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

WASHINGTON, December 2.-aordon
offered the following joint resolution in the
Senate:
WHEREAS, A project for the construction
of an inter-ocean canal in Nicaragua, is re-
cognized as necessity for the prosperity of
the commerce of the world and develop
ests of the United States; and,
WHEREAS, Such enterprise must of
necessity be considered as d Rational utility
under protection of the United States;
therefore it,
ResolVed, etc., That the government of
the United States pledges to accord full and
entire protection to a company which shall
be granted concession by the government of
Nicaragua for the protection of said inter
oceanic canal and that will secure to the
said company the peaceful enjoyment of all
rights conceded by such concession. Refer
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Spoken Like a Democrat and Patri-
Ot-Mr. Hendricks.

indianapolis Cor. Cincinnati Engquirer.]
"Then, Mr.. Hendricks, you do not ask a
nomination as a matter of vindication %
Certainly not. When a party elects a
man to an office it vindicates him, if such
thing is necessary in politics. If he does
not or cannot assume the Office afterward
that is another matter. At least it is so in
my case. If L ask anything of my country
men it will be upon my merits"
81 have seen it stated that if you did not
get the nomination you Wonld throw the
weight of your influence in Indiana against
the successful manY'
THAT is unjust to me. ! shall support
any man whom my party will nominate. |
have no exclusive claim on any nomination.
The people, not aspirants, are the judges in
such matters. | regard Indiana as a Demo
cratic State, and would be disappointed if
any nominee of the party should fail to
carry it. At any rate, he would receive all
the assistance 1 could give him."
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Miscegenation,

JUSTICE WAITE, OF THE U. S. SUPREME
COURT, GRANTS AN APPEAL IN A VIR-
GINA CASE OF INTERPRETATIONS
Chief Justice Waite has granteda writ o f
error to the Supreme Court of Appeals of
Virginia in the case of John 9. Tinsley
(colored) VS.. the Commonwealth of Virginia,
involving the constitutionality of the
statute of that State which prohibits mar
riage between white and oolored persons.
Tinsley, the plaintiff in error, came to the
District of Columbia about a year ago and
married a white woman. Upon his return
to Virginia he was arrested, tried for the
offense, found guilty and sentenced to the
penitentiary. Persons interested in the
final settlement of the constitutionality of
the State law, prohibiting the ntermarriage
ofraGes, have brought the case to this court
for its decision. ;
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NEW BOOK.
Mate to Mate-A Novel by Mrs. It. K.
Sharkey.

To Mississippians, this book will have a
prima facie claim to consideration. Its
author is a lady of Mississippi. But it has
still higher claims. 1t is work of rare
literary merit. The moral of the story is
that the divine ordinance Of making twain
one flesh by the holy bonds of matrimony
should not be desecrated by the visible
union of hands, where there is no actual
union of hearts, and there is an electric
chord permeating the human soul and
uniting hearts in an invisible bond of sym
pathy ia spite of every effort to prevent
nature from asserting her inevitable laws.
1t also inculcates lesson of woEGaE's forti-
tude. self-denial, courage and final triumph
in tbs battle of life, by the proper applica-
ton of the gifts of with which her
Creator has endowed her. As a story,
the book reflects credit on The inven-
tive genius of the author, and without
being sensational, is sufficiently dramatic to
give it interest The characters are not over
drawn, and the incidents, and we may add,
coincidents, are so natural ana lite-like that
their occurrence seem as a matter of course.
There are pages replete with pathos, and
many that possess rare beauty of thought
and expression. Limited as our space is
we can not refrain from quoting one of
them:
A day or two ago l was looking over my old
letters, and read yours with a a.oqrnful
pleasure. One of them gave new interest
and a new light. l refer to the one written
in the season of Lent, now two years ago.
You remember, you quoted some passages
from the clergyman'S eYhortation, which
seemed to have such happy effect on you
awakening the conviction that our own feeble
efforts, single, without the influence of rel'g-
ion, without soliciting divine help, were as
ship struggling against the waves without
pilot, drifting from point to point, by the
shifting gipds-though tn6 vessel be strong.
yet ever tossing and struggling. drifting
further and further from any port of safety
finally. weather-beatep and shattered in the
many storms, sinks into the fathomless deep
1t was strong picture you drew of human
nature in its vessel of clay, drifting WITHOUT
helm or pilot in the sea of life. Ever with
the wind lacking from side to side, tossing
and grooming in the heavy breakers-or
skipping and dancing, while riding with con-
ceited strength the light, laughing waves
basking in the sunshine, though far out still
on the deep-never at home-never at rest.
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MARRIED.

