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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05
Rankin Comfy Land Assessments.

The Committee of the Taxpa yers
League of Rankin county, have reached
the just and equitable conclusions pro
posed in the following report
BRANDON, MISS, April 26, 1875.
League met pursuant to adjournment.
President in the chair.
Capt. McCaskill, chairman of commit
tee on assessment of lands, made
the following report, which was adopted
Mr. Chairman -
Your committee to whom was referred
the subject of valuation of the landed
property of this county in the present
years assessment, have considered the
same, and ask to report the following sug
gestIons
That all lands assessed four years ago
above what was considered an average val
uation be reduced by the owner if they
think proper, to an average with others
and that in fixing the present valuation,
the price per acre be fixed at about
one-third less than the assessed valuation
of four years ago. And that those whose
lands have been assessed above the aver
age be entitled to the one third re-
duction after being brought to an aver
age.
All Of which is respectfully submitted,
Il. McCAsKILL, !
JoHs RUssELL,
1T GAYDES, Committee.
A1RERr HoBsoN,
GEolRs BRooKs
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MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE.

To the foregoing call of the Chairman
we will add the names of members Of the
Committee, by which it will be seen thai
the various shades Of opinion in the
ranks of the Democrats and Conserva
tives, and all sections of the State, are
represented. A Committee thus consti-
tuted, and having for its objects the or
ganization of the people against Radical
misrule and official plumber, cannot fail
to command respect. There should be
a full meeting of the Committee. Let
every member feel that he has an indis-
pensible duty to perform, and that every
private demand should be subordinated
to it:
Chairman, j. NJ. Stone, of Tishomingo
county w. III. III. Tison, of Lee; Thos.
Spight, of Tippah II. Fl. Taylor, of
Pamela Il. b. Graham, of Scott j. Z.
Carter, of Perry; w. w. Thompson, of
Greene DIR. b. L. Archer, of Lafayette;
j. n. benson, of Leake 5. f.. Pack
wood, of Pike; II. NJ Street, of Prem
tiss John Allen, of Lee S. NJ Meek,
of Lowndes J. B. Morgan, of DeSoto;
Kinloch Falconer, Of Marshall; w. S.
Featherston, of Marshall; w. f. Tuck
err, of Chickasaw; II. o. Reynolds, of
Monroe; A. j. McLaurin. of Smith
Marion Smith. of Kinds; d. w. Hurst,
of Pike w. II. McCardle, of Warren;
L. NJ. Young, of Warren; j. B. Dunn,
of Choctaw; j. A. p. Campbell, of
Madison; Geo. l.. Potter, of Kinds; r.
l.. Saunders, of Kinds; III. ID. Money,
of Montgomery w. A. Percy, of Wash
ington; j. :. Hamm, of LauderdaIe
VIM. Il. Barksdale. of Grenada; W. Z.
Martin, of Adams; L. S. Ford, of Ma
rion; Melancthon Smith, of Jackson; r.
s. Hudson, Of Yazoo; A. r. Roane, of
Calhoun, A. Y. Harper, of Chickasaw
jeff Wilson, of Pontotoc j. j. benson,
of Lawrence; Benz. King, of Copiah
q. III. Lester, of Yalobusha DR. j. M. |
Phillips, of Austin.
On motion, Marion Smith and r. L. |
Saunders were appointed Corresponding |
Secretaries.
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THE CLARION has an able article
proving that the negro legislators, at the
last session, acted in many instances OF
the color line. But yet it argues tha
the whites must not oppose the white
line against the black line. 1t SAYS the
negroes unanimously "treated the ap
peals of the taxpayers contemptuously'
and at the same time it argues that the
best way to stop this sort of thing is tc
persuade and eonciliate. -Vicksburg Mon.
itor.
We had much rather our able cotem-
temporary had published our article set
ting forth what we did say in our own
words, than to have explained our mean
ing in his. If we did not say in express
terms that, after the repeated demonstra-
tons of the negro leaders on the color
line at the last session of the Legislature,
the whites would be compelled, as meas
ure of self-protection, which is the first
law Of nature, to meet them on their own
ground, and accept the defiance which
they have again and again offered, the
meaning was clearly .deducibIe from our
language.
The shortest cut to a good understanding
with an insolent bully is to accommodate
him with fight when overtures for peace
have failed to produce the desired effect.
And since it is seen that the negro lead
ers have construed the repugnance of
large class of Conservatives to a color
line issue as timid acquiescence In every
measure of wrong and insult they may
devise and carry out by organization of
their own race against the whites, as evil
denced by their acts during the late SEES
sion of the Legislature, it is time for the
latter to begin to think seriously of eppo-
sing an Anglo-Saxon organization to its
African antagonist.
We do not doubt-we have the best
reason for believing in numerous
communities the coloEed people do not
approve the aggressive course of their
leaders, and will not be drawn into a |
race contest. In every instance this feel |
ing ought to be reciprocated and encour-
aged, and it should be well understood |
that the whites will have no race conflict
with the blacks except as measure of
The political and civil rights of the
are not involved. Nobody pro-
poses to interfere with them. The whites
IRE paying forty-nine fiftieths of the tax
=, and most Of the funds to keep up the
public schools are drawn from their slen-
Ter pockets. They are not complaining
# this /; but they do complain of the
ule which the negro leaders have set up
or their guidance and are illustrating by
heir acts, that this taxpaying class are ,
mere beasts of burden, having no rights /,
Thich the negroes who make the laws
re bound to respect. It is the honor, .
manhood. self-respect and very existence {
f the whites. as part of the body poll !
ic, that are imperilIed. If to protect
themselves, when forbearance has ceased
, be virtue, it IS necessary to try the t
,erits Of the old Jewish law Of e an eye 4
r an eye and tooth for TOOTH who II
n blame thems 1
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Hon r n McMic6aeI Of Woodville


