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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
The Census and Congressional Appor-
tionmentS.

Washington Dispatch to the Cincinnati
Commercial.
The Census Bureau is making rapid pro-
gress in summarizing the results of the
work done by the over thirty thousand emu
merators employed last summer. Delaware
is the first State to be completed, but sever
al others lack only few districts, and their
totals will soon be announced. General
Walker said that he hoped to have tables
showing the whole population of the country
ready to transmit to Congress when it
meets in December. This will be months
earlier than the results of any previous
census were made up, and will render it
possible for the present Congress to make
reapp0rtionment of Representatives for the
next ten years. Heretofore, it has been so
long after the census was taken before
returns were completed that the work of
reapportionment necessarily went over to
the next Congress after the one that was in
existence when the enumeration was
made. IF the Republicans should elect
majority of the next House, the Dem
ocratic majority in the present House
might think they could gain some party
advantage by making the reapportion-
ment themselves. There would be
except that they might make the fractions
the population Of State by the basis Of
representation count in favor If Democratic
rather than Republican States. The ar
ranging of districts to correspond with the
new superintendent Is made bY the State
Legislatures, and from the present indica>
tions the Legislatures Of most Of the North
ern States viii have 3 Republican majority
and thus enable them 70 gerry mander the
districts 20 Is 70 prolong their power.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03


THE last week in Kinds before the
election was one of unusual activity on
the part of the Democracy. Meetings
were held at Utica, Raymond, Terry,
Edwards, Dry Grove and other places
and the feeling was everywhere evinced
that no matter how the election has
gone elsewhere, Kinds county is to be
held fast and rock-bound to her Demo-
cratic moorings. Her people have felt
too keenly in the the past the bitterness
of misrule to consent to it again in the
future; and hence when it was discov-
cred that the Republicans were resort
ing to their old ''secret night" game,
they put on their armor and went to
work in the spirit of men who are de-
termined to conquer, and conquer they
did.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

IT will be seen that the merchants of
Yazoo City have felt themselves called
upon in the interest of truth and of the
cotton producers of that county, to cor
rect mistatement of writer in the
New Orleans Democrat, that the crop
of the county is as large the present
year as the last With knowledge of
the facts, they have asserted that the
falling off will not be less than twenty
five per cent. This is liberal estimate
of this years crop, and we are sure that
it does not underrate the crop of Missis-
sippi generally as compared with that OF
last year
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
Kinds County Redeemed.

There is real cause for rejoicing over
the result of the election in Kinds.
The Democracy have recovered the
ground they lost in 1879, and rolled up
a handsome majority for Hancock and
English.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
By special invitation of the vicksburg

By special invitation of the VickshWrg
authorities, Capt Eads has made a
survey of the river front. A care
full examination confirmed the opinion
he expressed in writing to the Mayor
during his visit last April-namely, that
the river can be forced back Ia its old
channel and thereby give Vicksburg a
good harbor during the entire year. The
cost of the work can only be estimated
after full survey Is made.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
YazOO County Cotton Crop.
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. CORRECTED.


YAzoo CITY, October %, 1880
To the Editor of the N. o. Democrat:
In your paper Of the 23d instant the conn
munication from Vicksburg represents that
the crop in Yazoo county will fully eoual
last years. = This representation is entirely
incorrect. As merchants having daily in
tercourse with planters and farmers from, all
parts of the county, and making it our
special object to ascertain the condition and
prospect of the crop, from information thus
o OBJ; we do not believe this years yield
VIII exceed 70 per cent of last years
BARKsDALE & SMITH,
II. G. SHEPHERD
n. III. LUsE & Co.
II. CRAIG & Sons.
Z. SHAFER,
HIRAM HARRISON.
J. +. POWELL & Co.
J. N. GMRUrH,
d. BUNCH,
J. III. HUNTER.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

EVERY impartial and capable reader
will be struck with the ability of the
reply of "a Mississippi Woman" to the
letter of Judge Chalmers attacking her
proposition that the State should aid in
the endowment of a college for the edu-
casion of the white females of the State
The Judge entered the lists like gal
liant knight with visor up, and in the
onset hurled his lance with all the
vigor of his strong arm, but every i'm
partial observer will see that his fair
antagonist has not only parried his blow
but sent back a staggering one in return.
The lists are open and the public will
look with eager expectation to the
further progress of the controversy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
Mississippi "Solid."

