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ceedings by mandamus; to amend the &C
| in relation 10 limited co-partnerships; {,
4 prevent the manufacture and sale OF adul
4 teFated candies: to create a lien upon do
| mestic steamboats,, and to amend section
1858, i'm relation to grand and petit larceny
Mr.. Jewell called up the bill to abolisl
the Office OF Superintendent of the LunatiC
Asylum. and create the Office of Director o
the ASYLUM. 1t was read the third time
and lies over for engrossment.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
At IL go A NJ. the Senate went into eX-
ecutive session, when the following APP
pointments were confirmed:
BOARD OF TRUSTEEs BLIND ASYLUM
w c. Crane, Geo. L. Potter, j. IL. Boyd,
Geo. A. Smythe. Thos. Z. Helm.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES LUNATIc ASYLUM
w. L. Hemingway.
The Senate concurred in the amendments
Tunica.
H. B. to create an additional justice of the
peace in NIcksburg beat, Warren county,
passed.
III. B. to authorize Yazoo and Franklin
counties 70 compromise certain doubtful
claims passed.
II. b. 10 rereal the anti-liquor law of
District No. ?, Leake county, passed.
III. b. to encourage grain and fruit grow
ing was ind, finitely postponed.
THE EDUCATIONAL BILL.
The amendment to II. B., the Education
al bill, was taken up and considered section
by section; several amendments were adopt
ed; pending its consideration, the Senate
adjourned.
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A RABID partisan like the editor OF
the Times, who takes a selfish and jaun-
diced view of everything appertaining to
Mississippi affairs, and would see the
State again under carpet-bag and bayo-
net rule, would naturally regard as a
piece of impertinence respectful rec
ignition by the Legislature, of the pro-
posed Senatorial investigation, and a
proffer of cooperation by that body, to
the end that the said inquiry may be
full, free and impartial. This is just
what the vile crew who have been lord
ing it over the State, publishing ISLANDERS
against her resident white population
and attempting to manufacture partisan
capital to restore Radical rule, do not
desire. They would have the Legisla-
ture spurn the Committee-spit upon the
authority of the Senate-put itself on
its dignity-and let the Radical manipu-
lators introduce such perjured testimony
as they are capable of doing, and as
would suit their infamous purposes.
And this is precisely what the Legisla-
ture does not intend doing, unless we
egregiously mistake the intentions Of
that body.
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HOUSE-SEVENTY-FIFTH DAY.

