Georgia Historic Newspapers

    The Gfeorgia TV'eekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
■ MACON,- FRIDAY, APRIL 2, I860.
Wee the Danger.
' Some of the Radical papers have just suc
ceeded in discovering the great danger to liber
ty in a “Supreme Senate." It is indeed a
heavy burden for the burr-tailed tackey of Con
stitutional freedom; but they havo been able
to see this only since they have discovered that
the Senate is an “obstaclef* to a re-partition of
the spoils. That discovery has sharpened their
mental optics -wonderfully. Any- thing that
threatens their interests invests a Constitutional
•dogma with great clearness and importance.
Now they see this problem: Given a President
managed by a Supreme Senate—controlled in
its tom by a supreme party caucus, worked by
a Now England triumvirate of Radical Sena
tors—who is President? what is the Senate ?—
■and what is the Government ? The President
is a pnppot—the Senate the wire that sets him
in motion—the caucus is the crank, and the
three wiso men from the East are the perform
ers who turn it. It is a very nice and inge
nious arrangement—but what would yon call it?
Negro Eligibility to Office.
Wo have copiod on our first page the decision
of Judge Schley in the R. W. White ease, deny-
ing the eligibility of negroes to office in the State
of Georgia. Counsel for White took Exceptions,
and intimated a pnrpose to carry the case at once
to the Supreme Court. \ |
Testimony was then introduced as to the fact
that White was a man of color. The testimony
was all ox parte. Counsel waived argument on
both sides, and the jury agreed on a verdict
“that the said R. W. White had one-eighth no
gro blood in his veins, and was a person of color
under the laws of Georgia.”
South and West.
A private letter from a New York merchant
says “trade from the South is active—the West
is nowhere." What is the matter with the West?
Is she doing her own manufacturing—her own
importing—and her own smuggling? A great
•deal of all, no doubt. But it seems to us with
the present prices of grain, flour, bacon, and
mules, horses and, in fact, all she has to sell,
the West should be fnll handed and ready for
-trade if so disposed!
“The land we l>ovc and the New Eclec
tic.
Wo have the April number and the first one
of these consolidated Magazines. It has a cap
ital table of contents—is adorned with a portrait
of Count Bismarck, and is altogether, perhaps,
. the most attractive of the American Monthlies.
Its publishers are Turnbull & Murdoch, to whom
all correspondence relative to the Magazine must
be addressed, and to whoso order all drafts must
be made payable. Gen. Hill’s address is Char
lotte, N. C. _
The Ilaj tian Shambles.
Admiral Hoff, of the West India squadron, in
dorses in Ms reports to the Navy Department,
name shocking reports of butcbeiy now going
on in Hie delectable isle of San Domingo which
newspapers had no sooner published, than a tel
egram issent North to say that “the accounts
of cruelties in Hayti are much exaggerated.”
Nothing is to be credited except “rebel outrages
in the South.”
Annexation op Paraguay.—-The Bnenos
Ayres papers publish a rumor that President
Lopez desires to cede Paraguay to the United
States. This is, like St. Domingo, another
bankrupted concern, which would like to get
its debts paid -off by ns. We have not the
slightCst-ose for South American territory, and
especially small kingdoms and republics loaded
wifckdebt, and, as in this case, with a big war
band. We are obliged to pay out a good
deal of money for nothing more than sending
Jiroken-down politicians as ministers to these
one-borso little States. Butler’s motion to
abolish them ought to pass.
Mn. Henry C. Caret sends us a pamphlet
copy of his review of Commissioner Wells’ re
port on the revenue. Mr. Wells’ report was a
-stab in the vitals of “protection,” under cover
'df on exposure of the defects of the existing ta
riff, and the protectionists have kept up a terri
ble buzzing over that document. Mr. Carey is
t the champion protectionist in America. Wo
suppose be is honest in the matter. We are in
clined to think he has firmly persuaded himself
that the way to raise revenue is to levy a pro
hibitory duty, and the way to make cheap goods
is to pat down competition in manufacturing
them.
Death of Edwaed Bates.—Hon. Edward
Bates died at St. Lonis last Friday. Ho be
longed to neft a small number of men who have
more real worth than fame. Mr. Bates- was
well known in the Mississippi Valley in the days
•of the old Whig party, of wMch he was an ac
knowledged lender. But always residing in a
Democratic district and State, he never attained
-. aqjntSIic office until after the advent of Lincoln
. and the-radicals. He was Lincoln’s Attorney-
- General.
•Mas. Edwaed B. White, a very accomplished
Southern lady, has established a boarding and
day school for young ladies at No. 2 West Forty-
Third street, Now York, .where Southern pupils
can- profit by the superior instructional facilities
.-attainable in the great metropolis, and at the
samo time be under safe and satisfactory re
straints and influences. We call attention to
Mrs. White’s advertisement.
'Imprudent.—The papers announce the arrival
in Chicago of twenty wives of Brigham Yonng.
How. Young consented to risk twenty-five per
• eenL-.of-.bis domesticity in such a place as CM-
eago, Is inexplicable. Probably he quieted his
fears with the reflection that if they failed Mm,
he had “a few more left of the same sort.”
Collector of New York.—The President has
nominated Moses H. Grinwell, Collector of New
York. This is certainly one good appointment.
List of Georgia Acts.—The Intelligencer
^publishes a list of acts and resolutions passed at
-the last session. It is dry reading, bnt we will
make room for it in a day or two.
-Diamonds in Georgia.—The Commissioner of
i the General Land Office has received reliable
a information relative to diamond discoveries in
- Georgia. In a pit four by six feet, in washing
for gold, three diamonds were found, one of
-wMch. weighed one, and the other two karats.
“.‘NcLLJcre Void. ”—Some of the papers say
the act to reconstruct Georgia on the Ethiopean
pattern declares all the legislation of the late
General Assembly null and .void. If that be so,
some capital Will .have been wasted.
-‘‘Mosxs in Egypt.”—Andy Johnson in East
Tennessee. We are. glad to see he is better.
The papers report that he was attacked with pa
ralysis.
Wealthy Cnbans are-sending their money to
this country for safe-keeping.
Infiuiticide in France.
The Chicago Times translates from recent
French papers some horrible details of infanti
cide in France, and adds some comments, a
part of which we republish below. Such is the
progress of this crime in some sections of Amer
ica as notoriously to threaten a revolution in
races. Oar readers will remember that of late,
the New England papers and periodicals have
been sounding the alarm and admit that, in a
few years, at the present comparative ratio of
increase, NewEnglandwillsoonbeinthehandsof
the Celts, whose offspring are more than twice
as numerous as that of the Anglo-Saxons. That
the public morals on this subject are very
little better in the West, may bo inferred from
the concluding paragraph in this extract from
the Times.
