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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-05-08
The CarPet-BaG USurPaGfOR I'm
LOufSfama.
THE GRANT PARISH AFFAIR.

From the N. o. Times.
The following extract from a letter writ
ten by gentlemen whose name, IL men,
toned, would carry great weight, has been
made in this paper touching the Grant par
ish troubles, and in refutation of those
m ade in the columns of the Republican:
CoTILE, April y, 1873.
DEAR SIR: Ny attention to the effects of
frosts and negro Vaccinations and excite
ment has prevented my visiting Cotile until
to-day. find your letter and Picayune
dispatch of the Colfax troubles. How men
under solemn obligations can reconcile con-
science and duty by such statement baf-
fies credulity.
The men assembled at the courthouse of
Grant had organized war on their own ac-
count, had driven off citizens, pressed prop
erty and conseripted men under penalty of
death, including in their CONSUMPTION the
United States postmaster, Sam Cuny, col
Ored, who fled across the river for to the
Rapides side for safety.
The colored commander, Ward, had ap-
pealed to his race for support, and made a
requisition upon Jake Perkins, of COtile.
captain of a cOlOred organization, number
ing one hundred and fifty, and claiming to
be on a war footing, for men. Similar an
peals were said to have been sent to Nat
chitOches, and are known to have been sent
to the lower portions OF the parish, where
the eolored men are drilling and preparing
for war.
Was it unnatural for some of our ardent
citizens to respond to the call of Hadnot to
join the posse of Sheriff Nash. L say Sheriff
Nash because he was recognized by both
the McEnery and Kellogg governments.
You will see by the Republican that Nash
and Torrey, the Sheriff and Collector, were
the appOintees Of kellogg. Their competi-
tors were inside the COlfax Qualifications.
Nash called on them to dispense, and gave
time fer the removal of the women and
children before fire was opened on them.
The negroes had been reduced by deser-
ton to $50 or 300 men-their assailants
numbered about $50 One-third of them
were from Winn and Rapides. The num-
Der gathered from the Texas border is all
bosh. Some Texas Traveller, from his natu-
raj love of fight, may have enlisted. The
men from Rapides engaged under a solemn
riors was necessary to prevent a general |
conflict between the races. Beckwith de- |
scribes the fight as a massacre. Why does
he not tell how? A massacre it was. and
such will always be the case between intel |
ligence and brute force.
The negroes were intrenched, and ne
elected their left, which they thought pro-
flank. They then fled In confusion to the
Their subsequent tIeachery
cost them much. After their surrender
they broke faith and killed Hadnot and
Harris. 1t was not expected that
heated men, under temporary command
ers, would fail to resent the terrible act
but you will have full account soon by an
eyewitness.
The men engaged were not assassins or
to murder the whites of the Red River
Valley.
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The Son of Respectable ParenG
Commits n Crime.
From the Oxford Falcon.

From the Oxford Falcon.
| Last week we gave an account OF the ar
| rest Of young man by the name of A. z.
Mauney, near Sardis, charged with horse
stealing. The warrant upon which he was
arrested was issued in Tippab, where it was
| alleged the theft was committed, and an
of1cer had him in charge, en- route for that
county. The news OF the Dung mans dis
grace Travelled with lightning speed, it
seems, as it reached the home Of his aged
and respected parents the evening proceed
Ing his arrival, and overwhelmed them with
grief and modification. The father is repre-
sented as an old citizen of Tippah county.
and man who enjoyed the respect and
confidence of his neighbors.
Inc unwelcome news Of the young mans
guilt reached the quiet home of his parents,
near Ripley, Wednesday night, and the
shock was SO great that they passed an al
most sleepless night. They finally retired
at late hour, and the mother, waking very
early, with q frenzied and destroyed mind,
dressed herself, and left the house, but in r
few moments returned with an ak, and
dealt her husband blow in the head, scat
tering his brains in every direction; and
then. in the last agonies of despair, swal-
lowed vial of poison. As soon as this
awful tragedy was enc cted, physic was
yOnd the reach of human skill. AnEidotes
were promptly administered to Mrs
and her life was saved, The
father is doubtless ere this under the sod, |
the mother, with q mind deranged, is con-
fined in an adjoining cell to her son in the |
Ripley jail, and several innocent children |
left orphans in the home that but q few |
short hours before had been cheerful ana |
happy.
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GEN E1ISAL Ia VS.
OF THE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.