WEDNESDAY, April 5, 1876.
Mr.. Speaker Street in the chair. Present
So, absent 81.
By Mr.. Carter: That hereafter the House
shall meet at A. NJ. and 3 P. M; adopted.
By Mr.. McWhorter That no local or pri-
vate bills will be entertained after the 9th
inst; lies over.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS,
By Mr.. Muldrow: To encourage the
breeding of good stock; referred.
By Mr.. benson: To repeal the anti-liquor
law of District No. 2, Leake county, passed
By Mr.. McNair: To amend the act estab-
fishing the fees of certain officers; referred
BY Mr.. Hicks: To authorize Yazoo and
Franklin counties to compromise claims OF
a doubtful character; passed.
By Mr.. Turley: To create an additional
Justice of the Peace in Vicksburg beat,
Warren county; passed.
By Mr.: Drake: To amend section of the
act to reduce taxes and enforce the prompt
settlement of collectors referred.
Ii. B. to amend the insurance laws, and to
repeal certain laws giving special privileges
to certain companies passed.
s. b. for the relief of Il. s. Carter, OF Tu-
MICA county; the amendments were adopted
and the bill passed.
Ii. B, to encourage fruit growing and
grain raising passed.
Ii. B. to regulate the tax for retailing liq-
ors was tabled.
The REV ENUE L..
II. B. to reduce taxes and for other pur-
poses was taken up, considered section by
section, and adopted as whole. Mr.. Baker
moved to refer to Special Committee to re-
port Tomorrow; carried.
LAW BY APPROVAL.
The Governor informed the House that he
has approved Ii. b. for the relief of Geo.
BarrOws, a teacher of Copiah county.
A recess until three O'Clock was taken.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Speaker (Mr. Clifton in the chair)
announced the following special committee
on the Revenue bill: Messrs. Baker, Neil
son, Percy, Guyton and YcllOwley.
III. b to incorporate the Pamela Grange
Leather Manufacturing Company passed.
S. B. to prescribe limit to the power of
taxation by the authorities of Brookhaven
passed.
BY Mir. benson: For the relief of DR.. w.
A. Sparkman; referred.
By Mr.. Gibson: For the relief of John G,
Skillman; referred.
number of Senate bills were referred.
IL. B. TO establish a separate court district
in Warren county passed.
I'll. B. in relation to Chancellors passed.
The House adopted the report of the
Committee of Conference on the Cotton
Weighers' bill.
Pending consideration of the bilf to en-
the Introduction of foreign capital
the House adjourned,
NIGHT SESSION.
No quorum. Adjourned.
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A CoLoRED Republican, from one of
the upper counties, called on Thursday to
say that the representation in the Radical
State Convention from his county
was entirely bogus; that the pretended
delegates were selfappointed interlopers,
who, for official malfeasance and other
causes, would not make their appearance
IN the county; that the colored Republi-
cans emphatically repudiate the present
organization as a fraud and a snare that
the masses of the colored people intend to
hold themselves aloof from the selfcon-
stituted leaders of the Radical party, and
that there is a strong disposition on the
part of the colored masses to cooperate
and act in concert with the white people
of the State, whose interests they now
see, are identical with theirs.
The conservative and strictly just and
impartial action of the present Legisla-
ture has dispelled the delusion that the
whites would deprive them of their rights
or interfere with their school privileges,
or otherwise discriminate against them
and has contributed largely to the deter
mination, whichis generally exhibited by
the colored race, not to be drawn again
by self-seeking, would-be leaders into Bit
ter and bloody strife with the whites who
desire, and intend to have, an admins
tration of justice, honesty and intelli-
gence whose blessing, like the dews of
Heaven, will descend impartially upon
al
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PendIetOns-.ReIknaP.

The case of these two persons IS wide
ly different. One is charged with having
driven a good bargain for himself as an at
torney and for the company he represent
ed. He was private citizen, and no party
could be responsible for his acts. Bel
KNAPP as the head of the War Depart
ment, was acting in public capacity,
and in that capacity, sold for his private
Golfers the offices at his disposal. There
is a still wider difference in another par
ticular, even assuming the worst against
Pen1leton. He did not seek, like Bel
KNAPP, to cover his act by pleading that
the woman did it." Like brave
man, he takes all the responsibility, and
if at last it should be discovered that one
of the fair sex has shared forbidden fruit
with him, the discovery will not be at
tributable to his want of manliness.
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A Tough Witness.

Mr.. c. S. Bell, well-known in these
parts, figures conspicuously as witness
before tile Congressional Investigating
committee. His testimony is rare an d
faey' According to his statement, Grant
selected him to visit St. Louis as a spy
VI the Babcock prosecution and report
% him whether the pet of the White
House was really guilty or not. At the
same time his services were procured by
babcock himself, Luckey and other re-
alners Of Grant, (without the knowledge
u The latter of course) to peep into the
hands of the prosecuting lawyers, purloln
the papers which were to be used against
oaoeock, and destroy them if possible.
Dell testifes that Babcock did not deny
nlS guilt, and that the main point with
MN was how to ward off punishment.
now ne finally succeeded is a matter OF
history. The whole influence of the
resident and his Administration was
employed unscrupulously for that pur-
pose. Important testimony was ruled
Out by the Court, and the Attorney
General, by instruction of the President,
gave persons who had turned States
evidence to understand that they need
not expect anything but the severest
treatment from the Government.
Bells testimony obtains additional
weight from his production of cypher
and official papers with which he ha'
Oeen furnished by his employers, and it
COrrOboration by the District Attorney
Dyer.
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a Leak stopped,

