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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

IMMEDIATELY after the Republican
triumph in the last Presidential election
Col Forney, the great journalist, said
in his Progress
We now face the Empire, and there is but
great force to meet it, the Democratic party
Garfield only fills the gap for Grant. l
write this name with new feeling that of
profound regret that one l loved so well
should sink SO low. First the defender of
the forgiven South, then its defamer First
eager to honor Hancock for his virtues, then
TO hound him as an enemy. And this is
the man who now wants to play the part of
king hereafter. How, in the face of all these
loud shouts over the defeat of Hancock,
think of the scene on the blasted heath
where Macbeth meets the weird sisters:
FIRST WITCH: All hail, Macbeth; hail
to thee, Thane Glamis.
SECOND WITCH: All hail, Macbeth :;
hail to thee Thane of CaWdOw.
''THIRD WITCH: All hail, Macbeth thou
shalt be king hereafter"
First the General of our armies, then
President, and king hereafter.
The Logan bin to create glittering
distinction for Grant under pretence of
retiring him but really to put him in
readiness for another stride to place and
power, has recalled the warning of the
renowned journalist Garfield only
fills the gap for Grant :" Mark the
prophecy!
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10
The Peabody Fund.

The trustees Of the Peabody fund
chose Rev DIR. J. l.. NJ. Curry, of
Richmond, Va, as its general agent,
vice DR. Sears, deceased. DIR. Curry is
a very distinguished Baptist minister,
who abandoned public life in which
the highest honors awaited him to con-
meet himself with the Ministry.
The trustees also appointed Judge
Manning, of Louisiana, committee to
prepare and present memorial to the
Legislature Of Mississippi requesting
that State to provide for interest on
81 900, 900 worth of past-4se bonds in
cluded in tho Peabody bequest to the
educational fund. The trustees may
have acted in ignorance Of the fact that
the Constitution of Mississippi contains
a clause which originated under the Re-
publican regime of Ames, prohibiting
the payment of that alleged claim
The Legislature has no control over the
subject.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10
The Natchez, Jackson and Columbus
Railroad.

One of the Southern railroads that we
hear very little about, but which is des-
tined to play a very important part in the
development of the resources of Mississippi,
is the NatcheZ, Jackson and Columbus
Railroad. Its terminal points, as its name
indicates, are Natchez and Columbus, both
in the State of Mississippi. 1t runs through
the richest and most productive portion Of
the State, and, when completed will no
doubt be very profitable piece of railroad
property Forty-three miles Of che road are
now being operated, anG twenty-five addi-
tional miles of the roa5 bed are graded. Tbs
assets Of tAsse- 1rahrr0ad company are valued
at 1919, 10, and it's Indebtedness amounts
to S21S,O65 OF. The gross receipts of the
road last year were 81, 855 20, and the OPP
Grating expenses 81, 401 10. The defcien-
cy in the cotton crop along the line of the
road, on account of the bad weather, cut
down the receipts of the road last year at
least 10000 The company proposes to
push the road forward as rapidly as possible.
The city Of Natchez has subscribed 1925
900 to the capital stock of the road, and
has agreed to issue bonds for the amount
bearing seven per cent. interest. In order
to finish the building of the road to Jack
son, the company has made another issue of
bonds to the amount of 100000, bearing
seven per cent. interest. These bonds are
now in the hands of New York bankers.
). Prentiss Mutt, of Natchez, is now on his
way North to call the attention of oanitaI
lists to these bonds. 1t is probable that he
will be successful in his mission.-N. O.
Times
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10
Counting the Electoral Vote.

