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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03
Hon. O. r.. Singleton ana tag y snsi
Business

The Meridian Mercury publishes the
following letter from Hon o. r. Single
ton correcting an error into which the
Mercury had fallen touching an alleged
vote of Col. Singleton on the pension
business. Col Horn with characterist-
ic frankness makes the ame,sde. On
this question of piling up pensions and
voting largesses to retire politicians
at the expense of the tax-ridden people
of both sections, Col. Singleton has a
good record 1t is estimated that fifty
millions year are now required to pay
these pensions, while under the Arrears
act, there are nearly 200,00 new
claims. 1t is believed that this last
measure will cost the country upwards
of s400, 000, 900! The honor of the gov
last extremity; but the habit of voting
the money out of the treasury for SER
vices already compensated is more
honored in the breech than the observ-
ance. The taxpayer have some rights
as well as other people, that public
agents are bound to respect:
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 20, 1881.
Col. A. G. HORN, EDITOR MERCURY:
DEAR Shiny attention has been called
to an article in your issue of January !,
1881 in which you make structures upon the
votes of Southern members of Congress
upon the several pension bills heretofore
passed and in abiding to myself you use
the following language: 1--WE have not the
record but suppose our own immediate rep
resentative has voted for all the pension bills
he had a chance at, the arrearages and all
and is ready to vote for behring's onn To
repeal all limitations and let every body
come in and get a pension whose sisters
cousins and aunts ever knew a man who
went to war"
Now, l have yet to come to the conclu-
sion that you would wilfully misrepre
sent me in relation to this or any
other matter, but l must insist upon it that
you do me and yourself great injustice in
publishing to the world statements such as
contained in your article above quoted from
If you will turn to page 1924 of the House
Journal, second session Forty fifth Congress
you will find the vote recorded on the Oh
R. 4234) granting arrearages of pensions tC
soldiers of the late war, and amongst those
voting against its passages you will find my
name recorded.
l have neither advocated nor voted fol
any bill of like character since my return tC
Congress in 1875. Your own sense of right
will dictate to you the propriety of making
the % amende honorable'' by correcting the
error into which you have fallen.
Very respectfully, etc,
.. II. SINGLETON.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

The Supreme Court of the United
States last week in the case of William
NJ. Springer, appealed from Illinois
rendered a decision affirming the con-
stitutionality of the income tax. The
Court holds that direct taxes in the
meaning of the Constitution are taxes
on real estate and poll or capitation
taxes, and that as the income tax was
neither the one nor the other it came
within the category of an excise or
duty which Congress had right to i'm
pose. This decision will give our Sena-
tors and Representatives a powerful
leverage in the advocacy of measure
to compel to capitalists who have in
vested in untaxed United States bonds
to bear share of the expenses of the
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

THE Vicksburg Commercial does it
self injustice by attributing to the Dem
ocratic journals which have expressed
opposition to the Grant bill, no
higher object than to disparage Senator
Lamar We know they are actuated
by no such petty motive. The Demo-
cratic press of other States acting in
accord with the almost entire body of
Democratic Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress, are in the same
category, and we would like to know
what motive prompts them, in the
opinion of the Commercial. There
must be some principle at the bottom
of it, producing this remarkable una
nimity among the Democratic leaders
and journals of the whole country. So
far as THE CLARION is concerned, in its
discussion of measures, it discusses
them as they arise, without waiting for
public men, however much it may respect
them, to speak. 1t may be policy to do
but it isn't journalism and
we presume the papers which the Com
mercial designates for special animad-
version will say the same thing. Two
years ago when the movement was made
to pension Grant, THE CLARION opposed
it. The measure was bad at first. In
its present form, it is worse.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03
Senator George.

