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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

Col. ]. G. HAMILTON, of Holmes, the
present Senator from that county, is spoken
of as a suitable man to represent this Dis
trict in Congress. He is farmer of the
best kind and a very excellent and intel
leetual gentleman. We don't know that he
aspires to it, but we dare say if he does, he
will be strongly supported. = Mississippi
Farmer.
This is a deserved tribute to one of
the best men of our acquaintance but
as the General Agent of that benifcent
and growing institution, the Union
Aid Association, Col. Hamilton is Civ
ing it all his attention, and such is his
devotion to it we doubt if the respon-
sibilities of seat in Congress would be
sufficient to tempt him away from that
great and deserving enterprise. Never
theless, a correspondent has asked US
to publish communication urging his
nomination. twill be found in another
column.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07
The ErIanger Southwestern Extension.
Cincinnati COMMERCIAL

Cincinnati Commercial.
Work on the New Orleans & Northeastern
road, which is the southwestern extension
Of the Erlanger system, running from Mere
dian, Mississippi, to New Orleans, Is being
pushed with the utmost yigor, and it is con-
fidently believed By the managers that the
road will be open for business within less
than year. Connecting, as it does, with
the Alabama Great Southern at MERIDIAN.
and the latter with the Cincinnati Southern
at Chattanooga, it will make the Short Line
from Cincinnati to New Orleans, placing the
two cities at least nine hours nearer than
they are now. The greatest amount Of work
to be done now is on the trestle through
Lake Pontchartrain, which, when comnleted
will be the longest trestle work ia the world
The timbers to be used in the Construction
are being saturated with creosote which
will preserve the wood from decay thus
making it safe and durable. It IS the in
tentleu Of General Manager Scott. when
the route Is completed, to put on solid
through trains from this city to New Or
leans, which viii be run on fast schedule
time
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07
Railroad Intelligence.

The annual meeting of the sharehold-
ers of the Illinois Central Railroad
Company was held at Chicago on the
1st. The lease Of the Chicago, St.
Louis and New Orleans Railroad was
ratified by unanimous vote. This
lease goes into effect July /. The share
holders also approved the construction
of two short branch lines running East
and West from the Chicago, St. Louis
and New Orleans Railroad, one line to
be known as the Canton, Aberdeen and
Nashville Railroad, and the other as the
Yazoo aud Mississippi Valley Railroad.
Charters have been granted by the
State of Mississippi for both of these
roads.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

LAST week, the New York Senate
by vote of 80 to l and the House by
a vote of IS to SO passed Railroad
Commission bill. It requires the Gov
ernor to appoint one member Of the
board from one political party, one from
the other, and the third on the nomin,
alton of the Executive Committee Of
the Chamber of Commerce of the city
of New York, the Board of Trade and
Transportation, and the Anti-Monopoly
League, or majority of them.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

CHICAGO JOURNAL; When the Star
maii-route thieves were first arrested, they
and their friends pretended that they longed
for nothing so much as fair and speedy
trial by jury of their peers. That is just
what the court, the Grand Jury and the
Government attorneys are trying to give
them, and it is just now the very thing that
they don't want. There is not legal tech
nicalitY or quible known to sharp criminal
lawyers that has not been resorted to in
their case in order to staye of the trials.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07
CALL BY THE CHAIRMAN,

HEADQUARTERS STATE DEM.-CoN. Ex.
COMMITTEE.
JACKSON, Miss, May p, 1882. J
A meeting of the State Executive Com
mittee Of the Democratie-C Conservative par
ty, viii be held in Jackson on
MONDAY, THE 18TH DAY
of June next, for the purpose of taking
steps for the reorganization Of the party in
the several Congressional Districts in the
State, and the holding of Conventions for
the nomination Of candidates for Congress,
as we'll as the consideration of other business
Of importance to the party. A fulr attend
ancc Of the committee is requested
FRANK JOHNSTON,
Chr'n Dem.-Con. State Elk. Commute.
MARION SMITH, secretasies
u. T. PORTER,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

