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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-18
sHERIFF'S SALE.

BY virtue of Executions to me directed, I
will expose to sale OH the FIRST MONDAY in
JANUARY next, at Anderson Court House,
ONE TRACT OF LAND,
Containing 100 acres, more or less, situate in
Anderson County, bounding lands Of Chesley
Martin, Harrison Tucker, Homestead OF De-
of w. Duckworth, at the suit of G. A. Reed
and others. Purchaser to pay extra for papers.
VIM. McGUKIN, Sheriff.
Dec 9, 1873 - %
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-18
NEW FIRM.

T,IE undersigned have this day formed
partnership for the purpose of doing
General Merchandise Business, under the firm
name of TOWERS s. BROYLES. We hope
to do business in such manner that we will
continue to receive the liberal patronage here
tofore bestowed OH Sharpe Il Towers. and re-
Gently on Mr. Towers. And we say to all who
want GOOD GOODS 1T LOW PRICES to give
us call before buying.
TOWERS e. BROYLEs,
No. i Granite Row.
Nov ii, 1873 10
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05

When Senator Carpenter, of Wiscon-
sin, was in New Orleans, the people there
vainly imagined that the inequalities ex-
tended to h m would not be complete I'M
less he was invited to deliver a speech
1t is known that he abused the courtesy
in most offensive and truculent harangue
in which he assumed the province Of lee
turer to his audience, and retailed as
solemn truths the most absurd and vilest
falsehoods that he had been able to
gather up by association with the vaga-
bond enemies of Louisiana who are held
in power by federal bayonets. He ar
raigned them, on the charge, among
other crimes, of not welcoming as friends
and treating with the courtesies of social
life, the adventures who have come
among them to organize strife and to
carry on the wholesale system of robbery
by which the State has been loaded with
burdens from which redemption, except
by reputation, is utterly impossible.
1noy NGIC u ITOdIIu6Il6
to Northern people who have come to
make an honest living and to become use
full and worthy citizens. In contrast with
this harangue let us turn to the speech
of Hon. Mr.. Orth, Republican, of In
diana, in behalf of the Northern excur-
sionists, at Galveston, Texas, and see
mind that Texas is called "a white mans
State: -
1t seems to me that we have been travel
ing through Texas, for two or three days,
everywhere finding happy homes and some
thing new. At every station we find some
former constituent, some former friend, and
we have asked them how do these Texans
treat you! Do they receive you as Ameri-
can citizens? Yes" they have said, and |
proudly take the answer with pride TO my
prairie home. They receive us with open
arms; we do enjoy peace and quiet
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05
The Radical Tax.

The Montgomery (Alabama) A dverti-
ser asks each of its State exchanges to
publish for public information the sum
total of acres of land which they are ad-
vertising for sale under the system of
taxation operating in that State. The
idea is a good one; and we trust the ex-
ample will be followed in Mississippi
The present tax law devised by the
Wreekers is the most grinding and OPP
pressive her people have ever experienced.
The war tax did not compare with it in
severity. 1t EFFORTS from the plundered
people four times as much taxes on one
fourth the property, than was exacted of
them under Citizens Rule when warrants
were at par with specie. The tax in real
ity is sixteen times more thanit was when
the State government was economically
and honestly administered. Besides the
law for the collection of this tax is in
tensely rigorous. The person who is so
unfortunate as to be unable to meet its
requirements has no means of preventing
perpetual confscation of his property.
Section of the act of 1872 provides that
to each purchaser of land sold for taxes
the collector shall execute a deed con-
veying San absolute and indefeasible
''title forever, with no right of redemp-
''tion by any delinquent owner.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05
Lea ms Have Peace.

