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The Silver Question.

Senator Bayard carried his point.
The Democratic Senatorial caucus ac-
cepted the situation as he demanded.
They preferred to postpone the silver
bill until next December rather than
accept his resignation as Chairman of
the Finance Committee. As it was
purely public question, it should have
been treated accordingly; and his res
ignation ought to have been accepted
No one can censure Mr.. Bayard for
refusing to do what his judgment CON
demned He is in full accord with the
State he represents, but not with the
Democratic majority of the Senate and
is not therefore properly the head Of the
Finance Committee, Approaching the
fact, with characteristic manliness he
rendered his resignation, with the dec
laration that he could not conscientious
~ conform to the will of the majority
who had selected him as their organ.
So the silver question is suppressed for
the present; but the question will come
up again.
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Making up the Issue.

In the House of Representatives Mr..
Springer (Democrat), moved to suspend
the rules and pass the following bill to
prohibit military interference at cleo
tons:
WHEREAS, The presence of troops at the
polls is contrary to the spirit of the institutions
and the traditions of our people, and tends to
destroy the freedom of elections therefore
BE il enacted that it shall not be lawful to
bring employ at any place where a gene
raj or special election is being held in State
any part of the army or navy of the United
States as police force to keep the peace at
the polls.
The motion was lost-yeas 10S, nays
S2-not the necessary two-thirds in the
majority. 1t was a strict party vote,
all Democrats voting aye and Republi-
cans no
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The Mississippi River Commission.

A bill for the creation of a perma-
nent Commission for the improvement
of the Mississippi River has passed by
both Houses of Congress 1t provides
for the appointment of Commission
consisting of seven members, a MAORI
ty of whom shall be army engineers,
and one Of whom shall be an expert
enced river steamboatman, whose duty
it shall be to prosecute and report upon
such steps as shall be needed for the
greater improvement Of navigation ia
cilities on the Mississippi.
Gen. Ferguson of Washington coun-
ty and Gen Martin of Adams, have
both been mentioned rs suitable repre-
sentatives Of Mississippi on the Com
mission, and probably there are others
whose names we have not seen men
toned.
Senator Lamar deserves great credit
for the zeal with which he has supported
this important measure.
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Daniel M. Potter and the District At
torneyship.

As some articles have recently appeared IN
our two papers. THE CLARION and the Comet
III reference to the necessary qualifications OF
an aspirant for the office Of District Attorney,
it Is but proper that word on two should b,
said in this connection, in reference to Cur
talented fellow townsman, Mr.. Daniel vi. Pot
ter.
II is useless to say to those who know Pot
Ter that he i eminently fitted for the office ion
which he is a candidate. They all know this.
but for the benefit OF those who may not have
met him. lei ii be known that he goes before
The coming conventions with the most tiatter-
ing endorsements from men whose experience
and abilities rendered them the most compe-
tent Judges OF such matters. Men whose UNI
doubted and admitted standing in this profess
sion entitle their opinions to the respect OF all.
Such rs Gen. J. Il. George, now Chief Justice,
OF W. l.. Nugent, w. p. Harris, J. 4. Brown
and many other men of like prominence
though out OF the District. What more could
be said of any man. Potter's talents and rep
utaton are recognized and endorsed not only
by the community in which he lives, bat es-
peciaIlv by men whose lives and labors have
rendered them the most competent TO speak in
such matter.
ONE OF THE BAR.
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neath Of the Prince NAPOLEON.

