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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-11-14
Letter from One Of she Electoral
Comm i.Nion

Judge Strong. of the Electoral Com
mission, hes written the following letter
t. Hon. Hon. @. ". Jones, of Tennessee.
Judge Strong Was Democrat who went
of from the regular organization in the
Free Soil movement and has since acted
with the Republican party, notwithstand-
ing he says he is still a Democrat He
was one of the eight that played the game
of to on the American people. His
letter contains the remarkable con
fession that that the Louisiana Return
ing Board committed :" a great wrong"
and that the State went for Tilden though
1t was counted for Hayes. In other
words that the people were robbed Of
their choice for President and that Con
gress had no power to prevent the fraud
and was compelled to register and enforce
1t If so, the Constitution is a failure,
and our boosted government, is simply
farce. The principle laid down by
Judge Strong that the decision of the
regularly constituted State authorities
is final and not subject to the revision
of Congress if applied in the next cleo
ton will fix, beyond a doubt, the next
Presidential question. The Southern
State governments are all in the
possession of Democratic Admins.
trations and the day of Repub-
lican Returning Boards are over. But
one set of returns will go up from these
States, which will cast 1873 votes for the
Democratic candidate, lacking but Al 6t
an election to be obtained from all the
other States, including Indiana, New
Jersey, Connecticut and New York !:
JUDGE sTRoNG's LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Feb. %, 1877.
''The Hon. George w. Jones:
My DEAR SIR;--T was a Democrat when
you and were together in Congress. l am
a Democrat now. | hold to all the opinions
the States Rights Democrats have always
held, and which the acknowledged leaders
of the party have avowed up to the present
winter-never more clearly than in 1873 to
1875.
Il do not believe that Congress has any
constitutional right TO inquire into State
State elections for State electors.
Congress has of late years interfeTed
quite too much with the States. The Elec-
toral Commission has no more power than
Congress has, and | think il would be -
most dangerous usurpation were it TO do
what the States alone have a right to do,
even To cure what | fear was y great
wrong of the Louisiana Returning Board.
Il cannot doubt that such will be your
opinion when you reflect TO what the asser-
ton of such a power would lead. 1t would
place the right of the States respecting
the choice of electors, at the mercy OF
the Federal Government, and be the great
est stride ever made towards centraliZa-
ton
Better suffer a present evil than open
such a door, better than abandon all the
time honored principles of the Democratic
party.
81 am yours, very respectfully.
Nv. STRONG"
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NEwToN.--Vote for Governor, co.. Vote
on amendments given last week. NJ. w.
Stampee, Democrat, elected Representa-.
tive. a. II. Csrter received 665 votes for
Senator. q. NJ. Galla>py elected Sheriff.
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HARRIsoN-Total vote for Governor S5l.
For Senator A. II. Carter, Dem Ocratic nom
inee, 1872; II. G. Saffold, Independent, 427.
A j. Ramsay, ID mocrat, elected Represen-
Uative without opposition. A. X. NorthrOp,
Democrat, elected Sheriff.
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Respectfully,
Il. 4. JOINS, Chm. Eek. Com,

PANoLA--The official vote in Star gives
G. Il Vance, Dem, 1852; j. ii. Caldwell,
Ind, 1857. For cpresentatives-H. A.
Moody. Dem, who ec-ived 1862 and w. d..
Miller, 1899 James NJ. Young, lS52--bOth
Independents. VIM. Martin, Dem, elected
sheriff.
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iours truly, PAUL l.. GU-NAN.

