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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
LETTER FROM JUDGE CHANDLER.

EDITORS CLARION: 1t may interest your
readers to know the somewhat apomolous
condition OF our attachment laws, in re-
lation to their enforcement in the State snd
Federal Courts.
Section 9l5 of the Revised Statutes of
the United States, passed by Congress in
1872. Is as follows:
I'm common law cases in the Circuit and
District Courts, the plaintiff shall be en-
titled to similar remedies, by attachment or
other process, against the property of the
defendant, which are noe provided by the
laws of the State in which said Court Is
held for the Courts thereof; and such Cir
cult and District Courts may, from time to
time, by general rules, adopt such State
laws rs may be in force in the States where
they are held in relation 10 attachments
and other process; Proridei, That similar
preliminary afidavits and proof, and simi-
lar security, as required by such State
laws, shall first be furnished by the party
seeking such attachment or other remedy"
When the foregoing was passed by Con
gress, tie laws OF Mississippi authorized at
tachments for giving an unfair preference
TO creditors; ;" and this is still the law if
enforced in the Federal Courts while 1t Is
dropped from the Mississippi Code OF 1880
\ foreign creditor suing in the Federal
Courts, has the advantage of this impor-
tant cause of attachment, over q home cred
itor suing in the State Courts; and it Is
difficult 10 understand why the Legislature
omitted this provision. 1t has been a lead
ing cause of attachment for many years,
and had become well understood, though
for a time troublesome to the Courts to con-
strue 1t has been a prolific manifesto
ton of dishonesty among debtors-more of
them attempt to defraud their creditors by
giving an unfair preference to some one
OF them, who is real or imaginary, than in
other way. Ii is 4 wise law, and its omis-
sion in the Code, as will be seen, gives to
foreign an important advantage over home
creditors, If redress Is sought in the Federal
Courts @. G. CHANDLER.
CoRINTH, Jan. l., 1881.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
Co-Education ofthe Sexes.

The press does not receive kindly the
proposition of the advisory committee
of the Oxford University to receive
young ladies in that institution. The
Winona Advance protests against it /;
and the Nicksburg Commercial Col
McCardle) has Il trenchant article on
the subject which we have mislaid. A
lady correspondent of the Starkville
Citizen speaking for her sex, says:
We want an institution of our own, and
are Just as much entitled to one, as the
young men of Mississippi are entitled to
tJco. If the University has 30 kindly
offered to open its doors to the fairer sex, we
hope young ladies that wish TO study the
higher branches of Literature, will not &C
cept the invitation, for as sure as they
accept this offer, all hope Of an institution
of our own will have disappeared, for a
while at least. | do not think it suitable
place for young ladies' to complete their
education. We want an institution where
we can learn occupations suitable to our
sex
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
Apportionnent.

The period fixed by the Constitution for
"an enumeration Of the qualified voters,
and an apportionment of the Representa-
tives in the General Assembly" has arrived,
and the performance of that duty deyolves
upon the General Assembly at its present
session. The Constitution provides that the
number of Representatives shall not exceed
seventy-fve until the population of the
state shall be 800, 900 The population
Of the State now exceeds ], 500 600, and the
number of Representatives may be enlarged,
but not to exceed the constitutional limit OF
ninety-nine. The number of Senator'S may
be increased In a corresponding proportion.
Extract from message of Gov. Marks, OF
Tennessee.
The foregoing extract suggests some
thing proper to be said in connection
with the new Apportionment in Missis-
sippi The number Of members Of the
Legislature should be reduced. The
present number was fixed by the alien
adventurers and plumber seekers who
framed the present unjust Apportion-
ment, and whose chief object was TO
create and multiply offices for their own
benefit 1t Is beyond all reasonable
proportion to the population. Here is
Tennessee with population Of 800
900, with but 10 Representatives.
Mississippi with a population Of ,1O0,-
900, has 116 Representatives and 30
Senators. The Constitution Of Tennes-
see forbid4 the number of Representa-
tives to exceed %, no matter how large
the population may be. Ia framing a
new Apportionment for Mississippi
the number of Representatives and
Senator'S should be reduced. The mum
Der Of Representatives could be safely
fixed at 100. Let the rule be adhered
to that each county shall have at least
one Representative to take care of heI
local interests. There are seventy-two
counties. The twenty-eight beyond the
number required TO give each one q
| Representative could be divided among
the larger counties according to popula
ton. BY this reduction an immense
saving could be made to the public
treasury. Fewer Legislators would have
to be paid. Small bodies move rapidly
and the public business would be more
expeditiously despatched. The sessions
would be shortened, and the Journal
abbreviated.
| The reduction of members Woulc
make a long stride in the direction o
economy. 1t is one of the reforms t
be accomplished when a new APpor
tionment Is made.
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The Yicksburg Commercials Answer TO
Mercenary Scribbler's Lie,
Vicksburg Commercial. ]

