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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-05-12

! Mer,Ss, OF the Royal College OF S1rgCr.
I.0-LCn, graduate from one of the mo.l t!
| ,ue..t Colleges IA the United States. auo r
greater pEi; OF whose life has been spGai u
line hospitals o: London, Paris, Phiialsp'..,
ant elsewhere, Gaa effected SONS OF We m o.
astonishing curcs that were ever xhHN'
Many troubled with ringing ~ the NJ
and ears when asleep. great nrrv1nsr--
h"lrZ aIcrmol ri sudden sonuis, ir9sHI"i
ness, with frequent hlusnlng, attended, ~r,r
times with dcrncemsl' 81 ,ninS. weTs 49, :
Immediately.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-05-12
Z I Jus AlL va Hhs
YOUNG MN

Who hays injured themselves by ~. u. (.
p;sc,lcg INDUCED I'm whgu slonc, \ baU'
frequently learned from evil comnSnr,pr
or ~ school, the cdScts Of which are me. q!
f.It, even when asleep, ana II not cured ~
derH marriage impossible, and destroy. = -
mind and body, should apply luIusIu.t.H .
What "a pity thrt young r1su, TIE IT, {
~ bis country, tie darling Of his pareuh
should DC Gnatcnei from al prospects ~ b.
caJryc,euts OF life ~ tho c"n-sg.pcr. =
deyit.ilg from the path ~; nature glS. -
IuIging IN . certain secret hnll, 4nd.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-05-12
DIR. JOHNSTON

Especially, who lave eecl2e The vlr.g.,.
Solitary Vice, that feadin sad deelrg. -
habit which annuai!y sweep 10 IN nnrpS~.
SEaltei tSleats ard brilliant iuta'lcc!. ~
:n!Sdi ctEezT,sa Lave enuancei ~" ,
Senatss witaEhe thunder Of slaQu-n,, q
ysked to ecs;acy the the sGg!i!H5.y-c -
caIl with rlL confiden
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-06

The Senate, by majority Of two, has
decided to sustain the Administration in
setting aside the popular verdict in L Juis-
lana, and unfolding the CarpetBag
usurpation with the bayonet. There was
no test vote in the Senate on Mr.. Trum-
bulls Report to recognize the McEnery,
or Peoples government, and the oppo-
sers of the usurpation rallied on the ma
jority proposition of Mr. Carpenter Re
publican) to order new election, under
Federal control, and meantime to dis
pense with both governments until it was
settled. Five of the Committee, being a
majority, signed this Report, which sti :
matized the Kellogg government as a
usurpation, and characterized the action
of Durell, the United States Judge whose
decree Grant enforced with his bayonets,
as 81 most reprehensible, erroneous in
point of law, and wholly void for want
!" of Jurisdiction. AT the last moment
Carpenter abandoned his own PROPOSE
ton, and Alcorn and Logan, who had
signed it, lodged and it was lost. Ed
munds (Red Republican,, Hill { Repub-
lican), and Trumbull, Schurz aid
Sprague Liberal Republicans, voted
with the Democrats in favor of the Re
port. A motion to reconsider failed by
one vote.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-06
Particulars of the Murder of n
Member Of the Texas
Le2isIaGure.

From the Austin Journal, February 20.
On last evening our community was
startled by the intelligence of one of the
boldest murders and robbery which has
happened in the history of the State.
Hon. Louis Frankee, member of the
House from Fayette county, was found
weltering in his blood on the east side of
the capitol steps, between the hours of
seven and eight o'clock in the evening,
his skull fractured and thigh broken.
Senator Flanagan was the first to dis
cover that a man was lying on the pave
ment groaning, and communicated the
fact to persons in the house. Mr. N. G.
Rivers, assistant Sergeant~at-arms, went
out and recognized Mr.. Frankee, who
was leaning ON his arm. When asked
if he was robbed, he put his hand in-his
breast pocket and said he was, and that
two men did it. Other facts about his
injuries and death are related in the ex-
animation had before Judge Smith. 1t
seems that Mr.. Frankee was leaving the
house to att end a committee meeting in
the land office and stepped out on the
porch to descend, the flight of steps, and
was struck by his murderer and knocked
10 The pavement DelOW IdII OI ABOUT
ten feet, which fractured his thigh, and
then was dragged a few feet and robbed of
some two hundred and sixty dollars in
currency. The desperate character of
the deed is evident from all the circum-
stances, as it was hardly dark, and as
there are always numbers of persons in
the CAPITOL, coming and going constantly.
1t is evident the murderers had stationed
themselves on the steps to way-lay any
member who might come out, as it was
known that the Sergeant-at-arms had
been paying memD ers off, or perhaps Mr..
Frankee hadbeen specially marked, as it
is said he had shown his money in saloon
during the evening. Such deed, COM
mitted at midnight, in a dark alley in
some city, might not seem SO strange,
but to happen in the most public place,
on the very door step of the Capitol of
the State, and the victim a member of
the Legislature, will send shudder of
horror throughout the laad.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-06
Worman's Rights in Illinois.

