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WifiSTJERN DEMOCRAT, CHAELOTTE, JS. C. t I ' f'i! r lit Ml Ml 1j 3:. sit i -5 kr I J "4, v 3 'Vi ADJOURNMENT OP CONGRESS. Closing Scenes. After a session of nearly cibt monthsCon- gress on Saturday, the 28th, adjourned until the first Monday, of December next. The ses sion has been a protracted one, but the business done amounted to little- practical value. The .closing proceedings were characterized by much confusion and excitement, but the members, "generally separated with kindly'feelings toward each other. It is difficult to tell exactly what was done aDd what was left -undone at the close. Both houses remained in session throughout the whole of Friday night. The President vetoed the bill to create a surveying district in Mon v tana. ! The bill which passed both houses, to admit the territory of Nebraska into the Union was not signed, and i9 therefore 'lost. No at tempt was made to pass the Colorado bill over the veto of the President. v All tho appropria tion bills were passed, but there was a severe ! struggle over the miscellaneous appropriation ..bill, and it was saved by only one majority. "There was strong opposition in the House to the increase of the salaries of the members, with mileage at twenty cents per mile, but the mea sure was finally pushed through, together with a general increase of tho salaries of the officers . of the House. . The salaiics of the members of the Seriate and House are increased to $5,000 a '.year and that of the Speaker to 83,000. The - bill for the equilization of bounties wJs passed as a 'Tider" to the miscellaneous appropriation .bill. -It will require an appropriation of about $75,000,000. ... . The new army bill wes passed. It provides .for fifty-four new companies to be attached to twenty seven existing battalions, and eight. new regiments, four to be of colored troops. The joiut resolution was passed to exempt the ofiiccrs and soldiers of the army from the payment of the special five per cent, income tax ; as was also the bill distributing the awards for the capture of the assassins of the late Pres ident. The award for the capture of Jefferson ,Davis was stricken out. 31r Uoutwull's resolu tions relative to Jefferson Davis' complicity in Mr Lincoln's assassination were adopted. Mr Rogers made a minority report on the subject. Senator Patterson, of Tennessee, was,-by a vote of 21 to 11, admitted to his seat. Among the bills which were" lost was the one to create a national bureau of insurance, .and the one to refund 300 to each person who was drafted twice, within one year and paid cotuiuu tation money, or who, not being liable to mili tary duty, furnished substitutes. The bill in relation to the tariff on wool, which passed the House, was laid on the table in the Senate The bill for the construction of an air-line Rail road from Washington "to New i'ork, which passed the House, was not reached by the Sen ate, and therefore goes over to the next session A Ir.rge number of nominations made by the -President were confirmed and many otheTS re jected. Resolutions complimentary to the pre siding officers of each House were adopted They made appropriate responses, and then for mally announced the close of the first session of .. the 89th Congress. Id the outset of a long editorial summing up most ably the manifold enormities perpetrated -by the late Congress, the National Intelligencer ays : . 'Th is Congress will ever be most conspicu ously infamous in the category of the worst or ganizations having governmental functions that have dishonored and shamed enlightened" so ciety Fn all the world's history. It dispersion from the Capitol to widely separated ai?d remote localities is a welcome relief to apprehensions arising from the' bodily presence of concentrated mischief, such as in the material world takes to itself the form of the 'plague that slalketh at , noon day.' " STATE NEWS. Hon. Rout." B. Gilliam. We are author ized to state that it will be impossible for this gentleman, recently selected as one of the Dele pates .from this Congressional District to the Philadelphia Convention, to attend that body, as his Fall Circuit commences in Harnett Coun ty on the 2nd Monday in August. This is . what we expected at the time, from what we' know of Judge Gilliam's indisposition to engage in public labors outside of his.official duties. Jtaleiyh Sentinel. Because he is a Judge he ought cot to have been selected. Edgecombe Crops. There is little doubt that our county, Edgecombe, will produce near ly as much cotton and corn this season as it ever did. This is due to the energy of our planters, , ,.and t-he manner in which our freedmen have fulfilled their contracts. We will have plenty of money this fall, and any quantity of fun. Tarboro' Southerner. Hon.