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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18
STILL ANOTHER,


For the edifcation of our Lawmakers,
the Vicksburg Herald publishes the fol
lowing report of proceedings in the Indi
ana Legislature
''The House Bill No. 8, with the
amendments by the Senate, was taken up,
and after brief discussion, passed. The
real estate assessment under this bill will
be made this spring, and every fire years
hereafter. 1t makes the pay of assessors
only TWO DOLLARS PER DIEM, and they
are to be elected by the people"
The Herald says:
If it should occupy every day in the
year to complete the assessment of real
estate in any county of Indiana, and it
can be completed in ninety days, the
cost to the county for fUe years would
only be seven hundred and thirty dol
lars, or one hundred and forty-sir dollars
per dpnltn
The Auditor of Public Accounts has
already notified the legislature that under
the existing law the cost of assessing the
present year will amount to S119, 900.
And yet that body has taken no steps to
remedy the abuse. Why not re-adopt
the old system paying salary for the
assessor in each county, according to the
labor imposed-say from 5000 to $500
per dnnum. On the subject, we will
take occasion to quote from the Code of
1857, to show exactly what the former
law was. The assessors received a per
cent, but their compensation was limited
to from 800 to $500 in each county, as
follows:
Every assessor shall be entitled
to receive from the State Treasury as a
compensation for his services, five per
centum on the amount of the State tax
contained in his assessment, payable
when duly certified copy of his assess
ment roll shall have been deposited 10 the
office of the Auditor-provided such
compensation shall not be less than one
hundred dollars nor more than five hun
dred in any year.-Revised Code 1857, |
page II.
Under this law, though the property
valuation of the State was $500, 900, 900,
the cost of assessing did not average more
than S15, 900 per annum. While under
the present law, the Auditor has notified |
the Legislature that the cost for the same
service will amount to s119 900, notwith-
the property basis has been re-
duced to one-fourth what it formerly
was. The least the Legislature can do,
and the best also, will be to limit the
of assessors, as under the
aw of 1857, to from 500 to $500 for
aanh count
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

Our correspondent "Willis," publishes
an able reply to the communication of
"Delta" which appeared in a late i'm
preston of THE CLARION. Both of
these communications are from highly
responsible and we'll informed sources.
The writer's agree that gross frauds have
been perpetrated on the people in the
collection of taxes on lands which have
been dropped from the rolls, and evil
lis" shows that the practice is not of very
recent date, nor confined to the Levee
Districts. His revelations will open the
eyes of those who have been victimized,
and intensity public desire to know more.
Agreeing as TO the facts, the opinions
of the writers have diverged in reference
to the remedy proper to be adopted.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18
More Penitentiary Statistics fOI.
PeRse

AS an item for Pease, who charged in
the u. S. Senate, and has circulated
broadcast over the country, that the white
people of the State had abandoned them
selves to lawlessness and crime, we have
copied from the Penitentiary Report, a
statement that out of three hundred and
thirty-four convicts in that establish
ment but thirty-nine were whites.
The report contains another item which
that illustrious statesman might
study with profit. During the year
1874, seventy-one criminals were
pardoned out of the penitentiary
and turned loose upon society by
the Republican Executive, showing that
even such laws as are provided for the
punishment of crime are not enforced;
and that after all the expense OF trial
and conviction, parties are not permitted
to suffer the penalty imposed upon them
for the punishment and suppression of
lawlessness. One-fo fourth of the convicts
have received absolution in this way. And
yet this partisan of the State administra-
ton which grants these indulgences and
thereby encourages crime, presumes to
charge prevalent lawlessness on the white
people of the State who are permitted
to have but little voice either in the
making or the execution of the laws.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

The second Committee who have been
prosecuting this investigation have adj
journed. Its object was well understood
to be the purely partisan one of making a
report to counteract the effect of the
previous one. Whether they will sue
coed in that, we are not able to say, but
in the course of their inquiry it was
brought to their knowledge by the un-
improbable testimony of Northern
Republicans residing in Louisiana
native white citizens and colored citi-
zens-that 1.-THE relations between the
two races, when free from the interference
of office-seekers, are amicable and stead
lily improving; that an honest Republi-
can, in or out Of Office, is respected and
kindly treated that the people are won
derfully patient under misgovernment
and official robbery that the late cleo
ton was fair, free and peaceable; that
many colored voters have quit the Re-
publican party in disgust; and that the
Kellogg government is a fraud" which
would fall to the ground with its own
rottenness in day if it was not propped
up by federal baYonets. The minds of
partisan Committee may not reach the
conclusions which these facts warrant,
but there is a good deal of independence
in the public mind, and it will think as
il pleases.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

