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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-10-31

left the State and the people loved, and
those feelings hnger with me yet as look
upon what have lost. 1t is a hard strug-
gle for men or women in middle life to tear
loose from scenes and affections that they
have cherished, and from objects dearer
than existence and cast their lot with
strangers.
DR.. Thos' r. Edwards, late OF Noxubee
county, was % years old. he was seven
consecutive years student of Summeryille
Institute; four years in the University of
virginia, and two years in Bellevue College.
New York. He was the finest scholar of
his age knew, was an AppoIo in form, aud
a Christian gentleman. He was 4he son of
Hon. NJ f iwards, OF Gholson, In your State.
Last night as | was at tea, this dispatch was
laid upo- my table. "Dr. Edwards died al
o'clock Come if possible" On, God!
how inscrutabe are Thy ways! DIR. E.
had settled at Wills Point, in y. Texas, but
was an applicant for Professorship in the
the A. and NJ College, and would doubt
less have been chosen. Friend after friend
departs" WILLIAM
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Immigration Statistics.

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat con-
denses rs follows:
Nearly 10000, 900 of immigration -
9.726, 4J5-arrived in New York from
1919 to 1876, but the full of the tide was
i'm 1878, when 44S,4 S3 landed on our
shores There was only a slight decrease
in 1874, but in 1875 the number fell off
nearly one-haIf, while in 1876 it dropped
to 1877, 627, and the first eight months of
this year show only 80, 1919, against
II ,2G5, during the corresponding period
of last year.
BY another journal it is stated that the
drift of English immigration has gener-
ally been towards the South. In spite
of the depressed condition of business,
and the consequent large amount of I'M
employed laborers in the cities and man.
ufacturing districts, the agricultural re-
gions Of the South present to the indus
trious a wide field, ample employment,
and the prospects, if not of great wealth,
vet of independence and a comfortable
living.
Mr.. Wells, former Special Commits
sioner for the United States, says each
foreign immigrant arriving in this coun-
try brings in his pockets eighty dollars in
gold and further computes that the in
dustrv is worth to the country one thou
sand dollars more, and the number of
immigrants arriving annually is $500, 600.
This puts twentyfour million dollars
in gold in their pockets, and their esti-
mated addition to the country's industry
worth three hundred millions more.
These figures are large but their authori-
ty is the highest.
Hitherto the above round sum of ben
efts has gone nearly in direct stream
along the Northwest. Is the channel of
that stream as unalterable as the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers? We don't think so.
What we suggest is that Mississippi shall
boldly hang out her sign and try that
question.
Further, as to immediate profits, i'm.
migrants with or without property could
not avoid paying county levy and poll
tax each year after arrival Public
records show those rates to be over two
dollars sor each person each year. Say
we could make our annual arrivals aver
age from five to ten thousand persons fo1
the next FIVE years, it is plain that the
counties would receive hundreds of thou
sands of dollars from that source, within
that date, besides the State revenue they
might pay.
Immigration, if successful in amount
and quality, will pay more largely anc
continuously than any State undertaking
Give us in the next five years 80, 900 fol
eign immigrants, writing home to then
relatives abroad and describing Their
thriving condition here. We would, il
fact, have that many foreign immigran
agents free of cost.
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The Agricultural Lien Law
Greenville Times.l

