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The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02

We have mentioned elsewhere with
commendation the appointment of this
distinguished citizen as one of the Judges
for the settlement of the claims under
the Geneva treaty. A writer in the
Memphis Appeal, furnishes the following
sketch of this gentleman. His fitness
for the position will be as generally recog-
nized, as the qualification will be wide
spread that the appointment was made:
In former days OF the Republic Mr.
Rayner played Il prominent and distin-
gushed part. Having read law under
the tuition Of North Cardinals most emf
nent jurist, the late ief-Justice Ruffin,
Mr., Rayner came to the bar al very
eventfuI period, when nullifcation was
at its height. His talents soon attracted
the public attention, and he. entered on
public life as a member OF the legislature
from his county. Possessed Of a hand
some independence, and having married
the daughter Of Colonel Polk and sister
Of General Leonidas Polk, and now en-
joying an affiuent fortune, Mr.. Rayner
exchanged the profession OF law for
elected to the House Of Representatives
from his district. In the stormy period
OF Van Buren's administration, when
Wise and Bynum and Prentiss and
Graves and Stanley were acknowledged
leaders, Mr., Rayner was no less distn-
guished as an able champion of the Wing
party Subsequently he came within
one vote of being elected to the Senate
of the United States, and in 1856, MS
name was prominently associated with
the candidacy for the Presidency; and
when secession occurred, notwithstand-
ing that he had been a Union man, he
gave his sympathies at once to the South |
and shared by the entire loss of his for
tune the disasters OF the war Mr.. Ray
ner IS a sound lawyer and ripe scholar, !
and will fill the post, to which he has
been assigned, with distinguished ability. |
And his appointment is an act Of con-
slderation, on the part of the President, |
which gives assurance that the era of |
restoration is indeed approaching.
CAROLINA
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02
Throwing Down the Gage ON the
Financial Issue.

The New York Herald places the fol
lowing construction on the action OF
the Illinois Republicans touching the
Currency question:
The Republican State Convention in
Illinois has opened the campaign with a
platform declaring boldly for free bank
ing and initiation. While patting Presi-
dent Grant on the back with the object
of keeping him in good temper with
the Federal office-holders who formed
the majority of the Convention, the Hli-
nois Republicans repudiated his hard
currency doctrines, virtually condemned
his veto and his memorandum and plant
ed themselves on the ground Of an in
creased currency, fair distribution be-
tween the sections on the basis of
population, and opposition to the control
of the currency of the country. by capi-
talists and combination of capital The
position of the Illinois Conuention, Presi-
dent Grants oion State, Is most significant,
and points atnnsistdkobly to a sectional
financial issue on the nert Presidential
election.
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02
Proceedings 40 EniOin she Deljv.
cry of Trust Funds.

We learn that Gov Ames before
leaving for the North, took steps to enjoin
the delivery to the Vicksburg aud Ship
Island Railroad Company of the proceeds
of the Chickasaw School fund under the
provisions Of the act approved April 18th,
1873. 1t will be remembered that the
act required that the loans heretofore
granted to the several railroad companies
in this State by the law of 1856. should
be transferred to the Ship Island Compa-
ny. The motion to enjoin the delivery
of the funds, will, OF course. he resisted
by the Company, and the case must ul-
timately be disposed of in the Supreme
Court. The issue is entirely between oppos-
ing factions in the dominant party. The
transfer of the loan to the Company was
the act Of a Republican administration,
as the scheme to annul it Is also a Re
publican measure. For nothing has the
former regime in this State been so severe
ly criticised by the existing order as the
loan of the Trust Funds for railroad pur-
poses. We have always held that the act
was wise and has resulted in immeasura-
BILE advantage to the State in promoting
the completion of'greatrailway enterprises
indispensable to the development of
its resources but the present rulers
have pretended to see in the policy an
act Of bad faith on the part of the State.
Our surprise may therefore be imagined
at the passage of the act of 1873, after
the occasion for such disposition of the
Funds, had, in large measure, ceased
to exist. Gov Ames, however, is not
inclined ito follow in the footsteps of his
illustrious predecessor, j" and hence the
legal proceeding to which we have re-
ferreo.
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02