The following is the resolution of the
politico-military organization of Radicals
known as the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, fordidding the decoration of the
graves of the Confederate dead on the
day set apart for the decoration of the
graves of the federal soldiers
Resolved, That we, the members of
the executive committee of the Grand
Army of the Republic, do hereby
give notice that the 30th OF May being set
apart by the Grand Army of the Republic
as a memorial day 10 their comrades who
died i'm defense Of their country, and the
grounds of Arlington and other national
cemeteries being opened on that special day
by order of the Quartermaster General of
the army of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie for the purpose OF strewing flowers
upon and decorating the graves of the de-
ceased Union soldiers any attempt by the
friends of the rebel dead to strew flowers on
their graves toiH be regarded as an Interference
10Th the day, and toiH not be tolerated
The resolution, it viii be seen, is not
less general in its application, than it is
unmannerly and brutal in its terms.
"Any attempt" quoth these military
politicians, "by the friends of the rebel
"dead to strew flowers on their graves,
"will be regarded as an interference with
''the day, and will not he permitted. :"
Language to characterize the meanness
and unmanliness of this order, IS un-
necessary. A foe mean enough to domi-
neer over an unarmed adversary who
laid aside his weapons on pledge
that he would have an honorable peace,
is vile enough to trample on the graves of
the slain. Little reck these noble sol
diers of glorious cause of the reptile
that crawls over their dust or the base
hoof that pollutes their ashes. 1t is a
proper response of cOtemporary journal
ist to the brave resolve of these ruffians,
that the ''Grand Army is not worthy to
''laurel the graves of the Southern heroes
'fand martyrs. Their place is in the
'tcloisters of our own hearts, and their
e'names are written in lustrous characters
Sin the arch of eternal fame. We rather
''rejoice that their graves are not to be
disturbed, when those of the men who
drought such ruin to our land, are be-
''ing wreathed with the garlands of their
memorial mourning" Another cotem-
porary no less aptly remarks in effect,
that Yankeedom will never forget that
Lees ragged and halfstarved army of
fifty thousand held at bay for more than
a year, and drove back on repeated fields,
Grants superbly appointed and well-pro-
visioned army of two hundred and fifty
thousand; and that the final defeat of
the Confederate forces cost their enemies
more lives than the former brought into
the field from the beginning to the close
of the war. A people who are capable
of so mean revenge as the above reso-
luton expresses, will not add to their
fame
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05
The Farmers' Movement in the
West.

A joint council of farmers of several
counties in Iowa, was recently held, in
which they decided to hold State Con
vention to nominate State officers. The
joint council declared that:
We. the producing class, have been de-
ceived by the men to whom we have dele
gated law-making powers the past few
years, and can find nothing in them worthy
of our support. and have lost confidence in
the class of men who have generally COM
posed majority of Congress and State
Legislatures, from the fact that the aspira-
tons of the politicians generally are not to
work for the interests of the producing
classes, but for self-interest, for selfish am
bition, and place where their hands NAV
easily close over brides and blood-money !:
and we believe the time has come when the
producing classes must demand the enact
ment of such laws as will secure TO us at
least equal rights with those legalized mo-
nopolies that are now tyrannizing over us
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05

Says the Goodman Star: THE public
twill, doubtless, share our surprise at
''hearing THE CLARION call the signer
''of the Social Equality Bill Radical
''of moderate VIEWS" Of course, we
meant comparatively. We know that
the (Acting) Governor signed the nulity
known as the Civil Rights Bill and is
the sweetest singer in all Radicaldom,
but did he not refuse to get up an ova-
ton to Fred. Douglas? Is not the Vicks-
burg Times arraignlng him for refusing
tC throw open the Executive Mansion TO
an amalgamation debauch on a recent oc-
casion, and thus making amends for his
grasshopper entertainment And more
significant than all, where is the Radical
who would have selected above all Others
in the State, without reference to parti-
san considerations, so uncompromising
an anti-Radical, and with all so true a
representative of her interests as Col.
Walter, of Holly Springs, to represent
her at the meeting of Governors, at At
lanta? Let US give the devil his dues,
even it he does part his hair in the
middle.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05

Smith. Edwards & Co.. a cotton

Smith Edwards & Co., a cotton firm
at Liverpool, in a recent circular says !:
The amount of stock in Great Britain and
atloat by last circular is 237 900 bales below
last year, and prices are ID lower. These
figures seem irreconcilable with the excess
sive weakness shown here, and were it not
for the expectation of a large crop in Amer
lea next season. a rally in the autumn might
be safely predicted. If any serious acct
dent happens TO the growing crop it will
soon be found that our supplies for this
year are not excessive, and American cot
ton at 81 would appear very reasonable,
expectation of very low prices for next year
any effectual rally.
From this statement, it appears that
although prices have gone down the ac-
tual supply of our chief staple is less
than it was at the corresponding period
last year. The Liverpool factors predict
a rally of the market unless it is depressed
by evidences of a superintendent crop
the present season. These evidences our
farmers and others interested may be
assured in the continuous streams of
falsehood that will be systematically
published by interested parties from this
time until the crop is gathered.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05

