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Shall It Be Seymour and Mcdonald
or Hendricks and PotterP
Washington Post.l


Our candidate next year must he 4 man
to unite every element of the party in Lis
favor in every State in the Union. and
especially in New York Now. we have "a
suggestion to make. What man il there in
the party who could 80 command its I,nori-
nous and enthusiastic support as Horatio
Seymour? What man could so surely sy,c,.,,
the Empire State, be the opposing can didate
whom he might? The two Democratic nom
inees must come from New York and Indi-
ana. Tuesdays election settled that. Gov
hendricks, lndiana's most prominent Daip-
ocratlc statesman, will not again take the
second place. After him Senator Joseph
c Mc11ona!d looms up as the favorite son
oI the ho0sler State. We propose, therefore.
70 make the ticket Seymour and Mcdonald
~ viii doubtless be said that Seymour will
again decline TO run, as he has aIreadl
uecilhed' but he must run! For orr
selves we cherish a firm belief that O.
seymour, with the necessities of the case
properly presented to him, would not ref,rse
10 save his party. And it NAV come I'm a
question of just that. ~ "
seymour and Mcdonald would he invip-
eide. seymour would carry New York
against Grant, Sherman, Blaine. or anv ono
whom the Republicans could mt IN thc
I IS Mcdonald could not be beaten IN
Indiana. The South will come up solidiv
70 the support Of any candidate we NAV
name. inns IS the ticket to win. Let IA
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What the Washington Gossips Say
About It.
THE MISSISSIPPI sENAroRsH1r.

Special dispatch to the New York World J
WAsHNGTON, December 1.-The Legi4-
lature of Mississippi is composed Of about
one hundred and twenty members Of the
House and thirty-seven in the Senate or
these the opposition-either Independents,
Greenbackers or Bepublicans-havet twenty
four in the House and three in the senate
SO the joint caucus for nomination Of Sena-
tor will consist of about one hundred and
twenty-five members. OF these it is believ-
ed Messrs. Barksdale and Singleton, who
are the only two avOwed candidates, will re-
ceive about thirty votes. The remainder
will divided between Messrs WalthaII.
George, Percy, Chalmers and Houston, who,
though not avowed candidates, will Ike sus-
tanned by their friends 1t is difficult to
predict the dark horse. So say intelligent
Mississippians now here.
Senator Lamar is a pronounced friend
and advotate of General Walthall. Senator
Lamar has not yet arrived in this city.
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Hendricks.

There can be no concealment of the
fact that there is a strong sentiment
among the backbone Democracy-the
never say die, sort-in favor of Thomas
4. Hendricks, Of Indiana, for the
Presidency. He is true man, 4 safe
man. A wise man. He always takes
his position firmly. Abides with his
friends. Brings up his State when the
tug of war comes and says the right
thing at the right time. In regard to
the statement which has lately got into
that if he did not obtain the
next year he would throw
the weight of his influence against the
successful man. he spoke characteristic
cally as follows
''That is unjust to me. l shall support
any man whom my party will nominate. /
have no exclusive claim on any nomination.
The people, not aspirants, are the judges in
such matters. ! regard Indiana as Dem
ocratic State, and would be disappointed if
any nominee of the party should fail to
caFry it, At any rate he would receive all
the assistance ! could give him."
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womans' Rights Laws.