Since the Radical Governors are all
ont Of the Executive Mansion, and none OF
that sort are likely ever to occupy 1t again.
the act of the Legislature regulating the
disbursement of the Contingent Fund
and prohibiting its use for the house
hold purposes of the Governor, may be
like locking the stable door after the exit
Of the stolen horse. Nevertheless, with
the experience of the misuse of the Fund
during the carpet-bag regime, the passage
of the law was proper as precautionary
measure, TIE CLARION repeatedly ex-
posed the abuse, and we congratulate the
taxpayers that, in this matter, as well as
others, too numerous to relate, its labors
have not been in vain.
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There was a noticeable absence of col
ored men at the Republican Convention
on Thursday
THE meaning of it is that the colored
men hereafter intend to stand firm and
wait to see what is to be gained by en-
listing hereafter under the banner of the
handful of white ofice-seekers,. and
against the great body of the white peo-
pie of the State. They have been agree
ably surprised that the predictions of
their late leaders, that Democratic vic
tory would be followed by legislation
prescribing and discriminating against
the blacks-the destruction of the schools
at which their children are educated,
and all that sort of thing-have been ut
terly falsifed by the perfectly fair and
impartial course of the present Demo
cratic Legislature. Therefore have they
called halt in their hitherto blind fol-
lowing of the adventures. Besides, it
is worthy of note that after all the howl
the Radicals have raised about g the
black Code " of 1866, the convention Sc
Iected as their temporary chairman, Mr..
J. L. Morphis, who was a conspicuous
member of the Legislature at that perl
cd. and voted for some of the measures
they have pretended to regard with the
greatest horror.
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WEDNESDAY, April 3, 1876.
Mr.. President Sims in the chair absent 5.
AN INVITATION TO VISIT wEssoN.
WEssoN, Miss, April 4, 1875.
To the Honorable, the Senate and House Of
Representatives:
GENTLEMEN: 1 beg to avail myself of this
opportunity on behalf of the Mississippi
mills to tender your honorable bodies an
invitation to visit our mills before your adj
jOurnment, and see our progress in manu-
featuring If Wednesday, the 18th inst,
would suit your convenience as we'll as any
other day, we would be pleased to have you
name that time, or otherwise, name any
day most convenient TO you, and will pro-
vide transportation to come down and re-
turn. Hoping to receive favorable re-
Spouse / remain
Your obedient servant,
VIM. OLIVER.
BY Mr. Johnston: That the invitation be
declined by the Senate, owing to press OF
business. Mr.. Foote moved to strike out
'declined' and insert g accept" Mr. Bar
ry moved to table; lost; and the invitation
was tabled, subject to call.
Mr.. Chalmers, chairman, reported I'll. B.
to Incorporate Marshall County Banking
Co., and that the Senate recede from its
amendments.
Mr. Terry, chairman. reported Fl. B. to
incorporate the Lebanon High School, with
amendments, and recommended their pas
sage.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
BY Mr.. Gibson: To authorize Adams
county. to appoint delinquent tax collec=
tor; referred.
BY Mr.. Thompson. To amend section 1904,
Code of 1871, in relation to Senatorial Dis
tricts referred.
Fl. B. to authorize Kemper county to reg
lister outstanding warrants passed.
III. b. to incorporate Lebanon High
School was amended and passed.
FL. J. r. to amend the Constitution by
providing for biennial sessions. passed its
second reading-yeas "a, nays, Mr.. Smith, /.
By Mr.. Smith To legalize the action of
the Board ofIrustees of Hazlehurst; passed.
S. B. to relieve the lower part of Coaho-
ma county from the levee tax of District
No. l. passed.
S. B. to repeal sections and 4 of the
charter of the Vicksburg & Ship Island r.
K. passed-yeas IA, nays s.
| By Mr.. Smith: To amend Section 1911,
Code of 1871, in relation to service of pro-
cess; referred.
By Mr.. Reynolds: To make joint obliga-
tons joint and several, and fot other pur-
poses; referred.
Mr.. Chalmers, chairman, reported s. B. to
| lease the Penitentiary, witEthe recommend
| alton that 1t do pass. Mr.. Reynolds moved
| TO print the bill and make it the special order
for Tomorrow at 8 40, 4. NJ; carried.
LAWS BY APPROVAL.
The Governor informed the Senate that
| he has approved the following Senate bills /:
To facilitate DEMONSTRATION of telegraph
lines; to amend the act In relation TO the
publication of notices to non-residents in
/ suits In attachment before Justices of the
Peace; to amend the law Ia relation TO pro-
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ALEXANDER CLARK,
A, III. WIDNEY and WIFE,
A. D. MURRAY
1874.
March q, 1876
RadfcaIisIn Dead and Buried i'm
XazOO.

