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The Hawaiian gazette., 1872-04-17
Funny! Very Funny

In my Advertising Column, my Bird Traps, Birt
Houses and Breeding Cages, Of which have splen
did assortment are crowded out. They will be solo
cheap, very cheap.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1872-04-17

1" WooDBrSISs" is the absolutely latest. It is
used when people depart with other peoples
wives
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-12

A OUEsTIoN.-A committee Of the Hous
of Delegates reports that the adjournment OF
the General Assembly over recess leaves
bills which had been sent to the Governor in
precisely the same condition as If the recess
had not been taken. That is to say, it is the
Governors duty to return them within five
days, and if he fails to do so they become
laws. The provision in the State Constitu'
ton on the subject is an exact copy, we be-
licye, Of one contained in the Federal Consti.
tuition except as to the number Of days.
Congress sometimes takes recess for many
months-did so once during JoHNsoN's adj
ministration to prevent him from overturn.
ing the Government THAT is, the Radical
party.] We ask, then, if every bill that is
sent to the President, say on the last day OF
the session, becomes law if he does not
"return it to the House an achtch 1t ortg'-
mated" within ten days? [This is the Ian
gllagc of the constitutional Is returning it
to the clerk returning it to the House in
which it originated? And in the case of a
veto, is it possible that it can lie dormant in
the clerks hands from April to October
when the Constitution evidently contem
plates an immediate reconsideration of the
vetoed BILL? If SO, the clerk has the veto
power, because he can resign and prevent
the return of a bill to his House, or he might
die, and thus veto it. The difficulty would
not be removed by supposing that he had
even hundred deputies.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-12
The Legislature.

Both branches of the General Assembly of
Virginia last week considered the veto mes
sage of the Governor, and the resolutions
disapprored init were passed over the veto
by the required two-thirds vote. So, with
81, 100000 in the treasury, and with $780,
900 to come in before the LIST of March, the
Legislature of Virginia refuses to pay to the
creditors of the State any portion of the in
terest due them, and yet many Of these men,
bers voting for these resolutions Indignantly
deny being "repudiationists." If this does
not mean reputation, what does it mean? 1t
is new principle in financial ethics If these
legislators have discovered that it is economy
to lend the public funds to the Richmond
banks, and receive therefor four per cent.
interest instead of paying it to the creditors
Of the State, and saving six per cent.
It is estimated TINT two-thirds of the hold
ers of State bonds resident in the State are
widows and orphans, whose State stocks are
probably the only yestiges of property left
them from the rpYages Of war. They have
received for the past seven years but little
more than one per cent. per year on these,
when money Inns been worth from one to two
and q half per cenE. per month, and now,
when the money is in hand, they are refused
any payment. Truly, the chiyalrr rs well as
the honor OF Virginia has fallen under bad
guard IS
Were the MISTER not SO serious 1t would be
iudiuous to note the prompt aiacrity Nith
which some Of the3 blatant Foeates oil g re-
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-12
t,erc fell ON tlat day efortyan 1.-Two snos.-
sar,d.a According 70 the orss'.s. sa sss' &
this should rea, 9ts'o tloslsano aas1 AZ e
=, 7 7.-....,. EIactson Case.

zsf Inc SU1Ak'SC SsI - !,
Tho Senate decided the contest between
Nessrs. LArnnop and BERxlEy In the only
xav IN which It could properly be decided
60 FIR as the refusal to seat LirHRor was con-
e re btt ordered the writ of election 70
issue to the wrong district Prince EDWARD
and Charlotte are just as certainly the dislr'c1
entitled to representation as Nanselnonu'
southampton, and Isle Of Wight' ae ,1e
district entitled to Mr. BoYK1Ss services; ice ne
was elected to fill vacancy. The TACT thas
the same counties constitute his district uh.
der the new that constituted it under tne ola
apportionmcnt has nothing to 90 win Inc
question. AS Mr.. BoYKIs does, SO Mr. LAM
,srr,s successor should represent exactly the
same counties which he represented OF else
be ;s mt his successor at all. The Senate mas
in fact exercised a power which can consti'
trtionally be exercised only by the two houses
Of the Legislature; for the Legislature pro
vided that senator elected by Charlotte ana
Prince Edward should represent the distrlct
for the next two years, whereas the senate
has provided that senator to be eleceeo 'y
Charlotte and Mecklenburg shall represent
that district. This is evident from the iac'
that if LAruRoP had been a resident OF either
Charlotte or Prince Edward there WOULD
have been no contest and he would now be
in the seat.
This contest grew out of the failure OF Tue
last Legislature to redistrict the whole s1a1e'
as it was its duty to do.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-12
The Monster of All Villains--Warmotf
.@e the TJsr1rper.

