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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25
ssThe Pinchback NufSance.''

1t will all be up with Pinchback, who
has been knocking at the door of the T.
S. Senate for admission for two years, if it
is not opened unto him the present week
The motion to postpone the consider
alton of the question of his admission to
take up the Indian Appropriation Bill
was made by Mr.. Morrill,, OF Vermont,
and in addition to the Democrats and
Liberals, was supported by such inveter-
ate Radicals as the Morrills, Washbrune,
Conkling, Window and Frelinghuysen.
Neither of the Mississippi Senators were
present at this supreme hour of Pinch's
case. The ST. Louis Globe, fierce Rad
ical paper, thus notices the result:
The Senate yesterday disposed of the
Pinchback nuisance, with which it has
been afflicted for long time, by tabling
the resolution for the admission of the
dusky Senator. The vote by which this
was done is very significant. The Demo
Gratis were, of course, expected to vote
against anything like recognition of the
Kellogg Government, but they seem to
have been reinforced by the best Repub.
licans in the Senate. We are glad of the
result
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25

The pending bill regulating the COS II
of assessment and limiting the compen-
sation at from $500 to $500, won't do as
a reform measure. AT this rate the as
sessment the present year will cost the
taxpayers from $50, 900 to SO, 900, when
it should not exceed So, 900. By the
law of 1857, Code of that year. it was
provided that the compensation of as
" SCISSORS shall not be less than 500 nor
more than $500 in any year" The
property valuation was then four times
what it now is, and yet it is proposed to
make the cost of assessing nearly four
times greater! This is reform with a
vengeance.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25
The Louisiana Case

1t will be seen that the Louisiana Con
gressional Investigating Committee have
unanimously concurred in condemning
the Returning Board, and recommending
the re-seating of the Conservatives who
were bayonetted out of the Legislature
And that a majority of the Committee
contradict the charges of intimidation on
the part of the Conservatives and sustain
the Foster (Republican) report previously
made. The only feature adverse to the
Conservatives, is the recommendation for
recognizing Kellogg as the de facto Gov
ernor, This was made by the Republi-
can majority on the Committee.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25
UNNECESSARY ALARM.

A leading conservative journal in the
West. the St Louis Republican, says
that the passage of the Civil Rights bill
shows that the motive of the Radical
partisans is not to confer benefits on the
colored people, the mass of whom will
not even realize its existence, ''but TO
''infame the Southern whites to exhibit
''tions of violent personal conduct. The
Republican leaders have not forgotten
''their habit of relying on the imprudence
''and folly of theiropponents, and they are
''now coolly calculating to make this unfor-
''tunate Democratic infrmity an instru-
''ment for retrieving their own defeats :"
Our St. Louis contemporary may except
Mississippi from the States where vio-
lence, on account of this measure, is ap-
pretended. We have had a much more
ample Civil Rights law on our statute
book for several years, and it has given
the people very little, if any, concern
In whatever it has undertaken to over
ride the invincible common law of hui
man nature, which God has placed above
mortal enactments, it has been a nullity.
There is no express provision in the pub
lie school law forbidding mixed schools,
or recognizing race distinctions, and yet
under the natural prompting of each
race to mingle with its own kind, there
has never been so much as a thought of
anything else but separate schools. The
natural law is paramount, and no human
enactment would avail to set it aside.
The attempt to do SO might, and doubt
less would, break up the school system ;
but it would not change it to a mixed one.
We repeat that the law of this State,
on the subject of Civil Rights, is more
comprehensive measure than the act Of
Congress; but it has produced none of the
outbursts of passion, nor the excuses
which are expected and hoped for by the
Radical schemes on the one hand, and
dreaded by our Northern Democratic
friends on the other. The truth is, in.
asmuch as we, of Mississippi, already
have Civil Rights law on our statute
books, we rather like the idea of putting
similar measure upon the Northern
States in which demagogues have loudly
descanted upon the beauties of Civil
Rights, but have carefully avoided
taking any of it themselves.
Our friends elsewhere may dismiss
their fears. Even if the Senate passes
the bill and it becomes law, there will
&c be no exhibitions of violent personal
conduct" in this part of the country
Let the Radical demagogues try the
wholesome bitter of their own medicine
and test how it will work.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25
Grants Force Bill.