We have no means Of estimating the
Democratic majority in Mississippi, but
it Is large enough for all necessary pur-
poses. The Democrats have held the
fort manfully.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

THE Constitution declares that the
State Legislatures shall prescribe the
time and manner of holding election for
members of Congress. The incidental
power with which they have clothed
them to alter the times and manner of
holding such elections, does not confer
upon Congress the right to punish State
officers of election, to confde ballot-boxes
to the keeping of United States Mar
shals, their deputies and Supervisors,
and yet such is the meaning of the
Federal Election Laws, the object of
which is to place all elections-State,
county and municipal-under the control
offederal officials, who even assume to di-
rect State officers as to their duties and to
inhict penalties for offenses that are de-
fined and punishable under State laws.
The practical working of these laws was
seen in several of the States in the Presi-
Dental and Congressional elections.
During the last four years every attempt
by the Democrats in Congress to repeal
or modify them was baffled by the veto
of the President who owes his place to
a palpable fraud on the people.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

ONE of the most effective speeches of
the canvass just over, was delivered at
Dry Grove by C. s. North. Esq, a
talented young member of the Ray
mond bar. It was a good speech, de-
livered in the right way and at the right
time.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
What Does This Mean P
Terry Enterprise

Terry Enterprise.
The Mayersville Spectator, in two or
three of its recent issues. has limited at some
sort of crookedness, in some insurance
company, and intimated an intention to
make an exposure. What is its What
has happened and where? Out with it.
There must be many people interested in
knowing all there is to know, we might be
one of them. So. let US know all about it.
THE CLARION unites with its Terry
neighbor in the inquiry for an explana-
tion.)
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
Hon. c. E. Hooker Reelected.

The returns show that Col. Hooker
has been reelected from the 9th District
by a handsome majority, doubtless re-
ceiving more votes than all his COM
petitors combined. This is as it should
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

Miss MAGGIE SMITH is one of the best
enrolling clerks that has ever been in
the employ Of the Iowa Senate. She was
nominated By the Republicans Of Davis
county for the position of County Re-
corder at the late election. Consider
ing her sex and qualifications. but for
her political surround inys Ne would car
tain1y have wished Miss Maggie success
III her nsrir1Eols.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
The Congressional Election in Mis-
sisslppi.

At this writing we may announce the
certain election of Hon. H. l.. Muldrow
in the 1st District Hon. Van H.
Manning, in the ID Hon. H d. Money
in the Sd; Hon. O. r. Singleton in the
4th and Hon. G. +. Hooker in the 9TH
We have not received sufficient returns
to warrant positive statement that
Hon. j. r. Chalmers is reelected.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
Starting ont RIGHT.
POrt Gibson Rerielle.l

III OtDSon Revlelle.
-. Our young friend Willie McCav. son Of
q me late Col. R. @. McCay, having reached
s.as magical age FL and having forgotten to
~ 'seeI, rooe down from Rocky Springs. 20
- ';..-, o.S.anL, last Saturday evening, 70 put
g.. name on the roll Of the suffragans.
SIerk Jen smith left his home. struef hi-
.lgnts ana soon made the young nan 4
tos.n8 man. Willie has made brisf afarf
n fhe pathway ol "a just.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
The State Grange.

The State Grange, composed Of as
intelligent and public-spirited a mem
bership as any body in the State, will
meet at Brookhaven December 18th.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

A LIST prepared At the POstofHee De
parment shows that the commissions Of
Presidential post-masterz 1t the following
Offices IN Mississippi. win expire between
December 1st and March 9Th next !:
Canton, Columbus, Holly Springs and
Port Gibson.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

TENNESSEE has elected Republican
Governor in consequence of division
of the Democratic vote between two
Democrats. The State goes for Hancock
by 40, 900 majority.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
as reduced in quantity.

