Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1883 — Page 2

fljc UemocrdticSentinel; RENSSELAER, INDIANA. _ l J. W. McEWEN, - - - Publisher. '

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. EASTERN. The creditors of Shaw & Brothers, the Bankrupt tanners of Boston, met to hear the report of an investigating committee. It appears that the insolvents can pay 72 cents on the dollar. James B. ForgaD. Inspector of the Bank of Nova Scotia, was made trustee. Ernst Asten, Postmaster at Minooka, Pa., has been arrested for tampering with the mails. William H. Vanderbilt had a miraculous escft{)e from death at New York, the other day. The great railway magnate drove his last team to Fleetwood park, and had Early Rose put In a single racing buggy. He then dashed around the track twice at a rattling pace, and, when the second round was finished, at the grand stand, he whirled his horse about and started the other way around the track. He wore blue glasses, and did not see one of Robert Bonner’s fast teams coming straight at him. A collision occurred, and Vanderbilt’s buggy was wrecked and he thrown heavily to the ground. He lay motionless until a number of spectators ran to him and carried him to the porch of the track-house, where he revived sufficiently to walk up the steps and into the reception-room. His injuries were only slight. Bonner and his team escaped without damage. In the case of Loren B. Sessions, charged with bribery in the New York Senatorial contest in 1881 (at the time when Roscoe Conkling was seeking for a vindication), the jury, after but a short time devoted to deliberation, returned a verdict acquitting him of the charge. Before the Senate Labor Investigating committee at Boston, Charles T. Chaunoe testified that he had seen the tanned skins of several women, and that the business had been carried on for at least eighteen years, but lately has been decreasing. He designated the tanneries where the human “hides” had been perfected, and stated the proprietors themselves did most of the work on-them. Edward Hovey, who murdered Mrs. Fanny Vermllyea, was executed in the Tombs at New York. He spent a restless night, was unable to take breakfast, and had to be supported from his cell to the gallows. Henry Irving, the English actor, arrived In New 'tork last week. He was met “down the bay” by Lawrence Barrett and William J. Florence, who took him on board Tilden’s yacht, Yosemito, where he partook of some refreshments before landing.

WESTERN.

Gold ore worth from S2O to $250 per ton is said to have been discovered near Lisbon, Dakota. The Bank of Farmington, Minn., with liabilities of $40,000, has made an assignment. The Hon. Charles J. Albright, oldest e.\>Congressman from the old Sixteenth Ohio district, died at Cambridge, Ohio. During the year ending June 30, 1883, the Chicago postoffice handled 137,000,000 pieces of mail matter, an amount of stuff only exceeded by the “output” of the offices at New York and Philadelphia. M. M. Kittleman, of Michigan, defeated William Martin in a foot race of 100 yards at Portland, Oregon, for 84,000, making the distance in nine and three-quarters seconds. Stephen M. Edgell died in St. Louis last week. He was one of the original incorporators of the Union Pacific road, and for thirty-one years was President of the Missouri Mutual lire Insurance company. His daughter is the wife of Austin Corbin, of New York. The people of San Francisco suggest the employment of revenue cutters now lying idle in that port to prevent the smuggling of Chinese across the bordor of Washington Territory. A fire at Grand Haven, Michigan, burned Steam’s windmill and pump-works and other buildings, the total loss being $35,000. G. F. West’s flour-mill at Guttenberg, lowa, worth $30,000, was also destroyed. The excitement over the mysterious murder of the girl Zora Burns reached fever heat at Lincoln, 111., last week, when the officers placed under arrest Mr. Orrln A. Carpenter, suflicient evidence having been seoured to warrant this step. Carpenter is a leading merchant of Lincoln, has a wife and two interesting daughters, lives in a fine house, is quite wealthy, and, during a residence of thirty years in and about Lincoln, has enjoyed a high reputation for probity of character and business integrity. The arrest of such a man for the heinous crime of murder naturally created a sensation In the oommunity where he was known and respected. Various circumstances pointed unerringly to him as the author of the deed, but his neighbor and friends were slow to believe him guilty, regarding him rather as the victim of an unfortunate chain of circumstances. The murdered girl had formerly worked as a domestic in the family of Carpenter. Letters and other circumstance* go to show that he was criminally intimate with her and that rUo was cncientc. On her last and fatal visit iif Lincoln he was the only person she was known to have visited, having been closetei with him for an hour. The same evening she was murdered in a secluded spot near the town. Buggy tracks were seen near the corpse, and were traced thence back toward Lincoln. An examination of Carpenter’s buggy linos and whip revealed discolorations resembling blood. Tho articles were sent to Chicago, where a chemist examined them and pronounced tho spots human blood. The murdered girl was buried on Friday, Oct. 21, at St. Elmo, 111. Thomas Dukes, the unfortunate girl’s fiancee, upon whom suspicion for a time rested, was present at the burial.

