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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24
The People Must SPEAK.

The reports from Washington are
that there is very little prospect of the
Commerce Committee doing anything
this session on the subject Of interstate
freights and fares. The railroad interest
is opposed to it, and it is powerful
The Commerce Committee has found it
convenient to keep the bill sleeping
until so late day that place on the
calendar is the best its enemies could
devise for it. The question is referred,
with others, to the people, who, as in
the case of the bill to make and create
Department of Agriculture, must
make themselves heard and felt.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

The amount Of money collected a. a
tax on raw cotton for the States Of the
Mississippi valley, was s68,OT2, 8S8.
This tax was declared to be unconstitu-
tional BY the Supreme Court, The toll
lowing is a statement Of the amounts
paid:
ARIZONA, Colorado, Dakota, Deiawarsr DIS
Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Hampshire, New Mexico Oregon, Vermont,
Washington Territory, West Virginia, Wis
cnnsin and Wyoming paid no tax.
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Col. CiaIborne.
g. d. o. Iimes-Demoerat. ]

Cor. n. @. Yimes-Democrat
Col. J. f. Fl. Claiborne, of Natchez, but
a citizen Of Hancock county, Miss, is to Wis
it the Bay st. Louis in June, and the visit is
looked forward to with much pleasure BY all
classes, eolors and ages. He Is endeared to
our people BIZ long association, and for his
many noble qualities of heart and mind.
We have named our children, railroad sta
tions and our schools after him. He has
been the poor mans friend, the rich mans
adviser, and comes nearer being walking
encyclopedia than any man ever SAN.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

The Democratic Executive Commit
tee of Harrison county met by call of
Gen. J. R. Davis, chairman, on the
18th, and adopted a resolution author
ling beat meetings to be held in each
supervisors district, to. elect dele
egates to cast pro rata vote at the 9th
District Congressional Nominating Con-
vention, which will probably be held
about the 10th of August.
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Clerk Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court on Monday by unan-
imous vote reappointed Hon. Oliver Cliff
ton the Clerk thereof for the next four
years. He has filed the important po-
sition with great acceptance to the Court
and profession, and we are pleased to
chronicle his continuance in a place for
which he IS so prominently fitted.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

ST. LOUIS REPUBLICAN Determinations
against color are becoming alarmingly fire.
quent Of late, and it looks as though the
fifteenth amendment and the civil-rights
bill were being made the objects of organ
lied defiance Four cases Of the kind have
been reported in three weeks, and what is
peculiarly disheartening, three of them
occurred in the North. A colored Colonel
was refused quarters at the Revere hotel,
in Boston colored clergyman was denied
the privilege of sitting down to dinner at
the regular table on a Hudson river steam
boat, and disappointment of a colored man
to be letter-carrier at Toronto, Clnada,
provoked a strike among the white carriers
and the postmaster was forced to assign the
appointee to other work till the matter can
be settled. Toronto is in Canada, it is true,
but Canada is the land of the north star,
and shares with our own Republican States
the sublime devotion to the rights of the
black man. We have our civil-rights bill to
prevent discrimination against color, but if
the Republican communities of the North
persist in setting it at defiance we shall
have to adopt new constitutional amend
ment to meet the trouble.
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Total...... ....."..........

We repeat what we have before said,
that this money, as it does not belong to
the Government, is the private property
of the persons from whom it was taken,
and it would be wrong to confseate it for
the public uses as proposed in some of
the bills introduced in Congress,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

Mr.. PRESIDENT ARTHUR seems to
have way of his own. He appointed
Roland Worthington, Boston jour
nalist as Collector of the Port of that
city, in defiance of the wishes of the
Massachusetts, Senators. Worthington
was qualified, and has served his party
faithfully, but had not been an uncon-
ditional eulogist of those very worthy
statesmen, and they undertook to set
down on him. The President didn't see
it that way, and the Senate has con-
firmed the appointment.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24
Congress-.