SwAKS-CHRisTIAN-I Canton. Miss nj
the residence of Mr.. w. A. Steele November
10Th, by Rev. DR.. Spillman, Gro F. SwANx.
of jackson, and Mas. VIRGTSIA W CHRISTIAN.
of Huntsville, Ala.
GoRDoN-MANsHIP.-In Jackson, Miss at
the residence of the brides parents, Wednes
dsy evening, November 9th, 1879, by Rev
Dr. Watkins, Ma. DAVIS GORDON. of Madison
county, and Miss JENNIE MANsHIP of this
city.
BRoUGHER-MANsHIP.-I jackson. Miss.
at the residence of the brides parents, We'd
nesday evening, November 9th, 1873. by Rev
Ut. Watkins, Mr. CHARLES BRoUGuER. of
this city.
MCGILL-BoYD.-Iu Jackson Miss, at the
residence of the brides mother, Tuesday
m orning, December 2d. 1879, by Rev. Dr. John
Hunter. Mr. RICHARD +. McGLL, and Miss
MARY f. BOYD, all of this city.
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Thanksgiving Offerings.

At the joint service ofthe Baptist Methodist
and Presbyterian congre cations, on Thursday
last, at the Methodist Church, the of
forty dollars was contributed to The Protestant
Orphan Asylum, at hatcher. The following
amounts have been received at this office, and
forwarded to the Asylum:
Union service at Macon, through r. C.
Patty .......... ....... Sll IS
Methodist Church, Kosciusko, through
Rev. P. Mitchell ............-.... rs
Methodist Church, Ocean Springs, per
Rev. Inman W. Cooper ..-.-..-..... 10000. 80
F. Barksdale, Yazoo CRY ..........-..--...... 90
You will find "a full stock of Clothing for
Men and Boys
Suits from $500 to 5000.
Overcoats from $500 TO $500
ii At a. VIRDESs.
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OFFICE OF CRAIG & HOGAN, !
COTTON factors & Con-. MERCHANTS
NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 29, 1879. !

OFFICE OF CRAIG & HOGAN,
COTTON Factors & Con-. MERCHANTS
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 29, 1879.
DEAR SIR: The movement in cotton this
week has been extensive, and prices are
now ! to cent better than on last Stur-
day, notwithstanding heavy receipts At the
ports, 2, 120, 547 bales 10 date: The bslk OF
this amount has been sold, and spiDners,
and their agents, contend that their wants
have been well supplied. and they are now
in position to wait for lower prices or the
other hand many conclude that the spimers,
having bought so freely, now own nearly, or
quite, one-third of the crop, and are con-
sequently interested in uphOlding the price.
About this time last year trade was dull,
and prices below cost of production. Now
trade is healthy everywhere, causing an
active demand at prices above the cot OF
production, and more attention is now
given to the question of supply and de-
mands, and all parties are becoming more
accustomed to the present range of prices,
which are not so dear as to stop consumption
of cotton fabrics. However, we may lexpect
fluctuations, and the product planter will
sell some of his product, while there is good
demand at fair profit.
Our market has been rather quiet to-day,
only 1850 balessold. Ordinary 113; Good
Ordinary liz; Low Middling 11s; Md
ding, III; Good Middling l2t
Yours truly,
CRAIG d HOGAN.
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Hon. H. D. Money on the Political
Situation.
Col. Money to a Washington Post inter
viewer.

Col. Money to a Washington Post inter
viewer.
81 did hear a distinguished educator of
of my State, a warm Democrat, but some
what faint hearted, say that he thought tle
game was over, and the best thing for tle
South to do now would be to give up and
90 in and try to make terms with Grant,
whom the Republicans will endeavor to
make dictator of America-the United
States will be dead then, you know, and pro-
badly such new name would be selected.
There are few people in the South dishear-
tened in that way, of course; could not but
be from the trouble they have passed
through, and a continuance of which they
expect in case of Republican success and the
robbery of their constitutional rights. But
that the feeling is widespread l do not be-
lieve. And think the South may confident
ly be relied on to help elect, in company
with New York and Indiana, a Democratic
President next year."
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TOOMBS JOINS IN.
HE Is FOR GRANT, AN EMPIRE AND HE'LL
GENERALLY.

