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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-02-07
Pearl River Navigation.
Carthagenian.l

Carthagenian.l
TIE +. X. STEADSfAN. came to the
landing at McFaddsn's ferry Thuriay
morning last. and Captain Perkins, WHO
IS IN command Of her, reported but little
difficulty in making the trip lie is con.
hdent the river can be easily putin prime
condition for navigation, aud that WIih
the expenditures Of a moderate sum +
could be made navigabe for nine months
IN the year for boats that carry from l-
200 to l,8O0 bales Of cotton. II the e.
penditure Of fifteen or twenty thousand
dollars will open up two hundred miles
OF river in the very heart of the state
and secure to the people of The large Ok
tent Of territory traversed by the stream
the transportation faculties they -
greatly need, it appears to us that either
the State or the National government
should appropriate a sum for that pui-
pose.
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A WASHINGTON telegram says that
objection will be made to counting the
vote Of Mississippi for Tilden- Well,
what if it is made? Under the law,
bv which the count is progressing,
where there is but one set of returns, the
concurrent action of both houses will be
required to bring case from State be-
fore the arbitrary board. The Radical
Senate may raise an objection, but the
House will override it.
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The szissI.sippi Efectfon...saore
Swearing.

If desperate swearing could have ac-
complished it, Mississippi would have
been consigned TO unfathomable depths,
and remained forever buried under car
petbag misrule It has been the favorite
instrument of her enemies and betrayers
from 1868, when the attempt was made
by that means 10 set aside the popular
vote against the proscriptive constitution,
down to the present hour, when nothing
but the fag-end Of the once Furnishing
regime of corruption is kept alive by the
breath which it inhales from the expiring
administration at Washington. The ties
timony of j. L. Lester was a surprise
to everybody but the Radical circle that
worked it up aud procured it, He was
u member Of the Kinds county Registra-
ton Board, not president Of the Board,
as stated. His own statement after
taking the oath to execute the law faith
fully, is that he went to WORK and pre-
pared duplicate keys and furnished them
directly, or indirectly, to the managers
Of the election for the purpose of tam
pering with the ballots. 1t is needless to
say the parties implicated will be prompt
to acquit themselves of the charge inn
piled in this declaration Of his own guilt.
At every precinct the Republicans were
represented and were compelled by their
oaths, as well as their partisan predelic-
tons, oprotect the ballot-boxes from fraud.
Besides it was notorious that while the
whites in the county were almost unani
nous for Mr.. Tilden, half the colored
people were enrolled as active members
of the Democratic clubs. TO have en-
ployed the fraudulent means reported by
this witness, under some remarkable and
unaccountable hallucination, would have
been unnecessary to Democratic sue
cess.
1t would be in place to state here that
a short time before the election, Mr.. Les
ter prepared and presented for publica
ton in the CLARION, of his own accord
a statement over his signature in reply to
charges which had been made from Re-
publican sources, that he had just return
ed from a tour over the county as Regis
trar, and that he positively knew from
intercourse with the people that the best
Of feeling existed between the races that
a large proportion of the colored people
were members of Democratic clubs, and
were earnest and enthusiastic in support
ing the Democratic candidates; and he
furthermore stated that outside the city
of Jackson nearly all the coIored people
| intended to vote the Democratic ticket,
and that in the western and southern
portions of the county they were as earn
est and enthusiastic in their democracy
as the white people ever were. This
statement, which all know was a truthful
representation of facts, is complete con-
tradiction of his statements recently made
before the Congressional Committee.
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Aberdeen Examiner

Aberdeen Examiner
WE clip the following just tribute 10
one Of our distinguished Representative
from jackson letter that appeared in
the hast issue Of the Canton Citizen
g Not far from Gen. Tucker, and a
little to the right of the Speaker o
stranger would not fail to observe the
genial face and striking appearance OF
Hon. w. w. Troup of Monroe, a repre-
sentative agriculturist, whose heart is as
full of charity and the milk of human
Kindness as his head is full Of sound
practical wisdom aud etatesmanlike ideas
upon every subject; possessing hIgn
order of intellect, with great tirmnsss
OF character, an unblemished reputation
untaE nished integrity, the uncompro-
Ehlsing foe of fraud and corruption IN
every guise, extremely popular with tn .4
working classes, Col. Troup would MI
with superior ability any position 70
which the people might elevate HIM.
1t is to be hoped that he will soon DC
called to higher position, in which ne
may be able to employ to greater pubic
advantage his many admirable qualities
of head and heart"
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Hon. =. n George and II.e Nudge.
ship of the Uaifed States SUI
pFeme Court Bench
Winona Advanced