All this is due mainly to extravagance in liv
ing. People cannot keep np style and meet the
expense of rearing a numerous family. It is
the poor alone, who care nothing for style, and
intend that their children shall not only earn
their bread, bnt assist their parents in the com
mon struggle against want, who rear large fam
ilies. Thus the population of the country is
cMefly maintained by those least able to give
their children the benefits of intellectual and
moral training.
In this state of facts, the natural and divinely
sanctioned pride in a numerous family lias
given place to a false, discreditable, immoral
and unscriptnral shame of children. It is come
to be considered very nnfasMonable certainly,
if not absolutely disgraceful, to claim paternity
of little groups, which onr fathers and mothers
would have considered very small families.
There is much in connection with this subject
which demands the attention of the religionist,
tie moralist and the philosopher; but as we lay
claim to neither capacity, we will content our
selves with copying the Times’ editorial wMch
has suggested the few words we have dropped:
At the Court of assize held in Garonne, and
whose session began on the tMrd of the present
month, eight women were arraigned for trial.
Every one of these women is married. It is
perhaps admissible to suppose that all of them
have passed a certain age, and reached np to,
or beyond, the climacteric of womanhood. At
or about this period, some women, unless sub
jected to a strong guidance, or repressed by the
education of early life, are very apt to fly off on
some tangent. A woman of such a class may
become possessed with a desire to unsex herself.
She may wish to become an Amazon, nmember
of a women’s rights organization, a lectnress on
fancied wrongs, an abortionist, or something
else outre, unnatural and unwomanly.
These eight French women did not organize a
Sorosis society, or start a journal favoring the
unsexing of women, or inaugurate lecturing ex
peditions. They did the next most available and
germain tMng: They took charge of yonng
babes whose mothers had something else to at
tend to than their children. * They took such
children along with a present of from $30 to
$500 and agreed to care for them. They also
initiated an ante-natal slaughter-house on a
large scale, and in wMch they did a most thriv
ing business.
As a specimen of how women’s rights are
progressing among the Gauls, we translate and
summarize some portions of the long act of ac
cusation.
In August, one of the accused took charge of
the illegitimate infant of a young girl, ostensibly
to place it in a hospital for children at Cadillac.
She took the child home, held its head into a
vessel of water until dead, threw the body into
a cess-pond, and pocketed the amount which had
been given her to pay for the child’s support.
Another lady of tMs organization took charge of
the child of her daughter, and cared for it by
giving it a dose of vitriol. The mother of the
child was one of the accused, and was present
at, and assisted the operation of poisoning her
offspring. Another of the enterprising eight
took possession of the child of Jeanne Gamel,
and 240 francs, which were to be devoted to its
support. The infant was speedily made to un
dergo asphyxia, and was buried in a hole in a
remote room of her residence. The same en
terprising lady took charge of another child and
500 francs, the former of wMch was speedily
disposed of by the use of a bucket of water.
The indictment occnpies several columns of
finely printed type. It recites the murder of
something like fifty infants within the last year.
It deals in details utterly unfit, in many casses,
for translation. Infants were drowned in
buckets of water, were poisoned, their bodies
were thrown into the sinks of out-houses, or
were cut to pieces and buried in cellars and
other out-of-the-way places. Fragments of bo
dies partially consumed by rats, and bones
without number, were found in the residences of
the accused. In fine, the indictment is a recital
of wholesale assassination whose relations are
without parallel in horror and atrocity. As the
result of the trial has not been given, we cannot
havo the pleasure of announcing, at present,
that all of the eight have been sentenced to be
executed. The gratification of making and re
ceiving the announcement must be reserved to
a later date.
All this seems very terrible; but it is no worse
than a thousand occurrences wMch are taking
place every day in this country. The difference
is simply one of publicity. There, the crimes
were committed by professional assassins, and
were discovered. Here, the same sort of thing
is occurring, only the mothers are the assassins,
and the thing is not made public save in isola
ted cases. The difference is not, therefore, one
of culpability; it is simply that of detection.
Forney’s Southern Proclivities.
“ It is not generally known, perhaps, that this
vile scoundrel has opened in Washington city a
Southern Land and Immigration Agency, in
connection with the Chronicle office. This is
so, however, and the Southern man who will
have anything to do with this dirty dog ought to
be tarred and feathered!”
The foregoing is copied from the Athens
Southern Watchman, and, in response to it, we
announce onrselvcs agents, for this State, of the
Chronicle Land Agency, located in Washington
and PhiladelpMa. We believe Cob Forney, when
he writes ns: “ My whole object is to see the
South, not only restored to her past prosperity,
bnt to. see it embark npon a career of renown,
that will place it in successful competition with
the North, and to this end, I propose to devote
all the energies I possess.”
But it is due to truth that we should also say,
that if wo had no faith at all in Mr. Forney’s
'motives, we should still be ready to sell Georgia
lands to any man who wants to buy and settle
upon them. We shall make no inquiry what
ever into Ms “ political proclivities ” or ante
cedents,' satisfied that in the act of purchase
and settlement he has given fair and reasonable
security for good behavior, and identified his
personal interest with the common fortune.
Is it possible too strongly to condemn such
folly as is displayed in the foregoing paragraph
from the Watchman ?. Every man in Georgia is
crying out for immigration. We write, specu
late and legislate npon this topic more than any
other. We have forty thousand miles of Waste
and unoccupied land which we wish to sell and
to cultivate with a productive population: but
the Watchman, et id omne genus, don’t want
them sold by any body who is not “sound on
the goose” of reconstruction I Does he inquire
particularly into the moral character of those
who offer to subscribe for the Watchman?
would he send Forney that paper if the latter
should enclose the regular fee ? Would he be
so “dirty a dog ’ as to have so much to do with
Forney ? Does he ever touch Northern money,
or Northern food, or Northern clothing? Should
he not be carefully “fenced in," and a great
Chinese wall bnilt around him, so that his sacred
and sensitive nerves should not be jarred by
any of the profanuia tulgus from beyond the
Potomac? It ye just such ridiculous stupidity
as this' that puts cudgels in the hands of our
Northern enemies, and co-operates with the
worst foes of the South in- embarrassing the fn-
Guy-sec English towns Lave sent petitions ^ Qre of this section,
to Parliament for female suffrage. .? the South is too clear for a mo-
■ North Casglima makes more money from her
•peanutcrop than from her cotton.