Vicksburg Commercial.
In a recent letter from New York Gath
takes occasion to make an ilI-natured fling
at Jefferson Davis. He says:
Notwithstanding all the blow of Texas.
Dakota laid more railroad last year than
Texas. Ohio nearly as much, and New
Mexico about the same as Ohio Mississir-
pi, which has no credit, owing:to the opera
tions of JEFF Davis in finance q quarter Of
century before secession, did not Law one
mile of railroad. but laid good many con-
tests OF congress.
Gath" is a brilliant, rafting newspaper
correspondent. but if he only knew half az
much as he thinks he knows of men and
things, he would certainly know that JEFF
Davis had no more to do with the "so-called''
population of Mississippi bonds, than did
the hosts of Pharaoh, before they were
swallowed up in the Red Sea Mr. Davis
was not in politics in 1912, when the people
resolved that they would not pay bonds is
sued in violation of the constitution, and in
contravention of law, but was a quiet and
most earnest student, who was not, at that
day, known to two hundred people in all
the State. He was at home, studiously
preparing himself for the brilliant career
soon to open before him, and was no more
responsible, then or since, for the action
taken by the State on the bond question,
than the babe yet unborn.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20

SOME italian emigrants have arrived
in Louisiana to work in the sugar fields
of that State Thereupon the n. Y.
Commercial Bulletin remarks
The Italian, if well treated, makes a good
laborer in almost any capacity. The vicious
system of taxation just now in operation in
Italy, as applied to land industries and the
necessaries of life, is making that country
one of the poorest to live in in all Europe,
and it is not surprising, therefore, that her
people should be so anxious to quit it.
The same causes are producing similar
effects in Germany and other over-taxed
countries. In due time this steady drain
on the industrial life-blood of these nations
cannot but be seriously felt in more ways
than one.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
BUSINESS FAILURES ~ MIssIssIPPI

The house of Messrs Tate & Co, Senate.
ba
The we'll known house of Bell K Bro, Of
Bovina, has made an assignment Of stock DO
favor OF creditors.
Mr. f. 4. Stackhouse and Messrs. Woiir.
At CRYSTAL Springs, are reported as having
failed.
Mr.. J. C5alinger, Of Yazoo City. has made
an assignment, with Mr.. y. Fromhcrz as
assignee.
Michael Towenthal, Brookhaven} Was
closed up on the 18th.
The commercial failures in Columbia.
last week. were w. j. Boyd, groceries anl
general merchandise; J. w Egglest9m Is
Bro, groceries and plantation supplies auD
:. Schwab, saloon aud general merchandise
Messrs. I.ickeusteiu Il CO., merchants
doing busiress at Walden and GRENADA;
have been attached 10y New Orleans amt
New York creditors representing near SOU
600.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20

THE manner of man the Republicans
of New York have elected to the U.
S. Senate, may be inferred from Senator
Conkling's despatch:
81 congratulate the Republican party and
the State of New York on their choice of a
Senator who never apologized for being a
stalwart Republican"
Referring to the election of Platt, the
n. Y. Sun, SAYS
We shall have a dual Conkling in the
Senate-something different from a two
headed calf with one body-a twob bodied
Conkling, with one head, but capable of
casting two votes
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20

THE Philadelphia Times says that the
Republicans in the Senate stand in need
of Kellogg's vote in the next Congress,
and viii be solid against his expulsion
though convicted of far greater crimes
directly affecting his Senatorial title,
than those for which Senator Caldwell,
Republican, of Kansas, was compelled
to resign to escape expulsion. Kellogg
was not only elected by bribery. but by
a rump Legislature which dissolved
without attempting to perform any other
legislative function but TO elect him.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
Not in the New Code.