SOUTHERN.

Wyatt Ames, who murdered Deputy Constable Blount near Helena, Ark., tried to escape from bis captors and was riddled with buckshot.

Two freight trams collided near Cleveland, Tenn., killing three men instantly and wounding six others. A colored man named Campbell was lynched at Statesville, N. C. in a dispute earlier in the day Campbell had killed one white man and wounded another. A Grand Jury at Baltimore has investigated the circumstances attending the loss of sixty-five lives at a rotten wharf near that city three or four months ago, and indicted the owner and the lessee of the premises for manslaughter. James Stanley, colored, was executed at Columbus, Texas, for the murder and robbery of Robert Strickland, white, aged 16, In November, 1882. Tho culprit confessed his crime, and delivered the following address to the crowd of 4,000 who witnessed his swinging off: “ I have foupd my way to glory. I have repented my sins, and God will send angels from heaven to meet me, I am going straight home to glory. Whisky, cards and women have brought me to this, l a going home to heaven —won’t you meet me there?” [Shouts from the colored crowd. “ Bless God, we will.”] My spirit will be flying around In glory, and you sinners that drink whisky, play cards, and attend balls had better repent and pray, or God will damn your souls. I forgive my enemies. God waits for me; wave your lights; I shall have golden slippers and a golden ring.” Georgia Sheriffs swung off Taylor Bryant, at Monroe, for a criminal assault upon Mrs. Elizabeth V. Soards, a white widow, and Margaret Harris, at Calhoun, for poisoning a white child.

WASHINGTON.

President Arthur and the members Of thcS Cabinet received Lord Chief Justice Coleridge at the residence of Secretary Frelinghuysen, in Washington. At a Cabinet meeting last week tho attempt of the Southern Pacific Railroad company to gobble the Texas Pacific unearned land-grand was discussed. The agents of the Southern Pacific company are understood to be very desirous to have the Attorney General pass upon tho question. Comptroller Knox finds that a call for $15,000,000 in 3 per cent, bonds would take at least $7,000,000 deposited for circulation by ninety-six banks, and perhaps $10,000,000, which would compel the retirement of $9,000,000 of national bank currency, unless other securities could be obtained. Comptroller Knox states that the reduction in national bank circulation the current year will be between $20,000,000 and $25,000,000, with the certainty of much moro rapid doorcase next voar. Thirteen entries of public land in Washington Territory have boon held for cancellation at the General Land office In Washington. The fronds extended oven to the notary public, and all tho entries were subsequently transferred to one person. Frank Hatton, in his annual report to tho Postmaster General, rocommends that local postage be reduced to 1 cent. The first appointment of a colored man under the new civil service rules was made last week by the Secrotary of War. Joseph W. Piles, for several years Principal of a St. Louis colored school, was the lucky appointee, and he was at onoe sworn In and assigned to duty in the Adjutant General’s office. He entered Into a competitive examination several weeks ago, and when the Secretary of War recently made requisition for a clerk to fill a vacancy in his department, Mr. Piles’ name was among those returned. His compensation will be S9OO per annum. The Secretary of War diil not know that Piles was a colored man till he reported for duty.

POLITICAL.

