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CHARLOTTE, N. C, JUNE 27, 1865.
Volume 13 Nnmber 672;.
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NORTHERN ITEMS.
Governors Vance and Letcher are yet ton
fined in the Capitol prison, and have not yet ap
plied for pardon, although it is expected they
will do so. -
Tbe .Mexican .Minister is confident that the
French will be driven out of Lis country before
the close of the present year.
Mrs Patterson, daughter of President John
son and wife of one of the new Senators from
Tennessee, will arrive in Washington this week,
to preside over the domestic arrangements of
the White House.
Of the 300,000,000 of banking capital au
thorized by the National Bank Act, and the
amendments thereto, of the last Congress, only
67,000,000 remains to be taken up.
In order to secure a loyal feeling in the South,
it is proposed that the land warrants given to
soldiers surviving the late war, be located in
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor
gia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas,
in abandoned lands or confiscated estates.
The report of the special commission sent out
to examine charges against Gens. Banks and
Hulburt is said to be very damaging to their
characters as officers and gentlemen and fully
justifies the removal of both.
The Log Cabin in which Mr Lincoln resided
when he split rails and learned to write and stu
died law, is to be exhibited at the' great fair in
Chicago.
Hefnry S. Foote, lately of 'Mississippi, is on
his way to California, where he has children
residing.
Some of the Sutlers who followed the army
and rushed intcilichmond with, their wares, in
anticipation of doing a tremendous business, on
the supposition that the Southern people had
plenty of good money, are closing out, one by
one, and returning to the North, wiser, if not
richer men.' The wholesale commission houses
published since the evacuation are doing will.
John Mitchell, formerly assistant editor of
tbe Richmond Enquirer and Examiner, and who
lately connected himself with the N. Y. News,
was arrested in New York week before last by
order from Washington, and put in prison.
Generals Ilallecks. and Stoneman have writ
ten letters to the War Department in reply to
the strictures upon them made by General Sher
man. General Halleck is understood to throw
all the responsibility of hjs action in, the premi
ses upon Lieutenant General Grant, and Gene
ral Stoneman to claim that by acting upon his
own judgement ho compelled the fugitive Jeff
Davis and his party to take up a line of march
which resulted in his capture by the troops sen!
ut to heaa him off.
Mrs Stephen A. Douglas has givtn a brilliant
cntertaiufiiept in Washington, the first public
reception since tbe death of Mr Douglas.
A larjre number of negroes, who followed the
Army of Georgia to Washington, have made
ppication to return to their former homes.
More than 1,800 .claims for damages by the
war have-been tiled at Washington, amounting
to oyer 50,000,000.
In the Washington city cleotion the conser
vatives voted in greater strength than since the
war began, and elected the ticket which they
preferred. They polled large majorities against
all who participated in the recent meeting for
the banishment from the city of those who left
during the war.
Greenbacks. It may not be generally
known that,. by Act of Congress, United States
Treasury Notes generally termed 4green
backs" are legal tender for all dues except
import and export duties and the interest on
jhe public debt. Gold and silver can only be
rated as articles of merchandize. Thi3 should
be understood by one and all.
The judges of the supreme court of Pennsyl
vania have delivered an opinion affirming the
constitutionality of ihe legal tender act, on the
ground that the clause of the constitution au
thorizing congress to coin money and regulate
the value thereof, and of foreign money," does
not constitute a prohibition of the issue of pa
per money' instead of coin. The court held
that the words of the constitution should not be
construed literally, butaccording to their spirit,
and cited the authority given to congress "to
declare war" in the same instrument as not be
ing sufficiently comprehensive to authorize it to
make and carry on war if interpreted literally.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
Gov. Watts, of Alabama, who was arrested a
few days ago at Macon, Ga,, has been released
from arrest, and has returned to Montgomery.
The military authorities at Chattanooga,
Tenn., have issued' an order prohibiting all pa
roled officers and men of the late Confederate
army from visiting any places of public resort or
amusement in that vicinity.
A vessel has arrived at Norfolk; with corn,,
from Hyde County, North Carolina, and the
captain reports that there is plenty of corn there
but no money. Some of the corn had been in
store since the war commenced.
Howell Cobb is reported to have remarked,
when he heard of Gov. Brown's arrest,. "Yes,
d n him! he'll go to Washington a prisoner,
and be sleeping with Andy Johnson in less than
a fortnight.
The choicest cotton is selling at Vicksburg at
twenty-five cents.
News from Jackson, Mississippi, is to the ef
fect that the country thereabouts has already
far more merchandise than the people have mo
ney to pay for. Good bacon was selling at ten
dollars per hundred- pounds, and lard for the
same by the wagon load, showing that there has
heretofore been a general concealment of prop
erty of the edible kind.
A correspondent writing from New Orleans
says:
"In a short time twenty-five thousand South
erners, from Texas, will be in Mexico. The
sympathies of the leading men of that party will
not be with Maximillian."
Gen. Dick Taylor's Louisiana plantation,
near New Orleans, which had been confiscated,
was sold a short time since for 89,000. It com
prises 2,500 acres, with all tha improvements
sugar house, mills, engines, dwellings, &c.
