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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-16

We have observed that the Cincinnati
Enquirer, before the assembling of the
Liberal Republicans, expressed a decided
preference for the nomination of Adam =
On the second day of the Convention, after
1t had witnessed the vibrations of the
great heart of the people in favor Of
Greeley, change came over the spirit
of its dream. And falling in with the
current, it echoed the sentiment of the
masses which demanded the nomination
of "the working mans representative"
and the apostle of Peace and Good Will
among discordant and discovered peo-
pie. Said the Enquirer "W here can
man be found who will inaugurate it
with more chances of success than Mr..
Greeley? He, as we have said, is
worker-a worker of prodigious industry
and endurance He knows the public
men of the country as well as any man
in it, and would select the right men for
the right places. His integrity and his
scorn of everything dishonest and cor
rupt are proverbial. He is liberal and
humane in his instincts, and was the first
to call for general amnesty to the peo-
pie of the South, and at a time when
blood was insisted upon, at the risk of
personal defamation and party standing,
he became one of the bondSmen for JEFF
R.rff L.
would probably have been erected, and
reign of terror inaugurated in the South.
4 warm partisan, Mr.. Greeley has al
ways known how to embrace with it an
independence and an individuality far
above that ordinarily possessed by the
mass of men. Combating him for a
third of century, we have always felt
that even if he was in error his instincts
were right, and that he was ever honest
and upright. There are none engaged
in the Liberal Republican movement
whom we, in common with the Democra-
CIV, could support with more cordiality
than this veteran of the Republican
press"
The Enquirer, in its allusion to the act
| of Mr.. Greeley in becoming a bondsman
of Jefferson Davis, and throwing his
powerful influence in the scale of mercy
and magnanimity, touches the hearts of
brave people who are as prone to APP
preciate selfsacrifcing generosity as they
are keenly resentful of insult and wrong
in their hour of adversely. This act was
not designed as personal kindness to
Mr. Davis, whose fortitude in misfortune
may have nevertheless excited his re-
spect, but it was significant of his de-
sire, after the objects of the war had
been accomplished, to bury with the dead
who had fallen on both sides, the ami
mosities which it had engendered.
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embrace Tishomingo in the extreme
northeast and Calhoun way down in the
centre-let us take the second district,
for example, in which Carroll, in the
middle portion of the State, is joined to
DeSoto, in the extreme Northern or
the fourth district, in which Newton,
Scott, Attala, Leake, Kemper, &c, are
harnessed to Washington, Yazoo and
other counties with negro majorities sufi-
GENTLY to practically deprive them of
representation or the fifth district, by
which Wayne, Lawrence, Covington,
&C., are wrested from their proper con-
nection and yoked to Warren, Issaquena,
Kinds, &c.
1t would be presuming on the forbear-
ance of the classes whose right to equal
representation has been thus shameless
ly Isolated by the combination of alien
adventures and scalawags who are sub
sisting on public plumber, TO suppose that
they intend to rest quietly under this in
iquitous scheme. Agitation for its re-
peal, or such notifications of its pro-
visions as will relieve it of its unjust fea-
lures, will go on until the work shall
have been accomplished. We will now
venture the prediction that the next Leg
islature-when the deformities of the
law shall have been exposed to public
gaze-will so cnange it that its Mongrel
authors will not know the monster of
their own begetting.
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From the Memphis Register.
Greeley md Brown.

The nomination of Horace Greeley
and Gratz Brown by the Cincinnati con-
vention meets quite an unexpected ia
vor. They can be supported by Demo
Gratis, on the platform adopted by that
convention, without sacrifice of princi-
pie; and we therefore think, under the
circumstances and Disbursements to
which the Democratic party is subject, it
will be best to make no Democratic NOM
nation, and to unite for the support of
the Cincinnati candidates. We do not
care for their past records so much as to
know whether they will be instruments
of reform and will clean out from the
country the Washington-made dens of
thieves. To this Greeley and Brown
are pledged. And if the Democratic
party was to make platform to-day, we
believe it would be but a duplicate of
that at Cincinnati. So hurrah for Gree
ley and Brown.
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AN ACT to amend and extend the pro;

