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fan if" -I I .;.rd ! v If&tB. w EsrrEKisr demo citT, .oHaelotte, is. 0. - r. 1,1 t- r a r :; C 'i . :' - i Sr., ' 'if. 1 w i n . , i , . 1: rs t , mi 1 ; ' 1 - i 1 v 9 At s.i 1 ii-J t WW " I " . lam V s ; i -: BPECIAIi TAXES UNDER THE ACT JULY 13, 18G0. - The following is so much of Circular No. 40, issued on tne Jisi uiumo uy uie ft t;.y 'i : Jrtinent, as concerns our peojue : ItM j ' -'.Attention is hereby called to '-r':::i- made in the Internal Revenue lai the changes laws relating to which gust, tax is substituted tneretor. By the provisions of is" 5 '"! i;oncii Itv tliA art-of Julv 13.18Gb, iMtS i eoes into effect, so far as special taxes provided ; if f';H " ' 1 for in said act are concerned, on the 1st of Aut i i Hl-M section eighty it becomes the duty ot assessors to re-assess any person, nrrn or c-uiupauy uuiumg license for ant excess of the special tax substitu- - i i - . r ted therefor over the license tx which has been r paid, from tlfe 1st day of August, 1866, ratably, l;i,?V'-;- up to the 1st day of -May, 1866. binder these Jf- prOVlSlOIIS 'crSUU3 IMMU rt MWUJC art nuuicoK: '.' dealers in liquor, brewers,, distillers and proprie- ? tors of gift enterprises will be liable to re-assess-' t ment from the 1st of August, I860. Every- wholesale dealer in liquors, for instance, who has paid but $50 for his license will be immediately liable to re-assessment for the nine months end ft'", ..V ! f ing May 1, 1867, the amouut of re assessment be- hhij'&jj ing37 50. 1J?4 ? r - I Persons whose business it is to rr;an nfactune Ifj cigars, snuff or tobacco iu any form, should be i ?1 immediately assessed a special tax as tobacconists, vrithout reference to the aoiountof their products; . uul wnere shcu persons now noiu license mau ufactnrers, they "Will not be subject to the special ' ; tax until the expiration of their present licenses ' as manufacturers, unless they are engaged at the '. r- ' . same time in the-manufacture of other articles in f : such manner as to be liable to special tax both as '' manufacturers and tobacconists : but no si)ecial : tax is imposed upon journeymen employed in a j ?' vigar manufactory. 'Persom now licensed as i tobacconists should be assrssed a special tax as j'. wholesale dealers when their sales exceed $25,000. j h Any person who is engaged in the manufacture j or preparation for sale of any articles or com-I , ' pounds, or who "puts up tor sale in packages, 1' '.V with his name or trade mark thereon, any aiti- cles or compounds, is liable under the new law. to . i special tax as a manufacturer. i " Producers of ornamental and fruit trees and charcoal, selling the same at wholesale, by them selves or authorized agents, at places other than rj .' the place of production, are exempt from special tax in respect thereof. - ' ' Wholesale-dealers are required, as sooh as the amount of their sales within -the year exceed . : $50,000, to make monthly returns of salts to the v ''?" ' assistant assessor, and pay the tax on sales month ' ly, as other monthlj" taxes are paid : and in esti- j mating the amount of sales, any sales made by or through another wholesale dealer, need not again ' . be estimated and included as sold by the. party .' for 'horn thtrsale was made. Wholesale dealers " iiow holding license based on a certain amount of ; . sales, will be liable to make monthly returns of j , sales as soon as their sales exceed the amount I , v named iu the license ; wholesale dealers in liquors, ; i ', "'' as soon as their sales shall roach an amount which is less than the basis of tih" license by the sum of $37,50? ' ' Cattle brokers should be assessed on the excess ' r of sales over 810,000 in the same manner as of wholesale dealers. Under the new law, every persou, other than one having paid the special itax as a commercial broker, or cattle broker, or wholesale dealer, or retail dealer, or pedlar, whose occupation it is to buy or sell agricultural or farm' products, and whose annual sales do not exceed ten thousand dollars, is to be regarded a produce broker. - - I'm t' - keeper permits the person so keeping a hotel, tc, to turmsh Ihe necessary food lor the animals of travelers or sojourners without the payment of an additional special tax as a livery stable keeper. " Lawyeps who have paid a special tax as such, . are exempted under paragraph twenty-five from paying the special tax as real estate agents. ' . If the annual receipts of an iTisurar.ee agent ; shall not exceed one hundred dollars, a special '.tax of live doljars only is imposed under the new Maw. and tlifi iaraiTr:ith rehiiiva tn inn ratiP("H brokers is omitted. to special taxis imposed by the new law for selliug tickets or contracts of insurance agamsj injury to jiersons. Apothecarics who have paid the special tax as sucli are not required by the new law to pay the tax as retail dealer in liquors in consequence of fcelling or dispensing upon physicians' prescrip tions th3 wines and sjMiits officinal in the United .States or other national pliarmacopoe-ias in quan tities not exceeding half a pint of either at one .time, nor exceeding in aggregate