'The People s Defender,is the name of a new
weekly newspaper just established in Newnan,
Georgia, by Jackson T. Taylor, Esq.—a large
and wafl-fllied sheet •
A Mortal Dullness prevails the papers.
...
meat’s hesitation. Throw wide open the doors
to the immigrant and settler from every part of
the globe; welcome all r who will stake their
lives and money in the common lot. Rely upon
community of interest to produce a reasonable
harmony of opinion and feeling. Put the land
in market.. Fill the State a* soon as possible
with an industrious white population, and sell
lands as yon would sell anything eke. That is
our policy. Bcttb i Brother,
• Georgia Land Agency, Macon.
vj4$9, 1869.
Is a Negro Eligible to Office In Geor
gia •
JUDGE SCHLEY DECIDES HE IS NOT.
In the Chatham Superior Court, Friday, March
26, Judge Schley rendered the following deci
sion, which we copy from the Savannah News:
State of Georgia, ex. relatione W. J. Clements,
ts. Richard W. WMte, Clerk of Superior Court
of Chatham county. Quo Warranto. In
Chatham Superior Court.
The writ of quo warranto alleges that the re
spondent, Richard W. White, is a person of col
or, having one-eighth of negro or African blood
in his veins, and that he is, for that reason, dis
qualified to hold the office of Clerk of the Supe
rior Court, the functions of wMch he is now ex
ercising.
•The respondent demurs to the sufficiency of
this ground in law, and I am called upon to de
cide the question of tho respondent’s eligibility
to office in Georgia. In other words, the ques
tion is, can a negro hold office in Georgia ?
It is admitted by counsel for the respondent
that previous to the adoption of the negro by
onr State and Federal Government as a citizen,
he was ineligible to office^ in Georgia. This
proposition is so clear that it does not admit of
argument. But it may be well to consider the
status of the negro up to the adoption of our
present State Constitution in order to assist us
in ascertaining his present condition. The ne
gro, excepting the few free persons of color in
Georgia up to the close of the late war, was that
of a chattel—he had no State relations—the
master was the citizen—tho negro was Ms sub
ject—the law recognized him by protecting Ms
life and limb, but no further. He had no polit
ical rights by any imaginable nature. The
State and Federal Constitutions treated him as
a Have. He was neither citizen, denizen or
alien, bnt bore in Ms name and race every po
litical disability. And such ho remained at the
time of general emancipation. The first step
taken for his relief was to give him his freedom
by an ordinance of this State in convention as
sembled in 1865. The next step was to enable
him to sue, testify and acquire and hold prop
erty, and marry. And these were all the priv
ileges conferred on him until the adoption of
our present constitution, and of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Federal Constitution. And
as the language of the Fourteenth Amendment
and of onr Constitution in conferring citizen-
sMp on the negro is tho same, the grant in the
latter, if differing at all, being broader than in
the former, I shall consider the effects of them
both together.
And first, I will say, so far as the rights con
ferred by citizenship are concerned, the four
teenth amendment was as ample as the second
section of the first article of onr State Constitu
tion. Both declare all persons bom in the Uni
ted States, and resident in Georgia, to be cit-
zens of Georgia, and both guarantee “ all the
rivileges and immunities of citizens of tho
’nited States,” and of this State. If, therefore,
citizenship, ipse facto or ex vi termini does not
confer the right to hold office, as the Federal
Constitution grants nothing more than the priv
ileges and immunities of citizenship, we will
have to look further into our State Constitution
to see whether the right of office is therein given
to tMs class of citizens. It must be borne in
mind that wo are now considering only the
privileges and immunities of citizenship, which
are conferred alike by the Federal and State
Constitutions.
And to estimate properly the effects of this
grant, let ns suppose that the 2d Sec. Art. 1st of
our State Constitution had been omitted. Would
not every privilege and immunity conferred by
our Constitution in said 2d section have been as
complete as they are now. Certainly, because
the fourteenth amendment being a part of the
Federal Constitution, wMch is the supreme law,
not only becomes a part of our Constitution, so
to speak, bnt controls it. So that it was unnec
essary to repeat the language of the fourteenth
amendment in onr Constitution, as to have said
that no law shonld be passed impairing the obli
gations of a contract, or that no ex post facto law
shonld be enacted.
This being settled, we are now prepared to
inquire into the extent of tho privileges and im
munities of citizenship in Georgia, as conferred
by the 14th amendment. In other words, we
must inquire what privileges and immunities
the Federal Constitution and Government can
confer on a citizen of Georgia. I answer, con
sidering the question negatively, that the power
to confer the elective franchise and eligibility
to a State office is not vested m the Federal Gov
ernment, or embraced in the Federal Constitu
tion. These are reserved States’ rights. The
elective franchise is controlled by each State.
Any State can confer it on its citizens, or on
denizens, or temporary inhabitants, or on aliens.
Any State can establish a property qualification
based on class or race. Again, any State can
make eligible to office certain of her citizens,
and exclude all others, or can give office to
aliens, minors, women, negroes or Indians.
Over these questions the Federal Government
has no control, pence we see the effect being
made now to so amend the Federal Constitution
as to confer on all citizens the right to vote. If,
then, the Federal Government, under the Con
stitution, could not before or since the adoption
of the fourteenth amendment, confer on the
citizens of any State the elective franchise, and
the right to hold a State office, it must follow that
neither of theserightshasbeenconferred on the
citizens of Georgia, wMte or colored, unless they
are included in the meaning of the words,
“privileges andimmnnitiesof citizenship of the
United States, or of this State.” This brings ns
to consider, first, whether the right to vote and
eligibility to office are, or either, is embraced in
the privileges and immunities of a citizen of a
State, and if not, then, secondly, whether those
rights by the laws of Georgia in force at the
adoption of oar present Constitution were inci
dent to citizenship in Georgia. On the first
point we are fortified by abundant authority to
the effect that citizenship embraces neither of
these two rights. The question is settled be
yond a doubt by the State and Federal Courts.
In Dred Scott’s vs. Sandford, 19, How, 422,
Chief Justice Taney says, with emphasis, “un
doubtedly a person may be a citizen, that is, a
member of the community who form the sov
ereignty, although he exercises no show of the
political power, and is incapacitated from hold
ing particular offices, women and minors, who
form a part of the political family, cannot vote;
and when a property qualification is required to
vote, or hold a particular office, those who have
not tho necessary qualification cannot vote or
hold the office, yet they aro citizens.”