Greenville Times.l
The only question of the repeal of the
Lien Law is that of time. Wh& this act
creating a mortgage hitherto uhkHown to
law authorities, the mortagging of that
which was sin tuturo." was enacted, it con-
stituted an Innovation that nothing could
strain into Justification but the condition
of the country.
Out of the refusal of commission and
other merchants to extend credit for sup
plies to the planter, EN- barraSsed and bro
ken down by the two crop failures succeed
ing the war, grew a serious and urgent de-
mand for legislative relief. From which
pressure and necessity sPrang this much
criticised and abused Agricultural Lien
Law. 1t was framed and enacted to meet
peculiar ana temporary emergency. That
1t has long since satisfied this occasion, and
has tor years been perverted from its orig
inal intent, i. e. of enabling planters and
laborers to secure necessary supplies, is a
fact to which each year lends cumulative
and conclusive confirmation. Instead of
securing its legitimate end, it has establish.
ed and Incorporated into the business deal
lngs of the country a credit system of the
most demoraiiZing kind; has made mer-
chandlzing speculation and extortion and
has besides improverishing the labor, ineul-
Gated habits of thriftlessness and extrava-
ganee injurious to every legitimate interest
ana aVocation; the mercantile no less than
the planting.
Reason and good policy will no longer
permit its continuance. The present boun-
tlIuI grain crop. placing ample subsistence
IN reach OF all, makes the repeal of this law
at the next Legislative session timely,
Utility.
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Swiss Colonies / m the South.
ON the Atlanta tGa.l Constitution

From the Atlanta (Ga) constitutional
Swiss colony settled on Cumberland
Mountain, Tennessee, in 1873. The colony,
which consists of lis families, making a
company of about 700 people, purchased
OO0O acres of mountain land at one dollar
per acre, and now, although only four
years have elapsed, each head of family
has comfortable home, surrounded by an
orchard and garden and decorated with a
profusion of mountain flowers. There is a
large store that is managed for the colony,
members of which get goods from it at
wholesale cost; the colony has its own
school. church, doctors, etc, and the mem
bers their own candidates to govern the dis
tricts in which they live. The colonists
already have diaries and cheese factories
in successful operatio and all their pro-
ducts find ready sale and command fancy
prices They have splendid herds of cattle,
and their barns are built as carefully as
their houses. There is also a colony Of
Swiss near Greenville, S. c., about as large
as the Tennessee colony, and it is prosper
ing finely.
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For The CLARIoN
LIN ES.
By NJ. ALLIE DAVIS.

We are drifting, slowly drifting
To home beyond the tide;
Down the turbid streamlet floating,
Rocks and reefs on either side
One by one our boats are loosened,
And we push them out from shore;
And the bowsprits part the waters
As We ply the guiding oar.
Weare drifting, surely drifting,
With each throb of ebbing tide
Der the white capped wavelets leaping,
Ger the pillows deep and wide,
To q land q peace and glory,
Or dark and barren strand,
There wei live with Christ in heaven,
Or be sentenced with the damned
All, we're drifting slow but surely,
To home beyond the tide;
Inch by inch we near the harbor,
over on the other side;
In our hands We hold the compass
Pointing 10 the happy land
Christ our Captain, bcekons onward,
With our crown and harp in hand.
Shall We turn our head lights from Him.
Going down the brad. broad way
Shall We join the worldling's ranks,
Dancing 0 err the waters gay2
Nay tho the cross be heavy laden,
And our shoulders trembling, weak,
Every burden $ fitted to them
They Will bend, but never break;
We are drifting, slowly drifting,
To n home beyond the tide;
One by one we II soon be anchored,
Over on the other side;
Soon within the oar-locks lying
Idly side by side the oars,
No more for US the heaving pillows,
Or the demon tempest's roar;
Safely anchored over yonder,
Drifting with the tide no more,
We VII rest in peace forever,
All our sigh7 and sorrows Ger
Bolton, Miss, Oct, 1877.
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A Prom i m ent Journalist Pointing
out the Faults of the Press.
From the louisville Courisr-Journal.l


