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The Grand Undertone OF Prayer


sshouldit be according to thy mindT-Job
All acceptable prayer to God is
based upon the existence of all those
divine perfections which are ascrib-
ed to Him in his word, and which
are illustrated in the works of crea-
ton and providence. His infinite
wisdom, power ard goodness are no
more nor less to be taken into the
account than His unchangeableness.
E'He is of one mind, and none can
change him." AL his perfections
must harmonic in every answer of
PRAYER. Prayers offered in contra
vention of the immutability of the
divine purposes are utterly vain,
since they are based on the assump-
! ton that the creature is wiser than
the Creator.
"--Pray'r against his absolute DEGREES
| No more avails than breath against the
wisd,
! it forth:
| Therefore, to his great bidding 1 submit
In any proper conception of pray.
er, the change contemplated is 10 be
effected in US, not in God. We must
/ ever pear III u44Lu lIdl OOu - uG
Gags right, and that in so far as We
are not in moral harmony with him
lce are zll0GyS JorOng. We are to bi
| converted to God, not He to US; anC
this, so far as we can discover, is tbs
divine philosophy Of prayer. Th'
grand undertone of prayer is, 'No
nv will, but Thine, be done" Thu
our Lord taught his disciples Il
pray-thus He prayed himself as
model for us-thus Old Testamen
saints prayed; of, for example, Jere
miah = "RighteOus art thou,
Lord, when plead with thee; We
let me walk with thee concerning
thy judgments, etc. Observe, W
may talk with him concerning hi
; judgments" and thus seek to hav
them sanctified TO our benefit; bu
! we may not question their rectitudt
Baptist Index.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-17

THEN AND Now.-In these de-
generate days we are happily spared
a politeness of the good old times,
which guarded against danger IN all
matters that related 10 eating and
drinking. When a person was
about TO drink at a Saxon banquette
he asked,the guest who satnext him
to pledge him. which was perform
ed by his neighbor holding mp hls
knife or sword to protect him while
he drank-it being supposed that a
man, when burying his face IN a
tankard, was not able TO guard
against any act of treachery from
behind. Perhaps, however, the
| difference is only one of degree; for,
nowadays, the real danger lies not
from a wound in your back, but
from one internally-not from the
traitorous enemy's knife, but from
the adulterated liquor. Consider
ing that the one danger was only
occasional, and the other happens tc
tens of thousands every day, th'
Saxons had, perhaps. the advantage
| over us.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-17
what Is Done in Fifty Years.

Some of our readers who have
lived fifty years may be glad to know
what they have accomplished in that
time. According to a statistician,
the average man has at that age,
slept 5000 days, worked $500 days,
walked 500 days, amused himself
1000 days, spent 1900 N eating, and
been sick 500 days. He has eaten
1900 pounds OF bread, 16,0OC
pounds of meat, !, 900 pounds of veg,
etables, fish, etc, and drank 7,OO(
gallons of liquids. There are
/ Is. $50 days in a half q century, and
from the above statement it woulC
seem that a man slept just one-thirC
I If the time.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-17

When the summer of youth is
slowly wasting away in the night
fall Of age, and the past becomes
deeper and deeper, and life wears to
its close, 1t is pleasant 10 look
through the vista of time upon the
sorrows and difficulties Of our ear
Iier years. If we have a home to
shelter, and hearts 10 rejoice with
US, and friends have been gathered
together around our firesides, the
rough places of our wartaring will
have been worn and smOothed away,
in the twilight of life, while many
dark spots we have passed through
will grow brighter and more beau
tiful. Happy indeed are those whose
intercourse with the world has not
changed the tone of their holier feel
ings, or broken those musical chords
of the heart, whose vibrations are
so melodious, so tender, and sc
touching in the evening of life.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-17

ENTIRELY SATIsFACToRY.-A
Texas paper says: 1--WE have been
asked why we stopped publishing
the list of marriage notices issued
by the clerk. Because a great big
stand-up-in-the-mud out there in
the sandhills said we published his
daughter as married when she
wer'n't, and he would hit us on the
head hard enough to knock our
ankles out of joint. Is the explana-
ton satisfactOrY?n
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-17
A startling Answer.

