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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11
Our Correspondence.

In order to obey the injunction of tn,
writer to preserve his incognjto, and at the
same time, to give the public the benefi
Of his views, we have printed the follow
ing letter with name and address omit
ted !; = X \ *
DEAR SIR:-I hope you will excuse
me for troubling you with any opinion
Of mine; but L am constrained TO tell you
that | am more and more pleased with
the tone and temper of The CLARION on
| the situation. Depend upon it, my
dear sir, you are now on the right road.
! With such men rs Lamar in Congress.
and The CLARION at home to represent
the people of Mississippi, | regard our
prospects as more and more hopeful; and so
far as we may be able to contribute any
influence in shaping the course Of the IT,
). Government it will be in the interest of
| right and justice.
There are numerous fanatical fools in
the North actuated by spirit of hatred
towards the people Of the South, another
more numerous class actuated by spirit
Of agrarianism, and still another, not
very small class, who have fattened bv
keeping the fire Of dissension and discord
burning between the sections on old OBJ
solete issues. AS counterpart to these.
and allies who aid them in carving out
their abominable schemes Of plumber and
oppression in the South. we have had
too many carping soreheads who either
Intentionally or unwittingly play into the
hands of the very persons in the North
whom, above all others, they should abhor
and shun. Depend upon it, there is a deep
feeling of humanity and Justice in the Sc
cret hearts Of the better classes in the
North towards the people Of the South
and If we can keep our Toomb5 in the
South quiet, and let our Lamars have
full scope, we may consider ourselves
as safe-as very nearly out OF the woods.
Let our people be patient, appeal 10 facts
and reason, present their grievances
IN temperate but strong light before
the people of the North, and the
reaction and sympathy in our favor will
become so strong that the government
must moderate its policy towards US
The cOlored people, instead of being
hurled against us, can and will become
our strongest allies in fighting thieving
scoundrels at home.
colored people Of the South and the
whites natural political friends, and will
if we can ever get rid of vagabond In
terlopers Who are constantly whispering
in the too confding ears of the blacks
that the whites of the South are the en-
emies OF the negro We must so act as
to disabuse their minds of this impression. |
This has been my policy from the very be-
ginning of our political troubles and see
no reason to change it. have
never thought it wise to fight against
manifest destiny, but rather to adjust
ourselves to it. l may not like to have, /
the surgeon cut, hack and saw away on
my limbs and drench me with his
remedies but when misfor-
tune places me in his hands and necessity
requires me to submit to his treatment,
wisdom would require me to suffer little
evil patiently that greater good might
follow.
Respectfully.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11
Railroad Tx.

BY conference with the representa-.
tives of the Southern Railroad Associa
ton, the Y. & NJ Railroad Company,
and the Memphis & Charleston, the
State Board of Equalization has assessed
the property of these companies exclu-
sive of depot and machine shops, at
SIS 900 per mile. The NJ. 81 Ohio r. r.
Company claim that they are exempt by
provision of their charter from tax until
they have made dividend of per cent
Several hundred thousand dollars will
be added to the revenues of the State
from this source, but it must be remem-
bered that after all, the tax will come
OUT of the pockets of the people. The
tax of necessity means an increase in
passenger fares and freight rates. No
enterprises have ever struggled against
such tide of misfortune as the Southern
railroads have done since the close of the
war.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11
'El.e z-re-- Convention.

The full official proceedings Of this
body will be published in our next
The people of Brookhaven imposed a
lasting obligation on the delegates by their
generous attentions and profuse hospital
ity. We are sure the members of the
Press who were the recipients Of these
kindnesses, have returned to their labors,
recuperated, and resolved to leave no eff
forts untried to elevate the standard and
increase the usefulness of their calling, to
which the good, the fair and the brave
have offered the tribute Of their respect
Kosciusko was selected as the next
place of meeting and the following APP
pointments were made for the ensuing
year:
President George w. Harper
First Vice Gardiner c.
Tucker.
Second Vice Presidential. ID. Money.
Secretary. $. Hoskins
Assistant Secretarv-Capt. Mead.
Treasurer-W r. Walpole.
Chaplain-Rev. S. w. Dale, of Law
renee.
Ethelbert Barksdale, was elected an
nual Orator; w. j. l.. Holland, of Hol-
ly Springs, annual Essayist; Emmett L.
Ross of Canton, Poet Miss Magee, of
Enterp. Use, and Miss Sinclair, of Walden,
were invited to read poems at the next
meeting Of the Association.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11

