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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
The Congressional Bill.

The readers of The CLARION know,
that it took no part in the new Congress
sional District arrangement; and Is in
no manner responsible for il. Literal
" we had no friends to reward, nor enc
mics to punish. We thought that the
public good, and not the aspirations of
either the ins or the outs, should be con-
suited. Therefore We can approach the
subject now with impartiality and dis
passionaieness. Without entering into
the merits of the bill, we can say while
it was warmly opposed by some Demo-
Gratis and as warmly advocated by others,
the overwhelming majority of the party
favored, and passed it. An equal pre-
ponderance of public opinion seems to
approve the action of the Legislature.
The highly denunciatory comments upon
the bill which were sent from Washing
ton to the Yicksburg Herald, and
which have been extensively copied by
the press, were evidently written by
Republican, and yet the Republicans
Tin the Senate at least) united with the
Democratic majority in support of the
bill.
We have heard of no serious COM
plants against the measure except from
the 9th District. The Democracy of
the 1st and I'd say they are pleased.
The same report is made from the Sd.
The Democrats in the River District
Cthe 4th) express themselves as sat
isfed. In the 9th (the Seashore, or
Gibraltar District, the people are
delighted. In the 7th (the capitaD Dis
trict, we can get along. The loud com
plant comes from the 9th, but it is due
to the members from the other Districts
to say that they did not force that Dis
riot, as it stands, upon the members re-
siding within it. Senator Brown of
Clarke and Lauderdale, of that District,
was chairman of the committee on the
part of the Senate, which reported the
bill, and he was its earnest and active
advocate. A majority of Represen-
tatives and Senators representing the
counties of the District as it now stands,
,root,.d fnr tho hill
In company with the other members
from the eastern counties of the District,
and some from the western, Capt,
Woods, OF Lauderdale, supported the
bill, and for doing so, has been fercely
assailed, and his motives impugned as
selfseeker. Nothing could be more
unjust. His arraignment is without
shadow of foundation. He was not
member of the committee that framed
the District bill, and it is an imputation
upon the intelligence and integrity OF
the Legislature to say that it was
plastic instrument in his hands. True.
he has been mentioned with numerous
others for Congress, but all who know
him, know that he is far above tn
tricks of the intriguant--that he i,
frank, manly and honorable-and tina
the world, with all It's prizes, has not
that which could swerys him from the
way of truth and uprightness.
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Hon. Thomas A. Magee, of FRANKLIN
"A Well Merited Tribute.

Brookhaven Free Press: Hon. Thomas
A. Magee, the able and efficient Senator
from the counties Of Franklin and Jefferson,
passed through our town last week on his
return home from the Legislature. Judge
Magte With this session (unless there is an
extra session called completes his term Of
service from the district named and he
ceases his legislative duties with the plaud-
its, not only Of his constituents, but of the
public generally. No man in the county Of
his residence (Franklinl has contributed
more in all the varied positions of Probate
Judge to Supervisor and Senator, to advance
the public welfare and to protect the public
treasury than has this friend of the people,
Thomas g. Magee, and the best wishes Of
all who know him and know Of his inralu-
able services 60 with him.
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oVER THE STATE.

