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

The society for the Improvement of
the Condition of Women have sent an
address to Victor Hugo, appealing to
him, in the name of right, to lend them
the aid of his valuable voice The poet
replies in the following characteristic
letter:
''MEsDAMEs-I have received your
address, which does me honor | am
aware of your noble and legitimate de-
mands. In our society, such as it has
been made, woman suffers. She is right
to claim a better fate. | myself am only
conscience, but 1 understand your
rights, and to obtain them is one of the
duties of my life You are, therefore,
not wrong to rely on my good will and
assistance. Man was the problem Of the
eighteenth century; woman is the prob
lem of the nineteenth. And who says
woman says child-that is, the future.
The question thus put appears in all
its profundity, and on Its solution
depends the fate of the suprerre So
cial battle. What strange and anom-
alous situation In reality, man de-
ponds on you, for woman holds the heart
of man. Before the law she is a minor,
incapable, without civil action, without
political right-in short, she is nothing;
before the family altar she is everything,
because she is the mother The domes-
tic hearth is what she makes it; at home
she is the mistress of good and i'll. Sow
ereignty complicated by oppression
woman can do all against man, but moth
ing for herself 1t is imprudent of the
law to make her so weak when she is so
strong. Let US recognize that weakness
and protect it let US recognize that
strength and counsel it. There lies the
duty of man, and there is also his inter
ests. No, l shall never cease to say it,
the problem is laid down and it must be
solved. She who bears half the burden
ought to have half the right. Half of
the human race is deprived Of equality;
it must be given to them. This viii be
one of the grand glories of our grand
century. Let the right of woman coun-
terbalance the right of man-that is to
say, let the laws be placed in conformity
with the morals and manners of the
country. Accept, mesdames, my re-
spects."
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An Artistic .TOke.

There lived in Florence an ancient
dame, Anna GaetanO, who kept an inn
frequented by the wits and loungers of the
city, attracted not more by the quality of
her wine than by her rude wit and gro
tesque vanity. She was in her SEVENTEEN
year, and was hideously ugly, yet she had
the vanity to beg Salvador to paint her
portrait. that she might reach posterity
by the hand of the greatest master of the
age. He finally consented, on condition
that the picture should be finished at one
sitting, and that she should not see it I'M
til finished. de sent for an easel and
materials at once, and produced one OF
the strongest ikenesses ever taken; but
to the astonishment and anger of the
ancient hostess, she figured in the por-
trait as a pilgrim in male habiliments
and long gray beard. The picture is
said to be sill in existence. Notwith
standing Salvatore traDscendent successes
and unequalled merit, ACKNOWLEDGED by
all excepting the self-constituted arbiters
of the Academy of ST. Luke, he had
still been excluded from that body, and
had never been appointed to any public
work since he painted the only partially
successful altar piece in the church Della
More at the very beginning of his noto-
riety.-The Galaxy for May.
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From the Chicago Tribune. !

From the Chicago Tribune.I
From a report submitted to the Him
OILS Legislature last week by the Com
mittee on Railroads, it is shown that the
railroad companies of that Stale are in a
distressing condition. There are in the
hands of receivers thirteen roads, with
2 1887 miles of track, and with an aggre-
gate debt of s64, 500, 900, or an average
of over s28, 900 per mile. Included in
this debt is the sum Of 81, 500, 900 of due
and unpaid State and local taxes, the
best mode of collecting which is the
question considered by the committee,
who have been advised by the Attorney
General that it would not be prudent to
force the collection at present, inasmuch
as if levy and sale were made, there
wouldn't be a sufficient sum realized to
pay one 1.-THE Of the taxes
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ABSTRACT OF CASES DECIDED BY THE
SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI
Reported by Frank Johnston, Esq.
Cases Decided Monday, April %.
1873.

