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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23
The Ccufennfai Appropriation
Saving at the SPiSOt-

We entirely dissent from the recon-
mendation of the Legislative Committee
in favor of an additional Centennial APP
preparation. We thought, and SO stated
at the time, that the policy of the orig
inal appropriation was questionable
AMI we emphatically oppose any further
expenditure in that direction. The rea-
son is obvious. The State is in debt
the people are impoverished and loaded
down with taxes reputation is not to
be thought of, but the propriety is Sc
seriously entertained of obtaining an ex-
| tension of time on her obligations, IN
order that her business may heneeforward
be done on strictly cash basis and It's
warrants brought TO par.
1t is not question of public spirit.
\ of patriotism. Nor of bridging over
''the bloody chasm." 1t is simply a
question of ability-this Centennial ap-
preparation. The money is not in the
Treasury, and the overtaxed people are
not able to put it there nor has the
Legislature the constitutional authority
to wiring it from the people for that
purpose. The present body was elected
to cut down appropriations, not to in
crease them; and we feryently trust that
it will keep faith with the people on the
subject of taxation and appropriations
which concerns them more than all others.
1t is idle to reduce salaries and abolish
sinecures in one direction if we intend to
create them in another. Don't let us
enact the farce of saving at the spigot
and splitting at the bung.
The Indifference with which the people
responded to the invitation to send tn cir
productions to the State Fair, to be after
wards put on exhibition at the Centen-
NAL Exposition, shows that they do not
think themselves in a condition to make
expenditures for the latter purpose, and
the Legislature, which is simply the
agent Of the people, surely will not levy
forced contribution upon them. So far
as building house for the convenience
of Mississippians, who may have the
money to visit the Centennial, is
concerned, it may be all well enough,
but, it must be remembered, that
the horny-handed people who pay
the taxes will not be able to enjoy the
luxury which it is proposed shall be fur
nished with their money for the enjoy
ment of others. They will be at home
working their crops.
Virginia, Kentucky and other States,
in consideration of their poverty, have
just rejected Centennial appropriation
bills; and it would be better for the Leg
islature of this State to return to the
Treasury the amount already voted and
not expended, than to pile up another
appropriation.
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RESOLUTIONS.

Whereas, It is apparent that the Rad
ical party in the State of Louisiana,
despairing of success by fair means, have
resolved to pursue the same policy by
which in the past they have been enabled,
against the wishes and voice of a MAORI
ty of the people, to secure possession of
the government of the State, and by the
aid of Federal bayonets to retain the
possession thus fraudulently and violently
obtained and
Whereas, 1t is evident that they have
determined at every cost to perpetuate
the Returning Board, which has hereto
fore done go much to render futile our
victories at the ballot-box, and to destroy
the liberties of the people therefore, be
it
Resolved, That the Central Executive
Committee Of the Democratic-C onserva-
tive party of the State Of Louisiana,
earnestly urges upon the Democratic and
Conservative members Of the Legislature
to exhaust every means in their power to
prevent such an outrage upon the people
of the State, as the passage of an election
bill containing any provision establishing
a Returning Board with unlimited power,
or with any power which will enable them
to defeat the will of the people as ex
, pressed at the ballot-boX.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

Although Judge Davis is an officer Of
the State, nevertheless, that fact does
not and should not prevent him from
taking an interest in, or expressing an
opinion of, matter of such magnitude to
the State as that of impeachment Of its
chief executive officer. -COrinth News.
Is is one thing to express an opinion, F"
and another thing to tamper with the
jury and forestall its action, as the
Judges letter clearly showed that he had
been trying to do; and it was rather in
delicate in an official dependent on exc
cutive favor for his re-appointment.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23
LOUIsIANA Al
The Address and Resolutions OG
the Democratic state EXecu-
tive Committee.
Violated Promises Of the Kellogg Clan

