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THE WEEKL5T CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY OCTOBER 23,1883.
CIVIL RIGHTS.
The Supreme Court Declares the
Bill to be Unconstitutional.
A RADICAL RELIC RUBBED OUT.
Special Rights for None but Equal
Rights for All.
A TRIUMPH OF LAW AND SENSE
Which Strengthens the Decree
That the Republicans
Must Go.
Washington, October 15.—The most Impor
tant decision rendered by the supreme
court of the United States to-day, was
that in the five cases, commonly known as the
civil rights cases, which were submitted to the
court on printed arguments about a year ago. The
Utlesof thesocases, and the states from which they
came, are as follows:
No. 1. The United States against Murray Stanley,
from the United Statescircult courtfortbe district
of Kansas.
from the United Statescircult court for the district
of California.
No. 3. The United States against Samuel Nichols,
from the United States circultcourt for the western
district of Missouri.
No. 26. The United States against Samuel D. Sin
besouthrrn district of New York.
No. 28. Richard A. Robinson and wife against the
Memnblsaud Charleston railroad company, from
the United States circuit court for the district of
Tennessee.
These cases were all based on tbe first and second
sections of the civil rights act of 1875, and were
respectively prosecutions under that act for not
admitting certain colored persons to equal accom
modations and privileges in inns or hotels, in rail
road cars and in theatres.
TIIE DEFENSE SET UP,
The defenso set up in every caso was the alleged
nnconstltutionsllty of the law. The first and
second sections of the act, which were the parts
directly in controversy, are as follows;
Section 1. That all persons withlu the Jurisdic
tion of the United States shall be entitled to the full
and equal enjoymentof accommodations, advanta
ges, facilities and privileges of inns, public convey
ances on land and water, theatres, and other places
of public amusement", subject only to the condt-
Uons and limitations established by law, and
applicable alike to cltiiens of every race and color,
regardless of any previous conditions of servitude.
Second section provides that any person who vio
lates tho first section shall bo liable to a forfeit of
five hundred doUars tor each offense, to be recov
ered in civil action, and also to a penalty of from
five hundred to one thousand dollars fine, or im
prisonment from thirty days to one year, to be en
forced in criminal prosecution. Extensive Juris
diction is given to the district and circuit courts
of the United States in the cases arising under this
law. The rights and privileges claimed brand de
nied to colored persons in these cases were full and
equal accommodations in hotols, in ladies' cars on
railroads, and in tbe dress circles in theatres.
THE HOLDIXO OP THE COUET.
The court in a long and carefully prepared opin
ion by Justice Bradley, holds 1st,—That congress
had no constitutional authority to pass the sections
in question under either the 13th or lftb
amendment of the constitution: 2d, that the 14th
amendment is prohibitory upon the states only, and
that tbe legislation authorized to bo adopted by
congress tor enforcing that amendment, is not
direct legislation on matters respecting which the
states are prohibited from making, or enforcing
certain laws or doing certain acts, but is corrective
legislation necessary or proper for counteracting
and redressing tbe effect of.such laws or acts. That
in forbidding the states, for example, to deprive
any person of life, liberty or property, without due
process of law, and giving congress power to en
force prohibition, it was not Intended to glvo
. congress power to provide due process of law for
the protection of life, liberty and property, which
would embrace almost all subjecs of legislation,
but to provide modes of redress for counteracting
the operation and effect of state laws obnoxious to
prohibition. Third, that the 13th amendment
gives no power to congress to pas section
referred, because that amendment relates only to
slavery and Involuntary servitude which it abol
ishes, and gives confrere power to pass lam tor its
enforcement; that this power only extends to the
subject matter of the amendment itself, namely:
slavery and Involuntary servitude, and the neces
sary lucldent and consequences of these conditions;
that It has, nothing to do with dltlcrcut races or
olors, but only refers to slavery, the legal equal
ity of the different races and classes of citizens
being provided for in the fourteenth amendment,
hich prohibits the states from doing anything to
nterfere with such equality; that it is no infringe
ment i f the thirteenth amendment to refuse to any
person the equal accommodations and privilege of
an inn or place of public entertainment, bow-
ever It may be violative of his legal rights; that it
imposes upon him no badge of slavery or involun
tary servitude, which imply some part of subjection
of one person to another and Incapacity incidental
thereto, such as inability to hold property, to make
contracts, to be parties in court, etc., and that of
the original civil rights act, which abolished thesr
incapacities might be supported by the 13th amend
ment. It does not, therefore, follow that the act
of 1875 can be supported by it. Fourth—That this
declsionaffe cts only the validity of the law In th
states, not in the territories or the district of Co
lumbia, where the legislatiye power of congress Is
unlimited, and it does not undertake to decide
what congress might or might not do, under the
power to regulate commerce with foreign nations,
and amonpt the several states, the law not being
drawn with any such view. Fifth—That therefore
It is the opinion of the court that the first and sec
ond sections of the act of congress of March 1st,
1875, entitled "an act to protect all citizens in their
civil and legal rights," are unconstitutional and
void, and Judgment should be rendered upon the
Indictments accordingly.
