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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13
Krelmmdsa Tmmmany Tricks af Al
corn University

It has come to our knowledge that s. J.
Ireland, Proctor Of Alcorn University, in
purveying for the institution. BIAS been
in the habit Of claiming commission q
5 per cent. as douceur for controlling the
trade in favor Of the merchant. Thus in
purchasing bill of goods Of say $3.50, the
accounts have been made out for 81, 600
he paying the former sum charging the
latter to the Univer-ity-an pocketing
claimed the commission in settling bill,
and it was not allowed because there was
no previous understanding of that kind
But on subsequent purchases at the same
house, it was allowed-the invoices show
ing one price, against the University
though the firm actually received five pei
cent. less.
It is proper to say that in the case to
which we refer, the principal of the firm,
on being informed of the nature of the
transactions, by his statesmen, expressed
his displeasure and forbade their repeti-
ton. Ireland then took his trade else
where
Under the law, the Proctor of the
University is paid a stipulated sum for
his services. The commission is swindle
of the State from whose treasury it Is
transferred to the pockets of the Proctor.
To what extent the feloneous practice has
been carried, we are not informed. The
presumption is that it has been the custom
of the Proctor ever since he has had
charge of the business. A rigid investi-
CATION is in order, and if it is conducted
with view to bring out the facts, the
taxpayers who support the institution will
ascertain the sum of which they have
been feeced We submit the matter to
Gov Ames, whose duty requires him to
guard the interests of the State and to
see that the laws are faithfully executed.
He has cognizance of the matter as chief
Executive and er-oficiO member of the
Board of Trustees of AlcOrn Universe
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

In the report elsewhere in this paper,
will be found full presentation of the
facts, as they appear of record at the Au-
ditor's Office, touching the official conduct
OF A. w. Dorsey, clerk of the Circuit
Court of Warren County.
The evidence is conclusive of Dorsey's
guilt in forging certificates and the Au-
ditor has determined to turn his case over
to the District Attorney, who will doubt
less see that he is indicted, arraigned for
trial and punished 1t is a clear case of
robbery, and there is no escaping the
penalty, if the law made and provided
for offences Of that nature is enforced.
In this connection, We must express TO
Auditor Gibbs THE CLARIoN's acknowl-
edgments, and especially those Of the
public, for his faithful performance o.
duty ia investigating the case, arresting
the operations of the forger, and placing
them at the disposal of the press. His
action throughout has been open, frank
aud above-board, precisely what it should
have been in a public officer charged
with an important trust.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

We learn that dispatches have been
received by the Governor that fifteen
hundred negroes are under arms, moving
on Austin, the capital of Tunica county;
and that two hundred whites are under
arms to resist their progress, with rein
forcements on the way from Memphis,
and probably other localities. This, we
learn, is the tenor of the dispatches,
which we infer are repetitions of rumors
that had reached their authors.
The trouble is supposed to have orig
mated in the seizure and Imprisonment
of a white man named Smith, by body
of negroes, after he had been released by
Judge Z. s Fisher, before whom he had
been taken on writ of habeas corpus.
This part of the statement we have
learned from the Austin Cotton Plan:,
a Republican paper published at the spot,
and is undoubtedly true. The inference
is that the sanguinary movements reported
in the dispatches, have originated from
this proceeding That it was high-handed
and outrageous all must admit. 1t was
the presumptious defiance of law by a
mob, and trampling under foot the de-
cision of the Judiciary, the safeguard of
order and the protection of person and
property under The Constitution. Ii pro-
ceedings of this character are to become
of frequent repetition, the attempts of
conservatism to ward off the terrible con-
sequences of race contest, will be in
effectual The coIored people are in no
condition to provoke such struggle; and
they will be put fatally in the wrong if
they permit themselves to be carried into
the excuses of which they have been
guilty in Tunica. The law is supreme,
and the decision of the Courts must be
held superior to the DEGREES of theAmoh.
Since the foregoing was put in type we
have received some additional particulars
which viii be found elsewhere.
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Charges Of larceny against the
superintendent of Public I'm
StH.scEiOu.