Again, in a very recent case decided by Jus
tice Swayne of the U. S. Supreme Court, as
Circuit Judge in Kentucky, and reported in full
in the Law Registe j of February last, that Judge
says: “ Citizenship has no necessary connec
tion with the franchise of voting, eligibility to
office, or indeed with any other rights, civil or
political. Women, minors and persons non
compos, and not the less so on acconnt of their
disabilities. Again, the fact that one is a sub
ject or citizen determines nothing as to his
rights as such. They vary in different localities
and according to circumstances.” In the State
vs. Mannel, 4 Dev. and Batt 26, Judge Gaston
says: “ The term citizen as understood in onr
law is precisely analogous to tho term subject in
the common law, and the change of phrase has
entirely resulted from the change of govern
ment. The sovereignty has been changed from
one man to tho collective body of the people,
and he who before was a subject of the king, is
now a citizen of the State.” Again, Mr. Justice
Cnrtis, in his dissenting opinion delivered in
the Dred Scott cose, page 583, says: “So in
all tho States numerous person, though citi
zens, cannot vote, or cannot hold office, either
on acconnt of their age, or sex, or the want
of the necessary legal qualifications.” The
truth is, that citizenship under the Consti
tution of the United States is Hot dependent on
the possession of any particular political, or
even of all civil rights; and any attempt so to
define it must lead to error.
To what citizens the elective franchise shall
be confided, is a question to be detei mined by
each State, in accordance with its own views of
the necessities or expediences of its condition.
What civil rights shall be enjoyed by its citi
zens, and whether all shall enjoy the same, or
how they may be gained ot lost, are to be de*
termined in the same way. Again, in Wash. O.
C. Reps. voL4, page 881, Corfleld vs. Coryell,
Judge Washington says: “The inquiry is,
what are the privileges and immunities of citi
zens in the several States ? To feel no hesita
tion in confining these expressionstothose priv
ileges and immunities winch are in their nature
fundamental,’ which belong of right to the citi
zens of all free governments, and which have,
at all times, been enjoyed by the citizens of the
several States which compose this Union, from
the time of there becoming free, independent
and sovereign. What these fundamental prin
ciples are,’ it would perhaps be more tedious
than difficult to enumerate. They may, how
ever be all comprehended under the following
general beads: Protection by the Government;
the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the
right to acquire and possess property of every
kind, and to puisne and obtain happiness and
safety, subject, neverthelesss, to such restraints
as the Government may justly prescribe for the
general good of the whole.
The right of a citizen of one State to pass
through or to reside in any other State, for pur
poses of trade, agriculture, professional pur
suits or otherwise; to claim the benefit of the
writ of habeas corpus, to institute and maintain
actions of any kind in the Courts of the State ;
to take hold of and dispose of poperty, either
real or personal, and an exemption from higher
taxes or impositions than are paid by the other
citizens of the State, may be mentioned as some
of the particular privileges and immunities of
citizens, which are clearly embraced by the
general description of privileges deemed to Jbe
fundamental, to which maybe added the elective
francMse, as regulated and established by the
laws or Constitution of the State in wMch it is
to be exercised.
If then, as we have thus seen, the right to vote
and to hold office are not included in the grant
of citizenship; if they are not necessarily among
the privileges and immunities which belong to
every citizen, and which cannot be abridged, but
as Justices • Washington, Swayne, Cnrtis and
Chief Justice Taney declare to be regulated by
tho laws or Constitution of the State in wMch
they are to be exercised, we must look to our
State Constitution and State laws for the true
solution of this quesrion; by them and them on
ly we must be governed.
I have already said that the fourteenth amend
ment would have been as effectual in seenrin;
the right of a citizen of GCbrgia as the seconi
i section of the first article of our State Constitu-
i tion. I mean by that to say that if the elective
franchise or eligibility of office in Georgia de
pended on the said sections alone—that is, if
the remainder of the Constitution and the State
laws were silent as to either of these rights—the
said second section could have been omitted
without detriment to any citizen’s rights in
Georgia, and I have stated that the fourteenth
amendment did not confer either the right to
vote or eligibility to office.
This conclusion may be doubted, and I will
therefore, notice that point still further. Let
us compare tho two, and see if they vary in
meaning. Tho fourteenth amendment is, “All
persons bom or naturalized in tho United States
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citi
zens of the United States and of the State where
in they reside. No State shall make or enforce
any law which shall abridge the privileges or
immunities of citizens of the United States, nor
shall any State deprive any person of life, liber-
ty or process of law, nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of
the laws.” The State Constitution reads, “All
persons bom or naturalized in the United States
and resident in tMs State, are hereby declared
citizens of this State, and no laws shall be made
or enforced which shall abridge the privileges
or immunities of citizens of the United States
or of this State, or deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws.
And it shall be the duty of the General Assembly,
by appropriate legislation, to protect every per
son in the due enjoyment of the rights, privileges
and immunities guaranteed in this section.”
The clause in the amendment about life, liberty,
etc., is surplusage as it was already in the Con
stitution. The only imaginable difference is in
the fact that the amendment forbids the abridge
ment of the privileges <jr immunities of “citi
zens of the United States,” while our Constitu
tion says “of citizens of the United States or of
this State."
But the language in both relates, as we have
seen, upon authority, not to political but to per
sonal rights of citizens. But the respondent in
sists that the right to vote and eligibility to
office are included in those words. I will con
cede that, if before or at the time of the adop
tion of onr Constitution, all citizens had tho
right to vote and to hold office, there wonld be
much force in tMs position, for all persons bom
and naturalized in the United States and resi
dents in Georgia at that time were declared to
be citizens, and the privileges and immunities
of all such citizens are hereby guaranteed and
cannot be abridged.
But just here the onus lies upon the respond
ent to show that the citizens of Georgia could
before and at that tune, vote and hold office.
This position cannot be evaded. The privileges
and immunities referred to belong to all citizens
of this State. They were such as were com
mon to each and every citizen. If the respond
ent denies this position, his right to office, so
far as it depends on this second section of the
Constitution, has no foundation. If he admits
it, ihom he must take its logical consequences.
For by that section all persons, (wMte and col
ored, male and female,) were declared to be
citizens of Georgia, and it is the “rights, privil
eges and immunities of all citizens” which aro
guaranteed, and which cannot be abridged.
Then it follows as a necessary consequence
that, either the right to vote and eligibility to of
fice were not conferred on any persons, or class
of persons, by that section, or that they were
conferred on all persons and classes who were
thereby declared to be citizens. Bat this sec
tion makes women and children citizens, and if
the right to vote and hold office was thereby
given to any person, women and children have
tho right to vote, and aro eligible to office.