JUDGE HASLAN'S IJ 1*1 ENT.
At the conclusion of the reading of Judge Brad,
ley's opinion, which occupied more than an hour,
Justice Harlan said that under ordinary circum
stances and in ordinary cases h* should hesitate to
setup his individual opinion in opposition to that
of his eight colleagues, but in view of what he
thought the people of this country wished to ac
complish, what they tried to accomplish, and what
they believed they had accomplished, by means of
this legislation, he must express his dissent from
the opinion of the court. He has not had time
since hearing that opinion to prepare a statement
of the grounds of his dissent, but he should pre
pare and file one as soon as poodble. In the mean
time he desired to put upon record this expression
of his individual judgment.
ANOTHEE WAX CASE.
Another interesting case, Involving war legisla
tion, was also decided by the supreme court to-day,
namely the case of tbe United States against Ed
ward T. Gale and William 8. Gihson, which was
brought here on certificate division from the circuit
court of the United State* for tho district of Florida.
This was a suit against the supervisor and clerk of
election district No. 8, in Marlon county, Fla., on
tho occasion of the election of congresiional repre
sentatives in 1878. The Indictment charged the do"
fendants with misconduct as election officers,
In stuffing the bsllotbox with raudu-
lent tickets, and abstracting tickets which
had been voted. Tbe defense was that sections
5512 and 5515 of the revised statutes, upon which
the indictment was based, and section 826, under
which was chosen the grand Jury by which the in
dictment was found, were unconstitutional and
void. The court disposes of tbe first part of the
defense very briefly, by saying the question of the
validity of sections 5512 and 5516 has already been
decided by this court in tbe case of Slebald and
Clarke 100 United States. 371-399, and was deter
mined in favor of their validity. Section 820,
upon which tbe second part of the
defense was baaed, contains the statement
of causes for disqualification and challenge of
grand and petit jurors in the courts of the United
States as follows: “Without duress and coercion,
to have taken up arms or to have joined any insur
rection or rebellion against the United States; to
have had adhered to any insurrection or rebellion,
giving it aid and comfort," etc. In empanelling
the grand jury which found the indictment against
the defendant, four persons otherwise com
petent were excluded from the panel for
tho causes mentioned in this section. The
court, after a review of the circumstances as
shown by the record, declines to decide whether
section 820 is valid or not, for the reason that the
objection to the constitution of the grand jury un
der that section was not raised indue time.
A HISTORY OFTHE LAW.
The court, however, gives a brief history of this
law, excluding from juries persons who took part
in the late Insuriectlon, and comments upon it as
follows:
"It may be proper to call attention to tho singu
lar position of this section, (section 810.) It was
originally onactcd as section 1 ol an act passed June
17th, 1862, entitled “an act deflnlnlng tho different
causes of challenge, apd prescribing an additional
oath for grand and petit jurors in United States
courts. 12 Statutes, 430,” At that time—1862—it
was no doubt a very proper and necessary law, but
after the rehabilitation of the insurgent states, fhe
proclamation of a general amnesty and the adop
tion of the fourteenth amendment, guaranteeing
equal rights to all citizens of the United States
there would seem to have been no Just reason for
a continuance of the law, especially as by far
largest portion ot the citizens in
states lately In rebellion would
disqualified under IL Accordingly, by the fifth
section of the act commonly called the enforcement
act, passed Anril 20, 1871, 17th statute, 15th con
gress, after providing that in prosecutions under
that act no person should be a grand or petit Juror
who should, in the Judgment of the court, be in
complicity with any combination or conspiracy
punishable by the provision thereof repealed.
