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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-18
a Timely Inquiry.

There was visible connection in the
camp of the corruptionists when General
Lowry introduced in the Legislature the
other day the following resolution designed
to block the game on a most infamous
and nefarious transaction explained under
title of an act passed by the last Legis-
lature ''to incorporate the Pearl River
Improvement and Navigation Compa-
''ny." The utter infeasibility of any
plan for making Pearl River a nayigable
stream, demonstrates the fraudulenee of
the measure. And yet, We learn that a
large number of patents for lands have
already been issued in virtue of the act.
The object of the resolution is understood
to be to institute rigid investigation into
the influences that were employed to
procure its passage and also to bring to
light whatever acts may have been done
by authority of it. The resolution was
passed after an energetic struggle by Mr..
French, the leader of the opposition, to
prevent, or impede it:
Resolved by the House of Representatives
That the Secretary of State be and is hereby
required not to issue any more patents for
lands to certain corporation created by
IAN act to incorporate the Pearl River I'm
provement and Navigation Company. aud
for other purposes" pamphlet acts, 1872,
page 432. until the passage of said acts. to-
gefher with the revival Of a certain act of
the Legislature of 1852 is investigated by
q committee appointed by this BODY and
until otherwise instructed.
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The $4,000 RaiIrond Subsidy.

Senator Hardy has reflected a clearly
expressed public sentiment in proposing
to repeal this measure. 1t was passed
in the first place without reference to the
will OF. the people. They were not con-
suited about it. 1t was originated, and
engineered through the Legislature, with
indecent haste, on the eve Of adjourn
ment. 1t is founded on wrong princi-
pies, inasmuch as it contemplates the
taxation of one community for the bene-
fit of another. Besides it is an actual
gift to the corporations in whose interest
the tax is laid. 1t is monstrosity with
out example, we will venture to say, in
the legislation of any State in the Union.
1t provides that the State shall pay 81, :
900 per mile for building the roads which
are to receive the bonus; and yet the APP
preparation secures to her no stock-no
authority-no voice whatever, in their
management. Let the law be repealed,
and if any of the corporations concerned
have become invested with rights under
it, they can be enforced in the Courts.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-18

The following resolutions have been
introduced in the Senate by DIR. Alexan-
der, of Tippah, as protest against the
centralizing tendencies of the Federal
Government and the subversion of civil
rule by military usurpation.
The resolutions were referred to the
Committee on Federal Relations:
WHEREAS. A revolution has been going
on in our government for years; and
Whereas. 1t has accomplished all the OBJ
iects and purposes for which it was iuaugu-
rated by its originators, eliminating in the
emancipation of all the slaves in the Union
and in bestOwing equal civil, political and
religious rights and privileges on every cit
izen. regardless Of race and color :. and
Whereas. Further revolutionary meas
ures have been initiated which are subver-
sive of the liberties of the people and of
the principles )f Republican government;
therefore.
Be it resolved, That our Senators In Con-
gress be instructed and our Representatives
De REQUESTED 10 resist by all the means in
their power further revolutionary measures
on the part OF the Government, having for
their OBJECT the denial to the people of the
States the right of local self-government,
and of the inestimable privilege of the writ
of nabeas corpus, 10 the end that the liber-
ties of the people shalt be preserved and
Republican form ofgovernment maintained.
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AIas.ROOT. <shOst.

The Pilot, the decapitated Mongrel
organ, acts part which lily becomes it,
when it leaves the sepulchre wherein il
was inferred by the Eminent Man in the
blossom of its political sins-to make
itself facetious at the expense of its
neighbors. If it be doomed to revisit
the glimpses of the moon and for certain
time to walk abroad, before its final
consignment to the abode prepared for
all the carpet-bagger tribe, let it come
VITA solemn tread and sepulchral voice
and sorrowful countenance, just as q
Ghost ought to come!
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-18
The One Term Pr1nciPle.