AN ACT supplemental o. aud ameulasor,
of an Act entitled au Act 90 reduce rlu
number OF Circuit judge iu this State
and Tor other purp Se7, approved Aprl
ist. 1873.
SECTION /. Be if enacted bv The LEXIS
Iature of the State OF Mississippi. That -ee-
tiOn two OF the above reciIaG Act shall je.
aud II hereby 80 amended JAS o. change the
time OF holding the CIgruir Court OF Jail-r-
son county. in the Fifth judicial District.
from the first Monday Zoo june. 30 each year.
a. provided IN section two Dt Sine Hea To
which thl- Is ameuaItgrv. 20 the third Mon
day OF July ia each year Iu lieu thereof. and
that so mUcu OF section two OF the above re-
cited Act which Is i'm conflict with tIe pro-
VISIONS Of this Act lis hereby repealed
SIC. 2 Be 10 further enacted Taat tic
Circuit Courts OF the First District -Ha5I he
held a follows. IA the county Gf Perry cH
the first Monday Of March and -ept-r.ber.
and continue six days; I'm J4e county pf
SeptemJer 4ud continue six DAYS. IN fHa
county of Pearl, on the third Monday ri
March and September, and continue six
days: In the county of Wayue,Out the second
Monday Of April and October. and csutiuue
SIX days; Ia the cOHurypt Greene ON the.
third Monday Of April and October. and
continue six days; iu the county of .Ia.-I.-
son, on the first Monday OF May and No
VEN ber and continue six days: Iu tug
county Of Harrison, pu the second Monday
of May ami Noy,uuber aud continue -fz
days, In Tie cuaury OF Hanca.l. ON tH.
third Monday Of May and November, and
continue six days.
SIC. 81 it further enacted That the
county OF Marion bee, aud IS hereby 3ataah-
ed from the First Judicial Circuit Cont
District and added 10 the Fifth judicial
Circuit District. and the Circuit Courts ia
said county OF Marion shall be held eg ff-.
fourth Monday of March and -..tembcr.
and continue six days
SEC. { Re tIrr5tar ,.,l.,-t.I r1F..- .f.s.
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AN ACT TO amend an Act entitled an Act
to receive (secure) The payment of wages
for labor. ard liabilities for supplies, APP
proved April 5th, 1872,
SECTION /. Be il enacted by the Ieuisla-
ture Of the State of Mississippi, THAT am
Act 20 receive the payment of wages for
labor aud liabilities Tor supplies. approved
NpriI 5-h. 1872 be and the same IS hereby
So amended a~ ~ extend the provisions
thereof ~ all ea~s "a which any person
may bg working TO-, or ottcrW jse inter
esled In "a share or part 81 tde crop upon
any lands cultivated on shares. under any
contract whatever either expressed or i'm
rIiad 50 far IS the same may be applicable
To secure To such person working under
such contract. or interested in any croD
hereunder, Just and equitable division Of
tIe same 30 raised before such crop, or amy
part thereof, shsli ne in any manner dis
posed OF cr renewed FROM tae premises on
which ii was produced; Provided, Moth
ing herein contained Shall be 80 conStrpct-
ed rs ta prevent division OF any crop
raised a. aforesaid before the entire crop is
gathered. anu The provisions OF this Act,
ANA OF the Act OF which this Is ameUdatqry
shall extend tn and apply as well 70 the in
terest or share of tie crop of the landlord
for the rent of the land on which such crop
NAV be raised. ana such interest or share OF
The crop shall not be liable for any debt
created or suffered by any tenant whether
such debt be reduced TO judgment or not.
SEC. ,. BE It further e acted, That in all
cases where the claim shall be for a share OF
the crop and Judgment shall be rendered
10y the share OF the crop claimed, or any
part thereof. iii favor OF the complainant
it shall be the duty Of the Court before
which such action may be pending to issue
a writ OF possession directed TO the Sheriff
or other legal officer OF the county. as the
ease MAY b.. for the share or part OF tne
crop 30 determined, and rheTeupon it shall
he the duty OF such officer 10 Immediately
proceed TO divide, set apart. and deliver TO
The complainant such share or proportion
ate part of the crop as he may be adJudged
entitled TO, and for such service the officer
executing said writ shall be entitled TO re-
ceive and recover the sum of five dollars
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AN ACT To provide for the election of Dis
trict Attorneys and Clerks OF Jhe Circuit
and Chaucery Courts in this state.