The people have profuse promises from
Mr.. kellogg, beginning with the cam
paign of 1872, none of which have been
fulfilled.
This committee, speaking for the Con
sentative masses of the State, would fail
in its duty did it not express the belief
that the party in power in this State is
acting in bad faith 1t is believed that
there is matured conspiracy to defeat
all measures of reform, by consuming
the few days of the legislative session
remaining, in idle, frivolous discussions.
with the purpose of leaving the coming
election in the hands of the Governor de
factO and the Returning Board.
We have been rendered no substantial
measures of relief-nothing in the spirit
of the Wheeler compromise-but with
clownish jests and offensive presumption
upon the credulity of the people.
1t is time this trifiing with grave pub
lie questions should cease. The time for
decisive action has arrived. The issues
are few III number and simple in their
character. The course is plain and
straightforward. There must be an
honest government in Louisiana
State, the tairest among all her sisters
or Louisiana, burdened with debt, ex.
hausted by taxation and suffering from
the supremacy of ignorance over iutelli-
gence, will become colony for convicts
and the home of depravity. The people,
for whom this committee speaks, are
resolved, in this Centennial of their
liberties, to test the relative strength Of
Iptallioonoa aDI fHLar- mill
use no violence, but all the means in
their power will be employed to defeat
the further rule of the vicious and igno-
rant in this State Happily, the people
are united in advocating these de-
mands, and this committee, as their
organ, promises an earnest canvass
to secure their rights. What re-
mains to be done, is the perfection of the
Democratic Conservative organization in
all the parishes of the State where action
has not been taken. Full reliance is felt
in the Democratic and Conservative
members of the General Assembly, to
maintain the honor, dignity and interests
of the State; but this committee accepts
the responsibility of urging upon our
Senators and Representatives, the adop-
ton of such measures as, in their judg-
ment, will most speedily demonstrate the
bad faith of our enemies in the Legisla-
ture, and give the country assurance of
vigorous campaign upon the Republican
party. The people cannot and do not
confde in the promises of their Cypress
ors. 1t is time for action.
G.. w. MCCRANIE, Chm.
LOUIS ST. MARTIN,
NJ. a. DooLEY,
A. WIZARD,
ID. II. CoNNoR,
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1t is understood that the Committee
have finished very laborious, searching
and strictly impartial inquiry into the
conduct of Gov. Ames, in which wit
nesses on both sides have been fully ex-
amined; and are prepared to make their
report. 1t is scarcely question of doubt
that they will report that they have found
grounds for preferring articles of inn
parchment and placing the accused on
trial to determine whether or not, by re-
peated violations of the Constitution and
laws ne was sworn to support, he has
forfeited his commission as Governor Of
the State.
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A DRUMMER" writing to the n. O.
Democrat, relates this story :

A DRUMMER" writing to the n. O..
Democrat, relates this story:
Yazoo City has its Enoch Arden story,
revised and corrected to suit these unpo-
etc times
"A certain Mr.. - was possessed Of a
fair and lovely wife, Heaven had blessed
them with bright cherubs three. Upon
the air was then borne d" vars wild
alarms" and our hero, tearing himself
from the bosom of his charming family,
rallied around the Southern cross. Three
years rolled along nothing was heard
from the gallant soldier, and it was be-
lieved he slept the last sleep. The
widows tears, that had freely flown,
were at length dried by the hand
kerchief of time, and a stalwart
blacksmith of the neighborhood smiled
sweetly upon her through the SCOT and
grim Of the smithy, and offered her his
brawny hand in wedlock. She consented,
and the twain were one. Two blissful
years sped swiftly on-Heaven in the
meantime adding cherub number four to
their happiness-when our modern Enoch
suddenly appeared on the scene. Here
| the romance stops. Our Enoch don't
peep through the window, and 90 off and
die, and tell the landlady, but he walks
right in and claims his wife. Explana-
tons follow. GA tripartite agreement
is made-blacksmith resigns his claims,
number four and alleges back to his
forge, determined to "beware Of vidders,
or be certain "they is a vidder," and
the old family circle is reunited.
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wAsHrNaroN. ID. q. Feh. 12th. Sc

