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CHARLES w. O'NEu,.

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North AMERICAN REVIEW The Nav

North AMERICAN REVIEW. The Nav
June, 1877, volume, of this old and
always interesting work, presents to its
readers its usual variety Of excellent
articles, atfording to the student and men
of letters an entertainment worthy their
attention. The first article is from the pen
of Senator 0. P. Morton, and deserves
the attention of even such as in general
are not in accord with the senators politi-
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we'll known pens follow, notably one on
Soul and Substance" and another on
1.-The relation of Debt and Money. u
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The 9ailg Argns,
ROCK ISLAND.
That's What's the Matter.

The Cincinnati Euqnirer recalls. the story
of the disappearance of the old silver dol
lar and one of the causes that produced
the result. Il is still interesting:
Congressional Record, 1872, April g.
page 2,034, Mr.. Hooper, Chairman of the
Committee of Coinage, in his report,
states: Ernest Seyd, of London, dis
tinguished writer and bullionist, who is
now here and has given great attention to
the subject of minis and coinage, after ex-
aiming the first draft of this bill, made
various sensible suggestions, which the
Committee adopted and embodied in this
bill. " In 1872, silver being demonetized
in Germany, England, and Holland, cap.
ital of 9lo0 900 ($500,000) was raised. and
Ernest Seyd, of London, was sent to this
country with this fund as the agent of the
foreign bond holders. and capitalists, to eft.
feet the same object, which was success
ful.-Banher's Magazine, August, 1873.
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No Jews N eed Apply.

AT an aristocratic seaside hotel, which is
adorned with placards mo Hebrews need
apply for accommodation, the proprietor
has engaged an expert ethnologist. who
measures every guests facial angle and
decides whether his nose is sufficiently
Grecian to allow its wearer to be charged
81 day and everything extra. Beside
the register they keep Jew-test, in the
shape of piece of salt pork. IF the guest
turns from it with loathing they tat once
tell him the house is full People in the
bar-room who fail to rartake of cold sau,
sages or ham-sandwiches arespromptly Civ
en- the G. b.
AS Col. Sellers would say, there's mill
ions in it,-but for which lparty, the Jew
or the Gentle?
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-26
The Blessing of Democratic RWIe
10 the COI0red Race.

The African Methodist Episcopal
Conference of North Carolina have
adopted report setting forth the i'm
proved condition of the State under Dem
ocratic rule, and especially its benefits to
the colored race. The testimony of this
ecclesiastical body of intelligent repre-
sentatives of the colored race, is clear
upon this point and fully accordant with
the facts existing in other Southern
States which have been relieved from
the curse of Republican rule. Here is an
extract from the Report
Many have been the prayers of the good
people of this and all other States that pros
DeriLy, harmony aud enterprise would again
bless this country of ours. Evea Il gear ago
many We're entertained as to Wha: the future
OF the country would be- But by close OBJ
servation it is declared by all with HON we
have conversed that not since 1860 has there
been such a tranquility in this State, and in
the South generally, as within the past year.
Never have the colored people of this State
been SO greatly encouraged to purchase
lands and build themselves com fortable
mansions and be happy in this country as
to-day. Agricultural enterprise is being
nent in the minds of all the good men of
both races in North Carolina. The State
has taken in hand the education of teachers
for our race. One thing in this direction is
quite gratifying, and that is that Governor
Z. B. Vance has been the leader in this gra-
cious work of elevating our people. And
the Governor could not have intro luced a
more i'm DOrtant measure, one more conduc-
tive to the elevation of our race and har-
mony of the people generally OF North Car
Dina. We think that the days of y0re are
last returning to the old North State. En-
lerprises in the way of manufactures, and
the prospects for the material advancement
of our people, are good the power of popu-
lar education is being impressivey felt; the
dIsapprobation OF every good son of North
Carolina, colored or white, is felt upon
every attempt at riot at any time or in any
place.
j. A. TYLER,
w. H. FERGUSON,
MAYFIELD SLADE.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-26
Memphis ELECTION.