LOUISVILLE, Sept. %, 1877.
GENTLEMEN Il regret that my engage
ments will not permit me to attend the Con-
ventiOn of Indiana edi ors to which you in
vite me. Conscious of my lack of power TO
speak adequately of the journalistic calling,
whose shortcomings have for long time
chiefly interested me, | should nevertheless
he glad to urge its numerous and gross
abuses upon such OF my comrades as may
care to listen to me; its coarse and reck-
less persOnaispl; its senselesS jab5er of
spurious wit; its general want of truthful
ness and responsibility. Ii is so easy TO
handy epithets. 10 Squib and fib; so hard to
investigate patiently. and cOndense in five
lines of pith five hours of labor. | do not
pretend that journalists are worse than
other men, but, being more conspicuous,
they should be more circumspect, more
thoughtful, more dutiful. The habit Of dis
jointed thinking is producing crop of If
responsible writing which lowers the tone,
abridges the influence and impairs the use
fulness of the press; so that the current
newspaper seems to me to be equally narrow
and fragm entary, wanting not certain
vigor indeed. but elevated and generous
promying. The journalism of the period
is thus almost destitute of self respect, and
until it gains its lost moral nature-at the
ex pense perhaps of It's Vivacity--its ttnden-
CIV must be downward. l beg your pardon
for speaking so bluntly; but observant
members of the profession to which all of us
are bound for life can hlrdly fail to share
with me a sense of shame in the confession,
along with spirit of hope that the future
NAV have better things in store tor US.
HENRY WATrERSoN.
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Yesterday, we understand, two young
ladies of this city entered the Telephone
Ofice for the purpose of learning the art
of printing. They go at it for the pur-
pose of learning il thoroughly, and thus
securing a means Of subsistence more re-
liable than the uncertain profession OF
teaching. There are already in the
Telephone two lady cOmpositors, and
with these two "prentice hands they
will have a quite a sOciable little coterio.
-Natchez Democrat.
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What has surprised me most in history
is to read of so few kings who have abdi-
Gated their thrones-not above dozen
or two at the most l-Sterne.
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Deserved Compliment.
southern States.

Southern States.
Variety is said to be the spice of life. 1t
is, also, the spice of newspapers, and that Is
what makes the Mississippi Sun one of the
best papers published in Mississippi. Its
editors, Messrs. Haynie and Harrison, evil
IDENTIFY understand their business.
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The Peabody Fund.

Rev. DIR. Sears, the general agent of this
trust, reports the following distribution of
the fund to this date, in aid of the common
schools in the States named:
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Honor is but the reflection Of a mans
own actions, shining bright in the face of
all about him, and from thence rebound
ing upon himself.-South.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-10-31

In treatment of nervous causes he is
the best physician who is the most ingeni-
Gus inspirer of hope.-Coleridge.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-10-31

Excess of grief for the deceased is
madness; for It is an injury to the living
ard the dead know it not.-Xeniphon.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-10-31

The giving riches and honom 90 o.
wicked man is like giving strong wine t0
him that hath o foyer.--Plutareh,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-10-31

A king ruleth as he ought, tyrant
as he lists; king to the profit Of all,
. tyrant only to please few.--Aristotle.
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The permanent fund is one million dollars
The interest is distributed annually. by DR..
Sears, to public schools complying with
certain conditions.
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OTHER NoTABLEs.

Sunset Cox is again in his seat ready to
grapple the widow Butler, or any other
woman. The latter, alter an enforced alb
sence of two years, again comes to the front
on the Republican side. Fernando Wood is
and all-looking AZ Short distance not mn
like our Singleton. Judge David Davis,
weighing only 400 pounds, balances the
Senate end of the Capitol and counting al
most for single ton himself. Col. Lamar
looks In excellent health. Bruce have not
yet seen, though 1 imagine he must feel
lonely as the single representative of his
defunct party from the State.
ATHoN.
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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-12-13
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
ADVICE FROM A MAN WHO ALWAYS
KEEPS HIS WORD.