A correspondent, writing from Bowl
ma, complains that he and others have
examined the New Code, and have
failed to find the Warren county Stock
Law that they are informed by MEM
bers of the Legislature that it has not
been repealed, and couldn't understand
why it has been omitted. To which
we reply, that the law being a strictly
local one, was excluded from the Code
which is a compilation of general
and public statutes. So far as we
know, the Warren county Stock Law is
still in force.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
A Striking Contrast.
How Much Better the COIOred People
are Treated in the South than in the
North.

HOW huch Hettef the COlOred People
are Treated in the South than in the
North.
Extract from letter Of Col. Mcclure of Phila-
delphia Times.
Here every channel Of industry is open
to him (the black MANI. The white and
black mechanic are on equal footing. the
prejudices of race have no existence save
when there is struggle for the domination
OF the spoller over property, and he legis-
lates and fills positions for which he is fitted
not only with the sympathy but often by
the votes of the white. | saw a score Of col.
ored policeman on the streets of New Or
leans serving under a Democratic Mayor.
but 1t would cost Mayor Stokley his last
hope Of election if he were to put the sable
policemen on Chestnut street saw black
men sitting on the Democratic side os South
ern Legislature, but no Republican district
in Philadelphia or Pennsylvania has ventur
ed to nominate one of the seventv-fve hun
bred cOlored voters Of the city, or one Of
the thrice that number in the State. for anv
legislative position, either State or Tnunioi-
pal / saw the colored man mingled with
the Democratic organizations in the south
but no one could sit in the councils of the
League or the Union Club or march in
mixed ranks with the InvincibTes or YOUNG
Republicans in Philadelphia. | saw him
have free access to every channel of mechan.
ical industry in the South, but he is relent-
lessly excluded from the organized me-
chanical pursuits ofRepulioan EhiladeIphia
II the North must assume the
task of elevating the black man to equal
power regardless of fitness, let it begin bv
giving him in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
New York and other Republican States, the
same Industrial equality and political pro.
motion that the less educated blacks az the
South now enjoy with the cordial symnatbv
OF the Southern whites | see the same col
ored leader ex-senator ReveisA- who was
excluded from the forum of the caday,;,, -
Music, when Republican Senator soieIg
because OF his race, now at the head Of .
coioTed College that is sustained entirely bv
sissippi, and he holds his high comuissia.,
from the same authority, while RepubIicon
tenasylyania has no such temple of learn
ing for the black man.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
Hon. H. D. Money.

On the 7th, petitions were presented
to the House as follows, by Hon. H. d.
Money:
The petition of J. c. Woodward and 9th
ers, for the transfer of Winston county
Mississippi, from the Northern to the South
ern Federal Court District of Mississippi
to the Committee on the Judiciary
Also the petition of citizens of Mississip
pi, for the transfer of Noxubee county, Mis-
sissippi, from the Northern Federal Distric
of Mississippi to the Southern District-to
the same Committee.
Also, the petition of citizens of Missis
sippi and Alabama, for the improvement Of
the navigation of the Noxubee river-to
the Committee on Commerce.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20

ruF TENTH cENsUs--s0uIhA
OVER TEN THOUSAND AND tH
~ THOUSAND POPULATION

THE TENTH cENsUs--sot
ovER TEN THOusA nd AND "
~ THoUsAND POPULATION
wAsgrxerox. January 18.-Ihe ,e .-s-t
bureau furnishes the following. s.at-.s, M
of the population Of towns and cltiss ,-,J
southern states, having more than ~ An
less than thirty thousand inhaol tanls - 90.
gnsta Ga. 23.O23; Galveston, leA,g %. On
Sorfolk Va. p. 926 Petersburg Ea-,s .-,1
516. san Antonio Texas, 2O-36I H 10y 5eI
Texas 1866: Wilmington, D. u, 49,
NInnt ,omerv. Ala, 1877 Lync9,59ultL,s.,'
Va. 1886; Chattanooga, Tenn; - ~
Macon. Ca. I2.9S4; Nicksburg, nlls 49,,
S14. portsmouth, Va, H. Ss Snre4elil91 ~
La. 1lOl7: Austin, Texas. lO'955U1 80 L'ii'-7
Texas. IO,S5S; Columbia, ,. o. lo'o1''
THE WORLDS FAIR coMNIssIoN Li'7'
NEW YORK. Jan. I3.-The Worlds + AR
Commissioners re-assembled this Afternoon l',
several additional members were elecle'1 q, al
the Executive Committee, lncludlnk Oo''
Edward Richardson.
GEN. GRANT ELECTED PBE7l'EN "4 ''
woLD's FAIR EXPOSITION.
NEW YORK. Jan. 13.-Gen. Grant has
haen elected President of the World Ili
Fxnosition. and accepts the position.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
Republican Senatorial Caucus ctprmi.
nation TO Hold on to Kellogg.