In few days Hon. j. Z. George will
leave for Washington to take tho seat
IN the senate TO when he was elected
by the Legislature last winter. He has
laid down the highest judicial honors
OF the State, TO accept the responsible
trust. and will begin his Senatorial
career, encouraged by the conviction
that he enjoys the full confidence of his
constituency. He knows them, and
knows their needs, and will enter the
Senate with the determination to serve
them to the best of his great ability.
lie has capacity equal to the trust.
He is in the prime of matured life and
his physical nature is strong enough to
endure the tax which the most severe
application of brain power will put upon
1T. lie Is an impressive speaker and
will rank with the ablest reasoners in
the Senate, without subordinating
the details of public business to orato-
rical effect. He is profound iurist and
scholar. He knows how to acquire
knowledge and use it to the best advan-
tage- As Mississippi Senator his chief
aim will no doubt be to represent the
will the interests of his people. We
are sure that practical measures will
engage his attention in preference to
barren distractions. The South has
commenced new era, and the public
agent will serve her best, who will let
the dead past bury its dead, and heed the
demands of the present and the future.
Judge George was elected without
pledges, upon his record and admitted
qualifications, and we predict for him
a useful, and therefore successful,
career in his new field of public service.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03
The Greenback Programme.
Yslobusha Standard.

At Jackson, on the 25tb Tapusr,, ,,.,t...s
the pleasure of being present at tb,. meet
ing OF our State National Grcenblc, E1rr.
uUlye committee; everything considered. We
had fine turnout, all parts of the State
Delng represented, the rag baby will grow
ana flourish throughout The entire State
this year. A thorough organizati,p ,ggs
looked to, aud will be effected i'm eyerv
district, county and beat in tine State and
all hands are called to work. The corpm,t-
tee Is composed of honest earnest thinking
anG Worki9g men, and they are putting
ehelr shoulders to the wheel with a gir9.ar3
energy characteristic Of the true patriot
determined to strike the shackIcs from bis
native land, and a warm and aggressive war
upon the ensla AYERS Of our beloved country
MI DC waged dnl5'ssz coming canvass
fhe battle cry will be down with all mo.
nopolies-a free ballot and fair count
A. T. WTNHERLY,
Chairman State Executive Commirtec.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

AT the meeting of the Mississippi
Valley Cotton Planters Association, at
Vickeburg, the share and tenant sys-
TENS ofplanting were denounced as ruin
Gus to the landowner The Association
recommend that planters hire a few
hands, on a cash basis, and gradually
work out of the share and tenant sys-
tens. PROFESSIONALLY there are serious
objections to the system reprobated by
the Association, but suppose the land
owner should be unable to obtain labor
any other way, what are you going to
do about it?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

The proposition to place General Grant
on the army retired list on full pay, with
the rank of General, stands no chance OF
passing the present Congress, General Lo-
gan's second effort to have the bill taken up
for action in the Senate yesterday failed, the
vote standing Is ayes to % noes, The
Democrats in Congress cannot get over the
hard hits General Grant gave them during
last Falls campaign.-Chicago Journal,
(Stalwart Republican,
True, the Democrats do not see the
wisdom or justice of taxing the country
to compensate a partisan campaigner
who has already enjoyed more honors,
and larger pay from the United States
Treasury, than any other man, living or
dead. The champions of the bill say
that in voting the salary, they are imi-
tating the example of the British govern
ment. Our forefathers fought to get rid
of the abuses of the British system.
This Grant bill is one of the steps of the
party in returning to it and
changing our simple form of govern
ment to one of privileged orders.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

The Colossal Bronze Statute of Victory
winch stands in the Park, at CowelI. before
the tomb Of the first soldiers that fell In the
revolution, IS lasting and beautiful tribute
I 81, arr. II IS one ofthe first objects soull
indeed many visit, purposelv to sac tbis H.
CANT OBJECT Of high art. 1t was obtained
rom the King of Bavaria by Dr. q Aver
70 "hom His Majesty was especially graciouz
~ acknowledgement Of what his remedies are.
ITePuted TO have done for the SUFFERING sicj-
: was donatedby the Doctor 10 the Citv of
Lowell as a permanent and speaking emblem
OF the Victories both Of Science and Arms
.HagerstOwn (MdN Press
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

