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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-05-15

THE latest thing in ''labor movements" is
a strike on the part OF the Western Union
Telegraph messengers in Boston. It's Alto
gether question of clothes. The company
decreed that these mercuries should be
arrayed in uniform. They provided the uni
forms and deducted its cost from the boys,
wages. The boys stood this but when came
forth the new decree that they should not
wear their winter clothes in the summer but
must have new suit they rebelled, and of
course propose in imitation of their elders, to
make unrelenting war on all boys who don't
wear winter clothes in the summer.
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MEMPHIS proposes a new departure in
baby shows, which is nothing less than
prize for the ugliest baby, pure and simple.
Doubtless the idea was conceived in the
broadest spirit of Christian charity, but with
the most woful ignorance of the female ma
ture. If the committee having this exhibit
ton in charge had offered premium for the
most intellectual baby, for the baby whose
bumps as interpreted by the phrenologst
gave the fullest assurance of future greatness,
and have simply added parenthetically-
symmetry of figure and regularity of features
to be considered a Disqualification
the show might have stood some chance to
escape bankruptcy, for mother may possi-
bly, be willing TO incur the risk of having her
darling adjudged the homeliest in the neigh
borhood for the assurance that Its ugly fea-
lures belong 10 future statesman. But the
assumption that any mother will permit her
her child to be adjudged a fury without a
compensating certificate iof intellectually is
too horrible thought and we dismiss it with
the remark that any society which seeks to
replenish its treasury by such means as this
Memphis one has adopted is doomed to an
empty treasury forever.
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SOME Of our party contemporaries are writ
ing very fine editorials about party harmony.
Excellent thing, harmony is in the main, but
like other excellent things, it may be turned
to bad use. For instance, caucus machin-
cry may be employed to foist bad nominations
upon party, and rebellion succeeds. Then
the cry of harmony is plea for corruption.
Now there is one way in which we can secure
a harmony that will not require any effort
and anxiety to secure, namely, by making
nominations which will commend themselves
to intelligent and far-minded men. Harmony
secured by such means will be worth possess
fnp
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THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING. MAY Is, 1875.

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersgned by Stanley L.
Pullen Editor. All railway. steamboat and hotel
managers viii confer a favor upon US by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
journal, as we have information that several "bum-
mers' are seeking courtesies in the name OF the
PRESS, and we have disposition to be, even pas
sively, party to such frauds.
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THE almost daily reports of murders which
come from Massachusetts must be very con-
vincing to the apostles of capital punishment
that hanging furnishes the surest means of
preventing homicide. Murderers increase
much faster than they can be got rid of and
the stock on hand bids fair to become so
large soon that some machine will be required
by which two or three or half dozen can be
disposed OF at once. When several murders
were committed in this state in quick success
sion the cry was raised that the practical
abolition of capital punishment furnished the
sequel. 1t may occur to some one that the
same state of facts in Massachusetts where
capital punishment is in vogue, throws doubt
upon that conclusion.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-05-15

We do not read Anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily tor publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
ncations that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-05-15

THE Belfast Age has received letter from
Hon. N. W. Farwell of Rockland, stating
that he is not a candidate for the Republican
nomination for Governor. Gen. Connor evi-
IDENTIFY has the field.
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ICoMPLIMENT To LIZZIE BAsToN FULLER. The
Boston Evening Transcript thus speaks of the
talented young elocutiopist Lizzie Baston Full
ler:
This new but already favarlte elocunionist
gave readings and recitations few evening
since at Opera Hall In Amesbury, making the
poems of John G. Whittier a speciality. The
author was SO impressed with the charming
manner in which the young lady rendered his
pieces that, as soon as she had left the platform
he sought conversation with her, expressing his
appreciation of her talent and gracefulness, and
afterward sent her the following lines:
"Thanks for the pleasant voice that lent
Such sweetness to my simple lays;
hardly knew them as my own
Interpreting the thought meant
And winning for my rhymes praise
Due, haply to thyselt alone.
In vain the hand essays its skill,
Unaided by the organs Keys;
In vain the bugler's breath,
Until the horn repeats his melodies"
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-01-28

Facts and Figures Tor the Iax-Rayera
Showing the InsTease or Taxes ana
Cost Of the state Government

