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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07
[From the Baltimore Americana
Is Hanging PLAYED Out

We think that it is high time that hang
ing for murder was abandoned. We do not
wish to be understood as saying that the
man or women who commits deliberate
and premeditated murder, especially for
plunder, is not deserving of hanging. But
we do mean to say that all such murderers
ought to be hanged. or all ought to be al
lowed to escape. The poor and friendless
who commit murders, and have no money
to employ able and ingenious counsel, or to
secure the aid Of other appliances equally
effective insuch cases, are sure to be hanged.
But, in the case of those who can spend
money freely, and have hosts of sympathiz-
ing friends, there can be no doubt that
changing is played out in Baltimore.
If hanging for murder is to be continued,
it ought to be the duty of the State to en-
ploy able counsel to defend as well as to
prosecute the prisoner. There ought to be
an equality in the matter, so that the chances
of acquittal should be equal to the poor and
friendless as to those who have friends and
money at their command.
There is now in Baltimore City Jail a
negro boy awaiting execution for killing an
other boy in street fight with small
| pocket knife-so small that, except by
striking vital part, death would be i'm
possible. He went to trial without pre-
paratlOn, anu WllnOul any lrlenu5 10 gamer
| up witnesses to sustain his own version OF
the affray. The wound was inflicted with a
weapon so small as to indicate no premedi-
tation or thought of murder. The prisoner
is but nineteen years of age, had always
borne an excellent character, and alleges
that he used the knife in selfdefence. But
he had no active friends, and no money,
and was, of course, convicted and sentenced
to be hanged. His witnesses, fearing that
they would be sent to Jail and held to testify
hid themselves, and although the testimony
for the prosecution, such as it was, may
have justified tic action of the jury, there
can be no doubt that verdict of murder il
the first degree would never have been rend
cred if money and friends had been at his dis
posal. Governor Bowie has, on statemen
Of the existence Of testimony to prove thai
the killing was not only unprecedented
but, at worst, a mere boys fight, granted I
reprieve, and signiied his intention @
thoroughly examining this new testimony
The Governors sympathies are always will
the, poor and friendless, and we have n,
doubt that, should the facts be ascertainct
to be as represented, it will afford him grea
pleasure to do justice in the case.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

THE NEW REBELLION in Richmond, headed
by Ellison, whom Governor Walker has at
tempted to install as Mayor, is of the true
and proper rebellious sort. The right OF
Ellison to be Mayor was taken before the
Court, and after due argument, Judge Un-
derwood formally decided his claim to te
unconstitutional. But he declines to yield,
and sets the judgment Of the law at defiance.
OF course this is the old style; since the
Courts rule against him, he reyolts against
the Courts.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

The result of the recent investigation into the
affairs of the Water Department Is not only
highly satisfactory to the friends OF the superin-
tendent Mr.. Pritchard, but to the general public.
So much had been said and insuuated concerning
the accounts and management of this important
department, that feeling of apprehension that
all was not right there, was created in the minds
of many, but after q searching examination, a
special committee reports the accounts correct'
one of the Democratic members of the body
presenting and concurring in the report.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07
There are ninety-three candidates out

There are ninety-thIee candidates out
for sheriff in Polk county, Oregon.
Napoleon calls the 45, 900 schoolmasters
in his empire ''thc pacific army Of France" +"
The first Methodist church in Russia
has just been erected at Fultopea, on the
Black Sea. 1t has 81 members.
Prince Alfred has enjoyed the expert
ence of the rest of the world, and had his
pocket picked of 1900 in India.
The official statistics of Massachusetts
for this year show that pauperism is rather
diminishing, while crime and vice are on the
increase.
The orchestra in the San Francisco
Chinese theatre is described as sounding
like fifty thousand wash boilers falling off
five-story building on brick sidewalk. II
1t should be engaged for the next Boston
musical jubilee.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07
IA ATLFIED-I,HE XVIJT AMEND
MENI

We print, elsewhere, the full text Of the
Presidents Message, and Secretary Fish's
proclamation, announcing the ratification Of
the Fifteenth Amendment, and call attention
to the recommendation Of the former, when,
after saying that this change sis indeed a
''measure of grander Importance, than any
"other act of the kind, from the foundation
''of the Government to the present time, he
urges tnas consress take all the means with
in their constitutional power. to promote
tho work of thorough and general education.
This is counsel so wise, and so excellent,
that it should have the attention of the
whole country. Enfranchisement is come !;
1t is just, and anything less is not only unjust
but dangerous. But, with enfranchisement
must come also education, or the act of JUS
tice will be shorn of half its value.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07
Our wilminxton sleeping Cars.

