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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-04-04
LETTER FROM Ex- GOVERNOR
A. q. BROWN
His Views ON the Political Sit
uafi0n.
CARRoLIroN. Miss, March IL. 1872

CARRoLLToN. Mss, March IL, 1872
Hon. y. q. BROwN-
Dear sir: We have read your letter to
Gel. j. z. George, dated March Sth. and
though it appears 10 have been entirely a
private one. vet we think its publication
ought not to be withheld
The people of Mississippi for many
years, have been accustomed 10 listen To and
be guided by your advice and counsels in
the gravest emergencies; a1d we think they
are entitled To know your views on the
course 10 be pursued in this great crisis of
their fortunes, and in fact OF the fortunes of
the whole country.
1t appears TO US that the whole country is
about 10 engage ia a contest (the next Pres
idential canvass which will determine
finally whether constitutionalism is longer
10 prevail in this country or. on the other
hand. whether the government of our faith
ers Is 10 be sacrificed by the lawlessness and
corruption which now characteTiZes its adj
ministration. and with it the liberties of
the people.
SympathiZing with you in the objects
sought to be attained. viz the saving OF the
country from Radical misrule, and agreeing
generally in the views expressed in the let
ter. we think its publication will do good.
and therefore ask. respectfully, that you
allow it TO be published.
Very respectfully yours.
James Soherville, III. ID. Money,
Sam'l Hart. III. ID. Shaw,
w. w. Liddell. w. L. Hemingway,
Jos. Drake, Tip Gamble.
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From the Meridlan Mercury

DISTINGUISHED VISITOR. - Gen. 7. J.
Wharton, of Jackson. came TO Meridian on
Sunday morning and left yesterday In the
late Enforcement trial at jackson, wherein
Indictment and on trial, he rendered distin-
quished services IS one Of our attorneys
which are duly appreciated by our people.
Some of our older and more influential cfti-
zens hearing that he was In the city. got
together and went 20 the Ragsdale House in
a body TO pay their respects aud Gender their
thanks for his jealous and able defence, but
found that he had unexpectedly lett on q
freight train, which Rpretented their per-
forming q pleasant dnty- A Il - they
deed, and accept their best wishes f0r life,
health and prosperity.
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Judge Morris on KSea~e and his
CO-WOrIxeE-@.

We have looked in vain for response
to the Attorney Generals exhaustive and
perfectly conclusive and overwhelming
review of tn amendments to the school
bill proposed by the Superintendent. Its
supporters have literally permitted public
judgment to 90 by default against them.
Assuming that every reader who feels AN
interest in the subject has read the article
of the Attorney General, we do not pro-
pose to occupy our space with a repetition
of it. But it contains some state
ments which affect the credibility and in
tegrity of public officials, that are not
to be disregarded by them nor to be pass
ed over in silence by the press. For ex-
ample, the grave charges contained in
the following extract, we will again
commend to the especial consideration of
those whom they may concern. The
public awaits their answer:
How many county superintendent there
are who violate the constitution aud break
their oaths of fealty to that instrument by
holding that executive office, and at the
same time occupy seats in the present Legis-
lature, | have not the means-at the pres ent
moment to state; but know there are some
How RAINY others there are who have re-
signed the office of county superintendent
in one county TO come here as representa-
tives from another, know not; but know
there are some. How many members there
are here who are now or have very recently
been. agents for the saleof the school books,
apparatus, and stationery, prescribed by
the State superintendent to be bought by
the people of all the counties for the use of
the 3ol,00o educable persons in the State,
know not But know that there are some
of these, too. ASid k5,oso utet some Of these
gentlemen are on The committee OF Tie House 20
achOps this bin Icas referred and that one OF
them IS the fRtrodsseer OF this bill and chairman
ofthdt committee. call special attention TO
these facts. And call most special atten-
ton to 1.-The pecHIiar situation" of all these
gentlemen.
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1t has become a custom of railroad
companies to seek to debauch the princi-
pies and control the actions of members
of the Legislature with passes on their
roads. We are informed that the Gus
tom extends even to judges, executives
and other important functionaries. There
can be but one motive at the bottom of
this custom. 1t is certainly not because
these salaried dignitaries, who are living
on the fat of the land, are objects of
charity, that this exception is made in
their behalf 1t is to purchase their IA
vor. They expect q,tid pro quo in the
shape of votes or official influence. The
time has been when an officer whose du-
ties required him to act upon questions
affecting the interests of these corpora
tons, would have considered himself
affronted by the offer of a free ticket. A
law ought to be passed making it fell
ony for any officer of the State to accept
the privilege of free travel from a rail-
road company.
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RELIEF with = Vengeance.