The Courts of Illinois have given the
women everything but the ballot. Ac-
cording to Judge Blodgett's understand
ing Of the law, an Illinois wife may
enter into partnership with her hus-
band to carry on business for her separ-
ate interest, or the way is clear to join
her commercial interest with those of any
other woman's husband if she thinks his
financial ability more to her advantage
But this decision DIS only small item
to previous aggregate of well defined
rights. If at the time of marriage both
own property, every cent the husband
has becomes liable for the debts of his
wife, no matter when contracted, while
at the same time she can retain absolute
control of her own effects. Not cent
of her previous possessions, earnings, or
legacies can be drawn upon for the sup
port of their children, and nothing goes
to him when she dies though she be
worth millions. The wife cannot be pun
ished for crime committed by command
of her husband, while he can suffer for
giving the command, violating law at her
command, or by the promptings of his
own disposition; so that Adams excuse
will avail him no more than it did the
first man.
This Is carrying the principle little
too far If woman are to have their
share of the privileges of citizens of citi-
zenship, they ought to bear cor
share of its responsibilities.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-06
DOCKET SUPREME COURT OF
MISSISSIPPI.

"WEDNESDAY, Feb. &c, 1873.
$50: John H Gray VS. Mary Sumrall ct
al. Submitted.
697. Jno T Meeks VS. NJ H Whately ct al.
Submitted.
Cos. Mad II Thompson VS. John s. House.
Leave to file brief.
665. Jno b Rodgers, admir-, ct al VS. G. ]
Tulus ct al. Submitted.
720. RObt j Jordan VS. A e Foxworth,
admir-. Submitted.
72l. Joseph c Lenoire VS. Lonza A Bridges,
admir-. Submitted.
100. T ID Magee ct al VS. Jno LegOett.
admr. Submitted.
III. Belle E Majors VS. J Wortheimer.
Submitted.
500. A f Foxworth, admir-, VS. Elisha Ma
gee, ct al Submitted.
SATURDAY, March LIST.
so4; Madison Geat VS.. State of Mississip-
845. Washburn Evans VS. Peter Radcliffe.
Dismissed.
MONDAY, March 3, 1873.
s04. Madison Teat VS. State of Mississippi
pi; motion to set aside judgment over
ruled.
26Q. N E Askew VS. Mark Askew remain
525. Thos Walton VS. Sam1 Tusten; new
argument granted.
7l2. Jos phi Radgesley VS. Minta Gle; af-
firmed.
7l5. Joseph Radgesley VS. Ariana Gould
affirmed.
739. Jno Kaustzer VS. Geo Wardlaw; af-
frmed.
$50. w II Armstrong VS. w L Clayton,
admr's, &c; affirmed.
592. Jno Foxworth ct al. VS. James Y
Atkinson ct al affirmed.
sos. MAIDS. A Thompson VS. Jno S Howe
aft rmed.
$50 Jno H Gray VS. Mary Sumran ct al
$50. Hardie Stevens ct al VS. Ebert Fer
gersOn; reversed.
81. ii b Putnam ct al VS. John Malone;
affirmed.
454. John S Worley ct al VS. VIM Roche;
reversed.
SAG. John B Thrasher vs Marcus A Giles
pie; docketed.
62s; Geo w Davis VS. Margaret Harrison
submitted.
TUESDAY, March s, 1873.
73O. Augusta III Foote VS. Zera C Ford
man; submitted.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-06

The Oxford Falcon is very much mis-
taken, if it supposes that The CLARION
is in favor of ostracising any portion of
the anti-Radical party in this State on
the ground of differences which NAV
have heretofore existed We have no
dealings with the past. We assume that
every true Mississippian has been doing
the best he was able to extricate his
State from the difficulties of the trying
ordeal through which we have passed.
Our business is entirely with the future !;
and we only ask that the aim to restore
honest home rule be not defeated by an
attempt to commit the party to the re-
vival of sectional agitation and to the re-
opening of the questions settled by the
Constitutional Amendments. We don't
suppose the Falcon proposes that the
party shall embark in an undertaking of
that sort.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-06

