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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-02-05
Letter frs m n Va roo ESIsanGrr.
YAzoo COUNTY, Jan. 80, 1874.

YAzoo COUNTY, Jan. 80, 1874.
EDIToRs CLARION: / consider THE
| CLARION one of the ablest and
most valuable papers in the State !;
too much if l were to say, in
the South Your course shows that you
fully understand the deplor BILE condition
to which the planting interest is reduced ;
that you not only understand it, but
deeply sympathize with the people, and
are doing all you can do to alleviate their
condition The State is absolutely dy-
ing, dying politically and dying mate
rally. The white children cannot spare
the time from work to go to school four
months In the year. Almost every planter
Is sinking money every year. In this
county the taxes are two and half per
cent. upon the planting capital, and in
many cases not Jue-ffth of the capital is
active, making the taxes upon the active
capital fifteen to twenty per cent. If
this is craftsmanship, it is the statesman
ship of the darkest ages of the world. and
if persisted in, will inevitably destroy
every interest in the State, and ruin every
class, rich and poor, white and black,
and reduce The Sta to III F., ignorance
ami pDv r y of NJ Xxi IN PERI. Waen
the land is s)ll for tlxes, the purchaser
must cultivate ut lie .st a portion in order
to pay them. When he commences to
cultivate, he commences to lose, and the
same process will be p tsse through and
this will be repeated until every interest
is utterly ruined until the State isdead.
When the state is dead, m my long
and weary year of wretche lness will
come an go before the angel descends to
roll aw ~ the stone from It's sepulchre.
see in your p Iper Stock Law is adj
vocated by many. Without expressing
any opinion as to the advant iges of such
law, am quite sure :hat the law should
not go into effect until the 18th of Feb.
rudry, 1875, and that the law, if passed,
should be passed many months before it
goes into effect, so that the planters NAV
have time to prepare for the change.
A PLANTER
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The Anti 0HOnOPO'isG- in Ghe Han.
Legislature.

A correspondent of the St. Louis Re
publican, describes what the Anti-Monop-
olists, who have obtained control of the
worst Radical State in the Union, intend
to do:
They will sweep the statute-book if
" they have time they will reduce taxes
g until county treasurers will starve;
" they Will tax the property of railroads
" in fair proportion with other property;
:" they will abolish biennial elections !;
" they will stop bond-voting; they will
" centrAlize State institutions, and will
institute reform and economy in all
" things which they can reach in the space
" of ffty days"
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he aaaunnfO1 Financially ama
Enthusiastically COMsIGeneA.

The second number of Truth on
the disordered condition of the South. i
printed in to-doy's paper The writer
draws vivid picture of the disease and
describes its causes. While in the main
correct, we cannot concur that it is appli-
cable to all parts of our State. In many
portions of what are known as the up
lands. the main dependence for labor Is
not the colored element. Especially in
what Is known as the Eastern or piney
woods counties, the whites constitute the
productive class. and it is a qualification
to know that although they have exPe-
rienced temporary inconvenience from
the low price of cotton and the financial
stringency the past year, and are suffer
ing the inevitable effects of high taxation,
they are comparatively prosperous As
to the negroes, as far as our knowledge
extends, they are not so nomadic as when
under the first exhilaratiDg impressions
of freedom. They were ignorant of its
real responsibilities, and believed it a
charter TO do as they pleased. These i'm
pressions were not unnatural and have to
some ext@1t been corrected by time. In
many instances they have become pro-
prietors Of homesteads and stock to till
their lands.
Still, the situation If gloomy enough.
Both races have many things to unlearn
and many more to learn. There are fun
damental reforms to be wrought, and our
correspondent wields trcuchant blade in
striking at the root of the evils.
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NOw-and Then.

Four years ago, when Gov. Alcorn was
installed, the Republican party in this
State was united and compact. He was
elected by 10000 majority. Ames was
elected by less than 10000. Now the
party is broken into fragments with no
band of union except the loaves and
fishes, which, while they attract, are
wrangled over by the cormorant-. Many
of the leaders, who were then II the hey
day of prosperity, have heen torn to
pieces by the hounds they have fed, and
are down among The dead mrn, while
the funeral procession i preparing Tor
Others
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Women EsoIdimg OGice.

