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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20
Respectfully, etc,
Osyka, June 10, 1877.
For Secretary OF State-COI. y. H
NEcCuIIum.

EDS CLARION: An abiding interest in
our noble old commonwealth, prompts me
TO suggest to the people of this State,
through your columns, the nomination OF
J. l.. McCulIum for Secretary of State
This position is one of prominence IN the
department of State government and by
reason of that fact should demand of aspi-
rants the inevitable necessity OF conforming
to the Jeffersonian criterion-capacity fl
deity and honesty. We deem no citizen in
all our knowledge better prepared to stand
this test for official incumbency than Col.
McCullum. In point of ability and matu-
rity of judgment he will com pare favorably
with any one of his competitors. His jour
nalistio career is of long standing and runs
back to the halcyon days of Mississippi.
His connection with the press for the past
twenty-five years has fully demonstrated
that he is man of polished intellect and
that he is firmly and tenaciously bound to
political principle as were the Pagan del
ties supposed TO be bound to the DEGREES of
fate. His efforts as a newspaper editor
were potently effective in removing the in
cubus of Radicalism from this the C, ntral
portion of the Stat e. His vigilance and ac-
tivity in exposing the Vaccinations OF our
former bad rulers entitle him to the graft
tude of the people in this their hour of tri-
umph. Col McCullum's record as a SOL
der of the "Lost Cause" is without blem-
ish. His efficiency as soldier and officer
in Gen. Walthall's brigade is well known
by his fellow comrades in arms. Hence it
is readily apparent that in every particular
his credentials are unexceptionable. Oc-
eupying an esteemed pasition as editor of
the Yazoo-H Herald Democrat, let the people
throughc ut the length and breadth of the
State recognize his meritorious services of
The past by nominating and electing him
to this Office of honor aud emolument, for
which he is so eminently qualified.
MIsaISSIpPI
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

AVE have had Il larger demand than
we could supply from every point of the
compass, and especially from the North,
for the very able, clear and comprehen,
sive account of the Kemper tragedy
published in our paper three weeks ago
over the signature of GA Citizen Of KEN
per-" There has been also frequent in
quiry for the name of the writer. We
will not hesitate to give it, as we were
placed under no injunction Of secrecy.
The author is the Hon. Thos. Z. Bell,
Representative in our State Legisla-
ture, and one of the best known citi
zens of East Mississippi
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The Marshall County senator.
Patriotic Letter from General
a. VI. West.
Holly Springs Reporter.


To Tue EDITOR or TUX RrroRTEE
issue Of June lst contain. "a catering
from correspondent upon me % bta.m
candidate for the State Senate. 40 iIe
preaching Iall election. Other rtquH
similar character have reached mn 70"
time to time, and but for absence ] "ul
have responded earlier
In the association. OF lite, eYilul"
confidence 0nd consideration arr a."A
gratifying TO the recipients however
lous or Indifferent Ge may De- ! do HU. W0
sent Am exception 90 this truth 5N.
grateful for such expressions Of h.dI...
and rasprct.
With the exception Of service a- tH r
Tor on the Tilden ticket, have since
war uniformly declined political. promo. J
preterring 70 devote my time tp o'h'' I'I
suits.
When elected, without my agency 90 J
gress in 1866, IL was my express pa.r
not TO take my seat, because ln t.ie l''"
cited ana disOTgauiZcl condition "'
country l dld not believe ! could d' n
State any material good, but tohsr"
refusing to admit Southern reprs'eh.i''
relieved me of any discretion.
The re-establishment Of local st.'-
eminent In this State, marks thI- INt
ginning of new epoch boo her history
war and the fearful thraldOm iu ~bl. y
was held for ten years, has "tN-. :
crushed her vitality. II how bchuoft' 'lI
good citizen TO aid 10 the measure '' /"
aollity ~ the restoration OF Dis state " y
FORMER high position, and by tbe eua'tl
OF wise. just and wholesome laws ie'e'-
llsh confidence ia her institutions \
among her inhabitants and 90 30 io'.s. y
agricultural, mechanical and CONNIE
lhtefeSts as TO give remuueratiyr tm'
lnenG 10 labor and enterprise. our 10.
should be to accomplish those lmp'"'
enus, remedy existing evils, help thr vi
PIE 70 recover their misfortune, mA.r.
Detter their financial condition auI
welfare, and as far a. possible ObIiterle \.
ever the pernicIous effects Of that conf"
government, civil and military, Of WI
the people Of Mississippi were Sd long
victims, aud by every honest, patriot" t.
leayor. protect life, liberty and pwlfH
that the majesty of law aud gCttruu,
may be honored and respected and t0e /.
,erial growth and influeuce Of the aA1
fully assured.
No wider field "a presented Tor ibis h.i
able work than In the halls OF her Leg I
Lure. If, therefore, It is tho wish oI
people OF Marshall county that / shou.4l n
present them In the state Senate, 30 ND' /
my pleasure to do so. la the event OF II
election my time and all the talent aha J
luence possess will be freely ahI e"'
'ully given 70 their service.
Respectfully, A. N. WEI
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