-Thos. S. Ashe, of Anson, and.Arch. McLean, of Cumberland, have been elected dele gates from the 3d Distinct, to the Philadelphia Convention. In the 7th District, M. -Pattern of Buncombe, .and Gen. S F. Patter&ob of Caldwell, have been .selected as delegates. - LalrnovEO A'ri-LE Pealer. Mr Wesley A. ,Ooe, one of our most skilful and ingenious me chanics, has just perfected the best apple-pealer . we have ever seen. It peals the apple, cons ..and avarlers it at a rapid rate, and does the fwork well. He has applied for a patent, and is prepared to fill orders for the machine for those .?vho may need or desire them this seasoo. Greensboro Patriot. Pavidson College. A correspondent of .the North Carolina Presbyterian says that the Trustees of thie College, at the late annual jneetino', with great unanimity devised liberal ' things for the instjjutiQri over which they ha'e .been placed as guardians. The funds of th .College are in a much Letter condition than' some of its friends at one time anticipated. The Board felt that they w.oald be safe in ad ding, to the number of able and experienced Professors which they already have in the Faculty. They thereforeVappojnted a meeting on the 12th day of September next, for the pu pose of electing two additional Professor. Real Estate We observe that, in many of the leading cities aud towns of this State wheie, a short time ago, property was held at high figures, real estate has greatly declined in value and is offered for sale at rates which, a .few months ago, would have been pronounced ridiculously low: The cause of this is plain. The increase of population has not been as ra pid as was anticipated, aod ihe demand for land property has been comparatively light. , But tbe case is different here, in Raleigh: here, it seems, real estate is steadily advancing, .and many men are becoming rich merely by the" appreciation of their property. - It is said, that in certain portions of the oity, real estate has tdoubled in value within the past year. Ral eigh Progrets. . NATIONAL UNION CONVENTION. Pittsfield, Mass , July 25j 18G6. lion. O. II. Brownitig, Washington : - DeaeSir: I thank you for sendiog me a copy of the call for the National Convention, to be held in Philadelphia on the 14th day of Au gust next. In the present unhappy condition of our na tional affairs, it seems to me fit and Important that delegates of the people should come to gether from all parts of our country, to manifest, in an authentic and convincing way, the adhe sion of their constituents to the fundamental principles of our Government, and to that policy and course of action which necessarily result from them. In my judgment, the propositions contained in the call of the-Con vention are con sistent with those principles aiid that policy. The nature of our Government does not per mit the .United. States to destroy a State, or ac quire its territory by conquest. Neither does it permit the people of a State to destroy the State, or unlawfully to -affect, in any way, any one of its relations to the United States. One is as consistent with our Constitution as the other ; while.that Constitution remains operative, each is impossible. But the Government of tho United States may, and must, in the discharge of constitutional duty, subdue by arms, any number of its rebel lious citizens into quiet submission to its lawful authority. And if the officers of a State, having the actual control of its government, have dis obeyed the requirements to swear, to support the Constitution, and have abused the powers of the State by making war on the United States, this presents the case of an usurping and unlawful government cf a State, which the United States may rightfally destroy by force ; for undoubted ly, the provision of the Constitution that "the United States shall guaranteo to every State this -Union a republican form of government," must mean a republican form of government in harmony with the Constitution, and which is so organized as to be in this Union. But neither the power and duty of the Gov ernment (jf the United States to subdue by arms rebellious people in the territorial limits of one or more States, nor .its power and duty to des troy an usurping government tie facto, can pos sibly authorize the United States to destroy one of these States of the Union, or what must amount to the same thing, to acquire that ab solute right over its people and its territory which results from conquest in foreign war There are only two alternatives: One is, that in subduing rebellion the United States act rightfully within the limits of powers conferred by the Constitution; the other is, that tbey make war on the part of their own people be cause it is the will of those who control the Gov ernment for the time being to do so, and for such objects as they may choose to attain. The last 6f these alternatives has not been asserted by either department of the Government of the United States at any time, and I doubt if any considerably number