cost value the sum of $300 per annum. No special taxis required of a common car- irier by the new law, where the gross receipts do not exceed the sum of 1,000 per annum. Dray men and teamsters owning only one dray or team will not be liable to this tax. I . By proviso to section forty-seven of the act of July 13, 1866, brewers are exempted from special tax as wjiolesale deaJers when selling at whole sale, even at a place other than their breweries, malt liquors manufactured by them. I'. ; There is no provision in the netv law for re : j funding license taxes where they exceed the M'::'jjrVi r' special taxes provided by said Jaw in respect to Xy f. i'v'f'if:.' ,the same business. Xo person dojng a bu-iness I . ! - requiring payment of a special tax under tlie new aw miuuiu uo assesseu inereior 11 ne now uoiqs a license covering a business of the sanio nature, J:i junless the special tax provided t)r exceeds the license tax, in which caso the difference of tax should'be assessed immedi:Uely. The New Internal Revenue Law. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has had oc casion to call attention to the fact that the new law makes the word "money" to include checks, 'drafts, and other instruments given fo;- the pay ment of money, and therefore the receipts for checks, drafts, etc., arc to be stamped. as if given 'for money. The new Internal Revenue law differs from ihe old one concerning brokers' sales of stocks and bonds, which, under the latter, were as sessed upon the basis of the par value ; but un der the former law, from August 1st instant, the stamps must be affixed upo the basis of the amount of sales. The Threatened 'Despotism. Senator Dooliltle mado a speech at Madison, Wisconsin on the 1st instant, from which we extract the following telling, truths : "But, fellow citizens,-! tell you, and I assure you, it is as certain, in mjr judgment, as God lives and reigns, -that unless the people in this .country sustain Andrew Jphnson now in his tiC-M'' determined ei ' t'iC&fit -arrest the ma rfli It- centralization, 1.i'a ipever rise. determined 'effort to sustain this Union and to arrest the mad career of this wild tendency to yor constitutional liberties are a -vortex from which thev will Ch eers That - tendency is to of a tyrannical carcus :isms from the -days rni I yi tuc ecveuiy ijrauis uuwn. LneerS.J f a aanrvf tarn tha noo rr 1 1 a m t :i " : t. the- meanest of all despot WASHINGTON ITEMS. "Charles O'Conor, -counsel tor Jeff. Davie, had a brief interview with the President on the 4th What was the exact purpose -61 -lire interview i u0 trnsnirl I have authority for saying that as sodfc as the President is' officially inforied of the organ- ;,;,, 0f the Throckmorton administration- in aCt'TovB h mill direct th,i ame etei.s to be taken as were taken in the transkr ot the provisional . governments of the other States. A proclama tion fWlaritifr that Texas has . resumed her I etical relations" to the Union may be looked r for on Tuesday or Wednesday next. The new army bill contains a provision ex cluding from any appointment under it all per sons who were engaged in the retrel service, m civil, military or naval J lus tne l resident can select no officer for the army from the States lately in rebellion. . . The President is expected now, or immediate ly after the adjournment of the Philadelphia Cnm pntion. to make some vacancies in various j : ie Northern States, and fill them by j ,jie appointment of national Union men. There- - i f t.fTR ;s much nressure upon the President j fof 'officcS) f Some of th . fijjgJitrict from the highest to the lowest grade. le more lucrative Federal officers in 11 nriobablv undertro a reform. Thg at;onai Union Executive Committee . have faken roorjjg at the Continental Hotel, , jhnadelpliia, and will there assemble four day ! lefore the meeting ot the Convention. the J prospect is that the Convention will be, in the number and character or tne memoers, ine most important that has assembled since the Conven tion which framed the Constitution. Washington, August 9. Major Generals' lluiiter and Delafold have been placed on the retired list. - Messrs Cushing, James. and Johnson, Com missioners to revise United States Laws, have received their commissions, and will enter upon the discharge of their duties on the first of Sep tember. An order at the War Department reorganiz ing Military Departments was promulgated to- day. Arming them Schofield commands De parfnienl of tha Potomac, embracing Virginia and West Virginia, with Headquarters at Rich mond. Gen tickles, Department of the South, including the Carolinas. Gen. Thomas, Depart ment of Tennessee, embracing Tennessee, Ken tucky, Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, Head quarters at Atlanta. Sheridan, Department of the Gulf, embracing Florida, Louisiana and Texas. Gen. Old commands- Arkansas, inclu ding Indian Territory. THE CHOLERA IN NEW YORK. The New York World of the 4th says : "It is idle to disguise that the cholera is rapidly and violently increasing in this city ; and, assurances that such would net be the case iu the past having proved abortive, it is. neces sary to look for