Ex-GovERNoR THOMAS H. WATTS
has annooneed himself a candidate for
the United States Senate to succeed
Senator John L. Morgan. Senator
Morgan is an able man but has taken
ground against a measure of national
importance, in which the South and
West especially, are interested-the
Mississippi river Improvement. Cap
tain Bragg is the candidate of the
Montgomery county Democracy for the
same place.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

JuDoE Woops of the L. S. Court
presided here with Judge Hill week,
and was universally complimented for
the dignity and impartiality with which
be dispatched business. BY the way,
t5s journals quote suggestive
decision made by Justice Woods, on the
railroad business of the country
A railroad is authorized to be constructed
more for public good TO be subserved than
for private gain. As a highway for public
transportation, it is matter of public con-
Germ, and its construction and management
belong primarily to the commonwealth.
and are only put into private hands to sub
serve the public convenience and economy.
But the public retains rights of vast conse-
quence in the road and its appendices,
which neither the company nSr any eredi-
tor or mortgage can interfere with. They
take their rights subject to the rights of
the public, and must be content to enjoy
them in subordination thereto.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

We trust the following observation:
of the New York Herald in reference
to the recent proceedings in Congress
may not be verified by the results that
are to flow:
Ten days ago the result Of the fall cleo
tions was scarcely doubted by any one.
That the Democrats would secure the next
House seemed certain to the shrewdest Re
publican managers, barring only one thing,
on which we can generally count-namely
some Democratic blunder," said promi-
nent Republican at that time in discussing
his party's prospects. The Democratic
blunder has been made, and the situation
has changed. The old question which has
so often defeated the Democrats-the ques-
ton whether they are fit to rule, and wheth-
er their leaders are not disorderly set and
therefore untrustworthy-this fatal question
has once more been forced into the peoples
minds, and the Republicans, in spite of
what seemed recoverable mistakes, are
for the time again in the ascendant
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07
The Re- appointment of Hon. Oliver
Clifton.
WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.
Fayette Chronicle.l

Fayette Chronicle.
We are glad to know that Hon. Oliver
Clifton is to be retained in this responsible
position which he has filled so satisfactorily.
NJ. B. Richmond in the Democrat-Star.1
Hon. Oliver Clifton has been re-appointed
Clerk of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
four years. We have known him since our
earliest recollections, and can conscientious
ly say we believe no more fitting appoint
ment could have been made, no finer or
more worthy gentleman could have been
appointed,
Comet
Hon. Oliver Clifton fully deserves all of
the compliments that have been paid to
him recently by the press, on his re-elec-
ton to the Supreme Court clerkship.
Tupelo Journal
He has been reelected clerk of the State
Supreme Court for period of four years.
He is very capable man and seems to fill.
the position satisfactorily in every respect.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

FILIBUsrERrS0 IN the case Of Mackey
vs.. Dibble in the lower House Was
stopped BY rule that only one dilatOry
motion is allowed to be made after the
motion for the previous question. This
was adopted By vote Of $50 to 2-the
most Of the Democrats refused to vote.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

Ii the Louisiana House of Repre-
sentatives joint resolution for the APP
pointment of a committee, to be COM
posed of Senators and Representatives,
for the purpose Of investigating the
charges and rumors as to the bribery
Of members of the Legislature BY the
lottery monopoly Il creates a sensa-
ton.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07
The Line of the RaIload via Aberdeen.
Louisville Signal

Louisville Signal.
Chas: Richardson Esq, received a letter
from Mr.. Clark, President of the C. st. L.
q n. OR. r. this week that is encourage
ing. The letter was written from Chicago,
where Mr.. Clark has been for the Sast few
weeks attending meeting Of the Board Of
directors OF the above road. We do not
feel authorized to publish the letter in full,
put VIII say that It is encouraging to our
engineer on the survey from Jackson via
Carthage and Louisville on his return from
the North. He will also come in person and
examine the country.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