SECTION !. BE il euartc5 10y Tie Legisla-
ture of the State Of Mississippi. That the
election held i'm this state ON he first Tues
day after the first Monday I'M November. in
the year of our Lord, one thousand EIGHT
hundred and seveury-Oue, be, and tho same
is hereby declared. and the same shall be
held and taken so tlT a~ the same applies to
District Attorneys and the Clerks Of the
Circuit and oh8uccry Courts, to have been
a special ana not regular election.
SEC. 2 Be 10 further enacted, That the
qualified electors of the several counties i'm
this State shall, NJ the regular election TO be
held on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in Novem Der, 4. D.. 1873 and
quadriennially thereafter, elect fn the man
ner prescribed by the Constitution and laws
Of this State, one District Attorney for each
Circuit Court Judicial District ana one Cir
cult Clerk and one Chaucery Clerk for each
elected shall hold their officers for the Con-
on the first Monday an January. 4. DISH
and until their successors shall be duIv
elected and qualified; and that the present
incumbents of all the Offices aforesaid shall
hold their offices until the iirSc Monday of
January, \. d, 1874 and until tbeir ync-
eessOrS herein provided tor shall have been
duly elected and qualified
SEC 3. BE il further enacted. That thfs
act take effect ana bee iu force from and
after its passage. and all acts or parts OF acts
in conflict with this act. De and the same
are hereby repealed.
Approved April u. 1873
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AN ACT supplemental 10 and am.nJatorv
of an Act entitled am Act To reduce the
number Of Circuit Judges ia tins state.
and for other purposes, approved April
I-t, 1873.
SECTION /. BE it enacted by the LeeisIa-
ture OF the State of Mississppi That the
Act entitled aH Act to reduce the number of
Circuit Judges in this State and for other
purposes, approved April Isl, 1873 be SO
amended IN the time for holding the Circuit
Court in the county of Hiuds to read as
follows: In the second District Of the
county of Kinds, on ttIe eighth Monday
after the fourth Monday Of March aud D.
TENDER, and continue for eighteen days. In
the First District Of the said county OF
Kinds on the eleventh Monday after the
fourth Monday of March and SepteIn Der,
and continue for thirty DAYS.
SEC. 2. Be 1t further enacted, That an
recognizances and process, of every kind
and description, including publications. re-
gardlng nonresident defendants. which
have been or may hereafter be issued ana
made returnable 20 the terms 81 said Courts
in said county OF Kinds, as now e-Jab. isheG
by law shall be held and regarded us re-
turHaOlc to the first terms OF said Courts as
established by this Act succeeding those tO
which the same shall be returuabie on Jueir
face.
SEC. 3 Be it further enacted, That This
act shall take effect aGd be in force from
and after its passage.
Approved April 10, 1878.
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From the \. Y. World.

From the \. Y. World.
At the reorganization of the Senate
committees on the 18th ult-, the follow
ing named Senators were announced as
forming the select committee on the IeVees
of the Mississippi; river: Alcorn, of MisSis-
sippi: Clayton, of Arkansas; West of Lou
isana; Schurz, of Missouri; aud Gordon,
of Georgia. These gentlemen have just an
nOUuced a determination to go into the
subject committed TO their charge so thor
oughly as TO have a practicable scheme
ready for the action of Congress on its as
sembIage in Decemb Der next. From the fact
that the committee is made up of men
vitality interested in the levee system we
have really some hopes that the promise
Just held out will be fulfilled. As the reader
knows. the most fertile part of the Missis-
$ippi Valley is really nothing but sort OF
inland merican Holland. dependent for all
its value on dikes or artificial banks which
keep the mighty waters which menace IL
within bounds. As early as 1717 the engi-
neer De La Tour, who laid out New Or
leans. protected the front of the city by
leyee of mile in length, and one planter
after another defended the waterfront of
his plantation in like manner. until by 1!2o
the river was walled of from the rlcn aqua |
cent lowlands for thirty miles above the
city. As the country settled the same piece |
meal system was extended until by 1873 the |
river was leveed tor 400 miles above New |
Orleans. Then there came a great disaster. |
:
ly individual system the river was enabled
to break its bounds. A cruel overnoW, still /
p0rtentously remembered in the valley, |
overwhelmed millions of productive acres,
and swept away in atwinkling the accumu-
lated prosperity of three Penerstions.-
Warned that the individual system would
no longer do. the States bordering the river
took the subject up, enforced the proper
construction of levees as a duty, and de-
frayed the cost by a general tax upon the
riparian counties. Even this step, though
decided Improvement, did not go far enough.