still grcafcr increase in the coming weeks. The culmination of the e'i&oase was in 185 J reached during the second week in August. At that time the deaths per week, by cholera alone, were two hundred and Jrty-oue, while during the week ending yesterday the number of officially noted deaths was one hun dred and twelve. .Counting in the, doubtless, large number that have been really killed by cholera without the notice of the Board of Health, the latter figure, with the addition, will be a close approximation at least to that of '54. The large registry of forty-eight cases since our last report tells the fact that the tens of thou sands of the heedless, uncleanly, and intemper ate in our city arc beginning to reap the fruits of their h-.ibits, and -that the imminent deadli nes of the cholera poison that decimated the. Continent in many sections, has lost, not a whit of its power on this side the Atlantic. The lessons of care, courage, te'mr e ranee, cleanliness, and ventilation it re.achos with such terrible em phasis, wi;l be appreciated without enlargement, and commend themselves to all the reflective. The attitude of the city now is most praise worthy. Stricken with an epidemic whose vic tirus are chosen with instant severity and arbi trary, unannounced design, New York exhibits neither apathy r.or panic, but seerns to appre- ciate, and Jur that reason manJuliy to face, the 1 invisible danger. Among the intellrgcnt'thcrc is no hegira, no -scare neither indifference nor stolidity. That among the other class, whom, unfortunately, though not unnaturally, the dis ease seems wholly to select, there appears to be utter failure to appreciate and guard agaicst the danger, is a matter less for surprise than regret. The authorities look forward to a steady and persistent battle with cholera untiT the cold weather steps in, and vetoes, as it alone can, the march of the epidemic. What Industry Can Do. The Rich" mond (Va.) Dispatch lias the following : ' : Two young formers in Albemarle have ac coinplibhed, on a farm of. three hundred and thirty-thro acres, the following results : In the first part of the year two fre'edraen were hired, but thtir laziness and unwillingness to perform their duties caused the young. farmers to discharge them alter a few weeks' trial, and since that time they have performed all the laini labor thtmt-elves, except occasionally in harvest the hire of day laborers for a few days. The boys rise by early 'dawn; one milks the cows, the other tecds and curries the horses, and attends to the hogs and cattle, and, after an early breakfast, perform earnestly whatever work is necessary to be done, their fields have been well raked and plowed, and the result is good crops realized and prospective. They have Teaped from fifteen to twenty acres of the most excellent wheat; are now engaged is reap--ing seventy acres of oats ; have sixty acres of corn in first rate order; have also reaped several acres of hay; have one acre in Irish potatoes over one acre of garden vegetables; and have also a plenty of chickens, ducks and turkeys, with all the luxuries and comforts to be found on a well cultivated farm. The following story is again in circulation through our exchanges : A year or two after Tyler's accession, the President, contemplating an excursion in some direction, his son went to order a. special train of cars "It so happened that the Superintendent was a very stron Whig. On "Bob's" mating known his errand", that official bluntly informed him that his road' did not run special trains for the President. "What!" said B.b, "did you not furnish a spe cial train for the funeral of Gen. Harrison?" "Yes," said the Superintendent, patting Bob on the back, and "if you'll only bring your father here in (hat shape, you shall, have the best traia on the road." Mr. Wm. B. Astor is growing poor. His in come is about $150,000 less than it was last year, lie only returns about a million dollars J income this year. Poor man ! STATE NEWS. ' First Congression al District. The Con vention for this District assembled at Ederiton t6 the 1st inst. Hon. W. N. H. Smithiof Hert ford, and Col. H. A. Gilliam of Chowan, were elected as delegates to the Philadelphia Con vention, with Edw. Conigland, Esq., of Halifax, and Mills L. Eure of Gates, as alternates. Fifth District. Owing to the limited mail facilities in the District, the meeting appointed to be held in this place a few days ago, was not as Dumerouly attended as otherwise it would have been. Hon. John A.. Gilmer -and Col. Thomas Uuffiri were appointed Delegates, and S. S. Jackson and J. G Nash, Esqrs., alternates. We learn that Col. Kuffip declines to act as a delegate, which duty will devolve upon his al ternate, Mr Xa&b.-preensboro Patriot, Death of Several Persons frGm Poison. We have received information from. a frieud in regard to a recent melancholy event, brought about by a fiendish and murderous design. The facts of the case, as communicated by onr informant, are to the effect that quite a number ..orinns.icprfl in attendance at the marriage of VI jtvio..