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THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM. 113 true that the cases which came before that tri- question is again presented: How long shall their bunal, upon appeals from the District Court, disfranchisement be continued? .114 .....115 were affirmed by the Chief Justice's concurrence Dr. Bledsoe's Reply to Hon. Alexander H. Stephens... POETRY: Mabel.. NEWS SUMMARY: Foreign..... Domestic... THE MARKETS. .115 122 with the decisions of Judge Underwood. It is All questions relating to revenue and finance 116 important to state, however, that Judge Chase are acknowledged to be unsettled, and the Repubbased his conclusions upon the fact that in the lican press is almost unanimous in asserting.the .117 cases involving this question, which have been necessity of their receiving immediate attention .122 heretofore heard before the full bench of the Su- from Congress. But none yet, among the wisest preme Court, the constitutionality of the act was of them, have indicated what programme will be 123 not the subject of discussion, either by the Court adopted. The resumption of specie payments123 or at the Bar. It was, consequently, his desire an increase of the duties upon imports-the conthat the whole subject might be again brought traction of the currency-the funding of the THE STATESMAN will be mailed to Subscribers before that Court in such a form as to secure its whole bonded debt by the issue of new securities out of Town, and furnished to Newsdealers in the final decision. The action of the Circuit Court -are some of the purposes and plans which the City every Friday evening: Subscription price for Virginia may be considered, therefore, not to Republican financiers are discussing. But there Three Dollars per annum-payable in advance. Persons residing in the city can be served by Car- go beyond a mere pro forma decision. In this is no unity among them, because they are dealing riers, by prepaying at the Office, or at the rate of with problems to the solution of which they are connection we may advert to the fact that one Thirty Cents per month, pa ble to the Carriers. of the cases decided was that of Mr. McVeigh inadequate. The truth of this is shown by the Books intended for Revi should be sent in of Alexandria, whose property was confiscated by fact that all the questions which relate to finance early in the Week to receive rompt notice. Ad- a decree of Judge Underwood, who, directly or are as old as the organization of the Radical vertisements must be left at the Office on or before indirectly, has become its owner, and, if we are party itself. They only exist now because it has Thursday, otherwise they will be too late for inser- not misinformed, now occupies it as a residence. been hopelessly incompetent to comprehend them This slight circumstance may have had some in- in the past. No new light has dawned upon them; fluence upon that functionary's ideas upon the nor will General Grant's election-universal panaConstitutional question involved. cea as it is expected to prove for all diseases of the body politic-be likely to help them out of the slough into which they have plunged the inSouth Carolina is at peace-officially declared dustry and business interests of the country. Reto be so by the message of its Governor. But trenchment is the only present expedient. It, the order and tranquility which reign within its however, is out of the question, since contraction borders were not born of Reconstruction. They in the public expenditures, while it may save the result from the moderation and good sense of its country, will be death to a party whose true faith people. They are not the fruits of Northern is the substance of appropriations yet hoped for. propagandism, or the consequence of Northern tion in that Week's paper. THE STATESMAN, Baltimore. NOTICE.—We take pleasure in announcing that in the next number of this paper we shall begin the publication of a translation of Friedrich Spielhagen's new and great work, HAMMER AND Anvil, which is now appearing serially in Germany. The Westminster Review, a critic of the highest authority, particularly upon the subject of foreign literature, in a recent notice of Spielhagen's writings, assigns to him the first place among German novelists. He is preferred even to Auerbach. Strange as it may appear, not one of his novels, so far as we can learn, has ever appeared before in an English dress. The translation of the work upon which he is now engaged, will be prepared especially for this paper. The publication will be continued from week to week until completed. We make this announcement beforehand, as the opportunity is a favorable one for persons desiring to subscribe to the paper to send teachings. They are due, as Governor Scott, The recent assassination at Richmond has been with commendable frankness declares, to the sup-made the theme of much ungenerous and grossly port which has been willingly accorded to his unjust comment by that portion of the Northern government by those who are natives of the State, press which seizes, with eagerness, every occasion interested, deeply, in everything that concerns its to defame the South and its people. An event welfare, and honestly anxious to secure its future which might have occurred in any city of the progress and prosperity. Chief among those, Union, is assumed to have been the logical result whose patriotic offices are recognized, is General of influences which are alleged to belong, pecu-Wade Hampton. Loyalty to a cause, for which liarly, to Southern society. It is sneeringly atin the past he gladly staked life and fortune, has tributed to what is designated as Virginia chivbeen succeeded by no sullen and listless indiffer- alry; and is made the text of complacent contrast ence to the duties of the present. The