The New Orleans Herald learns that
there is a movement on foot in that city
which contemplates political organiza-
ton wherein large number Of white
citizens agree to enter into a combina-
ton with representative colored citizens
on a basis Of mutual pledges of recogni-
ton Of certain demands of each class,
with a view Of efecting a union of the
honest and patriotic of both races to re-
form the State government and secure
good laws and honest administration. A
basis Of this organization, says the
Herald, must be in letter and spirit, in
fact and theory, an acceptance in its
fullest scope Of the constitutional amend
ments which obliterate all distinctions
among citizens.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05
LAW AND ORDER IN MONROE.
The People Of All Parties DE
nOuncing LawIeSsness.

A meeting of the citizens of Monroe
county, irrespective of party, was held at
Athens Miss, on Wednesday, the 2lst day
of May. 1873, for the purpose of expressing
the sentiment of the people in regard TO the
outrage perpetrated upon the bodies Of
Louis Parchman and John Long, citizens of
said county, on the night of the 9th Of May,
1873, by party of unknown persons.
On motion of Capt. j. w. Lee, General S.
j. GholsOn was called TO the chair and ). G..
Anderson appointed Secretary.
The Chairman, in a clear and positive
manner, fully explained the object Of the
meeting, after which speeches were made
by Capt Lee. Major ID. G.. Gilleylen. DR.. j.
II. Boggan, Mr.. ii. c. Terrell, Capt. Finis
II. Little. Col. A. p. Huggins and Hon.
Robert Gleed, of Lowndes county, all of
whom condemned the outrages committed.
and advocated peace and harmony between
the races.
Mr.. w ID. Walton moved that a commit
tee OF five be appointed to draft suitable
resolutions expressive of the sentiments Of
the meeu ~, and the following were APP
pointed on said committee: W. D. Walton,
chairman j. w. Lee, J. II. Anderson, +. II.
Little and III. G. Terrell, who reported the
following, which were unanimously
adopted
Resolved, Ist. That we, the people Of
Monroe county. do heartily condemn all
lawleSsness and disorder which has occurred
in our county. and we hereby pledge our
selves to be vigilant and active in bringing
all offenders TO swift and speedy justice,
irrespective of the race or color Of the of
Tenders.
Resolved, I'd. That the proceedings of this
meeting be published in the Aberdeen Elk
aminer, Jackson Pilot and CLARION.
On motion of J. a. Anderson the meeting
adjourned.
>. j. GHoLsoN, Chairman.
). G. ANDERSON, Secretary.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05
RADICAL ARRA1GNMENT OF GOV.
POWERS FOR SNUBB1NG
THE DARKIES.
Who Struck Billy Patterson, and What
Did He Do it For?
From the Vicksburg Times Republican,.
NOT A PEEP

From the Vicksburg Times Republican,.
NOT A PEEP.
The fact that the elegant apartments Of
the Governors Mansion were locked. and
the blinds securely fastened, on the occasion
of the recent pic mic, together with the abb
sence of His Excellency, has occasiOped no
little comm ent among the coIored people.
They say that it would have been very
satisfactory to many who had never before
visited the Capital, and to their friends. if
they could have been allowed Just a peeD
into the place where dwelleth the Chief
Executive of the State, for whom they east
their ballots and who is supposed to fare
sumptuously every day. at the peoples ex-
pense.
One colored friend says that while he dis
claims any desire to associate with white
Governors, or white anybody else on
terms of social equality, he does think that
the Mansion, being public property, and
being kept up at the expense of the pro-
ducers of the State, it was not unreasonable
for the people to desire to be permitted to
just look in, and view its splendor, especi-
ally when such an extraordinary affair as
was presented by grand picnic upon the
grounds belonging to the establishment
furnished so favorable an opportunity. An
other friend, who seems q little 1tDut outss
about it, says the s-Gubner mought lab stav-
ed at home. for he wouldn't hab been obliged
to dance wild anybody. 8r s
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05

