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I 1 WORTH CAROLINA ITEMS. Collection or Debts The collectiooof debts has ever been a subject of general interest to the community, and it must have an unusual importance attached to it at this time, because every body is in debt, no one has any money, and all. laws and regulations are tiucertain and indefinite. Therefore we state that under the present or ganization of the State Government, no suits for debt or damages can be heard, and that no court will exist in North Carolina competent to try suits for debt, until the Legislature ehall have convened and appointed Judges and Magistrates t6 hold the courts in the usual way. Hence thos in debt have the satisfaction of knowing that the present crop and the one next rear can be raised and put into market before their debts can be collected by law. Raleigh Standard. The Union meeting of the citisens of Frank lin county recently he'd at Iiouisburg, nomina ted Hon. B. F. MoOre, of this City, a? a candi date fop Civil Governor 5f North Carolina. 'Raleigh Record. Customs Officers for North Carolina. --The President has appointed the following Collec tor? of Customs for North Carolina: William C Loftin, Newbern; John S Taylcrr. Ocracoke; Elijah II Mills, Plymouth; John F Orandy, Camden; William Cherry, Washington; iDavid L Russell, jr Wilmington. He has also appointed Parker Quince. Sur veyor of the Port of Wilmington. North Carolinians Pardoned. The follow ing citizens of North Carolina were pardoaed by President Johnson on the 24th ult Hon 11 S Donnell, Hon E G Keade, Hon J 31 Leaeh, Col J M Heck, John Manning jr., Major T D Hogg, Edward Coigland, 11 II Kingsbury, A H Dowell, W S Pettigrew, Mo ses A Smith, L H Hiiliard, Churchwell Harris, AVra H Oliver, S S Harrison, J S McKee, C S "Winslow, Ii C D'Bertnan, J M Parrott, John S Stevenson, Robert C llav, V A Murphy, An thony Davis, II H Battle B P Williamson, Wm J H Wood, 11 S Tucker, Nathan Ivy, Geo W Norwood, Major J DeverG&x and Lewis-P Ould. Negro Killed. On Tuesday last a rvegro man applied to Mr William A. Marconi of Chat ham county for .work. Mr M. employed him r.nd put him to plowing in ja.fiyld with his (Mr M's) son. After woikinga short while the negro took the mule he was plowing and left the field. Mr M's son reported the fact to his lather who immediately went in pursuit and overtook the negro some three miles from his house, l'iuding he could not escape with the mule, he dismouuted and approached Mr-M. in a threatening manner when tho latter drew his pistol and shot him dead on the spot. Mr Marcoui who is a very worthy and esti mable man came to this ity on yesterday unl j surrendered himself ,to the authorities. Ral eigh Record. 9 ' Another-. Colli ton. Beficcen the. Races We were informed by a gentleman from Morehead City, that a ve serious affair, occurred at the railroad wharf there, on Thursday evening, in which a darky belonging to a colored regiment was instantly killed by a pistol shot from the hand of the Station Quartermaster. difficul ty got up among them, when darky took rather more liberty than an Anglo-Saxon, particularly if in official position, likes to submit to, and so the Captain shot him and kicked him overboard. Newbern imes. Amnesty to Rebel Soldiers. rVe are glad to be able to announce (6ays the Raleigh Standard) that under the following - decision of the Attorney General of the United States, .on the 12th exception in the President's amnesty proclamation, all paroled rebel soldiers, who are not excluded beoause of some other exception in the proclamation, will be allowed to take the benefit of the amnesty and vote. ' Attorney General's Office, ) Washington, June 19th, 1S65. ) W. W. HoLDEN, Provisional Governor N. C. Sib i -The President has referred to me so much of your letter of the 13th instant as refers to the 12th exception in the proclamation of 20th May, 1835. . . I am instructed to say. that the paroled rebel soldiers, who are not excluded because of some other exception in the proclamation, should be allowed to take tha benefit of the amnesty and vote. ; I ain, Sir most respectfully, your ob't serv't, JAMES SPEED, Attorney General. Blockade of Texian Ports Raised. President. Johnson has issued a proclamation announcing the termination of the blockade along the coast of Texas, and other ports west of thMississippi, and that they will be open to foreign commerce with certain, restrictions here tofore specified after the 1st July inst. The 'blookade of Southern porfa east of the Mississ ippi having been heretofore revoked, the entire coast from this date is again open to domestic iand foreign, trade. THE WORK OF RECONSTRUCTION. Gov? Holden has appointed Justices of the Peace-in