OUR friend Of the Vicksburg Com
mercial has come out squarely for the
Grant sinecure. We are not surprised
at his partially for the illustrious gift
taker. 1t is a natural sequence Of his
eloquent Grant reception speech, and of
his avowed preference for Grant to Til
den for President.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

The Vicksburg Herald suspects that
we oppose the Grant sineeure because
the intended beneficiary sis not Dem
ocrat." As Democrat and advocate of the
equal rights of our Southern people, are
synonymous terms, just as Grant and a
vindictive, sectional, partizan President
mean one and the same thing, there
would be something tempting in the idea
suggested by the Herald. But We base
our opposition on the higher ground of
principle. The Herald says it is in IA
vor ''of taking care of ex-Presidents."
Strange it was never thought of in the
cases of Washington, Jefferson, Madison,
Jackson, and all the worthy Presidents
that have gone before. But the case of
Grant, poor man, deserves to be made
exceptional. He received only $50, 900
year and perquisites while President,
and doesn't own exceeding halfa million
of dollars and the small gift of 500, 900
he received from Vanderbilt, Gould and
othe millionaires, the other day, for
pocket change, will not last long.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03
The Mexican war Yeternns

In this State who desire to attend tho sd,
annual meeting of the National Associate,
at louisville, KY, on the 22d Febrnsrv
wlil please send me their names that NAV
furnish them to the General Committae If
arrangements, in order to get certifoate If
mem oershIP, 50 as to enable them to attend
at reduced rates of fare.
). b. DEAsoN, President.
bRooKHAVEN, Miss, Jan. 81. 1881.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03
The A. & VI. College.
East Mississippi TimesI

East Mississippi Times.
About $40 students have matric,if,t..i ,t
the a. and NJ. College since sept / I--9
and only Ia have LETT, leaving 50s ra,,Igr
attendants; go board at the Collegn. tbe
rest board IN, or are residents of StarkyflIe.
6eeI, pork potatoes, rice, bread. onions
students '''o '' BID.
Work on the farm has been at n stspd.Hu
Tor some time past on account off fba lad
weather; but will be resumed again ms Soon
as the weather permits.
Three hundred cadet rifles will be shin
peg soon then the bops will feel like r.aI
Inc literary societies at the College are
processing = f,3 slowly but surely, and viii be
~ Iaii working order very soon. The 80
tt were gotten up by the students under
bush. '''
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03
An Income Tax.

Under the contract with the L. S.
bondholders, their investment cannot
be taxed, but they might be compelled to
contribute something TO the treasury
they are quartered on, by an income
tax. 1t is said Judge Swayne has sig
nalized his withdrawal from the bench
of the Supreme Court of the United
States by the delivery Of an opinion sus-
tanning the constitutionality of the in
come tax, in which judgment his assO-
ciates have concurred.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03
The Contest of tho Future.

"The contest of the future viii be between
the aggregated wealth of the country ou one
side and the people on the other There ID
no hope Of oyerthrowing the Republican
party until that is made the issue. And ny
the aggregated wealth mean the corpora
tions, the national banks, the tariff aud all
that favors the moneycd powers Judge
Trumbul.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03
Gen. ChaImers.


West Point Echol
,be zen emf Chalmers Is true representative Of
I we people, and he stands up as a bold fs.r-
r ,Sa5 ana nnhinching defender Of Their
~ Ign? and the infamous conspiracy to nm
49, ~ aim and put John R. Lynch in bis
pace would If successful, not only be an
public calamity O"'
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03
A Wise Suggestion.

Tupelo Journal
1t il a wise suggestion of THE CLARION,
that when the new appcrtionment is made
the number Of Senator's and Representatives
be reduced. The lower house Of the Legis-
lature, especially, contains too many mem>
bers-halft the number would dispose of the
necessary business with much greater dis
mitch and efficiency.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

SENATOR JoE BRowN, Of Georgia. is
called Conservative Democrat Our
neighbor of the Herald said that bis
election was a triumph over the "Bour-
bons :" but the Herald cannot have
failed to note that he voted against tho
two Republican schemes to keep Kellogg
in the Senate and to pay Sl7, 600 81 year
to Gen. Grant to spend in elegant
leisure
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