From the Vieksburg Herald
THE STATE, ON RELATION OF STATE
BOARD OF EDUCATION as MAYOR
AND SELEcTMEN OF WEST PoINT-
No. 1141.
Opinion of the Court Of Judge SimraH.
This was a proceeding by mandamus,
to compel the corporate authorities of the
town to pay into the State Treasury, for
the use Of the common schools, the moneys
collected for licenses TO sell liquor in the
town, which had been applied by the
town to its ordinary corporate expenses.
The relator had not obtained a judg-
ment, nor was the amount of money col
lected by the town ascertained or fixed.
The PRAYER of the petition was for writ
of mandamus to compel the town author
tiles to exhibit their books in order to
show the exact amount collected, and to
levy tax to pay the sum thus ascer-
tanned. There was a demurrer to the
petition which presented the legal prop
ositions decided by the Court. 1t was
held
l. 1t is the duty of town or city
treasurer to pay the money collected for
licenses, into the State Treasury for the
use of the common schools. The money
belongs to the State and not to the town.
But where the latter appropriates such
funds to its own use it would be liable fer
money had and received in an ordinary ac-
ton at law, at the suit of the State Board
of Education.
H. The writ of mandamus is not al
lowed where there is plain, speedy and
adequate remedy at law.
III. The creditor of municipal cor
poration is not entitled to a writ of man
damus to compel the levy of a tax to
pay general claim, until the demand is
reduced to judgment. An exception to
this rule is where particular debt is Gre
ated under a special statute which pro-
vides some specific remedy in addition to
or as substitute for the ordinary suit. |
Judgment affirmed.
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The CARRoLLTOE Journal Of Inst
week relates the singular discovery of tho
remains Of a murdered man. About
eighteen months ago Jacob Weaver, who
lived with his daughter ON his farm about
a mile west OF Miles Point, iu Carroll
county, was missed by bis ncighbors. ~
Grave suspicious were INDUCED IN by The
community that the old man had been
foully death with; but his ,tcpdaughtor.
who enjoyed an unenviablc reputation
and her husband, McMeans, told "a pl8us.
ible story. This story did for % time,
but the people renewed their suspicious
and this fact coming 10 the knowledge Of
McMeans and his wife, they suddenly
decamped, going, it is supposed, to Bruins
wick A few days since two boys who
were out hunting, were driven by che
rain to take shelter in the unoccupied
house. One of them noticed that "a part
Of the dirt floor of the kitchen bad sunk.
The matter was investigated, and the rc-
mains of Weaver were discovered and
identified, the skull having been crushed
IN with an axe.
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In 1872 the Mobile and North Western
railroad company, it is charged, fraudu-
lently obtained possession of three hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars of Coaho-
ma county bonds. The taxpayers of
the county have been, through their
attorneys, Messrs. Chalmers, and Reid,
trying to regain possession of these bonds
ever since their issuance. As Temporal
~ measure the bonds were placed, by
consent, in the hands of w. G. Mcclure,
of the Fourth National Bank, for safe
keeping. At the April term of the
chancery court of Coahoma county,
Messrs. Chalmers and Reid obtained an
order directing that the bond be delivered
to the clerk of the chancery court Of said
county.-MemPhis Appeal.
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SOUTHERN POLITICS.

,on the Cincinnati Commercial, (Rep)I
AS for this State, no matter how many
bal parties there may be, or how dis
MstefnI the name of Democrat is to the
II Wings and Civil Rights nauseated
tnubicans, now for the first time in
4 Democratic ranks, no matter for all
lat, Tennessee will give the Democratic
kndidate for President fifty thousand
aioritv. There is a feeling among
bathern men, shared by nineteen out of
tenty, that it is best to try a Democrat
h next President The course of the
buth since the war hes been downward.
has not prospered under Republic
h. rule, State or National. If there is
remedy in a change at Washington the
buthern white people, with very rare
kception, and those mostl y office-holders,
Be determined to have it, or at least to try.
It's plain to my mind, and | think
most skeptical will admit that l have
me opportunities for observation, that
De Republican candidate for President
Ext year, be he who he may, will not
et more than one-half of the votes of
hite men that Grant received i'll 1872.
here is widespread and profound disgust
ith the National Administration. +
,eak for the South The Civil Rights
II raised up more enemies to the Ad-
inistration than any other one measure,
1t the whole course of things has been
disgust and demoralize what few white
epublicans there were in the South.
lith so few whites in the party as now,
is impossible for Roadway to be made,
ID We find the organization in the
nth losing ground day byday. II. V.R.
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Zen. Frank p. Blair, who has been
Frustrated for a long time with a paralytic
a1Itaek, mas been greatly strengthened
u.urlng the past few weeks by the transfu-
sioh OF blood into his veins Two opera
.lo9s had been performed up to Monday,
1hu third one was to have been per
formed on Tuesday. At the first opera
Won TWO ounces were injected, and at the
|second one four ounces, the patient
.naVlng hrst been deprived of two ounces
LIZ bleeding. A favorable change has
'aken place, the patient manifesting in
Creased consciousness and articulating
-nore distinctly. The st. Louis Republi-
|can describes the TRANSMISSION process as
|l1oiloWs: 'The blood for TRANSMISSION is
ufaWn from the veins of healthy man
mo vessel, where it is allowed to remain
~ contact with the oxygenizing properties
IL the atmosphere short time, but not
kong enough to commence coagulating
y Is then sucked into an exhausted re-
|celver, to which tube is attached and
connected with vein Of the patients
am: The blood is then forced by pis-
ION IN the receiver into the general cir
|c \, Of the system. On the side Of
me exhausted receiver is scale of fine
tlnes' SO that the quantity forced into the
VEN is graduated and timed under the
Prachced eye of the physician"
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Education for the Hndu-trie-.