- J L Dr. Marable in Sampson county, during the week past, and that on the day following the majority of those present were taken sick, all alike, ad that several hawe since dieu. , - The conclusion which has since been arrived at, is that these results were produced by poison. The number ot persons present at the mar riage, (including the blacks of the household) is estimated at forty-seven forty-three of this number were affected similarly. The perpetrator of the design hr.s not as yet been discovered, nor arc there any certain proofs as to the administering ot the poison, but our informant who was just from the. scene of suf fering, w?i.tes that he is fully persuaded that poison .was infused into the cooking. Wilming- Jon Journal. ' Homicide. We learn by a passenger on the train from Kinston, on yesterday evening, that a Mr Hill, who resides about seveu milts from j Kinston, caught & negro stealing his corn, and shotliiui dead upon the spot niirht before last. This is the way to put a stop to this stealing throughout the country, though the remedy may b a pretty severe one. Newlern Times. The University. There 'are ninety-five students in attendance this session at the Uni versity of the State. A Salisbury correspondent of the Raleigh Pregress writes: "A marriage was to have taken place here last Thursday. The intended man and wife separated, very harmoniously, late on Wednesday night. On Thursday morning the would be Benedict received a note from his charmer stating that she had changed her mind that she could not marry so poor a young man! This young man is a steady, industrious mechanic, lie was a brave faithful soldier dur ing the entire late war, and.ir. the last year, re ceived a commission' for good conduct. What s commentary on the flowing professions of young ladies at the beginning of the war!" The tobacco crop of Virginia and North Carolina fur the present year is estimated at 50,000 hogsheads, but it 'will be no matter for surprise if .it should largely overrun this" esti mate and approximate more nearly to the ante war crops of 80,000 hogsheads. Strange nvc True. WThen the federal army took possession of this place, among. other acts of vandalism perpetrated by them was the destiuction of Col. Lane's residence by fire, sit uated in this immediate vicinity. After the building was consumed, a chimney fell, burying beneath the bricks and "rubbish a piece of burn ing timber. On removing the old bricks a few cays ago, ihe fire thus butied was found alive, r well." Gob.hboro X(ws. aud doin; .Seizure of ToiiArbo. etc. The Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, for this District, on yesterday proceeded to the sales rooms of our merchants and seized a quantity of Tobacco, found unstamped, tuid a quantity of other ar ticles which were also found without the pre scribed stamp. In instances where property was thus seized a receipt was giveik specifying the quantity of the article,' and setting forth that the seizure was made for violation of the Uiuted States Internal Iievenue Law. This action on the part of the Collector has given rise to some discussion as to the justice of the course. It is asserted on the part of some of the merchants that lUe law states that all .Tobac co manufactured prior to August, LSGov is exempt from taxation. In one instance where Tobacco was thus srized we art informed that it was man ufactured prior to the war, but the Collector gave as his reason for the seizure that it did not bear thrf stamp prescribed iu such cuse, that is it bhouid be branded, by the Collector of the District wherein it was manufactured, thus: '.'No duty in late insurrectionary States." Wilminr ton Journal. The Crops -Wre learn from a gentleman who has just arrived from Sampson county, that too much rain has played havoc with the crops in the eastern part of that county, aud in .the western part of Duplin. ' In Ihe western part of the State, on the other 1 nana, ana. especially in -Chatham, Guilford, Davidson, and llandolph, the lack of rain has almost entirely ruined the prospect "for a good crop of wheat and corn. . The prospects in Cumberland, Bladen and Robeson are. said tore good. A few weeks 6ince it-was feared that a drought would 'occur to blight and destroy ; but the copious showers which -have fallen, were so refreshing as to give anew impulse to the luxuriant growth; and now it is thought that the season will be propi-' tious. We trust the expectations of the farmers may' not bo disappointed especially as the pros pects ate so gloomy iu other sections. Wil mington JDisjyatch. Gold Discovery Wre have been informed by a gentleman recently from Morganton, in the western part of this State, that a very rich de posit of gold was found on a farm near that place, about twenty days agd". The gold is found embedded in and around a vein of quartz about 12 inches in-circumference, and in 6uch quantities that it is estimated that one bushel of the quartz and soft decomposed rock lying around it will yield from $2,500 to $3,000. In some instances the pure cold runs itr compact coils or spiral bands, about the thickness of a common lead, pencil,, sround the quartz. Our informant offered., the owner 'of the farm $70, 600 for it $2,000 cash, the balance in sixty' days, arid