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The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20
HOUSE.
TWENTY-THLRD DAY.
JACKSON. Feb. Is. 1873.

JACKSON. Feb. 10, 1873.
Leave OF Absence was granted 70 the CcI.
| lowing members: - 'i0 i'i'
Mr. Streeter, for three davs
| Mr. Mccain, until Tuesday n.yt
Mr Dixon, from day to dav. and Mr.
! Green, for one day. ""' vi
MT MCINTOSH introduced II r No 1z1 nm
act 10 explain an act 10 fund the ioatin%
oeOt ana issue sinking fund bonds. and re
means On ways anu
Mr Mcintosh introduced an act to nermit
part OF county TO subscribe to The con
roads. i'Oee oi4 I"li-
,hL MF holloway introduced an act TO an
sn''i snoIl1e the Board Of Supervisors or Choc-
law county to have the lands OF said countv
asisessed, sie and to provide for the payment OF
SSomulittee on Ways and Means
N holloway introduced an act to reduce
@ sle Dond OF the Circuit Clerk of Choctay,
county. Passed. O0eaW
Mr Baldridge introduced an act for rsl;as
Of Miles Barkley. ioi reilei
Committee on County Affairs
Mr Goar introduced an act IN antbor,,o
the boards OF ofSupervisors to ins,,re conrte
houses, G, Jalls and other county property.
SSoMnlttee on ways and means
Mr Goar introduced an act to author,z.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20

" A put up job is evident in the loca
. ton of the Penitentiary grounds anC
" the letting out the contract for building
the Penitentiary, on the part of the
" Auditor of Public Accounts, H. Mus.
grove, and the Inspectors. The Gov
" ernor has used his influence against it.
dc. So says the the Pamela Star. 1t is
singular how entirely our contemporary
has got the wrong end of the story. The
positions of the Governor and the Audit
or are directly the reverse of those stated.
1t was the former, who conspired with the
majority Of the Inspectors Charles & Eg
gleston, and who even went to the extent
Of vetoing joint resolution to restrain the
Auditor from issuing warrants and to in
vestigate the transaction.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20
How In Ger Rid of a Growing
Evil

The growing evil of controlling the
action of public officials with money, has
set thinking minds of the country TO work
in devising a plan of arresting il. A
New York paper put the case in nut
shell. 1t says the Government must
/ ''get out of the Protective business, and
''the Subsidy business, and the Improve
''ment and Development business II
''must let trade, and commerce. and
manufactures, and steamboats,, and
railroads, and telegraphs, alone This
would undoubtedly be good preven-
tive for the evil. Remove opportunities
for depravity and it would cease TO a
great extent. If their removal is impos-
sible, let the government restrict them
TO such cases as absolutely require aid
In the case of the building of the Pacific
Railroads, it has been shown that every
dollar loaned by the National Govern
ment has been stolen or used for corrupt
purposes. 1t gave large quantities of
lands, in addition to money, the proceeds
Of which have also been absorbed in the
same way
To descend from large to comparative
ly small things, it has come to light since
the Subsidy Investigation commenced in
this city, that the Ripley Railroad Com
pany expended several thousands to pro-
cure an opinion from the Law Officer,
(Morris) of the State Administration. for
the issuance of Warrants which were due
it underan act of the Legislature. This
sum came from the pockets of the peo-
ple-it having been deducted from the
assessment which the Legislature had sti
pulated for public purposes to pay to the
Railroad Company.
The moral of such transactions is that
government would act wisely to leave to
persons whether in their Individual. or
associated and corporate capacity, the
management of business of private ma
ture. Let us have as few loans. as few |
land grants, as few subsidies as possible.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20
Morris' Promises Exposure oF
EsoEters.