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The Indictment of General Lee. A
Washington correspondent wsites: "The indict
ment found ugaiont Lee, bjj the greed jury of
Eastern Virginia, is a most nonsensical pro
ceeding. The bill could not be. issued on the
authority of the General Government, for the
latter is pledged not to molest Lee; while fur
ther, it does not recognize the proceedings of
the court which t has brought the indictment.
Nor can the grand jury act thus for th,e State,
for Lee has not committed, treason against it.
He took up arms in obedience to a call .of the
State, in her defence, and how then can he be
indicted for treason against the State? So silly
is the action. of the grand jury, that I find every
one is laughing at it.
The status of the general afficers paroled un
der the terms of agreements between Grant aud
Lee is becoming a question of some importance.
Already' the Grand Jury at Richmond has found
indictments for treason, against Lee and several
others. It is claimed that - convictions under
these indictments are necessary to make valid
the confiscation of their property under the laws.
On the other hand, it is contended that any and
aH "prosecution? against officers thus paroled are
barred by the terms of their surrender. . The
matter has been submitted to both itbe Presi
dent and the Attorney General; but for the pre
sent both decline to take it under consideration,
believing that the- defence should properly be
presented in the courts which may take cogni
zance of the indictments. n
Important Decision of the Wisconsin; Su
preme Court The United States Stamp Act
held to he unconstitutional. -The - Milwaukee
Sentinel of Friday says : v
In the case of Jones and others vs. Keep,
our. Supreme Court decided Wednesday that
the law of Congress requiring, stamps to legal
processes, in the commencement of suits or
other-wise, is unnconstitutional, and that 'the
law in this respect is void, and the stamp on
legal papers 19 not necessary. This decision
was made by Chief Justice Dixon and J udge
Cole. Judge, Downer dissented. We have not
yet seen thfi written opinion of the Court, but
we presume it proceeds upon the ground that
the imposition of a tax upon any proceedings or
processes in a State Court is an invasion of the
right of the State to regulate proceedings in its
own courts; that if Congress can tax these pro
ceedings At all it cab lay upon thetn a tax whUh
would practically amount to a ' prohibition, 'and
can thus practically legislate the State Court out
of existence. . v
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Reliable information has reached the friends
of John C Breckinridge at Lexiogwn, Kech
tucky, that he has arrived safe In Quba. How
he got there they refuse to say.
LETTER FROM! B- F. MOORE, ESQ.
. Raleigh, June 17, 1865.
To tlie Editors of the Standard:
In your paper of this morning you have trans
ferred to its columns two letters addressed to
the New York Herald, by its, Raleigh corres
pondent, bearing date 4th of June, inst., which
after noticing as "one of the most unpleasant
lcatures of the history of North Carolina, the
scrambling among the politicians at this period
for office," the correspondent proceeds, jn con
nection with my name, as follows: "B. F.
Moore, the moss formidable of the rival candi
dates, of Mr Holden, and the leader of the rival
delegation to Washington has also withdrawn.
The two delegations fused in Washington, and
Mr Moore, so the understanding is, has the pro
mise of the State Senatprship or Supreme Court
Judgeship."
In the first place, it was an error in the cor
respondent to call the two parties of gentlemen,
who visited Washington, delegations. Got.
Holden was invited thither by the President
himself, and he associated with him the respect
able gentlemen who accompanied him. Within a
few days afterwards I received through Gen.
Schofield, a telegram from Washington, that
ex-Gov. Swain, Win. TSaton, jr., and myself,
would be acceptably received by the President,
in behalf of the State. I was no party to the
telegram to .which this was a reply.
So soon as convenient, we repaired to the city.
Gov. Holden, and the gentlemen who accompa
nied him, had had an interview with the Presi
dent before we arrived, the 20th day of May.
We then had a separate interview with the
President on the Monday following, in which
was principally discussed the most effectual
mode of restoring the civil government to the
State as a member of the United States. The
President favored,' as the most proper, a total ig
noring of the State government. In this we
differed from him. The next conference at
which we". were present, was on the following
Thursday; and Gov. Holden and his associates
,were present, both they add ourselves having
agfetrfi tbe yeBtng before to- meet at the con
ference. At this interview the matters debated
and considered jointly, were altogether in refer
ence to the amnesty proclamation, and trade of
the State, and an appeal which was made to
him to allow, if possible, the State, penniless as
it was in its finances, to take charge of the State1
property, and use it for charitable purposes, as
supporting the Lunatic asylum, and the helpless
poor of the State.
This conference, and for these objects, closed
the interview, and neither Mr Eaton nor myself
saw the President any more. Tho opinions of
all, in this interview with the President, seemed
to harmonize as to their objects, and I doubt
not that they were cordial and candid. There
was not between any of u., as I . believe, a par
ticle of jealousy or ill feeling one towards anoth
er. For myself I say, I went to Washington, for
the good of tbe people of my State; as for the
like object, I had a short time previously met
Chief Justice Chase at Wilmington. It is not
true that I have withdrawn my name as a can
didate for Governor; I have never given per
mission that it should be used for that purpose.
