The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-28
NOTES. NEWS AND NOTIONS.


When Grant was about 70 start for Mexi-
co he asked that Captain y. f. Dawson, the
stenographer of the Secretary of War, might
be granted leave of absence for sixty days
to accompany him. The request was grant
ed There is no doubt but that Grant be-
lieves that somehow or somehow else he has
an individual claim upon the army and ma
w Of the Government akin TO that which
the Car of Russia has upon those OF that
country.
Two years ago, when the Democrats re-or-
ganized the Senate, they left thirty-eight
Republican officials in place and their sala-
ries aggregated more than fifty thousand dol
lars a year That's the reason they are max
ing such fight for some of the perquisites
now that the Republicans are in the majori-
II. When Democrats again get control OF
that body, We dare say they will not SHOW 20
much respect to 1.-The courtesies of the SEN
ate" nor be quite SO liberal.
Senator Jonas, of Louisiana, is Wen edu-
Gated Hebrew, who speaks with huency-
He is not u particularly handsome man.
being somewhat cadaverous.-Northern tx
change News Item.
This does injustice to Sana tor Jonas. His
appearance is decidedly prepossessing.
Speaking OF his Hebrew lineage reminds US
that the South, accused 50 much ofilliberali-
", is the only section that has sent Isrselites
to the Senate. Besides Dir. Jonas the others
were Senator Benjamin, of Louisiana, and
I Il, H.,
of an Algerian Jewish family. His name at
first was Levy aud there is county in Flsri-
da OF that name called after his father. He
had difference with his father and took the
name Of Yuee. 1t is said that his great
sreat-grandfather was named Levy and his
eat-great-grandmother Yulee; that his
grandfather had Il difference with his faith
er and took his mothers name, Iulee that
his son (the Senator's father) had trouble
with his father and took the name his grand
father was known by-Levy and the Senator
in his turn changed his name to that OF his
grandfather.
Speaking ofname changing Mr.. 1ulee was
not the only man who has occupied a seat
in the United States Senate under differ,
ent name from that to which he was born.
Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts,, who was
also Vice President, was born j eramiah Col
bath, and when he was presiding over the
Senate his brother, Mr.. Goliath, was assist
ant Sergeant-at-ArmsM Mr.. Mitchell, who now
occupies a seat from Oregon, was born Nipple;
he was born and married in Pennsylvania
one fine morning he had disappeared leaving
Mrs. Nipple and two children. Years after
wards he appeared in Washington as Sena
tor Mitchell, of Oregon, and with another
wife. We believe when he was identified he
was required by law to support his first
family which he is now doing. We saw it
stated about the time Senator Carpenter, Of
Wisconsin, died, that he was born to anoth
er name other than that of Carpenter, but
we cannot now recall what it was nor the
reasons given for the change.
The Legislatures Of nearly all of the North
ern,states have been in session this winter,
most of them have adjourned, In nearly all
of them bills to establish the whipping-post
for wife heaters were introduced, but in no
single instance did such a measure become
law We han no idea it would when we saw,
some weeks since, that the New York Com
mercial Advertiser was advocating it for a
reason which thrilled Us with surprise. "In
our best society,"" calmly remarks the Com
mercial, cit is declared that a large number
"of women, and many of these delicate and
'timid, submit to this treatment because
ashamed to unmask the brutality of their
Husbands to the world" What's the cat for
the backs of the gentlemen who compose the
best society of the highly civilized North
Forbid it We gods
1t Is denied that Ex-senator Bruce, "of
Mississippi" has been offered the Brazilian
Mission We venture the assertion that
there is no Office in Mississippi within the
gift of the President that would induce
Bruce to return and live here where he
would have to associate with the darkies
who made him what he is, after having as
sociated so long with the grandee white folks
in Washington.
Clipped coin, or quarters, dimes and nick
els with holes in them, seem to have sudden
ly gone out of circulation and disappeared
entirely. The banks first, and then our
merchants. adopted the policy of refusing
them-in doing which they were perfectly
rght-and the mutilated pieces, we are
glad to say, are no longer in the market
Columbus Index.
If the gold bugs could get in their work
while silver coins would disappear through
out the country as rapidly as the mutilated
pieces have from the Columbus market
For superintendent of Education,
Gen. j. A. Smith.
EAST MISSISSIPPI April "a, 1881.
EDITORS CLARION: Having noticed one
or two names suggested by your correspon-
dents. as suitable candidates for the Office