Yesterday (the 9TH was the day
fixed by law for the counting of the
Presidential electoral votes in joint
session by the two houses of Congress.
Under the resolutions adopted by the
two houses, Vice President Wheeler
was required merely to break the seals
of the packages containing the electoral
votes from the several States, and then
three telIers-one from the Senate and
two from the House-canvassed the
same, when the Vice President, as
President of the Senate, announced
the result. By concurring in this mode,
the Republicans abandoned the position
that the Vice President was required to
count the votes. 1t was this absurd
position on their part which influenced
the Democrats who voted for the Elec-
toral Commission device in 1876. 1t is
now seen that there was nothing in it.
They were only blufing. We thought
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

THE Springfield Republican, a mod
crate Republican paper urges strong
reasons and a number of them, why
Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, should be
rejected. 1t says 1.-THE Senate is in the
hands of the Democrats if they served
in the feeblest degree the true functions
of an opposition party as a check upon
the folly and presumption of the party
in power they would reject him. There
are numerous Republican Senators who
ought to vote against him in behalf of
the maintenance of the high character
for ability of the Supreme bench"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10
$25O,OOO for Grant.
A New York special says

Mr.. George Jones, of the New York Times,
said to-day: eve have $225, 900 of our pro-
posed subscription already, and have not
heard from Boston. / have no doubt of the
result" And he drew from his pocket a
mammoth memorandum-book, which con
tanned several pages of footings, apparently
devoted to different localities. "Here," he
said, sis $4,000, here S21 900, here 81, 200,
and here $4,000" As he opened the morn
ing's mail he took out four checks for
81 900 each. as he showed them to the re-
porter remarked 'You see how it comes
in" "This fund.-" he continued, sis in
tended for Gen. Grant, and not for ex>
Presidents.
1.-TWO hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars for Gen. Grant and more coming.
Don't our friends of the Xicksburg
Herald and the Commercial think that
the public agents at Washington might
forego their plan to quarter him on the
treasury at the expense of the tax-rid-
den people a man who gets $780,
900 in one pile, and $3.50, 000in another,
is in no object of charity; and if the
life salary is to be conferred as an honor,
surely he has reaped enough oft in hav-
ing been twice elected to the highest
office in the world.)
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

The granting of brevet rank for gallant
services on the battlefield may be consid-
cred a. part of our national policy, sane
toned by practiced and by the appr obation
Of the country. As to ttLes such as are
granted elsewhere, thank God we have none
to bestov, and | trust / shall never live to
see the day when any Iecuniary re,cards will
be conferred upon military men, except
pensions for injuries sustained in the line of
their duty.-Extract from speech of Gen.
Lewis Cas-, December q, 1852, Cong.
Globe Vol % D. IO4
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

WITH the exception of Harlan, of
Kentucky, Republican who is not in
sympathy with the Southern people,
and of Wood, carpet-bagger from Ohio,
the Southern States are without a
representative on the bench of the u.
S. Supreme Court. The Democratic
members of the Senate may not be able
to right this shameful wrong and compel
recognition of the Southern States,
but they can decline to become party
to it-they can enter their protest
against it-by refusing to confirm the
appointment of Stanley Matthews, stall
wart, of Ohio. Thurman, the Nestor
of the Senate, and Bayard, the Cheva-
lier, leads the way.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

GEN. CHALMERS authorizes the Aber-
deem Examiner to state that he never
said that certain Democratic Senators
have given their pledge to keep Kellogg
in the Senate: what he said was that he
"did not see how Kellogg could be un-
seated since so many Democratic Sena-
tors had made speeches against it."
Since Kellogg was not entitled to the
seat by the admission of these Senators,
and sine llr>eeprng MIN in it is the usur-
patton by the Senate of the power to
decide for the people of Louisiana which
is their rightful Legislature, and since,
looking at it from a party standpoint,
it imperils the ascendency of the Dem
ocrats in the Senate, it is great pity
it is a lamentable fact-that the Sena-
tors in question ever committed them
selves to course so utterly untenable
and indefensible
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

ONE Cold is sometimes contracted ON tom
- AnotneE' the accompanying Cough becon-
sIta; SeeSIeu ana confirmed, and the Lungs so
tuOereles frequently follow. MANY evistin,,
Eases OF pulmonary Disease may he Tins ac2
counted Tor, and yet how many others Are
cIaIelesSly allowing themselves to drifr
S1lElougn the preliminary symptoms. control
81 ee,l Dy the fatal policy of allowing Gold to
sake care Of ITSELF On the first intimatioD
ora o. a Cough or Cold, or any Throat or Inn
1 rloaDle, resort promptly to DE-. Jayne's Fx7
PsoUelant, safe curative Of long established
quences Of such dangerous trifing
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