1t affords us decided pleasure to notice that
Mr.. Pullman has ordered our three Wilmington
car-shops to build for him eighteen OF his great
Palace Sleeping Cars. Heretofore the travelling
public has had to judge OF our best work 'n cars
by those built on the Woodruff pattern, and
while they have been beautiful in design and
finish they haye not compared favoraby,in in dura-
bility, solidity, and libcrallty of expense, with
the Pullman cars. The travellers on our great
railroads have never yet had on opportunity Of
seeing what our artisans can do, when they are
set to work to tHrn out the very best class of
palace cars. This order will give them the
rhaooo
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07


THE PROMPT AoQUIEsoENoE of the Mary
land Democrats in the operations of the 10Th
Amendment, is hardly less than remarkable.
A meeting of their State Committee, at An
napolis, few days ago, advised the passage
of law by the Legislature, giving full
means of registration to the colored men,
and in accordance with the recommendation
the bill has already passed the House OF
Delegates, and will not be delayed in the
Senate. As both of these are unanimously
Democratic, this action shows that their par
,y leaders are desirous of winning some
share of the colored vote, fearing lest they
may lose their control over the State, should
they pretend to despise it,as the Dover Ring,
in Delaware, have preferred to do.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

THE FREEpMENs SAVINGS BANKS are re-
ported to be in prosperous condition. In
1865, the Freedman's Swings Bank of
Washington, ID. c., received less than $1,000
day, and during 1863, the daily deposits
amounted to $4,000. 1t had on March lst,
1866, an aggregate of $780, ,2s3 on deposit,
which was Increased to 81 ,657, ,OO6 on March
lst 1870 At the various branches thirteen
of the twenty-six cashiers are colored men.
The New Orleans Savings Bank is the larg-
est branch, and the institution at Vicksburg,
Mississippi, ranks next. These statistics
indicate that the colored people are indus
lrious, economical and provident of the
future.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

During a fierce storm In Minnesota, re-
Gently, the house of Mr.. A. L. Bates, in Blue
Earth county, was burned to the ground.
The house was distant from other habita-
tions, and Mr.. Bates went for assistance for
his wife and three children, but returned
only in time TO find his wife dying and chill
dren dead. During the same storm two bro
thers were frozen to death in Martin county,
in the same State, and six others perlshcd
in Iowa.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07
1elalvare Tribnlte


THE SUPREME COURT, on Friday. decided
to reopen the whole case in regard to
the legal-tender question. The two new
Judges, Strong, of Pennsylvania, and Brad
ley, of New Jersey, concurred with Justices
Swayne, Miller, and Davis, in ordering this
action, while the Chief Justice, and Asso-
ciates Nelson, Clifford, and Field dissented.
The question involved here, it will be un-
dorstood, is simply whether ''greenbacks, p"
are legal-tender in payment of debts con-
tracted before the passage OF the act creating
them. BY the decision of the Court, few
weeks ago, they are not, but it would appear
that Judges Strong and Bradley dissent from
that view, and upon this re-heariug, it seems
likely that the decision may be reversed. 1t
appears to us, that if common sesse is of any
weight in law, this should be done.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

Don Piatt dined with Mr.. Samuel Bowles
in Washington, and asked him what was the
secret of his success in journalism. ENERGY
and ugliness" was the prompt and charac-
teristic answer, and Mr.. Piatt generously
informs the world that he thinks it was hon
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

At recent sitting of the Ecumenical
Council, Cardinal Schwatzenbutg and Bish-
op Strossmaier advocated conciliation, and
while speaking favorably of Protestants, ,and
objecting to the anatbemas against them as
arrogant and profane, they were hooted
down by the angry mob of fathers.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

