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The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04
Colony for Mexico.

Generals 10. Shelby and Bacon Mont
gomery, both residents of Sedalia, have
about perfected arrangements through
the Mexican minister at Washington for
the founding of colony in that country.
This colony will be founded under an
offer appropriating half million dollars
for encouragement OF immigrants, with
all the rights of citizenship upon reaching
Mexican soil, and the free privilege of
working all lands. 1t will be strictly
cooperative, similar to the plan of the
Greeley and other fourishing Western
colonies. A gentleman Of this State is
now visiting the different Eastern and
Southern Railroads, for the purpose of
perfecting low rates to emigrants. For
the present, headquarters will be estab-
lished at Sedalia, TO be removed to Dal-
las, Texas, about the 1st of next April,
where all parties will concentrate. From
thence they will move overland to Mex
leo. The privilege of carrying arms has
been applied for, both as safeguard
against hostile Indians during the jour
ney or other belligerent parties. The
leaders of this colony contemplate set
Ting in either the States of Sonora,
Durango or chihuahua, either Of which
are rich in agricultural productions anC
renowned for healthfulness. Valuable
deposits of both silver and baser metal;
are found in these States.
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u. q. Revenue Collector Trying tO
Help Morton a. Co., Along.
Blood and Thunder.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Collector of
Internal Revenue Shaughnessy, at jack
son, Miss, telegraphs the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue that his deputy, w.
B. Redmond, had been driven from his
office and home, and from county to coun-
ty in his division, while discharging his
official duty, by armed bodies, who pub
licly defy the authority of the United
States and threaten to resist.
IfRedmond cannot discharge his duties
without military interference, instruct me
in the premises.
In reply the Commissioner telegraphed
els your evidence positive of Redmond S
pursuit by armed bodies How numer'
Gus are they and how large force do you
require :"
Shaughnessy replied by telegraph
Evidence positive. Redmond notified
by the Mayor of Summit, Pike county, to
leave at once, as he and the peace officers
could not protect him. Armed bodies
numbering from fifty to seventy-fve, as
sert he cannot remain in the division
GA commissioned officer and twenty
five soldiers, if stationed at Liberty
Amite county, and instructed to supper
him for thirty days, or until the offending
parties are arrested, would be sufficient
Cavalry, preferred as an escort, could ac
company him on a tour through the ba'
counties, and have good effect.
The papers in the case were TRANSMITTED
to President Grant, who directed the mil
itary officer commanding the Department
of the South to furnish a sufficient fore
of cavalry to enable the proper officers t
collect the revenue.
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The Spencer InVesliSati Sn--- e.
port of the Committee.

MONTGOMERY, Dec. 30.-The Spen-
Ger investigation committee reported in the
Senate, which was crowded with specta-
tors. The reading of the report occu-
pied ninety minutes and was listened to
with profound attention. In summing
up, the committee say:
He, Spencer, during the election of
members of the Legislature, used means
to secure to himself their votes that he
abused the army, the postoffice and IN
ternal revenue departments of the gov
ernment. He brought the evils of war
upon the people, caused them to flee
from their homes and abstain from vO-
tine He r,r.,etitnfed- his once 10 the
purposes of bargainings and briberies to
secure votes for his reelection. He cor
rupted United States officials, for whom
he had procured Federal appointments,
and forced his appointees, under threats
of removal from office, to pay money,
obtain to him his election. lie caused
men to be appointed to sinecure positions
in the custom-house, postoffices and
revenue offices with the intent and un-
derstanding that while in office they
would not be required to render service
to the Government, but would get their
pay, and while so paid they would en-
ploy their time in securing pledges OF
votes and influence TO re-elect him to the
| United States Senate. He paid and
caused to be paid money to members of
the Courthouse Assembly to secure their
votes. He paid and caused to be paid
money to members of the Legislature to
defeat quorum at the Capitol and
thereby prevent the election of Sen
ator by that body, and his most trusted
agent, J. J. Kinds, caused member OF
that body to be drugged and almost
killed to prevent his attendance. lie
dealt in United States offices as IN mer
chandise, to secure money and gain votes
for Senator.
His managers with his concurrence
caused State Senator for money con
sideration to break his pledge of honol
to another Senator, having pre-arrangee
the scheme thereby to secure seat II
the United States Senate. Through hi
said manager he procured the presiding
: officer of the Senate to cOnnive at thl
fraud and to rule in violation of all par
liamentary law and usage so as to unsea
Senator elected by the people, and sea
in his place partisan of Spencer, VIII
was not elected by the people, and VIII
} held no certificate of election. lie cause,
to be filled the lobby of the Senate witt
armed retainers, to overawe Senators am
5 sustain by force and violence what h
: had achieved by fraud. He used nj
/ power and influence, and the money II
controlled through his position as Senator
: to the debauchery of men in office, S
/ that his conduct was working evil contlr
0 ually.
S The report was received and ordere
S printed, and committee given time
: prepare memorial to the United State
Senate, against Spencer's further occl
: pancy of a seat in that body. The repo
!, was signed by the whole committee, G
t which both parties were represented.
g fills fifteen columns of the Advertiser,
!. December 81.
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The Fall of Avery.

