The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-03-05

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| Maltby, Guys, Renuert's, and the Howard
House were represented. 1t was determined
to follow the course to be pursued by the
principal hotels InsNew York dity-thastsl
J to do all that can BE doneto -aposdany yieias
Il, IN 0f-law.- Should there be any necessity
tho accommodations will be designated by
| fhe m -oprtefors, aud all who are in hotel
will receive the same fare, the proprietors to
trer,1isrp the locatien of-rooms, &c;s. IN the
| same mann er as they have been accustomed
I'd do. InN,ew. York it is expected test OF
tbe matter will be made to-day at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. Those who were in attend.
| ance at the meeting last night prefer to leave
the matter until the exigencies Of occurring
cases compel them to act, butt Is understood
the above ia the determination they came to.
| In 8 conversation yesterday Bishop a. w.
wavman. of the African Methodist Episco.
nal Church, and Mr.. Webb, cashier Of the
nRaItimore.br branch of the late Freedmen's Saw
ines Bank. both intelligent men, expe-
rienced in the needs OF their race, and both
/ exertipg considerable influence with them,
said that in week, if the question was not
aeitated by the white people, 1t would be
forgotten in Baltimore that there was civil
rights bill. If any overt acts are undertake en-
by colored people here they would be BY
strangers or designing politicians among the
colored residents; of the city.-Balt'more
Sun, All. ,.. su. ~ n
1.-TWO eoLoRED MEN REFUSED ADMISSION TO THE
! THEATRE. .!si,.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 3.-The first re-
suit of the eivil-rights bill occurred at
the New Memphis Theatre tonight. Two
colored men who had purchased tickets TOR
the dress.circle applied for admission.and
were refused, and the money was returned
to them. Another one, who was tntoXlca-
ted. attempted to enter without ticket, and
was arrested by the police at the instance OF
the manager, Tom Darcy, who, 1t is said,
will make test case of the constltutionallty
of the new Iaw in the event suit is brought
by those who had tickets.
THE cIyIL.R1GHrs LAW IN CINCINNATI
Probably those to be most disappointed by
its effect will be the colored people them
selves, It is very doubtful at the end OF
year whether they will be able to discover
that auy privilege is accorded them that they
do not at present enjoy Commercial
TIE CIVIL. RIGHTS LAW IN NORFOLK.
Juries. conveyances, public houses, are the
three points of the bill. AS to the first, it is
NOT ONLY declared unconstitutional, but it is
and must be practically imperative, for the
right to sue under it cannot attach to any
As to public houses, the bill can be, and
doubtless will be, avoided.
The bill includes inns. Now, this term is
equivalent to the term, used in Virginia law,
"ordinaries." By the laws of Virginia
whose is licensed to keepan ordinary where
drink is sold to be drunk on the premises
keeps an inn be and no other man. All
paving such licenses have only to cancel their
license and they cease to keep inns; and
thosgh they continue 70 keep boarding
houses, or houses of private entertainment,
they cease to keep an "inD."
Keepers of clearinghouse, or houses OF
private entertainment, are not touched by
the civil.rights bill for such houses are not
"inns." The civil-rights bill cannot touch
boarding houses, or houses OF private enter
taiument, as distinguished from inns; for in
using the word finn" it excludes all that are
not inns. Our "ordinaries," as the law
STYLES, or hotels, as common speech calls
them, are inns. They only are inns; and
every hotel in the State can cease, by cancel
| ling its license, to be an ordinary or inn, and
become private clearinghouse, or house
of private entertainmen!-pay license as
such, but neither using nor paying license
| for an inn in the purYeW OF the ciVll-rights
! bill.
There is no need to change the laws of the
State. Let them remain, and define the va
rfous degrees inn, or ordinary, or notel;
second, boarding. house; third, house of prl-
yate entertainment. Then, If hotel-keeper
desires to exclude any, whether white or
Slack. from his house, let him declare and IL
cense himself as keeper of a clearinghouse
or house of private entertainment, and the
ciyil.rights bill is imperative upon him. Ii
he still remains licensed keepes or an I'm.
licensed keeper Of a hotel, ordinary, or inn,
he must entertain negroes aud lose his GUS
toners, or be subjected to a suit at the hands
of any malicious negro Vir9tnadn.t
CIVIL RIGHTS IN LYNcHBURG.
The colored people of Lynchburg seem
not to be at all eated by the passage Of the
ciyil-rights bill. They are as polite and re-
spectlul as before, and appear to fully recog.
nze the fact that they have already every
right and privilege to which they are emit
tied. Besides, if tescase should be made
it would require three years. time and con-
siderable sum Of a money to get final decl-
! sion from the Supreme Court, and this would
are willing TO incur. The whites and blacks
| of the South can always agree If let alone.
We apprehend no difficulty here, and do not
believe that the passage of the bill practl-
cally amounts to anything. -Repubhcdn.
CIVIL RIGHTS IN PETERSBURG.
Weare free to confess that we detect no good
| rea on for the action ofsundry inn keepersWho
are reported to have shut up their establish
ments and closed their doors IN consequence
of the passage of the clvl-r1Shts Dill. Inc
law is ez neceSsitate ret dead le!ter, ana
nobody need concern himself about it to The
EVENT of stopping or changing his business
because it has been adopted.-Peters6urg
appeal.
|. CIVIL RIGHTS.
The price Of cigars in some of the res
taurants has gone up wonderfully since
Monday night-a cigar that you could
formerly get for the pitiful sum of five
cents now costing as much as fifty and
seyenty-fire cents. The price of whiskey,
beer. ale, Sc, has likewise advanced. This
unprecedented advance in the prices Of the
"luxuries of life is, of course, due to the
additional internal revenue tax imposed
upon them ~, though some people think it
is on account Of the passage of the civil.
rights bill.-AlerdndriG Sentinel
IMPORTANT TO BARRIERS.
An impression seems to prevail among
Jhe BARRIERS that they are compelled, by
the civilrights bill, to shave colored men.
| This is a mistake, there being no such
provision in the bill, nor anything that can
be so construed. So we advise those barbss..ss
who had prepared special razors for their
colored customers to put them aside till an