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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

In the charge of management Of the
Vicksburg and Meridian Road, the de-
sire IS universal in business circles, and
with the friends of the Road, that the
services Of Mr.. George d. Lawrence,
Superintendent of transportation, may
be retained, either in that or some more
important capacity. He has been in
the service of the Road through all its
dark hours for twenty-five years, has
literally grown with its growth, and
now that it Is entering upon brighter
DAYS the wish is universal that his CON
neciion with it may be continued. He is
a frst-cisss railroad man, a thorough
expert in his line, and we are voicing
the general feeling in expressing the
hope that the new management will
invite him to remain in the service of
the company.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05
The Natchez, Jackson and Colum bus
Railroad.

The attention of the people of the
counties through which it is contem-
plated TO construct the above road from
Jackson to Columbus, is called TO the
appointments Of Gen Martin, in this
paper. He goes among them to make
examination of the line and confer with
them on the subject Of the road. They
may be assured he means business
straiE hf-forward, earnest work; and il
proof Of what he will do, he can point
TO what has been done. 1t is great
enterprise, and the people of those coun-
ties will do themselves vast benefit by
coming forward with liberal hands to
his aid
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05
The Alleged Buying votes Matter.
EIsewhere We have printed the con

/ Elsewhere we have printed the COM
ments of the Natchez Democrat upon
The CLARIoN's article discrediting the
statement Of Nordhoff in the Y. Y Her
aid, that a Southern Senatorhad said
/ That ''the price of negro votes Is from
''25 cents to 81 and SO, as you may hear
''all over the South, and that We (the
Democrats are compelled to buy them
Ito save our State governments" The
comments Of the Democrat are in the
spirit Of unfairness and illiberality char
acteristic Of that paper when it has oc
casi0n to refer to THE CLARION. We
knew az every reader of the y. Y.
Herald knows, who its Washington cor
respondent Is and knowing him to be
an insidious foe Of the South, who, in
hi4 own smooth way leaves no opportu-
nifty to propagate false impressions about
the Southern whites, We reasonably in
ferred that he injected the ingredient
Of caIumny to which we referred, in the
observations he had attributed to a
Southern Senator" whose name was
not given. This writer, Nordhof, came
South several years ago. He was re-
ceived as cordially as Gen. Woodford
(who has since bloomed into a stall
wart Of the first flower and had the
open sesame to the true inwardness Of our
outgoings and incomings, and like
Woodford and others Of his class, went
back to misrepresent and malign the
candid and generous people who had
taken him to their hearts and homes.
We knew who Nordhof was. We
did not know who the Statesman" was
70 whom he attributed the unfortunate
and we don't know noe0 except "a /
it comes to Us through the Natchez Dem .
ocrat II was the statement not the per-
son, we were dealing with. 1t is not our
habit as a journal to wait on others and .
learn what they may say, or think, before
We speak There was but one way to
deal with this statement, and that was
to correct it.
The Democrat Is disposed to be
severe and affects to be wonderfully
amused at our observation that no such
crime as buying votes at % cents or any
other price, has been practised in this
strong negro county Of Kinds, and it
conveys the impression that such is the
habit Of the localities of which it has
personal cognizance. We will venture {
to say for the Democracy Of Adams,
that no such crime can be laid at their
door. Since the Democrat has alluded
in somewhat doubtful phrase to the
matter, we beg leave to ask Of it a can
did declaration upon this point With
a full right to speak for Kinds we will
repeat with emphasis, that there has
been no purchase Of votes in this coun-
ty. We do not believe that even an in
lividuaI instance could be cited. There /
are insuperable reasons. 1st. Our Dem
ocrats are too poor. ,. They are too
honest Furthermore, the records Of
.he Boutwell, and other smelling commit
ees may be searched, and they viii not
urnish a scintilla Of evidence ofeven an
,ffer to buy votes either to secure or to
Democratic ascendency, in ,
!
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

II our local columns will be found
the particulars, as far as learned, Of the
disappearance and loss of Miss Monnie
Richards, daughter Of Mr. William
Ricbards,a respectable citizen of Sharon,
Madison county, Mississippi The
occurrence is distressing, and no less
distressing than extraordinary. We
hope every one under whose eyes the
notice falls will take an interest in aid
ing the afflicted parents to recover their
daughter; or in furnishing clue by
which she can be traced, and the mys-
terv of her sad fate be solved.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05
Mississippi
The Ballot Business and the Contra
Power.

