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A COOP SIGH.-Colonel r. r. Manlove. an
ex-Confederate soldier and Democratic editor in
Texas, thus gives his reason for abandoning
the Democratic and joining the Republican
party:
Time and experience have forced the convic-
ton upon my mind that Democracy has ceased
TO be. No longer animated by those patriotic
impulses which, in other and happier days,
achieved so much in liberty's behalf, its self
constituted leaders have prostiiuted the cardi-
nal principles of the Republican government
in mad scramble for place and power, and,
oblivious TO the solemn truth that the appeal
10 arms have been made and lost still strive to
evoke from dead nations tomb the shadowy
phsntoms of an irrevocable past.
Republicansm, on the other hand, meets the
living issues of the time IN which we live.
Though not free from blemish in its long lease
of power, it binds itself indissolubly to truth
and duty, espouses as its own the interests OF
suffering humanity everywhere, and bids de-
hance TO all the powers Of the universe to sever
1t from civil an religious freedom. Permitting
the dead past to bury the dead" it looks
with unfaltering trust TO the future, wherein
ats grand mission is TO be accomplished, and
peace and liberty become the portion Of all
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SUMNER RECREATION OF CoNGIEssMEN.-
Quite number Of Senators are intending -
visit the Pacific, others are going to the North
west. Senators Wilson, Nye, Spencer, Schurz.
Morrill,, of Maine, and Ames are going to Eu-
rope at an early DAY. IL is also rumored that
Senator and Mrs. Sprague will join Mr. and
Mrs. Hoyt In Germany ere long. Quite num-
Der of Representatives are also about to visit
the Old World. Mr.. Hoar, of Massachusetts,
will leave on Saturday next with bic family.
General Butler joins Mrs. Butler at Fran fort
on-the- Main as soon as possible. Consul Cen
eral Webster is Mrs. Butlers brother, and she,
with her two sons, has been living there for
some months past. Mrs. Banks is In Paris, but
the General, it is understood, will not cross the
Atlantic this season. Speaker and Mrs. Blaine.
with the Hon. Eugene Hail. will soon sail for
the Continent. Mrs. Senator Stewart with some
members OF her family has been in Italy for
months past. Chief Justice Chase will join
his daughter, Mrs. Hoyt, during the summer.
N. Y. Mail.
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-04

Halls VEGETABLE SIcILIAN HAIR REVIEWER
now stands among the first, and at the head Of
AL articles for "a similar purpose. The testi-
mony of our physicians is conclusive as to its
value and we are personally acquainted with
scores of cases where it has been used with the
best of results. 1t will restore gray hair to its
original color, and leaves it glossy, and in a
healthy condition; while, for heads troubled
with dandruf, or sny disease of the scalp, it acts
like a charm in cleansing them. Try it, and
you will not be disappointed. L o,ceN Courier,
Hay 2, 1868.
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Capitalization,

The opponents Of the Republican party seek
to make point on the question of what they
are pleased TO term a Capitalization OF power"
in the Federal Government We can very
easily understand why State rights Democrat,
should make such an allegation The urinci.
pies of the Republican party are certainly o..
posed to the doctrine that the States are sover.
eign, independent of the Federal Government.
The doctrine of State sovereignty was exploded
by the Republican party after four years OF
hard fighting, and States-rghts men are not
pleased with the result But the hard expert
ence OF that four years suggests that the ques-
ton should be put 10 rest forever, and the ten
dency Of the Republican legislation has been
TO that elect If the people Of the South or
Of any other section, believe that the authority
of the Federal Government could be made
second to that of the States il * we'll If thew
can be convinced of their error by legislation.
rather than by another disastrous and bloody
attempt to settle the question in different
way.
Ii we, by chance, should have another re-
belliOn, no time would be wasted in debating
the constitutional power Of the Government t.
" c0erce "A State. We have seen enough of
delay on former occasion from that cause
We would not rob the States of a single legal
or Just right. We have no idea Of ever SUB.
hitting to an obliteraton of State lines. The
States should be allowed to regulate their own
domestic affairs in their own way, provided
that all their citizens are protected, and pro
vlded that the rights Of citizens 10 other
States are In no way abridged. But while we
favor all this we are decidedly in favor of cloth
ing the Federal Government with full power to
protect itself, by enforcing the law, and pro-
tecting it's citizens when the States fail to pro-
tect them. Ii this is Capitalization, then the
Republican party certainly favors it. If by
Capitalization" it is meant that Republicans
seek TO make the laws of the Federal Govern
ment the supreme power Of the land, then We
say, by all means let us have centrali cation -
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P&icy-Shops.

