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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-05-29
Little Feet on the Fender.

In my heart there liveth picture
or a kitchen rude and old,
Where the freight tripped DER the rafters
And Redeemed roofs brown mold;
Gliding the steam from the kettle
That hummed on the foot-worn hearth,
Throughout the livelong evening,
Its measures Of drowsy mirth.
Because Of tho three light shadows
That frescoed the rude old room
Because of the voices echoed
Up mid the rsfters' gloom
Because of the feet on the fender,
Six restless, white little feet
The thoughts of that dear old kitchen
Are to me 80 dear and sweet.
When the first dash on the window
Told Of the coming rain,
Oh where are the fair young faces
That crowded again the pane?
While bits Of freight stealing,
Their dimpled cheeks between,
Went struggling out in darkness,
In threads of silver sheen.
Two Of the feet grew weary
One dreary, dismal day,
And we tied them with snow-white ribbons,
Leaving them there by the way.
There was fresh clay on the fender
That weary wint'ry night,
For the four little feet had tracked it
From his grave on the brown hills height.
Oh ! why on this darksome evening,
This evening OF rain and sleet,
Rest my feet all alone on the hearthstone
Oh where are those other feet?
Are they treading the pathway of virtue
That will bring us together above?
Or have they made steps that will dampen
A sisters tireless love?
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-05-29

Bronson Howard, the American play
writer, says that during his recent.tripin
England he observed that among the
gentlemen of that country the habit of
profanity has gone almost entirely out
of use, and thinks the men this side the
Atlantic might proftably follow their
example.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-05-29

The first and worst of all frauds is to
cheat oneself. All sin is easy after that.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-05-29

A Savannah man fattens his horse on
rice for 8 cents day.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21
Letter from Bolivar County.
Nrsp1r's LANDING, BOLIVAR Co, Miss,
- -

NEsprr's LANDING, BOLIVAR Co, Miss, !
May Is, 1879. }
EDITORS CLARION, Jackson, Miss.
DEAR SIRs-I see in your issue articles
over the signature of \, " headed Labor
and Liens. . which are the best have seen on
the subject. They show the cause Of so many
colored people quitting Mississippi l agree
with him that the high prices paid for supplies
on a credit has done more to ruin and paral-
we the planting interest than everything else
combined Here in this county, where the
lands are as fine as any on the earth where
bur with little labor they produce fine crops.
with the cheapest transportation on earth
finest range, Summer and Winter, for AN
kinks of stock In fact, with every advantage
of soil and climate You find but few doing
well poor work stock; poor farms and houses,
all caused bv making cotton and nothing else.
Ask the producers why they do not make
corn. They would promptly tell YOU they
could get no advances. Cotton alone can give
them credit. Many from our State are going
To Kansas to get away from debts run up al
meat for Is cents per poUnd-over SD 50 4
barrel &c. So far but few have left this
county, but an uneasy, restless feeling To be-
plainly seen, and all feel at any time the same
scenes NAV be enacted here that have taken
place in Tensas Parish La, and at Nick~-
burg.
cannot close before expressing for myself
and neighbors the highest appreciation of the
course Of THE CLARION, and for the efforts
YOU are making to protect the planting inter-
est With best wishes for your success,
/ am very truly, g.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21
False Statements About the Colored
Exodus.

Numerous have been the falseboods in.
vented by the Exodus agitators to man.
utacture sectional feeling. 1t has been
charged that Southern people have
even bulldozed the river Transportation
I by preventing steamboats, from taking
on colored emigrants. There is no
truth in the statement. The boats
have invariably taken the number al
lowed them by the United States laws
which limits the number Of passengers,
steamers may take, according to their
capacity Seeking to travel in large
companies, it has often been the case
that boats have taken portion of those
iii waiting on the banks and left the
others. And frequently they have
passed landings where emigrants
were encamped but Ehave not stop
ped because their number had al
ready been taken aboard. The law has
been frequently violated the other wav,
by crowding passengers beyond the pre-
which it is the purpose of the law to
protect. The Messrs. Pitman, the
able law firm at Vicksburc, have
brought suit against one of these boats
and this fact will be brought out on the
trial. Again it is said that writs of at.
tachment are served on the colored peo-
pie to prevent them from landing, when
IN truth the planters and merchants
N Louisiana have declined to avail
themselves of the debtors absconding
Act, in that State, which would afford
hem justiiable opportunity to detain
lbsconders in numerous instances. In
Mississippi there is no such law.
The white people of the South recog-
lize the right of the colored people to
migrate when and where they please:
nd will not prevent its exercise. Moth
more than moral suasion has been used
n any case; and very little of that.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21
Miscegenation.