A WASHINGTON writer describes
Mackey, who has taken the place Of Dbl
bic as a Representative from South Car
olina, as "a slightly bald, melancholy
faced man. with a black mustache, and
a hero of the Northern sentimentalists,
on account Of having educated and mar
ried a beautiful slave, with whom he fell
in love- The poor fellow has enough
to make him look melancholy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07
Correctly Taken.
Meridian Merenrr-1

Meridian Mereury.l
The CLARION correctly takes the posi-.
ton that no subsequent conduct Of Gen.
Chalmers can cure any Democratic defec.
ton to any party duty when his right to
his seat u the House was on trial. The
excuses rendered so far appear rather far
fetched and metaphysical than practical.
They ought to have illibustered for ChaI-
mers or not at all for anybody. The subtle
lines Of difference between his case and
others they attempt to draw don't amount
to an appreeiable excuse
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07
Congress 9Th District-CoI. j. G..
Hamilton, of Holmes.

DURAET, Miss, June l, 1892
EDITORS CLARION: 1 see in your last
issue you mention several distinguished
citizens of this (5th) Congressional District
as probably candidates for nomination by
the Democratic Convention, and did not
name Hon. J. G. Hamilton as one of them.
If his friends can prevail upon him to
consent, his name will also be presented to
the Convention for that position. The
other men mentioned have fine regulations
as good representatives of the people, but
not better than Col. Hamilton, and all we
ask for him is a fair show. KENO.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

IL the contested case of Mackey vs..
Dibble from South Carolina. the seat
has been awarded to Mackey (Republi-
cad) by vote of yeas 80, nays 3-the
bulk Of the Democrats not voting.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07
The General NJ. f. Church South Confer
enCe.

SOME OF THE QUESTIONS WITH WHICH II
DEALT-suNDAY AND TEMPERANCE.
On the Sabbath question, IL expressed it.
self in petition to Congress against the
distribution, transportation and delivery
of mail matter on that day. On the
subject of temperance it was asked to
amend the general rule SO as to pro-
hibit not merely drunkenness and the
use of Intoxicating liquors as a beverage, as
at present, but its manufacture and sale
also. This it refused to do. What it final
ly did was to insert paragraph in the dis
cipline inveighing against the evils of in
temperance, and making the manufacture,
sale and use Of liquors as beverage an
ofense to be proceeded against Under the
law of the church relating to imprudent
conduct. An effort to amend this paragraph
50 as to allow offenders of this class to be
tried for immoral conduct was voted down
by large majority, and there were, indeed,
a goodly number Of delegates who thought
the matter should be let entirely alone.
THE QUESTION OF ADJUSTMENTS.
The Conference left this matter Just where
it found it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07
EnrOpean Immlgrnnts.
Chicago Journal.1

On the Let June, eight steamers landed
nearly 5000 immigrants at New York from
al portions of the old country. Over A. 900
OF the arrivals were males The total arri-
wales for May we're 90,019, against 76, 79I
Tor the same month last year showing an
increase Of 1929. The total is the largest
ever known in one month in the history Of
Castle Garden, and Is larger than the arri-
Yals for the whole year Of 1876 OF 1878. - ::
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

Ar this writing four Of the contest.
ers from the Southern States had been
admitted to seats occupied By members
of the lower House Of Congress
Messrs Chalmers. Of Mississippi DID.
BE, Of South Carolina; Finley. Of Flor.
da; aud Wheeler, Of AIabama.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

THE fact mentioned in the New Or
leans Picayune that 50, 10000 are now
being invested IN new buildings in that
city shows that the great commercial
metropolis of the South, is regaining
her prosperity.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

REV Dr.. YAScEY, Of Louisville, objects
to horse racing, not as a wrong per 81 but
as having degeneraied from q manly SNORT
to mere gambling device. The doctor Is
behind the age Everything Is ranbIed 81
now, from broom drill down Is + nriza
light and speculation has reached out 3
futures
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07
The National Census.