Gentlemen of the Senate and House Of
Representatives:
In discllarging the duty of address,
ing the General Assembly, imposed
on me by the O. institution, it seems
eminently appropriate that 1 should
begin by cungratulatiug its members
upon the auspicious circumstances
under Which they reassemblo.
The past year has been a menor-
able one. Twelve months ago we
Witnessed IL condition of things which
nrea'eued the cxis' ence ofrepublican
institutions under our ancient system
of constitutional Government. The
whole country was cunvulsed by q
national poll lcal contest, which as
humcd such portentous shaIe g that
every patriot dreaded, as is fearful
result, a civil war. Amid the throes
and the perils of this convulsion, the
government Of which you constitute
q part was placed in power by the
people of the State Encompassed
by dangers as novel as they were
startling, we looked in vain to history
for the light to guide us which ex-
perience alone can give. The rep
resentatives of the people, chosen as
their rulers, were called on to fulfill
as high duties and to assume as grave
responsibilities as have ever been i'm.
posed on men. No human wisdom
could have brought us safely through
the dangers that beset US on all sides,
and We should reverently give thahks
to Him who alone has wrought this
great deliverance. Our State is re-
habilitated; peace plevails through
out our borders; the laws are impair
TALLY enforced and fully respected;
good will between all classes is rap
idly obliterating the anomosities OF
the past; health blesses our people,
and the labors Of our husbandmen
have been crowned with abundant
harvests. Wo surely have cause for
profound gratitude for the blessings
which have been 80 lavishly bestow-
ed upon us; but while it becomes us
to acknowledge these gratefully, we
should bear in mind that their con-
tinuance depends on the condition Of
our proving worthy Of them.
THE PLEDGES MADE DURING THE oAN-
VAsS.~
The fret step in this direction ie
for US to observe, in perfect good
faith, the pledges made during the
canvass which resulted in our success
Upon this point I feel well assured
that the conservative and thoughtful
people of the State are thoroughly
united, and that their representatives
will be found in full accord with
them. With impartial justice in the
administration OF the lave, with the
regnition OF the perfect equality of all
citizens under those laws, with the
assurance of protection TO all in their
rigbts of person and property, and
with just; liberal and wholesome Leg
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Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 80, 1877

WASHINGTON, Nov. 80, 1877.
AT the opening of the extra ses-
sion of Congress the Republicans had
a majority Of five in the Senate, Nor
toms death and Voorhees, appointment
reduced it to three, including Shar-
on, the "bonanza king" The ex-
element during the last few days
has been intense, the possible loss OF
a working majority has given serious
alarm to the Republicans. Every
inch of ground will be sharply con-
tested, and the struggle will be a
bitter one. At this writing the SEN
ate has been in continuous session
for over 27 hours, and there is little
chance OF adjournment for as many
more.
Patterson and Conover are not
reposing on bed of roses. The
former is resting under very grave
char ges of having secured his seal
by bribery, while the latter has
doubtless been alIured by promises ot
political preferment. 1t is apparent
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Advertisements inserted at the rate Of 81 90
per square, Of (9) nine lines, OR LESS, for the
first insertion, and 80 cents for each subse-
quent insertion.
Contracts made for THREE, SIX Or TWELVE
months, on favorable terms.
Advertisements not having the number of
insertions morked on them, will be published
until forbid and charged accordingly.
These terms are so simple any child may
understand them. Nine lines is O square,
one inch. In every instance we charge by
the space occupied, as eight or ten lines can
be made to occupy four or FIVE squares, as the
advertiser may wish, and is charged by the
space.
B6S~ Advertisers will please state the num-
Der of squares they wish their advertisements
to make.
R6S@ Business men who advertise to be
benefited, will bear in mind that the
SENTINEL has a large and increasing cir
culation, and is taken by the very class of
persons whose trade they desire.
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Among the reforms which I regard
as important is the abrogation of the
system, which has obtained here to
certain extent, of epecial legisla-
tion. Great abuses occasionally
spring from this mode of Legislation,
and it adds materially 10 the legisla-
tive expenses. Most of the States
have experienced the i'll effec's of it,
and in many of them it is prohibited
by constitutional cnactments. All
Legislation should be, as far as pos~
sible, general in its character, plac-
ing all persons and all binterests on
an equal footing.
THE PUBLIC PRINTING.
A communication has been ad4
dressed to NE by Messrs. Calvo and
Patton in reference to the public
printing, which is herewith trans
mitted for your consideration. The
request made by these gentlemen
seems a very reasonable one, and 1
hope that you may find it expedient
to grant it.
JUDGE wRIGHT's RESIGNATION.
Associate Justice Wright, of the
Supreme Bench, has rendered his
resignation, to take effect on the Is
Of December next, and l have &C
cepted it. A vacancy has occurred
also among the Circuit Judges by
the resignation OF L. y. Northrop,
Judge Of the Seventh Circuit.
THE COMMITTEES.
The various committees appointed
by the General Assembly during it's
last session, while discharging their
responsible and arduous duties,
found that no appropriation had been
made to defray their expenses, and
| took the responsibility of advancing
to them from my contingent fund
snch sums as were necessary to en-
able them to prosecute their labers.
This outlay will explain why the
amount charged against this fund in
the Comptroller Generals report is
SC large. To avoid the recurrence
OF such condition of things, ad-
wise that there should hereafter be
two contingent funds-one q State
fund, to meet any demands for which
no specific appropriation has been
made, but hich have been author
lied by the Legislature, and the other
the Contingent fund proper of the
Governor. Should this suggestion
be adopted, five thousand dollars
would be amply sufficient for the
latter.
CONCLUSION.
Permit me, gentlemen of the Gen.
eral Assembly, in closing this COM
munication, to express the heartfelt
hope that our deliberations may be
marked by harmony and wisdom,
that your acts may rebound to your
own honor and to the lasting welfare
of our State, and that you may live
to see her crowned with all the b!es-
sings which can be bestowed by
mercifut Ged on a free, enlightened,
prosperous and happy Common
wealth.
WADE HAMPTON, Governor.
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Law is like sieve; you may see
through it, but You must be conside-
rably reduced before you get through
it. ...
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The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1877-09-28