Some time since a Virginia NEGRO
man and white woman, were both SEN
fenced to the Penitentiary for violating
the laws of that State prohibiting mixed
marriages, An iptermeddling law firm
in the North who seemed anxious that
miscegenation should thrive in the
interest of the 'God and morality"
doctrine preached in that section, ten
tered their services and brought the
case on writ of habeas corpus before the
United States Circuit Court. The chief
ground alleged ip the petition was that
the act of the Legislature of the State
of Virgins making it a penal offence
for white and coiored citizens to inter
marry is contrary to the Constitution
and laws of the United States, and void
that the marriage, having been eelebra-
ted in the District of Columbia and
valid there, must be held 20 he valid
the United States. The
Court refused the writ on the ground !
hat United States Courts have no iuris-
LECTION over questions of marriage and I
hus has the right of Virginia to protect
he holy marriage relation from pollu-
ion, and to regulate the domes tic
oncerns of her citizens, been affirmed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21

They are having an animated contest
in the Odd Senatorial District. Hon.
w. A. Crum who bolted the regular
nomination for Representative two years
ago, and ran against the regular nomi-
nee, and was defeated, is the Greenback
candidate for Senator He and Hon.
w. a. Boyd, one of the Democratic
candidates, met in discussion recently
at Flat Rock Church and according to
the accounts which have reached us.
the triumph of Mr.. Boyd was signal
and complete Notwithstanding he had
an adroit and fluent adversary to deal
with. The light weight went down
under the stalwart blows of the Demo
cratic champion.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21
Cotton Market Prospects.

The following view of the cotton
market situation is copied from late
circular of Messrs. Smith, Edwards &
Co., the well-known Liverpool cotton
firm
Speaking generally. the supply OF cotton for
the remainder of the year is alarmingly small,
and quite insufficient for the present rate of
consumption.
An immense crop is needed for next year to
meet The worlds consumption. We have now
had two good cotton seasons and it is not
often that three happen consecutiyelv; should
the present one be poor, We may expect time
OF great speculation and feverish changes in
our market, and high range of prices Tor
eighteen months To come
Cotton is quoted in New Orleans at
from 105@134 cents.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21

:, ne loiloWihg letter from the Chan
eellor Of the University, will set at rest
rumors that have gone abroad Of tba
prevalence of sickness at the ;nst;t,,
ton Our State exchanges are reonest
ed to copy it, or to state its contents
to allay uneasiness among the natrons
OF the University:
H. uNIpEssITF OF Mss, OXFORD, May 10, 1879
NY NY DEAR sIR-There have been TO-
eases OF sickness among students an lew
new e @sla. except two There have been no
the aneasiness and alarm that 800, no ,ieed Tor
ibe; OF which parents are sending for
TEr 80 sons, Perphaps it would be well to as al
LIE CLARION, the Vieksburg He'll - ASH
osner papers to announce that there i ~ ana
a.saon whatever for alarm on aeconpt 81 ~ 80; &c
ness at the University 'e''u"' Of sick
Yours truly.
ALEX. p STFwApr
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21

THE House Committee on Levees on
on the Mississippi River have reported
favorabIy on the bill to provide for the
appointment of a Mississippi River
Commission to direct and complete the
surveys of the Mississippi river and
report the result to the Secretary of
War, together with such plans and esti-
mates as will improve the navigation of
the river and prevent destructive floods.
1t authorizes the expenditure of S175,-
900, or so much thereof as may be
necessary to effect the object which such
commission is charged. MessEs. Gibson
and Robertson, Of Louisiana, claim the
paternity of the bill, but the Washing
ton correspondent of the New Orleans
Times telegraphs that ''Gen. Chalmers,
Of the Mississippi delegation, has earn
estly assisted the Louisiana delegation.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21

The necessity of an organization to
protect the cotton planting interest, has
long been needed. Recent events, have
awakened interest in the minds of lead
ing citizens on the subject and they have
formed the MISSISSIPPI, VALLEY CoTToN
PLANTERS ASSOCIATION. The objects
at the organization are presented in
another column, and they are of such
manifest propriety and necessity, that
they should commend the Association
TO the approval and support of every cit
izen interested in the production of the
staple which more than any other con-
tributes to the support of the South and
the wealth of the entire country. We
wish it good speed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21
The DemOeratie-COnSerYative Platform.

