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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

THE Lauderdale Review thinks it ga
pretty well settled fact that the choice
of this State lies between Seymour and
Hancock" The Review is not far
wrong; but above this feeling is still an
other, and it is that any Democrat who
has been named in connection with the
nomination would be preferable to an
other reign of Grantism. By the way,
there is good Presidential timber in
Speaker Randall.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

The Senate and House have at last
concurred in bill for the prevention
of the introduction and spread of yellow
fever and other malignant diseases in
our State. Recent reports of the oc-
currence of fatal cases of the yellow
fever on board of United States vessels
Immediately south of our borders, have
shown the necessity of immediate legis-
lation.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10
SOUTH CAROLINA has recently given

SOUTH CAROLINA has recently given
much attention to the manufacture of
cotton, especially to the preparation of
yarn for the Northern markets. There
are now III that State eighteen cotton
factories. They are worth near IS, 000,-
900, and make over 100000 yards of
cloth and many thousands pounds of
yarn per day. They use up daily 81
O49 pounds of cotton and give work to
1926 operatives, two-thirds of whom
are women.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10
Grant as q Conservative.

Il i strange, but true, that under
this heading, the New York Tribune,
one of the Republican newspapers
which oppose the nomination of Gen.
Grant, has reproduced the following
passages from his record to show that
in the event of his election for another
term, his course towards the South
will not be what the stalwarts of his
party might desire. The first extract
is taken from his report to President
johnson in 1865, when he was instruct
ed to make a tour of inspection through
the Southern States, and report the re-
suit. He said:
/ am satisfied that the mass of thinking
men of the South accept the present situa-
ton OF affairs in good faith. The questions
which have heretofore divided the senti-
ments of the people ofthe two sections
they regard as having been set
tied forever by the highest tribunal-arms.
X There is such nnivarsaI ao.
qniesence in the authority of the General
government that the
mere presence of a military force, without
regard to numbers, is sufficient to maintain
order. Ny observations
lead me to the conclusion that the citizens
of the Southern States are anxious TO return
to self-government within the Union as
soon as possible; that
they are in earnest in wishing to do what
they think is required by the Government
This was written when Gen. Grant
was supplemented soldier, untaught
in the methods of the cunning and un-
scrupulous demagogue When he be-
came President, and fell into the hands
of agitators and corruptionists, he went
back upon his own evidence, and by his
treatment of the South evinced his I'M
willingness to stand by his declaration. |
But here is something more to the
point. 1t is his latest official action
his famous letter to Packard, the usurp-
ing Governor of Louisiana, refusing to
support him in his pre.ensions to the
governorship of that State with the
United States army. 1t is this position
Of President Grant, which, according to
the late Senator Morton, rendered the
for fraudulent President
Hayes, inevitable" in dealing with the
South. Gen. Grant, he said, had set
the example of disseminating the policy
of armed interference with her affairs,
and Hayes had no other alternative but
to follow it. The language of
General Grant shows that his
determination had been formed
'by the force of public opinion" not
from his own sense of right, nor his OBJ
legations to refrain from doing what was
not authorized by the constitution he
had sworn to support. 1t will be easy
for him to discover another change in
''public opinion if he should be elected
for third term, from which calamity
may the sober, second thought of the
country, and the will of the good Lord
deliver US:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

ANTI~GRANT men with Democratic pro-
clivities have no business in Republican
caucuses; they should join the party of
caste and fraud without delay.-Concord
On. H. Monitor.
How about Grant men with Republi-
can proclivities? Have they any bust
ness in Democratic caucuses?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10
Republican state Convention

Mr.. George NJ. Buchanan, Chairman
of the Republican State Executive Com
mittee, calls a State Republican Conven-
ton at jackson. May 9th, toappoint dele
gates to the National Convention of
that party.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

IT is asserted that from 1000 to TO-
600 miles of railroad will be built in the
United States this year. The Southern
Pacific, the Texas Pacific, the Utah
Northern, the Northern Pacific and
other shorter lines are all hard at work
extending their roads, and many of the
older roads are relaying their tracks.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

The announcement of the hegira of
the Chinese, of California, for the At
lantic States, has led the Natchez Demo-
crat to indite sensible article in favor
of experimenting with Chinese labor in
the South as an offset to the negro exc
dus to the West. A good suggestion.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

Col. WIN. HANDY, of Canton, has
been appointed, and confirmed by Con
gress, Supervisor of the Second district,
which embraces the following counties:
Second district.-Noxubee Winston, At
tala, Holmes, Madison, Rankin, Simpson,
Lawrence, Marion, Leake, Neshoba, Kem@
per, Lauderdale, Newton, Scott, Smith,
Jasper, Clarke, Wayne, Jones, Gown gton,
Perry, Greene, Jackson, Harrison and
Hancock-26.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

