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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-08-29
August oath, 1872.
The Reported Holly Springs Dis
Imrbance--A lie Nailed.

EDITORS CLARION In an article pub
lished in the Pilot of Aug. the 18th, written
from Holly Springs by some individual
signing himself ERepublican," giving an
account of Radical meeting here, the fol-
lowing language occurs:
EXTRACT FROM THE PILOT.
"During the afternoon the Greeley De-
mocracy circulated quite extensively, a
large number of printed circulars, adverti-
sing a Democratic meeting at the Court
house that Saturday evening. Knowing
however, that the Republican meeting stood
adjourned from the afternoon until evening
their object being, as we afterwards learned
to collect large enough crowd of their fol-
lowers to take the meeting by force and ap-
propriate it as their own. In this they fail
ed; but 4 large number collected in the
Courtroom, and by insulting the speakers,
shouting and making threats OF personal
violence to the colored men who were pres
ent, endeavored to break up the meeting.
They finally left the court house and col
lected on the street opposite, when pistol
shots were fired towards the court room
door, which was open, and one of their shots
striking in close proximity to Judge Stain
wood and Maj. Abbott, who were sitting in
the door way at the time. After the ad-
journment of the meeting shots were, by
the same crowd, fired at colored men as Ghey
were on their way home, fortunately, how
ever, none of them taking effect"
When Republican" says that Democrats
went 10 LnaL meeting Tor the purpose OF
breaking it up, he tells a malicious and will
full lie. There were about one hundred and
twenty-five persons in the courtroom, and
only ten or twelve of that number were
Democrats. Some of the Democrats, ad-
nit cheered whenever Mr.. Greeley's name
was mentioned. This, no doubt was wrong
as it was Radical meeting; they had no
right whatever to cheer, or to make noise
of any kind that was calculated to disturb
them. Those who acted thus were princi-
pally boys about six or eight in number,
and were from twelve to eighteen years
old. This neither justify nor palliate, but
condem it as all the Democrats in this place
do. The boys walked through the court
house once, and sang as they passed. This
was down below while the meeting was
held above.
Republican" lies when he says that pis-
tolls were fired in the the court house door
There was not a pistol fired at or near the
court house until after the meeting was over
and only one was fired then and that by a
colored man some eighty yards from the
court house, at white man for not giving
him the entire street. This i did not see,
but have been informed by both white and
colored, that the above is correct state
ment of the facts.
Republican" lies when he saws that
threats of personal violence were offered to
colored men. / was at the meeting from
beginning to end, and nothing of the sort
happened.
There was no disgrace attached to the
conduct of the Democrats as the lying and
slanderous correspondent of the Pilot would
have the public to believe.
+. p. ABORTION.
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Am Interesting Letter from a
Generous and SagaciOms
Southern Woman.
From the New Ynr

From the New York Sun.
dislike to sail under false colors, how
ever coteur de rose their Innings may be
therefore l feel compelled to DENY the stsoft
impeachment" of being "wealthy matron. .
as saw myself styled few DAYS ago, I'M
expecteuly, In the Sun, in connection with
South. " A
l am a representative OF the class Soutb
who gave freely their wealth and lives ia
their countryside South-in the hour ~
need; therefore suffered most. The men of
my race were killed on distant battle fields.
WINE STOOD by with my orphan children.
ana saw my home pillaged and burned ~
ashes. To the welfare and prosneritv ~
my beloved South / have dedicated nv
time, and what have left, which Is tLe
Iand offer to Mr.. Strauss for a colony 81
Alsaclan or Lorraine men and women who
prefer TO emigrate and make new homes
LOT themselves rather than be sold To the
cconqueror OF their fair land. Convinced as
am that cooperative cOlonizin0 is the
only remedy for the present sickness Of the
oouIn, ana with the hope of adding TO her
wealth and population q colony of intaIti-
gent and industrious people, made 10 Mr.
strauss what felt to be lust offer Tor tbe
tenant and myself-a living chance for botb
should be so fortunate as to see my heart
IeIC eHorts crowned with success, L will
consider myself proud and happv matron
TO be OF service to my section and of mate
RAJ aid TO my fellOw-creatures. who have
Deen even more unfortunate than myself
IN giving them, hope, pleasant and COM
Portable homes. VIII
From what / know of my people. tbare
are many who would give homes To fine IN,
migrant on the same terms-perhaps. even
more llDeral-as many of them were me-.