A proposition was made at the late
annual gathering of the Army of the
Potomac, that at the next meeting the
survivors of Longstreet's corps, of the
Army of Northern Virginia, should be
invited to join them in friendly celebra-
ton. Gen. Wilcox, the author of the
proposition, advocated it in a strong
/ speech from which we will make an extract
as follows:
But it may be asked, he said, why
these yearly military meetings? Do they
not tend TO keep alive the wounds of the
war? Do they not renew the boasting
spirit and reeollections of our own men,
as well as the humiliating scenes of defeat
on the part of our Southern brethren ?
I Well, then, let US frankly invite our late
opponentssto meet with US, and together
recount our mutual admiration of one
another's valor, call up the frequent in
stances where the rigors Of war were mltl-
gated on the picket line and in the field
! hospitals, recall the jokes given as they
appeared at the time, talk over the long
and muddy marches and disclose many
things that went on behind the scenes, the
secrets of mysterious march and counter
march on the great stage where our re-
spective parts were performed in the
bloody drama. Surely this might serve
to rekindle the old fires of a common ma
tionaity, and we might come together
like lovers who have been estranged and
made it all up again.
As one step To this consummatlOn, am
in favor of rendering to that Confederate
corps to which the Ninth was most fire.
quently and obstinatelY opposed hearty
invitation to meet with Us at our next
yearly meeting. Let us say to the men
of Longstreet's corps, Come up with US
and let US have good time together. In
this way we shall bury the hatchet so deep
that the Archangel at the last day shall
90 about with his trump in one hand and
lantern in the other hand in vain to find
it. "
1t is stated that the proposition thus
generously urged was warmly seconded
by all present except Gen. Sheridan; and
that it was especially favored by Gems.
Grant and Sherman.
The circumstance reminds US that the
men who led the Union armies and did
the fighting have not been the leaders of
the opposition to a policy of magnaaimity
to the South since the war closed. 1t is
well remembered that when President
johnson demanded the arrest and impris-
onment of Gen Lee and the inhiction
upon him Of humiliations similar to those
of which Mr.. Davis was the victim-Gen.
Grant demonstrated, and thwarted the in
tention And after the surrender OF the
Virginia Army, when fighting was no
longer possible on the Southern side, Gen
Sherman, signed treaty ofpeace. .embody-
ing the most liberal and generous terms to
the defeated party.
The solution of these facts which have
become historical, is found in a principle
of the human heart A true Knight
scorns to strike a fallen antagonist. 1t
is only the coward who does it.
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02
Col. Lamar's Speech

Without further introduction than we
have given in previous numbers, we have
printed on our first page, Col. Lamar
speech on ''Misrule in the South The
leading opposition journals have pro-
nounced it a mastery and statesmanIike
exposition of the subject II ne is not
called by his countrymen to a wider and
more exalted field of usefulness, his con
stituents responding to the wishes Of their
brethren in other portions of the State,
will continue him in the position on which
he has shed lustre
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02
FO Land Owners.

Mr.. NJ. B. Hillyard, of McComb City,
Secretary of the Mississippi Valley Com
pany, is engaged in a good work. He is
using his endeavors to direct the atten-
ton of capitalists and thickly populated
Northern and foreign communities to the
value of our lands and the inducements
which Mississippi offers to immigration.
He is also engaged in the laudable at
tempt to awaken an interest in the sub
ject of immigration among oW own peo-
ple-particularly among the landowners,
with whom the success Of the movement
largely depends. He has favored US
with the following circular which for
the public value which attaches to the
movement, we have reproduced. We
trust it will receive the favorable atten-
ton it deserves
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02

have an estimate of the number of houses
in the city, which have been advertised
for sale by the Tax Collector, and u l
were to mention it, your readers "ouIo
charge me with exaggeration. Her mis-
cradle state recalls the description OF the
doomed city in Holy Writ. How doth
the city sit solitary how has she become
as a widow She that was great among
the nations and princess among the
provinces, how has she become tributa-
~ ON-THE- Wing
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02
HE NVeather-Crops.

