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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-03-19

The Vicksburg Times gives a semi-en-
dorsement to correspondents statement
that the passage of the pending judiciary
bill will be equivalent to the abolition
of the judicial Department Of the State
government the present incum-
bents would not accept re-appointment
at the proposed compensation, and that
none but ''nincompoops' would occupy
the bench upon such conditions. All
this may be true; but it so happens that
for the only places in the judiciary that
are to be filled at present, notwithstand-
ing the fixed impression that the salary
will be reduced, there never has been
more numerous and ravenous body of
applicants. These applicants rep
resent all grades of the legal fraternity,
from the gray haired pleader to the I'M
professional shyster. We have not the
least idea that any of them are offer
ing their services as Chancellor on con-
dition the pay is not curtailed.
By and by the time for the appoint
ment of Circuit Judges will come around.
and there will be repetition of the
same olamor whether the pay is reduced
or not In 1860 the pay of Circuit Judge
was 50, 500 Such men as J. S. Hamm,
William L. Harris, John j. Guion, j.
s. Yerger, j. NJ. Smylie, w. NJ Ham
cock, w. p. Harris, William Cothran,
and others of equal ability served on the
bench, and there was no complaint that the
compensation was inadequate. In those
days Chancery courts were held by the
Circuit Judges, but no additional eompen
sation was sttached to the service.
District Attorneys received $500 The
pay of Probate Judges ranged from s200to
5000. The latter was the outside figure.
The compensation for all these offices
was deemed ample. 1t commanded the
very best qualifications the State pos
sessedls But now the cry is raised, IRE
duce. the pay and you will destroy the
judiciary" Try the experiment, and
let us see how false these latter day
prophets are, who are so much absorb
ed in the profits. Who is, here, holding
a iudgeship that viii refuse re-appoint-
ment, if the reduction bill is passed
Ifany, speak, for him have we offended
We pause for reply. None! Then
We offended.
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Charles summer.

Not TO be singular, we must speak our
piece, with the others, about Charles
Sumner. In reviewing his career from
our stand point, we find three acts of his
life to command our praise.
His opposition tothe st. Domingo job.
His support of Horace Greeley in his
proposition to have a hand-shaking over
the bloody chasm.
His resolution to discontinue in the
army register, and no longer to place on
the regimental colors, the names of the
battles of the civil war This is the res
oluti0n
Whereas, National unity and-good will
among fellow-citizens can be assured only
through the oblivion of past differences,
and it is contrary to the usage of civilized
nations to perpetuate the memory of
civil war therefore,
Be it enacted, &c, That the names of
battles with fellow-citizens shall not be
continued in the Army Register or
placed on the regimental colors of the
United States
Most of & the tributes which have been
pronounced with trembling voice and
fearful eyes, and jangle discordantly with
the clamors which was raised over these dis
tinguishing acts of Mr.. Summer. For
the above resolution the Massachusetts
Legislature voted its censure, declaring
g that he had insulted the loyal soldiery
of the nation" For his Greeley move
ment the crowd yelled, he has gone back
on us, let us cruelty him and for his
opposition to the St. Domingo iniquity
the Administration read him out and de-
creed that he be hurled in disgrace from
the Craftsmanship of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs.
In the intensity of his feelings on the
anti-slavery issue, Summer uttered many
bitter foundations of shareholders and
never remembered that his own imme-
date ancestors who carried on the slave
trade were more responsible for the insti-
tuition of slavery than the people of the
South who found it ready made to their
hands. Nevertheless, he was an honest
champion of equality and fraternity.
Unlike many other agitators, he did not
preach Civil Rights in the Senate, and
at the hustings; and then close up him.
self in his domicile as turtle withdraws
in his shell, at the approach of the Man
and Brother and his wife and daughter.
1t is recorded of Summer that two days
before his death, he entertained colored
man from Boston at his own table; and
in the extreme moment of his struggle
with death, when human nature throws
off all disguise and displays itself as it
Is, headmonished an attendant who was
member of Congress. mot 10 let them
kill my Civil Rights bill" And thus in
his last breath he bore witness. to the. sin
cerity of what he had professed in life.
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Our clever neighbor of the Vicksburg
Times, has worked himself into white
heat of Indignation at the use of this
term by some of his contemporaries, and
their advice to the colored people to lib
crate themselves from the rule of that
class. The Times persuades itself that
the designation applies alike to all recent
settlers from the North and elsewhere.
when the intelligent editor must know
that the term is strictly applicable to the
class who have come to the South solely
to make offiee-holding a trade, to foment
strife between the races, and to use
the State governments as instruments of
plumber and corruption. The term, for
example, is no more intended to describe.
and is not any more understood to de-
scribe, such men as Col. Gordon Adam.
attorney, at Vicksburg, or Mr.. John
Humphreys, planter, of Madison, 1--WE
hope they VIII pardon the liberty we have
taken with their names1, who have set
tied in the State since the war-than the
oldest citizen within her limits.
If our Vieksburg contemporary wants
to know the tribe the designation fits.
we cannot better explain ourselves than
to cite an article which he copied recently
with loud APPRECIATION, from the New
York Times, the ablest Republican paper
in the Union. n The class was described
BY that highly respectable journal as
g white adventures who have drilled
g the ignorant negroes of South Care
:" lima, made a mockery Of government,
:" and bankrupted The State. This is |
the language which the Vicksburg Times /
endorses. Why, after setting the exam
pie Of holding up the scamps to public
scor1, does the Times object to others |
its example - Does our CO
temporary regard them in the light of his |
own dogs, to Be kicked by nobody but
himseIf3
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SENATE.
MONDAY, March lG, 1874
NOTICE OF INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