when fighting ceased, Gen. Sherman
made Treaty with Gen. Joe. Johnston
which would have secursd to the van
qr1ished South, terns-of such Astounding
magnanimity as 70 extort the admiration
of the entire Confederaey from Jefferson
Davis to the humblest private. They
were rejected by Andy johnson in such
brutal style as TO induce Sherman 10 put
personal indignisy upon him. La viola
ton of this treaty the Southern States
governments were broken uP-their Leg
islatures were dispersed in the act of
accepting the ituation-their Chief Tx
ecutives sent to distant prisons (witness
the treatment OF our battlescarred
Charles CLARK Jefferson Davis was
immured in dungeon and loaded with
chains; and ten thousand other humilla-
tions were put on the people who had put
off their armor All in pursuance Of
Johnstons determination to ''punish trail
tors and make treason odious'" This
same man, Johnston, by the way, was
afterwards supported for the Presiden-
tial nomination by a majority OF the
Southern delegates in the Convention
of 1868. Gen. Sherman's treaty, which
he had spurned was based upon the
principle that the surrender should be
followed by Union restored in spirit as
well as in form-that the authority OF
the State governments already in exls-
tence should be recognized, and that
there should be no punishment of trai-
tors. This Is the treaty which this
fierce warrior made when the fighting
was over. It was an altar reared to the
Goddess of Peace amid the surgings
of the passions which the war had
aroused. Since that time he has done
nothing to detract from the merits OF
the act. Still we act not for him nor for
anybody else at this time. We don't ex-
pect to have a hand in fixing up the
Presidential programme. Our seat Will
be the lowest at the table.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11

Here is a sentiment expressed boz ...
last Pilot. which meets our earnest APP
prevail:
We believe that the great day is u..
very far distant, when the last resting.
places of the Union and the Confederate
dead will be decorated AT the same date.
throughout the country, and by m united
peoplc-the long expected epoch when al
difficulties and all great difference WH
have been settled, never to be re-up.uef
and when the blue may miugIe with tae
grey at the hallowed cemetery, and OBJ.
gathered floral offerings oft the Norih-mm
aud South-man and Northwomm ui
South-woman cauund will fall, like blessed
balm from heaven, unfortunately, upon
the green graves OF the brave who fought
under the Stars and Bars and thc meH
who followed 10 battle under the banner
of the Union.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11
The Civil Rights sEiII.

This measure has passed the Senate.
It opens hotels, public schools, colleges
and universities and all institutions sup
ported by taxation to persons without re-
gard etc, etc This includes for example,
the Mississippi University at Oxford,
which was founded by a national gift and ND
derives its support from taxation. The Dill
will pass the House, and thus conclude
the last Of the series Of measures demand
ed as a result of emancipation. 1t leaves
no further pretext Of agitation. Now, let
us bide events and 'have peace. -
CLARION
You are certainly very badly mistaken,
friend CLARION. 1t is the very thing to
create "agitation" and destroy "peace.
Our people ought not and will not tamely
s,,bmit to Il !, x =
They would rather see their children grow
up in ignorance. The effect will be to
break down every public institution of
learning in the country, and create a
hatred between the races that will end IN
the determination of the colored race
Brandon Republican.
We will again repeat why we do not
think the Civil Rights bill will break up
the present public school system in our
State, or produce any of the direful re-
suits predicted by our friend of the Re-
publican. The bill does not provide that
there shall be mixed schools. If so, 1t
would certainly deprive at least one
class Of the opportunity of acquiring
an education in the public schools.
Unless the colored people themselves
desire to break up the present separate
system, there will be no interference with
it. So far as our knowledge extends,
they do not desire mixed schools. All
thew ask is that the system shall be oper-
ated so as to confer equal advantages to
both races. There is no compliant of IN
Justice orinequality under the present law;
and while this continues the privilege
conferred by the law of the admission of
one race into the schools of another, will
not be delcaimed A Civil Rights law,
so-called. has been on the statute book
ofour State since February, 1878. The col
ored people are in the ascendant numerl-
cally and have not enacted that the schools
shall not be separate. But so far from
such an idea, they have
seemed to foster, and take pride in, the
set apart exclusively for their
own race.
Here in Mississippi where the numbers
Of both races render separate schools prac-
ticable, the bill, if passed, will be inoper-
alive. But in the Northern and border
States where the colored population Is
sparse and separate schools could not be
for their use, the law will ofne-
sessity be put into execution. This will
De matter for their own concern, not
ours.
Here in Mississippi, besides the public
schools, we have Normal schools and a
exclusively for the training of
,olored youth. 1t is not so in the North |
I'm States; and as consequence there will |
,e no sufficient ground for not opening |
he doors of all their institutions, great |
md small, to the blacks as we'll as the |
whites.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11
MISSISSIPPI.
Items o. Interest

