The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-20


The PiIor thinks the srepudiated- uniDn
Bank Bonds should be paid, even though
they have long since passed into the hands
of SPECTATORS. but thinks the cotton tax,
which was simply the spoliatien of the con-
quered, should not be refunded, unless IL l.
sure that the producer viii get il. How does
it look e-DemOcrat Advance.
We direct special attention 70 the inter
esting documents published below, to wit:
the act OF the Legislature authorizing the
Governor TO settle the Indebtedness OF GER
tain railroads of the State; the report of the
special committee appointed by the Legis-
lature; and the reply OF the Governor there
TO.
which will greatly damage ali concerned,
particularly those who prepared the act and
manipulated IL through the Legislature In
such haSce, and those who bought the judg-
ment vs.. the New Orleans and Jackson
Railroad.
We have carefully examined the matter.
and looked through the Journals of the
Senate and House OF Representatives of the
last Legislature, and shall present some very
interesting reading and criticism on the
subject in our next issue. The Legislature
should institute rigid investigation, and
let the responsibility tall where il properly
belongs, no matter who suffers. II Is high
time such dangerous legislation and prece-
dents fer corruption should ceaSe.-COium-
bus Press (Republican).
The Matches Democrat presses home
the inquiry relative to the squandering
of the school fund, saying:
What becomes of the money paid oy The
counties into the State Common school
Fund. appears to be really one OF those
things past finding out In one year the
amount paid into that Fand by Adams
county was nearly thirty thousand dollars.
This was from licenses, privilege taxes and
| fines, all of which, according To the school
| law. 90 to that fund. When the first distri
button of the State fund came to be made
back 20 the countits. a. required by law,
| Adams county. which had contributed thirty
! thousand dollars TO the fund. received - its
pro rata share only about six thousand dol
| lars, and that in deprecated Alcorn money.
| When we hear some wretch OF carpet
! Dagger declaring that his pride is humili-
I Ated by the stain which remains on the
| commonwealth of Mississippi on account
| of its repudiating record, we instinctively
| feel that we are not in the presence OF very
proper person--Central Star.
| A colored mem Der OF the Legislature says
| he will not vote for adjournment until he
| has made enough money 10 buy farm. II
he stays there until he gets industry to work
| il, then farewell adjOurameut-none OF us
will ever live to see it.-LeXipgton Adver-
! tiser Mrs. Vance,
| The agitation of the liability of Missis-
sippi TO pay the Union and Planters Bank
| Bonds is being seconded by the Pilot, aided
| by the Appeal. The pa3 ment of this debt
would bankrupt the State. 1t cannot, with
! interest added. amount to less than twenty
! five millions OF dollars. To pay this vast
amount would beggar every taxpayer and
! ruin every interest in the State-Pauldi8g
Messenger.
The Greenville Times has an article
vindicatory of the acting Governor, con-
Guiding with this epitaph:
This comment is dictated by what we
conceive to be simple justice toward man,
whom we realize as politically defunct-
The Corinth News endorses the follow
ing sensible suggestion of the Winona
Advance Democrat
We want ticket which is acceptable to
| the whites, and which will also not drive
away the blacks. While it is unmanly TO
| plead for help from the negro for our own
i sakes, let us not shut the door upon him
| Let our platform be broad and catholic
! enough to hold every man who desires the
public good, and just aud honest enough to
win these men to its support.
"Our Board of Supervisors were some
what astounded last Monday by being ar
rested by the Sheriff and required to give
bond for their appearance TO the ensuing
! term of the Circuit Court to answer some
/ indictment fOunu Oy tnc grand JuTy.--Fay-
cite Chronicle.
! Wonder when a convention meets to nom
| mate candidate for Governor if he will be
required to give his opinion on the location
of she Court honses in Clark and Copiab,
| also as to what he thinks of making 1t new
State to be called Jackson as well AS mis-
views on anneXing. Mobile and Buncombe,
these vexed questions are marring the hap
piness OF hundreds.-Forest Register.
It is to he hoped that the present Legis-
| lature will take some action amendatory of
| the TAX law. The time allowed is not suffi-
| cient for the farmers. many of whom do not
| get single bale of cotton to market before
! the firstsOf December. the time set tor clos
| ing the tax books.-Carthagenian
| The question is often asked is there a
Jackson clique? We don't know, but can
| hardly think there is regularly organized
| clique, but one thing we do know there are
men around Jackson who make all plat
forms and select all candidates for the State
and the people should hereafter have a say
| so in the matter themselVeS.-NeWton Led
ger.
general State election is to be held this
| fall. Will not the voters turn over new
| leaf and see to it that none but sober. capa-
| Bile and honest men receive their suffrage?
pie which governs them in their private
affairs-that of obtaining the most reliable
and efficient mel for the work to be done,
and the best possible service for the money
paid. Independent South.