THERE has been some talk Of electing
the seventh Representative from Mis-
sissippi from the State-at-large, but the
ADportionment bill rennrted 10 Con
gress requires the members to be elect
ed bv Districts
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

THERE is force in the remark of the
st. Louis Republican that exaltine
Grant above Washington, giving him a
large Office, with no service and big pay,
will be used as an argument f1r his cleo
ton to third .erm. They will say if
he is worthy of all this exceptional dis
tinction, why is he not worthy of an elec-
ton for another term to the highest of.
fee within the gift of the people.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

THE Summit Times has passed
through the fiery furnace mscathcd.
The accomplished local cditrcss, Mrs.
Patton, greets the public again with n
handsome salutatory, announcing chat
the paper Will so forward with removed
vigor on its mission. To all concerned,
we tender our congratulations and best
wishes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

II Billings is rejected for the nomina-
ton for L. S. District Judge, it is
thought Judge Simrall, or Judge Chand-
Ter, Of this State, will be appointed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

SENATOR Beck, the brainy and
brawny Senator from Kentucky, on the
9th, discussed the question of free
ships and put himself squarely on the
Democratic platform Free ships and a
living chance for American commerce.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

The election of Democratic United
States Senator In Tennessee will make
the Senate stand, after the 4th of
March, as follows: Republicans, 81 /;
Democrats, 37-with Davis, of Illinois,
and Malone, of Virginia, doubtful.
The chances that Davis will act with
the Democrats are stronger than that
Malone win. We would rather trust a
Republican who turns his face to the
Democrats, than Democrat who turns
his face to the Republicans.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

THE Yazoo Sentinel learns that on
some plantations on the Yazoo river
there are acres on top of acres of cotton
that have never been picked at all.
We hear of one place on which there
are hundred acres, and on another
seventy-fve, which are perfectly white
with the feecy staple, but the owners
have no hopes Of saving it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

TIE COurier-Journal says that Emer-
ltuse is used by the Latin authors in the
sense of "played out. That would be
the thing for Grant, but the trouble Is
hell take the pay, but won't ''play out. !"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

THE Administration has left Gen,
Stewart L. Woodford CConklingite) out
in the cold by appointing another man
.. s. District Attorney for. Southern
New York.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

The House Committee on Commerce
has decided to include in the River and
Harbor bill an appropriation of 81 ,50O,-
900 for the Mississippi river improve
ment and we understand our neighbor
of the Herald to say that he has
changed his mind and concluded that it
would be best to take it. Sensible.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

A WELL informed Washington CORES
pendent writes US that an extra session
Of Congress is almost inevitable.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

THERE is one thing to be said about
ex-senator Stanley Matthews who is
spoken of for a place on the supreme
Court bench. If he is a Republican,
he is a silverite. He introduccjiu Tie
Senate resolutions declaring it the right
of the government in paying off the
bonds to pay in silver dollars ot 3l2l
grains. These resolutions received tae
support of nearly all the Democrats
in both houses of Congress.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03
NEWS AND NOTIONS.