AN ACT TO amend and extend the pro-
visions Of Sections 1859 of the Revised
Code of 1871.
SECTION l. Be il enacted by the Legisla-
ture of the state OF Mis- issippi, That In all
cases of insOlvent estates when IL shall be
necessary to sell the lands, tenements, ana
Embellishments Of the deceased 10 pay debts
and for distribution among creditors; and
the executor or administrator shall not be
able or shall fail TO give bond and security
for the application OF The proceeds Of such
sale, as required by law, the Chancery
Court shall have full power aud authority
to appoint some suitable person az special
Commissioner To make such sale, and exc
cute and carry into effect such decree OF
sale.
Sec. 2. Be 1t further enacted, That said
special Comm issioner shall. before or AT
the time of making such decree Of sale enter
into and execute "A bond with good and
Court as ia cases Of executors and adminls-
traitors for the faithful application Of the
proceeds of such sale, according 70 law, and
the decree OF the Court.
Sec. 3. Be IL further enacted, That such
special Commissioner shall In all things, in
executing such decree, conform 20 the law
and the decree Of the Court, and shall make
full report of sale, and all proceedings
thereupon, 70 said Chaneery Court, as re-
auired Of executors aud administrators In
such cases ; and shall be allowed such COM
missions AS said Court would allow ~
executors and administrators ia such cases
Sec. 4. Be il further enacted, That this
Ac: take effect aud be in force from aud
after its passage.
Approved April i, 1872.
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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION relative
10 an amendment of the Constitution OF
the State Of Mississippi.
BE it resolved by the Legislature OF the
State of Mississippi, (twO-thirds OF the mem
beers OF each House agreeing theretO,) That
1t be, and is hereby, proposed 20 the cleo tors
of this State, to vote at the next general
election, upon the approval or rejection OF
the following amendment as "A substitute
for the seventeenth section Of the sixth
article of the Constitution of the state, to-
wit:
THE Legislature shall divide tn State
into a convenient number Of Chancery
Districts Chancellors shall be appointed
in the same manner as the Judges Of tie
Circuit Courts. Their qualifications shall
be regulated by law, and they shall hold
their office for the term of four years. They
shall hold a court in each county at least
twice in each year, and shall receive such
compensation as may be provided by law"
Approved March 80, 1872.
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FIOurnOy Redivfvus!

This old John Brown of the Radical
party is again on the surface. The Mon
grels have brought their party down to
the level of his ideas of social equality
mixed schools-and no recognition of
race or color in the Oxford University or
elsewhere-and he is in his glory. He
was chief cook and bottle-washer in the
late Mongrel Convention. Before the
Eminent Man abdicated the leadership,
Old Ossawatamie was not permitted to
put his head above water without receiv
ing rap; but he has now mounted the
wave and is riding upon its crest, while
none are so poor to do his prosecutor
reverence!
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-16

The North Mississippian, a Radical
journal at Holly Springs, and one of the
small concerns in which the Grant AID
ministration stored away the q. S. Laws
under pretence of publishing them for
the informnticn of the people of Missis-
sippi-is dead. One by one the Mongrel
sheets which Ao1rished for brief season
in this State, have passed away, until
but few remain, and they seem to be
Hpeking for the sickle.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-16

We are indebted to our excellent CO.
temporary of the Carrollton Conserva-
tive for the above design illustrating the
infamous Congressional Apportionment
Law which was passed by the Radical
majority in the Legislature. 1t presents
at glance the horrible geographical de-
formities of that monstrous iniquity of
mean and malignant, partisan and selfish
conception. 1t shows that its authors
set themselves deliberately to work out a
scheme which would operate practically
to debar the great mass of the property
holders and Conservative citizens of the
State from representation in Congress.
To accomplish this end, the Mongrels
exercised their utmost ingenuity 80 to
arrange the districts as to place the white
counties, of which there are nearly two
thirds of the State, under the dominion
of the remaining one-third negro coun-
ties. This rule was applied to all the
districts except the first, where they took
OaAO " al ONCIN
white majority.
As specimen of the villainy which
was practiced, let the foregoing design
be examined with map of the State.
Passing from the first district, into which
the trainers of the gerrymander have
purposely huddled the white counties so
as to give the whites majority of sixty
thousand-and the lines of which to ac-
complish this object are drawn so as to
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-16
From the Carrollton Conservative.
| Loss 20 the Legal Profession,