OF late, we have ilfarl, through Re
/ publican sources, that the Attorney Geif
eral feels wrathful towards the acting
Governor, (Powers@ and that he intend.
to come before the public with terrific
exposure Of crimes committed by that
officer. We have held this somewhat
startling intelligence in abeyance. But
now the injunction Of secrecy is removed.
/ Josh himself has declared his intention
to the editor OF the MERRIAM Gazette,
and the editor has published it, as fol
( lows: Judge Morris IS matching a salty
9 thunder5olt, to hurl at the head Of the
/" Acting Governor. # he knocks him
" into everlasting tits, we don't propose
q to cry about it. Look out for guberna-
q torial fur"
Now, we hope public expectation will
not be held longer on tip-toe. II has been
given out that the legal adviser of the
Governor i in possession Of facts which
are important to the public, showing
that he has abused his trust, and com
mitted crimes disgracef1l to the office he
IS filing.
As it came to us, the report Is that the
Attorney General deIers launching his
=" thunderbolt until the pressure Of the
Subsidy scandal IS lifted from bis own
shoulders. But this is not Il sufficient
reason. The fact that bis own conduct
Is undergoing investigation furnishes no
ground for Withholding information from
the public to which they have right.
Moreover, it is equivalent 10 an indefi-
mite postponemeUt Of the business. The
action of the Committee, IN consequence
Of the absence Of material witnesses, is
slow, and as the investigation proceeds,
it is likely they viii find that the Scandal
ramihes into several channels, each one
Of which should be explored and exposed
and then viii come the publication Of
the testimony, through the press, and
its appeals to the people, who, after all,
are the real tribunal to sit in judgment
on the case. The probabilities are that
Josh VIII get rid Of this Subsidy affair,
when the Ethiopian changes his skin and
the leopard his spots, At all events, it
must not stand in the way Of the revela-
tions concerning the Executive of the
State, which have been more than insin-
uated Inasmuch as the declaration of
the Attorney General has been open
enough to get into the newspapers, and
to awaken suspicious Of the most dam
aging character in regard to the conduct
of the Governor, Considering they have
emanated from a person associated with
him in the State administration and pos
sessing unequaled opportunities of in
formation touching the matters whereof
he speaks,) there can be no reason for
delay in the publication of the facts.
If the Legislature is the true sentinel
of the people it processes to be, it will not
await the tardy action Of the Attorney
General, but will proceed to institute "A
thorough investigation, and will place
that officer himself on the witness stand. !
Nor can the acting Governor himself re-
main silent under the accusation and |
the threat Of exposure which have been
made in quarters entitled to his notice,
and which he can no longer ignore.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20
= Fac Orgies ara the Executive Man
sion.

The account Of the social equality
carnival mt the Executive Mansion in our
last, created, as might have been sup
posed no little sensation, from the extra
ordinary scenes therein depicted but we
are assured that it barely did justice to
the occasion that the orgies were even
more beastiy and disgusting than the
public would have inferred. The up
roar was Internal. The lonely hours of
nightwere made hideous The Governor.
1t is said, being the master Of ceremonies
led the dance with n partner Of the oppo-
site race and others initiating his exam
pie, whirled through the giddy mazes of
the dance and chased the hours with
flying feet while high above the din rose
the music OF the "Grasshopper' and other
ribaId songs The affair was intended as
a true Interpretation of the so-called civil
rights bill, and marks new era in the
social economy Of the Mansion under the
auspices of the Bully Boy.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20
The SickSbur@ Herald.

Maj. 4. d. Banks makes his bow to
the public rs editor of the Herald He
Is journalist Of large experience, having
commenced his career at Petersburg.
Virginia, and continued il as editor OF
the Cincinnati Enquirer, in the memora-
hIe canvass Of 1860. In the late Presi-
dental election, Maj. B. served as Secre-
tary OF the National Democratic Execu-
tive Committee. His Introductory is
consistent with his past career. Mr..
Armstrong resumes his place as business
manager of the Herald.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20
EnveStigntfn- Committees.