if not paid in that time the $2,000 to be forfeited ; but be would not accept. The excitement about Morganton relative to this dis covery is represented, to be running verjf - Wadesboro Argus. ' high. The mine is -located in Union coifnty, and not near Morganton. - . . . . The will of General Cass 00 being presented for probate, required a revenue stamp of $500, the estate being valued at one million dollars. THE LOUISIANA CONVENTION. -. From the U. Y. World. -It is apparent, even to th Radicals, that, un less the existing State governments of the South are overthrown, the policy of Preeident Johnson must ultimately prevail. The people of the North have saorificed too much' for ' the Union -to allow it to be permanently dissolved; which it would be if the existing State governments were never to be either displaced or recognized. Tfce attempt made .by the Louisiana Radicals to galvanize the corpse of the old Convention of 1864, has at least this redeeming feature, that it is a sneaking acknowledgment by the Radicals of the desperate straits to which they arc driven in the hopeless business of superseding the new State troverpirjents. Their desperate plan is, to set in operation the semblance of rival "State govwiments in the Southern Slates, and to have Congress recognize these as clothed with all the authority of the several States ; a plan which was divulged by Representative Boutwell, of Massachusetts, in . his-argument for protracting the session of Con gress. Mr Boutwell and many other leading Radicals rest the right of Congress to recognize such governments on a dictum of the Supreme Court in the celebrated Dorr case, in which it was conceded that it belongs to Congress to de termine, between rival State governments, which is the true one. This argument is a complete perversion- of the Rhode Island decision, for the rivalubip between the Dorf governvment and the one it sought to supplant was not decided by Congress, but by the Rhode Island State gov ernment, which put'down the Dorr movement by iree, and tried and sentenced Dorr lor trca The Supreme Court instead of remitting question to Congress, ptonounced, on its authority, that the trovernment of Rhode son. "the own Island w?s quite right in putting down by force an irregular attempt to supplant it; just as the same court, if that precedent were f jllowed, would sanction the suppression, by the State government of Louisiana, of illegal attempts to set up a rival in its place. But'bad as their reasoning island gross as is their misapplication of the Dorr precedent, this is nevertheless their plan and the ground on which it rests. If they can procure the adoption of pretended State constitutions by the Southern negroes' aud Radicals, Congress stands ready to recognize the governments organized under such bastard constitutions, and .then to insist that it is the duty of the President to up hold these governments against the majority of the people of the several States, who are held by the Radicals to have foifcited all their rights by participation in the rebellion. Louisiana was- selected for the first experi ment, because ic that State the Radicals found the readiest pretext fur giving their plot a sim ulated appearance- of" regularity. Before the Constitutional Convention of 1804 adjourned, it authorized its President to re-convene it, if any emergency should arise requiring it. This au thorization must, of course, have had reference to emergencies previous to the adoption of- the Constitution it had framed, and the organization of a government under it. Once adopted, it became the supreme law of the State," and could not be changed except by a new delegation of power by - the people. All the proceedings of such a convention are, from the very nature of its duties, prior and preparatory, never revisory. The absurdity of rcconvoking such a body, at this late day, is sufficiently evident from this consideration but the attempt to galvanize it into life is doubly absurd as coming from the Radicals, who, up to the birth of this plot, have strenuously denied the legality of the Conven tion of. 1SG1. The amazing and indescribable impudence of the Radicals in re-assembling a. convention which, till now, they have never mentioned but to "denounce aud scuff at it,Nmust not be lost sight of in the dust they arc raising about the New. Orleans riot. Wherever the. blame of the riot-may rest, it is certain that the occasion of it was a conspiracy to overthrow the government of the State, and that the authors of this con spiracy. long ago pronounced their own condem nation", by their vehement denunciations ol the very convention while it was living, which they have attempted to resuscitate long after it was dead.. If, as they have always maintained, it had no shadow of legal authority when it origin ally assembled iu 1801, how can they justify their attempt to resuscitate it in 18GG t Suits Againsp Delinquent Postmasters in tue Southern tates: The Sixth Audi tor is Mill prosing the claims of the Govern ment against postmasters in the Southern StaUs whoha7C as yet failed to make returns of bal ances due the United States at the commence ment of