And lastly there is poor Avery, with
one foot in the penitentiary and drag
ging the other over the threshold. About
four years ago, Avery married young
widow who aspired to "high social posi-
ton in Washington. The era was one
of show and splurge; the woman was
handsome, bright and ambitious the
man indulgent and vain, and the salary
only So, 800 a year enough, God knows,
for plain, honest comfort; enough for
cozy, quiet home, and for such "social
position" as good behavior and sterling
manhood and womanhood can always
find if they seek it in the proper place;
enough for any two young people who
love each other better than they love fuss
and feathers, and who recognize it as their
duty to please each other before they try
to please anybody else. But it was not
enough for Avery and his ambitious,
brilliant partner. Well, that romance
will soon be ended and, though it takes
ruined man and woman with all her
hopes blighted and all her ambitions
dashed into despair to illustrate it, it will
yet be worth the sacrifice to the Ameri-
can public. w Washington Letter.
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Southern States.l
The story of this man from first to last
is without a parallel in history. The
savage means he used to put himself into
the U. S. Senate discovered in him an
obtuseness of sensibility, disrelish for
true fame, morbid instinct for guilty
ambition which marks him the equal Of
King Richard the Third, who, on SINH
lar occasion, offered very high price for
a horse. We believe it is due to the
man, to the party, of which he is the
representative in our State, to the age in
which we live, and to the beginning of
the new era of honest rule with which we
propose to open the grand centennial
of American Liberty in 1876, that Gov,
Ames shall be impeached for high
crimes and misdemeanors, during the
sitting of the Legislature which assem-
bles January 4th, 1876
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DEFERRED TELEGRAMS.
Something More about Poor South Car
olina.
Popular support of Gov. Cham.
berlain Against the
Thieves Ring.

CHARLESTON, Dec. 28.-The largest
and most enthusiastic public meeting held
in Charleston since the war, took place
this evening in response to call to sus-
tain the action of Gov. Chamberlain in
refusing commissions to Whipper and
Moses.
The assemblage was largely composed
of substantial business men of the city.
Geo. w. Williams, the wealthiest mer-
chant in the State, presided. The reso-
lutions which were presented by Gen,
Jas. Conner were adopted amid great
cheering.
The preamble says: The action of the
Legislature in electing as Judges w. J.
Whipper and F. j. Moses, Jr., men
whose proper place in a courthouse is in
the criminals dock, is an insult to every
safeguard which the law affords to life,
liberty and property.
We deprecate all appeals to passion
and to prejudice, but it behooves us to
speak plainly; the attempt to place infa-
my and corruption in the seat of justice,
violates the primal instincts of civilized
humanity, and to that we will not submit
The right to justice and good government
is one which we dare not relnquish.
With no hostility to the colored people
of the State, mindful of the good conduct
of those who have not been misled by
evil counsels, we are determined to pre-
serve to them every right and privilege
guaranteed by the constitution and laws
of the country. But the avowed purpose
that there shall not be equality, but a
domination of their race over the proper
ty and rights of the white people of the
State, will be resisted to the last, and
under no circumstances shall it prevail.
The resolutions protest against the
elevation of Moses and Whipper to the
bench, and avow the determination to
resist to the end while rendering to Gov.
Chamberlain grateful thanks for the bold
and statesmanlike struggle he has made
in the cause of reform, in the economical
administration of the government, in the
preservation of the public faith, in the
equal administration of justice and in the
maintenance of the public peace, pledge
steadfast support for the accomplishment
HtsfS.
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ne ImPeachment Business.