BASE BALL.-The National Base Ball Club
of Washington, has selected seven of its
playing ''nine' for this season,vlz: Williams,
pitcher; Hicks, ca,cher Hodges, first
base; Holingshead, second base Gibney,
third base Coughlin short stop Studley,
centre field. The left and right fields arc
not yet filled. Fox, Lusk, Luke and Harris
are retained as substitutes, while the two
vacancies are filled by experts.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07
THE "NINE WARDS" BOONE.
RANG

Our Democratic friends made a pretty
piece Of work when they passed their cele-
brated 'Nine Wards Bill" We warned
them, at the time-addressing our remarks
especially to the more sensible down country
members Of the Legislaiure-that they had
better let the job, alone but, influenced by
maladroit counsels from Wilmington, they
upset our whole city organization, in the
confident belief that they were fixing up in
its place, such skillful device that Whining
ton would become, hereafter, grand strong
hold of their party.
In every particular, the bill has become
failure, most shabby, ragged, ludicrous fail
ure, if we except, possibly, the election of
two Democrats TO be City Treasurer, and
Assessor. In the first place, though the
Wards were divided with the special pur-
pose of making five of them certainly DEM
ocratic, even that anticipation failed. The
Republicans swept clean four Wards, for
the City Council, and carried one member
in each of two others, not to speak of their
success in the LIST Ward, where by fraudu-
lent means, they lost It's benefit. So that, in
the City Council, instead Of giving them
selves one majority, our Democratic friends
found themselves short-handed, and obliged
to play second fiddle in the city government.
Even Mr.. Bright, whose winning personal
manners had secured his election as Presi-
dent Of Council, was tied up, hand and foot,
in the very important particular of appoint
ing Committees, and hence has had very
little more influence in the body than the
ordinary members.
But another part Of the law made the
Mayors term, three years. Contrary to the
intention of the laws parents, Mayor Val
entine was again elected, and hence more
tears. Not only for one year, but for three
was the police force placed beyond reach,
by this boomerang legislation.
Still further, did the consequences of theil
folly fall on our opponents heads, on Satur
day. They thought it, last spring, a perfec
stroke of genius to make voting very easy
and inexpensive. They threw open the door
sfthe city election wide, e,and abolished the re
| luhctuohb VI Sity tuA-paJihCh oiuSi tho
none of their voters should by any chanc
be left outside. In this, however, occurre'
new and most mortifying blunder-th
qualification of voter at the school election
was placed on the same easy terms as that @
the city election-and through this broa
avenue, some hundreds of our colored cit
: zens came in to the polls, ,and deposited thei
tickets, on Saturday.
: In other words, the old qualification Of
school election voter required the paymer
! of school tax. Of course, none of th
, colored men could have voted under thl
condition of the law, because no school ia
: has ever been assessed to them. But Ii
Nine Wards Bill abolished that Requirement
u and, after the 9th Amendment, made colore
y men qualified to vote! Did ever the evil pu
n pose of a conspirator more conspicuously r.
! turn to trouble him?
/ Let us caution our opponents against an
ii more attempts at such smartness, as Il
d Nine Wards Bill. 1t is not their forte.
n
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

Mr.. Edwin Booth, in his new rendering of
"Macbeth" in his theatre in New York, dis
penses with the visible presence of the ghost
Of Banquo in the banquet scene, but ''seems
to fill tho empty chair by his acting" so as
to make the scene much more impressive
than in the old way.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

The st. Paul Press of Tuesday publishes
correspondence between Allen Melville, Of
New York, holder of repudiated Mime
sofa State Railroad bonds, and General b.
f. Butler. Melville says that as Minnesota
will not pay or aIbitrate. or consent to be
sued by the bondholders, the only way is to
have her sued by another State, and he asks
whether Massachusetts will accept some of
the bonds for a charitable institution, and
''make an example" of Minnesota. Butler
replies that Massachusetts will probably ac-
cept one hundred thousand dollars or more
of the bonds, for her State charities; and
| collect them by suing.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

The bill providing for the registration of
voters in Maryland, in accordance, with the
Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of
the United State, was passed unanimously
in the House on Saturday, and was reported
to the Senate, and there read the second time.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