The Legislature proceeds slowly with
its reform work while the yoke weighs
heavier and heavier on The necks Of the
over-burdened taxpayers.
Nearly month Of the session IS gone
from $50 900 to SIS, 800 have been ex-
pended, but very little in the way
Of substantial relief has been afforded.
Let US again refresh the memories of
those who are entrusted with the solemn
duty of curtailing expenditures, by pre-
sentation of facts and figures showing the
former rate of taxation and the cost OF
former administrations and contrasting
them with the expenses of the present
regime. These exhibitions of what
has been done in the past, viii serve
as finger boards for the guidance Of Leg
islators in the present and in the future !;
and the comparative statements will
speak in thunder-tones of the wrongs
which the people have endured at the
hands of those who since the era of re-
construction, have had control of their
State affairs.
The figures are from official sources
and their correctness will not be ques-
toned
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-01-28
Who is w. stanley:

Did anybody in Mississippi ever hear
of him? Is he myth or a reality? The
Pilot publishes a letter over that sigma
ture from the Chicngo Inter Ocean, which
suggests the inquiry. The letter was
certainly written tor some other latitude
than Mississippi; though it is reproduced
here. 1t is an arraignment of the Presi-
dent, on the following charge:
When invested the result Of many
years of unremitting toll in a farm and
stock Of goods in the State of Mississippi,
l was under the impression that u. S.
Grant was President of the United States.
and that no amount of Democratic or In
dependent literature would compel him TO
permit me to be robbed and murdered
with impunity in one of the States which
| had helped him to conquer for the I'm
ION. This is ''plain unvarnished tale, 3"
and similar one could be told bv P
thousand other exhibited States sol
diers
Poor fellow it was bad enough to be
robbed" but to be murdered" in addi-
ton was horrible! And what is stranger
still, though murdered he has come
from the grave to tell the story of his
wrongs and his "plain, unvarnished
tale" is that of ga thousand of other u.
3. soldiers" who have passed through
similar ordeal Of death, burial and the
graveyard resurrection, we would fain
beiieve-if we are to credit the miracle of
the Pilots hero.
Hanybody in Mississippi has ever heard
OF this robbed and murdered" Stanley,
who still lives, however, to relate the sto-
ry of his death, we would be pleased to
know the fact SO that we may, perchance.
learn something more of his wonderful
history.
The strange part oft is, not that ma
IIclous fool would cOncoct such a story
and palm it off on a credulous public
elsewhere, but that paper here in our
midst would copy it with an appearance
u belief and make it the subject of seri.
)us comment. G.Is
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-01-28


The investigstionlby the Congressional
COMMITTEES ID Louisiana Las had several
good effects. and one of them, is the explo-
sion of the faiIacy, in reference to the prin-'
ciples and objects of the White League.
We have quoted the testimony of Gen,
Ogden, the chief of the League, that it is
non-political I; that Its members were
not required to take any obligation what
ever conflicting with the civil or political
rights of any class; and that the organ
ization comedies to the blacks the same
right to vote and to hold Office. which IS
claimed for the whites. The fact has
been developed that the League was or
ganized purely for defensive purposes,
to repel assault, and TO protect the peace
and good order of society. Viewed in
this light the organization, if confined to
these objects, is public benefit. 1t GER
tainly proved itself in the case of the at
tempted vandal invasion of Vicksburg,
public necessity; and in the lesson it
taught the Louisiana usurpers on the 7th
of September, it proved itself public
blessing,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-01-28
MISREPRESENTATION.


It viii be remembered that in adj
vising against the precipitate adoption
of a policy by The Democrats, Conserva-
tives and Taxpayers generally of this
State, with view to the elections next
fall it was urged as one of the reasons, that
it would be well to await the develop
ments of the present session of the Leg
islature, in the belief that they would
she'd such light upon The canvass as would
enable our tax-payiDg citizens to see
their way clear, and perchanee furnish
motives for cordial and thorough union
not heretofore existing, nor conceived.
The significance of this remark viii be
understood when We call the attention OF
the Tax payers again TO the fact, that on
three several occasions during this ses-
sion, the color line has been distinctly
drawn by colored leaders in the lower
branch Of the Legislature to defeat
measures for curtailing expenditures and
reducing taxation, which had been urged
by the unanimous voice of the white
people of the State, speaking through
their conventions, through the press
of both parties, and indeed through every
channel in which their wishes could be
expressed.
The most significant of these color line
demonstrations against the Taxpayers,
was the defeat, by solid negro vote,
of the proposed constitutional amend
ment for biennial sessions of the Legisla-
ture. It was vote 10 perpetuate the
present crying evil, not because it has a
single beneficial feature, but because
it is a part of the system now in force of
supporting drones at public expense and
eventually of taxing the property of the
State out of the possession of the present
owners.
We trust that the misguided leaders
in this movement will pause ere it is too
late and will not persist in forcing this
rugged issue into the future elections Of
our State. But if trusting blindly to
mere numbers they should insist upon
doing so, they will be met with spirit
of resistance which will teach them that
the race is not always to the swift, and
that there is strength in righteous
oauSa
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-01-28
The Caraozo Investigation.

