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Year: 1879

BOSTON Advertiser: Whatever defects
may be found in the protest of the Maine
Representatives and Senators elect who
went to Augusta to see the returns, it can
not be said that the document is not plain
spoken. 1t calls ings 10y their right names.
1t shows up the vacillation, the breach OF
faith, the Inconsistency and the usurpation
of which the Council is guilty. The pro-
ceeding has been carefully watched, and
there will one day be an account to settle.
Meantime the Council has the power to do
as it will. The burglar who has his victim
bound and gagged can plunder at his leisure,
and if he steals consumable goods and eats
them on the spot they cannot be taken from
him. But there is no particular reason for
exultation over his opportunity, or for pride
in his act. The Governor and Council are
now apparently resolved to commiBthe rob-
berry, but they are greatly mistaken if they
think the feelings of the Republicans are
those of unmixed dependency. The in
tending thieves are known and watched, and
when they have accomplished their purpose
there will be an opportunity for the Repub-
licans to put them where they belong-ln
limbo.
Year: 1879

WE hear it asserted that Portland is to
have no representation on the floor OF the
House of Representatives at Augusta this
Winter, and that Auburn, Lewiston, Calais
and Brunswick are to be served the same


way. Considering that the State valuation
is to be settled this Winter, this is pleasant
news to the property-holders in those places.
Year: 1879

THE Philadelphia Times does not favor
reviving the issues of the extra session, and
says If the Democratic majority shall be
guilty of the folly of assuming that there
shall be no Federal supervision of national
elections, they will lose their cause and de-
serve to lose it.
Year: 1879

A QUESTION sof veracity has arisen be-
tween the signers of the Republican protest
and the Executive Council. Had not the
course of the Council been so whiting and
evasive heretofore its denial now would
command more weight
Year: 1879

THE Council cherishes no unkind feelings
toward the Court, and the chairman even
SAYS he has no doubt the views of the Court
upon legal questions "would have great
weight with the Executive department.
That is obliging, to be sure, but how are we
to know that the members of the Council
will not change their minds on this point
within the next fourteen days?
Year: 1879

They have been photographing Cetewayo
at Cape Town, but could get only one mega
tive, the savage chief refusing second sitt-
ing on the ground that he was not going to
make fool of himself twice in one day
The reason is worthy of a better man.
Year: 1879

THE Louisville Courier Journal finds time
to suggest, in despairing sort of way, that
perhaps God may furnish the Democracy
with Pilot" The trouble is the log of
that ship shows that the other one stands at
the wheel
Year: 1879

Missouri takes an old corn-cob,
tosses it into q hopper, and it comes
forth pipe worth five cents, and one
which has an agreeable taste to the
smoker. The day will yet come when
even loafers can be turned into some
thing good.
Year: 1879

One woman in fishing party will
do more to scare away the fish than
ten packs of fire-crackcrs. Besides
that, no man wants to put the neck
of bottle in his mouth when women
are around to misiudge his motives,
Year: 1879

Clifton, Arizona, is the center of an increasing mining business which may well induce the Southern Pacific Company to run its line as near 10 it as the country will admit. Last Sat urday's Silver City Herald says:

 The material for the railroad from Clifton to the LOngfellow mine will weigh about 325,00O pounds. Henry Lesinsky informs us that it will prob ably be at the end of the railroad by the ltst of this month, and that the freight to destination is already con tracted for. Seventy-five men are now at work on the grade, and tho force would be increased to JO0 could that mum Der be obta1ued.

