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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-02

Now that Court of Justice admins
tered by one of his own appointees, in its
very temple. has been desecrated by
armed soldiery, on the scandalous pre-
tence of Carpet-Bag invention that. the
civil authorities are powerless to suppress
(alleged) disorder in Mississippi-will
Senator Alcorn, can he, longer remain
silent, when he above all others, has a
right to speak, and to be heard, by the
Administration and the country in vim
dieation of the wounded honor, the in-
suited dignity, the violated peace Of his
his own State
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The Radical Party and Its Creed
of Hate.

1t is evident that the Presidential
campaign is to be conducted in the in
terest of the Administration on the
principle of hostility to the prosecuted
Southern communities Pres't Grant:
message on down-trodden South Carolina
is significant Of this intention. The fable
Of the Wolf and the Lamb is to be
illustrated in the policy of the Washing
ton rulers. A pretext is to be furnished
-calumnies are to be propagated-
falsehoods are to be invented for partisan
use. The old sores of the civil strife
seven years ago are to be scratched over
and made to bleed afresh in order that
the Officeholders' party may retain the
places which they have prostituted to the
basest ends.
The speeches of the Administration
| fuglemen at the New York meeting which
was held as an antidote to the Liberal
| Republican demonstration, mean this
and nothing more. They literally teemed
with the spirit of hatred for the persecu-
ted Southern classes, and were no less
remarkable for the stupendous drafts
upon the credulity of the Northern pub
lie. For example, Senator Morton, a
minion of Grant, put forth the atrocious
calumny that there is Gin nine of the
Southern States secret, oath-bound
"society, armed and equipped going about
Gin disguise committing murder and
''cTinses loittoad name. The organiza ton
''is political in its character and intended
ito exterminate the Republican party.
'"The State governments are utterly
unable to protect these people and have
failed to do it."
The best answer to this statement so
far as Mississippi is concerned is the |
of acting Governor Powers
Tread apart from his representations to
Emory wherein he congratulates the Leg
lslature on the triumph of peace in the
State and the entire ability of the civil
to preserve order and enforce
the laws for the protection of life and
In Virginia and the other
Southern States where the Radicals are
not in authority there is not even a
pretense of the existence of the terrible
described by the Admins
ration henchman; and if they exist in
he Carpet-Bag governed States, (Which
5 not ADMITTEDLY it is proof that the gov
of the ''fools and thieves" (as
1r. Greeley calls them), which it is
LEGGED can be held up only by federal l
ayonets, are failures except as agencies $
f strife and plumber. 1.-THE crimes
Tithout name" are of alarmingly frequent r
ccurrence, but they are committed BY 2
ne most ignorant and vicious of the lately '
race who have been taught +
y the imported scum that freedom means r
cense and that the Southern whites 9
mong whom they live, have no rights d
hich are to be held sacred from robbery
, outrage of whatever description vile
atures may suggest.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-02


The Pilot has lame defence of the
acting Governors expenditure of the
Contingent Fund. If the facts as
confessed by himself, and the law which
is written in the New Code, are not sufi-
cient to convict him of having seized a
fund which was appropriated to specific
public object, and used it for his own
private purposes, this apology of the Pilot
(which doubtless is the best that the
ingenuity of a special pleader could
suggest will establish his guilt beyond
controversy.
First, it claims that Governor Powers
''tells what each and every dollar was
paid out for" But this don't prove that
when he was expanding the Fund for
cutlery, linen, and repairing linen, cut
ting wood, gas, fuel, &c, and other
household purposes of his own, he was
spending it legitimately. A man may
plead that he had perpetrated an act for
which he is put on trial, and thus throw
himself on the mercy of the court, but
this don't argue that he is not guilty. 1t
proves the reverse. In some cases an
honest, voluntary confession entities the
guilty party to clemency but not so in
| this instance. He did not ''tell what
leach and every dollar was paid for, y
until he was called to account by the
/ Legislature. The law required him to
make a report without awaiting the
formal application of that body; but
never an item did he ''telI' until it was
dragged out of him by an unequivocal
demand for information. In the name
of common sense, what could he haI
done but answer the inquiry propounded
Again the Pilot pleads that somebody
else has been guilty of like misuse of the
Fund besides the present acting Governor.
In other words itjustifes his wroug-doing
by saying that other people had violated
the law also That plea is simply ride
ulous. On the heresay of ''old residents
The BooBY's apologists asserts that
some former Governors except large sta
''bles full of horses and fed and cared
''for them out of this same contingent
Fund" But this is merely the hearsay
Of cold residents" whose memory has
been perhaps little quickened by the
interest which they may have in the
expenditure of this Fund for the personal
purposes of the Executive incumbent
instead of the specific public uses de
scribed in the law. The Pilot admits
there are no papers to show what the
memory of some "old residents" of the
community supplies:
The official gazette's defence amounts
to this. The arraigned Governor is
guilty, but he has confessed it ike a
man; and, moreover, other Governors
have done just as bad The latter plea,
if it amounted to anything is simply the
unsustained impression of certain MYTH
cal parties vaguely described as cold
residents; ;" apd the former is simply
petition for clemency on the ground Of a
frank confession, when it was in fact,
extOrted by the direct inquiry of the
Legislature for information which he
could not withhold.
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COmmfssfoner,s RnIn.

