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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-04-04
A Pretty Quarrel as il stands.

The arraignment of the Pilot, the organ
of the party of Social Ideas and Political
Iniquity-by the brevet Governor-for
delinquency in the matter of the printing
rates, and the response of the organ, is
pretty quarrel, as it stands, with which
we have no inclination to interfere. If
it should result In the utter destruction
of the organ, it will be well. If they
should make Kilkenny cat fight, it will
| be better But we cannot be Indifferent
to the mean-spirited appropriation by the
Governor (so-called) of CLARION thunder
in his message, without the least word of
credit. The facts and figures of his mes
sage (not the phraseology) are literal
copy from our columns Intending to
palm them off as original, he did not
even have the tact to change them so as
to give them the appearance of original
ity. And meaner still than that, after
committing a larceny on our columns, he
did not have the manliness to admit that
the Democratic members of the Legisla-
ture, aided and abetted by The CLARION,
have labored steadily for reform in the
printing rates from the assembling of the
Legislature to this hour. We have
labored at it until our readers have adj
vised us that they are sick of tale told
over a hundred times.
And the Democratic members-what
effort have they spared? When the
BOBBY advised that part of the printing
be let out to contract, didn't they vote to
let out the a0hole of it And when this
failed by reason of the default of his own
especial friends, haven't they proposed
and voted for the very lowest rates pos
sible--ates that experts in the business
of printing have pronounced so low that
the work could not be done under them
without involving a heavy loss to the
printer-a consummation devoutly to be
wished, because a forfeiture of the con-
tract would necessarily involve the ami
hilation of the Radical organ and the
letting out of the work, so that all could
take chance at it. Did they not CO.
operate-if not actually take the lead
in reporting and passing the Senate bill
which was based on the testimony of
practical and experienced printers of all
parties? And haven't they been the
instruments of so reforming the abuses
which were perpetrated in this very
matter of printing by the previous
Legislature, of which the present inhabi-
tant of the Executive Mansion was
considerable part, so that the figures
viii show a reduction of at least two
thirds from the expenditures in that
branch of the service the present session
as compared with the corresponding
period ut the last session? Can any such
showing be made for any other branch |
of the public business? What says the |
BOBBY for the Executive Department, for |
example? And how has all this been |
accomplished in the matter of the print |
ing? It Is because THE CLARION has
from the beginning been inspired by an
invincible discrimination to effect reform |
in that branch of the service if in moth
ing else. In the confessions Of the
extortions which have been practiced by
the Radicals, as contained in the Execu-
i've messages, as well a. IN the actual I
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Mississippi Legislature
EVENING SESSION
HOUSE.
"WEDNESDAY, Marcl ~, ls52
THE SOCIAL EQUALITY Dill,
lowe offered the following !.

Mr.. Howe offered the following:
Resolved, That the Clerk OF tie House hs
instructed TO engross House hill No. 2lu
1.-THE social equality sb0minauouI us in
passed the House. aud take thr bill tO tho
senate with statement Of the flcts in BE-.
lation TO the loss OF the same.
Mr.. CorcOran moved the adoption of iHr
resolution. and on that motion moved thr
previous question. which was sustained, amid
under operation thereof the resolution Wa
adopted.
Yeas, bs; nays, q.
Yeas--Messrs. Armstead. Avery, Barrett.
Bell, Bush. Bremen. Corcoran. Cesar. 81, hc.
Garter. Davis OF NuXuhee, Dixon, Everett.
Fisher. Feemster, Gin. Grace. 1rigg-.
Green. Handy OF Madison. Haward,llupaiu-.
Holmes, Holland, Hasie, Houston, Howe.
johnson OF Kinds. johnson OF pr~nfu.
Jacobs. Ken Trick. Mccain. Mauss, MctaWs
lev. McInnis Mallory, Morgan. Nr,t.r.
Piles Reese. Shndd. Smith Of luulcA. Stew IT,
art OF Holmes, Stone, smother, sullivan.
Truehart, willing, Webster, Wade ano Air
Speakers.
Nays-Messrs. Allen. Applewhite. Bake.
Balhridge. Benson, Boyd, Bolton, Buchanan.
calhoun. Currie Curlce. Evans, Guluu..
Goar nm, Horton, Holloway. iycr, Jour-
Kelly, Kimbruugh, LoayCll, Land, lOpTr
Lowry, Mcintosh, Mckie, Mckenzie M.a.
Martiniere, Nisbet.. P1tter, Reed. Robbins.
Roane, Ross, Street Sessions, sawyer NIu.
ton and Wharton-Al.
Absent and net voting. T..
An act 70 encourage the introduction ui
machinery and the establishment ut iat-
tories an the State Of Mississippi was passed.
The Speaker appointed as The Special
Committee la relation 20 the thicku-aW
contested election case: Mcssrs. Holland.
Roane aul Jacobs.
Adjourned.
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MONDAY.

