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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20
Money in Politics.
Courier-JournaLJ

Courier-JournaL
Money used at elections debauches the
voter, but it does more it destroys the
faith Of the people in the verdict at the
polls and begets restlessness which will, in
time. become desperate. The manner in
which heretofore the minority, even after
the most heated contests, have submitted to
the will of the majority as indicated by the
ballots, has been both the glory and the
safety Of the republic, but the time may
come when this sabmissYeness will cease to
be virtue. A purchased verdict carries
no weight with it, and elections decided by
money, as was that OF Indiana in 1880, will
settle nothing.
But money in politics has another effect /;
it excludes the poor man from influential
positions. We are told that the candidates
for Congress nominated BY the coalitionists
in Maine are assessed $1,000 for campaign
purposes, and this is fan ofEyear." It is prob
ably true that two thousand dollars is about
the average cost of a contest TO every mem
Der of Congress. Some Of this might be ex-
cused as Legitimate expense" but legiti-
mate items are ever increasing in number
and amount Election expenses weaken the
position Of every successful candidate. We
do not pav our public officers any very hand
some salaries, except the President. Cabi-
net Ministers, Senators and members Of
Congress cannot. ..noWIliye in Washington as
Representative men on their salaries.
Directly and indirectly their actions affect
the value Of millions of property and the
price of securities Of every kind. The
temptation to take advantage Of the knowl-
edge which their position affords is very
difficult to resist; indeed it is at times 3
matter 81 much doubt to decide where lies
the line which separates right and wrong
and
aWhere self the wavering balance shakes
It'srarely right adjusted"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20
OVER THE STATE.


VIM Bussleman, Simon DeYouhg and Nc.
Aenna, charged with assault wits intsn, a.
kill John W. Lawns, in vieksburs. had tb.ir
trial on Monday and Tuesday last. Bussleman
and DefOuns were acquitted, and McKsnna
was bound over to the Circuit Court.
William Scott was struck on the head with 4.
stek by Bob sharbrongh on Friday last and
dled that nigh. Both parties lived near svl.
varena. Scott was an old man, aged about 80
years sharerough is young man and brother
in-law to }. 5. Eaton he having married Rs.
tons sister, and Eaton having married his ais.
ter. NOparticulars slesrned.-Brandon Benpb.
lican.
James Ray, the oldest man in Rankin conn.
ty, died very Suddenly on Saturday last. Al the
home Of his son, near Brandon. Mr.. Raw VA,
born near Charleston, S. C., on the 10th OF
January, 1857, and died on the u Of Septem.
Der, 1852, aged % years, : months and l6 davs
He moved from South Carolina and settled In
Copiah county, Miss, in ISIS. where be mar.
ried Mrs. Mary Hoggatt, who died about six
years ago. From Copiah he moved to Rankin
in 1856, and settled about mile north OF Bran.
don, where he lived until his house was burned
down, about two years ago lie was soldier
in the wsr of 1872, and was drawing a pension
at the time Of his death-Brandon Republi.
can.
The New Orleans and North Eastern r. R.
has been completed to Enterprise.
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A Pretty Conceit.

A correspondent sends US the follow
ing note, headed "a Pretty Coneeit.
We think the conceit is a very pretty
one ,and hope that the suggestion will be
carried out "You know that in Venice
there is an annual celebration of the
nuptials of the bride of the Adriatie to
the gulf of that name. In the approach
ing nuptials of the old Natchez chief to
Mrs. jackson, on the 14th, would it not
be opposite TO carry some of the waters
of the Mississippi and pour them into
the Pearl, in honor of the event. The
idea was suggested by Col. J. L. Power,
of THE CLARION. Let there be min
Cling of the waters in token of the min
Cling Of our destidy."-Natchez Demo-
erat.
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Mr.. Tildep.
Baltimorian.