the war. At the, beginning ot hostiliT ties' in 1801 the amount due by postmasters in the South was $300,000; of which sum about $150,000 has beeu collected, leaving an equal sum still due. Many of the postmasters have voluntarily come forward and paid all up, while others have been given time to settle,, they hav ing shown a willingness to do so if granted a short season to procure the money, as most of them have become impoverished through the vicissitudes of war. The Post-office Department bus thus far been lenient with all the delin quents, and "suits are only brought where the right of the Department .to collect is denied, and a decided refusal to pay up is given. Isaac Uaas, postmaster at Woodstock, Va , buried his aeout'Wrd money at the breaking 6utbf the war, and kept them so buried for five years. when he unearthed them and promptly forwarded them to the Post-office Departaient. The money, unfortunately for the honest postmaster, was in -Virginia bank notes, then at a discount, which he was compelled to make good in United States notes. ' Another instance is related of the postmaster at Washington,-Soul h Carolina, who buried his money, "which, in this case, happened to be in gold, and only brought it forth after the war had closed. He promptly forwarded the amount to the Department, and was allowed the pre mium on the coin, as the law provides for re turns to be made in legal-tender United States money. National Intelligencer. 1 - The History of General Grant's Rise in the Ftflerat Army. Most of. our readers never heard of General Grant till th battle of Tort Donelsoo. Senator Yates,.- of Illinois, ir a eulo gy upon him .delivered during the consideration of the foill to xevive the grade of general, gives the history of bis entrance into -and rise in the army." In 1861 General Grant applied to the then Governor Yates, of Illinois, for service io the army. Yates gave him a clerkship in the executive office, aodTin June, 1861, made him colonel of the TweDty-first. Illinois infantry 'mm Mf He served first in Missouri, where be. was made. brigadier, and wasjhcti transferred to take com mand at Cairo. "And here," "-says Mr Yates, "commenced that series of splendid, &c, &c. Mr Yates does ool say why General Grant left "the United States army before thewar. MUEDER AKD'EOBBEBY BY NE GROES IN SOUTH CAROLINA. The Columbia South Carolinian gives the fol lowing: account of a brutal murder committed by .' negroes on the 18th ultimo, and the swift retri bution that -overtook the wretches: Mr. Lemuel Lane, one of the mojt respected citizens of Newberry District, had accumulated from the sale of cotton and. from other sources, a considerable sum of mooey,which it was known he kepi on his premises. That oppor tunity to obtain this by. foul- means bad been carefully watched, and by more than one per son, there can be but little doubt j but it was not until Friday night that the moment arrived for the consumma,tiyn 0F the hellish deed con templated. Mr. Lane had then retired as usual, but the heat being oppressive, he lay down in the open air, and there he was found in the,-- morning, his head split open with aa axe, lite extinct, and great pools of blood covering the ground around. Proceeding to the bouse the. murderers now ransacked the premises, the wife of Mr. Lane having laketi flight to e.cape the fate that sure ly awaited her if found, and all the gold and silver on the" place, amounting to between eiglitJ and nine thousand dollars, as welearn, was car ried'away. . ' . Intelligence of the diabolical act quickly spread, and in a short time parties started in pursuit.. One, at least, of thcmuiIerers suc cessfully evaded capture and reached Columbia on Sunday 'm'orniiig, accompanied by another negro- named Armistead Cook. Accosting a little colored boy, they here desired to know'tbe direction to the .Charlotte depot, liaoding him at the same, time a silver quarter of a dollar. The lad noticed that one of" the negroes carried a bag." which to Jiim seemed to be money, and making all haste after the parties left him, he communieated the facts to Messrs. btarling and Pope, two citizens living in the neighborhood.' These mounting horses, started at once to head off the fugitives, and overtook them in a corn field beyond the Lunatic Asylum. The negroes were ordered to halt, when Juhn Counts, ulius Dawkins, one of them, took todiis heels. Mr. Starling at once 6red, and wounded him slightly, but the villain kept on, when Mr. S. discharged a second shot, which brought thejiegro to the ground, the ball entering his body. He lived about fifteen minutes, but made no remark. The other had meanwhile . surrendered, and is now iu custody.. - On examining the body of the dead man, eighteen hundred and odd dollars in specie were found sewed in his clothing and concealed in his stockings and elsewhere, besides the bag of specie before referred to. The pistol of Mr. Lane, with his name en graved upon it, and .five or six dollars, were found on the person of Armistead. . The story of the latter is that be was hired by the mur derer to pilot ,hitn to Columbia, and as he, Ar mistead had to come down on .Monday, he ac cepted. the proposition and received-the reward. Gen. Beaurf.oaud a Prince -The Paris Times says correspondent of the New Orleans in his last letter : "He is still with us, or rather he is in Paris, having been called thither again, as I under stand it, to reconsider his refusal of the offer "of the supreme military command from the Moldo- y-Wallachia Government. It s given out that the French Emperor, who is all powerful with the Romans, is no longer adverse" to the Gen eral's acceptance of the position. As to the General's own way of thinking or intentions concerning the matter wait and see. 