The said first section of the act of 1862 and the law
remained in this state until the adoption of the re
vised statutes. For some unexplained reason the
revisers imported the section back again Into the
revised statutes as section 820, although it had not
been In force for more than two years. It is proba
ble that the fact of its repeal was overlooked by
congress when the revision was adopted, and it is
to be hoped that their attentaon will be called to it
THE QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
The questions certified by the court below, are
answered by this court as follows: “Itistheopln
ion of this court, and it so decides, that the ques
tion whether 5,512 and 5,515 of the revised statutes
of the United States are repugnant toand in viola
tion of ihe constitution of the United States, should
be answered in tho negative, that the question as
tho validity of section 820 of said
revised statutes is unnecessary to bj decided, ln-aa-
much as objection to the constitution of the grand
Jury, under that section, was not raised in due
time, and that tbe remaining question, namely,
whether the Judgment of this court could be ren
dered against the defendants on an Indictment
found by a grand jury empanelled and sworn un
der th* sections aforesaid, and whether the indict
ment aforesaid charges any offenses for which Judg
ment could be rendered against the defendants in
this court, under the constitution and laws of the
United States, should be answered in the affirma
tive. Opinion by Justice Bradley.
Civil Rights at DeGlve's.
HOW AN IMMENSE AUDIENCE RECEIVED THE SUPREME
COURT DECISION.
Above will be found tho report of Ihe decision
rendered yesterday in tho supreme oourt of the
United States on the famous civil rights cases. This
decision, adverse to the right of congress to legis
late upon the question of civil rights in the states,
takes on conaldeiable interest in ' Atlanta,
from the fact that two notable ef
forts to enforce tho act of Congress
have recently agitated the public, one of these
was the cate cf Moore, the colored man who had
Manager DeGlve arrested and bonded for ejecting
him from the white people's portion of the gallery
at the opera house. The other was the action of Pro-
feawr Chase In Introducing three negroes into the
whits people's cars upon the Alr-Uoe rsllroad.
CIVIL EIGHTS IN GEORGIA.
In Georgia Ihe operations of the civil rights bill
have been invoked but sparingly, and almost
entirely in cases where the colored people have
been refused the right on railroads to enter and
occupy any portion of the cars of a railroad train.
Several cases of that chancier have been started
in the United States courts, but for one cause and
another have never reached a definitive lisuo and
decision, Tho railroad officials have prevented
much complaint upon this line by affording good
and sufficient accommodations to colored passen
gers and keeping them free from the presence of
white passengers.
AN EARLY DECISION.
The temper of the Georgia courts was tested early
in the era of tho civil rights act In a esse made by
the Intermarriage of a white and a colored persoo.
There is a penal law In this state
against such intermarriages, and this law was
violated. Tbe parties thereto were Indicted and
convicted, and the case was taken
to the supreme court of the state.
That court was then organized by th* repub
lican administration of Governor Bullock and now
United States senator Brown was the chief Justice
of the court It was argued by the counsel for the
convicted parties that tbe civil rights bill and the
amendments to the constitution protected the par
ties and that no law of the stale could affix a pen
alty to and make a crime of the exercise of Ihe
rights thus established and guaranteed by con
gress.
Chief Justice Brown delivered the Judgment of
the court in an able and exhaustive opinion, up
holding the state law making such marriages crim
inal and denying the applicability of the act of
congress to these internal police regulations of the
Since the rendition of the above decision all
grievances upon the plea of dvll rights have been
carried to the United States courts, and as stated
above none of these that can now be recalled have
reached an issue. The case of Manager DeGlve
was expected to be made a complete teat case In this
A SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.
It Is notable fbat In the DeGlve case the prose
cutor, Moore, was ejected from th* opera house on
the occasion of tbe second olght's performance of
the Haveriy troupe last season. Moor* look a seat
in the part of the gallery assigned to the whit*
people and refused to "sblnBy on his own aide,'’
as it were. The consequence was that the police
forcibly assisted him to take the fresh air oo
the pavement of the street below. Last night
the Haveriy troupe again occupied th* boards for
their first performance here since the night of the
ejectment in question. While the end man was
convulsing the audience with his latest conun
drums. the wires from Washington were busily
ticking to The Constitution the summary of the
text of the decision score given. Word was given to
Manager DeGlve that the decision had been ren
dered, .and he was natuneJIygreatly elated over this
sudden and complete stoppage of bis civil rights
troubles.
a LIVELY DEMONSTRATION.
