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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

The cipher dispatches are TO be in
vestigated, and Mr.. Tilden it is said, is
prepared to prove that he received prop
ositions from three Southern returning
boards to sell their votes, but that he
sternly refused, saying if he could not get
his just dues without bribery he would
not have them at all; and, that persons
who protested to have power were dong
all they did on their own account. This
much is known. They were offered for
sale. Mr.. Hayes to whom they did not
belong, got them; and the rascals re-
ceiged their pay.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

Hos. JONI McGHL, Mayor, has
shown US a letter from Hon. c. Z. Hook
er, stating that the Committee on APP
proQriat.ous had decided to report the
bin introduced by him on the 18th Of
February, 1878, for the erection IF a
United States building in this city, with
an amendmelt reducing the amount
from 100000 10 500, 600. We infer
that it viii certainly pass. The work
viii be Of great public benefit
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

YESTERDAY (28th) was fixed for con
sideration in the federal House of Rep
resentatives of the bill of alr. Robertson,
of Louisiana for the improvement of the
Mississippi River. 1t provides for the APP
poiutment of a Committee of Engineers
To examine and report, process that has
become Monotinous and Improbable.
REPETITION has made il stale. If the de-
termination is not to adept a plan,
chow not to do it, !" it would be preferable
to pass law defining how the work shall
be accomplished, making the appropria-
ton and requiring IL t. lie done.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29
Ex- Preside lent DaVi and the State
University.

Our grand, old friend, and former Presi-
dent. Jefferson Davis, has been selected to
deliver the Annual Address at the next
commencement of the Mississippi Unver-
SHY. A glorious selection, and one that
does the highest possible honor to our ALMA
MATER .--Southern States.
BY his letter published in the Oxford
press, we learn that Mr. Davis has been
compelled to decline the honor in conse-
quence of the precarious condition of
his health and that Senator Gordon of
Georgia, has been selected.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29
The ROtIo1u Facts.
Brooklyn Eagle.l

= -
Mr. Tilden was elected President fu 1876.
Mr.. Hayes was not. Mr. HAYES IVA. fh. M
nee, an he obtained it through "A cousrir-
the purpose il succeeded i'm nunIf.I,ir..,
= IheSe are the "bottom facts" tu the great
TFesidenIlal iraud. All the dispatches sent
over me wires since the ioveutiou of thctcI-
eegraT p can not change them. The question
- presented 10 the Democracy in The first in-
stance What are they going 10 do about ~
"a ISSOF Their answer 10 this question win
De submitted TO the people at large. and in the
issue Is fairly presented 10 them we en-
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

To PREVENT Federal supervision over
her State election, it is proposed in the
Legislature of Alabama to adopt the
mode of voting tor President indicated
in the following resolution
Resolved, That the Committee on Federal
Relations be instructed to inquire into the
expediency OF providing by law for the
selection OF Electors tor President and Vice
President by the General Assembly until
the acts of Congress authorizing interter-
ence BIZ the Federal authorities are repealed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29
Republican Financjcri,D

Merneie (lnd) Courier Democrat
$50 100000 invested in 4 per cent non-tay-
aole bonds IN one week. and not 35 cents
can pe raised to move the wheels or pro-
dustry of the country. This is what RsdT-
callsm calls the improved prospects Of the
country. Idleness and pauperism for the
aristocrats. 'o''J
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

The INDIANA SENATE has passed
resolution providing for joint committee
to prepare bill to establish a uniform
system of freight rates for the restric-
ton and government of railroads doing
business in that State, prevent unjust
determinations and exorbitant CHARGE.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

a SHOOTING affair between Maj. James
Hazlett, an old and high respected citi.
zen of Ficksburg, and Mr. H. H. Moore
the late highly esteemed Deputy Sheriff
OF Warren county, on the 23rd, resulted
in the unfortunate death of the former
to whose memory our contemporaries of
that city have paid deserved tributes of
respect.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