On the motion of a cOlored member
of the House, committee of that body
has been appointed to investigate the
charges against Cardozo, the colored
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
1t is understood that the colored mem
bers of the Republican caucus drew the
color line and showed resentment at
Il proposition to UNLOAD" the party of
him, and that having a majority they
would not permit it to be done. Three
of the committee appointed by the col
ored Speaker are negroes; the other two
(Messrs. Smith of Jasper and Greer of
Neshoba) are Conservatives. The white
Republicans were ignored. Whatever
may be the conjectures concerning the
motives of the Speaker in putting ma
iority of his own race on the Committee,
we trust the investigation will be open,
free and impartial, followed by report
based on the facts as they are. On the
charge of embezzlement in Warren coun-
ty, we would suggest that Judge Arthur
and District Attorney Lea, both Repub-
licans, among others, be examined.
Also the Auditor of Public Accounts.
The editor of the Vicksburg Times
has published that he is in possession of
certain propositions" made by the Su-
perintendent to Mr.. Maroney, of New
Orleans, and the statement suggests the
propriety of taking the testimony of both
those gentlemen. The Superintendent
of Public Education, having in charge
the educational interests of the State,
ought to be a man of learning and a
model of exemplary conduct in public
and private life. If the colored majority
in the State have put a person in this
high Office to discharge its almost sacred
duties to the rising generation of the
State, and to keep watch over the i'm
mense fund that is drawn from the tax
payers for educational purposes, who Is
deficient in these qualities and has been
guilty of dishonest practices, they owe it
to themselves to declare the fact and to
use whatever power they possess to repair
the wrong Let the Committee put out
of sight the color Of the Superintendent,
and report upon this case strictly on its
merits
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-01-28


Profassiutso depreeate the color Inc,
Gov. Asnes has done al that his ingenuity
4 capable d originating to create it
His proclamation, message and eommu-
nieations through the press, are all de-
signed to misrepresent the motives and
conduct of the whites; to array the ne
groes as q race against them, so as to
force an opposing organization among the
former, and to bring the two into hostile
columns. 1t is partisan scheme to con-
solidate the negro vote and to foment
strife with its resulting violence, in order
that a pretext may be furnished for the in
reference blythe national authorities with
troops, in our State affairs.
The formation Of such conspiracy
against the peace and safety of the
races, as Gov. Ames contemplates,
might compel counter-movenent
NOT for aggression, but selfdefense-
But we would fain hope that the day is
past when the colored masses can be used
as instruments in such scheme. The
good of both races forbids If. But its
author and his coadjutors, may not find
it so profitable an undertaking, even if
they succeed in the plot, as they imag-
inc. The Northern people are weary OF
this incessant call for federal soldiers to
maintain Southern Administrations whose
dishonesty and profigacy and general
incompetency and worse than worth
lessness, have brought them into dispute.
Besides there is such athing as retribu-
tive justice, and the authors OF the mis-
chief, while the innocent are suffering,
may not escape expiation of their crimes
in the flames they have kindled.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-01-28
Sheridan.S Last.

Sheridan's last dispatch is in keeping
with the rest. He reports to the Admin
istration that the property-owners in
some of the Louisiana parishes are re-
fusing to give employment to large num-
bers of colored persons who voted the
Radical ticket. This may be true or it
may be fictitious. But suppose it is true.
Did il ever enter. Sheridan's head that the
property holders may have been impov-
erished by the plunderers whom colored
suffragans have put into office, until their
means have been exhausted and they
have become unable to furnish them en-
ployment any longer? How does he
know but they have killed the goose that
LAID the golden egg? And if so, how is
the egg to be procured any more?
Besides, did not Sheridan know that
even under military despotisms, people
havea right to employ or not, whomso-
ever they may think proper; and that it is
a private affair with which government
has no right to NEEDLE? And don't he
know furthermore, that if the landowners
of the said Parishes have been doing as lie
represents, they have the example of the
present Republican Administration which
makes it a rule to refuse employment in
the public service to every man who does
not vote the Republican ticket Surely
the landowners in the South have as
much right to dispose of their own bust
ness as Grant has to dispose of the pub
lies.
1t may be all true, as Sheridan alleges
of the whites in portions of Louisiana,
that they are not employing people who
vote oppressive taxes upon them-but he
cannot bring that charge against the
same class in Mississippi. Every coIored
person here who wants farm labor gets it
without difficulty; and the Pilot, the
Radical State organ, exults that all the
negroes that have been immigrated into
the State, have been FURNISHED with
homes" by our hospitabIe landowners
Immediately on their arrival. Now let
Sheridan make haste to telegraph this
announcement of the Pilot to the Ad-
ministration, so that we may have peace.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-01-28