From the Chicago Tribunel
Why should not the farmers son have
an education distinct and technical in il,
character, as well as students educating
themselves for other professions in life +!
Why should he not know something more
OF his profession than to pillow, sow and
cultivate his crops properly; reap, NOW
and stock his grain or hay water. feed
and shelter his stock from the inclemen-
cies of the weather or carry forward
mechanically the other ordinary routine
operations of farm-like? And vet, how
many have acquired more than this me
chanical knowledge
But few-very few-have investigated
the reasons why of the principles underlv-
Ing the profession from which they cain
bread and acquire their wealth. Ii is
true all have education more OF less but
1t Is the exception, and not the rule.
where the teacher seeks 10 train the mind
to habits of investigation TO think out
the problems that occupy schoolboy days.
Our teachers are too often mere ma
chimes, whose only object in life seems 10
be 10 hammer into the brain of the pupil
certain routine knowledge, that had pre-
viously been hammered into the teachers
own skull, thus producing one set of ma
chimes as near like another as the mind
of the pupil will allow.
After leaving school, the real education
of the individual commences Ifhs have
talent, he must first think out how best
practically to apply this talent, and then
go toilsomely TO work
TURNING THE BURROWS OF INvEsrIGA-
TON.
Chemistry has been called tn corner
stone of Agriculture. 1t is more truly
the bedrock upon which rests the whole
system of sciences which cluster around
Agriculture. Yet man may be the first
chemist in the world, and know nothing
even of husbandry, one Of the simple
branches of Agriculture. Botany is an
important study to the farmer, and espec-
tally SO to the horticulturist but the
mere botanist, however perfect in the
science, would starve to death if he had
to gain his bread by the application of
mere botanical knowledge to the culture
of plants. Entomology is really of the !
hrst Importance to every one who delves |
in the soil, whether on the farm, in the |
field or forest, or in the garden or orchard. |
But again, he who should give his atten-
ton to the exclusive study of Entomolo-
gy would have no time for ANYTHING else |
would grow old and gray; and, perhaps
at last, standing on the brink of the |
grave, regret that life was all too short for |
the human mind to compass this science.
The point lies just here: The student
in Agriculture, or in any other industry,
must pursue those sciences relating to his
profession, but only so far as they bear
directly thereon.
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.ovEKrIsIxG AGENTS.
/ FAM WOULD co.

Away from carking care,
From passion and despair.
From hopes that but delude.
And blasts that are too rude
From friend ships that betray,
And ioyS that pass away,
And love that turns TO hate
m hearts left desolate,
/ fain would go.
From weary days and nights,
And ghosts Of lost delights
T4jr ghantoms of dead days,
THAT wonder through old ways
From parting's bitter pain.
A nd meetings. transient gain,
And death that Knocks us so--
With glad llfc's overthrow,
l fain would 20.
To some fair land and far,
Where all my lost ones are,
Where smiles shall bloom anew,
And friendships shall be true,
Where falls 10 weary night,
Since God himself is light
Across the sOundless sea
To that far land and tree.
/ fain woul / go.
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LAWS PASSED AT THE LATE SESSION
OF THE LEGISLATURES.