q, WAsHINGroE, Jan. 1.-THE RcpuhIicar
senators held caucus this morning at
which 1t was determined that when IN.
hheliogg case comes up in the Senate the
Republicans will submit motion IN f.g
the whole subject on the table and tbat +
TINS motion does not prevail thew viii eu-
deavor - prevent the adoption Of tbe r..a-
luton unseating Kellogg by 6llibusterino
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20

Coz. F. c. MoREHEAD has greatly
improved the size and style of the Plan
tiers Journal, which, in truth, is the best
periodical Of its class, published North
or South. The January number is full
of choice articles from which we shall
expect to draw literally for the benefit
Of our readers. In future the Journal
will be published simultaneously, the
first of every month, in the cities OF
New Orleans, Vicksburg and Memphis.
All business may be addressed to either
office, consulting convenience oflocality.
Offices Vicksburg, Miss; 80 Caronde-
let street, New Orleans, La; 361 Main
street, Memphis Tenn.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
INEQUALITIES OF the Present Appor-
tionment-How ii Works.
Chickasaw Messenger.

Chickasaw Messenger.
The revised census roll of THE CLARION
shows that in our calculation of last week
we made i mistake in asserting that the
black counties had under the present APP
portjonment twenty-f0ur Senators and the
white counties thirteen. Thsfe are, count
ing the 10th District, composed of Clarke
and Laudegdale,) which has a majority OF
only fifteen, fourteen white districts and
twenty-three negro districts. From three
of those districts the complete returns have
not been published, but the full returns
from the twenty eoIored districts show a
total population Of 90, POS. or 2S.ll0 for
each Senator The fourteen white districts
have a total population Of 4s6,S05 or 81, 736
for each Senator. Under this apportion-
ment then four eolored voters are as potent
in eleeting Senators as five white voters.
The voting population of the State is about
10000 colored aud 10000 white. Esti-
mating the strength of the two great parties
in Mississippi from a color line standpoint,
the whites go into the canvass this year
with an advantage against them of six to
Eve on fair apportionment. But when We
reflect that without new apportionment
four colored voters count IS much as Eve
white voters in electing members of the
Legislature, the advantage against US in
favor of our "enemies" is about in the pro-
portion of 8 to g It is true the parties are
not now organized 90 the color-line, but
with a stalwart administration at Washing
ton and the evident tendency to scisps and
factions in the Democratic party, such may
be the case.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
An Amended Money Order system.

Mr. Money, Of Mississippi, has introduced
a bill in the House to modify the nostoi
money order system. The bill pr6vide.
that money orders may be issued for snns
not exceeding 800. The fees for the order
are fixed as follows: s. and not excead;r,a,
80, . cents, $40 to SIS, 10 cents sI5 te
$50, - cents; $50 to $25, 10 cents SOS
s35 to $40, 81 cents; $50 to S45, % oent~ 4,
S45 to $50, % cents; $50 to $40. an CENT
$50 to SO. 30 cents; so to $50, 40 cents !.
$50 TO 800, As cents. O9H'S
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
The Intent and Importance Of Congress
man Moneys Bill.

The bill reported to the House, on -alu-
day, by Mr.. Money, from the Committee
Postoilices and Postroads, To regulate the
rates Of postage on second-class mail matter
Is a very important One to newspapers. and
the subscribers thereto. IL provides thaf
the rates Of postage on second class uubIiea.
tions deposited in letter carrier offices. ur
delivery by carriers, ahal be uniform al twa
cents per pound The Committee, iu ,hel
report on tho bill, show the necessity Tor M.
passage Of the bill.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20

ABOUT the same hour that the colored
politicians from South Carolina were
presenting to the President elect their
grievance that the children of their race
were not afforded educational facilities
by the Democratic administrations in
the South, ex-President Grant was hold
ing forth at a colored entertainment in
Steinway Hall, New York, and saying
that she was glad to see in his travels
the progress of education all over the
country made by the .colored people.
Even in the South" said Gen. Grant
''where the prejudice is strongest, it
was rare to see eolored child without an
opportunity toget acommon-sehool edu-
cation. Now, who is to be believed !?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
Gen. Chalmers Speech on the Fund
ing Bill.