Hon. +. II. McMichael, of Woodville,
Miss, is in our city. He has recently
been appointed by the Governor, under a
late act Of the Legislature, Commissioner
to examine the accounts of Tax Collec-
tors and City and County Treasures
within the State.-True Republican.
For the ingenious multiplication of
public offices commend us to the carpet
bag schemers. Here is an office entirely
new to our State, gotten up under pre-
text of public necessity, for the benefit
of favorites. Why the necessity of the
above newly created place more than
has heretofore existed, we are not able to
discern. Tax Collectors, Treasurers,
etc., are required to give bond, and if it
was the rule of the majority to elect COM
petent and trustworthy men where they
have the power, there would be an as
surance of honesty and fair-dealing on the
part of the incumbents. One of the
worst features of the msrule complained
of by the taxpayers is the practice Of null
tiplying sinecures to give Employment to
favorites at public expense.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

SOUTH CAROLINA seems to have a
Governor who will take the responsibility
to act in defence of the State Treasury
when occasion requires. He has instituted
proceedings against the State Treasurer
Parker, under the Scott and Moses adj
ministrations, upon charges of fraud and
embezzlement, preferred by Governor
Chamberlain and others. Parker has
been committed to Columbia Jail, in de-
fault of $3.50, 900 bail. If Governor
Ames looks quietly on and connives at
the defiance of law by the late Treasurer
Of Alcorn University, and permits 1t to
be set aside and virtually nullifed by
that ex-functionary, he is partieeps erin,i-
mas and will be held responsible to the
public for the consequences.
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Wcr1ern ArrIcnIlnrnII IL

OMAHA, May 3.-Ou account
backwardness of the season. o.
frosts have done but little dlm
prospect for wheat, oats and n..
lieved to be the finest ever known
vicinity. Orchard and forest .
ing has been very extensive .
1t is thought the late frosb base
ed the embryo grasshopPar-
INDIANAPoLIs, May .-Ean
various portions of the Stat. @
little additional damage done F.
heavy frost Of Saturday n.ga.aa
temperature since the extreme e.
the middle OF April has u., been
enough to cause much doye.u
buds or grain. The fruit ru.
southern portion of the Stat. -am
considered gone, while 70 partial
expected in the northern count.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