A Pennsylvania law, approved April,
1879, establishes the right OF married
women to act as eorporators in certain
cases. This act provides that married
women shall be deemed and held quail
fed in all cases TO act as corporators or
officers of all corporations heretofore or
hereafter created for purposes Of learn
ING. benevolence, charity or religion. >
The act does not admit them to the
direction of railroads, banks, insurance
companies, canal companies, or manu-
featuring corporations. But if they
are entrusted as stockholders, why
should they not? Another act that was
passed the present year provides that in
all hospitals or asylums now built or
hereafter to be built, and under the
control of the State, and in which male
and female insane patients are received
for treatment, the trustees may appoint
a skillful female physician, who shall
reside in such hospital, and who shall
have the medical control Of said female
patients. The skilled female physicians
thus provided for are to be appointed
for terms not exceeding five years, and
the act to take effect as to hospitals OF
asylums already built in one year from
June I, 1879.
Thus grows the idea that woman
should be admitted to all the professions
in which they may choose to embark,
and to all the privileges and NUM-
ments under government which belong
to the male sex. The laws and usages
which condemn them to be mere drudges
or to lives of ignoble ease, which often
times punish the mind as well as the
body, belong to Il bygone age.
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CONGRESSMAN MONEY, Of this State,
being interviewed in Washington the
other day, gave expression with charac-
teristic frankness to these opinions:
''Tilden is unquestionabIy the ablest man
in the Democratic party. He has more
pluck and grit, more courage and power
than any other leader the party has. This
was shown in the way he dealt with the men
who opposed him in his own party. He
is the strongest man the party has, and he
ought to be renominated. Tilden has, in fact.
been shamefully treated. Men talked as if
he ought to have come down here after he
was elected and pried open the White House
with a lever and taken his seat there
Well, what good would he have done ?
What could he have done afterward? Ask
these men, and none of them could tell you.
know that Tilden tried to hold back the
electoral commission bill as long as he could,
for | saw the telegram to Hewitt, but, after
the bill was reported, he said we must all
go for it; there was nothing else to be done.
There is no question that Mr.. Tilden,
who was a private citizen, and could
have had no legal authority to act I'M
til after the electoral votes were count
ed and he was notified of his election,
has been made the scape-goat for
offences of which he was innocent but
the Democracy in the next Presidential
election cannot afford to consider per-
sonal grievances or any other question
but availability and soundness in polit-
zeal principle. In this latter respect,
he is all right. He is everything and
more, than our distinguished Congress
man describes him to be. But is he
available? Can the eighty thousand
Democratic votes that were cast against
Gov. Robinson in the late New York
election, because he was the favorite OF
Mr.. Tilden, be relied upon for Tilden
if he is the nominee? 1t is now a fixed
fact that as New York goes, so goes the
! Union, and whatever else the Democra
cy may do, they can't afford to run the
risk Of losing her vote.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-10

We are glad to see that our brilliant
and estimable journalistic friend, George
2. Herndon, Esq, of the West Point
News, has been appointed Clerk of the
Committee on Territories. 1t will not
interrupt his connection with the News.
Maj. Jonas, of the Aberdeen Examiner,
has resumed his duties as Clerk of the
Senate Committee on the Improvement
of the Mississippi River and its Tributa-
ries.
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Col. Andrews Declines.

YAzoo CITY, Dec. LIST, 1879
Editors Yazoo Sentinel:
DEAR SIRs:-Permit me to return my
thanks for the kind terms in which The
Sentinel has mentioned my name in connec-
ton with the Speakership of the House of
Representatives.. l appreciate highly the
honor which you have done me in bringing
forward my name, but for many reasons,
not necessary to mention, think it proper
not to become candidate for the place, and
take the liberty of so announcing through
your columns. Yours very truly,
GARNETP ANDREWS.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-10

THE school trustees of Hilesgrove. n. r.
have forbidden negro children Is attend the
public school
II this were only in q Southern State.
now or # Pilesgrove were not in the habit
Of going Republican by more than two Il
one, what . delightful text this wo.,ld
make foE stalMart sermon by MI. Beecher
On khe hlessed4ess 81 brotherly hate New.
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Seymour and Hendricks.

From the Independent (Mo.) Democrat
Beyond any doubt Mr.. Horatio Seymour
will be nominated for the Presidency by
the Democracy in 1880, and as surely will
be elected. By common consent Mr.. Hen
bricks will be given, whether he wants it or
not, the second place upon the ticket
Those two names mean success if the party
puts aside all unimportant issues, puts down
all mutineers and demoralizers within its
own ranks.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-10

"DoN'T vote for me, don't want the
office. If l can't go in at the front, 1
will not be showed in at the back door"
was the reply of the veteran patriot,
George Torrey, to the soreheads and
Radicals when they proposed to run
him on the Independent ticket. Oh,
for many more of that kind!
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The Exodna

SPECIAL Telegram to the N o. Times.
DALLAS, December 5, 1879.-A number
of negroes-ffty or more-came down the
Central Railroad to-day, on their return
from Kansas, where they went with the exc
dus of the blacks early this winter.
sasy returned home after meeting the
returning negroes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-10