wornoth. an accomplished villain and po-
litical adyenturer, is doing more to give JOY
TO Democratic hearts by bringing reproacn
mon the Republican party than any score OF
men on the American contlncnt.-olale 1o4'-
nal Of yesterday.
But the Democrats in New Orleans take
sides against WARMorH. They seem to be
upon the side of CASEY, CARTER, and GRANT.
The Picawme, however, says "a plague on
both your houses" We quote:
awe renew our counsel to our citizens 70
keep out of the disreputable affair altogether.
II is II suuabble among rioters and tactlonlsts,
in which neither party will scruple to use or
abuse any power or means which can ne
controlled. Both being wrong in motive, 1t
is useless to inquire which is worse. The
ascendency of either can do us no good"
Of the legislation which conferred virtual
dictatorship on the Governor the Times says:
"These several laws render our State Elk
ecutive the most absolute government on this
continent. They install personal and party
tyranny which is in violent conflict with the
cardinal principles of repubicanism, and an
outrage upon popular rights and govern
ment. They centre the whole substantial po-
litical powers of the State in the hands OF one
man. There is no party end that will weigh
a feather in the scales against the prime ne
cessity of uprooting all this legislation which
has brought such evils and disgrace upon our
State. We must have this reform at any ana
every cost. All who stand in the way OF it
must be crushed and thrown aside"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-12
ShibbOleth,
The Philadelphia Christian Wee

The Philadelphia Christian Weekly says:
"The Arabs Qike the Hebrews Of old) are
taught to place smaller sums in enumeration
before the larger This is just the reverse of
our habit. We put thousands before hun
dreds, and hundreds before units. So if a
literal rendering of one of those vast num-
bers be made into English, 1t will appear
positively preposterous.
Gin the first book of Samuel weare told Tin
our version) that for the impiety of looking
into the ark the Lord smote in the little town
of Beth-shemesh 'of the people fifty thou
sand and threescore and ten men, SAM,
6, 10. Now, one cannot help thinking that
there was no town in all those borders SO
large as this assumes. Fifty thousand men,
besides women and children, would popu-
late one of our largest modern cities.
"The difficulty disappears when you recall
the idiom have mentioned. The verse reads,
sseyenty, :flfties, and thousand THAT is,
not 20 and $4,000, us it Is translated, but 80,
two 50s, and 1000, or ], l7o men in all"
This explains the statement in the Bible rs
to the number of the turbulent and rebel
Eous Ephrainites that were slain ut the
passes Of the Jordan. e Say thou unto them,
q say now untous, SnlibboleA. Butthcy being
Of a strange tongue, could not frame to speak
theword Alright but called it sibboeth." And
the book las trapslateD goes on to.tells that
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-12

~ tIe hi sota
any urofjcstion csittail IeTt ~
their official post ons. J. I. -, =
= Thsy can deng aae claims Of the Widow Y.
and tie sorphaf; they Gun sHisy tle holag.
ami ssa;,a the fiiir fame af Virgins, deSraoe
hsss II, fl,e eyes Of the world. and Strike
S Ssssf How af nh iIeT schemes for the develop
n man ens her material resources do M
the r,nf,,e Of asrelief,1 yet each one OF them
m mn pet his six dollars Hem ana twenty
cents mileage for travelling to and from bus
home 60 the capital on free passes over every
raiIroad In the State The dear people,
don't require any. relief z which involves
4 decrease Of the expenses Of the Govern
n,ent atId q surailment of pay Of members OF
the Legislature. The only relief :. THESE =,
u;se LEGISLATORS see needed Is that which VIII
a,i i then, the lingering Of as much OF the
money II, the treasury as possible. -.
We do not meaii To he understood as belng
nor az the advocate Of reduction 81 pay q
members. but II necessity exists we siloui ~
have more confidence in the sincerity OF
some of them IL they showed Wilninsncss
to unite Id general sacrifice ior tne non .ol
and prosperity Of Virginia. Inc necssslsy
has arisens=ard 1t Is very great-ttlaMt es e.
effort should be tnade TO keep the ialeh OF !, tue
State with her creditors. RuinIilnmediate
absolute, and eternal threatens her ialne ana ~
| her fortunes, and we earnestly appeal TO the
sober second thought of the Legislature TO
repair repair Speedily the mischief which it has
done. Increase the revenue by the collec-
ton of taxes from sources which, have here
tofore failed to pay their proportion, ari,ong
which may be instaneed the completed lines
of railway in the State increase the revenue E
NV an ;ncyease of taxation on the luXuries of
life. and relieve the people by reduction OF
taxation on its necessities and reduction OF
the expenses Of the government. We speak
with no uncertain sound when we say to
1 members of the General Assembly Of Viz
| ginia that the people will hold them to strict
| account for the manner in which their trust
4 is fulfilled. The effect Of their legislation
will he speedily felt, and the people will not
fail as promptly to reward or punish, us =
NAV be productive of good or evil Chatham
/ Tribune.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-12