AN ACT to amend section 1920 of the Re-
vised Code of 1871, in relation to sentence
in capital cases.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted by the Leqis-
LGture of the State of Mississippi, That
section 1920, of the Revised Code of 1871,
be, and the same is hereby so amended
as to read as follows whenever, from
any cause, any convict, under sentence
of death, shall not have been executed
according to the order and judgment of
the court, and the same shall stand in
force and unreversed, the Circuit Court
where such sentence was originally pro-
nounced, on the application of the District
Attorney, shall issue writ of habeas cor
pus to bring such convict before such Cir
cult Court, or if he be at large, shall issue
warrant for his apprehension, and upon
such convict being brought before the
said Circuit Court, if no legal reason ex-
ist against the execution of such sem
tence. the said Circuit Court shall issue
a warrant to the Sheriff of the proper
county reciting the facts, AMI command
ing the said Sheriff, on a day to be
named in said warrant, to execute said
according to law, which the
Sheriff shall accordingly do"
SEC. IS. Be at further enacted, That
this Act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage.
APPROVED, March 6, 1875.
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APPROVED, March 6, 1875.

AN ACT to amend section 1872 of the Re-
vised Code of 1871, in relation to suits on
open accounts.
SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted by the Legis-
Lature of the State of Mississippi, That in
actions upon open accounts, sworn to as
provided for in section 1872 of the Revised
Code of 1871, general denial in the
counter affidavit of the defendant to the
correctness of the account sued on, shall
be insufficient to put the plaintiff to the
proof of the same, but said account shall
be treated as proved on the trial, except
as to the particular items of indebtedness,
the correction correctness and validity
of which are specified and described in the
counter affidavit or the defendant, to be
filed with his plea.
Sec. 2. Be 1t further enacted, That this
Act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
APPROVED. March 6. 1875.
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Hon. l.. Q. c. Lamar, of Mississippi,
as recently submitted himself to the
humb-screws of an interviewer, and in
fply to an inquiry as to what he was going
h say when he suddenly checked himself
the House during the John Young
Brown discussion, Mr.. Lamar says:
can best answer that question by
eiIlng you what happened at a splendid
banquet in Washington. Mr.. Sam
bowles, Of the Springfield Republican,
ROse, and peeping over his wine-glass
y a wicked way, said MIR Lamar,
Pc want you to repeat to us right now
Rnt here, the terrible speech you were
kgng to illuminate against Hoar in the
blouse during the John Young Brown
lseusSion.' Now, that was startling
Proposition for me. | wasn't mad with
N pleasant people in front of me. /
pad no reason to hurl storm of indig
pant remarks at their heads. Besides |
pas not in rage about anything, and |
feally didn't have indignant remarks at
pand. | was in a dilemma knew that
Was IN brilliant company and that no
pathway manners would do. Right in
Front Of me sat Gail Hamilton | didn't
Know 1t was she at the time, but | did
Know she was very bright woman,
lor she had just dropped the wise and
Nltty remark that 'YouEg John Brown
should not have been censured for prevar-
cation, for lying is the cohesive power
p society! In her presence | didn't
lare to attempt to build vehement
'peech on basis of good humor and rare
VINE, ard | didn't know what to do. l
'epled, however, that | would first illus
rate my position by an allusion to we'll
known book, and then if the party insist
~ on arehearsal of this undelivered, and
lenoe famous speech. l would do my best
. satisfy them. You will remember,
SAID to them, that once upon time a
f'end met Mr.. Thackeray, and says to
am ! Mr.. Thaekeray, the book of Vanity
sair closes leaving Becky Sharp half
hidden behind a door, with a long keen
A0iie cleaning in her hands, and her eyes
,hame with jealousy and passion, bent
'pGn man sitting with his back turned
. her. writing at desk. Now, | want
. ., Know what did Becky Sharp do"
NY dear fellow, says Thackeray, tapping
I'm on the shoulder, "that is exactly
'n 1s have always wanted to know my
ell You can very we'll imagine that
was not troubled with any more requests
Iehearse my unborn speech.
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A new mode Of resusctating drowned
persons and Others suffering from asphyx-
ia, consists in placing the patient on bis
back with tho arms extended. A roll Of
clothing is then laid below the false ribs so
as to throw theiranteriormargin into prom
inence. The operator then kneels astrido
the patient, placing his hands 30 that the
balls of the thumbs rests upon the false
ribs, while the fingers fall naturally iu the
depressions between the ribs on each side.
An assistant holds the tongue Of the pa-
ticnt, and the operator, with bis elbows
firmly pressed against his sides. throws hs
whole weight forward, by which the false
ribs are pressed upward and inward, pro-
ducing great motion Of the diaphragm,
and displacement Of the contents Of tho
lungs. Suddenly raising the body, the
operator allows the false ribs TO return 10
their position, producing a corresponding
movement in the diaphragm and thrush
of air. By keeping up rhythmic move
ments Of this kind, artificial respiration be-
produced. -"Scientihc Miscellany" iu
the Galaxy for May.
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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS rs. E. A. q J.
A. GALBREATH-No 984.
Opinion of the Court bu Judqe Tarbell.