Mr.. Weaver, q Ureeaabaek Congress
man from Iowa, has introduced BIZ TO
initiate the currency, but all on one side
of the sectional line which mischevious
agitators still persaE ip keeping distinct.
His scheme is to pay all the SURVIVING
Union soldiers and sailors Of the late
war the difference be tween what they got
IN paper and the value ~ gold of what
they rot, and for this purpoee proposes
Is issue Eve hundred millions Of green
hacks. But he does not explain how
al this paper j % be redeemed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-10

DIR. JoHS d. WooDs, formerly of
Kemper county, and now citizen of
GLASGOW, Kentucky, late editor of the
Times of that city, and one of the most
cultured writer's and sparkling wits of
the press, is visiting friends in East
Mississippi.
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THE TIDE RBBs.

INDIANAPoLIs, Dec. 3.-The Sentinel
to-day publishes an interview with Sasarei
Of the colored exodusters who are retnrn;n =.
from Greencastle to the South, expressines
their supreme disgust with the exodns
movement. Some of them walked an the
way from Greencastle to this city. They
SAID their agents, Perry and Williams. had
mlsrepresented the state of affairs here. and
now y every one wants to get back TO North
Sarolina again, where they were much
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-10

THE Yazoo City Herald says: "Col
Garnett Andrews, of this city, declines
to be considered a candidate for the
Speakership of the next House of Rep
resentatives. Col. Andrews would FIJI
gracefully and well that position of
honor"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-10

THE scheme to destroy the greenbacks
by repeating their legal tender fqnc,
ton, stands not ghost of a chance.
The general sentiment in and out of
Congress is that the present volume of
currency is none too large, and that no
object disadvantage to the country could
be attained by destroying this excellent
currency.
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A Bad Appointment.

W dsnlDgLOn IOst.
The idea of putting the judicial ermine
on such an incarnation of partisan malice
and sectional hate as George w. McCrary
has proven himself to be is repulsive to
every person who has any conception of
what Constitutes judicial mind. Mr.. Nc
Crazy is incapable of sinking the partisan
in the Judge.
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Arrest of Hugh Lawson's Murderer

On Tuesday last some Of the local ofBcar.
IN IN Beat No. 2, arrested Nick GreenWo65
Ene murderers of Mr.. H. w. Lawson
cs5 Is q negro convict who had es-
Station As he will doubles met ~; son son
deserts right speedily by the law We ne
gag mat the good citizens of Beat , were
restrained from an act of violence. which
however just, should never be resorteJ -
until all legal measures fAil.-CaDton Citi-
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-10

THE President has sent the following
nominations TO the Senate: Geo. w.
McCrary to be United States District
Judge, Viee Dillon, resigned; VIM. II.
Hayes, of Kentucky, to be United States
District Judge for Kentucky; James
B. Leake, to be Judge FOR the Northern
District of Illinois 3. Guthridge, @ be
Judge Of the Eastern District Of Texas /;
j. w. CarcoR. to be Judge of Idaho
Territory Chas. G. W. French.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-10

Ex-SENAToRs (carpet-bag), Dorsey
and Mcdonald, of Arkansas, and others,
have recently purchased silver mines in
Colorado for $3.50, 600 in cash. 1t is
wonderful what immense fortunes some
of these carpet-bag Senators accumu=
lated upon salaries of few thousand a
wear,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-10

The Yazoo Herald has been greatly
enlarged and is now equal in dimen-
sions to any other paper in the State,
and its Typography and general arrange
ment are faultless. Its splendid paper
in all its departments. Messrs. Nc
Cullum and Walpole, in their line Of
business have no superiOrs.
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Tupelo .JoulrnaI.1

The State press is speaking out in favor
of the passage of dog law by the next
legislature Sheep raising can never be
made profta6ie IS long As the country is
infested with worthless ours Let us thin
ont the cznines and supply their places with
sheep, and the benefits Of the policy viii
soon be apparent.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-10

By hard effort, the Democrats sue
ceeded in abolishing the duty on tea
and coffee, but that excellent Republican
president" $50 to speak, Mr.. Hayes,
thinks tax on these articles Of neces-
sary consumption, quite the proper
thing.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-10

