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THE CLARION
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J. L. POWER.
nXKRlS BARK9DALE
E. BARKSDALE, Editor
MONDAY
- -Oct., 24, 1870.
We yield our columns to-day almost
exclusively to the Fair, which opens, we
are pleased to say, auspiciously.
, ... i -
Hon. Jefferson Davis and family are
expected to arrive- in Memphis during
this week.
The tribute of respect which the city of
Memphis paid to the memory of General
Robert tt. .Lee was the most macnincent
affair of the kind the new world ever wit
nessed.
An earthquake was felt in Ohio, Fcnn-
sylvania, New York, and Massachusetts
on the '20th. JSo damage was sustained
from it other than causing great alarm in
the cities where the shock Was most se-
vere.
The Washington Chronicle (Grant's
mouth-piece), calls for the removal of the
Custom-house officer at Savannah, w
lowered the IT. S. fllajr on hearing of
the death of Gen. Lee. One thing is
certain, the Administration can't lower
itself. It has touched bottom.
Strange. A correspondent informs
us that the sheriff of Leake county has
been tied by the neck with his own bri
dle to the feet of his safe and robbed of
fifteen hundred dollars which belonged to
the count v.
It is strange that so many loyal money
holders are robbed, and are always found
to have escaped without bodily harm.
They are unsafe men to trust the funds of
counties or States with, for they never
make any resistance or noise when the
robbers come.
Ever since the emancipation of the
blacks in the West India Islands, and the
experiment of self-government which fol
lowed, they have been the scene of con
stant sttife and devastating wars among
the followers of the petty chiefs. Be
side, their agriculture has been almost
entirely destroyed. In Jamaica, after a
long trial of self-government by the pop
ulation, the British government has re
sumed its control over the island. By
the latest advices from the French colony
of Martinique, we observe that a portion
of the blacks have revolted against the
constituted authorities, and many planta
tions have been sacked by the insurgents.
In the Southern States of the Ameri
can Union, it will not be questioned that
the Mongrel governments have utterly
failed in consequence of corruption and
incompetency ; but it is due to the ne
groes to say that more of the responsibil
ityforthe failure belongs to the selfish
and depraved' white men by whom they
have been guided, than to them.
The Ialc Elections.
The Lexington Advertiser is surprised
that The Clarion has made no expres
sion as to the aesults of the last elections.
We have already expressed an opinion,
but if the Advertiser desires us to reiter
ate it we will repeat we are
very well satisfied, if We do as well
in November, the Democrats will have a
working majority in the Lower House of
Congress. The "Washington Chronicle
(Radical) admits a gain to the Democrats
of seven members, which taken from the
Republican and added to the Democratic
vote, makes a difference of fourteen in
our favor. Besdes these gains,
Indiana has been redeemed from Repub
lican rule. Her Legislature is Democratic,
and therefore we are very well satisfied.
The elections show plainly that the Dem
ocrats are steadily gaining ground. Has
the Advertiser seen the New Orleans
Republican ? It admits a gain to the
Democrats in Congress of sixteen since
September, which makes a change of
thirty-two in the vote.
The f negro .Lieutenant-Governor of
. Louisiana, draped his dwelling in mourn
ing in honor of the memory of General
Lee. But the white Governor of Mis
sissippi, who is so fond of recounting the
-exploits of the Alcorn family during the
war, has giyen neither aid, counsel or
comfort, to any-movement that has been
originated to pay respect to his memory.
A Republican paper in speaking , of the
death of Genl Robert E. Lee,' says,
"when he was at the head of the so-called
army of Northern Virginia." What
next? Will it be be a so-called defeat of
the Federate at Bull Run? A so-called
surrender at Appomatox Uourt House;
la . -W T A
Or a so-called war!
- That so-called array did more fightinj:
an(j more raarclung, ana WOm more victo
ries and killed more of its opponents for
its numerical strength, and surrendered
fewer survivors, than any other army
(so-called or not so-called,) the world
ever saw. And the records or it as well
as that of the army of the Potomac, both
whjch
are now in Washington Citv,
will prove the assertion.
