davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-04-07

The political history of the country
| teaches us that all third party move
ments have brought to the surface
men Of small calibre, who invariably
have turned out to be great political
block heads. The tidal wave of Know.
NothiDgism, twenty years ago, swept
up from the cutters more political
scavengers than ever were seen before
in public life. The General Assembly
of 1875 was the most corrupt and
shameless in the history of legislation
Even the bills on file in the House
we're not safe from the thieves. One
of the important bills of the session
was stolen several times. So serious
was this evil that the Legislature had
to pass bill TO suppress it. This bill
the Governor vetoed, and it was then
passed Notwithstanding the objections
of the Governor. Men were illegally
employed and paid by the House al
though the press had repeatedly called
bers Of that body to the corruption,
aud when the special session convened
the same officers were re elected. 1t
is noticeable in this connection that
as the employees and the Speaker lost
the confidence Of the public, the con
fdence of the employees in the integ-
rity of their chiefs increased, and ev-
cry one of them retired after receiving
valuable present from those who
served under them.
So low in the public estimation has
the reform General Assembly fallen
brought into existence mainly by a
third party movement'-that it has
no defenders, none reverence it.
Even the Democratic press in whose
interests it was managed have no good
word for it. One Democratic paper
says: There are few men that might
be retained Tin the next Legislature,
but we fear that the majority would
add nothing to the credit of the Hoo
sier State"
The same Democratic paper, on an
other occasion, and while the Legis-
lature was in session, said, IF all the
members will resign, and give the
people an entire new deal, We should
have no objection to an extra ses-
sion.'
Another Democratic paper says 4:
The great Democratic reform Leg
islature did less work in its sixty days
than has been dcne in a session by
any previous Legislature"
Another speaks as follows: "The
Indiana Legislature having. owing to
the stupidity and recklessness Of the
majority, reached its legal limitation
on Saturday, the 10th inst, adjourned
without making the necessary appro-
priations for the support of the State
Government. Madison Courier.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-04-07
THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
Suffrage Not Necessarily a Part Of
CftiZenship-The Supreme Court
Deciding Against the Right of WO-
men to the Ballot.

Suffrage Not Necessarily Part Of
Citfzenship-The Supreme Court
Deciding Against the Right of WO-
men to the Ballot.
WASHINGTON, March 29-The Su-
preme Court to-day decided the case
of No. 1872, Miner VS.. Hoppersatt: er-
ror to the Supreme Court of Missouri.
This is the case presenting the ques-
tion whether, under the Fourteenth
Amendment, woman who is "a citi-
zen of the United States and of State,
is voter in the State, notwithstand-
ing the provisions of the Constitution
and the laws of that State confine the
right of suffrage to men alone. 1t is
said that women are citizens. They
are persons, and therefore under the
Fourteenth Amendment, declared to
be citizens of the State wherein they
reside, but it did not require that
amendment to make them such. They
were before persons and people, and
were not in terms excluded from citi-
zenship by the Constitution. The
Federal Constitution was ordained by
the people of the United States, COM
posed OF the people of the several
States. and whoever at the time of its
adoption was one of the people. be-
Cdlue clLlZeu. All C0llQIcu UOIU OI
citizen parents within the jurisdiction.
are themselves citizens The natural
ization laws are reviewed to show that
women have always been considered
citizens the same as men; also the
laws giving jurisdiction to Federal
cases.
1t is then said that the Fourteenth
Amendment did not affect the citizen
ship of women any more than it did
OF men, and thus minors rights do
not depend upon it. She has always
been citizen from her birth, entitled
to all the privileges, immunities, &c,
Of citizenship. The amendment pro-
hibited the State in which she lives
from abridging any of those rights.
The right of suffrage is not made in
terms one of the privileges of the citi-
zen. The United States has no voters,
and no one can vote for Federal with
out being competent to vote for State
officers. The elective officers of the
United States are chosen directly or
indirectly by the voters of the States.
The amendment did not add to the
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-04-07
1876.