The new constitution of Pennsylvania
decl ,res that women are eligible t. the
office of school iperintendents. This /,
IA move in the right direction. If women
are capable Of holding office, and wish I,
engage in public official life, give them 4.
chance. There are in this country thou
sands OF women who grow tired OF THEN
husbands, whose magnetism or filthines.
becomes poison to them. There are wo
men who tret and chate under the con.
slant restraint OF an ind DOR life, aud whc
are by nature and education fitted for
public duties. Some men tire Of the 50
ciety of women. They need excitement
and find it in the scramble for office, We,
refuse to the wives the same plea. ure on
counterfeit thereof they claim for them
selves. In order to be truly great, mel
must be just, and give TO Others all they
demand Tor themselves. -Pomeroy's Dem
Ocrdt.
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The soIcdo IsIadc.

TOLEDO, ONO. February
Biade of this evening uouuiusa cr#.
history Of that journal from ID
mencement ia 1885 To- the present
In 1886 the establishment sold I'D
thousand dollars; in 1865 Be- bmuc..
thousand dollars; in 1872 tbp yH.
office was one hundred and sixty
md dollars, and ut tuc present um
entire establishment h. v.lupI 10. 81.
thing over three hundred Thousand
lars. IL has recently removed d
new building erected at % cost OF. b.
sixty thousand dollars, and which.
to be the largest and finest building
ed and occupied by any Journal a +.
State.
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C0nPULsoRV EDUCATTOR-
v

-
This isa mischietous proposition Y hich
We are not prepared 10 believe the Leg
islature of our State will attempt 10 carry
into execution. If it we're intrinsicaily
meri:orious, il would be utterly imprac-
ticable under existing circumstances
1t Is no argument Il, say that Illinois
has Just adopted such measure ILL
nois Is her own Judge Of what her condi-
ton requires, and what her people are
able TO bear. She has more than doubled
her wealth and has largely increased her
population within the last decade The
properly valuation OF Mississippi is not
one-fourth what it was in 1860 Her
labor system las not recovered from the
destruction accustomed by the war and
she is reduced to the lowest condition OF
mpoverishment.
We are not opposed 10 Common
Schools. On the contrary, we are IN
favor of system which will offer the OPP
portuuity of education free as the winds
Of Heaven, to all--lhe rich and poor,
the white and the black. But it Is one
thing to create the system and to supp rt
il according to the means of the State
and quite another to declare that parents
shall send their children to school al
stated periods, whether they can live
without their earnings or not.
The system would bear with especial
severity upon the poor. 1t is an infringe
ment upon individual liberty of action. Ii
declares, in effect, by statute that the
misfortune of poverty shall be punished
az a crime. I: thrusts the intermeddling
hand of government into the relations OF
parent and child. 1t violates the funda-
mental maxim that that government is
best which governs least" Government
was created to protect ali classes IN the
enjoyment of their rights of person and
property; not to take the place of parents
in the education and control Of children
Which race is it proposed this scheme
shall benefit? The blacks, we ere told,
whenever schools are established,
rush to them eagerly. B. =. But
| ler member of Congress from Massachu-
sets, in his recent speech in favor of the
Civil Rights Bill says, that to the ne
''groes, schools are the greatest boon on
earth. 1t is to them mama from Heaven.
They seek eagerly for them, as did the
''Israelites the good gift of God which
"ted them from the clouds. They
"spring to a school as to a feast" etc.
Certainly no law can be needed to force
these people to attend school, or in de-
fault submit to heavy penalty 1t is
equally certain that the parents of white
children need not be put under such
compulsion.
Some statistics from Bavaria having
been published in support of the Illinois
scheme to show that the absence of COM
pulsory system Of education is the occasion
IF crime, writer in the Chicago Tribune,
loo iug nearer home for an illustration,
~ hes the following data from the
Re. +. Of the Managers of the Michigan
stat Prison:
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An Outrage.