Opinion of the Court by Judge TdrbeH.
In 1859, the Board of Police loaned
$2,700 to Z. A. & j. A. Galbreath, (h1s-
band and wife, for which the latter gave
their notes secured by mortgage on land,
to the President of the Board and his sue.
cessors in office. 1t did not appear that
the land was the separate property of the
wife, The bin was filed by the Board of
Supervisors to foreclose the mortgage.
The defendant demurred to the bill.
Held
l. As the bill does not show that the
land is the separate property of the wife
and as no personal recovery is sought
against her, the objection that the contract
is affected by the coverture cannot be made
by demurrer.
II. The Board of Supervisors succeed
ed to the rights and powers Of the Board
of Police, and had the right to file the
bill
LII. The defendants having received the
money and executed the mortgage cannot
object that the Board had no legal author
ity to make the loan.
Nv. Although the Board has no power
to purchase land Except by special au-
thority given by statute) it has the right
to foreclose mortgage, which is but Sc
curity for the debt.
Decree reversed cause ren,anded; leaUe
to 0ns,Oer IN forty days.
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Gov. Powers, while acting rs foreman
of the Noxubee county grand jury, had
his pocket picked Of a considerable sum
by fellow juror Of the colored Persua-
sion. That grand jury indicted some City
odd thieves most notable verifcatiOn
of the adage: "Set a rogue 70 catch a
rogue. Meridian Mercury.
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Congressman Mckee and Back
Pay.

The back pay Of the Congressman has
not all been disposed Of Some members
drew their money and used il, but the
greater number had the amounts due
them covered back into the Treasury
We see that the amount due our Mckee
remains to his credit in the hands of the
Sergeant-at. Arms. -Vicksburg Monitor
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A lady correspondent inquiries of an
Eastern paper: ''How shall keep my
husband at home in the evening +" Wo-
men are constantly asking this question /;
but every woman of sense ought to know
that she can keep her husband at home
easily enough by simply opening first
class beer-garden in the back yard. 1t is
hardly necessary to say that few pretty
waiter-girls thrown in, by way of supple
mentary advertisement, might have q
tendency to drive him abroad, but it
would be ridiculous to omit them, never
theless.
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AN ACT to regulate the registration of vo-
tiers in the State. and to repeal section ?
of an Act approved April 10, 1873.
SECTION 1, Be 1t enacted By the LegisIa-
tare Of the State Of Mississippi, That the
Registrars of each county shall meet at
some central and convenient place in
each Supervisors district, to be fixed by
them, and remain there not over two
days, and register all those legally emit
tied to vote; ProUided That at the county
seat they shall hold three days to register
all that may have been omitted in any
of the districts, closing the registration
two days before the day of the election.
SEC. 2. Beit further enacted, That the
Registrars shall give at least ten days no.
tice, by posting up notice at not less than
three public and convenient places in
each district, OF the time and place desig-
mated for holding their sessions for regis
tering said voters.
SEC. g. Be 1t further enacted, That all
Acts, in conflict with this Act, is are
hereby repealed, and that this Act take
effect and be in force from and after its
passage.
APPROVED, March 6, 1875.
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Information received by the Bureau of
Statistics shows that, during the month
Of March, 1875, there arrived at the port
of New York SAT- immigrants, Of whom
4,2O3 we're males, and 2,274 females.-
During the month Of March, 1874, g.
0j8 immigrants arrived, 4,0lS being
males and 2, 040 females.