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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03
The Caucus System.

With the exception of some few
counties in which the County Executive
Committees did not think it advisable
to make nominations and left the race
to be run by the candidates upon THEN
own merits, the Democratic members
of the Legislature owe their election to
nominations which were made as a pre-
liminary and essential condition of their
becoming candidates. Upon the mem
bers embraced in this category grave
responsibilities, affecting the welfare and
permanency of the Democratic party in
the State, will devolve. The chief
peril of the party is its tendency to
disintegration, which must be arrested
by decided measures. We are on the
eve of the Presidential election, and
Mississippi must be kept in line with
the other Democratic States. Her vote
in the Electoral College is admitted to
be necessary to the election of the
Democratic Presidential ticket; and this
result can be secured only by rigid
enforcement of the rules necessary to a
pefect organization. The Democratic
Legislature will doubtless recognize the
necessity of setting good example by
adhering to them strictly. We trust
we will be allowed to say that every
officer from the highest to the lowest,
who the two houses separately or jointly
will be required to select, ought first to
receive a nomination from a caucus of
the members regularly nominated, unless
they represent counties in which no
nominations were made at all. Men
who ran as Independents against the
regular nominees, or Greenbackers
claiming to belong to defeated organ
ization, will have no right to participate
in Democratic caucus. To admit them,
would be to put a premium upon dis
If they choose to act
with the Democratic party in future,
they can bring forth fruits meet for
repentance by supporting the candidates
after they have been nominated by the
caucus.
The caucus is an indispensable usage
of the Democratic party, It is essential
to concert of action without which
impossible. The Democratic
are the custodians of its or
ganization- All depends upon their
precePt and example; and We may add
that he who sets at defiance the decision
Of his party in caucus, is more dan
yerous enemy than if he had openly
denounced its principles.
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TEE YAzoo FLrCTToN.
Its Significance and the Meaning of
the Democratic Victory in Missis-
sippi.
JAcKsoN. Noyember 2Oth.. Isl!

JACKSON, November goth, 1879.
MEssRs. A. G. NoRRELL AND J. B. TAYLOR,
COMMITTEE,
GENTLEMEN: have just received your
letter of the 18th inst, inviting me to par
ticipate in the festivities of Democratic
barbecue at Ogden, Yazoo county, on the
22d inst. The short time intervening be-
tween this date and the day of the celebra-
ton, will prevent me from being with you
on that occasion. 1t would afford me more
pleasure than / can express to mingle con-
CALCULATIONS in person with the people OF
Yazoo upon the victory they have won, the
substantial fruits of which will be the
maintenance of their local administration
in the hands of the party pledged to protect
the public peace, preserve order, and execute
They have done nobly. They have vindi-
Gated the freedom of elections, and, at the
same time, have refuted the calumnies of
their enemies, whose poisoned shafts have re-
coiled harmless from the lmpenetrable armor
of truth and justice in which their cause is
panoplied. Knowing it to to be just have
never doubted the result of their struggle To
establish the ascendency of the party
of law and order; and that in the end their
be put to ignominous shame. No assur-
ance is needed that they who have won
this great victory, through the peaceful
agency of the ballot-box, will use it wisely
and well in the administration of the affairs
of the county.
There are other causes of congratulation
1t is now manifest that the people of Mis-
sissippi are resolved that the party which
rescued her from profigate expenditure,
misrule and anarchy and has faithfully re-
deemed its pledges, shall be continued in
power; and that the State herself shall be
kept in inc with the other Democratic
States of the Union for the Presiden-
tial election in 1880 which will decide
whether the fraternal relations of the
sections lately at war shall be restored upon
the basis of justice and the co-equality of
all the States of the Union or whether the
agitation which has wasted the resources
and stirred the passions of the country,
shall be prolonged. Upon these issues of
transcendant magnitude, Yazoo has spoken
with no uncertain voice and she has come
from the furnace of persecution and SANDER
unscathed. With congratulations and good
wishes, beg to subscribe myself,
Your obedient servant and friend,
f. BARKsDALE
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