We use the language employed by
Judge Hill in denouncing IS an outrage
the conduct of the U. S. District Attor.
ney IN bringing large number of cit
liens OF Wilkinson and Adams counties
to this city from their homes, at great cost
and Inconvenience, to answer the charge
OF violating the revenue laws, when they
could as well have been arraigned be-
fore U. . Commissioner in the vicinity
IN which they reside. We understand
that Judge Hill has given an order which
will prevent the repetition of such pro-
cseding.
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A year ago the credit of Georgia was
gone. Gov. Bullock and Henry Clews
q Co. had slaughtered it between then.
Now the State has just negotiated loan
of 81 .2OO, 900, at par The cost of ne
gotiation was less than per cent. Geor-
gia is now ruled by her own citizens.
The States that repudiate are ruled by
carpetbaggers, who are kept In power
BY the grace of Federal power. This
system may pay politically, but it does
sOt 6naAsiAlly.-fChieaaO Tribune.
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The Senatorial elections are over 3.
K. Bruce (colored), is elected for the
long term, commencing March Alb, 1875
and II. R. Pease, &c. b., late Superin-
,endent of Public Education, is elected
for the fragment of the term vacated by
Governor Ames Bruce is Sheriff OF
Bolivar county. He Is well thought OF
by his political opponents, as man OF
moderation and integrity, without bril-
liancy or force. If he does no good, he
is not capable of doing much harm, If SO
inclined. Our readers are mewhat ia.
miliar with the antecedents OF Pease.
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FrOnl Spain via cuba Hmporta6
Intelligence.

a dispatch from Havana, sid k
West, says that the ohiriul-are deb.
Ell on account of war news from Spain
Santander being the principle pros
ion distribution point for Cubs. tHlra
a general expectation that tIc CaH.
General would declare Che island IF
state Of siege, and q heavy conscrpHoH
the creOles would follow. 20, 900 mH r
reported as necessary.
There are reports OF an engage
near Puerto Principe, IN which tHe s..
iards under Porbello, were driven int
town by Gomez. The troops at MANI
lilo were disahected because they REMAIN.
five months without pay, aud tuenr.
ed it in paper Prominent tuhW
icve that II Don Carlos succeed IH
sell Cuba 10 the United Smtpl IH#
is II strong Carlist element iu Havana
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a Terrific Arrangement.

Ex-Governor Hahn, steadfast Repub-
lican and a leading Senator of that party
in the Louisiana Legislature, in the
course of a recent speech, as reported in
lhe New Orleans Republican, tells the
things Of which Kellogg, the usurping
Governor of that State, has been guilty
during the short time he has been in office,
as follows:
There are charges enough against Gov.
kellogg running through the community,
which it would he well to explain without
fighting windmills l do not understand
the philosophy which requires Governor
Kellogg's name to be brought into every
discussion, however immaterial. | do not
wish to take upon myself defense of all
his official acts. l envy no man who
aspires to such a championship. It might
become necessary for such an individual
to explain, if he can, the origin of the
Grant massacre, in which several hun
dred colored men were ruthlessly butch
cred why the executive lobbied through
the Legislature railroad bill which he
held up IA year and then vetoed; why he
allowed another railroad bill to become a
law nearly year after he had election
eered against its passage? Why he
takes from the Legislature bills vetoed by
him, and no longer under his control, and
signs them? Why he takes part against
the colored State Treasurer in the dirty
squabbles of prominent State officials !?
Why he authorizes violations of law ON
the part of the Auditor? Why he pro-
claims that no man shall hold two offices.
and Immediately violates the spirit of his
proclamation by making such appoint
ments himself? Why he does not en-
force that provision of law which requires
all State officers to make report of their
stewardships at the beginning of every
session
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The COlOred HmpOr4aGiOns from
NeiShbOrim. States.