4 story is told OF a teacher who
was talking to her scholars regard
inc the order of the higher beings.
Ii was a very profitable subject, and
one in which the children took an
uncommon interest. She told them
that the angels came first in per-
fection, and when she asked them
who came next, and was readily an
swered by one boy, MANI Sic felt
encouraged 10 ask:
"What comes next TO mani"
And here a little shaver. who, was
evidently smariing under a uefeat
in the preceding question, imme-
piately distanced all competition by
| promptly shouting:
.His undershirt, ma'am."
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ADVERTISING RATES.

IL One inch space VVHaIIVU''7 =
urlero embellishments are ordered TO be
upnsIIaIIv Sisplaved they will be charged
for sccording TO the space they occupy; one
inch to constitute square.
Sherihs. Clerks and Ranger Wuo ,T-,iiL ~
US their patronage viii receive Ine " mig
without charge.
FTTCASDIpATEs-FOr announcing can
didates for County offices ana the I-esis'', f-'aI
tn-c sf0. for Congress $40; for Municipal
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And-sO-fOrth.

BY the side OF murmuring -tream
An elderly gentleman sat;
On the top Of his head was his wig,
On the top OF his wig was his hat;
On the top of his hat was bug,
On the top Of the bug was a fly;
On the top Of the fly was little gnat
And so on-in-fin-ite-ly.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-17
Life.

The following inscription i taken from
Greyfiirs' Church-yard:
Our life Is but winters.
Some only breakfast and away:
Others 70 dinner stay,
And are full fed;
The Oldest man but sup
And goes 10 bed.
Large is his debt
That fingers out the day;
He that goes soonest
Has the least 20 pay.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-17

Shortly after the occupation Of
Strasburg by the German forces, 1t
was proposed to replace the magnlil-
cent library destroyed during the
terrible bombardment. Books were
sent to the library from all parts of
Germany, and 1t now contains up
ward of 250,00 volumes, all collect
ed by voluntary contributions.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-17

Ohio loses annually $S,0O0,OOO in
sheep killed by dogs, and nearly
81 ,O0O, 900 in injuries. The sheep Of
illinois and Maryland are being rap
idly thinned out in the same wa!
the former State having fallen in
two years from the sixth to the ninth
rank among the States in the num-
Der and value of its sheep through
| this cause.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-17
GEORGE X. FUOTE

OVER MoDEsT.-A young lady
with a number of others who were
injured by a railroad accident near
Boston, was carried to a hospital.
The surgeon came round and said
to the fashionable miss: "Well,
madam. what can l do for you!"
Doctor, one of my limbs is brok-
en-" lone of your hmbs?" said he;
''weu, which one is it?" "Oh, l
can't tell you, doctor, but its one of
nv limbs" Zone of your limbs, -
thundered the doctor, out of pa
thence; (which limb is 1.-THE limb
YOU thread a needle with?' 'NO
SIR" she answered with sigh; it's
| the limb 1 wear a garter on" The
doctor attended to her and said
''Young woman, never say limbs
again in hospital; for when q wo'
men gets as faslidiOus as that the
! quicker she dies the better"
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-17

A religion that never sufices TO
govern a man, will never suffice to
save him.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-17

a, ,,Tvs D. Il. WISDOM.
J. T. HICKS.
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-03-28
The ssThird House,

There is one feature which has been
introduced with the other evils of car
pet-baggery into the Legislature of this
State 1t exists in the communities
whence most of the adventures who are
leading the dominant party have emigra-
ted, and was imported with them. We
refer to what is called the "Third
House" CT Lobby" Ever since the
Inauguration of the Radical regime, this
agency has been in full blast in our Leg
islative halls. It is notorious that many
of the most important measures, parti-
cularly those in which individual inter
ssts are to be subserved, have been pass
ed through the influence of the Lobby.
1t is true the evil has diminished pro-
portionally with the gain of Conserva-
tive strength in the Legislature, and
therefore it does not flourish so luxuri-
antly with the present Legislature, as
with its predecessor; but nevertheless,
it still exists to considerable extent.
Ii VIII De part OF the CONSERVATIVE
programme in future to abate the evil
altogether; and adopt such measures as
viii put stop to the occupation of Lob
byists. We would not of course abridge
the right of petition in person or other
wise-or of the privilege which ought TO
be preserved by the people of comforting
with their Representatives upon meas
ares of public importance-but our allu-
sion is to the occupation of the profess
sional go-betweens who hang around the
Legislature, and procure the passage of
laws by corrupt means in favor of per-
sons and corporations without reference
to any other consideration except the
pay which their services may command.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-03-28