Difficulties arose, possibly from the fact
that each county built upon its own plan,
and finally in 1919 the Legislature of Lou
isiana petitiOned Congress for aid, enforc-
ing the memorial by the statement that
only by proper system of levees could the
swamp-lands belonging to the
General Government be made of value. The
congressional response was an act giving I
these swamp-lands to the several riparian I
states for levee purposes. Aided to some |
extent by the gift, the States pushed on the
evees until at the outbreak of the war i
something resembling a satisfactory gem 1
aral system was evolved. Louisiana was
well protected, and Missouri
lnd Mississippi fronts were complete, and
he Arkansas line was very nearly so. To
sc more precise, human skill, energy, and |
oil had in the long combat of $50 years
With the great Father of Waters arrived at
hrS4 satisfactory results. | Z
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MAK led.

In Vincennes Ind, At st. Roses Chapel,
Wednesday evening, April Esd, at half-pasu
seven O'Clock, by Very Rev. P. B. O'Conor,
Chancellor OF the Diocese OF Vincennes, as
sisted BY Rev. Father Merz and Father
Loechner. Or. ANDREW j. THOMAS, editor OF
the Vincennes sun. 10 Miss CLoTILDE MARIE
PILARB, youngest daughter of Mrs. Susan
ri. Pilard.
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From the Charlotte IN. c. Home

From the Charlotte IN. Co. Home.
At the outbreak of the war in 1861, he
deserted his own section and cast in his lot
with their enemies. He seems to have won
rank and reputation in the Federal service,
and was one of the six Brigadiers appointed
in the Regular Army, on the peace estab-
IiShment. He was given command of the
Department of the Carolinas, and carried
out ruthIessly all the cruel measures of a
enorseleSs Congress. The war against his
own land and people seemed to have de-
stroyed all his nObler qualities, and to have
trans formed him into the usual type of the
renegade. citizen of Charlotte was pre-
sent i'm Richmond, when Gen: Candy per-
Sonally superintendent the hanging of
white man up by the thumbs, for kicking
an insolent negro out of his saloon.
Jim Lane cut his own throat. Stanton
most likely committed suicide King
drowned himself. One by one the oppres-
sors of the South come to an untimely end.
Some of the most atrocious are now covered
with infamy worse than death. Is it acct
dent or l. it retribution:
The history of renegades is getting to be
Instructive. Mr.. Lincoln destroyed his own
people. violated his conscience and stulti-
fed his oft-ex pressed opinions. He was
touily and atrociously murdered, In the
hour of his triumph. General Thomas
pledged himself in Lynchburg at the out
break of the war to stand by his neighbors
and kindred. Seduced by Office. he fought
against them. At the close OF his br illiant
military career. popinjay was put over
him and he dropped dead in San Francisco.
Old Brownlow was the strongest prO-sla-
very man in the South. But he cast his lot
with the Abolitionists and prosecuted his
own people. He is now a paralytic and al
most driveling idiot. Professor Mahan
was an ardent Southerner and could hardly
find language wherewith to express his abb
horrence of the disuniCn Abolition party
during the war, and became very bitter
against his own section He was superseded.
when his work was done, threw himself
into The Hudson in the madness of his de-
Confederate soldier munc1inZ crust of
corn bread, than poor Longstreet the pet
of Grant and the idol of Louisiana thieves.
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"A JOINT RESOLUTION extending the
present term OF tie Circuit Court, now
being held in the city of Jackson. Kinds
county, Mississippi.
Be it resolved by the Legislature OF the
State OF Mississippi, That The present term
of the Circuit Court. NON beiu4 held ia the
city of Jackson, HindS county. extended one
week by ). J. K. NJ. ,, approved January
rs, 1873, be further extended one week, and
THAT said Court shall remain in session until
Saturday, February S, 1873 if business shall
30 long require; and this resolution shall
take effect and be in force from and after
hts passage.
Approved February /, 1873.
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WASHINGTON. April 3O.-Geuera1 -I.--
man to-day received d., auueNed dispatch
from General SeloiielG.
LAVAmns, April Us.
On the twenty-sixth Major Gr.au. conn
handing camp on the west side of rI. ..-
v9beds, ordered Captain Thomas. f.rr..
artillery. and party of Warm ~rrfuu Ir-
dams, about seventy soldiers and fourteen.