Winona Advanced
We fully endorse the suggestion of our
able contemporary Of the CLARION as to
one of Mississippi's noblest citizens, Gen.
George, has by his native intellect and
untiring devotion to his profession built
up a deservedly high reputation as a
jurist unequaIled by any man in the whole
South. His Mississippi Reports and Di-
gest of Laws are relied upon by the most
eminent judges and lawyers in the
Union. His appointment en- the SUI
preme Bench would give universal salts
faction to every Southern man.
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REV. r. A. S. ADAMs-A CORREc-
T1oN.-We learn that there is not word
of truth in the report that this estimable
gentleman, the accomplished principal
of the Methodist High School at Kos
ciusko. Mississippi, had gone deranged,
and been placed in the Asylum here
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NOTICE!

SUBSCRIBERS TO TnE CLARION who have
previously been notified OF the expiration
of their term of subscription, are again no
titled that unless they renew during the
coming week, their names will be stricken
from our mail books.
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If the arbitration board decide that 1t
cannot go behind the broad seal OF the
Governor in counting the returns, they
will be compelled to count one vote ioi
Tilden from Oregon which VIII elec'
him no matter how Louisiana and Flori-
da are counted.
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STATE OF MISsISsIPPIl
HINps COUNTY, (

| personally appeared before the under
signed Chancery Clerk in and for said coun-
| ty and State, b. il. Pitman, who, being ii rst
by me duly sworn, says on oath that he was
one of the duly appointed and qualified In
| spectors Of election for President and Vice
| President, held on the eth day of Novem-
Der, y. D., 1876, and was stationed at the
polling place known as Tinnin's Monum ent
in the State and county aforesaid that Aft
ant attended the polling place on the day
aforesaid, together with L. B. Mosely and
| Reuben Anderson, col, who held similar
appointments, and John l. hull and L F
| ChiIes, Clerks, at said polling place, and dis
charged the duties of his office to the best of
| their ability, and entirely without prejudice
and Partially.
Affiant denies that there was fraud in the
| management of the said election at the
polling place aforesaid; or afterwards in
the preparation of the returns of the votes
cast thereat, or during their transmissal
and delivery to the proper officers at the
county seat.
That affiant remained near and in sight
of the bailot-boX used at tie said polling
place, and knows positively OF his own
knowledge that no ballots were put therein
except those legally voted by the qualified
voters OF said county, nor were any ballots
improperly taken out Of said bax by any
one whomSoever. Affant kept the key to
said ballot box which was tied to said box
when he received it in his own POS
session, and ouly used the same
TO u.l4ock the said box when the votes wers
to be counted, and when he again locked
and scaled the said box after the retsrns
had been made out. Aflant did not know
at the time and does not now know or be-
lieve that there was any duplicate key to
the said ballot box, and says that ii in truth
there wac any such, it could not have been
used without his knowledge, as re remained
with said ballot box, until its delivery at
the county seat, to those authorized by law
to receive it, Aifiant says that neither J.
T. Lester, Registrar Of Hiads county, or any
one else ever gave to him or any one eise ia |
his presence duplicate key to said ballot
box.
B. II. PITTMAN.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
9th day Of February, 1877.
W.T.. RATLIFF, CLERK,
By 4, G. MOORE, D. C.
State at Mississippi
Kinds County.
Also personally appeared at the same
lime aud place as stated in the foregoing
affidavit Of b. II. Pittman, J.. b. Mesely
Reuben Anderson, eolored. John T. Hull
md l.. F. Chiles, who, after being by me Il
luly sworn, say that the above and FORE
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-02-07

