Civil Rights of Negroes.
By Editor
The Methodist comments on the fact that its African brethren are beginning to stand up for their rights with the vigor and dignity that afford the best promise of their winning them. The recent case of Bishop Payne is in point, where the conference at which he was expected to preside marched in a body to the office of the railway on which he had been insulted, and exacted an apology and such reparation as the case admitted of. Another case is that of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Conference that recently met at Poughkeepsie, which appointed a committee to wait upon the officers of a steamboat company whose underlings had denied the courtesies that were there due to one of the Bishops of the Church, one of its college professers, and several of their ministers. The committee secured an apology.