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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-17

In its Commercial Review of Septem-
Der LIST, the n. o. Picayune calls atten-
ton to the common practice of fraud in
packing cotton. No honest farmer
need be warned against it; and the
dishonest ones who resort to it ought to
know that it will in the end recon upon
themselves. The Picayune says;
Unlike last season, the proportion of
dusty, sandy, stained and inferior Cot
ton has been small There is much COM
plaint, however, Of the quantity of mixed
Cotton that is discovered. 1t is too com
mon practice, whether from carelessness
or fraud, to pack Cotton falsely, putting
inferior Cotton in the middle OF the bale
and a better article outside. This may
deceive country merchant, but is Who'll
ly futile at any large market, inasmuch
as each bale before going on board of the
ship is bored with an auger. when the
deception is readily discovered and the
bale rejected to be afterward sold at
a disproportionately low price. If Cot
ton is falsely packed or mixed through
careIessness, the shipper has ultimately
to pay dearly for his lack of attention.
lift is done to defraud, it utterly rails to
attain that end.
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81 90 PER YEAR
A Missionary EIOPiBg 20 America
with "A ColOnel's Wife.

\ From The Edinburgh Conrant.
A painful elopement case has occurred
within the last few DAYS. the parties in.
VOWED occupying highly respectable
position IN society. The delinquents are
the wife OF colonel, at present serving
IN India, and Free Church missionary.
The lady, who is said to be highly accom-
pIished and of prep0ssessing appearance
had resided with her husband for some
years in India, and shortly after the birth
OF her fifth child had come to Edinburgh
and boarded herself and children with a
respectable family in a village in the
vicinity. In order apparently to further
the education of her eldest boy, she en-
gagged Free Church divinity student As
tutor, with whom, II appears, she became
very intimate. Ultimately she removed
from her lodgings in the village, and took
up quarters nearer the residence of the
tutor By-and-by the student received
an appointment as missionary to a station
III an important town in the North, which
he had not long occupied before he was
followed by the lady. The intimate rela-
tons and frequent communications which
took place between the parties became the
subject OF talk among the gossips of the
town but nothing of a scandalOus nature
was suspected until it was rumored that
the lady and missionary had left the town
on the same day for the South. Inquiry
was, of course, made by the friends OF the
parties, who were traced 10 London. 1t /
Is said that they have gone to America,
but nothing has yet been definately ascer-
tanned in Edinburgh as to their wherea-
bouts. The five children have been left |
behind. 1t is said that the lady will have |
97O0 in her own right in the event OF
certain circumstances occurring. 1t Is |
also said that the hu, band of the lady |
will arrive in Edinburgh about the begin
ming OF next month, and that the case
will then likely come before the law
courts. The lady is said to be about |
years ofage, and the mission
AIRY is reported to be her junior by ten
years.
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From the Nashville Union and American.
Our readers will remember that one
Franklin Hall was arrested i'll Putnam
county, few days since, on suspicion OF
being connected with the murder Of Dick
Mckinley, an inofensive colored man,
sixty years of age, residing in that county,
and that Hall turned States evidence,
acknowledging hi guilt, and implicate
Joseph Petty, Timothy Apple, James
Bush, John Bush and Alex. Draper, Of
Smith county, Bluford Calicut, of jack
son county, and Carroll Reed, of Put
nam county. The following particulars
regarding this brutal affair were told by
Hall:
"When the door of McKinley's cabin
had been broken down by the assaultlng
party, Mckinley grasped an axe to de-
fend himself, when he was shot in the
bowels by Petty, whereupOn the Old man
struck at Petty, and the two fell to the
ground together. Apple then ran up,
wrenched the ak from McKinley's hand
and broke the negroes skull with the head
of the ak, so that his brain prOtruded.
James Bush shot Mckinley in the back S
the old man lay upon the ground in this
helpless condition, setting his shirt on ire
and burning the skin severely, so closely
was the weapon held to the body Of the de-
fenseless victim of this hellish assault"
During the atfray, Apple receiveda wound
near the knee, inflicted by the ak, and
John Bush was shot in the arm by some
one of his own party.
James Bush and Calieut were arrested
soon after the above disclosures had been
made by Hall and the three were lodged
in Jail at Cookeville, the county seat Of
Putnam county. Wednesday night
party of armed men, proceeded to the Jail,
overpowered the jailer, removed the three
prisoners, released Calicut and Bush, and
shot Hall to death, in the edge Of town,
Notwithstanding his cries for mercy.
The most active exertions are being made
by the citizens of Putnam county TO Sc
cure the arrest of the members Of the
party now at large. 1t is stated that
Calieut made a confession, III which he
said he belonged to an organized band,
and gave the names of several of the
members of the organization. The fol-
lowing is a description of the murderers
of Mckinley, who have not yet been ar
rested.
Draper is about six feet four inches
high, Aorid complexion, with sandy whis
kers and hair, is slightly stoop-shouldered,
and of angular build.
Apple is about Ave feet six inches in
hight, square build, prominent features,
with reddish complexion, hair light
brown, and is slightly knock-kneed.
John Bush is six feet high, has white
hair and white eyebrows, blue eyes, one Of
which remains partially closed.
Petty is about FIVE feet ten inches
high square build, broad face, blue eyes,
light brown hair, is some what knock
kneed, has a stumbling walk, and will
weigh about one hundred and eighty
pounds.
Reed is about the same highland build
as Petty, wears light mustache, has light
brown hair, blue eyes, and weighs be-
tween one hundred and sixty and one hun
dred and eighty pounds.
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IsHAM HAMRTSON.