The colored people of Washington show deep feeling- on the civil-rights decision of the Supreme court. The nows of the decision created great excitement in the colored State convention, which was in session aft Springfield, 111. The delegates seemed to think they would now be deprived of the full enjoyments of their rights and privileges. The Governor of Texas has issued a proclamation calling a special session of the Legislature. It sets forth that an extraordinary occasion for the session has arisen, but withholds mention of what the occasion is. The subjects of legislation will probably reate to the fence war, public lands, and the investment of the school funds under the recently adopted constitution. Branch K. Bruce, the colored exSdnatar from Mississippi, and at presont Register of the Treasury,-is greatly discouraged at the decision in tho civil-rights cases. He regards it as a revival of the Calhoun doctrine of State rights, and says it will carry the country back fifteen years. The leading representative negroes of Louisiana have been interviewed on the subject of the late decision of the Supreme court, declaring the Civil Rights bill unconstitutional. Col. James D. Lewis, United States Surveyor General, thought the Civil Rights bill worked to the detriment of tho negroes. Tho decision did not affect Lousiana, and there was no desire on the part of the whites to deny the colored man his civil-rights in public conveyances or public places. P. B. S. Pinohback attached very little importance to the decision. Every negro who behaved himself in Louisiana enjoyed the same privileges as the whites. Race prejudice was rapidly dying out in Louisiana. Henry Demas, State Senator, regarded it as the best thing that could have happened for the colored people of tho South, who would now understand that they must rely upon iheir own manhood for recognition, socially and otherwise. A. J. Dumont, Chairman of the Republican State Central committee and UnitedState Naval Officer was of about the same belief. Nearly all the other colored loaders expressed similar views. Gov. Charles Foster, of Ohio, was asked to-night what he thought of the decision. Ho said: “I shall tree, ornmend in my message the adoption of a State law which will give to colored people all the rights and immunities guaranteed them under tho Civil Rights law. I cannot reconcile myself fully to tho decision. It might be well to submit a new amendment.” Th Dese Moines Register prints official returns from eighty counties in lowa, and definite returns from nineteen others. These give Sherman 25,472 majority over Kinne, and about 5,550 over all. The exact official canvass will not vary much from these figures. Pittsburgh opinions on the fcivil rights decision: The negroes are very indignant, and say they expected better things of the Republican Judges of the Supremo

court. Some of them threaten to revengt themselves by voting the Democratic ticket District Attorney Stone is bit ter in his denunciation of the decision. The Hon. Thomas Marshall, an old Abolition war-horse, is outspoken in condemnation oi the decision. He says it is the greatest out rage ever perpetrated on the colored race. Other leading Republican members of the Pitsburgh bar hold the same opinion. Mayor Peterson tbinkß that the work of the Republican party for the last twenty years has been undone. Postmaster Myler thinks the decision will work a great hardship upon very many people. Mr. John, a Colorado State Senator, nays that Secretary Teller will probably be a candidate for United States Senator as the successor of Senator Hill. The last-named will be a candidate for re-election. ExSenator Chaffee may also entor the lists.

MISCELLANEOUS. The fourth annual convention of the Northwestern Beekeepers’ association, at Chicago, largely attended, and there were many Interesting discussions upon subjects pex-tainlng to apiculture. An important move in cable telegraphy has been made by J. W. Mackey and James Gordon Bennett. They have signed a contract for two cables across the Atlantic ocean. Tho new lines are to be in operation next summer. In the town of Altata, Mexico, yellow fever deaths numbered twenty a day for twe weeks. In addition to this horror, a hurricane struck the town, literally blowing it to pieces. It is asserted that the Grand Trunk railroad managers have determined to force the fight against Vanderbilt by building o line along tho Hudson parallel to the Hudson River road. The eleventh annual Congress of the Association for the Advancement of Women was held at Chicago last week. Julia Ward Howe, Clara Barton, and other women of note, were in attendance, and many Interesting papers were read. The failings for the week ending Oct. 20, In the United States and Canada, numbered 243, an increase of fifty-six over the previous six days. Dun’s report is to the effect that eight largo commercial centers, including New York, show a decline in general trade; but at the same time merchandise Is disappearing rapidly, and a fair amount of profit was realized for tho week’s dealings. Collections were good, and tho deposits in the banks had increased, as compared with last year, $30,000,000, indicating tho withdrawal ol vast sums from speculation. A fairly profit able season is predicted. From March 3 to date there was sen! from St. Louis, New Orleang, Mobile, and other Southern cities to the New York subtreasury, $11,000,000 in gold, for which silvei certificates were wanted in exchange. A treaty of peace has beea signed between thft Chilian Government and Gen. lglesias, and Lima and Callos will soon be occupied by Peruvians. The bull and bear movements in Wall street arc seriously affecting the price oi American securities in the London market. Canadian securities are declining on account of the lack of confidence in the Dominion politicians, who mix finance and politics, and European securities are not strong because of the uncertain disposition of the powers. But for the stock-gambling methods of the Wall street people it is believed that American railway stocks would find ready sale at advanced prices.