The Clarke county court-house injunc
tion case has not vet been decided. If
Chancellor Drane decides that it cannot
be buiIt on Musgrove s farm he - will be
read out of the Republican party.
IIISS1SS111I.
One
negro
killed another in Enteprise
recently.
The Cmtou Fire Company
has received
its new engine. Mail.
A Meridian vouth lost his hat at a ball
lie advertises for it in the Gazette.
There are only fifteen loyal voters
Lauderdale county j ail. Mercury.
in the
The Copiahan says: "We regard the
movement referred to (Old Line Whig) as
being defunct and played out."
K.W. Flournoy, of the Equal Rights, is
after the man who wrote for the Pilot, du
ring the editor's absence,with a sharp stick,
for calling him a fool.
The negroes near Ceopers Well and By-
ram have militia meetings twice a week
uuless it is stopped, there will be no cotton
gathered. Crystal Springs Herald.
The Carroll Conservative says James
Mallen, a married man living near that
place, went to Winona one day last week
with two bales of cotton for the ostensible
purpose of selling it and purchasing $ome
supplies. The day after he left, Mrs. M.
received a note from him, stating that there
was an abundance of corn, cott
n, provii- j
p nlaee to
ions, hogs and other stock, on the place to
make her comfortable; and notJp grieve
for him. as he had taken her sister an
nd "gone
where the woodbine twineth."
A. J. Ackerman, of Georgia, is the
rival of J. L. Alcorn for the Sou therm
honors on the "loval" ticket for Presid
ent and Vice-President.
PROGRAMME
FIRST DAY.
Monday 24th.
The gates will be opened at 8 o'clock Mou
day morning, before which hour the officers
of the Fair, including Superintendents of
Departments and Police are expected to be
at their several posts.
Ticket sellers will be at main entrance.
Visitors are specially requested to make
change, if possible. Gate keepers are in
structed to admit no one without tickets or
badge of office.
All entries will be made at Secretary's of
fice, at north end of main building. Entries
will be Closed on Tuesday evening, unless
in special cases, delay in transit, etc.
Awarding Committees will be announced
on Wednesday.
Superintendents of Departments are au
thorized to appoint their assistants.
AT TWELVE O'CLOCK
Dr. J. O. Wiiaiiton, President of the Asso
ciation will declare the Exhibition opened,
and will, after prayer by the Rev. C. G. An
drews, introduce to the assemblage Col. C.
E. IIooker, whojias kindly consented to
deliver the opening address a telegram
having been received from the gentleman
first appointed that it will be impossible for
him to reach here in time.
The entry, arrangement, and classifica
tion of articles will occupy the first day.
. The Race and Tournament Tracks may be
used by riders and drivers during the day.
In case the dry weather should continue,
the track in front of the amphitheatre will
be kept sprinkled.
Wagons, drays, etc., hauling for restau
rauts, etc.. will not be admitted afterO a. m.
If entering , after that hour , they will be
charged regular gate fees.
The gates will be opened each day at 8 a.
m., and will be closed at sundown, when the
Night Police will enter on duty.
Richard N. Eubanks, Esq., will act. as
Chiel Marshal, with assistants heretofore
announced. The Chiefs of Police will re
port to him for orders from time to time.
The Forage Department wiil be under
charge of 3Ir. S.' G. Wilson, who will sell
forage at cost to exhibitors of stock. Three
stock-feeders will be in attendance.
, V . By order of . , . :
. . . B0AE1 OF DlRKCTOES.
TO BASS BALL CLUBS. (,
Mr. E. A. Tylerr Jeweler, Xew Orleans,
who has on exhibition a magnificent display
of diamonds, watches, jewelry, etc., offers a
special premium ofa Base, Ball Xapktu Ring
to tbe winner of tbe select nine of the clubs.