clergyman of his day. Bosp sentenced 81 slS:
indicted over FIVE hundred, and induced
forty-seven Of his wretches0 % confess
OF the "wretches charged With peing s' Oh
earned in the Monmouth rebellion, JErfRf J,
sentenced three hundred and twenty 70 ps
hanged, eight hundred and forty-one 70 oe
transported and sold into slavery, ana o1n.'s
to be most barbarously punished WIZ.
scourglngs, imprisonment etc. 'LFr =. :,
was rewarded by being made LORD alsl
chancellor Of England, but his end was ohs
Of horrible disgrace. Bosp has pernap ,,,, /
meaner King than JAMES to serve. ~" ~,
GRANT make him Chief Justice o. ~. s 5i ;,
nreme Court Of the United States! Anu u
So will he fare as JEFFREYs did,
And now, two hundred years altei si's
div .IrrFnrYs's name is the synonyme oil
corrupt brutal judge, whilst his victims are
regarded as having been guilty Of no crime
worthy of death.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-12
Judge Bond as a Kuklux.

In pronouncing sentence upon the so-calleo
kuklux prisoners in Columbia, 5. G., Judge
;JErpREYs-we beg pardon, Judge BOND
said many things which have already oeeh
recorded to his everlasting disgrace, but, after
nil his efforts to justify his conduct during
the trial and the condemnation OF the poor
white men who had been found guilty by MS
negro Jurors, he himself unwittlnsly con-
fessed Judgment in the following dechralioh'
Growing warm with anger, we may imagine,
AZ he proceeded to describe the unparalleled
offences which his witnesses Zone OF them ioi
tbe consideration of two hundred doilars)
had proved the defendants to have been guiltv
of, the Judge said:
"Therc appears to be no wounding OF the
shirt. no such sense of injury to yo'lrscl as
q man as would be felt by the humblest OF
vour fellow-citizens in any other part OF the
tinted States with which l am acquainted.
There the citizen upon whom such ottrages
we're perpetrated, stung to madness by the
insnIt To his manhood, ronld be sacIft TO Iot-
lo,c the ,rronq-loer to the end Of the acorl3 10
make him atone for IT,"
Here the Judge distinctly declares that I'm
any other part of the United States WIN
which, be is acquainted the citizens would
have lynched such men as compose the XII
klux clan-in other words, would them
selves have become kuklux! And Judge
Bosp gives no intimation that be would not
ioin such kuklux clan himself. On the
contrary, he leaves it to be inferred that he
would consider the lynching of kukluX 10
be praisewortby act. Now, had ever any
people in the world better reason than had
those of South Carolina for taking the law
into their own hands: Plundered, insulted,
ovcr-taxed, put under the heels OF their
former slaves, and at the mercy Of corrupt
carpet-baggcr judges and negro juries, the
white people of that State had exactly the
same reason for taking the law into their own
hands which Judge BOND says would have
induced the people elsewhere to do SO. Gut
of his own mouth is he condemned.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-12

The FUNDING BILL.-We had prepared
some weeks since a'somewhat lengthy article
on this subject, but have been unable to ina
room for it.
Since our last the Governor has vetoed the
resolution suspending the funding OF the
public debt, and the lower House OF the
Legislature has passed it over his veto by
more than two-thirds majority.
Upon the question we have only space TO
saw that we believe the original funding bill
to have been unwise and iniquitous; but
since the contract has been made with the
holders of the State bonds, and they have
acted upon the promise by funding their
claims, we believe the action of the present
Legislature, in receding from their bargain,
to be violation of q solemn contract with the
creditors Of the State, which, in the end, will
be disastrous to the good name and credit OF
the State, and win eventually bring us into
trouble, and. cause loss greater than the debt
itself. go
"Stick to your bargain, if it is bad one,"
and honesty is the best policy" are very
safe rules in this emergency ockbr1dge
Citizen.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-12