Walking in the hall of the Gilmer
Hotel, the other day, we saw on the
wall picture, engraved by Prof. San
ders, which by its fine, splendidly devel-
i oped features at once attracted our atten-
ton. Upon inquiry, we learned that it
was the likeness of the brave and la
mented Col Isham Harrison, engraved
for his daughter, Mrs. L. Turner Sykes,
Of this city.
As in life, he was the pride of his fam
lily, so also, was he claimed as one of
East Mississippi's noblest sons Indeed,
he was endowed by nature to captivate
and attract. The mould in which his
! genial nature was cast, seemed impregna-
ted with the qualities of the magnet and
all who came within the scope of its in
fuence were irresistibly chained And
his intellect was but a few degrees
below his pure and spotless moral
nature.
Soon after admission to the bar, he
was chosen District Attorney, when
to break a spear or cross lance with the
lawyers of that day, was like the battle
of the giants. Still, the young attorney
held the ground he gained and steadily
advanced the new conquests. He was
successfully elected for nine or more years,
and was never defeated, nor we think
opposed. As long as he remained in the
field, no antagonist entered to dispute his
claim.
The District was never ADLER represent.
ed by legal lights, than when VIM. L.
Harris graced the bench, and Isham Har
rison bore the commission of it's prosecu-
ting attorney. On retiring against the
protestations of his friends and the bar
of the entire district, and until the break
ing out of the war, he continued the peer
of the most eminent of the bar in north or
east Mississippi.
Sanguine in temperament, firm and
unalterable in the performance of duty,
and was among the first to prove by his
acts a willingness 20 lay down his life in |
defence of those princi pies which he and
other great minds of Mississippi had for
years claimed as rights.
In furtherance of his convictions, he !
joined at Mobile the first expeditions to |
Pensacola, Fla, January, 1861. Sub
on the organization of Banks |
daIe's 18th Mississippi Regiment, he was
elected its Major Later, he was com
missioned Colonel of cavalry, and at the |
head of his regiment in the bloody charge
on the enemys entrenched position at
Harrisburg, on the morning of the 18th
of July, 1864, he fell, pierced by leadeD
messenger of death. With rude blanket
as his winding sheet, he was buried where
he fell, until the following January, when
his family removed his well preserved
body to its final resting place in the ceme
terry here.
He was forty-three years of age when
be fell, and the daguerrotype from which
the engraving is copied, was, as will be
seen by the style of dress, taken in or
about the year 1857, for his oldest brother,
Gen. James E. Harrison of Texas, and
by the family, thought to be the best of
the numerous ones in their possession.
Index.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-17