The Census Bureau has issued bull
letin showing that the total population
of the United States is 80, 155, 780 +;
total area of the country, 2,97O,000
total number of families, 9,945, GIG ;
total number of dwellings, 8,955,812 ;
number of persons to a square mile, II
and 20 100ths.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

THREE hundred and seventy-eight
Mormon immigrants arrived at New
York one day last week for the promised
land of Utah. Thanks to Congress,
they will find their anticipated matri-
monial purposes slightly curtailed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07
The Protective Tariff and the Strike.

The laborers in the iron mills
especially are striking all along the line
in the Middle and Western States
What causes it has been tersely explain
ed by the Hon. Abram S. Hewitt
of the iron firm of Cooper, Hewitt
& Co., which employs 800 men and
never had a strike. He said This
seems to be the most extensive strike
ever attempted in this country. The
result cannot be beneficial to either
laborers or employers. The strike
is the result of the doctrine that
protection will insure high wages.
If that doctrine is true the workmen
are right, but it is not true that pro
lection insures high wages the contrary
is the truth"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

GERMANY has 205 persons per square
mile of area, the United States only q
fraction over seventeen. IF the in
crease of population should amount to
twice the number the United States is
receiving every month it would, never
theless, take over three hundred years
to people the United States as densely
as Germany is now peopled.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

The Canton Citizen learns that the
stockholders of the c., ST. L. and N.
o. Railroad, who have been in session
for some time in New York City, have
taken no action in regard to the route
of the proposed road from Yazoo City
to Canton or jackson.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

Carr. PuT DARDES, Worthy Master
of the State Grange, Is announced to
address the peOpleof DeSoto county on
the 23d of June, at Loves Station, and
24th At New Harmony.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

Carr. B. F. JOKES has leased to B.
II. Wear, Esq, his interest in the
Winona Advance for one year, to en-
gage in insurance business. The Ad-
vance viii continue to be a live paper.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

The Register puts Forest in nomina-
ton for the Congressional Convention
Of the 9Th District, and says it is cen
trally located, has ample hotel accom-
modations and Is accessible.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07
The Call for Meeting OF the Democratic
Conservative State Executive Commit
Fayette Chronicle. ]

Fayette Chronicle
Capt, Frank Johnston, Chairman of the
State Democratic Executive Committee,
has issued call for meeting of this body,
for June 18th, at the State Capital. Owing
to the new State apportionment, which
makes many changes in the Congressional
Districts and forms an additional one, this
action of the energetic manager of the
Democratic party of the State was necessary
and well timed, for it will have much
business to transact, the time and manner
of which is vital to the interests of
Democracy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

Our advices from Washington enable
US to state almost positively that the
Committee on Elections will report in
favor of the right of Mr.. Manning to
the seat contested by Mr.. Buchanan.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

An effort was made to amend the Disci-
pine, 50 as to give Stewards the power TO
assess the members Of the church
for the support Of the gospel. with
the alternative, if the assessments should
not be paid, Of proceeding against delin-
quents under a charge Of immoral conduct.
This effort, Of course, failed, as also did all
efforts to change or modify the Presiding
Eldership.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

TERRY JOURNAL: The box of peaches
referred to in our last weeks issue as being
the first of the season, and grown by NJ A..
B. MCGOWAN, brought net return of $500.
A half box shipped by Mr.. f. r. Carloss
Melted $500.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

The old colored woman who waited
on Washington is dead again. This
time she passed away at Eureka, Mis-
souri,. Her age is given at 113.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

