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Editor and Profreitor.
CHARLOTTE, N, C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1865.
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GOVERNMENT
OP NORTH CAROLINA.
of Wake county, Provisional
William Llolden,
Governor.
Jos S I'annon of Perquimans, and Tod R Caldwell
of Hurke, Aid with the tank of Colonel.
Lewis Mnned of Davidson, Private Secretary.
11 U Badger of Wake, and W H Baglcy of Pasquo
tarik. Assistant Secretaries.
S M Parish and J D Pollen of Wake. Clerk3.
Theo N ttauisay of Wake, clerk and messenger. ;
Jonathan Worth of Randolph. Treasurer.
lM'i;tl'i W li iin of V'J:e, chief clerk to Treasurer.
C tt TLomui of Carteret, Secretary of Slate.
GOVERNMENT OF THE IT. STATES.
pi M'Ji'iit Ar.drew Johuson, of Tennessee.
Secretary of State W. H. Seward, of New
Secretary
lVunsy 1 uiiia.
IVatuiaister
of War Edwin M. Stanton, of
General William Dennison, of
OJii".
Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles,
l".nn-ciiout.
St cietarv of tho Interior James Harlan
of
of
Iowu.
Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCullough.
f Illinois.
Attorney General James 'Speed, of Ken
tucky. Pre.-ident f.f the Senate Lafayette S. Foster,
of t'niiiM'Cticur.
Speaker of the. House Schuyler Colfux, of
Indiana.
John W Forney. Secretary of the Senote.
fclVritEME COl'UT.
n C- Ci-a-e. Ohio. Chief Justice.
Halm i?
1. Jyi
e M Wayti". Georgia.
i. Samuel Nelson. New ork.
IJ. li..bert C Grier. Pennsylvania.
.4. Nathan Clifford, Maine.
5 Noah II. Sway ne. Ohio,
(i. Daniel Davis, Illinois.
7. Samuel Miller. Iowa.
8. Samuel F. Field, California.
LIEUTENANT GENERALS-
Wingfield S"tt, Virginia.
UlyMis S. Grant, of Ohio.
Adjutant General, Lorenzo Thomas, Dela
ware. Judge Advocate General, Joseph Holt, D. C
Quartermaster General, Montgomery C Meigs,
of IVnnsy vania.
Iorlh Carolina
CHANGE OF
Railroad.
TIME.
On ami after Sunday. August 13th, 18C5, Trains
-will run until further orders as follows :
MAIL TRAIN Goixg West.
Leave Ualeijjh at 7.40 P
4 (Jrcenshoro 2 17 A
' Salisbury 6 45
. M.
. M.
Arrive
at Charlotte 10.10
Going "East.
Leave
Charlotte- at 3.00
P. M.
" t Salisbury '-'S
" Greensboro 10.15
Arrive at Uaieirh 4 30
A.-M. .
ACCOMODATION TRAIN Going West.
I.e;i e
Raleigh at
0.00
1250
5 00
3.20
5 25
9.00
1 e5
7.30
A. M.
P. M.
41 Greeiioboro
4 fSalisbtiry
Arrive at Charlotte
Going
Leave Charlotte at
4 Salisbury "
4 Greensboro
Arrive at Il.lei?h
A. M.
P. M.
it
Mail Train connects East and West with the Ra
leigh and Gaston Tiain for Peter.-bu rr and the
NoiMh, .and with the U. S. Hilary Raihond for
Goldsboro, Nowbern, ilorehead Ciy and Wilming
ton. The Freight Tiain leaves PaUirh at 11 A.M.,
'"hiflotte at 6 A. M . stopping nt Company Shops
over niht.
The Mail Train onlv will ma on Sunday.
Poc-t-ncrnV- n.i nnMhed to procure lickets oerore
entering the Trains,
as additional fare will be col-
iected.
Aug 1
E. WILKES,
Eng. k' Supt.
; ?45.
tf
NEW BOOK
TO BP; OPENED IN A
STORE,
FEW DAYS
IN
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
School Rooks, such as Webster's Spellers, Web-
t-te
A!