THE latest statement of the quantity of
gold and silver coin in the treasury and in
the country strikingly refutes Secretary
Sherman's pretence, and that of his echoes,
that silver will not go into circulation and
is becoming a nuisance. The total gold coin
in the country October 1, was 1899, SS1 900,
and of silver $149, 7O9, O0O-so that there is
more than twice as much gold as of silver in
the country. The amount of gold in the
treasury is 1892, 244, 900, and of silver $751;
000,000-so that the treasury vaults are
burdened with nearly twice as much gold
coin and bullion as silver coin and bullion.
Mr.. Sherman and his echo. when the silver
bill was pending, took the ground that the
coinage of silver dollars would drive gold out
of the country and limit us to deprecated
silver as the only metal money; but the
theory has certainly not been verified yet.
So far from it, gold has been accommodating
in the country ever since we remonetized
and revived the coinage ofsilver-very clear
ly demonstrating Secretary Sherman and the
Eastern bankers are not as truthful prophets
on the subject as they imagined.-St. Louis
Republican.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

LOVE CGreenbacker) is reelected to
Congress in the Huntaville (AIa.) Dis
trict.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
How the Case Stands.

From the mass of returns, the follow
ing table exhibiting the probable result
of the Presidential election, has been
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

The election was held in the midst
of the trial over the Garfield Chinese
letter. 1t had progressed far enough to
prove that the letter was genuine, and
that Garfield in denying its authorship
proved himself falsifer The Chair
man of the National Republican Exec
utive Committee virtually admitted his
belief in Its genuineness by endeavoring
to bride the editors of the Truth news
paper to admit that they had been
deceived.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
GARFIELD.
HANCOCK.

Necessary to q choice, 1s5.
P s. The latest Republican summa-
RES coneede California and Nevada to
the Democrats.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

CAPT. EADs' Jetties have had re-
markable effect on the commerce of the
Mississippi Valley. Since January 1st
St. Louis has shipped to Europe twice
as much grain by way of New Orleans
as passed out of the country by that
route in the corresponding period of
last year. 1t is said that the shipments
are at present limited by the want of
barges, &C., with which to move the
grain, and fleets of boats are being
built to supply this want.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
a Good Democratic Record.


Tribune, an able organ of the privileged
orders and monied oligarchists, who
have grown powerful by Republican
legislation in their interest at the ex-
pense of the mass of the people, publish
ed the following statement from the
Congressional Record showing the action
of the Republican and Democratic par
ties, on the ,Silrer Question. The state
ment was made, as the St. Louis Re
publican correctly suggests, for effect In
the Eastern States where the Silver Bill
was odious to the powerful banking and
monied interests. These classes prefer
ed and still prefer, and still demand, q
single metallic currency Of gold. The
Tribune set out TO prove, and succeeded,
that the Democrats in Congress were, as
a party, in favor of the Bla nd Silver Bill
to ssauthorize the free coinage of the
standard silver dollar and to restore its
legal-tender character" and that the Re-
publicans were, as party, opposed to
it. Here are the several votes on the
bill as given in the Tribune (:
THE BLAND SILVER DOLLAR.
Vote on the "Act to authorize the free
coinage % Tue is sia .dnr cbaractern in tbe
House, Nov. 5, 1877:
For; Against
ISe t puma az 10
-
Total..........-.......;..-:.-.--'. %
to'9 $50 ~ asa'E Eob * 1873
For. Against
Republlcans..-...'......'''.''..'.' 90 20
-
Total...::........;.. .-:;;... -. 40 2
III inc iiou''' ! CO. - For AGAINST
Republicans. ........................129
Democrats ........'.'.-.'-...''.''''. - ''
TotaI 2O3 7.
II will no soon that the Tribune sue
ooo1od ad,,;rablv IN ira attemnt to show
10 Domocrots IN CONGRESS- as a party
,roro :, e,vor NJ tho communication OF
silver and that the Republicans who
rorroscptad tho bondboldine oligarchy
oo-oinst tho interest Of the neople wer,
80 to;t Tbo Democratic Renre
I'd Senators who voted 70,
! - IN .r,,o.o,,+,d tho naorla
h,,t tl,o ,ru of tho neonle Rut the wish
~ 1a.4o 80 aorr;od ont in mar
onI, Tho silver dollar was not re-es
tabIisbod az the unit of value. Tn
ooinooe IF tho metal was not unlimite,
IT'LL g., H. establishment y
:, 80 H. = ,xo
-. -. 80. otoI bv III,
e 49, oon+rihu+ed h,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