The Democratic party of Memphis is
confronted by an independent" move
ment in their approaching city election.
The independent candidate for Mayor
is traitor to his party, which had twice
elected him to that Office. Failing to
obtain the nomination at this election,
he has announced his allegiance to the
party to which he owes so much, and like
the thawed adder has stung the hand of
his benefactor. Nevertheless, we shall
be surprised if his treachery is not re-
buked at the polls. Mississippi has a
large share in Memphis and cannot look
with Indifference to matters that concern
her: besides her people are interested in
whatever relates to the preservation of
the political Organization by which Mis-
sissippi ss well as Tennessee was re-
claimed from misrule. As usual the
brave old Appeal is at the front, gal
lantly leading the Democratic and Com
cohorts to the charge. THE
CLARION recognizes in that able journal
a tried and faithful ally of Mississippi in
her past contests against the powers of
and bids it God speed in its
present contest with the common foe at
It's own door-sill.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-26

The able financial editor of the St.
Louis Republican, in abiding to the rev
olution of popular sentiment about the
reissue of silver after the bill for that
purpose becomes a law, observes that
among those who favor silver without I'M
Outstanding how the good that is ex-
pected from it is to be worked out, there
are many who will be previously disap-
pointed if they find that silver is at once,
or very shortly afterwards, quoted as par
with gold. They will Immediately rush
to the conclusion that silver has adj
vanced, and it will be easy to make such
people believe that the reissue of silver
has been of no benefit to any one but the
bullion owners. The truth is that the
phenomenon spoken of will come from
the fall of gold rather than the advance
of silver, and fortunately there will be
one easy means Of proving that fact, and
that will be that hundred dollars in sill
yer will buy just as many greenback dol
lars es a hundred dollars in gold. In
other words silver dollar will not only
buy more gold, but a greenback dollar
will also buy more gold than it viii now
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-26

THE Chicago Mass-meeting represent
ing large Republican and the entire
Democratic sentiment passed strong reso-
lutions on the silver question. Fhey
speak of the act demonetizing silver as
6 covert scheme" which discloses g a
reckless disregard for the public welfare :
it declares that g the decentralization of
silver was accomplished through conceal
ment and deception, fraud and corrup-
ton = that sc one obvious purpose of
the act was to increase the value of gov
eminent bonds; that :" the people have
been clandestinely robbed of the legal
tender quality of one-half their metallic
that !" the consequences of
the nefarious scheme are 50 far-reaehina
and disastrous that it calls for unmeas-
pred Remuneration and that ssthe Pres
dents Judgment has been warped and
misguided by the bad counseis Of bis
advisers.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-26
Death of GEN. Chas. Clark.

Mississippi is again called upon to put
on mourning. Another great and good
man has been called to his last reward
We learn from the Vicksburg CONNER
ciaI that a dispatch to Col. w. ii. Nc
Cardle conveyed the melancholy infor-
nation that ex Governor and Gen. Chas-
Clark had passed away forever, his
death having occurred at his late resi-
dence, in Bolivar county, on the morning
of the 18th inst, in the sixty-seventh
wear of his age. As Legislator, Gov
ernor and Judge, he performed his duties
we'll and faithfully. As a Confederate
soldier, he attested his devotion to the
South by heroic service upon the field OF
battle, until finally, at Baton Rouge, Lou
isiana, he sacrificed limb in the cause.
As Jefferson Davis was chosen under the
Andrew johnson regime, as the victim
to appease the wrath of the northern ia
natics against the so called disloyalty of
the Confederate States, and incarcerated
in Fortress Monroe, so Immediately after
the war, when traitors to the land that
gave them birth, were at a premium, and
the iron clad oath was the test of all vir
tue IN the South, Charles Clark was Sc
lected as the sacrifice for the sins of Mis-
sissippi, and to propitiate the clamor at
the North for Southern blood, and was
sent to Fort Pulaski. AS he was true
in peace. true in war, so will the memory
of his virtues bloom brightly in the
hearts of his people while there is one
woman, man or child left in Mississippi |
that admires and loves all that is great
and good in man.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-26
All a Mistake.
j. A. TYLER,
w. H. FERGUSON,
MAYFIELD SLADE.