n healthy liver secretes each day about
two and "A half pounds of bile, which con-
tains great amount Of waste ma
terial taken from the blood. When
the liver becomes torpid or congested, IL
fails 10 eliminate this vast amount of nox-
ious substance, which therefore remains 20
poison the blood ana be conveyed 10 every
part of the system. What must be the con-
dition of the blood when IL Il receiving and
retaining each day two and half pounds
of poison? Nature tries 10 work of this
poison through other channels and organs
the kidneys, lungs skin, etc; but these
organs become overtaXed In performing
this labor, in addition TO their natural func-
tions, and cannot long Withstand the pres
sure, but become variously diseased.
The brain. which Is the great electrical
centre Of all vitality. Is uHduIy stimulated
by the blood which passes 10 II from the
heart, and IL fails 10 perform its office health
fully. Hence the symptOms-Of bile poison
ing. which are dizziness, headache, incapac-
ity TO keep the mind on any subject, inn
pairment of memory, dizzy. sleepy or ner-
Vous feelings, gloomy forebodinRs aud irri-
liability OF temper. The blood ITSELF being
diseased as il forms the sweat upon the SUR
face Of the skin, IL Is so Irritating and poi
sonous that IL produces discololed brown
spots, pimples. blotches and other eruptiOus,
sores, boils, carbuncles and scrofulous tu-
mors. The stomach, bowels and other or
gans spoken of, cannot escape becoming
affected sooner or later, and cosIiyeness,
piles, dropsy, dyspepsia, diarrhea, female
weakness and many other forms OF chronic
disease are among the necessary results
AS a remedy for all these various manifest-
ations OF disease, DIR. Pierce's Golden Med
zeal Discovery is positively uneqaled. BY
it the liver and stomach are changed 10
an active, healthy state, the appetite regu-
lated and restored, the blood and secretions
thoroughly purified and enriched, and the
whole system renovated and built uD anew
Sold by all first-class druggists
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-03-28

THURSDAY. March u. 1872

III NnUh y AANINN ~ I"I..
Mr.. Avery introduced Joint Resolution
allowing mileage 60 the Joint Committee
appointed under II. J.. Res. 40. z, which
was passed.
An act to Incorporate the Southern Iur
niture Manufacturing Company, Passed.
An act 70 incorporate the Peabody Elu.
cational Association, OF llallchur-t Passed
An act 20 amend the charter OF thc torIutH
and Nashville Railroad Company. Pissed.
An net making appropriation tO dcirHF
tire expenses Incurred 10y The Sergeant .Ht.
arms OF the Senate Ia furnishing stationery
making repairs etc, was passed.
Yeas 70; nays 3.
Not voting 81.
An act TO re-arraDgo the Congressional
Districts Ia this State.
Mr.. Street moved 10 rccommit thp bII .u
the Committee on Elections for further
Mr.. street at II .25 O'Clock moved toad.
iourn.
MIR. Goar, AZ II rs, moved dat when .u.
House adjourns it be- until saturday urN.
Lost.
Yeas 30; nays o.
Not voting 20.
Mr.. Davis, OF Noxubee, moved to thIr
Mr.. Streets motion 90 Tccommit.
Mr.. Calhoun, at II 80, moved to tal0 "a
recess until 80 o'clock. Lost
Yeas a nays %.
Not voting -.
The question recurring on The motion uI
Mr. Davis 20 table the motion 90 rccOmmIL
the motion TO table was carried Yea. I..
nays 3d.
The bill went over.
An act TO fund the floating debt of nh.
State, was taken up and read first tmc.
Mr.. Sessions moved to indefinitely pose.
Ione the further consideration OF tho hI.
Mr.. Avery moved % table the motion tu
indefinitely postpone. Carried.
Yeas 81 ngN37
Mr.. Howe moved that POO copies be- print
ed, and the bill be made the special order for
Monday next at ~ O'clock NJ. Carried.
An act in relation 20 the mandates NJ tIU
Supreme Court, was taken up and passed.
An act 70 repeal an act entitled uu uct fH
amend an act 70 protect citizens OF certain
counties In those sections where fencing HUI
timber have become scarce, approved Drtu.
Der 10Th, 1859, and for other purposes, Hu-
proved April 10Th, 1871, in so nr 1s che
same relates 70 DeSotO county, was passed.
-Four Senate bills we're referred tO proper
committees.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-03-28