Just at this writing, we are in the
midst of dry spell of weather, but dur
ing the past month, we have had frequent
showers in different parts Of the State,
which have improved the crop prospects
All our inquiries confirm the opinion that
the acreage in corn has been largely in
creased; and that our producers viii be
able, with one or two more good rains, to
supply themselves with that essential ar
ticle the next year. The acreage in cot
ton is at least 10 per cent. below that Of
last year, but the tilIage has been better
and we would fain hope that greater care
Will be taken in handling and preparing
the staple for market than heretofore.
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02
NJ. d. I'LL ARD,
Sec'y Miss. Valley Company

In answer to the many inquiries we
have received relative to Col. Raymond
Reid's position in regard to the Senator
ship, we have only this to say:
From conversations held with that
gentleman, we are led to infer that he
considers himself in the hands of his
friends, and feels that he cannot well
ignore the fattering mention he has
received.
As we have no authority for saying this,
and only say it to stop tiresone ques-
tions, perhaps the gentleman referred to
viii speak for himself. -Carthagenian.
Without intending to intermeddle, we
will add that if Mr.. Reid should be
elected to the Senate, the people will
secure the services of worthy and ca
pable Senator.
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02
The New York World q

The New York World quotes the fol:
lowing extract from Gen. Grants last
inaugural to show that there could have
been no foundation for the report that
he would have vetoed the Civil-rights bill
if that measure had not failed
The effects of the late civil strife have
been to free the slave end make him Il
citizen. Yet he is nOt ,,os sessed of the
civil rights which citizen should carry
with it. This is wrong, and should be
corrected. To this correction / stand COM
mitted, so far as erecutive influence can
oUaiI
Social equality is not thing to be
legislated upon, nor shall | ask that
anything be done to advance the social
status Of the colored man, except to give
him fair chance to develop what there
is good in him, giU8 him access to the
schools and achen he traveiS let kim feel as
sured that has conduct ,UU requlute the
treatment and fare he loM reeeiUe.
1t would seem that if there was any
State in the Union where an abiding
confidence would be felt in the prowess
of the Democratic party, it would be
Kentucky, in which few years ago the
party rolled up a majority of $4,000.
And yet the Louisville Courier-Journal,
the ablest anti-Radical paper in that
State, holds this language:
"'The Democratic party shows no signs
Of substantial life. 1t is at this moment
half ready to take Grant as nominee,
which is really, after ALL the only sure
way of beating him. The Republicans
and the Liberals are at sea. The only
strong party, compact party only
party with an aim, a motive and
methods the Grant party, silently and
watchfully working beneath the surface
of affairs
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02

The Pilot has had another bitter cup
presented to its lips. 1t is explained in
the following announcement with the
monosyiIable annexed;
Hos. GEO. c. MCKEE, of Mississippi,
has been selected to represent this State
as a member Of the National Republican
Executive Committee. Whyz
1t does look as if the stones which the
builders (of the Pilot J rejected are to
become tho head Of the corner.
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02
MCCoAIB CITY, Miss.
June 18th, 1874.

DEAR SIR: | am receiving many in
quiries from various sources North, for
lands to be occupied by parties, both as
individuals and in colonies. Through
the efforts | am making, with the appli-
ances | can avail myself of this interest
must be largely increased; and | feel
quite sure thai ere another year shall
pass, this State will receive large acces-
sions in the way of industrious, well-to-do
migrants, provided lands can be pro-
cured at such prices as they ought to be
sold for | do not wish to see the oppor-
tunity pass, and therefore request those
who have lands to sell, 70 forward to me
a description of them, with the price for
which they can be bought, etc. Let
every man resolve to give as liberal terms
as possible as to payments, and sell very
cheaply. Be assured that the best pos
sible policy is to satisfy the immigrant.
Prefer to have an assured and permanent
enhancement in value of the balance of
your property by the permanence of the
residence of purchaser, rather than to Sc
oIre a delusive and transient advantage
by an excessive price for what is sold.
While | will not accept these lands as
agent, | will endeavor to see that party
desiring to purchase may not depart with
out an opportunity, at least, to do so.
BY inserting this, you will confer, l
trust, favor on the community, and will
assist me in the end have in view-set-
tling this country with thrifty, industri-
Gus population.
Very respectfully yours,
NJ. B. HLLYARD,
Sec'v Miss Valley Comnanv
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02

