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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21
HOUSE.

Mr.. Forney, of Alabama, introduced a
bill to provide for disposing of the lands
embraced in the abandoned homestead en-
tries in the States of Florida, Mississippi,
Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas.
ByMr. Mckenzie: Abolishing duty on
salt. Also, to permit tobocco growers to sell
$1,000 worth free from internal revenue
tax.
By Mr.. Turner: To abolish the duty on
trace chains, and all agricultural imple-
ments
By Mr.. Knott To repeal all laws impos-
ing tax on tobacco produced within the
United States.
By Mr.. White: Appropriating $4,000
900 for supplemental aid to free pubic
schools, to be distributed among the States
and Territories in proportion to the degree
Of illiteracy.
Also, to lessen crime and human suffer-
ing from alcohol by restricting it uses to
scientific purposes.
Bills to repeal the internal-revenue tax
on matches, bank checks, snuff, cigars, and
spirits distilled from apples aud other fruits.
By Mr.. Morrison, to reduce existing tariff
duties on imported goods 10 per cent.
By Mr.. Sherwin, to apportion the House
of Representatives, and afixing the num-
Der at three hundred and twenty-five.
Mr. Townshed, of Illinois, to fix the time
for the assembling of Congress on the first
Monday in November.
Mr.. Page: To restrict Chinese immigra-
ton.
By Mr.. Bland: For the free coinage of
silver dollars.
By Mr.. Chalmers To pay the public debt
and stop the manufacture of money by cor
porations. Also to reform civil service.
By Mr.. Manning To reorganize the U. S.
Supreme Court and increase the number of
Judges.
By Mr.. Regain: To regulate Railroad
freights and fares.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21
Southern Success in Cotton Manu-
featuring.

The Southern cotton mills have thir-
teen and one-third per cent the advan-
tage of the best Northern cotton mills,
ana therefore they need "protectlon
from foreign competitor even less than
the latter. The most that the Southern
manufacturers ask is the repeal of the
high tariff upon the machinery which
they require, and which is imposed for
the benefit of Northern establishments.
So far as dividends are concerned, the
advantage is in favor of the Southern
mills. For example, the Graniteville
factory of South Carolina paid divi-
dend of twenty per cent. last year, the
Augusta, Georgia, mills fifteen per
cent, the Langley mills fifteen per
cent, the Woodlawn and Lawrence
manufacturing companies, of North
Carolina, fifteen per cent, and so on
drought the South. These are not isola-
ted cases, as Is shown by the fact that the
July dividends of the forty-fve mills in
Georgia averaged over twelve per cent.
On the other hand the Northern mills
did not average half as much. No in
dustry in the South pays as well as in
vestments in manufacturing; ana
all she asks is that all the
industries of the country shall stand on
a footing of perfect equality. She
wants no monopolies.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21
CoNGREss
SOME OF TIE IMPORTANT BILLS INTRO
DUCED.
SENATE,


Logsn's bill to put Gen. Grant on the re
tired list was reported. Messrs Maxey ana
Cockrell reserving the right TO oppose =
when called up.
Mr.. Eimunds introduced bill to prohloi'
polygamy in Utah.
Mr.. :Penlleson, a civil service reform
bill.
sundry Senators, bills to improve the
navigation of the Mississippi, and othel
rivers.
Mr.. Garland, of Arkansas-For a com
mission to examine into the subject OF the
tariff. with view to facilitate legislation
in reference thereto.
Mr.. Morrill,, of vermont-To investigate
the question of the tariff, and of the inter
nal revenue laws.
Mr.. Butler, of 5. C.-To establish an ed
ucational fu.d aud apply portion OF the
proceeds of public lands to public education
and to provide for the more complete en-
dowmens and support of colleges for the adj
vancement of scientific aud industrial edn-
cation.
Mr.. Coke-To regulate interstate com
meree and prohibit unjust discrimination by
common-carriers.
Mr.. Notwithstanding the Committee
on Pensions to inquire and report what IN
crease of pensions, il any, should be allowed
the widow of Abraham Lincoln.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21