WAsHINGroN, ID. c., Feb. 18th, 1876.
EDS. CLARION: Ill health and a press OF
business growing out of the charm anship
of the most laborious and absorbing COM
mittee in the House, together with the
duties incident to my chairman ship of the
Democratic Caucus, have prevented me
from preparing my speech delivered at
jackson, although feel deeply the impor-
ia a few DAYS, two or three AT least. to en-
pley a stenographer to take il down pre-
| eisely as it fell from my lips, and send IL q
you, and will be glad to have you publish II
at the earliest moment after its receipt
am, Very truly yours,
4 l.. @. c. LAMAR.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

of II. w. Card OzO.
he House has done its duty nObly in
erring articles of Impeachment against
~. Cardozo, Superintendent of Pub
Instruction, upon charges of forgery,
bezzlement and peculation in office.
vote stood 101 to 4. For particulars
elsewhere.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23
THE DAILY CLARION.

This paper reaches the Iutelligoncer
office, ninety miles from its place of pub
LEGATION, at 7 o'clock on the morning 10 e.
issued. So much for lightning presses
and fast trains.-McComb City lntelIi-
gencer.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

The Times is very much exercised be-
cause Col. Lamar and Col Hooker, both
Democrats, voted one against the other
for the Centennial appropriation. AS it
was not a party question, we can't see
what the U. $. Marshal is driving &C.
Those in favor Of the Centennial were
glad to see the bill pass, but mo onoa
party fealty is affected whether he voted
for or against the bill.-Vicksbure
Herald,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

rgrpry-FlvE hundred dollars for Su-
he Judges and twenty-five hundred
Circuit Judges and Chancellors, are
he the average salaries of such officers
Dtber States Of double the population
wealth of Mississippi.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

4 BILL has passed the Wisconsin
use Of representatives, by a majority
Two to one, to repeal the law passed
years ago, regulating and fixing the
i of railroad transportation. 1t is
,vn as the "Pottor law"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

EHE whisky distillers are testifying in
Babcock case, that they were induced
run crooked" and defraud the Gov
nent, on the faith of Babcock's dis
Dhes, that he would not let the light
strike; but Bah is a poor non-con-
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How 10 keep Posted.

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The people of Greenwood and vicinity
are now enjoying a rare treat We rec
ceive THE DAILY CLARION ON Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays, the day of
publication. The publishers Of that able
and excellent journal are displaying the
energy and enterprise which insure sue
cess. If you wish to keep thoroughly
posted on current events, send for The
CLARION.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

SHINY SOUTH is the title of a
1 little paper full Of news and spicy
E,in,. lust established at Monticello,
ar late townsman, Mr.. c. n. Jones,
lam we extend our best wishes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

GIN the name of all the people of Mis-
sissippi, who elected the Legislature, it
is demanded that Ames, Davis and Car
dozo be expelled from Office.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

IF Morton ever finishes his speech on
the Mississippi election, we would sug-
gest postscript embracing the testimony
in the Davis and Cardozo impeachment
trials.
P. s. We would also bespeak place
for the Ames business.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

h. are glad to welcome to our ex-
rst the Port Gibson Reveille,
lotod bv J. S. Mason, Esq, an able
/, avoerienced journalist and a tried
,taunch Democrat.
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rue broom ought to sweep clean.
4. should be no discrimination in
|, of any profession. If there is not
Drresponding reduction of salaries all
lind. the taxpayers will want to know
reason why.
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: renorted that Casey, the brother
g the Administration, has been
~ for his connection with the
T. ring in New Orleans.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23
FOUGHT NOBLY.
COIOTed senator mruce's Charge
Along the Whole Line.