The bill denounced by leading Re
publican journal as an ''atrocious propo
sition for governing the South" to which
Grant has compelled the Republican
caucus to commit his party, drags heav.
ily, and there is reason to believe that il
will fail in consequence of the divisions
which it has produced in the Republican
ranks But few days of the present
Congress remain. At its close the law
making power Will no longer exist exclu-
sively in the hands of the Republicans; the
day will then have passed for the enact
ment of measures designed for the perse-
cution of the South. Nothing could have
been wider of the mark than the calcutta
ton of its authors, that it would be the
means of controlling the votes of the
Southern States for Grant, Or any other
candidate representing his policy, in the
Presidential election. With the excep-
ton of two Of these States, the entire
thirteen are sure to cast their votes for
the Opposition, no matter how many
Force Bills are passed. AT the late Fall
election in Louisiana, L. S. troops were
stationed in all portions of that State, a
reign of terror existed, and L. S. military
law was triumphant over civil authority
Still the Conservatives carried the day in
the popular vote and the Legislature by
large maiorities
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25

In view of Grants threat that he In
tends to disturb the peaceful condition
of Arkansas, and overturn her govern
ment, which is based on the will of two
thirds of her actual voters, and ninety
nine hundredths of her intelligence, lead
ing Republican papers, the n. Y. Times
and Cincinnati Commercial among the
number, are urging upon Congress the
necessity of passing resolution sustain
ing the report of the Congressional Com
mittee and declaring against interference
with the affairs of that State. All the
Democrats and Liberals in Congress, and
number of Republicans, are confidently
relied upon to support a declaration of
that kind.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25
Row im the Camp.

Several of the Republican members
have revolted against the ubiquitous
measure to take from the people of the
counties the election of Tax-Collectol
and put it in the hands Of the Governor.
a caucus of the faithful was held last
night to put it through under party lash.
There was big row, pistols were drawn,
cuss words flew thick and fast, and
Messrs. Feemster, Chandler and Mackey
were read out of the party. Mr..
Walker, (colored) of Monroe, who had
opposed the bill in the House, took
strong ground against it in the caucus
and incurred the displeasure of the party
managers for opposing it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25
Local Bills.

The Legislature is frittering away the
valuable time of the people ON local and
private bills. We beseech the Conser-
vatives and Democrats to dispense with
this sort of frivolous legislation and en-
ploy their every opportunity to bring be-
fore their respective bodies measures of
reform for the benefit of the whole State.
Let the personal claims of John Smith
and William jones be held in allegiance
the balance of the session that the para
mount claims of the whole people may
have undivided attention.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25

The following letter is published for
the information of landowners. The
writer of it came with others to Missis-
sippi several years ago, and after remain
ing two years with their families, removed
to the Northwest, for causes Of which we
are not apprised. They had but recently
immigrated from Europe, and had but
little experience when they came South
of any portion of the coIntry. After
giving both sections a trial, they have
decided in favor of the South. Here
they will have less hardship and better
opportunities to earn living and prosper
than in the North where the winters are
longer and more rigorous and the pro-
auctions of the soil not so diversified.
The grasshopper visitation in the West
has caused widespread suffering in that
section, and no doubt very large num-
bers of laboring people might have been
induced to come to this State, if proper
inducements had been held out, and ia
| ClI1IICS
Farmers desiring to employ laborers of
this class, who would settle in the State,
first as laborers, with the hope of becom-
ing landowners in time, can communicate
with the writer Of the subjoined letter
whose address is also given. fit should
be ascertained that his statement is cor
rect and that a number of substantial
families are anxious and ready to immi-
CRATE to the State for agricultural en-
Iployment, several neighbors might club
together and settle them in the same vi
entity, where in the enjoyment of their
accustomed associations, they would be
contented. We are sure that the New
Orleans, St Louis and Chicago Railroad
with its habitual public spirit, will make
a liberal reduction of fares:
/ CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. Is, 1875.
To Mr.. E. Barksdale:
DEAR SIR.-There are twelve families
of my acquaintance willing to go to
| Mississippi to work on farms or planta-
uonS III theY can get employment some
of US have been there already and wish
to go back. They are good families and
are anxious to go, if you will please come
and take us away. l have worked in
Mississippi with MIR. Riley two years
and want to return but we have no
means. If our expenses were advanced,
we would repay the money. l think at
least fifty families could be employed
without trouble. Yours, etc.,
JOHN JANOwITCH.
231 JansOn street.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25