The Conservatives and Democrats of
the House of Representatives had the
pleasure yesterday of welcoming Mr..
Thos. Leonard, the newly elected menu
Der from Hancock county. In the last
Legislature, after the death of Mr.
Nicholson, which occurred early in
1870, Hancock was misrepresented
by man who did not learn
the whole time he was here to
which party conservative or Repubi-
CAM he belonged. Since that time there
has been no member from Hancock
county, owing to the passage of an act
last session, transferring the seat of Justice
of the county to Harrison county, and
not providing legal place for the Board
of Registrars to meet. We feel con-
WINGED that Mr.. Leonard's votes will be
always recorded with those who have the
interest of the State at heart, and will
well and faithfully represent the interests
Of his county.
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Horace Greeley ON Ghe Carpet
bag Governors.

Mr.. Greeley, in late Tribune, says:
The Southern Governors who advocate
the denomination of President Grant. and
declare the South in danger unless he is re-
elected, do not make an impressive showing,
considered as a whole. Governor Davis of
Texas, is undef indictment for fraudulent
issue of election certificates, and leads the
Grant wing in his State; Governor Reed, of
Florida, under impeachment for misde-
meanors, protests the need of a renOmina-
ton; Governor Clayton, of Arkansas, un-
der grievous charge of fraud. avows q
strong prediction for denomination; Gov
ernor Bullock forsook his Office to save him
self from i'm parchment, and now demands
denomination Governor Scott, of South
Carolina, who has ruined the finances of
that State, and saved himself from the con-
sequences by ubiquitous tampering with the
Legislature, sends up vehement endorse
ment of the denomination; while Governor
Holden, of North Carolina. who alone faced
impeachment and fell, declares the renomi-
nation of the President essential to the well
fare Of the country.
This rs all true as to the Governors
imposed on the South by the bayonet
agencies employed by General Grant 1t
will be seen that no reference is made to
our Buckeye Governor of Mississippi,
who has but recently been installed and
is on trial. A few more such demonstra-
tons as his message concerning the (mis)
management of the Agricultural and
Mechanical Land Scrip, his most untime-
ly and ill-adyised letter to the Rankin
county sheriff. to say nothing of the Pen
itentiary bill. of which he is understood
to have been an efficient engineer, viii emit
tie his name.to place in company with
the worthless whose achievements have
been recorded for public information by
Mr.. Greeley In the Tribune.
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GRO. A. NEwToN. secl
Reply OF the Secretary OF State
20 s..ImsIice."
OFFICE or SECRETARY or STATE.
JACKSON, Miss. March -, 1925

OFFICE or SECRETARY OF STATE
JACKSON. Miss. March -, 1875
EDToRs CLARION:
a writer in the last issue Of THE CLARION.
over the nom de plume Of Justice" renders
it necessary for me 10 ask the use of your
columns, which your courtesy has more
than once granted sJustice" saws lie was
charged by the chief clerk of this Office two
dollars for "A certificate Of official character.
| Immediately examined into the matter
and was informed by the clerk that the state
ment was incorrect.
| have never charged, nor knowingly
permitted TO be charged, more than fitty
cents for certificate Of official character
since have held the Office Of Secretary Of
State.
Justice" intimates shat the charge Of
fifty cents Is illegal. lie Is the first 10 make
the discovery. was taught that this was
a lawful fee, not only by law. hut by emf
nent mem bers OF the bar i'm Jackson, who
rendered it TO me for such service from the
commencement of my term OF Office, and
by former custom. It's rigbtmlness or le-
gality has peyer before, 10 my knowledge,
been questioned.
But to the law: Chapter XIX, section 3.
page l6l. Acts 1865, says: BE IL further
enacted, That the Secretary Of State shall
be allowed To charge aI0 receive the fol-
lowing perquisites: fee of fifty cents for
every official certificate, except on account
of the State"
do not object 10 microscopic observation
of my administration, but do ask a "A favor
that, before the result thereof Is made pub
lie, some attention Will be given TO the laws
that bear upon the pOint observed, lnas-
much AS it has been my first and greatest
care 10 strictly comply with their letter and
spirit.
respectfully yours.
JAMES LYNCH.
Secretary of State.
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Mississippi Legislature.
SENATE
srxrY.sEvENTH nAY.