In its regular order, the committee re-
ported the bill to incorporate the
"Vicksburg and Greenville railroad, as
it was known to the House, but which
was in fact the new social equality abomi-
nation. The majority recommended its
passage; the minority, Mr.. Mckenzie,
dissenting. The Conservatives and
Democrats refused to vote as before, and
with them stood Messrs. Armstead and
Streeter, of Carroll, and Mr. Hudnall, of
Kemper. After many roll calls and
much confusion the bill was passed, there
being just quorum, with three Repub-
licans voting against it. This end was
accomplished by the negro members
going into the committee rooms and other
hiding places and leading the white mem
bers in by the ears and compelling them
to vote. Many expressions such as LET
''the Clerk take the chair, as he is run
''ning the machine" "Mr. Speaker, L
''move this body raise itself to the dig
unity of a mob" ''Wese gwine to spot
''dem men which lodges dis pint, now"
II wants to know how the gemmen from
ode Publican county of - is gwine to
'vote on dis question ?" eff you don't
''stand up now to de party, you shant git
"no more colored votes" 81 move we
'adjourn to get drinks" After the bill
passed, Carter, of Warren, moved to
strike out the false title of the bill and
insert the title of the original social
equality bill, IAN act to amend sections
't2731 and 1872, of the Revised Code"
This the Speaker declared adopted,
although no quorum voted, enough white
RAIDS having escaped from their masters
and again deserted. This ended the
farce, and the House fell back into the
even tenor of its way.
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EVENING SESSION.

BY Mr.. Gleed: To authorize the construc-
ton OF street railroads in COlum bus. passed.
An act in relation TO Notaries Public.
Mr.. Cassidy moved 10 ascend section I, nY
inserting alter State 10 second line "mayou
OF any incorporated towns or cities, and DE
clerks Of the Circuit land Chancery Courts
Of this State. Carried.
And the bill a. amended was passed.
To amend section 1850 Of the Revised
In relation to the disposition Of the poll
tax.
THE SOCIAL EQUALITY ABoMISArIoN AoAIN.
by Mr.. Gibbs Resolved by the Senate. che
House concurring, That n select joint Cone
mlttee OF three on the pert Of the Senate
ana - on the part Of the House be APP
pointed 20 investigate an the circumstance
connected with the Disappearance or los. of
ii IS no 40, an act 60 amend sections 2I3i
and 1872 Of the Revised Code Of 1871. with
power 20 send Tor persons aud papers, and
70 report at any time during The present
session.
Mr.; Morgan offered the following as %
wHEREAs, The Senate dld. ON the 22d.day
OF March, being the 6sth day OF the present
session OF this present Legislature. pass IN
b No 2lO, an act entitled an act 10 amend
sections 2I5l and N32, Revised Code Of
Mississippi; and
Whereas, The House OF Representative.
cSpS t.S DiAhch OF THIS LeglalAturn ln
which said Dill originated, WAS, on the 2ld
day OF March, duly notified 81 the passape
OF said ii b No 2lO; and
whereas, IL appears, from a cOmmunlca-
ton from the House Of Representative.
now before the Senate, that the engrossed
copy OF said bill was stolen from the Office
% the clerk Of said House, before said bill
and
Whereas, IL further appears from said
communication, that on the 9th day on
March, the said House Of Representative
instructed the clerk Of said House 20 com
mnnlcate the fact that said bill bad been
stolen before said III b No $40 had been en-
rolled, and also 20 forward the engrossod
copy o. said bill 20 the Senate; therefore.
de- 10 resolved by the senate, That che
Comfia,tod Ga THIRD Pa1e.
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This is the oldest, ablest and most
influential journal in the Republican
party Its founder, Mr. Greeley, was
also the founder of the Republican party
itself. He is still the controlling spirit
of the Tribune. The accession of so
important journal to the Reform move
ment is of incalculable moment. Speak
ing daily to its vast multitudes of con-
fiding readers, its influence necessarily
will be immense, especially as its senti-
ments will be in unison with the inclina-
ton Of the public mind. Zone blast
upon his bugle-horn were worth a million
men
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Majority for-s13.
vIcKsBURG AND SHIP ISLAND RAILROAD.