they do impeach Ames and Davis
[ardozo, there won't be much left of
adlcal party. With the Pilot gone,
pOzo gone, the whole brood of lesser
'Ais who cling to their coat-tails, will
20 90 too. 1t is sad-it is melting
''rnce-but, oh, my countrymen, let
ag waste ourselves away in grief about
~ Aeridian Gazette.
4e won't "waste ourselves in grief,
nere is one thing we should do, and
to guard against any split in our
= party. So long as the Democratic
" remains united and well disciplined,
.N be invincible. .-Vicksburg Herald.
Ahu that can be done by strict adhe-
ee TO the rule of the party, to decide
aRtters involving the policy of the
'W and the selection of candidates, in
.EE.-CLARIoN.
1e CLARIoN's suggestion is the true
M and it is explicitly and compre
4Rely set forth in our Resolutions O.
hlzation, adopted in our county
enton.-Greenville Times.
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An Outside Journals Estimate OF
AmeS.
n Y. Sun.l

Probably no Governor was ever more
heartily detested by the people over
whom he was placed than Gov. Ames
has been, and still is, by the inhabitants
of Mississippi. An alien and an adven-
turer, he has allied himself with the most
disreputable class of black and white
politicians in the State, and has steadily
encouraged every measure calculated to
add to the burdens which have been
placed upon the shoulders of the unhap-
py taxpayers. He has countenanced the
vilest thieves in office, and when, by a
combination of the better class of col
ored voters with the whites, it became
evident that the days Of Grantism in
Mississippi were numbered, he endeav-
ored to secure a new lease of irresponsi-
bic power by an effort to create war of
races. Under these circumstances, it is
not strange that some of the Conserva-
tives, now that they have secured control
of the Legislature, should demand his
I'M no., ~l----o.le, and ecVeral MISSISSIPPI
have advocated such move
ment in vigorous language.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04

Oxford Falcon.l
We have been approached by no less
than three prominent merchants of this
county, one from Oxford, one from Tay-
lor's and one from bbeville, suggesting
the advocating the repeal of this law.
These gentlemen acknowledge that this
law operates directly in their favor, but
that it works against the general interest
of the country, and is particularly op-
pressive to the poor man.
1t can be easily shown how it affects
the poor man. A farmer gives mort
gage on his crop, to a merchant, for his
supplies. This debt has to be met before
any of his other creditors have any show
ing. The doctor, the blacksmith, the
wagon maker, and all others with whom
he has dealings, must take the chances,
while the supply merchant is perfectly
secure. The consequence is, that no
matter what the mans needs may be, he
cannot get even medical attention with
out his merchant guarantees the pay
ment of the doctors bill. He is thus
made absolutely dependent upon his
merchant. This, say these merchants,
is the worst kind of slavery.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04

In the present condition of public opin-
ion, Morton's resolution to appoint a
Senate committee to inquire why and
how Ames and his carpet-bag crew were
beaten is Mississippi, is nothing less than
a gross impertinence. The honest men
of both parties have long been convinced
that the State was cursed by the meanest
and most despicable tyranny that ever
disgraced the soil of the republic; and
that until this tyranny was thoroughly
and completely broken, Mississippi could
hope for no permanent regeneration
St. Louis Republican.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04
The Hounds Tugging Away at
Mississippi.

St. Louis Republican,
A telegram from Washington, to a
New y ork paper, asserts that the last
political campaign in Mississippi will
probably be fought over in Washington,
and that the fight promises to last all
winter. The agitators are the Ames
faction of the Republicans the defend
ants, the Conservative party, composed
of the white Democrats, colored tax
payers, and the Republican followers of
ex-senator Pease..
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04
THE SOUTH.
Her Numerical Strength and Pro-
ductfve Resources.