Manager Gullck, of the Haveriy troupe, went on
the stage during the final act and got the attention
of tbe vast audience byawaveofhla hand. He then
announced, In appropriate language to the audi
ence, tho facta In the DeGlve case above recited
and concluded by stating that q
dispatch to Till Constitution had Just
brought the welcome nows that tho
supreme court of the United States had decided
against the clrll rights esses from the states, In
volving the equal rights of the reces to the same
privileges In all hotels and theaters and on rail
road trains.
The audience Instantly grasped the full purport
of Ihe announcement and burst into such a thun
der of applause as was never before heard within
the walls of tbe o pc rehouse. This was uo sooner
subsided thin It was repeated and prolonged with
even greater unction. Tho people smiled at
each other with beaming faces and congratulations
were exchanged all through the audience. It was
welcome news to every one, excepting only tho
ducky occupants ol the colored galleries. These
were silent and evidently smitten with dumb
founded consternation. Not a note of applauso
came from those solemn rows oi benches, and their
occupants evidently believed that tho decision
meant the total abrogation ol the chief blessings
that are involved In tho facts of their emancipation
and Ut'zenship.
The scene In tho theater was an Inspiriting one
and exhibited the lively Interest which all the
people have felt In tho matter of Ihe legal effect of
the provisions of the civil rights act. Many ex
pressions of appioval of the decision were made by
those present and after the performance the sub
ject was everywhere discussed with Interest and an
imation.
senator brown’s views.
When asked through tho telephone what he
thought of tbe decision, Senator Brown replied:
I think It la right decision, because I have
never doubted tbe unconstitutionality of the^ct. cptUffigc claim. The first battle iu tho
I do not see how tho court could have madeafly- -great campaign of 1884 liaa been fought and
othor decision and I navo always felt a certainty
thatwbenthe question came squarely before them
they would make the decision they now have made, ,,
days will be at her siife’ bearing glorious tro-
SOME SWELLING BOOMS.
CAUSED BY THE LATS FRESHETS
IN OHIO.
Governor Cleveland’* Friend* Alarmed at Headly'e
Ohaaeea-Work for • Big Majority—Two Bo-
pubitoana Who Agree Tbet tbe Party
Moat Qo—Hancook’a Ambition.
Washington, October 15.—Tbe full figures
from Ohio show that 709,335 votes were cast.
Of these 309,413 were cast for the prohibition
amendment, showing it to have been defeat
ed. News from New York shows that the
greatest activity Is displayed by the demo
crats in Buffalo. The result in Ohio has
awakened them to the Importance of making
an energetic and desperate light In tbe state.
While they are pleased with the result in
Ohio as auguring a democratic victory next
year, they are at the same time alartned at Its
probable influence on the next national con
vention. They see in the dem
ocratic victory there a great boom
for George H. Pendleton for president,
or perhaps tor Judge Hoadly. If (hey ate to
save the head of tho ticket next year for New
York they luust be up and doing. The
greatest alarm bos seized Governor Cteve
land's friends; and they are determined to
roll up such a majority In New York this fall
ns will force his name through the conven
tion In 1884. At a complimentary serenade
gireu to Governor Cleveland in Albany,
the good news from Ohio, the governor said,
in response: “We celebrate to-night a vie
tory iu a most important field, ami a victory
which gives us an earnest of a much greater
yet to come. We look with pride and joy
to the achievement of our brethren in a sister
state, and yield to them all the praise and
admiration which their gallantry and
won. Ohio iu the van calls on us to follow.
What shall the answer be7 The democracy of
New York sends back the ringing assurance
suit la the adjustment by natural methods of many
questions that have been vexetious and irritatng to
to the public peace."
WHAT MO. DEOIYE SAID.
When The Constitution courier delivered the
news to Mantger DeGlvo that gentlemen was sur
prised Into the unusual act of suspending the count
of the evening’s receipts. He was supremely grati
fied and said:
“I would not. tor a thousand dollare, have been
beaten in the case made against me, but 1 am glad
that I shall not have to punuo tbe fight. I believe
myself that the law was unconstitutional. My
lawyers said so and I was determined to carry tho
matter to the last court ot resort-tothe same su
preme court of tbe United States.”