Only about tweny-eight working days
remain for Congress to get through with
Its work. Several OF The appropriation
bills are 10 be disposed OF; a bill for the
Improvement of the Mississippi river: the
Electoral Bill; the river and harbor bill;
the freecoinage OF silver; the quarantine
question; the Interstate commerce bill;
the Free Ship bill, and many others re-
maia to be acted upon-among the rest,
A Southern Road lon the line of the 32d
parallel). ia reference to the last named
measure we would again earnestly warn
the Southern members against project
which does act provide in distinct terms
ana with proper guarantees for an east
erp terminus on the inwer Mississippi;
and which does not require the work to
begin eastward from Marshall, Texas,
10 tha-poin5 designated on the Mississippi,
at the same time il is prosecuted west
ward. What is wanted is a main trunk
line that will bring the freight and pas
sage 70 Ficksburg (or some other South
crn terminus) and not q mere feeder TO
some Northern line, in which event, to
call it Southern road would be mis-
homer. IT the advocates of the Texas
Pacific intend that it shall have termi- |
nus on the lower Mississippi, they will
consent to an amendment securing that
object. If they object to the amendment
Il will prove that they are not sincere in
their professions We trust that before
this paper goes to press the test will be
q pplied in one branch or the other of
Congress. Let US. have showing of
hands.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

HE Vieksburg Herald of Sunday,
reproduces Its yellow fever death roll in
Mississippi. As record, the single
number of the Herald, is worth more
than the subscription price for year.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

Ex'PREsIDENT DAVIS letter on the
right of instruction has been received
with respect and almost universally with
appreciation by the Democratic press
but the rabid New York Tribune, as
might have been expected, has no respect
for the doctrines it teaches and answers
them with ribaldry. 1t says:
Jefferson Davis has emerged from obscu-
rity long enough to write a column letter in
defence of the right of the peoDl to in
Struct' their Representative in Congress as
to the course he shall follow He thinks
that unless this right is admitted and
obeyed by the Representative the corner
stone OF our temple is crushed, and it were
vain TO attempt TO prop the superstructure."
In the opening of his epistle Mr.. Da-
Wis observes that he islands a disintereSted
observer. npon the political river" The is
acise he toW hire somebody To push him in NTH
out q life -preserver, before he defends another
exploded notion so raise as this.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

The House Of Congress has passed the
bill creating what is substantially postal
saving bank, allowing deposits Of SO
or upward to be converted in sums Of
500 into 4 per cent. bonds.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29
The New Orleans Times reports a cas-

The New Orleans Times reports a case
of yellow fever which stands seriously in
the way of accepted theory in regard to
the certain effect of cold temperature.
A little girl, five years old, after all alb
sence OF seven months, returned to New
Orleans from Chicago when the temper
ature was two degrees below zero. The
sleeping car in which she travelled, togeth-
er with the bedding, had just been washed
and had been exposed to the intense cold
for ffty-one hours. Arrived at New Or
leans, she was conveyed directly to her
fathers house, which had been thorough
ly cleansed, freshly calcimined, and had
not had a case of yellow fever during the
summer. In the midst of winter she was
stricken with what the doctors pro-
nounced genuine typical case of yellow
fever. If such a thing as the yellow fe-
yer had beer known in the days of the
Wise Man. he might have added it to the
three other mysteries which were past
finding out.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

A prominent an well informed Dem
ocrat FROM -- county writes: Il
have some apprehension of an IndePen
dent Radical soap tail opposition in the
next canvass, and it is well for our
friends to be ON the alert" Look out for
the soap tails.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

washington Cor. Gin. Times, (Rep.)
The knowing ones insist that Blaine will
i no. run there Is little doubt that Conk-
ling has reached the same deterr,t,a,il,,,
In this case Conkling's strength will 90.
probably, to Grant. That of Blaine ia Tnf
unlikely, as my Southern friend suDDoses. no
20 to Sherman 7U P0sss' ~
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

