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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

MIN h-lt7 'l iNN '..
Jtcksou--C. r. Norris y.
Green Tapley, Nelson Potter '''.
Tho-. Wcycr. Frank walker
Forest Hill Ciub-Alirrd -IfIh.
Byram--1. y. johnson.
Terry w. n. Smith.
Emmvt Davis. 4. ht.N.f
Slarkty, Go. Lurkeft
RAY moud--kohert Carter.
October l3 1873.
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THURSDAY, = OCTOBER Is, 1873.
Conservative Ant:-Radical Nominations
fer the Legislature.
SENATE.

Ist District-Perry, Green, jackson. Han
cock. Harrison, Pearl and Marion counties
y. r Carer.
sth District-Covington. Jones, Smith.
Simpson and Wayne Counties-T. l.. Men
OK Hhail.
9rh District-Scott, Newton ard Jasper
IT. 3. Graham.
- Distlict-Winston and Choctaw-
s. W. Smyrh.
- District-Chickasaw and Monroe
J. T. Griffin.
ed District-Alcorn, Tishomingo and
Preutiss-J. NJ. Stone.
27;h Distrlct-Pontotoc and lafayette
John A. Mcneil.
3Ist District-CaTroll, Montgomery. and
L. 1iore--Simpson PARKS.
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The Pilot publishes with loud
under the head A." Democrats ,aa
for Ames, a letter from Gen.
Chalmers, an Original secession ID
crat, declaring his intention 20 W
the Massachusetts man, which
Chalmers has "a right unquet
far as we are concerned, 90 ia
what now becomes of Pilots a
song that the Acknowledgements
Democratic trick z
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More about Ames and his Crew

The villainy known as the Pearl
River Navigation Company" has been
again and again exposed in our columns.
The letter of Gen. Lowry 10 Gov. Pow
ers, appealing to him to arrest the game
the sharpers we're practicing with bold
hand, cannot have escaped the minds of
the public. Nor has it been overlooked
that all these appeals fell upon dull and
unwilling ears. And now comes the
Vicksburg Times, q Republican news
paper, with its response and denuncia-
ton of the enormity. May we not hope
that it will succeed in arousing the atten-
ton of the public, and convincing the
people that it will not do to trust the adj
venturers who have been guilty Of crimes
like this with the management of their
State Government for the next four
years? The Times proves that the State
has been diddled out of upwards of $780,
900 by the pearl River Navigation
sharpers. Their only safety is in send
ing the ''boat" with the entire TO the low
est deep.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

Butler acknowledges by his commune
cation in the Pilot that he wrote the let
ter Of inquiry about the so-called q debt
of Mississippi. His explanation is rather
thin.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

The Constitutional Convention OF
Michigan has declined to admit the eli.
gibility of women to any public Office
whatever, excluding them even from the
school boards.
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Let every member of the Legislature,
whether he be Republican or Conserva-
tive, who would save the State from the
clutches Of the Ames clan, be at his post
when The Legislature meets on the ooh
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If the banks have suspended payment
of their liabilities, and thus depressed the
money market in consequence of their
unwillingness to sacrifice their railroad
and other securities, is 1t right to expect
planters who are innocent of these 6nan-
cial troubles to sacrifice their cotton by
forcing it on an inactive MARKET
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Hon. George C. Mckee, NJ c., of this
District, has been on our streets the pre-
sent week. 1t is little strange that this
able and most successful of Republican
speakers is performing no part in the
Ames programme. He is silent. A re-
port from the SeashOre represented him
"sick." Aye, rcry sick. The dose was
rather too heavy for his digestion. He
takes no stock in the Addlepate concern.
GO TO YOUR COUNTY SEAT
AND REGISTER.
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The first business Of the Legislature
will be to pass an act amendatory of eN.
isting laws divesting them Of ambiguity;
postponing the elections until 1874, and
carrying out the Constitutional require
ment that they shall be held biennially
a measure of that sort,
will be acclaimed by all right-thinklng
peoDle.
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You must get your registration papers