fortunate than myself in not having their
COTTON burned during the war (tbe r1rica
ulrectly AFTER the war almost maid for ~
loss OF capital invested in their slaves II
Mouiu make no difference from what conn
Wy the lLnnlG grants came, they would ne
:; !, S ,.' II honest and industrious. | wish
~ were az my power to accommodate oii
VINO appiied 10 me. Perhaps the terms
nave made with Mr.. Strauss will omen The
way LOT terms equally as remunerative ~
land. =" my beautiful
= The letter to Mr.. Strauss was not writtor
1 I y an advertisement, as many of the letters
published without NV knowIeJge M M
; STRAUSS mas lived in the South and IL famii
81 Win the advantages of the locatjo,, Z
ouSEcu MIN, and without momentss 5n-s
ssaslon accepted my plan for his counsTvroen
~ 5ng tnat he KNEW the location. thst ~
. a.1I p. were the most fertile in the world
0reat Io 1OcatIon was destined to be one OF
% you see, sir, il was love and ado-a+;o,.
.Or mat much defided sunny Sonth,s tbat
, nPted me 70 offer at her shrine 1tla VII
w w nlte) my life and even the liftIo hnd
w o. once large inheritance ls,.
- lsisneL ann, nope, In life, Won will aIIo,.,'
LEI. ~ oe wealthy matronn 4 shaII li,,a
,onrca- ~ % Ss0slohy and help develop the re-
,nss IA ner agony and adversely. have loon
'os'eI Inan do my life. WV
MRS. CARLETON Belt
Alias the Georgia Vornap :,
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Our Vigilant friend of the Kinds
County Gazette makes two objects his
speciality. One is to keep Secession
Democrats on the back seat eating
humble pie, and the other is to hunt
down and expose the rascally impositions
of carpet-bag officials in Kinds county.
His vigilance and efficiency in the latter
service, amply recompense for any APP
pearance of uncharitableness In the for
mer object. The occasional raps which
he delivers on the heads of ''secessionists"
who happens to get above water, is
light matter compared with his exploits
in the useful game of hunting down
''thieving carpet-baggers. In a late
number of the Gazette he mentions a
well authenticated report that Pease,
Superintendent of Public instruction,
and his man-of-all-work, Tucker, are
now on an expedition Northward to pro-
cure the building of twenty-five school
houses for Kinds county at heavy cost
to the taxpayers job from which they
will doubtless realize large profits. In
any event, it is an outrage. Such build
ings as are needed, can be put up for the
most part by the people who are imme-
diately interested, at small outlay.
And if not, it is robbery of our own
lumbermen and mechanics to have the
work done outside of the State. The
scheme, if the report be true, shall be
| fully ventilated
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EDITORS CLARION -
The Pilot seems to have become greatly
exercised over an article published in your
paper, giving an account of the visit of Gov.
Powers and others of the same political cast,
TO the Federal Court and the University at
Oxford.
In that article there was no fact stated
that was not literally true. The contrast
drawn between them and the noble Missis-
sippians who occupied the same positions
before them, but have now gone to their final
home, was legitimate as we supposed, and
as we still think and shall insist upon. The
Pilot was not in our mind when that article
was written. 1t was not designed for any
one connected with it, unless Gov. Powers
is one of its editors as some of the papers
have charged, and we did not even think OF
him in that connection. We do not know
who are the editors of the Pilot. We have
not seen it for long time-have not heard
the editors must have misinterpreted the
animus of that article altogether.
From the overwhelming and threatening
character OF an extract which you publish
from the Pilot in relation to the article first
referred to, and its author. We are strong
ly impressed with the idea that the Pilot
supposes he can suppress all attempts to
criticise the conduct of the State University
under its present management, and that in
the event he fails to do that he con raise a
personal difficulty with any man who may
attempt il. We regard the Pilot as voun--
teer in this busineSS-his intervention was
not Invoked, nor was it provoked, and all
we have to say on this point is, that if the
Pilot desires a personal controversy with
one who has not assaulted m,-much as we
would deprecate it, he can have it on appli-
cation, and if this is his desire, he need not
be long about 1t.