"If the decision had been the other way, what
would have been tbe effect upon your business?',
"It would have been ruined. You know the
white people would not have brought their wive*
and slstere to a place where they were liable to be
seated for hours next to colored people of all grades,
from tbs lowest even to the best of them. As It Is,
we have given them good places In the theater and
protected them always In their rights In inch
places. They should be contented there, and now
I believe they will be."
INTERVIEW WITH JUDGE II. n. TOMPKINS.
When the tult was brought against Mr. DeGire,
he determined to make it a test caso. He employed
Judge Henry 11. Tompkins as his counsel. A Con
stitution reporter found Judge Tompkins list
night and asked him what ho thought of the de
cision?
"It Is what 1 knew it must be when tbe latue
was fairly presented to tho supreme court. When
Hr. DeGire put bis case In my hands I thought it
best to get It before the highest tribunal
without delay.' Wo therefore gave bond
to the commissioner’s court without a bearing and
decided to take the case to tbe circuit court. If nec
essary, and from there to tho supremo court, II Ihe
decision had been against us."
"Yon have kept very quiet about it?”
"Because we thought it best The danger in ail
there eases has not been so much the effect of any
finding oi the courts as the danger of mischievous
agitation ol the question Involved. 1 thought It best
to keep the esse out of tho newipapore and carry
it quietly to a final conclusion. Whilo it remained
unsettled it waa a menace to every hotel koeper,
theatrical manager and railroad company In tho
country—in (act, a menace to the peace of aocioty
itself,
But tho decisional the court does not surprise
yon?”
Not at all. I was satisfied that the court would
decide thet congress had no rlghtdtlegated to It by,
or suggested In, tho constitution to legislate upon
such questions. There Is nothing In
the constitution that Justifies the Inter
ference of congress In the police regulations of
sovereign states. I am glad the decision has neon
reached, forwhlle 1 was perfectly confidentol what
the decision would be wben made, much mlscblef
might have been done while the country was wait
ing for it. Ol course this decision settles ail cases
now pending, and onr suit with the otheis."
phies. This is not an idle boast, full of tem
porary enthusiasm, nor the voice of blind
partisan seel. We shall succed because we
deserve success, lx cause the people are just,
and because we bear high aloft the banner of
their rights,'*
TWO HEN WHO SAY THE BETUBUCANS MUST OO.
Ex-Senator David Davis, who is now here
on his wsy back from North Carolina, says
thst he will not come to Washington this
winter. He has no desire to do so, and thinks,
further, if he did visit the city Ills presence
would be misconstrued, and he would ho cred
ited with a political ambition he does not
possess. He says the North Carolinians lose
all their good nature at the mero mention of
the name of Butler. The judge was engaged
in conversation to-day with a prominent
democrat. The letter said he wa* certain of
Butler’s re-election, Mahone'a defeat In Vir
ginia, and a large democratic victory in New
York and New Jersey. Judge Davis said that
if this were true he did not see how the re
publican party could expect to win next
Judge Davis believes Tilden can have the
democratic nomination next year, if he de
sires it, but he does not pretend to have any
special information upon the subject.
Ex-Senator Conkling, who has been here
for several days, shares tho same views ex
pressed by Judge Dsvls. Conkling is quite
content to remain oat of politics until t new
deal is made. The democrats, he believes,
Tbe Dnektowu Mines
From the Knoxville Chronicle.
Tho famous Ducktown copper mines, it Is said,
have teen sold to an Kngllsh company (or 1600,000.
An engineer will be sent as soon as possible to ex
amine tbe mines and improvements, and it ihey
are found as represented the transfer will be made.
In anUcipaUon ot this examination thoshaltsoi
tbe mines are now being pumped out. They are
well nigh lull ot water and it will take forty to six
ty days to empty them. A force la at present on
gaged on this work and will be pushed forward aa
rapidly as poaslble. It ia reported that Colonel
John Tompkins, ot Kansas, the well known unit-
near, baa been employed to make the examination,
and it will commence as soon as Ihe shafts are
Tbe mere fact that the owner* tre now spending
oi New York, the improvements consisting oi
■tamp mills, smelters and other refining machinery
that are worth fully 11,560,000. Ths ore exists In
Mffijfiauitlble quantities, and ihe amount already
Vffiived is not perceptible.