THE Republican members of the Hi
nois Legislature have passed resolution
favoring the passage by Congress of ga
suitable law for the retirement of
Ulysses s. Grant, with the rank of
general. The Democrats all voted
against it. According to the Vicksburg
Herald they all, as well as all the
Northern Democrats in the two houses
of Congress except Mr.. Mcpherson, of
New Jersey, and all the Northern
Democratic press, are possessed of the
rebeIlious spirit Of Yancy.s They are
not reconstructed. Theyare not willing
to make provision for Grant, poor
man, who has drawn only half q million
If dollars from lhe public treasury.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

A WRITER against retiring the silver
dollar says 1--WE have not S 4 a head to
our whole population, while we have
Sl4 per head in paper 40 per cont off
which is sham. We send SO. 600
600 Of silver every year to Asia, iuclud-
ing the European shipments. If the
national banks did not defy Congress.
andFetuse to receive silver dollars ON
deposit, they would easily circulate.
The complaint that these dollars are rc-
turned to the Treasury only mean. that
people must pay their tuxes in some
thine epd-~'@ney nave $500 100000
year to pay. Why not pay IL part ~ ii
in silvery The worlds annual produc-
ton ofsilver rose from 100000 900 i'm
1852 to $4,000, 900 in 1877. and in
1880 dropped to $40, 900. 600"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

SENATORS Conkling and Edmunds
are opposing the confirmation of Stanley
Matthews, of Ohio. As lawyers they
believe him unfit for the Supreme Court
bench. They may not be prompted by
all the motives of Thurman and Bayard,
but nevertheless they are opposing his
confirmation, and this gives the Demo-
Gratis their opportunity. It is now
evident that Hayes cannot reward his
chief accomplice in the theft of the
Presidency, without the aid of Demo-
cratic votes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10
THE Boston Herald saws

1t is good sign to see the southern con-
testants for seats in Congress, from which
they claim to have been deprived by fraud
uient or other unlawful means, taking the
and bringing offenders to justice.
The Herald ought to know that the
prosecutions in the Southern States
under the election laws, were instituted
not so much to bring alleged violators
to punishment as to manufacture testi-
mony in aid of the Republican contes-
tantS
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10
The River and Harbor Appropria-
Mississippi.

The River and Harbor Appropriation
bill, as finally agreed upon upon by the
House Committee on Commerce, APP
propriates s10,1S9,8 800 Among the
items are the following appropriations
in which Mississippi is interested;
Vicksburg and Mississippi river near
Vicksburg $4,000; Big SunfOwer, $4,000 !;
Noxubee, 5000; Pascagoula, $4,000;
Pearl below jackson, $25, 900; from Jackson
to Carthage, $500; Tallahatchie, $1,000 ;
Tombigbee above Columbus 81 900; Yazoo,
$4,000; Warrior and Tombigbee, Ala. and
Miss, $25, 900; Natchez and Vidalia, 800,
900; Yalobusha, $500; Tchula lake,
So 900.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10
The Scheme to Denonetile Silver.

West Point Echo.
The scheme Of the administration. backed
up by the dominant party, To demopetize
silver and have but the one metallic currqD-
cy, that Of gold, is n movement i'm the inter
est OF the bondholders, the rings of moneved
monopoly and sharp spectators. The in
terest Of the masses, and the general com
meTclal interest, will not be subserved by
such measure. The immediate effect Of
such policy will be 10 tighten the money
market, by lessening the amount of the cir
culatlng medium and thereby making it
more difficult to effect exchange I'm e6mF
hodlties. With scarcity Of the circu&
lating medium and stringency i'm the monev
market, the rate Of interest must of necessi-
W rule high, and thereby the interest of lie
money lender will be promoted at the ex-
Pense of the larger class of the community
In this way the relative value of money. IA
compared with other species Of property, is
disturbed, giving the advantage in favor of
the purchasing power of money, and bring
ing about a sacrifice in the value Of other
property; thus enabling the few to concen-
trate the property of the country in their
hands, which is the basis for the creation Of
monoopolles. This is the policy Of the Re
publican party, and yet we are told that ia
the party to be trusted by the people
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