This old time, Conservative idea,
which has been reproduced by Senator
Sumner, as flank movement against
Grant, is spreading like wild-fre. A
resolution endorsing it has passed the
Illinois House of Representatives, and a
similar declaration has been voted for by
both parties in the Ohio Legislature. II
is true the Constitutional Amendment
could not be carried into effect before the
expiration of Grants present term, bat
its endorsement BY the people would be
equivalent TO rehuke TO him IL he ac-
cepf renomination.
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The "Great Necessity".-Retren ch-
memt and ReforHsE

Mr.. H. T. Fisher has introduced into
the House of Representatives resolutions
declaring that "GREAT NECESSITY exists
for retrenchment and reform in the civil
affairs of our State government; that
taxes should be reduced, etc., etc.
This is the very necessity" which we
described as existing pending the late
election. We charged that the State
government was extensively admins
tered by the Mongrels, and that taxes
were so high as to amount to robbery
and oppression and we argued that the
people ought to drive from power the
corruptionists who had created the "ne-
cessity." Our premises and conclusions
were all denied by the Radical organs
and canvassers, who absurdly insisted
that the government was economically
administered-that taxes were low-and
that no ''retrenchment and reform" were
needed.
But carpet-bag effrontery has at last
succumbed to the invincible logic of I'M
deniable facts. Nor has it been deaf to
the mutterings which portend the tenn
pest of popular wrath which will ere long
sweep away the last vestige of Radical
misrule. Hence the remarkable plea of
guilty which is contained in the above
mentioned resolution of a Radical leader
in the House
To the resolution, we would say,
Amen. We have no objection to the
carpet-baggers' confession of their own
sins. We have no objection to any
movement which they may make to
retrace their steps and to tear down their
wicked legislation. We shall do our
utmost to encourage every Reformatory
movement come from what quarter it
may. Nor shall we stop to inquire, when
made by the carpet-baggers, whether it
results from a consciousness of guilt or a
fear of the impending judgment. Let
the work go ON. The Radical organs
have boosted that they have secured an
effective working majority in the Legis-
lature; and if they have been brought
to the conviction that expenditures ought
to be cut down-taxes reduced and relief
afforded to the people generally, let them
prove their faith BY their works. The
Conservatives 50 far from impeding their
efforts, will lend them helping hand. ]
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In our discussion of. the question Of
reducing salaries we have said the Gov
errors should be reduced to 81, 600 and
that with the mansion" which was re-
fitted at cost of $40, 900 farHished the
incumbent for a residence, and the per-
quisites which attach to the office, the
compensation would be ample. At all
events, it was so considered In the days
of McNutt, and Mathews and Brown and
Quitman Responsive to this, We are
reminded for the hundredth time that his
Carpet-bag excellency is the owner of "a
plantation, and are further told that he
has cash enough on hand to purchase all
the Democratic newspapers in the State.
The question of salary inasmuch as if Is
regulated by law and is a matter in
which the public are directly concerned
is proper subject of investigation and
remark And it has no reference what
ever to the value of this. or that. or all
the newspapers combined. The Leader:
comments, therefore, have gone beyond
the bounds of legitimate journalistic com
ment. Its reference, however, TO so del
icate matter as his Accidency's ''plan
tation" and ''cash on hand" reminds III
of the fnanceering skill of another Car
pet-bag Governor Warmoth,) who on {
salary of $4,000 has acquired million
of dollars worth of property in three
years, and of another impecunious adver
tier, Scott, Governor so-called of South
Carolina who on small salary is re
puted to have acquired even more.
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\ "MoDEsT' Recommendations.