This conclusion is inevitable, if it once be
granted that the Convention intended to confer,
and did confer, the franchise of voting and of
office by the use of the words, “rights, privil
eges and immunities.” But we must now see
if any other portion of our Constitution gives to
colored citizens the right to hold office.
It is urged that this right is given by the sec
ond clause, second section, article HI, which is
in these words: “The Senators shall be citizens
of the United States who have attained the age
of twenty-five years, and who, after the first
election under this Constitution, shall have been
citizens of tMs State for two years, and for one
year resident of the district from which elected. ”
It is insisted that no other qualification is re
quired for a citizen to he a Senator. This pro
ceeds npon the assnmption that the Convention
intended that every citizen having those qualifi
cations shonld be a Senator. This, it seems to
me, is strange logic—that the effect would have
been to make voters of women, white and col
ored, as well as of male. But it would not have
followed that every woman, would thereby have
been eligible to office. The former does not in
clude the latter. The latter is a higher political
right. It presupposes qualifications superior to
those fitting a person to vote, just as it requires
other and higher qualifications to be a voter
than to bo a citizens. There is a gradation to
those relations to tho State; and while eligibili
ty to office presupposes the right to vote, and
voting presupposes citizenship—as one ordina
rily precedes the other—on tho other hand, cit
izenship does not include the elective franchise,
nor the elective franchise the right to hold office,
any more than the less includes the greater.
Eligibility to office for the male negro is not,
therefore, to be inferred from the clause which
clothes him with the elective franchise. That I
conferred the right to hold office on the male ne
gro, it also conferred the same right on aliens;
for it reads, “Every male person who has been
naturalized, or who has legally declared his in
tention to become a citizen of the United States,
twenty-one years old,” eto., “shall be deemed
an elector. ” Certainly the Convention did not
intend to throw the offices of the State into the
hands of aliens. But if the male negro is, by
the above clause, advanced to the highest
political right, to-wit: eligibility to office, the
male person who simply declares his intention
to become a citizen, (and who may never carry
out that intention,) is also clothed with the same
right. This is an inference not to be lightly
made. We should and must require unmis
takable language in this case likewise to justify
such a construction as would place our State
offices in the hands of aliens. This would,
however, be the effect, because there is no pro
vision in onr State Constitution requiring citi
zenship as a qualification to eligibility to office
in one out of ten of the many State offices.
And if the Constitution thus confers the right to
office on an alien, it must be borne in mind that
the Legislature is powerless to prescribe citi
zenship as a qualification. And hence, it truly
follows, that any alien—a Congo, an Ebo, a
Hottentot, fresh from his jungles—who should
declare his intention to become a citizen, would
be clothed with the highest political right known
to onr people, and after six month’ residence in
Georgia.
This disposes of the provisions of the Con
stitution bearing npon this question, and wo are
brought finally to the statute laws of Georgia.
Do they confer on the colored citizen the right
to hold office ? The Code, wMch was adopted
by the Constitution as law, divides the natural
persons in Georgia into four classes r Citizens,
residents not'citizens, aliens and persons of
oolor. It says that among the rights of citizens
are the elective franchise and the right
to hold office. And as the Constitution has
made persons of color citizens, it is insisted, as
a necessary consequence, that they have all the
rights which were given to citizens as they were
defined when the Code was passed, and after
wards adopted by the Convention, Bnt we have
seen that persons of color, before the adoption
of the Code, had no political rights; we have
seen also that political rights are not conferred
by implication of law, and that the removal of
one disability does not include the removal of
any other, unless the one removed be the great
er.’ Citizenship was first conferred. That did
not remove necessarily the disability as to the
elective franchise ; for if it did so for the person
of color—who by the classification given above
ranks lower in the /State than wMte females who
were citizens—it must, a fortiori, have removed
that disability from all females.
If declaring a negro to be a citizen made Mm
a citizen in the sense intended in the Code, all
females and minors are likewise clothed with the
elective franchise and the right to hold offioe; if
they are not, then the Constitntion by making
persons of color citizens, elevates them above
white females and minors. But will it be pre
tended that females can vote or hold office in
Georgia? Can the conclusion be avoided, how
ever, if the monstrous construction be put upon
the Code, whereby the lowest class or natural
persons, and who rested under every disability
before the Constitution was adopted, are relieved
of all disabilities by the grant of mere citizen
ship, the want of which was the least of his disa
bilities. If the Convention intended to give tMs
construction, why did they go one step farther
and confer the right to vote on persons of color?
If citizenship gives the right,_ why confer it in
express terms. If the Constitntion considered
that this right to hold office was conferred by
the Code, as incident to citizensMp, why was
not the right to vote also considered ? And if
so, why expressly confer the less right, and
remain silent as to the greater right? If the
Constitntion had given in express terms the
right to hold office, the silence as to the elective
francMse would have been proper, not to say
logical, because the right to hold office necessa
rily carries withit the rightto vote. I canput no
other construction on this action of the Conven
tion than that they meant to give only such
rights as are given in express terms. And tMs
conclusion is made certain by the record of their
proceedings, which shows that they, by solemn
vote give tho right to hold office to persons of
color. If, then, we are to be controlled by the
express grant of political rights in our constitu
tion to persons of color, the right to hold office
in Georgia does not belong to any person of color.
The demurrer is, therefore, overruled.
Vi. Schley.
Judge Superior Court Eastern Circuit, Geor
gia.
Georgia News.
Macon - & Augusta Road—A private dispatch
from New York, which we regard as to be relied
upon, indicates that arrangements have been
closed which insures the early completion of
this road to Macon—probably in time for the
next cotton crop. We cannot but congratu
late all interested that tMs railroad connec
tion, so long delayed and postponed through
the opposition of conflicting interests, is at last
to be consumated. The completion oif this line
on the southwest, and of the Columbia and Au
gusta Railroad, now only a few miles (two and a
half) from our city, must have a very restraining
influence npon the inroads threatened by the
rapid completion of the Dalton, Rome an’d Sel
ma line, the Chattanooga and Meridian line,
now completely organized and vigorously pros
ecuted, as well as the one projected, and known
as the Air Line, across upper Georgia and South
Carolina. We have as great faith in the resump
tion of the old stage lines of travel, which the
early settlers of the State located, aj the late
“Old Bullion” ever had in tho engineering in
stincts of the Buffalo, as indicating the lines of
easy grades and advantageous routes in the far
West.—Chronicle th Sentinel.