Hon. j. NJ JAYNE, JR, of Rankin,
declines to become candidate for Ee-
election TO the Legislature, in order that
ne may devote his time to the practice of
his profession. Though one of the
youngest members of that body of able
bae2. he ranked high as a talented and
useful membaE. and his constituents have
reason to feel the pride ~ which they
hold him. He is modest as he is merito-
rious.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

The Mississippi plan is still working
in South Carolina. Resolutions of i'm
parchment against Associate Justice
Wright, Of the Supreme Court, and,
Judging from the recent unanimous report
of the Legislative committee on his judi
cial infirmities and his impeachment by
more than a two thirds vote in q body
that has no such partisan majority, us
removal is certain. Wright is a worth
less, drunken earpet-bag negro from
Pennsylvania who, though elevated to the
highest judicial tribunal in South Caro-
lima during the Republican saturnalia,
would never have been thought of for
justice of the peace, or even beat consta-
bic in Pennsylvania.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

The aggregate internalrevenue receipts
for the fiscal year to date exceeds the to-
tai receipts for the same period during
the last fiscal year. The returns already
foot up in excess of $111, 200, 900, and
the impression at the department Is that
the fill receipts for the year viii fall
little, if any, below the estimate of $780,
900, 900.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

REFERRING 10 the Kemper affair, the
ny Herald says that the case was one
{" of kind which has happened probably
b" in every State in the Union Less than
two years ago a similar set of murders
" took place in Illinois, and, so far as
" we remember, the murderers were not
g brought to justice There is not
week that passes in which the columns
of the Herald do not bear testimony to
che truth of its aFerment.
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The Pacific Railroads are bec1m.as
great highways for merchandise-..l
coffee, silks, and other goods from japan.
China, India, and the islands Of l.
Pacific. One ofthe most notable il5'
connected with this new route Of tf'l.
is the trade with Japan in sllk-No...I
egga. A short time ago, special. ul.
consisting of seven carloads Of sIk'",'' :.
eggs, received from Japan, consgnel \
Havre, France, was hurried from Ns,'
east OF the continent st express ~.
4Nhe eggs are attached TO slips Of "l.'
by muciage, and laid careful! y
shelves; and an even temperalnis
in the cara by heating. aPp
ratus. The value Of the shipment y nv
riously stated from $4,000, 600 10 3d. Nv.
OOOi aRd Il ia only one Of many thar I %,
already been made. There s so
thing grand in the idea of chartennf \
special express train across me ,bl
continent tor the accommodation o
eggs Of worms,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

THE plan pursued by Deputy United
States Marshal Franks, of North Caro-
lina, who has been arrested for malfea-
sance, to secure Il little pocket money
outside of his salary, was to make out
fictitious cases against unreal persons for
defrauding the revenues. Vouchers
were forged for costs, witness fees,
mileage, etc, which required no more
effort than the filing up of proper
blanks, and formed a most lucrative
branch of business, the money being
paid at Washington on these fraudulent
papers. The money was divided be-
tween the marshal, his deputy, the chief
clerk and accountant.
There has been complaint of the de-
fciency of the appropriation for per
forming the service in the Department of
Justice, and these revelations of the con-
duct of the United States Marshal and
his deputies in North Carolina will ex-
plain how at least Il part of the money
has gone. Doubtless if the facts could
be ascertained, that case is not an ex-
ceptional one.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