The Senate, by a vote Of % TO II,
has passed the > per cent. land bill, pay
ing to certain States their percentage of
public lands sold by the Government
within their boundaries. If it becomes
a law, NIississippi's share will amount
to $4,000. In the House a bill has
passed to extend the time of the charter
of National Banks about to expire At
last accounts the House was engaged in
a lively fllibuster over South Carolina
contested election case.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

THE first Mississippi State council of
Catholic Knights of America assembled
in Vieksburg last Tuesday, all of the
branches in the State being represented.
Mr.. G. Cummings, of this city, was
chosen temporary Chairman, and John
Kelly, of Canton, Secretary. Bishop
Jansens was present and delivered an
address Of welcome.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24
WINSTON CoRREsPoNDENcE.
Jackson as a Railroad Centre.

LOUISVILLE, Mss, May 18th, 1882.
EDITORS CLARION: Jackson has the rep
utation of being a dull place and its papers
rarely report any enterprise on the part of
its citizens to add to its prosperity. Why
should this be so and why should it not be
a vigorous growing city? 1t has trains COM
ing in every day from four different direc-
tions, and when Gen. Martins road and the
Jackson and Yazoo are completed, it will
have trains from six directions, and will be
as well supplied with railroads as Atlanta,
and will have greatly the advantage of At
lanta in the rich farming country tributary
to it. But Jackson should not be satisfied
with railroad facilities to six different
points, but should add the seventh.
The charter provides that the Canton,
Aberdeen and Nashville Railroad may start
any where in Kinds, Madison or Holmes
counties, or from Kosciusko, but Kosciusko
is not made necessarily charter point.
JACKSON Is THE POINT
from which to start this road, thence up the
south side of the Pearl river via Carthage
thence on to Louisville and Starkyille.
From Kosciusko to Starkville, of course
would be a shorter and cheaper route,
but owing to its general situation
and proximity to the Georgia Pa
cifc, it would not benefit the people
to any great extent, and would not develop
business that would pay well for the build
ing. From Jackson up the Pearl river val
ley through Northwest Rankin, and through
Leake and Winston counties, it would strike
out at the start through a wide stretch of
territory, all of which is good country,
whose business would pour in upon this road
from all directions. On this route, its adj
Vantages to the G. st. l.. & n. O. r. r. as
feeder, would be intellectually greater than
would the Insignificant territory developed,
from KosciuskO to Starkville. This would
be the greatest road for Jackson, would
bring these counties, with their teaming re-
sources, to the front line of progress, and
identify their interest with the State capt.
tai
l have good reasons to say that Mr.. Clark
is not absolutely welded to the Kosciusko
route, and that he will consider propositions
to build the road from Jackson via Garth
age and Louisville Why do the Jackson
people not move in this Matter; and why
do your papers never agitate these interests,
which concern the people and the State cap
ital so deeply! GEORGE L. CRITz.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

THE committee which has been inves-
tigating tie books of ex-Treasurer, now
Gov. Churchill j, of Ark, has made its re:
port showing deficit of STA, 900. And
vet this man was elected Governor by the
people in ignorance of the state of his
accounts as Treasurer-all for the want
of Committees to investigate the ac-
counts of the public ofieels-Commit-
tees which every vel regulated Legis-
lature ought to have.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

THE Moss Point Journal, BY Messrs.
2. K. Mayors & Co., of the PascagOuIa
Democrat-Star, is on our table, and we
pronounce it a good newspaper and q
worthy exponent Of the interests Of the
growing young city near the seaside.
God speed it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

The closing exercises of the session of
Port Gibson Female College win be on
the 18th and 10th of June. The COM
mencement sermon viii be preached on
Sunday 18th of June BY Rev. r. S.
Woodward, Of Vicksburg. Hon. 7. L.
Mellen, Of Natchez. will deliver the
annual address.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

CArT. E. 1. Ross, the poet editor.
late Of the Canton Nail, is giving reel
tations IN several Of the towns Of the
State from his own inimitable compost
ton. His entertainments viii richly re-
pay those who attend them.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

