The weekly clarion., 1879-10-01

speed Here YOU can see cotton growing
in all its perfection aud abundance. Inc
deep, black soil indicates its fertility IN
summer the roads are excellent, but IN
winter are quite impossible indeed the
people and the stock are quarantined Tor
the wet season Mr.. Barkley has large
planting interest-his lands being mostly
rented to industrious, thrifty, aud Well
contented laborers. He directs their oper-
ations, provides for them, and advises them
in all matters, temporal and spiritual be-
tween these duties, and preaching to church,
es in the surrounding country, and marry
ing the young people, the time of this good
man is fully occupied. He has recently
received a flattering invitation 10 visit
Philadelphia, with a view II supplying one
of the vacant churches in that city, bun 1t
is hoped that he will not be able to see the
way clear to leave Mississippi. We cannot
we'll spare such men, and the great Quaker
City should not thus covet our best materi-
al Mr. Barkley and his good lady accom-
panied me to the station this morning, and
bid them goodbye with grateful emotions
to the kind Providence that placed me for
a night under their hospitable roof
Arrived at Corinth at one O'Clock, and
learned that there would be no train west
ward on the Memphis and Charleston rail-
road before seven o'clock tomorrow morn
ing. The town looked dull, and time
seemed likely to be heavy on my hands;
but after 4 good dinner and rest, | walked
around a square, hoping to meet some IA
miliar face, and had the pleasure of meet
ing Col F. E. Whitfield, DR.. r. NJ. Young,
Maj. r. v Mansion, and others we'll known
in the fraternities that annually assemble
at the Capital They seemed to think that
| was out of my beat, and demanded expla-
nations of my wandering 50 far from home.
| assured them there was no yellow fever
in Jackson, and that | had Il clean bill OF
health from the constituted authorities.
Among others that L had the pleasure OF
meeting was Maj j. L. Wofford, an old
comrade of the First Mississippi Light Ar
tillery, whose pluck and gallantry in the
times that tried mems souls, I endeavored
in our Bolton Re Union, to commemorate
| in verse, thusly:
| ''There was Wofford, brave as Cesar, who in
fighting ne'er would yield,
| And who won his rank OF Major by his conduct
the teld
In politics not SO steady, as a soldier none more
We forgive his later fobles, because of him we
better knew"
| The Major lives two miles from town,
and thither we were soon conveyed, and
| there spent a most delightful evening, dis
Il, i Il,
Mrs Wofford, who is most entertaining,
| highly cultivated christian lady, is a sister
of George Torrey, of Jefferson, and of Mrs
DIR. Harrington, Jackson. The Majors
surroundings indicate prosperity. He has
quite large farm, with good crops, and is
| devoting some attention to stock raising
He is the postmaster of Corinth, and has
! applied the salary of the office, for the two
| or three years that he has held it, to the
payment of his farm, which is now unn-
numbered. The Major published a Re
publican paper at Corinth for nine years
but like most men who engage IN that bust
| ness, he found it more pleasant than profit
| able. He is still Republican, of course
but his devotion to the cause of the South
in her struggle for independence, his per
sonal integrity, and his many good quail
ties of head and heart have retained fol
| him the undiminished confidence of his
friends who regret his political indiscretions
Like Judge Alcorn, he has no use for the
Democracy, and he has less fer the side
| issues of the Mississippi Greenbackers and
Independents.
A young man named Bradley suicided
here this evening by taking morphine-the
| end of dissipation. What a lesson But
| how many such are taught, and how few
are needed.
My next from Ripley.
| Yours, LOGAN.