ThequeaUonoi building a railroad from Buck-
town to Cleveland, a-distance ot lorty miles, is
being agitated.
Ths mines formerly employed ebout 501 bends,
but If worked as proposed about 706 to 890 hands
will be employed.
TlnlMM Ire thre .VrerlU lad N«uth*
Chicago Inter Ocean interview with Father Ryan.
I asked Father Ryan lossy from hit own observa
tion whether violence wes on the increase in the
southern states.
He remarked dryly, that ths northern press might
be depended upon to report faithfully every viola
tion of the peace below Mason and Dixon's 11ns,
and then added; "W* often sakonnelfei the same
quesUon about ths north. Our telegraphic news
teems with stories of mysterious murders and un
accountable suicides. Violence doe* not go un
checked with u*. It meets iu adversary (ace to
(see. A southern gentleman U as still si still sir
If undisturbed; overcome hb inertia and be It
a cyclone. He anewers an Insult with a
blow, if not so logical it Is more convincing than
syllogism. It onr sens* ol personal honor seema
to yon absurd and Quixotic, w* have to balance
that with a real chivalrous regard for th* weaker
wx. 1 read about tbta woman and that girl who
Tillages. Her betrayer Is known, and yet he
live*.” Here the reverend father clenched h
and hi* eye* Hashed. "I tell yoo,” he said,
hours Iu Alabama after the revelation of their part
in th* causes which led to Jennla Cramer's death-
end the death ol this girl in Itamford would bare
mad* a vendetta in my state. A lifetime would
Weak and delicate females find great relief
loathe use of 6smith's Extract Of Ms/
JlCui 19 IUUUOe 1UB UulUUUnUI| UO uuiutto,
will be successful next year. Their prosperi
ty will be tneir ruin. The republicans will
go to pieces after the downfall, and out of the
two great parties will be born a new Inde
pendent-national party—a party of broad
ideas—Into which all classes and sections may
come. Then when the break-up comes Con-
kllng will have an arnplo iortune and will
seU, bis eld position in the senate. Notwith
standing his outward philosophic calm and
attention to business he is out of his element
when out of politics. He la ranging himself
in the position of a good cltlten. His domes
tic relations are now pleasant. He has the
confidence of the business men of New York.
He takes no interest in politics of the present
time beyond that of a mere observer, because
he believes tbe break-up Is too near at hand.
A raCSIDENTIAL REE IN HIS DONNST.
The fact has become known through army
circles that General Hancock is exceedingly
anxious for the old ticket, provided it Is not
too old. He tliinlu the ticket of 1881 about
the right age, and he la very desirous of hav
ing that particular old one tried again. To that
we will gladly pledge an undivided support.
Home months slncelie had an opportunity, in
New York, of conferring with Ur. English
on the subject, and attempted to arouse
tn interest in the project of renominat
ing tbe last democratic ticket. The general
was very pronounced In hie support of the
plan, but Ur. English wee discovered to be
quite indifferent. As the converaatlon pro
gressed it was discovered tint his reluctance
arose from money considerations. The
demands upon him In the last campaign had
been altogether too numerous, and he had
been compelled to honor entirely too many
of them. He was found to be rather Incllnvd
to keep out of politics and save bis money.
This information comes through an officer of
high rank, who says la all seriousness that be
yond question, General Hancock Is extremely
anxious to be the next nominee of his party.
DA YARD ON BUTLER.
Wheeling, W. Vo., October 13.—In an in
terview at the residence of Hon. Charles J.
Faulkner, at Martinshurg, Berkley county,
tie and sauve in his modes he was not* the
less firm io view of the ends to be finally at
tained. And yet it was this very gentleness
and sauvity—ihe result in part, perhaps, of
his peculiar temperament, but yet more, it
may be, of the training inseparable from his
diplomatic career—which often misled men
who paused not to reflect that iron hands are
sometimes found in silken gloves.
FUilON IN MUSU81PN.
New Orleans, October 15.—A despatch
from Natchez, Mississippi, says the democrats
and republicans of Adams county, met to-
day in separate conventions, but nominated
a joint county ticket, composed of an eqnnl
number of republicans and democrats. The
election will be on November Gtli.
THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN.
Tke 1lrpo.lv* Leaders llevl.lt ihe Serve vf Ueraace-
Landnarkv Ueetrered.
Washington, October 15,—A number of
survivors of the first and second battles of Bull
Run to-day visited the old battlefield with the
object of refreshing tbelr recollection in regard
to the position of the different commands
during engagements nnd to aid Major Stine
in the collection of data upon which to found
a history of the First army corps. The party
numbered about one hundred and fifty per
sons, among whom were the following: Gov
ernor'Lucius Fairchild, General Rosecrans
Colonel Dudley, General William Blrney,
General Joe Dickinson. General Wood. Cap
tain J. H. Stine. Colonel Win. H. Boyd,
Colonel Wm, E. Rodgers, Colonel A.W.
Wood, Colonel C. C. Watson, General M. J
Hunt, Major Halstead, Major C. E. Lewis
Captain C. D. Crandall and General R. B.
Ayes. General Longstreet. Colonel Burket
Captain Tyler, Colonel Yonsell, Major
Alexander Hunter and Major Thorn
ton, of the confederate army, also
joined the party. A special train conveyed
the party to Wellington, Va., near the field,
where they took vehicles and spent the after
noon In visiting points of interest. The iirat
stop was made at Grovetown. where the
second battle of Bull Run began on August
28,1862 and Governor FaircliTld gavo a short
description of tbe engagement,which he said
lie could not remember with
distinctness, owing to tho lapse of
time, and to the fact that he was somewhat
frightened when it occurred. His remarks
were decidedly witty and created much
mirth. The position of Colonel Dudley’s
command was identified by an ancient
chicken coop, and this incident also caused a
hearty laugh. Major Thornton then gave
a concise and graphic descrip
tion of the first day's battle
from the confederate atandjwlnt, and
which was heard with marked attention by
the veterans. He said that Hayes's brigade,
composed of but four regiments, was the only
confederate force opposed to tho union troops
on the evening of August 28,1862. Governor
Fairchild stated that six hundred out ef one
thousand union troops engaged were killed
In forty-five minutes. Under tbe leadership
of General Koeecrans tho party
then visited the Groveton monument
Sudlcy church, tbe old hospital, tbe stone
house, the Henry house, the scene of Stone
wall Jackson’s celebrated stand, railroad cut
and other historical points. At all of these
plscesa few traces remain of the great conillet,
and with the exception of an occasional shot-
riddled house and a stray shell turned up by
plow, there Is nothing to remind tho visitor
of the two battles of Bull Run. Tho entire
3 were pleased with their visit, and the
Is in n historical point of view, are said
to be highly satisfactory.
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G orgetown University,
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Q PHN8 WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER SD, 1883.
Coum ol study enlarged and rearranged,
ilty—Rev. James A. Doouan, 8. J., President;
Hon. K. T. Merrick, Hon. J ere. M. Wilson, Jni*
last night, Senator Bay aril, of Delaware, said,
when asked for an opinion as to "
tho chances
of democratic success next year:
"The prospect is most favorable. The dem
ocratic party is on the ere of a brilliant trb
umph. The result in Ohio foreshadows this
sitbout a doubt."
"What do you think of Governor Butler’s
chances of becoming the democratic standard
benrtfl” , , ,
"Butler has no chance; he is not a man to
be trusted. The democratic party baa no use
for the leadership of an apostate—a man who
for fifteen yean waa one of the moat fanatical
republicans In tbe country. When the demo
cratic party needed every man Butler turned
traitor, and now, when we who have borne
tbe heat and burden of the day aee victory
almost within our grasp, be aeeka to crawl
kiuiusb wituiu uut ftiaap. uo pvvma w u*ni
back into tbe ranks that he may seise some
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party does not. It dare not trust a man who
spoiled tbe knife of treachery in I860. He
would do it again if occasion offered."
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beans, be was often cut down, but
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blinding rancor of party etlfe be wuconatantly
misunderstood anu constantly misrepresent.
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g ven to violent forms of speech or of action.
e shrank from tbe contemplation of civil
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■ought to postpone it to the last possible mo
ment. But in ell this there wu no taint of
dJslojrally. While, however, uniformly gen
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