The Pilot is exhausting the vocabulary
of epithets against its Governor and the
Attorney General, and yet it il not salts
fed because we do not constantly pelt
them in the same way. We have retired
in disgust. The Pilot has spoiIt the game.
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1t seems that Anticipates managers
kept him on the stand at Vicksburs Mon
day night three mortal hours with forty
minutes superadded, going through the
mummery and motions Of a speech. Was
ever so much nonsense babbled 7 Was
ever so stupid farce performed ?
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Our Seashore exchanges all pay warm
tributes to the memory of the late Hon.
J. j. Seal, Senator from the Seashore
District, who was killed in an ARRAY on
the 4th, by Mr. G, w. Maynard.
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The Prairie. News is very much mis-
taken if it supposes that The CLARION
sis jubilant' over the failure of anv
county TO vote. But the News NAV set
US down as decidedly ''jubilant" when
the Legislature shall have provided what.
ever laws may be necessary to execute the
clause of the Constitution requiring that
elections shall not be held more than
once every two years. To our mind they
are clear now; but let them be made so
plain that the wayfaring man, though a
fool, cannot mistake. This thing of ex-
hausting the patience and time and mon
ey of the people By vexatious election
contests every year, to give employment
to set of impecunious adventures, is
an intolerable hardship.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

Advise your neighbor to go to the polls
on election day, and provide means for
him to go il he has no conveyance of his
ouu
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

The coming cotton crop is et.m
be worth two hundred and a.r
lion dollars at least, and tho .-aa.
duce crop of tho west, 10 ba s..
Europe, is worth three hundred
lnIInr--
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The Head Of the Ames E~ec"iiVe
Committee.

The public must not think that the
High Priest of the Ames party is here
because his name appears from time IL
time in the Pilot in his official capacity.
The truth is, he left these parts three
weeks ago, ostensibly for Washington, to
be absent eight days, to fix up the small
matter of his defalcation on account OF
colored soldiers bounty Rumor says
he has not reached there yet, and the
Ames crew are in state of semi-orphan-
age. There is lamentation and great
mourning among them because their
leader is not. Besides, the u. S. Dis-
trict Attorney is said to have important
business with him.
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The Aberdeen Examiner says that
Senator Alcorn addressed on Saturday
the largest audience that has assembled
in that city since the campaign opened.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

For spicy reading see Gov. Alcorn's
philippe against the Ames gang. in his
speech at Meri liam. It is the double con-
contracted essence of bitterness.
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We learn from letter in the Pilot
that both the regular Republican nomi-
nees in Rankin county have declared FOR
the Alcorn ticket.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

Gov. Powers spoke in Macon on the
Sd. The meeting, by formal resolution,
endorsed his course on the Election
question.
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II is supposed that numbers Of Repub-
licans who have accepted the Addlepate
ticket from conviction Of party duty,
and moi because they have believed it fit
to have been nominated, will gladly en-
brace the opportunity Of securing new
nominations by postponing the election
until next fall. They well know that
such another combination will never be
formed again as long as the world stands.
The ticket is an unapproachable monster
which can never have its parallel
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The Liberal Republicans Of New York
have held a separate convention and adopt
ed platform condemning the back pay
action of Congress, expressing regret that
the President sanctioned it, and charg-
ing the responsibility for the passage of
the bill upon the Republican party. The
principles enunciated at Cincinnati are
reafirmed. 1t is also declared that the
Republican party is responsible for the
present disordered condition Of financial
affairs, which, in the opinion of the Con
vention, can only be restored 70 nor
NAL standard by the speedy resumption
of specie payments.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

The East Mississippian states that
there is what is called q ''bolting" wing
of the Republicans in Kemper.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

We are glad t3 hear that Oaa y
Smith has been elected principal
Paulding ms itute.
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The colored Republicans of Sew
State have rejected proposition
band their separate political ueaH
and Join the Republicans.
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Gen. Anies asserts now, ln ever
he makes. that he Is as inuen , TrE
Mississippi a. Louis Dent .ifIf %
true. He Is just about as mucIn tl.isr CT
Dent was, but not more soI an 1850 D.N
ofJust about DEUS calipFr'T-NN'
ocrat.
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If you have become of age since last
election, don't fail to register.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

See that your neighbor has horse "a
ride to your county seat to register.
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THE AMES CREW
The Chairman of their Executive
Conn fl1ee.