PICK Nc STATIoN.-Through the
kindness of Col. Frost Superintendent OF
the n. o., ]. & G. N. r. r, Station has
been established at a point halfway be-
tween jackson and Byram at Section House
No. p. The station has been appropriately
named Pick Mic Station for the reason
that IL affords excellent facilities for recre-
alton and amusement to the citizens OF
jackson who may wish to indulge them
selves in fishing and hunting; ss well as
for the accommodation of the community
generally. Col. Frost to whom we are
indebted for this courtesy. is a man of the
times. and always does the right thing at
the right time.
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2ND MoRRIs.-A member of the
legal profession in an elaborate review
Of this work of the Attorney General
assumes that it "bears upon it the marks
"of most indecent haste and criminal
negligence, or else the grossest negli-
''gence and stupidity" The assertion is
fortified by proofs which seem incontes-
tible One or the other horn of the
dilemma appears to be inevitable, and
either is bad enough
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THURSDAY, 28TH. -Senate.-An act
for the payment Of postage on public
documents and correspondence was
passed. The bill to punish the clandestine
riding of horses and mules was lost; yeas
IL, all Conservatives and Democrats I;
nays u, all Republicans A newly en-
crossed copy of the House social equality
abomination was decided not properly
before the Senate by Mr.. Little, tempo
rary chairman. The bill TO suspend the
provisions of the subsidy bill was lost.
Mr.. Morgan introduced a resolution,
which was indefinitely postponed, requir-
ing the Secretary of the Senate to sign
a new copy of the social equality hill.
A resolution, offered by Mr.. Gibbs, TO
inquire into the circumstances by which
the social equality bill was lost was adop-
ted. House.-The Senate printing bill
was taken up and after amendments were
adopted still further reducing the rates
the bill passed. Attempts were made
to introduce another social equality bill
failed, as it could not be done except
upon suspension of the rules, which
requires a two-thirds vote. The bill
creating Colfax county was passed, and
Arson county was killed.
FRIDAY, 29TH.-Senate.- The bill to
extend the subsidy to the Vicksburg,
Ship Island and Pensacola railroad, and
to the Natchez and Jackson railroad,
should they not get twenty-five mikes
completed by the 1st of September, as
required by the subsidy act, was lost
The Senate social equality abomination,
known as an act to amend article 80,
chapter 5S, of the Code of 1871, failed to
pass. Yeas y, all Republicans nays
16, all the Conservatives and Democrats,
and Messrs. Bennett, Millsaps and Smith.
House.-The bill to pay the Lunatic
Asylum contractors bonus for not COM
plying with their contract, was passed.
Mr.. Street offered n resolution to the
effect that Mr.. Willing having resigned,
could not be considered member of the
House it was killed by being committed.
The remainder of the day was taken up
with the Mobile and Northwestern land
scheme No definite action was had.
SATURDAY, 30th.-Senate.- Mr.. Ben
nett gave notice that he would introduce
bill to protect the rights of colored citi-
zens on railroads. The bill to locate the
seat of justice of Scott county and the
bill to authorize the city of Eicksburg to
loan aid to the Vicksburg and Memphis
railroad were passed. Two additional
clerks were employed. Bills introduced
by Mr.. Hardy to change the time of
holding court in the Fifth Judicial Dis
trict, and for the same purpose in the
Seventeenth Chancery District, were
passed House.-Mr Sessions intro
duced a bill to relieve the citizens of the
carpet-bag-ridden city of Natchez from
the burden of exorbitant salaries to mu-
nicipal officers, and for other purposes,
which was rejected. Many local bills
were introduced, some of which were
passed. Jacobs, of Adams, introduced
bill under the title of "an act to incor-
''pOrate the Vicksburg and Greenville
railroad, which proved to be the social
equality infamy which passed and was
afterwards lost or stolen. This bill pass
ed to its third reading.
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result of our efforts and those Of the
Democratic members Of the Legislature,
We have undant occasion for party
pride and self-congratulation. To Dor
row the expression of Benton, solitary
and alone The CLARION set the ball in
motion and has created p6blic 'senti-
ment before which even carpet-bag au-
dacity recoils, and which the chosen
oracles of carpet-baggery have been
compelled to take up and keep rolling.
So much for the power of an outspoken
and untrammeled public press.
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The Lexington E6y.l New
Imfamy."


