The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-02-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,

| PERSECUTION OF AN EDITOR FOR ALLOWING
NEGROES TO AMUsE THEMsELVFs.-Mr w, S
Bailey, editor of the Newport (Ky.) Neps, says
that he has been prosecuted for permitting
colored people to play in his printing Office. He
says, in his editorial of the Goth of January:
"We have seen and experienced hard times
for the last two months; but the times must be
sufficiently hard to deprive us of the use of our
limbs, before We lay down the only pen lifted
against Slavery in the South. The spirit of Free
dom must never die in Kentucky; and, until ADLER
pens and stouter hearts volunteer in Freedoms
cause, we shall continue to herald the sound OF
Freedom to the ear of the oppressor, and call
forth the down-trodden of our State to enrol
their names here in the Book of Liberty, until
their name shall be LEGION end heir vote tri.
umphant in the State.
" The legal prosecution coming against US at
the February term I'D Monday of our Circuit
Court, for permitting the colored people to en-
| Joy brief period of amusement in the hall con-
nected with this office, and that, too, by the
consent of the owners of those who had owners.
will increase, rather than diminish, the spirit of
Liberty in Kentucky. Some of their owners
we're present, and complained of no wrong, but
seemed to take pleasure in seeing them enjoy
! themselves.
| "This privilege, too, had been granted them
by other persons before, both in Newport and
Covington, when no advantage of the law was
taken against them; nor did we dream of the
existence of such an odious law at the time.
Whether this Was trap set tor Us or not, we
shall perhaps find out in the course of the pros.
ecution, (persecutiOn.)
| . This action against US can do no good in
propagating the institution of Slavery, nor in
giving credit to the parties who sued out this
action against us. Some of orr best citizens
were present, and lawyers TOO, none of whom
| intimated that any law was about to be violated,
nor even the feeling of any one disturbed"
| IMPORTANT CHANGE IN THE EDUCATIONAL
SYSTEM OF RUssIA-A letter from st. Peters.
| burgh says:
| "Hitherto in Russia the military schools
were reserved for children of the nobility IN the
service OF the Government. The education of
the paternal circle were bound as soon as pos.
sible to quit their homes and enter the military
establishments, where they were Brought up
under toe superintendent of the State. The
Emperor Alexander mas modified that state of
things, and has laid down, as the basis of all
military education: ] Fee access to such
establishments for the whole of the youth of
the nobility. no matter where taey nave received
their elementary instruction, and to such non
noble persons as have finished their studies at
the University; 2. To encourage education in
the bosom of families; and, 3. To leave young
men as long as possible under the care of their
own friends and relatives"
The NEGRO BILL DEFEATED.-We learn from
the Little Rock Gazette and Democrat, of the
29th Dec, that the bill lately pending before
the Arkansas Legislature, known as the Gree
Negro Bill" which had for its object the re-
moval of all free negroes from the State, and
provided the means Of their going into servitude
if they remained, has been defeated. The
Gazstteand Democrat has the following remarks
on the subject:
| Though negroes are not recognised by our
Constitution or laws as citizens-though they
have no vested rights, and remain among us
by suferance, subject to be summarily remov-
ed at any time by police arrangement-the
act proposed to give them ample time to leave
the State, and provided for them regular indict-
ment, and trial by jury of the country, in the
event of their remaining in the State in viola
ton of its provisions.
"The act was expressly drawn to meet the