3 Ui. UUIIil 1 ll-S, IM1IC SOtllV! v. .... w. - . -
i . : . . . ....: nt. .. ; ..f Arithmclii'S n nn
oras.
Uuiiiou'
series of Classics, Mitchell s
Ci..r.i., ir I V i ne S spr!Pr Ol uPO!!iaPulC3, .11 U -
wu!!V's Readers, c Ac.
.'V ikv" sf-rips of North Carolina School
Br-oks, such as Spellers, Readers, Arithmetics and j
M i s c klla neotji Books, comprising the 'most re-ct-nt
und popular publicati ins.
.Stationkky, all kinds and best quality, such as
papr, copy-books, Arnold s ink, slates, &c.
.Sh:-.i:t Mcsie, embracing best Instruction Books
fji instrumental aud vocal loyic, popular Ballads
and Operas.
Schools sending I.srge orders will be supplied at
a liberal discount. Send in vonr orders to
C. W. DOWNING & CO.,
Aug 14, 18G5. 3m Charlotte, N. Cv
KEW ST0UE and KEW GOODS
S Duor frum Springs corner, Trgon Street.
Th subscriber has just opened a large assortment
of GROCERIES, HARDWARE, CROCKERY, and
Family Sa; plies generally, which he will sell low
for cash, at wholesale or retail
BAGGING and ROPE iust received and for pale, i
J. M. SANDERS & CO.
Angust 1, 1865 tf
For Sale,
At Dr. Scarr's Drugstore, a fcf Bottles of Dr.
Poland's TONIO BITTERS.
Augl, 165.
1
T. H. BREM,.
L.t 2al3 Old. Stand,
With a general stock of GOODS, at wholesale and
retail, for CASH.
I am permanently settled as a Merchant in Char
lotte, and will sell Goods a? CHEAP as ths
CHEAPEST. Come and see my Goods.
T. II. BREM.
XWf are in the employment of T. H. Brem,
and respectfully ask our old friends to call and see
uj before buying elsewhere.
BROWN,
W. E. STITT.
August 23, 1865.
SPECIAL AOTICK.
We have placed in the hands of "Mr. Samuel P.
Alexander, for collection, all the Notes and Accounts
of Brown, Tate & Co ; Brown & Slitt, and Brown,
Stitt & Co. All persons indebted to either of the
above named firms are requested to call and make
payment to Mr. Alexander while they can do so.
J. L. BROWN,
J. M. TATE,
W. E. STITT.
August 28, 1865. Impd
" RLACKSHITIlIftG.
The undersijrned takes pleasure in informing the
citizens of Charlotte and the public generally, that
he has removed his Shops to the house below the
Mint, wh-re he is prepared to execute all work in
bis line with neatness and dispatch. Having se
cured the services of the choicest workmen he feels
confident of giving entire satisfaction.
Particular attention paid to the Shoeing of
Horses. . W. V. DUNN.
Aug. 28, 18G5. lm
WATCH-MAKING 6c JEWELRY.
Having secured the services of Mr G. D. FERGU
SON, who has bad an experience of over twenty
years in some of the largest establishments North
and South, I am prepared to attend to Walch-mak-ing
in all its varieties. Cronometors, duplex, hori
zontal, patent detached leves and every other kind
of Watch known will be promptly repaired.
Also, having associated with me in -business, Mr
D. W. SIKES, whose courtesy of manner and as
siduity to and efficiency in business in all its de
partments, justify me in hoping that with my own
revived attention to business, that my old patrons
and friends will rally beneath the expanded wings
of the time-hoiiored Eagle which soars above them
and my door.. R. W. BECK WITH.
N. B. Highest price paid for one hundred thou-.
sand pennyweights of gold dust.
Aug 28 18G5. Gai
DAVIDSON COLLEGE.
The exercises of the College and cf the Prepara
tory Department connected with it, will be returned
on the 28th of September.
. As a mcasuie necessary to the-stipporr of the In
stitution in "the existing derangement of its finances,
the Board of Trustees have suspended for twelve
months the privilege of usiog Scholarships in the
paymelit of tuition.
Tuition $20 for the Session of five months, and
Board Si 0 per month payable in advance iu specie
or its equivalent in currency or provisions.