MIssIssIPPIAN.
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r. w. Flournoy who of all the white
men in Pontotoc, is left blooming alone
in the Radical party, has written letter
of terrible import to the Grant Executive
Committee at Washington. ''For thirty
"years (says this madman) the South
threatened and the rest of the country
remained in fancied security; but at
''length the war came; and another is
Coming, and that speedily, unless the
"loyalty of the people can be aroused in
"good time A victory for the Demo
"crats through Mr. Greeley means the
Republication of loyalty by furnishing
''Gen. Grant; it means war with some
foreign power, that rebels may aid it
"upon the condition of guaranteeing
"them a separate government. Greeley
"was and is the choice of the South,
"because he opposes the settlement of
"our difficulties with England, and
Through him they hope for war. 1t
"means the establishment of a separate
government in the South, whose foun-
"dation will be an aristocracy and its
cornerstone slavery"
OF course there is no reply to such
absurd raving as this. 1t is the war at
the ballot-box to expel the 'thieving
carpet-baggers" and their allies of the
Flournoy Tx, from Office, which terrifes
them. The note of preparation sounds
louder in their ears than thunder seven
fold.
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A colored Greeley club has been Or
ganized at Columbus, Georgia. Among
others, who, according to the Sun, ad-
dressed it, was A. j. Ketchum, (colored)
who demonstrated that self interest
" should impel the negro to the Southern
+" whites, as selfinterest impelled the lat
+" ter to take Greeley. He (Ketchum)
4" had no fawning or trucking airs, but
+" advocated the best interests of his race
" and proved his entire independence of
opinion. Greeley was the only man
:" for whom a united South could and
's should VOTE"
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Mnh d..

The British Medical Juumac0
ton to the measures recommended. h.
Council of Hygiene of Bordeaux
tecting the people agaiu, The da
hydrophobia. 1t is We'll known HI
madness of dogs has periods vh.#
can call premonitory aud hume
these periods We're generally Now
dogs could be put beyond tha Dow
hurting before they becamea uab..
ger. On this subject the Council
giene has issued the tull0WiurHtm
"a short time, sometimes H9 d.u
the madness has sliced the d0g.i.-
disturbance in the usual conditional.
animal which it Is indispensable I'M.
1. There is agitation and ra-f.en-.
dog turns himself contiuualymM
mel. If he be at liberty be zoo.
comes and seems TO be- seeking om.
then he remains moti0ulg-- a. d U.u.
he starts, bites the air, seems OF. d F..
would catch a fly and da.he au
barking and bowling against t0. u.
The voice Of his master di- Wg .
authorizations; the dog Obey. Ug. .H.
with hesitation as If with regret . d
does not try To- bite; Doe !, gentle. Ua.
fectionate, and he eats and drinks .M.
gnaws his litter, the ends Of the ua
the padding of cushions, the e9go-H
beds, the carpets, etc. 3. by chem
ment Of his paws about The .dm Of .
open mouth, Quo might think be Wa.U
ing to free his throat ol ID bone u
voice has undergone such Il change Obj"
is impossible not to bc struck hr i
The dog begins To- fight with other a.
this is decidedly % chuacfU.s..cau
the dog be generally. peaaa.0Iu@
The numbers 3, 4, %, indicate 1921 a.ua.
very advanced period of tha disease n
the time is al hand whom man w..IhH
posed to the dangerous lils of thcm.a
if immediate measure De moo u.l
These measures are to chain bImupe 0a
gerous, or better still, 90 dc..uy .u
After having accepted this advice U
Council has desired that j, -b0uIoW .
serted at least once q year in q pao.o p
per, or at more frequent interval b. aa
in the Moniteur DIES Commune. lt.
also desired, and which seems lomr'
particularly efiicacious and pracia. D
it should be printed on the back o.. Doe.
tice for the dog tax, ON the back ofa.r
ceipt for this tax, and, finally 90
back of the permission for hu
These excellent measures oughtb5a-
general.
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Mississippi can be carried for Greeley
and Brown. A means to the end, IS the
prompt and thorough Organization of
their supporters. This step with con-
slant and systematic effort, will give them
the victory. The best material of the
Republican party in Mississippi as else
where, are cooperating with Democrats
and Conservatives, for the defeat of
Grant, whose administration is failure
except as an engine of crime and oppres-
sion.
