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The publication Office of Tie .Saaita,ian is
removed to 234 Broadway New York. The
May number Of this excellent health maya
zine contains many new features. We pub
lish the table of contents entire. Relat ons
of Hygiene to practical Medicine, by Prof.
J. S. Wight, NJ. d. Medical Toadyism, from
New York Journal of Homeopathy" The
Sewage Questionable Earth Closet, by
Samuel Leavitt; Home, from "Appleton's
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Hygiene of Dwellings, by Chas. A. Cameron
Vienna Water Supply. Principles of Ven
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BILE: Annual (State) Reports Foreign Re-
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The unfinished work Of the late Senator
Sumner has been promptly taken up by
Senator Frelinghuysen. The supplementary
Civil Rights Bill is now we'll before the
American Senate. 1t is fortunate for the
Cause that a head so clear, and hands so
strong and stainless have the custody of this
last and highest demand for Equal Rights
and perfect fairplay. Mr.. Frelnghuysen is
not quite yet an old Senator He went into
the Senate without any noisy national repu-
tation, but to-day he is recognized among
the leading spirits Of that august assembly.
No man in the Senate has risen more rapidly
and so steadily. In manner and bearing
towards his brother Senators, as viewed from
the gallery, he is born gentleman. There
is in him nothing Of the sombre and severe
dignity which awes the timid and oflends the
brave. His bland, aflable bearing is fed by
spring Of natural kindness of heart made,
symmetrical by education and good breeding.
His argument made in the Senate the other
day upon the Louisiana question was a
mastery production, completely overthrow
ing Gas we thnk,) the grounds upon which
Senator Carperte, demands a new election
in that State
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Hon. .exander White,

The al'usion to the Hon. Alexander White
made by our correspondent at Selma, Ala,
does that gentleman INJUSTICE. Mr.. White
is in favor Of the Civil Rights Bill, and
will vote for it,. There is not a more
earnest man in Congress in the desire to
bring this nation up to the full triumph Of
liberty, justice, and civil and political equali-
ty Tor all men than is the Hon. Alexander
White. Once STAKEHOLDER, and holding a
position ranking with the best in his State,
he has braved all ostracism, all political
advantage that he might have secured BY
adhering to the Bourbon element of his
State, and has taken a firm and bold stand
in support Of the Right. Such men must be
sustained. Colored voters should stand by
them. Get the white people of the South
right, and the advancement of the negro will
inevitably follow. Mr.. White recognizes, as
do but few Southern white men, the fact that
the negro is to inhabit the South, and that he
is citizen and the sooner both white and
black understand and pect the rights of each
other, thee sooner will peace and prosperity
betrue of the late slave States Such men as
Alexander White will do more to advance
our cause than hundred demagogues who
profess everything and do nothing. Our
correspondent was perfectly correct in sup
posing that we intended to "confer tribute"
upon Mr.. White in our last issue in an
article headed " Republican Duty"
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The Civil War in Arkansas.