Indians, to make recouuoi-1ucc 600 u-.urH.
eaSterly direction. TO q point 41lrt Iur.
miles from camp. The party LETT cau..
about twelve o'clock. reached the designated
polut ana were resting, bat mo Indians I..I
been seen; suddenly the party wins Ur..
upon by Indians. when En- .varrIir. fT
the lava chasms the bodies of Cap.lrr.
Thomas and Lieutenant a. T.. Howe. a'ur.I
artillery. and Lieutenant Tlomas " NrieHt
twelfth infantry, were found. First .....
tenant Arthur Craustou, fourth arrfIf...
bias not been found, and if Is supposed tury
were Killed. Lieutenant George ~. Harris.
and Acting Assistant Surgeon H. -,mr.
were seriously, though ! hope not danger
ou-ly wounded. Thirteen enlisted r..u
were Killed and wounded. All fuc officer.
ana a part OF the men remained together
and fought like heroes but abe Indians I4I
secured the advantage OF ul-itfDu H...I..
being discovered. The remains of tn. .II..
GERS VIII be taken 10 Nr,ka Tomorrow.
me bodies OF four warrior have been UII...
m or near the scene Of battle. ,au..l.
MendenAall reports from Bucrlp.l-yiIl..
a.. -. i'"'tH T." J'lh ~ OH IIN IHIIi.ri".
ne ludlill~ occupy position iu che rock.
ABOUT iour miles south OF their CNra. Dr.
VIII De impossible 10 surround td'm "|.
ne forces dt or GA route ip i'i- place. A.. ..I.
elrcumlcrence Of LavahcI- i- about thirty
miles. General DAVIS Is expected tU-mor-
row ALyAN GILIEM.
y Washington special says the result oft
me consultation between General ~L.rrn.r.
ana secretary Fobr-ou wlH ha tho trau l.r
OF large humper ot troops from east ui t.u
Rocky mountains. and 70 determined EFFORT
to cNtermiuIte the Modac-.
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WELL SAID.-One of our ministers in a
recent sermon expressed his conviction that
the day of force and of distinctively mascu-
line rule was past; that wOmanbood IN It's
highest development of moral and spiritual
power was to be the development OF the
world. We can but recognize this as truth,
and to none more than 10 the earnest teach
ers, working, it may be, il crowded city
schools, or In lonely country districts, il
due the growing appreciation OF the work
which good women art doing. and will do,
la the worlds Pegeaeration.-Jo OF Ed
ucation.
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Our old friend John r. jackson, who LEFT
here and settled in Texas about two years
q farm, determined 10 remain here the
balance of his Brandon Republican.
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Mr.. Haven, the defeated Republican can.
didate, could not have been worse beaten IL
he had been G. NJ. member of Congress
and interested in the back-pay steal trade.
IN. Y. World.
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Portraits d Capt. Jack. the Mo-
doe Chief

Capt. Jack, the Chief OF the tribe. i- "a
full-bIooded Mcdoc. Of about thirty years oi
age though he looks much older. He has 30
!. ,od head, though, like ali Indians. the fore
H.ad is low aud retreatjug. Hi complexion
dark, being bright copper-color and aI-
bis eyes are black. fun and piercing. li-
hair is long, hanging down 90 his shoulder
and his face is entirely destitute Of beard.
His mouth i large. and it, shape Indicate
frnEess and determination. though 10 by
no means denotes cruelty and basenr---
traits which Capt. Jack seems % POSSES
above all others. In manner he o. cool
self possessed and very digniied. He insists
upon being treated with the greatest respect
BY all with whom be comes in contact, and
the chief ruler OF forty millions Of people
could not be a greater stickler for OtiieiI.
etiquette than j. this same miserable save
age. tie never smiles. His greeting OF hi-
visitors on the occasion OF the visit referred
TO was a splendid exhibition OF Indifference
and haughtiness, Notwithstanding az tine
time he was so i'll he could not stand up.
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CHINESE CHEAP LABoR.-The San
Francisco Chronicle, in an article on the
immigration of the Chinese to this coun-
try, SAYS that thus far, for the first five
months of the present year, no less than
1900 Chinese have arrived in that city,
and if the same average is kept up du
ring the year, the Chinese population
will have increased in San Francisco
Is, 900.
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OMciaI Account Of the E.a.t qTo.
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WAsHNGToN, April 30-Gere-H ~n.--
from General Schoiiell.