From the Rockford Journal

From the Rockford Journal
We have been shown a letter written
within the last ten days in Washington
City by a prominent and well-known
statesman, man of national reputation
and an old-time Republican, to a gentle
man in this city, in which the following
occurs
"Wilson CV. p told me yesterday
that he thinks Grant is bent upon third
term if possible" The writer of the let
ter then further says: 81 begin to think
that he may get the nomination, as the
others, Blaine, Conk!ing, Washburne,
etc., will think it bad year to run, while
the office-holders and the Southern Re
publicans being for Grant, may carry the
Convention" 90 / believe the Republi-
can party is as surely going under at the
Eext election as the Democratic was in
so and go" "History is repeating it
SELF" "There are the same signs. :"
Military interference with elections and
Legislatures" "Bad men controlling
and driving the best men from the party"
Every sign of madness and destruction,
etc.
The signs accumulate that Grant will
compel his party to take him as their can
didate for a third term, and thus force
the issue: Shall the Government continue
Republican or become an Empire? In
this contest hundreds of thousands who
have heretofore acted with the Republican
party, will join the Opposition-provided
its councils are guided by wisdom and
its lines are formed to invite, and not re-
pei, the alliance of all who are In favor of
adhering to the traditions of the Repub-
Lie.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18
PRESIDENT GRANTS afro
CHOUs PROGRAMME.



Grants third term programme is the
outrage card-a revival of sectional hate
"a race war-the employment OF
the army to organize reign of terror IN
the South and to revolutionize State gov
ernments. To carry out this pro-
ject, he has called upon the Republicans
in Congress to adopt scheme, the prin-
ciple features of which are as follows:
The re-enactment Of the Ku-klux Act
of 1871, substituting the words "White
League" for Ku-klux. The restoration OF
the right of suspending the writ of habeas
corpus, and the establishment of com
plicated system of election machinery
designed to place the majority complete
" in the hands of the minority. This
machinery provides for the appointment
of supervisors by United States marshals;
obliges these supervisors to be present
when the ballot-boxes are open, and
make their own count, which shall be
certified to by parsonage called "the
chief Supervisor of Elections" In ad-
dition to these features proposed the bill
declares that the reconstructed States
shall be restricted and confined in all cleo
tons, constitutional changes and amend
ments, to the fundamental conditions and
terms Of their re-admission to the Union.
A.. CrUcNy OF THE RFPITRIICAN CAUCUS.
The following dispatches will show
that large number of Republicans re-
fused to come up to the support of this
scheme, which means third term, rev.
olution, and an Empire in place of Re-
pubic-and that the course of these in
dependent Republicans warrants the be-
lief that the scheme will ultimately be
defeated by the combined opposition
WASHINGTON, Feb. I3.-The Repub-
lican Joint caucus adjourned after mid
night, only thirty-eight voted upon the
final question. The bill which the eau
Gus will report is the same as telegraphed,
except the clause making the exhibition
of deadly weapons felony.
1t gives the President the right to sus-
pend the habeas corpus at discretion and
to appoint marshals and supervisors at all
congressional elections.
Mr.. Blaine spoke strongly against the
bill.
1t will not pass through joint caucus.
There were no Senators present.
The result of the caucus is regarded as
a signal defeat of Grant.
ANOTHER DISPATCH.
WASHINGTON, February 13.-The re-
suit of last nights caucus is fatal to
Grants wish to have the South placed
entirely in his grasp. Garfield said it
was move in favor of third term, to
which he was utterly opposed. Blaine
said he would regret to place so much
power in the hands of one man.
STILL ANOTHER.
The discussion developed the fact, that
one-half of those present would not be
bound by the action of the caucus.
Speaker Blaine and Representatives
Pierce of Massachusetts,, Poland of Yer
mont, Garfield of Ohio, Hawley of Con-
necticut, Hale of Maine, Smith of Vir-
ginia, and Willard of Michigan, and
few others, declared they would vote as
they pleased when the bill came before
the house.
Mr.. Garfield took strong ground
against the bill, declaring that fit should
be passed it would mean third Presi-
dental term, to which he was totally op-
! Osed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

DEATH OF Hon. M. l.. DUNLAP
We are panied to hear Of The death
this distinguished horicultursi
leading citizen Of Illinois, well known
Rural" the agricultural contribute
the Chicago Tribune. The present
ter he made an extended tour Of
South, and visited this city au
other localities, making friendsas beV.
His "Notes on the South" were oEH
ingly interesting and impartial deer
tons of the South, and lis adyanuau
and industrial capabilities, and 81
reproduced to the extent OF our p
in THE CLARION. On reaching H
he was taken sick and died after O. b.
illness.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

The Legislature has not, as yet f
deemed the pledge Of reform or hse'
the petition Of the taxpayers. The =
sion is drawing to a close, and the I
important bills remain to be passed ".
call special attention TO the bill tor ~
abatement Of taxes, the restoration p.
delinquent lands to the assessment Il--
the privilege tax bill, the printing Dl-
and the bill to reduce the cost Of assesa'-
among other measures that are y
quired to remove the burden from 2.
shoulders of the tax-oayers.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