Grant has been PerndiOus---His OHIcs-
Holders in Mississippi ''No better than
Public Thieves''---''White Radicals get
ting the Niggers Killed for Party Capi-
tai" etc, etc.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

The House has not reached the Cen
tennial Appropriation bill. The bill that
passed changes the Board, and the man
ner of its appointment.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

The black-liners rallied, yesterday,
under the leadership of Metropolitan
Police-Bill Edwards, in the House, on
the Davis articles of experimenting
were seven strong.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

WITH Democratic Governor which
we will have soon) and Democratic
Legislature (Which we now have Mis-
sissippi will be all right.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

THE Ames' Investigating Committee
have finished taking testimony. "Stand
firm and wait" for the report.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

THE House bill to elect Superintend-
ent and Board of Inspectors of the Peni-
Tertiary, on Monday, March 1st, has
passed the Senate.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

THE impeachment of two or three
official violators of the law will be of
more benefit to the Democratic COnser-
vative party than was the blood of TWEEN
ty-fve or thirty negroes to the Radical
DartV
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

rrrR hearing the testimony eleven
'tI;o.os voted for impeaching Car
and only four against, Well done.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

M1ssIssIPPIANs will celebrate the CEN
tennial year by impeaching officials guilty
of high crimes and misdemeanors.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

\ another column we have published
Extract from the address of the Dem
! tic State Executive Committee of
Pisiana, exposing the bad faith of the
Petbag officials, in breaking the
eeler compromise, and attempting
EOntinue in force the election law with
odious features under which the peo-
|have heretofore been cheated out of
elections they have fairly won at the
/. The Radical leaders seem bent
En preeipitating another difficulty.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

THE articles of impeachment against
Davis Give in number, were passed by
the House yesterday; yeas 81, nays z.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

THE Fee and Salary bill, when it be-
comes law, will save 800, 900 year to
the taxpayers.
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MAKE a note of it, that Senator En-
glish Democrat refused to take the
back pay, amounting to about 5000, due
to him from the death of Senator Ferry
to the time of his taking his seat, and
has sent the amount to the widow of his
predecessor,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

IT is rumored that Gov. Ames has en-
gagged the services of ex-senator Carpen-
ter, of Wisconsin, and Hon. Dan.
VOORHEES,, of Indiana, to pull him through
in the impending impeachment trial.
He will need able counsel, if one-half
that has been charged, be true. Neither
of these eminent lawyers have been very
successful in defending criminals. Voor-
HES did his best in the case of
Mckee, of whisky ring note, at St. Louis,
the other day but without effect. As
for Carpenter, he is not unused to plead
ing the cause of State culprits. He
attended to little business matter for the
Kellogg crew, and not receiving the pro-
wand promptly, he notified ''Dear Kel-
logg" that he was desperately short. "
His constituents took his case in hand
and sentenced him to retirement.
But let these legal Goliaths come along.
We have our Davids armed with the
sling and the pebble of truth and just
cause, prepared for the encounter.
|
The report of the Kinds county Grand
Jury is such bare-faced fraud, that
even THE CLARION, the organ of the
White League Democracy, is silent and
does not even make favorable comment
on this white-washing report.-Okolona
News.
| If the News had either been more OBJ
servant, or scrupulous in what it says
it would not have made this statement
The report in question, notwithstanding
1t spoke for itself, was especially referred t.
in our editorial columns as triumphan
vindication of the people of this county
We also stated that it was made as tn
result of rigid and impartial investiga
ton by a jury composed of intelligen
and fair-minded men of both parties an
races.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

WHEN Featherston's masked battery
opens it will create more excitement in
the Executive office than did the social
ed militia.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

THE beautiful trio-Davis, Ames and
Cardozo-are not standing as firm as
they were, but they are waiting.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

HFxDR1cKs will deliver the
'o'' dress at the New Orleans Ex-
.';,o On the 26th.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

AND the good work, last November, of
turning Radical INSIDERS out of Office
goes on.
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.,a.tion is every day asked, when
D ao,e. be impeached? We answer,
and firm and wait.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

THE lightning is expected to strike in
or around the executive Office soon.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