It. is desirable that Students should bring with
them such books as they may require; also such ar
ticles of furniture for their rooms as they may be
able to transport.
For other particulars address the subscriber, to
ihe care (for the present) of Dr E Nye Hutchison,
Charlotte. J. L. KIRKPATRICK,
Aug 14, 18G3. It President.
NOTICE.
I respectfully tender my professional services in
the practice of Medicine and Surgery, to the citi
zens of Charlotte and the surrounding country.
Office over the Charlotte Bank.
ROBERT GIBBON, M. D. -
May 20, 18G5. tf
Charlotte
1? E.HAL 12 INSTITUTE.
The next Session will begin on the 1st of Septem
ber, and clo-t; on the 22d of December, 18G5.
I RMS, pnyalle, strictly, half in advance :
Board $00 : Tuition $20; Music on Piano or
Guitar 25; Singing Lessons (single) ; Singing
Lesson3 in classes S10; French and Latin, each,
10 ; Use of Piano $5.
Boarders will furnish their own towels, table
napkins and ring, one pair of sheets, two pillow or
bolster caees. tuie counterpane, a cup and saucer, a
drinking cup. and one dozen candles.
Washing a separate charge at the Laundress'
pfi.-es.
Trovisions will be received at matket prices in
patinent for Board.
For Circular address REV. R. BURWELL,
Julv 10. 1805. 2ra. Charlotte, N. C.
8, in co lesion
FE.TI ALE-. SEJilNARlf,
LINCOLNTON, N. C.
The Fall Session,
beginning July 31, will
con-
tinne 20 weeks.
Rates ter SessioNTuition, $10 to Si 5; Piano
Lessons, $20; Board, exclusive of lights, $ 80 in
currency, or $50 in family supplies at prices of
I8G0. 'Address
REV. S. LANDER, A. M., Principal.
AusHst V, 1865. 2m.
MEDICAL CARD.
-J. G. M. RAMSEY, M. D, (heretofore of Meck
lenburg, near Knoxville, Tenn.,) offers hU Profes
sional services to the public. He may be found on
the farm of Col B W Alexander, nine miles from
Charhxte.
Difficult
cases and those of longstanding shall
receive his special attention.
Aug 7, 18U5. 8t
" 'BETDUNE'S TAILOR SHOP,
! Up Stairs in the Carson luitding, next to the
j N. C. Bank.
Particular attention given to cutting children's
clothing. Satisfaction guaranteed. Produce, taken
i in exchange for all work. A. BETIICXE.
July 24, 1SG5
! WALTON HOUSE,
j iflorgaiiton, N C.
i The undersigned, having leased the above Hotel
for a number of years, are now refitting it und puit
ine it in pood order for the accommodation of the
nubile.- Those .who wish' to visit Morcanton and
I enjoy the fresh Mountain breeze, .will find at
the
the
Walton House a jrood, comfortable Room and
best furnished table in the Stat.
. HUNT k WALTON.
' Aagust 23, ' 1 865 3m .
NOTICE. Obituary notices exceeding a few
lines ic length, areiharged advertising rates, pay
able in advance.
K. C. PUBLIC DEBT.
Treasury Department,
Ealeioh, N. C, Sept. 3, 18C5
Having completed my report as to the State
debt, to be . submitted to the Convention and
General Assembly, and being applied to almost
daily for information in rejajion to it, and the
pressure of my diversified ytluties making it im
possible to answer all . these inquiries by letter,
you will oblige me and the -public, I presume,,
by publishing the followiog brief synopsis of it:
Bonded debt contract-
ed before May 20,
18ul,
Supposed amount of
due and unpaid cou
pons on 6am e,
$11. .11 5,500 00
2 500 ooo oo
$13,tii9,3U0 CIO
Debts contracted since
May 20, 161, Bonds, $13,121,500 00
Supposed amount of
due and unpaid cou
pons cn same
Temporary loans from
Banks & individuals,
Interest due on those
loans to Oct. 1, 105,
Treasury Notes in cir
culation, 1,651,132 07
,508,423 (0
71,594 29
5,246,336 25
$20,598,985' 61
Tlje total of due cou
pons on all our State
Bunds s$l,l51,132 07.