There is no mistaking the drift Of pub
lie sentiment throughout the North
concerning the case of Louisiana. The
Democrats, Liberals and Conservatives
are united to a man in condemning the
interference of federal troops with the
Legislature, and repudiating the atrocious
suggestion of Sheridan, that jury trial
must give place to military commissions.
The Republicans are divided and accord
ing to the Philadelphia Ledger, strictly
neutral paper, the great mass of people
who do their own thinking and make and
unmake majorities, are unanimous in
in their verdict against the whole pro-
ceedings. The independent press, at the
head of which stands the n Y. Herald
speaking daily to its million of readers,
without exception condemn the Admin
istration, and a large number of thor
ough Republican journals are also out
spoken in disapproval of its course.
Even the religious press have been drawn
into the discussion and is dealing out its
blows upon the authors of the crime
which has been committed against consti-
tutional freedom and personal liberty.
The Independent MIR. Beechers famous
paper which shrieked until the very
heavens resOunded with its peals, over
bleeding Kansas" in former days,)
declares that ''no party can carry such a
load of infamy Gas this Louisiana bust
ness without being ground to powder
under its weight" and the Christian-at-
Work, says that the Presidents conduct
is indefensible and without a shadow Of
right" and s'that he will find it out"
On the top of these expressions, to
swell the current of adverse public opin-
ion, the report of the Congressional sub
committee composed exclusively of
Northern men and Republican majority,
has gone forth to the country with its
undeniable facts and irresistible logic.
1t remains for the people of the South
to let well enough alone; to refrain from
language and violent action,
which their enemies would make haste
to turn to partisan account. Senator
Thurman of Ohio, than whom there
does not breathe truer friend of consti-
tutional liberty, expresses the whole idea
in his laconic dispatch to a citizen of
New Orleans. PATIENT"
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The Military Interference I'm War
rem County.

The Louisiana game has been played
on smaller scale in Warren county.
The Sheriff recently elected by the peo-
pie by order of the Board of Supervisors
after the acceptance of Crosby's resig-
nation, has been elected from Office by
the military. Following this action, the
Chancellor has appointed the late Dep
uty of Crosby, Sheriff protein.
The whole proceedings is medley of
usurpation, iniquities and contradictions.
IF Mississippi is State, with all the
rights and powers appertaining to such a
condition, what business has the. Z. S.
military to interfere with her affairs?
Is Mississippi, after the formal act of
admission into the Union, a military
province? Is Ames a pretender and
not real Governor? Have we a judi.
ciary? Does all this expensive para
phernalia of a State government mean
nothing but keeping in Office and main
tanning at public expense, a gang Of
bloodsucke rs?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-01-28
Dishonest Officials.

In his message to the Legislature of
New York, Gov Tilden made a recon-
mendation which would apply equally as
well to Mississippi. 1t is that more strin-
gent laws be passed for the punishment
of dishonest officials. The Warren coun-
ty Congressional Investigating Commit
tee have revealed to the public gaze, what
was before but dimly seen, putrid mass
of villainy perpetrated by clan of faith
less ofice-holders, whose punishment I'M
der existing laws is extremely doubtful
And this is but single instance of the
wide-spreading system of corruption and
venality which pervades the body polite
under the existing regime The Auditor
of Public Accounts, in his excellent Re-
port to the Legislature, brings to notice
repeated examples in which funds collect
ed from taxpayers for public purposes,
have not found their way into the Treas
ury; or rather, have been diverted from
it into the pockets of light-fBgered gentry
entrusted with their management.
There must be an end TO these rascalIy
practices, and the Legislature could not
do a wiser thing than to renOddle and
amend the laws providing for their pun
ishment.