THE Senate bill recognizing the Uni
versity debt, and providing for the an
nual payment of thirty-two thousand
dollars interest on same, in lieu of year
ly appropriations, passed the House
last Wednesday.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

THERE is an unacccuntable delay in
the report of the Mississippi River Conn
mission, and without it, no legislation
win be undertaken for, improving the
Of The river.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

The Virginia "readjusters" (repu-
diators) seem to have been badly sold
They made a compact with the African
element, carried the Legislature, and
have matured a bill saving the State
about 100000, and issuing new
bonds at low interest for the balance,
about $18,O0O,OO. But behold, the
bondholders have addressed some kind
of argument to the colored allies that
have induced them to change front );
and the probabilities are that the ere
adjusters" will find that their nicely laid
scheme has come to grief.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

We are glad to say that the bill pro-
viding for an enumeration of the popu-
lation the present year with view to
new legislative apportionment, has pass
ed both Houses.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

The Columbus Dispatch reminds the
Legislature that obligation with a rail-
road defendant is generally like betting
on poker against man who holds four
aces"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

THERE is cry of distress from Brazil,
Of famine starvation and pestilence. The
cause Of the famine is a two years
drouth, literally whitening and killing
out the resources of what is usually
a productive agricultural district.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10
Campbell's Mississippi Code.

The Legislature, on yesterday, adopt
ed Joint Resolution giving to the new
Code just adopted, the title of Camp
bells Mississippi Coda very proper
compliment to the learned and pains
taking codifer, Judge j. A. P Campbell.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

PENDING the revenue bill, Mr.. Car
roll, ofOktibbeha, introduced an amend
ment to strike out the clause imposing
a privilege tax of ten dollars on physi-
clans. The types Gin our Tuesdays
daily, enormously credited Mr.. Cowan
with the motion
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

THE Canton Citizen is glad to learn
that the appointment Of Col. William
Handy, as supervisor of the second census
district, will meet no opposition in the
Senate and will doubtless be confirmed.
We hope so. His appointment is uni
versally admitted to be proper one.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

THE bill of Senator jackson to pen
sion manned and disabled Confederate
soldiers failed in the Senate by having
been loaded down with irrelevant
amendments embracing wider scope of
charities than was designed by its au-
thor. 1t was a meritorious measure
and deserved better fate
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10
Mississippi State Medical Association.

The thirteenth annual meeting of this As
ISOLATION will be held in the city of Vicks--
burg on the seventh of April next. All
members of the Association, and all physi-
clans in the State in good standing, DESTROYS
of becoming members are earnestly request
ed to be present.
Application has been made to the various
lines Of transportation leading to the city
for reduction of fare to those attending the
meeting. The hotels have agreed TO enter
tain the members at reduced rates The
committee Of arrangements are doing all in
their power 10 make the coming session an
agreeable and profitable reunion of the ply
sicians of our State, and hope there viii be
a large attendance.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

Mr.. MORRISON, of Illinois, has intro
duced bill in Congress, which pro
poses a reduction of one-half of the
present duties on nearly every item in
the tariff list.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

The three political National Conven-
tions will be held in June-that of the
Republicans in Chicago June 3; that of
the Greenbackers in Chicago June 10 /;
and that Of the Democracy in Cincinnati
June %
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

KANSAS isn't sick all over with negro
immigration. We have before us the In
dex published at Minneapolis, Ottawa
county, Kansas, containing call for
meeting to devise means to secure to
this, county its share of the said immi-
grafton. The colored people, when they
are seized with the immigration fever,
will not forget Minneapolis, Ottowa
county, Kansas. They are wanted
there.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10
The Pending Presidential Election.

L regard the coming struggle as one of life
or death to free government in this coun-
try, believing that unless the Democratic
party shall attain to power there is no lon
ger hope that the people will be permitted
to control their own elections. Force and
Fraud, under the @gis of national authori-
ty, welded by reckless partizanship, aud
bolstered by political adjudications will be
omnipotent TO determine the Presidential
succession, and maintain a supremacy over
the North similar to that so long inflicted
upon the South. The politics of the nation
will then rapidly descend from peaceful
adjustments by the ballot to sanguinary
struggles and desperate chances in the field
B. CRATE Brown.
(In the same letter the writer (Ex-
Gov. Brown of Missouri declares his
preference for Gov. Seymour, on the
ground Of craftsmanship and available
ty.)
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10
Thurman to the rrnnt

special to the Cincinnati Commercial
w AsHINGToN, March 8.-Tbera sro No.
anulcatlona here of a boom for TbTr 49,
esPeolaiIy among those Democrats WI o.
s s,eig very nervous over the strenot6 ~
Eeloped by Tilden. Gentlemen FINN So "a ~
be eiI say th1t If Tilden is nominated it viii
for hi hi possible even to carry the solid Soutb
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, March l, 1877.
70 Governor S. B. Packard, New Orleans,