Gen. Grant does not show disposition
to abandon his friends. Recently he APP
pointed Gov. Shepherd who has been
convicted in the court of public opinion,
at least, of connection with disreputable
rings, as one Of the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia. The Senate re-
jected the appointment by SO votes to g.
Thereupon the Cincinnati Gazette staid
Republican paper, makes bold to deliver
the following lecture to the President,
who has begun to realize with what a
wonderful difference the human heart is
prone to regard a setting and a rising sun
When informed that only SIX senators
voted for Shepherds confirmation, and
when he heard the names of those six he
must have asked himself "Who or
where are my friends?" The best friends
of the President are those Republican sen
ators who stood up like men and de-
nounced the nomination and voted with
an emphasis against it. The thirty six
senators who voted nay uttered the voice
of the people. That was a warming voice,
too and we feel confident that we represent
the mass of the people of the United States
in saying that the President, in upholding
or seeming to uphold such men as Shep-
herd, is running upon rocks that, if not
avoided, will destroy his reputation. The
senate has saved the country from the
Shepherd disgrace, but it can not save the
president unless the President decides not to
take another step toaeard the breakers 1chich
eUen lo,U, threaten has destruction.
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02

The President having approved o. the
bill for the distribution of the Geneva
award, nominated to the Senate the fol-
lowing gentlemen to be judges OF the
court of commissioners of the Alabama
claims: Hesekiah G. Wells, Of Michi-
gan; Martin Ryerson, of North Carroll
ma Kenneth Rayner, Of Mississippi; ;
George W. Woodward of Pennsylvania
and Caleb Baldwin, of Ohio; also, John
Davis, of Massachusetts,, to be clerk of
the court of commission
In the name of Hon. Kenneth Ray
ner the readers of THE CLARION, will
recognize citizen of the highest capa-
city and integrity-aD appointment, in
other words, eminently fit to be made. -
In politics, he Is literally a conservative;
and his appointment speaks well for the
discriminating judgment of the Presi-
dent; and it indicates, further, that the
influence of Senator Alcorn with the
Administration, is not altogether lost and
in this case, has been commendably ex-
ercised.
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02
Lt.-<sOV. Davis re-apPOinIS Cha "a
ceElOr Christian

On June both the term of Chancellor
Christian Of the 4th District, expired
Thereupon Lt-Gov. Davis, Governor &c
oteio, recommissioned him. Gov. Ames
before his departure for the North, had
appointed Mr. Dennis; but Gov Davis
has ignored the appointment, and holds
it to be void, for the plain reason that
there was no vacancy at the time it was
made The LIT. Governors position is
regarded by the bar as impregnabIe, and
his action will be applauded by all par
ties, not only because it is strictly in con
formity to the Constitution, but it con
tinues in the public service an upright
and able judge whose reappoinment was
universally desired throughout the Dis
trict.
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02

The most eloquent and popular Of all
the Northern preachers, DR. H w
Beecher, stands shivering on the preci-
pice Of an immeasurable depth Of infan'y.
Our columns are too limited to publish
the details ofthe scandal. The Northern
journals are full Of it.
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02

Some writer having proposed Presi-
dental ticket with the names of Eaton
and Lamar,-the Pittsburg Commercial
proceeds to discuss it in the following
complimentary style to our own distin-
guished Representative
Eaton is that br,iwling, traitorous COP
perhead whom the Democracy of Con
necticut have elected to the United States
Senate, and disgraced themselves by so
doing. Lamar is an ex-Mississippi rebel
who accepts the situation in good faith.
We don't believe he would permit his
good name to be sullied with such an
He is brave, frank, and in
genuous, while Eaton, ON the other hand,
was at once a recreant and a coward. ;"
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02
Expressions about the Next ESreAi
dency.
From the Kinds Co. Gazette.