'Certain it is, the Romans are most anxious to have him, and in their eagerness have made him verv tempting offers the title of Prince, to rank next to the Ilosp'odar, the sura of $200,000 down in hard cash, a princely salary, and the supreme, absolute command of all tbe military forces and retinue of the ten principalities. If the General should accept, his late companions in arms could, and doubtless will, furnish a body of officers tha't would prove invaluable to the Romans in the event of war. Mighty events are impecdiug all along the Danube. . . The land tax paid to the U. S. Government by. North Carolina amounts" to $232,3S0. s E 0 if . 0 , We give notice to our old friend and customers that we will .re-open, the "BOOT AND SHOE STORE'" at the old stand, (formerly occupied by "Boone A Uo.,") on the 15th ot'tly month, when we shall be happy to serve them as in the good old dnys, with "Boots, Shoes, Leather and fchoe findings," of every depc.riplitxA. Call and see us next door to National Bank, Charlotte, N. C. B. R. SMITH, JR August 6, 1 8(iG & CO. FIiE II3.00IH.I) STOCK FOR SALE. - The undersigned offers for sale, privately, 25 head of pATTl.E, Ayrshire, Durham 'and Devon cross, (among them gome fine Milch Cows and Beeves, in good oriTer.) Also, 40 head of SHEEP, good breed, and in first rata order. , '" Also, a fine stock of HOGS, improved breed. gST I will ul?o rent, for the next year, my Plan tation (one of the best in the country, being mostly bottom River land,) if agreeable terms can be made." Apply to me in person or by letter at Rock Hill P. O., South Carolina. - . Aug. 6, 186(3 3t R. A. SPRINGS. j . STEAM SAW MILL, NEAR BREVARD'S STATION, GASTON CO., N. C. We are now prepared to fill Bills for Lumber at our Mill on short notice and reduced prices. From the known superior qualify of the timber in the vicinity, we nope, to merit a portion of public patronage, and fill all orders satisfactorily. Address orders -to ABERNETHY, RUTLEDGE & CO. Aug 6, 186t 1m - IV KW GOODS! Opening this Day, and Arriving Daily at my Store, "Springs' Comer." I am now in daily receipt of the latest and most elegant styles of CALICOES; bleached and nn bleache'd Domestics, and every class of Goods found in the bes.t Dry Goods houea in the South. My Stock of Notions is full and select, and .will com pare in price and quality with any offered in this market. In Hats, Boots and-Shoes, I offer great In ducements to purchasers, who wish goods cheap and serviceable. My stock of Hardware and Groceries is also being replenished by jreekly arrivals from New York and Philadelphia, so that wholesale and retail dealers will consult their interert by exanain-" ing my Goods before purchasing elsewhere. Coon try Merchants are invited to give me a call. Aug 6..1866 A". SINCLAIR. .FOREIGN NEWS. Constant success seems to' have attended the Prussian and Italian arms up to the time of sua- pension of hostilities for an eight days' armis- tice. Austria, Droiten in epinc ana disheart--ene'd by a flood of misfortunes, has formally consented to withdraw irom the German Con federation, to loose Vcoelia and her part of Schleswig-IIolstain, and to pay ten millions of dollars as expenses of the war. Pfnssia is to take the place of Austria as the controlling pow er in the German States on tho north of the Main, and the States soutHf of the Main are to form an independent union. But these terms, although sufficiently humiliating to Austria, may not be acceptable to Prussia .and Jtaly, al though, at present,' they seem to be satisfactory to both those powers. - The cholera is increasing in England The U. S. Consul at Antwerp, uuder date of July 18, informs the State Department that the cholera at that place is gradually on the in crease. The daily deah list ranges from GO to 95. The disease first.iuade its appearance io. an emigrant vessel, which was not ordered away in time to prevent the infection from reaching: the shore. The Consul advises a "strict sur veillance to De kept overall vessels from that point. . Our Consul in Spain writes that a strict quar antine at Port Mahon has been ordered 00 all American vessvls bound for Spanish ports.