JUDGE LYNCH executes his DEGREES
terribly in Ohio at times. On the Sd,
a mob took George Ellis out of the
Jail at Catlettsburg, and took him to
Ashland, near the scene of the murder
of the Gibbon girls last December, and
hung him. He had been convicted
of manslaughter on an Indictment for
the murder of these girls.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

The Republicans Of the River Dis
trict sd, have called convention in
Green7ille on the 18th of July. to nom
mate a candidate for Congress.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

Mrs. BosVoRrH has disposed of the
Canton Citizen to joint stock company,
and it will be conducted in the interest
of the Independent party by J. G. Ne
Bride, Esq The new editor is capa-
bic of making a good newspaper, and
we wish the establishment pecuniary
success, while we regret to lose so val
liable coadjutor in the Democratic
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

THE. Knights of Labor is an organ
ization that numbers several hundred
thousand workmen, principally in the
North and West and Middle States.
When they move in concert, they will
create a commotion.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07
Treatment of Colored Laborers in
the North.

Remembering that here in the South
where the two races engage in whatever
industrial pursuit their preference
and judgment dictate, and that
there has never been a coils
ion, nor exhibition of jealousy
towards the blacks BY the whites, and
that the former have pursued their
vocation without mole8tation By the
latter, we ask attention to the statement
of the Chicago Journal, a leading Re-
publican Journal, that "some fifteen
thousand workmen, mostly engaged in
the coal mines in the vicinity Of Pitts
burgh and Western Pennsylvania, have
given formal notice to their employers
that they will quit work unless the
colored laborers engaged in the same
business with themselves shall be dis
charged" The Journal adds:
One would naturally suppose that ofall places
in the world, and of all avoc ,tions that are
open for the poor, oppressed eolored man
there would be the least objection to his earn
ing his bread down in the dark coal mines,
deep under ground, where the SCOT and black
dust cover all workers alike with an
impeuetrable coat of blackucss. Blu il seems
that even there he is not secure against the
envy and prejudice and hatred Of his NORTH
Prn) white brother
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

The Terry Journal says that up to
May 9th there had been shipped from
that point 2,130 boxes of fruit-all
SORTS.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

Mr.. D. T. YATES, one of the enter
prising citizens of the Utica, Kinds
county neighborhood, informs the Ed
wards Item that crop prospects are good
and that immigration and the enhanced
value of property will surely follow the
advent of the iron horse.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

sTARKvn5E LEDGER: Governor Lowry
could not have pleased the people Of this
county better than By retaining Judge Ar
mold. He is Arm, prompt, incompatible,
and thorough in the knOEledge Of the Law.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

The census shows that the average
number Of persons il family n this
country i ! small fraction over five.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

SUMNER was ushered in With white
frost throughout Northern and Contra
Wisconsin.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

UsDER the existing Law there is no
Il nitation placed % the term Of Office
Of Collectors Of Internal Revenue.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07
To be reported

(NoTE. The case G. st. L. & \. 0. r. r. vs..
Doyle in which an opinion was recently de-
liyered, lies over TO the October term Of the
Supreme Court, petition for reergument
pending.)
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

0uR farmers says the oat crop comes
in very handy this year. They will be
encouraged to plant largely the next
season.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07
Democrats and Conservatives OF the 9Th
Up and at Him.
Natchez Democrat

We have been told in pretty positive
terms by one Of his friends that Congressn1ar
John +. Lynch win be candidate for Corr
gress from this 1.-THE SIXTY district.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-07

COLUMBUS, Georgia, has now in oper-
alton seven cotton mills, containing
1000 looms and 10000 spindIes, EN-
ploying 5000 hands, consuming 10000
bales of cotton, with capital of ST.
983,500 annually producing 81, 181 $50.
We needn't add, that Columbus is
growing rapidly.
IT is rumored here that General Han.
cock will be the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania. The
matter has been quietly canvassed in
Democratic headquarters of that State
for some days past, and the proposition
is said to have been favorably looked
upon all around. Doubted.