FOREIGN.

Resolutions condemning the Commons for refusing Bradlaugh his seat and favoring the abolition of Parliamentary oaths were adopted with great enthusiasm at the Leeds conference of prominent English Liberals. Large sums are being sent from America to defend Poole, to be tried at Dublin for murder. A cable dispatch from Constantinople says that “an earthquake which bids fair to prove almost as destructive as the one on the island of Ischia occurred on the peninsula between Chesme, Asia Minor, and Vouria, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Smyrna. Six villages were completely destroyed and many others seriously damaged, while, as far as can be learned at present, upward of 1,000 persons have perished. This list includes only those living in the more accessible hamlets along the coast. What damage and what loss of life has been caused in the interior will not be known for days. The survivors of the disaster are suffering fearful privations. The first shock seems to have been felt early in the morning. This was but light, and no attention was paid to it. In a few minutes a second shock occurred. Then the houses, flimsy structures at best, collapsed. Most of the people were sleeping. These were buried under the ruins. Those whose houses were strong managed to escape. In a wild panic they sought the fields, aqd could not be persuaded to return to the rescue of their less fortunate fellow townspeople, whose cries were pitiful. Many of them are still huddled in in a starving condition and suffering from cold, but more terrified, by fears of a repetition of the dreaded shocks. The citizens of Smyrna, who were the first to hear of the disaster, sent help to the stricken people. Hundreds wore rescued - from the villages more or less wounded.” Mr. Moody has been so roughly received by the Cork mob that it has been found necessary to guard the hall by police every evening. London bill-posters refuse to placard the announcement of a locturo by Michael Davitt. Near Atlatasa, Asia Minor, houses and people were swallowed up by tho recent earthquake. Assistance is urgently needed in Chivs and the mainland, in which latter district tho British Consul reported 1,000 persons killed and wounded. In Madagascar the British naval authorities are hostile to the French, whose chief commander is preparing to begin an attack upon the Hovas. An explosion occurred at a colliery in Wharncliff, Yorkshire, England, and twenty miners were killed. Five who were in the shaft escaped with th’eir lives. It is rumored in London that Mme. Christine Nilsson will marry an American merchant. The Irish National league has passed a resolution expressing surprise and pleasure at the tenor of the speech of Chief Justice

Coleridge at his reception by the New York Bar association. The resolution expresses the hope that the principles enunciated in that address will be applied by the British Government to Ireland. Physicians at Ermsleben, Saxony, report triohinasis rapidly spreading, and predict that 30 per cent, of the cases will prove fatal. Mrs. Carey mil receive a weekly allowance of £4 10s. for herself and family until the conclusion of the trial of O'Donnell. She has been prohibited from confiding In interviewers.