GREkNK.-Wc are Informed that Henry
Roberts. Independent, was elected bN "a MAJ
jority OF one vote over Mr. Mcintosh. tine
regular nominee.
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JAsPER.-Total vote for Governor 1876.
abolish office of Lt.-Governor Sj4; against
63S. A. NJ. Dozier, Democrat, elected Rep
resentative, receiving 1913 votes j. ID. Nor
gan, Radical, S34. For Senator. \. X. Car
ter received all the votes. w. NJ. Brame re-
elected Sheriff.
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GRENADA-Tofal vote cast 1892. Total
vote Tor Governor l4S7. For both Amend
ments l2SS; against IL. VIM. McSwine,
regular nominee for Representative, re
ceived l349 votes-a majority of 1850 over
two competitors. For sheriff, II. n. Hall.
regular nominee, received 925 Mister 476
French 81.
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CAPT. w. r. SPEARS, Of Vicksburg,
has reconsidered his original intention TO
contest the seat of Gen. Furlong in the
State Senate, and has set forth his rea
sons in card of characteristic candor
and manliuess. He states that having
respect for the will Of the people "who
IS have twice by the soIemnity of their
g votes declared their preference for
Z. Gen. FurIong as their representative"
he will bow to it, and will retire from
the contest for Senator which, under the
first impulse, he designed making. We
are sure that the people Of Warren, and
al, concerned, will gladly hail this ter
mination Of what at one time foreshad-
owed a long and embittered controversy.
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SIMPSON, estville, Nov. 7.--EDTToRs
CLARION: Our ticket is elected, as we all
expected The Independents are very sick
to day They say their friends did not
turn out is disappointed. The
negroes would not vote for him, and as a
matter of course he could not expect any
support from the white people, because the
white people Of old Simpson are better
taught than to reject the teachings OF their
ancestors.
Yours truly, "A. q. BERRY, Jr.
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YALoBUsHA.--Total vote for Governor
1883. To abolish Lt.-GovernOr, 1855
against l42. For biennial sessions 1896
against 50. For Senator, d. W Rogers re-
ceived entire vote, 2488. For Floater. A.
T. Raanp, Democratic nominee. received
23l6: K. d. Smith, Independent, 2lS. John
Nj. Moore, Democrat, elected Represent Ia
tive. L. X. Wilson, Sheriff
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JACKSON CoUNTY.-For Senate, j. p. Car
ter. Democratic nominee, 5l9; r. G. Saffold,
Independent. l5S. Charles H. Wood elected
Representative. and John f. Clark, Sheriff,
without opposition.
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THE Grenada Sentinel says that a
great many colored people voted the
straight Democratic ticket in that county.
The same thing may be said of other
counties. On the other hand quite a
number voted the Independent ticket out
Of prejudice to the mass of the whites,
which we hope time and experience will
oyarc0u,p
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NoxUBEE e. f. Mum, Clark Lewis and
w. b. Augustus, regular Democratic nom
inees, elected. G. NJ. Thomas elected Sheriff.
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1rhmr.dnv, November 20th, 1877,

for public Thanksgiving and praise, and re-
auest the people Of this State to assemble, on
thai dav. In their usual places of public wor-
ship. and around their family fresIdes, and
devote themselves 10 such services as shall be
becoming to people who have such abundant
cause 10 be grateful
WITNESS my hand, and the Great Seal Of
the State the 18th day of November,
H. - A. D.. 1877.
j. NJ. STONE.
By the Governor:
JAMES HILL, Secretary Of State.
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LAFAYEITE-For Senste Lowrance l712 /;
HowrY 1888 Representatives W. j..
Showers TIA, Il. 4. Dean l93l-both reg
ular nominees elected. Humphreys receiv-
I'd 1902 and Gill 1850 votes. Mcleod re-
elected sheriff
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CT ARKE.-Total vote for Governor 1924.
For Biennial sessions SIS; against SO. For
Lt-Governor, 3l5; against 90.
l.. b. Brown, Democrat. elected over Hyde,
Independent, by u majority OF 40l. j. w.
Landlord elected Sheriff.
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MoNTGoMERY--Total vote for Governor
1907. For Senator, w. ID. Peery, Democrat
ic nominee, 957; stephen johnson, INDIE
pendent, 255. Peery's majority in Senate
rial District Montgomery. Carroll and Lee
flore) is 35I. a. Il. Hurt, Democrat, elected
without opposition. NJ. II. Allen received
all the votes 1l7l) for Floater. ChOctaw
and Montgomery elect Floater.
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TUNICA--Austin, Nov. 5 To f. Barks-
dale, Chairman State Executive Commit
tee: The entire Democratic ticket elected
in this county by handsome majority
over the Boilers, com biued with the Radi-
Gals. This county and Quitman elect one
Representative. TIE vote in Tunlca
stands: Perkins. Democrat All; Fiagg,
colored Radical. PSI; Nelson. Bolter, 219.
The registered vote of Quitmdu Is about
800. The negro running for Representa-
tive in that county received no vote in this
Yours truly,
JAS. b. PERKINS, Chm, Tx. Com.
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JEFFERsoN.--Total vote for Governor 739.
For biennial sessions 6l9; against %. To
abolish Lt.-Governor, AL; against 1874. For
Representatives, Claude Pintard and G.. b.
position. j. Il. Mccormick reelected
Sheriff.
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VIIN U ~
JAS. B. PERKINS. Chm. Tx. Com.