1t is estimated that the number of ne
gro male adults brought into the State by
the planters Of the bottom or swamp re-
gions of the Mississippi river and its trib-
utaries, since October last, will approx
mate 10000. The movement involves
consequences of such vast magnitude to
our State, economically, socially and po-
ltically, that no wonder can be felt at
the deep solicitude it has awakened The
movement has settled, for long period,
at the least, the matter of the equilibrium
of races in our State, and presents prob
lem which ought to be approached with
the utmost deliberation.
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The Texas Radicals who were foiled in
their attempt to hold on to their ill-gotten
power. IN surrendering their offices, acted
IN most indecent ard ungracious man
ner They made no reports to the Leg
lsiature upon the operations and condi-
ton of the State administration and left
their successors to grope their way in
the labarynth of chaos and confusion in
which they left. How different the con-
duct of Gov. Powers and his associates in
Mississippi, who submitted to the Leeis-
lature, carefully prepared reports from
their several departments.
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We infer that an era of good feeling is
dawning in North Carolina. Ex-Gov.
Holden has recently written a letter in
favor of abandoning the Ku-Klux prose
cutions, in which he expresses this gener-
Gus sentiment
Il think that all of the whole political
past, whether of the contest between the
National Government and the Confeder-
ate States, or of the Ku-Klax period of
strife, and ill-wiil, and crime, which may
be calculated to re-infame the passions Of
our people. or lead to mutual crimina-
tons and recriminRtions, should be buri-
ed in oblivion; and that the mast
should be referred to and used only Tor
purposes of harmony and good viii among
our people" 80
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Printers ." /" Strike.

INDIANAPOLIs, FEBRUARY It'll. .
biographical Union Iast Septemb
ded 10 raise the scale of prices
twelve to twenty five per cent. o.
war rates. Tbs WAS done lu .p,...
protest Of the publishers, and .f
panic Was susprnde l. La-t might
again voted the increase, which.
refused by the publishers iu theJ
Sentinel, Ne,cs, aud the lndmurp,.
fishing company offices, -ru.A be-
The papers will issue Tomorrow us bel.
though i'm a reduced form.
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BY strictly partizan discussion, in
WHICH law and justice were trampled I'M
der foot, the Radical contestants of West
Virginia were admitted to seats in the
National House of Representatives, The
argument of Hon. l.. @. c. Lamar in
behalf of the rightful claimants was
listened to with close attention, and was
admitted by opposition members to be
unanswerable But it did not avail
against the predetermined purpose OF
the majority.
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A Western cotempOrary observes that
the Democratic party is more popular
with Republican editors and politicians in
Wisconsin than ne remembers ever to
have seen before. The same remark will
apply to any part of the Union Their
papers Indignantly spurn an intimation
that the old Democratic party is likely to
be superseded by any other. The Radi-
cal spoilsmen have discovered that great
many honest Republicans are as anxious
Ms the Democrats are TO achieve a reform
in the government, but will not join
the Democratic party for that purpose
in other words, they are not inclined to
vote one of the old parties out to put an
older one in
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from the Central Trxnn.

From the Central Trxan.
Friday evenings train brought large
crowd Of colored workers for our Brazos
lInds Several of our planters, Messrs.
Harm d Fields, Mi. Hama, Mr.. r. Tai
bot. and perhaps others. received hands
that had contracted in Montgomery coun-
ty, Ala. Some with families and others
unineumbered, came to make their for
tunes out Of the rich bottom land. Whilst
sorry to see 50 many leaving our old home
(Alabama), we are glad these hardy cot
ton rai0eTs ere settling IN our county.
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Retrenchmcnt vvrtl. "A Vengeance

About seventy-fve thousand dollars
have been expended on the State Capital
and fifty Thousand dollars on the Execu-
tive Mansion buildings within the last
four years; and now comes resolution
in the House looking to still further ex-
penditures for the repair of those estab-
liShments. Is this thing never to stop
Is there to be no compassion for the i'm
poverished taxpayers
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The Liberty Herald saw. that rr

The Liberty Herald says that ns'
in the memory of the oldest inhab.a
has there been 40 Iittle work done
little energy displayed, and so little IA
est manif.stad in nren,ring for the
ne has beeD the case tbis wear Her
fore bv the first Of Fsbr1ary all l5
contracts had been entered into. CD.
borers had settled down and gone
nestly to work. Nov, at lonst,
third of the labor 10 still floating Az
without any 64ed object 10 view, wiz.
homes, and apparently indifferent
getting any. The planters are eqlT
indiAoSoRt abOut orlploYing them.
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ProprIely of ~ omen Preaching

