03
The Newton County Prisoner
Their Right 40 IA ''SPeedy
IrisaI.s,

We have positively averred that there
are no other grounds for the arrest of the
Newton county citizens than those set
forth in the publications which have APP
peared in THE CLARION. After their
indictment on the one-sided testimony of
the parties interested, they attempted
through their counsel to have trial at
the present term of the court so that
they could vindicate themselves and con-
front their accdsers with their witnesses.
The Constitution of the United States
guarantees to them a speedy trial. -
And if they are not yet outlawed by the
powers that be, they are certainly emit
tied to the enjoyment of this right
There can be no just denial of its exer-
else. The witnesses on behalf of the
prosecution are cooked and primed.-.
Their own witnesses are accessible. And
yet their earnest appeal for immediate
trial-a "speedy trial. as the constitu-
ton says-has not been granted.
Are the managers afraid to take the
case from the secret recesses of the
Grand Jury room into the broad blaze of
day? Do they shrink from its ventilla-
ton by an open and public trial before a
jury of their peers? DO they ,oant to PIT
1t off until after the electionl Else why
this delay? Why this cowardly evasion
of a contest which they themselves have
invitnd2
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

The number of Southerners in New
York is not as large as is generally sup
posed nor has it increased since the war.
In 1860 there were 8 ,317 Southern whites.
There are now 81 less. The negro pop
ulation from the South is now 1902,
against 1,799 ten years ago. More than
one-third of the Southern residents of
New York are from Maryland and
Virginia.
The bale of cotton raised by w. b.
McShane, of Lee county, picked by him
self, wife, and daughter, and which had
gained premiums aggregating 1872,
sold in New York on the 22d inst. for
fifty cents per pound. 1t weighed 443
pounds.
The W mona Democrat states that ac-
ceptable Registrars have been appointed
for Montgomery county: Messrs. j. F.
Townsend and L. j. Moore on the part
of the anti-Radicals, and r. A. Pool on
the part of the Mongrels.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

The editor of the Leader charged that
certain parties had suggested disrepu-
table proposition to Gen. Ames in con
nection with the State Senatorship. IL
was fixed upon him that whoever else
might have been guilty, his own skirts
were not clear. And he was requested
to give the names of the parties impli-
Gated. He has not done so, nor has he
had the fairness TO retract the charge,
though his silence, under imputation Of
its falsity, is a virtual admission Of the
fact.
Subsequently he made an accusation Of
even more malignant import, and deiied
contradiction, that the Conservative or
Democratic members Of the Legislature
were prepared to vote for Ames on the
second ballot, if he had not been elected
on the first
Failing to furnish the proof, for which
we naturally called, of 50 grave and
damaging an imputation, we expressed
the opinion that it was a whole-cloth
falsehood If we are not borne out in
this belief by the responses Of the mem
bers concerned, we will promptly recall
it, otherwise the brand shall stick.
We are firm in the belief that the few
members for whom Ames and his tools
permitted sufficient number of votes to
he counted To SECURE their election neyor
thought of descending from the height Of
the vote which they cast on the first ballot
for Gen. Lowry, to the depth of voting
on the next for Ames, whose abuse Of
power, and petty malice, and unfathom-
able meanness, had rendered him an OBJ
ject of unutterable loathing to the white
population of the State, Of which he did
not even claim TO be citizen.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

BY reference to the report OF the Andl-
tor of Public Accounts it will be seen
that upwards of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars have been expended in
the years 1870 and III for improvements
and repairs on the Lunatic Asylum.
Though this sum is largerone than was
actually necessary and the people in their
poverty are unable to bear the burden
in justice to other claims, such has been
the esteem in which they have held the
charitable objects of the institution that
not word of complaint ON account of
the appropriation has escaped the anti
Radical press which reflects the senti-
ments of the mass of the taxpayers. 1t
may be imagined therefore that the public
who have fostered the Institution did not
receive without concern the reports which
have been rife all over the State impli-
eating the Superintendent of the Institu-
ton, DIR. Compton, in grossly immoral
and improper conduct within its walls.
These reports were so widespread and
apparently at least based upon such
foundation as properly TO command the
consideration of the Governor who direc-
ted the Board of Trustees to institute an
investigation into the facts and report the
results to him-which under the new
law was all they had power to do.
After the subject had been largely
discussed, and call was made for the
report of the Trustees, it was stated in
the Pilot at the instance of the Superin-
tendent that he not only courted an in
vestigation but publication of the result.
Weeks ago the Board finished their in
quiry and submitted report with the
testimony. Still, the public are left in
the same doubt as before, touching the
authenticity of the scandals. They have
not been permitted to see the report, and
the conclusion of the Trustees on whose
statements as honorable and intelligent
citizens they would implicitly rely nor
have they been permitted to examine the
testimony so as to form their own conclu-
sion. As the promise was made in behalf
of the Superintendent to publish these
documents, the public and press have
patiently awaited its redemption. He
has now newspaper of his own and there
can be no occasion for farther delay.
Meantime, the public which deals fairly
with its servants, still holds its judgment
suspended.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Musgrove in his report to the Legislature
estimates the cost of printing for the
year 1871 at $4,000. Compared to
former expenditures on this head, this is
most extravagant estimate. But we
charge that it is far below the real figures.
As we want to be precise in our state
ments, we ask the Pilot, in the name OF
the taxpayers, respectfully but earnestly,
to state what they are to date, with the
work not more than half executed?
The foregoing was published in our last
with typographical error. 1t viii be
kept standing until answered.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03
Light Wanted.