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNNfENT
HONEST JURIES.
HONEST COUNT.
no ARMY AT THE POLLS.
UNLIMITED COINAGE OF SILVER.
GREENBACKS FOR NATIONAL BANK
PAPER
BULLION CERTIFICATES.
Y SOUND CURRENCY AND PLENTY
OF IT
NO INCREASE OF THE BONDED
DEBT
LOW TARIFF AND CHEAP GOODS.
40 RESTRICTIONS on THE CARRY
ING TRADE
FAIR DESTRUCTION FOR PUBLIC
IMPROVEMENTS.
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER LEVEE.
\ RAILROAD FROM THE MISSISSIPPI
RIVER TO THE PACIFIC on THE BID
PARALLEL.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21
Ex-Presfdent Davis Forthcoming Work

EDITORS CLARION: In a recent issue Of the
CLARION l notice the reproduction of part of
a statement made in the New York Herald.
Pnrporting to be information derived from ex-
President Davis, with regard to work which
he is said to have in preparation. That state
ment' Ike all Others that have been made in
the newspapers on the same subject. was en-
tIrely unauthorized, as you will observe bv the
subJolned copy of card sent to the Herald
some weeks ago, containing it. The Herald
declined to publish the correction, for what
reason am not informed Be pleased to pub
llsh IN the CLARION, and oblige
Yours very truly
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21
A Matter of History.

By request, a communication which
was published in the Annals of the
Army of Tennessee, is reproduced in our
columns 1t was elected BY the persis-
tent repetition of the misrepresentation
that the Hon. Jefferson Davis as Presi-
dent Of the Confederacv, had discouraged
and defeated attempts to terminate the
war between the States and estab-
| lish peace by negotiation. The charge
/ is not confined TO Northern writers and
| politicians, but it has been repeated over
and over again in the South in defiance
of truth by persons who claimed to be
in a position to know. Recently Hon.
Mr.. Colyar, a prominent citizen of
Tennessee, published it over his own
signature and later still, Hon. Mr..
Foster, formerly of that State, and
member of the Confederate Congress
from Alabama, but now a resident of
Chicago, has given currency through
the press TO the same Misrepresentation.
The impartial readers of the letter else
where published viii see that the facts
therein presented, not only overthrow
the statement, but show that President
Davis availed himself of every
opportunity that offered within tbe
limits of his delegated trust to
put an end by negotiation to the
bloody strife which had been precipita-
ted by the party which, upon a purely
sectional issue, had obtained control Of
the government of the United States.
Ii anything were wanting to complete
the vindication of Mr. Davis, it is sun
piled by the following card which was
published by Hon. r. NJ. T. Hunter.
one Of the Hampton Roads Commits
sioners, several weeks after the over
lures which he and the other Commits
sloners had made for peace, had been
rejected. As Mr.. Colyar has pretended
to use Mr.. Hunters name in support of
his statement, he might study the card
of that gentleman with profit:
Card from R. M T. Hunter.
Richmond Sentinel, March goth, 1861
report seems to have currency to the effect |
that am In favor of IA reconstruction of the |
Old Union, and as this report is not only iniu |
riouS To myself, but may be- perhaps hurtful to |
the country, take this occasion to saw thar i i
entirely erroneous -
There is, perhaps no person in the Confed
eracy To whose feelings and interests such an
event would be more repuenant than IN n1inn
| have always held that we ought to maintain
the struggle for independence SO long as there
Is nope OF success. The Generalin- Chief fGcn.
Lee) and the President of the Confederate |
states, as the highest military authorities are
pest able to understand our resources and pros
pectS While they have hope in the contest. il
% strengthen their hands. But, after ali II is
II sense OF the justice of their cause that tbe
hearts OF our people should be confirmed. And
| Is to the Chief Ruler OF the universe that they
mould mould look Tor and in the mighty struggle in
which they engaged.
LSignedl r. NJ T. HrxTrp
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21
:. NJ. T. HUNTER.
Mississippi at the Medical Convention
in Atlanta