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

The attorney for Miss Hill, of San Francisco, has sued ex-Senator Sharon for $120,000, for alleged slanders For three days a severe snow-storm raged at Tellweide, Celo., and the mountain passes are now covered to a depth of four feet. The steamer Rio Janeiro took from San Francisco about 1,000 Chinamen, who carried $750,000 out of the country. The members of the bar of Salt Lake held a meeting to protest against the appointment of Sumner Howard, of Flint, Mich., as Chief Justice of the Territory, and passed resolutions to be transmitted to President Arthur. Patrick Egan, the Irish agitator and the late Treasurer of the Irish Land league, has filed in the District court at Lincoln, Neb., his intention of becoming an American citizen. He will locate and engage in buying grain in Lincoln. The national horse show was held in New York, last week, with 400 fine animals on exhibition. Gen. Grant entered his Arabian ponies, and J. R. Keene exhibited two thoroughbreds. The baggage and passenger coach of a Delaware and Hudson train fell through a trestle near Fort Edward, N. Y., killing three persons and wounding twenty, one fatally. A heavy gafle on Lake Ontario caused the loss of a barge named the John Marsh, off Charlotte, N. Y., with a.crew of five or six men. Reports were telegraphed te London and New York from Quebec that alleged dynamiters in Canada were ready to attack Lansdowne, the new Governor General, upon his arrival. Leading Irishmen of Quebec ridiculed the idea of any hostility. The death-roll of the day includes the names of Hon. Elisha Foote, of St. Louis, Commissioner of Patents under President Jonnson; tho wife of John Russell Young* Minister to China; Dr. David A. Wallace, for twenty-five years President of Monmouth college, and Mrs. Gen. Anson Stager, of Chicago. As the result of a difficulty growing out of a game of ball the previous day, there was a bloody fight after church, Sunday, between a number of farmers- near Mcßean church, Burke county, Ga., in which Thomas B. Syms was shot five times and killed, and his two sons mortally wounded. A large mass meeting of colored people was held at Indianapolis to consider tho civil-rights decision. Addresses were made by Senator Ben Harrison and other prominent Republicans. There was a great deal of feeling manifested, and, as a rule, tho resolutions were adopted unanimously, one of which declares that “we recognize in the decision a narrow and partisan view, entirely at variance with the great principles enunciated by Lincoln, Sumner, Morton and other Republican leaders, and of the 350,000 brave men who purchased it with their blood.” A massmeeting of colored men at Washington was addressed by Col. Ingersoll and Fred Douglass. Col. Ingersoll praised Justice Harlan, and placed the recent opinion of the Supreme court on a par with the Dred Scott and other ante-war decisions. At a similar meeting in Cincinnati resolutions acquiescing in the decision, and thanking Justice Harlan for his fidelity to the race and for his own convictions, were passed. The negroes of San Francisco, in public meeting assembled, passed resolutions condemning The decision. The following is the total vote of Ohio, for Governor, at the recent election, as tabulated by the Secretary of State: Foraker 347,004 Hoadly 350.593 Schumacher , 8,301 Jenkins..'. 2,785 Total vote 721.454 Hoadly’s majority 1,383 Majority for judicial amendment 33,413 The second amendment fell short of a majority 39,543. The regulation amendment received 98.050 votes.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK Beeves $ 4.65 @ 6.75 Hogs 6.00 @ 5.60 Flouk—Superfine 3.10 @ 3.60 Wheat—No. l White 1.09 @ 1.09% No. 2 Red 1.06%@ 1.0754 Coen—No. 2 66%@ .66 Oats—No. 2 Ss%@ .36% Poke—Mess 11.50 (<411.75 Lard 07%@ .07% CHICAGO. Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 6.50 @7.35 Common to Fair. 4.20 @>5.20 Medium to Fair 6.26 & 5.05 Hogs _ 4.15 @ 5.10 Flouk—Fancy White Winter Ex. 6.40 @5.60 Good to Choice Spr’gEx. 4.75 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring R9%@ .00 No. 2 Red Win.er 98 @ .98*4 Corn—No. 2 46 @ .46% Oats—No. 2 27 @ .28% Rye—No. 2 .54%@ .55 Barley—No. 2 61 @ .61 Butter —Choice Creamery 27 @ .28% Eggs—Fresh *... .21 @ .22 Pork—Mess. 10.40 @10.50 Laud 07%@ .07% MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2... .89 .@ .89% Corn—No/2 46%@ .47 Oats—No. 2 33 @ .35 Rye—No. 2 63 %@ .64 Barley—No. 2 .61 %@ .62 Pork—Mess 10.00 @10.2.7 Lard... 07%@ .07% ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red ; 99 @ ,99%< Corn—Mixed..... 45%@ .46 Oats—No. 2 27%@ .27% Rye so @ .m Pork—Mess... ILOO @u.25 Lard ~ 07 @ .07% CINCINNATI Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.03 @ l.os Corn * so @ .61 Oats 30 @ .30% Rye. 68 @ .58% Pork—Mess. 11.40 @11.50 Lard 07 @ .07% TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 99%@ 1.03% Corn 52 @ .52% Oats—No. 2 ' 29 & .29% DETROIT. Flour 4.00 @ 6.75 Wheat—No. 1 White... 1.08%@ 1.08% Corn—No. 2 58%@ .54 Oats—Mixed 29 @ .29% Pork—Mess 12.25 @12.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.00 @ 1.00% Corn—No. 2 46%® .47 Oats—Mixed 26%@ .27 „ EAST LIBERTY. PACattle—Best f.oo @ 6.27 Fair 5.00 @ 6.86 Common... 4..6 @ 5.00 Hogs '. 4.90 @5.25 Sheep 3.69 @ 4.50

NULL AND VOID.