I have not the means
of ascertaining accu
rately the amount due
on each class of bonds.
Amount of ante-war
debt, over
Amount of debt con
tracted cince May
20. 1861, over
This -$20,598,985 61
embraces the following
Bonds which should be
allowed as a" set off:
Bonds sent to Eng
land to be used as col
laterals for the sale of
our cotton bonds, w hich
were not used and will
be returned, as I am
informed, $1,500,000.
Amount of- Bonds
held, by Commission
ers of Sinking Fund,
$2,372,500.
'Bonds received in
part payment of oue
half of" the- ii learner
Ad ranee, $130,uu0.
13,619,500 00
20598,985 61
4,002,500 00
Balance,
$1U,59G,4S5 61
16,500,485 61
Total indebtedness, ex
cluding English - debt,
Resources of the State
are:
Stocks in Railroads
Bonds on Railroads &
other corporations,
$30,215,935 61"
6,51G,500 00
3,117,789 88
9,634,289 88
Balance,
$20,61,695 73
I have not yet obtained
the
requisite infor-
tnation to enable me to state the amount of our
blockade debt'in England. It is probably about
60,000.
JONATHAN WORT 13,
Public Treasurer.
Another State Kentucky has deci
ded against the constitutionality of tho legal
tender act. Judge Robertson, of the Court of
Appeals, of that State, gave au opinion, from
which the following is an extract :
"Whenever a jurist inquires wjiether a sta
tute is consistent with the Stato constitution,
be look3 into that constitution, not for a. grant,
but only for some limitation of the power Co
herent in the people's legislative organ, so far
as not fsrbidden by their organic law. .
But, as Congress derives its power from grants
by the people of pre-existing State sovereignties,
an enlightened inquirer into the constitutional
ity of any of its acts looks only to a delegation
of power by the federal constitution; for that
constitution expressly declares that all power
not delegated by it is reserved to tho States or
the people. In this class of cases, therefore, he
who tisserts. the power holds the affirmative, auJ
unlesf .he "maintains it," the controverted act
should not be enforced as law by the judiciary.
Ou the contrary, the party" affirming that a leg
islative act of a State is prohibited by the State
constitution must prove it, and unless the proof
bo clear the contested act must be admitted to
be law.' The distinctive difference between tho
two classes of cases is that, in the former, the
power must be shown to have been delegated,
but in the latter, it must appear to havo been
prohibited.
And in this case, therefore, the power to pass
the Tender act must satisfactorily appear to
have been delegated before the judiciary should
recogujze and euforcc it. .
Indicted for Treason. Brigadier General
Marcus J. Wright, and Colonel Loony, late of
the Confederate army, were arrested at Mem
phis, Tenn., by the United States Marshaled
answer an indictment for .treason iu the District
Court found in lb0:J.
The Grand Jury of the United States District
Court at Baltimore, Judge Giles presiding, have
returned indictments for treason and making
war on the United States against Bradley IV
Johnson, Henry G alias Harry Gilmor, Geo.
Freaner, John G. Howard and ThomasFitz
hugh. Johnson is indicted for levying war
against the United States at Uagerstown, Md.,
and Gettysburg, Pa. Gilmor is charged, in two toil, ingenuity and skill they are indebted for
indictments, with having burned the railroad the sumptuous viands on which they regaU their
bridge over the Gunpowder river and with as- appetites, or the 'costly habiliments in which
saulting Marcus Hook, a mail carrier at Magno- they deck their persons ! The purse proud cox
lia. Frtaner is indicted for capturing Hagers- j comb, who treads on downy carpets, does not
town, where he acted as the Confederate rro
vost Marshal Howard and Fit ah ugh are in
dicted for the piratical ceisure- of the steamer
Harriet Daford, in Chesapeake Bay. Ou nio
tinn nf tha District Attorney, all the treason
cases
were remitted to toe Circuit court lor
trial. They will thus be adjudicated before
i Chief Justice Chase
k
THE DIGHITY OF LABOR.