McComb City Intelligencer.l
What is known as the South, in ordi-
nary parlance, viz: the late slave States,
is numerically and industrlally the larg-
est of the great geographical divisions OF
the Union. ~
Many people have deluded themselves
with the idea that the West was the con-
trolling political section IN the Union.
Reference to the census will serve to
explode this error. The aggregate pop
ulation of the Union, according to the
last official enumeration, Is placed at
SO, 800. .9S3 souls. Of this the Middle
and Eastern States combined furnish
II, 600, 600 souls. The West furnishes
100000 while the South furnishes
100000.
Political power is distributed in the
electoral college on the following basis:
New England States. .........,.......- 3S
Middle States S............. ~
Great West. Observation-Disclosures. ...........- lOI
Great South .............'.'. ''.--'.. 100
Total Observation-Disclosures. ...t.--.... 363
Forty-four votes to this Southern vote
in the electoral college would give this
section control of the Presidential cleo
ton. The addition of the negro to the
voting population has added immensely
to the representation of the late slave
states in Congress, and in the electoral
college, so that class of our people,
who have so bitterly deprecated the
incorporation of the negro element
into the body polite, will see that it is not
without its compensating advantages.
Here and there, where districts have
been gerrymandered to promote partisan
ends, so as to give control to the ignorant
and incapable element, it may not have
worked we'll. But these operations have
been confined to particular localities and
are exceptions, while the reverse has been
the rule A large majority of the South
ern States will be represented in the next
Congress by men of intelligence and ca
pacity, who, it is believed, will direct
their energies to the good work OF allay-
ing sectional animosities and of promoting
the unity, honor and glory of the COM
mon country.
In productive resources and exporta-
ton crops the South is even further ahead
of any one of the other sections than IN
population and numerical representation.
Her chief staple, cotton, enters into the
usvs VI all Tne civilized world, and larger
interests are dependent upon it than upon
nothing of her developed, and still vaster
undeveloped, resources, which need only
to be touched by the magic hand of cap
ital and enterprise to spring forth into
life and activity.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04

Col. RoDERICK SEAL informs the edi-
tor of the Handsboro Democrat that he
has served notice of contest on John K.
Lynch, of this District, in Congress. His
case will be disposed of as soon after the
re assembling of Congress after the
Christmas holidays as practicable. In the
meantime, he will return home, collect
and collate his evidence. He is sanguine
of success fnally.-Natchez Democrat.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04

Friars' Point Delta, I

Friars' Point Delta.l
In former times the Congressional Dis
tricts ran directly across the State from
east to west, but the Radicals, for party
purposes, gerrymandered the State so as
to consolidate the Democratic vote into
one district We propose to return as
near as possible to the cid style districts,
and suggest the following as the proper
distribution of counties in the first two ::
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04
The Removal of Ames.
Pamela Stall

Pamela Stal.
1t truly behooves the people, if they
would consult their own future good, and
the good of their State, to secure Ames
removal. For Ames to remain in his
present position with the patronage that
his position gives him, he will prove a
most serious impediment to reformation
and, to great extent, clog the wheels of
legislation.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04
THE DAILY CLARION

ablished every morning, Mondays excep-
and contains the latest Legislative and
arraphic Intelligence up to the hour of
me- to press.
" mail, $1.OO per month, or $500 for Legis-
Ive session.
'ur DAILY CLARION will be delivered to
IN subscribers every morning, by faithful
riers, or will be left in postofice, if pre-
ia. Orders for the paper should be sent to
rounting Room.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04

Stop talking about the rebellion cease
shaking the bloody shirt. Put down any
man who tries to display that un-
fortunate and worn-out rag.-N. \, Iri-
bune.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04

On Friday evening, the 10Th inst, the
beautiful residence of Capt. w. R. Barks-
dale, we are sorry to say, was burned to
the ground. The fire accidentally caught
from defective fue, which reduced the
house to ashes in short time. We are
happy to state that his magnificent fu mi.
ture and other household goods were
saved, Grenada Sentinel.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04