In several States that have been deliv.
cred from carpet-bag misrule, there is
great need of changes in the defective
constitutions thereof; but the Conserva-
lives, in view of the misrepresentation of
motives to which they will be subjected
by the partisans of the Administration,
have, by the adTice of the Democratic
members of Congress, resolved to defer
such action to more convenient season.
They viii make the best they can of the
constitutions left to them as legacies by
the defunct Radical government
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25

THE portraiture of Col. Lamar by a
political foe, in the Milwaukee News.
Republican, will be read with interest.
HIS eminently successful Congressional
career is due to his perfect apprehension
of the situation, his recognition of the
changes wrought by the war, and his
capacity to fall in with surrounding cir
cunstances and turn them to the best ac-
count for the people of the South. With
out compromising their dignity, he has,
by course of mingled courtesy and firm
ness, coneiliated and won the respect of
her foes. They have recognized in him
true knight who did his fighting when
the war was raging, and who, since its
termination, has made it point of honor
to yield gracefully to the decree rendered
by the supreme tribunal of nations.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25

THE intelligence from Washington
seems to indicate that Congress will not
interfere in Arkansas, but will let mat
tiers remain as they are.-Philadelphia
Ledger (NeutraD.
This is the sentiment of Congress.
This is the will of the people. But sup
pose Gen. Grant disregarding this senti-
ment, and trampling under foot this will,
should send the army into Arkansas and
break up the peace and order which ex-
list there under a constitution and laws,
and officers to administer them, of the
peoples own selection, and revolutionize
the government-whatth then? Will the
Republican party sustain him? Many
of the party managers may; but the
main body of the intelligent people who
adhere to party not for the sake of office,
but to subserve the public good, we be
lieve, will not. They will join the political
alliance, composed of patriotic men of all
former parties, with the Democratic organ
ization as their nucleus for the salvation
of the government from the threatened
subversion.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25

As to THE CLAR1oN's conclusions
about the negroes drawing the color line,
We differ in tOto.-Summit Times.
Our statement was that colored mem
bers of the Legislature had, on repeated
occasions, which we cited, drawn the
color line against the taxpayers. Now to
prove the charge, we would refer the
Times to an article in the PIaindealer,
colored mans organ, edited by colored
men. If our Summit friend won't
believe the journals of the Legis-
lature, nor the testimony of the Plain
dealer, he is incorrigible, and would not
believe though one were to rise from the
dead.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25
Kinds County Delinquent Tax
List.

The list of lands in this county adver-
tised for sale by the Sheriff, on the 1st
Monday in March, for non-payment of
taxes, is frightful beyond precedent 1t
covers nearly two broadsides of the
Pilot, and embraces the property of very
many citizens who have never been known
to be delinquent in their tax-payments
before. No more striking proof could be
afforded of the injustice and oppression
of the present system than this monster
advertisement properties for sale under
the SherifTs hammer.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25
HIIImbuH&inS.