The House has passed the Salary Bill
fixing the pay of the Secretary of State,
Treasurer, Auditor and Attorney Gen
eFal at three thousand dollars each per an
mum. With the exception of the Attorney
General, their present compensation is
81, 500. So the Radicals propose to in
crease expenditures instead of to reduce
them. This extraordinary proceeding,
it will be borne in mind, is proposed at
the very moment of passing a bill by
which it isproposed to fund the ou:stand-
ing warrants to levy an additional tax for
the payment of the interest; and to col
lect the taxes hereafter in greenbacks
This is the kind of relief which the Rad
ical cormorants are providing for the
benefit of the taxpayers.
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PEASE.

Under the head of Educational Intel
ligence, we find the following in the
Home and School, an educational jour
nal published at Louisville, Kentucky !:
Seven thousand desks Tor the schools of
Mississippi were recently bought at the
price of 81 apiece. making a sum total OF
$40 900, for which the school fund Is TO pay
or has paid IL has been discovered by the
local press that similar desks, manufactured
by the same firm. are supplied elsewhere
for 50 50 each. The question now of inter
est 10 the people Is, who pockered the S24.-
500 of which the educational fund was
robbed by the transaction? Hon. j. II.
Pease, State Superintendent of Education.
is said to know Indeed, he is changed
with being one OF the high contracting
powers The Mississippians are now teach
ing their children anew the old nursery
rhyme:
Pedse porridge hot,
Pease porridge cold, II.
Pedse porridge in the pot
Nine days old. w
Il would seem from this that they had
been surfeited with pease usQsEe ad nGuseasa.
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AFTERNOON SESSION.

An act to amend an act % redeem and
protect rom overflow.
Mr.. Is0wles moved % amend But iu no
case shall the Levee Board be required to
pay more than eight per cent. interest.
Carried
Aud the bill ~ amended was passed.
Mr.. Holloway moved 10 reconsider and
table the motion.
A communication from the municipal
authorities ofPOrt Gibson. asking authority
70 hold an section. was received
Mr.. Little moved that the communicable
be referred 70 COMMITTEES on Corporation.
Carried.
An act 20 authorize c0uutics, elites and
towns 70 subscribe 20 capital atolN q rali-
roads, was taken mp, and paa1eu-
Yeas-Messrs. Alexander Bennett tQWlca
Caldwell, Duncan. Holloway, Little, Morgan
MyQatt. Stone. Williams and Warutl-ta
Navn-aTeasru. Abbott Allen. Cassidy,
Gibbs, Gleed, Gray and Watuf-l,
Confiausd on fourth Pagt.
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The New York Tribune ON the
Grant convention.

We have obtained secondhand through
the Washington Chronicle, the personal
organ of Gen. Grant, the following COM
ments of the N. Y. Tribune upon a
scheme which has been agitated in Adj
ministration circles to pack the Conven-
ton of the Liberal Republicans with
adherents Of the Administration charged
nth the mission of breaking it up. OF
course a scheme so utterly desperate and
absurd, would fail of its designed effect
to check the movement Of the Reformers,
and would react upon its authors. Our
object Is not to discuss the matter of the
plot, but to present the observations of
so influential Republican journal as the
New York Tribune and to show It's
manner of treating the Convention which
has been called at Philadelphia in the
interest of the Administration. Under
the title "A Plot Betrayed" that journal
says !:
The Federal office holders have called
their convention to meet at Philadelphia in
june. No one purposes to disturb or inter
fere with them. They have ever COM
plaiIed that the editor of this journal (Mr.
Greeley did not sign their call. insisting
that this would have been only formal or
ministerial act; though. had he signed, they
would at once have argued that his sigma
ture bound him to abide by the result of
that convention. We trust no one will at
tend that gathering who has not fully made
up his mind To let the present incumbents
have another four years lease of office and
power.
But the Cincinnati Convention is none
of their affair. They did not call it; they
are not invited; their presence is not de
sired. Let them mind their own business
and run their own machine.
Yet il is plain, from the foregoing eX-
tract, that they had formed plot 10 sur
prise and capture the Cincinnati ConVen-
ton, and are chagFined that the opportuni-
w is not to be afforded them. They may
do as they will at Philadelphia. but they
can not have their way at Cincinnati. Are
they not entitled to compassien:"
1t will be observed that Mr. Greeley
describes the Philadelphia Convention as
an coffee holders" assemblage-a body
of pensioners on the bounty of the Adj
ministration who will assemble to do its
bidding under the lash. He furthermore
espouses the cause of the Liberals and
throws down the glove of defiance at the
feet of its assailants.
Such a demonstration as this from the
Oldest, ablest, and most influential Re
publican journal, is significant of the
moving Of the waters, and the coming
of the food. Well, let it come
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-04-04