of persons can be found to sanction it. But. if the first alternative be adopted, it fol lows that the Constitution which authorized the war prescribed the objects .which alone can rightfully be accomplished by it ; and those ob jects are, not the destruction of one or more States, but their preservation ; not the destruc tion of government in a State, but the restora tion 4 its government to a republican form in harmony .with the Constitution ; not the ac quisition of the territory of a State, and of that absolute control over the persons and property of its people whie-h a foreign conqueror would possess, but their submission to the Constitution and laws of the United States. But it seems to me a great and fundamental error to confound the case of the conquest of a foreign territory and people with the case of submission to a law ful and established constitutional Government, enforced through the po ers conferred oil that Government for that specific purpose. It is quite true that such a civil contest may have, and in our country has had, the propor tions of an actual war; and that humanity and public law unite in dictating the application of rules designed to mitigate its-evils and regulate the conditions upon which it should be carried on. . But these rules of "public law which concern kthe righfs and power of a'coBqueror of foreign territory, reduced by conquest to entire submis sion, have no relation to the active prosecution of war. Their operations be"in when war has ended m submission ; tbey are the laws of a state of peace, and not a state of war. To suppose that, the Government of the United States can, ina state of peace, rightfully hold and exerci.e absolute and unlimited power over a part -of its territory and people just so long,as it may .choose to do so, appears to me to be un warranted by any rules of public law, abhorrent to right reason, and inconsistent with the nature of our Government. When war has ceased, when the authority of the Constitution and laws of the United States has been . restored and established, the United States-are in possession, not under a new title," as conquerors, but under their old title, as the lawful Government of the country j and that title lus been vindicated, not by the destruction of one or jnore States, but by their preservation ; and this preservation can be worked out prac tically only by the - restoration of republican governments organized in harmony with the Constitution. The title of a conqueror is necessarily incon sistent with a republican government, which can be formed only by the people themselves, to express and execute thwr will - - j And if the preservation of the 'States within the Union was one of the objects of the war, and they can be preserved only by having r'epub- I lican governments organized in harmony with ! the Constitution, and such governments can be organized only by the people of those States, then manifestly it is'not only the right, but the constitutional duty of the people of those States, to organize juch governments ; and the Govern ment of the United States can have no rightful authority to prohibit their organization.- But this right and duty of the people of the several States can only begin when war has ceased, and the authority of the Constitution and laws of the United States have been restored and-established; and, from the nature of the case, the Government of the United States must determine when that time has come. V It is ti question of great interest, certainly, but not, I think, of great difficulty, how and by whom the Government of the United States should determine when that time has come. The qoestiqp whether tie facto governments and hostile populations have been completely gubdued by arms, aud the lawful authority of me uuueu aiares restored and established, is a military and executive question. It does not require legislative action to ascertain the neces sary facts; and, from the nature of the case, legislative action cannot change or materially aueui tueui. -n.s commanaer-in-cniei ot the nr, I T a I - . 1 - - r o ! v d, . . . . . f navy, and as the chief executive officer, ' whose constitutional duty it is to see that. the laws are faithfully efecutedr it is. the 'official duty of the President to know whether a rebel lion has been surpressed, and whether the au thority of the Constitution and laws of thejiUni ted States' has been completely restored and firmly established. . The mere organization of a republican gov ernment, in harmony with the Union, by the people of one of the existing States of the United States, requires no enabling act of Congress, and I can find no authority in the Constitution for a Ry interference by Congress to prohibit or regulate the organization of such -a government by the people of an existing State of the Uqioh. On the other hand, it is clearly necessary that the President should act, so