The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-20
Eettgr IRON william.
E.sr M1ss1asrppr. Aua. Il. 1874:

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| ing. There we're many good men and
pretty women pres ent. The orator of the
day was Mr.. w. j. Adams, and his speech
was in excellent taste and was. well de-
livered. He made a fine effort. Several
others made speeches. two gentlemen
| Col. Donald and Mr.. Frank Brown OF
Wayne county refused to speak, and
thereby showed more sense than any of
the volunteer orators. Some men speak
too much. fit Is in order 1 nominate
Col. Donald and Mr.. Brown for the
Legislature. They are gentlemen who
would represent the true people and the
real interests of Mississippi. 1t is re-
freshing TO know such gentlemen.
Among the many good men in East
Mississippi, there are few more genial
than Gen. j. w. O'Ferrall He is one of
our old order of men-like wine, the
older he gets, the better he gets. What
a charming family he has! The general
said: William, make my house your
home, and l did SO. Mrs. OFerrall
said the same Mr.. Adams and the
Misses Lyerly and Woolverton treated
your correspondent with much kindness.
| spent an hour very pleasantly with
Hon. Sylvanus Evans, who is an insti
tuition in East Mississippi | was glad
to see the judge in such fine health.
| met two prominent gentlemen, whom
your readers know very well, Col. f.
| L. Cooper of the Gazette and Argus, and
Capt j. d. Bustamante Col. Cooper
does not look well, and his recent course
was the subject of general comment
/ Col. c., in recent issue of the Gazette,
took occasion to animadvert, in rather
plain terms, upon the speech of one CT
the voluntary orators of the picnic.
The speaker in question is poor South
ern man, who is trying to vindicate the
wisdom and patriotism, and craftsmanship
of his fathers and is simple enough to
believe that our people, in ante beJlum
times, conducted the government wisely,
and that if their principles were applied
to our present necessities, the whole face
and substance of things would be better.
Col Cooper is a man of f'progress" and
has joined the "God and morality
party. The speaker, who uttered the
obnoxious sentiments at Enterprise,
says that he has known Col. Coop
er many years, and cannot believe that
the latter gentleman would destroy his
country remorselessly and cut loose
from all the past He says that no
consideration is sufficient to cause a
burial of the past personal friendship,
and that he condones the Gazette article |
fer the sake of the same past to which he |
referred at Enterprise.
The other gentlemen referred to is |
Capt @. d. Bustamante, the ubiquitous |
machinery man. In a letter to the Vim.
dicator, that gentleman gives the same
poor fellow, who spoke at Enterprise,
back handed slap. L am requested by
the unhappy youth, who spoke the un-
seasOnable words, to write in THE
CLARION these words: "What [ said
at Enterprise is true. What is true will |
stand. Our fathers and mothers said
what spoke is true. Blessed be the
memory Of our fathers and mothers"
The crops of Southeastern Mississippi
are fine, or were at the Grange picnic.
Higher up, the drouth has cut off the
cotton crop on the ridge lands. The
early corn is good. Money is scarcely
to be had on any terms. l am now
wanting to come to see you and CANT get
the money.
Something has happened to me that
nearly kills me with qualification. In a
business letter received some days ago
from Memphis, there was P. S. as
follows: ''Mr Jefferson Davis is present
and sends his regards to William"
Glorious man. | wish / could say all
feel and do all desire, when think of
him, the greatest and purest of living
men. He is the last of the Gathers" the
Enterprise youth was speaking about
l met, few days ago, Lieut.. John
I. Honeycutt, 1st Regiment artillery
U. 5. A. He was prepared for the
military Academy at Summerville In
stitute and graduated on the 18th of June
last from West Point, 9TH in his class,
Al. Lieut. Honeycutt is
the first Mississippian to graduate from
West Point, since the war, and has not
brought any discredit upon his State
or people. Summerville Institute has {
another old student at the military acad- l
envy, who will graduate in 1877 with ;
credit. l allude to Mr.. Jno. White of
OkOlona.
What Mr.. Jones said about schools
and examinations, in my last letter, has '
some attention, and been gen +
orally commended by all except by some
Educators" who pro-
Mr.. Jones behind the times. c
Ii Mr.. Jones had stopped them, l should \
not have felt embarrassed, but he talks f
too much. He says: e
William, you say the readers of THE
CLARION approve of what said of school
In those remarks, / did I
not finish what intended to say. The.
newspapers are to blame in this school
business. Almost every paper is full of
school advertisements, and according to fl
The papers every school published is first Y
class, able teachers, thorough instruction n
and good management, constitute the s
of each institution, far and
1ear. The truth is not one school in ten il q
conducted solely for the good of the stu
tents, but, IN many cases, to deceive d
md fascinate them, and to enrich the C,
educators" Ii the papers know this. C;
hey should learn to commend only when
hey have knowledge of what they saw Y
md really teachers are like other profes. Ct
aonal men, and must be judged by the ty
work of years. Indiscriminate newspa- il
Der putting does much more harm to the
general veal than can be counteracted b
y the individual interests they pro- ei
note" Il
Quite number of new papers have IL
tarted in our section and as times used n,
0 be, the birth of a newspaper was b,
onsidered indicative of exuberanee ard n,
prosperity; but it is now believed that as in
Dad stools and mushrooms, and other h,
ungous growth spring from the Joint W
fleet of impurities in earth and air. 40 fo