A Washington correspondent Of a
New York Radical paper states the
views Of leading Republicans, as to the
power Of Congress to control the cleo
ton Of Representatives. He says:
Under authority of the Constitution, Con
gress may 20 still further and declare what
kind of ballots shall be used at election of
members of the House of Representatives,
now they shall be received and counted, and
even that such election shall be managed
and returns made by United States officers
alone thus correcting the very evil com
planned of in South Carolina.
This il nothing more than the power
as to prescribing "the kind Of ballots"
that may be, or shall be used by voters,
than is asserted in our Code law which,
"a we have before remarked,i is a copy of
the laws in Ohio, and probably other
Northern States If the right exists at
all to prescribe the form of ballots, it ex-
lists with the States.
The point of the above is that the cen
tralizers claim for the Federal agent Cor
nation with big n as they are
in the habit of writing iD not only the
power to prescribe what "kind o ballots
shall be used" but they would take the
elections from the hands of the people,
place United States deputy marshals
(hired bummers at election time) over
the ballos,bo4es, to receive, count, and
return the votes they would beat the
Louisiana Returning Board, if possible,
and elect Representative to serve their
masters every time, no matter how the
people voted. Opcein power, always in
power, under this arrangement, which
the Radical leaders favor. When the
people of each State are not permitted
to regulate the reception, counting and
returns of votes cast for those who are
to be their Representatives their liber-
ties will be at al end. Centralized pow
er viii have supplanted their freedom
and their rights, and trampled down
their main defense-a control of their
own ballots.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

Col. w. HI. McCARDLE has an
nounced his withdrawal from the edi-
torial control of the Vicksburg Com
mercial. Nothing that We can say, viii
contribute to his fame as a writer and
journalist, We have not always concur
ed with him, and recently have regret
led 70 differ widely with him upon
some essential matters Of party orgahi.
zatlon, but our differences have been
expressed in mutually kind and for
bearing spirit.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05
Fiction of the Herald

Don want Northern capital don't wan.
don't want anything but grow
ling opposition, and one unrestraiueI ar,
IRENE faction, say the Bourbons
WIN the people of Mississippi trust Bog
future 70 them Not much.4VicksburE
Herald.
No, don't trust them. IF it is true that
they don't want Northern capital" aud
don't want Cancellation" and edo want
growing opposition" and "one unrestrained
extreme faction" don't trust them But is
it true? Not a word of it. We venture %
assert that there is not an intelligent maHr
white or black, in Mississippi to whom the
destinations N, will in any way apply.-Poft
Gibson Reveille.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

ST. LOUIS REPUBLICAN: Ben Butler
makes out petty good case of intimidation
against the Massachusetts, Republicans, who
SO manage to keep voters from voting that
Boston polls only $4,000 votes, when its
population justides 10000. Before New
England starts on a crusade for a fair and
free election in the South, it will be well to
inquire into the systematic intimidation
that drives 10000 voters from the polls in
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05
How Did Erring Brother Key Make
His Rise.
Philadelphia Timer.l

Philadelphia Timer.
When Erring Brother Key went to Wash
ington in 1877 he was too poor to take his
family with him. 1t is intimated that he
retired with snug little fortune of over a
half million.
ct should be remembered that Brady
was an under officer of the Erring
Brother and the presumption is reason
able that Brady went snacks with him.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05
NOTES. NEWS AND NOTIONS.