AMITE-Hon. + Barksdale, Chm. State
Elk. Com: The official returns OF the cleo
ton in Amite shows an average vote of
$50 for State ticket. Moses Jackson, Tor
Senator from Amite and Wilkinson, re-
ceived 1876; f. w. Joor, Ind, &c. For
Floater from Amite and Lincoln, +. l..
Tarver received $50; Van Watts l. w. +.
Love is elected Representative without OPP
position. The Democratic county ticket
elected without opposition. Highest num-
Der of votes poled 9l5--only about half the
vote of county. Everything quiet. But
little interest shown
Respectfully,
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MADISON ticket elected,
Representatives j. X. Cameron; y. -: Oll-
mer and Geo. Edwards, col. D. l. frlesIly5
Sheriff.
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LISCoLN-For Representative, II Il. APP
plewhite. regular Democratic nominee, re
ceived 90; Ii. Z. Atkins, Ind. 66l. For
Floater. +. l.. TaTver received all the
votes, l345, For Sheriff. A. o. Cox. Rrgu-
lar, received 1869; j. NJ. Hooker, Ind. 52i.
The entire Democratic ticket, except Treas
urer elec ted.
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MoNRoE--For SenAte-Grithn, Dem,
2lS9; Tindal l473 :. j. Ghol-on, Wright
Cunningham aud y w. Hatch elected
RepreSeutatives--all regular Dem ocratic
nominees Howard elected Sheriff. Vote
for State Ticket 1908.
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ADAMs.-Total vote for Governor 1884.
For Senate, X p. Lanneau, Democrat 1915;
VIM. II. Heweft, Independent. 1874, I Otis
Baker, j. w. Chamberlain, Democrats, and
Geo. X. Washington, Rep, elected Repre-
sentati1es, on Fusion ticket.
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PoHroToc The entire Democratic ticket
elected by an average majority 81 not.
Towrancp. for Senate. received nearly the
full vote 1921 jeff Wilson. FlOater, reoeiv-
cd 1874 of the 1912 cast. Having received
a majority of 264 in Union he is therefore
elected Jas. Gordon, Democrat. elected
representative by majority OF 81 over the
elected Sheriff.
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LANDS.

Total to Southern States 1921, 1853
Donations to Northern States have
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BENTON.--The regular Democratic NOM
inee for Representative, J. w. Smith, receiv-
ed a majority of 292 over Independent Can
didate
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CLAIBORNE For Senator claiborne and
Copiah in DISTRICT Ben. King, Democra t.
93S; J. b. Jones 90; f. Handy, col, l20.
For Representatives, j. McC. Martin, and
w. ID. Bean regular nominees, elected. e..
f. Buck elected Sheriff. Total vote for
State ticket 1852. To abolish Lt.-GOvernor,
267; against SOP. For biennial sessions 81 (;
against 355.
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AITALA-The regular nominees for
Representatives were : r. NJ. Glass who re
ceived 1913, ID. I. Guyton ITO. II G..
Niles Rep. received 1885,. Glass and Niles
elected.
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Thanksgiving Proclamation.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI,

IHr people Of Mississippi have been signal
" blessed during the year now drawing to
close. nd, as "A State, II IS becoming that
public acknowledgements Of Praise and Thanks
giving he made to our Divine Ruler
TuEREFoRE. l. ]. NJ STONE, Governor of
the State Of Mississippi, do designate and set
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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-09-20
MEDICA1
TO THE AFFLICTED.
DR.. JOHN GOUcHFR

o.'I ~ ~con'Inues 10 treat every variety Oh
SaEoNLC - L DiSBASG. S
Sts., Ravenna, Ohio, where he located
the 18th of October, 1868. Since that
time have successfully treated TwEN-
TY-sIx THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED
CASES among which have been many
miraculous cures of Cancer, Gravel,
TumOrs, DrOpsy. Rheumatism, Fistu-
Ia i'm Ana, PrOlapsus of the Rectum,
Piles, Tape Worms. Seat or Pin
Worms, Intestinal Worms HiU Dis.
ease, GOitre, Enlarged Glands, Scrofu-
Ia, and all Impurities of the Blood.
Scald Head Invariably Cured:
and that most insidious of all diseases.
Catarrh, which is destroying its tens Of
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TURNING GKAY.