MONDAY, March lG, 1874.
NOTICE OF INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
ByMr. Cullens-
Mr.. PRESIDENT: l will Introduce a bill
to repeal an Act to prohibit the retailing OF
vnous and spirituOus aud MALI liquors la
the town OF Ellistown, in Union county,
Mississippi.
Also, bill to prohibit the retailing of
ynous and spirituous or malt liquors ia less
quantities than one gallon in the hamlet Of
Plenitude, Union county, Miss
PRES ENrATIoN or PETITIoNs.
BY MIR. Gleed-A petition from citizens of
Lowndes county, protesting against the
passage of any law Ia relation to fences; re-
ferred.
INTRODUCTION or BILLS
BY Mr. Smith OF Ionroe-An Act to pro-
vide tor the support and maintenance OF the
charita BILE institutions OF the State.
By Mr.. Bennett-An Act making it "a
penal ofiense for any person to entice away
from his employer, any hand or hands that
he may have employed as labOrer or labor
ers, and for other purpose
BY Mr.. Bennctt---Au Act to amend the
charter of the Missis- ppi Valley and ship
Island Railroad Company, approved April
Is, 1878.
by Mr.. Bennett--Au Act 90 more eff
GENTLY enforce The Insurance laws Of this
State, and for other purposes.
By Mr.. Furlong--An Act 20 authorize the
change OF deposits required from foreign
insurance com paHies DOING business in This
State, as provided Tor by section 245l, chap
ter 90 section :, of the Revised Code OF
1871.
By Mr.. Smythe--An Act entitled an Act
to legalZe the official acts of W II. Hudson,
as Clerk of the Chancery Court Of Winston
county.
By Mr.. Holloway--An Act for the relief
of Mrs Kate helms and III. >. HarklerOad,
of DeSoto county, Miss.
By Mr.. HOlloway-An Act to repeal an
Act to establish the legal and constitutional
rate of interest, approved March IL; 1873.
AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTIONS.
Resolution to amend section 8, article 4,
of the Constitution of Miss. ipp, war
taken up and passed its first readiug; yeas
n, nays z.
si-SATE BILLS.
An Act to chau-e the time 81 hoidi.g The
Chancery Court Of Chicka-aa cruuty (;
passed.
An Act to amend an Act entit led aH Act
to extend the corporate linus at the town
of .Durant; passed.
An Act to be entitled an Act toa regulate
the venue Of suits against owners OF steam
boats and other water crafts pissed.
Several other bills were considered with
out definite action.
MESSAGE FROM ms GOVERNOR.
Mr.. SPEAKER: am directed BY the Cow
ernoT to inform the Senate that he has 10
proved the following Uill:
An Act Tor the relief Of Mr.. John NJ
late Treasurer OF liipds county.
An Act for the relief of Francis Marchalk
of Claiborne county, Miss
An Act for the relief Of 3. l. Hatch of
Monroe county. an. tae1
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For the usual lessons upon the subject
Of domestic economy on our fourth page,
we have substituted in this number a
lesson with quite different moral 1t is
the recent decision of the Supreme Court
OF Mississippi in the case of Dickerson
VS.. Brown, showing how the alleged
Legitimate offspring of colored woman
became the legitimate heirs of a white
man who died intestate.
From this opinion, we learn that these
children went out in search of a father
and found him in the grave where he had
been sleeping quietly for about three
years. The decision throws the sanetity
of the marriage tie around the beastly
degradation Of concubinage, and says
with King Lear, :" let population thrive. :"
Besides this lesson, it warns the living
that while the good they do is oft inferred
with their bones, the sins they commit,
live after them. One of the peculiarities
of this novel case is the statement, which
does not appear in the decision, that
while the mother of the children bore the
relation imputed to the alleged father,
she was the lawful wife Of man of her
own race and if SO, the complexion OF
the offspring may be accounted for on
the same principle that prevailed in the
phenomenon of Jacobs ring-streaked,
spotted and speckled cattle.
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HOUSE