LAST YEAR the leading exports were
Breadstufs, s2S8, O36, 1886; cotton, s211..
$50, 9O5; provisions, 1921 300, 814 oils
$34 1903, oil; tobacco, SIG. 379 10Y
horned cattle, 1884, 1876 cotton man.
ufactures. s9,9S1, 41s; tallow, 81, $50.
232; oil-cake, $6,259. s27 leather. Ak
oS6,1l8; refined sugar, 80, IA, $50 to-
tai value of all exports, including 40 !.
S47 1893 coin and bullion, S8aa. 294 24e.
excess OF exports over imports, S72, s05.-
lsO. It will be seen that there was
more ofvalue in breadstufs combined !,
but cotton is pre-eminent over any ain
gle article Of expectation.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

Mr.. G. P. HUNTINGTON having ar
ranged, financially, for the completion
of the railway line from Greenville to
Johnsonville, the Greenwood Flag
thinks the people along the contempla-
ted line certainly ought to make some
effort for the extension of the road to
the Yazoo river and on the Central rail
road at Winona.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

THE Meridian Mercury SAYS that the
negroes are leaving the prairie belt of
Alabama, in considerable numbers. and
passing through Meridian e,i route for
the Mississippi bottom, and western
Louisiana and that the bulk of them
are from around Uniontowu. Alabama.
where the crop was failure last year.
The Nlcksburg papers are reporting
their arrival at the other end of the
line.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

THERE is but one Democrat on the
Supreme bench, and he is nearly eighty
years old. The Democrats by voting
against confirming the appointment of
Stanley Matthews, stalwart Republican,
of Ohio, may not be able in the end to
compel the appointment of Democrat,
but they can make known their opposi-
ton to the organization of that tribunal
upon partizan and sectional grounds.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10
ne va Aealnst NlIror

A S; II: 2; SENATE, WAsHINGToN, Jan. g.
ree MI IA oeen introduced BY Mr.. Herman
T 9o5e It repeats SO much az ~ 80 -e
Aoao as requires the Secretary ~ ~ ~. ~
sAIy e purchase silver bullion ana 80
wv less than 100000 nor mo-. ~ ~, I3lI
~ per mohth Italso provi5s. ti,'t
s..a1 UGH amount shall bo e5ir..5 u ~
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10
The New Greenback Programme.

The following is given as the latest
revelation ofthe Greenback programme !:
The Greenback leaders in Congress pro-
pose to reorganize their party as soon as
possible after the 4th of March. Their
idea is to call a Convention in Chicago,
during the early days of the new Admins
tration. Delegates from every section of
the country are to be invited to attend and
platform of principles is to be adopted
and new name for the organization chosen.
1t is said that Congressman De LaMatyr,
Gillette and Weaver, who are out of occu-
patton after March 4, will take the stump
as soon as the organization is effected, and
explain to the people from Maine to Cali
fornia the object of what will probably be
known as "The Peoples Party"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

The st. Louis Globe-Democrat, (stal-
wart Radically boasts that in the late
war cit was Grant, the General, who
waltzed the Democratic party from the
Ohio River to the Gulf of Mexico"
That's no reason why Democrats should
waltz him into life salary of $17,-
500 year.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

Two Republican State officers were
elected by Democratic votes in the
Tennessee Legislature. Bribery is
charged and committee of investiga-
ton appointed. The principal witness
has fed. This disgraceful affair reminds
US of earpet-bag times.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

The new dueling law enacted by the
South Carolina Legislature provides
that to send or accept challenge shall
cause the person sending or accepting
to be disfranchised, to be forever dis
qualified for holding office, and to be
punished with imprisonment in the PEN
itentiary for the maximum period of
two years. To kill person in duel is
wilful murder. Legislators are re.
CURED to give public pledges that they
will discountenance dueling. This
stringent measure may put a stop to
dueling, but it will doubtless lead to
the settlement of disputes in a mora
barberous and blood thirsty manner
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