Ioxpoy. June 20-The following addir
tional particulars Of the death OF the Prince Inn
perial: The body OF the Prince. when found,
iay on its back There were eighteen assegal
slabs il it. two OF them piercing the body from
the chest 10 the back, two in the side, and enc
DESTROYING the right eye A locket With hair
medallions and a raliquary were found around
his neck. Ihe lace wore placid expression
He had evidently Intellectually tried to mount
his horse and the leather Of the flap tearing,
he ran along the path 10 where he was found
Two troopers lay near the body, both assegaied.
The Prince was very adventurous
AZ OFFICIAL ACCOUNT.
saws the Prince, with Lieutenant Carev, OF the
Ninetv-eigth Regiment, six men and one friend
IL Znin left the camp at helitzi Mountain
seven miles beyond Blood river, on the lst in.
slant for the reconnaissance. The party halted
and unsaddled when ten miles from camp.
Just as the Prince gave the order 70 remount q
vollev was fired from ambush in the long
grass.-Telegraphie Report.
Around this young man clustered not
only the hopes Of the imperialists in
France, but a mothers ambitions and
dreams. Then came ut last the depar-
ture from England from the Zula war.
1t was the pathetic beginning Of the
pathetic end. His mother sent him to
fight in South Africa to prepare him
for the anticipated coup d etat which he
fondly hoped would restore in his person
the Bonapartists to the throne Of France.
The full name name of the Prince I'm
perial was Eugene Louis Jean Joseph
Napoleon; he the only son Of the
Emperor Napoleon III, and the En-
press Eugene, and was born March Is,
1856. In 1870 he accompanied his
father to the seat Of war, and was pres
ent, on August ,, at the capture of Saar-
bruck, when the Emperor telegraphed
to the Empress at Paris this memora-
BILE dispatch: Louis has just received
his baptism Of fire. He showed admi-
rable GOODNESS, and was not at all affect
ed" He was fourteen years old when
the awakening came. From Sedan to
Chiselhurst was from throne to exile.
At twenty-three he fell victim to his
own and his mothers fond dream OF
His path Of glory led to his
early death.
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COUNTY ORGANIZATIONS.
LAWRENCE.


In pursuance OF call by the Democratic
Executive Committee OF Lawrence county,
notice is hereby fiven that Beat Conventions
will be held at the following places on Satur-
day, August the ID 1879, for the purpose Of
nominating candidates for the different Beat
officers; also to express the choice Of the coun-
ty Tor Senator, and TO elect delegates to the
county convention which is called to meet at
the Court House, in Monticello, on Monday,
August 4th 1879, as follows to-wit:
Beat No, /, at Monticello
: 2, at Beal's Ferry.
g 3, at Cooper's Creek Church.
Z" 4, at Hebron Church
+" ), at Chapel Hill.
And in order to obtain the popular choice of
the people. in the selection OF candidates, il is
hoped. thatiall Democratic and Conservative vo-
tiers OF the county will attend and participate
IN said beat conventions, and thus avoid all
ground Of dissention. BY order OF the Elk
Com. O. \. TEtrNISsoN,
Chairman
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One of the "War Measures. :"

Years ago section $40 of the revised
statutes, requiring the iron-clad test to
be applied to jurors in the federal courts
was repealed, but was fraudulently or
umntentionally retained in the revised
statutes by the compiler. Section 821,
authorizing the court at its discretion
to require jurors to swear that they did
not voluntary bear arms against the
United States, nor give aid to those who
did, has remained in full force and
effect. The Democrats have struggled
in vain to repeal these offensive sec
tons, but the Republicans in both
houses Of Congress, having determined
to re-establish the worst features Grant
ism in the administration of the govern
ment, are opposing their repeal, not
withstanding the New York Times, the
ablest Republican organ in the Union,
frankly admits that ''the abrogation of
the Jurors test oath would be just and
expedient." The language Of the Times
might have been stronger. To leave
them on the statute book would be in'
famous in a government which profes
ses to give an honest and fair trial to
persons accused Of having violated the
laws 1t is projecting bitter ''war
measure" into an era of peace fourteen
years after the close Of the war. The
Republicans are terribly exercised at
the thought that the Democrats may
not in good faith carry out the late
to the Constitution. Here
is a clause of the Constitution as it came
from the hands Of its original trainers
whose hearts were not infamed by the
passions Of a civil war, but were ANNA
ted by determination to deal equally
with every section and class Of people
to establish justice and promote the gen
eral welfare-which is entirely ignored
by the Republican champions Of this
proscriptive test ''Inall criminal pros
ecutions the accused shall enjoy the
right of speedy and impartial trial by
jury of the State or district where the
offense is alleged to have been commit
ted"
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State Executive Committee.