If any doubt ever existed in the public
mind as to the merits Of the contest in Ar
kansas between Baxter and Brooks for the
possession of the State government, the high
handed outrage of Baxter in arresting and
imprisoning the members of the Supreme
Court on their way TO the seat of government,
must remove it and satisfy all candid men
that both justice and law is on the side of
Brooks. These two members of the Supreme
Court, with one of their associates, whom
Baxter's banditti overlooked, were on their
way to Little Rock to hold a session of the
court, at which this very question of the
legality of Bakers election was to be de-
cided. He affected to have no sort of doubt
but the decision would be in his favor. But
in violently and illegally arresting the Judges
of the Court, he gives the lie to his profess
sions, and admits the law is against him.
lie therefore not only sets at defiance the
laws of the State, but resorts to armed force
to reinstate himself in authority. The law
therefore not only condemns his course. but
the unanimous sentiment of all right-minded
men will be against him. Whatever sympa-
thy there may have been felt toward him has
been destroyed by his own criminal, reyolu-
tionary, and Infamous course. If it turns
out now that he refuses to obey the writ of
habeas corpus which another Judge has
issued, and violently holds possession of his
two prisoners and if the force under Gov.
ernor Brooks prove insufficient to restore
order, we see no other way to bring him to
reason and end the rebellion than for the
General Government to settle the contro-
versy. We think this course must be adopted
ultimately. And the sooner it is done the
better for the interests Of the people of Ar
kansas and the honor Of the country.
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nection with the bank is OF a very recent date,
and that he accepted the position with the
honest purpose offorwarding "the beneficent
objects" of the founders, and "to watch and
guard the hard earnings ofmy people," We
can well believe Mr.. Douglass when he gives
us this assurance, and we trust his best hopes
may be realized. We can think of nothing
more painful as moral and political, as well
as financial, event than the failure of Freed
mans Saving Bank. Founded in spirit OF
the largest humanity and philanthropy in.
tended to teach one of the most helpless and
oppressed of races habits of thrift, and repre-
senting in its accumulatiOns the hard-earned
savings of a people, there could be no great
er calamity, in moral point of view, than
this failure. Mr.. Douglass has, therefore, a
position of peculiar responsibility. He must
rescue the bank from the embarrassments
which surround it. He must restore the
confidence Of his people, not merely in its
honesty of management, but in the business
skill aud tact of those who control its affairs.
We do not presume to give him any special
advice upon the subject, but it would seem
that he can do nothing better than to avoid
all financial relations with the gentlemen who
now manage affairs in the Territorial govern
ment of Washington. He must not permit
his bank to become an appendage ofthe Board
of Public Works. That may be a most esti-
mable and hOnOred and solvent body, and its
securities the best in the world but they
are not exactly the kind Of securitiesin which
a far-seeing man, intrusted with the peculiar
responsibilities of Mr.. Douglass, would invest
the savings of the freedmen of Washington. H.
Ne,r York Herald.
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The FreedMlan's Bank.

1t is impossible to read the report of Bank
Examiner Meigs on the condition of the
Freedman's Savings Bank and not be thankful
that Frederick Douglass is placed at its head.
A load so mighty must needs be p!acedupon
Just such strong Shoulders. 1t may indeed
be true that the new President has but little,
if any eXperience-that he steps upon the
deck of ship with little knowledge of her
rigging, her sea worthiness, latitude, lOngi-
tude, and i'm fact with little knowledge of any
kind concerning her or her crew, or her Of
ficers'-yet, as saith the maxim, "a living
dog is better than dead lion." Frederick
Douglass measurably ignorant of the ways
and the wires of the great Banking world, is
to be preferred to any other man (Wm.
Whipper possibly eXcepted), hOwsOever eX
pert he may be in his wisdom and for the
reason, that the Bank just now stands more
in need of character, than it does Oftechnical
lore. And Douglass superabOunds i'll well
earned and we'll preserved character
which if transferred to the Bank, as we may
hope it will be, will more than compensate
for the possible deficiency of S2l7,SSG.
1t it to be hoped then, that Congress will
not allow itself to be led into precipitate leg
islation, under the lead of Mr.. BrOmberg,
member from Alabama. OF course, it is not
expected that the institution that promises
so much good for the Freedmen, should re-
ceive favor in his eyes, but to Mr.. Maynard
Chairman of the Committee OH Ban king and
Currency, and to Gen. IIawley, one of its
most influential members, and to the thought
full linen in Congress generally, Republicans
especially, do we look for such action as will
give President Douglass fair opportunity
to show his power to put the Bank beyond
all imaginable peril. From the Christian Re-
cOrdcr.
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Prejudice.

The colored citizens of the TIN school dis
trict in the county, have petitioned for the
use of the school house set apart for the
colored children, for night school. Their
petition has been met by refusal through the
school trustee for that district. This re-
fusal is. simply deviish when we consider the
terrible disadvantages under which the
colored people labor. Folliott has been no
friend Of the colored people, and we took oc-
casion, at the time of his appointment to the
school trusteeship, to state that fact, and it
is unjust to the colored people of the It'll dis
trict to compel them to submit to his super
vision of their educational interests. But
the petty spite of Folliott and his negro
hating allies cannot prevent the education OF
the negro. The delegate from that district
should look after this Foliot.
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The Alabama Coiored Men.