THE Natchez Democrat says that the
enterprising firm of Mimms d Ward
law, of Utica, are entitled to the honor
ofsending the first bale ofcotton through
from that point by the N. j. d {. Rail
road. The Democrat says the working
force on the road has been increased
that it will be finished to Raymond by
the 9th of June-and then on to jackson,
where, we will add, it will be welcomed
with booming artillery and all the tokens
of Joy BETTING the occasion.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

DIX. G. s. RoUDEBUsH of the \. and
NJ. College has accepted an invitation TO
deliver an address at West Point, Miss,
June 18th, on the subject of the educa-
tionaI interests Of the State.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

Hos. VAN Ii. MANNING, Of this
State, lectured in Washington before
the Law School Of that city last week
on professional ethics"
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COMMITTEE.
JACKSON, Miss, May y, 1882. }
A meeting of the State Executive Com
mittee of the Democratic-Co Conservative par
ty, will 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 well as the consideration Of other business
Of Importance to the party. a full attend
aHce Of the committee is requested.
FPANK JOHNSTON,
Chr'n Dem.-Con. State Ex Commute.
MARIoS SMITH, J secrefasieg
ID. 7. PORTER, '7''' '''7''7'
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

COLD nights are having a most inju-
rious effect upon the cotton crop and
vegetable gardens, in this region.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

The Democrats of Harrison county
have proposed that the nominating
Convention of the 9th District be held
at Magnolia on the 10th of August.
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Hon. A. II. STEPHENS has been des-
ignated by the Independents of Georgia
as their favorite for Governor. He
never has been beaten in the State be-
fore the people, and we presume never
will be. Four years ago he declared
himself an Independent candidate for
Congress and was elected. At the late
election, he ran without opposition, and
announcing his retirement from Con-
gress, he was solicited to serve as Gov
ernor. The Atlanta Constitution has
given him notice that he must repudiate
the support of the Independents, or take
the consequences. Judging from the
past, it will be safe to predict that he
will break all the states and go into the
office on whirlwind of popular enthu-
siasm. Such is the love of Georgians
for their venerable statesmen; but
there are not many men who can play
the role of \. H. Stephens.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

The Tennessee Legislature has just
passed 4 bin, which i approved By the
New York bondholders, for the settle
ment Of the State debt at go cents on
the dollar.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

VIcKsBURG HERALD; We are glad to be
able to inform our readers that the Commit
tee on Elections will report unanimously in
favor Of Hon. Van Fl. Manning.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

The Tennessee Senate by close vote
has passed bill to settle the debt of
the State at 60 cents, with interest
ranging from 8 to 6 per cent. It was
warmly contested and the question will
be carried into the canvass most per
picking issue.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

Dr.. LEE, Of the EllisviIle Eagle has
associated with him in the conduct Of
bis paper, Mr.. H. II. Nixon. In view
Of the business prospects Of Ellisville,
the Eagle is to expand its wings.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

HE Natchez Democrat says that the
1azoo City Cornet Band will be in that
city during the Press Convention, the
guests Of its citizens.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

liz Alabama, the democracy are APP
pointing delegates to the State and Con
gressional Conventions.
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The Star REUTERS.

The star route men have exhausted
their pretexts for delay, and the trial
on the first Indictment viii now go
forward.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

THE motion to grant new trial to
Guiteau has been overruled He will
hang on the 30th Of June.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

THE Vicksburg Herald says THE
CLARION "seems Indifferent" to the
canvass in this Congressional Dis rict.
The Herald must know that THE
CLARION as an organ of the whole party,
must necessarily be Indifferent among
the many excellent gentlemen who have
been urged by their friends and between
whom it has no wish to express pref
erence. But wait till the nomination
is made, and then you viii hear TIE
CLARION notes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

Tm South Carolina Legislature will
convene in extra session on the 27th,
% redistriet the State.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

The Indiana State Democratic Con
vention win be held August I'd.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