| DURSUANr TO final decree rendered by
4 the Chaneery COsrt Of Kinds county fr
the First District, on the 18th Of March lsl2
on application Of the heirs at law OF MARY
Daley, deceased, for the sale Of real estate IN.
DIVISION OF the proceeds amongst said hcirs.
me Undersigned, special commissioner ar-
pointed IN said decree, willr0n the 9th dny IF
April next, proceed, Ia front OF the CAPITOL.
IN the city OF Jackson, and within legal hours.
ia sell the following described lots of land
anu improvements thereon, situate ia said
city, at public Outcry TO the Highest bidder.
VIZ the north half Of ten acre lot in square
number four, south, and the north part 81
lot number three fractional square number
two, south.
Terms OF sALE.-One-third Of the purchase
money 10 be paid In cash the remaindor 10
two equal insta nments, at six and twelve
months, the deferred payments secured by
property sold.
p. 5. HUNT,
MAf@AwAswtda Commissioner, go
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-02

The following is the heading of long
account Of an inhuIhan affair in Indian.
apolis, the home of Morton, Grants fu-
gleman, who originated the Bayonet Act
for the punishment of masked marau.
ders" in the South:
A Brmte Pmrsnes and Shoots his
Wife II Times I'm the Streets Of
IMdi annapolis .--- Mem Wit
me.m the Act mmd Offer
mo MeRpto cine @hrHeR<-
s Ing VWomm.
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WHEREAS, Letters Of Administrator bon
w the estate Of Joshua Riley. deotascf
were granted ~ the undersig ncd by thc Chau-
Gerry Court Of the LIST District of Kinds c0un-
~ on the 18th day Of April. 1877; now. OH
persons having claims against said estate wI DR.
eAhlDlt them and have the same allowed and
registered, ia the manner and within the time
prescribed by law, or they will BE- forever
barred. MRS n. }. RILEY.
mayZwOt Admiuisfrafrir
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-02
Another visit by Hon Frederick

You that mingle may.
From the Pilot
Another Visit by Hon. Frederick
Douglass.
Frederick Douglass (colored) returned to
this city, after short trip to New Orleans
and reached jackson on Saturday. On the
evening of that day we received an invita-
ton to call on him, at the residence of Hon.
j. j. Spelman (colored.) Upon reaching
the locality we found there Mr.. Douglass
travelling com panions, Hon. Geo. T. Down
ing, (colored) J. Sella Martin, Lewis Doug
lass, (eolored) #. G.. Barbados, Hon. w. n.
Smith, of Washington, ID. c.. Hon. Mr.
Gibbs, <white) member of the Arkansas
Legislature, and James Jones of Arkansas
Among those who called upon Mr. Doug
lass during that evening were Gov. Powers
(whitey Lieutenant Governor Bennett
Gwhite) Hon. III. Musgrove, twhite) Capt.
II. X. Tease, (whlteJ Senators Warner,
Swhitel and Gibbs, (white) and Messrs.
Mitchell, Barrett (white) Reed, Rector,
vincent, Fisher, (white) Furniss, (colored)
Cass, (white) and others; and among the
ladies' were Miss Carrie Fisher, Mrs. W. H.
Fnrnlss and Mrs.J. II. Rector. Mr.. Doug
lass seemed to be quite anxious to learn the
exact political status of Mississippi. etc.
ana we We're impressed with his perceptive
powers, which are certainly extraordinary,
After refreshments, wine, etc., the party
dispersed.
THE reader will understand that we
have interpolated the Pilots report with |
the designation of the color of the several |
participants in this entertainment, to the
extent ofour knowledge. 1t seems to
have been quite an exclusive affair. The
name of not single home citizen of At
rican descent is given.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-02

Gen. Thomas, Of Pennsylvania, who
said that he chad labored to build up
"the Republican party, but now he was
free to say 1t ,cas the most corrupt party
''On the face Of the earth, F." was one of the
staunchest supporters of Mr.. Lincoln,
under whose administration he was Col
lector of the port of Philadelphia.
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LYNCHING.