[From the Kinds Co. Gazette.
Gen. w. T. Sherman is favorablv
spoken of by some of the conservative
newspapers of the country in connection
with the ensuing presidential election
Sherman's march through Mississippi in
1864, and that "march TO the sea, are
not forgotten, but it is claimed that he
afforded better terms to the Confederates,
when the day for surrender arrived, than
any other federal officer, and that, unlike
the great mass of the northen politicians.
he considered the war over when the
Confederates laid down their arms and
surrendered. We think a great shaking
up in political elements Of the country
will occur before the next presidential ele-
tion-a shaking up that will pretty well
destroy the political lines which have been
drawn for years past-and while we are not
prepared to say that we shall be for or
against Gen. Sherman, or for or against any
other man, weare free to say that we shall be
for the man and the men who promises best
for the country-for the peace and quiet
of the country, for its prosperity and hap
piness, for the destruction of the robber
rings, and for competency and integrity
in public officials, National and State.
The next presidential election in our
Judgment will present united West and
South, against united North and East.
The West and South will prove the
stronger power of the two, and will elect
its candidate. We expect to support the
man for President, who is named by the
West and South, whoever he NAV be.
and without stopping to inquire into his
past political or military career. We
shall only demand that he be competent,
honest, and faithful to the laws, the con-
stitution and the whole country.
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02

q BosToN, June 29.-The Legislature
to-day refused to pass the license bill over
the Governors veto by vote of 10 to 90.
A bill was introduced that sex shall not
be disqualification for service on school
commissions.
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02
rhe PIIoa.- waIr.

The Pilot is out of humor The Pilot
is mad. The Pilot IS in fever heat of
Indignation. It don't understand all
these rumors about the Federal appoint
ments which have recently been made for
Mississippi. Particularly Is it indignant
that Capt. Lake has received the ap-
pointment of I. s Marshal Capt. Lake
Of the 9 riverside newspaper-Capt.
Lake who had the temerity to advocate
the election Of Messrs Alcorn, Musgrove
and other Republicans of that ilk in the
last election and 10 perform the service
of manager-general Of their campaign.
The Pilot says that he was Chairman OF
the Democratic Executive Committee,
fact of which We never heard before,
being under the impression that Gen.
Lowry last served in that capacity, and
that Captain Lake, a Republican Of
very pronounced type, could not have
been qualified tor such place even if he
had been willing to serve.
The Pilot gives notice that it is going
to ascertain if these reports. are true. .
We imagine the Pilot has 'ascertained" TO
its hearts content Well what dreadful
thing is it going to do about it Capt
Lake is an original Republican, sup
porter of Gen, Grants administration
Off that is prerequisite) and his qualifi-
cation, apart from his political views, is
admitted on ali hands. We see no redress
for our aggrieved neighbor His only re-
course is to g grin and endure it.
From the Pllo..
Rumors have been thick upon the
street during the past few days, that the
L. S. Marshal and U. ). District Attor-
ney for the Southern District Of Missis-
sippi, and the Collector Of Internal Rev
enue for this District, have been summa-
rily removed, and other persons appoint
ed in their places The same authority
also says that the Chairman OF the Dem
ocratic Executive Committee, in the last
State canvass, has been rewarded for his
treason to the Republican party by an
appointment as T. >. Marshal and an
other member OF the same committee,
has been rewarded by the District Attor-
neyship. We have taken steps to ascer-
tain it the reports are true, and who OF
our Congressional delegation favored
their appointments, and when the proper
time arrives, shall give the matter due
attention. If treason to party is to be
rewarded in this manner and the Repub-
lican party Of Mississippi is to sustain
the men who offer and give such rewards,
nothing is more certain than that party
has very short lease upon the govern
ing power Of the State. So far as the
Pilot is concerned, its course is marked
out and its reputation established. 1t has
no compromise to make with traitors
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02

All the growing crops in the West are
reported by the Chicago Inter-Ocean to
be looking well and giving signs of q
large yield.
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02
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The \. o. Bulletin thinks that the
q recent overflow alone has driven more
g than 5000 negroes from the alluvial
- soil of this State 10 the table lands Of
q Mississippi and Texas
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02

We learn from the Oxford Falcon that
Col. v w. Thompson, in connection
with Mr.. NJ. D. Vance, intend starting
a new Republican paper in Oxford.
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02

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