/ privileges or immunities of the citizen,
it simply furnished an additional guar
antee for the protection of such as he
already had Nor is the right of suf-
frage coextensive with the citizenship
of the States. When the Federal
: Constitution was adopted all the
/ States but Rhode Island had Consti-
| tutIons of their own, in not one of
which were all citizens recognized as
entitled to this right; and under all
| these circumstances it cannot be Tor a
moment doubted that if it had been
intended to make citizens of the Uni
! ted States voters, the trainers of the
Constitution would have SO expressed
| that intention, and not have left SO
| important change in the condition of
| citizenship, as it then existed, to i'm
p!ication.E
| But if further evidence is needed it
is to be found in the provisions of the
| Constitution. If suffrage is necessa-
rily part of citizenship, then the
| provision of the Constitution which
gives citizens of each State all the
| privileges and immunities of citizens
| in the several States would entitle the
citizens of each State to the right to
vote in the several States pecisely as
the citizens of those States are. Other
provisions, among them that relating
to the apportionment Of representatives,,
| we're cited to the same point. But
! still again, after the adoption of the
| Fourteenth Amendment, it was found
necessary to use, in the Fifteenth
Amendment, the following language:
! The right of citizens of the United
States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by
| any State on account of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude."
| The Fourteenth Amendment had
| provided against any abridgement of
| the privileges or immunities Of citl-
| zens, and if the right of suffrage is one
of them, why amend the Constitution
further to prevent its being denied on
account of race, color, &c. The duty
| of the United States to guarantee to
the States a republican form of gov
ernment is discharged in protecting
| those Governments which were recog-
nized as being republican in form by
the Constitution when adopted. The
Governments of the States being then
accepted, it must be assumed that
they are such as are to be guaranteed.
The admission of new States is then
considered, and 1t Is found that there
is nothing to favor the idea that suf-
frage is right of citizenship, but
everything to repel it; also the restor-
alton of the States to the Union after
the war, none of them having provi-
ded for female suffrage. Besides, a
person who has simply declared his
intention to become a citizen of the
United States may vote under certain
n L
States, and this could not be if sui
irage depended upon the right of citi-
zenship.
The Court are unanimous in the
opinion that the Constitution of the
United States does not confer the
right of suffrage upon any one. and
that the Constitutions of the several
States which commit that trust to men
alone are not necessarily void. At
frmed. The Chief Justice delivered
the opinion.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-04-07

One evening last week a material
lied spirit, that had been delighting
an eastern circle of the elect, got a
frightful whack on the head from a
cane in the hand of muscular skep-
tic, and the next day there was pasted
on the shutters of the officiating me-
dium's store bit of paper containing
the following legend: CLOSED on ac-
count Of death in the family. Lou
isville Commercial.
The puddlers' helpers" employed
in the rolling mill of the Messrs
Brooke, at Birdsboro', Pa, who are
out on strike for the last three weeks,
have ascepted the terms offered by
the proprietors, and went to work.
The mill and nail factory are now in
full operation and all the hands are
again at work.
Carpets are bought by the yard and
worn by the foot.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-04-07
Rejected SuftOrs.

a woman never quite forgets the
man who has onced loved her She
may not have loved him; she may. in
deed, have given him the no instead
of the yes he hoped for; but the re-
membrance that he desired a yes al
ways softens her thoughts of him, and
would make him. were he reminded
of it, friend forever. There may be
girls who make Jest of discarded
suitors; but they are generally very
young, and the wooing has been some
thing that did not betoken much
depth of tenderness. There are mer-
cenary offers, too, that only awaken
scorn and hate in the woman wooed
for money and not for herself; but
really to have touched mans heart
is something not to be forgotten while
she lives. Always she remembers
how his eyes looked into hers; how,
perhaps, he touched her hand with
his, and how her heart ached when he
turned away without that which she
could not give him. She loves some
one else. Some other man has all the
truth of her soul-always has. and al
ways will have-but she can not forget
the one who turned from her and went
his way and came no more. She is
glad when she hears of his success,
grieved when she knows that he has
suffered; and when some day she hears
that he is married-she who has her
self been married long years, perhaps;
she who, at all events, would never
have married him-is glad then? I
do not know. A woman's heart is a
very strange thing. l do not believe
she knows herself. Glad? Oh, yes;
and is his wife pretty and nice? And
then she says to herself that ''he has
quite forgotten, and that, of course.
IL hest. !" and cries A little
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-04-07
A Story of Il Barnesat Pirate.

