Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-02-28

DOES THE RECONSTRUCTION BILL VAcArg
THE OFFICES UNDER OUR PRESENT STATE
GoyERNMkNT Nv think not The lang
uage of the bill is:
I'm all elections to any Office under such
provisional government all persons shall
/ be entitled to vote, and none other. who
are entitled to vote under the provisions Of
the fifth section of this act, and no person
shall be eligible to any Office under such
provisional government who would be dis
qualified from holding Office under the pro-
visions of the third article of said constitu-
tional amendment"
So that this provise will not be operative
until the next election. eligible" here
means (see Worcester) ''capable of being
legally chosen" as its etymology implies
not, capable of filing" The Ma
ttonul Etelligeacer, which denennces the
measure in strong language, says as to this
point: IF it be held that this diabegSe in
vention of proscriptivenessi does not so APP
ply TO State officials as to drive them from,
their Offices it certainly applies to them
and to electors in future elections or APP
pointments in States. In word, Con-
gress has stepped across State barriers, and
given express direction, in form of law,
that in all elections ID the ten States now
excluded from representation in Congress
no man shall hold Office or vote who is ex-
Guided ly the proposed constitutional a
mendment. 1t is well known that these
include the best men IN any State"
| "ON THE OTHER SIDE. The Boston
Post, in an editorial article ON Mr. Eliott's
bill, takes OCCASION to reveal the state of
| civilization In SOME portions of the North.
Newspaper Offices have been mobbcd
individuals seized and tarred and feather
ed, ridden upon rails, and executive in
iuence interposed to shield the culprits
from punishment the court decrecd Rob-
| berries and murders have been alarmingly
prolifc-garroters, bank robbers aud bur
GLARS have piled their vocation as vigilant-
ly here as in Louisiana, and with as much
iupunity but this is gorins different OK,
and MIR Elliott and hrs radical friends are
hot at all alarmed by the fact. The muir
| ders all around us--in RoxIury woods, in
| Franconia, \. H.. IN Auburn, Me-speak
u depravity the South cannot exceed while
the robberies in New York and New En-
gland are unprecedented in magnitude aud
numbers. II crime be the gauge whereby
to decide upon the right Of self-govern-
ment,, New Englnd would be in imminent
danger of territorialism at once. But it is
| all a trick--a mere subterfuge to prolong
power and patronage in the hands of
the R'l;cl patty by shutting out
| one-third Of the territory and onc-third of
the people Of the United States from any
| representation Or any voice in its govern
ment.
MODERN REPUBLICANIsM. "A firm in
Nashville, one of the largest and mostre-
Specialize mercantile houses in the West,
paying annually many thousand dollars Of
taxes, has, including clerks, six persons
employed in the concern, besides the pur-.
ter, VINO is negro The latter is now the
only one of the whole concern who is al
lowed to vote under the present Brownow
Constitution. The point of the joke is that
the negro was the biterest rebel of all, and
was all officers servant in the late rebel
army. and, when fighting by his masters
side, he was the third man over the ram
parts of Fort Pillow, where he fell like an
avenging thunderbo1t upon the negroes,
who so CALAMITY surrendered that strong
hold"
The above, from the New York Times,
(Rep. J furnishes an illustration of the re-
cent act ofthe Tennessee Legislature on the
subject of franchise.
TERRIBLE STEAM Boat EXPLOSION
The steamer David White, which left New
Orleans on Thursday night, for LOUISVILLE,
with one hundred passengers and 500 tons
freight, for Nashville and Louisville, ex-
ploded her larboard boiler on Tuesday at
noon, near Columbia, 225 miles south Of ,
Memphis. The forward part Of the boat
was literally torn to atoms, and many pass
engers and officers were blown up 100 feet
IN the air with fragments of the boat.
Tne scene is described as heartrendipg-
The clothes were blown off some of the of
fieers. Capt. kcnney was blown up one
hundred feet and landed in the river, much
bruised and scalded. Capt Shaw and
clerks report the lost passengers at sixty
five. Many of their names are unknown,
as the books are lost The boat@s a COM
plete wreck. Part of the boiler exploded
upwards and part downwards, tearing her
wide open The engineers and fremen on
watch We're blown down with the hull
The steamer Piles Bolen picked DIP the
survivors.
CONVERSATIONAL Washington letter in
the Baltimore Gazette says that bill has.
been prepared providing for extensive con-
tscations of southern landed estates The
idea that the military bilp' is the crown