NINE times out of ten Senator Beck,
of Kentucky, is right on political
questions Especially is he right on
the Tariff question. His recent speech
on the proposition for an expert com
mission to examine and repoTt on the
system, went as straight as bullet to
the point. &c said that if the commits
sion bill should be passed. the immediate
practical result would be togiye at least
a two years lease to the present abomi-
nable tariff system. The thing to do,
he said, was for the two houses to set to
work at once and revise the tariff and
not attempt to shirk their duty and
shift their responsibility; but if Com
gress insisted on having commission,
let it be composed of Senators, Repre-
sentatives and experts, and have them
90 to work Immediately and stick to 1t
during holidays and make a report In
time to receive the action Of Congress
1t this session. IF thil should be done
be declared the revenue reformers
would so conclusively show that the
present tariff is such an abomina'ion
that no Senator would afterward rise in
his seat to defend it.
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Yazoo Correspondents

YAzoo CITY, Miss, Dec, l6 ]"
EDITORS CLARION Our Circuit q
adjourned to-day, closing a termaa
weeks.
The civil docket was very light,anl
the exception of two cases continas-
entire criminal docket was dsTos.
negroes. The Grand Jury returned
hundred and two bills Of indictment
all were sustained with one exception
Yazoo county sends nineteen conve
the Penitentiary this term, and the ball
are turned over to the county contract
William Shivers was sentenced to bel
on the second day of next February
murdered his wife in a most brutal ni
and a jury Of his countrymen pronoI
him too bad to live. Cotton is coul-
last and will all, doubtless, be in by "a
ry LIST. Cl
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21
Greenbacks.

The Secretary of the Treasury d Iii
annual report recommends that green
backs be Invested Of their legal tendei
functions. It is a part of the plan o
the monopolists to break down eyery
other kind Of currency except the notes
of National Banks, for the benefit o
which the monopolists insist that the
public debt shall be made perpetual.
Greenbacks are cheap, safe and con-
venient money. They cost the people
no interest as do the issues of Nationa
/ Banks, and there can be no other motive
for discrediting them except to favor
the corporations which owned the
Hayes administration and are seeking
the unlimited control of the government.
The true way for the people, if they
would preserve their liberties, is to
follow the example of Andrew jackson,
when, backed By their authority, he
stamped out the National Bank of his
day-an event, by the way, which
forms an interesting chapter in the
political history of the country and
which should be carefully studied by
every American citizen who would
protect the liberties of the people from
the encroachments of monopoly.
No observant person can fail to read
in the signs of the times, the scheme of
the monopolists to abolish the existing
silver law, to do away with silver
certificates, to undermine greenbacks,
to place the government under the
exclusive domination Of the National
Banks and the gold ring, consisting
principally of the bondholders and their
leigemen, and to perpetuate the natio nal
debt. So far as the debt is concerned,
the course advised by President Lincoln
in his letter to Gen. Waggoner on ght
to have been adopted before the original
contract with the bondholders was
changed. Mr.. Lincoln said
The bonds at the end of FIVE years should
be paid in greenbacks and the interest
stopped This is not doing wrong to the
bondholder, and is doing right to the soldier
and the whole country.
About the same time, John Sherman
said that if the bondholders demanded
coin or any other consideration more
valuable than that which they gave for
their bonds wiz greenbacks) they were
extortioners and regulators. The time
has passed, however, for carrying out
this policy. New bonds have been
issued in place of the old ones and they
call for payment sin coin" gold and sill
YER Nevertheless the people will plead
powerfully against the deep damnation
of destroying greenbacks as q part of
the monetary system Of the country.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21

THE Natehez Democrat says that the
working force of the Natehez jackson
and Columbus Road, has been reorgan
lied with view to efficiency, that the
road is in good running order to st,
Elmo, that the work is progressing this
side of that point, that there is enough
iron ON hand to complete the road east
Of Raymond, that Gen. Martin, the
president of the road, feels jubilant at
the prospects of his road, and it may be
that ''all aboard for jackson will be
heard sooner at the Natchez depot than
most people expect. All of which is
gratifying.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21

The color question has for many years
been leading one in Washington City,
and recently test case, where DIR.
Gregory, of Howard University, colored,
bad attempted to place his child in a
school for white children, was decided
by vote of all the white members of
the School Board and one colored
against wiping out the color line in the
school system, to three colored votes in
favor of such eradication. As the high
toned colored people and extreme white
Radicals congregate in Washington City
and preach civil rights. the question
was raised where it would mors likely
than elsewhere result in favor Of social
and the decision was emphati-
cally the reverse.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21
Meeting Of tie state Grange.