The colored men of Alabama are to hold
another delegate State Convention IN Mont
gOmery, on Thursday, June p. In an adj
dress accompanying the call, they say that
they earnestly deprecate the idea of white
or black mans government regarding such
as greatly detrimental to the interest of the
Commonwealth, and, as such, calculated to
be attended with such scenes of bloodshed
ahd violence as would shock humanity and
cause the world to stand aghast" They
also say: The Democratic Executive Com
mlttee, in their address to the people, charge
us with having brought about the present de-
pressed and embarrassed state of affairs, that
through corruption, msrule and fraud, we
nave reduced the people to starvation and
want; that we are seeking to establish ne
gro supremacy in order to effect their oppres-
sion by burdensome and lust taxation;
That we have elevated corrupt and selfish
men to positions of profit and trust that we
nave no care for the interest and prosperity
OF the State and that the result of the pres
ent government, if continued, will be to
bankrupt the State, and sink it into irretriey-
able ruin-all of which is charged to our
recklessness and incompetency. While we
know that these statements are absolutely
false, and cannot be supported by even the
least semblance of TRUTH yet we regard an
open vindication of our character and intep-
rlty as essential under existing circumstances
and therefore call upon you to express.
through your representatives in convention
the just Indignation that you evidently must
feel"
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TO Our Correspondents.

We are the recipients ofmany letters for pub
LEGATION from all parts ofthe country. We are
disposed to give all an opportunity to appear
in print, but our space is limited, and many
times communications are laid over for want
of room. 1t is evident from the number of
our correspondents who desire to present
their views to the world that the ERA is re-
garded as useful medium for that purpose !;
now we have to say to our friends and COR
respondents that they can increase the num-
Der of their readers by assisting us in en-
larging our circulation. The publication of
the ERA is a costly burden. and one that
taxes our utmost strength to bear up. The
EEA should be double its present size to
meet fully the requirements of such journal.
This can be accomplished if those who COM
prehend the necessity for journal OF this
kind will exert themselves to secure for us a
larger circulation.
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Freedman'S Savings Ei:sE.E1.
A Card from Frederick DnuGias,
To the Editor of the Herald:

To the Editor of the Herald:
The reference in the HraR of Tuesday to
the present condition of the Freedman's
Bank was not only just, but cOnsiderate and
generous, and displays your well known love
Of fair play. While that reference told the
simple truth about the bank, there was moth.
ing in it to produce distrust and start a run
upon its deposits. OF course no banking in
stitution in the land can well afford TO invite
runs upon its deposits, and il is not generous
to excite such runs without good and almost
irresistible necessity. Within the last eigh-
teen months the Freedman's Bank, BY reas on
of suspicious set atloat through the press and
otherwise, has suffered three heavy runs upon
its deposits. The last one of these which oc-
Cured during the late financial panic re-
Guired half million dollars to carry the
bank safely through it, and the fact that it
was able to survive a shock which brought
other long standing and long trusted institu-
ton to the ground, may just now be stated,
without boasting, IN its favor.
The Freedman S Bank, as its name imports,
was especially established to encourage and
assist the Freedmen to save and increase
their hard earned money and thus to help
them in the race to knowledge and higher
civilization. This institution has been in
existence less than ten years and during that
time it has held and handled with profit to
its depostOrs, not less than s2j geo 900. The
bank now comes before the public, after the
severest valuation of its property rating arti-
Giles at their lowest cash value, in these dull
times, with its liabilities $2l1 900 in excess
of it's assets. Every business man will see
at once that with assets amounting as they
do to more than 100000 if only tolerably
we'll managed and let we'll alone, few
months only would be required to enable it
to overcome this small excess of liabilities
and pay all its depositors small amount of
interest.
My connection with the Freedman's Bank
as its President is of very recent date. |
accepted the position with the honest pur-
pose to forward. as we'll as might, the bene-
iicent objects had in view by its founder to
watch and'guard the hard earnings of my peo-
pie, and to see that those earnings shall be
kept to their profit if possible, but kept safely
at any rate.
In regard to the condition of the branches,
| sent last night through the Associated
Press all oyer the Southern States a quiet
ing telegram assuring our depositors that,
in the opinion of the officers OF the bank if
the depositors will exercise only reasonable
degree of patience, we shall be able to pay
dollar for dollar and this is my opinion now.
Respectfully yours,
FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
WASHINGTON April %, 1874.
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Senator Norwood.