THE Georgia Democratic Convention
viii meet at Atlanta, July 10.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

PENNSYLVANIA judges are elected by
the people.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

Is Kentucky the people elect their
own judges,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

IT seems that a New York man,
Judge Westbrook by name, has been
fooling with Jay Gould, the Railroad
monopolist, and is badly soiled. Articles
of impeachment have been preferred
against him. 1t isn't safe for judges
and statesmen who have their price to
come in contact with Gould. His
tongue drops Mamma. He is very per-
suasive, and is ever on the alert. For
example, when the nomination Of Stan
ley Matthews was pending, he dropped
a sly hint as follows, to one Of the
Senators
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

THE General Assembly Of the South
ern Presbyterian Church met at Atlanta,
and organized for session by electing r.
II. Smoot, of Austin, Texas, Moderator.
The opening sermon was preached by
Row. L. 7. Earris. ofSE. Louis.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

TIE news from the river region is not
favorable. The June rise" has come,
and in several places the river is not
far below the high water mark. Rose
dale, Riyerton, Laconia, Carson's, Con-
cordia-all are ove1hown.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

CALL By THE CHAIRMAN.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

HEADQUARTERS STATE DEM.-CoN. Elk. !
COMMITTEE.
JACKSON, Miss, Nav y, 1882. !
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New YORK, May II.

To Senator P B. Plumb
l will be pleased to comply with your
request in your letter to Mr.. Coley. Can
g0as consistently cote for the confirmation Of
Nrtthe,cs ? JAY GOULD.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

Meeting of the Democratic State Ex-
ecutive Committee.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-24

way nc CouAsss bab NSIS O4lcA III A1OuIl-
cello, seeking its influence and participating
in its intrigues.
In 1885 visited Monticello for the Sec
ond time. was then a candidate for Con-
gress. Most of the persons referred to
above were dead, or had removed but my
old tudor Caldwell, was alive, and though
differing in politics, gave me his benedic-
ton.
[ met there Gen. Arthur Fox, the Sena-
tor from the district, Hon. Franklin E.
Plummer, late representative in Congress,
Richard Weber, distinguished lawyer
from Meadeville, and Robert Fl. Buckner,
lawyer Of decided ability, afterwards
Chancellor, aud Gen. Mathew Patton, az
forwards Attorney-General. Plummer was
the most remarkable man have ever met
with in public life, and a volume of his
adventures, experiences and opinions might
be written. His brother-in-law, Hon. Han
son Alsbury, Of Covington county, would
constitute a figure in the history little
behind the principal.
Ralph Stoyall, of Marion county was
man of wealth and influence, in that sec
ton, in those days He owned and kept
the Columbia Springs, and it was at that
time fashionable resort where the quarrel,
on mere point of etiquette, occurred
between gentlemen Of New Orleans and
Richard Stockton, of Natchez, Attorney
General Of the State, which resulted in a
duel fatal to the latter.
I don't think our distinguished friend,
Gen. Freeman, whom you mention, ever re-
sided in Monticello. When 1 first knew
him be had just pitched his tent in Grand
Gulf; then moved to Natchez; then to
jackson, and now resides in Canon City,
Colorado, where he has justly attained high
position, and is likely to become million
aire.
But town that can enumerate among its
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-06-15
An Anxious Inquirer.