The day for the match will be announced
to-morrow.
A F12W IIirVl'H.
TO PARENTS.
Dolbcar' Commercial College, (founded in
18152,) Ad. 164 and 100 Canal Street,
ftcw Orleans.,
Please remember that Students sent from
a distauce to this College are not huddled
one or two hunureu together in &
hunureu together in a single
house, but they are placed with good fawl-
Ilea, one, two, or three' with one family,
where they have the care and comforts ot a I
IIOMK. and Indies' soeietv and parents 1
HOME, and ladies' society and parents
eet weekly repjrts. We think it both
unwise and unsafe to send young hoys out
of their own country for an education. Wg.
have known many such who have returned
home perfect sots and utterly ruined. It is
a fatal mistake to suppose that a single
stranger can see to the moral training of
two or three hundred boys, better than their
parents and teachers at home or In their own
section. Parents cannot absolve themselves
front the duties which God has imposed on
them -and generally w hen they attempt it
thev reap the bitter fruits of their own ne-
srleot bv beinr in turn neglected by their
own children.
Our students attend what church service
they or their parents may desire. An edu
cation consists in proper physical, moral,
intellectual, and religious training of the
faculties God ha3 given. If all were thus
educated, we should have no paupers or crim
inals. The want of this education fills our
Drisons, poor houses and asylums, aud is
the blighting curse of the couutry. It is at
tributable more to parental substitution
and neolkct than to all other causes.
If we complain that our children arc trou
blesome or bad at home, be sure they will
be twenty times worse if we send them to
be in a crowd of a hundred boys night and
day.with no mother's love or father's advice
to guide their tender years. Every one 14
years of age, if properly educated, can cas
il y earn his own living anywhere.
Too many parents economise at the ex
pense of their children, and think that edu
cation has no casu valueand that what la
cxDended lor tneir education is money
thrown away, forgetting that knowledge is
power, and the want of it the cause ot all
pauperism and all crime. But other parents
are willing to sacrifice all luxury, all show,
and even personal ease for the practical ed
ucation of their children. Ihc former com
plain of bad and undutiful children who
squander the hard earnings of their parents.
The latter rejoice in the love and devotion
ot those to whom they have done their duty,
and what God decreed to be both their duty
and their happiness, f
THE PUBLIC Oil POLITICAL SCHOOLS.
If education were left free, like merchan
dizing, farming, law, or , medicine,
without any tax on the people, and no med
dling of politicians, we would then have ten
times better schools than wc now have, for
i then nersons of capital, talent, and ednr.atinn
would put their money in this as soon as
i"to any other business, and I repeat, if pol
iticians would not meddle with the business
f education, there would be $50,000,000 of
capital put into the business in one year,
and the South would have in every section
as srood institutions a3 any in the world.
They would then develop the true resources
of the South, ana we should be no longer
vassals with task masters and tax gatherers
placed oyer us. But at present, if one ex-
aud the political (nominally fret school) is
opened by his side to prevent his success
tors (using money, not their own against
i " .i I....?"
Uliuiu lino, uuu in uu uiuer uusiucaS. 10U
might as well impose a tax to import Hava
na sugar or Last ludia cotton, French or
New England shoes, and distribute them
gratuitous (nominally) over the country.
With thls.in;six mouths every cotton and su
gar plantation, and every workshop over the
bouth would De .abandoned and the whole
country would be a desolate wast. Yet,
mis is uie conuuioii oi education in this
State and over the whole South and always
will be while taken in charge bv politicians
no matter what their name. The svsteui
has had the effect predicted when it was
proposea to iiuirouuce : the .New Eng-
fand system into New ork. It was de-
uouucw as u ujubi, w am a argo portion or
the people, as a political scheme to obtain
the money irom catholics, and Jews, Ac,
&c, and compel them to adopt ideas and
pay their money against their consent. It
was predicted it would chd in civil war
because begun in injustice. But New York
and the whole couutry swallowed the sugar
coated pill, nd all are now suhject to Xew
England as was then predicted, and the
whole country is ruled mentally and phys
ically, and looks to Boston for school books
and for all ideas, with little or no concerted
action from the South to make her own
books and sustain her own ideas and inter
ests. Hence the propertv of Boston is valued
at about $50a000,000,--the whole couutrv
paying tribute, but that oi New Orleans,
with ten times the natural advantages, at
about one-fifth of that amount. The public
school system has the effect of destroying
all individual interest and responsibility in
the matter, and leaving the duty of the
whole to the care of a sew, and the directors
are usually parties who know nothing about
conducting a school or college.