Senator Norwood of Georgia, on last
Thursday in the Senate of the United
States, opposed the Civil Rights Bill in a
speech after the approved style of planta.
ton brutality. He was sensibly alarmed at
the thought that a negro would be CON-
PEELED to marry white woman if the Civil
Rights Bill should become law, notwitli.
standing the fact that in his own state
through the brutality of his own race, AZ, )
32S colOred people are blood relations Of
some Of the so-called best people of the
State. If the colored race had been protect
ed in their civil rights, in the State OF
Georgia, the RIGHTEOUSNESS of the white
race in that state would have been COM
PEELED to seek other fields for the gratliica-
ton of their brutality and cowardice. The
chivalry Of that State with whip and thumb
screw, branding-iron and torture compelled
a defenceless people to succumb to their IL
centousness, and now, in opposition to
civil rights, pretend to be shocked at the
thought of legitimate union of the two
races. 1t is to protect our young girls on
railroads, steamboats,, and public convey
ances from insult and outrage that we ask
for the Civil Rights Bill for to-day it is true
oil Southern railroads and steamboats, that
colored ladies are compelled to occupy those
hooks and corners on cars or steamboats,
where they cannot avoid meeting with the
most disgusting and british of the whites,
whose low jests and loathsome advances
made in the presence of, and to, defenceless
colored ladies are often applauded by the
so-called white gentlemen who, like Senator
Norwood, look upon the efforts of the negro
to reach higher and to be more than the
savage lust of their oppressors desire for
them, as joke unworthy of serious thought.
The opposition to the Civil Rights Bill is in
the interest of RIGHTEOUSNESS and outrage to
be practsed upon a defenceless people, and
no man is to be envied, Senator or other
wise, for opposing measure that strength
ems virtue and purity.
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Resolutions Of Respect 80 the
MenGry Of Charles sumner
HELENA, March 70 I-74

IlELENA, Hdith l., l>ii
At meeting of the colorcd ctizens Of
Helena, Montana Territory, on the evening
of the 18th inst, held for the purpose OF
taking some action on the death Of Hon.
Charles Sumner, the following preamble
and resolutions were unanimously adopted.
WHEREAS, The electric wires having to-
day flashed to us the sad intelligence OF the
death OF our best and strongest friend-IIon.
Charles Sumner-therctore be 1t
Rsolrea, That while we bow in humble sub
mission to the opnipOtent will of an all :
wise Providence, we are deeply sensible that
by the death of Hon. Charles sumner. we A.
people have suffered an irreparable loss.
ResOlced, That Hon. Charles Sumner. by
his life long devotion to the cause OF Free
dom and Equality, has 50 eudeared himself
to us that we pledge ourselves to cherish for
ever his honOred name, and to teach our OIL
spring in their earliest lispings TO bless ana
use it as holy name.
ReSolced, That his disnterested oneness of
purpose, in his efforts to secure the PASSAGE of
the Supplementary Civil Rights Bill, has chal-
lenged and won the admiration of all lovers
of Liberty throughout the world, and all will
accord to him the title OF THE PATRIOT.
STATESMAN AND HERO or THE NINE
TENTH CENTURY
Resolred, That the above resolutions be
published in thesIIelen Dai2y HeroLl. and the
New NATIONAL ERA, Washington, ID. c.
e. p. CHAPMAN, President.
}. l.. DUTRIUEILLE, Secretary.
f. II. JOHNSON.
b. ID. STONE, and others.
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Answer 20 COyrcss,1asalents.