Extract from an Address of Hon. K. Kayner,
beore the State Agricultural Society, at
Raleigh, October 19, 1854. "'
4One of the happiest results to be produced
by these associations is the social revolution to
be effected, by the high position to which labor
is to be elevate by in-vesting it, in the public
mind, with that digrTity to which it is justly en
titled. So stubborn is the prejadice of habit,
so hard is it to efface the associations of past
history, that fur centuries manual labor has been
identified with degradation and vulgarity. Iu
the military governments that were established,
from the very necessities of the times, on the
ru,n8 ' 'he llotuan Empire, and but of which
ongioareu toe reuoui system, war was toe great
j occupation of Christendom. Out cf the Church,
mind was directed to its successful pursuits,
either for conquest jot defence. It was rfie only
passport to honor and power, the only road to
respectability. For several centuries, what are
now known as the "learned professions" occu
pied an humble position in the social sca.le.
Law, medicine, and divinity wero the targets at
which literary humor and baronial merriment
vented their jibes and sarcasms. The leech, the
attorney, and the priest were associated with
conceit, cunning, penuriousness, and the grati
fication of sensual appetites, in well stored
larders and well.fiiled cellars. Merchandise was
regarded as the calling of the ignoblcand the
avaricious. And, although in process of time,
these pursuits rose in dignity and importance;
when violence yielded to law; when, owin to a
progressive civilization, the saving of life was
regarded at more useful than destroying it; when
the dissemination of a purer faith extorted the
tribute of respect for its teachers; when the ac
quisition of wealth placed tha means of luxury
and enjoyment within the reach of iu possessors
still, mere manual labor, honest, unpretend
ing labor, agricultural and mechanical labor, has
continued to languish in obscurity the bye
word of the fashionable and the idle the scorn
of the purse proud and pretentious But, in
this respect, a new sera is beginning to dawn
upon the world. The last quarter of a century
has done more to revolutionize public seutiment
on this subject, than the eighteen centuries
preceding, since . the commencement of the
Christian sera. -The diffusion of intelligence,
the operations of commerce, and the utilitarian
tendency of the age, are beginning to reach
mankind, that labor is the source of. wealth and
prosperity; the means of individual comfort and
luxury, the basis ot national strength arid great
ness. When we reflect, that the object of our
association is to enlarge the field of operation for
labor, to secure to labor the rewards of its toil,
to stimulate it to still greaterexertk n3, and to
enable it to accomplish the greatest results, by
economising its powers, it is evident that the
effect must he to dignify, honor, and elevate
labor Itjis tho laborer, especially, that we in
vite and welcome to our brotherhood. Iu our
own country, above all others, labor must .be
destined soonest to reach its proper position
Our institutions recognize oo distinctions in in
dustrial pursuits. The road to honor, to wealth
and to power, arc open to all alike. The framers
of our institutions were true to the teaclmfgs of
a past history. Not only the soldiers who fought
our revolutionary battles, but many of their
heroic leaders were laboring men, artizans and
mechanics. Washington was a land-surveyor,
Green was a blacksmith, Wayne was a laboring
farmer, Morgan was a wagon-driver.
Our government, then, in its organic struc
ture, has done for labor all it could. It is for
voluntary association, then, to elevate labor in
the social fcale. I am pandering to no spirit of
political socialism, when I say, that I have long
thought society needed a radical relbrmatioo in
regard to the estimate placed on labor. Why
should the laboring man be excluded from the
saloons of fashion, the hospitable board of the
wealthy, the companionship of the great I
meat! merely because he is a laboring man?
Why is it that the young man w ho returns home
from College, with an education secured by the
economical pavings of an industrious father,
thinks it beneath his dignity to assist the father
iu the routine of his domestic occupations? Or
the young lady, wjiotc "accomplishments" have
been paid for by the self-denial of an indulgent
mother, thinks.it a reproach to aid that mother
in the discharge of the duties of a diligent
house wife ? It is because public opinion is all
wrong in associating labor with degradation.'