A CoNsTTrUrIoNAL amendment has
been proposed in the Pennsylvania Leg
isIature making every man VINO taxes !"
place ON the Supreme Bench lneilgipie
ever after for any political office, or at
all events for four years succeeding his
resignation.
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THE Administration has wreaked Its
vengeance on Maddox, the witness against
Wells He has suffered official decapl-
tation as an agent of the revenue service,
and Col. S. +. Chamberlain, formerly of
the regular army, was appointed to sue
coed him.
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CITY CLERK ASSUAL REPORT,
To the Hon. b0drd OF HaU0r and ALlcy,ns


december u lSI6...............,.,. . 81 Ii6 IN
Respectfully submitted
). ,. HAMILTON, City Clerk.
J CITY TREAsURER's REPORT
TO the Honorable Boar9 Of lnuvor and
Aldermen Of the Ctty Of Jackson
dESTLEM|S-I herewith submit tc Won nv
annual Report as Treasurer for the wear 1876.
RECEIPTS AND OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
From s. G. Burham 221 Oh
Colleet9 rs................... 2O7 6l-S 42s 81
| Ky amt paid on vouchers .............. 428 81
TEACHERS FUND.
| From S. G.. Burnham ......... g79 SO
! Sundry persons........ $3.50 a3--$52G4 50
| by am | aid on vouchers.............. 1899 10
RaIaaee on hand...........~.........$ 825 70
| SCHOOL HOUSE FUND.
From ; G. Burnham............ 755 Is
r. Collectors 9rs......;.........~6 57 29-slll2 IS
Dy In Pald on vouchers ,..,,.,.,,,," 759 70
Balance on Aand ......................... s652 Y
/ BOND AND INTEREST FUND.
From 5. G. Burnham ....... 1896 AZ
Collectors -................ .607g 2g-1OG75 AZ
by am paid Bonds and Int......... G,OG6 Is
Balance on hand 4GOs 6s
GENERAL WARRANT FUND.
From Collectors. ...~......129 43 Os
May or ......... .............. 273 IS
Oh mana ......... ..............SI4 216 %
Ihave not been able TO ascertain the exact
amount OF warrants outstanding. but viii
give you the total Indebtedness of the Civ in
a suppleIne ntary report.
Respectfully submitted,
GUs. ASHER.
to., AZ. City Treasurer
CITY Sections REPORT.
JACKSON, MISS, Jan. 5, 1877
TO che Honorable Board of Mayor and Alder
men: $500
GESTLENES-I beg leave 10 submit the fol-
loving as my report for the month Of Decem- |
Dee. 2-John MehI, aged q: apopr.,v
Man found on railroad, about IS
years Of age. ~
Dec .;, 3E I'M, daughter of Grove Taylor;
Dec; 6 on!aIs;o Grove Taylor, aged "a years;
Dec Mrs; ca. LHou~udr,ei aged os
Respectfully submitted,
fHILIP McGUIRE, City Sexton.
CITY sExroS-(coL)
JACKSON, MISS, Dec. 81. 1873
10 the Honorable Board Of Mayor and AID
oESTLENEN-I herewith submit NV renort
a city sexton faT tae current month Of Deem.
Dec. 2-cbild Of Hettie Williams. ,su.horn
pee 4-George oystep, Group, age eleven
Dec. 6-GeoFse Saith, pneumonia. age ca
yearSs eiiI pc ger. %
Dec. a-Harris We,hers lock jaw p years -
- Dec. 14-Frank Jones, conges.1ve chill.
Is years. live ehlIls, age
Tlao I
dead; city pauper years. round
Dec l4-Child ef Rsau Jones, stiIl-born civ
tropsy city pauper u age
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The little returning Boards have gotten
the country into trouble. and now big
returning board is to get It outrzthis, IN
the pIaiTsest possible words, seems to US
the proposition now pending in Congress.
Journal of Commerce.
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THE Rhode Island Legislature has
determined not to tolerate the intermar-
riage Of whites and blacks in that State
The House of Representatives has de
feated bill to legalize such marriages
hy vote Of 81 to %.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-02-07

OUR present WEEKLY IS largely occa-
MED with important laws enacted at the
late session Of the Legislature, to which
we have given space to the exclusion OF
general reading matter.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-02-07

Gov. McCREERY, of Kentucky, has
recognized Nichols as Governor OF Lou
isiana by issuing requisition upon him
for the return to Kentucky OF Maurice
A. Schwab, arrested in New Orleans Tor
alleged fraud committed IN Louisiana.
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THERE was a great falling off in the
sugar production last year. The decrease
occasioned by the destruction of slave
labor in Louisiana has never yet been up
by other sugar growing counties.
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@. w. WELLS voted with Boutwell,,
Edmunds & Go. in favor Of the electoral
bill in order to ger another chance for
counting in Hayes.
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THE Joint COMMISSION.