The Boston Herald says. ''now Is good
slime to start independent politics in the
..South. The old issues are played out
Nothing remains between the old parties
but traditions and prejudices." That
being the case why is it not good time TO
start independent politics in the North.
In no event can that section be injured, but
with the South, having once undergone the
horrors of Republican rule, the continued
existence of that party is standing menace
to its prosperity and happiness.
The class of immigrants that have been
pouring into this country during the pres
ent season. is far above the average in social
and material condition. A single German
banking house of New York cashed drafts
aggregating 800, 900 for immigrants who
arrived by the three last German steam
ships. A steerage passenger, who arrived
from France, had $4,000 francs in gold
belted about his waist under his clothing.
A an evidence of the work that the
Board of Immigration of Missouri is per-
forming, the town of Rich Hill, Barry
county, is cited. Last fall the population
was 500, now it is $500 with an additional
population of 800 in another new town in
the immediate vicinity.
The result of the love feast between a
Democratic Congress and the fraudulent
and sanctimonious administration of Hayes
is seen in the postoffiee thieving. For two
years the money furnishing department OF
the government was in the hands of Demo
Gratis, and yet we behold the sad spectacle
of a Republican administration bringing to
light frauds that ought TO have been detect
ed by Democratic Congress.
The St Louis Post-Dispatch suggests
Grant for Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate
in place of Riddleberger. That might do
very well for Emeritus until something else
turned up, but we hardly think it would fl
''the measure of justice" which the Vicks-
burg Herald presented him.
Tho latest star route to wealth-A mail
contract.
A negro woman was recently hanged in
Virginia for numbering her husband. When
the news was telegraphed the Memphis
Avalanche startled the community with
the announcement, "a female murderess
hanged" The Avalanche should not be so
reckless; what proof had it that the murder
ess was a female
Where was erring brother Key when the
money went out of the postoffice fund
The Hayes administration was so good /
and so sweet that sugar would not melt in /
its mouth, but the money in the treasury
melted into the pockets of the mail con
tractors and their hackers, just the same as
if Hayes had not stolen the Presidency
The Vicksburg Herald says call the strife
Sin the Democratic party in Mississippi
hangs on and revolves around" the U. $
election of next January. Well,
we will declare We thought that call the
strife hung on and revolved around the
persistent efforts" of the Herald to disband ,
.he Democratic party and transfer the peo-
pie of Mississippi to the National Republic &.
IAN party ;
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05
THE Natchez Democrat

THE Natchez Democrat is radiant
with its new suit of type, and altogether
lovely to it, numerous readers. It's
rejuvenation is in keeping with the
progressive spirit Of Natchez since the
dawning of its era of railroad and
manufacturing enterprises. We con
graduate our contemporary, and wish it
a long career Of uninterrupted prosper
fty
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

Hon. F. c. MCGEE says in his Enter
prise Courier that Hon L. B. Brown,
of Clarke county, has recently been
favorably mentioned as suitable can
didate for Lieutenant-dovernor. The
Courier don't know that Mr.. Brown is
a candidate but SAYS his friends would
be glad to give him hearty support if
he should be. On the line Of the same
road for Lt-Governor, are mentioned
Hon. j. D. Bills, of Corinth, and Mai.
Collins, of West Point. We also learn
that Hon. T. L. Mellen, Of Natchez,
will be . candidate, and Hon. J. d.
Stands looms up ia she Northwest.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

DR. J. l.. CRIGLER, of this county, last
year planted 80 acres of land in oats and
gathered therefrom the neat little sum Of
nine hundred bushels and sold the same for
rs cents per bushel, amounting to 1915 90
What farmer in this county can do 50 well
Oktibbeha Citizen.
1t would seem that Dr. Crigler is a
good farmer a. we'll as a most practical
and useful legislator. We hope that
fair proportion of our intelligent and
philosophical farmers will be sent to
the next Legislature. They are identi-
fed with the industry from which all
Others draw their sustenance, and are
presumed TO be better informed in ref
erence to the paramount economic
questions that should claim the attention
of the moulders of public policy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