From an Interview at Atlanta.
l met General Toombs the other day, and
asked him who would be the next Presi-
dent.
Grant" he replied promptly. "He will
be the next President and the last Presi-
dent"
"After Grant-what?'
"The empire, by Cd! am ready for it.
1t is part of the inevitable. When the
North by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments injected 100000 savages into
the belly Of the Constitution, they made
popular government impossible. Grant is a
the greatest man, probably, in public life
to-day. ! like him well enough myself. A
id sight better than do any of his crowd.
He has to pre-eminent degree what will
command the irresolution of these times.
And that is dauntless courage"
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Che Next Gamnaign.

From the Baltimore (Md.) Gazette Dem, ]
The issues of the campaign Of 1880, should
Grant receive the nomination-which now
seems almost certainty-will be whether
or not radical change shall take place in
the government. The money power, the
corporations, the federal office holders, the
rings that thrived during Grants two terms,
those who fear ''the mob and those who
have lost faith in local self-governmsnt and
the military aristocracy-all of these want
a strong government, even if it should be a
military dictatorship. When this issue is
fairly presented to the people we shall have
no frais of the result. There is still a vsst
and resolute majority in this country who
believe IN 9 government of the people for
the peopfe-a and by the people.
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consumption Cured.

An old physician, retired fEsm practice,
having had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary, the formula of simple
vegetable remedy, for the speedy and Perma-
nent cure eli consumption, bronchitis, eatarrh,
asthma, aad an tae throat and lung affections
also positive and radical euFe for nervous
debility and all nervous complaints, after hav-
ing tested its wonderful curative powers an
thousands of cases, has felt it his duty to make
it known to his suffering fellows Actuated oy
this motive and desire to relieve human suf-
fe1iug. 1 will send, free of charge, to all who
desire il, this recipe, with full directions for
preparing and usiEs. in German, French, or
English. Sent by mali, BY addressing, with
stamp. naming this paper, w. w. Sherar, l49
Powers Block, Rochester, n. Y.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03
The Grand Jury.

At a meeting Of the Board of Supervisors
held yesterday, the following Grand Jury
was appointed for next term of Circuit
Court Asa Tinnin, Thos. Boddie, B. T.
Lyon, C. l. Thomas, James Virden, 5. G..
Wilson, j. B. Abou. Geo. A. Work, w. ID.
Birdsong, B. A. Dixon, Ed. Harvey (col. },
Jesse Millegan, J. A. Parker, Jos. H. Nor
ris, Chas- H. Manship, Doran MCGEE (col.),
Jno. Mcmahon.
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Seashore Items.

The Pass Christian Sea Shore Gazette
says: Circuit Court convened at Missis-
sippi City on Monday morning, and adj
journed Friday noon. Judge Hamm pre-
sided with his usual ability, and his charge
to the grand jury and county officers was
characteristic and well-timed. District At
torney Ford, and the other officers of the
court, were at their places.
One of Mississippis rising young men,
District Attorney Thomas S. Ford, of Ma
rion county, and recently reelected was
complimented with a grand serenade last
Saturday night by the Bay st. Louis brass
band.
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Potter to be Declared Elected.

New YORK, Dec. 2.-The rumor men
election of Clarkson n. Potter as Lieutenant
Governor of State, in consequence of irreg-
ularities by some of the county boards in
counting as scattered, votes intended for
him. The difference in the vote cast for
Hoskins and Potter respectively is said to
be less than one hundred.
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SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.

MONDAY, December |, 1879.
The following cases were affirmed:
3I90--R. F Shanks ct al vs.. Town Council of
Greenyille. Affirmed.
remanded
3l9l.-Elizabeth s. Barton VS.. Geo W Parker
ct al Reversed and remanded.
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Hung By a Mob.
Two Murderers Must Hang.
Hon. Ben. King.