By the unanimous vote of the mem
bers of the State Executive Committee
of the Democratic-C Conservative party
of Mississippi, the vacancies in the
Committee have been filled as follows:
For State at Large, G. d. Stands, of
Tate, in place Of T. w. Harris, re-
signed.
SECOND OSTRICH T. Kimbrough,
of Benton, in place of A. IT. West, re-
signed.
THIRD DIsTRTcT-Robert c. Patty.
of Noxubee, in place of A. G. Ellis,
deceased.
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THE legal tender case, has been
promptly made and passed upon by the
the United States Circuit Court, and
has already gone to the Supreme Court
for trial at the October term. The ac-
ton is brought by Augustus d. JUL
lard, a cotton dealer of New York, to
recover 50, 100 due for cotton sold to
Thomas $. GseenmaR. of Connecticut.
The defendant rendered in payment
certain United States notes which had
been redeemed and again re-issued, but
the plaintiff refused to receive them and
brings suits for the amount, holding
that the notes are not legal tenders.
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RANKIN COUNTY.
RE-oRGASIzATIoN or THE srErN's cpFFK
CLUB.

RE-oRGANIzATIoN or THE sTEEN's CREEK
CLUB.
PURSUANT to q call Of the President, the
Stems Creek Democratic-C Conservative CIuh
met on Saturday the 18th inst. for the plrpo.e
Of re-organizing. The meeting being called ~
order, quite a number OF short speeches were
made by both white and colored men. when
one hundred and fifty names we've enrolled a.
members, and the following officers OF the Club
elected to-wit:
Or. VIM. Allies, President;
" W Williams, Vice President;
W. 4. Lofin Secretary:
J.. ". Ellis, asst, Secretary.
On motion, 4. J. McLaurin. ESQ. Cam. !
l. McCaskill, and G. W Stanley. Esq. were
invited e address the Club on Saturday the Is
inst, at P. NJ.
On motion, the Brandon Republican was re-
4uested to publisht the proceedings Of the meet
ing.
VIM allies, President
W. A. LoFLIN, Secretary.
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THE CANVASS.
Democratic Conservative Conventions, Mass
Meetings, &c.

The CONSERVATIVE Districl
and County Conventions, Mass Meeting'
and Primary Elections will be held a,
follows, viz:
WILKINSON County, Woodville
Tuesday July 1st-
HISDs COUNTY, Raymond, Friday
July 4th.
FRANKLIN County, Meadville, Fri
day July 4th.
YA1oBrsHA COUNTY, Cofeeville,
FRIDAY July 4th.
ArTALA County, Kosciusko, satur-
day July 9TH.
LEAKE COUNTY, Carthage, Monday
July 9TH.
LEFLoEE COUNTY, Greenwood, Mon
day July 9TH.
CLARKE CorSrY, Quitman, Monday
July 9TH
PIKE COUNTY, Primary Election,
Saturday July 18th.
TpPAH CoUSrY, Ripley, Saturday
- hiF I'm
RASKrv County, Brandon, Saturday
July 18th.
MONROE COUNTY, Aberdeen, satur-
day July 18th.
CoPrAH CouNTY, Hazlehurst, Satur-
day July 10Th.
WNsroy County, Louisville, Mon
day, July Dist.
CLAY COUNTY, West Point, Saturday
August 81.
LAWRENCE COUNTY, Monticello, Mon
day, August 4th.
MONTGoMERY County, primary cleo
ton, Monday August 4th.
CARROLL COUNTY, ,Carrolton, Satur-
day August 9th
NoxrnEE County, Macon, Saturday,
August 10th.
OkTIBBEHA COUNTY, StarkvilIc, Tues
day September ID.
23d SENATORIAL DISTRICT, (Tippah
Union and Benton) Ashland, Thursday
September 18th.
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT, Oxford,
Tuesday, July 18th.
Additions will be made to this list rs
rapidly as the information can be OBJ
tanned.
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Now while the excitement over the
Kansas emigration is suspended, the
attention of all concerned is called to
the report from the Boston Herald
printed on our first page. 1t was pre-
pared in Kansas by Northern CORES
pendent of Northern paper who was
required TO furnish, after full investiga-
ton, an impartial narrative of the con-
dition and prospects of negro settlers in
Kansas. The writer of the article has
not been content to relate his own obser-
vations. He lets the immigrants speak
for themselves. A better service could
not be done to the colored people than
to have these facts brought to their
knowledge.
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A STORY or 1s77is told in the New
York World By Gen Stewart L. Wood
ford, United States District Attorney
for New York, through a reporter Of the
World. He says that be was appointed
BY General Grant for the especial pur-
pose of Selling Mr.. Tilden and hurrying
him off TO a Government vessel under a
warrant charging him with high treason,
if the plan of inaugurating the Presi-
dent de jare at the City Hall in New
York had been attempted. Woodford
said that as he had ''smelt gunpowder,
President Grant selected him as the
agent of the Administration for carry
ing this perilous enterprise into execu-
ton. But the Presidential imbroglio
was settled, and General Woodford Wis
tied Mississippi and was amazed to find
that the Southern people were not the
bloody-minded desperadoes he had taken
them TO be. He then became a convert
to the Hayes policy" (whatever that
Isl of dealing with the South, and every
thing was rosy.
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The Late Hon. W. G.. DoWd.