The Congressional House Investigating
Committee reported to the Senate that
Patterson, a member of that body from
New Hampshire, had been bribed with
Credit Mobilier stock-whereupon Mr..
Morrill, Republican of Maine) from the
Senate Investigating Committee, reported
the following resolution:
Resolved, That James w. Patterson be,
and he is hereby expelled from his seat "a q
member of the Senate.
The report is very severe on members
who were implicated in the same transac-
tion-but whose guilt was not 90 clearly
established-and among the rest, Henry
Wilson, Woe Presidents elect.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-06

The Golden Age contributes an as
founding fact concerning Colfax and his
Sd 200 deposit 1t says "At the pres
eIt moment Colfax still asks for sus-
pension Of Judgment, and we are bound
TO grant it; but we happen to know that
b. is writing privately to persons in this
city or vicinity, asking them, in sus-
p.eious, and inviting, and abiect manner,
if they do not remember sending him mon
g at the time in question, so that he can
trace his damning deposit Of 81, 200 to
<omeother source than Cakes Amcs! II
the kindly earth viii refrain from opening
under the retiring Vice President, and
wlii-ot swallow him as a false swearer,
blt win once again make straight paths
for his feet, we shall feel on his account
Is fun ofuucxpectcd happiness as we now
are ofmingIed pity and scorn for his APP
puont apostasy from the ranks Of honest
men
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-06
A CLEAR CASE.

u AA44@%t A-AEg4ss
When, before the assembling of the Leg
in discussing the Ripley Rail-
road Subsidy operation of the Attorney
General and exposing the circumstances
leading to the runor that he had inter
ferred to stop the issuance Of Warrants
to the Company in order to create his
opportunity TO levy contribution upon
it, we referred to bis having given an
opinion pending the discussion of the
Subsidy question at the last session of
the Legislature substantially 10 the effect
that the law was Constitutional and that
the companies had secured rights OF which
the State could not divest them even by
its repeal--we had not the remotest sus-
picion that he had given the opinion as
Attorney General for pecuniary con-
sideration That opinion was SO
Numerically opposite to the subsequent
action Of that officer and his change of
base so marvellous, that We thought it a
link in the chain Of circumstances demon
strating that q part Of the Subsidy War
rants issued to the Ripley Railroad Com
pany had directly, or indirectly, drifted
into the office Of the Attorney General.
Rumors now represent that this service,
(of pronouncing in favor Of the validity
of the claims of the Railroads.
was bought and paid for by
Col. Mann, agent Of the Mobile &
Northwestern Railroad Company, and
that it was secured for the purpose Of in
fiuencing the action of the Legislature on
the pending measure, and TO facilitate
negotiations Of the Company in financial
circles. 1t was reasonably believed by
the agent of the Company that an in
vestment of s. for an opinion OF
the Attorney General would pay; that
coming from the law officer Of the State,
it would have an influence in preventing
repeal Of the law, and would give con-
fidence in money circles; that the State
could not and would net go back on her
pledge to appropriate $4,000 per mile &c
the railways in process of construction.
Not the least criminal feature Of the tran
saction is that the Attorney General thus
gave an opinion in the interest of the
Company, and for price prejudged a
law which he had reason to infer he
would be required to interpret under his
oath of Office.
We have said that there are grounds
for believing that the facts are pre-
cisely as we have stated. 1t is un.
questionably true Eve have a vivid re-
membrane of the fact that such letter
was read publicly, and with marked eff
feet, by the champion Of the Subsidy
policy, (Hon. o. c. French,) in the
hearing of the Legislature, last wiE4ter
and it is now known that about the
same time, the Company paid large fee to
The Attorney General. We desire to dis
claim any insinuation that the member
who used the letter to promote the pet
scheme Of his party, was apprized of its
polluted origin, or believed that it was
tainted with the price that was paid for it.
That secret may have been confined to the
bosoms of the contracting parties; but We
have stated the matter of the price as a
fact, about which we are not mistaken.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-06
From the WestViIle News.

