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NEWS OF THE DAY.
FOREIGN NEW?.
Detailed accounts of the capture of Bagdad
???ive been reoe-ived frum Jirownsville- but they need
fnrthei confirmation before they can be fully credited.
They assert tbat tbs party capturing the town con
alited of 123, mostly colored Midiera, belonging to the
llfth U. 8. Colored Iiitautry. The report that a de?
tachment ?if Ui itod Slate? troops was sent over to pro?
tect the American citi/eiti is confirmed. New difticul
tiei bar? arisen between Gen. Weitsel and (len. ?lej?a.
The latest accounts from tbe City of Mexico, tliough
coming from Imperialist sources, aro unfavorable to
the ciuse of the Empire. The Imp?rial garrison in
Actpulco are itfirving. The native population have all
abandoned the city, nfter destioyingor inutilbing the
well?. Alraiez ii indefatigable in Lara ?sing the french,
and the rocky grout, d nllowi bim to inflict large ?ain
mge? wilhout receiving any. It Is admitted that he has
?taduoed a considerable number oi Imperialists to debert.
Three hundred men have been sent io a Treuen maii-of
wet to Hag?m1,nod it waa supposed that tbe Impel iu!ltti
would looa reoocupy the place.
IbeCaptain-Ueiiciulot Cuba bas fitted up LU country
aeat for Mr. Seward'!use, who wai expected to arrive
at Havana t.bort'.y.
OENKKAL NEW?.
Hardly anything of interest ha? taken place
lu tbe Fenian world since oui last report. The Sena?
torial fuction sill probably remain qrti-t until the
convention of their "Congresi" In I'.ttslnirgb on the
19th of next rcontb. In the mean time, President
O'Mahony contiuaci running the business of the Irlah
"Republic, in hi.? u--ual slow, mrtbodionl way, at the
Revenuientli >t tieailrjaarterR, while Co!. Koberts and
Oen. Sweeney aro about to start da their "stirring op '?
mission among tbe 1'oulan Circles of ibe Wettern
fUatee.
Another ire-boat race carno off at Pongh
keepsle, N. T., yeiterday. The distance suited was IG
miles and return, tbo boats going to Newburgh. The Una
?rrlved at Newburgh ahead on the down trip and came
la ahead on ber retara. The run from Newburgh to
*New Hamburg, a distance of eight mllei, waa made in
the unprecedented lime of seven minuten, lour boats
were entered, the Una, Minnehaha, Icicle and Snow?
flake.
The annual dinner of tho Philadelphia Board
of Brokers look place last evening at the Assembly
Boomi. Among tbe invited truest* were God. Meade,
Admiral Farragot, Commodores SUibliug and Hoff,
and Mayor MoMlohael, al of whom mude addreiaes
The party numbered over 200 persum, and leporated at
a late boar,
A dispatch from Titusville, Pa.-, yesterday,
eays that there weie two large fires there on Sundsy
night. Three oen were ?-rested, cbarged with being
I ii can diaries, and are being tried by Vigilance Com?
mittee?. If found guilty, tboy will be hung at once.
Particulars bave not boen received.
The National Bunks in Ma?isachurjijttfl, New
fork and other ?-?tatti, which hive more than tbelr sp
poitioametitof Na Monal Currency, will probably have
the amounts of notea which thsy are authorized to lune
redooed, In order to offset a fair proportionment In tbe
Bontlern States.
The libel-case of A. T. Stewart against the
proprietors of the newspaper knowu as FA? National
Polie* i40-.au came np before Judgo Dowling yesterday.
After the examination of a few witneaiea, the case wui
submitted to the Jntlge witiiout argument, and declilon
was reierred.
?Salvaehtf the alleged co-conspirator of Gon
aales in the morder of Otero, was on trial yesterday in
the Court of Oyer and Tormlnar, Brooklyn. Inverai
witnesses were exatoiuad for the prosecution, and the
further lie-riiig of the case adjourned until to day.
The Firemen's Ball u?okplace at the Academy
of Moalo last night, and was a decided me cess. The
interior of the building wai finely ornamented? about
1,000 guests were present, and the festivities wera
maintained until an early boar ihii morning.
The Revenue Commissioners will recommend
the abolition of His tax on watches, carnage?, plate,
and -?thor artices in Schedule A. 1 hey disapprove or
the substitution of a tsx on win for the present In?
come tazas.
A clerk in tho Baltimoro Post-Office named
Alonso Hutchins has boin arrested for robbing the
malls, by a ipecial agent of tho Poit-Oftice Department,
-bli makes the second arrest in that offl.o within two
months.
There was fine skating on almost all of the
pondi of New.York and vicinity yeiterday, and from
present appearances ths sport will last for teatral days
witi-out interruption.
The bark B. SewaJ!, from Bath, Me-, for Gal
T*M?n, with a oergo ofhay and poutocs, was wrecked
below Calveston, Deo. vi, The captain and crew were
eaved.
