The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-01-02

This i natural inquiry. Who Is the
r;ng-leader of the gang of thieves and
f1rgers who have been tampering with
Auditors Warrants on the Treasury OF
Mississippi to the tune of half million
of dollars The readers IF The Ola
RIoN are not altogether ignorant of the
antecedents of the man. The authori-
ties have been time and again invoked to
bring him to account for his many
crimes and our remonstrances have
been treated with stolid Indifference, as
they have been in many other cases OF
rascality to which We have called atten-
ton.
1t is hardly necessary to say that the
guilty career of this man swami dates
from the era of Radical reconstruction.
Before that time, he was unknown in our
State, and it is presumed that he hoated
with other driftwood from the slums and
purlieus Of the North on the earliest
wave of carpet-bag inning ration. In
1869. If we are not in error, he was en-
ploved by Ames with other knaves to
carry the elections" for the Radical
ticket; and was assigned to Newton
county, where he proved himself an
adept in the arts of villiany. On the
rule that the laborer was entitled to his
hire, when the Radicals were installed
in authority in 1870, throug the agency
of the fraudulent machinery devised by
the alien and home wreckers, Gov. AL
corn appointed Swami Circuit and Chan
Gerry Clerk of Newton county. The peo-
pie of that good county, knowing his
despicable character, were indignant at
the appointment, but were powerless to
resent it other than by the scorn which
it naturally awakened in their bosoms. =
In this office, he ran a rapid race of
crime. He issued large amounts Of
fraudulent warrants on the county treas
ury and procured the arrest and trans
pUrtation beyond the county limits OF
parties cognizant Of his crimes, on pre-
tence Of ku kluxism, to prevent them
from dealing with him and procuring his
Indictment The public will remember
that he was the chief conspirator in the
Ku Klux prosecutions which were
ins tituted against peaceable and innocent
citizens of the county, on suspicion that
they would be in his way. When finally
indicted the audacious scamp gave straw
bond in the persons of his friends
Shaughnessy and Cunningham-the fo~
mer of whom is holding the office of D..
S Marshal, and the latter is i'll prison
awaiting his trial on charges similar to
those on which Swami himself had been
at last arrested.
Among the exploits of this man, the
people of Newton will not forget his at
tempt to foist himself into the Legisla-
ture as their representative, by throwing
out the entire white vote of the county,
constituting nearly two-thirds of her vo-
ting population. The villainy was so
bare that the majority which had the
hardihood to accredit Lindsey as Re
preventative from Harrison county and
seat Gill and his confederate Hill in
place of legally elected members from
Marshall-declined to become his accom-
plice, and he was foiled in the enterprise
the first, by the way, in which he had
failed, since the beginning of his course
as a shining light of Radicalism in Mis-
sissippi He has at last been Gagged
for forging State Warrants to an indetin-
lite amount but how he has thus long
avoided arrest, or why he has been per-
mitted to enjoy immunity from the
clutches of the LAWS a mystery.