 Nearly 100000 pounds of copper from the Longfellow works at Clifton are now stored in Silver City, await ing shipment to the railroad terminus.
Year: 1879

A few days ago a colored person was on
trial in the Criminal Court for stealing roast
ing ears out of field one night last season.
The only evidence against him was that
given by another colOred person who hap
pened to be in the field at the time (prob-
ably on the same errand) and who recog-
uized the thief The witness swore that he
saw him with the sack thrown over his
shoulders. into which he was thrusting the
corn as he pulled it. When the argument
in the cause was finished, Judge Ray chRrg-
ed the Ijury that as the evidence did not
show that the corn had ever touched the
ground after pulled, they could not, under
the law. find the accused guilty of larceny,
but only of malicious mischief. Among
the number of spectators present was an
ancient African, who listened with evident
approval to the charge Of the Court When
il was finished. he turned to a cOmpaion
and remarked: We'll, times is hard an
money searcer'n white folks in hehhen; hut
fo' God. dat laws Wuth hundred dollars
TO me at de lowest kalkelation. Avalanche.
Year: 1879

We frequently hear complaints from


church going people of this city that they


are greatly disturbed and and annoyed on


Sundays, while attending divine service, by


the numerous bands of music which head


professions that parade the streets OF which


are on their way to some resort OF pleasure.


There is no question but that TINS Is a rea-


sonable ground of of complaint. People


who attend services at the various churches


go there, of course, for the purpose OF "of-
ship. They strive, or ought to strive, 10


shut out from their minds, for the brlet


time that they are in the House OF Gou, all


thoughts of the world, and to give thelr


entire attention to prayer, medltatloh ana


the services. They cannot do thls' AoWN


ever, if their devotions are constantly III


terrupted by the shrill, piercing notes OF
| fife, the sonorous noise OF brass llistru-


ments or tho loud boom of bass drum


Frequently the tumult is so great that tne


voice of the preacher is drowned ana tne


attention of the entire congregation as
traCted. This certainly is an outrage on


religious people. They have rights WHICH


ought to be respected and III which tney


are entitled to be protected. 1t Is very
sorry state of affairs, in any community,



ed free from street disturbances. we do
not find any fault with those people who
prefer to make the Sabbath holiday We
think they have a perfect right to go to the
parks or other pleasure resorts with their
music and banners, and to dance and amuse
themselves in any way that they see proper
All that we contend for is, that while they
are pursuing their pleasures they ought not
70 into oTl ,I11bt M n ha nprm1tf91
to interfere with other peoples rights. 1t
would not b. any very great hardship to
them if they were deprived of the privi~
lege of footing their trumpets and beating
their drums until they had passed beyond
the immediate vicinity of the churches. Of
course, we understand that tho worship
ers in the churches are not disturbed in
tentionally Perhaps these pleasure seek
ers have never thought of the annoyance
which their music gives to those who obey
the Divine command to keep the Sabbath
day holy. Intent upon their own amuse-
ments, they have not sought to find out
whether they were disturbing others or
upon their rights There ought |
to be an ordinance of the city regulating
this matter. Brass bands should not be |
allowed to play in the neighborhOod of
churches on Sundays, when services are be- |
ing held If a band of religious people |
should 20 to the Fair Grounds, or some one |
of the parks where there was picnic some |
Sunday, and insist upon holding prayer
meeting, the chances are that there would
be trouble, and yet such an act would be no
greater interference with the rights of the
pleasure seekers than the playing of brass
bands in the neighborhood of churches is
with the rights of religious people. This |
of religious services is an evil |
which ought to be remedied as soon as pos
Sible
Year: 1879

AFTER q pleasant and exhilarating
iit to the South, upon his return


me, this is what Henry Ward Beecher
inks of us Southerners


In my Judgment, when consider that a
oud people have seen themselves emptied
t of power, their political existence al
lst annihilated, their property swept out


their hands as by consuming flame,
Q ascendancy of the despised slave estab-
he'd over them by what was to him
reign arm, l should not have wondered


there had been ten times the Resistance
At there has been to recohstructive meas
es. Never in history has people borne


much with so much patience, gallantry
d patriotIsm-a spectacle of moral gram
ur and of substantial good intent and
nor in those who have been SO terriically
urged, which is without parallel.
Year: 1879

There were, perhaps, thousand persons
in this memorable excursion. A string
band of music was on board the '1at,
and dancing was kept up throughout the
trip. off Horne Island tho fleet anchored
and the vessels were lashed together. Here
bounteous picnic banquet was spread
and partaken of with keen relish.
Year: 1879

And now tho time had come to pronounce
that dear, sad word, goodbye. The peo-
pie of Pascagoula had won the hearts of the
editors, and they came away full of graft
tude and thanks for happy associations.
As fast as the trains came the crowd melt
ed. Some flew east and some tiew west,
and some fingered fondly upon The seaside.