At Forked River, small village
near Barneeat Beach, in Ocean coun-
ty, n. j., an old man named Rube
Williams lived hermit like existence
many years. They say he went from
that vicinity when young man to
follow the sea, and that he was a pi-
rate. The fierce looking old man was
associated in the minds of the young
persons thereabout with the stories
told of the pirates of Barnegat, and
those having occasion to pass his
dwelling after dusk gave it a wide
and childiess sister, Mrs. Haines,
money, moved TO Forked River,
Rube to live with her. Dying recent
young nephew, Daniel Williams, and
a neighbor, Benjamin Holmes, and
left her estate to be divided equally
among her surviving relatives. The
executors, in dividing the personal
beneath an old carpet on the floor Of
the house upward of $1,000 in old
gold and silver coins. Her nephew
turned this into currency, and the ex
ecutors divided it like the rest of the
property When old Rube heard of
this he was wild. He said the old
gold and silver belonged to him and
not to his sister, and was heard to
make threats against his nephew
Soon afterward young Williams went
on the place with surveyor to set off
the lots for each of the heirs, and
when near a clump of the scrubby
pines which abound in that region,
the surveyor heard the report of a
gun, and turning about saw Williams
fall, receiving the charge of slugs
mostly ia the shoulder. He was not
mortally wounded. Old Rube is to
be tried next month";. Y. Sun, 22d.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-04-07
The prepared pages for country

The prepared pages for country
newspapers, known as "patent in-
sides, sometimes make ridiculous
blunders. Not long ago the cable
announced the bad news that 1.-The
Pope has had another chill" and
shortly afterward came from forty
seven Wisconsin newspapers with
patent insides the announcement
that ''the Pope has had another
child
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-04-07

MAIL Time Table.
GOING NORTH-Including all places su up'
piled from the Chicago 4. H., anu tue L
Wayne r. r., ,.closes at ie.oo a. m
AOINi SOUTH. Including Cincinhali
and all points beyond, closes al ,a s:su a, m IN.
> IncII,ding all places supplied 1roIn the
C.inciunati Railroad, 6.Oo p m.
.,oINC5 EAST-Including all places sup
nIied from the Columbus H. H., anu
ali Eastern and Central states, closes at
iO-OO a m. Via Dayton and Aenla tall
road, closes 600 a. m.
GOING WEST-1. Including 1ndianapohs
and all points beyond, closes lo:eV O. m.
D same as above, closes 7:30 p m; ;. II
Guiding all points supplied by the indi,
anapoiis Railroad, also, Chicago anu al
noints west and northwest, closes 5:oo
p. m.
To webster, Williamsburg and Bloomlngs-
port, on Tuesday, THURSDAY anu oa'u'
day, at 200 p. m.
To Cox's Mills, White Water, Bethel ana At
ba. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
at I2:00 m.
To Abingdon Clifton and Liberty, on Mon
day and Friday, at 700 a. M
To BOSTON, Beechymire. Goodw wins corner,
and College Corner, on Tuesday ana
Friday, at l2:3o m.
MAILS ARE OPEN
.tsoO a. m. from indianapolis and Cincin-
natl and beyond.
At 1900 a. m. from Cincinnati, way anu
through mails.
At 400 p. from East VIA ootuiI,pus Istlii
At-.00 NJ M from North, via Chicago Kali
road and Fort Wayne Railroad
At a.ll q m from Indianapolis and beyonu.
ONCE open from 700 a.. m. to 7:30 p: m-
On Sunday, from 900 to 1000 a. m
Dec. 1874. B- w DA L. W.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-04-07

A man who was sentenced to be
hung, was visited by his wife, who
said: my dear. would you like the
children to see you executed?' NO."
replied he. That's just like you,"
said she, "for you never wanted the
children to have any enjoyment"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-04-07

S5soS2O per PSgd2ass Pay at h bone; Terms free.
Jan. ~, 1860. llyI Portland, Maine
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-04-07

No. 10 leaves Richmond daily. No leaves
Chicago daily. All other trains run daily,
except Sunday.
Little Miami Division.
Nov. 80, 1874
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-04-07

To Inventors. dsl;r;np hLh PERSONS 3as
Patents, should address PECK & Co, Sole
ttors and Counselors in Patent Cases. Day.
ton, Ohio. Pamphlet. with hallinformation
sent free. 3I-3m
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-04-07

Richmond and Chicago Division.
Nov. 30, 1874.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-26
Promised Centennial Ocean Line.