We have printed in another column,
from the Vicksbulger, a copy of an in
dictment found against T. w. Cardozo,
Superintendent of Public Instruction in
this State, by grand jury of New York,
for purloining under an assumed name
and false pretense, divers letters contain
ing money belonging to other parties.
1t is alleged that to answer the charge,
he was required to give bail in the sum
of 81 800 and that to avoid the conse-
quences Of his guilt he left Brooklyn and
is now a refugee from justice.
According TO this report the charges
have not been answered but have been
virtually confessed by the course of the
accused III running away from trial
Vague rumors Of this kind have been
bruited about for sometime, and even
during the late canvass, they were in
circulation but they have now for the
first time assumed and official and anthem
tic shape. 1t is not to be presumed that
the party which nominated the person
resting under this Indictment was in
formed of its existence when he was
chosen. They would have scarcely
pslmed upon the State for the Office of
Superintendent of Public Instruction a
person with this stigma affixed to him;
and assuming it to have been the victim
of an imposition, his party, if it has
respect for itself, much less decent con-
sideration for the public at large. will,
upon verifcation of the facts, demand
his resignation.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

A "White Line" paper is needed very
much in jackson, and some enterprising
man of brains and experience in the
profession, could do well by investing
there.
The CLARION is almost as dumb as an
adder about the white line" struggle in
Vicksburg; a few years ago the pen of
its editor would have furnished columns
of eloquence and encouragement. How
have the mighty fallen !-Vicksburger.
We prize the appreciation of friends
whose good opinion we have reason to
value as highly as those of the Vicks-
burger. 1t is held subordinate only to
our own convictions of duty. In this
case, we are censured, not for what we
have said, but for what we have not
said. AS part of the jackson clique
we have often been charged with too
much meddling now, we are censured
for not saying enough.
Appropos of the "color line" as a
political slogan, the Vicksburger ia mis-
taken in intimating that we have ever
advocated it. We had supposed our past
course for which we have been no little
censured, had always proved the reverse
We have deprecated it from the very be-
ginning of Reconstruction, as our readers
well know, and reluctant to unsay the
lessons of years, and TO repudiate the
professions we have constantly made,
and the platforms, National and State,
on which we have stood since 1868, we
will regret if the alternative between it
and something worse than it, were the
only course left open to U.S. Without
censure from US, contemporaries can take
whatever course on this or any other
question they may think proper. We
will certainly exercise the same right for
ourselves if the question should become
practically an issue in an election in
which we can, without obtrusive inter-
meddling, take part
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

Rev. c. B. Dayton of Cincinnati, and
ex-chaplain Of Congress, preached ser.
mon on the I'd, strongly favoring the
license system for the liquor trade. He
is reported to have said that he had seen
all phases and examined all arguments
in the temperance movement, which were
mostly unsound; that temperance peo-
pie would have, at last, to re-argue the
subject from new standpoint. He be-
lieved that the late phases of the move
ment indicated that they aimed at liquor
sellers instead of the Incorporate men
who were the fountains of the trade. 1t
was like trying to dip a river dry at the
mouth.
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rgVSsEsSEPE COLORED DEGNITA
RTES sGHR FHNG UHD A MDSS
ar DETROIT.
The d to pay at tie siddle House



From the d troit Tribune, August ..
The following telegram seems to have
been sent broadcast over the country;
DETROIT, Aug. 6-SenatOr Is. Is.
Bruce and Secretary of State, James Hiil,
both colored, of Mississippi, were Objecte
to this morning by Il number of would
be whites at the Biddle House here.
The whites refused TO eat at the same
table with the above named gentlemen.
Considerable excitement prevails.
The facts of the case are these: Senator
Bruce and Mr.. Hill, and another colored
man named Cardoza, who are here IN at
tendance upon the American Educational
Association, arrived in Detroit on Tuesday
and put up at the Biddle House, where
they were furnished with rooms and treat
ed precisely as her guests of the House.
On Wednesday Miss Kate +. French,
Miss Lizzie j. French, and Miss Nellie
+. Randolph, of New Brunswick, n. j.,
who were also stopping at the same hotel,
asked for their bills, announced that they
did not propose to "eat with niggers,
paid what they owed, and left the house.
Several other persons made similar OBJ
iections, and Mr.. johnson, one of the
clerks OF the motel, lnen cdlleu upon MI.
Bruce and his friends and asked whether
they would object to having their meals
sent to their rooms, and was informed
that this would be satisfactory. A gem
tleman, representing the Harper Broth
ers, of New York, demurred TO this pro-
ceeding, however, and it was subsequent
ly agreed that he and his friends and
Mr.. Bruce and friends should occupy n
table together in the dnng-room, and
this arrangement is being peaeeably and
quietly Carried out, and no sc excitement"
whatever exists.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13
How IA SGrRighIOuG Conservative
Ticket GA the Color Line was
EBeHten by a Compromise Ticket.
From the Okolona states.