The death Of Hon. w. c. Dowd
State Senator from the Neshoba and
kemper district, is a public calamity.
He had been in i'll health for months,
and though the fatal stroke came at a
moment when he and his family were
not expecting it, he was not unaware of
his critical condition. In a letter to
the writer, dated April the 10th 1879,
referring to the condition Of his health,
and its foreboding, he said: II hope to
recover, but may not. Il am resigned,
my trust is in God. All is we'll" There
is consolation in this comforting assur-
ance, for the affecting dispensation. His
family are in tears, his friends are be
reaved, his country has sustained loss
but the good man, the faithful public
servant, the pure patriot, the sincere
christian, rests from his labors and has
gone to receive his reward-has crossed
over the dark river and Is resting in the
shade of the trees beyond.
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Southern Cotton Mills.

Old England has been in the habit of
carrying raw cotton across the ocean,
manufacturing it and sending it back to
the very region in which il is produced
and selling at profit New England
has been in the habit Of CARRYING the
raw material fifteen hundred miles,
manufacturing it and then competing
with Old England in the Southern mar
kets. But new competitor IS entering
the lists, the South herself Her enter
prises since the war, struggling as they
have done under want Of capital, have
demonstrated that they can succeed over
both. They are not only beginning to
supply her own people with cotton goods,
but are pushing Northward and even
into Europe to compete with the mar
kets of the old world, The goods of
the Mississippi WEssoN Mills are in
demand in New York and Boston, and
they bore off honors at the Paris Exhi-
bition Of 1878. They have shown that
the vantage ground for cotton manufac-
turing is the cotton field. Pluck and
energy are winning the fight for the
South in this great industry, and may
God speed it.
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,ossible in this age and country; and it never
pan he successfully met by the party and con-
gIonerate organizations arising on every manu-
ar the beck and call of any biantant disorgah-
I've are corporation ridden. We are now a.
44b3aren~hlv their slaves as the peasantry q
France we're the slaves Of the great ft .la =
: a-3s IL The middle ages and God grant that u
- ,at rgauire such a revolution as that Of
i1o3 to free tins people. The only hope out
sids ~ this. is in a Constitutional pemoeF"ie
Party lo'l - 72ptnEv-EIT
n unN A q BROWN:
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EVEN the Boston Herald saws that
the scheme of the political agitators to
send fleet of steamers down the Mis-
sissippi river to take colored emigrants
to Kansas would be an action fraught
with injustice to planters and laborers.
Most Of the negroes are now in the
midst Of their years contracts for labor,
either for wages, on shares, or as ten
ants. They have been urged to go to
Kansas by false representations of the
advantages they would enjoy there,
including promises of land and mules
furnished free of cost by the govern
ment, &c, &c. OF course there is no
free land in Kansas, and no living is to
be had there unless the people who en-
JOY it, work for it.
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= AT the recent commencement Of Vanderbilt
University, at Nashville, Tennessee the degree
o. master OF arta was conferred, by the faculty
upon Miss Kate Lupton. because H. tha rbau-
cellor said, she had won IL Ia N MASTERY
manner, having passed most satisfactory ail
the examinations to which the Young men were
subjected. Miss Lupton, whose father IS IS
natlve OF Frederick county Virginia. compile
ted with distinction the entire course for grad
uation in ten schools Miss Tnntou x 10
daughter Of a member OF the facnlt
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A Prominent Greenbacker Reunites
with the Grand Party. Greenback-
ers Very Despondent.
BYRAM Miss. June %. 1879

d. HNM, NIT--., j UHe -, I9IJ-
EDITORS CLARION Our Club met on Satur-
day last and elected NJ T. Morrison and }.
f. Tatum ms delegates to the Convention in
Raymond on the 4th OF July, (uninstructed.)
L. W. Punches, like sensible man that he is,
came up and reunited himself with the Club,
stating that whilst he still believed in some OF
the principles OF the Greenback party, vet he
thought all relief necessary can better be
obtained in the Democratic ranks than any
other Greenbackers are very Respondent in
our town and neighborhood.
Yours, &c, SHANKs
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CUR & ship Tslnnd ROAD