From the WestVille News.
The redemption of the repudiated Union
Bank Bonds will. perhaps, be a prominent
feature in the next canvass.
The bonds. it Is thought, have been
bought by some prominent members of the
Radical party, who will endeavor 10 secure
their REDEEM ption, and TO accomplish that
purpose they have thousands of dollars 10
spend on the negroes and RAIDS of the State.
So, when the matter comes before the Leg
islature, we may expect small Credit Mo-
biler of our own.
If every dollar of the repudiated debt
were 10 be paid to-day, we do not believe
the original bondhOlders, who are the real
sufferers. would ever see one dollar of the
m oney, but il would go into the pockets OF
some unprncipled schemerS, who are now
so salicitous for the ''fair fame OF Mississip-
pi," and who are very DESTROYS of wiping
out the ''blot of reputation from her char
setter" With the amount of money stolen
from the state by Radical Officials, and the
sums lost ny their mismauaScment, the
payment of that claim would absolutely
bankrupt the State and make her financial
wreck forever.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-06

What was an exception in former
times, in our State, has grown to be a
rule in the era of Carpet-Bag extrava-
gance. Occasionally in very important
cases extra counsel was employed to aid
District Attorneys in the discharge of
their duties; now it has become Gus
tom. No one can censure lawyer for
taking a retainer when it is offered. It's
in the line of his profession. But the
agents of the public who employ them
to discharge a service for which others
are amply paid are culpable, and deserve
Their action argues reckless
waste of public money, or the incompe-
tency of prosecuting Attorneys. In
either case, it is an abuse which can be
easily remedied by a reform in the con-
duct of officials charged with the dis
bursement of public moneys; or by the
removal of incapable Attorneys.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-06
The Exodu. from South Carolina

1t is evident that South Carolina is
destined to become the San Domingo of
the Union, and will speedily be depopu-
lated of her white people. They see no
possible escape from complete negro dom
ination, intensified by the prejudices of
race which have been cultivated by the
alien and unfriendly white influence
which first set up its standard in that
community. In this view We have re-
peatedly argued that if the people of
Mississippi desire to increase the popula-
ton of our own State with class of
whites that will keep up the equilibrium
of power between the two races, and at
the same time add to the productive
force of the State, South Carolina pre-
sents an inviting field for the operations
of immigration societies. Our attention
has been recalled to the subject by the
following article from the Galveston
News:
"All our accounts go to show that the
white population of South Carolina is leav-
ing that State about as fast as they are able
to do so. There is scarcely steamer ar
irving from New Orleans that does not
bring some South Carolinians seeking
home in Texas. All whom we meet give us
precisely the same account of the deplora-
BILE condi ion of that negro ridden State,
and ali concur in the statement that the
white people are leaving AS fast as they
can. Already the negroes are in a very
large majority, and their supremacy in all
the departments is absolute. No white
man has any chance for Office, except
through the negro vote, and of course that
can only be obtained by favoring the ne
groes in opposition to the whites. The only
political parties are, therefore, those of the
two races; and the white persons who be-
tray their own race, and fraternize with the
negroes, are the only ones who are not suf-
fering from negro rule.
1t the white emigration from that State
continues as at present, it cannot be many
years before South Carolina will be as pure |
a negro colony as San Domingo now is.
This is the settled conviction of all whom
we meet from that unfortunate State. The |
best informed men have no hope of any
thing better"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-06

