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Wilmington journal., 1873-07-04

This is from General Beauregard, a
Cause. To what base uses do we
come. And to-day in Southern circles
of social responsibility, and through
out the world where Caucasian blood
flows, the name of Ben. Butler should
be resounded in songs of praise. and
Judas Iscariot be considered a high
toned gentleman, before this unifier of
negro and white blood should be
treated with the courtesy that would
be meted out to the most ignorant
negro who tolls in our midst.
From the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel. |
We do not believe that the cause of
the Louisiana whites can be benefited
by the adoption of such a programme.
Violent as is the disease it cannot be
arrested by SO desperate a remedy.
Indeed, is not the remedy almost as
dangerous as the disease which it
seeks TO cure? We do not wish to be
considered as ,inimical to the colored
race either in Louisiana, in Georgia,
or any where else, for we are not.
Under the law they are citizens, and
are entitled to exercise all the rights
and enjoy all the privileges of citizens.
Justice as we'll as sound policy de-
mands that they should receive the
same treatment accorded the whites.
But any attempt Mt this time to force
social equality upon the Southern peo-
pie IS sure to result disastrOuSly to
both races. In the nature of things
it is impossible for it to terminate in
any other manner We do not believe
the more intelligent colored men
desire it. We are certain the white
people do not, and even as great Il
man rs General Beanregard cannot
sugar-coat the pill enough to make it
palatable.
From the Memrhis Appeal
The means bywhich Beauregard pro-
poses to rescue the State are degrad-
ing, and honest men will revolt at the
shame and sacrifice proposed. We
cannot now see how our friends in
Louisiana can accept such seif-abase-
ment but while Tennessee was under
the rule of the Brownlow despotism,
her people would have conspired with
the devil himself in order to secure
peace and prosperity. With the lights
| before us, We must object to the price
which Beauregard proposes to give for
a change of government. Judging
the future by the past, he will find in
| the end that after aJasement and loss
of self-respect, lie has failed OF success
and learned, when it is too late, that
honesty is the best policy, and that
fidelity to principles IS the surest road
| to victory.
Wilmington journal., 1873-07-04

FRANK IS SICK
L went up and found him with his body
rigid and this pallor of which I have
spoken; applied such restoratives as
could, and he shortly fell into pro-
found sleep for an hour; noticed
similar symptoms on various occasl
ions, in greatet '6r less aesTea; heYas,
before first let him know about bis
father, very gay, joyous boy; after
that he was at times very quiet and
there was a notable failure
Wilmington journal., 1873-07-04

Gen. Beanresai1 was once an hon
Ored General in the Coz4Ic1erate ar
mics. When Ben. Butler was 'occupy
inr New Orleans, insrrltingthe women
Of the city and having them, under his
order, spoken of as common courte-
sans, EeaAregard was i'll command OF
Confederate soldiers, and was calling
upon the women of the sSosst4l 10 aene
up their church bells, with which to
make cannon to slay the insuitess of
their sisters, and to defend their prep
erty and homes. To-day, Butler, with
all his scoundrelism, is man more to
be respected by Southern people than
the degraded ex-Confederate who has
cowed, under adverse surroundings,
aud reports, as chairman of n commit
tee il SaW ttrlanns, a system Of social
equality, that goes iaFther than Sum
,ner's civil rights bin. Hd dictates 'or
the future, himself, and calls; upon;his
feiisg~- citizens to do the same, to the
llpitiiii II a.loil s. OR people, and in the
:. ><'s d fi;eaoit,tis,l foit!, ssaae&, that by our
neonle nt "a ises3 then t. + 3. # Va s
race, color OF reng.~' ~''' ~ft9 ~ TeaA ~.
of Louisiana. Unification me-. 'fs''FF
ing one of different things. Beaure-
gard would, for the sake of harmony.
the races, and pl ice them !
on terms of perfect equality in the /
churches, theatres, on ears, and on
III cemeteries and at |
hotels, in schools and banking houses,
in the social circle and at the family |
the negro and the white man.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26
u. =. Marshall, southern DI.aric4.