IT would seem that Mississippi is not
the only State in which the momentous
dog tax question has puzzled the brains
and produced trepidation among the law
makers As early as 1862, the late Alex.
Clitheral, Clerk of the Alabama House
of Representatives was moved by a dis
cussion of the subject in that body, to
perpetrate the following amusing dog
gerel:
Old Mason a long time lay still as a log,
Till walked up by Ashley, on the question of
dog:
He ripped and he reared till he made him.
self weep
On the evils we suffer by losing our sheep.
He cried, For Gods sake, let us save our
wool
And toget ner, like brothers. make a long
and strong pull:
Our soldiers are needing both breeches and
socks
They are marching in shirt-tails and sleep
ing on rocks;
Wake up to your duty-impose round tax
On dogs, pups aud sluts, or else hang them
with flax"
Then Little, OF Sumter, and Jones, of Ma
Cried, don't tax the dogs, but let all on
men 90,
And raise all the dogs, and keep 'em and
feed EN-,
If you think that you want 'em or think
that you need EN-
"Oh, yesr' SAID Jim Foreman, who halls
from St. Clair.
With his specks on his nose and in each eye
tear,
The varmints around me dance each night
jig,
And but for my dogs, would not leave me
pig
Then Ussery, Logan, and Latham and Rives,
All spit on their hands aud rolled up their
sleeves,
And swore they'd as soon turn to tadpoles
and frogs,
As to live in their diggin's and not keep
their dogs
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

BE members of the House who voted
Inst the report of the committee re-
Pmending the impeachment of Cardo-
Fere Messrs. Edwards (colored Re
hcan,) Reynolds white Democrat, }
r oflssaquena (colored Republican, J
sanderlin (colored Republican, y
mall. The Republicans who voted
Rhe report were Messrs. Brown (col. }
Ees (col.,) Hussey (white,) Jacobs
J Jenkins (col.,) Monroe (col.,)
Helse (cOl., } Overton (col.,) Parsons
||lie') Shattuck (white,) and Young
Eo)-eleven in all.
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n have given, in another co hmm,
sketches of what Bruce, the repre-
|A'lVe OF the colored race, in the Sen
sad about Grant and the white Rad
ID Mississippi and the other South
states. 1t will be seen that he
Fged Gen. Grant with cold-blooded
Emery to the African race, and the
: leaders with having sacrificed the
Ol eolored people for partisan ends.
iormer accusation we are inclined to
tedit, but the latter will be verified,
At as Ames is concerned, when he is
On ulal for high crimes and misde-
hnOrs.
Is Idle for Bruce to threaten that
race will cooperate with the resident
g from spite to the carpet-bag vag-
nas who have hattered, used and de.
:" mem. The whites will command
'0nhdence by their good faith and
0esling' which, in the long run, viii
IN over hypocrisy and chicanery
~ adoption of resolutions by a unan
= vote in the Georgia House of Rep
natives, declaring that "the equa
'i'al rights of all citizens, regardless
NC OF previous condition, are perma
" nxed and secured by the Constitu
VI The United States, which is rec
led by this body as the supreme la,
: iand' and that no abridgement o
ference with these rights is propose,
"u'emplated or desired in any action c
1sneral Assembly, or by the peopl
We represent; that any and alllegi'
= In eontravention thereof, either b
legislature or by a convention of til
p's' would be null and void"-is a tim,
N iAfa =. from the leading State of til
- The Mississippi Legislature
: strictly upon the principles of tn
A'0n' thus proving its faith by i
= But it might be well to folio
anpie of her older sister and pl
'us form Of resolutions.
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IMPEACHMENT music is in the air anC
all the people join in the chorus.
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:, hand we will step down and
- .hor as together we went IN.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-23

o9v the news, oh carry the news
IN I,,ort-Davis and 'Dozy gone.
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THE Senate viii take the oath as a
court of impeachment tomorrow,
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GET off the ragged edge, boys, and
step down and ont,