In the burning of the house OF Litch-
stenstein a. Myers, at Walden, about a
month since, the only complete sets Of
Georges Mississippi Reports, for sale,
were consumed. This is a very serious
Loss TO the profession, because there is a
bare possibility only of their being pro-
cured from private Libraries Many Of
these Reports were burned at jackson
during the war, but Col George had sue.
ceeded in saving about one hundred
complete sets, which were all destroyed
in the Walden fire.
Georges Reports have a value above
the mere decisions presented. Stearns,
professor of law &C Oxford, once told the
writer of this, that they were the best
written Reports he had ever seen. They
were not stersOtyped, and the demand
cannot be supplied except by another
edition.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-16

The next Annual Convention Of the Mis-
sissippi Press Association will be- held az
Columbus, on Wednesday, June 9th, ls72.
at IL o'clock, A. n.
At the last Annual Convention. Col. W.
II. McCardle, Of the Vicksburg Herald. was
chosen Orator; Hon. John Calhoon, OF the
Holly Springs Reporter, Essayist; and $.
Newton Berryhill, Of Bellefontaino, was
requested 70 write Poem, 10 be read at the
approaching Convention.
a full attendance Is respectfully urged
KINLoCH FALCONER, Prcs't.
i. r. JoNEs, Scc'y. Ga
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-16

The JoSEs-WADE BAsTARDY CASE.
The rich and racy bastardy case in which
Martha Jane Jones lcolored) was palnun
and }. Dora Wade (oolored carpet-bagger
from Ohio, and member Of Legislature from
Nazoo County,) was defendant, which we
spoke Of short time since, was tried on
Wednesday la the Circuit Court tWade
having been bound over 10 appear By the
Justice OF the Peace, Ia the sum OF 5000.
The same rich scenes were enacted, and the
case given TO the jury, who shortly returned
their verdict In favor Of the plaintiff for
$50 per annun for seventeen and d half
years-whole amount sl3l2 90. What d
dear little baby!
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-16

The Mongrel Ofice-holder's State
Convention, recently In session here, adj
iourned in the midst of a row to avoid
further confusion, before their commit
tee had reported either an electoral tick
ct or a State Executive Committee.
They are therefore without these instru-
mentalities of the Presidential Campaign.
The fact is, the MongreIs are demon
alized.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-16
a CARD FROn MIs. MOORE.
The Mistake ENpImi "a ad---HHe a. a.
Member Of Pioneer Hook and
Ladder Company and not o.
NiRiImmu NO. a..

BRooKHAvEN, Miss, May Sth, 1872.
EDITORS CLARION I'm the last number
of the pilot Mr.. Moore was mentioned as
Foreman Of Nigilant Engine Company, of
BrOokhavcn." Please correct the error as
am member ofPiOneer Hook and Ladder
Company, OF this place, aud Capt. A. y.
Moreton Is Foreman Of Nigilant No. 4.
Very Respectfully,
JOHN J.. MOoHE.
per Corning
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TERRE HAUTE. May 5, 1872.

IERRE HAUTE, May ., IodZ.
The following telegram from Mr.. Voor-
hees is published:
"WAsHINGroN, d. c. May 4, 1872.
TO the Editor of the Terre Haute Journal /:
THE Democratic party viii meet as usual
in National Convention, and through its
authorized delegates nominate its candi-
dates and declare its policy. Until then no
man has the right TO commit the party as
to its future action.
(Signed.l ID. w. VooRHEEs
Then, if mo man has right to COM
NIT the Democratic party" why does
this dissatisfied Congressman presume to
say that it will nominate its candidates 2
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-16

THE FltEE CoNCEKr The concert
given by the pupils Of the Blind Institute
on Wednesday evening last, was one Of the
most enjoyable affairs Of the kind % which
our citizens have had the opportunity Of at-
tending for many day, aud they were out
In full forces, the hall being filled 10 its at
most capacity. All were highly pleased
with the entertainment.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-16
Fremthe Brandon Rspubliean.
The Mobile and NOrthwesferm
RafRrOad.