Senator King is no man worshiper, and
entertains an honest contempt for all cor
rupt rings and combinations. Long NAV he
the true friend of the sovereign people
wave! There is work ahead for him to
straighten out old Copiah in the ensuing
Presidential eanvass.-Copiahan.
The people of the whole State claims
Hon. Ben. King as their .'wheel-horse" and
fell that whenever South Mississippi is rep
resented in any solid position that Ben
King shall not be forgotten. He is truly
one of the old regime who never fails in
any emergency when duty calls.-Winona
Advance.
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No captain-oeneraI Wanted.

n. I. sun.
The foolish project of making Ulysses S.
Grant Captain-General of the Army has
been revived. A bill has been drawn for
this purpose, to be presented at the earliest
convenient moment after Congress meets.
Silly as this project is, it finds advocates.
Never, in fact, was q more piebald support
rallied to any bill; it is championed by
enemies of Grant as well IS by Els todies.
Despite its lAotley array Of advocates, this
is the sort OF q bill not at all likely TO pass.
The disgrace is in its being introduced.
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-
Col. Claiborne's History.

NatcheZ Democrat.
The publishers are getting the book out
with great care and will issue volume of
which they will not be ashamed. The work
is intensely interesting and the publishers
feel sure of demand greater than can be
supplied by the edition they are printing.
From what we know Of the book and of the
author, we are satisfied that it will have a
very large circulation.
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JACKSON COUNTY.
Pascagoula Start

jackson county circuit court convened at
the courthouse in Scranton last Monday,
the oath. His Honor, j. s. Hamm, was on
the bench, and delivered charge full and
complete on law points, and if listened to
and remembered by county officers and the
juries, they need not err in doing their duty.
Hon. Thos S. Ford, our clever and vigi-
liant district attorney, was on hand, ready
and willing to do his duty as an officer, it
mattered not where that line led him.
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LOST MHLEI

OTRAYED OR STOLEN from the premises
- of the undersigned no miles north of Jack
SON on 9th inst, Light Bay MARE MULE,
1871 hands high. about 8 years old, crop off
one ear. liberal reward will be paid for
her return. Information as to her whereabouts
may be left at the store of Robinson, Stevens
s. Co., Jackson.
n v. B0DDIE.
Nov 10, '79-2g&
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Local and Miscellaneous Items.

Is noticing, editorially, last week, the
names Of the capable gentlemen who were
announced as candidates for Clerk of the
House, we overlooked the name Of Geo. s.
Dodds, Esq, who had authorized US to an
nounce him for the position.
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Texas Negroes Going to Kansas.

PARSONS, Ks, November 29.-There has
been quite a food of negroes to this city and
vicinity from the Navasota and Limestone
Counties of Texas, some 800 having arrived
this week. One hundred and seventy-five
arrived to-day by the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railroad with their baggage and
household goods. They appear to have
ing 81, 800, which he had made since the war,
in Texas
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The Grant Howl.
Baltimore Gazette, EDem.1

Baltimore Gazette, tDem.1
Two-thirds of the Republicans of the
North who are bowling for Grant to-day are
bowling for him because they regard him as
a man whe would set his foot upon the
South and trample the Democracy out of it.
They want him as a prosecutor, not as a
pacifcator of the sections.
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Hon. s. J. LESLIE, Representative elect
from Hancock county, has ordered new
suit of clothes manufactured at Ulman' 3
wooden mills, to wear to Jackson next Janu-
airy. Mr.. Leslie is true democratic repre-
sentative Of the "cow counties" and desires
the people at the capital to know something
of our manufacturing interests. = Demo
cratic-Star
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A Bit Of the Exodus.


oI LOUIS uDIICaH
A carload of negroes, making rs persons,
came on the Southwestern railroad yester-
day morning, from GAINESVILLE, Tenn. They
went out on the Kansas City railroad for
Topeka, Kansas. They came in charge of
passenger agent. They are on the way to
settle, and belong to the exodus stripe of
Immigrants
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Probable Murder.

Special Telegram to the N. o. Times
CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss, Nov. 80, 1879.
A colored man by the name of Henry
Blockman was found dead this morning.
His head was very bloody, and he was no
doubt murdered. Blackman was a mulatto
and book agent, and lived at Brookhaven.
Nc clue to the perpetrator. s. H. S.
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occupation Gone.

