Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-03-05
Political.

| The Texas CONSTITUTIONAL Convention
adjourned on the 5th OF February, and
designated the first Monday in July as
the time for determining by popular
vote the acceptance OF the neEF Con-
stitutlOn and the division of the State
Into Texas and West Texas.
| In Kentucky no white man can be
convicted on the. testimony of eye-wit-
nesses, if said witnesses have dark
| skins, as the Legislature has rejected
the bill admitting negro testimony in
courts of justice. What virtue is there
in the Civil Rights bill to correct such
iniquity?
The bill removing from Office in Vir-
ginia, Mississippi, and Texas all per
sons who cannot take the oath pre-
scribed by the fourteenth article be-
came a law last week by the expira-
tion of the constitutional ten days dur
ing which it was held by the President
without his sending 1t back with a
veto.
Chief Clerk Mcpherson, of the House,
Will not only omit the names of the
members elect from Georgia, on the
roll-cau at the organization of the new
House, as authorized by the Recon-
struction Committee, but will also
omit the names of the Louisiana MEM
bers.
The Manhattan Democratic Club of
New York gave a dinner to John Q.
Breckenridge last week. Magruder,
Beauregard5 Prior, and three other reb-
el Generals, were present. Speeches
were made by BFeckinridge, Magruder,
and several prominent Democrats, and
| telegrams were received from rebel
officers unable to attend.
It appears to be well understood
In WashIngton that amongthe frat acts
Of General Grants Administration will
| be to place General Sheridan in com
I At G1rfa
and to relieve General Stoneman from
1 the Department of Virginia, and ap-
point Gen. Siclxles thereto.
The stockholders Of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, on
Thursday, by a vote Of five to one rRti-
fed its lease to the Atlantic & Great
Western Railroad. This conveys all
I the roads controlled by the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, and as
sures the Erie's connection with Cincin-
natl.
The N. Y. World says
"But for Ed,Vin N. Stanton, Mrs. Sur
raft, when arrested, would have been
decently and properly tried by LGigflsI
and competent tribunal. II she had been
50 tried she would unquestionably have
been acquitted, and the American name
would not have been smirched with her
innocent blood"
The Mobile Tribune ''doubta whether
any Confederate leader, with the excep-
tiOn perhaps of Longstreet, would con-
sent, under existing circumstances, to
exchange his honorable poverty for q
position under the United States Gov.
ernment.H What delicious estimate
of human nature. .
The Brownsville (Tenn.,) Bee thus
shows its devotion to the cause of free
opinion iu the following. paragraph :
/ "Ex-GenerRl Longstreet is an aDpli-
cant for Collector of the port of New
Orleans. Give that dog a bone.' Ex-
General Battle, of Alabama, once re-
garded as a gentleman and y white
man, has scallawaged, Give that dog
brick.
The legislature of Georgia has re-
solved 10 refer the question of the eligi-
bilIty of negroes to ofhces under the
new constitution of the state to the
supreme court of the state, with the
tacit understanding that it will submit
to the decision. There is some doub BIT
whether the court will take cognizance
of the question but, il it does, it will
probably decide in favor of the negro's
equality with the white man in the
right to hold office.
One of the earliest acts of the new
administration will be the issuance of
an order reorganizing the militia
ry departments of the country, and
reassigning the various leading officers
I
| to Louisiana, Reynolds to Texas,
Sickles to the Carolinas and Georgia
Meade to PhiIadelphia and the de-
partment OF the East and Terry to the
new department. in the Indian country.
The outgoing President is to have a
grand reception at the hands of the
rebels of Baltimore, whom he has serv-
| ed so faithfully since he BETRAYED the
| cause and the party that elected him.
/ Well he deserves it. It is eminently
proper that the men who murdered the
soldiers of Massachusetts in the
streets of Baltimore when they were
i marching to the defense of the Capital
should honor Andrew j Johnsont
Mr.. Linn has introduced In the Ohio
General Assembly a proposition to
amend the Constitution, which seems
designed to authorize counties, towns
and cities to lend their credit to the
construction of railroads, to the amount
of one per cent. of the assessed value Of
property in case of county, and two
per cent. in case of q town or city but
it is drawn in a very singular manner,
beginning by prohibiting evsrything,
and then concluding by excepting
everything.
The petition to General Grant to ap-
! point Columbus DeIano Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, was signed by
three-fOurths of the Republican Sena-
tors and Representatives 1t was pre-
sented by Congressman Allison, Dick
ey and Shellabarger. There is tribula-
ton to-day in that office on account of
Delano's avowed determination to
make many important changes. 1t
should be added, not only is this De-
Iano's intention, but it is in accordance
with Grants wishes. He intends to
have the revenue collected and paid in
to the public treasury.
Every day the postal telegraph re-
form movement is pushing forward
and making new friends. Agitation
| and discussion carry it forward and
make it popular. Only those oppose
It or endeavor to obstructit who have an
interest In the old system, or in some
of the monoplies to which it has given
/ birth. Popular instinct grasps with
avidity the grand idea of the postal
| telegraph-a Government mail service
which shall carry all the letters and
messages of the people, and not, as at
/ present, only portion of fthem-Byydn
I Press. a.H
Andrew johnson has pardoned de-
serters, murderers, counterfaitersy reb-
| els, assassins, and every conceivable
sort of scounGrels and villains, and the
/ Democratic press have had nothing but
praise for his pardOnings, until short
| time since he pardoned Sanford Con-
over, when the whole pack turned en-
l OA AAAAs EGuu BGGhu9e
Conover, once in the course Of bis III
spent life, felt spasm of honesty, or
| patriotism, or perhaps only fear, and so
testified as to the dOings OF certain trail
tors plotting for the overthrow of thsir
country. For this these Democrst tic
journals can never forgive him.-Col.
Journal.
ApropOs or the late reinterment Of
Wilkes Booths remains at Baltimore,
the Commercial remarks:
Baltimore has the singular honor OF
coveting the bones of assassins for bur
iaI so anxious, in fact, for the distlnc-
tion that her wealthy citizens contrib
ute to pay the cost of transportation and |
interment. where relatives are impecu- |
niOus, rather than miss the opportunity. !
of adding to q collection more horrible |
than that which is to DO found IN Mad
am TAussaud'g London Museum. Pos