A CORRESPONDENT puts the cas-
strongly in favor of running Hon. H. H
Soutaworth for Congress in the Second
District He thinks Mr.. Southworth
! can be elected, and that victory would
not be sure with any other candidate.
That may be true But we must look
at the subject in broader light. Mr.
Southworth was elected to the Legisla-
ture by the people of Carroll without OPP
position. During his short term of SER
vice, he indicated the wisdom of their
unanimous choice. No doubt they would
return him to the same body next tall
by vote equally unanimous. He has
the confidence of the whole people of his
county. They know his integrity-his
capacity-his fitness to represent them
and they will confde in him. Now the
question is shall the certainty of securing
good Representative in the Legislature
from Carroll, be imperilled for the
chance of gaining member Of Congress?
Admit all that our correspondent claims,
and still the wisdom of his proposition is
questionable. 1t is more important to
Mississippi to secure a Conservative ma
jority in the Legislature, than to gain
member of Congress, Cor several for that
matter) and thus to increase the majority,
already large enough for all necessary
purposes in that body.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

We like the way the Tippah Demo
Gratis and Conservatives have gone to
work. They are largely in the majority
in the county and Senatorial District
and are determined not to fritter away
their strength by divisions among them
selves. The rule of action for every
friend of reform to lay down is to abide
the decision of the majority. Concen-
trate on fairly selected candidates.
Strike home at the weak points of the
enemy. Have no controversy about non
essentials. The victory is sure in the
coming fall elections if every man who is
in favor of good government, will do his
duty.
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Snnreme Court nacL.---

The Supreme Court todayH
the case of the State of lIan
the Baltimore and Ohio Ea.u
ny. The State claimed % d.l-
ment Of five hundred Thousand
due for the period between
1870, being one-Glth of tar.
fare over the Washmgtou and I
branch of the road. The Coua
to pay the amount 10 the ~au
plea that the tax was moua
This the Court of Appeals d. l
overruled, affirming thc IS.
State to the money IN question
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Horrible Murder by M.
virginia.

NORFOLK, May ! -J Dat.
cess Anne, was murdered tH..
two negroes, who attacked
road eigat miles from Norfolk &
asleep IN ms wagon and l..
driving. The boy escaped
when the negroes had ie.l a..
father dead. No arrests
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

GEN ROBERT Lowry delivered the
memorial address on the occasion of the
decoration of the soldiers graves at Bran
don, on the 26th. The Republican states
that his touching and eloquent tribute to
his comrades in arms brought tears to
the eyes of his hearers.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

THE ST. Louis Globe says that ''the
proposition of the Grand Army to invite
soldiers of the Confederate army to afili-
ate with them at the meeting in Chicago,
mas caused vast amount of very senseless
gabble." We concur with the Globe,
and think the whole thing is 'senseless, !"
and viii be proftless. If the quarrel is
over what's the use of everlastingly talk
ing about it If the old sore is healed
why keep calling in the doctors and ad-
plying emolliepts ?
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North Carolina Munich.
uons- Democratic Visr.

RALEIGH, May I'M M
elections in Raleigh, North "a.
Democrats carried eleven 900.
aldermen, and elected tHo n.
is the first Democratic victory
since the war. The Dem
Durham, Salisbury, llu.-1u
lotte, Henderson, and Warm
the towns SO far heard FROM
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05
An Example.
Memphis Appeal


But few facts relative to the lynchine
of West have been ascertained. Monday
morning Mrs. Jim King, widow lady,
residing one mile from Raleigh and two
miles from Bartlett, went into her kitchen
for the purpose of cooking breakfast for
the family. She had hardly entered
the kitchen when the negro West APP
Peared and slyly locked the door, rushed
upon the lady, seized her around the
waist and commenced telling her that he
had become infatuated and had been up.
able to sleep for several nights because of
his love for her. Recovering from her
surprise Mrs. King screamed for assist
ance. Her son James, hearing the franic
cries of his mother, rushed toward the
kitchen. The black scOundreI jumped
through a window and fed from the
premises. x X x 4
At an early hour yesterday morning
the lifeless body of John West was found
dangling from tree by the side OF the
public road in the creek bottom.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

IT Is rumored that a majority of the
old Board of Trustees of Alcorn Univer
sity did not authorize the injunction
against the new Board to prevent the
latter from performing the duties incum-
bent on them under the act of the Legis-
ture. How is this?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