the following counties: . Brunswick, . Buncombe,' Carteret, Craven, Davidson, Dupn, Edgecombe, Gastou, Gates, Greene, Haywood, Heuderon, Harnett, Iredell, Jones, Jackson, Moore Mecklenburg, Macon, Mitchell, Madison, Randolph, Stokes, Trannsyl vania and Yancey. The process of reorganizing the civil Govern ment of the State goes on as rapidly as-could be expected. Magistrates have been appointed fur two thirds of the counties in the State, and Mayors and commUsioners have been selected for all the towns that desired, it in these couu ties. The Magistrates, are expected to hold county courts for all civil and criminal business not re quiring the aid of a jury. The courts will ap point the usual county officers, Sheriff, County Court Clerk, Coroner, Solicitor, County Trustee, aud other usual officers necessary fur tIiecourity4 The Local Police of each county will be un der the control of the court, and it is the duty of the Polite to assist the Magistrates in keep ing.the peace and maintaining the laws by obey ing and executing all orders issued to them by the courts, and by the Justices out of court. Thus there is a civil force -in two-thirds of the counties of the State, with a . military organ ization under their control, all peaceable and loyal men, and sworn agents of the Government, for preserving order. 'When these organiza tions shall have been completed, there will be in the State nearly four thousand magistrates ahd about seven thousand policemen, distribut ed in every neighborhood. This will insure the peace and quiet of all our citizens and it will also enable the United States Government to withdraw their troops and leave us to take care of ourselves. All that. is necessary is a little patience and a little forbearance. The Convention will soon .meet and then we shall have a most able body of men well knowing the wants and require ments of the people, to give the State the bene fit' of their views and their laws Raleigh Standard. ;ft . 1 Washington, June 28lh. D. H. Bingham, of Alabama, has drawn aip a statement which he proposes to submit to the President in which he says he was driven from .his home in that State by the rebels on account of his Union sentiments, and in which he pro tests against the appointment of Judge Parsons as Provisional Governor, charging him with being one of those who expelled Ifim. President Johnson has. been quite ill but is now much improved. . Private papers belongiug to Davis and Beau regard recently captured in Florida have reach ed Washington, together with a considerable amount of the private effects of the same per sons. .. ." - Trenholm has been sent to Fort Pulaski, in Savannah Harbor. His arrival there has been announced. Charleston advices' report that various dis turbances have occurred in that city, between the white citizens and the blacks. The military soon suppressed the riot. Many of the soldiers were mrxed up. in tho affair, and some .or them were injured as also several citizens. Norlolk papers report difficulties of the same sort there but nothiug very serious. Savanuah dates of the 24th mst. represent affairs in Georgia as progressing quietly aud sat isfactorily. Three-fourths of the workmen in thef Phila delphia Navy Yard are to be discharged, there being no more work for them. Up to this time about 1,000 unopened appli cations for pardon remain to be considered by the Pre&ident. The President informed a gen tleman on Saturday that he had finally deter mined to grant pardons to prominent Rebels iu exceptional cases Only. The wife of Sec'y Seward died last week. Gojd opened in New York on Tuesday at 142, and after fluctuating a 'little finally fell and closed at 1403. . : m m Exit Cotton Agents. It seems the reign of cotton agents east of the Mississippi river is really oyer, and henceforth there is to be no re striction upon the traffic, except the internal revenue tax -of two cents per pound. About this.tbere can no longer be any doubt, notwith standing the ambiguous .phraseology of the President's proclamation. We are officially no tified of the fact from Washington, and Seoreti iy. McCulloch' telegraphed to the. same effect, yesterday, in -response toan inquiry by certain New York merchants. So far so good; now let President Johnson issue another proclamation, remitting the - penalties of the confiscation act against; those who are worth more than twenty thousand dollars.; The South wants money to put the wheels of commerce in motion, and there is plenty at the North to lend; but so long as the well-to-do 'men of the South can neither sell their cotton nor mortgage their land, every thing 'will bo at a stand-still. Suffering and downright starvation will resttlt, unless all re straints are taken away from