A WELL posted newspaper correspon-
dent says that the coming President will
probably have it in his power to APP
point majority of the Judges of the
United State Supreme Court. Justices
Hunt and Clifford are both suffering
from paralytic strokes, are unfit for ac-
tive service and it is not probable that
they will remain upon the bench much
longer. even though they partially re-
cover health Justice Swayne is 75
years old, and Justice Strong is ~. 1t
is said that both of them contemplate
retiring, as they have the right to do.
Justice Miller has been on the bench
twenty years, and is So years of age.
He, too, has the right to retire. JUS
tice Bradley is 81, and will probably re-
main on the bench for some years yet.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

THANKS to our friends for their
promptnessein sending us election re-
turns We have an avalanche Of good
news from Mississippi.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
Town Election.

A special election for one Mayor and two
Aldermen for the town of Raymond was
held Monday, which resulted in the election
of Sam d. Harper as Mayor, and NJ. Ward
and c. S. North as Aldermen.-Hinds
County Gazette.
We congratulate our junior neighbor
of the Gazette, upon his election to the
Mayorship of our county capital.
Trained in the paths he should follow,
and faithful over few things, he will
be ruler over many. The people will bid
him, come up higher.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

CONGRESS needn't put itself to the
trouble Of passing an Electoral Com
mission bill to count in Garfield
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

THE overwhelming Democratic ma
jority in Mississippi Is like "the shadow
Of great rock in weary land"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
The Majority Kept Up to High Water
Mark y!

We are indebted to Hon. W. L. Hemingway,
Chairman: of the State Executive Committee
for some OF the dispatches copied below, and to
our correspondents for others. So far as Mis-
sissippi is concerned, it is glory enough for one
day.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

If the Democratic victory of 1876
had not been thrown away, the path to
success in 1880 would have been easy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

Mo4ron-Our box cast rs votes for Ham
cock and English. solid. Very quiet-about
one-third vote. Singleton resolved the same
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

IL the death of Bishop Doggett, of
Richmond, the Southern Methodist
Church has lost one Of her great pillars
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

THE House of Representatives will
have a small Republican majority.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

