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To Corr~suondents.


1t is thought that bill to legalze divorces
win soon be passed by the French chamber of
deputies Whether divorce has been permitted
Or refused Ia that country has depended upon
the form Of government at the time when
separation was desired. Under the republics
divorces have been legalized; under the mon
archical governments the clerical party has
caused them to be forbidden, marriage being
viewed as sacrament, not as contract, and
as indissoluble. The popular French view OF
matrimopy as matter OF business would seem
to incline them to the adoption of a law which
offers some remedy for the matrimonial infelici-
ties that result from the way in which their
marriages are made. As far as offences
against the civil law are concerned. the
granting Of divorce under certain limiting
conditions to such mis-mated couples has
q tendency to lessen crime. To one
looking at the matter from the Roman
Catholic standpoint there can be, of course, no
perceptible advantage. In fixing the conditions
upon which divorce Is to be granted, France
should profit by the warning which is furnished
by the evil results Of the facility with which
legal separation with permission to marry
again Is obtained in the United States. The
divorce system In this country is an abomina-
ton. The ease with which divorces are OBJ
tained on small grounds or no grounds at all
tends to make the people nation Of free-lovers.
1t Is not only in the West that divorces are hor-
rfbly prevalent The evil is found In the strong
holds Of PuritanfSm. In Massachusetts, there Is
considerable yearly increase In the num-
Der OF divorces, and the number of
marriages shows an annual falling-off In
spite Of the growth In population. In
Connecticut the ratio Of divorces to marriages
Is about one to eight. They are half az many
In Vermont, while Rhode Island shows ratio
OF one to thirteen. New York could doubtless
furnish some interesting statistics on this SUBJ
5ect, since 1t has been shown to be possible for
an unmarried man to obtain In that city q d.
vorce from an imaginary wife. There Is con-
troversy over the marriage laws In Italy as well
as In France. The government must determine
what constitutes legal marriage since the de-
cision OF questions of Inheritance and others
dependent upon legality of marriage fall within
Its province. In the exercise of its prerogative
1t has made civil marriages compulsory, and
has forbidden the religious ceremony as Illegal
unless preceded by the civil union. 1t Is natural
and reasonable that Roman Catholics of italy
should feel aggrieved by this legislation.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03
An Income Tax.

One Of the means for relieving the
masses of the people from the effects of
discriminating legislation in the inter
est of the money power, would be the
imposition of tax on incomes above
a specified sum, say twenty-five hundred
or three thousand dollars. 1t would
reach Northern capitalists who have in
vested their means in securities which
are exempt from taxation, and compel
them to bear part Of the burdens of the
government. They bought United
States Bonds during the war at forty
cents on the dollar in greenback paper
currency, and have, through syndicate
manipulation, made the debt of thous-
ands of millions payable in coin, besides
exempting the bonds from any taxation
whatever. While loading down the
people of the country through a most
oppressive prohibitory tariff, taxing
everything they use in a manner that
would produce a revolution in the coun-
tries of Europe, the bloated beneficiaries
of the late war think it an outrage to
be compelled to bear any proportionate
part of the expenses incurred. 1t is,
however, a recognized rule of political
economy to throw the weight of taxation
on those best able to bear ton the
of life rather than the ne
cessities-on the rich rather than on
the poor. Every man according to his
means and the protection afforded to his
property and its value in producing in
come.
When Congress meets, the people
will expect their Senators and Repre-
sentatives to take this proposed meas
ure in hand and continue the agitation
until it is adopted.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03
Solicitor Rayner's Mite.

1t is known that certain Mississippi
river steamboats,, in their desire to ac-
commodate the Kansas emigrants with
transportation, took more on board than
the United States laws allowed them.
and thus incurred heavy penalties.
Solicitor Kenneth Rayner has volun-
teered to write a labored argument in
favor of the remission of these forfeit
ures; and then, by way of making
favor with the powers that be, has
added the following mite to the bloody
shirt tale which is so often repeated for
the purpose of eliminating the very
people among whom Solicitor Rayner
has always lived:
"There is another view to be taken of this
question, and from higher plane than that
of mere appeal to human sympathy for the
suffering of others. These negroes are citizens
of the United States; whether made such
rightfully or wrongfully, the fact is they are
such to all intents and purposes As such
they are entitled to all the rights, privileges
and immunities of any other citizen in any
section OF the country, or any condition of So
ciety. They are shielded bv all the guaran-
tees and stipulations of the Constitution and
the laws, and in all the rights of American
citizens. If this be so--and | don't see how it
can be cOntroverted-are they not as much en-
titled to go where they please and when they
please as much so as any other citizen of the
United States?"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03
Letter from Simpson.
MELVILLE. M1ss Az. %