Mr. Ridley of Tronp introduced in the Georgia
lallat**-, yeeterday, a series of resolution?, recom
_?endiog to President Johnsoa a general amneity and
pardon.
Only 377 namea were regifrtered in Calveston
?a votera. Tkt Mt? Antonia Ktprut state- that 1,738
voten were registered In Bexar County.
Gen. Banka hopea to report his resolution on
?n tiie Preach Indr.itrial Sipoiitlon, with aa appro?
priation ef only gS?.tX'Ofotoariamu.
Cloven maraudera hava recently been cap?
turad, ead glvsa over to the eivll authoiitlei al Baa
A nionlo. Texas.
Tfu Golteiton f?ulletin of the 5th inat. aaya
^tbat aa soginesr and peal?os train were embarking
there for the Rio Grai.de.
Capt. Wm. Shankland, an old and highly
eeteeaied ehlpmaster, died yeiterday morning at Polia
islpbis.
The President has recogniied Camille Joseph
Ludman aa Tloe-Cor.inl of Braal! ia Xew-York.
Gold closed at 13S|, after Belling at 139| yesterday.
Osvsrnmsnt ?toaki sr? fsirtj tnttsl-W ob all tb. istass. The
gsiiwiy ibu? martel is ??-?rally lew? ?4 fsvsrub At Us
Bsesn? Bosrtl frt~"? wen tem rally W?r. tierney ob es ti I?
aootod ?t i'd* I*?r csat, with s t?-a ?apply. In coomoro-!
bilU no cbao(S. Beat name? tell ?I T, io?! at lui?, ?ad a lang
U?t at lla'ai* per rent,
" Statii?tica of the New-York Cattle Market
for 1"H)?;" "Important Tram-action.-, of the
Health Commisioners on the Subject of the j
Cholera;" the proceedings of both branches of
our City Government, and other miscellany vill
be feiuud on the seventh page of to-day's paper. I
The Joint Committee on Reoaaatniction.con-,
fisting al*ab Senators and nine Representative*?, j
have agreed on the following proposal of Con?
stitutional Amendment, which .was yesterday
reported to the Senate by Mr. Fesscnden of
Maine:
Article-. Representatives
?ind Direct Taxes shall be appor?
tion ed among the several States
?hieb may be included within j
this Union according to their re- ?
spective numbers, count.Eg the
whole number of parsons in each
State, excluding Indians not taxed ;
provided, that whenever the deo
Uve franchise shall be denied or
abridged in any State, on account,
of race or color. aU persons of such
race or color shall be excluded from
the basis of repr?sentation.
? This amendment virtually remits the ques?
tion of Black Suffrage to the sevoral States, re?
quiring only that each shall abide by its own
decision, and not count as a basis of politic'il
power in the Union such portion of its popula?
tion as it shall deliberately deprive of power
and exclude from the body politic. In other
words, it says: '' Account your Blacks men or
brutes* but, if yon account ihem brute?, do not
ask other States to regard thom as men."
It Eoems difficult to imagine a ground whereon
this rulo can be rationally objected to. Its
[ principle is in substance embodied in our State
1 Constitution (Art. III. $4), which says:
"An enumeration of tie lnlinbitniitr? e?f the State ahal!
. be taken, under the direction of the _egii.latnre in the
i year \-a>, ?nd at tbe end of every tea juara thereafter;
?nd the ?"id [Senate' Distii?*ti shall Ixi co altered by tlic
i I.eiriilatuie, at thu lirai session after ttie return of each
i fuuiBi rat!jil, that each district ?shall ennuin, a? ncsily
I as may be. an eqq-il number of inbabltsnts. udnetng
I ?lient and periont of color nut taud. ' [Habe in yi, w11 h
? regard to Assembly Iliatricts.J
?If the majority in Congress sLiill decide to
laka it3 stand on the practical and reasonable
, ground thus taken, trusting to tho silent but
?resistless operation of lime, and State pride,
and self-interest, to bring each ?*"'tate to a prac?
tical recognition of the equal right of its hum?
bler ela-*??, wc feel confident that its trust will
not bo vain.
In the Senate, yesterday, Mr. Fesseuden,
from the Reconstruction Committee, reported a
resolution for an amendment to the Constitu?
tion basing repretentiition and taxes ****?t>n pop
illation, except that wherever the suffrage is de?
nied or abridged on account of race or color, all
j persons of such race or color shall be excluded
I from computation. A memorial was presented
from the Boston Board of Trade for the
I preservation of legal claims against Southern
statutes of limitation and siay laws. Mr.
Clark called up the bill allowing jurors to fit
who had formed an opinion, and providing for
the transfer of certain cases to the Supreme
Court of the United States, being a bill intended
to facilitate the trial of Jefferson Davis. Mr.