REPORT says that Hon. Kenneth Ray
ner has been appointed Solicitor of the
Treasury. The appointment is good
one, and we like it all the better because
G.. Wiley Wells (who wanted the place.
is cleft Mississippi's answer is, thank
YOU Mr. Hayes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

IT is no discredit to Mr.. Hayes that
he is not nesIectInl of his friends. He
has appointed Mr.. r. A. Thompson, Of
the Memphis Avalanche, Postmaster at
that city.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

ACCORDING 10 reports, the crops in
Alabama have been benefited by general
rains. The wheat crop Is said to be s'the
best ever Hade,' while corn and cotton
are doing well. Oats have coapalatiEe-
" failed. t
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

The Port Gibson Reveille presents the
name of the Hon. E. S. Drake, the pre-
sent Representative from that county, as
a suitable candidate for State Senator
from Copiah and Claiborne District. -
Crystal Springs Monitor.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

The jackson Times proposes to- cry
''bIud, blud," to its hearts content if it
takes all Summer. The forty or fifty
citizens of jackson who subscribe for it,
must be disguised at the long wall, par
ticularly when they know that politi-
cal purpose is at the bottom of it.-V icks-
burg Herald.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

MfssoURl has adopted q law which
road overseers to c9H ont all
able-bodied persons between the ages
Of - and 60 years for the destruction
Of grasshoppers. Service j. compulsory.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

HoN. JEREMIAH BLACK is to publish
IN the next North American Review an
article on the Electoral COmrisaion and
the Supreme Court sLopk out for some
thing racy. he is immeasurabIy the
brightest intellect in the country.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

DR. S. r. JONES introduces himself to
the readers of the Westville News as the
editor Of that paper. With his large
requirements, thorough culture, facile
pen and Journalistic experience, he viii
make it an interesting paper.
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Time Fixed.
J. L. GEORGE,
Chairman
Secretary.

1t twill be seen that Wednesday, August
LIST, has been fixed as the day for the as
sernbling Of the Democratic State Con
vention. The next business is for the
counties to appoint their delegates,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

The State of Maine needs attention
whenever the Kemper shriekers can find
time to bestow their attention in that di-
rection. During the year ending MAreh
oath, there were a number of atrocious
murders committed in that State. \
contemporary which has taken the trouble
to examine, says that several of the vie
tins were assassinated aud others were
daughters and wives killed by their faith
ers and husbands.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

The retirement Of John Shelton, Esq,
from the Kinds county Board of Super
visors will be generally regretted. He
was vigiant and efficient.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

sIParson Dale has bsen appointed postmas-
tet of Monticello lt is a most excellent
appointment, and viii give entire atisfac
ton to the public. and he conducted with
entire safety totlie: observation-disclosures
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

THE Radical leaders in Iowa think it
safest to pretermit an endorsement of the
Administration, and are inclined to say
nothing about it, one way or the other.
They have an elephant on their hands.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

In the Georgia election last week. the
people seem TO have decided by 10000
majority to hold convention to remodel
The Constitution.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

FRYE men were hung at Dayton, Ohio,
on the 18th, and it wasn't good day for
hanging neither.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

THE n. Y. Times, the most prominent
Republican journal in the country
speaks of the Democratic proposition 10
remonitize. the silver dollar and make it
a legal tender, as an ''attack on the ma
tional credit" Silver is not good enough
for the bondholders according to its
lOUic
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

Hon. III. A. MErFs, Chairman of the
Democratic County Executive Commit
Tee, has called meeting in the Banner
ON the 10th ''for the purpose Of deciding
upon a method for selecting the candi-
dates for county ticket appointing
delegates to the State Convention, and
the transaction of such other business
. as may come before The meeting. ]"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20
A TAX of seven mills on the dollar has
been levied by the Legislature of South