Judge Robert j. Alcorn has been APP
pointed to this office, vice Captain M.
Shaughnessey, resigned. The Admins
tration could not have made a more &C
ceptable appointment to our people from
the Republican ranks. Judge Alcorn is
not an adventurer He is bona fde cit
izen of the State. He is Republican :;
but not an ultra Republican. As mem
Der of the bayonet Convention of '68, be
voted invariably against the proscriptive
measures of the extremists. In 1870,
he sided with Gov. Alcorn and the mod
crate home Republicans and Conserva-
tives in the Legislature against the car
pet-baggers and other extremists. In the
last Presidential canvass he was Liberal
Republican supporter of Mr.. Greeley,
and was Chairman of the Liberal Execu-
tive Committee. We are sure that he
has nothing to recall in the active cam
vass which he made in favor of liberalism
in that contest We understand that
resolutions censuring the Administration
for appointing him were almost unani-
mously rejected in the Republican club.
For our part, we viii say if the Admins
tration win make selections of such men
for important trusts in our State, that in
the matter of appointment it viii give
no cause of offence to right-thinking men
of either party.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26

Messrs. Britton d Moore, cotton fac
tors, New Orleans, have sent out circu-
lar contaiaing matter of special i'm
portance to cotton producers. 1t is in
reference to the quality of the article.
They say:
In view of the great quantity of low,
mixed, and especially of dusty or sandy
cOLtons received here and at other Southern
markets during the season, and their rejec-
ton by English, French and GeFman buy
ers, we take this occasion to call your spe-
cial attention TO this state of things, before
the approach OF another picking season, In
order that you may exert your influence to
remedy the evil complained of, as far as lies
in your power.
Keep in view the important fact that it is
the quality and not the quantity that gives
precedence to American cottons. The per-
lection of its growth, length and strength
of its staple and color are qualities that
make it pre-eminent to that grown by any
other country on the globe. Low and dus-
ty cottons, such as compose a large proper
ton of the crop already harvested, come di-
rectly IN competition with the product of
other countries, and cannot result other
wise than in loss to the producer.
These observations are worth cOnsid-
Grafton by the planters. Too much at
tention cannot be paid to careful hand
ling of the staple In proof of this
opinion, Messrs. Britton Il Moore have
furnished statistics showing that ten
bales of cotton, free of dirt and trash,
will bring more money to the planter
than fifteen bales carelessly prepared.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26
NOTES AND OPINION,

But We hold that it is our first duty TO or
, ganiZe, that we may more surely preserve
in the party, for the benefit of the present
and future generations. the principles OF
good and free government. Fostering that
vital principle OF liberty, the supremacy %
the voice of the people, and TO this duty We
hold that immediate political sucress Is a
secondary and subordinate consideration
Cotton Plant.
Let beat and county meetings be held In
every county in the State. and good men
selected as delegates I'm the convention - be
held at Brandon on the first "Wednesday in
August. and let that convention put before
the people clean ticket, free from any
compromise or xpediency-simply gentle
men of intelligence and honesty-we shall
not step TO inquire whether he WIS Wing
or Democrat in the past, but who Is he now.
-Tupelo Standard.
We heartily despise the person that has
not the manlIness to register and vote when
the fate OF his State is at stake, and We be-
ieve that every true man and woman in
Mississippi enLertains the same feelings,
whether they express them or noC.-EX
aniner.
For ourselves, as at present advised, we
GO not favor All anti-Radical State conVcn-
ton or State ticket. The Radicals, we
know, have a majority i'll the State, aud
whenever an issue Is presented calculated
to consolidate their entire vote, their tri-
umph is certain. They have large MAORI
ties ma,sed in eight or ten counties, and on
State vote these majorities count, whilst
in the election of county tickets through
oat the State they are not ielG outside the
counties in which they exist. Therefore,
We think The Conservatives may well seek
and hope to carry the lower branch of the
Legislature, and success here will give
curity to the State against further legisla-
tive wrongs.
Moraavnr from nraSaut inlicationS We
believe that ii there is no anJi-Radical
State ticket in the field. the Radicals them
selves will put out lickets-Ames as the
nominee of the extremists, and Powers.
n les, Pcyto or Mckee as the choice OF the
more moderate Republicans. In this event
we might make our votes useful by casting
them for the least Objectionable man.-In-
dependent South.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26

NORTHERN IsAsrurH.