Several important investigating COM
mittees have been appointed by the
Legislature, in edition to those hereto
fore mentioned.
\ colored member from Marshall has
introduced a searching resolution Of in
quiry into the action of the Governor in
holding up an accepted draft for 1920, 900
on which he could have realized the cur
rency, of certain parties, (Messrs. Hum
phries, Smith and Murdock, of Column
bus, } who had undertaken to liquidate
the debt to the State of the n. O., J. &
@. y. Il. Il. Co. This indulgence was
granted in direct violation of law, or
rather without authority OF law on the
subject, which had expired by limitation
The usurpation has been at cost of a
large sum to the State, and it is believed
was done to promote private specula-
ton. The transaction has a foul odor,
and ought to be thoroughly ventilated
The Governor occupies most unenvia-
bic attitude in connection with it, before
the public and full inquiry is abso-
lutely needed TO the main resolution,
the following amendment was offered |
and adopted
And by what authority he extends time
To Messrs. Mur1ocl>, Humphries and Smith.
and under what law he now proposes to
make any settlement whatever, with any
of the several railroads.
Mr. Robbins, OF Rankin, has intro
duced resolution OF inquiry concerning
the purchase Of large number of maps
by the State Superintendent of Public
Education, under a law Of the last Legis-
lature. 1t Is charged that not less than
TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS were ex-
pended in this way; and that the au-
thority granted in the law has been
grossly abused. We thought at the tine
IF its passage that it opened an avenue .
10 monstrou. abuse; and the results.
f report be true, have Justified our ap- I
orehensions. The report Of the commit
ee will show. To further the investi- {
cation, Mr.. Howe introduced an addi-
ional resolution, Which was adopted, au- 7
horizing the committee To send for per- ;
ons and papers, and empowering it to il
dminister oaths, and assigning the clerk y
f the committee on ways and means, in "
ddition to his other duties, to service l.
nth the committee. ;,
Resolutions have also passed both
iouses con the motion Of Republicans.
naking inquiry into the disposition of r' '
ne proceeds Of the Agricultural Land :, :,
Grip.
These resolutions are all timely 1t is =
) be hoped that the committees appoint =
under them viii prosecute their du- ~
es impartially and fearlessly. 1t ought a
be the rule of all parties to investi- 70
lte thoroughly, and TO repudiate every fl
hcer who has acted faithlessly to the a.
lblie and has employed the opportuni- Ca
IS of his position for private gain. No gu gu
rty, however large the majority it may no
asst, can stand up under the fearful re- n, n,
of defending and maintain ter
: an officer on whose name there is 'n'
mt of corruption.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20
An Important Insurance Ksecis.
ION

An important Insurance case was re-
Gently decided in New York in which the
following points were involved: The wife
of one Henry Dean, deceased, held a
policy in the H1tna Life Insurance Com
pany, and paid the premiums promptly
up to September 20, 1869, the dav upon
whicha premium was due, when he made
an agreement with the agent to pay one
fourth cash upon the 9th Of November
following and give three notes for bal
ance. Upon his death the company re
fused to pay the policy to his widow, on
the ground First, that no such agree
ment had been made; second, that if
made, it was after the policy had passed
for default Of payment; third, that their
agent had exceeded his authority in max
ing such agreement.
The court ruled against the company
upon the third point; and Jury, upon
the first two, rendered a verdict for the
widow for ST, 1872 IS, the amount of the
policy.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20

The Oxford Falcon says that Mr.. c.
F. Jones, the missing Snerih of LaFay-
cite, Is known To have left the country.
He had settled or accounted for the
taxes he had collected up to the first OF
January, amounting to forty odd thous-
and dollars, and the taxes he had collect
Ell since that time would amount to about
FIVE thousand dollars. which will have to
be made good by his securities. The
Falcon argues that inasmuch as he had
just paid over the forty odd thousand
dollars, he had no premeditated scheme
to steal his collections, and rhat his con-
duct IS due to q spell of dissipation, in
which he unconsciously squandered the
remainder, and then fed from the con-
sequences of his own folly.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20
The ViIesT Criminal and Monster
of the Age.
A Worse than Brute in Human Form,

A Worse than Brute IN Human Form.
EXETER, n. H., Feb. L. According to q
published statement, Evans. who has iust
been convicted of the murder of Miss Low
ering, makes the following confession:
In 1858 he stole away and killed a little
niece only five years of age, in Derry. n .
I'll. In 1861 he assaulted and cut the throat
of girl aged fourteen years, in Augusta.
Me- for which another man, accused of the
crime, died in prison. Ia 1860 he outraged
the person of Isabella Joyce, fourteen years
of age, and killed her and her brother John
a boy ef twelve years Of age. in Bussey's
woods. in West Roxbury. In 1872 June 10
he outraged The person of a woman found
dead in the woods near Fitchhurg. Mass. !.
and during the same year outra ged and mu-
tllated the person and murdered his niece
Georgiana Lowering. aged twelve wears in
NorthWood, y. H.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20
Kinds County Schools a usyver TO
- sEsGTce," by IEle Superin-
tenGenI. Capt. =. e. Tucker.
EDTTORs CLARION /:


EDTORs CLARION:
In your last issue an article appears. sign
ed Justice which the author labors hare
| to make it appear that the system of Public
Schools in Kinds county has been Il failure
/ and that the school Indebtedness of the
county $3l, ,49S
The writer Of the article is either grossly
! ignorant OF the facts. or he has wilfully and
| maiiciously attempted t. injure the public
school SVStem, and east an odium on the
| county school officers, several items OF
| expenditures are entirely incorrect.
The records will show that at the last
meeting OF the County School Board, held
| Feb. 6. the amount of $2l, ,229 of school war
rants was paid over by the County Treas
urer, aud the warrants We're Cancelled by the
/ Board, thus leaving $l0264 of outstanding
warrants, instead of $3l ,49S, as represented
/ by ''Justice.''
| The amount due the county from the State
/ about 10 be paid into the County Treasury
will still reduce the number OF outstanding
warrants TO some $4,000, and the State ap-
preparation, due in Nay of the present
wear, together with final settlement of the
| Treasurer, viii cancel the entire school in
debtednesS of the county.
Many Of the amounts disburSed, Is repre-
sented i'm the article referred to- are part
of the transaction of the year 1871, and
not those of 1872, as claimed.
As regards the collection of the dein-
quent Fotl-taXes By the sheriff, it probably
can he shown that certain deputy sheriffs
have visited during the past year, almost
every plantation in the county, and have
collected the delinquent poll-taXes due for
the past three years, and the whole amount
which has been paid into the County Treas
ury for the school fund from this source
according to the report of the County
Treasurer. will not exceed $520 10, where
a., it is generally believed. the amount
should be several thousand dollars. And
viii here add that legal proceedings have
been ins ituted against the Sheriff fer the
recovery of the school funds believed to
have been withheld.
The following summary is extracted from |
my annual report to the State Superintend- |
ent of Education, for the year 1872. This |
VIII show whether or not the public school |
system il failure in Kinds county:
Number of pupils attending
public schools in Kinds county
in 1872. ...................... 4,6oS |
Number of pupils attending pub
lie schools in the city of Jack
son ............ ....-......... 45O
Total number attending school 5.05S
Number OF schools in the county 81
Number of schools in the city of
jackson .-................ IL
Total number Of public schools los
\ lumber of months of school each
year ................ 81
Amount of tax estimated by the
School Board as necessary to
maintain schools in 1872, ion
taxable property -...-.......- mills
Amount OF tax levied for school
purposes in 1872 (On taxable
property ..-.-.-.--.- .-........-.. 3l5 mills
All of which is respectfully submitted
JOHN c. TUCKER.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20
The LasI swindling scheme.

The fundmongers who hold spurious
Southern securities issued by the bayonet
governments have devised a scheme to
secure their certain payment, and at the
same time still further to enlarge the pow
or OF Tie Federal Government and to
furnish additional pretext for meddling
in the local affairs of the reconstructed
States. 1t Is to get the General Govern
ment to assume and pay about 1925, ,000,-
600 of State Indebtedness. 1t takes the
usual form, to-wit, that the United
States shall lend It's credit, or, in other
words, indorse the bonds of these States.
which appear on the verge of bankruptcy
and reputation. Wild and improbable
as this proposition may a pear, it is said
to meet the appreciation of nearly all the
bogus Southern Representatives.
We hope the Federal Government will
spare the people of the oppressed COM
munities from any such act of generosity
as these interested schemers have devised.
In order to secure large gains they have
entered into speculations with the plum
derers whose obligations they hold, and
the best thing the government can do is
to stand aloof and let the parties inter
ested fight it out the best they are able
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20

THE JACKSON CMQUE.-Our neigh
Dor Of the Brandon Republican whose
article we have copied elsewhere has at
last learned the names Of this mysterious
and terrible order-the mention of which
seems % throw some innocent people at
stated periods into spasms. As we are
living in the midst Of its supposed haunts
and have not been able to trace the least
sign of its existence, We had pronounced
it myth--a something which existed
only in the disordered imaginations Of
the persons whom it disturbed. The
description given it by one Of these per
sons, has enabled the Republican to give
1T a local habitation and name Ii is
considerably extensive and quite respect
able.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20
Error. IN, the Fee and Salary Svs.
tenn.
From the Natchez Democrat