From the Copiah Herald
Judge VIM. Sller, a leading lawyer of.
Port Gibson bar was stricken with paraIy.
sis on the 28th Of May, while arguing
case before the Chancery Court of tIa.-
borne County.
! From the Central Star.
We learn from parties living iu Good.
man, that Moses Cooper (cOl. living three
and halfmiles south Of that place, 0u
/ Sam Smiths farm, reached home ut
late hour few nights ago, and finding
his wife asleep, took au axe and cut Deer
head open What prompted the demon
to perpetratc this hcli-h crime wo have
not heard
From the Canton Mail.
A very sad accident occurred at tha
Depot Thursday afternoon a little
white boy, nephew of Mr. Pat Rclmun.
was run over by freight train and Dad
bis head crushed TO jelly. IL is sup
posed that the little fellow was under the
train while 10 was stationary, driving out
some geese, and the cars starting sudden
ly, he undertook 70 get out and was killed
in the attempt.
From the Liberty Herald.
ANoTHER OLD CmfzEN or THE CorN-
TY GoNE.-James NJ. Hill died at the
residence Of Robert r. Rice on the 2ud
inst, in the year of his age He was
born, raised and lived all his life iu thi-
county Known 10 nearly every one boa
the county, he was respected auG esteemed
hy all. If II can be sud of any one. b.
can be of Jimmy Hill, that be never
knowingly or Intentionally did any human
being an injury.
50 MUcH FOR BUcNSGuAM."-
About two o'clock yesterday morning.
Geoge Buckingham, a colored man, via
shot and killed at his own door by
Handy johnson, also colorcd. II seems
Buck. had been absent from home some
time, aud returning at this hour, knock
ed at his door for admittauce and was
answered by pistol shot from the hands
Of johnson, who was in the house with
Bucks wife. Johnson made good his e--
cape.
From the Calhoun Times.
Last Sunday as Capt. r. J.. Beadles.
with his family, was on their way TO
church the mule attached 10 the buggy in
which Mrs. Beadles, two children aud
servant we're riding, bectme frightened
and started to run away. Capt Beadles.
who was riding on horse back attempted
to stop the frightened animal as he passed
him, and was thown down and the buggy
ran over him brusing him up considerably.
The mule then turning into the woods.
broke the shafts and threw the occupants
Of the buggy in every direction. Mrs.
Beadles, however was the only one that
was seriously injured, the Others being
worse scared than hurt. The little infant,
three months old, that was in the buggy
was thrown several feet, and lodged in
the top Of a bert sappling, where it re-
NAMED hanging, swinging and growing 40
gaily az If the whole matter had been
gotten up for his special amusement.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11

In reply TO questions recently pro-
pounded, the Attorney General ha. .H.
cially informed the Auditor that DO addf-
ton to the property which it has hitherto
been customary 70 assess, the following
descriptions are now liable 70 taxation
/. An solvent credits or debts owned
hv merchants.
2. All notes taken 20 secure tl. urr.s
OF property sold on time.
3. All cotton not ia the hands ol tlg
producer.
4. All money deposited outside of w..
State by bankers or brokers.
>. The libraries of practc.u- au.-
neys.
The Independent South observe. t.a.
IL the authorities were as anxious 90 r..
duce taxation as they are To increase taa
State revenues, the condition of our u...
pie would soon be improved.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11
Gen. Grant Opposed 4" "a Third
Term.

From the Troy Times, rep
There never was time in the life of
General Grant when he contemplated a
third term. His best friends know this
to be a fact. The subject IS distasteful to
him, and whenever he refers to it (Which
is very SELDOM he does so with impa-
thence and dislike The idea was origi-
nally started amid dearth of exciting
public events as sensation of the New
York Herald. Mr. Watterson, of the
Louisville Courier-J ournal, who is on the
q,i Uiue for startling events and sensa-
tons, was at first impressed with this one,
and dwelt upon it as if it were a veri-
ty. subsequently, however, he became
convinced that it was Pigment of imagi-
nation; but, recently visiting Washington,
he was again impressed with the idea, be-
tween sherry and champagne, and now it
is seriously discussed by our sensational
writer's as a probable reality. Our genial
friend may rest assured, however, that it
has no more foundation than the "stuff
that dreams are made of F."
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11
The New Party Projec a.