/ Mr.. ]. W. Ward, of Winston county, hat
to have his leg amputated last week in con
sequence of cut upon the knee cap re
ceived from an ak.
Mr.. James B. Dowd, of Aberdeen, ant
Miss Eta E. Busby. of Memphis, were
married on the 22nd
Messrs. H. T. Anderson, ]. E Redding
Is w. Swayze and R. Walpole have been
nominated for Aldermen of the First Ward
Yazoo City.
Mr.. ]. J. Patrick, of Rankin county, died
of apoplexy one day last week, aged about
so years.
The Louisville Signal says that the finest
Ignite in the world is found in Winston
county, and the supply is inexhaustible.
An inferior quality of Ignite is used in
Prussia for the fusion of iron, making gas,
ETC., and both Harper Wales and Hilgard
say that the Ignite found there is far
superior to that found in Europe, and is
adapted to all these purposes.
Mad dogs are on the rampage in Rankin
county.
A colored man from Fort Adams, with
smallpox, was stopped near Woodville,
Health Officer L. w. Magruder saw him
provided with house and nurses.
Mr.. James Davenport and family have re-
turned to Monticello, after an absence of
several years in the Mississippi valley, on
the waters of Deer Greek.
@. E. Wrestling, the new special agent of
the United States'government, is proceeding
against some OF the depredators on govern
ment land in Harrison county. So says our
Seashore neighbors.
Mrs. W. A. Wade, and Mrs VIM. A.
Lnckhart, both estimable ladies of Holmes
county, died last week.
BY eaving of the Mississippi river at
Terrene, opposite the mouth of White river,
last week, Mat Ezel lost a store and sa-
loon; VIM Ezell lost store; Zedek lost--s-
store and goods and Goodecrans lost
loon. No lives were lost, so far as
Judge Shackelford, Of Jefferson
has taken up his residence in Chatta
Tennessee.
The Louisville (Miss) Signal aunoun
the death of Mrs. Boiling, wife of the lal
W. S. Boiling, of that place, formerly OF
Lexington.
Mrs. Lucy Croft Kline, wife of DIR. A. L.
Kline, died at Enterprise, on the 18th, inst,
after protraeted illness.
Mr.. Charles Barnett's barn, on his plan
tation near Bigbee Valley, Noxubee county,
was burned on the 21st, with his corn and
fodder and about 400 bushels ofcotton seed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

FROM what we learn from the River
District, ex-Gov. Alcorn, will not enter
the lists for Congress and the Republic
can contestants viii be Judge Jetfords,
ex-District Attorney Clark, and State
Senator Spears, with Judge Simrall
conservative in the background. Il
is understood that Gen. Fitzgerald viii
be provided with a better place by the
Administration else no fair estimate of
the chances for the Republicans could
be made without including his name.
The Democrats speak of Messrs. Chal-
mers, Booth, Percy, Clay and Montgom-
cry. The election of the last named gem
tleman to Congress might be gain to
him, but would be a positive loss to the
State which needs just such praeifeal
and efficient men in her Legislature.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
bon. 4. 6. Williamson.

Lexington Advertiser Among the best
truest. most faithful and Efficient members
.of the late session of the Legislature wal
Hon. +. G. Williamson, Of Carroll county.
he was always at the post Of duty. and was
always diligent and attentive. He had d.
clear comprehension Of the various mat
ters that come before the Legislature 4
any ether member Of that body and he
vas ever ready 70 champion What was right
and to denounee what was wrong.
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Progressing Favorably.

We are glad to note that the Senate
Committee for the Improvement of the
Mississippi, through Mr.. Kellogg, OF
Louisiana, agreed to report in favor OF
an appropriation of So, 900, 900 for the
Mississippi and 81, 600, 900 for the Mis-
souri, rivers, to be expended under the
direction of the Secretary of War, in
accordance with plans proposed by the
Improvement Commission. A part of
the appropriation is to be made imme-
diately available to repair as quickly as
possible some of the damage done BY the
recent food.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
The River District.