FICAsDuTg DOmmerclaI.
The hands employed on the shin T-.r.
Road have been brought back to tLi-.rF. VT
the road and are working from, thgI .,...r.-
Sraulhg towards the city. Track laying w.i
be commenced as soon as the EoaI E Graded.
The contractors are doing alI in tLrir r.t..-
t - nave the road completed to Big Black IND
prospect OF success.
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WORSE AND WORSE. The last news
from the Kansas emigrantsis that times
are growing harder with them Many
have died from disease brought on BY
hunger and exposure, and now to make
it worse, a grasshopper invasion, which
viii destroy the crops, is threatened.
Still if the colored people think Kansas,
or any other State for that matter, will
suit them better than the South, let
them try it and decide for themselves.
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THE tramp nuisance is not as preva-
lent in the South as in the North, but
it is growing. As an example of the
way, it is dealt with in Ohio, we have
printed in another column, the law that
her Legislature has passed to suppress
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Holly Springs South.

Among the showers OF bouquets which were
nonred in on Mr.. Jefferson Davis from talr
hands at the conclusion of his speech at Fasca-
goula. one larger one struck him null IN the
mie,bt have been attended with injury, stepped
up and inquired if he was hurt. lie answered
that roses like thoughts and words. from the
fair OF Mississippi never hurt.
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THE news from the West Indies,
where the United States ports are in
constant communication, is that the
yellow fever is committing fearful rava-
ges. Several. vessels have landed with
it at New York and there is a great
danger that the disease will spread.
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\ TREE is to be known by its fruit
The opinions of a party are known by its
acts. See how the Democrats Of Ohio
stand on the money question, as shown
forth by the record of Gen. Ewing, their
nominee for Governor The first session
of the Forty-ffth session of Congress was
convened by special proclamation of the
President, Oct ID, 1877. On the 10Th,
Mr. Ewing introduced a bill to author
ize the free coinage of the silver
dollar and to restore its legal-tender
character, which was referred to the
Committee on Banking and Currency.
On the same day he introduced bill to
repeal the Resumption Act, which
was beggaring labor and drying up the
channels of trade and industry. Mr.
Ewing, during his entire Congressional
career, has been in the van of the fight
for the rights of the laboring masses
against the special privileges Of the
monied cos. hinations.
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LIZ Is announced that the Greenback-
eEs will hold State Convention in this
city for organizing, on the 23d prox., and
that Gen. West and Col I. w. Harris.
will be present.
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The ohio Demooratn

The Democratic party in Ohio has always
been in favor of greenbasks a. onnosed II Ia1E
notes and they are all united on the silver
issue. And the money question will ] think
1e the chief issue of the campaign. OF course
the subject Of military interference at the pole
y strong element, Tom Ewing, Democratic
Candidate for Governor.
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Sauce For Both.


n Y. World.
II it is not proper Tor Congress to try 70 force
Mr. Hayes into signing an Appropriation BIZ
he does not like, what propriety can there be
in Mr. Hayes attempting to force Congress
to pass an appropriation bill which Congress
does MOI like3 Call one a goose and the other
a gan5ler ii YOU like-but why not one sauce
for both
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KENTUCKY, California, Maine, Ohio,
Maryland, Massachusetts,, Minnesota,
Mississippi, New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin
hold State elections this summer and
fall, by which the result of 1880 will be
forecast.
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Death of an old Citizen of Holmes
County.
Lexington Advertiser.l

Lexington AdvertlserI
w ,yr;o,-ad IN chronicle the death OF Mr.
r,bn NorEow an old man and highly respected
citizen. who breathed his last at his home m
Richland last Sunday night, after protected
sickness. How long Mr.. NJ. lived at Richland
We know not, but We do know that as Tar back
As 1917 he was there.
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DR.. WmT JOHNSTON, the efficient
executive officer of the State Board of
Health, Is on the look out for the first
indications of the yellow fever scourge.
1t will not find him slumbering at his
post. Ifthe authorities of the State, of
counties and of municipalities win do
their duty. IS lie viii do his, the dread
full destroyer win not be permitted TO
enter the limits Of Mississippi.