The U. S. Senate has refused to confirm
the nomination of G. Wiley Wells as Consul
General to China. China is to be congratu-
lated, but alas for NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
States.
The States is mistaken. Wells case
was not reached during the extra session,
and his name has again been sent in to
the regular session. Hayes is determined
to reward Wiley, if he can, for the SLAM
ders that were perpetrated upon Missis-
sippi by this arch carpet Dagger in Cali.
fornia during the Presidential canvass,
and will succeed in doing so unless an
end is brought to the ''you tickle me and
I'll tickle YOU policy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-26

That there is something radically
wrong in the leves tax laws is selfevi-
dent The fact that for the past few
days the Auditors Office has been be-
seiged by gentlemen from the levee dis
tricts who were here for the purpose of
paying their own and their neighbors'
levee taxes is sufficient evidence upon
that point. To say nothing of the heavy
burthen imposed by the tax, and moth
ing of the fact that most of the money
thereby realized goes to liquidate the
debts contracted under Radical rule,
when the Bruces, Bowles, Flowers,
Webbers and Sullivans were filling
their pockets, and feasting at the expense
of the people, and not to rebuild or re-
pair the levees. Any law which requires
the tax payer to leave his home, and
come to the Capital, to redeem it from a
forced sale is oppressive, unjust and
tyrannical.
We expect to refer to this subject
hereafter, and will look with interest to
the action of the Legislature in its eff
forts to give relief to the people.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-26

TIE Boston Herald says "what the
:" President needs to do is to get the
country on his side" All. there's the
rub. Il 10 no easy matter for man who
deliberately accepts an Office, TO which
be was not elected, at the hands Of per.
jared returning boards, and rewards the
rascaIs who perpetrated the frauds With
Federal oAices 70 get the country on his
side. Visit until you hear from the
mighty West and solid South Ia No
yember 1850.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-26
THE NATTONAL. LEGHST.ATURE
WHAT HAS 1T uONE:

Congress has adjourned for the holi-
days, and we are forcibly reminded of
the anecdote of the old farmer who,
upon leaving home, intrusted the fa' m to
two idle sons. Upon his return he as ked !:
''Sam, what have you been doing while
81 was gone" Sam. replied, Nothing,
"father." And then he asked, What
"have you been doing, Bob ?" and Bob
answered, Helping Sam, father" So
it is with the honorable Senate and
House Of Representatives of Congress
one has been doing nothing, and the
other has aided with all its might.
The silver reconciliation bill has not
become Jaw.
The resumption act has not been
repealed.
The expenses of the government have
not been cut down.
The army has not been reduced.
The salaries of Federal officers, of all
grades, fixed during during the flush
times of Grantism, remain the same.
Large expenses were incurred during
the summer, in direct violation Of law,
for the army and navy, and nobody has
been called to account for it.
The country is in a worse condition
financially than ever before. Banks are
suspending. Factories have ceased work
altogether, or are running on short time.
Railroads are passing into the hands of
receivers. Farms are being sold at
forced sales and bringing not half their
value. Working men, all over the
country, are unemployed and their fami-
lies are on the verge of absolute starva-
ton. And Congress adjourns for the
holidays.
The Nations SOlons may not believe it,
but the people know that the laws now
in existence, passed for the benefit of the
bondholders, and the extravagant scale
upon which the Government is admins
tered, is the cause of all this distress that
has fallen upon the land. And when
election day rolls around they will be
held to a strict account if something is
not done for the relief of the country,
and that speedily. The toiling masses,
and they are in the majority, who scarce
ly earn bread for their families, will be
hard to convince that person drawing
SAG 663 month from the public purse,
after Illustrating for few weeks in easy
chairs and living on the fat of the land,
have need for two weeks rest, when the
work that they were expected to perform
still remains undone.
But perhaps we have done Congress
injustice. Something has been done
Harlan, the great Radical stump har-
ranguer, of Kentucky, has been been
placed on the Supreme bench. A Sena-
tor from South Carolina, and one from
Louisiana (whose seat was not contested) |
and fraud from the latter State have |
been seated in the Senate, and a con-
ested election case from Colorado has
been adjudicated in the House. Nearly |
Ill of the carpet baggers and scallawags,
Who Mississippi turned out to grass, have
'een provided for, either in Washington,
he Territories, or at home. And the
and- shaking and love-making between
Hayes and Democratic Senators and
still goes on.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-26
THE Washington Republican, Admin

