The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-05-12
NOTES, NEWS AND NOTIONS.

Sixty Thousand immigrants were landed
at New York during the month Of April
aud at least ten thousand at other ports
How many of them did Mississippi get?
The New York Times speaks OF seii-adVer-
tiSers, whose highest ambition is to get their
names into print, and who will resort TO
most any method to accomplish the purpose,
We have occasionally met some of the same
sort of people.
The mail contractors and their hackers
who got the Star routes must now be given
the stripes. They are such star-spangied
banner fellows.
The Utica y. Y. Observer believes that
Mississippi, keeping JEFF Davis at home and
sending Lamar to the Senate, Is wiser than
Massachusetts which sends Dawes.-North'
ern Exchange.
/ Hon. Jefferson Davis would have been
elected to the Senate in 1876 if he had been
willing to accept, and again he would have
/ been elected in 1880, if he had not persisted
/ ia declining. The time will never come
when Mississippi will withhold any honor
within her gift, from her greatest and best be
/ loved son. If that be treason our Northern
| brethren will have to make the most of it.
| More gold and more immigrants arriving
daily from Europe at all the ports, is the
latest news of Importance.
The Star route thieves will give the peo-
pie credit for about us much sense as Ger
tain Dutch Justice of the Peace had. Upon
one occasion, soon after his election, a prison
er was brought before him charged with
pocket picking. The Justice looking very
dignfed said "Brizner did you dake der
ladies monies, Vas you guilty or not gull
''ty." Prisoner, mot guilty your Honor"
Justice, Bodice you shust durn dot po man
''aloose when he vast not guilty. Now you
imam schust go along from here bout you
''pizness." The Star route thieves will all
plead not guilty and will be Mortified if the
people do not Immediately say ''now go on
about your business"
If the government will now show the
Postoffice thieves a Star route to the peni-
Tertiary it will have done its work we'll.
We have shown in Il recent number that
there is now in the Treasury $4,000, 900
of gold, besides 800, 600, 900 of gold bullion,
recently arrived from Europe in New York
and Philadelphia, more than enough to
keep the minis running for fifteen months.
A recent dispatch from San Francisco has
& r.,
arrived yesterday, has Jour boxes of gold
bars, valued at sos, $50, the first consign-
"ment from Australia received in San Fran
''cisco 1t has been sent to the mint for
coinage into double eagles. The anomaly
''of shipping Goals to Newcastle is having a
repetition in one gold section of the world
shipping its products to another gold sec
ton"
Let us see what reasons were given by the
adherents Of the gold bugs for opposing the
passage of the silver bill. They said: I'VE do
''not believe the bill will accomplish its
"object. We believe the result of that bill
'will be not bi=metalism in America or
europe. It's peculiar and overshadowing
Feature is that one metal alone shall be
"the exclusive ruling element of American
currency and that metal shall be silver.
Of the fiuanciers Of Germany and England
chad combined together to devise a scheme
(which would drive the silver as money
"from the markets of Europe forever. and
establish silver recommendation in this
country, they could not have invented one
'tmore efficient than this bill" And apain
"Will any deny that the effect of this meas
'ure will be to drive whatever gold circula-
''tion we now have out of the country I?
''The effect of the bill, the silver bilI) now
proposed, if it becomes law, will expelI
the gold from the country, TO the extent
''that silver is used. The question then
'arises, should the legislation of this coun-
"try be 50 framed as to establish one metal
''as the basis of currency, and that metal to
''be silver. Is it wise policy to legislate
'gold practically out of existence as money
ain the United States?" But the bill
passed nevertheless and we have not heard
of any great rush of silver to this country.
Nor has the gold we had been expelled"
on the contrary it is rushing into the coun-
try in great tide through every port. 1t
does seem that the great financiers aud
statesmen, who joined the gold bugs and
rose far above the wishes and opinions of
the people were entirely mistaken.