1t has been wonder that IN their ca
reer of Vandalism in which old land
marks however sacred, or essential, we're
torn down and obliterated, the lines of
the imperial county of Kinds were left
untouched by the carpet-baggers and
their allies. In their saturnalia, she
was left unshorn Of her grand
dimensions, and since, she remains
as in ante-bellum days, second to
but one other county in the State
in wealth and population. And there are
portions of the county, which present
picture of cultivation, thrift and pros
perity, unequaled even in the palmy
days of old before her soil was pressed
by the invader in the footprints Of whose
war steeds, the observation concerning
the ravages of Attila, the scourge, might
be applied to some portions ofthe South,
that the green grass never grew. In
W hat is known as the Alabama settle
ment," extending over an area of six or
eight miles, in Southwestern Kinds,
the signs Of thrift and prosperity are
seen in the well-fenced farms, COM
Portable houses, good crops, and
well fed herd of cattle and of sheep.
Soon after the war, a settler from Ala
bama looking out for better location,
pitched his tent in that region. Enticed
by his report of its advantages of soil
and climate, others followed his exam
pie, and still others, until it became in
fact, an Alabama community. In the
entire settlement, they are all of the
same political faith. They irresistably
take to the party of honesty, economy,
conservatism and the good government.
The Natchez and jackson Railroad will
penetrate the settlement. 1t will bring
market to their doors and nothing
will be needed to complete its prospect
ty. Utica, which bids fair to develop
into a thriving inland city when the
road is completed, will be the centre of
trade for this Furnishing community.
IT will be found when the cotton crop
is all in market that the statements Of
yield exceeding that Of last year,
which have been made in the interest Of
spectators, are all fallacious. Making
every allowance for the natural increase
Of the labor force and the additional
area in cultivation, the crop cannot
exceed that of last year, and our belief,
founded upon the best information we
have been able to obtain, is that it will
fall below it. This opinion is met by
the reply that the receipts have ex-
ceeded those Of last year at the cores
ponding period two hundred thousand
bales. But it must be remembered that
picking, owing to the early maturity of
the crop, commenced earlier this season
than last year and planters have lost
no time in getting their crops to market.
| The time for the deficit has not yet
come; but it will come, or we have
been entirely misled by reports of the
damage to the crop from excessive rains
in the latter part of August and con-
tinuing at intervals through Septem-
Der and October And not the least
part of the misfortune is that the
crop has been injured in quality as well
as reduced in quantity.
-~@)N~-
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The The Result.

The Democrats may have lost the
Presidency But all is not lost I'm
mortal hate Of Radicalism, the uncon-
querable will, the courage never to
yield nor to despair in the advocacy Of
the righteous cause of constitutional
liberty True Democrats, so far from
faltering, will keep the standard Of their
faith full high advanced, and be ready
for the conflict whenever the bugle
sounds to action:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

-htdsCh COuutmus
When the faint and the feeble deplore,
Be firm as the rock of the ocean that stems
A thousand wild waves of the shore
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The Teachers Institute at Newton

BELEN-Quitman county has gone Demo
cratic by a small ma Ority. J. F. PHIPPs.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-10-27
TuE CHINISsE LETTER.

The attempt TO make out the Chinese
letter genuine is one of the silliest pieces of
folly ever attempted. If there was such
man as NIoREY, why is not ho or his aunt,
sister or cousin produced?
II there was an employers union in Lynn
why are not some of its members produced?
Is it probable that any agent of an employ
ers' union would write TO any member Of
congress in behalf of his association and
keep the letter in his pocket, 50 that it was
never heard of till after his death?
Is it probable that any such agent, trying
TO secure sympathy from public men, should
write only TO single member Of congress
Is 1t probable that an agent of union
would reside in one town and have his
mail sent to the postoilicc of another town
Is it probable that in a town like Lynn
an employers union could exist and none
of the employers he known?
Is ii probable that an employers union
would accept an agent entirely unknown
to them, or any Of them, or to the directory,
or the roslollicc, or TO the workmen, aud
whose character, antcccdents, qualifications
aud boarding place even were entirely UNI
known
Is it probable that an agent of a union
desiring legislation should neglect to write
TO the chairman Of some committee and adj
dress only member OF the minority, which
has no control over legislation?
Is it probable that an agent of union
would neglect to write to the member of
congress of his own district who would be
acquainted with more or less of the EN-
ployes in town like Lynn, and send his
communication TO stranger and represent
alive of another state?
Is it probable that an agent should get
an answer of sympathy for his employees
| from distinguished man like GARFIELD
and not show some of the letter, so as to
have it talked about and considered at
some of the meetings of the union?
Is it probable that such an important let
ter should fall into the hands of new aud
comparatively unknown paper as the one
which first published it?
These utter improbabilities, taken in con-
nection with the post-mark, misspelling
in the letter and general non-conformitY to
GARFTELD's handwriting make out case
of glaring forgery too manifest for any
showing up, even without q denial from
General GARFIELD.