ACCORDING to a table prepared by the
Agricultural bureau the increase in the
value Of lands in the Southern States
has been greater during the past year
than in the Northern States. The
average increase in the cotton States il
- per cent. In South Carolina it was
18 per cent-greater than in any other
1+a-D
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05
The \. O. NJ. r.. R.
Enterprise ('ourier.l

Enterprise Courier.
The survey Of the New Orleans Il North
eastern railroad is Still being pushed for.
ward. The line will run almost through
the entire length of Clarke county, and
will pass through the southeast corner of
Jasper, Continuing down it runs about
nve miles east of Ellisville, in Jones eoun-
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

SENATOR GEORGE returned home on
Monday 10 attend to indispensable pro
fes-ional business in the courts. He j.
paired with a Republican Senator. and
his absence will not weaken the Demo
cratic column
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

HOS. .. r. SINGLETON, with his
usual good luck, is justly praised for
having resisted with all his might the
deficiency bills which gave the star
route contractors their immense spoils.
He j. member Of the appropriation
committee.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

We are indebted to Senator George
for copies Of the speech Of Senator Vest
presenting the Democratic side Of the
Senatorial controversy. We have al
ready laid before our readers this
mastery argument
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05
The Financial Question.

We have on hand series Of papers
on he financial question by Gen. J. r.
Chalmers which we will print in sue
cessige numbers. They will occupy but
little space, but are 50 lucid that they
will enlbie the dullest intellect to com
prehenI a subject TOO little understood,
considering its great Importance.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

IN 1875 there were 4S1 ,S21 cotton
spindles in the South The new census
shows 1872, 1873, an increase of 310,317
spindles in five years. The number of
spindles in the United States in 1878
was $3.50, 1854. The increase in five
years was ,381,7S3, there being now
1921, 147 spindles in the country
nearly 20, 900, 900 less than the whole
number of spindles in Great Britain,
which number 80, 800, 900
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

THE Arkansas Democracy are about
to split on the debt question. The
Tennessee Democracy are already hope
lessly divided, and the Republicans
have the State government.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

THE Winston Signal in forecasting
the nomi -ations of the Democratic State
Convention, suggests the name of
Robert c. Patty, of Noxubee county,
for Auditor of Public Accounts.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

BRADY is out in a brazen denial of any
completely in the Star route robbery. He
insists that he has done only what Con-
gress has authorized. That may be true
Everybody knows that Congress voted
the money for the extra compensation.
But didn't he help to form the ring !?
Didn't he ask Congress to vote the mon
ey and didn't he tempt the weaker
vessels with slices of the pie?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05
The Proposed State Female College.

We learn from .'old citizen" in the
Fayette Chronicle, and we have heard
the same from other sources, that the
county of Jefferson viii donate the
splendid buildings of the Female College
at Fayette to the State for the proposed
State Female College. This will be a
princely donation, and will 90 far to-
wards fixing the location at that place
No point could be more eligible. By
the first Of January next, Fayette will
be connected by means Of the N, J. &
c. r. r. with the system Of railroads
operating in our STATE. 1t has already
direct communication by rail with t he
Mississippi river.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

THE National Committee of the Ma
tional Greenbaek-Labor party is called
to meet by Secretary CrandaH, at ST.
Louis, June I, to elect a Chairman in
place of F. III. Murch.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05
Hon. ]. L. Crigler..
~ " Ae8ANA &c
StarkviIle Times.l

atarkviIle Times
Hon ]. I. CrigleF, our popular Senator.
and one Of the heat men in any county. was
~ town last Saturday. We have known
him for years and only wish that our peo-
pie may always be represented by men of
his type.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

AFTER reading the color line decision
by the L. S. Supreme Court of case
from Delaware, the conclusion ought to
be reached that if there are any more
stalwarts appointed to that tribunal,
they should not be confirmed by the
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05
The vicksburg Commercial.

Messrs. Campbell & Co. continue to
be the publishing firm of the Vicksburg
Commercial No editor is announced,
but its management has evidently fallen
into very competent and experienced
hands. The writing is very able, and
all its departments are piquant and
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05
NEARLY @3.OOO,OOO.