Philadelphia Times.

Philadelphia Times.I
Mr.. Field, the great New York law
yer, is what may be called speaker of
the Wendell Phillips and George Will
liam Curtis school, soft and persuasive
in tone and rich and Oriental ia imagery,
but, "they say" who are judges, that he
lacks their Conference of thought in argu-
ment and sharpness Of outline in state
ment. mo more directness of aim than
blunderbuss," is one Of the more I'M
favorable criticisms on his hours
speech. But certain it is his flowers of
rhetoric AMI his smooth, couItly man
ners, which We're the charms Of David
Paul Brown, the great Philadelphia
criminal lawyer, made a very favorable
impression on layman and lawyer alike
who heard him for the first time His
argument and that of his Southern col
league, ex-AttOrney General Tucker, of
Virginia, was another tribute to the far
spreading fame OF the proverbial Phila-
delphia lawyer, for the great strength of
the Florida case, as shown by their argu-
ments, hinges upon the quo aoarraHto pro-
ceedings concoctei, instituted and sent
well on its way by George w Biddle, of
Philadelphia. Fields compliment to
Morton-in commenting upon the absence
of any law allowing a quo a0arra'at0 in
the case of a President--was a finished
tribute to the craftsmanship which in
duced that Senator year agG to
epdeayor ia meet this great issue by pass
ing law which should be free from all
the prejudice which surrounds an actual
case such as this.
FLOWERS OF RHETORIC.
He insisted upon the right of the COM
mission to End out tho truth the
truth which is rolled up and covered and
put away" eff you can inquire into the
truth Of certificate" says he, ''you can
inquire into every fact which leads to
that truth" His second point, that
fraud Yitiates everything, was garnished
with many fine figures, which would
largely furnish the commonplace book of
the phrase collector. Holding up the
Stearns certificate he cried, turning in
dramatic pauses from one side to the
other; Gone OF tne greatest poets of the
palmiest days of English literature has
referred to a day when
Ancient fraud shall pale,
And justice lift again the scale.
Ancient fraud was there ever fraud
like this2" and SO en- to the nicely
rounded peroration which left " self
governing people clothed in sackcloth
and sitting in ashes"
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The Investigation.
Aberdeen Examiner.l

ADefueen EXAmIner.
We think the Legislature has acted
wisely in ordering the publication of the
testimony upon which the impeachment
of Adelbert Ames was based, as it will
thoroughly rebuke the inscleHt insinua-
tions of the President to the effect that
he is a s'refugee" from this State, rather
than a criminal who, for reasons of expe-
diency and policy-vital to our welfare
was suffered to retire 'unwhipped of JUS
tice."
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INC 1ohC VI lHc CdIpeI-DdSgeT; DuI many
of his ''bonds" remain to bedevil them.
The following is a reference to portion
of them:
Mr.. W. Best, the Chairman of
the Committee, states that there is
most intense feeling among the people of
the State against the especial tax bonds
The Legislature has decided to repudiate
these entirely, and there is no nope for the
holders of these bonds. representing in she
aggregate over$l6.000,0OQ. They are known
in the state as the 'Josie Mansfelds" and
katy Dtrlings." When the com mittee Wis
tied the Legislature they were asked at once
If they ''had any Katy Darlings'" about
them. Ii appears that both the ladies
whom the bonds were named after, held
large quantities of them which they obtain
ed in very peculiar manner. This was
made known By the bonds being stolen
from Josie Mansfield at Liverpool. Moth
ing definite was accomplished by the com
mttee, but the Legislature favored the di.
cus,ion of the subject and the arrangement
OF some plan for the next Legislature 10
carry out. They all agreed that II some
system of taxation could DC devised for tile
payment Of tue interest the State would
bensnt by 1t in the matter OF establishing
its credit. Mr. Best will return 10 North
Carolina witha proposition in a week or So
and on his second return will report to the
bondholders.
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zoinr ssatrmest are cue 10 sub-tance md
in fact.
L. B. AosELY,
his
REUBEN X ANDERSON,
mark
JNo. T. Hull,
IF. CHLKs.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 6th
day of February A D. 1877.
w. T. RATLIFF, CLERK
BY A. G. MOORE, D. c.
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Number of persons sent to Jail in default Of
i Vmaut Of noe md a0stG