The State Grange met at Darant on
the 18th and adjourned on the 18th inst.
It is said to have been the largest and
most HARMONIOUS meeting of the State
Grange since 1876. One hundred and
ffty-nine Oranges we're represented,
from ffty-thres counties. Many resolu-
lions we're passed and much important
business transacted. One of the most
important resolutions passed, was one in
favor of the repeal Of the mortgage or
lien law. It passed unanimously by a
rising vote and the announcement of the
vote was greetedwith loud cheers. I'm
der this resolution committee was ap-
poinssd to memorable the Legislature
for the i.nmediate repeal Of the lien
law. Other Saatters that we're consid-
cred, will receive cur attention. Mean
time, We eOngratalatc he Changers On
the success Of their organisation. # Is
; good institution.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21

REPRESENTATIVE ATKINS, of Tennes-
see, one of the truest Democrats and bes
men in Congress, foreshows what the
policy of his party ought to be, saying
eve ought to land hope we willy 20 in
for modification Of the tariff in the direc.
ton l before suggested; for the abolition
of the National banks and unlimited coin.
age of silver; for liberal improvement and
against monopolies of every sort. l do not
know whether it will make any difference
what we do, however" continued the Ten
nessee statesman, "for no matter what we
attempt, we seem foreordained to defeat.
We ought to stop our foolishness, and stand
by our principles, which are the eternal
principles of truth aud justice, politically
speaking"
"You do not appear to agree with Sena-
tor Voorhees, in regard to what some of
them are-say the tariff, for example 2" sug-
gested the correspondent.
"Of course do not; nor with Randall
either. did not give him my vote for the
Speakership. am not the same kind of a
Democrat that he and some others are"
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Kind Words for the Clarion


Holly Springs South.
The Jackson Clarion, for flte50 4
under its present able managemel'
been power in the State. The speed
candidates for office, pitied again, I
other, may win reputation by ana
readiness and repaFtee. which please
masses OF people, who are always hig-
eertained by eloquence and fun. Bu.
man Knows 1t is not at the stump BE-
ms reasoning and thinking. and thG
not there that he gains the greater p
the facts and reasons from which. oul
portant public questions. his coaea
are formed. These he has derives 4
ne had calm leisure to think from be (
nc press Of the country. Withoa-a
neither facts nor principles are to b p
lively promulgated. Ia honest, coDPI
nanas, the press is greater than the le'
Archimides, and moves the world. 4
only IN weak and incompetent ones tbs
lmhiclle or creates disgust. And, ef'
such cases, the weaker for the mos
are 80 influenced and controlled b.
stronger that it may we'll be doubted ~.
er, all IA all, if only honestly cond1t..
the aoiest of advocates are the rivalso
leeolest of journals published in our q
Try Tor the dissemination of important +.
useful principles and truths. Among
leaders Of the Southern press we MAJ
place HE CLARION, in the hands OF D.
dale, who has few rivals and hardly Z
rlor IN any metropolis of the sta.tes.
slssippians should take Il Gride 10
and literally sustain it. ~
citizens of the State, what county pa
are to their counties. indispensable %
who would be informed Of those e';.
which most affecs and concern them:
subscription o. such a paper should N
twenty thousand in Mississippi.
Holly Springs Reporter.l
1EE CLARION is a live, wide-aWak.s
per, and the aim of the publisher; =
keep itup to its old standard of excellsu
Yazoo Herald.
Every man in the State ought to take
who desires to keep posted y
the doings.of the Legislature, or who %
TO fill his mind with the
mental food that is so inylsv
ing to the understanding and pleasAnl',
the taste Of the refined. The CLAklo'
one Of the best papers in the South
Carthagenion.l
For fifteen years THE CLARION mas :
under its present management ana an y
hat time our State, the South and the =
,cratic party have had no truer expol
If their principles, no ADLER and more
liant defender Of their rights, and no y
sloquent and efficient advocate OF theiii
'erests. It is a paper Of which every .
Iissippian may well be proud,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21