The GreenviIIe Times does not takt
kindly to our suggestion that if Gen
| Chalmers, whose sufciency as the rep
resentative of the interests Of the Rlvel
! District are so we'll established as tS
make his claims to reelection pre-emi
nent, should decline a reelection, tina
the next best thing for the Distriel
would be the reelection Of ex-Gov. AL
corn. The case seemed to be so excep
tional and extraordinary as to warrant
a non-partizan election the supreme
object being, of course, to secure gov
eminent measures for retaining the
submerged district, repairing the dana
ges by the food and guarding against
the recurrence of the calamity. The
success of such measure viii depend
largely upon the favor which it will re
eeive from the Northern Republicans
and the talents, experience commanding
ability and political associations of ex.
Senator Alcorn, we presumed would be
available for immense service in such an
emergency. In letter to the Globe-Dem
ocrat of st. Louis, Col. Green Clay,
of Bolivar, presents vivid picture
of the disaster which has taxed the re
sources of the government, and filed
the people of that immediate section
with the most distressing apprehensions
fer the future, and truly says that it
strikes at the very existence of the
prosperity, not of towns or counties,
but of vast portions of, and the richest
Of. several States" "The calamity,
he says, sis not of a temporary nature,
but a sweeping disaster threatening to
leave the population impoverished and
the country uninhabitable for years to
come" Col Richardson, in an interview
with reporter the other day, said that he
regarded the overflow as likely to prove
more calamitous in its effects upon these
portions of the South than the war, not
only in the destruction of property and
the disorganization of labor, but in the
widespread suffering which must result.
Surely, in the face of an emergency so
imminent aud appalling, we were justi-
fed in regarding the case as an excep-
tional one, and justifying view of the
situation reaching above mere partisan
considerations. Far be it from us,
however, to disparage the merits or
qualifications of numerous Democrats
besides Gen. Chalmers in the district,
who would be naturally thought of in
connection with the place, and promi.
nent among them are Hon. F. A.
Montgomery, Hon. w. A. Percy, and
the large planter and public-spirited
citizen just quoted, Col. Green Clay.
The people of the district understand
their own interest better than we do,
and having explained our motive for the
suggestion, we will now leave the subject
with those to whom it properly belongs.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

We have received, with request to
publish, from the Garfield Monument
Committee, Cleveland, Ohio, a circular
appealing for contributions from Missis-
sippi for the erection of monument at
Gen. Garfeld's grave. We cannot pub
lish the circular, nor can We conseien-
tionsly ask our people to contribute to
that object. They have objects Of char
ity at their own homes, requiring atten-
ton. before our people can afford to
send money from their own Stare to
erect costly monuments to the dead,
even if the graves of their own dead
were not unmarked, as they are. by
ssstoried urn, or m ornamental bust. "
Fifty thousand miles of thsir, richest
soil is devastated BY food as terrible
to humanity as war or pestilenee; and
the general government itself has been
appealed to for bread and meat to afgs
pease the pangs of hunger With tkt
hungry to feed and the naked to clothe,
and debts, and mortgages, and angry
creditors glaring upon our impoverished
people, ne can not, and win not, ask
them 70 contribute to building . monu- /
ment % Gen. Garfield. for the enrich
ment Of whose family three hundred
and sixty thousand dollars have been
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

Col. SAM TATE formerly President
of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
and later of the Memphis and Little
Rock, speaks eneouragingly of a new
railroad, which he is President of, the
Birmingham and Northwestern, con-
Meeting with the Mobile and Ohio at
Corinth. This line will be 140 miles
long and run through the coal and iron
beds of North Alabama.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
Hon. James B. McRae.

We had a call last week from Hon. James
B. McRae. The Colonel looked well and
hearty, although be had been hard at work
during the sitting Of tho Legislature. He
was not absent day during The whole
time and did all in his power for his con-
stitnency. Demoeratie-Star
We can attest the statement of our
contemporary. Col. McRae was assid
nous and conscientious in the discharge
of his public duties and gave special
attention to the interests Of bis CON
stituency.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

Coz. A. J. MCGoNNIGLE, Assistant
Quartermaster. United States army, Of
New Orleans, arrived at Vicksburg last
Saturday under directions from the
Secretary of War to distribute $50
Government tents to the houseless
refugees, Col. MeGonnigle turned the
tents over to Governor Lowry, who
sent them up the rivers, where the peo-
pie have been compelled to abandon
their homes and are living on dry points
of land.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
4 seash0re cannIng IN dnalrr.
N. o. Picayune.7

=. 2. Plcayune.
Inc latest Industry to attract atten-
Ilon NJ. y an oyster canning company, started
a. biloxi, on Mississippi Sound. This new
venture Is in the hands of Messrs. Lopez.
Elmer 4 Co, who have already entered tie
markets Of the country with production
That cannot well fail TO attract the atten,
ton of dealers and consumers. Il is we'll
known thatoysters on our Gulf coast are
exceptionally large and we'll favored. and
nlessrs. Lopez, Elmer & Co., have succeeded
n canning them in excellent style. One
ae 4, q the cans put out by this company
J na n commend them to the trade--they are
weight packages.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