From the Okolona States.
Our municipal election on Monday last
resulted in the defeat, by very small
majority, of the white ticket; but we are
proud to chronicle the fact and send it out
to the world, that large majority Of the
white people contested every inch of
ground against the Radical Compromise
ticket.
Some of our truest Democrats, with
the best motives, proposed a consultation
with the negro party to ascertain If fair
compromise ticket could be agreed upon
for the Board Of Aldermen. The
two conventions appointed committee Of
conference, and the committee on Satur-
day last reported compromise ticket to
the white convention, which the conveh-
ton, for reasons satisfactory to itself, re-
jected, and put out an unnixed ticket.
Thereupon the negro party nominated the
Compromise ticket, composed Of four
white men, and two colored, two Of them,
white, being the most pronounced against
Radicalsm, and another influential white
man, whom the negro party does not claim
as a Republican.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

In North Carolina the Democratic
majority is between 1000 and 10. 600.
Seven of the eight Congressman are
Democratic, gain of two. The Dem
ocFats gain twenty in the Legislature.
In Tennessee, the Democrats have
swept the State in the local elections.
The. general elections viii come of in
November. The Democratic papers
claim that &c was the sscoIor line" In
either State, the aggregate white popu-
IatiOn represents voting majority Of fifty
or sixty thousand.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13
Saws the Brookbaven Citizen

w. G. Mcmillan, 1st district; q. S.
Mcmillan, I'd district; E. H. Osgood,
18th district; III. Cassidy, 18th district;
E. G. Peyton, Jr., 10Th district, and w.
B. Peyton of the jackson district; these
gentlemen we know personally, and speak
Of our own knowledge, and the evidences
of all the attorneys who have business in
their courts, that they are men Of honor,
integrity, and possessed of rare ability
such as peculiarly fit aud qualify them
for the positions which they occupy,
This is Republican testimony, Col.
Deason gives it. And yet it is rumored
that Gov. Ames has repented him of the
trust he has conferred oil one Of these
linen of honor, integrity, rare ability,
etc., since his decision in the Injunction
case, and seriously meditates Withholding
his name from the Senate.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13
Reform in Arkansas.
The following are the Reforms adopted
hx, tho A RI Convention

The following are the Reforms adopted
by the Arkansas Convention:
/. The removal of all the present in cum
bents OF all offices by the election OF sac
cessors; .. The abolition OF IA very large
number of offices; ). The consolidation into
single offices of the duties now divided IN
many cases between several offices; 4. The
repeal of all fees and perquisites, and the
substitution of fixed salaries; s. The re-
modelling of the Legislature by the election
Of Senators in single districts, aud the cleo
ton of Representatives, SO far "a possible, in
single districts Special legislation i prohibit
ted; the Supreme Court is reduced to three
Judges: and various 9th = reform are 10 be
made. The Governor will be stripped of
the extraordinary powers now possessed by
him.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13
Den.h of ,Ir-. waller AcIser.

From The Enterprise Courier.
The editor left for Paulding Thursday
night to attend the obsequies of his be-
loved and eldest sister, the wife of Capt.
Walter Acker. This estimable lady died
very suddenly Thursday afternoon, and
the sad news was il severe shock to her
relatives and friends, her brothers in thi,
city not even being aware Of her illness
until they were informed of her death.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

The complaint Of the drouth is loud
and long. The sky seems to have turned
to brass; the earth to ashes. Cotton is
shedding its forms at fearful rate, and
the injury is still going on. Nobody can
predict the end
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13
M'CoMB CITY.