Our citizens are subscribing literally to
the Mobile and Northwestern railroad, in
both land and money, and we think we can
now safely assure our friends that the road
viii be located by Brandon and Canton.
jackson and Yaz0O may get q branch IL
they plank down 100000 IN cash, but not
otherwise. In that event THAR branch win
connect with our road about 10 miles south
of Brandon, and we win have about ATTY
miles OF road built In Rankin counsy.
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National Democratic Convention.

National Democratic Convention.
New YORK, May S.-The National Dem
ocratic Executive Committee is in session
in this city. Twenty-eight States are rep
resented.
CALL FOR THE MEETING CT THE NATIONAL
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
The National Democratic Convention is
called to meet at Baltimore on the 9th of
July. The following is the call:
The National Democratic Committee, by
virtue of the authority conferred upon it by
the last National Democratic Convention, at
a meeting held this day in New York, voted
to hold the next convention for the purpose
of nominating candidates for President and
Vice President of the United States on the
9th OF July, 1872, in the city of Baltimore.
The basis of representation, as fixed by the
last Democratic Convention, is double the
number of members of Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress from each State, I'M
der the apportionment census of 1870. Each
State will send delegates accordingly, and
we invite the cordial cooperation of all
conservative citizens who desire the restO-
ration of a constitutional government and
the perpetuation of republican institutions
John Forsyth, John NJ. Horrell, VIM. NJ.
Converse, James Ponder, Charles E. Dyke,
A. II. Colquitt, Wilbur F. Story, VIM. E..
Niblaek, Isaac E. Eaton, Thomas G. Nc
Creary, Albert Voorhees,, Sylvanus r.
Lyman, Odin Bowie, VIM. A. Moore,
Charles w. Nash. Charles E. Hooper,
Charles A. Mantz, 6. l.. Miller, j. M. Nc
Conkle. Henry Bingham, John McGregor,
John @. Thompson, james z. Barr, Gid
con Bradford, Charles X. Simonton, VIM.
B. Bate. John Hancock, III. B. Smith, Jno.
Code and
AUGUST BELMONT,
FREDERICK o. PRINCE, Chairman.
Secretary.
New York, May 8, 1872.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-16

THE COLEMAN Mu.L-The Coleman
Corn and Wheat MIL, which took the gold
medal at the Mississippi State Fair, Of 1871,
is acknowledged TO be- the best mill made
II has been In use ever since 1850 and du-
ring that time has taken the FIRST premium
at sixteen State Fairs from New York 10
Texas, including those Of Mississippi Tor
the years 1859 90, 20, and II. More than
that 1t Is a Southern Invention and manu-
featured Ia the South. Send for circular
and price list. Address II. Dudley Coleman.
No. Q, Union street, New Orleans.
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EmgIbIiity.
Fmm the Carrolleon Uon

From the CmrnOllJ0n Conservative.
The CLARION, la Speaking 81 Iho state
and distSicL conventions, f0rciDiy urges tnc
nomination i0r electoral aud csnnressionnl
ticket OF men who are luborinR under 40
disability. As Important anu sensible a. Al
the requislte Of eligibility, lt Wa frequent
ly diaregArded la Lha nominations Lass tan.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-16

So far as our know ldge extends nine
ty-nine-hundreths of the Conservatives
and Democrats of this State prefer to
take the chance of defeating Grant and
overthrowing military rule by supporting
the Liberal nominees than by nominating
a straight-out Democratic ticket.
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Petition Against Holding a DEM
Oeratfc National Convention.

The Holly Springs Reporter of the 9th
inst, has the following
A petition was forwarded yesterday by q
number of our citizens, TO the National
Democratic Committee, N. Y, expressing
the opinion that the sentiment Of North
Mississippi is against Democratic Nation
al Convention. We believe the petition re-
fleets the sentiment of the Conservative
masses of the State.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-16