MONDAY, MARCH, rs. 1874.
An Act to amend the laws of It's. state in
relation 70 the sale of vinou- and -pifituous
liquors. was considered line by line, and
passed.
An Act to make an appropriation to de-
fray the expenses incurred by the sergeant
alarms of the House of Representatives
passed; yeas 81, nays 80
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
By Mr.. Smith of Tunica--An Act to trans
fer the counties of Tunica and Coahoma to
the 18th, and the counties of Tallahatchie
and LefOre to thellth Judicial District
By Mr.. TruehaEt--An Act to repeal an
Act in relation to Superintendent and
working of roads, SO far as the same relates
to Holmes county. e.. -
9 By Mr.. Tuttle-An Act to further amend
an Act TO quiet tax titles and increase the
revenue of the state, approved April 4, 1872,
and the amendment thereto, approved
April 8, 1873, to enforce more perfect sys-
tenn OF accounts with lands delinquent for
taxes, and for other purposes.
ssBy Mr.. PeytOn--An Act for the relief Of
s. 40 80 Bailey adminitoratoF,aand SEP:
Bailey, adminiSepasopS1 t@lhecsx a8a1sn Al .
PETITIONS.
Mr.. Greer presented petition from citizens
Of Neshoba county, in regard to the Super
intendent OF Education, etc.
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rl.e Iss.l. I.oEe.r cs-ssstesa Cas-.
It wa. bad ign FOR the c0I0Ted men