A State superintendent of schools, in a
recent address at a high school examine
ton, said: Now, young people, lay aside
restrain as far as possible that diffidenee
almost necessarily arising from your knowl-
edge of the fact that the great ege Of he
Stste- In my person, is looking upon you.'
Exchange
According to the opinion of the At
Ierney General, the State Superintendent
81 Schools Of Mississippi has framed .
IIl Hhieh viii constitute him the purse Of
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-04-04
THURSDAY. APRIL A, 1872

Equality abomination, in lieu of the one
that had been lost The resolution was
adopted: yeas So, all Republicans, Mr.
Armstead, of Carroll included NAYS "A,
all the Conservatives and Democrats and
Mr. Hill Republican. An act to en-
courage the establishment of factories in
the State, passed
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TERRY, KINDS COUNTY, Missed
March Is, 1872.

Gentlemen Your letter of the 18th inst.
has been some days on hand, aud l have not
answered it, because hesitated to comp ply
with your request to allow private letter
of mine TO General George, on political sub
jects, to be published. Ny hesitation has
not grown out of any distrust as to the
soundness of my views, as set forth in the
letter to General George; but have feared
that you may be mistaken in supposing that
the publication of them, at this Tins, would
do good. One consideration, and one only
has determined me TO consent. 1t must be
yielded by all fair minded men, that under
the ban, as l am. and never likely TO get
out, | can have but one motive in express
ing political opinion, and that. the public
good. lt Is impossible tor any just man t7
conclude that L anI seeking promotion, or
even a release from political disabilities. III
1 sought either should know exactly how
TO 90 about it. With so many shining eX-
ampleS before me, | could hardly make "A
mistake: Turn Radical; that's the way to
do it; and for me and Others in my position
it Is the only way. As do not propose TO
do that. may surely hope to escape suspi-
cior and consequent unjust critism.
II there are persons really DESTROYS of
getting at the handspring of my action,
will reveal it To them i am moved by AN
earnest conviction. based on close observa-
ton, that III we run an old flsb Oned Demo-
cratic ticket tor President and Vice Presi-
dent, we shall surely be defeated. III we
FUSE with the liberal and just men of other
parties, under "A name less likely to excite
ancient prejudlces, and on a platform com
preheusive enough ID admit the liberal and
just of other parties, then the chances are
greatly in our favor.
1 am net SO unreasonable as To ask Wings.
Native Americans. Labor Reformers. Lib
erai Republicans, and men of all other par
ties. TO Yield every thing while | yield
nothing.
| am. gentlemen, very truly and frater-
nally yours, etc. A. q. BRowN.
To Messrs. James SOmerville. Samuel
Hart, IL. ID. Shaw. II. ID. Money. w. w.
Liddell, VIM. l.. Hemingway, Jos. Drake
and Tip Gamble.
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HE One Hundred Thousand rNoI.
lars all G.our

The public will see by reference TO the
auditors communication to the Legisla-
ture' that the one hundred thousand dol
lars appropriated in January for the
payment Of officers and employees of the
Legislature, have all been expended. In
former times the average cost Of a session
was from $40, 900 to $50, 900. Comment
nnnrfl.esnrv
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-04-04

The Legislature is busily engaged en-
acting laws on every imaginable subject,
except the one thing needful by the OPP
pressed and suffering people-the reduc-
ton of taxes They (the majority, we
mean) never mention that.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-04-04