far, at least, as to remove out of the Way military restrictions on the power of the people to assemble and do those acts which are necessary to reorganize, their government. - This, I think, he was bound -to do as soon as he became satisfied that the right time had come. After much reflection, and with no.snch par-, tiality for Executive power as would be likely to lead me astray, I have formed the opinion that the Southern States are now as rightfully, and should be as effectually, in the Union as they were before the madness of their people attempted to carry tbtm out of it; and in this opinion I believe a majority of the people of the Northern States agree. The work the people are waiting to have done this Convention may greatly help. If it. will elevate itself above sectional passions, ignore all party schemes, despise tho sordid and party scramble for offices, aud fairly represent the na tional instinct that the time now is when com plete Union of all the States is a fact which it is a crime not to accomplish, 'its aotion cannot fail to be beneficial to pur country. The passions geuerated in a great and divi ded people by long and bloody civil war are deep aud formidable. They are not co&fined to one section; tho victors as well as the van quished, are swayed by them. They connect themselves "with the purest aud tenderest sensi bilities of our nature; with our love of cout.try; with our love of those who have-laid down their lives in the contest; with the sufferings 'wtich war, in multiplied forms, always brings to the houn-s of men, and stilf more to the homes of -women, and which civil war, most of all, brings to the homes of all; and these passions are the sharp and ready tools of party spirit, of salf in terest, of perversity, and, most of all, of that fierce infatuation which finds its- best sarislac tion in hatred, and its only enjoyment in re venue. No statesmati who is acquainted with the na ture of man and the necessities of civil govern ment can contemplate such passions without fhe deepest concern, or fail to do. what he fitly iray to allay- them. Hard enough the vork .will prove to be, at the best. But a scrupulous re gard for the rights of all, and a magnanimous clemency are twice blesed; they both elevtte and soften the powerful, and they reach and 'subdue what laws aud bayonets cannot control. I believe there is now a general conviction among the people that this great and difficult work is practicable. That it will long remain so, if the present state of things continues, I have not the hardihood to trust. I look to this Convention with hope that it will do much to' help onward this instinctive desire of the people of the United'States for union and hatniQuy and peace. That it will asse'rt, strongly and clearly, those principles which are the foundations of our Government; t1iat it w ill exhibit the; con nection between their violation and the"piesent distracted condition of our country; that it will rebuke the violence "of party spirit, and espe cially of that spirit of hatred which is" as incon sistent with tlu' true love of our country as it is with the true love of our brethren; and that it will do much to convince the people of the United States that they must act soon, in the wisest way, or suffer evils which they aud their posterity will long deplore. ith great respect, I am your obedient ser vant, B. 11. CURTIS. NEWS ITEMS. Fort Monroe, July 31. Charles O'Con nor, Eq , principal counsel ofJeff. Davisar rived here rather unexpectedly this morniDg at an early hour, unaccompanied by any one, on the steamer George Leary, from Baltimore. He proceeded at once to the fortress, and has re mained there all ihiy in close consultation with his client. The precise nature of his visit is unknown, except that the recent report of the Judiciary Committee to Congress has seemed to make Mr Davis rather anxious concerning his anticipations of a release, or a speedy "ac quittal whfltried. - 4"" The wigwam for the meeting ofthe Na tional Union Convention at Philadelphia, will oe situated in iront ot Girard College, ai is being rapidly but substantially, constructed. Accommodations will bo afforded fiftean huo-. dred delegates, with committee rooms, &c , ami alout nine thousand spectators. Th place of raec'jjng can be reached by three or four Hues of passenger railroads. B& The restrictive regul;ions adopted by the Internal Revenue office, Oct. 9, 1S65, for removal .under bond, without pre payment of taxes, of taxable products within the limits of the late insurgent States,'have been rescinded by the Secretary of the Treasury. So that man ufacturers and producers of "those States will be allowed to ship their goods " under bond, with out pre-pay meut of taxes. The Fall Elections The first election this fall takes place in Kentucky, but not for membeTs 6f Congress. Vermont and Maine follow in the early part of September, with