"EsrVILLE, Miss, August %. 1879.
EDITORS CLARION Everything is AS ouiet
IN our county, since our primary election. as
IAN pe. mere IL always calm after a storm
think we have as strong a ticket az ever was
put In the held, and by the powers that made
US, We tatend TO elect it. We have only ONE
independent in our county, the Hon. m Geo
Washington FarlOw, who thinks that he can
beat BILLY" Drummonds for Circuit and
Chancery Clerk. 1t is certainly presumptions
IN him to offer himself in this county for anv
once: Why, the negroes will not suppoTt
hlm Ior the simple reason, they say, it is use
iess, and they are disposed to support a man.
who, they believe, is the strongest.
l don't think that we will have anv onposi-
ton to our ticket that win amount to anv-
thing
Farlow always runs for something. but has
never been able 70 get anything yet 1t seems
to be chronic with him. You know Messrs
Editors, enough about the political situation iu
old Simpson that whenever a man aunouncas
himself as candidate on the independent
ticket, that he has dug his political grave
dont think however that Farlow anticipates
being elected he Is looking forward 10 some
thlng-aA appointment of some kind. for IL he
ever gets an office in this county il will he
oy apPointnent. He is the last remnant of the
de1unct Radical party. He now elaine N he
an Independent thinking perhaps. that he
might hnd some Democrats, who are 40 dissat-
lshed with the result of the primary election
that will vote for an IndeDende1t NOT ~
Our people are going to stand firm and elect
'AAelR ticket Dy an overwhelming majority.
STRrpgoN
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03
Fraudulent or NotP

/ An extract from a recent address by
Mr.. Knox, Comptroller Of. the Currency,
is going it's rounds, to the effect that sill
yer was demonetized in 1873 not surrep-
titiously, but deliberately and after due
notice the country. In his speech pend
ing the late elections in Kentucky, Sen,
ator Beck effectually disposes of this
statement. He says that the act "re-
vising and amending the laws relative
to the minis, assay Offices and coinage
of the United States" contained no in
timation in its title that such an impor-
/ tant feature as the demonetization of sill
yer was included in it. The act was a
long one, containing sixty-seven Sec
tons 1t was devoted to detailed regu-
lations for the Mint, apparently, and
/ the silver dollar is not named in it. 1t
authorized the coinage of silver half
dollars, quarter dollars and dimes below
the standard weight, and the issue of
the trade dollar, and 1t prohibited these
particular coins Called "said coins"
from being legal tender for more than
five dollars in any one payment. The
clause which did the business with sill
yer reads: ''No coins, either of gold,
silver or minor coinage, shall hereafter
be issued from the mint, other than
those of the denominations, standards
and weights herein set forth" This I'M
pretentious passage in a long bill, with
no mention of the silver dollar, was
cunningly designed by the gold bugs to
cover their purpose. The bill was read
only by its title, and consequently the
swindle was not known at the time.
The joint select committee on the
monetary system say in their report
in 1877: 1.-The most striking evidence
of the public inattention to the effect of
the coinage Act of 1873 is the fact that
President Grant, who signed it, and
who was critically observant of the
legislation of Congress, had no knowl-
edge of what it really accomplished in
relation to the decentralization of silver,
and was still uninformed about it as late
as the following October. If the Pres
ident of the United States, in daily in
tercourse with the public men of the
country, had failed to hear during GER
tainly eight months that the laws no
longer permitted money to be coined
from silver it must be true that the
ignorance on the subject was general
and profound. In letter written by
Gen. Grant to Mr.. Cowdrey, after he
had signed the bill, he expressed pro-
found ignorance that it contained the
demonetizing clause. It was said to
have been procured by the bondholders
by large BecpHiary consideration.
They could have. we'll afforded it simply
as an investment. 1t has added immense
ly to their profits.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03
shah the silver Bill Be Repealedq