Why is this ? Labor is the first great law of
nature. Nature herself is a great workshop,
where chance, renovation, and development are
constantly going on. Inspiration tells us that
the Great Author of all things "rested from his
labors" on the seventh day. The Ittdeemer of
the world was known as the "carpenter's son"
and it is thought by moet biblical Clitics that he
worked at the same trade until he entered on hi
great ministerial mission. The great Apo.-tle of
j the Gentiles was a tent maker; and all the wis
tdom received at the feet of Gamaliel did not
make him ashamed of Lis calling. . And.-yet,
strange to say, how many are there who profess
the religion of the Saviour and his Apostles who
think it degrading to associate, ev,en around the
altar, with artisans and laborers, whose very
hands may have reared the temple in which they j
worship 7 .
How little do the eoos and daughters of ex
travagance, ot luxury ana or ease, renect, mat j
after all, it is to the mechanic, tbe artizan, the ;
i n a . I
laborer, they are indebted for the means of their
enjoyment! How seldom do they think of the
poor pittance of wages received, and the pangs
of penury and want endured by those to whose
reflect that they are the product of the loom of
the humble weaver fashioned into beauty and
softness by his industrious hand, whilst bia
children were crying around him for breajd.
Tha pav and-beartle&A fem&l voiarv of fashion.
who identifies labor with vulgarity, does not ro-
fleet that the costly gossamer-tracery of laces
and needle-work, in which she flaunts through '
the purlieus of dissipation, were m rough t in
some lonely garret by fingers attenuated with
want, in homed moments, divided betwixt the
exactions of a cruel task-master and the atten
tions upon a dying .parent on a bed of straw
This is no sketch of fancy; it is stubborn fact.
OTJB NATIONAL SECUBITIES.
Their Style and CJiaracitr.'
.. The "Seven-thirties" represent a Currency
Loan, having three years to run, then converti
ble into a Gold Interest 6 per cent Stock having
20 years to run, but with the right reserved to
the, Government of paying off the Loan, in Gold,
at any time after 5 years. The term "Seven
thirties" is derived from the rate of Interest
which these three years convertible notes bear,
to .wit: two cents per dsy on esch 5100, or for
365 days seven dollars and thirty cents on each
$100.
2. The term "Five twenties" if applied to the
6 per cent Gold bearing Bonds ot the United
States, to which twenty years half-yearly Coupons
are attached, but which may be paid off, in gold
by the Government, oo due. notice to the holders,
qt any time after fit years, in the not impro
bable event the Government should be offered
the money" oo a new loan at a cheaper rate than
0 per cent.
3. The tend "Ten-forties" is applied to the 5
per cent Gold bearing Bonds of the United
States, to which half-yearly Coupons are at
tached for forty years, but which may be paid
off in gold, on notice Co the holders, at any time
after 10 years, in the possible event, the Gov
ernment should be offered the money on a new
loan at a less rare of interest than 5 per cent. .
4 The long or unconditional 6 per cent Gold
bearing Loan, known as the 6 per cents of 18(51,
cannot be redeemed by the Government at all,
except by purchase, until after the year 1881,
making this the most desirable of all the United
States loans as a permanent investment.
5. The present outstanding totals of each of
the above loans are as follows :
1 Seven-thirties,
2 Five-twenties,
3 Ten-fyrtiep,
4 Sixes of eighty-one,
8600,000,000
506,545,900
172,770,100
281,561,400
$1,650,877,400
Total,
In sddiiion to the gold interest stocks here
classified, there is outstanding $48,868,891 of
the old funded 5 and 6 per Cents of United
States, upon which the interest is paid in gold
and the principal of which will be redeemed in
gold when dua.
6. The terms "greenbacks" and ' legal ten
der" arc convertible. All ihe greenbacks are
legal, tender; but 433,160,509 are of the ordi
nary circulation, free of interests, and $220,-.
000,000 bear simple or compound interest, pay
able on the maturity of the notes, most of them,
6 per cents, payable three years after 1864, the
interest compounded in a table on the buck t f the
note every six months. Aew York Times.