The Daily Morning Chronicle, in exposing
those pests on society, the policy shops in its
Monday issue, makes the unwarranted state
ment that policy-playing is engaged in by the
colored people hegs to the largest extent. This
is positively not tue, and is SANDER on the
colored citizens of this District. That low and
degraded colored people play policy we have
no doubt but that large per centage of the
forty thousand colored people play policy we
know to be false. How strange it is that
papers like the Chronicle, protesting friend
ship in the elevation of the colored race Of this
country, make such statements as the above in
the face of the fact that the colored people, to
the Largest extent" are putting forth ever y
energy to acquire knowledge, and to do every
thing that will make Of themselves upright and
respectable citizens.
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SOUTHERN FREE MUsIc.-We learn from one
OF our exchanges that the colored singers OF
Fisk College, of Nashville, conquered the pro.
prietors of Mechanics Hail, and gave "can.
tata OF Esther" to large audience The Ten
nessee Tribune commends the singers highly,
calls them all Misters and Misses, declares Mr.
L. Rutting is the best tenor voice we have
ever heard in Tennessee, and thinks he would
create furore in Paris or London says Miss
Minnie Tate astonished US by the pure, rich
contralto tones, and "evinced rare dramatic
TALENT commends the "consummats skill and
taste" of Miss Shepherd the organist, and con-
Guides by approving these efforts ito fit the
S man to know his rights, and knowing,
dare maintain ~ 1t is q sign of the orest
enahge IN the South when audiences patronixe
nu papers commend such exercises from those
tba ,a .n5aii OF the Saxon, and but lately 10
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The Asheville IN. c. Citizen learns that
on the night of the 18th instant a party of some
four or i've men went to house in Haywood
county, occupied by Mr.. Robinson and his
two daughters-one a widow, and the other a
young woman unmarried-and threw down the
kitchen and also the chimney of the dwelling,
and broke open the door. As the door was
broken open the widow stepped out, when one
of the rufians threw her from the steps, and
either he or one of the accomplices shot her,
iniicting dangerous if not mortal wound,
lodging Il buckshot in her hip. Another one
of the party presented pistol through crack,
within few feet of Miss Robinson, and snapped
it at her, but it failed to fire. There were some
four o. five shots fired, but only one took effect
After the firing the rufians left The house
attacked is on the premises of the sheriff of
Haywood, and within few hundred yards OF
his residence, but he was not at home.
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The little manikin State of South Caro-
lima was thsfrst to secede, fred the first gun,
took the irst. national fort, and dragged her
sisters into the great shareholders rebellion.
The net results or these fine exploits, on
which she then so highly plumed herself, for
the exaltation and perpetuation of American
slavery, may be briefly. stated thus: A negro
Lieutenant Governor, three negro Congress
men, eleven negro State Senators, eighty negro
Representatives, and one negro Jstge OF the
Supreme Court Such was the harvest that
came of the Seed sown in I86l.a
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From Rev Orleans.
A Severe Lesson for a saloon Keeper Ne
groes Applying for Admission al the BAR.

severe Lesson Tor saloon Keeper - Ne
groes Applying for Admission al the BAR.
New ORLEANS, April 27.-Judge Dibble has
given Sheriff Sanviret, colored, 81, 600 damages
in the Eighth District Court in his suit against
the proprietors of the Bank Saloon for Sl0,-
900 damages, for refusing to furnish refresh
ments on account of color.
Two colored graduates of Howard Uhiver-
sity of the District of Columbia this morning
made application TO the Supreme Court for
admission to the bar of this State. Their ap.
plication was refused on the ground that,
although parties who have practiced before the
supreme court in any State Can be admitted
upon motion before the court. yet these can
didates, coming from Territory, do not come
within the letter of the law: and they will
have to pass an examination before a commit.
tee appointed by the Supreme Court before
they can be admitted 10 practice.
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-04