The editor of the Manhattan Nationalist is one
of those careful, prudent men, who usually rnsh
into a thing upon the spur of a whim, and ai'ef-
wards INQUIRE whether they have done what was
right and proper. Somebody having objected !"
+. n. Morrill, for Congress because he was si-
Jobu man. the Nationalist straightway took up
the 6.bt for Morrill, and caused il to be
ciyen ont that the Riley County delegotes were
instructed for Morrill,; then it set about lnqnr-
.r, whether Morrill, was sound on the railroad
ouestion. The Hiawatha Herald undertook 10
rive the desired information, and proved clearly
that Morrill, occupied position that could DE fe-
lied upon either for against railroad monopoly
10 suit the emergency. The NdiioRai''f sees the
point. and begins to realize that 1t has gwen
itself AWAY. We warned the Nationalist, before,
how Morrill, stood Oh railroads, and can do so
again, in language that cannot be made to SUIT
both sides Mr. Morrill, has been a railroad di-
rector the greater part Of the time, for the last
twelve years, and has been, all the time, n con-
fdential agent of railroad companies. II elected
TO Congress, he would he found, under all <r-
cumstances, voting for the interests of the rail-
road corporations, and they could depend upon
him as surely as they could on Jay Gould. ASK
the settlers upon railroad lands in Washington
and other western Counties, what they think Of
it, and get their story of the trouble they have
had to secure their homes. In this business,
Morrill, has been acting as the agent of railroad
company; while there are many who believe
that heSburchased the lands Of the railroad COM
pany for small amount, and is squeezing the
settlers under cover of the railroad company.
But the NdtiondIisi is going just as wild in an
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-06-15

WASHINGTON, June 5.-The question of the remov-
al of the remains of Thomas Jefferson from their last
resting place to Washington has already been con-
siderably agtated but the following letter dispOses
of the matter:
CHARLoTTEsvILLE. Va, June 3, 1882.
Judge hartley, Member Of The Board Of Trustees Of
GlenIcood Cemetery, Washington:
SIR:-As legal adviser of the owners of the Month
cello Graveyard. am instructed to inform you that
they will not allow Jeferson's remains to he re-
moved to another cemetery. The said owners of the
graveyard being the heirs of the late Colonel ThOm-
as jefferson Randolph, executor of jefferson. and
residuary legatee of the mother Mrs. Martha JEFF
fOrs0n Randolph, who jointly with him signed the
deed conveying Monticello to its purchasers, in
which deed the graveyard is reserved and exempted
from the same, are. by the laws Of Virginia, the
sole custodians of the remains of Jefferson, which
they will under no circumstances, allow to be re-
moved from the spot which he himself selected as
their last resting place The publication of certain
communications your Board said to have been made
by Jeffersons sole remaining grandchild, and your
reported action thereon, calls for this communica-
tion TO YOU. X. L. W. DUKE.
Attorney for the hrirs.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-06-15

n There is rivalry, in fact, a jealousy, with
some degree of feeling, existing between Seneca
and Hfawatha. Seneca felt confident of securing
the branch of the b. & NJ. Road that is to be
built south into Kansas, but discovers that Hia-
watha has been working for it, with good
chance to get it away from her. 1t is just the
easiest thing in the world for Seneca to get it,
and her newspapers and some of her politicians
are on the road toward it. Railroad Companies
always "stand in" with members Of Congress,
and do all in their power to accommodate them,
because they are always expecting favors in re-
turn. Let Nemaha County pitch in to secure
the nomination of Morrill, for Congress, then he
will use the influence thus given him, to get
that road away from Hiawatha, and give it to
Seneca. Of course, he will. Isn't he always
looking out for good things, to bestow upon
neighboring COuntiesi
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-06-15

IcED WISE.-A passenger the Rock Island in
forms n reporter Of very ludicrous incident that
occurred the train coming from Chicago. His
story runs as follows: "A number of commercial
tourists better known as 'drummers' were seated
together and about to open divers bottles of cham
was no ice to be had. generous old German, no
ticing their unpleasant quandary. promptly sugges
ted that perhaps he could obtain some the train
The kind offer gladly accepted, and the German
invited to partake with them if he eoud procure the
ice Going another ear, he shortly returned with
the glistening lump. Ii used mp, and the
with the wine Finally there were two bottles left
wthou. ice. The drummers again requested the
Germans generous efforts in quest of more ice. Out
article remarking sadly, as he resumed his seat
The baggage master will not let me have any more.
He says nv brother-in-law's body won't keep until
we get TO Leayenworth, If take any more ice from
he coffin