The Enormous Profits of the Star Ring.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

BRADY says he is prosecuted The
whiskey thieves under Grant said more
than that
What thief Ger felt the halter draw
with good opinion Of The law7H
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05
What Brady's Organ -
Washington Republican,

W HshIngtOn hepubIIcan.
Gen. Brady made the o.,pr-,y t add. 81
gave them to Congress tV5. vs,--a.-. ..-.
gress investigated aud appr1yed r7.r &.
'7s-iSlA the same figures were again
-ae''-'0.'' 'sAU the much saOused iucr.l-. VI
-et!lce 10 now made permanen. By law. A
majority Of both Houses Of Congress made
This is the whole story.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05
Brady Says it Was the Othcr FcIlor.
CLiCago-JournaL1

II - but just to say that General Brady.
the tate second Assistant Postmaster Gou-
eIal VINO had the distribution cot these EG
takes, and under whose sanction tna .-.s-r
route business has been increased -o rH.--
mously. has published a card I'M r.r.v -5
his critics in which he "8enie- their allies
cations and defes the aliigator. " and claim.
that not step was taken without t1e -.r--
ion Oh IA" aaa the APPRECIATION Of Clugra--.
re ch4!'ehges an investigation, aid t d
40" gong On. 1t It does not re-uI. Iu uu-
earthing a foul nest Of rascaIity w. sa.rI
miss our guess. "Let no guilty man e-rara z
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

Az exchange says that Hugh J.
Jewett will become the Democratic
candidate IN aeontingeney. Better say
ii horn.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

Nh. r. NJ. FARvE, Chairman Of the
Democratic Executive Committee of
Hancock county, calls meeting of the
Committee through the Handsboro
Advertiser. on Thurday next, May 9Th.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

EAIGRANT farmers are leaving ireland
at the rate Of a thousand a day. We wi,h
some Of them could be induced TO settle in
our State,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05
mlgration.

VIII The CLARION please inform its
many readers why there is no effort made to
induce a few of the many thousand immi-
grants who reach our shores annually to 10
in Mississippi? Does she not need
them? Has she population enough !?
While our neigh6oring States, Ten
nessee and Arkansas, are filling up with
hardy immigrants, Mississippi scarcely ever
gets one. She has finer climate, better
lands and stronger natural Inducements
than any of her neighbors. Then why do
they not come? We pause for 4 reply
Austin Cotton Plant.
The world was not made in day, and
the party in Mississippi couldn't
do all things at once. Nor can
THE CLARION explain everything, but
it will inform the Cotton Plant that
measures ,cH be taken to encourage
immigration to our State from abroad
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

Gun neighhor, the Terry Enterprise,
has strong article against ..the Pint
Law Amen. Il ought to be re-,
pealed,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-05

Carr. WADDELL, of the Austin
Cotton Plant. was in jackson last week
when the Greenback Executive Com
mittee was in session, and learned
from private sources that ticket was
made up for the State canvass, thusly ::
For Governor. L. Alcorn,
Secretary Of Slate. w q LoWa,
Auditor. w NJ. Deason,
Supt Pub. Edu' INV. W. Howe.
The balance of the names, Capt.
Waddens informant failed to catch.
From other sources. we learn that Hon.
J. B. Yellowly Is spoken Of by the
fusionists for Auditor; and still another
rumor connects The highly distinguished
name of Col. J. NJ. Jayne for that
important position. He is not, however,
in politics, and no doubt thinks the
Democratic party good enough for the
management of the financial issues.
THE Vieksburg Commercial referring
to the recent election of officers of the
Vieksburg aud Meridian Railroad, SAYS
that Mr.. E. r. Bacon, lawyer Of dis
tinction in New York, and partner of
Hon Dudley, Field was made one
of the new dicreetory, and that it is
their purpose to put the road in
thorough repair and make it irst-class
in every particular, They say this can
be accomplished in about nine months,
and that they will run trains from there
to Meridian in about five hours. The
road is an essential link in the South
ern line of travel from the Atlantic to
the Pacific