Pennsylvania, Ohio and other Western States in October, the elections ending with Maryland, New York and Massachusetts in. November. jCgy- General Francis P. Blair, Jr., has brought a suit for damages against the Missouri Demo crat, a Republican paper published at St. Louis, '. tor charging that he appropriated china and silver ware to his own use whilst with the Fed eral army irr South Carolina. He has also in stituted suit against Jaines Lindsey, of Iron county, Missouri, for publishing a letter charg. ing him with cotton s'teuliug whilst in the army. One hundred thousand dollars damages are claimed in each case.' Knox ville, Ten n., July 26. Col. Thomas A. "R. Nelson- presided over the Johnson Con vention held at Kuoxyille to-day, to appoint delegates for the East Tennessee Congressional district to the "Philadelphia Convention. He endorsed President Johnson, and denounced tbe j rump Congress as p'otting to perpetuate their 1 power by force in ase they failed in the fall ! elections. He cited Mr Raymond's .letter to prove his declaiation. . Their resolutions de-. nounced the State Legislature for adopting the Constitutional Amendment, and Congress for 1 l: . r, .k a..i. istmig w 'wn -uc ouuiu ueirru suffrage i and eofaaUty. . -b THE MINORITY BEPOET ON THE . - CASE OP MR DAVIS On Saturday, the 28tb, Mr llogers, of New Jersey, from the minority of the - Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, made a report on the and the assassination case of Jefferson Davis plot. 'The Washington Herald says : " "The report declares the charge of complicity made agaiust Mr. Davis not only absurd, but tho mere work of malice-and avarice, and claims that the testimony adduced was a chain of flimsv fabrications. And these assertions 31r I Borers bases upoto tb'e testimony of the accom- plices Conovcr and Montgomery. Mr'Rogers believes that the expositiou of, this plot so in validates a.y testimony coming through the hands of Mr Holt that it renders all belief iu the charges agaiust Davis, Claj, Tucker et al. impossible. The nature of this testimony is best show n by extracts Therefrom. " "31ay 8, 1865 Campbell's testimony. The testimony of this witness, taken by Judge Holt, was read to him in the committee room, and he was asked if it was tru.e, and he replied no, it is all faise - "Why did you make it ? - "I was informed by 31r Conover that Judge Holt had offered a reward of 8100,000 for the capture of Jefferson Davis; that he had no au thority really to do it; that now . that Jefferson Davis was taken they had not enough against him to justify rtiem in what they had done ; that Judge Holt wanted to get witnesses to prove that I'ivis. was intersted in the assassin ation of .President Lincoln, so as to justify him in paying the 100,000." Speaking of the woman that had testified in Holt's office to corroborate Conover, Campbell snys at -this examination : "Sarah Douglass is not her real name. Her name was Dunham. There was another woman sworn. Her name given was assumed. One was Conover's wife and the other his sister-itr-law. The -one that called herself jrirs. Dunham is Conover's wile. Conover's name is Charles Dunham. Conover told me that if I engaged in it it was not going to hurt anybody, that Jeff Davis would never be brought to trial, and that if this evidence got to him he would leave the country. Conover directed me to assume the name of Campbell. There was a person described by that name who was supposed to be implicated in that affair," and 1 was representing that party. He met Cono ver, in the first place, by the appointment of Sutvel. Soevel isaid 1 could make money out of it. Money was my motive. I received G2o. I received 100 from Conover and 500 from Judge Holt. I got 150 at Boston and S100 at St. Albans. I went to Canada to hunt up. a witness to swear false, who was to represent Lamar. Sucvel and Conover together arranged with me tq go to Canada. Snevel saw the writ ten evideuee I was to sw-ear to after Conover wrote it. May 21, 18C6. Joseph Snevel sworn; his riht name is William IL Roberts. 'His deposi tion before Holt read to him, and signed Joseph Snevel, he stated, was false from be.iinniog to end. Conorer wrote out the evidence, and 1 learned it by heart. I made it to make money. I received o75'frour Holt, and SiOO'jVom Con over. 1 told Conover that I was coming" on here to testify to tbe truth; that I had not had any rest nince I swore .to what I did. He said I would. .be in a worse .fax than I was now. Ihis was on Tast Saturday. He said things w settled and there would be no further trouble When the false evidence I was to swear to was read over to me by Conover, Campbell and Conover's brother-in-law (Mr Anstfn) were pre sent. Conover told me he knew what Holt would ask me, and Conover asked me the same questions. I gave this evidence before Holt. When I was wrong Conover would nod his head. Conover was present