Smyrna times., 1866-12-05
Maryland Affairs

m hUd CHoLERA.-Several farmers in Re-,
1iunured' near Easton district, have lately 10:
tnn,n nuniDer g. OF their pen hogs by the disease
:, GOOD SHoT.-Mr JOS. w. Meekins o
Iioopers Island, Md, killed fourteen wild l.
geese at one shot few days since. The same
seH1lerlah once Killed twenty-one wild geese al
a single shot. They are selling on the Island
"' ni'y-cehtS each.-CdmLridge Heruld.
DEATH OF JoHN {. GRooME learn
tnat Johh 7. Groome, Esq, a distinguished
lawyer ana prominent citizen Of Elkton, Ma
III III on rIluay evening last, in the 9th year
oI. VI ms age lie was the unsuccessful Demo
Glatic GDtH candidate for Governor Of MARYLAND in
10 T. 1 nnH LOT many years director Of the p w
q Is: kallroad, and Trustee of the Wsr,io W ~ !
Agricultural College '"i i@nu
ARREST OF SNITCHER.-.J. f. Giln;n Dor,,
ty Sheriff, and S. B. Armstron@ nl,etET DeEu-
arrested Isaac Snitchcr ON TbnrS'aT T0ins,aOle, i'
Han station, on the Delaware and MI. NI al a
haliroad' and lodged him in the iail A. 'tiu tI;i
t1"h The same evening. There are sevarai
chaTGeS against him, among which ~ n,'r
Iea9ers are already aware, is the theft of a AocL
VI eleep from Mr.. David Clements, ON Nondsv
lIiorhlng OF last week 4 reward Of ona bTn'
dieu H u0liarS had been offered for his arrest -
GI4oMPENSATI0N TO LOYAL SLAVE OwvrpC
Under the act Of Congress passed at ire IaSt
w secretary Stanton has appointed Col |
w w II: stewart, OF Baltimore, VIM. Finn Of
" " sIiilhgtOn, d. T., and John VI. Miller ofI
oecL county, as commissioners To award com
peIisatIOn to the loyal slaveowDerS Of NarrIond
whose slaves served in the army dnr;ny ',i'u tha
war The Commissioners have onened an ofFpo
"a Baltimore, and will at once proceed ~ ro-
'elVe ciallnS under the regulations prescribed
ARREST OF JUDGE MAGRl'DER-COVsTrrr
IoNALITY OF TIE CIVIL RIGHTs' RmIA
warrant was lately issued by United states
Brooks of Baltimore. for the !
st lrrest OF Judge Daniel K. Magruder, of the :
ecohq Judicial circuit of Maryland, for viola.
!, ION Vi me act OF Congress known as the Civil
'ishtS Dhl' upon the following affidavit :
iaQe before SAID commissioners: ;
On or before the 18th day of October. 1865
case caaule before Ju.i i.e Daniel L. I[agru-
-, ,, st'Il!S as > udge Of the Circuit Court for
an 1nic -ATundei county, IN which the plaintiff
od aI a. q coIp[eu woman, named Comfort Postley 5
lu InG defendant Il white man, named Erev. :
g. The suit was to recover the vaIno nf'
H. VIM. Tell Claude, Esq. attorney f'r
le plaintiff, offered the said Comfort Postlry t
witness IN her own behalf to which de. II
hulnt counsel objected and Judge Magru- 3.
II refused to allow her testimony to be taken.
the ground that the laws of the State oi ni
aryand ~ did not allow colored person to
'tlty III q case III which one of the partirs ,yaS
lite ) and that the act of Congress- ent;tIsd :, 2
an act to protect all persons in the TIniteJ a, ~
ates in THEN civil rights and furnish tba al
'anS for their yinaication," was unconstitu. a.
nal, and the testimony of said Comfort POST al
y; was refused and not taken by him. in
As soon as Judge Ma9'ruder was notified Of ,e
Issue OF the warrant he entered his own pl
ognlzance Tor 81 ,6U0, to answer in the Uni an
States District Court at ts December term. Or Or
'udSe Magruder, at the time OF his decision
lillSt u the conStitutionality Of the law, dev- TO
q an elaborate written opinion upon the -
gcct ana he has stated it to be his inten-
! u 10 take the case after trial betore Judge
ts, ts, TO- 10 tn the Supreme Court of the United
les les ior hnal adjudication. If So; this will
The The trst case under the law presented for
'eal 70 that tribunal, when it will neccs. Va
acquire national Importance. ais