N"thing cohId DC more liiNihci"ly col-
elusive that the present SILVER "oliar oi
4lZt grams was 'h' Unit % ''iue ""'"
the T. :. pohds were contractor u "'
PAID IN CON- ana that II hao oeeh 'he
the measure OF the value OF GOLD rom
me foundation OF 'he government 20 " /,
80 1893 when ITS coinage was stopped
by the eontrivance OF the money power
than the speech OF Hon ;. L. Ohal-
mers delivered III the house Oh hePre-
sentat''eS on the 9th INST ana printed
on our first page. Gen Chalmers dem
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
KELLOGG'S CASE.
A few Democrats Unite with the RepubIi
cans and Give Kellogg the Victory,
Special to the Picayune.l

Special to the Picayunel
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-At a Senate
Republican caucus to-day it was resolved to
oppose the resolution unseating Kellogg by
fllibustering methods.
The vote to-day against Saulshury's mo-
ton to lay aside prior orders and take up
the Kellogg case is generally construed as
an indication that Kellogg will retain h 5
seat. Senators Thurman, PendIeton, Whythe,
Groome, Lamar, Voorhees,, Bayard and
Butler voted against laying aside the Holi-
day case. Ito take up the Kellogg ease
The action of to-day was a bitter dipap-
pointment to those Senator'S who are against
Kellogg, and was severely commented on.
Outside of the Senate l do not know a
Democrat who is in favor of keeping KEEL.
logg in.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
Getting Rich Pretty Fast.
Cincinnati Commercial.1

Cincinnati Commercial
4 man with the enormous wealth now
possessed by Mr.. Vanderbilt could add to it
very rapidly; in fact. it will double itself
in twenty years if put into four per cent.
bonds and let alone, save to add the annual
interest. With the present start which
Mr.. Vanderbilt has in bonds and dividend
paying stocks, it will be an easy matter for
him to be worth At least $3.50, 900, 600 should
he live twenty years hence. 1t is said that
he is worth more than half that sum now.
Upon the portion ofall this immense
fortune, which is invested in United
States bonds and yields an income of
81, 900, 900 per annum in interest, Van
derbilt pays no more tax for the support
of the government than the mental
that ''shines" his boots Such is the
beauty of Republican legislation.)
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20

Winona Advance

While the Advance would be willing ta
have a special college for the girls, it will
certainly oppose thoir entrance into tha
State University, We do hope that thi.
mater viii be thoroughly discussed before
t Va! advisory committee take such .ter
We agree with our distinguished friend o..
THE CLARION that these colleges ouelt Al
be separate.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
THE yieksburg Commercial returns

THE Vicksburg Commercial returns
to the subject of the Meridian Conven-
ton with ponderous editorial of two
columns. The needs of the present are
TOO pressing, life is too short, and time
and space too precious, TO be
triHed away in the discussion of the
Meridian Convention. Therefore. with
due Difference to our able and distin-
guished contemporary, We will bow
ourselves out of the lists, concluding as
we commenced, that in the approaching
election the Democratic party as it
values its existence, and the stern
principles and just policy TO which it Is
dedicated, should meet in Convention,
make its nominations and stand by
them. And We will venture to repea I
that when the bugle sounds TO action.
our friend of the Commercial will be
there.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20

THERE is some trouble among the colored
folks about Bruce. They met in Cleveland
the other day and resolved that Bruce wa:
not the man they wanted, as he "has done
nothing for his people and is not true rep
resentative of his race" The coloFed
brethren need not be worried about Bruce.
Memphis Avalanche.
True; he feathered his nest well while
Sheriff of Bolivar county, and is said to
have made some profitable investments
in Cleveland, Ohio.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20

The Baltimore Sun says that Illinois
is out of debt because of the income de-
rived from the Illinois Central Railroad.
It is to be hoped that Illinois will not
turn around now, and kill the goose
that lays the golden egg.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20

OK the 18th the Speaker laid before
the House a communication from the
Secretary of the Interior transmitting
the report of the Superintendent of the
Census, which shows the total popula-
ton of the United States to be 80, LAP, :
500.