In Auditor Musgrove's report of Jan
uary LIST, 1871, page Ill, the cost of pub
lie printing the present year, is estimated
at $4,000, which, compared to the ex-
penditure under citizens rule, is unpar-
alleled as the public have seen by the
statistics published in our columns. And
yet it is known that warrants have been
issued for a single job of FORTY ONE
THOUSAND DOLLARS. Now, we
beg in the name of the taxpayers, to
know the aggregate amount that has
been charged, and on which warrants
have been issued. How far are Mus
groves estimates to be relied OH? VIII
he give us light?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

The Greenyillo Bu.iwra
says:
"Thc court OF iuyuHe
Grafton Baker ordered hy.
Investigate various nHI.lI
has been Co session durIueu..
the main causes OF tHis Uru.ur
fresh matter of Impeachment
by defense in thoir alleged
aud by 70 more thorough nr
the records"
The Times adds that py.n-
specification against these Ea.
evil be- substuntiuted. A
stir up an immense stencil tII
uncover all the corruption Of
appointces. The case Of BI..
is the rule. There are iuaarr
esty and capability Oue aH.
cases in which, failing to aaa
cans, he has appointed Cons
Office but they are exception.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

Mr.. Swami, Of Newton IA
fortunately brought pfomir.
public in the role of p mo-.
for the United sIatos. M =.
tion Of the Enforcement A..
pension Of opinion uItI I.r
ment Of the facts DOB iIa .
the proper court, WI0uL.I
that hts course wHi ~ h..
Pilot.
If Swami really i,0.. p.
cause, aud j. scDkiu-afus
dict on H. merits. WHy
ecution rocoiled from f.
the accused 10 have thc
tried2 lie ha. Dad l..u.
recesses Of the grand fur
far as their indictment ba.eI
oath is concerned, they 600 r.
the imputation oi being y
peace. Why NOT ucpaath.t
open court, and lct tho ae.....
been foully wronesl, hays .
for which thoy Aayo been
Verify. there is something
mark. swolls 60 Heaven
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

The Woedville Sentinel publishes the
following proclamation of one of Gov.
Alcorn's appointees for Justice of the
Peace for the Cold Springs District OF
Wilkinson county
July III 1870 rev mr. joe Davis sqirc has
resived his permission for the gesttes of the
peace and Charles ross is the majistray In
Wilkinson county Cools-springs DesraKe
and Is KNOWN is reddy TO take Cargo OF all
Resness that Is AGNES The Lars Of the united
Where there VIII be found at the holt
place.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

Those who know the Governor best, pre-
dict that he will not calmly Withstand the
assaults of the Pilot-tlIat he will on the
contrary, accept battle. and that when the
fight is over it will be found that Alcorn is
triumphant, and that the Pilot and its wing
of the party is quartered and hung up to
dry.-Hinds County Gazette.
Well, what if this direful mishap does
befall "the Pilot and its wing of the
party" where and in what manner will
the cause of Conservatism and of the
taxpayers be advanced? Will the Ga
Zette inform u.s.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