Fire and life insurance cost the
people Of Kentucky during last year
81, 239, $50 O2. OF this sum. 81 ,246,
1852 II was returned for losses during
the year. leaving a net balance of
about 1000, 900 profit to the insu-
rance companies, the great bulk Of
which is forever lost To the State.
From this statement il will be readily
seen that insurance costs the property
holders Of Kentucky sum fully
equal To the entire amount paid In
taxes to the State. This is an enor.
nous burden, because the greater part
Of this sum goes out of the State to
enrich other communities. We can
not get along without Insurance. but
we should see to il that the money
paid out is kept at home.
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The Frankfort Woman calls ntten-
ton to the general insurance laws Of
this State, which provide that no comPa-
MES organized under the laws Of other
States or foreign countries he author.
lied to DO insurance business in Ken
lucky until they have received the
certificate Of the Insurance Commits
sioner that they have fully complied
with the requirements Of such laws.
They further provide that no person
shall represent as an agent any such
company until such certificate has
been issued to the company by the
Insurance Commissioner, aud the
agent duly authorized by license ofthe
Auditor to transact business for the
company. A penalty Of 1--WE hundred
dollars is prescribed by this Law
against any person who solicits busi'
ness without this license or authority
from the Auditor.
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When a soul is under conviction OF
sin, he feels that God is angry with
him every day. The soul sinks down
into gloomy condition, the sorrows
of death compass him, and the paius
of hell get hold upon him. When
God visits this soul in mercy, lie
does it by revealing something in the
heart of the Lord Jesus; He makes
"the kindness and love OF God our
Savior toward man appear The
Spirit pours beam of light upon the
face Of Jesus. He shows how he pit
led the lost, came for the lost, blod
and died in the room Of the lost, and
that the gunltiest Of men may freely
receive Him as his Savior. The sin.
ner behoids the lamb of God, and
his bosom is filled with peace in be-
lieving. Now this is what Is meant
in these words. According tn His
mercy He saved us."-[ McCheyne.