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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-09-02
Treasurer's Notice.

Tyaxes on nonresident real estate in the town of
i China, in the County of kennebec and State OF
Maine for the year A. ID. 1850. The following list OF
taxes on real estate of nonresident in the
town of China for the year $780, in bills committed
to E. D. Jepson, Collector of said town, ON the 18th
day of July $780, has been returned by him TO me as
remaining unpaid on the 9th day of May, by his
certificate of that date and remains unpaid and
notice is hereby given that if the taxes and interest
and charges not paid into the treasury OF said
town within eighteen months from the commitment
of said bills so much of the real estate taxed as will
he sufcient to pay the amount due therefor includ
ing interest and charges will, without further no.
ice be sold at public auction the town treasurer
Office in said town. Thursday, the first day of De-
cember, 1881, at one O'Clock p. NJ.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-09-02

w@We keep on hand the-M
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-09-02

CheaDeSt as we'll as the Best
qualities OF Paper Stock, so that we are in
every way prepared to give the lowest prices
if common work is required. If the nicer
jobs are desired we have the necessary stock
for doing it,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-09-02
Rheumatism Permane"''
Cured. ,st

Mr.. Daniel B. Dodge, Edgecomb, Me-, INV m, and lsf
he contracted Rheumatism In tne a. much y
twelve long years suffered, he thinks, Of The BE-
man could suffer; was treated by SOME in Bossss
Physicians in the State, and alteI ..,ss CLA Rhts
RHEUMATIC ELIXIR ana has had a ~ ~ boil
disease. For sale by all Druggisls-s weowrV
Six bottles for $500.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-13
Bill to Repeal the Silver Coinage Bill.

1t will be seen that Mr.. Herman,
Democrat, of New York, has introduced
in the Senate bill virtually repeating
the law of 1878 providing for the
coinage of silver. 1t may be assumed
that no Democrat outside of the infu-
ence of Wall street and the money
power, would have had the temerity to
introduce this ill-timed bill. Mr.. Ker-
nan happens to be one of the few
Democrats who defed public senti
ment and voted against the bill re-
monetizing silver in 1878, and his
present conduct is simply that of the
dog returning to its vOmit. Beyond
the bond ring which wants to be rid of
the apprehension that some day or other
the country may have an administra-
ton honest enough to pay the bonds in
silver as well as gold, there is no senti-
ment calling for the destruction of sill
yer money. The prediction of those
who opposed its recoinage in 1873, that
the people would see the error of their
way in demanding it, has been utterly
falsified. So far ITUm having come TO
that conclusion after an experience of
two years, they are doubly convinced
that they were right, and that their
agents who assumed to know more than
they, were wrong.
The bill of Mr.. Herman has one re-
deeming feature. He does not seek to
accomplish his end by indirection. He
strikes squarely at the law, instead Of
following the example of others of its
opposers who mask their opposition
under pretence that the present silver
dollar is not large enough, does not
contain enough of the pure metal. 1t
SO happens that it contains precisely the
number of grains that the bond-holders
agreed to accept in payment of the
principal and interest of their bonds,
else the Senate in 1878 affirmed by
vote of ~ to Is, what was untrue; and
it happens to contain more grains in
the dollar than the silver coinage of
any other government on earth.
The bill of Mr.. Herman is only the
beginning of the end of the agitation
for the repeal of the silver law. Mark
the prediction.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-13
The vicksburg Commercial has pro