SHAMEFUL.-We copy elsewhere a
correspondence purporting to have taken
place between Governor Powers and
Auditor Musgrove. This quarrel be-
tween two prominent functionaries is
simply scandalous. The attempt of
Modest Muss to make a small point
upon errors in photography and gram
mar, which, after all, may have been
mere slips Of the pen, is rather pitiful.
He has lost all the Iaurels which he ac-
CURED in a former epistolary bout with
the same antagonist. Another such a
victory and he is undone
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05

The Vicksburg Times, referring to the
immigration movement inaugurated by
Gen. Beauregard and others, in Louisi-
ana. asks what Mississippi is doing to en-
courage immigration. Why, Mr.. Times,
did not your Legislature elect Griggs,
Commissioners Of Immigration, with sal
airy and clerks hire; and appropriate
SIC, 900 for carrying out the objects of
his appointment?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05
Hon. H. M. Street 10 Return 10 the
Legislatures.
From the Prentiss Recor

From the Prentiss Recorder.
This gentleman is before the people of
Prentiss county again as a candidate for
Representative Mr.. Street has been n
member of the Legislature from this county
for several years, and that he has repre-
sented his constituency with an extraordi-
nary degree of ability every one, in a spirit
of common justice, must admit. How faith
fully and conscientionsly he has perform
ed the duties devolving upon him, and how
zealously he has guarded the interests of the
county, the people have his record by which
to determine, and believing them capable
of doing him ample justice, we feel il I'M
necessary to attempt review of his official
acts.
We viii add that the people of Prentiss
can never secure better Representa-
tivei and the whole State is interested
In his reelection.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05
Ohio Republicans Against the
Bnck-Pay steal.

The following resolution was adopted
by the Ohio Republicans, in their State
Convention:
Resolved, That we condemn without re-
serve voting for or receiving increased pay
for services already rendered, and demand
that the provisions of the late act of Con-
gress by which the salaries were increased
snail be promptly and Internationally re-
pealed.
The most surprising part of the action
of the Republicans is their adoption of a
resolution reafirming their confidence
in the integrity and wisdom of President
Grant, to whose salary the bill added
$25, 900 per annum, and without whose
signature the robbery would not have
been perpetrated.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05
ICopy of Reply.I
OFFICE AUDITOR PUBLIC ACCOUNT
JACKSON, Miss, April Is. 1873.

OFFICE AUDITOR PUBLIC ACCOUNT
JACKSON, Miss, April Is. 1873. \
To His Excellency, II. c. Powers, Governor
of Mississippi
SR-I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your favor of the twenty
third instant. and in reply would respect
fully state that l accept the offer therein
contained for the return of warrant No.
47S0, for $l0,6S2 9S, dated April 81, 1873.
You will remember That the agreement TO
which you refer was on the express con-
dition that tho State Treasurer would re-
ceive and hold the deposit, which he ut
terly refused to do; hence, neither you nor
| could comply with the agreement. And
now. adopting your eXcellency's orthogra-
ply, allow" me to say, that as specimen
of the official courtesy which should mark
the intercourse between officers OF the State
Governments your eXcellency's letter is eX-
celled only by irs merits as literary pro-
dHction. regret exceedingly to learn that
my = temerity" in one instance and my
:" extreme reluctance" in another " has" eX-
hausted your patience But Ito use your
own grammar) If they has" ! humbly ask
your pardon, and. by way of atonement,
will not again willingly refer TO the pecu-
liar means used to secure this warrant for
$l0,GS2 %, payable to your order.
| have the honor to be, very respectfully.
III. MUsGRovE,
Auditor of Public Accounts.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05
Chickens Coming Home 10 RoosI.

How times do change Strange to say,
the only opposition to arming the militia
comes from Radical sources. But yes
terday, as it were, they were bowling for
an effective militia. They first inaugu-
rated the system in the Southern States.
They made the Constitution that requires
such organizations. They passed the law
which put the Constitution into effect.
Now they want none of it. They are
very much afraid that the white company
here and the colored companies will disturb
the peace. Don't be alarmed, gentlemen,
there is no danger. 1t is not to be in
ferred that the (acting) Governor of your
own choice don't know what he is about.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05

We did not put the case of Mr.. Muir
dock and others holding conference in
Meridian stronger than the language of
the Columbus Index warranted, there
fore we have nothing to correct. We
spoke of the matter as a rumor to which
the Index had given currency, without
opinion as to its truth. 1t only remains
with Mr.. Murdoch and others implicated
to speak out. Was the meeting held +?
Are they interested in what is known as
the repudiated bonds
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05
A RADICAL SAINT.
He Re-appcars in Court, but not
this time as "a A&u-AIuN
Prosecutor.
From the Meridian Mercnry.