The Radical party is greatly democrat
led 1t is held together by the cohesive
power of public plumber; but even the
spoils of office, are source of conten-
ton among them.
Here in Mississippi, within the last
few days number of their most active
and influential leaders have come to grief.
Cunningham is in jail to await his trial
for forging State Warrants. Swami, to
whose diabolical machination, the citizens
of Newton county owe their persecu-
tons, has fled. And others scarce
ly less prominent and efficient in the
Grant party, have abandoned the State.
With its ranks thus broken and democrat
lied, and loaded down by weight of
guilt in the management of State and
federal affairs which has made the Radi-
cal party thing of infamy and shame, a
victory is within the reach of the advo-
Gates Of an honest administration, if they
will strive to achieve it.
The Chairman of the Democratic and
Conservative Executive Committee has
sent out a well timed address to-day. He
advises that Clubs be formed in each coun-
| ty. The power of the opposers of Radi-
cal misrule will b. vastly increased if
they will resolve themselves into organi-
zed bodies. The associations will serve
as effective instrumentalities for getting
up meetings and circulating docupents.
The county associations when formed
ought without delay, to appoint several
canvassers in each county, charged with
the duty to speak in every beat, and if
necessary, to the colored voters, at their
homes on the plantations. Much good
will result, without loss of time from bu-
siness pursuits, if employers will take
the trouble to read to that class such doc
uments as the Cincinnati platform, Mr..
Greeley's letters of acceptance, and Sum-
ner's letter.
We learn that in short time, the Ex-
ecutive Committee will announce series
of Mass Meetings in all parts of the State
for which the people of the localities
where they are to be held, will be expect
ed to make preparation.
By every motive of self-preservation-
by every consideration of patriotism
the friends of peace and just government
are urged to commence active work in
the good cause. Bear in mind, the CEN
turtles of wrong and oppression that will
be crowded into four years more of Rad
ical rule if Grantism does not receive its
quietus at the poIlsl To this end, Mis-
sissippi must do her part.
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We asked the Pilot what was meant
by the following language which it en-
ployed in alluding to the discussion of
the management of the University, in
THE CLARION
We cannot nor do we intend to dive into
the motives of men, but some of these days
we do propose to drive at them, and if any
lordly educator or ''any other man" should
find himself tripped up by the heels he may
attribute it to the effort of himself and
friends, for n consideration to break down
the University.
In reference to our inquiry for the
meaning of this paragraph, the last Pilot
says:
We mean exactly what we say. 1t is
well understood by the public, that, by far
the greatest amount of opposition to the
University, is found among the conductors
of rival schools, who, we regret,to observe,
ind ready access to the columns of The CLART-
ON, (italics ours.) The CLARION might have
found an explanation of the paragraph
under consideration in the communication
of its correspondent of this week, who signs
himself "a Tax Payer"
From this, it appears that the Pilot
was unfortunate in the use of terms. 1t
simply meant in saying that our CORES
pondents were seeking to injure the
University for "a consideration" that
they are interested in other schools; and
it cites the communication of ga Tax
payer" in support of its assumption. 1t
is none of the Pilots affair who are our
correspondents. The facts which they
present are the subjects of legitimate
inquiry and discussion. Communications
have appeared in our columns over the
signatures of ''Tax Payer" and ''Missis-
sippian." They we're not written by
parties interested in any way whatever
with "rival Schools" but by steadfast
friends of the University who have wit
messed with shame and Indignation the
introduction of partisan influences into
its management They have given ex-
preston to a pervading public sentiment
which has been practically expressed in
the sending off of large numbers of Mis-
sissippi students to be educated in Vir-
ginia and elsewhere, and which has been
practically confessed by its Radical man.
ayers in the extraordinary and reprehen-
sible means which, with the State Trea-
sury at their control, they have employed
to keep it up.
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A private letter from London saws (:
Never did men dress so quietly. The
elaborate shirt-fronts of a year or two
ago are things of the past Plain shirts
and no studs are the order of the day.
In fact, if you desire to be en- regaIe. Won
must initiate as nearly as possible the
costume of the men servants. The at
tempt which was tried last year to make
male guests look little more cheerful
than mutes at a funeral by attiring them
IN coat with brass buttons and white
waistcoats has proved an entire failure
When unad0rned adorned the most. il
the rule for men. Exactly the reverse
holds good for women. They have con-
frived to mOnOpolize to themselves All
that is pleasing In costume.