Sumner objected to it as ei post facto, and tbe
bill was postponed till Thursday. The resolu?
tion to refer all papers and documents concern?
ing representation of the Robel States
to the Reconstruction Committee was
(adopted. Mr. Trumbull's bill to en
j large the powers of the Freedmcn's Bureau
j was taken np, and Mr. Cowan moved to
! amend by limiting the jurndic t.On of the Bureau
to States lately in rebellion, which was debated
by Messrs. Cresswell, Wilson, Cowan and Guth
I ric, and disagreed to by Yeas 11. Nays Mt An
I amendment was adopted, restricting military
jurisdiction to offices pertaining to the Bureau,
i and other amendments offered by Messrs. Davis
' and Saulsbury were rejected. The ?Senate then
went into Executive Sossion, and afterward ad?
journed.
In the House, bills were introduced and re?
ferred for the defenbc of the North-Eastern fron?
tier; to regulate suffrage and elections in the
District; requiring residence of a year to entitle
citizens of that District to vote; to prevent the
passing of counterfeit United States money;
to regulate the appointment of Admirals and
other naval officers; to establish a new navy
yard on the Delaware River; to give pen?
sions to certain soldiers of 1812; to grant
bounties to volunteers of 1861 and 186*.*;
\ autboriring the President to appoint cert.iin
j household officers| to pay officers and men pre?
vented by confinement in Rebel prisons from
j being regularly mustered into service; to pre?
scribe a new oath of office and to repeal the
Test Oath act; to construct a ship-cannl aronnd
Niagara F?llst and to admit the State of Colo?
rado. Resolutions were adopted to inquire into
the expediency of a tax on cigars according
to quality, and of levying a tax on
tobacco in the leaf; directing an inquiry
whether, in "view of the appointment to
office, by high offioart, of Rebels who could not
take the oath, any legialation is xwcossary to
euforce obedience to the law by all men " with,
out regard to rank or color?" aa to paying
offieera and privates from data of diecharge
until relieved; aa to reducing tax on common
cigars and manufactured common tobacco; and
calling on the I*res idcr.t for correspondence cn -
corning a demonstration by the Congres? of
Colombia io honor of Juana.
Mr. Stevens asked leave to offer a resolution
to inquire into the expediency of a loan to tho
Republic of Mexico, bnt withdrew it. Resolu?
tion? were offered and referred lor the trial of
Jefferson Doris and other BcKis bj Court?
Martial; fora Con-titntional Ampnament pro?
viding that on the death of the President and
Yiee-Frer,i_ent the C_ief-Ju_t.ee thall be
President till a new .election, and for an
election by CongTcs? when there is no choice
by the pe??ple; and declaring that Rebel
representative* ought to be admitted immedi?
ately. A n solution wa* introduced by Mr.
Nilii-ck (Dem.) approving the rond net of Presi?
dent Johnson in declining present?*, which the
Douse ref-ised to lay on the tablo by 19 to 126.
Mr. Schenck offered an amendment regretting
that member, of Congress were not entitled to
t-imilar prais. by reason of not having refused
free pasees on railways; and the matter went
over.
From the Reconi-truetion Committee, Mr.
Stevens offered a resolution for an amendment
to the Constitution?tho same offered by Mr.
Ft'B-cnden in the Senate?and propo>ed to press
it to a vote, with one sp-tMrch on each bide. Mr.
Rogers of Ncw-Jentey opposed it, and Mr.
Conkling of New-York offered an argument in
favor of the resolution, after which it was made
the rpe? ?al order for to-day, and the Baan ad?
journed. ______________________
The Semite yesterday voted down Mr. Cow
iui't* amendment to exclude Murj land, Dela?
ware, K'-utticky and Yirpnia from the jurisdic?
tion of the Freeduien'aS llureau. To Lave done
otherwise would have been to remit the negroes
emancipated in tho*. Stutts to the unchecked
control of their late masters. The United States
ni-.-t take care of its wards. Those who voted
not to, were all Democrats but Mr. Cowan.
The sessions of the Legislature were brief
yesterday. In the Senate a bill empowering
the managers of the Five Points House of In?
dustry to bind out children durinff their mi?
nority was advanced to a third reading, when
the body adjourned.
In the Assembly a bill wa3 introduced chang?
ing the name of the New-York Freo Academy
to New-York Free College. The necessity of
a Quarantine for New-York was intr?.d*iced by
Mr. Littlijnu:uin resolutions calling upon the
National Government to grant facilities for the
aatBb?"?Iment of proper quarantine regulations.
A ri'-i i'ition wai also offered directing inquiry
to bo niado into the various systems of educa?
tion prevalent in this country and abroad, with
! the view uf improving the system in New-York.
Resolutions enforcing the quarantine necessity
upon the Government, and directing tbe Com
iii ?oners to find a location for new hospital
.tud storage buildin*-?, were adopted.
