The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18
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elghty miles above here, Friday even
ng. The boat was valued at $25, 900.
NO insurance. The cargo consisted
OF supplies for the people of the in
terror, among which were 2, 900 sacks
OF corn for the poor. The cargo was
worth $25, ,O00-partially insured.
AUGUSTA, June 1.-THE registra-
tlon of voters commences this week
in Georgia.
A white man named W. S. Flynn.
store-keeper on the Alabama and
Gulf Road, has been murdered by two
treedmen-his head and face being
chopped with an axe and his house
burned. The murderers were arrest
ed by colored men. Their indigna-
ton was so great that it was with
great difficulty they were prevented
from Lynching the culprits by white
citizens.
CHARLESTON, June l7.-Arrived
yesterday-Steamer Sea Gull, Balti-
more. Sailed-Schoone Nellie Tar
box, a Northern port. At quarantine
Steamer Louise, New Orleans
Arrived to-day-Schooner Alert,
Matanzas. Sailed Steamer Eliza
Hancox, Norfolk.
RICHMOND, June 17.-Registratio
commenced in one ward of this city
to-day. At night, 1877 whites and
LA blacks had been registered. Re-
gistering also commenced in the
County, where, at one precinct, only
four voters were registered during
the day.
David Burlington, on old citizen of
Richmond, died this morning. .,
LYNCHBURG, VA, June 17.-R. H.
Glass, editor of the Republican, was
shot in the street to-day, by the sons
of d. b. Booker, in consequence of
an article refecting on their father.
The shot took effect in the eve, the
ball lodging in the head. Mr.. Glass
is comfortable, but the issue is vet
uncertain.
WASHINGTON, June 17.-The OPT
Mon of the Attorney General is too
elaborate for telegraph and the rea-
soning too close for synopsis. The
following verbatim extracts cover the
conclusions:
find it impossible, under the pro-
visions OF this Act, to comprehend
such an official as Governor of one
OF these States appointed to office by
one OF these military commanders;
certainly he is not the Governor re-
cognized by the laws of the State and
clothed as such with the chief execu-
tive power; nor is he appointed as a
military governor for State which
has no lawful governor, under the
pressure of an existing necessity to
= exercise powers at large The inten-
ton, no doubt, was to appoint him to
fill vacancy occasioned by military
order, and to put him in the place Of
the removed governor to execute the
functions of the Office as provided by
law. The law takes no cognizance of
such official, and he is clothed with
no authority or color of authority.
What is true as to the governor is
equally true as to all the other legis-
lative, executive and judicial officers
of the State. If the military com
mander can oust one from his office,
he can oust them all; if he can fill one
vacancy, he can fill all vacancies; and
thus usurp all civil jurisdiction into
his own hands, or the hands of those
who hold their appointments from
him, and are subject to his power of
removal, and thus frustrate the very
right secured to the people by fhis
Act. Certainly this Act is rigorous
enough in the power which it gives,
with all its severity. The right of
electing their own officers is still left
with the people, and it must be pre-
served
I must not be understood rs fixing
limits to the power Of the military
commanders in case OF insurrection or
riot. 1t may happen that an insur-
rection in one of these States may be
SO general and formidable as to re-
Qune the temporary suspension of all
civil governments and tho establish
ment of martial law in its place, and
the same things may be true as to
local disorder or riot, in reference to
the civil gofernment of the city or
place where ii breaks out. Whatever
power is necessary to meet such
emergency, the military commander
may properly exercise. confine
myself to the proper authority of the
military commander where peace and
order do prevail. 1t is not allowable
to displace the civil officers and APP
point others in their places under any
idea that the military commanders
can better perform his duties and
carry out the general purposes of the
Act by the agency of civil officers of
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