A LETTER is published in another
column from the Washington Capital
dated Mississippi November 10th,
and introduced as coming from ian EN-
inent man who is given to saying what
he thinks, and thinking to a purpose
that influences thousands" The author,
in view of the recent elections gives up
the Presidential election in advance,
Internationally surrenders and de-
elares for strong man" an Empire
centralized at Washington, ''for the re-
election of Grant as long as he lives,
and his son Fred after his DEATH"
Who this despairing eminent man"
is We have no means Of knowing but
we can say to the Washington Capital,
and all others concerned, that they are
filling their bellies with the East wind
of vain delusion in supposing that he
can "infuence thousands" in that di-
rection. Mississippi at least, is solid
against Grant an an Imperial despotism,
and has no idea of striking the colors
Of the party which is struggling to
maintain government of the people,
for the people. The letter would have
been appropriately, dated L. A. Guna-
tic Asylum.
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OFFICIAL BONDS.

The Act Of 1876 provides that the
q freehold estate of sureties on official
bonds must be situated in the county
where surety resides. The Act OF 1873
amended this, so that the real estate
may he situated in any county in the
State of Mississippi schedule of
which to be fled with the officer
approving the bond. A special Act,
approved Feb. %, 1878, excepted from
this amendment the counties of Jefferson,
Tunica, Noxubee, Claiborne, Grenada,
Wilkinson, Holmes, Rankin, Yazoo.
SusGOwer and Pamela. As to these
counties, the Act of 1876 is still in force.
Jnasmuch as persons recently elected to
Office are now arranging their bonds, we
have thought it best to call attention to
the laws relating to the justification by
sureties.
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The Legislature wise suggestions
Col. Williams in Grenada sentinel.l

Col. Williams in Grenada Sentinel
1t has been very timely suggested by
some of our brethren of the press, that the
session of the next Legislature need not be
be long, and we are in full accord with this
opinion. The adoption of the new code will
be the arduous and responsible labor of the
body, and by imposing that duty to COM
mittee of discreet and learned men, who
will go to work at once and actively, much
unnecessary cavilling and much valuable
time may be saved If 1t is to be adopted
section by section by tie whole body and
every slight difference of opinion be follow
ed by speech, then will adjournment cine
die glimmer in the distant future. We are
not wise enough to say what should be
done, which must and will be done, but we
are for expedition consistent with safety all
the time and in all things. We hope that
there are enough real business men in the
assemly to take hold of things at once, and
go through the business with neither pre-
equitable haste nor unnecessary delay.
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"Sober and Sensible. .

St. Louis Republican, (Dem)
The Jackson CLARION insists upon q
repeal of the election laws, but not at the
expense of the appropriation bills The
government must be provided for in the
usual way, and all other legislation passed
upon its own independent merits. If the
measures looking to a check upon unwar-
ranted federal power are vetoed by the
President, then "let an appeal be made to
the intelligence and love of liberty of the
people" These are sober and sensible
suggestions, coming from section that is
charged with ultra fre-eating propensities,
and may be taken as fairly representative
Of Southern sentiment.
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The Exodus Agitators at Work.

can Exodus Society,"" which has its
headquarters at Washington, is making
preparations for renewal of the exodus
of Southern colored people, An appeal
to the people of the North has been
issued. This appeal is of a partisan
character, retailing the worn out SANDERS
against the white people of the South
1t is stated the society is devOting its
attention to the matter of organizing the
Westward movement and giving it
proper and intelligent direction. The
information is conveyed that 1t will
require ''ready money in considerable
quantity" to carry out the objects of the
society, and this the people of the North
are notified that they are expected to
provide. 1t is stated that a National
Advisory Committee has been formed,
with Senator Window as chairman, and
composed of leading citizens Of the
various States and Territories. Of
course this whole movement is founded
on falsehOod, and is partisan and malig-
nant in its inception and objects. There
is no rational way of meeting it on the
part of the Southern whites but to
persist in doing right, and let events take
care of themselves.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