CAIRO, Ill, April 25.-Monday night a
party of disguised men went to the house
of Isaac Vencil, near HerTin's prairie, Will
Hanson county, seized eand took 60 the
woods and hung him. The same party
few weeks ago served upon Vancil written
orders threatening him with the fate above
recorded. in case of his failure to- obey
them. The nature of the orders is not
stated. Vancil was an old man of seventy
i've, quite wealthy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-02

CoLoRED LIBERALs.-Thirty colored
delegates have gone from Louisiana to
the Cincinnati Convention and scatter
ing delegations of the same race from
South Carolina, Virginia and other South
ern States. They have concluded that
they can afford to risk their cause in a
movement led on by such original free
soilers as Gov. Graft Brown, Palmer,
Greeley, Sumner, TrumbuIl and others.
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Damned for all Time 40 Come
From the Handsboro Democrat.

Gov. Powers pretended during the ses-
sion of the Legislature that he was in favor
of retrenchment and reform. What a
change has come over him! Powers won't
do we care not what a few.of his pimps say
about his s.noble and patriotic impulse. :
He has already made q record that will
damn him for all time to come with the
good citizens of this State.
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. tom Transcrint (Rennhli.
The, BuIly BOY I'm n New Role.
From the Handsboro Democ-,.

=
Governor Powers and some other bright
lights of the Radical party were on the
train Monday, bound for Mobile. While
the train stopped for dinner, Powers was
out on the green cutting mp some antics.
driving a cart and showing of generally
Dray-drfving must have been his old bust
ness in Ohio before he came 70 Mississippi.
He seemed to understand the business verv
well, and we remarked 70 one of the Gov
q better dray-driver than Governor. and
advised him 20 go back to his old trade. We
think he viii, after while. take our advice.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-02

1t viii be seen by notice elsewhere thai
the Press Association will hold It's next an.
-nual meeting at Columbus, June 9Th. w,
nope 70 see a full attendance. Col. Kinlocl
Faieoner' President Of the ASociation, re-
quests us to say that he will thank the pub
fishers OF the State for one copy OF their
several papers, addressed to him personally,
that he may compile therefrom an alpha
oetieal list of Mississippi journals. His ad-
dress is Holly Springs.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-02

The Canton Mail says that two hun
dred plow animals have been destroyed
in Madison county by the Buffalo Knat,
and That many laborers are thrown out
OF employment, and large acreage
intended for cultivation has been aban-
doned, in consequence.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-02
STATE OF MIssIsslppl-s.r

j, HEsRY MUsoRovE, Auditor Of Public Ar-
counts Of the State aforesaid. do hereby ,rriI.e
mat the foregoing statement Of The Soufiaf.
Life Insurance Company, Of Memphis Tom.
~ truly and correctly copied from thp ott b. f..
on hle In my office.
Given under my hand and official ssaf 10
Jackson, this ri day Of April, 1872.
-. II. MUsGROVE
4 49, Auditor of nttl.Fs. A.
ap3Osw3w
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-02

The German Republicans of New Or
leans, have Joined the Liberal move
ment in body. They are part of the
grand army of 200, 900 faderland voters
who are going to Eight NIT Carl"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-02
STATE on TENNEgsrT

AulhIl 90 EuII...
Personally appeared before noe. q. A t.
son, President, aud BES. NAY srcTUrI. ..
the Southern Life Insurance IamrHu. .If
maze oath that the foregoing statement H..
correct.
Subscribed and sworn 10 before mo-. fI.. .#
February, 1877.
- HUNsDON CARY
L. :. Commissioner for MississIpri iu TENN.
T. A. NELSON.
BEN. MAY
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LATER :.
A Number of PeaceabIe, law
Abiding Citizens Carried on.