New York, Jan. 28.-In the report OF
the Committee of the Brooklyn Presby-
terry regarding the propriety OF allowing
Rev. Sarah Smiley 20 preach before au.
deinces in Lafayette avenue ami the me-
mortal Presbyterian churches, it is 81 i'm
ell these CT urches violated the rule Of the
Presbytery in permitting her to preach
The representatives Of both churches dis
claim any intention to violate the rules OF
the Presbvterv.
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Representative Mills has introduced a
bill into Congress providing for the re-
mova Of all the United States soldiers in
the South to Che Western frontiers, where
they NAV protect women and children
from the depredations of savage In
dams, instead of serving as now
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1t will be seen by the statement in the
Mercury, elsewhere, that the first install
ment of the German Colony for the
manufacture Of silk, at alocation selected
on the Vicksburg and Meridian Railfoaa
has arrived with "A portion of their e .
implements, household effects, etc, ct
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CARPENTER ON LOUISIANA AFFAIRS.
The speech of Senator Carpenter ON the
Louisiana muddle was an able and ex-
haustiye argument He demonstrated
that the kellogg Legislature was not
elected by lawful means, and that it could
not legally elect United States Senator.
He was very severe unnn DurelI
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National Orange Couvention.

This body met at St. Louis yesterday
(4th inst), Dudley w. Adams. President.
The principal business of the conven.
ton will be the revision of the ritual and
the perfecting of the organization of the
grange. President Adams states that
there are between eleven and twelve thou.
sand oranges, with nearly one million
members.
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- FEBRUARY 8, 1874
.sTIME

sE Subscribers who find TINE orr
stamped on the margin Of their paper, are
thus notified that their subscription has ex-
PRED, and that we would be pleased 70 have
them renew-our invariable rule being 10
discontinue unless otherwise requested.
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The Hi-iogM"Irs,s Of abe rsar.

From the Illinois Signal.
The Grant organs are snccring ae
Farmers Movement and the plato
nut they will find out, before the cl.-
the present year, that is a movement
will sweep the Credit MobiIier.le
salary.grabbers, monopoli.ts and e.r
Cionists from power, and place homes.
in their places. The farmers and v
ingmen are beginning to appreciate tae-
mense power they possess, and are D..
ing to deliver themselves from opprrs
that have been fastened upon them
the ruling party.
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Mi.si--ippi manual of Forms.

Newly elected Justices Of the Peace,
Clerk. ard other Officials, will find this Az
invaluable assistant. Price by mail, post
age paid, $500 per copy. Apply early, as
the edition j. nearly exhausted. Address.
POWER & BARKSDALE,
Jackson. Miss.
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CORRECT. The opinion which it l.
said General Grant expressed the Other
day that the republican purity has too
much dead weight to carry, aud that il l.
time to tighten the ship, particularly
the dead weights upon the party in the
GOath.-H. Y. Herald
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Troops Needed "n urc VVesrrf
Frontier.

WAsHIVGToN, January 81 GeH#
Sherman WIS again before the Ii.
Military Committee to-day, and .po.
the army ln connection with Indian
fairs. He pointed out on the map JH..
gion Of country in Texas, two haa
miles long by one hundred broad. eum.
ing half Il dozen org miz.i clua
which, when he passed through ta.f
Hgn, was entirely depopuluted, tao.u.
itants having abandoned their hom.
account of constant incursiOn- 0l I#H
He said he had been led Do believe
Indians were COmmuuchrs. h1L III H
pretty well understood now they ar Is
was, Chryennes anil Arrauilpe
r"ided from the Fort Sill E.ew
.Ight hundred miles oil, prueu
through military posts and helping ODD"
selves to horses and stock Of their le
riends, which they preferred doing
or than be AT the trouble Of raising
themselves.
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PinchbncIs'> Pro-pcc,. d..
Especial 10 n. O. Times.

l9P'NlAl u" ~ ~ AlIHtN-
WAsHINGTON Feb oh
to-day, Norton clnclu led m.
speech; Steward attacked M E
government; Frelinghuy-en 4, s.."..
President, and then Inc qu,.r..
over indefinitely IL is assem-
night very positively that Pn.a....
not be admitted.
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Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS. This gen
tleman who is held in universal esteem
and respect by his countrymen, left New
Orleans few DAYS since for Europe We
are panied 10 learn that he is threatened
with dropsy of the heart