The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-04
CANTON CORRESPONDENTS.
CANTON, Miss Feb. 25, 1876.

CANTON, Miss. Feb. %, 1876
EDS. CLARION: Enclosed please find two
dollars for subscription TO your paper, by
I way OF renewal.
What you write in relation to the dog
/ question and the sequel. as immortaliZed by
that prince of wits and wags, Alex. Clith-
eralI, deceased, at one time Clerk of the
Alabama House of Representatives, re-
minds me of what occurred in our own Sem
ate, OF which had the honor then TO be a
member, viz: during the winter of 1862 in
relation to the same subject Hon. Moses
JORDAN, Senator from Lowndes-and a
noole-hearted, generous man he was-in-
Croduced bill TO prevent the killing OF
sheep, and for other purposes. LII the title
mad been TO authorize the indiscriminate
klIllng of dogs throughout the State, it
would have fully expressed the object and
intention of the author of the bill. 1t was
very bloody bill against the dogs
OF Mississippi, and in fact waged a
war OF determination against them. Nor
ala l6 except any yard-dOgs, poodles
or hunting dogs-from its terrible pen
altles: But not content with authorizing
tnls killing of every dog, upon suspi-
clon of having killed sheep, it went
Iurther, and made the owner of the dog so
suspected, responsible in damages for
double the value of the sheep killed. The
OBJECT OF the bill was certainly good one,
VIZ: to save the wool in this State TO clothe
our sons and brothers who were in the army
but It's provisions, as l have stated, were so
very bloody that many Senators, who ia
yored the end, halted to resort to the means,
The bill was read the first and second time,
under suspension of the rules, and was
then IN condition for amendment or COM
mitment. Major P, the Senator from
Tippaa county, a very tall, thin man, and
withal wit and wag of the first water.
arose slowly from his seat and remarked
that he had an amendment TO offer to that
bill, by way of additional section. The
amendment was sent up and read by d. p.
Porter, Esq, the then Secretary of the SEN
ate-and am proud to see that he occupies
the same position in the present Senate
and was substantially as follows:
SECTION =. Be it further enacted, That
hereafter, and for all time to come, every
citizen of this State shall be authorized to
hold and own, free from the penalties of this
act, a bitch and the son Of a bitch.
The effect was electrical. The whole
Senate, with the exception of one mem Der,
was in all uproar of laughter; nor could
the merriment, for long time, be sup
pressed by the gavel of the President, for it
was very evident that he too enjoyed the
joke. After quiet had been restored Jor-
dan got up from his seat and remarked that
he saw plainly that the Senate was not yet
prepared, or qualified, to act "upOn the dog
question, and he asked leave to withdraw
the bill, which, as a matter of course, was
granted, and so the matter ended. L served
with j. in the Senate for over three years
afterward, and when the matter was alluded
to he enjoyed it as much as any of us, but
would. sometimes say that he was afraid
some OF those who opposed this bill thought
more of their dogs than they did of our suf-
fering boys in the field.
And now, passing from this subject,
another claims my attention, and it is one
not of mirth, but of sadness. How many
who composed the Mississippi Senate from
the 9th day Of January, 1861, to the surren-
der at AppomattoX, are now living? Jor-
dan, from Lowndes; Buck and Smedes, from
Warren; Drane, from Choctaw; Mclean,
from Clark; Moore, from Noxubee; Oliver,
from DeSoto; Gordon, from Wilkinson;
Yerger, from Kinds; Phelan, from Monroe
Mayson, from Marion, and perhaps many
others have gone to the City of the Dead.
How truthfully and beautifully does the
poet Horace express the idea that death is
no respecter of persons, when he says:
''Pallida mors, equo pede pulsat in pau
perum tabernas, regum que tHrres."
ONE OF THE SURVIVORS.
L. ST. wish you every success, and agree
heartily with you in relation to all matters
of Importance which have arisen since re-
construction was an accomplished fact. /
agree particularly with you in urging the
impeachment of Ames. To nail the ears of
Aleck and 'Dozy to the post, and leave the
great conspirator-the cGatsG cdasGps-un-
touched, would be like playing the play of
Hamlet and leaving the Prince of Denmark
out. In plain words, it would be a farce.