The late session of the Mississippi Leg
islature passed law reducing the expenses
of public printing. The publishers of
the jackson Pilot are Public Printers,
and Governor Ames' chief organ grinder.
Consequently it is understood that His
Excellency will not sign the bill till next
winter, when, in defiance of the law, his
friends and supporters will have had
another year in which to raid the public
treasury.-Benton Argus.
'tGive the devil his due" A bill
materially curtailing the printing expen-
ditures was signed by the Governor and
has been officially promulged in the
Pilot
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

Gov. KELLOGG has instructed his
Attorney General to institute suit against
Auditor Clinton, and his sureties. An
other example for Gov. Ames- Why
don't he see that the late Treasurer of
Alcorn University forks over the money
(Which ought to be- in his hands in ac-
cordance with the act of the Legislature,
or in default instruct the Attorney Gen.
pral to institute proceedings!
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

NEW ORR, May 4-E-
has addressed "A letter .T.
declaring her innocence. ".
that she had told falsoh5..
pulsion by Tiltou, aud a.s.-
The Judge returned heb
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

LEXINGTON. Ky. Nav
dent Wilson will srr.y.
morning train from LouI.,....
and, after spending "a dayu...
G. Breckenridge, viii Isar.
natl in the evening.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

The falling of'ofthe cotton crop oflast
year from the crop of the previous year,
will amount to not less than 800, 900
bales; but the general supply has been
nearly made up by the increase in for
eign countries. The prospect of higher
price the coming season is not improved
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

Tomorrow, the sixth of May, the
Southern Baptist Convention assemblies
at Charleston. South Carolina. 1t en-
braces the States of Maryland, Virginia
West Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkan-
sas, Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky,
and part of the Indian Territory.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

LET every member of the State Demo
cratic Conservative Committee feel that
he is resting under personal obligation
to the people, whom he is selected to rep
resent, to attend the meeting of the State
Committee, on the 18th of Nav.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

AT Nashville the other day, a colored
man was beating his wife inhumanly. A
policeman interfered, and was shot dead.
A mob gathered and executed summary
justice on the brute by throwing him
over the Suspension Bridge, a distance
Of ninety feet, on the rocks below.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05
THE LATEST mn


WAsHINGToN. ID. O. n
Schwarz Senborn. Av.t-.
rendered his resignation
ccepted.
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The civil EsIgb,s nnl
rfuwwH

Judges Brooks and n-I
charges to grand jurie. n
lima, declare the criminal
civil rights act uucoa.H...
law could say men an.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

MoNTGoNERy. Ana NJ
city election was UNUSUAL.
large vote was pollei ILL.,
make a clean sweep. elec....
OF, Clerk aud twelve A.5.t.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

EDWARDS PIERP0Er, of New York, is
the successor of Williams in the Office of
Attorney General In politics be is a
moderate or conservative Republican.
L is said that Butler wanted the place.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

Although Massachusetts and New
England man, and party man in every
sense of fidelity to- nay public associates,
and the general policy we begin TO intro
must get achite aaea. born bred ~ Tie South.
TO rule It, and that State Governments of ne
eroes and a handful Of aohite men ,rAo absorb
tie patronage, and are Republicans for the
sake of II, aoiA not stand uP.-Viee Presi-
dent Wilson.
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ANnrIILI.

New ORLEANS, May l.--Ja..
rills, of the United States Da
of the Eastern District of IoN
charge to the Grand Jury, rH
civil rights bill, aud expressed &.
ion that all persons have a l.-Hr
have board and lodging at au u
portation on steamers and Ratios
stages, and IAN entrance iu g 81
that while they have thos.
they do not thereby acluir w
rights. The Judge however .
an inn-keepcr, or a railroad
has a right TO assign persons ..
apartments, the accommodate.
equal.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

IT may be set down as fair PROPOSE
ton that the man who makes difference
of opinion on political questions a pre-
text for the exhibition of personal spite
AMI for the imputing improper motives,
feels that down in the bottom of his own
heart, he Is = cowardly puppy
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

WE are glad to see the old Democratic
wheel horse of other days, Hon. d. b.
Wright, Of Tippah, again in the traces.
The State will need the services of all her
true sons In the coming struggle.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

WLMINGroN, n. G., May
Brooks, in the United State
Court, in charging the GmH IT.
day, decided that the Civil d
in its criminal aspect, 0h#
shape in which IL could e.m..
Grand Jury, was mcous...g
void.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-05