DdtblMOIIaH'
It is noteworthy fact, not perhaps, void
of certain philosophic significance, that
the Republican journals of all shades of
opinions seldom refer to the Hon. S. J. Til
den, unless with some effort at witticism or
sarcastic slurs, with the view.of belittling
that gentleman's character and popularity.
1t is we'll known that no enemies that
man may have are half so implaeable as
those who are haunted with the coneious-
ness of having injured him. 1t is this fact
doubtless coupled with the inward dread of
the Republican leaders, of Mr.. Tildens pro-
found political sagacity and influence which
continually provoke these fippant displays
of their malice Besides the associations
and recollections which his name must al
ways conjure up in connection with the
events of the fraudulent election of 1876,
will ever be painful and narrowing to their
minds.
To think of Mr.. Tilden being again can
didate for the Presidency and reviYing be-
fore the country all the fearful history of
that great crime is sufficient to make them
''horribly to shake their dispositions"
On the other hand it is no less a singular
fact, and equally we'll founded in some of
the phases as human life, that these same
parties now never mention the name of
Rutherford B. Hayes, except in terms of
undisguised derision aud contempt.
No man who has filed the Presidential
Office was ever permitted to sink so suddenly
and completely into obscurity as the ex-in-
cumbent Hayes. His partisan friends
scarcely ever refer to him now, except with
some contemptuous allusion to the great
fraud of which he was the beneficiary. One
of them the other day suggested that he
ought to be elected to Congress from his
District, and then counted out, a Ia mode,
eight to seven.
If it be thus unpleasant for Republicans
to remember the fact that they have con-
tinued in Office through the means Of fraud,
based upon a mere presumptiye claim to .
few thousand negro votes in Louisiana and
Florida, it seems that they can yet desplse
the man who was the receiver of the fraud
ulent conyeyance.
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william II. Vanderbilt, aid 70
.........S6 ..S670,00O,000
Total.

Liberal deductions might be made from
these and their fortunes would still be
something worth the careful study of the
statistician aud the moralist, says the San
Francisco Chronicle. They are a singular
commentary on the anomalies of republi
can form of Government, and country in
which all are, in theory at least, free and
equal Nearly all the millionaires mem
toned became rich by railroad speculation
alone. W. II. Vanderbilt and his sons were
largely enriched by inherited real estate.
JAY Gould has made nearly all his money
by railroad speculation. Messrs. Stanford,
Huntington and Crocker have grown
wealthy from the land grant given them as
a guaranty by the Government. and the
earnings of the road which the nation helped
them TO build rather high estimate is
placed on the property of Mr.. Stanford. He
il probably worth considerably less than
Charles Crocker, whose estate is reckoued at
nearly its true value. The aggregate value
Of the estates of eleven persons is placed at
s670, 100000.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

REPRESENTATIVE CARLISLE, Of Ken
lucky, thinks there is hardly a doubt
that the next House of Representatives
will be Democratic 1t looks that way;
and it looks also as if Carlisle will be the
next Speaker, and good one he viii
make.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

BLAcKMAnING helpless clerks and
turning the proceeds over TO men like
Chalmers, of Mississippi, may be Repub-
licanism as Jay Hubbell understands the
word, but most people would call it
brigandage. Philadelphia Press Rep.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

We publish in another column a
timely article from the Tallahatchie
Sentinel upon the hollow cry for "full
vote, free ballot and a fair count" to
which we invite attention of our readers.
The writer shows conclusively that the
Republicans at least did not square past
practices with present preeepts.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

YoU have tried mongrel rule and
couldn't stand it. You have tried
Democratic rule and like it. If you
want to put the State into the slough Of
despair again, keep quiet and let the
mon grels carry the election.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

THERE is scarcely citizen in the
land who believes in the innocence OF
s. W. Dorsey, the Chairman of the
Republican National Executive Commit
te0, the failure of the jury to convict to
the contrary Notwithstanding. The
Judge who presided at the trial evident
ly discredited it, and few of the specta-
tors believed it. The trial was a
mockery and a fraud. The ends OF
Justice were defeated by the very
methods and means which ii was sought
to punish. Dorsey is convicted in the
sober Judgment of all fair minded men,
and no purchased acquittal will relieve
him of the ignominy and the shame now
indelibly stamped upon him.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

CONGRESSMAN J. Proctor Knott has
taken the stump in Kentucky. He
spoke in Winchester the other day, and
in closing turned to the ladies present
and told them that he was too difident
to say to the men in his audience that
he was candidate for the governorship,
but he would whisper it to his fair hear
ers as a secret, believing it to be as good
a way as he could find for making it
public.
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The TarIR Commission.