THE Seashore Gazette says that the
information which we published on the
authority of new contemporary that
there were seven cases of yellow fever
on Cat Island during the last summer,
although the people of the Island held
no communication with the outside world
whatever, is altogether incorrect. There
was not a case on the Island.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

There is markell difference between the
prisoners brought here charged with eIee-
ton Irregularities and the vvitnsssas -.
come to testify against them The frst or,
wei dressed, well behaved gentIemarIr-
looking men, whilst the outward aDpeaT-
ahce OF the latter is not calculated to eTeata
IS favorable an impression.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

OUR young friend Mr.. Samuel NJ.
Patton Is doing the editoris! work of the
summit Times, and is doing it with skill
of veteran.
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Florida Senntor.
THE FLORIDA sENAroRsHIP.


JACKSONVILLE, Jan. q. 1870
At Tallahassee the Legislature elected
| Nliklhson Can, fDemocratJ Senator to
| succeed Senator Conover.
wilkinson Call who is "a Democrat. yva-
in life. N''''J
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29
TrsENEcE~SIrY OFrnE SOUTH
How Vicksburg can be "A"e
Terminus Of n Southern A"ciHc
RAILROAD Extension.


souE INTERESTING READING, OTHERWISE.
w.sYtNGroN, d. c., January 2sth, 1879.
/ FntroRs CLARION The amendment offer
-, -. ..aaatar Copover to the bill amend
/ in. an act TO incorporate the Texas ana
/ Pacific Railroad Company, bids fair' AS
/ harm from those interested In its passage
+ to be accepted by the House anu senate
Ellis proposition sets forth that, in order TO
secure the construction of continuous line
of rsfIroad from the Pacific ria FL Paso
ana shreveport to the Mississippi River
A. or near New Orleans, the New Or
loans Baton Rouge, and Vicksburg RAIL
| road Company shall, within three years
/ from the passage of this act, complete anu
nut in operation the line OF railroad from
I the eastern terminus of the Texas anu IA
/ ellie Railway 1t Shreveport TO New orleans
/ on the most eligible route; and for the pur-
pose OF LAYING out. locating, and construct
lug said line, il is provided that the compa-
nv shall enjoy all the rights. powers, ana
privileges OF The original act OF March
1871:
That upon the acceptance of the provisions
o. this act by the New Orleans, Baton
Rouge aud Vieksburg Railroad Company
a I'M
porate seal, aud filing the same with the
secretary of the Interior within three
months after the act is approved by the
President, the y. .. b., Il. q Vickshurg
| COMPANY NAV issue its first mortgage bonds,
NOT exceeding $4,000 per mile; $4,000
thereof 10 be issue a." aud 5000 issue
b. and the interest thereon shall be guar
anteed by the United States, and the pay
m ent OF interest and principal thereof Sc
cured by the proceeds of sales of lands and
otherwise. and the bonds delivered to the
said y. O., b. Il & Vicksburg Company in
like manner and form, and subject TO like
conditions, restrictions and limitations as
provided by this act for the bonds of the said
Texas & Pacific Railway Company.
The people of Mississippi, L take it, have
no interest whatever in the present struggle
for supremacy waged by the railroad
maguates of the country. What they
want is great Southern Pacific
Railway: and it is conceded that New Or
leans must be one OF the termini; else $4,-
100000 expended on the mouth OF the Mis-
stSsjppi viii To very great extent, be lost
u the country.
Not until the true Southern trans CONT
Mental railroad LIS the metropolis OF the
South 10 a plane 81 inter State and iEtorna-
tIonal commerce equal, il not beyond, that
occupied by New York City, can our peopl
realize the advantages which will How
from the i'm Improvements of the Mississippi.
Fifty millions OF dollars Appropriated for
that purpose will yield fve-lold that sum
but il would see the per ceattfra of results
approach the marYc lous the Crescent City
must be revivified by the Southern Pacific
Railway.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29