The Boston Board of Trado has joiued the
New-York Chamber of Commerce in petition?
ing Congre.-s fm^protection to the lawful claims
of Northern creditors against the operation of
Southern Statutes of Limitation running dur?
ing the R?__ellion, and against stay laws
subsequently passed. As they ask nothing
but their bare legal rights for men who other?
wise will be swiud led out of hundreds of mil?
lions of dollars, thcpe petitioners are entitled to
huve their prayer granted. "We do not learn
that there aro two opinions on the subject in
Congress; relief therefore should be -peedy a?
well on certain.
NO1 I Hi: li-i VIEWS.
A Georgia Southron, partially reconstructed,
writes ?rom Milledgeville on tho 9th inst. to TAe
J.? F. Tima as follows:
"The iie.roe? about tlii? city expected to tret s jvnr
lion of their old inntters1 land?, lii-iippointed In thii
expectation, they nuw ?.?y they will he allowed to tor?.'
Vutin?.' with them I* synonymous witti/r?<fo_i. If we
of tl.e South can hi left slo'ne to work out this problem
of emancipatioi', we will do it. and the whole country
- ii1 be tie ?miner. If tl.e politicians North bavo it
ihtlr way, u>tcm sngsr ami rice will be In tbe market
_po year froii tods? a hundred per cent, bisher than st
I tent-nt. H'r know tho ni.-|imtha-i"KT; and w.can use
this knowleilpo fur the bt-neflt of the whole country.
(Sod grent ni- may be permitte?] to work out this prob?
lem in our (Twii way??< Uait, for uno year."
?It is unfortunate that those who so thoroughly
understand the negro character could not have
resized, years ago, tho inestimable truth that
the best and cheapest way to obtain Labor,
White or Black, is tu hire it in tbo open market
and pay the market price for it. That simple
but precious truth, comprehended and taken to
heart, would have savod us billions' worth of
property and rivers of priceless blood.
This Southron further says:
"We are?notwithstanding the assertions of the
l: iiln al? to the contrary?willing to -rive the negroes s
fair trial-, and it is onr interest to do so?for the very
paten! reason that mt kari no other ?moor at kandt and
there will never be suuh mother opportunity as wo now
have to make that, or say other kii,d of labor, so lucra?
tive.**
?We concur in mont of the above, but think
it a little too hard on the Southern Whites.
According to the eenuin? of 18G0, Georgia had a
total population of 1,057,329, whereof but 462,
232 were slave?. Making liberal ailowanc. for
the then Free Blacks and the subsequent lo?jse_
by war, there must bo at least Half g Million
Whites iu Georgia to-days not 100, (KK) of whom
are able to live honestly on their capital. If,
then, this ex-slaveholder mtans to insinuate
that all the 400,000 Poor White, ia Georgia are
too proud and la. y to work for a living, we beg
leave to dissent. We know that far too many
of them seem incurably indolent and vicious;
that they delight in hanging around groggeries
though their families lack bread, and cursing
" the niggers" as idle, when those alone are at
work: but we are quit, .ure that all me Poor
Whites aro not of this bad school; and we ask
the planters to give them a chance to proya it.
Let those exten??ive landholders for whom ne?
groes utterly refuse to work?and we know that
there ara such-advertis? for White cotton
hands, offering good wages and good l_e_Unent,
and giving a preference to natives or long-time
residents of their own State, and they will be
sui*priiied by the number ready and willing to
take hold. This sending to Ireland or (.?ermany
?yea, even to New-York or Cincinnati?for
laborers is bosh?there ii no need of it. Offer
the Foor White? a chance to work on planta?
tion- where no ftlacks .re employed as field
hands, with all ?gaper inducementa, and we be?
lieve ootton calice made as cheaply by their
labor as by Black, whether slave or free. Do
lot us hoar that eomebody ii proffering the Poor
WhiUa a chanoe to better their condition.
The Southern papen are anxious to have the
oegron removed, for fear of an i_8ur-ection.
Thi* fear B?Y? tiiitad duri-;, thi BalrtJlion.
If the Reli?is could fight a large army for four
years, they certainly can prescrre the peace
around their homes.
TBK HEALTH BILL.
"While the Legislature baa under consideration
the bill establishing a new Board of Health for
our City, it may not be presumptuous to offer
suggestions locking to its improvement. The
following points seem to us those whereon the
bill, a? presented, may be usefully modified:
I? We think the Commissioners should be
nominated by the Govern ?r and confirmed by
the Senate, but that the Mayors of this City and
Brooklyn, with the Health Officer of the Port,
should be Commissioners ez o?eio.
2. We jadge that these, with four more Com?
missioners?making seven in all?should consti?
tute the new aBoard.
3. We suggest that the amount of money
they may oxpend should be expressly limited,
so as to render it certain that there shall be
secured an aggregate saving of expense by the
creation of this aBoard.
