The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-10-13

The st. L0uis GlObe-Democrat OF
recent date pubIisbes the. result Of an
interview with Dr. J. NJ Bynum. the
Census Supervisor Of the ID District
which is so full of misrepresentation and
bitterness towards the people in whose
control the administration Of the affairs Of
Mississippi has been confided, that its au-
thenticity has been questioned. Il viii
remain for him to disavow the slanderous
accusations, or to take the consequences.
BY the way how comes it that the ap-
pointment Of a man who holds such
opinions concerning the people Of his
State, was confirmed a. Census Supervi-
sor by Democratic Senate? How was
he an improvement upon Capt. Buch-
anan who was rejected
We notice that the Macon Sun has
has piIoried one Sanders, who claims to
/ live in Noxubee, and is i'll the North
retailing blood-curdling stories abont the
people Of Mississippi.
And still another man named \. NJ.
+ Hardy, who calls himself carpet-bag-
ger and pretends to hail from Natchez,
is engaged in the same occupation Of
manufacturing fabulous stories, one Of
which is thus told. In ii speech at
Clinton, Indiana, he manufactured the
following to order:
Once while over 200 man had assembled
to havd a Republican meeting and speaking
they were surrounded by large band Of
armed and mounted Democrats who threat-
ened their lives and finally broke up the
meeting They returned to watch and
the negroes assembled in a small church
five milos away A soon as they learned
this fact every member OF that murderous
gang mounted and rode out there, surroun-
ded the building and began mercilesslv
firing ing into the house. And one bali
went clear through the walls and hit their
leader square between the eyes. In two
days he died from the effects of the wound
and on his death bed he confessed that he
had been killed by his own men. But
as soon as the firing became so furious
that to remain was dangerous, the negroes
began to Jump from the windows and
doors Twenty nine of them were captured
and under the pretcXt OF going t. the cOun-
ty seat for their trial they marched them
away miles and kept them until morning
Then they appointed one OF their members
to act as Judge and the others made up jury
and prosecuting witnesses. Every one OF
those negroes were tried for their lives and
sentenced to death. They tisen marched
them two or three miles until they came to
clearing. Clustering the poor detenceess
negroes together they formed about them
with their guns and at tie bcst fire t,reHtg
sir feH dead and nortally wounded, two es~
caaed aud an old man who was badly
/ wounded 50 that be couldr. walk crawIed
/ 10 his home, where he was afterwards hunt
ed dn,vr; hy some Of this same gang, who pre-
tended to be doctors, taken from hls wife
and innocent children, into the yard and
+ there their hellieh work was completed
/ land sir othey genHemen cisited the cledfiRg
some oays after and saW % deqd todtes tying
/ fhere IN the san ,rit coreriag oRty - teoG@-e
! tie 1yey of yultures AMI tcdH animals. ind
these bodies ,oere not Lgfief 0aH after CHRIST
mus
The foregoing Is It specimen. Ii -
hardly necessary to say that it is Il lie
out Of whole cloth.
The statement of the New York EX-
press that Il party Of wealthy men
called upon Gen. Hancock and told him
that if he would agree to appoint man
of their choice as Secretary Of the
Treasury, they would raise campaign
fund of $3.50, 900, and that Gen. Ham
cock declined tie proposition with the
declaration that if he could not he
elected President unpledged, he would
not have the ohice-has not been con-
tradicted, The opinion is prevalent
that the author Of the proposition Is
Mr.. August Belmont, the agent of the
great European capitalists who own
large sums of United States Bonds.
Belmont was deposed from the Chair
manship Of the Democratic Executive
Committee in 1868, and it was believed
at the time that through his influence
the New York World, protesting
to be Democratic journal, came out
against Gov. Seymour on the eve Of
the Presidential election of that year
for the reason that the Convention
which nominated him adopted a plat
form declaring that where the obliga-
tons Of the goVefEmeEt % not pear on
their face the pledge that they shall ~
paid in coin and ii i not 50 written in
the law under which they were 'sSned,
it is the right of the government to pay
them in greenbacks.
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Another Campaign lie Exploded.
The Washington Post says that the
report which has been made by the spe-
oial agents dispatched by the Census bu-
reau to investigate the Irregularities al
legged TO exist in the returns Of the
Southern supervisors develops the fact
that the census Of 1880 is correct. That
=" was entirely wrong The cen
900 -'iehted their worry,