The Vicksburg Commercial has pro-
posed the running of its favorite for
Governor whether he is nominated by
the Democratic Convention or not, and
intimated that it would be best to dis
pense with a nomination altogether.
We have said that this is simply prop
osition to disorganize and destroy the
Democratic organization. The Com
mercial vindicates lis recommendation by
saying that in 1873 the Democrats con-
trary to the advice of its editor who
wanted them "to put full ticket in the
field, decided to make no nomination.
There is no similarity in the cases what
ever. At that time the Republicans
had control of the State with consoli-
dated majority of 30, 900 good luck
would have it, they quarreled among
themselves. They had two candidates
in the field for Governor The plan
of the Democrats was to keep them
divided by joining forces with one
of the factions The maneuver was
successful. 1t was the initial step to
their overthrow They were divided
and finally conquered. The same plan
had been tried with success in Missouri,
Tennessee and other States. AT the
present time the Democrats are in
power, and the Commercial advises
them to disorganize and give the Oppose
ton the same opportunity which the
Democrats, when out of power, en-
braced, viz: to divide and conquer.
The Commercial may tax its ingenuity,
and it cannot invent a better plan for
defeating the Democracy and turning
the State over to the hands of its enc
mics. The Opposition under whatever
name they may sail, could ask nothing
more.
Our friend of the Commercial in
endeavoring to sustain his present pro-
gramme, convicts himself of inconsis-
tency. He prides himself upon having
advocated nominations in 1873.
Well, if it was bad policy
for the Democrats to make no nominal
tions and to divide and conquer the en-
envy in 1873, when they were out of
power, how immeasurably worse would
it be for them to disband and refrain
from making a nomination in 1881 when
they are in power, and thus give the
common enemy a chance to divide and
conquer them ?
We repeat that we will support the
Commercials favorite, with all our
might if he is nominated by the Con-
vention. We are not discussing men,
but we are insisting upon the mainten-
ance of the organization of the party
and rigid adherence to its usages. We
are are in favor of a Convention. In
due time one will be called and when
we go into it, it will imply our solemn
pledge to support its nominee, not to
play a game of "Heads | win, tails you
lose
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-13
How the Money Goes.

Capt. G. f. Merrill who is Temperate
ly sojourning in Washington city, in a
letter to the Washington Gazette, re-
ports the manner in which the parties
employed in cleaning out the Yazoo and
Tallahatchie rivers, perform the service.
From other sources, we have heard the
same complaints. The result is, that
the appropriations voted by Congress
for improving the navigation of the
streams have been t,.s.Ily thrown
away-the money expended and no
good accomplished. If the department
charged with the duty of disbursing the
appropriations would engage the services
of Capt Parisot, or other competent riv-
err men who are familiar with the
streams and the obstacles to navigation
and are interested in having them re-
moved, the funds would be properly ex-
pended 1t would be well when our
Congressman succeed in getting appro-
priations (Which we know they do by
hard efforts for improving our navigable
streams, for them to go a step furthe
and see that the works are confided to
competent and proper persons. The re-
lance is upon them, as no others have
the ear of the government. Here is
what Capt Merrill writes
While in Mississippi, during the summer,
on the Yazoo and Tallahatchie rivers, was
solicited by several of the "oldest inhabit-
ants in that region, to 'call on Mr.. Hayes
when / returned to Washington" and tell
him something about the snag-boats en-
ployed by Uncle Sam to keep those streams
navigable. Being so far removed, said COM
claimants, from the source of their authori-
ty and responsible supervision, those snag-
boats (so-called) paddle up and down stream,
free from that dull care which exacting la
Dor generally begets. They ego for" the in
significant obstacles, such as small brush |
drift-wood, etc, with will. Larger snags
may venture more, but little ones must
keep near shore-such little ones as an or
binary pair of forceps might extract-but
the more dangerous and difficult obstruc-
tions 1.-THE boat-sinkers) are almost entirely
ignored. In short, it is complained of these
workers in that portion of Uncle Sans
that they shamefully neglect
those graver duties which the government
imagines they are performing, !
and for which they are literally paid.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-13
Hon. R. P. Walker, of Lauderdale.
Replies to Justice.

EDITORS CLARION: | have been very
agreeably entertained in the discussion Of
an extra session of the Legislature by the
newspapers of the State: but | never
thought seriously about it, until l read the
lengthy communication by 'Justice" in
your last issue. / had stated that there was
no impending crisis that would Justify the
expenditure of the peoples money, and my
constituents generally agreed with me but
'Justice" says 'the people demand it, and
who can tell what effect his argument will
have on US over this way? Incoming to
the above conclusion, l took into considera-
ton the provisions of the Constitution in
regard to apportionment, the amendment
authorizing biennial sessions, the effect a
postponement of apportionment until the
regular session would have on the Senatorial
election next November-and also the
discussion of the subject in the Democratic
| Household last winter and what was there
considered the only thing then threatening,
that would make it obligatory on the Gov
ernor to convene the Legislature in extra
session. I held that the Constitution was
not explicit to THE days or months that
| should intervene alter enumeration, before
! apportionment, and the biennial amend-
ment was the latest expressed will of the
people, and should not be ignored unless it
was palpably evident that it was for their
good. Apportionment cannot be made at
any time when the terms of more than half
the Senators expire and the few isolated
cases where injustice was done the Demo
cratic party, those Districts are now repre-
scented by Democratic members. Well,
what then? "Justice" says, "that thirty
thousand white citizens did not vote in the
| last election. and that some of the Demo-
cratic members have quit the party, and
gone into the Republican campW Let us
| have an extra session by all means, that we
may concoct some scheme by which these
| thirty thousand citizens can be induced to
do their duty to the country, and that will
| force these recreant members back into the
| Democratic fold | wanted to SOW some
oats as soon as the snow melts and repair
some fences preparatory for another crop
but Justice" says "the people demand an
extra session." and | had as well pack up
my trunk, have my hair trimmed, and
shave, for 1 am the peoples servant.
must heed their demands
r y WATKEp
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-13
THE CANVASS OF 1881.
The Apportionment Question.