A TAX of seven mills on the dollar has
been levied by the Legislature of South
Carolina for the following purposes
First-TO meet appropriations for the cur
rent expenses of the Government for the
fiscal year ending October 81. 1877.
Second-To pay the interest due in ,F1nu-
airy and Jnly, 1877, upon the consolidated
bonds and certificates Of stock issued under
the Act to reduce the volume of the public
debt. approved December y, 1873, and
which shall be found TO be valid and bona
tide by the commission TO investigae the
same and be approved by the General As
sembly at its next regular session.
Third-TO pay such other Indebtedness of
the State aS may he reported to be valid
bona tide by the said commission, to which
1t may be applied by the General Assembly
nj its next regular session.
Fourth-lf the proceeds of said tax of
seven mills be insufficient to meet all Iay-
mentS provided for in the appropriation
bill, the Governor is hereby authorized to
borrow on the credit of the State such
sum. not exceeding 100000, as may be acc
essary to meet such deficiency.
The bulk of this burden is to meet
liabilities incurred by the carpet-bag adj
ministrations, and for which no eqlivo-
lent whatever has been left to encourage
the taxpayers in bearing it.
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JarroIl COnservative !

linz o 1'i'et S..auSe urAlh occurred 900
day last. 4 negro woman INV.
Montgomery, living ON thc MI. w D.
tation, became VERY hapng r'.'I.'. .'
on that day: and alfrr sL".,..'.
hoaTse, got iuru whattbp rolar.I,.-
call trance" aud in mi. ,r..,-,...
by condition, passed from rYrtl
"bourne from which uo fr,,....
turns"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

HEAVY ON THE PRESIDENTS CANDI-
DATE FOR SPEAKER. THE St. Louis
Globe Democrat (Republican) says:
Nobody need now be afraid of Garfield
as a competitor for office. He is Thoroughly
played out The American people will par
con Cd deal in their public men. but
they must draw the line somewhere, and in
many notable cases they have drawn it on
lying and hypocrisy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

SPEAKING to company of friends on
the eve of his departure for Europe,
Gov. Hendricks, in referring to the
Presidential election, said that she WAS
as certain that he had majority of the
popular vote as that Gov. Williams was
elected Governor of Indiana, and, in de
feating the will of the people, blow had
been struck at American institutions,
which thousands of gentlemen who did
not vote for Gov Tilden or himself re-
GREETED. Hereafter the man achO leas
elected President by the roice and ,cH Of
the people must and ,pa be inaug,trated.
The duty devolves upon the people of
Indiana, without distinction of party, to
stand by the Constitution.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

Hon. PRoCroR KNOTT, Chairman of
the House judiciary, has right to speak
about the great fraud" which the coun-
try was advised by the Democratic mem
bers of Congress ''to agitate without
ceasing." He opposed the infamy in all
its stages A sketch of recent speech
delivered by him is copied elsewhere.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

Mr.. w. G. GIBSON, Chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee of
Pontotoc, gives notice that on the 30th
of June a meeting will be held in that
county to decide upon plan of organiza
ton for the e, suing canvass.
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..Ci.iI service Reform

While the decision of the Administra-
ton to discontinue military Intervention
in behalf of ii carpet-bag pretenders in
Louisiana and South Carolina, though
tardily formed, meets the approval of
every impartial man, it must be confessed
that there is no improvement in the char
aeter of the appointees in the civil service
and that the work Of ''reform" goes on
slowly. Elsewhere we have alluded to
the nomination of Hon. Kenneth Rayner
of this State for an important duty by
Gen. Grant and the substitution of his
name for that of one occupying as bad an
eminence as Boutwell, upon whom Mas
sachusetts herself had passed judgment
of condemnation. To come nearer home
our New Orleans contemporaries that
have been inclined to be very blind to
the shortcomings of Mr.. Hayes, depre-
Gates the appointments in that State and
declare that they are no improvement
upon the officials of the Grant Admins
tration. Here are some examples OF the
way in which ''reform" is being accom-
plished there and elsewhere:
Special Dispatch to the World.l
WAsHINGToN. June I5.-The President
has decided to adhere to an appointment of
Steamboat Inspector at New Orleans in the
face of the protest of steamboat and steam
ship interests representing $4,000 900 of
capital which want the old Inspector rein
stated or a competent man put in his place.
They suggested no politics nor name. but
insisted on efficiency- The new inspector
is represented as utterly unfiJ for the dis
charge of his duties. The Morgan Steam
ship Company, while not o2jecting To a
G0Yernment inspection. such as ii is, have
provided competent inspector of their own.
The new appointment was made over the
Secretary OF the Treasury, who disciaims
all responsibility for it.
In the case of the Cincinnati district, a
competent and faithful officer was removed
and a member of the Ohio Legislature who
was prominent in the election of Stanley
Matthew's tn the Quilted States Senate was
put in his place, aHd all efforts to secure a
change there have failed. 1t is not claimed
that the new appointee has any qualification
for the place
james +. Anderson, who relieved the Adj
ministration from the embarrassment of mis-
appointment as Consul To Funchal was mix
ed up in the East Felciana registration and
returns in Louisiana.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