A Number of PeaceabIe, Law.
Abiding Citizens Carried on.
''PIERcE TOLD ME To BRING EVERY MAN 1
COULD ARREST, SICK OR WELL, AND IF
THEY DIE ON THE ROAD, TO BURY
THEM,AND HE (THE GOVERNMENT
WOULD PAY THE EXPENSES"
After the first account of this ruffianly
affair was put in type, we viewed later
number of the Banner containing addi-
tional particulars, as follows:
From the Banner.
The military arrested and took with them
the following named persons James Avery,
John Hull, w. a. Haggard, Monroe Ellis
and Jimboy hughes (colored.) They are
all gentlemen of high social standing in the
communities where they live. Mr.. Hag-
gard is a cripple, not having walked a step
in the last twenty years without the aid of
crutches, and at the time of his arrest, was
sick in bed, where he had been confined for
several deys. When the Marshal told his
business, Mr.. Haggard demonstrated with
him, offering to give any sort of a bond
telling him that he could not, to save his
life, ride two miles on horseback, tsThat
don't make a id bit of difference said
the Marshal, "Pierce told me to bring every
man | could arrest sick or well, and if they
die on the ro9d, to bury them and he would
pay the expenses"
Jimboy Hughes is an old colored man,
the former body servant of Col. JEFF. Hughes
and since the war has been a true and tried
Democrat. and thereby hangs a tale. His
influence for good, among the colored peo-
pie of this county was too great, for the |
welfare ofthe Radical party, and hence a |
true bill has been found against him.
Monroe Ellis, the last prisoner taken, is a |
gentleman of quiet, peaceable disposition /; /
never known to be in any sort of distur- /
bance, and we heard an old gentleman say /
the other day, she is the most peaceably /
disposed person in the world" He was /
taken out of his field. torn from the bosom
Of his family. without being allowed the |
of changing his clothes or bidding
lis afflicted wife and helpless little ones,
gooG-bye.
John Hull is peaceabe and unoffending
Toung man, and is as far from violating the
aw as any man in our county.
James Avery is cousin of the scalawag
John Avery. though true Democrat, and
or having denounced the toryism of John
las been arrested as ku klux.
Since the above. was written, we lraye
'een informed that the soldiers have ares
ed Theodore and Francis Ellis who were
N their way from Macon. They sent their
Tagon on home by negro, and took them
n to Oxford, as prisoners.
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''TOOk Him 10 the Woods and
Hung Him.

The following despatch reports an af-
fair in the truly loyal State of Illinois,
which eclipses all the stories of K. K.
depredations in Mississippi; not except
ing the terrific Comilfort raid at Marion
station:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-02

Agentleman from Illinois has bought
Col. Hills valuable plantation, two miles
from Oklahoma, at $50 per acre A few
years ago this place was sold for S13 per
acre. Railroads are the cause of this ad-
,vance.-Exchange-
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Total assets Of the Company a..
LIABILITIES.
STATE OF NEW YORK

ERAsTus LYMAN, President. auI d..
SNIFFEN, Secretary Of the knickcflar... T. II.
insurance Company, being spNcr4IIt ....#.
depose and say, and each for b.u.r'. .H..
that the foregoing b. "a fun trHr uuI U..#..
statement Of the affairs Of the COMPANY. s...
the said Insurance Company Be- tHu I.U4 /.
owner Of az least one hundred nui Nft .....
and dollars OF actual cash capital iHND.I.H I'm
stocks and bonds, or in mortgage uH Ha.I.
numbered real estate worth ~ Dor CONT H....
than the same IN murtgngcd for. tIuIfI.H# #..
described investments, nor any uurI I..I..
are made for the benefit OF any individual ODE
elcising authority in the mauaFcWruI .f ...
Company, nor for any other person Ur r......
whatever; that the mortgages above d,..f.. r|
have not been assigned. nor iu Hut .af.I..
released or impaired by suid COMPANY. and
that they are the above described UHI.sl- g..
the knickerbockcr Life Insurance Dum.aH..
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The Canton Mail chronicles the death
on the 9th inst, of G. F. Stokes, an ex
Confederate soldier. The Mail says
"Spring will not deck with her flower,
and her green grass the grave of a drawer
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Federal Soldiers Invade fIae CoNrt
House of ywfmsfOa Commfy while
Court Is I'm SessfOn--.Taey
KHaRd-Cufr n Citizen fR
the ~gwry BOX.
From the winston Bannef.