\ late Natchez Democrat publishes the
following document from the War De-
partment, which We will place by the side
of the others heretofore produced, estab-
fishing in their true light the character
of the men who are to constitute the
Ames Regime, should the curse Of such
an administration be in reserve for Mis-
sissippi. O. G. French, it will be re-
membcred, is the official head of the
4Ames faction. This letter of Gen. r.
NJ. Vincent, a. \. e., is addressed to
Rev. J. c. Waters, Pastor of the Colored
Methodist Church in Natchez:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

II you have lost your registration GER
Efeate, don't fail to get new one.
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II We are to Judge by thc aaa
of the Pilot, there are two dis.ua
Of Republicans, the blockhead.
scented by Ames and Che oreha
presented by Alcorn. Its eviln
The sore-heads are getting tte
hand.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

Nj DEAR AME- f.:

VI y
/ saw with surprise some handle made
against you Of letter from me asking
your Governor for the amount of the public
debt OF Mississippi. Having occ aston 10
make an examination of the statistics of
the public debt of the several states, to
learn the total indebtedness OF the country
and Gnding no compilation OF the debt in
printed form since 1870, / addressed "A cir.
cular letter TO every Governor ia the L nj ed
States in the same terms that | did to the
Governor OF Mississippi, and have received
from most OF them courteous answers, send
debts.
1t Is amusing. it NOT amazing, 10 see how
an Innocent and, as l supposed. commend
able desire to obtain informatiO ion To guide
my action rs q public man, can be made "a
vehicle al electiOncering SANDER and folly
! am. yours truly.
Is. r. BUTLEK.
Hon. A. AMEs, Jackson, Miss.
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Go to the polls on election day any how :;
if there is no voting going on, you can
meet your neighbors, have a friendly
talk, and go home without losing much
fime
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

The Pilot badly mixes its report OF the
proposed Alcorn.Ames meeting at NiclSs-
burg. 1t says there was "no joint dis
cussion," nevertheless Games met Alcon
and demolished him ;" that Aicorn Ie-
fused to debate, and yet that Warner
Ames' Committeeman, addressed note
to Alcorn stating that there could I've no
debate; that Alcorn backed out, never
theless he was AT the place of speaking
promptly on time and did speak Ames
did not put in an appearance until 5n hour
or two after the time appointed. lie
spoke to a separate meeting at night, and
cut of all opportunity of reply from his
competitor by occupying the stand three
hours and forty minutes! IF any sane
mind can draw from these facts any
other conclusion than that AddIepate
fed the track we Will give il 40.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.,
ADJCTANT Generals OFFICE
WASHINGTON, u. {, April ), 1871