patriotism between the different civilizations of the North which upheld the banner of his State, in the and the South. The true office of journalism foremost ranks of war, burns with brighter flame, would be performed by its grave condemnation of now that the want and desolation of his people in- both the outrage which provoked a bloody retrivoke his most devoted service. But we have no bution and the crime which inflicted it. To prosneed to praise men like Wade Hampton. We but titute the censorship of the press to the slander point to him as a representative man-represen- of a whole people, because both offences were tative of the large and controlling class in every committed in their midst, is but to add to them a Southern State, whom wicked laws have excluded third, and equally reprehensible, wrong. In point from all participation in the governments to of fact, the tragedy at Richmond was in no sense which they are subject, and whose power and in- the result of the principles or habitudes of the fluence as this tardy acknowledgment of the im- Southern people. The article which cost H. Rives ported Governor of South Carolina admits-are Pollard his life, was but a faint imitation of that It has been reported in the daily papers that essential to the practical restoration of law and style of Northern journalism which administers Chief Justice Chase has decided, in several cases order in the South. With this admitted failure to the prurient tastes of thousands of readers, in before the U. S. Circuit Court at Richmond, that of Radical Reconstruction-this recognition of whole columns of slanderous insinuation and disthe Confiscation Acts are Constitutional. It is the good citizenship of proscribed "rebels," the gusting libel. The vengeance which swiftly suc in their names. Notes of the Week. All ceeded its publication, followed no precedent of has fallen to the lot of many an honest man. But At eleven o'clock visitors were admitted. Southern redress. Its suggestion was derived that experience, we take it, in its worst form, at guards posted, and the convicts drawn up in three the officers of the Penitentiary were on duty, the rather from examples peculiar to the North-Andersonville or Elmira, at the Libby or at Fort squads in the court, numbering altogether about some of which are, to-day, the objects of unsuc- McHenry, was nothing compared with the prison six hundred, more than one-half of them being negroes. The colored prisoners were stationed apart cessful prosecution before Northern tribunals. life of convicts, sentenced for a long term of years from the whites. All were dressed alike, warm Let. then, the persistent malignity which would to hard labor and confinement within the walls of and comfortably, in thick blanket suits of striped cloth, alternate black and white bars, according to hang upon the thread of every exceptional viola- a State Penitentiary. Imprisonment falling to a regulation. The men showed to advantage physition of law the defamation of a whole people, be soldier's lot as part of the fortune de la guerre, or cally, and their behavior was very decorous. The branded as it deserves a crime against truth, suffered manfully for opinion's sake by real or considering their overcrowded condition; but as a general health of the prisoners is remarkably good, justice and civilization. would-be political martyrs, and shared with com- matter of course, on a day of recreation, the sick The liberty which, according to the accepted panions of kindred soul and feeling, has its alle-list was somewhat diminished, or at least all were ready to see Punch and Judy who could receive viations. It is at least weighted with no burden the surgeon's permission to leave the hospital ideas of free government, should justly be secured to the press, involves no element of license. It of conscious guilt. It is embittered by no sense wards. should be free to criticise with energy and candor of shame. Except in the case of rarely sensitive all public events, discuss the conduct of public and high-strung natures, which chafe under any sense of wrong, or active and restless spirits, to officers, and deal with all the wide range of ques-whom enforced idleness brings no repose, but tortions which are the legitimate subjects of public comment. It has no license to invade the sanc case, ment, the physical hardships of such imprison- At a signal the convicts moved towards the place of exhibition, a frame building within the court, used for lectures and meetings, where the tion. In entering the room the negroes showed Punch and Judy show was erected, ready for accharacteristic eagerness in anticipation of the fun. them came the white prisoners, each class quietly They were allowed to enter first, and following ranging themselves on opposite sides of the house The visitors, about thirty in number, including oners had been seated, and occupied chairs at the head of the room. The most perfect propriety characterized the demeanor of the prisoners. I: was Punch and Judy's first audience in America. the proprietors, Messrs. Manley & Brewer, of the Royal Alhambra, London, having just arrived in this country, at New York, a few days previous to Thanksgiving Day. The entertainment was full of jolly fun-the antics of the puppet performers. the quarrels of Punch and his wife, and his triumph, every blow of his redoubtable club on the wooden heads of his fellow puppets, every sally of bursts of laughter, evincing the keenest enjoyment wit, every song, were received with hearty outby the prisoners. several ladies and children, entered after the pris tity of individual relations, or thrust aside the veil which conceals the incidents of private life from indelicate and prurient curiosity. It is strange how readily a certain class of journalists degrade the right of free criticism into the lowest license of