The President refuses to order any
more troops to the Texas frontier, assert
ing that none can be spared. He is also
opposed to the contemplated reduction of
the army, and declares he will veto any
bill embodying the proposition. .-Cincin-
natl Commercial.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04

LEGISLATIVE ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Announcements will be inserted under this
heading until the organization of the Senate
and House, at $500 each, Candidates will be
e1necfed to remit the amount with order for
puhlicatOn:
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04

1XTE are authorized to announce J. W.
VY CONkLlN, of Warren county, as cans
didAte for Sergeant-at-Arms at the ensuing
ession Of the Legislature.
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ME- are authorized to announce L. HUD-
mi sON, of Kinds county, as candidate for
state librarian and Keeper of the Capitol, at
tne issuing session of the Legislature.
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TKTE are authorized to announce the name
NV of D. L. CAMERON, of Madison cOun
fy, as q candidate for State Librarian and
Keeper of the Capitol.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04

MEare authorized to announce ALLEN P.
wv LUSk, of Madison county, as candi-
1ate for State Librarian and Keeper of the
lature.
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ME are authorized to announce the name of
wv WM. S. PATTON, of Lauderdale coun-
", asa candidate for rSergeant-at-Armsa at the
ensuing session of the Legislature.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04

{{TE are authorized to announce J. J DEN
VH son, of LAWRENCE, as a candidate for
sAignant-at-Arms of the Senate at the ap-
9lfaching session of the Legislature.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04

GUPP0RTED by many members-elect of the
~ Legislature | announce myself as a cam
didate for the office of SERGEANT-AT-ARMs of
the H0nse, at the ensuing January term.
hfv connection with the late Vicksburg
NIohit0r, the White Line organ, is sufficient
Kllfrantee ofmy politics. look to a Democrat
III lRKislature for support.
ERNEST HARDENSTEIN.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-04

AMh are authorized to announce the name
q CHAS. l.. GASTON, of Kinds, as a
pnnuidate for Scate Librarian, at the ensuing
session of the legislature
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BY THE DOZEN COPIES.

nfembers Of the Legislature, and others
4; ;.bing extra copies of either edition, are re-
.nested to give notice, in the case of the.pAIDY
H. eveniDg prior to publication, and in the
case of the WEEKLY, on Tuesday morning.
na;gv 40 cents per dozen; Weekly, Is cents
mar dozen.
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Turner's Fall Reporter: {" Never say
fail" Say you will pay so many cents on
the dollar.
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A business that is picking up-The
rag-gatherers.
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WE are authorized to announce C. A.
W BROUGHER, of Kinds. as a cand idate
for Clerk of the House of Representatives a t
the ensuing session of the Legislature.
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THE WEEKLY CLARION

v nnblished every Wednesday morning. Two
Doilars per annum, in advance. The publish
=. nrepay postage on both editions.
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NEare authorized to announce the name of
FN,y. H. RANSOM, of Monroe county, as
hnulaate for State Librarian and Keeper of
egislhture.
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Daily AdVerts9" Rates.
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4 Inch 100 100 2-oo S.oo 6'oot 100 S'oo
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80, 90 20 o "a 20 % - ~,
Inch 200 3Oo 5'OO 'oo 500 loV01iK'vo
-, 90 = n 90 = I. 90 D 90 az NJ
" Col 400 6oo '.oO lo.oV l2'Qo zpVOi zo.Oo
% -. 80 -,
/ Coll $50 1000 l2Oo lo.OO 2oOo 3OOU 40.OO
Asauare is nine lines solid minion.
LocAl, or special notices, 10 cents per line
each Insertion.
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W. are authorized to announce W. j.
1sf - ADAMS, of the Enterprise Courier, as a
eAaaluate for Clerk of the House of Represen-
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I'M Eare authorized to announce JOHN Nj.
wy ARE, of Winston county, as a candi-
Alp lpr Clerk of the House of Representa-
.1es n ensuing session of the Legislature.