Civil Rights Law Declared Unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court Being Operative Only in the Territories and the District of Columbia. All the Members of the Court Except Harlan Concur in the Decision. The United States Supreme court (Mr. Justice Bradley writing the opinion, and Mr. Justioe Harlan only dissenting) has pronounced the sections of the Civil Rights act according colored persons equal privileges in railway cars, hotels and theaters unconstitutional so far as the States of the Union are concerned. CRses were brought under the law to the highest tribunal from the States of Kansas, California, Missouri, New York and Tennessee, and had been under consideration for a year. The complainants were colored men, and had been denied their rights as the law defined them in hotels, railroad-cars, restaurants, theaters, etc. The court holds that Congress had no constitutional authority to pass the above sections under either the Thirteenth or Fourteenth amendments. As to the Territories and the District of Columbia, the court holds tho legislative power of Congress In the premises Is unlimited. We print below a summary of this important decision, telegraphed from Washington by the Associated Press agent.

THE CASES.

The Supreme court of the United States has rendered a decision In the five civil-rights cases submitted on printed arguments about a year ago. The titles of these cases and the States from which they came are as follows: No. 1, United States against Murray Stanley, from the United States Circuit court, District of Kansas; No. 2, United States against Michael Ryan, from the United States Circuit court, District of California; No. 3, United States against Samuel Nichols, from the United States Circuit court, Western District of Missouri; No. 23, United States against Samuel D. Singleton, from United States Circuit court for the Southern District of New York, and No. 28, Richard A. Robinson and wife agamst the Memphis and Charleston Railroad company, from the United States Circuit court for the District of Tennessee. These cases were all based on the first and second sections of the Civil Rights act of 1875, and were respectively prosecutions under that act for not admitting certain colored persons to equal aooommodations and privileges in Inns or hotels, in railroad cars and In theaters. The defense set up In every case was the alleged unoonstitutionality of the law. The first and second sections of the act, which were the parts directly In controversy, are as follows: Section L That all persons within the Jurisdiction of the United tmtes shall be entitled to the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages. facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land and water, theaters and other places of public amusement subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to every race and*color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude. The sooond seotion provides that any person who violates the first section shall be liable to forfoit S6OO for each offense, to be recovered In a civil action, and also to a penalty of from SSOO to SI,OOO fine, or imprisonment from thirty days to one year, to be enforced by criminal prosecution. Exclusive Jurisdiction is given to the District and Circuit courts of the United States in cases arising under tho law. The rights and privileges claimed by and denied to colored persons in these cases were full and equal aocommodatious in hotels, in ladies’ cars on railway trains, and in the dress oircle in theaters.

THE COURT'S DECISION.

* The court, in a long and carefully-pre-pared opinion by Justice Bradley, holds: 1. That Congress had no constitutional authority to pass the sections in question under either the Thirteenth or Fourteenth amendments to the constitution. 2. That the Fourteenth amendment is prohibitory upon States only, and that the legislation authorized to be adopted by Congress for enforcing that amendment is not direct legislation on matters respecting which States are prohibited from making or enforcing certain laws or doing certain acts, but is corrective legislation necessary or proper for counteracting and redressing the effoct of snch Jaw cr acts; that in forbidding States, for example, to deprive any person of liberty or property without due process of law and giving Congress power to enforce this prohibition, it was not intended to give Congress power to provide due process of law for the protection of life, liberty and property (which would embrace almost all subjects of legislation), but to provide modes of redress for counteracting the operation and effect of State laws obnoxious to the prohibition. 3. That the Thirteenth amendment gives no power to Congress to pass the sections referred to, because that amendment relates only to slavery and involuntary servitude, which It abolishes, and gives Congress power top ms laws for its enforcement; that this power only extends to the subject-matter of the amendment itself—namely, slavery and involuntary servitude, and the necessary incidents and consequences of those conditions; that it has nothing to do with different races or colors, but only refers to slavery, the legality of different races and classes of citizens being provided for in .the Fourteenth amendment, which prohibits States from doing anythtng to interfere with snch equality; that it is no infringement of the Thirteenth amendment to refuse to any person equal accommodations and privileges at an Inn or pilace of public entertainment, however it may be violative of his legal rights; that It imposes upon him no badge of slavery or involuntary servitude which implies some sort of subjection of one person to another, and the Incapacity incident theretq, sach as inability to hold property, to make contracts, to be parties in court, etc., and that if the original Civil Rights «c* w.iich abolished these incapacities might lie supitorted by the Thirteenth amendment it does not thereto: e follow that the act of 1»74 can be supported by It. 4. That this decision affects only the validity of the law in states, and not in Territories or the District of Columbia, where the legislative power of Congress is un'imited, and it does not undertake to decide what Congress might or might not do under the power to regulate commerce with foreign natibus and among the several States, the law not being drawn with any such view. "6. That it is the opinion of the court that the first and second acts of Congress of March 1, 1875, entitled “An aot to protect all citizens in their civil and legal i ights," are unconstitutional and void, and judgment should be rendered upon the indictments accordingly.