The New York Times seeing that the
Secretary of the Treasury could no
longer nullify the law reeoining silver
and restoring its functions as measure
of value, and is forced to yield to the
pressure to pay it out on public obliga-
tions, has raised the cry of repeal. The
Times says that the anti-silver class who
represent the bondholding interest,
must organize for the repeal of the law
1t uses this forcible language:
mo class of creditors can expect to be ex-
empted from the obligation TO receive an 49,
cent dollar as the equivalent OF gold dollar
The contingency that will expose the bond
holder to the partial reputation may not
arise this year, or next, but come it must if
this law is not repealed. These orders to paw
out silver are the beginning of the end"
1t is assumed that it is reputation to
pay che bondholders (for no other class
of creditors seem to concern the Re
publican leaders, in silver notwithstand-
ing the original contract between the
government and the people required the
payment of the principal Of the bonds
in greenbacks and the interest only Gin
coin" which meant silver as well as
gold. If justice was fairly administered
the bondholders would be paid in the
equivalent of what they gave for the
bonds, and that was greenbacks when
they were worth from forty to seventy
cents on the dollar. Mr.. Sherman in
his letter of 1868, said that if thew de-
manded gold and silver or any other cur
rency more valuable than that which
they gave for the bonds they would be
extortioners and regulators, and no one
has been able to refute his statements.
But this is not the point to which we
are now directing attention. 1t is the
demand of the New York Times in the
interest Of the bondholders for the
repeal of the silver law altogether, in
order that they may be paid in gold
exclusively at an enhanced value. The
proposition itself is a scheme of repudi-
alton. 1t is not only a proposition to
repudiate the original contract between
the people and the money dealers, but
it would be barefaced robbery. Every
addition to the value of money increases
the amount which unfortunate debtors
have to pay.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03
ADDITIONAL ITEMS.

The pamphlet rules have been warmly re-
ceived by the tax collectors. We make few
extracts from letters received by the Auditor
from them:
One letter says: II have received your pam
phlet, and think it meets the case exactly.
The collectors have all along needed some
thing OF the kind as guide"
Another: ssI have received the rules for col
lecting land taxes, land sales &C., and think
them good suggestions. | will keep them,
my rule and guide in collection this fall"
Another: Your pamphlet of rules has been
received and examined, and meets my I'M
qualified approval. l think them of very
great importance. have felt the need OF
such rules and l hope every collector will
govern himself by them"
Another: Il received your rules for col
lection of taxes and Sheriff7s settlements to-
dav. | am very much pleased with them.
They make the duties OF Tax-collectors very
plain, and Sherifs ought to be able to make
their settlements without any other assistance. y
Many more could be quoted.
State Auditor Gwin has instructed County
Assessors to extend the State tax for the
year 1879 at 81 mills, the same as it was for
year 1873 The Boards of Supervisors,
through the Chancery Clerks, have been
notified to the same effect.
Mr.. L. q. Boggan, the recently appointed
Sheriff and Tax Collector of Lee county rice
s NJ Robertson, deceased, was in the Audi
tors office last week on business appertaining
TO his Office. This is good appointment and
Mr. Boggan is the right man in the right
place"
J. s. Hoskins, Esq, the popular Sheriff and
Tax Collector of Holmes county, and, by the
way, also Editor OF the Lexington Advertiser,
was in Jackson last week paying his respects
to the Auditors office. Mr.. Hoskins has
proven himself so efficient that his constitu-
ents have nominated him for second term
with the almost certainty of his triumphant
election.
The School Fund is being rapidly distribu-
ted 10 the counties throughout the State.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03
TIPPAH COUNTY.
Ripley Advertiser.l