A "MoDEsT" RECoMAIENDATIoN. r.
The Auditor has sent communication
to the Legislature requesting the appoint
ment of two other clerks in the Auditors
Office. He has already six and deputy
(Code 1871, sec. $50, p. 3S). Under
Citizens administration, when the rule
was to create the fewest number of Of
fees with the lowest adequate comp~nsa-
ton, the Auditor was allowed to appoint
two clerks-one at 4 salary of $1,000 and
the other at sS00--and II deputy Code
of 1857, p. 107.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-18

\ Republican member has introduced
in the Senate resolution of inquiry into
the Indebtedness of delinquent tax col
lectors since the commencement of the
military and reconstruction regimes.
This is proper inquiry. Under the law
of 1857 the Auditor, within thirty days
after the time when the returns of col
lectors were to be made, was required to
furnish list of all who we're in default
with the amount of taxes due thereon,
and the Governor was thereupon required
to remove such delinquent officials.
During the Alcorn administration, the
public were notified of a number of re-
movals for political causes, but of none
for malfeasance in Office If there are
any case, of the sort, the public ought to
be advised of it, and they will look with
interest to the report of the Committee
appointed under the above resolution.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-18
The $4,000 AppropriatIon-AII
Gomez

The public viii be amazed to learn
that every cent of the 5000, 600 which
was appropriated By act of the late Mon
grel Legislature. has all been spent; and
the present Legislature ON Its assembling
has been compelled among its first meas
ures to pass an act making an appropria-
ton to defray its own expenses. They
who imagined that the alleged extrava-
gance Of the Radical misrulers were par
tisan exaggerstions in the late canvass,
will find that ons-half was not told.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-18

The Conservatives and Democrats
have been in power in Virginia ever
since the State was reconstructed. Her
leading statesmen, were wise in time.
They adapted themselves to results which
the war had. accomplished gave the adj
venturers and missionaries of strife no
opportunity to raise false issues and thus
to seize the State Government, but took
charge of it themselves The conse-
quence is, they have had a peaceful adj
ministration throughout, and what is
more, they have had an honest and
economical one. Notwithstanding their
comparatively low rate of taxation, they
have in their State Treasury cash bal
ance of one million eight hundred thou
sand dollars, and are troubled to know
what to do with it.
Now, contrast Virginia and Conserva-
tive rule, with Mississippi and Radical
rule. In the latter, State taxes are five
times higher than they were ever before
the Sheriffs are sacrificing the property
/ of the people to pay them-the State
Treasury is so depleted that according to
the Governor, the Treasurer cannot col
lect his own salary-warrants are running
down below zero = Musgroves photo
graphs are going to the ID, and the in
debtedness of the State is increasing
at the rate of half million dollars a
year in meeting its ordinary expenses and
keeping up its benevolent Institutions
Comment is unnecessary. The facts
speak for themselves
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-18
The Harrison and jackson Coun-
Nv Representative.

Tha people of Harrison and Jackson
counties viii be Disguised and mortified
TO learn that Lindsay, whom they reject
ed at the polls by an unquestioned legal
majority of $50 votes, has been seated in
The Legislature by operation of section
Is, article IS, Of the Constitution, de-
cIaring that if any candidate is elected,
who cannot take the oath prescribed, the
candidate receiving the next highest num-
Der of votes shall be seated. The clause
itself was an invention of the spoilsmen,
who have no regard for the wishes and
the rights of the people; and no person
having proper respect for himself, much
less for them, would avail himself of it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-18
Swami EnseafeG

The facts in the case of Swami, the
carpet-bagger who was defeated by up
wards of 600 majority, and Iyetc med
his seat in the Legislature obtained on a
fraudulent certifcate-are familiar 10 the
public. On Thursday by an act of retri-
butive justice he was dismissed and Mr.
Bolton the legally elected member from
Newton county, was admitted to his seat.
Pending the question, Mr.. Davis, a
colored member from Noxubee, made
some remarks that were creditable alike
to his good sense and his honesty of
purpose. He said that as a member of
the Committee, that he favored the re-
port to unseat the bogus member and that
he knew no party in the discharge of his
duties.
Higgins, Chairman of the Committee
on Election Contests, contended that the
evidence before the Committee was so
plain against Swami that any testimony
he could adduce would not alter the
verdict of the Committee unseating him.
After much discussion it was finally
agreed that before the House adopt the
Report the testimony read before the
Committee be read before the House.
Now FOR CoPIAH. House has
done righteous thing in seating Bfr.
Bolton who received a majority of the
legal voters of Newton county The case
is equally plain as to Copiah. Willing
and Handy, the incumbents, were not
elected. A majority of the votes were
cast for King and Afford who ought to
be seated without delay. Let the will of
the people prevail.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-18