Three years ago, the ground on which it
stands was comparatively a wilderness.
Now it is the site of thriving industry
and gives promise of becoming city of
Importance and magnitude within brief
time. The land on which it is located,
was purchased two or three years ago by
the Southern Railroad Association (if
am rightly informed) for the location of
machine shops for the roads which it con-
Irolled. Immense shops with all the
machinery and other appliances needed
for the business, have sprung up as if by
an enchanter's wand within anincredibly
short space of time, evincing the energy
and enterpriseof the managers ofthe roads
now concentrated and merged into the
New Orleans, ST. Louis & Chicago r. R.
Company.
Here the
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

SPEAKS VOLUMES. The fact men,
toned by our Democratic contemporaries
at Vicksburg that notwithstanding all the
excitement on the race question and the
"color line" in that city, forty colored men
voted the Peoples Ticket. H
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

From every one we hear testimony of
the cool and determined bearing of Gen.
Mckee, in the face of the bowling mob
who assailed him in Vicksburg. His
conduct is reported to have been as
courageous as that of his assailants was
cOwardly. a.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

Read the article in another column
under the title "How will you treat
them, from the Farmers indicator.
Its sentiments are approved by all the
intelligent class OF our people.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

In the Arkansas Convention are thirty
seven farmers, thirty-two lawers, eight
doctors, three ministers, two merchants,
and six occupations not stated. These
men all have permanent interest in the
state, and are legislating for the public
good.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

A correspondent Of the Chicago Tri-
bune says that the Anti-Railroad law of
Wisconsin, which was rushed through
the last Legislature in the heat of passion,
is disappointing the expectations of the
public. Its workings, says the cores
pendent, have resulted in serious incon-
venience to all parties interested, ard no
one can be said to be benefited by it.
Its repeal is loudly called for by shippers
of lumber and Touring mill men, and
that all classes of businessmen and far
mers are injured by its operations, as it
has stagnated business and produced a
general uneasiness IN all kinds of trade.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

TIE SHUBUrA TIMEs.CharIe A.
Smith, ESQ, no less eloquent with pen
than tongue, has Withdrawn from the
Times, and 1t is now conducted solely BY
the proprietor, John Mccormick, Esq, !,
who has brought the Times to its present
high standard Fl sxcellencea dCaptinned
good rk to him.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

During the past week, the Independ-
ents, the third party men, in Michigan,
Kansas and Iowa, met in State Conven-
ton, nominated their tickets and\ flung
their banners to the breeze. 4
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13
More RePudintiOn-Th Arknn'-
COuvensiOn.

The Arkansas State Convention ' q.
batting the question Of repudiating N
bonds, about SO, 900, 900 in amount. ~ y.
thorized by the Legislature, while un'.
control Of the Republicans, 10 be Issleo y
certain railroad companies. These pony.
have not all been Issued, Gov. ba15.
having refused to give them to caTI Y.
roads thst had not complied with Wy
conditions. What amount has been sll.
and put on the market we do not KY.
but il is almost certain that al W. I,l,
disowned on the ground Of fraud. -,
III peolG ue,;, ,L -. ~uu ,i ~ vi9b u.s.
Louis Republican.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

The Yazoo Democrat says that the
bonds of the officers of that county are
all straw-not worth "a pinch of snuff. "
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13
Special Correspondence Of The
Clarion.
McCoMB CIrY. August 9th, 1874.

In boarding the train the other evening
at jackson, your correspondent was
startled by rumor of serious trouble
between the whites and blacks at Beau
regard. The report was that the blacks
were in state of insurrection, and with
blood-thirsty spirit, were ready to put
their design OF
TREASON, sTRATEGEM AND sPoILs
into execution. Their movements had
been secret and mysterious for some
time
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13
I'll URSDAY, - AUGUST 10, 1874.