Plea of Superior Orders. Captain
Robert Lynne was recently tried before a Fed
eral Court in New Orleans for shouting a "jy
hawker," during the war. ' Two gentlemen tes
tified that Mr Lynne had been an officer under
the Confederate Government, and that ho had
the power to shoot summarily jayhawkers. The
oath of allegiance, and also the amnesty oath
taken by Captain Robert Lynne, were filed.
The affidavit of Captain Robert Lynne deposes
that in the early part of the year 1863, being
then in the paiish of Avoyelles, he received
from General Richard Taylor, department com
mander, through his.immediate military superi
or, orders to collect in camp all conscripts in
said parish; and that iu case of armed resist
ance, tbat all men so found with arms in their
hands should be executed.
After hearing counsel the court stated in sub
stance, that it bad been proved Captain Lynne J
had acted under orders ot Ins superior cmcers,
and that the Confederate Government was a
Government de facto at that timo in that Pa
lih; that to make persons amenable in the civil
courts after the war was over, for acts commit
ted during a state of war, would open so wide
tn arena for endless strife that the consequence
would be awful, and tend rather to create end
less dissensions than that state of harmony tbat
should now be cultivated; tbat acting underany
other principles, all the soldiers of General
Lee's army might be indicted individually; that
in the exchange of prisoners and other things,
the United States had recognized the Confede
rates as entitted to the rights of belligerents.
He, therefore, ordered the release of Captain
Lynne fronr all tbe charges preferred against
him.
Southern Railroads We learn from
the Edgefield (S. C-) .Advertiser that the
branches ot the South Carulina Railroad, be
tween Branchville and Johnston's Turn Out,
and f rom Orangeburg to Columbia, are under
contract, and are being rapidly pushed toward
completion. The Greeuville and Columbia
road is in running order from Greeuville to
Alston, and the remainder of it, which is not of
much length, U being rapidly put in order.
Tbe North Eastern Railroad is now running its
entire length from Charleston to Florence. The
Wilojingtoo aud Manchester road is running
from Kingsville 97 miles of its lenirtb. and will
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De in order its entire length, it is said, during
this month. Tbe Cbcraw and Darlington road
also is now running its entire length. The Col
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umbia and Hamburg road has a large force of
work-men on it, and is rapidly being pushed
forward. The Charleston and aT&nnah Rail
road is running its whole length. :
The managing director of an influential com
pany ip France, formed under, the auspices of
the French Government, engaged in developing
the resources of Freneh Guiana, South America,
has applied to the Bureau of Freedmen so know
if it is possible to obtain, in large numbers tbe
freedmen of tbe South to go to Cayenne with
their families, where they would be well fed sod .
treatcM, ana wherj the prejudice ol caste is not
so strong against them aj to this country - No
action has yet been "taken on the propoeitipn.
CONCERNING PARDONS. -
The followiog letter, addresxtji to the Gover
nor of Virginia, has been furnished for publics
tion. It explains itself: .
Attorney General's Office;)
Washington, August 27, 1805. )
Silt: I am directed, by the Attorney General
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of tho
25th instant, and to say in reply, that tf far as
bis office is concerne'd, you have his full author-
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iiy lor saying mat toe ooiy inuuence possiote to
be exerted in the matter of pardons byaoy agent
or attorney, whoever he may be, is to delay the
petition. All cases coming under the 13th ex
ception, and all petty civil ofScsr haviog jour
recommendation need nothing further. They
are approved bj the Attorney General as a mat
ter of coarse. The President declares that any
intimation that money cao assist a petitioner is
a gross insult to his whole office, from himself,
ts his humblest messenger. . '
lam sir, very repect fully,
Your obedient servant,
M. F. PLEASANTS,
Pardon Clerk.
Beat ii or J. D. Campbell Wo are deep
ly pained to record the death of Mr J. 1). Camp
bell, of tbe publishing house of Messrs. Ster
ling, Campbell & Albright, of this town, which
occurred on Wednesday evening last. Mr
Campbell has been long aud favorably known as
editor of tbe N. 0. Journal of Education,' and
as one of the authors ot the scries of popular
school-books published by the firm of which he '
was a member. He was an enterprising man,
and a useful citizen, and his death will be a se
rious loss to the community and the State.
Greensboro Patriot, 2d.