AN HOUR OF PERIL.
Year: 1879

THE intentions of the Democratic
party with regard to the laws for the
protection of the electoral franchise
will be plainly enough displayed by the
action of its Senators on the Edmunds
and Morgan resolutions. MIR. Edmunds
proposed to reatfirm the validity of the
Constitutional Amendments, to declare
that all the people have a common in
terest in the enforcement of their pro-
visions, and to instruct the Judiciary
Committee to report bill for the equal
protection of all qualified citizens in
the right to vote for Representatives in
Congress. His resolutions have no ref
erence to the comforting of any new
rights or obligations; they relate only
to constitutional principles about which
there is no dispute; they amount TO a
syllOgism whose premises cannot be
denied, and whose conclusion is ire
sistible. The Democrats in the Senate,
however, will not accept them, but,
after two weeks consideration, they
present substitute.


Mr.. MOrgan's first three resolutions,
so far as they differ from those of Mr..
Edmunds, consist principally of sem
tences copied from the decisions of the
Supreme Court in the Kentucky and
Louisiana election cases. Those de-
cisions, pronounced in 1876, upset GER
tain sections of the Enforcement Act,
and laid down the principles: l. That
the Fifteenth Amendment does not con-
fer suffrage upon any one, but only
forbids the States or the United States
to exclude any one from voting son
account of race, color or previous con-
dition of servitude"; 2. That Federal
statute for the protection of citizens
generally in the right to vote does not
fall within the limits of the "appropri-
ate legislation" by which Congress is
empowered to enforce this amend
ment. But Mr.. Morgan's fourth reso-
luton" That when such right to vote
is denied or abridged by the conduct of
a person who is not so acting by the
authority and in obedience to the laws
of State, the jurisdiction 10 punish
such conduct is in the State Govern
ment, and is not in the Government of
the United States'-is not justified by
anything in these decisions; on the con-
trary, it is inconsistent with the evident
opinion of the Court.


In the Kentucky case the Court held
that the third and fourth sections of the
Enforcement Act were void because they
went too far, and the Chief Justice used
this significant language: "It has not
been contended, nor can it be, that the
Amendment confers authority to impose
peualty for every wrongful refusal to
receive the vote of qualified elector
at State elections. 1t is only where the
wrongful refusal at such an election is
because of race, color, or previous con-
dition of servitude, that Congress can
interfere and provide TOR its punish
Year: 1879

By the almost superhuman efforts OF
the cooler heads among them. supple
mented by vigorous exercise of the
Southern Brigadiers have been con-
strained to raise the siege of General
Bragg to wash off their war paint and
bury the hatchet. But they have bur-
ried it as the man did who said he had
but the handle sticking up and could
pick it up devilish quick at any minute.
The bill which was the occasion of Gen
eral Bragg's speech is still in the order
of business where the debate of We'd
nesday left it, and will come up again
whenever that order of business is
reached, which is likely to be next
Tuesday. 1t will need but a hint, a
suggestion, very little stirring up, to
bring Mills, Hooker, Chalmers and
some others their legs brandishing
tomahawks, warclubs and all manner
of Democratic weapons over the head
of the quiet little member from Wis
consin.