William, . Enquirer" and the pro-
ceedings of Public Meeting in Pontotoc
viii appear in our next issue.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

CoNFEssToS.-In their address calling
for State Convention in South Carolina
the Republican Executive COMMITTEES
acknowledges the failure to fulfill the
pledges of 1872 and the necessity of re-
form; that the responsibility of the
knavery has been made chargeabIe to
the colored race" and appeals to Repub-
icans of every shade, to elect honest and
capable men. Is this genuine promise
of reform, or is il sounding brass
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

Referring to the defeat of corruption
and incompetency in the Vicksburg cleo
tion-the West Point Times, Republi-
can paper, says:
As we have more than once said, if
the Republican party of Mississippi ex-
poets to maintain its ascendency in this
State, it must "unload" much of the
impurity and rottenness that is consum-
ing It's very life blood. Ignorance and
infamy must no longer be permitted to
usurp the management and control Of the
party, as unfortunately in too many in
stances, all through the State, has been
the case in the past. Intelligence, hon
esty, moral and social worth, must
come tothe front and assert their suprem-
acy
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COMPANY


has established itself with Gen. A. NJ,
West (whose name is the synonym of
success itself and is familiarlas a house
hold word with the people among whom
he'was reared and to the advancement
of whose interests he has toiIed) 50 Presi-
dent, and C.,l. M B. Hillyard as Secreta.
ny. The object of this association Is
TO encourage Immigration develop5a the.
agricultural resources Of the State-pro-
mote the building of mannfactories--and,
in a word, quicken into life and anina-
'eonaA thossssSurces Of wealth and pros
1IPPeFfty which have been dormant il
"A MEIfslFissipR hose natural advantagesaTa.
inferior to none, MISREPRESENTATION most
others, Of her sister States.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

= The Arkansas. COuvention proposes to
FePudiate nine millions of Fraudulent
bonds saddled on the State BY the late
regime. That's the way to unload"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

In describing colored picnic at the
Atmore place, Madison county, the Mail
Conservative says:
We learn, that j. j. Spelman made an
excellent speech, one to which no ex-
ceptlon could be taken. He gave the
colored people some wholesome advice.
de further said that all the law making
power In the land could not establish
social equality among the races. His
ideas of civil rights applied principally
to railroads, and were carefully expressed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

The Nebraska Teetolalers have re-
solved on separate political action in that
State
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

The return shows that the IndIcm.
was filed on the defendant March u l'..
and entered on the minutes of tho Ju.
States District Court us Transferred w.
next term Of said court. Bail wa aH.
1t fifteen hundred dollars, which 81"
given, when the mulatto criminal Dor
Brooklyn between twilight and daf.
and has not yet returned. He won. b"
to North Caroline, (aud his record l.H
we will ventilate ere loug,) and after
wards to South Carolina, where l
brother has been engaged lu hlghW.
robbery for several years. Carduza wa.
dered off To Mississippi, and his recor
here is too we'll known 20 require ag
statement from Us. He is now Sta.
Superintendent Of Public Education. a..
a fUrger Of witness warrants. Tbs Do
our first chapter in the history OF Cafdah
two others are promised, and ln ".
meantime the curious or doubling
requested 10 call AT our Office and exam
the transcript TO which is appended .'
certificate.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Eastern District Of New York
/ Samuel T. Jones. Clerk of one %
cult Court of the United States IF Amer
lea, for the Eastern District of New ..a
do hereby certify, that the writing
nexed to this certificate are true c0pe
their respective originals, on file and r
naming on record in my office.
In testimony whereof, I have cal..-
the Seal Of the said Court 10 be herfl..
affixed, at the city OF Brooklyn no D
+ Istern District Of New York obs '
enteenth day Of September, iu the '
of our Lord one thousand eight huna'.
and seventy-three and of the lndr.
dence of the United States, the n'o.
eighth.
SAMUEL r. JoNEs,
Clerk
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-13

e GLAD OF r.-The Jackson, Tenn,
Courier Herald understands that Gen. J.
D. G. Atkins win have no Democratic
the Eighth District, which
vinakes his reelection to Congress matter
of absolute certainty.