The Legislature, after passing Salary
Reduction bill, has commenced supple
menting it with bills increasing salaries
which had already been reduced. If the
dominant party think they can humbug
the people by this sort of tomfoolery they
are very much mistaken. If they need
a standard for the regulation of salaries,
let them consult the Code of 1857, page
40.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25
The Successor OF Chandler.

There has been general rejoicing among
Conservatives everywhere over the defeat
of Zach. Chandler for U. S. Senator from
from Michigan, the most bigoted and vim
dictive of all the ultra Radical leaders,
and the worst foe of peace between the Sec
tons. His successor, Judge Christiancy,
has gratifed public curiosity as to his
course by indicating it in the following
extract Of letter which has been pub
lished:
81 was elected as a Republican, with
which political organization / have been
connected since the DAYS when we were
called 'Wooley Heads bat I do not feel
bound By partisan ties. Tery many of the
acts Of the President are contrary to the spirit
of Republican Institutions; besides I have
been on the bench so many years that it
is impossible that 1 can be in my career
as Senator partisan
In the defeat of Chandler and the cleo
ton of such a man as his successor, the
country will be infinitely the gamer,
though Radicalism will lose one of its
main props.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25
The Forfeited Land Rill.

The bill providing for the abatement
of taxes on forfeited lands prior to 1874,
and the restoration of such lands to the
assessment rolls, passed the House to-
day, (20th,) without division. 1t seems
that both parties agree upon this excel
lent measure. 1t is estimated that this
law will save this year 500, 900 to the
State Treasury, and besides it affords an
opportunity for the reduction of taxes
on the whole property of the State to
corresponding amount.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25
The Celebrated Interview Between Chief
Justice PeytOn and Governor
AmeS.

Eds CLARIoN-Now that his Excel
lency has delivered himself of a very un-
healthy responsibility which he took
upon his soul of ignoring, by get
ting confirmed by the Senate, an
other who was to supplant an APP
pointee claimed to have been regularly
made at his hands, it may not be amiss
to furnish the public with clearer in
sight, beyond what established date and
facts present, into his reason and mo-
tives
Time brought on the summer session of
the Courts. One of the most prominent
before the public view was Chancellor
Peyton, who, having charge of this Dis
trict, had the prospect upon unrolling the
docket here, of encountering business of
unusual importance. Among other cases
of magnitude, the case known as
the Railroad Injunction case, 80 celebra-
ted since, was to come up for
trial. Signs early became manifest of Il
growing feeling outside, on the part of
those who favored the State against the
Railroad. How that trial, so much
pressed upon, began and progressed
and had its ending is now matter of pub
lie history.
Whether those citizens who might have
suspected the cravings Of machinery to
monopolize the civil law, expected any
thing like open, arbitrary interference or
prevention just yet, they were doomed
to curious disappointment. No. TO
save appearances demanded some sort of
waiting upon the result ofthe trial, as the
Chancellor had taken the case under re-
spectful consideration, and would render
his decision the next day So, instead Of
a greater stir, there was lull Of things.
by the grace of the hour. The evening
passed off without any definite news-chat
on the breezes then the darkness of a
proverty-stricken city had its own wav
But out into the darkness, there issued
from the Executive Mansion an advep-
turer who stumbled his way across the
streets In the direction of Judge Peytop's
residence, gaining which he stepped up
and raped at the door. 1t was a strange |
little raPping, and sounded more like |
iumbllng at the door than rapping, vet
1t succeeded in eliciting a hearing from
one OF the young men within, who, sever
al times inquiring, gathered the name
from muffied voice which responded
"PACKER."
Immediately the door was opened, and
the military man in the darkness told the
purpose of his call at SO unreasonable ao
hour:
Gov. Ames wishes to see Judge Pey-
ION at the Mansion"
Being informed that Judge Peyton was
n hls bed, and was not usually aroused
'fter the hour of retiring, but would be
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25
A CASE was argued in the limited Statt