- To and from the North. THROUGH FREIGHT AIR LINE XI. Railroad and The N. C. its con- Meeting" Lines. By Throngb-Freight arrangements, through Re ceipts are given from Charlotte and all points on the Nrih Carolina Urtilrond to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, PortsmouU). Norfolk, Pe tersburg and City Point, AT EXCEEDINGLY LOW ' RATES lower, with more dispatch and with less insurance, than any other line. See Agents and ship your Goods by the following lines, aod no other Care of Railroad Agent, Ports mouth, Va : From New York. Atlantic Coast Mail Steamship . Co., Livingston. Fox & Co., Agents, Olfice No. 88, Liberty street Shipping Point .Pier No 36 North River. New York. From Boston Boston and Norfolk Steamship Co., A. Sampson, Agent, and of Central Wharf, Boston. From Philadelphia. Philadelphia and Norfolk Steamship Co., W. P. Clyde & Co., Agents, No. 14 North Delaware Avenue, Philadelphia. From Baltimore Baltimore .Steam Packet Co., (Old Bay Line,) L. B. Parks, Agent, foot of Uuiou Dock aud by Brandt's Line. . This Line gives more dispatch than any Ex press Company, and at about one-fourth the cost. ' Aug 6, 18CG lin Equity Sale of Laud. In obedience to a decree of the Courfof Equity, made at Spring Term, 1S66, of Meck4enburg Court of Equity, I propose to sell to the highest bidder -executing bond with security, on a credit of one and t rto ye-rs, with interest from date, One Hun dred and Seventy Acres of LAND, situated in said county, neur Sugar deek CJiurch, adjoining the lands of the biers of the late Dr Thomns Caldwell, D. Parks, R. L. Alexander and others, forjmrtilion among the biers at law of the late Robert Montgom ery, deceased Sale will take "place at the Public Sq.uare in Charlotte o'n the second Monday in Octo ber proximo one hnndied dollars cash in advance to pay costs. " . A. C. WILLIAMSON, C. M. E. P. S. The sale of Ihe Thompson Land, lately postponed, will take place on the same day. Aug 6, 1866 A: 0. W. Special Notice lo Wagoner. CHARLOTTE, N. C. For the accommodation cf Waaroners cominar to this City, we have just had erected, in the rear of iidr Store, a comfortable Brick House with twp fire places, and have also Gad our lot securely inclosed, which Wagoners who arg delained over night, may use free of charge they furnishing their own wood. BIIEM, BROWN & CO. Chailotte, N. C, Aug t, lSbG 2t SHARON ACADEMY, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N. G. The next session of this School, for Boys and -Young Men, witt-open the first ilonday in September. Terms per Session of Five Months English Branches, - $10 Ofr Classics, - - - 18 CO Board can be had in good families in the neigh borhood at $10 per motnh. II. K. RE ID, Principal. Aug C, 1806 lm $10 REWARD. Runaway from me on, the 22d of June, an inden tured apprentice (colored) named John McCamie Reid, aged abdut 10 years. All persons are fore warned again'-t harboring or employing said boy, as I am eniiilcd to his services until the 22d of Jan uary, 1608. The above reward will be paid for his apprehension and deli verv to'me. " D. G. IIOLDBROOKS. Cabarrus county, Aug. 6, 1866 3tpd Statu of i. Caroliu;), Cabarrus Co. In Equity. Petition to Sell Land. George Barnhart juid wife Mariba, Thomas P. Reid Jackson Furr aud wi'e Julian, Ingram Reid, Francis Reid, Iaac Burlison" and wife Elizabeth, Jaekson Bust, Conrad Bost, Jacob Dry and wife Marina, Thomas J. Shinu and wife Mary, John L. Reid, SaruU Drake, Hen ry . Reid, Israel Furr and wife IJrfly, George U.iJ, Timothy Reid,' Allen Reid, Isaac W. Crayion, George Crayion, .A.-J. Taylor and wif Sarah, Darling Tucker uA if. Mi (ha, Tuoruas MotJeyt-Jtihn R..-Motley, Mathias Rinehart and wlfa Martha, Henry Sossamou and wife Keziah, J. Fag- part and wife Lavina, W. E. Bigger and wife EH za beth, Noah Moses and wife Rowtna, Wilson Furr and wife Nancy, Henry Plott and wife Sarah, Madi son liartzelJ, Fny Aldridge, Jesse D Cox and wife Lucy, Smaiiniih Kizer and Finny Kiier, AGAINST " Heury C. Reid, the heirs at law of John O. Reid, (name not known,) Allen Reid, Wni. Host, Jackson Rendlemati, the heirs at law.of Arthar Reid and Martha, his wife, deceased, (names not known-,) Wm. A. Cagle and. Nancy his wife, Clayborne Reid, Ar thur Reid, Marshal M. Reid, the heirs at law of Henry E. Reid, deceased, (names not known,). Ephraim Reid, Wm. Turner and Martha his wife, Qdincy Harrison and wile Elizabeth, Henry K. Cray ton, George Kizer and wife Mary, the heirs at law ofRufus Motley, deceased, .(names not known,) John R. Hartzel, the heirs at law of Joshua Hartzel, 'de ceased, (names notknown,) the heir at law of Nimrod Hartzel, deceased, (names not known,) Jack son Hartzel, the heirs at law of J. H. Watson and wife Elizabeth, deceased, (names not known.) th heirs at law of Adam Slams and Sarah his wife, de ceased, (names not known,) Defendants. In this caseit appearing that the defendants sr not residents of this State or unkuown, it is ordered that publication be made for six week In the" West ern Democrat, published hi Charlott, notifying tb ' said defendants to be and appear at the nexCConrt' of Equity to be held for the Coonty of Cabarrus, at the Court House in Concord, 00 the 11th Monday after the last Monday in August, 1860, and answer complainants, bill, or the. same will be set down for hearing and judgment taken po confbsso as to them. Witness, R. W. Allison, Clerk and Master in . Equity fbr said Conntj, the Kth Monday after the last Monday in February. A. D., 1866. R." W. ALLISON, C. M. J. 29-6t pr. adr. $25.
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