From The Milwaukee -.uIH..
Tho hot weather g. producing 300 a.H-..
ing crop Of murders, sWcidra audi u.
horrible crimes. The drama Dps iu fH OPP.
street, New York city, whore % lHuNirr W
fatally assaulted with an uN by lii- brother
in-law. Next, one man stubs another .I
death Ga "a Houston street tA. SD saloon.
ana husband butchers his Wlle DOB Crosby
street in chat city. ThereupOu two WomU"
hang themselves in FittsburT, Pas; oNt
with a curtain string % door knob, ant
the other by strip OF huckskiu to ID nHiI
In a Kitchen wall. To Springfield. lll,, liF-
Tor blows brown into eternity with shol-
gllD. then felOads the weapon and wisely
sends himself after Brown. Do Hudson. M.
u IA girl Is shot by her rejected lover Near
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, a father Stays young
rake who had been on a pleasure trip with
his daughter. Aud &C rhorndiko, Mainr, O.
husband. wife and daughter arc ul found
40 urlofed ga their beds while at South
BvaustOn. lila q young man walking out BE-
shot and BY an unknown hand,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26

We publish below a very disgrac9fnl cor
TeSpondence between the Governor aud the
Auditor of this State. We are not sur
prsed that the authority of the law is, in
some eases. not respected, and the State and
its institutions held in little esteem by
many of our people when its highest fnnc-
tionaries do not possess sufficient self-re-
spect and dignity to behave themselves
with common decency.-PontotOc Intelli-
gencer.
aitor MuSgrove appear in The CLARION,
and are rather rare documents to pass be-
tween such officials. 1t is about the $4,000
warrant, for which the Governor wanted
certificates of Indebtedness, but Mus de-
clined. The letters are in bad taste.-For-
est Register.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26
EXHIBITION IN THE ARENA.
Rules for the Arena.

/ Superintendents OF Departments are
ex-oilicio Chairmen of their respective Conn
mittees but shall not be entitled 10 Ncte.
III. The animal receiving majority oi the
votes east shall be entitled 10 me prculiuil'
Ill Each premium shall be voted TOT sep
~. In case OF a tie vote, another commit
teeman shall be called in, and liis vote Shail
be confined TO the animals receiving ny
greatest number OF votes, Gnd shall De iihal'
4 Members Of Awarding Committees
shall not in any case consult until after tEe
award is made. ,,.-..
tees in Arena are not allowed, the to;hullt
tees viii see the necessity OF gre1t care ~
rendering their decisions. They are re-
ouired TO pass not only on the merits ot am
finals in competition, but also on their age
soundneSs, class, etc.
VII. When An animal Is shown IN q clis9
10 which he does not belong, the COMMITTEE
shall 50 declare, ana the Superintendent VIII
dismiss the animal from the ring, stating
the reason therefor.
Will The age OF the horse shall be COM
puted from the first day OF january OF tie
year in which he was ioaled.
IN. A Premium shall not be dlcdrded n me
animal be deemed not loorHy.
" The pedigree having been decided
upon by a committee appointed for that
purpose, the merits OF blooded stock must
be decided by form, style, size and all the
external marks of superiority la the uli-
nal.
ri. Committees are particularly request
e not To give encouragement 10 ovcr-ied
animals in the Breeding Glasses.
Xii. During the Exhibition in The Arena
no person will be allowed inside tie Ring
except Awarding Committees on duty aud
members of the Board OF Directors. THIS
rate ,gtH be Strictly tHtoyced IN all eases.
MIL Where only one animal IS entered,
the Judges will award, il it be- deemed wor-
thy; but if il is not worthy, no premium
will be awarded.
XIV. Exhibitors Of thoroughbred ami
mails are positively required to furnish The
Secretary with well writ,en or printed pcii-
grers before they can be exhibited.
XIV. Size, form, action aud endurance 20
be taken into consideration.
XVI. Awarding Committees, in pa ling
upon aged Mares In their respective classes,
will take into consideration thrir breeding
qualities.
XVII. No gao,5litg ,oW D. pcyuultea ON
ne Fair Grounds. Persons UioidtRg ms THta
tcW be erciuded from Tie grounds.
XVIII. The rules OF the Louisiana Jockey
Club are adopted for trials Of speed on Race
Track.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26
One Of the Ineligible Judicial
Officers Heard From.

We have printed in another column
the reply of Judge Chandler to the opin-
ion of the Attorney General, that the
Judicial officers appointed by Gov.
Alcorn from the Legislature are ineli-
gible. The reply is a spirited paper and
shows that its author has been touched on
a weak point, and has no liberation for
whatever threatens to come between him
and his bread and butter. If he is en-
ioying what he contracted for in his sud-
den aad violent conversion to Radicalism
after fiercely denOuncing the men in this
State who advised her people to recon
struct her local government on the terms
dictated by Congress, why should he not
be permitted to pursue unmolested the
even tenor of his way? The reply is in
teresting as showing what an office-holder
who is in that scandalous category can
say for himself
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26
Hon a. MySatt on Gov. Powers
Military Measures.

