The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-27

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for them to have their names entered in the BOOK
of voters. which will be before next September, tn
General Commanding wiDsend them word throug
proper United States or county officers, and sen
the books TO places near by their homes, go Ina
evet voter can have his name registered. and ca
afterwards vote without going far from mis- home
Only those residing in towns will be registered Q
vote there.
Louisiana.
The Pnayune of the 21st has strong editoria
headyd ssNot to Register and Vote, is to vot
against the South I" The following will give a
idea of it's character:
The law of Congress will be effective, no matte
what the Courts decide. The Supreme Court oe
cided test oaths eH post acto penalties, and unoon
sttu+iona yet Congress applied them to voters re-; a
well as officers. The Supreme Court decided MILL
tary Commissions unconstitutional in time Q
peace, and then Congress ordered them to exist 0!
over the South. What arm will be raised to en-
force respect to the judicial authority The ole
men who are upon-the bench OF the supreme
Court are MS impotent to do more than sit in 81
lence, as were the Roman Senators in their cham
ber when the conquering barbarians entered tht
old worlds capital.
That whic!, our enemies wish is that we should
not vote. II " alone vote, as is the case IN len
nessee and missouri, they will make a-oonstltu:
tion which will exclude ninety-nine out OF every
hundred white men in tie State, and full of Gun.
ming devices to enable thom to keep out the young
men Of Southern attachn ,nts not yet OF age. Sucd
o constitution will be gladly accepted by congress-
and its authority enforced: Under it, all the real
hands, and suits be entertained in its courts, ol
which VIC can now only have faint idea, which
will utterly ruin and drive away all the present
proprietors Of lands in the South. ::
On the other hand, the New Orleans Times ol
the same date takes different view Of the matter,
as will be seen by the following strong protest
THE REGISTRATION swnsD1E.
The disgrace eful exhibition Of the utter tramp
ling upon all law, right and decency-known >as
the registration in this city, is still oontinued'
More than half Of the white Citizens fully quail
fed under the law are turned away while every
negro who applies is Immediately accepted and
registered. Naturalized citizens are not only re-
quired to produce their papers, but to leave them
With the registrars, with very dim prospect OF
ever getting them back. Old citizens who have
lived here quarter of a century, and who pay in
dividualy more taxes than the whole Radical party
in the State pay collectively, are turned away
because they have been at some remote period OF
their liTee School Directors or Aldermen UT der tho
City Government, and are suspected OF having
sympathized with the rebellion. But few. natural
lied citizens are registered on any terms except
that Of adherence to the Radicals. That virtue
will purge all vices: Renegades, who fought in
tae reocl ranks and deserted when the cause be-
came desperate and joined the Ra1icals--eyen
some who were punished by Butler and Banks Tor
their rebelieus excesses-and who possessed the
disqualification OK having held Federal or State
honor (l) Of registration without questions.
But why dwell on tho enormities OF this misera-
BILE Earcef Are those who have gotten up thiS
shameless scheme to defraud the people OF this
city and trample upon the acts Of Congress-, weak
and credulous enough to imagine that they can
profit therefrom They will soon awake to full
comprehension OF the intamy, the detestation, tho
bitter hostility OF all the honest and respectable OF
the community, which alone they will secure by
their lawless course. Let them persist therein,
and tho time is not distant when the word "regis-
trar" will fix upon the luckless incumbent Of Tint
grave and descend to his posterity.
-. -" Tcxns.
We find the two itoms which follow in the Gal
weston Ciusiian Of the 18th:
The town. Of Brazos Santiago has passed through
the process Of immersion and ought to be better
place than formerly. A late sasterly gale raised
the tide to such all extent. as to submerge the
whole town to the depth ofa foot and haif, the
sand hills only looming up amid the waste Of wa
ters, like Ararat in the food or scme other rat IN
danger Of drowning. The Ranchero states that
the railroad tract Was Submerged, and several
miles Of embankment washed away. The damage
QOOe 10 INC COdI B very SEehI, Auu VIII pI0fouS
the cars running for at least six weeks or two
months. ,.#..3zs,
Lieutenant Seth q. Griffin, whose skull was
split open by O sabre in the hands Of colored
sergeant, in the mutiny near San Antonio died on
the 18th instant. The funeral took place at IL
o'clock r. NJ, Sunday, the 14th instant, with the
usual military shonors; and was attended by large
concourse of citizens as well as officers and
soldiers. s.a52.
From Galveston, JTe learn:that Circular No. 2o
from Military Headquarters, was published April
20, for the guidance Of all concerned in the work
Of rsgistrat on Of legal voters.
Ii constitutes fifteen registration districts cor
to the judicial districts Of the State.
Two supervising Registers with clerk will be
appointed for each district who will designate
three Registers to detect frauds in each precinct
and adjust or refer complaints to headquarters,
each taking tho iron-olad oath which is published
,s well as that to be takon by every person regis
tering.
The circular concludes as follows: pending the
decision Of the proper authority as to who are dis
by law, registers will permit no one to
register whose right to vote is questionable Per-
sons 80 excluded will be permitted to register after
The requisite legal decision is received, if thereby
pronounced entitled to vote, due notice OF which
will be published.