Ripley Advertiser
! On motion, DIR. f. NJ. Alexander was called
to the chair and W. w. Bailey appointed Sec
| rotary.
At his request Dr., j. Y. Murry was relieved
! from duty as delegate To the Convention. ON
MOTION, tho candidates came forward and stated
that they would abide the action of the Con
venti0n. The candidates were then voted for
by districts with the following result. to-wit
r. A. Wolf, a.; q. c. Walter, Is; Thos.
Hopper, Is D. r. Childers, TO-
The Convention then, on motion Unanimous
ly nominated Eiancis A. Wolff. ON motion.
the following delegates were appointed from
each district to represent the county OF Tippah
in the Senatorial Convention IA Ashland hon
ton county, on the 3Oth inst, to-wit:
Sand Hill-A. .. Wolf. George Wristt
Jonesborough w. Hopper d. r. R0Lo
P PgISl, r II H. charger ~ Pasuer
Mountain. J. Guyton, l.. 5. Rogers Orizabt
R J. Hill, Isaac g. Kendrick Dumas-E ~
Nelson, g. W. Shackefcrd; Kitchens Milo.
{. Walter, l.. T. Carpenter; Bethleheu-Ed
Strickhn, .. T. Lewellen; Moore's MILL a.
On motion the following named persons were.
selected as the Democratic Executive Commit
years, to-wt:
Ripley-.nr. z. N. Alexander. Cant Tbo,ra,
Splshti Sand Ilill-Jo. Rowland, James Mo-
muhdroi Blue Mountain-Spenccr Gibbs.
Thomas White; Orizaba--J0hn D. Palmer. n
l. Hill; Dumas. d. Lokey, f. l.. Nelson =
Kitchens Mill. J.. Surratt, l.. Doug. Deag.
M Moore Mill-W; T., Nance, VIM. Elliott
EaIkner-Capt w, w. Rutherford. Pinknev
Iapp; Bethlehem-Pinkney Miller, w. Coying-
ton. ~
On motion it was resolved that the foIIo,-i,.,
named persons OF the Executive CommittC, .,rc
hereby constituted central committee h. AN
instead of the whole committee ia mater. ~
importance and emergency when the entire
committee cannot readily convene. to-v-it. ,,
N; Alexander, Capt Thomas Spight Sprncar
Glbos, John ID Palmer, Ed. J.. Neison WIN III
lott, Capt W. w Rutherford ''' "
~ =. was moved and carried that the proceedings
committee adjourned i'''' ''''
~ u y. M. ALEXANDER, Chairman.
w, W. BAILEY, Secretary.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03

The Kansas excursion parties-there have
been several of them-organized by Southern
planters to go to Kansas and come back with
discouraging reports regarding the impending
exodus of colored labor from the former Sec
ton, have returned-that Is all of them who
ever will return, for two-thirds OF them. at
least, have seized the opportunity to settle in
the New Canaan. The little game of discour-
agement and deception did not work.-Wash-
The above is a sample of the state
ments that are going the rounds of the
Northern Radical press. The recent
excursion from this State to Kansas,
and there has been but one, was cor
ganized" by some gentlemen for the pur-
pose of putting money in their purses,
and not to influence the negroes, that
went upon it, for or against Kansas.
Two-thirds of those who availed them
selves of the cheap rates to take a
pleasure trip were white. OF the color
ed excursionists, We dare say, there was
not one who went upon it at the ex-
pense of a white planter" They paid
their ten dollars for the round trip, and
had perfect right to stay in Kansas, or
return as they thought proper. We
have not been informed by the Organ
izers" whether the little game worked
or not, but we presume it did, and that
they made money bv it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03
The United States senatorship.
GENERAL f. c. wALTHALL.
From the Grenada Sentinel
GRENADA, Miss, Aug. %, 1879.

GENERAL r. Z. WALTHALL.
From the Grenada Sentinel
GRENADA, Miss, Aug. 90, 1879.
EDITORS OF GRENADA SENTINEL:
| have been absent from the State most of
the summer, and since my return have found
that some who are warmly supporting me for
I. ). Senate are under misapprehension as
to my views UPON some questions which are
now much discussed in Mississippi politics.
However much the importance to us of these
questions at this time NAV, in nv judgement
have been needlessly magnifed, / have M
right to suffer my friends misIed by nv silence
And have as little desire to inject into the
present canvass any opinion of nv own. from
which some members of my party in the state
may dissent, for there should be no divisions
among Us on subjects which are wholly secon-
Diary IN importance to the great battle for a
free ballot in which the Democratic partv il
AOw engaged.
1t will somewhat simplify the campaign if
my name is taken out of the contest for Sepa-
torIai honors, and to do this distinctly and
publicly, Is the purpose of this note.
Ihe voluntary demonstration in favor OF INV
election IN various sections of the State. and
the generous offers OF support which have come
70 me from so many quarters make this ex-
PLANTATION proper. These | appreciate. and
am more thankful for than / aTa able TO ex-
press.
Respectfully,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03
Deaths of Estimable Kinds County
Ladies'
Kinds County Gazette.