4. We judge that two physicians (beside the
Health. Officer) and two lay mon would bo a
proper apportionment.
5. The President of the Board should be re?
quired to devote his entire time to the duties of
his station, and be paid a liberal, though not
extravagant salary, as should the Secretary;
but tho other members of the Board, whose
dut ii* : would be rather legislative tlian executive*,
and who need give but a fuw hours per week to
their official duties, and who need not surrender
their regular but-ines*', should be content with a
Tcry moderate stipend.
6. Wo submit that all the other Commission?
ers?Police, Croton Water, Central Park, Char?
ities, Fire, Ac.?should be required to o??p
?rate with that of Health, and atford all practi?
cable assistance in securing the great cuds for
which it is organized.
? Such are the few particular? ia which the
Health bill, as printed, seems to us susceptible*
of improvement We respectfully commend
them to the consideration of the Legislature.
BAD FOB Till: BIOIC % l-l.
The World has a Copperhead correspondent
in Washington who winds up a column of splen?
etic outpouring aguiust " colored legi.-latiou in
Congress" as follows:
" How drculfully 'icld' the Radica!? wonid b" if the
Sooth iboold nlopt. lu the different Ststei, thii Radical
recommendation to allow negroes to vote! The tinnl
' condition' of tbe moct Radical |reconFtru.:ti. mut
would then be fu?illed. and the ?hole Radical crew
would bo subjected to the folios ing fright?: JUmtortition
would be acoompluhed in ipite or [be Radical obstruc?
tions?tbe representatlnu lu the Southern States wolild
be largely increuaeil?the negr.iei would be ?cry likely
to rote fur their old friend? and former masters-, ?i lu ni
ther know, and wboare, of course, ' Hebel?'?and laut,,
and molt horrible (to tl.e Radios!?) thought of all, a
negro-voting population, In mme lectlom of the South,
mitritt tend negro Representatives to Clongrem. No
oue, probably, U more opposed to this than the moat
muting of t'l.eie Kadiral?, s ho aro wdlinc in allow
IS! u k? to vote In the Dlittlet or In the South, but wVo
would lee the iilmle race in Africa, or in eveu wanner
quarters, before they would permit a single uogro to
i ote with them in the Rouse or Senate."
?now full of suggestion is the above extract,
even though but partially true ! The South is
.standing in hor own light in clinging to the
shadow of Slavery after the substance hu, for?
ever departed, li her statesmen would but act
as their judgment must dictate, how soon, in?
deed, would "restoration bo accomplished 1"
We hail this admission of au e_am~ ????* t< a.De
Radicals" do not desire the spoliation of the
South, nor her humiliation, nor any gratification
of vengeance upon her, but simply the recog?
nition of the loyal Blacks as entitled to the
common rights of manhood. And this recogni?
tion, it is admitted, would not disfranchise nor
weaken the South, but would increase her power
in Congress aud her internal strength and pros?
perity. Then why not !
Gentlemen of the ?South ! You see how easily
tho Radicals can bo "sold." Take right hold
now, and sell th? m !
DON'T!
The Economist (London) is alarmed lest the
Canada??or rather, all the British Colonies in
North America?shall assimilate their tariff tu
ours, and thus unite with ns in a sort of a Zoll
Verein, wherein their products and ours should
continue to be exchanged on a footing of perfect
reciprocity. This the organ of British Calico
dreads, of course, and urges tho colonists in?
stead to cut down their tariff to nothing and
systematically render their country a mere de?
pot and refuge for smugglers engaged in "run?
ning" British fabrics into the States; the Colonial
revenues to be replenished by a House duty and
by an increase of Stamp and Excise duties.
Says The Economist ;
"The Washington politician! teem to have sxnejeted
that, under the alarm of loalng the treaty, Canada
would consent to adoptas Ligb a tar?fas u?e 'Mat"?.
They are entirely and alinoit ridiculously mistaken.
In real tratb, the abrogation of tin? treaty by the sole
action of the State? confer? a irreal adran*.age on Can
ads. If. ander present circumstances, the treaty was
worth anything to either side, it wet worth far more to
the community on the south than on the north of the
British frontier. A river, lake, and Una of a thloosand
m'lei, ii obrionily indefinable against itsoggling.* * *
" The refnsal of the Bute? to ?nsw the Reciprocity
Treaty la one of the greateit chances ever presented to
the pee?ple of our Nurt.. American dependencies: and, if
they fail to ti? s advantage of this chinee opportunity
In a shrewd and iagaoions spirit, they will do far more
to ali?n?t? th? goodwill and respect of this country
than all ths efforts of all ths presctisrs of the doctrine
of colonial abandonment."
?If this don't captivate and encourage tho
Canadians more than it frightens the Yankeea,
TAe I; vnotntit will have had its labor for its
pains. And that is just what it will get.
IOWA.