1t was q had sign for the colored mem
bers of the House to vote almost IN q. body
and under the Influence OF race preju-
dice for the. admission Of CeRan, the
colored claimant, to membership from
Hancock and Pearl counties. a. majority
of the Committee, through Republican
Chairman, had, after mature inyestiga-
ton. reported in favor Of Byrd, and
the testimony was ineontrovertible that he
had received a majority of the legal
votes Of the district The objections to
his election were purely technical Its
accomplishment by clear majority OF
the voters could not be denied. 10 have
thrown him out and t8pUf in a man who
as clearly received a minority OF the
votes, would have been violation of
the fundamental principles Of republican
government and usurpahon of the right
of the people to be represented by
their own choice. The colored people
who are so sensitive about their rights
cannot afford to commit an outrage upon
the rights Of Others. This proceeding
was aslittIe warrantod By the exigencies of
their party as by considerations of justice.
The eolored people are largely in the
ascendant in this State, and they hold
the Republican party, to which they be-
long, in the hollow of their hand and
there was no justification even under the
wicked code of partizan morals for the
preparation of an act as reprehensl-
BILE as this scheme Of forcing ON the peo-
pie as their Representative a person
whom they had rejected at the polls.
And while on the subject, a word to
the Conservatives who elected Mr.. Byrd,
or who managed the election will be in
season. We desire 70 remind them for
future profit, that there would have been
no pretext for this outrageous attempt TO
deprive the district of its rightful Repre-
sentative, if they themelves had complied
with the laws regulating elections. 1t
was in proof that some Of the Clerks
and one OF the Registrars, were cam
didates for office, Notwithstanding the
law is explicit in forbidding persons who
are interested in elections to have any
hand in conducting them. It was al
legged that one of the boxes (Ho5oloehit-
to-, was carried to the court house by an
unauthorized person. The harrassing
and bedevilling difficulties that have fol-
lowed, might have been avoided if the
forms as well as the spirit of the law, had
been complied with. People who are
tenacious Of their rights, should take
care to give to others no pretext for in
vadino them.
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AS practical good accomplished by
the grangers we mentioned In our last,
the reduction of the price of cotton ties
from 121 cents to cents a pound. Here
was a tangible fact accomplished undeni-
ably through the influence of the order.
They have only to carry out the enter
prise set on foot to build up rival bust
ness, to make the reduction perma-
nent
Another good they propose to achieve,
and one which will meet the approval
of al classes but the spectators, is to
collect and disseminate information in
regard to the condition of crops through
out the country, by means of a bureau
of statistics at Washington City. This
bureau, viii be in charge of D. w. Al
kin, Secretary of the State Grange of
South Carolina. Subordinate oranges
will report direct to the State Grange
all information of interest rela-
ting to the crops, and the differ
ent State Changers viii report by tele-
graph to the Statistical Bureau of the or
der at Washington. The bureau will
compile and summarize these reports
into monthly report of the crops in all
sections of the country, and viii stimuli
taneously transmit the report by tele-
graph monthly to the State Oranges.
By this means producers viii be informed
Of tae prospects and probable yield of
growing crops and viii be enabled to
project their interests from false re-
por put in circulation by designing par
ties
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8. !. r. proposing an amendn,.-..
Constitution of the State Of No. p @
passed first reading; yeas 81, navsn-.g
PEARL AND HANCOCK coUNrrRs go
ELECTION. I'm
Mr.. Haste moved that the ropts.,.
ton case Of Cowan We. Rvfd ~ t.9 st
carried, and the case recommnted 'Asa
MESSAGE FROM THE GOWNS.
Nh. SREAKER: 1 am directed b,, ~.
ernor 70 Inform tie House char M NJ ba
proved the following bills: Nai
An Act % provide tor tRuscrIbipo
records in Clarke county. 1e.1
An Act To provide for tbp su,,,....
the oducable children Of IincoI, ..'a.
tor tle year 1874. N'Nt
An Act for the reliefuf Mrs. i il q.
An Act 10 repeal an Act pntifiei' 0.s.
to amend the laws iu relation to tbe p..1 81
Supervisors and the working of ro...I. ~
counties Of Lincoln. Pike. Madi.or ~ t s.
Lawrence. CoifaX. Claiborne p,Ii''.i,liV'l s
piah, Wilkinson, Amitc. Warren "
jefferson, LOwudes aud NoxItia" u.la
ever the Governors veto Ina tIs n-
\ pril lsf, 1873 ia the Tlouscof ..lf
tiYes, April 81, 1873, SO far as fI,af g',.,ta
lates 20 NoXubec county. ls
An Act providing Tor the eIagti...
additional justice Of the peace and r5. e
in Supervisors District No. b. W.4a
county. '-l.'
a large number. oflocal bills were b...
and the House adjourned. i@"
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The LIEN Law.

We approve the bill which has passed
the Senate to repeal all agricultural
lien laws, to take effect after the first
of November next 1t will break up the
credit business to great extent, so far
as renters and other employees are con
cerned, and establish direct communi-
cation between proprietors and sup
plylnen. Nothing has tended more to
embarrass planters and to disorganize
labor than the system which this bill will
overthrow.
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An ubiquitous Bill.

The Senate by only two majority
passed bill constituting the State Off
GERS a Board for the Equalization Of
Taxes, To this junto, irresponsible and
incompetent for the duties required, it
practically delegates the sovereign power
of taxation which they are authorized to
reduce or TO increase, according to their
viii A strong protest OF Senator Steele
and others opposing it, was spread on the
journals.
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TrEepAY. AIarch IL. n

TUESDAY, March L., 1874.
INTRODUCTION or BILLS.
The following were referred:
BY Mr. Atkins An Act to aid in supply
ing lost papers and records IN the county of
Choctaw, and for other purposes, which wac
read the first time, and under suspension
of the rules vas read second time, and re-
ierred to- special committee offive, with in-
structi0us To report tomorrow.
BY Mr.. krench--An Act TO incorpOraN
the EomochittO and Old River Navigation
Drainage, LeNee and Lum Der Company.
BIZ Mr.. Eckford--An Act % amend an
Act entitled an Act to amend the charter Of
the Vicksburg, Pensacola and Ship Islana
Railroad Company, approved April lsth
1873.
BY Mr.. amTlln--An Act for the relief
of Joseph Bardwell.
BY Mr.. Eckford--An Act to amend sec-
ton 1887, Revised Code OF 1871, IN relation
TO the poor In incorporated towns.
The following was passed: -,
BY Mr.. Street--An Act for the relief "
Mrs. Rachel johnson.
coNsTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
Proposing an amendment 90 the Constltl-
ton Of the State; passed; yeas 81 nays u
SENATE BILLS.
A bill to be entitled an Act 10 extend tne
beha county passed.
HOUSE BILLS.
9sfA number or local bills were considere4
ana passed, and a number indefinitely post
The House adjourned at ~ AZ. In honor Of
st. Patrick's Day.
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New Hampshire