The Cost of the Judiciary.
The Kosciusko Chronicle makes great
parade over what it processes to have dis
covered to be an error in Democratic es-
Inmates of the expense of the Judiciary
under citizens rule in 1861, and carpet
bag rule in 1871, and it assumes actually
to show in what the error consists and
what the expenses really are 1t says
the Democratic press have assumed the
expenses in the one case to be s35, 000
and the other 1925, 900, and proceeds to
demonstrate by Figures" that the former
statement is only one-third what they
really were, and that the latter estimate
should be s168, 900, little over one-hali
what they have been set down. The
"error" to which he refers in the case OF
1861, has originated in a casual examin-
alton of the statistics furnished in the I'm.
answerable speech of Hon. III. L. Dun
can in the State Senate, showing that Ger.
tain branches of the Judiciary which
formerly were tax of only $50, 900 on
the people, now in this day of carpet-bag
profigacy and plundering, cost them
$50, 900, as follows:
"Before the war there were i'll the State OF
Mississippi ten Circuit Judges at salary oil
$4,000 each, making in the aggregate $25,-
| 900, and ten District Attorneys at $l.0OC
each, making $4,000, in all amounting to
$35, ZOO. Now we have fifteen Circuit
Judges at salary of $4,000, making the
| sum of $52500, fifteen District Attorneys al
salary of 81, 800, making $37 600, and TWEEN
ty ChancellOrs at 50 500, making $4,000, in
| all footing up the enormous sum of 100000
And this comes directly out of the pockets
| of the people.
| it paid for these branches of the Judiciary
but $4,000. Now it is poor, destitute, I'M
| poverished. and is taxed 100000 to support
| officers, many of whom have been but re-
Gently created, at greatly increased salaries
| 1t may be said that the Chancellers perform
many of the duties of the former Probate
Judges. But large proportion ofthis pro-
| bate service is now performed by the Cham
| Gerry Clerk and much of both the Circuit
| and Chancery practice has been by recent
enactment transferred to the jurisdiction OF
| the Justices of the Peace"
If the editor of the Chronicle will take
the trouble to refer to the statistics In
another column of THE CLARION, he will
| find true statement of the expenses on
account of the Judiciary not only in the
years referred to but series of years.
And that for the year 1871, the first year
in which there has been an opportunity
to test in full the operation of carpet-bag
misrule, the expenses are estimated at the
sum stated by the Democratic press, viz
THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS, and tha
their authority for this statement is the
Official Report of Auditor Musgrove, the
"Great Organizer, page Ill. Let him
examine the report for himself and in
form his readers the result
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

The editor of the Leader commends
himself to the pardon of the carpet-bag-
gers for his abuse of their tribe before he
was installed in the Lunatic Asylum, by
fulsome adulation of the pioneers of the
swarm-the Bureau fellows-who earned
a despicable reputation Immediately after
the war by specializing on the misfortunes
of the Southern people-arraying one
race against another-levying black-mail
on the whites and robbing the negroes by
imposing on their credulity. As the
downward road is easy we shall next
expect the Leader to devote chapter 10
the especial laudation of the Forty Thieves
who expended on their own account in
single session of the Legislature nearly
as much rs was required TO bear the eX-
penses of the State government in oil its
departments for year under citizens
rule 1t remains TO be seen whether this
marvellous conversion of the Governors
Own Organist TO the vain tricks and dark
ways of the carpet-bag tribe will win
their confidence. They will not forget
that he was lately one of their most ven
omous assailants, and that his present
zeal is that of a new convert.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

If Gov. Alcorn is serious in his decla-
= ton of routing the carpet-baggers, why
is he going to take the stump to prolong
their rule? His own written testimony,
next to their recorded acts, is the strong
est evidence of their incapacity and dis
honesty as rulers
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

The Vicksburg Herald says: "A friend
from Jefferson county informs us that the
Hon. Merriman Howard, the colored
Representative from that county in the
last Legislature, gave the Hon. Abel
Anderson, the Judge of the Natchez Dis
trict, very genteel Aogging, at Fayette,
on Monday night, the 18th inst"
The last Fayette ChronacIe confirms
the statement Of the Herald.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

LIVE THUNDER. columns are
alive to-day with spontaneous utterances
ofthe people. Their voice is grand. 1t
is glorious. 1t tolls the knell of Radical
,niSrIiIe
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

We learn that the prosecutors of Mr..
Kirk, Of Winston, and DIR. Cheatham, Of
Neshoba, by dint of hard swearing have
made the trip" and obtained indictments
against them for violating the Bayonet
Act IL remains to be seen how much
strength the Radical party win gain by
these prosecutions.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

Elsewhere win be found the statement
of the political prisoners, from Newton
county, (Messrs. Keith, Hoy and Garlic
TOM as to the causes of their being arres-
ted. They are gentlemen of high char
acter and standing in the community in
which they live and their statements are
more 10 be relied upon than the sworn
testimony Of q thousand such fellows as
@. 8. Swami.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT

REMARKS :-Mu.grove in his Report of
January 1st, 1871, estimates expenditures on
account of Legislature for a session of go
days at $135,OOO, but the session was drawn
out to 100 days, which would swell the ex-
penditures at the same ratio to about $4,000
in round numbers.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

The report of dreadful riot precipi-
tated at Goldsboro, n. c., by Loyal
League leaders, and its fearful conse-
quences, will be found elsewhere.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

The Conservatives Of Pike county viii
bold an election on the third Monday in
August for the purpose of electing nom
inees for the party for the various county
Offices.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

The cotton market at home and abroad
is declining under favorable reports of
the growing crops.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-08-03

The Leader has drawn the first blood
in the fight over the printing plumber.
The Chancellor decides in favor of the
Governors power of removal. An appeal
has been taken.
Meantime, the people are kept in ig-
nOrance of the laws which they are re-
quired to obey.