The most important issue of the pend
ing canvass for members of the Legisla-
ture, is the apportionment under the
new enumeration. The veal of the
State for the next ten years, and proba-
bly, for the next quarter or even half
century, will depend upon how the work
is done. The motive in which originated
the present infamous apportionment
which was framed ten years ago by the
alien spoilsmen and their blind tools
who carried matters with high hand,
is well understood 1t took extraordi-
nary effort, by the blessing Of God, to
effect the deliverance of the State from
the iron yoke of her oppressors. Uuder
the disadvantage of such an apportion-
ment, with desperate resolve, and by ex-
traordinary methods, it was done how
ever, and the Democracy have now the
power to make sure their safety so far as
the lawmaking department Of the State
government, is concerned. 1t were
madness to trifie away the opportunity.
1t may not come again. In prosperity
the wise are vigilant to guard against
misfortune. The present Ubiquitous
system should be torn up, root, heart
and branch, for one founded on just
principles. The people must bear in
mind the necessity of this essential re-
form in electing their members TO the
Legislature. All over the State, there
are tried and capable men who have
given the subject consideration, and are
realizing the Importance Of its bearings
upon her future, and they cannot
shrink from the performance of the
duty which will devolve upon them. 1t
will be part of our daily labor to expose
the Objectionable features Of the present
system, and to advocate another founded
upon equitable and economical princi-
pies.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-13
What the South wants.

Colonel Mcclure, in writing of his OBJ
servations in the South to his paper,
the Philadelphia Times, among other
things, says:
What the South most wants and most
needs is not the appointment of men ike
Kew and Mosby to the Cabinet or foreign
positions, but the appointment of men of
ability and integrity to the Federal offices
in the South The Southern people want
honest Judges, honest United States Mar
shals, honest District Attorneys, honest
Jurors and honest Postmasters. They do
not want them to be Democrats, but many
of them would have to be Democrats to
meet the qualifications; but they want to
be free from the constant irritation, oppres-
sion and fraud which distinguish the reign
of Republican Federal officials in the South.
And yet this is not all the South
wants. She wants to control her own
affairs and TO be let alone in the enjoy
ment of her right of local self-govern-
ment. She wants share of the bene-
fits of the government, as she
bears without murmuring, her
proportion of its benefits. She
wants such legislation as the election
laws which were born of spirit of pro-
scription and of design to interfere
with the sovereign right of the people
to choose their own agents to represent
them in the federal Congress, repealed.
Cease to Cypress her by unjust and
discriminating legislation, and she
will not quarrel about the comparative
ly trifing matter of the spoils of office.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-13
The Democratic Record on Legal
Tender Notes.