In the election for Governor, there was
no choice by the people, neither candi-
date having majoity of the whole. The
Legislature is Democratic by a small
majority, and viii no doubt elect Weston
Democratic) who was elected in the
same way two years ago The Philadelphia
Press (Ool.,J J.. w. Forney's Republicans
paper says Of the result:
The arrogant ''leaders" thus have an
other example of the growing indepen-
dence of voters. .....-...T This is the moral
of the New Hampshire election, and it has
an application as broad as our country, and
TO both parties.
The Boston ADVERTISE another, Re-
publican journal, remarking upon the
election !, says: ~ -
g New Hampshire marks the settled and
increasing dissatisfaction of the country
with the administration, and 1t rnar1iFssf.s
Itself IN its appointments and ii its treat
ment of the great questions of the hour.
The Changers of Wisconsin are estab-
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SGT, 254 80 $166, 254 81
CHANCELLoR's OFFICE,
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI,
OXFORD, Mss, March IL, 1874.
To His Etcet1eRcg a. Anses, GoUern0r Of Ms
sssstgpt: ss Isl -
In reply to communication Just received
from the executive office, bearing date Sd
inst, have the honor to forward your Ex-
Information in compliance with your reS-
quest: go - sd a a1s1 ~ al 1855.
L. A Chancellor. John ". WaddeI, vhoss
duties are those usually defined as belonging
learning; being chaf.1ed with ne discinIine
and police of the institution; and supervis-
ing the Instructions IN all the various de-
partments, and seeing that such instruction
- properly communicated with conducting
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Senator Carpenter, in his recent speech
in the Senate on the Louisiana trouble,
saws that there is no way under heaven
to extricate the State from the usurpations
Of Kellogg & Co., upheld by soiled-
sllirted Federal Judge, who is in collu-
sion with the usupers in open, fragrant,
corrupt violation Of the law, other than
by q new election
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Newly elected Justices of the Peace,
Clerks, and other officials, viii find this an
invai liable assistant. Price, by mail, post
age paid, $500 per copy. Apply early, as
the edition i nearly exhausted. Address,
POWER q BARKSDALE,
Iackson. Miss.
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We have the authority of the New
YORK Times for saying that if the debt Of
the State Of New York bore the same re-
lation to It's assessed valuation as that of
South Carolina, it would exceed two hun
dred and fifty millions Of dollars.
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LIST or OFFICERS, GUARDS AND hMPLoYEs
OF THE MISSISSIPPI STATE PENIrEN TIASY
AND THEIR SALARIES.
One Superintendent. salary $1,000 per an-
mum.
One Physician, salary $1,000 per annum.
One Clerk, salary $1,000 per annum,
Above officers are paid i'm warrants, all
others in United States currency.
One Sergeant OF the Guard, So per
month.
Two Night Watchmen, $50 per month.
One Turnkey, $50 per month
-Four Guards on walls, $25 per month.
One Outside Guard, S25 per month.
One Teamster, $25 per month.
One Foreman in Shoe-shop, $50 per
month.
One Foreman ia wheelrigbt and carpcn-
ter shop, $l30 per month.
One Foreman in smith shop, $50 per
month. MONS
One Foreman in paint shop, $40 per
month
one Engineer, mill, $50 per month.
One Cashier, 500 per month.
One 1ardmasJcr, acting as salesman, $50
per month.
The foregoing list embraces the perma-
nent force required within the walls and
does not include special officers required
from time to time to bring cOnvicts from
jals or for guarding convicts at labor out
side the walls of the prison.
VIM. NooNAN,
Superintendent.
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The breath was scarcely out ofthe body
Of Charles Summer, before the dema-
gogues commenced scrambling over his
place. Butler is among the number,
but It is thought that Dawes will be the
winning man.
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..TTuE OUTr

pa~ Subscribers who find "TIME OUT
stamped on the margin of their paper, are
thus notified that their subscription has ex-
pired, and that we would be pleased to have
hem renew-our invariable rule being to
discontinue unless otherwise requested.
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AFTERNOON SESSION.

MONDAY March g1e.
HOUSE BILLS.
An Act to amend section 2l8i. Rsr.
Code of 1871, In relation To exsp,,
passed; yeas 81, nays a.
An Act for the protection ofpuhlfst .m
ings in the city of Jackson passed ny I.
nays 10.
Adjourned.