Washington Post
The wiId-eyed, iOng-haired man, With a
pamphlet en- fe-naace, will not be 30 numer-
Gus at the Cepjtol and about town during
the coming EeasIona OF Congress e. he has
been for some years past. The insane asy-
lum has foreclosed its long overdue mort
much thanks
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Hon, Lock Houston.
Aberdeen Examiner. I

1ADVIu6pII 11AdIIIIHOI
Hon. L. f. Houston, of Aberdeen, will
be warmly urged before the Democratic
caucus, by many influential members of
both houses, and will be formidable adyer-
sary to cope with, should he be so fortunate
as to enter the caucus as the only candidate
from this section of the State.
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The Grant Boom.


w Wilmington Post
The momentum Of the Grant boom has
hesn Es-infnsced by the unqualified indorse-
meut Of one Of the great ornaments Of his
administration. Secor Robson Is out in
letter in which that iIlustri0us mariner and
stnpendous rascal informs the people of the
United States and territories that be il IN
favor Of another term Of tho man under
Fh0se aiamini sfrnti0h he scented the most
gigantic stealing ever attempted bv any
one II Hiodsln times.
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Cen. Walthau.
Aberdeen Examiner.1


Gen'l. WalthaIps friends are determined
that he shall not be retired from the Senate
rial contest, and will not permit the modes
ty of the man to interfere at q time when
Mississippi has great services to demand As
well as honors to bestow. The tfboomv that
was started for him last spring is powerful
one, and is growing steadily despite the cold
water that the Gen'I himself has attempted
to throw lunOu IL sa ssst
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General Grant in the South.

We present, on another page, multitude
of extracts from newspapers in all parts of
the country commenting on the new Grant
movement in the Southern States. 1t will
be noticed that most of the Southern Jour
nails from which we quote oppose the move
ment-N. Y. Herald
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Ia This Trna p
Mobile Register (Dem.

Mobile Register (Dem.
We are informed that Mr.. Tilden did not
issue that Southern claims letter until it
had been submitted for the approval of
representative Southern men. In this State
we learn that it was submitted to Governor
Houston, Senator Morgan and our Repre-
exception our political leaders Endorsed the
letter and advised it's immediate publica-
tiOn
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WINDOWS Scheme.
COurier-Journal.I

OOu4 ICI- q UuIIdIsI
Window has started his exodus boom
again with the old naked lies about massa-
ores of negroes, reinstatement, ETC. The
funds contributed by the guiled citizens of
the North will be used to "place" darkies
in Indiana, where the Republicans need
their votes next year. These importations
will be made tax upon the Indiana people
until next fall. the plea that there is
great demand for farm hands in Indiana
is fearful lie. There is no such demand
The supply of white labor is always equal
to the demand
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Yellow Fever on shipboard,

ST.. JOINS, Nov 29-Capt. Packham, of
the brig Westmoreland, writing to friends
in New Brunswick, from Nassau, N. F.,
Says: On the passage out the second mate,
cook and one sailor died from yellow fever
and were buried at sea. The vessel is now
in quarantine at Nassau.
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
OFFlCE OF THE
NATcHEz, JACKSON AND COLUMBUS
RAIIRnAn HnMpANr

NATcHEz, JACKSON AND COLUMBUS I
RAILROAD COMPANY.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
~ the office of the Natchez. Jackson & Co
lumbus r. x. Co until the 22d day of January
1850 for the clearing, earthwork and grading
ae9E sd Ter is sqgsrstrYSton Of the roadbed from
of about 30 miles.
The work TO be paid for in monthly INSTALL
ments, upon estimates of the Engineer, as the
work progresses.
Proposals will be received at the same time
for the clearing, eArthwOrk and grading from
the Kinds county line TO the present terminus
at Martin a distance of about 10 miles
The contractor will be required to give good
security for the completion of his contract in
a specified time.
The Company reserves the right to reject all
bids
Further information can be had at the Com
panys office. where profile can be seen or of
the undersigned, or of II. Fitzpatrick, Sec
rotary and Superintendent.
WILL T. MARTIN, President.
Dec 3 '7q-2W
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a FEW men in the South who live to
hold office might be benefited by selling
out to Grant, but the people at large who
might be betrayed into the shameful move
ment would be made to suffer most woe
fully.-Baltimore Gazette Dem.)