The resolution passed at a recent
meeting of protesting Democrats in New
York on the currency question will
show how wide asunder they are from
the other Northern Democrats and the
entire Western and Southern Democra-
ey ON that question. The resolution
affirms that Congress has no power in
time of peace to attach the legal tender
quality to any other currency than gold
and silver" This affirmation is contra
dlcted by the action of the Democratic
members of Congress in repeatedly
voting to reissue and keep alive the
Greenback notes with their legal tender
property, as part of the national cur
rency. In May, 1878 vote was taken
in the House of Representatives upon a
bill to forbid the retirement of legal
tender notes, Gin other words to keep
them atioat) and it stood ayes 173, NAYS
30. The Democrats voted almost solid
ly for the bill. 1t passed the Senate by
vote of IL to 18-nearly all the Dem
ocrats voting in the affirmative. On
the direct proposition that the said
Greenbacks should be receivable for all
dues to the United States excepting
duties on imports ''and not to be other
wise legal tender" the vote stood Is
ayes, ~ nays. The bulk of the negative
votes were cast by Democrats, among
the number, Senators Bailey, of Ten
nessee, Beck, of Kentucky, Coke and
Maxey, Of Texas, Gordon and Hill, of
Georgia, Dennis of Maryland, Melon
aid and Voorhees,, of Indiana, Morgan,
of Alabama, Ransom, of North Carolina
and last but not least, Thurman, of
Ohio. Gong. Record 45th Congress
page 1862 This is the way the Dem
Gratis have made up their record, and it
is strict accord with the platform adopt
ed by the National Democratic Conven-
ton of 1880. 1t presents an issue which
will not down at the bidding of the
money power. And pray why should it
be? Every legal tender note that has
been issued has stamped upon it, these
words:
This note is legal tender at its face
value for all debts, public and private, ex-
cept duties and imports and the interest
(not the principaD on the public debt
And this is the solemn pledge of the
government to the note holder.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-13
Col Mcclure on the impeachment of
AmeS.

How times have changed. Mr.. Nc.
Clure the Philadelphia journalist, an
original Republican and ex-Chairman OF
the Republican State Executive Com
mittee of Pennsylvania, now an indie,
pendent, but never Democrat, writing
of Mississippi and her deliverance from
carpet-basger rule says that Games
was lmpeached, and justly impeached. ,
When THE CLARION, SOLITARY and
alone, started the ball for his impeacb-
ment. the movement was vigorously
resisted by influential Democrats here
IN Mississippi, while Northern Republi-
cans raised n loud and defiant howl.
with rare exceptions the bar opposed
IT, and II was cold shouldered by the
politicians generally. Strange to saw
some members of our own party who
were among the first to profit individ-
ually by his impeachment and forced
resignation, have never vet forgiven us
for differing from them, and combattinq
and overthrowing their arguments. But
the people took their stand with us. and
thundered their demand that the erimi-
nal must be brought to Judgment. If
our memory Of that eventful history
serve Us, glorious old CHIcKAsAw
COUNTY led the van in the popular
movement. In the Legislature. the
people found an advocate of impeach-
ment and valiant representative of
their cause in the great trial, in the
person of Gen. W. S. Featherston. of
Marshall, patriot of Roman COURAGE
and virtue-all honor to him! The
END Is known. Ames was impeached !:
and took his departure from the State
forever. The trust he had abused was
conhded to the worthy Mississippian
VINO now occupies the Executive Office.
1here was no perjured returning board
TO falslfy the returns of the then pend
ing Presidential election as there would
have been if he had been permitted to
remain in Office An able and honest
Judiciary was appointed. The problem
OF Alsslssippi's redemption from carpet
bag thraldom was solved. The appre-
hension that terrible mistake had
been made in Kidding the State of the
chef instrument of her woes, gradually
faded away. Our people have all had
cause to rejoice that the golden oppor-
tunlty was seized and the wrong riphted
And Northern Republicans, seeing the
truth = i i, are testifyine that ..Amea
was sRpsaehed md JUSTLY rarpRAnsr,D.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-13
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.


IseE' , yho' A Lllls, now Presiding Edsrt
y IN ,He IcksoaFs DistrlSt Is stll the Eiuau-
S gu, agent oil the East Mississippi Female
90 1ilt .ti,.in1 chiiu oil Judge D. u. Arnold
W '' '''li''us' Iled with whoopng cough
,-.liIle(y =, ms is the second of Judge A..
.A..'o'u rulloteh VINO have died from the
NJ, ~
D'eu 10 W alef valley, Miss, OH Friday
Rn55suS, J,5,h9iSry oth loSl, of Pncumou
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II, t---.....,7',.
~ -0 iNos0'usA' 'tat says tlat Ml. y. b.
-nl'e"i .o' merry VI LoulsFiAe, Miss, has
''0>' ~ iN'SV NsAO
/ =, ! me- ne AIhl'nq Register say. that Hon. g.
MI. - ,',.s u''slil'n'a '' move permau-
N''i! - Arkansas
( The Nazoo Sentinel saw. tbst Can't p ,r
Ship, of Dover contemnlttes Islyir.- NJ.
sissiPp-
at Fayette, jefferson county lad vrst
+ hole was bored through the prison wall b.
which the prisoners escaped They are
law H. ,, ilt 'ii'ls'le' Robert '5-
b1.,,ici5, a,, - Z" ''n,i + "Ne hel4 i'-
'''0 '''N vac ''"'' i'' larceny
f Mr.. w. J. Rhodes. of Pass Christian. has
/ commenced the publication Of "a spmiz
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-13
Senator Bruce's Bill to Divide Mississippi
Into Two Judicial Districts.