THE Baltimore Gazette gives curren-
cy to a rumor that Grant has been
offered the managing editorship of the
Philadelphia Ledger at salary OF
s25, 700 year. This would certainly
be better than to make him Emperor
or to pension him with fifty thousand
dollars a year by creating the Office OF
Captain-General for which there is no
necessity.
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That's So.
Washington Post.l

VlI'I
,r Inc people do not share the anxietv 81
N1essrs' Hayes and Sherman to hove tIo
gIeennacks destroyed. 1t will take q GOOD ~
, LAZY % convince the general publis 9boa
sas: 4 10 better way Of frnisling aciTcnl
ttAslng medium than paying fifteen Ii tTsT-
" millions year for the privileTe of NM
S s.g government Endorsement "a tbs
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-10

REV. w. L. c. HUNNIcrrr, in COM
munication to the n. O. Christian Adj
voeate, describes in glowing words the
condition and prospects of some of the
well-known Mississippi educational insti-
buttons. He writes.
Port Gibson Collegiate Academy has
more than doubled its former number of
boarders. Indeed, all our higher schools
are prosperous. East Mississippi Female
College, Whitworth College and Port Glib
son Collegiate Academy are an honor to
our Conference and an ornament to the
State, adjoining her bosom like the three
bright stars tl'at glitter in Oriou's girdle.
Health, peace and plenty abound. The sea-
son has been propitious, and the rising
price of cotton lifts the people out of finan-
cial depression. Surprising results may be
looked for by the church.
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Mr.. ]. P. CoLrNla has resigned the
editorship of the Edwards Bulletin,
and his place win be supplied by Hon.
Marye Dabney. Mr.. J. G. Rietti viii
contlnue IN charge of the publishing
department
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For Speaker B. F. Johns.


EDITORS CLARION: In going over the
list of Representatives elect, | find among
them none coming nearer the standard of
capacity and qualification that should CON
troll in the selection of Speaker of the House
than Col. b. F. Johns, of Amite. TO those
who served with him in the Tennessee Army
from Shiloh to the surrender of Johnston in
Carolina-or who have been associated with
him in a legislative capacity during the
time that he has heretofore served in the
House-nothing need be said. OF his
dauntless courage and fidelity in war, and
his earnest, efficient and unselfish service
as legislator, his comrades in arms and
colleagues in the House will gladly bear
witness. From a poor farmer boy, he, by
his own exertions has worked his way up,
and has come to stand second to none at the
bar in South Mississippi. Honest, practi-
cal, earnest and conscientious, he is the
kind of material we need in high places.
As chairman of the Judiciary Committee of
the House in the Legislature of 70 and u,
his services were invaluable, and the "dis-
enfranchised' counties will never forget his
services, while In that position, in securing
their restoration to representation in the
House.
What | have said in his behalf is not in
tended to disparage the claims of other dis
tinguished gentlemen who have been men
toned for the Speakership, but none OF
them, [ am sure, would fill the position
more worthily than Judge Johns.
EX-MEMBER
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THE DAILY CLARION

Will be resumed with the meeting of the
Legislature. 1t will be published every
morning will contain full reports of the
proceedings Of the Legislature, and latest
news from all quarters. We viii endeavor
to put the paper to press in time for the
midnight trains, so that THE DAILY
CLARION may be read at an early hour
every morning at points remote from
Jackson. One dollar per month, or two
dollars for the session
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Mccomb City intelligence. /

Mr. Edgar West, recently Deputy Rev
enue Collector for this, the I'd. Diyisinn
n 3 resigned his Deputyship, and Mr.: /. p
Z q CoPiahs has been appointed n
learn that lis resignation ar1u oi'f ~ w
leal lnhaFmony with the administratidsnU.. '' :
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THERE Will be meeting Of the Mis-
sissippi Valley Cotton Planters Asso-
citation, at Vicksburg on Friday next,
the 18th inst. Chief Justice George
has been invited, and il expected, to
deliver an address on the occasion.
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GEN. CHALMERS,
New Hampshire Union.pemoerat. ]

New Hampshire Unionpemocrat.l
Representative Chalmers Of Mississippi il
mentioned as the probable successor of the
negro, Bruce in the United States Senate.
He is one of the ablest men in Congress and
his election to the Senate. would be d
powerful reinforcement to the Democratic
STRENGTH.
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THE SENATORIAL ELECTION
Tallahatchie Sentinel
GIN. WALTHALL.