If the Superintendent of Public Edu-
cation be allowed q subsidy in the shape
of law authorizing him to order himself
to execute the printing for his Depart
ment and to approve his own accounts,
in the interest of his wondrous work OF
literature and science, why may not SINH
lar perquisites be bestowed on the heads
of the other departments? Why may
not the Buckeye Governor be voted a
subsidy for a printing concern where
with TO proclaim what he knows about
the Darvinian theory! Why may not
Musgrove receive special emoluments to
publish a gazette devoted TO Finance or
the manufacture of Photographs for a
circulating medium Or dear Brother
Lynch" hebdomadal devoted to Piety
and Temperance? Is it altogether right
to make a discrimination among these
nomadic adventures in favor of Pease
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-04-04

The following is the title of thrilling
announcement In a late Northern paper !:
Man Killed by AN Hmfmriate WO-
xnan---Escape of the MUIR.
deRe&@
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The fate of the BOBBY to blunder at
tends him in all things. His last mes
sage on the printing question is character
istic. He pretends to give statement
of past legislation (since 1850 on the
subject, and yet ignorantly omits any re-
ference whatever to the important law of
1858.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-04-04

/. We don't believe that story in the Savan-
nah News about the swain who AFam the
Ocouae "a meet his lady love, who stood on
the bank, and shut her eyes while he re-
suned bis clothing. si1i'1ag 80 .sC q
Solid. plain ana costly is the last rule Tor
jeweary.7 aq e'1 - $50 n = -1'f 'N'
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The acting Governor continues to treat
with contemptuous silence the respectful
inquiry Of the,House Of Representatives
concerning the disposition of the Secret
Service Fund. The patience with which
that body, after passing the resolution
by an almost unanimous vote snbn;ts -
the affront, is amazing.
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A young lady says corsets are economical,
ming Go waist.n .At
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sinks to rest
With all his cOuntry's honor blest"

Better this, ! say. than force IL into an
unequal contest and see il die amid the
agonizing throes of ignominiOus defeat.
/ honor the once glorious and grand old
Democratic party; but l am not To be de-
ceived by names-''all j. not gold that gilt
ters." Almost everything that made the
old party dear TO me has been torn from its
crown of glory, and thar, too, by the hands
OF its northern friends.
| have thus, my dear George. replied ia
substance to all your enquiries. and when
you have waded through these tedious
pages you will agree with me that IL may
all have been better said in one word, "anti-
Radical"
am. my dear sir, very truly and faith
fully. your friend A. q. BROWN.
#You may probably thinl, this allusiAel- to
the Commune not very felictous. seeing
Theirs government executed large mum
bers, ana eXiled many thousands of persons !;
but you viii remember that the Commune
was a revolt In the Capital. aud an attempt
by fire and sword. pillage and murder. 70
overthrow the people and take possession O {
the government; whereas, we only at
tempted to peaceably withdraw from gov
eminent that was depressing us-leaving
the government intact aud the peopla-wh no
adhered 70 il, undisturbed. Besides. ours
was the work of States-thers the work OF
individuals. / only mean 70 be understood
maintaining that the French Theirs gov
eminent, all things considered. has been
more fOrbearing tina the United States
Grant government. 1 make no allusion TO
the more enlightened and humane policy on
Andrew Johnsos.
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Il would seem from this that they had
been surfeited with pease usQsse ad nGuseam.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-01-25