W H. - ApTil D, 1cf0-y
j. c. Waters, Elder Methodist Church.
NatcheZ. Miss:
SIR: Referring to your letter OF the 18th
ult, have to inform you til 1T funds in pay
menL of the claim for bounty, DC, of Allen
Givipgs, late private ia Company q, 10th
United States Colored Troops, are shown
By the records of the late Bureau Z. +. and
A. l.. to have been sent, on June 10, 1871, TO
o. c. French, then Agent of said Bureau at
Natchez, who, it is believed, still has the
same aud other similar funds Is his posses
sion.
His case has been presented To the proper
officer of the government, with the view to
his prosecution and the recovery of the
amount of his (French'>) defalcation.
Should recovery of the amount be effect
ed. NJ easures will be taken as soon as prac-
ticable thereafter for the proper payment of
all claimants whose money Mr.. French ap-
propriated. Meanwhile no action, looking
to payment, can be taken by this Office.
Very respectfully,
THOMAS III. VINCENT.
Assistant A0jutant GeneI al.
1888, A. q. o., IF. d. }. 1873.
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Ex-President Andy johnson def.
his Presidential earnings iu Che N.
ino,oo concern OF tho christian ba..
Jay-Cooke. The bank has bar.1l
Andy is left with the bag to bold
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Only eighteen days to the election
Have you got your registration papers.
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Do not stay away from the polls on
election day because somebody hss said
there would be none. 90 and see, and if
there is any voting going on, have your
share
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If you have changed your residence
since the last election, don't Gail to re-
register.
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Batter Acknowledge that me
Wrote ahe RBOmd Letter.

My dear Ames" has published the
following letter, purporting to be from
Father-in-law Butler, acknowledging his
letter of inquiry about the Bond business.
Never has matter given rise to larger
brood of excuses than this little missive
of the Beast.
1t was forgery, gotten up TO defeat
the son-in-law's nomination. Butler new
er wrote it.
The date was forgery. 1t was writ
ten one year ago last August
The Beast wanted information from
Mississippi with which 10 make his Mas
sachusetts canvass as gubernatorial as
pirant.
Now it is wanted ''to guide his action
as public mani"
What the next explanation will be is
past finding out. That the concoctors Of
the Bond paying iniquity would have
sworn to the last that il was a forgery is
evident, il We had not nailed it by the
production of the original document.
And yet that method of getting over it is
not more false than the latest pretense
that its author was in search Of a
g guide" for his ''action as q public
man." The plain truth is. he was
in search of a guide" y the pockets
of our over-taxed people. { infor'
formation" was wanted about Inc imam
cial condition of Mississippi since the
Carpet-bag regime commenced, no man
knew better than Butler that il was to
be found in the various reports submit
ted to Congress by the Reconstruction
Committees. But they contained moth.
ing about the Repudiated Bonds, and
that was the ''guide" he was especially in
search of. He says he addressed letters
"to every Governor in the United State:
in the same terms" We know as well a.
he does that a similar inquiry was insti
tuted as TO Missouri, and, doubtless
with the same motive of specializing il
the bonds of that State, which, it will b'
remembered, were as plentifully ISSUED
az in South Carolina, under the Carpet
bag regime which ruled and ruined while
SO, 900 of her best citizens were dsfran
chised.
The Beast thinks it hard that hi, lin
nocent" attempt 10 get his fingers on tn,
purse-strings Of our people should giv'
rise to comment. He never has yet re
covered from the surprise which h,
experienced when the people of New
Orleans protested against his appropria
ton Of their silver Spoons and other valu
ables. 1t is proverbial that the THE
can't think of the halter with patience;
From the Pilot.
LOWELL. Sept. :. 1873.
! Nj DEAR AME-:
; l saw with surprise some handle mad,
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Advise your neighbor TO register.
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Hon. j. j.. Morphis inform tn B
erdeen Examiner that roa'otoo '.a "
for tho Acorn ticket
Tho Novubec county Registrar
is.paI an order for an election
.-@r+
From forty 20 fifty deaths dolly
Memphis Of yellow fever Ia.
abadug in Shreveport ior wH"
rial.
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Aid arHin

Ii il u stain upon the escutcheon Of Mis-
sissippi that atHst 5e tctpeti out before we look
the world firmly, squarcly aud honestly in
the face, or expect recognition of our claims
to front rank among the commercially
and financially trustworthy people OF the
common national firmly.
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And still again

Reputation has brought the blush of
shame to the checks of Mississippians times
without number, and there is not an honest
citizen in the State who does not in his in
most soul ssiSh the foul blot erd6icGted. we
care not what he may say To the contrary.
We can have no credit at home or abroad,
Willie this debt. lehick zee honestly 0are. re-
mains uuDaid.
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And here is the climax