The absence of an Atlanta EXCHANGE
or an official report of the proceedings
of the Medical Association which recent
y met IN that city, and reading partial
reports, betrayed lis into an error of
statement in regard to Mississippi's rep
resentation in that body. So far from
not being represented except by one
member of the medical profession, the
State was represented by number of
her most learned and eminent practition
ers, whose names, as far as we have
been able to obtain them, are: DR..
Sayle, of Aberdeen, President of the
State Medical Association, Drs. Ward.
OF Winona, Brownrigg, ofCoIumbus, Igle-
hart, Of Nicksburg, Ewing, of Aberdeen,
Featherstone, of Macon. Cain. of Oko
Iona, Blanks, of Meridian, Ellis and
Taylor, Of Boonville, Cant, of Water
Valley, Smythe, of Baldwin, and Gas
before mentioned) Carter, of Tippah |
If the names of any others in attendance |
are not IL luded, we beg pardon for the |
omission We need not
add that this service, as with other sim
liar labors, has been rendered by the
medical corps Of the State as free-wiIl
offering for the public good. In the
terrible scourge that smote our people in
towns and neighborhoods last
season, and in the subsequent efforts to
protect them from repetition of the
horror, the physicians of our own State
nave shown true heroism and states
nanship
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21
W. I. WALLTHALL.
NEAR BEAUvoIR STATION
Harrison County Mis- fotb ~ =

iisoh county, Miss, 18th May 1879
EDITOR OF THE New YORK HERA1D.
IN paragraph in circulation tbrouob +ba
press attributed to the Herald is found a stat
meht beginning as follows:
Jef Davis's autobiography. which has bao,
IN course OF preparation for a number Of z.ears
anu announced at various times for M iicatio
Will we are assured by Mr. Davis. he read y
etc, etc. ~ NC ieauy,
Permit me to correct the above bv STATING IN
me hrst place, that no such work has been in
preparation for "a number of wears ;, in ~
sense IN which that expression is uDiversaII,
uaderstood nor, TO be specific, for any number
u years exceeding two at farthest: and i'm the
seeond place that its publication has never he,
Puplciy announced" either bv Mr. Dayis
1 iiiselI, or py any one authorized to speak for
nm. Inc announcements made from time 10
elhe IN the newspapers have been effjreI,, a.,
. oAt2rfzeq ana conjecturaI. They have beSreta-
= 1ie peeh permitted to pass without contradic
' sioii' nut they elicit so many inquiries and i'm
PPose upon Mr.. Davis and the UNDERSIGNED &c
ms assistant, so onerous and unnecessarv a -,
ueI on correspondence, that 1 hone Won LII
P! Ipilsh the foregoing correction and tbat -
'liI ne COPIED as widely as the premature orJ
If n ~ Ecu announcements have been
~ EA-I,resIdent Davis should publish suob a
" oIk as the newspapers have Ied%he nnbIin "a
sAPect' IL VIII no doubt be made known a. III
proper uine and probably in the usual W. INC
very Respectfully,
harrison Co., Miss, goth March. 1870
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
Holly Springs South. !

| holy springs south
The papers in every direction are making
great complaints of the ravages OF the cut
worm. They have been very destructive. not
only in Marshall county, but all over this and
adjoining States and many crops are beiu,
plowed up and planted over.
A large catemount weighing , pounds is
| inches high, and when stretched out measur
ing feet from one extremity of its feet to the
| other, was killed one mile from town on Mon
day morning last by Mr.. Lewis McCIain. Ju-t
before day it entered the yard Of Buren Spight.
(col.) killing one of his geese.
Greenville Times.T
| We clip the following from the GrecnvilI,
| Times: The case of chief interest this week
was that OF the State vs.. 4. w Morrow in
dieted for the murder Of T. w. White, in IS75
-Alessrs. D. >. Morris and r.. McGarr for do
tense Verdict was rendered to-day of guilty.
adJudged Imprisonment for life We eyura-5
the sentiment OF the whole community when
we hail the fact that a white man of means
can be convicted, and Tor the murder of fl
friendless man.
Lexington Advertiser.7
I. L. Morrow, who killed Thoma. + Witt.
In 1919 IN w Washington county, has been tried
at Greenville recently, found guilty Of muir
der, and his punishment fixed bv the mry Al
Imprisonment Tor life. Mr. White was 'r.gr.J
III thus county, and has numerous relatives
and friends here to whom this item will h. ,
matter OF interest
Vieksburg Commercial
Messrs. Hamilton d Hoskins. the contractor.
on the Ship Island railroad. received la, tb...
steamer colorado this morning fine car for
use on the road. The camps of the worLr,o,
are Delng moved to Warrentou and tbr ,,,rL
on thls great feeder to the Hill Citv il b.ir,,
pushed rapidly. '-
Benton Argus
~ we regret to record the death Of Col w T..
~ ION llnson, which occurred at his rc.fdrnc. in
inns county on the 9th inst Col TonIiu-ou
Was an o5d' influential and highly estccme d
munity. ~ WV 0'"
Enterprise Courier
y, MIS- yrs, Anna OEerrall, wife of ,Tudge Chas
FerFall, and daughter of the late Fr,
LsooIrt Mclaln, ID. D., of this place. died M
OIL nome IN Virginia on the Sth inst Judpc
= !. ferT ra, Is brother OF our townsmap Gen.
John w. OFerrall o'''''
Vicksburg Herald
Thomas J. BrdewelI was arrested va.tcr,r,,,
;,l. an alndaylt OF Joseph w. Andrews char
11Is nm with the murder of his brother Wn
NJ P "!Ie"S' on the night of the 18th of March
,ra, -, lieHelI was taken before Justice Loo
nrina*;s oF officer }. w Powell. and ON an
vail - lor continuance being refused he
/ aiFSu an examination. The ab1Iic,t;,r, ,-
oased ON the fact that Capt w r So. "
deh' Wm' +, Fitzgerald were ahsa,, -,
s$ al. witnesses IN the case for defense Gar
i'se.1iG was also counsel for defendant nv,
81 WI VII DC Investigated on an auplicatior f,r
- ~ I''oeas corpus before Jndge Y,,,,,,, a.,
W al Neh- fitzgerald arrives
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21