production and distribution. -Xeu? York World. IMPORTANT TREASURY CIRCULAR The frllowing'Circular from Col. Heatoo, is of importance to crur citizens, as it officially settles all questions relative to captured or abandoned pro perty, and the removal ofthe restrictions on trade: With the approval of the President ad direct instructions fronthe Secretary of the Treasury, it Lecomes the duty of the undeisigned, asrapid Iv as'possible, to gather and collect for shipment and sale, the captured and abandoned personal property in this State The National Treasury requires the preceeds arising from such property, to aid in defraying the vast expenditures which have been entailed on- the country by the late desperate rebelliou. Every patriotic "and loyal man is equally interested, in the great work of cancelling the National Debt. With this object in view, all such property as by the laws of Con gress, the decisions of the Supremo Court, and the rebellious acts of the late so-called Confede rate government, justly belong to the United i States, mubt be collected for the Treasury De- j partment. i Tlueretbre, all Cotton, Tobacco, Naval Stores, Hides iu process of finning, and other personal property, owned and held by the late so-called Confederate Government, or .the State govern ment acting in concert, with the purpose of being converted and used in prosecuting the late war against the United States, and which has been c.iptured or was abandoned at the close of the war, most como under the control of the United States Treasury Agents. No property or pro ducts of the kind justly owned by private parties, ' will be interfered with, nor will any property bp touched, claimed at present by the State, and not connected with the prosecution of the war a aforesaid. ' . j, Cotton, and other products, voluntarily abafi dorwd by rebels who have fled with no intention ; of returning, wilt be regarded as the property of the National Government. ;: ! Parties who may have Cotton, Naval Stores and other property under their control, known to ; have been held by the so-caljed Confederate Gov ernment, or the State in the manner as before J described, are required to report tho same promptly and without delay. Charles II. Woods, Esq., is tfie acting agent for the reception and disposition of captured and abandoned property at Raleigh, and persons en gaged in collecting such property West and North of Raleigh, will confer with hiin at that place and njiify him of shipments made by Rail road intended for Newbern. Edward R. Stanly, Esq., will act as agent for the reception and forwarding of such property at Greensboro. Other persons will be authorized to visit different localities for the same object. As it is the desire of tho Government to have all property v of the above description (captured and abandoned) forwarded at an early day to New York, the Military and Naval authorities are respectfully requested to give authorized agents such aid and -support as may be in their power. . Alt restrictions on trade (except in contraband articles) are now taken off. All persons can now prurohase ahd ship products, cotton included, the tw.enty-fivo per cent, heretofore taxed on the lat ter article being abrogated. From the Richmond' Commercial bulletin, June 15. A Disinterested Judge. We are credibly informed that Judge Underwood, who was io this city a few days ago, making arrangements to hold a term ofthe United States Court for the Eastern district of Virginia, is at present occu pying' the .dwelling house of. Mr William M. McVeigh, in Alexandria, and claiming to be tha lawful owner thereof in le simple, by virtue of a decree of confiscation and sale entered in his own court. This bouse, worth fully $20,- 000, was sold by the marshal of Judge Under wood's court for the sum of $1,500, and Judge Underwood himself became the purchaser. Mr McVeigh's son was living in the house at the time ofthe confiscation and sale above referred to. Mr McVeigh is over fifty years of age, and never held office of any sort under the Confed erate Government. He was indicted, we see, last week, before the grand jury of Norfofk for treason. The Constitution of the United States and the"laws of every civilized land requires that a man shall be convicted of treason before his property be confiscated, but Judge Under wood has, in ihis-casc, for reasons tflat can easily be seen through, reversed the regular sequence of legil proceedings. It also declares that no attainder for treason shall work a . forfeiture of land, beyond the life of the person attainted. We are not surprised, though, at his mistake in this particular, as we hear he never had a li cense to practice law., before, he was placed on tho bench. This is the man who