The Tariff Commission has definitely
abandoned the idea Of extending its trip to
tie Pacific coast According to IS new ar
rangement it sak at Minneapolis SeptembeE
Is. Des Moines the 10th. St Louis the 18th
and 18th, and viii hold at Nashville on the
zIsE, Chattanooga the I'D, Atlanta 22d
Esvannah 25th, Charleston 26th. WiIming-
ton 9th, Richmond 18th, Baltimore z9Eh
and 8Qih, and Is Philad pbia "a 0ciobeI
ai,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

MR. BLAINE challenges anyone to
show that the Democrats within the
past twentY-one years have ever pro-
posed a measure that was able to he
materialized into the form of a bill or
resolve in the Congress of the United
States, for the advancement of any pub
lie good. A dozen might be mentioned,
says the Boston Post, but one is enough.
There was the measure to investigate
Blaine, which was able to be material
lied into a bill for his Impeachment,
but which, owing to the Mulligan cpl
sode, the famous sunstroke. and other
somewhat similar drawbacks, miscarried.
supposing that measure had material,
lied, would it not have been for the
public good?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

THE issue which is presented by the
acts of the Republican party is an issue
which ought to unite Democrats every
where. With its leader in the House
of Representatives a notorious and
branded plunderer, with a record in that
body which has never been approached
in our history for impudent profigaey,
with its present Secretary Of its
National Committee, and its former
6rst-assistant Postmaster-G General on
trial upon a charge Of conspiring to
swindIe the government, Of which every
body believes them to be guilty, and
win believe them to be guilty whether
Or not they escape pun ishment 1.-The
practical outcome Of the principles Of
the Republican party Is not doubtful
to any voter who knows enoug b 70 read
anewspaper. Memphis Appeal.
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Duty.

In the course of his address at New Or.
leans recently, while speaking of the duty
of the citizen, L. John Ellis narrated with
much eloquence and feeling the pathetic
episode of the war which is epitomized
below;
Fellow citizens: / heard a story about
duty" while ago that gave a new mean
ing to the term. | was resting under the
Blue Ridge. 1t was evening; there were
great banks of clouds in the west, where
the golden sun was setting. Then I heard
story Of duty, that told me how one was
faithful unto death.
In 1861 there was young man in Vir-
giuia, unlearnod in colleges or schools, who
knew nothing of secession, nothing Of the
causes that led to the war. A time came
when he saw tears coursing down the beau
liful cheeks of tho women; he saw dead
men borne along; he beheld homes burn
ing, and heard that Virginia was invaded.
"His not to reason why;
His but to do or die,
so he went to the front and enrolled him.
self with the defenders ofhis native soil.
Right there where was seated the bat-
terry of this young soldier had been hotly
engaged with the enemy. Balls we're fall.
ing around like n storm of hail, and one
stretched him on the plain. Comrades bore
him to little knoll. Lying there, be said :
81 can do some duty yet. Give me the reius
of the horses, will hold them. You can
go back TO the guns" So he clasped his
cold hands around the bridal reins. The
Confederate soldier was on duty still. The
dreadful carnival of battle rolled around
him. His closing eve saw the smoke as it
shifted to the sky. The sounds of war grew
fainter and fainter, until the booming Of
the cannon seemed like distant voices whis-
pering in his ear. Far off the spirits of the
Valkyrias came to watt the soldiers soul 70
valhalla. There is great shudder of the
death chill The fingers close on the bri-
dal reius. The spirit has fed to the realms
1f the immortal brave, but the Confederate
soldier dead is on duty still AS heard
that story realized what it meant to be
faithful unto death"
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Liability of Insurance Companies.
OPINION or the ArToasEY-oESEnAI.