~ u w . AMI ~
Texas has 80 Senators and 80 Repre-
sentatives In her Legislature. 40 in all.
Mississippi has 40 Representatives and
81 Senators, total 157. Texas is a much
larger State than this.
Thirty-two trains run in, and out of,
Atlanta daily.
The average New Yorker was recently
rejoicing because the reporters discov-
cred ice in He'll gate.
An exchange SAYS albert Smith was
indicted for burglary and larceny and
Frank Fine for the same" We can't
imagine what Franks offense could have
been. For the same" is new one to
US, we suppose, however, he must have
violated the new Code and given a
newspaper some county, or other legal,
printing. The rascal Send him up for
twenty years.
The Avalanche recommends Gen. c.
c. Washburn for the Cabinet. Is he
the man that went bounding along the
streets of Memphis towards the river
minus his upper garments few years
since when Forest and Chalmers were
supposed to be riding about there?
1t was a wise fellow who, after refus-
ing to accept challenge and was threat
ened with being published as a coward,
said 81 had rather fill twenty newspa-
pers than one coffin.
George Elliott could talk fuently He
bre.s, Greek, Latin, French, German, Ital-
ian and Spanish.-N. Q. Times.
1t is great pity the poor fellow did
not have an opportunity to learn En-
glish before he died.
The Inauguration of Garfield will be
attended with great pomp. The expenses
will exceed $4,000. When Thomas
Jefferson was inaugurated he rode to the
capitol unattended.
The Constitution says "No State,
without its consent, shall be deprived
of its equal suffrage in the Senate And
vet we find Senators, and among them
Democrats, voting to retain Kellogg,
when it is notorious that he was never
elected to that body by the Legislature
of Louisiana, thereby depriving that
State of its equal suffrage. Perhaps,
however, the Senators so voting didn't
take an oath to support the Constitu-
ton.
There are nineteen State which have
more than a million inhabitants of
these, nine are Southern as follows /:
Alabama, 1862, 724; Georgia, 1889,
048; Kentucky, ,648, 78S; Mississippi,
/, 131 ,572; Missouri, 2,16S, 834 North
Carolina, 1, 400, 047 Tennessee, 1,541, )
1853; Texas, 1872, 574; Virginia, t.
$40, 8O6.
The Northern States which have over
million inhabitants are Illinois, 3, 07S,-
1853 Indiana, 1 ,57S, 1862 Iowa, ,643,-
$50; Massachusetts, ,783,012; Michi-
gan, 1 ,636, 1871; New Jersey, $50, 983;
New York, 5,O73, $40; Ohio, 3,178, 209i
Pennsylvania, 1882, 1856; Wisconsin,
1 1852, 480.
If you want to change the color of
your canary feed him on cayenne pep
per; and very soon he will be red, green
..riesss.t<ei, according the quantity
given.
Recently Mr.. j. P. Bruce, the agent
of the New York Children's Aid Society
carried forty boys and girls to Spring
field, Mo-, where he readily found
homes for them.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

THE Handsboro' Advertiser SAYS that
Maj. W. T. WalthaII intends preparing
a work setting forth the varied resources
and advantages of our seashore region.
We know Of no one who can do 10 bet
tor
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

The long agony over the election of
Senator in Tennessee has been closed by
the choice of Hon. Howell E. jackson,
Democrat. A brief sketch of the
Senator elect is given on our first page.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03
Score One for HAYES

WASHINGTON, January 3I.-Marv An
derson was to-day appointed keenar ~ - FL
lighthouse at Round Island, Mississippi. =
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-02-03

MAJ. JONAS of the Aberdeen Exam
liner, closes an elaborate and statistical
article on the new Congressional Appor-
tionment as proposed in the bill report
ed to the House of Representatives, as
follows:
In 1890 it required 185 electoral votes to
name a President, in 1884 it will take 1885, If
the s'Southern" States shall vote as a unit in
the next election for the Democratic nomi-
nee-of which there is no dOubt-under the
new Apportionment he will need but As
votes from the "North" to assure his success,
whereas Al were demanded in the recent
contest. As heretofore, New York, Indiana
and the "South" can elect or New York
New Jersey, Nevada and the "S0uth."
New York never fails the Democratic party
when her sons are united, and New Jersey
and Nevada may be regarded as reliable
Democratic States for the future.
After what occurred in New York in
the last canvass, we are not prepared to
predict what will happen four years
hence, except that there will be a pros
pect of making up in the West on the
Tariff, Money and the Mississippi River
Improvement questions, for the loss of
Eew York-provided always the stall
warts do not succeed in reyiving the
sectional quarrel which they cannot do,
if Southern Senators and Representa-
tives will address themselves to practi-
cal, material questions with an invinci-
Bile determination to let the matters set
tied by the war severely alone and also
provided our Southern people in their
will adhere in good faith to
the position ofo Democratic standard
bearer in the late Presidential contest,
viz: GA full vote, fair ballot and an
honest count, is the only means of pre-
serving representative government in
its purity"