The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-05-30
Letter from Washington.

4.
The civl-rights bill has finally passed the
Senate where it has hung like an incubus for
the past three years. It cannot be denied that
voting for it by many Senators was yery dis
tasteful thing to them. Had Senator Sumner
lived it would probably not have passed at this
session. The honors done throug houtt the coun-
try to the memory of the illustrious uuthor in
duced such general expression of favor as to
the motives and labors of the deceased that
thousands were led into advocating tE his pet
project, who would not otherwise have done SO.
This, with the ingenious manner in which its
recognition has been pressed on Republican
conventions, has effected result which is not
the deliberate wish of the majority Of the par
ty. Even many of the colored people do not
ask for, or desire, the miyed school feature of
the bill. 1t is approached by such reliable Re-
publcans as Senator Howe with many fears
that it may result adversely to the education of
both white and black citizens in many of the
States. In this District and in a majority of
the Southern States its final passage will be
signal for the breaking up of public school sys
tenn. Unpleasant as it is to contemplate such
a result, it is just as certain to occur as any
thing that isyetin the future. There is already
manifested feeling of hostility to it here that
is sure destruction to the public schools of the
District, which are now on a very respectable
footing, the advantages offered to the separate
education Of colored youth being quite equal to
that enjoyed by the white children. 1t is
ill wind that blows nobody good, and it is al
ready proposed to open in this city number
of additional private schools as soon as the law
goes into force. Thus, while the public schools
will be deserted, private school teachers will
have fresh demand for their talents, and will
find remunerative employment all through the
Southern country.
Sudden death at the Government Asylum for
the Insane on Saturday has followed closely
upon the terrible insanity which overlook Hon.
d. B. Mellish while pursuing successful career
as member of the present Congress His
death will be announced witr--=1e6sse res6Id-
lions in the House to-day, when eulogies will
be delivered. After the ceremonies, FIVE Mem
bers will accompany the remains to the resi-.
dence of his father, in Auburn, Mass, where
they will be inferred.
The Baltimore Sun reporter takes credit for
having first made public the story that the Pres
ident contemplated the nomination of Secretary
Richardson to the vacant seat on the bench of
the Court OF Claims. l am not disposed to
doubt that this individual first concocted the
dispatch to this effect out of his own magma
ton, but that the President or Secretary Rich
ardson ever had such an idea is absurd. The
place belongs to Tennessee, or if that State pre-
sents no suitable candidate in place of her form
err citizen, Judge Milligan, then some other
Southern Republican will be elected.
The agent of the Los Penos Indian Agency
has report to the Indian Commission this morn
ing that looks very much like hoax. 1t is
perhaps as true as most of the Indian stories of
the far West, that of six men lost on the plains,
two died of starvation, and the other four sue
cessively killed and cat each other, no other
game being handy at the time and that the sur
vivor, one Packer, came into the agency nicely
fattened by the feast of the last victim
LIFE.