I dITaIluICUIV -VINIIIVI'I
GEN. WALTHALL
We place at the head Of our columns, Gen.
e. c. Walthall for the United States Senate;
he stands at the head of our great and good
men in the state of Mississippi; in all the
of life he is and has been "a shin
ing light; he has all the elements of Il great
man; and now is the time our country needs
tho services of her great men, With Lamar
and Walthall in the Senate, Mississippi Will
stand head and front of all the States in the
Union. in the councils of the nation. Gen.
WaIthalPs reputation is too well known To-
need any eulogy at our hands. lie is mo-
Office seeker but if called upon To serve his
country is too good patriot to refuse.
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Coheeville Times.
The following named gentlemen have been
spoken Of in connection with the u. 5. Sem
atorship:
Geni. F. G. Walthall, Gen'l. w. S. Feath-
erston, Gen'l. Jas. r. Chalmers, Governor
Stone, Hon. l.. Il. Houston Mai. r. Banks
dale, Col. Jarnigan, Hon. .. r. Singleton,
Ex-Speaker Percy.
MEssRs. Houston AND JARNAGIN.
st. Louis Republican Dem.
Among other candidates for the United
States Senate to succeed Mr. Bruce in Mis-
sissipPi are named the Hon. Locke +. lIous-
ton of Aberdeen and Hon Hampton L. Jar
nagin of Macon. These gentlemen are East
Tennesseeans by birth, and Of prominent
personal and political connections in both
states.
What the Washington Gossips Say
About It.
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Still IT COINS. On the 4th the
steamer labrador. from Europe. brought
over 81 20, zoe IL gold, and The SueFia,
e476, 900.
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THE EXODUS.
Flowing and Ebbing of the Tide

MORE NORTH CAROLINA NEGROES ON THE
WAY TO INDIANA.
WAsHINGToN. Dec. 1.-Two hundred
ana ana nifty colored emigrants from North
NaroiIha reached this city to-day on their
nlshed with through tickets, and the Ma
tionai Amigrant Aid Society are endeavor.
ing to raise funds to pay for the transror-
tation of the remainder to their destinatEon
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THE President and his cabinet in their
recent message and reports to Congress,
have presented tangible issues for the
coming canvass if any before were
wanted. They have thrown down the
gage fairly in favor of disseminating the
coinage of silver and of the destruction
of the greenback currency. Both mea-
sures are designed to contract the circu-
lating medium for the benefit of the
bondholding classes and to arrest the
upward movement of the country from
the slough of despond, by making money
scarce and times correspondingly hard.
1t is to this policy of ruin and disaster
the Republican party is committed by
the Administration. The party in power
have given the Democracy the oppor-
tunity, and nothing is left for their
representative men, but to seize hold of
it and turn it to good account.
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THE McComb City Entelligencer says
that Mr.. Edgar West has lost his stu
alton as deputy Collector of Internal
Revenue, because the Hayes Admins
tration disliked his Democratic politics 4;
and that Mr.. j. p. Matthews, the
famous Republican organizer and ex-
Sheriff, and leader of the Independents
in Copiah in the late election, has been
put in his place. Matthews was one of
the high contracting parties in the In
dependent movement. He headed the
ticket as their candidate for Sheriff, and
his Radical crowd fulfilled their part
of the agreement faithfully and helped
to elect Mcneil and Buffkin to the
Legislature over the regular Democrat
ic nominees. But Matthews Jared
roughly. The Independents scratched
him badly and he was left out in the cold.
The Administration, however, which
never vet has failed to take care of its
own, has come to his relief. In consid-
Grafton of his services as the head of
the movement which achieved at least
a partial victory over the Democracy of
Copiah, it has given him snug berth
in the Revenue service.
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Senator Conlrlinr'1 TTe~e..7-.

y a.e1oha4 bepublioau.
me young Mr. Roscoe ConkIine Brnos
49, 49, received tfom Senator ConFlinr
handsome giit pi dIlYeTWage