JUSTICE HARLAN DISSENTS.

At the conclusion of the reading - of Judge Bradley’s opinion, which occupied more than an hour, Justice Harlan said that under ordinary circumstances and in an ordinary case he should hesitate to set up his Individual opinion in opposition to his eight colleagues, but, in view of what he thought the people of this country wished to accomplish, what they tried to accomplish, and what they believed they had accomplished by means of this legislation, he must express his dissent from the opinion of the court. Ho had not time since hearing that opinion to prepare a statement of the grounds of his dissent, but he should prepare and file one as soon as possible, and in the meantime he desired to put upon rec ord this expression of his individual judg moot.

PUBLIC FEELING.

[Washington Telegram to Chicago Herald.] The decision is the subject of universal comment here, and It Is safe to say that no other decision of the Court since the famous Cred Scott decision by Chief Justice Taney has created so much excitement and discussion. ' [Washington Telegram to Chicago Inter Ooearu] The decision of the Supreme court in the Civil Rights cases made something of a sensation here. There are several suits pending in this district, and the reference made to these

In Bradley's opinion causes some consternation among, hotel and restaurant men, who imagine it will operate disastrously to them. The strong intimation that the law of Congress is operative here, while not deciding the questions pending as to the district, is construed as authoritative. It also destroys the hope of tho clique which is agitating the question of suffrage, and opens the new question as to a similar form of Government for Utah. Both of these propositions have had able legul advocates and the decision of to-day Is r-+-garded as affording the a secure legal footlig for the future. Gen. Ben Harrison, of Indiana, says ho was not much surprised at the decision of the Supreme court, and believid it good law.

VIEWS OF COLORED LEADERS.

FRED DOUGLAS. Fred Douglas, when asked what he thought of the decision, said: “It Is disheartening, and I regard it as a 6tep backward. The result will be mischievous. At the close of the war, and in view of the services rendered by colored mon, there was a disposition on the part of the country to conoede to them complete citizenship and equal civil rights in tb© use of all public conveyances and Institutions. I regard this decision as a part of the general reaction naturally following increased friendship between the North und South, which comes of the dying out of the old controversy on the subject of slavery. Nearly all the concessions tho colored people have received have been the result of the antagonism of tho two sections. I do not despair, however, of the ultimate return of a liberal spirit toward the colored people. I think the decision confounds social with civil rights. Social equality does not result from riding on the same car with a man or buying goods at the same store. The decision places the American people far in the rear of the civilized nations of Europe. Tho deqlsion Is contrary to tho Declaration of Independence, the spirit of Christianity, the spirit of the age, and in violation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments. It tends to weaken the spirit of patriotism which the nation may need in.some hour of peril.” JOHN M. LANGSTON. Prof. John M. Langston, Minister to Hnyti, the man who drew, at tho request of Charles Sumner, the act of which the two sectionshave been declared unconstitutional, says: “I am surprised and deeply disappointed at the decision, but, in fact, the Civil Rights act gave us Ho rights which we did not already have under the Fourteenth amendment. We have \yith or without tho act equal rights In this country, and the courts of the Statesshould give them to us. If they domot, then Congress has power under the amenJnnents to legislate so that they will bo compelled to do so. The result, therefor, will be simply to bring the matter before Congress again.” RICHARD T. GREENER. Richard T. Greener, the well-known colored lawyer, speaking of the decision, said: “It is the most startling decision since the Infamous dictum of Chief Justice Taney. I myself would much rather be deprived of my pqlitical rights than my social ones. I canlive without suffrage, I can exist without office, but I want to have the privilege of traveling from New York to. California without fear of being put off a car or denied food and; shelter because I have a trace of negro blood In my veins. Tho civil rights granted by that law are not oniy constitutional, but In my Judgment antedate the constitution.”