In view of the Postmaster Generals sugges.
lions concerning the decline OF American
steamship traffic, and as centennial effort 70
recover the business and the standing formerly
held by the American merchant marine, IL Is
prop osed, in New York, TO establish new line
of ocean steamers under the management OF
CORPORATION to be known as the American
Transatlan5i tic Steamship Company" The
Postmaster General, in his last annual report,
said
1.-The great bulk of our mails for Europe is
carried by steamers under foreign flags, sail
ing from the port of New York. AS a matter
of national pride, and as an aid to the reve-
nue. of American commerce, ana as means
of supplying an efficient steam marine avail
able tor Immediate use by the government IN
case of war, provision should be made fol
the transportation of our mails on important
ocean routes in steamships otficered and
manned by our own citizens, aid sailing
under our own flag.
1t is proposed by the promoters OF the new
enterprise that there shall be built in the
United States fleet of steamers which shall
be equal to the best afoat The headquarters
of the company will be in New York. and
the steamers will run from that city to the
principal European ports. 1t the trathc war
| rants it. steamers will also run from othel
ports in the United States. The adequate
capital contemplated, it is believed, can be
raised by subscription, in shares of 500, pal
value $50 as to put it within the reach OF al
persons OF moderate means, as well as capl
talists, to participate, more or less in SO I'M
portant national undertaking, the absence
of which, for a series of years, has been con
sidered national reproach to the American
| character for enterprise
AS an additional reason for the establish
| - tol hot he
| fore has it been cheaper or easier to built
American vessels. Fine ship yards, with ca
pacity to do the finest work, are only await
| ing employment, while labor, iron and ever
other material necessary has much decreased
| in price,
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-26
CHRIsTMAS IN MEMPHIS.

MEMPHIS, Dec. 25.-The attendance at the
churches to-day was very good, but the utmost
disorder prevailed on the streets in the discharge
of firearms and fireworks. The day was I'M
sually warm, the mercury reaching eighty. A
large number of accidents are reported, but with
few exceptions without serious results. About
noon, while party of boys were firing toy can
non in front of Specht's confectionery, 1T ex'
ploded and portion OF it struck Wiley Galloway
aged eighteen, nephew OF Col. Galloway, editor OF
the Appeal, in the face, destroying his right eye
breaking his nose and lntlicting wounds which
will doubtless prove fatal.
Another piece struck a negro man who was
passing by on the wrist, decorating it horribly
another piece struck Capt Walter Goodman
Secretary of the Planters Insurance Company,
on the leg, inflcting slight wound.
Last night, in Chelsea, Monroe Gibbs shot ant
killed Ike Walker, for the alleged seduction 0
his wife, and then shot her, INJECTING severe
wound. Gibbs then attempted to escape. bu
was surrounded by party Of negroes, one
whom threw handful Of mud in his eyes, AM
then captured him and delivered him up at the
station house A II were colored.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-26
GENERAL NEWS.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. pa number Of gentle
men interested in the Centennial National Bank,
met the Finance Board of the Centennial Con-
mission, for the location of a suitable building
for a branch on the grounds. 1t is proposed tc
make this institution tie financial agent OF the
exhibition. .
CISoINNArr. Dec. pa. G: johnson, Pres
dent of the Fayette County National Bank, has
been arrested, charged with the ENLIGHTENMENT
of $4,000 from the bank. The punishment I'm
der the National Bank Act is not less than i've
nor more than ten years imprisonment.
SAN Francisco, Dec. 25. A dispatch from
Camp Grant. Arizona, says two companies OF the
Sixth Cavalry left thursday evening for the
frontier Col Biddle commanding, who will be
Joined near the Sonora frontier by Capt. Win
chester's company. Company q, First Cavalry
left this city by rail for San Diego.
Another earthquake was felt in Grass Valley
last evening.
WHEELING, W. Va, Dec. pa dispatch from
Weston, W. Va, says on the night OF the go
John West and his son were assasslnated while
returning from church.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 25.- DR.. Helmbold has
again been sent to the Lunatic Asylum.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-26

STURGEON DISSATISFIED WITH THE EvANGEL-
ISIS Work The famous London preacher,
Spurgeon, has announced his dissatisfaction
with the work that was done there by Moody
and Sankey. In addressing the London Bap-
fist Association, he went SO far as to say that
he g wished he could find the converts made
during the last revival" that he could not
hear of there being turned into disciples,
which was pity and that it would take
something hundred times greater than the
revival to move London" He then talked
about those who "' dear brother and dear
sister people with as much unholy honey as
they can, and when they have got them suffi-
GENTLY far out indoctrinate them with spirit
as far remote from Jesus Christ as possible. 4"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-26
EXON IHEPASNES.