If it is inteuded to form a DESPOTISM
and compel all to think in one way, it is the
best plan in the world,lt matters notwhetlH
er it is to be a one man despotism or a des
potism of numbers -the latter usually more
unjust than the former because no personal
responsibility. -
We forget that it is in dependent thought
that is to render a country independent,
prosperous and free.
If there is a tax for education, every in
stitution, without regard to crekd or poli
tics, should receive of this money pro-rata.
If education had been left free, this College
would long since have opened the Agricul
tural and Mechanical Departments, and
thousands of young men would have been
educated to analyze soils, plants, &cc
and cultivate lands on scientific principles,
and thus double their.value, and our cotton
would have been manufactured at home and
our ships built here, thus doubling our
wealth. But, I repeat, if political parties
no matter what their name are to tax us
and take charge of the schools, why not let
them make another lax and take charge of
the diurches, plantations, stores, railroads,
banks, the practice of law, medicine, c.
The same arguments that can be used in
favor of politicians taking charge ot scliools,
can be Used, and with more force, iu favor
of thtlr taking, charge of churches, stores,
&c, But this school question is ouo that
people do not presume to think about aud
it is almost uulawful to discuss it.
Garibaldi, when in a Turkish province,
observed a number of the people laying idlu
where large quantities of olives were decay
ing under the trees.Gjle aked them why
thev did not gather them. Theit reply was.
4kThis is a government monopoly and it has
its own agents and will pay us little or noth
ing for work," hence all went to waste.
This is the condition of education in Louis
iana and other Statc3. The State squanders
millions of dollars, yet not one-fourth of
even the white children attend school. In
dividuals will not put their time and money
into tins business wueu tney can make twen-
ty times as much by any other business
as
wm be the case while the State makes it a
political monopoly, without which we would
i
iiiive auinib scuoois ior all classes in me
State, and not a cent of tax to sustain them.
But let me ask what has you b boasted public
school system produced where it has had en
tire control lor more thaa half a century
and has had untold millions of dollars
gathered from the people? It has simply
created a treadmill of thought all to follow
one idea and that of fanaticism, so that
when the political biurle sounds all must
shout, even to make a saint out of a vulvar
midnight assassin and sinir neans over one
who formed his plans and his so-called cab
inet on foreign soil for the avowed purpose
of overthrowing the United States Govern
ment, and even seized the munitions of war
that he might plunder and murder.
But he worked in the treadmill of fanati
cism and surely wlien one-fourth of the
people of the United States are paupers aud
criminals, (the result of your boasted school
system.) lm "spirit of John Brown is marchiwj
oh," and it now requires a thousand police-
1 til. - . .
men auua million 01 uouars to watch it m
this city alone.
Ik thinking men, .North and South-
merchants, planters, or those from any class
of industry had had the control of matters
from ISjO to 180, there would have been no
war and millions of lives, and thousands of
millions of property would have been saved
to the country.
NJEW'ORl JEAWs"
DENTAL DEPOT
(established in 1853.)
Io. C3 St. Charles Street.
THE OLDEST AN D MOST COMPLETE
DENTAL FURNISHING HOUSE IN
T HE S O UTH.