An act 20 protect from overflow certain
bottom lands therein named, was passed.
An act 10 prohibit the sale % Fluuus Hld
spirituOus liquors within live miles ui tia
town of Greensboro. in Chuctaw county.
Mr. Castle moved 20 amend by Inserting
BanKston and BellefOuntaln. Carried.
ALao strike out zone gallon" and insert
~thr,e gallons" Carried.
And the bill az amended passed.
An act entitled an net 90 punish infringe.
ments Ofthe exemption laws and for other
M. Cassidy moved 90 amend section
by Inserting the word knowingly" before
the word ''seized.
Lost yeas 3 nays IT,
And the bill passed.
An act 10 create AL additional Justice ~
the Peace District in \ azoo beat Boz Warren
county, aud for other Purposes, vas passed
The President by request appointed
Messrs. Holloway and Price un the Select
Committee on Leyoes.
An act 70 Incorporate Alcorn County
Agricultural and Mechanical Association
ordered engrossed, was passed.
An act 20 change the time 'of meeting VI
the Legislature.
MIR. Sullivan moved 10 indefinitely pU..-
pone the bill. Carried
An act for the relief Of y. n. Campbell.
Mr.Campbell moved to amend by MASKING
the provisions of this bill apply % d. I
Flory. OF Bolivar county. Carried.
And the bill passed.
An act for the relief OF various sheriff.
holding claims against the state was passed.
An act to remedy evils ocCu-uurd hf Jle
burning OF the conrt house oiGrceuc county
was passed.
An act in relation 20 mandates oi -u-
prcme Court was passed.
An act in relation 90 AUtarIes Public wH.
indefinitely postponed
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Dying M nrer.

Whenever the Radical party has died
in the South, it has died all over Its
disease IL the result of the corruption and
tyranny-of its creed as illustrated by its
practices. Once in the earth it finds no
friendly hand to roll away the rock of
infamy that rests upon its remains, and
summon it from its grave A party that
lives by brute power and hourishes upon
corruption, cannot escape execration in
its death. In Georgia, numerically, the
black and white races are nearly equal.
When Reconstruction was accomplished,
the folly of the whites who tried the
"non-action' plan under the guidance
of blind leaders, gave the Radicals full
control of every branch of the State gov
eminent, and they started out with colors
flying. But what is the result? Not
withstanding the interference of the
rulers at Washington, it has been COM
pletely snatched from their grasp, and the
Democrats and Conservatives in the re-
cent gubernatorial election elected their
nomiDHe without opposition. The strong
negrc counties have fallen into the Dem
ocratic column, as shown by the recent
(speciaD election of Col. Styles to the
Senate. His district is composed of three
counties-Dougherty, Lee and Worth
in all of which the negroes have over
whelming majorities, amounting in the
aggregate to some three or four thousand.
Notwithstanding this fact, the Republi-
cans did not so much as nominate a can
didate, and the independent Democrat,
who ran with the hope of getting the ne.
gro vote, was distanced in the race.
Since the negro has found out, under his
Radical experience, the real value to him
of that party and the nomadic mercen-
aries who have assumed its leadership,
they have become disguised with it and
are displaying readiness to cooperate
with the permanent population of the
South, with the assurance that the latter
is fully pledged to secure to them full
protection OF the laws and an equal share
of the common government
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EVENING SESSION.

Eleven House bills were read and Uirr-
red to proper committees.
An act 10 encourage internal Improve.
meuts ia the state OF Mississippi, which
extended the time OF the ralltOad subsidy
act one year, was indefinitely postponed.
rNTRoDUcTIoN or BILLS.
By Mr.. Lyles: An act 20 amend tho clIur-
ter Of the Oxford University, and tor Other
purposes.
Referred 10 Committee on University.
By Mr.. Holloway An act to amend au
act TO redeem and protect from overflow
from the Missi sippi certain bottom land
herein described, approved March l3. Isle
Referred 10 Committee on Public NOrh
BY Mr.. stone: An act 60 amend section
2270 article J., chapter 81, Revised Code, HHd
for other purposes.
Referred To Finance Committee.
By Mr.Allen: An act ~ change che bouua
Diary lines OF Union, PoutOt0c and Iu"
county.
Referred 70 Committee on Countics nuI
County Boundaries.
At 80 Mr.. Morgan moved 70 adjourn
Carried.