Senator Bruce introduced bill providing
for division of the State of Mississippi into
two judicial districts, to be called Northern
and Southern Districts. The Northern Dis.
triet includes the counties of Kemper,
Neshoba, Winston, Noxubee, Carroll, Boil
var, Coahoma, Tunica, DeSoto, Lowndes,
Oktibbeha, Choctaw, Tallahatchie, Pamela,
Lafayette, Pontotoc, and Chickasaw, as they
existed in 1888. The Northern District is
undivided into the Eastern and Western
Districts. The Southern District includes
the residue of the State
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-13

WE are glad to hear that there is a
probability Of combine ;Ion of Demo-
Gratis qnd Greenbaekets in the organiza-
ton o. le next House of Representa-
tive tuaJ VII checknHtr tire nvPul,Iican
scheme to exclude from their seats the
duly elected Democrats from the South
whose places have been contested. The
Republican leaders are becoming alarmed
at the prospect. The n. Y. Times,
lIeadins Republican, says that ''the
Greenbackers are trying to effect a
compact organization to extort from one
party or the other some tangible advan-
tages. From the Republicans they can
gain little, if anything, because the
latter are too completely committed to
their own financial views to permit even
futile dalliance with the advocates of
Grcenback ideas. But it is not to be
denied that the Greenbackers may force
an alliance with the Democrats which
may have decided effect on the posi-
bic financial action of the next Con-
grcss.'
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-13
The Fraudulent Presidents Vi1lifioa.
ton of the South.

Col. Forney, in his Progress, denoun
ces as "a fragrant outrage for the Presi
dent of the United States to assert, as
his message does, that the paramount
question still is as to the enjoyment of
the right by every citizen who has the
requisite qualifications, of freely casting
his vote and having it honestly counted,
and to apply this maxim to the South
ern States" He Col. F. says that Sin
the city of Philadelphia, year after
year, outrages upon the ballot-box have
been perpetratedIas infamous, glaring,
corrupt, and inexcusable as any that
have been charged against.the Southern
people" and he asks why sis he, while
acting as Chief Magistrate of the entire
nation, so reaey to see the mote in the
Southern States and yet. so blind to the
beam in the eye of his own partisan as
sociates Why is he so eager to promise
that he will be ready to prosecute I'M
sparingly all who have been engaged in
the freedmen of their political
rights, and so silent in regard to the
frauds and expressions committed by his
own associates under circumstances
which made him an accomplice in their
crimes ?" These are home questions,
which the apologists of the meanest
Administration which has ever cursed
the country, will find it difficult to an
swer.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-13
The Mississippi Mills at Nesson.

On our first page will be found a
graphic description of the Mississippi
Cotton Mills at Wesson. People are
curious to know the history of the rise
and wonderful progress Of that estab-
Iishmcnt. Their curiosity Will be graft
fed by reading this account; and persons
who have capital to invest will learn
the profits of investment in manufacture
ing in this State, where fuel, water,
labor and the raw material are album
dant
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-13
A New Congressional Apportionment
Bill.

The following is the apportionment OF
members under the new census, as pro
posed in the bill of Mr. Springer, Of Hi
nois
Alabama, z; Arkansas, 5; California, )
Colorado, /; Connecticut, 4 Delaware, l i;
Florida l Georgia, 8; Illinois, Is; Indiana,
II; Iowa, 10; Kansas, 6; Kentucky, 10 /;
Louisiana, 5 Maine, 4 Maryland, 5 !; Mas
sachusettn. TO- Michigan, 10; Minnesota, 5;
Mississippi, 7; Missouri, 10; Nebraska, 8 /;
Nevada, New Hampshire, 2; New Jersey,
7; New York, 80 North Carolina, 8 Ohio,
49, Oregon, L; Pennsylvania, 25; Rhode
Island, =; South Carolina 6 Tennessee, 9 /;
Texas, 9; Vermont, 2; West Virginia, 4 ;
Virginia, 9; Wisconsin, g. Total, 1898