The Pilot does not think that the de-
privation of the rights of citizens of
towns and cities in Mississippi to elect
their municipal officers, is as great a
crime as when perpetrated upon Ken
tuckians by Democratic Legislature.
We did not expect it would, but we did
not think it would go so far as to init
mate that all towns and cities in this
State have been allowed this right who
have asked it. The journals of the Leg
islature, published officially by the Pilot,
show that this is not the case. We
might cite the Pilot to several instances,
but one will be sufficient. Soon after
the meeting of the Legislature, Mr..
Calhoon offered bill to give the
people of Holly Springs this right.
The bill was carried in the pockets of the
Committee on Elections, and failing to
get the committee to make any report on
the bill, Mr.. Calhoon introduced anoth-
er for the same object. 1t took the same
course, and nothing has been heard from
it. On Saturday last Mr.. Calhoon
moved to call the bill from the committee,
but the motion was lost, and in all prob
ability the bill will not be reported
because Gill and Hill do not wish Holly
Springs to hold an election, and the peo-
pie of that city will continue to be gov
erned by appointed officers. And yet
the Pilot walls and CRASHES its teeth
because the people of Lexington,
Kentucky, are not going to have an
election for councilmen until the year Of
our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy
three.
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The Divorce Law of Illinois.
From the Freeport Hll.) Journal.

The following are the only grounds tor
divorce in Illinois and, as will appear, are
already sufficiently liberal:
1. A prior marriage.
| 2. Consanguinity, or blood relationship.
3. Affinity, or marriage relationship.
A. Impotency.
8. Adultery
6. ExtremB Cruelty.
z. Willful desertion, without canse, for
two years.
8. Habitual drunkenness for two years.
3. Conviction of felony, or other infamous
crime.
For. any Of the above causes either party,
husband or wife, may, by proceeding In the
Circuit Court, obtain n divorce In Illinois.
But the party applying must have re sided
in this State one year, unless the ground OF
bill can at once be nled, without waiting
for years. residence. Asga 1.
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On last Saturday, local bill day in the
House of Repres entatives, the Democrats
and Conservatives, trusting to the honor
and the good faith of the Radicals,
permitted, by suspension of the rules,
another social equality abomination bill,
under the false title of ian act to incor
''porate the Vicksburg and Greenville
Railroad, to be introduced, read twice
| by It's false title, and referred to COM
mittee The committee obtained leave
to sit during the session of the House,
and very soon after reported the bill
with the recommendation that it pass.
The rapidity with which it had been
rushed through led the Conservatives
and Democrats to suspect that there was
something false connected with it, proba-
bly, large land grab swindle, and a
demand was made for its reading. 1t
turned out to be no more, and no less,
than the social equality iniquity which
the carpet-bag negroes and their baser
white allies have been attempting to
press through the Legislature ever since
its session. Then followed a scene of the
widest confusion, the scampering for the
door by white Republicans who could
not stand the pressure, and the deriding
cries of the negro members as they at
tracted the attention of the House to
them The yeas and nays were called
for on agreeing to the report. The tenn
porary Speaker, Black-and-tan Con-
vention Howe, who Speaker
Lynch had called to the chair
to do the dirty work of ruling all points
of order-without regard to their cor
rectness of order, if they tended to
defeat the passage of the bill thus sur
reptitiously brought before the House for
its consideration, ordered the roll to be
called. The Democrats and Conserva-
tives refused to vote, and ''no quorum"
was the result. The RAIDS demanded
that the words used by them in so doing
should be taken down by the clerks and
WHICH was dOuC.
Mr. Feemster, of Lowndes, Republican,
voted against agreeing to the report, and
gave as his reason for so doing, that as a
member of the committee to which the
bill was referred, he had not been per-
mitted to read it or hear it read, and that
he was told it was only railroad bill.
This the Conservatives and Democrats
demanded should also be spread upon
the journals 1t was, however, too much
of a good thing for the RAIDS, and one
negro member wanted "what dem men
all said stuck off of dar" In the con-
fusion the bill was recommitted, after sew
eral votes had been taken and emo
quorum" found, and the House adjourned.
1t affords us pleasure to state that Mr..
Streeter, of Carroll, stood with the Dem
Gratis and Conservatives, and refused to
vote. Thus ended Saturdays session of
the so called House of Representatives
of Mississippi.
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We congratulate our friend, Colonel
Mayors, the publisher Of this excellent
journal, whose name betokens its creed
-on its early revival after the destruc-
ton of his Office by fire. AS a represen-
tative of the vast and increasing seashore
interests of our State, its value is inesti-
mable. AS the tabled giant renewed
his strength by falling to the earth, so,
the Democrat has sprung from the ashes
and entered on its mission with new life
and efficiency.
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The Donation 40 the LunaIic
Asylum Contractor