The Tariff Bill made some progress, In the
House, on Saturday. The reduction OF tho duty
on tea from % cents, to 20 cents, per pound, and
on coffee from cents, to 4, as proposed by the
Committee. was sustained by the House.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

On Thursday the colored citizens of Chi
cago will have grand procession. A salute
will be fired, and other festivities will be
gotten up, in honor of the ratification of the
Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

Senator Carpenter called upon General
Sherman on Saturday, complmented him on
his letter to Senator Wilson, said he en-
dorsed the General in the position be had
taken, and would sustain him.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

The African colonization societies, il is
understood, will hereafter devote their at
tention chiefly to the Improvement of the
condition of the negroes already colonzed,
and will labor to send more blacks hence to
I ihor;o
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

A Cincinnati distillcr claims to have dis
covered a process Of producing tho purest
kind Of whisky. He says his process of dis
tillation and evaporation removes the fusil
oil and all poison.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

A colony of emigrants from Michigan have
purchased 1000 acres and settled near Grand
Junction, Tenn. The farms will be small
and closely cultivated. They propose doing
their own work, without the aid of negroes
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

Secretary Boutwell, left Washington on
Saturday for Boston. lie will be absent
several days. In the meantime, Assistant
Secreta.y Hartley will be acting Secretary.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

A few days since an essence peddler in
Plymouth, Mass, chloroformed lady, the
only occupant of the house, and appropriated
upward Of $500 and gold watch
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

Incombustible wicks for kerosene are
made in Vienna Of asbestos, boiled In wax.
They last at least a year.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07

"A rich neld-Cyrus w.
"A lady lecturer holds forth on the subject,
"Are we United p" Has she lost her marriage
certificate ?
John Chlnaman's Paradise-The Isle ofDogs.
The N. Y. Herald, always good comic pa
per, has frightened up wonderfully since the
advent of Punchineilo.
Ode to ]. F. Bailcy-About ten years. i'm
prisonment
"A Capital Drawing-Drawlng salary of ten
thousand q year.
"A girl In Dover, N. Fl , has constructed III
words out of Washington. But then Washing
ton is such "wordy" city you know.
An Annapolis man had cold feet, and 80 his
gentle wife lit a fire under his bed In order to
warm them. 1t was not a success, for an hour
afterwards be was o cold corpse.
"A New York printer has been arrested for
stealing a story entitled "The Masked Face" A
''lean take, we should say, and the printer must
have been Of the "bold face" type.
New Orleans pickpockets send up India rub
ber balloons, and while the crowd gazes heaven
ward, their pocketbooks go 'up in q balloon,
boys"
A Cincinnati policeman isprepaiingt TO change
his vocation to that Of on actor. Instead of
wearing Star, he thinks he can become "Star"
himself.
Hanging that should be ''played out'-Hang-
ing around dram shops.
Tho man who ''lighted up with emotion"
says 1t Is cheaper than gas.
Three thousand dollars week fetched Fech-
ter to this country. A couple of hundred will
take him back.
The comparison, ''as dry as punk" is now
rendered las dry as Punch"
The N. Y. Tribune asks, "After whiskey-
what ?" Why the chaps who drink it, of course
Jefferson Davis Is writing novel, and 1t is
not to be called "a Day in Pctticoats," because
that would be plagiarzing from the late George
Arnold.
acknowledgements hams.
We once heard customer, after receiving a
quart of milk, tell his milkman to ''chalk it."
Such advice is quite superhuous, we think.
"A Maine man is going to South Carolina to
''raise frogs on large scale for the Northern
market" He expects his crop to go off his
hands at jump. lie will be hopping mad, Ii 1t
doesn't.
-hoiace 0ieeiet Wao feceuuy huocheu doWn
by a wagon and severely injured his ankle. On
regaining his feet he is said to have remarked
"-- I"
"A part of France that tho U. s. doesn't want
Its Pierre Bony- parte.
"A common New York phenomenon-Th
Sun there, is re(a)d every day.
-"What know about Farming g''-Noihing.
Tiis is reliable.
"A Cincinnati reporter slept through the
whole Of Anna Dickinson's recent lecture in that
city," 10 other cities when reporter goes to q
lecture with ''too much beer on," they don't call
1t ''sleeping."
"A new paper in Cincinnati is called the
''Scrubbingbrush." "Whitewashbrush' would
be an appropriate name for those sheets that arc
continually 'whltewashing'' their friends.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-07


