The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

TREASON, sTRATEGEM AND sPoILs
into execution. Their movements haC
been secret and mysterious for some
| time
still as the breeze
But dreadful as the Storm
At last the whole plot had come t.
tight. They meditated a fearful upris
| ing-and had organized for the massacre
and plumber of the pale-faces indiscrimi
nately; but luckily, the plot had beer
discovered just in time to enable the
latter to prepare for the onslaught, and
that night the white community OF Beau
regard was in arms ready for any emer
gency. Such was the rumor.
Arriving at Beauregard, your cores
pondent FASTENED to disboard and to
make eager inquiry about the situation.
To all appearances, everything was serene.
Accosting the first person he met, he was
relieved by the information that it was a
mistake as to Beauregard, and thatall was
slumbers. Sambo, instead of being on
blood and carnage bent, was working in
the sun or doing in the shade, little
rocking the wild rumors of terrific i'm
port of which he had been the innocent
cause.
But Brookhaven, your correspondent was
informed, was the place where these things
were occurring, and so with the cry, ''all
aboard, he betook himself to the train,
and was hurried along to the real scene of
pillage and slaughter Arriving there,
the same appearance of everyday life
and conscious security, met his eyes. He
saw Hoskins' shops in the full tide of sue
cessful operation. Everybody was busy
as bees, including Sambo, who cracked
his whip merrily, and babe ben come
here-get up thar Buck'-the merchants
selling their goods as usual to customers
the railroad men at work about the
depot-and hard by Maj. Bowen, wear
ing the honors of his new office blandly
and administering justice to all who
applied, white and black, without fear,
favor or affection as a faithful Magistrate
should do. In word, if Brookhaven
was standing on the edge of yawning
catastrophe, as had been reported she
did not know it. The confagration,
whose lurid glare had lighted up the
roadway and the country round for miles,
was nothing but an ignis fatuals which re-
coded as the traveller advanced and finally
disappeared entirely. All the wild rumors
of premeditated race-war, bloodshed and
what not, were inventions of the idle and
wicked, without a particle of fact to rest
upon, unless perhaps the silly babble and
vain Boosting of some fool niger, or. more
foolish white person who had nothing else
to do.
AS the Almanac-maker warns those
who consult his oracles to ''look out for
storms about this time, so your cores
pondent would admonish the public
not to be surprised if for the next six
months there should be an epidemic of
sensational stories like the foregoing.
The less attention they pay to them, and
the more attention they give to their
business-to the gathering and prepara-
ton of their crops for market, and the
advancement of their material interests
whatever they may be, the better for all
concerned Unless all accounts of the
good condition of the growing crops, the
decided improvement of labor, the pres
ent season and the kind and peaceful
disposition of the colored people are
misrepresentation, our people have
really great cause for felicitating them
selves on prospect of better times.
Except in localities where vicious and
scheming demagogues make it their bust
its normal channel the docile and peaceful
nature of the negro, so as to use him for
the advancement of their own selfish ends,
that class of our population, are kindly
disp sed towards the whites and willing
to labor and cooperate, each in his way,
for the good of the whole. Necessarily
there are exceptions. But l speak of the
rule.
Among the places of chief note along
the line of the great thoroughfare which
runs through the centre IF our State from
North to South, and which now constitutes
the fourth in importance among the rail
roads in the United States, may be men,
toned
INCOME CITY.
Three years ago, the ground on which it
stands was comparatively a wilderness
Now it is the site of thriving industry
and oivos Tronoisa Of haoominer a oitv of