It is not true that I have "the promise of the
State Senatoaship, or Supreme Court Judge
ship. -
' I should feel very much humbled if ray fellow-citizens
shoufd believe' that, while profess
ing to aid them in this hour of heavy trouble, I
was capable of bartering myself away for office.
1 presumeMessts. Editors, that the' reflec
tion upon my integrity had escaped your notice,
else you had done me the justice to disabuse the
public mind of the charge that I was engaged
in a scramble for office.
THE AMNESTY PARDON.
Attorney General Speed has issued the fol-.
lowing circular, for the benefit of those classes
making application for special pardon, under
the President's Amnesty Proclamation :
Attorney General's Office,")
Washington, June 7, 1865. j
"By direction of the President, all persons
belonging to the excepted classes enumerated in
the President's Amnesty Proclamation of May
29, 1865, who may make special application to
the President for pardon, are hereby notified
that, before their respective applications will be
considered, it must be shown that they have re
spectively taken and subscribed the oath or affir
mation in the said Proclamation prescribed.
Every such person desiring a special pardon
should make, personal application in writing
therefor, and should transmit with such appli
cation the original oath or affirmation as taken
and subscribed before an officertutUorized,
under the rules and regulations promulga
ted by the Secretary of State, to administer the
Amnesty oath prescribed in the said Proclama-,
tion of the President.
"JAMES SPEED, Attorney General."
Very respectfully youra
B.' F. MOORE.
Baltimore, June 16. A number of per
sons, from Baltimore county and elsewhere,
have been summoned here to appear befere the
military authorities, to give evidence against
the Rebel Major Harry Gilmor, looking to his
indictment and trial for treason. The city grand
jury has found an indictment against his broth
er, who ijas with him on the raid in Maryland
a year ago. He is now in jail awaiting trial.
Many indictments are being found against Ma
rylanders who participated in the above named
raid, and other treasonable depredations.
; The Sioux Indians are again making hostile
demonstrations in Nebraska. Five hundred of
them attacked one . hundred men of the Elev
enth Ohio cavalry, fifteen miles west of Fort
Mitchell, and killed four and wounded seven of
ihem. A.number of the Indians were killed.
SENSIBLE TALK.
The New York Times, speaking of Northern
sentiment and expectations about the South,
says : .
"We (the northern people and authorities) are
too exacting -also in regard to the political ac-.
tion of the Southern people. We expect them,
now that the war is over and they are beaten,
to become at once, not only loyal citizens, obey
ing all the laws, and sustaining fully the nation
al authority, but ' thorough-going abolitionists,
and advocates 6f negro suffrage. Anything
short of this we consider half-way loyalty and
think theyt have not been whipped quite enough
yet. We denounce them as still Secessionists,
at heart, and call for their exclusion from the .
rights of citizenship. .
This 13 unreasonable and unwise. Wc have
really hothiog to do with their hearts. Wc
have no right to exact the complete change of
sentiment and feeling which we demand. We
have a right to insist that they shall obey the
law, that they shall acknowledge and respect
the national authority, and conduct themselves,
as peaceful law-abiding citizens. If they do
this, we can demand nothing more. They may
believe in their hearts what they please; they
may feel as they like about the war and the gov
ernment; they may be at heart rebellious still;
but that is really none of our business. We,
cannot control their opinions or their sentiments;
we can and must control their conduct, but that
is all. Nor is it reasonable to expect that the
mass of the Southern people can or will become
suddenly devotees of doctrines and sentiments
which they have hitherto abhorred, and against
which they have staked their fortunes and their
lives. Men do not thus instantly change their
"whole natures on compulsion. And any osten
tatious pretensions of such a change would be
hypocritical. The great body of the Southern
people were unquestionably honest and sincer.e
in the opinions, the prejudices and the resent
ments which led them to rebel against the Gov
ernment; and it would be folly to 'suppose that
those feelings, would 11 be at once eradicated by
the simple fact that they have been beaten in
the field. A radical change in the sentiment of
the Southern people, concerning slavery and
the purpose and temper of the national authori
ty, can only be wrought by time, by wise laws,
wisely administered, and by their experience o
the new condition upon which they have enter,
ed.
, Nor should we desire to break the , spirit, or
crush the self-respect of the people of the South
ern States. Their courage, their resolute and
determined spirit, is now among the priceless
possessions of the whole country. It has beep
our enemy, but hereafter it is to be our.friend.
It has been turned against usr and! hag.vainly
sought our destruction; hencefcrth it fights on
ly on our side, and swells the power, and the
courage with which we may confront a world in
arms. It would be suicidaVv in ns to , crush or
destroy it we should be destroying a pa! t of
that which is to give us th proudest .place ever
held by any. nation on the face of the earth.
They confess and feel themselves overcome
subdued,, subjugated From!,DO quarter do we.
hear the faintest hint of .any w$sh even to renew
the contest. . It is not for us to poison, the wound ,
we hava inflicted on their pide, awsto stab,
with insulting blows, the dead.bbdy of their am
bition." " " , ; -'
JBg Judge Sharkey has been appointed Pre-,,
visional Governor of Mississippi