Mr. MONROE MCCLURE has with
drawn from the Walden Nucleus, leav-
ing that paper in the hands of Hon. Il.
&c. Williamson. We had occasion last
week to pronounce it one of the staunch-
est political journals and best weekly
journals on our exchange list. Journals
Of that kind are a public benefit.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

IL Miehigan's new Congressional APP
portionment there are four districts con
tanning respectfully $4,000, $4,000,
17s.00O and 10000 From these
great irregularities it will be seen that
other States besides Mississippi has laid
of their districts without strict reference
to equality Of population.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

THE powers Of Boards Of Supervisors
were enlarged in several important par
ticulars, by the last Legislature. They
can now insure public buildings, Pur-
chase iron safes, and have their proceed
ings published at discretion.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
The Natchez RaIlroad


\ '.ss1le4 Democrat
Saps Dufin, contractor on the N. ]. &
v. RAILROAD vas in town yesterday ana lie
speaks n encouraging terms ofthe work On
tne road. He thinks that two months viii
complete the grading to Jackson. and as
sne bridge over Big Bayou Pierre will be
zssqy g cross next week, the track laying
Nlli follow hard upon the heels 81 tie
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

RIPLEY SENTINEL: We say Lowry has
done right. We say it as Stone man, in
the late Convention. We respect him for
his manliness, his devotion to his friends
and his good judgment in selecting his APP
pOintees,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

G. A. HAsnToS, Esq, after a bril-
liant editorial career on the Wesson
Herald, has Withdrawn from the paper
to devote his time and talents entirely
to bis profession Of Law. The publica-
ton of the Herald will be continued by
Mr.. FOrsythe.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

IL this number We have printed
Senator Georges speech in favor of the
bill to prohibit Chinese immigration.
In cur next, we will publish the speech
Of Representative Hooker on the other
side.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

Referring to the publication b several
journals that the Legislature had
voted salaries Of S., 900 for the Presi-
dent Of the a. and M College, and s4,-
600 for the Professors--the Brandon
Republican
They GET praaiseIy half that sun. The
Legislature appropriated $4,000 t0 run
the College for The next fuo years. and not
for one year. IS these gfumbling gentlemen
would hare their readers beliere This IS
to pay tlie salaries 81 oiicers and professors.
70 bnild a1aitional houses stock lhe farms
etc.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

MEssRs. CHALaERs, Money and Sin
gleton voted for the anti-Chinese immi-
grafton bin. Mr. Hooker voted for i.
Messrz. Manning and Mnldrow were
NOT present when the vote was taken.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

In lis reply, dated Charleston, March 81
Mr.. Saunders says:
Il inclose you list of election cases On
far as selected for trial, the extract being
selected from yesterdays News and CourieT
When reached Columbia, last month.
Jud ge Milton instructed me, in NV visits TO
various counties, to select the strongest
cases against the most important and infu.
entiai men, not to take little fellows. You
Wlli see by the list inclosed that the men we
propose to try are, except from BarnweIi
county, managers Of elections. that Is cleo
ton oincers who carry on elections on lbe
day ofelection, like judges and inspectors Of
elections in Pennsylvania. Then we have
a case from Sumter county against the
Board OF County CaHvassers. They are me
men who count the returns from the various
precincts OF their respective counties and
FORWARD II TO the Board of State Canvassers.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