The wolf in the fable who invented a
ridiculous pretext for quarreling with
the lamb, has numerous imitators among
the Republican leaders in their conduct
towards the South. A writer in the
New York Tribune undertakes to show
that the colored people in Mississippi are
growing poorer and more indolent year
by year, preterring to sit in the sun or
fish rather than to work, and declares
that ''if the blacks were able to form
distinct communities they would sink in
course of time to the level OF the African
tribes" and that paper forthwith ex-
claims, see what the mississippi Plan
(of exchanging the carpet baggers rule
of ignorance aud robbery for the citizens
rule of intelligence and honestly has
done!
Again, tempted to distill by the high
price of whisky, the moonshiners in the
mountains of East Tennessee, North
Alabama, North Carolina and Kentucky,
have established illicit distilleries and
are evading the enormous revenue tax
which has been imposed upon it and IN
some instances they have resisted unto
death the revenue officers who seek to
arrest them; and forthwith the Repub-
lican Revenue Commissioner proclaims
that the old leaven of the Southern
rebellion" is animating them, in reckless
oblivlousness of the fact that it was only
in those mountainous regions among the
very moonshiners who are stoning the
prophets of the Revenue Department and
killing those that are sent unto them,
that loyalty to the Union found an abb
ding place during the war. The moon
sinners were for the Union during the
Confederacy and they are for cheap
whisky and free drinking now.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

By vote of 81 to Is the Tennessee
House of Representatives rejected a
propositions from the bondholders to ae.
cept so cents on the dollar.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

NHIcaRt 1eIegTaph.I
bis associates on the Supreme Bench dis
on but old Nathan Clifford. of Maine. evi-
gently intends to keep his word. that he
wont die nor resign until there was a Dem
ocratic President" Ga
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

IT is estimated that the Averages of
Pensions to be paid under the bill which
the President has signed, will amount to
$50, 900, 600.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

THE Columbus Democrat is again a
welcome visitor after suspension of sey-
eral months.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

DIR. HAMILTON, "a physician of learn
ing and distraction in Maryland, in an
able essay upon medical science and
public health, discourses at length upon
the evils of empiricism in his profession
and insists that the standard of qualifca-
lion for practise should be elevated and
that the way to cure the evil of
inadequate preparation is to have liberal
endowments for medical schools. He
says that liberal requests are made for
other branehes of science, but medicine
does not get its share. The medical
schools depend for their support upon
the fees from the students. They natu-
rally seek for students, and in order to
get them must allow them to be grad
uated in the shortest time and with the
least possible study. He insists that if
the medical schools were Independent,
the chance for better medical education,
and the protection of the public from
qusckery, would be improved.
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The Bloody Shirt Canvass.

THE North is taking note OF the tcs-
! timpny jhA; has been taken before the Tel
Ter Committee.
Il is not pleasant to call attention again
/ TO such testimony this. There is not a
/ Republican in the land. be he stalwa-t or
/ otherwise, that wants 10 fight another cam
/ pIigu under the banner of he bloody shirt.
| BuJ il Is not a question OF what i, pleasant.
IL Is a qura.io n ot duty.
! The South may rs well make up its mind
now thrC the elections of 1873 Will never be
allowed to be repeated--Cincin"at Times.
We were as well convinced before the
Blaine Committee was appointed as We
are now, that its intention was to manu-
tacture capital for the Presidential cleo
ton Of 1880. In reply to the defiance
ot'our Cincinnati contemporary we will
say that the South has made upits mind
to a bloody shirt canvass if the sensible
people OF the North do not bring a whole
some public sentiment to bear upon the
demagogues and agitators of that sec
ton and further that it has dispassion
ately resolved 20 m 1intain the ascendency
OF mat party which has overthro,vn the
rule Of ignorance, extravaganza and cor
ruption, and given them enlightened,
honest. just and economical State and
local administrations Her people are
tired Of sectional disputes-of race issues
of wrangIing and strife-but they
will not surrender their right of self
government; nor consent to change their
upon questions of vital moment
to purchase immunity from the slanderous
accusations which the Blaine Teller
Committee is attempting to bolster up
with psJured testimony.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