The Iowa Legislature, which meet? only
biennially, assembled at Des Moines on January
.*., and promptly ratified the Constitutional
Amendment abolishing Slavery. A resolution
to that effect passed the House on January 13,
and the Senate on January US. It deserve* ?ar?
ticular mention that all tho Democratic mem?
bers of the two Hoiisps, tau one, who wa? ab?
sent, voted for the r?solution. Thii shows a
real progresa, for a year ago the D?mocrate of
Iowa went hand in band with thoae of other
States in denouncing tho action of Congresa, and
a leading organ published a "black Hat" of
Democratio membera of Congrega who roted for
the Amendment.
It ia alao due to tha credit of Iowa, which
always aspires to the front rank in the advocacy
of the principles of freodom and progreit, to re?
call, on tbu occasion, the fact that her Legiala
tara waa tkg lirai to pott a reaolutioa ra_p?ai-i_
th? Repi-i-aeutatives and ?n?trn. ting tbe Senators
of the State in Congress to use their influence
for the pastaga of an Amendment of the Federal
Constitution entirely abolishing Slav.ry. All
honor to freedom-loving Iowa !
PHVNKMI Bl II? II A?. I".
The ??ue_t ion of Colored Suffrage?M for the
sake of convenience we call it?unit bo dis?
cussed. Some soft-headed, shallow and vio?
lently fanatical men think to shovel it out of the
way, as they thought to shovel Slavery; but
put it down as you wi'l, and we expect to see it
put down a good many times, it will presently
come up again lo vex a?. We have our opin?
ions, but we do not pretend that they are infal?
lible, and we are always glad to listen to what
can be said upon tho other side. Mr. Secnt->r
Davis, if we under-?and his remarks made in
his place on the 10th instant, contends that
Blacks should not vote
1. Because a foul odor exudes from their
skin.
2. Beean e their heels nuke halM in the
ground.
* We have thought over thi? n.J.tcr with all
possiblo caro and gravity, but thus far we have
been unable to Katata! what per-onal lragraiuo
has to do with the right of sulTrvie. There
wa?, it is true, an ancient notion thal ' i Igt
were naturally .sweet-M'cntod, aud the courtiers
of Alexander the Dual told him that hit, IkhIv
reminded them of violets?but wo believe that
they lied, and Aloxaudcr, '?ho was tho bl -.'
judge, was of the same opinion. All we ? ou?
tend for is fairness. There are in this city
thousands of men to whom water, t*oap_,aiid
towels are unknown, or at laail unused luxu?
ries?who though called white by courtesy,
carry cuticles grimy with tho accretions of
years?who are therefore not pleasant to the
nohtrils of their nicer f.l]ow-.i_i_?-:i-*' yet
they not only voto but they vole often
at the same election?they not only vote
but they aro voted for?they not only
vote, but they assault and batter those
who do not agree with them. What
"exudes from their skin*?" we cannot say,
though we are ,?u. that it is not Balm of a
Thousand Flowers, but thut which, from morn?
ing to night, and so on uutil the next m-irniug,
goes into their ?kiu-?, is of a compound flavor ol'
camphene and alcohol, and though it may give
them a strong, does not give them a dulcet
breath. Supp??se we should take tho ground
that those free and independent gt.ntlomon
ought to bo excluded from the poll*? on account
of their malodorous misfortunes, or rather
faults T And if you -*?gin, where are you to
idraw the line i* Aro you to turn the election
authorities into a mero smelling committee I
Besides, there is no disputing of tart?-.**. Some
people like one smell, nome ?mother?.???nie.
favor the scent of garlic, while to others it is in?
tolerable. By what standard siull we legally,
constitutionally aud equit ably turn up au
noses T
Wo wi-h that Mr. Diivi?, who is a very
learned man. had told us hy what nitiocination
he deduced the f_ct that long heels ure incom?
patible with au intelligent and honest exercise
of the right of sui.rn._i?. Eua -peech would have
been the mo?t cut?:.]ah:lin*-, erudite, instructive,
novel, fascinating, and unauswerabl. thing on
record since the gro.it Slawkeiiborgiiis gave to
the warii his Theory of Noses, Dr. Gall judged
men by amalalogical protuberances, iii-* gao_
Lavater by facial lines; Dr. Davis goes plump
down to the heel; ho-.rutiuizes it, he cuupan?
it, ho measures it, he criticises it, and, glowing
with patriotic science, he cries out that ino lib?
erties of the land will be endangered if the
owner of such a misshapen, elongated, hole-in
the-ground-exeavating heel is to be allowed to
vote! We bow with reverenco to the
dictum, but we do wish, such is hu?
man curiosity, that he had told us th.
reason why. For a mau does not think
with his heel; he does not read with his lice!;
he docs not ask questions with his heil; he does
not, unless ho be heels over head, make up hi?