The St. Louis Republican, the leading
organ of Democratic sentiment in the
border Western States, hoists this ticket
at its mast head:
For President.
HORACE GREELEY.
For Vice President:
B. GRAFT BROWN.
The st. Louis Times, which has here
tofore opposed the cooperation plan, has
fallen into hne-and says:
'.We shall support Greeley and Brown
eheerfully by laboring for an Endorsement
of their candidacy by the Democratic Ma
tional Convention, because, firstly. We be-
lieve they can be elected; secondly, because
if elected they will free US from seml-m1n-
tary despotisms like that of Grants; third
ly, because both are honest and able men !;
fourthly, because there is no prospect of
doing any better, and great danger that we
might do much worse; filthy, because, il
a ticket being counted out by the methods
so we'll known to the Grant party. We
predict that not only will the Democratic
party indorse the ticket through their Ma
tional Convention, without dissent or divi-
sion, but that it will acquire new and unex-
pected strength, and finally be ratified by
the largest popular and electoral vote given
20 any candidate since 1882
The Cincinnati Enquirer, the leading
Democratic paper in Ohio, says:
The Liberal Convention yesterday COM
pleted its work by the nomination of Hor-
ace Greeley for President and B. Gratz
Brown for Vice President, upon platform
which every sincere friend Of Reform and
enemy of political despotism and corrup-
ton can indorSe.
In this action we can say with truth what
we can say of few Conventions, that il did
not make a mistake. 1t nominated the
strongest man-one identified with the
movement from its earliest inception, and
one who was richly entitled to such a re-
cognition at its hands. The name of Mr..
Greeley carries with it all the essential ele-
ments that are at the basis of this Reform
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W. III. CABmMAN,
CHAs. MCDOEALD.y Z
LOUIS W. kITE.

Extract from Report Of Committee of Arrange
menta on Annual Celebration.
Your committee have been placed under
many obligations, for kind fav0rs extended
70 the Company during the day and more
especially n the Company Indebted 90 MRS.
NJ. Mclaughlin and Mrs. David Ech0ls, who
furnished refreshments at the Hall on tho
morning Of the parade, and - the beautiful
young ladies who seryedlt and 10 the Jack
son Brass Band, for their music on the Occa-
sion-for the happlest and most pleasant
part or the days Festivities.
To Mr.. John Carraway we are greatly iu-
debJed for kindly aud 'ratuitously furnish
ing aud driving the four splendid horses at-
tached " our engine. Also Tor the horse
furnished for Hose Carriage.
=. y. kOunBACuEH
JOHN O.. CABmMAN,
JOnN DOhEHIY,
CmAB. MCDONALD,
Committee.
Capt. Fitzgerald offered The following
resolution which was adopted
RESOLVED, That foreman j. j. K0hrbacher
having neid the Office three terms, and hay-
ing deciihed " become q candidate again.
The Company hereby expressca its Jude uLod-
ness " nlm for hls Zeal aud efficiency az a
nr1mAnS and Tor hls active interest hereto
fore In promoting the success uuu welfare
OF She Organlzati0ni aud that tnis res0lu-
Li0n lac puDii&ncd la tile city papers.
j. 4. HIETTI. Secretary.
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OXFORD, Nav 9th, 1872.

You will remember before leaving jack
son that intimated to you that l intended
going to Cincinnati as spectator. My OBJ
ject in going was to satisfy myself of the
honesty and sincerity of the professions
made by the advocates of the proposed
Reform movement l conversed with many
of their intelligent and leading men and
think they have commenced the work in
good faith. They denounced the usurpa-
tions of the Grant Administration in I'M
measured and positive terms. Their speech
es there would sound we'll and appropriate
here where these usurpations are more
oppressively felt than elsewhere. They
arraiened Grant for his treatment of the
South, IN destroying all local governments,
subordinating civil law to military rule
and encouraging corruption and bribery
among the officers OF the government-car-
pet-bagg cry and radicalism. This too in
bold and unmistAkable language. 1t paS a
tremendous outpOuring of the people. The
delegates seemed earnest in the matter
were sober and good-looking set ofmen.
There were great many private citizens.
men who had not figured in the political
world, present as representatives OF the
movement.
/ saw a great many strong Democrats
who were anxious for the Democracy tn
unite in this movement and make no nomi-
nations in the coming campaign. They
were apprehensive we could not elect a
straightout Democratic ticket and that our
policy was to cooperate with the Liberal
Republicans. This seemed to be the Univer-
sal opinion. They were satisfied with the
ticket-Greeley and Brown. | think it
best from what l could gather, that we hold
to do.