One who never travelled upon the ocean
expects to find it somewhat thickly pop
ulated. He thinks of the vast travel and
traffic that goes over the waters, and he
is ready to imagine that the great deep is
alive with the hurrying to and fro of the
nations. He reads of lands "whose
commerce whitens every sea, and he is
ready to think that the ocean itself Is as
full of sails as the harbor of some mighty
metropolis. But he finds his mistake.
As he leaves the land the ships begin to
disappear. AS he goes on his way they
soon all vanish, and there is nothing
about him but the blue sea and the Bonded
sky. Sometime he may meet or overtake
a solitary ship during the day; but then,
again, there will be many days when not
a single sail will cross the horizon There
are spaces measured by thousands of
miles over which no ship has ever passed.
The idea of nations ''commere whiten-
ing every sea" il the widest fancy. If
all the ships that have ever been built
were brought together Is 3 single feet,
they would fill but hand breadth of the
ocean. The space, therefore, that man
and his works occupy on the sea s as
small in extent as the hold on it by his
power is slight and superficial. Both
together are nothing. The ocean covers
three ourths Of the surface of the globe,
and by far the greater part Of this vast
expanse is. and ever has been, entirely
free from his presence and visitation,
IT 81 y
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AFTERNOON.
By HARRIET PRESCOTT spoFroRD.

Inc boat Is rocking on the river.
1ht river lie Is ali awake:
The tide is coming in:
a Thousand riuples run an silver:
Oars Hash; ana where the waters break
Flashes silver fin
Oars flash and dip; as if on wings
we SWerp above the sweeping stream.
While like "a foui of light
INTO the sun the sturgeon springs
ana DIue the arrowy Wv allows CLEAN
About US i'll their flight
Beyond the breakers and the bar
Ihe great ships with their swelling salts
Are tossing out to sea;
They glide through night and distance IA,
For CULTS where brood the unknown gaIes
To tempt their mystery.
but we, between the blOsSomino shores
Wlii pluck the boughs, will mark the riIs
Ium bling their foam along
viii wait, in resting on our oars,
Some message from the mighty hills,
Or catch some ploughboy's song
Oh, happier We than they whose choice
PurSu"s the dark and awful swelIs,
Thus, till the stars, to roam,
And turn when, like a mothers voice,
We hear the tender evening bells
ending us sweetly home!
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Crime in Tennessee.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 6.-Ten
DAYS since a sixty-year old negro, named
Mckinney, of Putnam county, Tenn,
was taken out of his bed and butchered
by six masked men. A few days after
wards, white man, named Hall, turned
States evidence, and said himself and
five of his neighbors did the murder
Hall was putin Jail for safe keeping with
one of the five, named Calicut. Thurs
day night the Jail was entered by masked
men. Hall and Calicut were taken
out, Calicut released and Hall shot to
pieces.
Pat Lyons and Bomen Sanders are on
trial at Lebanon to-day, charged with
being the murderers Of Julia Hayden,
the colored school teacher who was killed
at louisville. Sanders, who was brought
to the Jail at Nashville, few days ago,
was charged with another ofense, was
taken in irons to Lebanon. To-day he
admits he had killed two negroes. He IS
twenty years old, and desperate char
acter.
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a SPeeci' 10 ,he Poin'.

A South Carolina darkey in recent
speech, said:
"Mista Churman, l can'thep cussin, but
terberdam IF things amt mixed, and de
Rippublikin party is gwne to de devil.
Oars Guvnor Moses a-raisn' Of bonds end
pothecaryin OVEN, and den gitten de
money an putin Of it in his pocket. /
don't like dis potheeary biznis no how
and in specially when it come to money
matters. Now Guvnor Moses heap better
stop pothecaryin' dem bonds, and leave
EN- 10 de safe, whar day won't do nobody
no harm; and | repe Is, sab, can't help
cussin, butterberdam ef things amt mixed +,
an de Rippublikin party is gwine to dc
devil pretty fast enough"
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We ado NOS Stream Great ThIng-.

At one period in the history of our
race dreams had great significance, and
not a few people in the world still attach
Importance to them; but from all that has
been said, it is plain that they are nothing
more than the products of an unbridled
imagination. They are no longer pro-
phetic, or the medium through which
truth is communicated to men. The
great physician of Rome the imm rtal
Galen, professed to have derived most of
what he knew of medicine from them; but
if he was not mistaken, his dreams must
have been of very different character
from the disjC inted visions that visit the
pillows of physicians, as well as other men,
nowadays. Resuscitations Of ideas and
images stored up in the mind, no doubt
valuable information long forgotten, may
sometimes be recalled in their progress
1t has been said that Dante was inspired
with the Divina Comedia in a dream. and
Coleridge wrote down his Kubla Khan as
the images had appeared to him when
asleep; but it is not when the brain is
partially wrapped in slumber, but when
all parts of it are active, that great things
are executed BY the mind. From Sep
TENDER Home and School" Louisville,
XIV.
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We dare say that Gen. Grant e on
posed TO this sweeping and danpgro1r
Civil Rights bill, now only awaiting it.
passage by the Honse Of Representatives
and It's approval by the President 10
become a law, and we dare say that upon
the test Of this bill, il made law tbe
Republican purity will be disastrousIv
defeated in every Southern Stale except.
ing South Carolina and Mississippi IN
Y. Herald
And we dare say that on the isolated
question Of mixed schools, party f,yorinq
such IA system, would be defeated. ten no
one in Mississippi We repeat chat the
colored masses are satisfied with the
present plan Of separate schools-that
they have never asked Tor mixed schools
and are opposed to the change proposed
in the school system By mischicvous dem.
agogues and fsnatical fools.
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The Princess KOui-e and Her IIus-
band.