The city of Vicksburg imposed tax
of So a week on all commercial travel
ers for the privilege of selling goods on
order. The tax was resisted and Judge
Young decided that it was unconstitu-
tional. The Supreme Court has affirmed
the decision.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

THE St. Louis Republican says if
Democrats in the Senate walk into the
trap set for them by voting to confirm
the nomination of Stanley Matthews, of
Ohio, they are either uncommonly blind
or unpardonably forgiving.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

LEXINGTON Intelligencer ssSenator
Vest scored good point on the Logan
bill to place Grant on the retired list.
He told the Republicans to care for THEN
own dead, that the Democrats had
plenty Of funerals Of their own to look
afeF.g
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

THE Vicksburg Herald says: "The
partnership with the Northern Demo-
Gratis for twenty years is now brought
under review, and the ablest leaders in
the South pronounce it unsatisfactory"
The logical inference is that it wishes
to dissolve the partnership, and break
up the Democratic party. That's pre-
cisely what the Republicans want.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

An interesting question is that of
Interstate commerce, With the great
influence of the corporations the inter
State Commerce bill was defeated in
the Commerce Committee by only three
votes. Two of the members who voted
against the Reagan bill did so not be-
cause they were not in favor of the
principle, but because they were OPP
posed to some of its details. On a
square vote there seems to be a majority
in both branches favorable to the naked
proposition that Congress undoubtedly
has the right to regulate commerce
between the States. Any bill drawn up
in manner which will avoid unjust
determinations ought to get a hearty
support.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

We are glad to agree with our friedn
of the Vicksburg Commercial in regard
to the Stanley Matthews appointment !;
and await with anxiety to hear from our
other esteemed contemporary, the
Herald. on that subject.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

NEw York and New Jersey law
makers contemplate introducing the
instrument in those States for the hene-
fit Of vife=heaters, II would be 4 good
law anywhere.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

THE Vicksburg Commercial repeats
that it would vote for Grant in prefer
enee to Tilden, and that it is in favor of
the bin creating life salary for Grant.
The Republican papers would define
their position ~ The same way.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10
The Census of Mississippi.

In another column we have printed
the total population of Mississippi, ac-
cording to the u. 5. Census as follows:
1.13l, 592. Male, 567, 1877 Female,
564, 40; native, 1922, 1914; foreign,
9,1G8; white, 40, 81; coIored, Co.,,
22O. The latter includes 81 Chinese,
and ,832 Indians and halfbreeds.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

The Delaware Legislature has passed
a resolution authorizing the State to
defend, before the United States Dis
trict Court, all persons who were in
dicted under the Republican election
laws.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

Mr. G. ". CLARKE. District Attor-
ney Tor the 18th District has resigned
Hon. " 3. Parish who is indorsed 4
the hemocFatic nominee At the last
election. 4 ~ applicant for the place.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

In 1877, the Democratic members Of
the House Of Representatives entered
on their journal a declaration that the
people had been cheated out Of their
fairly elected President, and issued an
address urging them to let no OPP
portunity pass for putting the seal Of
condemnation on the usurpation. An
opportunity is now offered. Stanley
Matthews, of Ohio, was the most con
spicuous agent of the fraud. He has
been nominated Judge Of the Supreme
Court of the United States. He cannot
be conf,med By the Senate ,citboHt Demo
cratic rioters.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Never
write long letter to a newspaper. The
editor shrinks from its publication and
the reader shrinks from reading it. Be
"short and to the point" if you would
have your writings read. The matter
of newspaper letter must be of extra
ordinary interest to justify the occupan-
cy of a column of great interest to
justify half column; and not one in a
hundred that occupies over quarter
of column will be read by one reader
in 500.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-10

By reference TO our news column, it
viii be seen that majority of the
Senate Committee on the Judiciary are
opposed to confirming the nomination of
Stanley Matthews.