10 Governor S. B. Packard, New Orleans,
La:
In answer to your dispatch of this date
the President directs me to say that he feels
1t his duty to state frankly that he does not
believe public opinion will longer support
the maintenance OF State Government in
Louisiana by the use of the military, and
that he must concur in the manifest feel
ing. The troops will hereafter, as in the
past, protect life and property from mob
violence when the State authorities fail,
but, under the remaining days of his official
lfe they will not be used to establish or
pull down either claimant for the control of
the State. 1t is not his purpose to recog-
nize either claimant
@ @ SNIEEEN Sncrntnr,r
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10
A Good Appointment.
'ascagoula Democrat-star.l

I ascagouIa Democrat-Star.1
VINE me re-apPointment of JUDGE co,r,s
y |" ooi as chIaneelloE Of this judicial distriet
- teiilllnently proper, and one that will oivo
T Won satisfaction to the people. CbancelioT
T y 3oa Is an able, conscientious. uDrig6t
"HW8Eei good lawyer and a clever Gentlemen
we rejoice in his re-appointme1t
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

Ir has not been defnitly ascertained
but the general belief is that no Re
publicans or Conservative Grant Re
publicans will be admitted into the
Democratic Convention, or caucus,
which dominates a President in June
next.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

CONTRARY to what one has before sta
ted, all the negro Republican) mem
bers of the Virginia Legislature voted
for the bill to repudiate SO, 900, 900. of
the bondeddebt of the State. The Gov
ernor has vetoed the bill.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

By law passed in 1879, Massachu-
sets accorded to women the right OF
voting for school sficers, and by a law
passed one or two years previous. thew
were made eligible to be School Com
missoners.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

The Democrats in Congress are pro-
posing to remove the tax of IS cents a
pound from tobacco. The measure
is right. There is no more jus
tice in taxing tobacco than wheat, or
any other article of production.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

The contested election case in Yalo-
busha, having resulted in favor of Mr.
L. K. Wilson (the late, as well as pres
ent Sheriff that gentleman continues
in the discharge of the duties of the of.
ice. The contestant, Mr.. Pearson. has
taken an appeal to the Circuit Court
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

Could NoTSTAND THE RAcKEr.-The
President has withdrawn the nominal
ton of Governor Pinchback to be naval
officer at New Orleans.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

THE able speech of Hon. w. B.
Gum, of Clay, in favor of the Humph-
ries Railroad Bill will be found else
where. 1t produced decided impress
sion upon the House at the time and
reflects great credit upon lis author.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

FRED DOUGLASS, too, is for Massa
Grant. Here is what he says;
1t was not difficult matter to get Mr..
Douglass to talk about President-making.
He Is pronounced Grant man. Said he:
The Ex-President will without doubt be
nominated and will be the strongest candi-
date that We can select. Mr.. Sherman NAV
manage to get some of the Southern dele
gates to the National Convention, but Gen
eral Grant will have large majority of
them. Pennsylvania is safe to vote for
him and the New York delegation under
Senator Conkling will stand by him to the
last ditch"
"Will Grant go into contest in the
Convention ?'
'lf necessary, yes
What effect will the nomination of Grant
have upon the South %
He will carry South Carolina The fact
is we are tired of this bulldozing, and Grants
candidature will stop it, | think that with
him as candidate we will have a chance in
Florida and possibly Louisiana. That he
will be nominated / think is foregone
conclusion now"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

&C. 1fENERAL CHALMERS, of ATississipni Bgs
~ to On three weeks visit to his home
Wbodo do M wv. al nla his wife and daughter,
80 nat expect to return during tbe nres.
snt seasOn'-Washington Telegraph.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

THE Virginia Legislature has repeal
ed the Mofat Bell Punch Liquor Law,
and re-established the license system, to
go into effect May l.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10
New York Cotton nra,.ns.

NEW YORK, March 9.-Cotton is still adj
yanelng- The stock here is about three hun
f Ilee thousand bales, against which about
mali a million bales have been sold.
Liverpool and Manchester frmer.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10
me Newton Knight Relief Bill.