Very often, when take my walks
abroad in Kensington, / meet the Prin-
cess Louise, always attended by her hus-
fand, the Marquis Of Lorne. met them
yesterday, just as they were going into
a shop on High Street. The Princess
was horribly dressed. She wore an old
gown that was actually dirty, and bon
net that had apparently seen several
summers. She affects this kind of thing.
She has IS, 600 year Tor herself paid
by her grateful country; bG. she certainly
does not spend it on dress. Her husband
was deceDtly dressed, bui he wore no
gloves, and this was pity, for his hands
were large ami red. The Princess never
was handsome, but she would look better
if she paid little more attention to her
apparel. Correspondent Of the
New York World.
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Old Girls

Middle-aged young ladies are looking
I'D in the matrimonial market It is be-
coming quite the fashion in England for
men to marry women older than them
selves. Thus the brilliant wife of the
brilliant secretary for India, the marquis
of Salisbury, is several years his senior,
and now the earl of Pembroke, the great
est ''catch" in England, who is "a, is to
be married to lady Gertrude Talbot, who
is "a. Lord Pembroke is the son of the
late weIl-known Sidney Herbert, and in
herited vast estates of both his uncle and
father. He is the greatest property-own-
er in and around Dublin, and has at least
f1O0, 900 a year. Lord Pembroke's
mother. lady Herbert of Lea, who is
well-known as an author, Joined the COM
munion of tbs Church of Rome soon after
her husbands death.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-17

PoNToToc, MISS, Aug. "a, 1874.
To Whom it May Concern
Inasmuch as we are convinced from
unouestionable testimony derived from
two gentlemen, whose integrity cannot be
dou6fed. and that testimony having been
placed in our possession in writing BY
the aid of a committee of four Masons-
part of the Lodge and neighboring Lodges
wherein it has been ascertained that
one RUFUS w. YANCY, minister OF
the Gospel, for the last two orthree years,
has been slandering this Lodge, as well as
the members thereof, and particularly so
of two of itsworthy members, by branding
them, this Lodge and masonry in general
as horse-thieves and smugglars of horse
thieves.
Therefore, in consequence Of the above
statements referred to. We hereby
denounce the said Parson Rufus W.
Yancey as malicious Liar and Sian
derer.
(signed) g. g. HORTON, W. "a.
B. M. EELzEY, Secy.
ssThe Southern Homestead" at Merldl-
an. and THE CLARION 1t jackson, please
copy.
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AARNHAI;S NnTICE

sssI,n give notice that a warrant in
o.. ky Wv was issued on the 18th day of
ksleaz = =. - 1 against the estate of J. A.
7se. s1d = In erp"lse, in the County of
81 81 a bankrupt on creditors pefition !:
. c, pa payment Of any debts and delivery
perry belonging to said BANKRUPT.
III us use, and transfer of any pro-
~ ef 4 ~ are forbidden by law; that q
p d., 'Ie creditors of said Bankrupt to
R35sa T ,l. ueoss, and choose one or more as
baak,s,.sLf estate will be held at a Court
Esar AsGSSy to be holden at Jackson, before
"a a. Register in Bankruptcy, on
kek O1 September, A. d. 1874, at ii
J. L. LAKE, JR,
~ I. 1s-gg - :. Marshal and Messenger.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-17