In Congress the number of ex-rebes Ear ex-
ceeds the number of carpet-bag representa-
uves OF the South. OF the twenty-five South
srn Senators, only nine are Of Northern birth,
and one Of these is Democrat OF the tiftv.
nine Southern Representatives, forty-one are
natives of that section, and only nine North
erners ; and OF this number OF Southern Rep
fesentsuyes twenty-eigbt are eI-otficials of the
Ioniederacy. This statement effectually ex,
Plodes the cry of carpet-baggers, +" and shows
'hal 'he south has more natives in Congress in
P'oPor'lon than many of the Western States.
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Tue evidences Of inferority and lack of en-
terprise exhibited by the white race of North
Carolina, as portrayed in series of letters by
a correspondent of the New York Tribune,
are more appalling than anything advanced
against the people Of Sauto Domi ngo by the
especial advocates of the principles that make
North Carolina the almost worthless State il is.
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-04

PoLICY PLAYING is simply and plainly a
species of small gambling, in which our colored
people to the largest extent engage. Daily
Chronicle, Republican
TIE colored people of the United States
present the unparalleled spectacle of an illt-
crate and recently-enslaved race rapidly fitting
themselves not only for freedom, but to enter
the lists of intellectual competition with men
who have enjoyed the advantages of liberty
and education from improving generation to
generation.-Sundoy Capital, (Democratic)
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Nv nave nave received, with much pleasure, the
IN w. aS;.oaot Era, edited by Fred. DOUGLASS
nth s, snsa0n. IL is a handsome sheet, Oiled
NJ 6 Soe,,ns articles We are glad to see that
,be nsw isn;s, nss been appointed a member Of
by the President--N Y. Repsbf3c =. 0O'uin oia
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THE Government has paid 10 the volunteers
who saved the Union from Democratic treason
the sum of 1881 ,448, 900 in bounties. During
the rebellion of four years soldiers also received
as their regular monthly pay S52S,000, 600
more, making in all s9O9, 44e, 900 during the
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TIE Legislature of Texas having pa,.ea !.
law furnishing the carrying of concealed 49,,
ons as blow aimed at the Ku. Klux Khan. rbs
Governor, Edmund j. Davis, is enforcing the
law In manner that leaves no doubt of bis
earnestness to protect the people of that State
from rebel outlawry.
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-04

H0RATIo BOLSTER, murderer was last Fri
day sentenced to be legally murdered on the
9th of June next, which will be done with all
the premeditatiOn necessary to the erection OF
a scaffold, adjusting of the rope, and all other
preliminares essential to a murder of the
kind
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-04

To-pAY will be played, on the grounds of the
Olympic Club, game between the Boston b
b. c. and the Olympic B. B. C. for the cham,
pionship Of the United States. Much interest
is manifested as to the result
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-04

A WASHINGTON correspondent of the Lynch
burg Republican says that the Democratic
members Of Congress have determined to treat
all measures for the benefit of the District OF
Columbia as party measures, and oppose them
as such, and with the capital-movers they can
defeat any appropriations" for the benefit OF
this District
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-04

-Bayard Taylor publishes card in the
New York Tribune, showing up plaa by
which New York aud Hartford Publishing
House " is endeavoring to make him and other
distinguished men pay ffty dollars a volume
for having personal sketches of themselves
and others published therein. 0nce before this
swiudle has been exposed.
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-04

MONROE GREGORY, Esq, has been appointed
principal Of Stevens School in the First Ward.
Mr.. Gregory is one of the Howard University
students
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NORTH CAROLINA.

In Cleveland, not ten days since, Il party
wearing the characteristic and hideous disguise
OF the b.lan, which consists Of towing white
robe reaching nearly 10 the ankles, surmOunted
by a headdress OF spiral shape from the
shoulders upwards, terminating in a large way
ing plume, with projecting dark colored horns
on each side IN front, IA Glonster nose OF glazing
hue, eyehole5 marked with fiery lines, and a
mouth extending across the whole mass, dis
playing an enormous row Of teeth, appeared at
the house Of a farmer. The door was knocked
at, and in sepulchral tone of voice he was
ordered to come forth. Soon he appeared, fol.
lowed by his wife and daughter, when a volley
was fired by the Khan wounding the farmer,
killing his wife, but fortunately missing his
daughter. About the same time another farmer
was cruelty whipped, and the members of the
hIan engaged in this operation were Unidentified
by his daughter, and have since been arrested
aud held to bail for trial.
No later than Thursday last large detach-
ment Of these bloodthirsty wretches wearing
the usual regalia and insignia of the order,
went 10 the cabin Of an aged negro named
George Mathews. Without any superAuous
ceremony the colored patriarch--tOr Mathews
was over fifty years old-was ordered TO leave
mis- bed, and with still less ceremony was
dragged from his hut and was fred upon.
htty-elght bullets entering his body, which was
thoroughly rldded, and he vas left corpse at
his own door Not content with this demonia-
cal outrage, they then took Bella Mathews,
the step-daughter of the murdered man, and
cruelty whipped her. William Mclean. another
negro, was inhumanly beaten the night follow
ing that upon which Mathews was murdered
and ms step-daughter whipped. Mclean, when
nearly halt dead, managed to escape from the
gang, one of his arms being broken. None of
these parties have been arrested their disguise
being SO complete as to battle recognition
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HENRY .. WAGNER, Jr., son of one of the
colored pioneers of Colorado Territory, has
been appointed to a frstclass clerkship in the
Interior Department Mr.. Wagner is Law
student at Howard University.
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-04