A bright boy recently told his teacher
there were 4hree secas the male sect, the
female sectiand the insects.
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Questions of the day-One or two,
Z, or c, able or IDLE, = in or ont?
Middletown transcript., 1875-05-01

CONSIDERATION OF BISHOP JAGGAR.-
Rev. Thomas A. Jaggar was conse-
Grated ). according to the rites Of the
p; 3. Church, as Bishop of the diocese
of Southern Ohio, at the church of the
Holy Trinity in Philadelphia, on We'd
nesday morning. Bishop Smith, Of
Kentucky, oficiated as Consecrator !;
Bishops, Potter, Of New York; Lee, Of
Delaware. and others participating in
the services. The sermon was preach
ed by Bishop Littlejohn, Of Long
Island.
DR.: Jaggar became rector Of the
church Of the Holy Trinity, of Phila-
delphia, in September, 1870, on the
resignation Of Rev. Philip Brooks. On
the division Of the diocese of Ohio, in
January last, he was elected Bishop OF
the southern diocese. He is as decided
q Glow Churehman" as DR.. DeKoven
is High Churchman," and the sue
cessful confirmation Of his election by
the diocesan standing committees, by 9
vote Of 80 for, to II against him, at the
same time that DR.. DeKoven was re-
jected by large majority as Bishop Of
Southern Illineis, is a decided triumph
Of the liberal principles of the Low
Church party
Middletown transcript., 1875-05-01

WAITING FOR THE CRACK OF DOOM
About forty or fifty of the Millerites,
or Second Adventists, or Thurmanites,
as they call themselves, from their
leader, William c. Thurman. assem-
bled in house in Cadwallader street,
above Girard avenne, Phila.. early
Monday evening for the purpose Of pre-
pairing for the end of the world and
their ascension to Paradise, which event
they confidently predicted would take
place at midnight Monday. They par
took of the Lords Supper, prayed.
sang, washed each others feet. and
went through various other ceremonies,
and, finally. dressed in their white as
censicn robes, mounted the roof Of the
house at midnight in the midst Of a
chilly rain. They waited for the sound
of the trumpet apd looked to see the
Great Judge seated on bis His throne
in mid-air. After their foolish ardor
and their light clothing had been damp
ened, they descended to console them
selves as best they might for the fail.
ure Of another Second Adventist pro
phecy
Their assemblage was kept secret
from scofing sinners and no crowds were
present 10 witness the discontinue.
Middletown transcript., 1875-05-01
st. Anne's Church ard.

The improvement and beautifying of
this sacred old burying place has been
very near my thought and heart since
I have been in this parish; neglected
graves to be raised and sodded, ever
greens planted, walks and enclosures
attended to- And l know that there
are hundreds of Christian hearts. not
only in this immediate neighborhood,
but scattered all over this Peninsula,
whose loved dead lie here, who sympa-
thizs with me in this matter.
am willing to give much time per-
sonally, and all the taste may have,
towards carrying out the above pur-
pose And | ask those who wish to do
SO to send me whatever amount, great
or small, they may desire to devote to
this work, and, with your permission,
Mr.. Editor, such amount shall be ac-
knowledged in the columns Of your
paper.
1t is proposed to extend the limits Of
the cemetery, as soon as practicable
and when this addition shall have been
laid off, the sections will be sold to
those desiring them.
WILLIAM G. BUTLER,
Rector of St. Anne's
Middletown transcript., 1875-05-01

y SoRIBNER's MoNTHLY.--The May
number "Opens with an excellent paper
on 1.-THE Baltimore Bonapartes." Illus
trated with portraits Of the several
members Of that interesting family"
An illustrated description of the new
Paris Opera House follows. An ac-
count of the draining of HARLEM Lake.
in Holland, by Col. Waring will be
found interesting to engineers and per-
sons living along the Delaware marshes
and owning low lands. DR.. Holland 8
story of Sevenoaks and Jules Vernes'
marvellous ...yarn" about the Mysterious
Island are continued with increasing
interest. These are but few Of the nu-
merous, excellent and valuable articles
with which the magazine is filed to
overfowing. Scribner's magazine has
steadily grown in excellence and popu-
lar favor, nntil it has become the favor
ite American literary periodical, and
we'll deserves the praise. -