A CONTEMPORARY, speaking of the
kemper affair, says that ''the eyes of the
North are upon Mississippi" Missis-
sippi is profoundly Indifferent to where
''the North looks, and sensible men sac
disguised with the too prevalent toady-
ism which has displayed itself in Con-
gress, and ont of it, on that subject.
When 1.-The North" grows weary of ga
zing upon Mississippi horrors she gan
sup upon an abundance of a worse kind
at home any day in the year.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

4 sTAUNCH Democrat in New Hamp-
shire in discussing a proposition to ex-
change the Democratic party for the
"new party" which has originated in the
brain of political schemers, says:
| haya no patience with such parasites.
A new party movement among the Demo-
Gratis of New Hampshire is an impossibility
to day. What could tempt them to cOun-
tenance any such political toom!oolery?
They are the favortes OF public sentiment
Their Presidential candidate. although he
was swindled out of his seat, had
quarter of Il million of a majority in the
states The carrying out OF the Demo-
cratic idea respecting the policy In the
South by a Republican President (who has
a conscience about him, is a proof of its
truth and value in the mind of an honest
man who Is forced by his oath and honor
to heed and obey that truth. Why, then,
should Democrats think about a new party
when their special policy is so approved
up strange generals when their own are 81
skillful and their armies are gaining
strength through assertions from the en-
envy every day? The idea is preposter-
GUS for no vestige OF party infidelity, pres.
emily, probably or possibly, can be charged
against New Hampshire Democrats"
Everybody in the South but disap-
pointed Radical office holders and office
seekers are satisfied with the removal of
the military props which supported the
spurious oaTBet-bag governments. The
Democrats especially are cooperating,
only they think that the two months
manipulating and softsawdering with
Com missioners was a stupid devise of an
Administration which vas not sure of the
rectitude of its Democratic policy.
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Grenada Sentinel.

Our entire community was shocked 500
day night last bv the tragic and awful JuH
Of the two bright little bows. Druaa N
cock and Johnnie Jones. They lgl ml
in the evening by permission, iorm .m.
recreation and sport. Late lu tbe ega \
they were missed and search was imuu.
ately instituted They were tracked mI
sand-bank, where 1t was discoyereit NJ
bank had just fallen in. Upon eXauui
ton the bodies OF the two lit.Ie boys f.'
found buried about two feet deep.
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Carroll Conservative

One by one they pass away. rf.....
~ I,,u II p', ~ uuty TINS week to rraal
death OF another 81 Carroll. oI..t.
best cltizens. Col. C.P. Newell dsI...
home, three miles northwest from C,r.
ton, on the l2,h inst, Ia the S0.d yara.
age.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

IT is stated that Mr.. Heber Craft,
Secretary of the Mississippi Valley Com
pany, has accepted an invitation to adj
dress the Calliopian Society of Whit
worth College on the evening Of the
22d. We are sure the task will be &C
ceptibly performed.
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''I"ES 9IoUItOr

Tom Moseley wa. r,,,-
ne was Wy nE d gain aIui..
, ,he "l fIrentis Hughe. iT .aa.e
Williams. William. L.' in'u.d.1rsF
liams was hrou,,G, '''' 'ren Nrfer. e.
this morning a1I ".i,.' ihe N4gt
lie stated that in WA og. .l'.''e.d tou..
that pa agreement NH ~. W. NJ. ls.
them to shoot each otl. rN1'..t t.t..
ana that Tom had 4r4wn ""Raa..
he was concealed w.l"- UnI' p.,a.
th" parties concerned +. .'' Dom.
are colorcl. '' s"e a.F.l.