CAPITOL Hill glories in the sensation of
haunted house
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This is the way the Cincinnati Gazette com
psres the receipts and expenditures of the
National Government for the last two years of
Andrew Jobnson's administration and the two
first years OF Grants term
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Political.
IOWA

On the 2lSt Of June next the fifteenth annual
State convention Of the Republican party OF
the State of Iowa will be held at Des Moines
The business before the convention will be the
nomination OF candidate for Governor, Lieu.
| tenant Governor, Supreme Judge and Superin.
tendent of Public instruction. Among those
mentioned ia connection with the Governorship
are Col. G. c. Carpenter, Hon. Henry O'Con-
nor, the present Attorney General for the
State Hon. John A. Elliot, Hon. D. 2. Stubs.
Hon, John Scott, Hon. james F. Wilson, Hon.
c. w. Slagle, and Gen. John NJ. Hedrick. Col.
Carpenter, 1t is thought, will receive the nomi-
nation. Some Of the above-nam parties are
not really DESTROYS of securing the nomination.
though they are favorably mentioned by the
press of the State. For the other offices named
the candidates are numerous. 1t is no empty
honor to receive a nomination on the Republi-
can ticket IN Iowa, nd the nominees are sure OF
an election by majority ranging from forty to
htty thousand votes. Iowa is the banner State
of the West in Radcalsm
NEW JERSEY.
The Newark Courier publishes a long list of
candidates for Governor of New JERSEY 20 sue.
coed Mr. Randolph. Among the Democrats
mentioned are the Hon. Nehemiah Perry, Gen.
Kunyon, ex'Congressman Haight, John Nc
Gregor, ex-senator Henry S. Little, ex.Speaker
Leon Albeit, ex-Judge Samuel f. Bigelow.
and Congressman John T. Bird. Among the
Republicans are Cortlandt Parker, Cornelius
Walsh, John Davidson, of Elizabeth, Senator
Bette, Senator Torrey, Ex-Governor Ward
General Judson Fitzpatrick, Congressman John
Hill, John |. Blair, Judge Rysrson, John s.
Apologize, William Walter Phelps, ex Senator
Seovel, Dudley S. Gregory Jonathan Dixon,
OF Jersey City, ex United States Senator Cattel,
Col, Jacob K. Freeze, ex Governor Newell,
General Hoxsey, and ex Governor Olden.
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NEW JERSEY.

Tweed will spend 100000 in altering and
renting the Metropolitan hotel in New York.
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81. &. H.,
SOUTH CAROLINA.

The ku-klux hung Daniel Edwards a col
ored man, in Darlington county, South Carolina,
on the night of April oath. The Charleston
Neios, Democratic paper, says that he was q
lawless character, known throughout the coun-
ty as burner of gin-houses and barns that
he had been warned that summary punishment
would overtake him, and was given abundant
time for turning over new leaf There was
no change in his conduct, and on Monday night
a body o. mounted men went to his house. took
him out into the road and swung him to a tree.
All the band were masked. They were cautious
ia the extreme, having warned all the negroes
in the vicinity not TO stir from their homes un-
til morning
The New York herald., 1871-02-05
T r P L E SHE e IT.
New York, Sunday, February S, 1871.
CONTENTS OF TO.DAY,s HERALD.