OPINION OF THE ATToRSEY-GESERAI
Hon. s. Grin, Auditor:
SIR-Your inquiry of yesterday with res
pect to the liability OF insurance compa-
nies conducted upon what is known as the
cooperative or assessment plan, to the priv
lege tax imposed by Sec. 5S5, of the Code,
has received my careful consideration.
Ii is my opinion that all companies tax
ing risks against fire, accidents, or loss of
life are insurance companies and liable to
the privilege tax, although the funds with
which they discharge their obligations may
be raised wholly by assessments upon their
members
have no reference to 'sMasonic Societies,
Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Knights
of Honor. or other benevolent institutions,
insuriDg the lives of the members and raising
insurance by assessment upon their mem
bers"
Such associations are not insurance com
panies within the meaning of the law.
They are benevolent institutions In the true
sense of the word.
The insurance of their members is but an
incident to the institutions themselves,
which are organized for benevolent purposes
and have an active existence, aside from
anu WhOiIy independent OF Inelf insurance
department. They only insure the lives of
members; one may be member without
being insured The object of their organi-
cation is wholly benevolent and their insu-
rance department is created and maintained
as mere supplement for the benefit of such
of their members as may desire to be
insured aud not for the profit or gain of the
institutions themselves
Durian VS.. Central Verein, DAILY 168.
But where there is no such benevolent in
the main,object of the existence
of the company is to do insuring, it is doing
an insurance business, and is an Insurance
Company within the meaning Of the law.
State vs. Citizens Benefit Association,
No. App, 163.
Only life, fire, and accident insurance
are subject to the tax levied by
Sec. $50 ResnectfnllY
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

THE Republican Convention of the
Fifth Congressional District of Louisi-
ana met on the 18th inst, at Delta, all
the parishes comprising the district be-
ing represented. Judge Hough and
Gen. w. l. McMillen, postmaster of
New Orleans, were the only nominees
before the convention. After speeches
by Dinkgrave and others, Gen. McMil-
len was nominated on the first ballot,
receiving 81 votes to Hough 6.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

John LAWNS Of the Hornet, whose
nose was bitten Of BIZ 4 human hyena
iii yicksburg, says he intends to put 4
cupola on the relict that S still left on
his face. Johnnie has one consolation
III bis bereavement. With 30 little nose
It viii not be dificnIE to keep il out Of
other peoples business. Greenville
Tines
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

There was evidently full vote in
Indiana in 1880.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

The star route. drag net caught but
one small rascal The big thieves got
away as usual.
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We learn from Especial to the Times
Democrat that Ben Hill, Jr., son of
the iamented Senator Hill, has been
appointed 10 lill his fathers exexpired
term in the Senate The term of the
dead Senator viii be out March 1, 1888.
Young Hill is about 80 years of age,
bright, and at present Solicitor General
of the Atlanta Circuit.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

STAND and deliver !" says highway
man Hubbell to the scrub women of the
Departments. It is good to be brave.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

Tnr american (Rep.) says the man.
festations of an intelligent and indie
pendent action on the part of the negro
are gratifying evidences that they per-
ceive the line of their public duty, and
that the swelling force Of the demand
for a regenerated RepubIicanism in
Pennsylvania-and in the nation-is to
be further increased by their strength.
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Eleven Millionaires.

A SINGULAR COMMENTARY on THE ANON
allies or REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT.
Iu New York paper, friendly to the
| working classes, the following estimate is
given Of the wealth of certain of our rail-
road magnates:
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THE verdict in the star-route cases,
stripped of all legal technicalities, may
be recorded in this way: Not guilty as
10 two men who were clearlY socent
guilty as 10 two men who comhntted the
ofense and had no money; disagreed
rs to three men who committed the of
Tense and "fixed" the jury.-St Louis
Republican.
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The Republicans have begun their free
ballot and fair count" talk, but then, they
do not consider any ballot afree ballot,
that Is not voted for their candidate nor
any count fair count that ii not IN theif
laEnr.-IEha Beacon
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20
A Big Fee.
Winons Advance.