-Ltfe's sands are running fast away;
The buoyant step OF Youth has gonei
The falling hair is turning gray,
And Time seems now to hurry on
More feetly than in da,s of yore-
BEFORE the heart became its prey
Before twas saddeEed to the core
Before the hair was tnrning gray.
Yes, turning grayI Age comes like snow
As still-and carvts each careworn line;
Its wrinkles on the brow will grow:
The hair with silvery streaks will shine;
The eyes their bri rightness lose; the hand
Grow dry and tremulous and thin
For life, alas is quickly snapped,
And Death its gate soon closes in.
All turning gray! we fain would hide
The sign how long with time We've Leen
These deepening wrinkles side by side,
Cut by the Sorrows we have seen,
For feeble beats the heart IL years
More thickly cluster on our head
On some fair flower that's nearly dead.
Like perished petal from the flower,
Our hopes ami widest joys are lain;
Born only for day or hour,
Sweet gambols by the fancy played,
As age comes on, we long for rest,
AS saints near shrincs will long to pray
But st:n we love that time the best
Before the hair is turning gray.
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A man fell asleep as the clock tolled
the first stroke of twelve. He ava
kened ere the echo of the twelfth
stroke had died away, having in the
interval dreamed that he had commit
ted a crime, was detected after five
years, tried aud condemned the shock
of finding the halter around his neck
aroused him to consciousness, when
he discovered that all these events had
happened in an intinitesimal fragment
of time. Mohammed, wishing to il
lustrate tho wonders of sleep, told how
a certain man, being sheik, found
himself, tor his pride, made a poor
fisherman ; that he lived as one for six
years, bringing up family and work
ing hard, aud how, upon waking up
from his long dream, so short time
had he been asleep that the narrow
necked gourd bottle, filed with water
which he knew he overturned rs he
fell asleep, had not time 10 empty
itself. How fast the soul travels when
the body is asleep! Often when we
wake we shrink from going back into
the dull routine Of sordid existence.
regretting the pleasanter life of dream
land. How is it that sometimes when
we go to a strange place we fancy
that we have seen it before? Is it
possible that when one has been
asleep the soul has f1oated away, seen
the place, and has the memory of it
which so surprises us? In q word,
how far dual is the life of man, how
far not?
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OF July and general training as holi-
days. The general trainings were usu-
ally held on the farm of Mr.. Spellman,
of Rootstown. Sometimes they would
inaugurate 3 sham fight, which we
boys thought was a great and a grand
thing to behold. But oh the ginger
bread of those days, how good it
tasted !! was saying that those were
days of toll, at least with us. l then
often wished that could do as some
boys did, whom knew. They could
go fishing or hunting any of the seven
days of the week, and l was obliged
to do six full days work, and go to
meeting on the Sabbath. q, how l
then wished 1 could change places
with some of those boys, but I have
never seen the time since then when l
would change places with any of them.
1 am persuaded that industry and ap-
plication, however distasteful they
may be at the time, are nevertheless
the best things for boys.
In those days we occasionally had
big hunt. The people would arrange
themselves in lines on the four sides
of an unsettled township, on a day
agreed on. At nine o'clock in the
morning of that day tin horn would
sound On one of the corners, and be
repeated along the lines till it came
back to where it commenced, then all
marched tor the center, killing the
game as they went. The last part was
the exciting time, when deer, bears,
wolves, and all other kinds were slain
in great numbers. Edinburgh was
Que of those towns SO surrounded.
Game was plenty then. 1 have often
seen hundreds of wild turkeys in our
meadow at one time, and never shot
at one in my life. While at work on
the edge of the forest l have seen
deer brousing in the woods apparent
ly as little afraid of me as l was OF
them.
What long days aud years those
were. l now sometimes detect myself
in thinking, If not saying, l lived in
Ravenna the most of my life. But
when l count it up find it was only
from the age OF 8 to Is years. l have
been in Michigan now near so years.
and it does not seem SO long as did
those ten boyhood years. l cannot
call to mind when your father came to
Ravenna. / think it must have been
before my father came there.
O. G. THOMPSON.
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vEsUvIUs.