Referring to the special election for
County Treasurer, which resulted in the
choice of that staunch Democrat, Maj.
Doherty, over several worthy and excel
lent competitors of the same faith-the
Yazoc City Democrat says:
The election last Saturday passed OH
very peaceably. The freedmen took an
active interest in voting for their Demo
cratic friends, and the word Radical, or
Republican, never entered the vocabulary
of single voter. In this county every
other party than the Democratic one, Is
as 'sdead as Hector" and we intend, by
keeping our pledges made to the freed
men, that this state of affairs shall always
exist
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The Senate met 40 3 80 O'Clock.
5. b. to amend section 1871, Code OF 1871,
in relation 10 service OF process passed.
III. b. to reduce taxes ana for other pur-
poses was considered section by section aud
passed.
BY Mr.. Reynolds: To levy n tax ON cot
ton by Boards OF Supervisors; referred.
The Senate cCaeurred lu the House
amendments 70 she bill 20 abolish the Icvee
Board in District No. j, and also the ameud-
ments 10 the bill 10 relieve the lower part
Of COahOma county from levee t2N; and rel
fused to concur Ia the amendments 90 ii1.
the pay for legal advertisements.
The House educational bill passed, with
an amendment.
The Senate refused 90 adopt the report or
the committee Of conference upon the House
bill to incorporate the Holly SPRING bank.
5. b. to aid the Mississippi Educational
Society at Fayette. Adjourned.
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supplemental Congregational Dis
trlcG KRiII.

In accordance with petition from the
/ Democratic voters of Yazoo. a bill will
be introduced in the House of Repre-
sentative, detaehing Yazoo county from
/ the River District and annexing it to the
Fifth District, 10 which it belongs geo.
graphically and politically. The grounds
ON which the petitioners base their &C.
ton, are just and reasonable, and are as
follows:
10 throw into the River District a
county which has four thousand Demo
cratic majority, will not redeem the Dis.
trlct from Radicalism, but will simply
result in losing that majority in the State
elections, which are of much more import
ance to the party than any Federal cleo
tons can be. The knowledge of the fact
that their efforts will avail nothing, can
not fail to paralyze the energies of the
party. Again, with the exception of
Warren county, Yazoo county has no
business associations with any other
county in the River District. She has
generally been considered an interior,
rather than a river county, because four
ffths of her population lies east of the
YazoO river.
Annexing Yazoo to hill District only
renders Democratic success more certain,
for under favorable circumstances, her
majority can be preserved. The question
Is simply whether these circumstances
shall be allowed to remain favorable. |
Will the Legislature risk the loss of four
thousand majority to the party in the
State in 1877? The argument that
the the matter has been settled
amounts to nothing, if an error has been
committed. We trust that the Legisla-
ture will take the matter in hand and
adopt the supplemental bill without a
waste of time. 1t is right in principle,
md wise in policy.
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The Legislature and the SENATE
rial AnvesGigarinE Committee.