SOUTHWEST Pass, Dec. %, P. M-Barometer
3d. Wind S. s. T., light. Weather thick and
foggy.
Arrived: Steamship Lancaster, at 1890 last
night, Mills master, from Philadelphia, to VIM.
Creevy.
American schooner VIM. Fisher, Loring mas
ter, days from Uta.
British ship Cora Linn, Nance master, GO days
from Havre.
Norwegian bark Marie, Olsene master, 50 days
from Hsvre.
British ship Prince Leopold, Cochran, master,
81 days from dundee.
British ship Royal Charlie, Stellar, master, 81
DAYS from Rio de Jsneiro.
American bark Lisbon, Duncan, master, 81
days from Bath.
British ship Agnes Sutherland, Sutherland
master, 81 days from Liverpool.
Norwegian bark Hassel, Samuelsen, master
Sc DAYS from Bordeaux.
saiied:-Steamers Cortes, G. ". Lord and Ar
bitrator.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-26
Temnorary Marriage.

James Potts, Justice of the Peace OF JACK
son Mich has opened a wide door to the
disenthrallment Of women and the happiness
of man. In his capacity OF civil ohcer' ne
has bluntly ignored the spiritual sentiment,
"What God hath ioined together let no man
put asunder." He simply recognized tna'
marriage is civil contract, and nothing 1ur,
Their, and married Mr.. Allen A. Anger ana {,
Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt for as long as they coulo
agree and be happy in each other s company.
They made their own contract, signed 1t, ana
the proper officer ratified it, and pronounced
the couple lawful man and wife. Inc mar
rage document is as follows:
JACKSON, Mich, Oct. II, 1o7o.-We, Alien
A. Angel and Mrs Elizabeth HUI t, OF the
city Of Jackson, Mich, do protest. against
the old and barbarous system OF marriages, as
it holds woman in subsection to man, ana re-
uuires woman to surrender her lndlvlduallty
also reqnires persons entering into the mar
rage relations to agree to do that which they
can Lot possibly know they can perform.
"But, as society requires OF those who enter
into the marriage relation an acknoWieds
ment of existing laws, we therefore submit u
the behests of the law SO far as to make our
union legal, that We may avoid all unneces'
sary annoyance.
III the Union and harmony that now exist
between US SuOulu COulliuo luIouSn W.. A
tural lives, then this contract Is to remain IL
force: otherwise to be null and void.
"a. A. ANGEL,
"E HUNT"
The only service was: "Do you, Mr.. Angel
and do YOU Mrs. Hunt still adhere to the
above marriage contract, and are these you
sentiments" They adhered. and those were
their sentiments. This being your minds
at the present time, l therefore pronounce
YOU married. subscribed, etc. And those two
went on their way feeling married in the
flesh, and yet free in spirit like Independent
man and woman. There were four witnesse
to the contract, two men and their wives
probably, as they all bore the name OF Stone
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-26
Christmas in Memphis.
General News.
Etc, Etc, Etc.
THE ROWEN LIBEL SUIT.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec 25.-At the Office Ca o. y
Richard L. Ashurst, Esq, IN TINS cry ses.eru@y
Piehens, ESD, Commssoner for the State Of
suit Of Henry 4 the publisher Of the brooklyn
Eagle. r,oo,,o g.
90. was examined at length, his evidence show
;nn',hat Bowen entered into contract with Jay
Cooke & Co., TO publish advertisements OF the
offering for sale of bonds Of the Northern PaclG
RAILROAD, and in addition to use the editorial
columns of his paper to convince his readers OF
the necessity of selling out Government bonds
and Investing in those of the corporation; In IL
return for this Bowen was to receive bonds Oh
the Northern Pacific Railroad and a per cent on
the sales. ~ .oso 81
Receipts were exh bited for advances maze en 20
Bowen ia pursuance of the agreement, the sigma
tures to which we're identified by former az
tache of the Brooklyn Union, paper also pun
lished by the plaintiff. The EagIe was r9 Tan
scented at the examination by jesse Johnson Esq,
af the New York bar.