the civil disabilities Of Andrew J. Patters,r
Of P0ntotoc county.
Judiciary Committee.
Mr.. sullivan Introduced ala act for the re.
lief OF the Clerk or the Chnncery Court 6f
Bolivar coupty.
PasHed.
Mr.. Sullivan introduced an act 10 author.
iZe the Board Of Supervisors OF Bolivar
county 10 levy a special tax.
Committee on Ways and Means.
Mr. Nets introduced an act for the rslief
OF Perknsville Manufacturing Comps
Committee on Corporations.
Mr.. Higgins introduced nm act 20 amend
section 1903 Of the Devised Code oflS7I
Judiciary.
Mr.. Gayles introduced an act 10 lncorro.
rate the town Of Floreyvllle, in the county
oil Bolivar.
Corporations.
Mr. Mauss introduced an act 20 amend tbs
insurance laws of this State.
Ways and Means.
Mr.. French introduced an act suppIa.
mentary TO an act entitled au act for fEa
relief OF the Board OF School Directors of
the county Of Adams.
Passed.
Mr.. Hyer introduced an act 20 remove
the civil disabilities of Samuel W. Bonner
a minor of Marshall county.
judiciary,
Mr.. jacobs introduced an act 10 charq.
the name of Lucy Brown, aud for olhcr
purposes.
Passed.
Mir. Sessions, under suspension OF u.
rules introduced II j resolution dpducfrs
tire per diem of the mem hers Of the Ipgf..
lature and the emp luyees OF the two house.
from the adjournment OF the 22i ult. 90 Nh,
81 inst.
Dir Hill moved that the resolution De Pee
ferred To the Committee on Unfinished Bus
mess. Lost.
Mr.. French moved that the House resolve
itself into a COMMITTEES Of the whole. t1 mr-
ther consider the resolution. Carried
And after some time spent therein did
committee rose, aud through ifs chairman
Mr.. Hill, reported the resolution back Oh
the House, with am amendment, anl. d..
commend It's passage. rs amended.
Mr.. Handy. OF Copiah. moved 90 table tta
the amendment Carried.
Mr.. Howe moved 70 refer the resolution
70 the Committee ON Appropriations: HUH
on that motion demanded the pr,yiaus
question, which was sustained
Mr.. Sessions moved 20 table the last mos
ton. Lost.
And under the operation OF the prcviou.
question, the motion of Mr.. Howe prevail
ed, on the following vote:
Yeas, 10. Nays, %.
YEAs-Messrs. Allen, Andrews. Archer
Avery. Bell. Benson, Bremen, Buchanan
Bufkin. Carter, CessOr. Dixon, Evans Ffu-
rett, Fisher, French, Gil. Griggs Green
Handy, of Copiah, Handy. az Madison. IIu-
sic, Hill. Holmes Holland, Houston, liver
Howe, Jacobs, kimbrouglh lopcr, mallory.
McCawley, Nisbett, Reed, Reese Smith. of
Stewart, OF Holmes. stone, Spemau. True
hart, West. White, Wade, Walker.
NAYs-Messr-. Baker, Bolton, COr.oan.
Foley, Ford, GOar, higgins, johnson, ot
Kinds, Landers, Lowry. Maus-, Mccain.
Nets Melnnis. Gayles Mcintosh, euUa.
stewart, Of NoNubee, street, Sessions. SAVE
yer and Mr. speaker.
Report received and agreed Co.
Adjourned.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-06
VIZ. stephens i'm Congress.

Hon. Alex. H. Stephens has been cleo
ted to Congress in the Eighth district OF
Georgia without opposition. He is a
member of the next Congress. The ven
cradle Georgian will be an object of no
little interest in the capitol where he was
Familiarity known. 1t will be something
strange to see the Vice President of the
Confederacy recognized as peer of the
most eminent in the National Councils
We are gratifed that he has been cleo
ted. He does not owe the respect in
which he is held at the North among
those who fought the South, to his vilIif-
cation of her lost cause. On the contra
ry, he has published book placing its per-
feet righteousness far beyond the reach
of assailants. Mr.. Stephens, though a
Union Wing under the old classification,
styles himself "a Democrat of the
Jefersonian school, and is sometimes
called a - Bourbon" but we will again
venture the prediction that if he serves
in Congress until he is as old as Methu-
selah ne will never propose to reopen the
questions settled by the 18th, 18th and
18th Amendments, securing freedom,
and suffrage to the negro,
which together with the doctrine of the
right of local self-government, the supre-
macy of the civil over military authority
and the strict construction of the Consti-
tuition of the United States Government,
is the sum total of the Cincinnati-Ba
more platform as rule of governmental
action
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-06

Washington circles are rife with ru-
mors of another scandal. It is said that
investigation into the circumstances at
tending the passage of the Pacific Mail
steamship subsidy viii show up members
who made propositions for money and re-
ceived it, as compensation for their votes.
1t is said that Commodore Garrison has
letter from Sypher. of Louisiana, writ
ten while the scheme was pending,
wherein that Louisiana Carpetbagman
offered his own vote, together with those
of about twenty others of the same clan,
for the gross sum of thirty thousand
dollars.
The matter, it 10 said. win be investi-
gated.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-06

The Vicksburg Times says that Subsi-
dy Warrants have been offered by sher-
ifs in payment Of taxes collected, and
refused by the Auditor" which is repu-
diation. The State is dishonoring her
own drafts which are issued under law
which the Republican party rejoiced over
Is its pet measure. It was voted for by
every Radical in the Legislature and ap-
proved by Alcorn himself, tho grand
Panjoram Of The oCnsann.