The Illinois Legislature has passed a
law making all saloons and places where
Intoxicating liquors are sold in which
minors are permitted to play with cards
balls or other instruments of gaming,
dlsorderly houses, and providing that
every proprietor of saloon where such
gaming or playing shall take place, shall
be fined $50 for the first offence and not
exceeding 800 for the second, or be i'm
prisoned. The object of this stringent
law is the prevention of gaming by
youths in saloons.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21
Mr.. Crisler Accepts.

CooPER's WELLS KINDS CO.. May 10, 1879.
EDITORS CLARIoN-After being called upon
by a number of friends to become a candidate
for Representative in the Legislature. and also
seeing a hattering communication IN late
CLARION suggesting me a suitable selection
from this part OF Kinds county, | have CON
cluded to place my name before the Democrat
lie Conservative nominating convention. II
and elected, will with all my pow
ca, aud attention TO business, eudeavor Ia rep
resent the whole people of Kinds county
Yours truly,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21
L DARhsDALE,
jackson MISS, August 3. 1873.
For State Senator-Hon. G. w. Har-
per.


Urea, Miss, May Is, 1879.
EDITORS CLARION: A petition numarops1,,
signed, by many of the best and most snb-
stantlal citizens of Southwest Kinds. was
anGqI ready TO De forwarded to you for publ
cation, calling upon one of Kinds conntyss
patriotic, true, and tried old champions Of The
t'emoeratIe-Oonse party to como ont
I9r the State Senate. But Hon. Geo "
n! Harper seems 10 have anticipated US. and,
the ber caiI fr spoiled the game having accepted
OF Southwest Kinds, regardless of party f bans
4 peculiar affection for Uncle GEORGE w
harper, and | am instructed bv the sionar.
Of TINS petition to say to the old Hero in Their
han names that Southwest Kinds will not forget
nm on next election day. And thar ~
intend to say to him, ''in the evening If W.
me- lie, you shall certainly have bestowed unon
you, what you are pleased to eonsider4 III IN
greatest honor Of your lie . Inc
Respectfully.
n
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21

THE danger Of the introduction of
yellow fever pestilence in the Southern
Atlantic and Gulf ports becomes immi-
nent as the hot season advances, and
still Congress delays the passage of Il
quarantine bill. 1t is no time for pro
crastination. Can't the consideration
OF the army appropriation bills be pre-
Permitted just for Il day in order to
consider this paramount question of life
and death
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21
AN INCOME TAx.-Tbis Is one IF II.

An INCOME TAx-This is one of the
measures of financial reform presented
IN the article on that subject in another
column. We are gratiRed that the
Democrats in Congress are fully alive
to it. On the 18th Mr.. Dibren. Of
Tennessee, moved to suspend the rules
and pass an income tax bill which pro-
yideq th4t tax of two per cent. shall
be levied on all incomes of s., 900 and
less than $4,000, and of three per cent.
On all incomes of $4,000 and over.
Ayes. 10S; nays, lRepqbIicans} "a.
All the members from Mississippi voted
aye except Mr.. Chalmers who was alb
sent.