ratified by the Legislatures of the States Of
North Carolina, West Virginia,
Massachusetts, Wisconsin,,
Maine, Louisiana,
Michigan, South Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Arkansas,
Connecticut, Florida,
Illinois, Indiana,
New York, New Hampshire,
Nevada, Vermont,
Virginia, Alabama,
Missouri, Mississippi,
Ohio, Iowa,
Kansas, Minnesota,
Rhode Island, Nebraska,
and Texas. In all twenty-nne States.
And further, that the States whose Legis-
latures have so ratified the said proposed
amendment, constitute three-fourths of the
whole number Of States in the United States.
And further, that it appears from an official
document on file in this Department that the
Legislature of the State of New York has
since passed resolutions claiming to with
draw the said ratification Of the said amend
ment which had been made by the Legisla-
ture of that State, and of which official no
tice had been filed in this Department. And
further, that it appears from an official doc
ument on file in this Department, that the
Legislature of Georgia, has by resolution
ratified the said proposed amendment.
Now, therefore, be it known that l, Hamil-
ton Fish, by virtue and in pursuance Of the
second section of the act of Congress ap-
proved the goth day of April, in the year
1918, entitled, San act to provide for the
publication of the laws of the United States,
and for other purposes" do hereby certify
that the amendment aforesaid has become
valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of
the Constitution of the United States.
In t.,seimony whereof, have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the Depart
ment of State to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 30th
day of March, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy, and of
the independence of the United States, the
ninety fourth.
(Signed) HAMILTON FISH.
The New York herald., 1870-04-27
ABOLISH TIE xw,.
TO rnH EDITOR or THE HnE,Lp:-

TO TEA EDITOR or TIE HEEiLD:-
would abolish the navy altogether; for In our
present unprovidcd condition, one IL unable to sup
Port such an expensive machine. Let us inform the
great Powers OF the world that In present state OF
indebtedness we cannot support navy, and have no
doubt but that they would magnanmous'y protect
ministers and consus and merchant marine from In
jury Some sensitive people among us might have
their pride wounded by such policy. but we cam Of
arod H. aud that should be an end OF it. II man
cannot AFFORD to have Ice cream every day for dinner
ne quietly does without y; and why should we not do
the same thing In regard to- navyf nf4
Looking at Il in another point OF view think we
as the first republic in the world. should set
nm example OF Christian ftr,earance, AMI
not ny into arms at every little ndignIy
that may be offered Should we sun
wrong from Others let us say. In the words OF the
Master forrtve them, Lord, for they know not what
they do an go on In the even tenor Of our way. n
some bar9arous people should murder our cons IL let
US deliver up to them the mini'ter also, the prn-
cpe II man strikes YOU the left cheek turn mo
him tho right also. NY word for 1t, Messrs Edito
such grant policy as that would soon be followed
by all the tons OF the world Navcs would be dis
banded and peace and brotherlv love reign through
out the world BENJAMIN BROADBKIM.
The New York herald., 1870-04-27
Boat Racing at Annapolis.

IRON The Baltimore American, April 25l
There will be lourOared boat of three miles,
In paper Shells without coxswains, .at Annapolis on
Friday the Goth instant for the lamp lship Of he
United states Naval Academy. The race Will be
pulled between the crews OF the first and second
classes the usual course on the Severn river OF
three measured miles, at about five p. M, ami pro-
misses to be very close The have been stict
training for some weeks past, and despite the un-
favorable weather have been out nearly every day.
Considering the interest which attaches TO the annual
at the Academy, and in view OF the approaching
races between the Academy crew (Which is to te
City Club OF Philadelphia, and also the Aalanias. OF
New York, it Is expected there will be large number
of vis tors from abroad in addition to the usull at
tendance. The race, 1t Is thought will prove OF
the most interesting OF the season among amateur