TIE LouiSiana, House of Representa-
tiFes has passed a bill repeating the char
ter of the Louisiana Lottery.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

ON our first page viii be found the
able speech IF Hon. J. K. Chalmers upon
Mississippi River Improvement.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

FIFTEEN thousand eolored people were
sent to Liberia by the American Coloni.
cation Society last year.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

The Board of Supervisors of Copiah
county has employed L. o Bridewell,
Esq, to institute suit against the Mis-
sissippi Mills, for taxes in arrear, the
dispute having grown out of an act of
the Legislature of 1877 defining the
meaning, and restricting the operations
of the law of previous act comforting
certain exemptions upon capital employ
ed in manufacturing.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

HE Indiana House has passed reso-
luton, instructing their Senators and
requesting their Representatives in Con
gress to take the duty off of quin1ne and
other popular medicines. Right.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29

Every unnecessary tax is public rob
berry.
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HON. II. d. MONEY,

of the Ord District who, last winter, intro
duced Bill 2llS in behalf of that grand pro-
jecG. But here is offered a most favorable
opportunity to mbine with the N o. B.
k ~ Vicksburg road-Already chartered
and if our delegation will ak for this ex-
tension from Shreveport 10 Vick~burg Join
ing with the New Orleans and Shreveport
/ can see no reason why the Heroic City,
may not, within two or three years at
urtheresr, be connected with grand
Southern transcontinental line, the dream,
realized, OF our people tor nearly half cen
fury past. e. K. NJ.
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OUR IIshomiugo correspondent depre-
Gates the treatment which our old friend
Gen Reuben Davis, received Cat the
hands OF his former political friend,) in
his late Independent candidacy for Con
gress against the regular nominee Our
corresp ondent must remember that Gen
Davis himself always throws away the
scahbard when he enters a combat; and
if his adyersaries meet him on his own
ground with war to the knife and the
knife 10 the hilt, they are not to blame
They certainly did not provoke the
quarrel and if he had been the Demo
cratic nominee as Col. Muldrow was.
determined to maintain hesupremacy of
the Democratic organization against all
corners in the interest Of Radicalism,
they would have espoused his cause with
the same zeai with which they cham
pio1tI tine chosen ,taudard-bearer of their
party. Besides, our correspondent
ought to remember the fable in which
Tray was judged and treated by the
company he kept. The justice Of the
lesson has never been disputed.
1t cannot Toe too we'll understood, nor
too often repeated that the responsible
classes IN this State do not intend, if
every legitimate effort will avail, that its
home administration, and its representa-
ton in Congress, shall be turned over to
the Republican party, or TO any Of its
lined descendants, or collateral branches,
and Democrats who under an alias medi
tate such a thing will find Jordan hard
road To travel.
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John Sherman's March 10 ResumD
lion.
Washington Post-l


John Sherman's march TO resunntiop ia
over Impoverished merchants. wa.fet s,l h.
Stances palsied industries and ruined homes.
lie ls tue VisigOth OF the ninteenth century.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-29
what Bruce ASSURES window

\. Y. Tribune.I
Senator WINDOWS project for Negro
Territory seems to he growing. A deIeoa-
ZION OF colored men, including Senator
Bruce, assures Mr.. Window that 100 600
able bodied blacks would seek such a refuge.
Such men are the sinews of the south, and
their Withdrawal could not fail to be a seri-
Gus matter ;or that section.
Bruce is the last person that ought to
complain. He has made large fortune !;
and held numerous offices, among the
rest, a seat in the United States Senate. }
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Resolved. That unity and harm ony are
essential to victory; that all independent
movements are dangerous to the integrity
IF party organization; that all dependent
candidates are inspired solely by lust for
nfli re that they shall be treated As COM
mon enemies to the welfare of the people,
and the avowed enemies of tile Dem ocraIic
Conservative party of the State of MissIssip-
nj