In all cases where parties have committed
their fines by labor on the streets they have
paid the costs in the same way, which has de-
l'rived myself and the Marshal of a least one
half our legitimate perquisites.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
JOHN MCGILL Mayor
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THE following extract of letter from
a prominent Democratic citizen is in
keeping with the sentiment which has
been privers ally expressedby our cores
pondents:
Permit me to express my unqualified
approval Of the position taken by The
CLARION on the compromise electoral
bill recently passed by Congress and APP
proved by the President.
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THE returning board system, with the
overthrow of carpet-bsg rule IN the
Southern States, dies as dead as Hector.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-02-07

Hon. O. R. Singleton is again at his
post of duty in Washington, having re-
covered from his recent illness. He is
knoWn as one of the hardest workers in
Congress-and as tr4e to his country as
the needle to the pole.-NeEton Rulle-
tin.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-02-07

We are glad to learn, from The Ola
RON, that Representative Hussey, of
Adams county. elected as Republican.
Rss formally given in his adhesion to the
Democratic party .--Aberieen Examiner.
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Fund ian entail Democratic Prin-
ciPle.

Recently Kentucky has elected Mr..
Beck to the United States Senate in
place of Mr.. Stephenson; Alabama, Mr..
Morgan in place of Mr.. Goldthwaite
Tennessee, Messrs Harris and Baily
in the places of Messrs. Cooper and Key
and Georgia, Mr.. Hill in place of Mr..
Norwood. The outgoing and incoming
Senators are all members of the same
political party-all Democrats. No want
of loyalty to their party, was alleged
against any other of them, except the
mistake of Mr.. Key in voting for the
Mississippi investigation; but his Sena>
torial career was an accident. He was
a gubernatorial appointee. The others
were all elected by Democratic constitu-
encies. After a service of six years each
was retired by his State in accordance
with the sound Democratic theory of
rotation in office, which is in fact the
best embodiment of the salutary principle
of preserving the responsibility of the
public agent to the people. A life long
tenure of office in the same person is
destructive of this principle and virtually
defeats the intent and motive of frequent
elections. 1t has in some instances been
violated, but they were signal exceptions,
which marked the rule. Kentucky, Mas
sacl, usetts and South Carolina, conferred
life time Scholarships on their statesmen,
Clay, Webster and Calhoun; but it is
not every centuary, much less generation,
that produces the counterpart of these
ilIustrious men. Missouri found that
becoming reverence for this underlying
principle of popular government, which
has been so emphatically illustrated in
the recent elections in Kentucky, Ala
bama, Tennessee and Georgia, compelled
her to retire her own great statesman
Thomas II. Benton, who, intoxicated
with the honors which his cOnfding con
constituency had lavished upon him,
wandered away after false gods.
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De 21-Cb.ft,e A--,.
Dsc. z'-Aanc9 b oan Tx .iy ruLk..
'AS naa D, 'Aise ysar, 5 n.
49, 80 ohanna Richards. ~
"'sP ciiu'ly submitted
i''ET BAlsp
-''y sss.,
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ONE day last week the greenback dol
lar was worth ninety-cents and third
compared with gold.
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wandered away after false gods.

Ir is stated that the House of Repre-
sentatives of the Forty-fifth Congress
stands to day 149 Democrats to 14O Re
puklicans, despite all the frauds inside
and outside of Returning Boards. Only
2S9 certificates have been issued. The
other four consists of three from New
Hampshire, which elects in March, and
of one from the Fourth District of Cali
fornia, which is hung up in the Supreme
Court of that State. Giving the Repub
licans all four of the unissued certificates,
they will have but IA to the Democrats
149. In no event can the Democratic
majority fall below FIVE.
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CITY COLLECTOR.

JACKSON, Miss. Jan. 3, 1876.
To the H,n0rable Board Of Mayor and Alder
men:
GENTLEMEN-I have the honor to report the
following collections made by me during the
month Of December, 1876, in City Warrants
and U. 5. Currency,