I
/ Some of the errors of the present system
are so glarirg that we cannot imagine why
! they should be permitted to longer continue
when the remedy Is SO easy. Take. for in
stance, the Office of Sheriff of anv populous
county. All the qualifications he needs for
office are little clerical ability and an ordi-
nary amount of energy and aptitude Il,
master forms; and yet his fees and commits
sionS will in such a county probably amount
TO from fifteen thousand to twenty thousand
dollars year, while a Judge of the Circuit
Court. who is required and supposed (though
the suppOsition IS sometime a very violent
one) TO be not only a man learned in the
law, but familiar with all legal forms and
legal and official technicalities. gets ONLY
thirty-five hundred dollars a wear. and is
we'll paid at that. The fees of the Sheriff
are taxed very often on needy litigants
His commissions absorb no small part of ALI
the taxes which are eXtorted from a people
;,ea;d;ht aetnalty groaning under the. heavy
taxes In nine cases out of ten
the Sheriff. who fills his pockets with for
tune OUT of the peoples money i'm a single
term. could not command at best a salary
of Two thousand dollars year, in any other
position he could ill And in ninpfv-ninp
cases in hundred. plenty of men could be
tourd. IN every WAY com peteut to DISCHARGE
ali the duties of the Sheriffalty infinitely /
better than the incumbent of the office dis /
charges them, who would gladly undertake /
- AOi wv 1hbhSHuu OT three thousand I
dollars a year, and consider themselves
well paid for the service at that
We only take the case of Sheriffs as an
The same might be said, in
many cases. with regard to the fees and
commissions of some of the County Clerks.
county Treasurers. Tax Assessors etc |
many OF whom, under the present system
get emoluments far exceeding what would
be just compensation for the time and labor
involved in the faithful discharge of their
duties. This is all wrong, and the people.
who pay the revenues out of which these
eeS and commissions are extracted demand
change.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20

The following are the patriots, states
men and philanthropists, all shining
lights in Radicaldom, who have been
conspicuous in the Credit Mobilier infa
my. Wilson, Vice-President elect
Colfax, Harlan, Patterson, Pomeroy,
Caldwell, Clayton, Ames, Dawes, Kelley.
Schotield, Garfield, and Bingham. Con
trasting the villainies in which these
apostles Of Radicalism have been detec-
ted, with the Tammany frauds, the
Chicago Tribune asks ''if the corruptness
"of the New York Board of Supervisors
'were sufficient to arouse the Indignation
''Of the whole people, what is to be said
''of the revelations at Washington ?
''Arithmetically, the New York robbery
''was the smaller of the two numerically
''the number engaged in it was less than
''in Credit Mobilier; and in personal
standing the Tammany jobbers were of
''the canaille, compared with the men
''who accepted shares of the spoil from
''Oakes Ames. No man can think of
'this matter without sorrow at the deem
humiliation that has overtaken the
National Legislature.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20

Kansas Pomeroy make. an unqualified
denial Of the statement that he bribed
any one to vote for him for Senator y
committee Of investigation has been an-
pointed, and the witnesses who are ez-
pectcd TO substantiate the charge have
been summoned to Washington from
Kansas.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20
And thus:

The wisdom, integrity and sagacitv of the
representative men of the party has pre-
served Mississippi from falling into the ex-
oesses which haYe dsgraced and well-nfgh
ruined some Of her sister States. have no
dou0t but thai the RUE of patriotic action
which has controlled Your labors i'm the
past, will be adhered to in the future.
The Acting Governor, being pre-emi-
nently connected with the leadership" of
hls party in Mississippi, naturally ex-
cepts this State; but if the reported
statements Of the Attorney General be
true, he had no right to make the excep-
ton, unless on the criminals rule Of de-
nying everything and confessing nothing.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20

Colfax explains that $1,000 Of the
amount Oakes Ames testifes he received
on account Of the Credit Mobilier, came
10 him in letter, as a present from an
unknown party in New York. Very
hin. Coltax il down among the dead
men. His party can't afford to shoulder
lim.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20

The Chicago Tribune, in speaking of
the present vice-president of the United
States, uses language the like OF which
has never been employed towards vice
president since the days of Aaron Burr.
1t says:
No man during this generation has been
more conclusively proven a cerruptionist
bribe-taker. liar and a perjurer, than
Schuyler Colfax. There is not a loophole of
possible escape.
We have Colfax county in Missis-
sippi. The name must be changed or
we must have a Swan or Cunningham
county to go along with it.
The weekly clarion., 1873-02-20
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1873.

The committee appointed to enquire
into the conduct Of the Governor, in the
matter Of the liquidation Of the debt Of
the New Orleans and jackson railroad to
the State, submitted report, yesterday,
severely rejecting upon him. The report
gave rise to an animated discussion,
which was pending when our paper went
II press.