Among the measures of interest, this
body has adopted Reports embodying pc
titions to Congress for aid in the construc
ton of the Texas Pacific Railroad and
the removal of Instructions to navigation
at the mouth of the Mississippi. Both
these works are national and are entitled
to the consideration of the body which
represents the great productive interests
of the country. Cheaper transportation
and increased facilities from the Missis-
sippi valley to the Gulf, and from Ocean
to Ocean, are great commercial necessi-
ties.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

THE masters of ten State Oranges and
numerous delegates while in Washington
City on their way to the National Grange,
signed memorial, which was presented
to Hon. VIM. Window, chairman of the
select senate committee on transportation.
The memorial sets forth that. it is the
universal desire of the people of the
Mississippi valley that the distractions
TO commerce should be removed from the
entrance of the Mississippi river into the
Gulf as speedily as possible.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial, (Rep.) says it
" is now ascertained that the Presidents
&c message upon Arkansas was prepared
" without any general consultation with,
" or knowledge of, his Cabinet. or of any
" of the members of it." The N. Y.
Tribune's correspondent states that At
torney- General Williams, who furnished
the opinion on which the President acted
in May last, adheres to that position
and does not coincide with the view
taken in the late message. 1t is certain
that in this Arkansas move, the Presi-
dent has taxed the indulgence of his ad-
herents to the utmost limit,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial (Rep says that
" there is more disloyalty to Grant in the
Sc Republican ranks, on account of his
" Arkansas message, than has been per-
't ceptible for a long time"-and the writer
adds:
The majority report is signed by two
Republicans-Messrs. Poland, of Yer
mont, and Scudder, of New Jersey, and
two Democrats-Messrs. Sayler, of Ohio,
and SIoss, of Alabama While the mir
nority report is made by Mr.. Ward, of
Chicago. Only one member of the COM
mittee, it appears, sustains Grants views
on the subject.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18
Col. Tisen's speech.

We have no apology to offer for the
large space occupied by Col. Tison's
speech on the Metropolitan Police Bill.
1t is an able exposition of one Of the
most atrocious measures ever conceived
by the Radical managers to organize
strife and lawlessness in the State and
to waste the public revenue.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

The Summit Times ha, pn, b
the following extracts from 81
number of The CLARION, AN
that it has detected a "sr5n,. =.
tency
"The most significant oft5e.... B.
demonstrations against the t, s
was the defeat, by a s9Ii ueya,.. F
proposed constitutional amer5. =.
biennial sessions ofthe Legisam, 3
Inanother part Of the same i..
CLARION is this: "Too much ny.
not be awarded to the co'orei u,.1 90
broke orer the co'Jr lime and yo..I =. ia
taxpayers for the biennial Session =.
ment.'
Now. there was no "incou..s,s. E
contradiction either. in the ab.-
sages. The meaning we intended
vey, AMI which the context from
the first passage was taken did III. 4
was that negroes alone, on the II.
referred TO, voted against the h..
session amendment; or in other
that it was defeated by "so.B
vote" no white member Of either
voting with them.
The second paragraph, which lb.r g
CONSTITUTES to contradict the frs.
that "some Of the colored member.
over the color line" (Which hs5
drawn by nearly all the members d
own race, and we awarded them b,
for so doing.
We can state to the Times that vi.
Iabored too earnestly to prevent , !
vision of parties in this State on q
"color line, to manufacture facts vi
when published, would operate DO +
about the very result we have dcpv-
But they are facts, stubborn facts. rr.
theless, and we are dealing
things as they are not as We would
them. The negro leaders have draw
"color line" repeatedly during the pg
session against the taxpayers, and b.
addressed their appeals to their ioaa
as men of color to 90 with them, nHi b
arguments, unfortunately for the pa
of both races, have been but too p
Touching this rule Of action which (
negro politicians seem to have laid 3.r-
we will add that it is one thing .a
to beseech our own party and race
to incur the grave responsibility Of ln,
ing the color line, seeing It's hoyr
tendency to evil, and quite another
for us to accept the issue in solfda
when forced upon the whites by thear.
leaders through blind prejudice, o.. ,
tyrannical disposition to oyorawe and l .
mate.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

THE Senate has passed Salary Reduc-
ton bill 1t has been before the House
two weeks and postponed from day to
day. Does the latter body intend to
pass it, or have the dominant party
been merely holding the word of promise
to The ear?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

This Fund is placed at the dispose
the Executive for public purposes ID !.
traOrdinary cases. The report TO i
Legislature shows that without waIiI
of law, it has been misappropriated y \
the Governor for his private uses. W.
it not be we'll for the Legislature .
guard against this fagrant abuse
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