1t may be well for the Governor to pause
in his military zeal and discern in the cur
rent events and upward tendency to q
higher condition of civilization which shall
condemn as useless all such militia organi-
cations. aud sweep them away, To be num-
bered among the things that were.
To seek nomination in the Republican
Convention is laudable ambition, and the
use OF all honorable means To obtain it. COM
mendable; but to 90 cut of his way to use
the vast military appointing. power to Sc
cure additional strength against all appar-
ent necessity, seems TO be employing very
questionable means to attain the desires
end.-Senator Mygatt's letter to Vicksburg
Times.
This may all be true as to the motives
prompting the Acting Governor in his
Mygatt is a Radical The Vicksburo
Times is Radical, and we suppose these
people know what each other intend. We
can only say that if the motives imputed
to the Acting Governor by his political
brethren, be true, he deserves impeach-
ment. One thing is certain, the ''rebel
element of his military organization viii
never become subsurvient to the partisan
schemes attributed to HIM They are
prompted solely by desire to have one
side as well as the other represented in
the military forces; and to help keep the
peace. s as 4 bs#
s8 --e-~me->----
From every part Of the cotton region
there Is but one expression about the
prospect Of the growing crop; and tits Of
extreme gloom and depression in. cense-
quence of the unfavorable season. 1t is
certainly the case, in all this region.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26
DISTRICTS.

FIRsT-J. NJ. Phipps, of Lafayette; II. NJ
street, of Prentiss; A. T. Roane, of Cal
houn.
SECOND. B. Morgan. of DeSoto; +. C.
Walthall, of Grenada; Kinloch Falconer
of Marshall. afara
THIRD-Reuben o. Reynolds. of Monroe;
X. w. Williamson, of Montgomery; Robert
Mcintosh, of Chickasaw.
FoURTH-S. 8. Calhoon, of Madison; Gar
net Andrews, of YazOo; j. j. Shannon, OF
Iauderdale.
FIFIH--W. II. McCardle, OF Warren
Harris Barksdalc, of Kinds; Sylvanus Ev-
ans, of Clarke.
SIxTH-Benj. King, ST., OF Copiah; Hi
ram Cassidy, Sr., of Franklin; Z. X. May
err, of Harrison. - u. ! q
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26

Sad bereavement of Gen. Robert
Lowry.
From the Brandon Republican.

FfOm Tie Branuon RepubIlcan.
Our whole community was shocked yes
terday morning at the announcement of
the sudden death of Mrs. Mariah NJ. low
ry, wife of Gen. Robert Lowry, of this
place. She had been in bad health for
some months, but was not considered dam
gerously i'll until the day before her death.
She died from hemorrhage OF the lungs.
Her death has caat gloom over our whole
community, and is a sad blow to her de-
voted husband and orphaned children. the
youngest of whom is only about three
months old. She was NEST excellent
lady in all the relations of life, and her loss
will be severely felt, not only by her hus-
band, children and other relatives, but by
her many warm friends, and by the church
of which she was a member. The family
have the sympathy Of our entire commu-
nifty.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26

The people have, almost as unit. agreed
that, soon after the opening of Congress
tilateds and its supporters squelched. Reso-
buttons will be submitted denouncing the
authors OF that shameful scheme, an act
proposed repeating the law, and an effort
made 90 compel the restoration of the money
stolen from the tax-payers.-Springfield
lIll.) Register.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26

The proceedings of the Louisiana
movement to put down race antagonism
and prejudice in that State viii be found
in another column. It is the most sig
nifcant demonstration of the day, The
leaders Of the movement on the part OF
the whites are the most prominent and
honored citizens of the State, such men
as Messrs. Beauregard, Harry, Hays,
Chas. NJ ConIal, j. 7. Semmts, l. n
Marks, and others Of equal standing.
While persons equally prominent among
the blacks are participators and cooper
at0rs in behalf of their race. s.
There is food for reflection in these
proceedings. How times have changed
since 1867, when the question of recon
struction was first presented l. BY the
side of this platform, ex-Gov. Browns
Terry movement to establish goodwill
between the races, and ward off Carpet
bag control, which Mortified so many
people who had not the sagacity to I'M
derstand and appreciate the motives of
that far-seeing statesman, was a small
affair.
These Louisiana eitizeus, after seven
years of bitter strife, have come to the
conclusions announced in their platform.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26