Awarded the two H'ujhcd Premiums at tie
LOUISIANA and TEXAS
VATS LOSSS !? 1870:
WE are constantly increasing our Stock of
S. S. WHITES' CHEVALIERS, and KERNS'
IMPROVED OCT. FORCEPS. BURS' EXCA
VATORS, DRILLS, PLUCGERS, LATHES,
DENTAL CASES, &c.. &c
Archer's Dentists' and Barbers'
Chairs,
lcn (nl Toiirnals.mia Dental ooil
in (icncral.
An txira Stock Tooth' Brushes, Soaps. Pastes
and Mouth Washes.
A. A. FAYERWEATHEE.
Lock Lxx 1004.
&!? GO ILffl:,
(HO (Mi (tQimtS eju
fCONOMY is the surest guide to fortune,
Jii so if you will save from ten to twenty
per cent, in your purchases, call at G. j.
Beck's, be tore purchasing elsewhere.
FALL AID WINTER STOCK,
Consisting of the following
Ladies Dress Goods of Every Variety!
An elegant assortment of ,
LADIES HATS, RIBBONS
LACES, EMBROIDERIES,
HANDKERCHIEFS, HOSIERY,
LADIES CLOTH SUITS, CLOAKS
AND SHAWLS.'
Superior
CARPETING,
OILED CLOTnS
AEASJi Mm
Dhoes LADIES AND MISSES,
GENTS' SHOES AND BOOTS,
Of . Superior Workmanship. ' '
.
Agent for
AKER
POINT!
OF E
Beauty and Elasticity of Stitch. .
Perfection and Simplicity of Machinery.
Using both threads directly frem the spools.
No fastening of seams by hand and no waste
Wide ranee of application without change of
' The seam retains its beauty and firmness after
Besides doing all kinds of work done by other
tuomost Dcautuui ana permanent jmoroiaery ana ornamental work. . ,
' . S. C IVKWCOIER, State Street Jackson, MUs.
Removal A rcut Desideratum
(Founded in 18.32, and Chartered.)
IS removed to Nos. 1C4 and ICC Canal Street,
opposite Christ Church, and on the same
H.juarc aathc Law and Medical Colleges, the
University of La., and the Mechanics Insti
tutethe lleadquarters of the Mechanical Ag
ricultural Fair Association thus concentrat
ing the leading Educational Institutions of the
State on the same square. We have ample ar
rangemehtfor 1,000 students, the current year.
Notoneofour graduates for the past S3 years
is now out of profitable employment so far as
Known. '
N. B. A DIPLOMA from this College j a
tassnort in all business communities. For
terms which are liberal npply at the College
or address
RUFUS
OLBEAIl,
President.
t he
Important to Panters.
THE ARROW TIE was used to cover
more than half the crop of. I SCO, to the entire
satisfaction of all who used it
For sale by all the principal Dealers in
Haling Stuffs in the Cotton States.
II. T. BARTLETT & It. W. RAYA'E,
a i: : 12 it a i j a2 is : x s,
lCarondelet Street,
NEW ORLEANS.
MUEFEE'S
PLOW. -
A XI) ITS
a x x a c ii yi i: ts i: x s .
Fill. ST AND ONLY MATHEMATICAL PLOW
for salk nr
K. IT.IurlVc, 14 Union Street, X. O.
From Southern Cultivator January Number,
lb70, pages lOandll.
LxerimrntH ly Jime IiiYldon.
COMMON PLOWING,
Without Manure, 08-j P Cotton per acre.
WITH MURFEE PLOW,
Without Manure, COO ft Cotton per acre.
COMMON PLOWING,
W itli XX) lb fertilizer, COG ft Cotton per acre.
WITH MURFEE PLOW,
With 500 lbs fertilizer, 1200 fts Cotton per acre.
DRESS GOODS and TrimmingUn a large
assortment, kept at Beck's.
m
i7l. rfii
Assortment of Trimming!
AND MATTINGS.
LA
SEWING MACHINE
X C E Ii Ii E I C E , t
of thread.
adjustment.
washing and ironiug.
Sewing Machines, these Macl
LacLines execute