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Circular Of the Chairman Of the Ex-
ecutive Committee Of the Demo
cratic and Conservative Party.

In view of the Importance of the
pending Presidential election, the oppo-
sers of the present Radical Administers
ton, who are supporting Greeley and
Brown, are respectfully urged TO organize
without delay in the several counties of
this State by the formation of Central
Clubs with one or more affiliated associa-
tons in each precinct. Regular meetings
should be held and as many of the voters
enrolled as practicable. When Clubs
are formed, it is desired that the same
be reported to the Executive Committee,
with list of officers and the numbers of
persons enrolled.
But brief time only will intervene
between this date and the election, and
it is of the utmost Importance that active
steps be taken to secure the vote of
Mississippi for the nominees of the Gin
cinnati and Baltimore Conventions, who
are pledged to use whatever powers they
may legitimately employ for the rescue
of the government from the hands of
those who have converted it into an in
strument of plumber and oppression.
ROBERT LOWRY.
Chairman Executive Committee.
AUGUST 26th, 1872.
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The Var Stu Going Onl
From the New York Tribune

From the New York Tribune
1t is difficult for the Grant managers to
comprehend that the war is really over and
peace reigns in the South. Whether it is
the Secretary of the Treasury speaking in
North Carolina or Senator CLAYTON stump
ing Arkansas with the State militia. each
leader fancies that he has the same ssright of
way" through the country as Gen Sherman
had in his campaign to the sea. In WASH
ington county, Alabama, last month, gen.
tleman was reused from his midnight sium-
bers by peremptory demand for his wagon
and horses. Answering the rude summons.
he was told that his visitors were party of
United States soldiers, acting as escort to
one Squire, who was canvassing the county
for Grant. This escort demanded the
gentleman's team to take them across the
creek. Not believing his denial of owner
ship of such a convenience, they tore down
his fences and made destructive survey Of
the premises, and went off cursine the
whole household This sort of thing is NOT
filling up the chasm;" it is not reconcilia-
ton nor conciliating; but it is lust what
we must expect as result of the political
teachings of those who will not admit that
the war is over.
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DISTRICTS j:

First Dstrct-L. Q. G. Lamar, of Lafay-
cite, II. NJ Street, of Prentiss A. I. Roane,
of Calhoun.
Second District--J. B. Morgan, of DeSoto,
y. 9. Walthall, of Grenada, Kinloch Falco-
ner, of Marshall.
Third District--Reuben o. Reynolds, OF
Monroe, r. w. Williamson, of Montgomery,
Robert Mcintosh, of Chickasaw.
Fourth Districts. 5. CalhOon, of Madi-
son, Garnett Andrews, of ~Yazoo, j. j.
Shannon, of Lauderdale.
Fifth District-W. III. McCardle of War
rem. Harris Barksdale, of Kinds, Sylvanus
Evans, of Clarke.
Sixth District-Benj. King, Sr., of Copiab.
Hiram Cassidy, Sr., of Franklin, z. K.
Mayors, of Harrison.
Appointed by direction OF the Convention.
j. w. G. WATSON, President.
JACKSON, Miss. June 26, 1872.
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The Mongrels will soon meet at Brook
haven, in the 9th District to nominate a
candidate for Congress, where the same
tumultuous and disgraceful scenes which
marked the scramble for the nomination
in this District and the Sd, will be re-
enacted. Perez and Gibbs, carpet-bag-
gers, and j. R. Lynch (coloreO are the
aspirants. When the contest is over, it
viii be found that a carpet-bagger has
bagged the game. 1t will be for Sambo
to furnish the votes.
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T. r. STocKDALE,
G.. 7. NELSON,
Il. II. THOMPSON,
RENJ. KING. SR.


The Natchez Democrat publishes a
graphic description of Radical mob
meeting, so-called, Of the Adams county
Convention to appoint delegates to the
Radical District Convention, which meets
tomorrow at Brookhaven. j. r. Lynch
carried the day in the mob, and the
Perce-ites bolted. Perez will, however,
come in ahead on the final count, as
Mckee and Barry have already done.