1t seems improbable that any compro-
mise can be effected between the President
and the Western Republicans on the Cur
rency question, and the formation of a
new party under the auspices Of the latter
is again talked Of Referring to this
movement, the st. Louis Republican
Conservative says:
The project of Il new party, it seems. is
not such "A chimera as has been imagined.
1t is actually being discusscdit is even
limited that it is being organized at Wash
ingtou 1t is TO be of the nature OF an in
surrecton, and is to be Republican in origin
and leadership and Western in it, sectional
character. 1t IS estimated that its platform
is to embrace the Window scheme for Sc
curing cheap transportation through gov
eminent built railroads, improved rivers
aud artificial canals, with special bureau
at Washington having charge ~ these works.
an addition to the volume OF the currency
aud re-assertion OF the right OF local self
governm ent.
There are two sections OF country that
have grievances--the West and the south.
The East is sur remedy content with things
Just as they are, and its only aim Will be To
maintain them 50. The West j. clam0riug
for free trade and cheap transportation, and
the almost stifled voice o. The south stu
feebIy petitions Tor the right OF self-govern-
ment. To imagine that parties can remain
as they are, with this line of disco.tent
drawn through the couutIy--to imagine that
the powerful Western States will continue
to adhere to a party which has made them
the provincial appendices OF che East--that
they will submit To have the national fcyen-
ues used to carry elections in North Caro-
lima, and to cndow Credit Mobiliers IA Boston
and New York, while being withheld from
the great rivers OF the vallry-S too great an
absurdty to be entertaned.-'
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11
ssrow,'- Wells Oprn-Cnrd from
Col. stockton.

BRowN's WELLS, june Sth. 1874.
EDlroRs CLARIoN.-Pleasc notice
that the Wells are open Visitor aw-
wing; expect to be crowded; passengers
get off al MartinsvilIc; fare out s2,OO.
Martin has a fine hotel and good accommo-
dations in case trains are behind Time
have splendid cooks, attentive servants.
steward and good washerwomen. Term
reduced, on account OF hard times. DAY
81, 50; week Sl2, 80; per month llow
weel<s,) $40, payable weekly table every
thing the market affords Plenty mutton
beef, chickens, eggs, butter and mills.
Round trip tickets from New Orleans, bag
and baggage, only 81 80. Tried last sea-.
son to get same from Nicksburg but they
would not; trying agoin this year. Thero-
bowling alley, billiard table refresh
ments, and good barber this season.
Persons proposing to visit the Well
should write in advance.
Respectfully yours,
WM A. SrOCkrOS.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11

AAlENDE. contemporary the New
York Albany Union, speaks of its ''mis-
fortune in having lost his exchange with
THE CLARION. We beg to assure him
that his failure to receive our paper has
been unintentional on our part ana purely
accidental. Occasionally, we have dis
continued exchanging with newspapers
whose conductors violate the courtesies of
life by persistent and malicious misrep-
resentation and iucivility, and with whom
intercourse is neither profitable nor agree
able and tends to issues of another sort
which ii is desirable to avoid when It can
honorably be done. But not so with our
New Albany friend, whose journal we have
regularly, and with whom We
have desired to reciprocate the usual
courtesies of the profession.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11

In reply to an opinion of THE
CLARIoN's East Mississippi correspond
ent, Mr.. : T. Street, of Paulding, says
that in Jasper county there is at least
one-third more corn and other grain
planted than there was Iast year Glad
II hear II
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11

Gen. Grant has recently Authorized a
publication Of his views on the currency.
They are so decidedly for Hard Money
and Contraction, and at variance with
the opinions Of Morton, Logan, and other
leaders Of bis party, as to forbid all pros
pect Of united action among them on
that question.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11

Notlong ago Gov. Kemper, of Virginia
was burned in efigy by the Bourbons of
Petersburg Virginia, because he vetoed
bill which would have Invested the colored
people (who are in the majority of that
city of the right to vote in municipal
elections. The news now is that without
this tyrannical usurpation, and by policy
Of Cancellation, the Conservatives have
Carried the city by 400 majority
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11

We understand the Liquor Dealers As
ISOLATION have employed Messrs. johnson
d johnson and J S. Morris, Esq, coun
sci to Try the validity Of the late anti
license law in the courts.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11

That implacable old Radical, Senator
Brownlow of Tennessee has turned fire-eat-
erin consequence Of the Civil Rights bill.
He says that in consequence of the meas
cure that the school system will be de-
"stroyed, war and race prejudices, which
were being rapidly obliterated, will be
revived with unwonted fury, and
'the present generation will not live
ito see so favorable a condition of affairs
las exists at this time.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11

Speaking of the Civil Rights Bill the
ST Louis Globe, Radical journal Of in
huence, says:
We have battled for the rights Of coll
ored men when the danger was great and
the reward little we heartily congratu-
late them on their achievements aud their
uses of them; we would favor the bill now
before Congress if it gave them right
they did not now possess; but beLieUing 1t
to be a measure full Of mischief only, and
utterly deuOid Of benefit to any class, ne are
ODDOsed to it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-06-11

We learn that the Grand Jury of
Yazoo County have failed to find a true
bill against a. T. Morgan, charged with
the killing Of Ex-Sheriff billiard.