| PRINTING.HoUsE SQUARE AS IT WAS.-Ir
the earlier days OF Printiug-House Square
New York city, before the name of he square
had been thought OF, no printing WIS done
on the premises The American Tract ,ci-
ETY. was the pioneer, and the next the New
York Observer. When the Tract Society was
formed IN 1875 tina ground on which its beau.
| titul house now stands was occupied hy a
miserable old wooden tavern aud it's sur
|rOundings on Nassa and Spruce street were
in keeping with it, Spruce street was n mar
row lane. but soon after was widenrd thirty
feet. On ite northeast corner, the Sun the
first dsiiy penny paper. and the PIebian, were
printed before the Tribune building was
erected.
Directly opposite the Tract House on Mas.
ssu street, where the Times Office now rs.
was an old one story wooden lecture room
and on Beckman street vas The Brick Church,
between which was . graveyard with many
brown and broken eadsthnes
From the upper les OF the Tract House,
between the church and the lecture room,
there was a delightful outlook across he
park. In 1926 the New York Observer occu.
pied the third story or the building. One
afternoon after beautiful shower. when the
declining sun was shining with all its bril-
llancy through the opening leaves and upon
the green grass OF The park, as number OF
gentlemen were admiring the view. Professor
Morse graphically remarked. " The people
VINO oCcupy lnlS mouse nave uhc pTOSpech
beyond the grave -
2 Af,er a few years the wooden lecture room
gave place 10 q large brick chapel, VIII ch
stood till 1856, when it was demolished with
the brick church itself, and the beautiful
Times building was erected. covering the
whole area 't"Hgat rt# t..
TIE Improvements thus commenced by he
Tract Society in 1926, has since been steadily
going on. New buildings have been erected
Spruce street has been almost wholly buIii
mp, and Nassau street rebuilt far below
BeeamAn and Ann streets The printing hua
BEEN extended, Till in addition TO all III"
book printing, several OF the leading secular
and religious journals are located upon and
send out their immense daily and weekly Is
sues from Printing House Square --INtust'G
ted Christian Weekly.
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BURLINGTON,

Leaving the East and arriving at Chicago o
indianapolis, how shall we reach the West
The best line is acknO wIedged to be the c.. B.
& O., joined together with the B. & NJ. Raj
road by the Iron Bridge at Burlington, ano
called the BURLINGTON ROUTE.
The main line OF the Route running to Oma
ha, connects with the great Pacific Ro4ds
and ;orms to day the leading route 10 Cali
tornia. The middle Branch, entering Nebras
ka at Plattsmouth, passes through Lincoln
GLe State Capital, and will this year be tinsl,
I'd to Fort Kearuey, forming the shortes
route across the Continent by over 100 miles
4 Another branch Of the B. NJ, diverglng =,
Red Oak, laIls into line running down ths
Missouri through ST Joe to Kansas City an,
all Kansas. Passengers 10y his route to KAN
saS, see Illinois, Southern Iowa, and Missouri
and, by u slight divergence, can see Nebras
ka also.
Lovers of tine views should remem Der thu
Burlington Route, for los towns high CLEAN
ing from atar"-itS tree -iringed streams-its
rough bluffs and quarres-its corn oceans
stretching over the prairie6 further than the
eye can reach.
Land BUYERS will be sure to remember 1T,
tor they have friends among the two Thousand
who have already bought farms from Geo, 3
Marris the Land Commissioners of the b. Il
to. X. r., al Burlington, Iowa, or among the
wur thousand home steadera and pre.elnptors
Hho last year filed claims In the Lincoln land
office, where "Uncle Sam is rich enough to
give Va all a farm" 1ybF
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NEGRO SUPRRsTITIoN.--A few nights ago.
(says u West Point, Va Citizen. } one of our
most respectable citizens, living in The ont
skirts OF the city, saw, late at night. fire
in the field in rear of his residence, and
desiring to ascertain its purpose, went, in
company with . friend, to the place. Here
he found a fully matured Fiji eenth Amend
mcnt cooking black cat in one of his owe
pots, which he had borrowed without giving
notice OF the fact, in this wise: FIT cen, h
mad cut off one leg of his unmentions bles
placed the cat therein alive, tied both ends
OF the improvised sack, and pu: in the sack
and was boiling 1t in a brisk fire. Upon
bad in view, he said that he had been tot
that If he would cook black cat alive and
eat IT,. 1t would not only make him lucky
at cards, but give him nine lives; and, hav
ing nine lives he wOuld be proof against dem
dar dreadful Ku Kiuxers. e'3e "
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PAPER CoMFoRTABLEs.-T mode of ma
king comfortables Warmer by lining them
with newspapers, as long as they last. which
cannot be long. especially af.er washing a
few times have tried a simpler way of
have no had sufficient bedding over me.
especially at hotels, where we cannot always
get just what we want. Throw off one or
two OF the top covers from the bed, then pull
from the pocket or sa.chel, two or three large
newspapers one very large one will do
will have warm and comfortable night with
out any perceptible increase in the weight of
the bedding. Again, when you have hard,
cold ride in cutter of ten or twenty miles,
against the wind, place spread newspaper
over your chest before You button up your
overcoat, and you will not become chi lcd
through. Nothing can be cheaper, and as far
as 1t goes, moro cdicient.-C0r. Country Gen
tensGa.