GEORGIA ALL RIGHT. after
long journey through the wilderness Of
Radical administration, has reached the
promised land of honest and just Demo
cratic administration beyond. Hon. j.
III. Smith, the Democratic nominee for
Governor, who was elected without OPP
position, has been inaugurated, and Gov.
Conleys his Radical predecessor, grace
ulIy bows to the popular decree.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-18

AMSEsrx.-A bill embracing univer-
sal Amnesty failed yesterdayin the lower
branch of Congress, a measure excluding
persons who left Congress and the feder-
al Army and Navy to join the Confeder-
acy. passed by the requisite vote.
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The line of remark pursued by the
Leader for several days past, seemed 10 be
calculated, if not intended, TO create
issues for settlement outside of the news
papers As the ways of THE CLARION
are pleasantness and its paths peace, we
are gratiiied by the following paragraph
in the Leader of to-day, the sentiments
Of which we entirely reciprocate
The friendly relations which have always
existed between the editors of this paper
and The CLARION should be held as the cri-
terion by which the purposes of our edito-
rails are to be determined. We differ very
widely in political opinions, and on many
questions that daily come under our notice,
but these differences afford no good ground
for personal hostility or even a feeling of
personal dislike. On the contrary. we are
nelghbors. engaged in a common profession
aud should therefore endeavor TO encourage
aud cultivate the most kindly personal Tela-
tIons. This is the spirit with which we are
actuated and we assure the editors of THE
CLARION that nothing we have ever said
was intended. even remotely, To treat them
with diSrespect or in an offensive manner.
Any other construction on our language
would 90 rs positive injustice.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-18

The Leader and the Pilot are RECALLING
their readers with large assortment of
''puffs" of Gov. Powers message from
Conservative newspapers. These are
nothing compared to the avalanche of
concentrations with which the Pilot del
uged what were afterwards demonstrated
to be just and impartial comments OF
THE CLARION when the Eminent Man, .
made his debut in the Executive depart
ment
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ATTORNEY GENERAL's REPLY.

Respectfully returned, with the advice
that it is not necessary to be sworn by tho
officer approving the bond. The oath may
be administered by any officer authorized
to administer oaths; the object Of the law
being that the sureties shall be sworn rs tC
their su1ficiency, and that their sworn state
ment shall in some manner be placed before
the approving officer.
Respectfully,
I - NToppte
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-18

THE AGRICULTURAL LIEN Law
This law was not incorporated in the new
Code. Nor has it been repealed by the
Legislature 1t therefore stands as a
law precisely IN the form in which il was
originally enacted.
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SuretIe- Of County Omcers.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
JACKSON, MISS, January &, 1872.
Hon. j. S. Morris, Attorney General
State Of Mississippi,
SIa-l desire your opinion as TO whether
it is necessary for sureties on the official
bond of a county officer to appear in person
before the President of the Board of Supe r
visors in order that said bond shall be legal
Respectfully,
y q DnUEuq
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The House has passed resolution of
fered by Mr.. Robbins of Rankin, calling
for information concerning the expendi-
lture of this Fund. The money is all
gone, and there is strong belief in the
public mind that the State has received
no valuable consideration for the expen-
diture. The answer to the resolution
will solve this doubt
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-18

Alas, poor Pilot, it is haunted by visions
of the Eminent.Alan. Its latest distress
is occasioned by 4 rumor that he intends
"to leave his national duties at Wash
"ington and return to jackson 10 take
''charge of matters which may come up
''before the Legislature. This Is
strange, if true Probably the Pilot Is
mistaken as to the object of his return. -
The proposed Secret Service investiga-
ton may be at the bottom of it.
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These lines are touching. The friend
must be happy who has walked the Tyre
which gives forth such exquisite notes
For The Clarion
LINES To FRIEND.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-18