Two Augusta Negroes Fight a Duel.—/The
Augusta papers of Sunday morning contain the
full details of a duel between two colored men *
of that city, wMch took place on the South
Carolina shore, Saturday afternoon. Jim Rhodes
and Mose Sullivan were their names.
The seconds of the parties selected a newly
plowed field for the fight, and tossed up for po
sition, wMch was won by Jim Rhodes. The
distance—ten paces—was then measured and
the principals took positions. Both parties ap
peared cool and determined, and eager for the
fray, not willing to yield till their honor had
been vindicated. The weapons used were Colt’s
repeaters, each fumisMng Ms own weapon.
Rhodes was armed with a six-shooter and Sulli
van a five-shooter. The preliminaries were
then gone through with, and the “ caller ” and
seconds gave final instructions to the principals,
which was to fire between the words “ one ”
and “three,” holding their positions and repeat
ing the firing until their weapons were emptied
or one of the antagonists fell. This having
been gone through with, the word was given
and the duellists commenced their work. The
firing was too rapid to admit of taking good
aim, and consequently was very wild. Each
party fired five shots, and the fourth shot of Sul
livan wounded the right hand of Rhodes, striking
the second finger near the knuckle and breaking
tho bone. The seconds then loaded up again
and placed the weapons in the hands of .the an
tagonists, when it was suggested by some white
gentlemen present to call a board of honor,
which was called, the seconds of the parties and
a few friends of their own color acting in said
capacity. After a short conference, it was
agreed among them, as the parties had met and
one had been wounded in the trigger finger,
that the challenge shonld be withdrawn and the
affair settled amicably.
Affray at LaFayette.—We learn, says the
Opelika Locomotive, that on Tuesday last, as
Mr. James Driver, who was the jailor at that
place, was feeding three negro prisoners, they
all suddenly attacked Mm and made an effort
to escape. Mr. D., we understand, cut one of
them so severely with Ms knife, just as the ne
gro was coming down on Mm with a smootMng
iron, that 1ns life is in great danger. He shot
another one, which is likely to prove fatal,
while the third made his escape. We leam
these statements from parties recently from
LaFayette.
Heavy Rains.—Heavy rains have occurred in
the section of tho State above us; rains that
are styled by the planters “trash lifters,” com
pelling the replanting of much com. The plan
ter who varies from the safe old rule of two-
thirds com and one-third cotton, will find the
the rates of interest “onerous” next fall. -The
observance of this rule ensures an independent
living—its violation, a dependency for bread
and meat, upon the Liverpool cotton brokers
board of prices.—Chronicle <£• Sentinel.
•The Savannah river is out of its banks.
Charity.—The Rome Courier says, “It has
reliable information £hat the Masons of Chero
kee Lodge No. 66, havo undertaken to educate
till the indigent orphan children of Masons with
in their jurisdiction. They now have twenty-
one or twenty-two children in the different
schools of this city and vicinity, and arrange
ment have been made to educate eight or ten
more. Comment is unnecessary."
Cotton foe Liverpool.— Messrs. Crane &
Graybill yesterday cleared the ship Abyssinia
(Br.) 832 tons, Captain Alexander Parsons, for
Liverpool, with 2,484 bales of upland cotton,
weighing 1,180,319 pounds, valued at $313,-
784, 54; and four bags of Sea Island cotton,
weighing 1,290 pounds, valued at $1,096 50.
Total number of bales and bags, 2,488; total
weight 1,131,609 pounds; total value $313,-
944,00.—Savannah Republican.
Personal.—We were pleased to meet yester
day with our old friend JamesM. Selkirk, Esq.,
so long and favorably known on the Central
Railroad as a model railroad official. He is
now residing near the beautiful and growing
city of Rome, devoting Ms attention to agri
cultural pursuits. We believe that he is con
nected in some way with the Macon & West
ern Railroad, and we congratulate that Road
npon securing Ms invaluable services.—Atlanta
Constitution.
The murders and rapes being committed in
this State, by negroes, upon the persons of
wMte ladies shonld positively be stopped. There
is no less than a half dozen cases in the last ten
days. All negro men who are vagabounding
about towns and cities, should be taken up, tried
and put to work. A vigorous enforcement of
the laws is essential, or else, in portions of this
State, ladies will not dare to show their faces
without a protector.—Rome Courier.
A Correspondent of the Cuthbert Appeal ex
presses the opinion that Calhoun county will
raise $100,000 as subscription to the Columbus,
Cuthbert and Bainbridge Railroad.
Death of a Citizen.—Captain William Bes-
sentdiedof consumption at the residence of
Ms father, Rev. A. J. Bessent, on Wednesday
evening last. He served in the late war with
credit to himself and country, having risen to
the rank of Captain. He waa in the “manhood
of youth,” having been married but a short
time.— Valdosta Times, 2d.
The amount of aid extended to railroads by
the late Legislature, was only $20,000,000.—
Rome Courier.
The arbitrators to settle amicably the contro
versy between the South Carolina railroad and
the Augusta and Columbia road, regarding the
right of the latter to construct a bridge over
the river at Augusta, failed to agree upon apian
of settlement, and the matter will probably go
into the courts and a long lawsuit follow.
Broke dirt on the Air Line Railroad, It is
thought that the first twenty miles will lie oom-
. pleted by the first of November.
by telegraph,
Congressional.
Washington, March 29—House.—Under the reg
ular call the Senato tenure-of-office "bill came up.
Trumbull moved to non-concur and ask a confer
ence. Grimes moved to recede from the Senate
amendments. Davis moved a repeal entirely. Da
vis speaking now.
The Reconstruction Committee held no meeting
to-day.
S. N. Martin and Syphor, from Louisian, address
the Election Committee to-morrow.
Under the regular call the following bills were in
troduced:
A bill incorporating the National Land Company.
A bill to provide homesteads for immigrants and
freedmen in the Southern States.
A bill for selling the Government property at
Plymouth, North Carolina.
A bill for punishing unconstitutional office-holders.
A bill for forfeiting certain lands granted to Lou
isiana for railroad purposes.
A bill suspending the oyster tonnage tax of Vir
ginia.
The bill appropriating $20,000 to the Charleston
Sisters of Meroy, for services rendered the Union
prisoners, was reconsidered.
The bill exempting salt, tea, coffee, sugar and to
bacco, and taxing bonds, was tabled by a vote of 104
to 40.
The substitute to the Senate bill reorganizing the
Supreme Court, was passed.
House adjourned.
In executive session nothing was done.