GOVERNOR PALMER SUSTAINED.-The major
ity report Of the committee appointed by the
Him OILS Legislature to investigate the matter
Of the military occupation of Chicago fully
sllstains Governor Palmer. The committee
say, in concluding their report:
HThe committee, while they consider the
claims male for the Mayor of Chicago Of good
intentions i'm surrendering the control of the
government of Chicago to Lieutenant Gene
raj Sheridan, feel bound to reiterate the legal
principles, W ell-established, that mere good
Intentions afford no excuse to public officer
for violation c,f his duty, nor are they pre-
pared to admit t.hat the eminent services and
well-merited repl ltation of Lieutenant General
Sheridan furnish stn excuse or apology for acts
that were clearly and palpably illegal. The
committee are of opinion that the doctrine
of equality before the law" operates with
full force to those who violate as well rs
those who demand protection under the law
and that the acts of men are to be determined
by their own intrinsic qualities, and not by
the character of the person whose conduct is
in Question. No man can be above the law,
nor can any degree of public service afford q
justification for its violation. And being OF
opinion. as expressed tby the Governor in bis
second comm unication, that the employment
of United States troops in a populous city to
perform police duty in time Of peace, when
the laws of the State were in full force, Us in
the present case, in addition to being viola.
ton of law, was also a dangerous example,
the committee would recommend the adop-
ton of the resolution herewith submitted. .
The action of the committee in thus ap-
proving the course of Governor Palmer Is as
gratifying rs it was unexpected, and 1t will
have good effect the country over. Every
lover Of good government Will re)oice that
there is at least one section OF Inc Union
which cannot safely be brought under mill
tary Louisville Courier.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-12
], ,,, :, : LAND scRfp. I

LAt0 oSnA8
3: Mr.. F1rzarnaIn offered resolution alloW-I
Inn the representatives OF the v,.r1oes cor
leges claiming shAre of this scTlp aI n nv
each for afY argument before the aoti g
Hotise, by vote Of 57 nays 20 % yea y
refused to refer Che resolution 20 q coiiil11aas
IN amendment Offered by Mr. DgsEA |. 2
proposing night sessions for the eraslo'l
Of this subject was rejected 49,;
Mr.. KEYsEn offered an amendment INV.
ting the representatives Of Colleges 10 pTesehs
their claims to the General Assembly,, a u !
rendering them the use of the nal 10 lOr =. lh y
purpose. Agreed to-yeas, 81 nays, ~.
The resolution "a amended was tnen to
jected-yeas, 43; nays. 81.
STATE REPOSITORIES.
Mr.. BAGwELL offered a resolution INSTRUCT,
ing the Committee on Finance to inquire ano
report as to the best and safest means Oh de-
hosting Che public funds. He meant no
reflection OH the present repositories, pI,
thought the claims Of all the banks shouia
I've considered. The resolution was referred
BILLS, &C., PASSED.
Senate bill incorporating the Virginia Iron
Mining and Chemical Company Senate !oihl
resolution agreeing to the amendment Oh tiie
Constitution in regard to usury... :.
Senate joint resolution extending the time
for the collection of taxes in buckingham
county for 1870.
Senate bill to art1etid the charter of the
Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary
To amend the pilot law:
FILLS, &C., INTRODUCED AND REFERRED.
Nv Mr.: JonGENsoN Bill to amend section
& Of CHAPTER "a of the acts Of 1S69-'70.
Rv MI. BR1srow: Resolution proposing te
prevent the levy and sale Of the properly o
q surety to a deceased principal, I'LL the en-
tire estate of said decedent, both real anc
personal, shall have been sold, collected, anc
distributed among his creditors.
By Mr.. BURKHoLDER Bill to Incorporate
St. Patrick's Beneficial Society, OF Lynch
| burg.
in relation to the collection of bills.
| By Mr.. JoRGEssoN: Bill to amend and re
enact section 5, chapter 80, of the Acts 0
1Se9,7O.
By Mr.. O'FERRALL: Bill to amend the ac
to prevent the sacrifice of personal property
at forced sales. as-
By Mr.. CHRISTIAN Memorial of citizens o
Matthews county in relation to dredging II
-Mohjack bay.
By Mr.. DONALD: Bill to Incorporate Thu
Midway, Rasline and Brownsburg Turnpike
Company.
Bv Mr. BEAToN: Bill to amend the act TO-
the restraint and destruction of dangerou
animals.
Adjourned.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-12
From the Lypchburg Press.
The Funding Bili-..GovernoE's Veto o.
no Avail.