THE act to regulate the practice OF
medicine in Mississippi, appears to be
well received by the profession. The
efficient Secretary of the State Board
of Health, DR.. Writ Johnston, will be
ready, after this date, to issue the
licenses-tempOrary and regular
provided for in the act. Applications
for license must be made on the pre-
scribed forms, which are being dis
tributed to physicians through the Cir
cult Clerks. The record books which
Circuit Clerks are required to keep, for
registering licenses, will be forwarded
within the next ten days.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

| MUST hGoIONSIBLE PEkSONS.
WASHINGTON, March pa long letter
from Attorney -General Brewster to Dallas
Saunders, Assistant United States District
Attorney at Charleston, is published, with
Mr.. Saunders reply. The first paragraph
ccmmends Saunders for the part he has so
far taken in the cases on which he was sent
from Philadelphia. The remaining portion
is as follows: An investigation has been re-
Gently had here in Washington, in the con-
test between Smalls and Tillman in the
House. send you now forthwith by this
mail printed copy of the proceedings and
testimony and argument that was sent to
me only yesterday. l direct your atten-
ton to it, and Mr.. Millions attention
to it, and expressly request you to say to
Mr.. Milton that 1t is my determination 10
have these matters thoroughly investigated
and closely pursued. The right of suffrage
must be protected, no matter who suffers.
wish Mr.. Milton to be told by you that
expect that he will prosecute forthwith the
most important persons who have been
concerned In these attempts to defeat
honest elections by fraudulent or forcible
means. say the highest and most respon-
sible people are those whom l desire to be
first prosecuted and first pursued There
will be 70 example il merely insignificant
persons are taken hold Of. Those who stand
high in the community, and have thus
ventured to violate law and encourage
others to do it, are the very persons to be
first prosecuted, and if convicted punished
in signal way. Then things will begin to
change, and voters will be encouraged to
vote according to their convictions and
those who do vote will feel satisfied that
their votes have been duly counted and
surrender cheerfully to an honest result
Il am very much in earnest about this,
for have heard what l cannot credit that
1T Is currently said in South Carolina that
the only persons who will be prosecuted
Will be few insignificant and obscure
persons. Such prosecutions l will not
consider as being those that Justice re.
quires to be instituted and pursued.
The Criminal Courthouse should not be
used only for the punishment Of the obscure.
IL must not be the poor mans Courthouse.
All who violate law-and especially funda-
mental law, such as the right of suffrage
must be made to feel the terrors of that law.
Abuse of the right of suffrage, such as is
charged to have been perpetuated in South
Carolina, is practical treason against the
dignity of the people and the Fundamental
principle of their power, and it must be sig
nally punished.
am, with great respect, your friend
BENJAMIN HARRIS BREWSTER.
ITO Dallas Saunders, Esq, Assistant District
u
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

= Coz. HARDY, MAI. WHISSERY and
Mr.. Boscaren, prominent officials of the
n. O. & \. E. Railroad, are prospecting
for sites upon which to locate depots.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

MORMON lobbyists worked il Wash.
ington to defeat the anti-polygamy bill,
which strikes down the Endowment
House. and the sealing Of plural wives
to the Latter Day Saints.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
Death of Hon. w. T. Young, Of Cal
houn.

Extract Of a letter dated Pittsboro,
March 22d 1882:
Hon. w 7. Young, member Of the
Legislature of 1873, died at his residence
five miles south ofthis place the night 81
the 10Th, and was buried to-day. Col.
Young was good citizen, man If inteIli-
gence and integrity. and will be very much
missed il the neighborhoOd Id which he
lived. He leaves a widow and several
children to mourn his Death.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

Our press brethren will find on last
page an act in which all are interested
allowing Boards of Supervisors to pub
fish their proceedings at the rates fixed
by law for the publication of legal no.
tees. The act is not compulsory on the
Boards, but we presume most of them
will not hesitate to provide for the full
and regular publication of their proceed
ings. The Board of Supervisors is to
the County, what the Legislature is to
the State, and Its transactions should
have the widest publicity among the
people interested.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

PoRT GIBsoS REyELLE: Sena 81 Vests
bin prohibits the issuance of natifnal bank
currency after the LIST of July mkt. Cor
rect
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

TIE Governor, on Monday, reap
pointed Hon. Ralph North, as Chancel.
Tor of the Twelfth judicial District.
By mistake he was nominated for re-
appointment, and confirmed by the
Senate, as Circuit Judge instead Of
Chancellor, whereas his term as Circuit
Judge does not expire until 1884 and
that of Chancellor expired February
28th last.