Senate.—A bill was passed continuing enlisted
men’s present pay until 1870.
Also, a bill dropping from the rolls all officers ab
sent without leave.
Mr. Sawyer introduced a bill for office-holders par
ticipating in rebellion, but not excluded by the four
teenth amendment.
The bill confirming the charter and granting the
right of way to the New Orleans and Ship Island
Canal was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Several bills removing political disabilities were
introduced.
The tennre-of-office bill was resumed. The reso
lution asking for a conference was passed. Ayes 39:
nays 20.
From Washington-
Washhigton, March 29.—The President nom
inated Gen. Earle, first Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral; Wm. R. Clintman, Collector of Revenue second
South Carolina District: Francis Widneer, second
Alabama District; Geo. B. Rea Assessor second Ala
bama.
There has been an incessant rain for twenty-four
hours.
Washington, March 28.—The Reconstruction Com
mittee did nothing on Saturday regarding Georgia,
on account of there being no quorum. It is stated
in extreme circles that the Committee stands in fa
vor of Butler’s bill.
Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker, after several applications,
has received an answer from Grant that slie might
have an interview when dressed as become her sex.
From Louisiana.
New Orleans, March 29.—The 1st U. S. Infantry
left to-day on the steamer Robert E. Lee for De
troit, having been stationed here for five years.
The Press of the city all express regret at their de
parture, and good wishes for their future welfare.
General Buchanan will not relinquish command
for a few days.
Several important decisions were rendered by
Judge Dnrrell in the United States Court this morn
ing. Three more of the wine cases were decided in
favor of the Government The decison is believed
to cover all the points which can be raised. Tho
points have been submitted that every revenue law
referring to the seizure of wine lias been repealed
by name.
The Judge reviewed each statue quoted, and
ruled that their repeal did not affect the specifica
tions of cost, packing and bottling therefrom, as
cost, bottling and casing, had either not been in
cluded in the invoice, or greatly tmderated. Ac
cording to the evidence in the case the wines were
forfeited.
In the case of J. T. Tucker, agent of the Illinois
Central Railroad, petitioning to have the New Or
leans and Oupelousas Railroad declared bankrupt,
the Judge, in a lengthy and elaborate decision, held
that the railroad bonds and coupons were not com
mercial paper within the meaning of the bankrupt
law, and that, under the State law and act 6f incor
poration, a remedy was provided to which creditors
might resort: that paying coupons after suit was
brought upon the same was not preferring one cred
itor over another, and, therefore, was not an act of
bankruptcy; and that the company was not insolvent
inasmuch as the assets, by appraisement, exceeded
the liabilities due or to become duo by more than
8500,000. The court expressed some doubt as to
whetner railroad companies come under the provi
sions of the bankruptcy laws.
General Hews.
New Orleans, March 29.—Sealed proposals were
to-day opened by the State Treasurer for 90.000
dollars. Levee eight per cent, bonds were pledged
to the banks of this city os collateral for loans for
levee purposes. The highest bid was that of P. J.
Kennedy, the great levee contractor, at and ac
cepted.
Boston, March 29.—The war-steamer Galena, has
been ordered to Cuban waters.
New York, March 29.—Ex-Mayor James Harper
is dead.
Albany, N. Y., March 29.—Tho river is rising
rapidly, and a flood is apprehended. The lower part
of Troy is inundated. »
From Cuba.
Havana, March 29.—The remainder of the crew
and tho passengers of the Comandit^io havo ar
rived at Cardenas. They denounce the purser and
the engineer as leaders in her seizure.
Two were killed in the streets and six arrests
were made yesterday for seditions cries.
Havana, March 29.—The United States consular
agent at Gebara was brought here ironed.
Foreign News.
Paris, March 2S It is rumored that Napoleon
has demanded an explanation of the King of Prus
sia’s mobilization of troops in the western provinces.
Full diplomatic relations have been resumed be
tween Turkey and Greece.
Swamp Drainage— 1 The Ten Commis
sioners.
Messrs. Editors: Without a word against the
“honesty” or “consistency,” (without con
ceding a monopoly of either,) of the excellent
gentlemen whoso names are presented in your
columns for County Commissioners, it may
yet be asked, “Are they really and earnestly in
favor of draining the swamp—not the reserve
merely—below the city, thoroughly and at
once?”
It is known that at least one of the gentle
men has scruples on the subject, and holds the
opinion that it is wrong to tax parties living in
the upper part of the city, and comparatively
beyond the reach of malarial influence, for the
benefit of those who are not so favorably loca
ted, and, as almost all the Macon names pre
sented are so situated, it becomes important to
know whether they all hold to the same opin
ion, or whether they be thoroughly impressed
with ihe urgent necessity that exists for the
speedy accomplishment of that work; for many
think this a question on which tho citizens of
Macon cannot now afford to vote in the dark.
Enquires.
MnitawAT. Dickson.—As it may be inferred
from our remarks yesterday, says the Savannah
Republican of the 25th inst., that the Govern
ment was a heavy loser by the departure of this
officer to parts unknown, it wonld be well to cor
rect that impression. His books show that the
Government is in his debt to a considerable
amount, and we learn that investigations thus
far have only been able to trace some five or six
thousand dollars into bis possession that belong
ed to other people, an amount whioh ha could
have readily arranged for. The res! cause
Ms disappearance, therefore, is still a
We have heard several suggestions, bnt
th&t appenn to be based on ascertained facts.
Hanging ot Keedhaw Brown by a Mob
Vienna, Dooly County, Ga. ) ’
March 29, 1889. V
Rear Telegraph : The negro Needham Bro^
who was committed to Dooly county jail on q,.
24th instant, for murdering one white child »n,]
committing a rape on another, was taken out o‘
jail about two o’clock in the morning of th e
by a mob, and carried about half a mile west o-
Vienna, and hnng to the limb of an oak tree b *
the side of the Drayton road. The keys of the
jail were forcibly and violently taken from th»
jailor by men who were painted and disgoi^
so that the jailor did not know any of theta.
There were from twenty to thirty men in ft,,
crowd. An inquest was held next day on the
body and the verdict of the jury was in accori
ance with the above statement. (
Yours truly, Shep. Rogees
Georgia In the Senate.