The Republican party mark you, the Pr
lot calls the faction led by Ames as the Re
publican party.-EDs. CLARION THE Re-
publican party THAT is, Ames party.) Is
equal to the emergency, as it always has been
10 every call upon its wisdom and pru.
dence, and the people of Mississippi will
yet have cause to thank that party for hav-
ing 1riped or a foul and burning blot FROM an
otherwise fair and honored history.
God, in his mercy to an impoverished
and plundered people, spare them the
evil day here foreshadowedl May their
eyes never witness its coming! Let them
remember that their safeguard is in the
election Of men who are identified with
the people in interest and sympathy, and
whose character for integrity is above
susI icion. The defeat of the Ames Ring
Is public necessity.
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And still more :

roaaiRio1sS tile by which our State is known :
and Heorea speed the day when we can throw
the accusation back in the teeth Of those
who utter it, by showing clean receipt for
this obligation.
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4 "bolting' Republican ticket
been nominated in DoSolo county
posed as follows
FrancisImL MiltWIA,roa.0. IT,.
Stone fcol ,. LEGISLATOR; IhO7 NH
SheriI: Burretl Mitchell .c0'Il l.a
Clerk: j. M. Clark. Circuit l.wat
New suu. TREASURER; Nilirr EUunI.0N
Assessor. Fed Mo-r'y 'rnl. Coroner
Ranger, NJ. Lynch. surveyor
Boiling" is the order OFT IHe aa
The Republican party Of ths State W.
masses are everywhere rryoIdus a.m
the dictation Of fhe RabbIe crew.
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Remember tho election is OF TUESDAY
NOVEMBER 4th
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Mississippians stand to your guns and
be ready for the battle at the polls on the
4th of November next.
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REGISTER! REGISTERil REG.
TERI.

Hon. A. AafEs, Jackson, Miss.
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Meantime, the Pilot, the chief organ of
the Ring. had not been idle Several ar
ticles, the purport of which could not
have escaped observation, appeared in its
columns, and among the rest an editorial
on the 10Th of February Of the present
year, from which the following extracts
are taken:
That this Gcni will ultimately be paid by
tic State, proyi5.d the Republican tCtrty re-
main ia pgtrsr, th"r- cannot exist the shadow
of \ iout'.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-10-21
THE SUCCESSOR OF JUDGE BATES.

Viewing tho fact that the Judges of our Courts
! Delaware hold Office for life it is most impor.
tlnt that no mistakes should be made in theiI
selection, and the responsibility resting upon IL G
Governor, at this moment is a serious and
weighty one. We have reason for thinking that
he so regards it, and that he desires to so dis.
charge the duty Of selecting a successor to Judge
Bates, as to deserve tho approval OF good citi-
zens in all parties, and that he means to estab.
lish lis rule Of selection upon the highest ard
best grounds.
We do not venture any advice to the Cover
nor, nor even offer a suggestion beyond those
already intimated, though in this case, there is
no reason why any newspaper Of the State al
preciating the deep Importance of having able,
learned and pure judges upon the bench, should
hesitate to speak candidly to the Governor.
The matter OF party affiliations has no proper
Interference with the business in hand.
Mr.. Smithers, We think, would make very
good Chancellor, and we do not mention his
name, as the Gazette intimates, for any other
reason than that. Senator Eli Salisbury is SAID
to have declared to Senator Blyard that he
would not take the Office. Mr.. Comegys would
make an excellent incumbent Of the place Mr..
kldgely, too, is guod lawyer, and would rot
be unacceptable to the Bar or the People.
This list can, Of course. be somewhat exten.
ded, but it is undesirable here, to make the at
tempt. II the Governor will appoint any oil
these gentlemen. or enc equally suit able. be
will do well and deserve credit.