IN another column We have printed
the bill. which = friend at Washington
has been considerable enough to send US,
that was introduced by Bruce few
DAYS ago, in the United States Senate,
for the '.relief" OF Newton Knight and
other persons therein mentioned. 1t
was introduced by unanimous consent,
read twice and referred to the Committee
on Claims. The bill, if passed, would
be a fraud on the government. 1t is
predicated on the fiction that the par
ties for whose benefit it purports to have
been offered, rendered the United States
Government service as knights Com
pany United States Infantry" in the
late sectional war. From what we can
learn, there was no such company mus
tered into the United States Army
The pretended military company,
as we are informed, was, for
the most part a band of bushwack-
ers, deserters from the Confederate
army, and persons who escaped the Wig
lance Of conscript officers, and from
hiding places carried on a sort of
business at the expense of
their neighbors who were in the South
ern army. a portion of them took
refuge under the Butler government in
New Orleans and never returned.
Some ofthe elan still live in the vicini-
ty where they formerly resided, and
have become law-abiding, good citizens.
They were probably mislead in the first
instance. Knight himself, the chiefben-
eficiary and the head of the clan,
still lives in the Southern portion of
Jasper county, and is truly loyal in
living up to the social equality doc
trines of the extreme Radicalism which
he inculcates by precept and example,
Is essential elements of loyalty. We
are not prepared to forecaste the fate of
the Bruce bill; but it is due to candor
to say that it is a fraud in the presump-
tons that Knight and his clan were a
Of United States soldiers.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

JUST now while some of our law-mak-
ers are thinking seriously of abolishing
the Office of Commissioner of Immigra-
ton, and while many are disposed to do
nothing substantially for encouraging
immigration into our State, Rev. DIR.
G. K. Marshall comes OPPORTUNITY
before the public with paper on the
subject teeming with practical ideas ex-
pressed in the original and terse style
peculiarly his own. 1t will be found in
another column,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

REPRESENTATIVE LOWE, of Alabama,
has introduced bill in the lower house
Of Congress to refund the cotton tax.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

They are hard on tramps in Rhode
Island. They punish them by i'm
prisonment in the State work house a.
hard labor for one year.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10

PEcHRAcK has been appointed Naval
officer et New Orleans, in place q
Lewis. another Republican q tie eo /.
eFed persusaioa, -
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10
Amite County REPRESENTATIVES.


A visitor at the Capital has been
taking notes, and reports his obserya-
tions through the Liberty Herald.
Here is what was ascertained in refer
ence to the representatives of Amite
county-Messrs. Love and Johns.
Its accuracy will be attested by their
brother members, and by the record,
which, after all, is the best test:
Amite is ably represented. w f. Love
Is one ofthose earnest workers who is ever
watching with eagle eye the interest of the
whole people, without reference to race,
color or previous condition. He is al
ways ut his post, and IS laboring to have
the reforms adopted by the last Legislature
carried out by the present. Amite is fortu-
nate in her selection, and it is to be hoped
that she will again return him at the next
election. Amite' may rest assured that
there are no "snaiks" in the bills that
Love votes for Speaker Johns is one of
those atfabie and pleasant gentlemen who it
is always pleasure to meet. His impair
tial rulings aud Job-like patience under
all circumstances has won him many
laurels, and endeared him to every member
of the House Amite and Lincoln could do
no hettor than to send him back rs long as
he will come
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-10
A BILL
For the relief of Newton Knight and others,
citizens of u ississippi therein named

/ For the relief of Newton Knight and others,
| citizens of Mississippi, therein named.
| BE it enacted By the Senate and House OF
Representatives. Of the United States of amer
lea Ia Congress assembled, That the Secretary
Of the Treasury be, and he is hereb
authorized to pay, out of any moneys in ii
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 10
Newton Knight, two thousand dollars; to J
NJ. Valentine, one thousand eight hundred
dollars to Simeon Collins, one thousand six
hundred dollars; to j. J. Collins and w. 2.
Iumbow, each three hundred and fifty dol
lars; to Alpheus Knight and S. G. Owens,
each three hundred and twenty-five dol
lars and to Tapley Bynum, p. NJ Bynum,
Montgomery Blackburn, J. w. Blackwell,
J. NJ. Collins, B. II. Collins, NJ. c. Collins,
NJ. NJ. Goals, 5. @. Coleman, B. H. Cawley
K. j. Collins, James Ewlen, J. A. Gunter,
Tucker Gregg, Il. IL. Hinton, John Hogan,
J. NJ. Hathorn, G. NJ Hathorn, w. B.
Jones, III. w. Rurven, 5. w. Curven, J. NJ.
Knight, q. II. Knight, H. c. Knight, B. H.
Knight, Lazarus Mathews, a, McDaniels.
G. III. Prime, Daniel Redock, w. W. Sum-
rail-, John j. Valentine, Patrick Valentine,
NJ b. Valentine, r. II. Valentine, Elijah
Wilbon, T. L. Welch, r. J. WEIGH, w. NJ
WEIGH, G. r. Welch, Y. Wilbon, w. Y.
Wilbon, n. Y. Whitehead, G.. j. White
head, =. w Whitehead, James Yates,
Thomas Yates, Joseph Vaughn, and Moses
Richardson, or their representatives, each
the sum of three hundred dollars, the same
being for services as officers and members
of Knights company, United States infant
~. during the years eighteen hundred and
eighteen hundred and sixty
four, and eighteen hundred and sixty-five