The action of the Senate upon Georgia last
Thursday shows that it has no such app et ; [t
for Reconstruction as to be absolutely bev 0 l-
restraint or control:
Mr. Edmunds moved to take np the bill
enforce the 14tb amendment and laws of tb
United States in Georgia. ‘ ■
Mr. Sherman objected because he wanted tv
Senate to take up the bill supplementary7;
provide for a national currency. • 10
Mr. Edmunds said he had moved to take ti
the bill relating to Georgia because he
the Senate to decide definitely whether ant I
thing was to be done at this sesssion to sett-
the status of that State. He. thought Congres*
was either treating Georgia very badly br ei
eluding her from re presentation, or else was to’
erating there a revolutionary condition of affair! I
which ought to be brought to an end.
Mr. Sumner thought it more important tip
prompt action be taken on the Georgia than or
the financial bill, because its passage was se.
essary for the preservation of peace in in
state, and also as an example of reconstr.-
tion. ’' f
Mr. Sherman’s motion was carried—JO to tt
Au Ocean of Snakes.
A SHIP PASSES THROUGH A WRITHING MASS OP tip. |
TILES.
from the Kew Orleans Timet, March 18.1
The statement published in last Sand.:'; j
Times, that the steamship Mexico, Capti Pitfitli
when on her last trip, off Tortugas. steame’ I
through a tangled mass of snakes of all siz;; I
has since been the subject of much commeti I
“Snake stories” are proverbiallynncertain, b~ I
we are now enabled authoritatively to deej.-! I
that this particular one may be safely relied ot J
Our original account was incorrect in th, I
particular only. Instead of two hours andil
half, as stated, the Mexico was no more th; I
ono hour and a half in passing through th I
horrible mass of writhing reptiles. They wen I
of all sizes, from the ordinary green-wital
snake, of two feet, to monsters—genuine-sal
serpents”—of fourteen to fifteen feet in length I
The larger snakes, when the swell produced hi
the movement of the vessel reached them, wou_i |
we are informed, partly raise themselves nl
from the water, as if in the attitude of strikW |
and dart out their tongues wickedly at til
waves. The greatest interest was manifest J
by those on board the Mexico. Discipline wnl
for a space, forgotten, and Captain, offices I
crew and ship-boys stood in common, on th-l
sides, looking on a sight that, so far as is shor.l
by sea-annals, has never yet been witnessed!;!
those who have gone “down to the sea in ship. [
and wMch may, possibly, never greet limns:I
eyes again. Vie think of no valid explanatial
on tho subject, unless it be—taking our inspir:
tion from the “day”—that the shade of that fi
mous snake-destroyer, on the approach oft
anniversary, has been wandering in Florida,
has shown that he has lost none of old skil
driving off in one mass its myriads of repti
from the coast.
Seriously speaking, however, the presence«]
these snakes in the waters off the Tortugas isil
remarkable occurrence, one that may proper;!
claim the attention of the scientific. One fan I
at least, is proven. That fact is that ue«I
some special revulsion of the laws ordisi£;|
controlling them, snakes way live in salt mfet I
After this experience, the existence of the am-1
terious “sea serpent” becomes again an "cpecl
question.” I
Our authority for this statement is Captail
O. A. Pitfield himself, who expresses kirns': I
ready to vouch for every particular as here n-l
corded.
The Cotton Struggle iu England.
A cable dispatch announces that the strike tl
the cotton operatives in the English mamfel
turing districts is extending and that in Glasg 'l
several mills have entirely suspended open
tions. This news ishigMy important, and:
calculated to affect the cotton market in tl
country. For some time past the LaneasikJ
cotton districts have been in a suffering cok!
tion. The Mgh price of cotton had so fat e:l
crouched oil the profits of the maunfuctr.r-:
that many of them were actually working I'
mills at a loss, as the condition of the nit
precluded an advance on the manufactut
goods to prices corresponding with the advK'j
in the raw material.
As it was supposed that a suspension of ’
would produce an accumulation of raw cor.
that would force down the price, it was prop®
some time ago, that the manufacturers sko-
generally close their faotories for a few mon'i
The want of unanimity among employers "
vented the adoption of this plan. Bat mat
them worked a short time, without any
tion of wages, however. Recently the emp-j
era at Preston and other places, met and tp
to reduce wages from ten to twenty per ce
This was absolutely rejected by the woife-J
and the result is a strike that is likely to be:
eral and protracted.
This strike, it is to be observed, must, H*
event, be more beneficial to the employers a
the workmen. It accomplishes at once jmfl
eral suspension of work, and stoppage of f
sumption of the raw material, which masy*
ufacturers have been vainly trying to ellcri:
some months. The workmen are thus s(TA|
playing into the hands of the capitalist»
The proper course was for the works!-]
take what pay they could get until better] 3 !
Gradually the price of the manufacture-]
cle would assimilate to the rates of advar"
the raw material; or else the increased?]
tion of the staple would effect a re*’
Either of. these events would enable ffl*
turers to run their mills at a profit, afl*t
ing the full rate of wages. The effect] '
strike npon the American cotton market
new crop still remain to lie seen. Thatrt^
force down prices, and thus diminish tief-
of the planters and the wages of the fr]
aro among the contingencies of the W*
New Tori: Commercial.
Good for a Shave.—During the “shir?
days, a well-known French barber iu ]
ton issued certain fipenny-bit notes, wl
ported on the face to be redeemable :nj
sight, when presented in sums of not
five dollars; or, singly, “ good for asks .1
his establishment. One day, while 0CC “L |
lathering down a customer, he was ac<v=^J
a boy who held out to him two of his ostu-
“ Tat you vant—eh?” enquired3Io^> e "J
“Master says I’m to get a shilliu ‘ ct
notes, sir«
“Aeheeling! Far’dien! can not
tare read ? Does he know vat de note s
able ven presented in some of not less
dollar ?’ Go yon back to your inastare,
Mm to read it!” t w
As the boy vanished, the little barbe-
after him, and exclaimed: n,%
* ‘I do not sink zat he will come back. jj
say *111 some of five dollaro,’—and I
issue four dollars and seventee-five ceu
The Fifteenth Amendment.—The *
Intelligencer of Thursday says:
“The action of Indiana and th*
Georgia to ratify, for which we hav*
Gov. BuUock and his Republican fn®
Legislature settle the fate of the
ment. Its defeat now is next to ceiw^.
count against it Oregon, California,
Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, New J erse ?j
and Indiana. Ten are sufficient to
ahd Connecticut alone would end it
serve that both Pennsylvania *nd he’*’ j- 1
to ratify, and it would seem that the Jw'
members of the Legislatures of these
not be got up to the mark.
into all the autumnal elections,
will be disaatrotts to thsr Republicans
doubt.”
Columbus Municipal NonnSATta-’”'
was opened in Cohuhbuftl
nominations for
ticket
Saturday