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


composed of artillery, ten batteries /;
cavalry, seven regiments engineers,
three companies; infantry, twenty
eight battalions, thirty thousand men,
and yet we are told by some people that
the English government is the best in
the world.
A New York dispatch says:
Another appeal is made for contribu-
tions for the relief of colored refugees in
Kansas, whose distress is pronounced fatal
reality"
This must be a BANKED rebel lie.
The darkeys never suffer nor need sym
pathy any where but in the South.
When Hon. George McGehee, of
Wilkinson, was advocating the bill to
reduce taxes ON the neighborhood Rail
road from Woodville to Bayou Sara to
one-half of the amount paid per mile by
the great thorough fares, among other
good things, he said, ''NIr. Speaker it is
. only a tri-weekly road. The train
- goes down to Bayou Sara one week
& and tries to 90 back to Woodville the
next
Another Legislative bon met A
week or two after Hon. John ID. Bills
first become a Senator and entered upon
his duties, one of his constituents wrote ::
% When you first got there | saw in THE
. CLARION that Senator Bills was intro
q duced and sworn in, and now every
@ since then | see that some smart SEN
ator introduces Bills or gives notice
g that he would introduce Bills. | be
lieve they are poking fun at you, and
running the thing in the ground, and
90 if l was you would have it stopped"
+" Washington malaria, is what they
call it when a Congressman gets too
much whisky aboard to attend to bust
ness at least so the papers say.
Chalmers, Of Mississippi, is for Senator
Bruce for Cabinet place. This, he says,
would be agreeable to the Washing-
ton Republican.
We don't believe Gen Chalmers said
it. Bruce never lived in this State
more than four years, and has been
within her borders but once, and then
for few days only, since his election to
the Senate. His home is in Cleveland
Ohio, where he invested the money he
squeezed out of Bolivar county under
Radical laws Why should the appoint
ment of another Ohio man TO Office be
especially agreeable to the South ?"
1t was said at the beginning of the
war that one Southerner could whip
FIVE Yankees. They did not exactly do
/ it, but each Confederate did give three
and half Unionists sharp tussle for
about four years. The records at Wash
I ington show that there was something
/ over 2,700, 900 men in the Union army,
and less than 500, 900 Confederates,
which was nearly three and half to
one. Fully 100000 of those in the
Union army were Southerners, princi-
pally from Virginia, Maryland, Ken
lucky, Missouri and Tennessee, to say
nothing of the colored troops "who fit
nobly," none of whom were considered,
when the Give to one" contract was
taken.
Harris NJ. Plaisted, the Greenback-
Democratic Governor of Maine, was in
augurated on the 18th inst.
4 National Convention of the Ameri-
can branch of the Irish Land League
was held at Buffalo, New York last
week. 1t occurs to us that the Conven-
TONERS could have been of more sssis-
tance to their oppressed eountrymen in
Ireland by sending them the money it
took to transport them to Buffalo and
paw board bills while there.
And now comes the colored mems
Protective Union ofNew Orleans, and
thrusts P. B. S. Pinchback forward for
a place in Garields Cabinet. Too bad /,
too bad, to interfere just as We had it
all fixed with Mr.. Garfield to give the
place to our Bruce
The kilograms tells US that Grant has
been appointed President of the Worlds
Fair, which is to be held New York in
1888, and that he has accepted" The
latter information was entirely unneces-
sary; it Is generally understood that he
never declines anything.
Judge Luke Lea was confirmed Q. s.
District Attorney for the Southern Dis
trict, by the Senate on the 18th inst.