mind by, with or through his he?*l?not tho'i?;h
it were a better Jieel than the heel of Achillo?*,
and had been soused seven times in the Styx?a
mort invulnerable, indefatigable and infallilile
heel! Davis refers to Cuvier, but we will
wager whatever Dai is pleases that not one
word can be found in all the woiks of Cuvier
upon the connection between long heels and the
right of suffrage. These, fancies art? fascinating,
but are they not a little dangerou.? I By-and-hy
?who can insure us against it !?star-eyed
science will be discovering per?^ps that men
with red hair, or with thin beards, or with bandy
legs, are of "au inferior rae??," unless indeed the
red-haired, thin-bearded, and bandy-legged
men get the b!ack?haired, bushy-bearded and
straight -1? gged men und? r, and cut them off
from the felicities of the ballot. Dr. Davis does
not see into what a topsy-turvy world ho would
introduce us, nor how, if theso superfino objec?
tions were having their twing, he might be ob?
jected to for deficiency in pi'rsonal beauty,
though he may be the handsomest man in Con?
gress for anything we know; but then the ugly
ones might bring ugliness into political fa-hion,
and put a change into the Constitution adverse
to the shape of Dr. Davis's shins, ehapely as we
shall suppose them to be, and beautiful as they
are In the ?yeo of Dr. D.'s bootmaker. Yes, he
might be objected to, and ejected from his seat
senatorial, though he cried out never so lustily,
"I, too, tun a Circaasian!"
Bat, perhaps, if a black were wealthy?and
Utera have been wealthy onus?or if he wore
well educated?and there have boen rich?or if
he were not very black?and there hare been
" blacko " (bagging his pardon) ao white as the
Doctor?perhaps if wa could find such, who,
after careful mensuration of their heels, and
prvtper examination of their odor, turned out to
be ?h?rt and sweet, do yon think our fastidious
Senator would allow thtn to vote? We
ara afraid not. We are afraid, ufter
all our trouble, he would como pounce
upon us with forty frei?h argumenta, and after
all thee? wera refuted that he would find forty
more equally g?>od. Wherefore we beg hiin to
hold fast by his heel and odor Uieory, for,
though good for nothing, it is as good io any
?T?ii'.h b? io lu?!, to ?jicogitate?. *
Ii Alf? BBBBKSBB9.
This is an age of miracle?, and a day of thiele
coming portent-. It almost bU>pe one's breath
to find Massachusetts and Tennessee on th?
same platform, with Oen. Pillow and the Re-.
Mr. ?Kirk Bhaking hands. The former writes to
ja friend in Washington that the freodmen ara
working steadily upon plantations under hi?
supervision, and that "he allows them land for
the cultivation of vegetables for their own rise
without charge therefor." Dr. Kirk said ia
Boston, ou New Year's Day: " It has been ouo
of my strongest desires to seo the great planta?
tions of the South split np. The Black man
and the White mau mast oo"ipy small farm.*
down there, whether tho chivalry like it
?or not." The Doctor goes u little fortuei
th.itt the General, but tho clerical and
military mind aro both poisoned l?y the
abominable, heretical, agrarian ide i of lai'.d for
the landless. It ? easy to say iu the pro-SUr
ery newspapers that Dr. Kirk, albeit kB Is one
of the most conservative of Calvinist io divines,
is a Now-Lsglaud radical, with liis baal full ti
Fourkrito whimsies; but Giu. rillov? i? a pa?
triarch of loug standing, educated in tbe strict
c-t Mhool of flave-holding philo.-ophy, uni
without tho smell of a Boston notion in his g.v -
meuts. If any man's tt-stimouy OOM be above
the "U.-iiii-ion of prejudice, it is his; und li? if
! c1 ires ovor his own s'geatun.' thnt the fror dm? ?
are working well, and that to eii.t ( n 11 i"*onr
?ago them he has sut ofl'to them BBBbH p.ireolj of
i lind which they are to cultivate for their own
?b-Miefit and profit. What will Uki ski critic ,
[who ?aro BtWBfl howling them-ihes hoar?
about our r.i<l?cali*m and B-gmiBJaBB, v;iy la
tliis v.ild and Pickle??? IfBflula'.ton of lion. Pil?
low?
We are aliuo-*t afraid to o?-pn*?s mir tipprolv
tionoftho common t-'eiise oourse punned bj
this retired warrior lost our approval i-ihoulii
damage him in tlie estimation of his neighbor",
and Urtu hinder him in the re-pe?table work
wbich he hu-* undcrtukon. Bil mo mu it say
that G?*n. Pillow might have done much wor.*?.