Pardons. We arc requested by Gov. llolden
to state teat pardons are in Ins cmc for tho
following persons, aud may be obtained on ap
plication : Lewis P Old, John H Stevenson, J
M Parrot t, Anthony Davis, Robert C Henry, D
A Murphy aud John S Shcpperd. lialtigh
Standard.
The following from General Sherman' late
speech at Lancaster, Ohio, fixes pretty clearly
the responsibility cf the devastation iu bu liue
of march:
"So, soldiers, when wo marched through and
conquered the country of the rebel, we Utcnnxe
owners of all they had, and 1 don't wtot you
to be troubled in your consciences for taking,
while cn our great march, the property of cou
quercd rebels They forfeited their rights to
it, and I, being agent fortho Government to
which 1 belonged, gave you authority to keep
all the quartet masters couldn't tako pvSi08ioti
of or didu't want.!'
KsF The watering places of Virginia, after
languishing for four yeats, have recently giveu
cheering and uuuji.tukalltf indications ol viuli
ty. The lmpecuuiosity of our people and tho
condition of our . lines of tuvel during ibo
months of July aud August made lhe'prptcis
of the Virginia watering places exceedingly
gloomy. Recently, however, we have becu
pleased to hear of a marked and moat eticourag
ing improvement in their prospects. During
the past fortnight many old stagers from tbe Ur
South, whose names were once 'familiar as
household words at the White Sulphur, hava
made their appearance at tbat fauioui watering
pLce, and arc busily working off tbo superfluous
bile, which they have been accumulating during
the civil war. Since ur last uottcu of the wa
tering places which are reached by the Central
railroad, the "Hot," the "Warm," the "Ihul
ug," and tbe "White Sulphur" have all becu
opened for visitors, and there are now regular,
sale and certain means of Couveyance Irow
Goshen, Millborough and Jackaou's river sta
tions, on tho Central railroad, toach of these
watering place4..
At the Rockbridge Alum Springs, and at tho
Rockbridge Baths, tbe co.upaoy is still rapidly
increasing, as advanced as the season is.
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The- Bloodhound Brigade. A St. Paul
(Minnesota) correspondent of the Chicago Tri
bune says :
"I suppose Eastern philanthropists will stand
aghast aa they read tbat the first instalment of
bloodhounds, for tbe purpose of bunting Indi
ans, if any should venture near tbe settlement,
havo reached this city. Capt.. Porter aid only
$65. They were dog cheap at tbat price. Coh
Evans, who went South for bloodhounds, has
found the Tennesse e stock exhausted, and b
now in Mississippi making purchases. Tha
"noble savago" bad better climb a tree, or retort
to some other method to leave this world, when
the dogs come around'"
GovKRKoa BaowjcLovr and tub Isaitutts.
The Memphis Bulletin contaius a bitter denun
ciation of Governor Brownlow, fur hU letter con
cerning the Israelites. The Bulletin characterizes
its style as coarse and vulgar vituperation, narrow-minded,
illiberal, unjust and uncalled fur;
containing misstatesmeats of facts and undignified
abuse and insidious attack upon liberty of con
science, and showing a worldly, ungodly ambi
tion in conspiring against the best interests of the
State, entered into to advance his own schemes of
political ambition sad power.
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The Pa tt oral Add retro f the B 'shops of tha
Methodist Episct'pal Church South -Buhops
Andrew, Paine, and Pierce, of tbe Methodist
Episcopal. Church South, met st Columbu
Georgia, on the 16tb ult, sod after full'aod
mature deliberation upon. the present condition.
of the powerful communion over which tbey
preside, published a pastoral address.
Those .who know anything of the distinguished
authors of the address need oot bo toll tbat it is
marked by wisdom, trathfulor hod obarifjb
and that while it oounseU'tbo Soatboro Metho
dists to stand Srmly by their separate eoehssiat
tioal organisation, it . isnracts cbe cwnkiasf
tbe eboroh Soaib o taprsach jpctitict, but
Christ and ilia orooiBsdaod .exhorts all mea
to bo promptly, obeerfollr, faithfully tod stead
fastly loyal to tho United State '. ,
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