The notorious individual, DIR. Timer, is in
attendance, before the Circuit Court of this
county, by change of Uenue from Newton
county, under the charge of seducing a
young and ignorant girl of that county,
some time ago.
1t is said that he was called to see the girl
as ply stefan. and took advantage OF the
situation by leading her TO believe that the
means OF relief lay in "A mode known only
as Timers mode Of practice. The girl is said
to be here "A witness, ready 10 give the
court and jury detailed account of Timers
practice. She also brings other testimony,
which is now large enough to cry, at least.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05

The SENTINEL, SUMMIT. We have
received the first number of this paper,
by Mr.. II. 5. Bonney. Its tone inclines
us to think it will be decidedly anti
Radical The number before us con-
tains the particulars of the horrible MUIR
der at McComb City, of Mrs. Hall, wife
Of the book-keeper of the McComb I'm
proyement, by one Frank Moran, who
had become incensed against her hus-
band for discharging him from the ser
vice of the company.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05

The District Attorneys, Circuit and
Chaneery Clerks of the Sixth Congress
sional District, will hold Convention
at Brookhaven. on the 18th Of July, for
the purpose of deciding upon the proper
course to pursue, and If deemed neces-
sary to test the enthusiastically of the
Act ordering new election. The move
ment is a proper one.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05
The (AcfiuG) Governor sInd Audi
tor MusgrOve lake N Tilt!
BOTH PARTIES DAMAaEDll
ON. Il. Musgrove, Auditor Of PubIie e
Copy
STATE OF MIssISSIPPLl
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT..
JACKSON, Miss, April %, 1873.

Hon. IL. Musgrove, Auditor of Public Ac-
counts:
SIR called twice at your office this
evening. and failed to see yon. l saw
Judge O'Connor i'm the Treasurer's Office.
and was informed by him that you had
Withdrawn from your agreement to con-
sent TO an exchange of the forgery case
warrant for certificates. l can assure you
that this sort of temporizing is not az all To
nv liking. Your tcmerity in Issuing the
warrant in the first instance, and your eX-
IRENE reluctance in complying with my
wishes now. in "A manner TO enable me TO
carry out i'm good faith my obligation, has
exhausted my patience. do not propose
to suffer further annoyance In this matter.
therefore notify you That at my first OPP
portunity / will return to you the warrant,
and allow you to make another effort at
complying with what may be your con-
struction of the law. As | leave for my
plantation tonight, to be gone two weeks,
[ trust YOU will have your mind made up
by my return Should you require the
warrant during my absence, it is deposited
in the Treasury, and can be handed to you
by my secretary.
Respectfully yours,
II. {. POWERS, Governor.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05

The news that the ST. Martinsville
prisoners, representing the bona fde eiti-
zens of Louisiana, in whose presence the
Kellogg usurpers quailed, have been dis
charged from custody after trial before a
I. :. Commissioner, on proof that there
was no ground of complaint against them
for the violation of any law of the United
States, has had a stunning effect on the
Northern mind The witnesses on the
part of the Government were all colored,
and they invariably testified that their
race had not been disturbed in their
rights by Col DeBlanc and his COM
patriots Indeed, that they "were
8 steadfast champions of the colored
people"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-05

COLUMBUS, OHIO, May 29-Mayor Ball
Tonight issued proclamation directing the
owners OF saloons, groceries and restaurants
where IN oxicating or spirituous liquors are
sold, and where lemonade. eonfectionaries
Of pastry are sold, to hereafter deSist from
the sale OF these articles on Sunday under
heavy penalties; also ordering the police "a
enforce the ordinance which prohibits per-
sons from sporting, rioting, gambling,
bunting, fishing, or doing any manual
labor on Sunday