UNDER the present law no ship built
in foreign country though owned by
citizens of the United States, can regis.
ter as an American vessel and carry the
flag of their country. The consequence is
that foreign ship owners realize profit
of $50, 900, 900 on the American carry
ing trade, all for the purpose of contin-
uing monopoly to few American
ship builders. The law ought to be
repealed, and the Democratic prop
osition adopted of free trade in ships,
that is allowing citizens of the United
States to buy ships were they can get
them cheapest and register them as
American vessels.
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We are advised that in eonsoauenc

We are advised that in consequence
of the loss or theft, of one of the boxes
into which the ballots had been deposi.
ted in Holmes county, and probably
some Irregularities in the election, the
Board of Registrars, have declined to
issue certificates to any of the candi-
dates. 1t will be for the House of
Representatives to examine the returns,
and to decide who are entitled to seats
from the county in that body. Col.
Hamilton will take his seat in the Sem
ate without contest.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

THE Legislature of Louisiana at it,
last session, passed stringent laws tc
prevent cruelty to animals and we are
glad to note that they are being enforced
with rigor. Will not our Legislature
take the subject in hand and follow the
example ia the interest of humanity as
well as Of property? The poor brutes
cannot speak for and protect themselves.
The law backed by wholesome public
sentiment, must protect them.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03
Hon. Thomas A. Melville.
Edwards Bulletin1

Thos. A. Melville, of Jackson, Miss
the recently elected nominee of the Demo
cratic party to the Legislature from this
county, is a son of the late lamented
Governor T. A. Melville, of this State.
Capt. Melville. although young man, is
most distinguished lawyer, an accom-
plished political student, and a man whose
large and conservative views upon every
topic touching the interests of the people
at home, will, in the next Legislature,
make him of invaluable service to the citi-
zens, not alone of his own county, but of
the State at large. He is also gentleman
of exalted character, possessing a large
amount of general culture and scholarship.
We congratulate the people of Kinds on his
election.
This tribute to our talented and
worthy young Representative from this
city is highly appreciated by his numer-
Gus friends who predict for him an honor
able and useful legislative career.-EDs.
OLARIoN.)
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

WE had the pleasure of call few
days ago from Hon. +. A. Montgomery,
the able Representative elect from Boil
var county. Col. Montgomery was the
leader Of the Democratic forces in Bolivar
county in the struggle Of 1875, as
Chairman of the County Executive
Committee, when the State was re-
deemed from carpet-baggery. He is
strongly in favor of Constitutional
Convention. 1t is evident that the
question will enlist large share of the
attention Of the Legislature until it is
settled.
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IN response to query by the New
York Times why Mr.. Blaine or Mr.. Conk.
ling should not be at liberty to 90 to Mis-
sissippi and expound Northern ideas on the
stump, the Jackson CLARION answers that
there is no reason, and that they can come
with perfect safety. 1t adds:
We will pledge Mr.. Conkling against any
offence whatever. He will not even be in
terrogated about little Sprague and his
shotgun policy in Rhode Island; nor sub
jected to any indignity that ga good man
would deserve, nor brave man sub
nit to-"
This is sharp and to the point, but what
We are curious about is the reason the
Times suggested Blaine and Conkling es-
pecially for this particular business
Knowing what it thinks of them, we are
almost led to think it really believes there
would be some danger to their lives-Wil-
mington (Del) Every Evening.
We can no more fathom the motives
of the Times in designating Messrs.
Blaine and Conkling, than our Will
mington friend But the reader of the
Old Testament who remembers why
David put Uriah in the forefront of the
battle, might understand why Ex-Sena-
tor Sprague would be party to the
plot as far as Conkling is concerned.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

CONGRESS met on Monday. The
Mississippi members were all at their
posts The Democrats will begin the
session with majority of eight in the
Senate and seven in the Houser A
small compact majority is better than
large, undisciplined majority without
organization, fixed aims and concurrent
views
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

