The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-04-22
COLUMBIA. { j ]
Sunday Morning, April 22, 1855.
Eta Practical Working.

SUNDAY morning, April %S, 'Hco.
- Its Practical Working.
Our exchanges furnish us with sun
dry evidences of the practical work
ing of the civil, rights bill. I'm Nor
felix. on Monday, two white persons,
q Mrs. Whitehurst and her son,were
.shet by negroes, during a riot whiclr
followed a freedmen's procession, and
the coroaor's jury were convinced
that both of the deceased were shot
By. negroes in the procession.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Times, in letter dated
sthe 18th, calls attention to feature
observed In the galleries of the Senate
and Heuse, that day.. which is con-
.strued as illustrating the; practical
working of the civil rights bill. Here
tofore, as the negroes approached the
doors, the assistant door-keeper de-
signated seats for them, and which
were set apart for colored persons,
singularly enough upon the sugges-
tion of Senators of the radical per-
siiasion, whose ladies and their lady
companions, had complained that
there was not enough of classification
of spectators, and that their olfacto-
ries were offended by the African
edor. Now, the colored people are
permitted to take seats wheresoever
they find them vacant, and the con-
sequence is that the negroes. are found
seated in the heretofore select spots,
where only the fair ladies of the coun-
try were admitted. AS the door
keepers construe the civil rights bill,
they dare not refuse o negro a seat
wherever the white spectator is al
lowed to 60. -
The Baltimore Anaerica,a, a paper
which is, to great extent, sort of
organ of the freedmen, and which is
warm in defence of their rights and
interests, has the following incidents:
There have been several occur
rences within the past three or four
days which, it is expected, viii bring
before the courts of. this city the
question as to what are the rights Of
colored persons. The first was that
of colored man, on Friday, taking
seat among other passengers in one
of the York Road railway cars. The
conductor invited him to go to the
front platform, where colored per-
sons had always the privilege of
riding. He insisted on his right to
remain in the car, but the conductor,
as also the other passengers, required
him to leave. He noted down the
number of the car and then depart
ed. On the same night James Will
liams, colored, appeared at the ticket
Office of Holiday Street Theatre and
asked for q ticket. The agent, on
learning from him that it was for
himself, refused to sell ticket. He
went out on the sidewalk aud acted
III such a disorderly manner as to
compel Policeman Ray to conduct
him to.the Middle District Station,
whence Justice Spicer, after an ex-
animation, the next morning, COM
mitted him to jail. On Saturday
night, colored man, name not learn
ed, appeared ut the Eastern District
Station, claiming protection. He
stated that he had gone into public
house on Eastern or Canton avenue
and asked for drink, but the pro-
prietor refused him the liquor. He
claimed that as citizen he was en-
t;tled to the same privileges as white
men. Neither the officer in charge,
OF the magistrate, could afford him
the protection asked for, and conse-
quently he retired.
Now the troubles all result from
the rights which the freedmen con-
ceive the civil rights bill confers
upon them. Here, further South,
the colored people behave very we'll,
and In the main are well disposed, in
dustrious and of sober habits The
reason is, that they are among their
best friends, and living among n
people, among whom they were born
and raised, and who know their
wants, habits and disposition, and
who, moreover, have their interests
at heart. They are not under the