He night have betaken himself to wh'?ky anti
BBaariBgi he might have fobled liis bania in
?li-pi'r; ha mimili have gone olf to liaa-B t-BBB
to soLice hi-i toni by swindling Peona) he might
have como to Washington hi pur ut of personal
relief; he might have ill-treated laborers wini
are .?till very much in his power. As l.e hu?
u u fit(0 go to WQlk man-Pi h.oi?, .'.ml i* ?liter
mined (as ho surs) " to a??ju.*?t ti o new relit'on?
on the basis of impartial juatice," wa wieh bim
all manner of prosperity, good crop-, q'iick ami
profitable returns, diligent .inI ?l?".'"r<"n work?
men, and the cooperation of his Umt9 liithMMM
whatever may bo the color of their cuticles, II?
owes the black man a free! debt, and we hopo
he may bring forth works meet fur n pentaooB?
If the pinn tu puni.-h ?iiunleiioiting v it!i
?leith is iiibip'O'l, wa 'lull hava oojiody con?
victed for the crime. Erin ne pun'-l u i".i:-.-. bj*
never punishing, always "k . ; Mi Tbi?
axiom is well.?-!..bli*!i.'d in ot!?. r countries.
Wa hope Congr?-:?, will not n?aka it mmtmmmT*
for us to learn it iu AtAOtk g.
Mr. Cowan of Fa-sayl* iola preaantei .ves
terduy th?sf")lov. ing v-tat'-sm ml'!.e vi? w of suf?
frage:
'It wai now jrortoawl, aficr hn?tn ? ii. ed th" lagia,
fn *?r ?',rn tLcrlf-lt of ?iirTrat/e. V : ?.? ?ui.'d that dul
?Si?i] ly in?reme hil BB?Mae for gutting hi? irai
broken al '.!??' poll*? by a ?ttonrcr tau '
Arc WV to infer that .Mr. Cowan ?? ,j i away
fron the poll- from leur of connu,.' in contact
with a strong *r iieo?! tlutu his own /
Mr, Stiiiilon .'Hid Mr. McCulloc-h _BT?Qg liotli
iiotilied (,'ongress that they bud di-r?'g?mli??l
tho law ol' July '.', 1**??,', by iippoinliiii/* K?*!?*!$
to office who could not act under thnt law, Mr.
Stevens yc-terday offered a n-cluta'U to in
struct tlie Judiciary t'oauoitteo to iiio/iire
"whether any legislative measure is nccesnu-y
to enforce obedience to the law by all men,
without regard to raak or color.'' The Ht a se
passed it forthwith._
Henry Wilson of Mu?BtB-Saatta said yester?
day in the Senat":
"Certain newaprtpen had advocjlol the me of Cot
ernraeiit patronage to influence thr* action of i'oiign-???.
Ho woold ?ay to everybody who had that thought ni
their braun, unit tl.e ???njiio uf tilla country nie no1 Id
any temper to be ?old. They bate dei".)? a thal negtxse
iball not be bought and sold; and tbey are naiiultnoDS
that the .Senators and Re-presentiitiTes illili not iel!
themielre? for Oorernment pioronsire. If there ia
anybody In tho country who vtahea to buy or ?eil, ha
will Hud the American p??o|iIe will blast bim wttU
?tiihoring goora sod indignation.'1
There is no pa'riot who does not retpond
Amen to that!_
A correnpondent tuggaata that Congre-s shoald
proffer to everj* freedmau forty acics of Public
Land in Florida or elsewhere?to bo in i!ie_abl?
for a term of thirty ycar-j.
Wo ore opposed to any such act, and to all
legMution whatever about or for negroea, aa
such, unless there be peculiar and very urgent
rea-ons therefor. We wish it were p?jsi?ible, bj
it three-line amendment to the Federal Con?
stitution, to prescrilx,* that all Federal, Slut?? ni
local laws or regulations now extant thai create
or recognize any legal distinction baaed BB coloi
are hereby annulled, and tho enactment ?*f on/
more such precluded.
If it be n?.*ces*ary to pass a declaratory act,
.-?'ttiiig forth that Blacks, like While-, may set?
tle on and preempt 160 acres of tho publio d?i
main, paying the cost (<!10) of survey and locaa
tion, let it be done; but wc trust it is not iiecc*
nary. Let as make this a land of djuul righte
and equal laws, and there stop.
Wo soo in aLouisiana a proposition to reame
the Judges of the Supreme Court and State
Coiort? of that SUte, "on the ground that a
the time these Jadges wero appointed, there
wa? not a suffi? ?cat field from which to helect
Judge'." This means that when Louisiane
was reconstru? ?e?l during tbe war, by Hiihn uu?i
Banka?a portion of the Slate being in tin?
army of the Confederar? ?there was no ?-banc?
to telect gray-hoode- Rebel-:, who were then
murdering our sons and brothers, At judicial
positions. Kow, with Well* f..r Governor, and
the gray-hood??- lawyers having returned, and
being impecunious, and BUeuslI tmctcd, and
wanting places, the loyal men then .?..ula
Judges must give war. and penn-, fy*.>cl? to
take their pla?)??, Thi= is. Maaftat****#QflBj> -afitg
the mod"