AcAsEwas argued in the United States
Supreme Court on Monday, involving the
right of the State of Michigan to tax
lands granted to it by Congress to aid in
the construction of railroads. As the
lands In question exceed 5000, 900 acres,
and most of the railroads in the State are
concerned in the matter, a decision is
looked for with much interest, nor is the
interest in the decision confined to Michi-
gan.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25
Address Of the Southern Demo
cratic Congressman

We can add nothing in argument, or
appeal, to the address of the Southern
Democratic Congressman to their constit-
uents, describing the perils of the situa-
ton and invoking them by all the consid-
erations of self-preservation, and of patri-
otism to pursue in the present trying emer-
gency, the course they have marked
out
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25

HARPER's WEEKLY which until re-
Gently has been thick and thin sup
porter of all the measures of the Ad-
ministration, continues bitterly to oppose
its present policy of governing the South
by means of the Force Bill and of revo-
lutionizing Arkansas contrary to the re-
port and recommendation of the Inves-
tigating Committee.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25

THE MERIDIAN SrAR.-Col. Shan
mons paper, after temporary suspension
caused by fire, re-appears brighter and
better than ever, from the furnace through
which it has passed. May it always
shine.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25

One OF THE MOST IMPORTANT RI
FORM bills, the Biennial Session Amend
ment, was defeated in the Senate to-day
Gath by the votes of eight colored, and
three white, Radicals. This is in accor-
dance with the colored ''boarding-house"
caucus programme, which was ventilated
by the Plaindealer a few days ago.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25
main props,

The passage ot..the Ead's Bill, for i'm
proving navigation at the mouth of the
Mississippi river, through the House of
Representatives, is a matter for congrat-
ulation, whether that particular scheme
or some other was preferred. Let us
have something doing to remove the OBJ
structions which operate so injuriously
upon the industrial interests of the South
and West.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25
The Daily Clarion.
the CRYSTAL Springs Monitor. I

From the Cry etal springs MohlIoT'l
Since the meeting of the Legislature
we have drawn largely from the columns
of The DAILY CLARION for our Leglsla-
tive news, and have copied freely from Its
leading editorial articles. We acknow-
ledge our Indebtedness, and we express
our obligations the more freely, because
we feel that it has been not only faith
full and fearless exponent of the views OF
the Conservative masses, but a powerful
agent in modifying the policy of our enc
mics. It's merciless exposures of fraud
and corruption-its bold denunciations
of villiany and its earnest appeals III he
half of the suffering taxpayers merit our
highest need of praise-and 1t IS out
simple justice to say so.
From the Yazoo City Democrat
If there is any one thing we appreciate
more than another, it is the cleverness OF
| the JACKSON CLARION in favoring u
with their DAILY" If they don't com
mand success, they do more-deserve II.
1t is a sprightly, neatly printed and ably
edited paper, and TRUE TO THE PEOPLE
and the name of every true white man III
Mississippi should be on their books.
We are glad to see the CLARION give
evidence of prosperity. The daily is able
as usual and is gaining additional sup
port every day. A new engine has been
received, and the paper goes to work
with ''facts and figures like giant re-
freshed. -Winona Advance.
The above only does justice to our
able contemporary. THE CLARION.
Orchard is himself again. Central
Star.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25

THE Metropolitan Police Bill was de-
feated in the Senate to-day, (24th,) by a
vote of 21 to 10. All the colored mem
bers except one voted against rejecting it.
All the white Senators except Ames' man,
Packer, voted against it. But for these
small variations it would have been a
strictly color line affair.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25

The Memphis Appeal comes to hand
with an eloquent tribute to the late Hon.
LANDoN c. HAYNES, one of the most
eminent lawyers, orators and statesmen
of Tennessee. He died at his home in
Memphis on the 18th, aged sixty-nine
years.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-02-25

The SOUTHERN RURAL GENTLEMAN
This weekly has been revived at Granada
by its protector, Mr.. J. L. Davis, after
suspension of thirteen years. It's mis-
sion is implied by its name is hand
somely printed, and we hope it will have
long and prosperous career.