comes among us to oocupy the seat that Judge Marshall once occupied. . - -Arkansas. Advices from Arkansas state that the United States Court is now in session at Little Rock, and the confiscation of a large , number of extensive plantations,' whoso former owners have disappeared, is completed. Among the confiscated estates is ; that of Albert Pike, including his residence in Little Rock. The mortality omfing tho blacks at Charleston is fearful. The deaths average 100 per week. TRIAL .OP MR. DAVIS. Washington telegrams state that it has We definitely settled fhat' the trial' of Jeffcr0 Davis will occur in Baltimore before Chief JUf tice Onase.' .Many rumors have been publish relative to thia matter; but the above is semi, official and therefore may be conidfrcd reli able. The New York News contains the. fo!lo;Cj statement : J. B. Van Dein, a clerk in the rthrl stt Department, writes to the Cincinnati Couunrr cial that in February last he was present at n interview between. Booth and. Davi Booil was introduced to the Confederate Chief bj Benjamin, and two other young men were is his company. i "Booth commenced by saying that a plan 8. formed io the Northern States and lan;, friends ol the Confederacy, to capture or nate Mr Lincoln; that be had a full lift oi tr names, and all they desired, was an officials cognition on the part ofthe Confederate nut bar. hits, and that then the project would ctrtiitl be executed. "lie' further stated that thy desired no p cuniary assistance froni she Government, stlr, was already secured; that tbey were not after gain, but were actuated only by desire to r-o-der the Confederacy a service by removin; th tyrant who was the cause of so much mSwtr to the country, and the only obstacle ml rn . t J wav ot a sbeeuv neace. inese are me wprusi near as I can remember. Messrs. Davijrx Breckinridge both expressed their hearty tot demuation cf the plot, and advised Bwit think no more of it. That they felt tbnt tWu tause was just, and that God, in his ownpe.! time, would give them the victory, without r sorting to anything but the most honorable r fare, and that they were willing to leave Lir coin's punishment for his great crime, to sh Providence of a just Oed and an outrageu peop "Benjamin said nothing. Booth then rc4:H and the last words he uttered in life room verf 'lie must die!' After Booth and his frienJs be gone, Davis said : 'Those fellows caino her merelv to see the Richmond eights, an J the assassination plot is a mere fudire.' Breclit ridge and Benjamin langhcd, and the lutter said l think so.' The matter received no roorf it tention. and all azrecd with Mr Davis t hat th t.lot was mere 'fudee I am satisfied tint non of theni ever expected what lias since Lecom so deadlv a reality. In conclusion, let tne . . . . m . a that I am willing to be qualified to tne ntor statement. France. The Paris correspondent ftb London Times', under" dae of Juno 8, writm follows: It is certain that the Mexican i who arrived in Paris was sent iy Muximilit for the express purpose of explaining the er.i cal state of affairs in Mexico, the menaoinL' :: tude of America, and the fear of his Mju' that war would be declared by the United now that the war with tho booth is otit. The French Government has, therefore, jt'nr the Washington Cabinet to understand itr plainly that Mexico is under the protection t France; that France will not allow any por attack, it; that filibuster and adventurer ft: in'g Mexican territory with hostilo dti:n if taken. io arms, be banged or shot wi:ho loss' of time or mercy, and thai .the Linit i Ni Government, whose good faith France, course, does not doubt, will act wisely, f' as humanely, by doing all in its power uVf" beT subjects from tojufing his portego. Law Aaaintt Enlicina Men tut. 2htr vy in 1770. A law against obtaining buU' under false pretences passed by tho J-n; Parliament in 1770 enacts: "That worue whatever ace, rank, profession, or decree, 1 shall after this act impose upon, seduce aud; tray into matrimony any of His Mojctv'': jects by virtae of scents, paints, cco- washes, artificial teeth, f'alce hair, iron ttij bolstered hips, or high-heeled shoes, shall int the penalty of the law now in force Wl witch-crafts and Ijke misdemeanors; anJ marriajre under the circuroMancc. upon co"' tion of tho offending parties, shall be ooil void." CHARLOTTE MARKET, July (The following prices nre raraUe in enrr.1 Flour, per hundred Bacoo, hog round Cotton Corn Wheal Molafcses, feorghnra Beef, Mutton, Butter, Chickeon, Cotton Yarn, Shirting, Coffee, Sogar, kfowo. Iron, Nails, 4 50 to 6 00 11 to 1- 20 to 1 (K) to 0 0". 1 25. to 1 -,J 40 tu 8 to W 10 to 1- 20 to 36 15 to 25 to 09 SJ 60 to Z 00 25 'to W 40 to 25 to S C to ' 10 to v p - ; ) :