From the Winston Banner.
The quiet OF our town was distured by Z.
5. troops who made a dash into town on
Thursday at full speed. and surrounded the
Court House. while our Circuit Court was
in session The squad was commanded by
a Deputy L. ,. Marshal, who went into the
Court House, while our Circuit Court was
in session. and arrested Jimb boy Hughes,
(colored) who was then Juror took him
out of the court house and hand-cuffed him
They held him in custody for some three
hours, when the deputy marshal turned
him over To sheriff Conner, to await further
orders. The sheriff Immediately released
Jimboy and he resumed mis- seat in the jury
box
The spy John Avery was one of the squad
and as soon as Sheriff Conner learned OF his
being in town. arrested him. having in his
possession. several State writs for that
purpose.
The Deputy L. S. Marshal Immediately
claimed Avery as a u. ). prisoner, and upon
the instruction of Judge Orr, Sheriff Conner
turned the spy over to the deputy marshal.
Sheriff Conner deserves the praise of our
whole people for his prompt action in the
arrest of Avery-and had the Judge sane
toned it, Sheriff conner would have Jailed
him at all risks. In our next we will speak
of this affair again.
Remarks.
This is the kind of civil rulme
have here in Mississippi under the regime
of the Carpet-Baggers. 1t is "eiviP as
an agency for robbing the impoverished
people under color of levying taxes but
remorselessly military as an instrument
for infiicting punishment upon the classes
marked out for persecution by the alien
plundefers.
| Winston county is one of the
most lawabiding communities in
this, or any other State; but she has a
majority of white voters, and they have
preserved their honor and indicated
their intelligence and patriotism by OPP
posing Cnpet-Bag rule when they have
come to cast their ballots and influenced,
by their good example and kindness, a
number of the blacks have chosen not to
organize themselves into a separate COM
bination in the interest of the adventur-
ers and hence their warlike proceedings
against the county. Hence the very
sanctuary of Justice, which of all places
should be sacred from the touch of mill
tary power, in time of peace, is invaded ;
one citizen hand-cufed, and another is
wrested from the grasp of the civil au-
thority, to whom he is amenable.
Here we behold the fruits of the con-
spiracy which was Matched by Powers
and Emory, in February, against the
peace and dignity of the State. What
else could have been expected, when
representations are sent to Washington,
on the authority of the de facto Governor,
that ''lawlessness exists throughout the
State, and that the civil authorities are
powerless to protect life and property {?
The rulers there are but too eager to
seize upon any protect, however unwar-
ranted, for prosecuting hostilities against
communities whose political sympathies
are not of their liking.
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The New York Herald, a Grant pane,

The New York Herald, Grant paper
says, ''the INSCRIPTIONS cGrpet-baggers,
with the Ku Klux Klans, among white
"and black Republicans South during
"the last two or three years" But as
the white Republicans consist almost ex.
clusively of the carpet-baggers, it follows
they have been playing "havoc" with
themselves. They have certainly been
playing the ID generally.
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Within the past two weeks there has
been decided break IN the ranks of the
German Republicans for Cincinnati.
They number about 200, 900. hussa gas
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A number of leading Republican pa
Pers in Pennsylvania have repudiated
the Grant ticket for State officers.
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H.IaHtIfGIes.

Losses adjusted and not due. .,.u YII b..
All other claims against the Gem
pany except reserve prcmiums.... IlINI q.
The greatest amount insured iu any
one rsk luuJI I'D.
7. A. NELSON. Precision.
BES. MAY, Secretary.
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Somebody asks Which gives girl
the most pleasure, 10 hear herself praised
or another girl run down. ssgs ~
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The Holly Springs Reporter says, A.
NJ. Evans, Esq, of the Waterford I'm
migration Society, has gone to Virginia
to bring out number of families who
have intimated to the Society their
desire to Become citizens of our county.
More than hundred thrifty citizens
have been added to our population by
this Society, and still the good work goes
on
- {; ton Transcript (Republi-
cam asks, docs Senator Ames own any
Southern plantation or pay any taxes
Sin Mississippi ?" We have frequently
stated that he owns nothing in this State
nor has ever paid into her treasury one
cent of taxes. Will the Official Jour
nal" not answer the question and put the
matter to rest.
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Subscribed and sworn 10 before mo. 1 N..r.
Public in and for the county OF ApW luI
state Of New York, this stl duy VA Ar...
1872.
- JOHN a. GODFREY.
l.. =. Notary PnI...