GEO. II. DOwNING.--We do not exchange
with the National Progress, and therefore cam
not "copy. '-Notionoi .EonHor.
We clip the above from the National Noni-
tor, published in Brooklyn, New York, and
gather from it that Q. Downing has been
seeking notorlety through The columns of the
Monitor. 1t lily becomes Il man so great and
important as the controller Of the floor of
the House of Representatives for the use of
its members to seek to advertise himself free
of charge. But there is no telling what
folly Q. DOwning's vanity will lead him into.
However, it is no concern Of ours the peo-
pie of the six New England States, whom he
has claimed to represent, are the most to be
nitiel.
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The Freedman Bank i'm Washing
ION.

We print elsewhere an interesting and inn
portant letter addressed to us by Mr.. Fred
erick Douglass, the President of the Freed
mans Bank in Washington. The very high
character Of Mr.. Douglass, who may be called
himselfthe representative freedman of Amer-
ca, is the best guarantee of the accuracy and
care of his statements. Mr.. Douglass des-
cribes the bank as an institution especially
established to encourage and assist the freed
nen to save and increase their hard-earned
money, and thus to help them in the race to
knowledge and civilization" During the
time of its existence, about ten years, it has
handled about twenty-five millions of dollars
deposited by freedmen, and nOw comes before
the public, according to the estimate of Mr..
Douglass, with two hundred and seventeen
thousand dollars in excess of liabilities. The
assets, he thinks, have only to be let alone
and to be tolerably well managed to enable
it to pay all liabilities and some interest to
the depositors.
Mr.. Douglass further explains that his con-
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case may be. Perhaps the slave-breeding
chivalry of Mobile will deny themselves for
a short time the agreeable duty for time of
splitting in the face of the Mobile postmaster
and of insulting his wife and family. But
it won't last long. This pleasing incident"
is another proof that all distinction between
those who fell in defence of their country,
and in trying to destroy it, between patriots
and traitors, is rapidly disappearing. The
time seems already to have arrived when a
rebel stands as fair chance before Congress
as Union man, or at any rate about as
good, and with the Court of Claims little
better. The next step will be for Congress
to pension the rebel soldiers and their widows
and orphans.
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friends was, "Don It let the Bill fail. Imean
the Civil Rights Bill" And if we under
stand Mr.. Schurz, he not only means to let
the bill fail, but will himself voteto make it
fail. He has already gwen his voice and
vote against it and by subtle argument,
based upon the idea Of State rights, done as
much as any other man to make its passage
impossible. In this very Boston grafton of
his, he has pointed out the ground of differ
ence on this question between himself and
the subject of his eulogy. Shall we accuse
Mr.. Schurz Of the malice of ingratitude for
this difference with Mr.. Sumner, or shall we
commend him for his fidelity to his convic-
tons, though they compel him to differ from
friend to whom he confesses himself to be
under many obligations?
But We merely wished TO call attention to
the unfortunate remark of Mr.. Schurz quoted
above, and to say to him, if he wishes to be
perfectly just to the men of the colored race,
he will strike that remark from his address.
1t does not need this pathetic touch of untruth
to give it force, effect, or acceptance. With
this blemish removed, the grafton will pass
as one of the ablest and best productions of
the kind ever spoken by the lips of an Amer
lean. Its estimate of Mr.. Summers charac-
ter. ability, and services is eminently just,
loving, and discriminating. Had its author,
for whom we at one time anticipated career
as symmetrical and grand as that of Mr..
Sumner, been as just to men of the colored
race, these columns would have no word Of
complaint. Mr.. Schurz knows very we'll
that no man ever went down to the grave
whose loss to the living was more sincerely
and deeply mourned than was Charles Sum-
ner by the men OF the colored race. Any
words conveying different impression only
contradict fact which even our political
enemies have noted and set to our credit.
Justice to the dead does not require cruelty
to the living and could Mr.. Sumner speak
from the ground, we are quite sure, from his
noble nature, that, while he regretted that
men of the colored race could not follow him
into the Liberal party, he would regret this
charge Of malicious ingratitude which Mr..
Schurz has seen fit to make over his grave.