IT WILL be seen that the taxpayers
Of Copiah still continue their League, and
are holding regular meetings. This is
right. To the taxpayers of Mississippi,
~e would say, be on the alert, you have
. Just begun to fight
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

The revolt of such staunch Radicals
a. Messrs. Blaine and Garfield against
the revolutionary and third term pro-
gramme Of Grant is one of the most hope
ful signs Of the times.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

II the author of the civil rights bill
expected to lash the public mind of the
South INTO fury in consequence of its
passage, and to eAasperate the whites into
acts of violence, so as to furnish political
capital for bankrupt party, they will
be disappointed. On that subject every
thing is serene in this part of the country.
Even the colored leaders think there has
been great cry and little tcool.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

Ok the passage of the Salary Reduc-
ton bill, the Radical leaders in the House,
invariably fought for the highest figures,
bu they failed to hold the rank and file
up to their own mark
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

THE election of John Mitchell, the
Irish Patriot, (who was banished by the
British Government for treason twenty
years ago. to the British Parliament
from the county of Tipperary, is a
remarkable turn for him OF the wheel of
tDrfune
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

The EdwaRds Courier records the
murder Of four negroes by negroes in that
vicinity within the past week. Nineteen
twentieths of the negroes who have lost
their lives by violence since the war,
have been killed by their own race.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

ACCORDING to the latest calculation the
Democrats, Liberals and Independent
Republicans will have 50 members in the
L. 5. Senate after the 4th of March,
The regular Republicans will have 3S
members. The Democratic and Liber-
al majority in the House will be about
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

No discrimination among classes non
corporations in the imposition Of taxes
No exclusive privileges. Equal rights
to all and the equal distribution of bur-
thens upon all who claim the protection
of he laws.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

THE Pilot stated that 'the Democratic
"papers of this State are perfectly fu-
q rious with Mr.. Lamar, member of
90 Congress from the First District, be-
q cause, in a recent letter to the New
d" York Herald, that gentleman confessed
q that the recent disturbances in his
q State was of a purely political nature. !"
We replied that this was a misrepre
sentation, that out of the forty or fifty
Democratic papers in this State, the
Pilot could not name two that were
Curious with Mr.. Lamar" on account
Of his letter to the n. Y. Herald. The
Pilot rejoins by citing four that have
made some complaints about discourse,
but neither of them seems to have speci-
fed this particular letter. Of these four
papers, one Of them is out of existence
and The other three, according to Pilot
logic, constitute ''he Democratic press
the State"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

LET us have vote upon Mr.. Streets
proposition that the State tax shall be
reouced to 81 mills on the dollar, 50 that
tha Tx payers may know who IS for and
1I5 IS against them. -
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18
THURSDAY, - February Is, 1875

Col Nets, Senator elect from the Six
teenth District, was elected by 636 major
ity over all opposition. The Radical
nominee received only 81 votes in the
whole district.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

THE observations of our confrere of the
Pascagoula Star, have been noted
Though he and ourselves may have some
what differed in the past, we have done
so as gentlemen and friends, and we have
never doubted that in the great
struggle for the overthrow of Radi-
cal misrule in this State, the Star and
THE CLARION would be united.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

THE Senate passed bill to fix the
public school tax at two mills on the dol
lar This is another reform BILL Does
the House intend to pass it? 1t will
not interfere with the efficiency of the
system; but its effect will be to lop off
supernumeraries who are now supported
ST public expense.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

G. G. MILLER, Esq, a Prom'D'-
young lawyer, was elected Mayor
Brandon on the 10Th. There was ~
publican candidate in the field. ~
contest was between Conservative, 81
resulted rs above.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

ToMFooLERY-The n. O. Bulletin
utters "a warning to the North and
West" under the delusion that it has be-
come its duty "to advise and to urge the
patriots Of the North and West to prepare
at once for armed conflict. Now, we
wish the people of the "North and West
to understand distinctly that this maud
lin raving of the Bulletin receives neither
countenance nor support from the Con-
servatives. and Democrats of Mississippi
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

II would seem that civil rights was
slaughtered yesterday at Washington
City, in the house of its friends. The SEN
ate voted directly against mixed schools,
and Senator Alcorn became utterly dis
custed with the decentralization shown to
exist in the Republican ranks.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

THE SALARY REDUCTION Bull
- The House deserves credit for passing the
Salary Reduction bill yesterday. In this
instance, we are gratifed to state, ma
iority of the colored members voted with
the Conservatives and Southern Republi-
cans for the bill. 1t has passed the Sem
ate, and now awaits the approval of the
Governor.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

The House did well to-day (13th) in
repeating the law allowing a bonus to
Normal school pupils.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-18

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