They are making great efforts to
break the force and effect of the whole
sale truths spoken by Bragg, by pre-
tending that what made them mad was
not his forcible argument against Con-
federate war claims, but his waving of
the bloody shirt. They do not wish
Congress TO allow any Southern war
claims. They say they are as much
opposed to them as any Northern men
are. They only introduce them and
make speeches for them and vote for
them because their constituents expect
them to, and they are afraid to provoke
the terrible wrath of their constituents,
lest they should come back TO Congress
no more forever. They ardently desire 10
Year: 1879

D1ent." II is plain. therefore, that the
Supreme Court does not agree with the
Democratic Senatorial caucus. The
caucus resolves that when the right of
citizen to vote is "denied or abridged
on account of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude the iuris-
diction TO punish such conduct is in the
State Government, and is not in the
Government of the United States"
while the Court, on the other hand, dis
tinctly declares that Jurisdiction does
lie in the Government of the United
State. 1t will please the caucus to be
| reminded that all the Judges except
Hunt and Clifford concurred in this
opinion.


In the Louisiana case, decided at the
same time, the Court held that per-
son may be amenable to both State and
! Federal Governments for the same act.
In pronouncing the indictment under
review not good and sufficient in law,
it used these words: "Inasmuch as it
| does not appear in these counts that the
intent of the defendants was to prevent
these parties from exercising their right
to vote on account of their race, ETC.,
1t does not appear that it was their
intent to interfere with any right
granted or secured by the Con-
! stitution or laws of the United
States. We may suspect that race
was the cause of the hostility, but
it is not so averred. This is material
to a description of the substance of the
offense, and cannot be supplied by i'm
plication. Everything essential must
be charged positively and not inferen-
! tally" Whence it is clear that if the
indictment had charged conspiracy to
prevent colored men from voting "on
account of their race" the Court would
have held it to be good, and the offense
one over which the United States had iu-
risdiction. The omission of those words
was the fatal defect. To this opinion
Justice Clifford's was the only dissent
ing voice. The case came to the Su-
preme Court from the United States
Circuit Court of Louisiana. and the
opinion of Judge Bradley in that
tribunal (Which the decision of the full
bench allirmed) was still more en-
phatic. "Suppose that the laws of the
State" said he, "are in harmony with
the Amendment-at least contain moth
ing repugnant thereto-has Congress
tile power to pass laws coneurrently
with the State to enforce the right of
every race and color, without regard to
previous condition of servitude, to an
equality in the right to voteP
l am inclined to the opinion that Con-
gress has the power to secure that right
not only as against the untreendLy oper-
alton of State latOS, but against outrage,
UiOlence, and combinations on The part of
indiUiduals, irrespective Of the State
LdUS.n


When Senator Morgan has settled
this little disagreement with the Su-
preme Court, it will be time enough to
consider the further question of the
power of Congress to supervise the
election of its own members--in other
words, to protect its own existence
~ Y. Tribune
Year: 1879

put this whole Southern war claims busi-
ness out of the world by an amendment
of the Constitution. They rejoice with
great JOY when a Northern Democrat
gets up in the House (Which is mighty
seldom) and shows pluck enough to
oppose the base end of the party on this
claims business. But when such man
waves his ensanguined undergarment
in their faces it moves their tropical
blood to anger uncomfortable. The
waving of the bloody shirt has the
same effect upon them that the waving
of red rag has upon mad bull. 1t
makes them below with anger, roar
with rage, paw savagely the ground,
shake furiously their horns and toss
aloft in curvilinear lines of ire their ex-
pressive tails. 1t was not ANYTHING
Bragg said against their rebel war
claims. 1t was the waving of the
bloody shirt that reused the tiger from
his lair in their peaceful bosoms. This
is the apology they now offer.


Wherein did General Bragg wave the
bloody shirtP A careful perusal of his
Year: 1879