Certainly, no citizen of the South is
better calculated TO speak the true senti-
ment and feeling of the Southern people
than the honored and beloved Davis.
Hv speaks not only for the living, but, in
tones thrilling in their sublimity, for
that noble band of dead martyrs who
have made our names imperishable in the
annals of an unbiased history. His adj
dress before the Memphis meet, ng, which
we publish this morning, is peculiarly APP
propriate and true.-Enterprise Courier
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A timid man wants to know chow to
tell a mad dog" eve don't know what
he wants us to tell him, but the safest way
would be to communicate with the dog in
writing. Send the letter from a gun in
the shape of waddiDg, followed by small
shot to see if he gets it. !" N
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-17

Shocks boy heard him say the other
day that there was money in hens, and
he proceeded TO investigate the old mans
poultry yard. He had gone through a
dozen fine specimens when the old gent
descended upon him, and the boy now
wonders if there is a balm in Gilead.
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@=,XEssraeaNes AEaasNI,ss.
LEGAL NOTICES.

o...,t;t Court Of the United States for
? II En- southern Dis rirt Of Mississ ppi
.r., BANK or KENTUCKY
VS. IA Equity.
lorlsl PraDr ct al
NOTICE
,-rrgsAs. en- tho l9ih day Of May, A. d.
M an [n.er40eufo : Decree was rem
" lid cause wherein the following
rlgf g rs tnrther ordered, adjudged, and
A" b.t nRBlica5ion be made for SIX con-
ecfe r.. ,soks in the WEEKLY CLARION, a
Ifs5 ,ngsp4pef printed IN the city OF Jack
i'i 35if-'5si.sppi requiring all persons having
laS,siasf the estate OF Rice G. Ballard,
,1.ed 10 come in and prove up the same
~. AIcbv McGehee, a commissioner of this
y. b..ort the l. dag of October next, and
bote their share 10 the costs in this
toeurred or they will be forever barred
.uri5ht of participation IN the avails Of
rif Audit is further ordered, adjudged
4 ! h. reed that said commissioner take J.roof
A .tate and report an account as between
A j tfes Of sam | ). Bovd and Rice G.. Bal
! deceased. showing the balance due by
Er,rlo the other, charging interest at the
ts6f six per mum per annum, upon the
~. thereof He viii state said account UP
IL date Oh the death OF said Ballard as a
as and sepal ate account, giving the
N egret then que ny Glitter ESTATE, 10 the OL1er
fgiH then state a separate account, show
,,be AMOUNT received by said S. s. Boyd as
F,eeutor of the last i'll and testament of
Ballard aud in his representative capac-
NH the legal and valid disbursement made
lin as such executor.
,gi il is further ordered, adjudged and de-
sj thar the said commissioners shall take
claims OF compliments as fully proven in
accounting TO be had under this decree
A viii also take and state and account of the
Hays and doiugs OF said Louisa Purdy as the
Nnaisratrix Of said Ballard deceased, of
n5nes received by her and valid disburse-
MS made in tie course Of her administra-
A d and the balance due by her to said estate,
any
n he meeting for said purposes will be held
4 be ] 5. tourt room in the City Hall, in the
Y Of Jackson on the LIST dav OF October,
a shere and when all parties interested
attend.
A. NJ. McGEHEE,
Special Commissioner.
A 1rpst 20 1874 CIV
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4 private letter to the editor of the GA
zette from a friend at Warrenton, Va.
states that Gen. Pemberton (who lives near
that place. Is now engaged ia writing aiull
narrative, Republication, Of his operations
in 1868, in and around Vicksburg r.
RAYMOND Gazette.
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"Mr. Swelkins. what is a comet?"
asked the elder Mrs. Swelkins "Noth-
ing but predatory star, with a mucila-
gious tail, said Mr.. ;. Jane, said Mrs.
s., ''git the dictionair and hunt for them
air words, your father always did talk
that way afore we was married"
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h PURSUANCE Of the provisions of a
Deed Of Trust executed by Mary I. Smith
! Marshall J. Smith, her husband, on the
ioli day January, A. d. 1872, for the pur-
s. j securing 10 james Jennings McComb.
liverpool. I'm land the payment of prom
ssY note tor SIX thousand dollars, DIRE wn by
sid Nary T. Smith and Marshall J. Smit tn
bsir order and by them Endorsed, dated at
~ OIL aus. on the day and year above
,ial. and payable on the !, h OF March, A. d.
q with interest after maturity at 8 per
-t PR annum and duly recol ded IN deep
x, No 80, PIP SO and "a. The undersigned
gs;te named III said deed, and to whom the
-nartv is conveyed. VIII, ON Monday. tho