The law passed on the recommends
ton Of the Governor, making a special
appropriation Of S29, 500 out of the State
Treasury to the Lunatic Asylum con-
tractors, beyond the amount for which
they agreed to doethe work, has passed
the Legislature. The able speech of
Major Gaines, of Wayne, in opposition
to this grab scheme, will appear in our
next issue
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Passage of the Social Equality In
fanny by the House.

The social equality bill which was in
troduced in the House under fraudu-
lent title, on Saturday last, and by the
reading of which title it passed its second
reading, was passed yesterday by the So
called House of Representatives The
fraudulent title was declared stricken out,
and proper one adopted, by the Speaker,
although there was not quorum voting.
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Meagre reports from Connecticut leave
the result of the election in doubt, with
chances slightly in favor of the re-elec-
ton Of Jewell, the present Republican
Executive incumbent If so, what of it :?
IT is but another case of the Dutch taking
Holland. Nor does it foreshadow the
result of the Presidential campaign. The
Liberal Republicans who are organizing
against Grant, all voted for Jewell.
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The Radical War ON south Caro-
linians.

The Radical war against the prescribed
classes In South Carolina, has broken
out sfresh By the aid of federal troops,
it is stated that deputy marshals are
arresting citizens right and left, and the
usual reign of terror has been inaugu-
rated where peace and harmony prevailed
for months. Business of all kinds is
suspended, and by the unwiIlingness of
the planters to risk their means in any
farming operations when at any moment
they may be arrested and theie invest
ment lost, the negroes generally are
thrown out of employment, the crusade
thus actually bringing beggary on the
very class it purports to have been insti-
tutetl to protect.
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Among the thirty-four delegates to the
Republican (ofice-holders) Convention
at Philadelphia, the RAIDS of Ohio have
appointed one colored mani. Madison
Bell by name. The Cincinnati Enquirer
mentions that the peculiar mark of his
distinction is that he ''parts his hair in
the middle"
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'RAH FOR Booty 1T is said by per-
sons protesting to know that the Social
Equality bill of which Gray, the negro
Senator from Washington is the prime
mover and engineer, will be vetoed if it
should pass both Houses.
"We'll bet our money Oh the Bob Tail nag.
Who'll bet his money on the Gray"
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The Railroad Election.

The following are the returns of the vote
at the Railroad election held in this (IIinds)
ounty, on Saturday, March 23d. They
embrace all the precincts except Edwards,
Clinton, Terry and Byram. At the latter
place no poll was open. We take the re-
turns from the Kinds County Gazette.
NATCHEZ AND JACKSON RAILROAD.
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The Radical majority in New Hamp-
shire, according to an official report in
the Washington Chronicle, has dwindled
down to 1,137 votes-a small thing to
build large hopes upon, when it is remem-
bered that the State has not given q
Democratic majority IN eighteen years,
and that Grant carried it in 1859 by 5000
majority.
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Rates of sub.crfp1Ion.

WEEKLY CLAEIoS-Two dollars per year, and
an extra copy to getter mp Of club Of ten
or more.
BEMI-WEEKLY CLARIoE-Four dollars per
year. and an extra copy for club Of six or
more.
In future paper will be discontinued when
lime expires.
Remittances should be by registered letter,
money order draft, or by express. When 9TH
erwise the Office cannot be responsible
All business communications should be adj
dressed to Power & Barksdale, Jackson, Miss
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ADDRESS. We have received copy
Of the annual address deli Eered before the
New Orleans Academy OF Sciences. Februa-
~ 18th, 1872 by our old friend and fellow.
citizen, DR.. ,. 8. Copes, President Of the
Academy.