ALADY telegrapher says; ~ make
it a rule to read messages literally, and
before the writer leaves the desk. II
you telegraph two and two make five,'
it's not my place to tell you they make
four. l did that once. A tall old man
with a cigarette in his mouth, and a
tremendous weed on his hat, gave me
this message: The Fall River boat
leaves the foot OF Twenty-third street
at 4. Send the donkeys by mail 1
said, You're mistaken, sir; the Fall
River boat leave the downtown pier at
five o'clock, not four shall never
forget the look he gave me: Said he;
Young " woman, you tend TO your busi-
ness, and I'll tend to the Fall River
boat After that I'd have sent the
Bible backward and called my baby
bear. If customer so wrote IL on the
blank
Year: 1879

an open, unblushingly brazen speech
for rebel war claims on the ground that
the Democracy went into the rebellion
on account of Democracy. To hear a
man calling himself a Democrat get up
in Congress and deny that the Govern
ment should pay the Democracy for the
losses incurred in a rebellion on ac-
count of Democracy-this it was that
made Ellis mad, at least 1t was the
same with all the rest. The attempt to
evade perfectly plain truth by. saying
that Bragg enraged the Confederate by
waving the ensanguined undergarment
will not serve the purpose. The excuse
is too diaphanous. Chicago Times
lind. Dem.).
Year: 1879

1t will be seen from the above tables
that there is scarcely an article OF mer-
chandise the amount of which exported
has not largely increased during the
past year, and in some of the great ar
ticles of export the increase is enor-
nous. 1t will be seen that the ship
ments of wheat have more than doubled,
which is also the case with rye and the
prepared breadstuffs (Which includes
farina and other articles of food manu-
factured) have increased more than
three times; the expectations of oats
have increased nearly five times, while
other breadstuffs show large gains.


The large increase in the shipments
of horned cattle will also be noticed
while the shipment of horses have
dubbed.


On the other hand the shipments of
gold and silver both in bullion and coin
have largely decreased, as will be shown
by the following table:
Year: 1879

There is discussion as to whether
whisky or no ventilation in the House
of Representatives kills the greatest
number of men. The whisky is very
bad, and it adds nothing to the effect of
the ventilation. But we fancy that ci-
gars have as much to do with the deaths
as anything.-M T. Herald.
Year: 1879

There has been decided increase in
the expectation of American produce
and live stock during the past year.
The Bureau of Statistics has returns to
October 81 in full, and circular con-
tanning the information will be pub
lished in few days.


The following is comparative state
ment of the value of agricultural imple-
ments exported from this country dur
ing the first ten months of 1873 and the
M of
Year: 1879

WITHOUT doubt Wilmington 10 one Of
the finest little cities In the United
States. 1t Is more favorably located
than any other city this side Of New
York ; and If there was sufficient capital
here to build a railroad direct to the
river and raise the marsh against the
food from the Brandywine we would At
once b come city Of commercial magni-
tude. Chicago was iaised twelve feet to
secure 10 1t from the apprehended rise Of
the lake and to give 1t drainage. A simi-
lar rise by an embankment to ward of
the food Of the Brandywine and She'll
pot, and a bridge over the former near
its mouth would soon render the whole
Of the fats between p, w. & b. Il. r. and
the Delaware easily made tit for build
ing purposes. 1t would cost much less
to effect this than most people imagine.
Year: 1879

by the Democrats In not permitting their
political assemblascs and club meetings
to be interrupted by the presence Of
negroes. The only animosity between the
races here that we hear Of has grown up
in the Republican party, which the negro
claims he was invited to; and hence
when his feelings are hurt by the con-
tempt he meets with whenever he rises
to speak in the political clubs OF de-
mands q place ON the Republican ticket,
he becomes soured, and thus hatred Of
the whites is engendered.


In this case the greatest sympathy Is
manifested by the white people for the
boy-slsysr, aud every effort will be made
to do exactly what Is right, however
difficult 1t may be to satisfy the law, and
properly meet the demands for safety in
the community.
Year: 1879

Some of the large dealers In stocks,
says the Ledger, are Of opinion that the
present unsettled condition Of the stock
market is wilful, and the result OF COM
binec effort to knock prices for tie pur-
pose of buying in at low prices, then to
inaugurate rise for their special profit.
That Is, as bears in the present they are
preparing to become bulls in the near
future. This may be q correct solution
Of what otherwise Is unaccountable in
reason. There is certainly no such
change In the value Of stocks as the daily
fluctuations in prices show.