11IHuS NOuHlN
Mrs. Austin, wife of Dr. T. c. Austin of
Mississippi Springs neighborbood, died on the
10Th inst, and was buried at the Raymond
grave yard on the Goth, She was an estima-
bic and intelligent lady, a faithful christian
of the Methodist persuasion, devoted wife
and mother, and died universally lamented
The verbal report of the death of Mrs o.
H. Smart, of Dry Grove neighborhood, this
county to which we briefly alluded a week or
two ago, proves to have been correct Our ac-
quantance with Mrs. Smart commenced thirty
years ago, and we can most truly say, that in
youth and in advanced years, and in all the
relations of life, she was a most estimable
lady, and adorned her sex; and We doubt
not that her death is to-day greatly la
mented by all who knew her Mrs Smart
leaves, we believe, but one child, daughter
the wife of NJ. II. Robertson, formerly OF Crys-
tai Springs.
Mrs. Smart was the widow of the late
DIR. w. B. Smart, who first settled in
Holmes county, Mississippi, from South
Carolina, about the year 1912; and re-
moving to Kinds, was member of the
Convention that passed the ordinance of
secession.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03
Gen. Freeman's Letter.

A very abie and exhaustive letter
from Gen. John ID. Freeman, on the
legal aspect of the Yazoo affair, viii be
found on our first page. To distant
readers, we will introduce the letter by
saying that its author is an ex-Attorney
General and ex-Congressman of Missis-
sippi, and that he has been prominent
member of the bar of the country for
thirty years,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03
1EEFERsoN nnI-Nr,.

Fayette Chroniclc.l
At a meeting of the Greenville Democratic
Club, Saturday August %.
On motion, the Club proceeded by ballot 90
ascertain their choice for Senator for the couu-
ties OF Jefferson and Franklin, resulted in the
selection of Maj. Thos. Reed as first and Capt
w. L. Harper as second choice, and the above
named delegates were instructed TO vote ace
cordingly.
And by ballot for District Attorney, LAUGH.
McLaurin, Esq, was declared the first and d..
q: Bridges, Esq, the second choice of this
Club.
On motion Of +. r. Jones, f. II. Hicks was
unanimously declared the choice Of this Club
to represent this county in the next Legislature.
Resoiced, That this Club endorse the Hon.
Ethel Barksdale, Of jackson, for the United
States Senate
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03
I. ID. CAMPBELL, Ch'n,
Democratic Elk. Com, Alfalfa county.
B. n. WARD, Chm,
Democratic Elk. Com, Leake county.

MICHIGAN Democratic Committees
address every Republican victory
this spring will be encouragement to
Grantism. 1t will echo the tramping of
the silent man on horseback with his
compact and audacious band ofstalwarts,
steadily marching to the subversion of
our free institutions and the establish
ment of imperial power; while victory
for our cause will be hailed with delight
by patriots everywhere.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03
THE CANVASS.
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CONVENTION
Tupelo Journal

~
TupelO Journal
The Democratic District Convention which
met here on Saturday last for the purpose III
nominating a cadidate for District Attornay
was attended by full delegation from ali *
counties composing the District except Tisb,-
mingo, which was represented in the Con,g.
ton by Capt. j. w. Pickens Of Alcorn. col M
l.. Clayton, and Maj. H. c. Medford OF Lee 4.
proxies.
The names of Gen. }. l. Finley of Lee. TYJ..
VIM Lacey of Chickasaw, and Capt r. Ynrl-
Of Alcorn were placed in nomination and 49,
several ballots, with little change in the .ri,.
nal vote, Gen. Finley was declared the uar,i,..
for District Attorney for the lst Judicial G..
trict.
Responding to the invitation of the Conv.r
ton, appropriate and patriotic addresses ~.
delivered by Gen. Finley, Judge Lacey s,.f
Capt Young. the two last named qtutf.,-.
cheerfully acquieseing in the choice af 3D.
Convention, and pledging their cordial sum-.
to the nominee Of the party.