An uncomfortable account of the
present condition oiVesuvius was Civ
en- by Professor Boyd Dawkins at q
meeting of the Manchester Geological
Society, recently. Professor Dawkins,
it seems, visited Vesuvius, and on ar
riving at the mouth of the crater found
that it was filled with dense vapor
like fog. A alow roaring noise"
could be heard, and occasionally there
was a flash of light which was proba-
bly the reflected glare of the lava surg-
ing about in the volcano. Undismay-
ed by these symptoms of internal dis
turbance, the professor went down
seven or eight feet below the edge of
the crater, and found that he could
light pieces of paper IN holes which he
dug with his hammer in the black ash
on the inside. Every thing, indeed,
indicated a tendency to eruption, and,
according to the accounts issucd by
Professor Palmieri, one of the volca-
nos periodical attacks of fever may be
expected in a comparatively short
time. Prof. DaWkins is Of tho opin-
ion that Mount Vesuvius performs the
duty of safety-valve to very large
portion of the earth.
Professor Phillips, who has made
Vesuvius q special object of attention,
has come TO the conclusion that the
volcano has been far more energetic
during the present century than 1t has
ever been before. The first known
cru ptiom was that which overwhelmed
Pompeii and the ncighboring county
A. ID. 79. 1t was not until tho seven.
teenth century that the number of
eruptiops in the hundred years was as
many as four. In the eighteenth Gen.
tury the number rose to twenty.three,
and during the present century twen-
ty.six eruptions have already occur
rcd. How many more may take place
during the remaining twenty-three
years Prof. Dawkins is unable to say.
All he knows is that the mountain is
in a very restless state, and may ego
Off" ut any moment. On the other
hand, reports made about January of
expected eruption ought not to be no.
! ticed SO much as 1T other times, az the
inhabitants OF Naples make the most
of such reports ut this season in order
to attract ightseers.
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out being driven into the shambles of
insolvency. That is what the people
want but they are only sheep in the
hands of the shearers.
After dwelling upon the experience
OF England in resumption sixty years
ago, Mr.. Ewing went ON to defend the
yreenbacks with which internal taxeR
could be paid and that were gladly re-
ceived for all labor and property.
What more was wanted of money. AS
the evils of depreciation, he said:
ask what mischief are the people sui
fering by the fact that gold is worth .
trifle more than green5acka? Gold
has never been q common currency
with US, and never will be. We have
Always had paper, and always will as
the peoples currency, except for email
change. The greenbacks are infinitely
better than the bank currency before
the war, and better than will be the
bank currency after resumption which
must necessarily tiuctuate in quantity
with the ebb and flow of the precious
metals that redeem them. Gold ia the
most unstable in price of all the COM
modities, partly because the quantity
produced is very fluctuating, but
chiefly because it is used by several
great nations as basis for expanded
paper currency, and therefore flies
back and forth with ev cry fitful change
in the finances, crops and politics of
Europe. Yet every rise or fall in gold
now is charged by the resumptionists
to the greenbacks as shallow pretext
tor their destruction. 1t is the old
case of the wolf and the lamb at the
ford. Mr.. Sherman says deprecated
currency cheats and robs every man
who receives it OF portion Of the re-
ward of his labor or production. ask
you were you cheated and robbed
from 1865 to 1868, when the volume Of
currency was full and gold at . high
psemium, or of late years, when the
paper currency was shrunk and the
premium on gold gone down. Prices
of commodities were higher when the
currency was full, but SO were wages.
Enforced idleness and half time were
unknown, for every productive energy
was in play, ministering TO the wants
Of men. Workingmen have suffered,
and are suffering in common with all
the industrial classes, chiefly from 8
dishonest management of our debt and
currency exclusively in the interest of
the money power. That wrong must
be righted, as far as possible by the
repeal of the Resumption law by the
tull reconciliation and unlimited
coinage of the old silver dollar by the
substitution of Treasury notes for
bank notes by bringing the gold dol p
lar down aud the silver dollar up
through making them equally by law,
as they are by contract, payable for
principal and interest of the whole
public debt, and, finally, by keeping
the greenbacks ut par with both coins
by making them, equally with coir.
payable for customs. TO every one
of these n .sures of reform the DEM
ocratic party of OHIO is pledged by its
platforms of 1875, 1876 and 1877, aud
the great body of the Democrats in
Congress are committed by repeated
votes, while the Republican party is
against them all.