The Washington Republican, Admin
istration paper, is well posted. 1t says:
If our most excellent Chief Magis-
trate himself was a candidate to morrow
for reelection, he would fnd, With few
exceptions, the South united in support
of his Democratic opponent.
The statement will never be verified.
"Our excellent President" does not stand
the ghost of chance of denomination:
but while he is President, 1.-THE South,
notwithstanding his fraudulent title,
will daai With him fairly-approving
what is right aud ooademning what 10
wrong.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-26

LATE specials state that the Commit
tee on Mississippi Levees, of which Mr.
Robertson, of Louisiana, is Chairman,
will probably report early in January a
bill appfoprlating $4, 900 to repair
the most important points and crevasses.
The bill will also provide for a commits
sion of experts to consider and report
upon the best plan for a general system
Of levees for the river.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-26

The State is called to mourn the loss
of another valuable citizen in the death
of Judge Thomas Shakleford of Canton,
after painful and protracted illness. He
was native Mississippian-born in the
noble old county of Jefferson on the 18th
December, 1913, and was therefore vearg
ing upon the three score and ten years
allotted TO human life by the Psalmist.
To future number we are compelled to
defer the tribute which we feel to be due
the memory of the lamented deceased.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-26

A NEGRO fend, recently murdered a
mother, son and daughter in Clarke
county, Alabama, not, however, until he
had committed a nameless crime upon
the latter. He was burned by the neigh
bors of the unfortunate people. Served
him right. The Holly Springs South
will make note and hang out its usual
mourning over the fate of this victim
of mob law"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-26
Not Needch
TuLelo Journal

A great deal Is being amtr.
press abuut q constitutional O...
yet "A IN ajority OF the paper, ta r..
single reason for the prupu-.IpH...
is no need OF Cou-tifu.i.u I-
and there j. great doubt Whr.H.ra,.
stituuon would be- ts acceptable .s b..
we have. Framing Constitution.
uncertain WORK. 4, is uhr going
We throw M a hook blifcU frsr
aud very probably draw uut au ".
gar. Our Constitution is NOT "a t..
any means, aud we Vhicct t1 rem...
on uncertainties.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-26

Greenville Times.l

The iron and material for this rag. ~.
from Greeuville to Deer Creek is now ot...
landed here by the Anchor Line boats M
first installment having been put on by r-.s
Grand Tower last Saturday night
crOss-ties have, la part, been sawed h.IH
and we are informed that track laying W..
be commenced a. once. And that Y h-
intention OF the company to finish one l..
section, 90 Deer Creek. In about sixty u-l
This point reached, the constructor NJ.
sixty miles down the Creek. will De u'
more than the cost Of the Iron and tie' ~
bridges, and the grading tridinR. we Wan
no doubt that the energy OF the constilg.,r
com pany, and the self interest Of enc D1in
try 10 be benefited, will speedily cotAP.
the road to Rolling Fork.