twill he seen from otsr news columns tliat
the funding bill has been thrown oyefpoaru,
and that our Legislature is all at sea VIII our
State finances and credit-and, we nlay ADD,
anparently on very stormy sea, without any
chart or compass, in - old rotten hulk, win
q lunatic at the helm.
The veto of Governor Walker Is all proper
enough. but, as we had reason to expect,
had no effect whatever on his Conservative Le-
gislature. he is only fifth wheel with that
party now. and will always remain so unless
they should again get in a tight place and Try
TO use him once more as the cat used the
monkey to pull hot chestnuts from the ire.
As q reasonable and sensible man Governor
Walker could do no less than give his reasons
for desiring that the funding bill should be
carried out in good faith.
The veto power having beer conferred
upon him as Governor of Virginia, he was
bound to approve or disapproye OF tile re-
neal of the funding acts We do not deem1t
necessary to publish the entire veto message.
II meets the denagogues' cry that Virginia
should not pay interest upon interest. The
interest was due upon our public debt to an
amount between six and seven millions Of dol
lars. We could not pay it, and we borrowed
If from our public creditors and gave our
State bonds in the place Of the money we
were bound to pay. There was not only
nothing wrong or unjust in this, but it was q
benefit and right. To this another shallow
subterfuge is added-viz, that the funding
bill has made discrimination against a por.
ton of our public debt, and will only allow
interest to be paid on the funded portion. But
repudiating the prompt payment Of interest to
those creditors who have funded their debt
does not mend the matter. That can be RENE
died by paying the holders Of unfunded
bonds interest in the same ratio that we have
contracted to pay the holders of funded
bonds! 1t is not only mistake the Legisla-
ture has made, but its action isa Violation OF
good faith to the public creditors which IS not
honest.
Under legislative action our bonds fell in
the market, and under the bellei that the
Governor would veto the joint resolution our
bonds went up III the markets. Win the LIE.
gislatnre be wild enough aud Silly enough ia
persist in its stupid and wicsed Disregard OF
our plighted faithg We hope not but arc
not without great fears upon this subject. !.
The times are terribly ont OF joint, and al
that we have been accustomed to regard az
sacred in secular aud church teachings arr
being rudely questioned OF forcibly denied
and disrcgardcd. If we would see how run
mad men are becoming, we have only te
read the daily papers, which come to uE
every morning loaded with accounts of deed
of shame and violence far more beiitting
heather sayases than civilized men in Chris
tim lands. The people, the real people
need rouse themselves and rebuke these first
dawnings of evil doings, or those they loye
and cherish will not rcclinc in coming year
upon beds of roses.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-12
The Kuklux Trials in South Carolina
-. : > no Richmond Dispatch /:

The Kuklux Trials in South Carolina
The New York Tribune says of these
trials: sE
"Nobody can say that these trials have not
been fairly conducted. The prisoners were
defended by such eminent legal counsel as
the Hon. Henry Stanbery, eX-Attorney- Gene
raj of the United States, and the Hon. Rever-
DIV johnson. But the testimony brought out
overwhelmed all argument. and forty-seven
of these wretches confessed their crime In
omen court; six others were convicted, and
seyenty-two indictments, embracing over FIVE
hundred persons, Were found. The story OF
brutality, crime, violence, and moral degra-
dation, made up from the revelations Of the
:: witnesses is too revolving for recital; it is a
dark chapter in the history Of civilization it
is a burning disgrace to the party which or
sanized the conspiracy, aided and abetted its
agents, and did its best to suppress the cyl
dence now published to the world"
Instead of their trial being fair, the poor
whites were tried before partisan judge and
by jurles composed almost wholly Of negroes.
The judges sentence commences with false
hood when it says that the prisoners had
/ confessed that they were guilty Of con-
spring against the negroes, &c. They
simply confessed that they belonged to the
skuklux clan; and ii was never shown that
that was a political organization, nor that it
was organized to prevent negroes from
voting the only proof that could give the
Federal courts Jurisdiction. szls, ,s.3 /,
/ AS TO the number convicted before this
meder, JEyRRgYs, that proves nothing. The
Stsasd, original JEFPREYs" served his tyranat-,
csi master more faithfully than even BOND
serves GRAAT. BosD sentenced the good
{ Dr. AVERY, one OF the most espectable gen
tleiaep IN the land. yEsRREYs sentenced the
good RIeaARD BAXTER, the great dissenting