GEN. FEATHERSTONS name has been
mentioned in connection with position on
the bench of our State Sll fas9...a- Gsall RI
The Vicksburg Herald alludes to the fact,
and in doing so intimates, rather broadly
that bargain was entered into when Stone
was defeated, by which Featherston was
promised Supreme Court Judgeship as a
reward for carrying his strength into the
Barksdale caucus. To beat Stone it was
necessary to get Featherston into the caucus,
and to get the old man and his backing into
the caucus, it was necessary 10 offer him a
reward. These things leak out occasionally.
The Herald is very confident that Lowry
will appoint Featherston to the position in
question. We shall see whether there is or
is not, anything in its prophecy when a
vacancy occurs.-Golambus index,
As this is an imputation of more than
ordinary gravity, it is proper in justice
to all the parties concerned that it
should be noticed, averse as we are to
entering upon the CONTROVERSIES of the
State Convention, which we hoped had
been sunk forever in the general joy over
its happy deliyerance from heated and
somewhat acrimonious contest. To be
explicit: the foregoing elimination" is
utterly devoid of Foundation. No ques-
ton of appointments entered into the
considerations which induced the caucus.
1t was suddenly called for an unexpect-
ed emergency, without consultation or
prior agreement. Gen. Featherston did
not know that it would be held five
minutes before it was called; nor did
Gen. Lowry. The person at whose
instance it assembled, did not consult
either of them. No 'inducement" was
offered to Gen. Featherston s'to carry
his strength into the caucus" except the
considerations of public policy which
were publicly announced and known of
all. His friends" were not transferable
and his high sense of honor would have
spurned proposition of the kind, and
Gen. Lowry would have scorned to
make it. The friends of both gentle.
men presented their names to the eau
Gus for Governor; and there was no
promise, condition, bargain, or pledge
of any kind rendered to anybody, by
any one, before or after, it vas held
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21
The Corporation Rulers

9rsD-AE1A Mol DFMnnnAp TAo supreme
Court is mostly made up of railroad lawyers.
Brady and Strong were put their for rail.
road purposes. So was Stanley Mathews
Chief Justice Waite has son who is rail-
road manager. The sons of Judge SWayne
are railroad attorneys. In the Senate, Joe
Brown, the most influential railroad man
in the South, represents Georgia, Edmunds,
Blaine, Conkling, Hayes, Arthur, Camden
Senator from West Virginia), Malone,
Logan, and score or two more, all stand
for railroads. A fortune left to Hayes was
principally made in building the Lake Shore
Railroad. Much more could be given, in
connection with the most prominent public
men and legislators of the country, to show
what immence factors the railroads have
become in the political and comercial ad-
ministration of the United States. They
are ramifying everywhere. They are being
built at the rate of three or four thousand
miles year. They are employing vast
multitudes Of workingmen in every possible
capacity. They are restraining in their
pay the ablest Interests of the country
We all we'll know that everything goes to
politics in America, and that even religion
and politics go hand in hand. Will the
railroads be any the less disinterested
Scarcely. They know their power, and they
intend to make it felt
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For Speaker, Hon. J. s. Montgomery,
Of oktibbeha.


EDTToRs CLARION: have seen with
pleasure, the favorable mention of the name
Of DR.. J. s. Montgomery, Representative
elect from Oktibbeha county, in connection
with the SpeakeEship of the next House Of
Representatives. While / will not be of
that body, and do not propose to dictate as
to who should be selected for this position,
still as citizen / feel degree of interest
in that selection. The members of the
Legislature of 1873, of which DIR. Mont
gomery was an honored member, will bear
testimony to his usefulness in that BODY
and the intelligence which he brought to
bear in the discharge Of his duties. Should
the Legislature select this gentleman for
Speaker, I feel constrained to say, It will
do an eminently proper thing. honorine
itself, and satisfying the country.
AMERICUs.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21
The Tennessee Situation.