Winons Advance.
The late Senator Ben. Hill, Of Georgia,
was one Of the greatest lawyers Of his.day,
and was successful 10 securing one Of the
largest fees, perhaps, known 10 the bar Of
that State. Two thousand bales Of cotton
belonging to citizen Of Augusta were seized
by Federal authorities just after the war,
and the owner applied 70 Mr.. Hill to enlist
his services for its recovery. The friends Of
Mr. Hi! advised him to have nothing to do
with the case for the reason that they
thought it a hopeless undertaking, and be-
sides il would render him liable to the per-
secution Of the military authorities. Ben.
Hill, however was not a man to hesitate be-
fore difficulties. He promptly took charge
of the case, fought it before different tribu-
nails, and obtained final decision in favor
of his client At this time cotton was worth
about fifty cents a pound, and the overjoyed
owner, few days after the decision, paid Mr..
Hill fee Of one hundred thousand dollars
IL IS seldom that the intellect OfOne man can
command 50 much in single law salt.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

The Color Linz Is drawn u the 6kh and
7th Districts It viii Be well ensueh q
draw II lfffle 81 the other side and reach
coIossd lsaebsrz cod dVills Rsprb cnn,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

THE cotton crop of 1882, will inevi-
tably be short, and producers will
receive fair prices unless spectators
bull and bear the market to suit them
selves. The crop of the United States
will fall below that of 1881 at least a
half million of bales and the foreign
supply will be considerably reduced by
the Egyptian war. 4 large deficiency
NAV be expected.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-09-20

HoN. JNo. IRELAND the Democratic nom
iuee for Governor of Texas married Kinds
county lady. Her maiden name was Miss
Mary Penn and formerly lived about two
miles below Clinton--Jackson Comet.
!Thifty-ive years ago Mr. Columbus Penn
lived lust back Of the RAYMOND road about
two miles southwest from Clinton, on the
opposite side Of the road from the present
residence Of Rev. John Lusk. He had =
large family Of daughters, All well educated
and polished, and one Of them Is no doubt
the Miss Mary alluded to above. Nj Penn
was originally from Virginia. and We re-
member. raised large quantities Of tobacco
al his plantation which bis children mauu-l
Iactured into segars, box Of which be pre-
sented to Us Just before his removal to Iexas,
n I84o. He found the industry profitable,
snS NJ serars were sold at several Of tho
husiuess houses IN Raymond. We Thought
fbsrn cutie as good as the imported article.
Raymond Gazette.
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nwronn EAanE:-1t Is gratifying e
t,.ss- fl,sf 4 vsrV respecka e portion o1 me
5enuhIican 4ols IL his district VII g ees.
fsr col Manning.
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The fever at Pensacola is steadily in
creasing.
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4 TarlR Besween Ihs sIaIes.

St Louis Republican.
It is surprising that the protectionist
Statesmen of the East, If sincere in their
admiration of the system, do rot seek to ex-
tend its benign advantages to the people Of
the West and South. The very arguments
that are supposed to justify protect
ing this country against the competition of
Europe, would justify protecting the West
ern and Southern States against the Eastern.
The latter possesses large aggregate capital,
ehean labor. command of the ocean, and
the method, dicipline and skill which long
habits Of manufacture Impart-and they
are able to make fabrics cheaper than they
ran be made in the agricultural States
where they are devoid Of these advantages
IF foreign goods are to be kept out OF the
United Stafes to encourage the manufacture
of them IN New England, why should not
New England goods be kept out Of the
Vest and South by protective laIins 70 en-
courage manufactures therez Why shonla
not each State have 4 protective ~ stem ef
it. own Is defend is infant industries against
he bliehting competition of other otstes {
Z
THE proper significance of the word BouE-
b5o. IS used ID Mississippi politics, simply
sssans intelligent Waite Inell. E seems e
Is 4 mater 81 zepr0ach, il the egss q ne
oroosition. for man 70 be White ana -
,;T;sfe with The party comprising n.ses
fenths 81 tie white men q the 1zAss, g s
nsnsf confess that re rather llke 8. sesA
IS recognize The right ef eFesF man =
shooSs h|s own conpanY = net.sss