I-Advertisements
2-Advertisements
3-News from Washington-Proceedings OF Con.
gress-Sunering France: Appeal to the People
o. tne United St8tes-Amusemelts-NeC
1ul Nurses in the BROOKLYN City Hosptal-The
Eenian Exlles-Uuba Libre: Meeting OF the
Cuban Ladies' League-The Sinking Fund
Terpsichorean Trippings.
4-Murder: History OF Crime and Punishment:
Inc Assassln's Bloody Work Through All
Ages-Rehglous Intelligence.
5-Rules and Regulations OF the National Associa-
ton Tor the promotion oil the Interests OF the
American Trottlng Turf-English and Anglo
American Beat Raclng-Yachtng-P
Shootlng-The Royal Marrlage-Course OF
Empire.
6-Editorials Leading Article, ''The Armistce:
The Coming French National Assembly: What
is the Prospect fi-Amusement Announce
7-Editorials Continued from Sixth Page)-Paris
All Quiet IN the Clty-The French Elections
BourbaKi-General News from France-The
Empress Eugenie-The European Congress-
The Alabama Claims-The Crown OF Ger.
many-Tne Eastern Question-News from
Hayu and Jamaca-Mlscelane0u Tele-
grams-1mportant from Central and South
Notwithstanding OF the Adelphi Theatre
Boston-Banquet 10 General Peasanton-
Obituary-Views ofthe Past-Buslness Notices
S-Behind the Counter: Mysteries aud Mseries OF
What a Steamship Agent Has to Say About
Collector Aurphy's Latest Proposals-The
Courts-Tne Coal Miners Troubles-Tne
Dominion OF Canada-Marrages and Deaths.
9-Fleancial and Commercial Reports-The Camden
Mots-Down Precipice-Naval Intelligence
Advertisements.
dO-The Markets: Contemplated Removal Of the
Unsighrly Shanties-New York City Items
Brooklyn's Bourbon Again-Desttut1on and
misunderstanding Observation-Disclosures
mens.
11-Advertisements.
12-Adyertlsements.
The New York herald., 1871-02-05
A Sensible Juror.

A day or two ago there was finished in the
Superior Court trial which had lasted
through two weeks. The points at issue, in
volving charge of malicious prosecution and
false Imprisonment growing out of the pur-
chase of some old United States gunboats for
the Peruvian government, are not material.
The point worth noticing is this Through
these two weeks the jury had patiently sat and
listened to direct testimony and cross-examina-
tions most tediously protracted, and lawyers
more tedious, talking against time and then
came the summing up tiresome trades of
words long drawn out and then the Judges
charge. To all this inquisitorial torture the
jury submitted without murmur 1t was
believed respite had come at last. Not 80.
No sooner had the Judge finished than
all the lawyers jumped to their feet.
One insisted that the judge should
charge this. Another insisted that he
should not. One persisted in reading sew
eral pages Of written points, which he urged
should be given to the jury. Another launched
out into review of the whole case. The
Judge went over part of his charge again.
There was general jumble of talk all around
A juror could stand itno longer. 81 protest"
ne called out to the Judge, ''against this sort
Of talking. 1t is only bewilderiug the jury,
and II kept up will get US in such a mud
die that we won't know anything about the
case"
This was sensible juror. He had the
courage to speak out his mind, and it is pleas
ant to record the historical fact that the law
yers at once took the hint and subsidized into
their seats and silence 1t is great pity
that there are not more jurors of like sense
and courage. The extent to which jurors in
all our courts have to submit to this sort Of
infiction is an outrage. II lawyers are SEN
sible they will stop it. If judges are sensible
they will not allow it. If jurors are sensible
they will not stand it.
The New York herald., 1871-02-05

SOUTH AMERICA. Our dispatches this
morning contain the usual accounts of revolu-
tons and disorders among the South American
republics. In Uruguay the revolutionists are
making headway, having defeated the gov
ernment forces at Caco, with loss OF
one hundred and fifty men. From Bolivia
the advices are most unfavorsble for
the government. Potos has been captured
and destroyed by the revolutionists, who
had five hundred men killed in the attack.
The city was pillaged for three days,
and unheard-of atrocities were committed by
Abe druxken soldiery. The Indians in all the
PROVINCES have risen against the government,
nnd some fifty thousand natives are marching
10 join the insurgents. 1t is evident that the
existing administration will soon be over
thrown, and that Morales, the insurgent
aeader. viii assume the Presidential chair