Hon. B. T. KIMBRoUGH,- OF BEN-
ToN.-This able Representative is a cam
didate for reelection. The people of
Benton county were fortunate in securing
his services in the last Legislature, and
it augurs well for their welfare that he
agsFin consents to represent them He
was always at his post, vigilant and faith
full, and terror to rings and eorruP-
tiopIsts.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26

The Kosciusko Republican, prints an
article, written by j. S. Morris, as edi-
torial, in reply To our statanenethat the
| . Investigations of the committee APP
pointed to report on the Subsidy Scan-
q dial proved W. D. Mann of the ex-
q p!otle,i Mobile and Northwestern Rail
q road schemc) 10 be 4 corruptionist Of
:" the deepest dye" We lave nothing
to do with the irrelevant portions of the
article as to Mann's antecedents, and wfll
confine ourselves to The main issue pre-
sented by the writer, in yindieation of
Mann, as follows:
For our part, that Is, j 5. Morris, the
writer in the Republican, We think that
the so-called Report on the Subsidy Sean
dal, did not prove there was any corruption
in the action OF Col. Mann. TIE
CLARION cannot, and could not, if its edi-
tors life depended on if, show one word of
proof taken by that committee OF virtuous
investigation. that In any way duplicates,
or casts suspicion on Col. Mann We
challenge The CLARION to make the at
tempt.-Central Republican.
AT the risk of reviving a subject which
had been we'll nigh exhausted in our col
umns, we will answer the challenge" by
quoting the following extract from the
testimony accompanying the Report and
submitted to the Legislature as a part of
it, by the Investigating Committee We
will preface these documents by stating
that a motion was pending in the Legis-
lature to repeal the $4,000 Subsidy Act of
which the said Mann was the author.
That this resolution to repeal was refer
red to the Railroad Committee. That
the railroad Committee, at the instance of
Mann, acho didn't ocant the lar repealed.
applied to the Attorney General for has Off
ciaL opinion touching The rights ,chieh lad
already accrued to the Railroads that had
commenced operations anlGer Il. What
followed is here recorded:
JACKSON, Miss. Jan 9, 1872
Hon. j. - Morris, Attorney General:
DEAR SIR: L am directed bV the Uonsa
Railroad Committee to ask your opinion i'm
relation to the consttutionality OF an oct
entitled an act to encourage internal i'm
provements in the State of MiSsissinDi. and
the ability of the Legislature to repeal the
same. Very respectfully,
o. Z. FRENCH Chm.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26

In reference to the imposing funeral
ceremonies Of J. L. Orr, gotten up by
the Administration, the N. Y. World
observes:
Great effort is making by General Grant
and his friends i'm this city to give prOmi-
hence to the obsequies of James l.. Orr,
lately our Minister to Rassia, formerly
Governor OF South Carolina, previously a
leader in secession.
The southern people can never feel hon
ored by honors to one who, in their opinion.
helped betray South Carolina Into the
hands of her black and white oppressors,
and who accepted plac- and profit from the
usurper of Louisiana.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26

The Columbus Press (RadicaD says
% Ames and his friends are after Office, "
9 Dothing but Office" We would like to
know if the remark does not apply to the
whole tribe Of adventures, and scala
wags, too, for that matter.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26

The Vicksbnrg Times (Rad. charges
that Acting Governor Powers, l.. viola
ton of his pledge to Senator Settle
{ Rad. J not to organize and arm a mi
litia company in Monroe, has proceeded
to do that very thing. What is to be
thought of a party whose chief execu-
tive officer pays so little attention to his
own word of honor?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26
MISSISSIPPI STATE FAIR.

The Fifth Annual Exhibition OF the MIS-
sissippi State Fair Association will be heiu
at jackson. commencing on tie secoh"
Monday IN October next. The following
is a partial list of the premiums offered
PROGRAMME.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-26

MORRIS REPLY TO CHANDLER.-The
Vicksburg Times of yesterday, contains
a reply of the Attorney General to the
letter of Judge Chandler which We this
day publish. The reply will appear in
our next issue. e@s