The Railroad subsidy Act

We cannot think that the bill intro
duced by Radical Senator (Mr Gibbs
TO extend the provisions of the Railroad
Subsidy Of "a, 900 Act, for the benefit of
the n. o. J. & G. n. r. will be favora-
bly, entertained BY the Legislature.
The act in the first place was an I'M
authorized proceeding on the part of the
Legislature, oppressive to all parts Of the
State, except those in which there was
probability Of comforting special benefits,
and was a tax levied upon people al
ready oyerburthened as the advertise
ments Of tax sales which are crowding
the newspapers, attest.
The Judgment of the people is decided
ly averse to the law, and if the Legisla-
ture Is guided by their will, it will be
repealed and the corporations which are
supposed to have secured vested rights
under the act, will have remaining to
them their remedy in the Courts.
This Carpet-bas proposition is moi
only defiance of the popular judg.
ment, and an expression of contempt foI
The pecuniary embarrassments of the
taxpayers which calls for their instanta-
ueous relief from the operations Of the
original measure. Its object is to pile
another enormIty upon the original I'M
guilty. And this, too, in the interest OF
4 corporation which Gov. Aleorn arraign-
ed for having repeatedly acted in bad
faith to the State and which according
10 his testimony refused to perform It's
obligations when it had ample means to
do so. And more, in behalf of a corpo-
ration which notwithstanding its alleged
delinquencies, did actually manage to
obtain from the last Legislature a bonus
Of about one million two hundred thous-
and dollars of Railway Stock belonging
to the State, worth several hundred
thousand dollars in solid cash. Why
this immense subsidy was granted tc
what Gov. Alcorn had demonstrated to
he an cold defaulter," which had ample
means to extend the Road, as it had
promised to do, and hoao the thing was
done are not the points we propose now
to consider. 1t is the preposterousness
of its application for further indulgence,
and for special legislation in its own in
terest. We are sure the people along
the line of the Road do not desire tina
this injustice should be perpetrated.-
Let them compel the corporation to per
form its obligations as it is amply able tc
do, and let McComb be content with the
grab he has already made.
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YanI<ee Pastimee.

The following are the headings Of a
couple of late dispatches-one dated
Hartford, Connecticut; the other dated
Mt. Vernon, Illinois.
A NKan ard Two Womem
NMwRaiH ense n.
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HOUSE.


THURSDAY, JANUARY 10. 1872
House met pursuant 10 adjournment
Speaker Lynch In the Chair.
Prayer by Rev. DIR. John Hunter.
The hour for special order, contested cleo.
ton case OF Newton county, having arrived
the chairman from the Committee on Con.
tested Elections presented the testimony In
favor OF G. >. Swami.
Mr.. Stone moved that the House agree "a
the report Of the c mmittee, and on that
moved the previous question. Sustained.
And under the operation thereof the mo-
ton to agree TO the report OF the committee
was carried.
Yeas, 80; nays, -.
YEAS Mr.. Speaker, Messrs. Allen. Arm
stead, Applew bite, Avery. Baker, Baldrigde.
Benson. Boyd, Buchanan, Corcoran. Calhoun
Chandler, Currie, Crump. Curlee, Davis OF
Lafayette, Davis OF Noxubee. Evans, Eve
rett, Fisher, Feemster. Ford, French. Green.
Gaddls, Gaines, Gore, Horton, Hall, Hudnall
Huggins, Hasie. Holloway. Hyer, Howe
Jones, Kelly OF Neshoba. Kelly OF Lauder
dale, kimbrough. Lindsay, LcaveIl. Land.
Loper, Lowry, Mcintosh, Mccain, McKie.
Mckenzie, Mauss, McCawley, Morgan 81
Washington. Nets. Martiniere. Nettlea
Nisbett. Piles, Potter, Quinn, Reed. Rob7
bins, Roane, Boss, Smith Of Lauderdnie.
Smith OF DeSoto, Street, Stewart on NOR.
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a MAN SEamghgers Ills own ChHld
and AH3empnmxEW k4AA a Whole
FnmfEy-Lymch LAW.
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The people Of New Orleans are claua-
orous for military. rule.