libel. It is still stranger with what avidity a large class of readers accept and enjoy such prostitution of a high and responsible privilege. Yet one of the types of progressive journalism is its habitual encroachment upon the privacy of the fireside, and its wanton revelation of those secrets which belong to the sad experiences of too many households. It is difficult to deterhave attracted the notice of even the most casual mine how the evils which spring from this source Those were strange echoes of laughter within and indifferent observer who has ever strolled those silent walls. That was an unwonted gleam can be remedied. Upon whom is responsibility to be fixed? what is its measure? and how is it through the workshops or corridors of a prison. of sunshine that day that lighted up that dreary to be enforced? A hireling writer assails characSuch a sombre place is the Maryland Peniten- place. Hardened criminals-blood-stained, it ter and assassinates reputation, yet claims that he tiary. It is a humane provision, therefore, that may be-desperate, obdurate men, laughed like is not amenable to punishment, because his libel- seeks on certain days of the year, to lighten the little children at the unaccustomed fun. A hulous words have been inspired by another will burden even of these outcasts of society-its wild manizing influence was felt, we may be sure, temthan his own. Such might, with equal force, be beasts, whom the principle of social self-preser- porarily it may be, but none the less genuinely, the plea of the bravo who murders for hire; yet vation, not less than the demands of retributive by all who were present, touching the prisoners the one escapes that retribution which the law justice, require shall be cooped up in stone and with a sense of gratitude, and visitors with syminflicts upon the other. The guilt, in either iron cages. One of these occasions, when pains pathy. We are not afraid to say that the best is but different in degree; and the punishment, if are taken to make even the convicted felon feel Thanksgiving Sermon probably that those prison also different in degree, should, at least, be equal that he is yet a man, and not beyond the pale of ers heard that day Mr. Punch preached to them in its certainty. Another form of newspaper de- human sympathy and kindly interest, is Thanks- from his stage pulpit. The fact is, and we wish moralization-scarcely less culpable-is the imper-giving Day. Painful as may be his part in life- to bring the occurrence and the theme to the notinent publicity which is given to social events of though no worse it may be assumed than his tice of whom it may concern, not many preachers the most delicate character. Why should the sol- crimes have merited-the convict has yet some- there are since One, Who preferably chose His emnity of a marriage ceremony be invaded by a thing-yea, much-to be thankful for, as who of audience among the degraded and the outcasts, prying reporter? Or the details of a bride's trous-us has not, that has in the boon of continued ex- publicans and sinners, and one of Whose latest seau be advertised like the inventory of a milli- istence-what the best of us sorely need, day by acts of grace on earth was the pardon of a penitent ner? How can the respectability of journalism day, and hour by hour-a locus poenitentiac? On and dying malefactor-who know how to touch the be preserved, when it turns aside from its legiti- Thanksgiving Day, therefore, in the State Peni- hearts of men hardened by crime, and whose mate and dignified offices to an offensive and retentiary, there is a partial suspension of the usual friends are not the world nor the world's law. pulsive intrusion upon those rites which should prison task, and such relaxation of prison disci- Those who haply have the gift, for the most part be as exclusive and sacred as the altar before pline as is consistent with security and sound pol- prefer to minister to more fashionable and comwhich they were solemnized? icy. It was a good and kindly thought which on fortable congregations. When clergymen, sallylast Thursday week suggested, in addition to these ing out on some rare sporadic occasion beyond the THANKSGIVING DAY IN PRISON. customary indulgences, a brief treat to the pris- circle of strictly respectable sinners, attempt a Reader-have you ever been in prison? We oners of a more unusual kind. Not all of our raid as it were into the domains of vice and crime, do not mean as a visitor, but as a prisoner. Have readers may know that the popular manager they are generally of the sort that lately made you ever been kept under locks and bars and of the Holliday Street Theatre is also one of the themselves ridiculous, and as far as they could, prison guards-deprived of fresh air and exer- most useful and efficient Directors of the State brought contempt upon Religion, by their extravacise, or only admitted to their enjoyment under Penitentiary. On Thursday week he gave his gant and senseless performances at the Water close restrictions-condemned to the observance contribution to the little fund of enjoyment that street prayer-meetings in John Allen's den and of prison rules and hours, and to eat prison fare, it was possible to provide for men so situated as Kit Burns' rat-pit. Men of real mark and ability coarse and scanty, and perform menial offices, and the prison convicts, in the shape of an exhibition in the Christian ministry somehow do not seem to feel yourself no more a freeman, but a slave? of the Punch and Judy show. We take a de- feel themselves called to this sort of work. The There is no need to be offended at the question.scription of what actually occurred from the col- more desperate the malady, one would think, acIt is an experience that within the past few years lumns of a daily paper: cording to their theory, the less need for a physi |