IN the examination of witnesses in
the Kellogg-Spoford case, a United
States Supervisor testified shat the votes
of parishes where the election was in
all respects legally conducted, and
against which not even a protest was
made, were thrown out unceremoniously
in order to manufacture Legislature
favorable to Kellogg and to rob ths
Democratic party G. Inc electoral vote
to which 1t was fairly entitled.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

REPRESENTATIVE MANNING, speaking
of the alleged Democratic movement in
the South for Grant, puts fright. He
says that, nobody but politicians who
have some end to gain by it would make
such crazy assertions, and no sane man
ought to pay any attention to talk of
that kind"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03
Natchez, Jackson and Colum bus
Railroad.

Gen. Martin, the President of this
road, has notice to contractors, in this
issue, that looks like business. Proposals
are invited for clearing, earthwork and
grading from jackson to the Kinds
county line, and also from the Kinds
county line to the present terminus at
Martin. 1t looks now as if the road
will be completed to jackson within
the coming year. And then-on to
Columbus
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03
THE SITUATION AS SEEN BY A DEMoCRATt
EX-CONGREsSMAN

THE SITUATION AS SEEN BY A DEMOCRATIC
EX-CoEGREssMAE.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
has interviewed Hon. John G.. Schumaker.
member of the Forty-frst Forty-second.
forty-third and Forty-fouFth Congresses
from Brooklyn, who has lust returned from,
extended tour of the Southern states
which occupied several months. He found
the solid South unanimous and enthusiastic
for Grant
.'The people of the South" said Mr.
Schumaker, care getting crazy about Grant
It's Grant Grant! Grant everywhere p
eve would like to know what sort of
company he kept when he was in the
South
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

STEWART L. WooDFoRD, District
Attorney for New York, has gone to
Louisiana so inform himselfthorougblv
as to the political methods in vogue
among Southern politicians. There is
hope that he will learn something after
awhile.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

The death of Mr.. Andrew PATHS on
brother of Col. Pattison, of Claiborne
county, is announced He was a man
of enlarged ideas and superior business
capabilities. lie represented Tallahatchie
county, where he lived and died, in the
Convention of 1860, and It is said that
he preserved as relic the gold pen
with which he signed his name to the
Ordinance Of Secession, a4d having
acted from pure motives, he never 10
the day of his death offered sspenitentiaI
pleas" for what be had done.
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Ar fastest dates the net receipts O

Ar fastest dates the net receipts Of
cotton at New Orleans to date, foot up
539, 476 bales, against 254, 0O4 bales for
the same time last year. The increase
in the receipts at all the ports is A.
918 bales nevertheless the market has
kept up, and prices are rennmeFative,
and the prospect encouraging.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

DURING the examination last week by
the Senate Committee in New Orlean.
Of witnesses in the Kellogg-Spofford
case, witness, ga ex-federal soldier,
testified that he saw Kellogg pay $500
each TO witnesses for Spoford to &c
back on their testimony and swear that
their previous statements were false.
Mighty interesting reading.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

Two other editors were honored by
the peoples confidence, in the last cleo
ton. Messrs. Williams, Of the Grena-
da Sentinel, and MCGEE, of the Enter
prise Courier, were elected to the Lower
House of the Legislature.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

TINS is the way the Washington Re
publican, the capitoline organ of the
stalwarts, heats the new converts to
Grantism
No sane man will deny for an instant
that the majority of those Southern Bour-
bon politicians who are now engaged in a
wild acclaim for the nomination of General
Grant are hypocrites of the basest sort
spoilhunters and unprincipled Gushers.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

HoS. a. FL. STEPHENS has published
card denying that be has interviewed
by the Washington Star, but ", we do not
understand him as denying the weak
ness for Grant attributed to him.
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No Excuse for wild Cat Currency.
The report of Mr. Burchard, Super
intendent of MINIS, is full of interest.
Among other items IS the following:

Among other items is the following
The total amount of gold coin in the
country on the Both of June last is estima-
ted at $3.50, 470, 692, and of silver S1l2,050,-
$50, the gain in the past six years being
$l5l, 400, SOS in gold and $l07, 050,9S5 in
silver. Since the close of the last fiscal
year and up to November ! the imports of
coin and bullion and the domestic coinage
have increased these amounts to $500, 80
1877 in gold and 1921, 456, 355 in silver, a
/ total of 1927, FOG, $50, or about 50 per capita
OF coin. Ii Is estimated, should the flow of
gold continue from foreign countries, the
metallic circulation of the country at the
end of the present fiscal year will have
swollen to over $600,o0l, 600.
Add to this six hundred millions OF
coin, the 500. 900, 900 in round num-
bers of legal tenders, (greenbacks) and
national bank notes and we will have
a currency amounting to 81 800, 600, 900
from twenty-five TO twenty-seven dol
lars per capita, which is more than
double the circulating medium at the
commencement of the war These
figures viii put an effectual quietus
to the clamor for fiat money, better
known as wild cat money, of which the
country has had so many sad experiences.
The Exodus agitators are not con-
filming their observations to the North
ern States. They have sent mission
aries abroad to impose on the credulity
of the people of England and extort
money for the bloody shirt campaign,
under humane pretences. Here are
the sort of atroeious lies they are manu-
featuring out of whole cloth;
n Y. Tribune.
The Exodus of the negroes from the
Southern States to Kansas is attributed by
n correspondent of the leading English
Journal to the unheard-of cruelties and OPP
pressions to which they are subjected by
the planters. An instance of the atrocities
is cited. A respectable colored man
went to Kansas at the beginning of the
exodus, worked diligently, saved money
enough to buy little building plot, built
Il hut, went back to Mississippi for his wife
and family, and was seized, dragged from
the house, and both his hands 1cere clH on,
tie acas then told, Nth fearful oaths, to go to
Kansas nor and ac0rk for your frmjly and
make fortune !p' The poor manned man
I has returned with his wife and little ones.
Another instance is even more heartrend-
ing. A young man who, after working
hard in Kansas for some months laid bv
/ $500, went back to marry and fetch his
bride. The very night after his marriage
he was dragged from the house, both hands
aoere cut of ADORE the elbo,cs, and he aCas left
/ to bleed to DEATH
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

GES. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, of the
Confederate service, is now the reputed
inventor Of the proposition to create
theoffiee Of Captain EenasaI, and confer
if upon General Grant tor life.
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Congress.
National Republican. ]

The coming session of CONGRESS wifi FAST
until the nominating Conventions of both
parties shail nave lnet and placed their re-
contest next year And it Is equally Ger
tam mat the proceedings and policies de-
VeloPed - that body during the coming
wlpteE viii exert a paramount influence
upon those nominations. These acknowI-
edged facts add more than ordinary interest
70 the session and promise TO give it un-
usual Importance in the public estimation.
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LEGISLATURES OF Is9o

Democrats in Roman. oppo.
ition in Italic.
Geeenbaekers +; Republicans IndepeB5.
ents ..
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

Gf.N. WeonFoRD, of New York, the
same who came down to supervise the
Chisolm trials making Republican
speeches in Louisiana; and yet the
stalwarts complain that there is no
freedom Of speech on the Republican
side in the South.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

CONGRESSMAN FRYE, of Maine, a
member of the Republican National
Committee, now at Washington, in re-
ply to an inquiry, said he thought that
the Next National Convention would be
held ia Chicago, and that if Grant is
not nominated Blaine probably win be.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

A CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati
Gazette has been hunting in the South
for sensational items to swell the bloody
shirt clamor at the North, but is never
theless compelled to say
Gust now is the most peaceful and pros
porous time the blacks of the Mississippi
country have enjoyed since the war; more
especially on the Louisiana side, and most
of all in the upper parishes Car
roll and Morehouse. The situation is much
brighter than Mr.. Huntington pictured it
in my former letter. Almost every black
man on that side who staid at home has
cotton enough to pay all his debts and have
good deal of money left"