| Tennessee is in travail over the bill
which passed her Legislature last win.
ter funding the bonded Indebtedness Of
the State dollar for dollar, with interest
at per cent, and payable in one hun
dred years. The interest on the whole
debt will alone absorb nearly all the
revenues of the State. Her creditors
had offered to compromise at nearly one
half, and the renewal of the bonds at
their face value by the Legislature
startled and perplexed the people. The
demagogues had clamored 50 loud and
long about preserving the honor and
dignity of the commonwealth, that the
holders of Der bonds, were induced by
po1d stroke OF cunning rprruprTOn 10
steal march upon the people, and secure
terms of settlement far better than they
had before dreamed of. 1t has trans
PRED that the act was procured by
bribery. One member Of the Legisla-
tqre received SO, 900, another $4,000,
and a third was paid $4,000, but his
heart failed him; be paid the money
back and refused to vote for the bill.
The latter charge refers to the Presi-
dent of the Senate, Morgan. Upon this
ground, and numerous other allegations,
a molten is pending in the courts to en-
join the State Funding Board from car
rying out the requirements Gf the act.
The common sense inference is that the
injunction will be granted if the allega-
tions of fraud can be sustained. Mean
time, the Hour seems to have come for
a deliverer in Tennessee, and eager
search is made for the Man.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21

The STANDARD Oil Company is taking an
active part in the election of Speaker of the
Ohio House of Representatives, The State
Inspector of Oils, a eature of that monop-
~, has issued an order to his deputies to use
Rll their influence to secure the election OF
a man named Hodge. That is bigger BUSH
ness than starting groceries to underseli
dealers who buy oil elsewhere, but both
Cases deserve serious treatment from the
anti-monopoly people.-N. Y Sun.
The Standard Oil Company must be
huge monopoly, with its hundr ed
hands, one of which has been extended to
Columbus in this State, and has created
noittle Indignation the business circles
of that city.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21
CHRISTMAS.

The compliments ofthe the season
to all our friends Christmas is come
again with It's pleasant memories and
It's delightful reunions; but the per-
vading spirit in all hearts should be
"Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace. and good will to men. The
symbols of this divine sentiment are
around us on every hand. All the
world NAV unite in celebrating this day,
though people may differ about other
holidays May this Christmas be to our
readers merry one, by which we mean
peace, charity, and joy in their best
affections:
To those that love u, joy and peace,
Whether afar or near;
To old and young, TO rich and poor,
Be merry Christmas Days in store,
And hope in the New Year.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21


A GEORGIA correspondent of the
Charleston News says that there is a
formidable independent organization
forming in that State, stimulated by the
success of Mahoneism in Virginia.
There is no debt question to perplex the
Democracy in Georgia as in Virginia,
Tennessee and Arkansas they are all
agreed on that subject, but there are
other issues, and especially the law
making the payment of the poll tax a
prerequisite TO voting. which has worked
50 badly in Virginia and other States.
As there are signs Of the agitation Of 4
similar scheme il this State, we would
suggest to its authors to profit some
what BY the lesson before they begin il.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21
The Piney Woods

q
No section of Mississippi Nil shok
greater progress in population and wealp
in the next Ave years than what's
known as the Piney Woods. The Be-
ridian and New Orleans Railroad BIS
helped to give it a start. HamiltonE
Hoskins' Meridian, Red River aid
Texas Road ten miles of which is Or
soon win beg completed, viii contribite
immensely to its development. md
the summum bonatnl in the way of Fail
road facilities will be attained when the
projected line from the center of the
State to Pascagoula, or Ship Island, 5
accomplished. The Piney Woods regin
is immensely rich in timber, and col
tains large quantities of fertile sol
suited for cotton, corn, rice, potatoes,
fruits (ncluding grapes vegetables,
etc. This writer In his canvass Last
September, saw no crops in any partof
the State, equal to the river and creek
bottoms of the Piney Woods. Ter
pasturage that section cannot be ez-
celled. No country afford superior
inducements for permanent homes. Tie
breezes are balmy; the climate temper
ate and equable the streams, live, pue,
limpid, running, and abundant of fish.
Springs abound, and not far below tie
surface of the earth, good water can be
reached with bored wells. Thr.e-
fourths of the population are white !;
and of that description will be tie
immense immigration that will be IT.
tracted TO that region, thus assuring a
homogeneous population.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-21

GovERNoR-ELEcr, Gen. Robt. Lowry,
was honored with a serenade at Green
vile last week, while en- route for John
sonvilIe. The Times says that he has
been favorite in Greenville since he
first became known to the citizens of
that city and they were glad of an
opportunity of exchanging congratula-
tions with him over the recent success
full campaign, in which he was the
standard-bearer.