PRESS COMMENT.

[From the New York Times, Republican. 1 In the temper which the people have now reached in dealing with questions that formerly had a sectional significance and that. pertaiß to the relations of tho races In this country, it seems as though nothing were neoessary but a careful reading of the Fourteenth amendment to show that It did not authorlze such legislation as the Civil Rightsact, and yet Judge Harlan Is to file a dissenting opinion which may present considerations that do not occur to the ordinary mind. The prohibition of the amendment is specially directed against the making and enforcing of laws by States which shall abridge the privileges and Immunities of citizens. Assuming that these concede the right to equal accommodations in public conveyances and places of entertainment, it does not appear in any of these cases that the State has in its legislation for the enforcement of laws made the discriminations complained of. The decision Is not likely to have any 'considerable practical effect, for the reason that the act of 1875 has never been enforced. Spasmodic efforts have been made to give It effect, and occasional contests have been made In the courts, but the general practice pf railroads, hotels, and theaters has remained unchanged, and has depended mainly on tho prevailing sentiment of the communities in which they are located. The question of absolute right is not affected by the constitutional amendment or the decision of the Supreme court. There is a good deal of unjust prejudice against negroes, and they should bo treated on their merits as individuals precisely as other citizens are treated in like circumstances. But it is doubtful If social privileges can be succesfully dealt with by legislation of any kind. At any rate, it ia now certain that they are beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal Congress. If anything can be done for their benefit It must be through State legislation. They are .guaranteed against adverse and discriminating action by the States, and favorable action can only be secured through State authority. This remands the whole matter to the field in which it rightly belongs and In which alone It can be effectually dealt with. [From the New York World, Democratic.] The decision of the Supreme court of the United States declaring the Civil Rights law unconstitutional will create much excitement among the negro population. The court doe* not find In the Thirteenth or Fourteenth amendments any authority for*legislation requiring, under penalties, that equal privileges shall be accorded In hotels, railways and theaters to colored and white citizens alike. The opinion, singularly enough, Is written by Justice Bradley, of New Jersey, while the only dissenting voice Is that of Justice Harlan, of Kentucky. The latter Judge records the notice of his non-concurrence, and promises to file his opinion sustaining tho law at a futurentime. Judge Bradley was President Grant’s appointment and Judge Harlap was appointed by Hayes. The blunders by which the object of equal social rights has thus been defeated are those of the Republicans. The Democrats have no responsibility In the matter. If our colored fellow-citizens act wisely they will accept the result with silence and will strive by selfimprovement and good citizenship to win the respoct and oonsidoration to which every honest man is entitled, no matter what may be the color of his skin. That is their surest way to equal rights and to the sympathy of all whose friendship is worth having. [From New York Truth (Independent).] The United States Supreme dourt has put a quietus on the fanatical legislation In Congress of a few years ago by which Federal laws provided penalties against Innkeepers, railway agents, theater or restaurant managers who did not give privileges to colored people equal to those given white people. The court almost unanimously hold that only tho States dan regulate such. matters, and that the Federal statutes and penalties In question are unconstitutional. This State has a law for such equal privileges, but It Is regarded as a dead letter, because refiusals to colored people can be put upon assailable grounds by the use of a ’ little tact and discretion.

PERSONAL.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ constant ch«m is a pug dog. Among a list of New York' millionaires printed In the New York World appears the name of Ulysses 8. Grant. Napoleon Blucheu Ainsworth Is . the name of a Choctaw Indian, who recently married a South Carolina girl. * James Sullivan, the Mexican railroad builder, Is a short, broad-shouldered, roundfaced man, with a large eye, intelligent face, and charming conversational powers. Laban H. Blair, of Van Wert, pardoned from the Ohio State prison last April on condition that he leave the State and keep sober, has been returned to prison, as he went back to Ohio and got drunk there.