The Y. s. Senate has provided for the
appointment of a committee to invest
gate the Mississippi election. Waving
the partizan motive which prompted the
mover of the resolution appointing the
committee, and the constitutional an.
thority of either branch of Congress to
institute such an interference in the af.
fairs Of State, we assume that it is
clearly the province of the Legislature
to take such action as will secure a full
and fair investigation, and thorough
exposition of the whole subject of inoui-
ry, in order that no en- pGrte presentation
OF the facts may be made, and that no
injury may be inflicted upon the fair
name Of the commonwealth.
Protesting against the unfounded i'm
putation implied in the proceeding, and
the base political intrigue at the bot
tom of it, we nevertheless main
tain that the election was fair and
lawful in every particular and that
the occasional disturbances of the peace
in several of the counties we're produced
by the leaders Oft the Radical party,
whose chief hope of success depended
upon fomenting strife and producing
bloodshed between the races. This fact
is capable of proof The white and con-
serYative voters entered upon the cam
vass with a fixed determination to have
fair and peaceable election. 1t was I'M
questionably fair and free from intimida-
ton, and was unexceptionably peaceabIe,
save in the occasional instances referred
to.
The Legislature, stunning no investi-
CATION, should cooperate with the Sena-
torial Committee and facilitate its inves-
tigation, and take care that the truth,
and the whole truth, shall go to the
world. To this end committee of that
body ought to be appointed, Gin which
both parties are represented charged
with the duty of cooperating with the
Committee of the Senate, and aiding it
in making its inquiries. The mal-admin-
istration of the party which was over
thrown at the polls will be within the
scope of the contemplated investigation.
and much of the testimony which has
resulted in vacating three of the places
by Radical State officials,
should be adduced before the Committee,
and through that channel go to the
world, revealing the awful depravity of the
rule that has been overthrow in this
State. An appropriation from the State
Treasury to carry out these objects and
10 defray the expenses of the investiga-
ion, would be altogether just and prop
or, and is indeed essentially necessary, so
that the good name of the State may be
indicated and the ends of justice sub
served.
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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE.
sENATE-sEvENTY-FIFrH DAY.

TUESDAY. April 4, 1876.
Mr.. President Sims in the chair. Prayer
Dy Rev. DR.. Kline; absent 6.
THE VETOED BILL.
The bill to re-ineorporate Natchez was
taken up the message was read and the
Dill Jailed to pass over the veto by yeas Z,
nays 10.
Mr.. Nets, chairman. reported 5. B. for
the relief OF Mrs. Fannie E. Dear, of Madi-
son county, without recommendation
Mr. Morgan, chairman, reported S. b.
246 with amendments, and recommended its
/ passage.
The Senate concurred in the House
amendments to the registration bill.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
By Mr.. Morgan: To protect municipal
corporations In certain cases; also, in rela-
ton to allowances to be made to county Of
ficers; also, in relation to compensation to
trustees of State universities, ana other
public institutions; they were all referred.
By Mr. Catchings: In aid of the Educa-
tional Society at Fayette; referred.
BY Mr. Barry For the relie6of R. E.
by Mr.. Allen: To provide for leasing of
the PenitentIary; referred.
III. B. supplemental to the court district
bill passed.
committees amendments were adopted and
the bill passed.
M'CLURE's CASE.
Mr.. Jewell moved to take up the resolu-
ton in reference to Fl. b. Mcclure, Senator
from the 9TH District. Mr.. Allen moved to
postpone until 80 o'clock carried.
Mr.. Catchings called up 5. b. to provide
for the REDEEM ption of lands held for taxes in |
Levy District No. l. The several amend !
ments were adopted and the bill passed.
S b. for the reliefof Mrs. Fannie +. Dear, |
of Madison, was amended and passed.
By Mr.. Chalmers: A joint resolution pro- |
testing against the action of the United |
States Senate, in reference to the Mississip- !
pi election. when no question as to said cleo
ton was before the Senate referred.
III. B. to prohibit the sale of liquors with
in three miles of Atlanta, Chickasaw coun- I
ty. passed.
Ell. B. to re-incorporate Port Gibson
amendments were adopted and |
the bill passed; and was reconsidered and
BY Mr.. Reynolds To incorporate the
Institute, of Aberdeen; referred.
By Mr.. Furlong: To amend the act to reg
llate the tax for liquor licenses.
Ii. B. to incorporate French Camp Educa-
tional Association passed.
FAREWELL, MCCLURE.
The special order, the resolution to ex-
pei Senator Mcclure, came up and the reso-
luton was adopted-yeas, "a nays, Smith,
white Republican, l. Adjourned
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Corruption All Over and All
Through.
t. Louis Republican

st. Louis Republican,
The deeper the Democratic invcstiga-
ting auger goes into the bowels of Grants
administration, the more evident does It
become, not only that the corruption eX-
tends from top to bottom, but that this
corruption has been for years past well
known TO the leaders Of the Republican
party, and carefully concealed by them
from the public gaze. The full kuowl-
edge which the country now has Of the
"true inwardness' of Grantsm would
never have been obtained, bad it not
been for the fortunate accident of a
Democratic majority in one branch of
CONGRESS.