when I was sworn by Holt. When Conover would nod, I would then correct if as near as I could, Campbell, Conover and Holt present. Campbell and I rehearsed at the hotel in Washington. Conover said "I was asked if such a sum would be satisfactory ? I said it would . I cau't tell how much I received. Conover was an aent of the Government to huut up evidence." t . Conover has escaped, as already stated. Mr Rogers was kept from seeing the evidence in possession of the committee, for selection and arrangement, till 12. o'clock on Friday, the House adjourning on Saturday Mr Rogers closes his report by urging tbe speedy trial of 31 r Davis, and o-grees with the majority of the committee in" seeing na need of additional legislation to try Davis for anything, unless it be the design to try him by ex.post facto acts of Congress. EFFECTS OF FANATICISM. The Radical Riot in New Orleans Of tlie bloody work accomplished in New Orleans on Monday by tbe Radicals, the New York World snys : "Aimed and excited by the Rad ical emissaries of disorder in New Orleans, a number of misguided negroes in that city yes terday brought on a bloody collision with the people and tho police, in which several persons were killed. Those who, with the Tribune, treat the Radical. plots and preparations for a renewed civil war at the North as 'Chinese thunder,' will find it difficult," we fancy, to Salve . their con sciences with such phrases in the presence of the' sanguinary arid shocking scenes of which the. chief, city of the South has now, by the machinations of their fellow-conspirators, been made the theatre. That the law will triumph i-n New Orleans over this attempt at inaugura. ting a new St. Domingo, we do not doubt for a moment. But we should be false to our duty if we hesitated to enforce the appeal which is made by this lamentable occurrence'to the con science and the common sense of the American people against the mad and selfish policy of the Radical majority ic Congress, and of -the Radi ca' cg:tat rs thr-ughout the N.orlh and West. These men have but one theory of political ac lion. To blow upon the dying embers of sec tional hate; to inflame all the passions which statesmanship snd Christianity alike summon us to soothe and to subdue ;" and fo do these evil things, 'reckless of all the. ruin which the doing fhera must entail upon the nation, has been their persistent effort during every week and day and hour of the Congress just closed. . Murder in Newberry. We are informed that Mr Lemuel Lane, of Newberry," was most brutally murdered by some persons unknown on Friday night last, and that between six and eight thousand dollars, in specie, which, it seems, he was known to hve, taken from his person. The head of Mr. Lane, as he lay in his bed, was split dpen with an axe. Since writing the" above, the parties supposed to bave been implicated (freedmeny were over hauled near this city, and in the ' attempt to capture them; one was killed. Columbia Pat. WORK AND THRIVE. There is too much idleness in Jhis country. It is breeding vice and immorality It is filling our jails with criminals. ! the gradual increase for Crime, has been on six months. This conies of idleness : and idleness comes in a great measure of that abominable idea that a white man cannot be a gentleman and work. lie must et money, for that is-indispensable. But how? That's it. Young' men have not the disposition to work, and by .patient economy secure a basis for business operations. They must have it -now. This suggests expedients j These lead to temptation ; and temptation leads to crime, nence we nave muruers, uocse iuciia, and breaches of trut Why should a young man consider it degra ding or even undignified to work ? President Johnson purchased his present residence in East Tennessee with the proceeds of his labor as a tailor. One of the - wealthiest bankers in .New York commenced in tbe world as a gar dener, selling to the huckster the products of his own lab(r. Gen Pat. Cleburo, at one time the liead of the Arkansas bar, subsequently the ruling spirit in a powerful army, began life as a day laborer. Jaidge Reagan, .Postmaster Gen eral of the late Confederate States, was once a wood-chopper on the banks of the Mississippi. The world is full of such examples. But where ean we point to a successful man who spent his earl manhood "wailing for sometGlng to turn up r Young man ! if you would succeed, go to teork. If you cannot obtain a clerkship, take something else. You had better be rolling ove'r barrels, or plowing, or building fence, or chopping cord wood, or carrying the hod, than doing nothing. Quit depending upon your friends. Strike out for yourself. Learn at once the greatest of all lessons, that of self-reliance Have a bead,. a will, a purpose of your own. Go to work'and watch- your opportunity. The soil upon which you have been reared" never refuses a competence to those who are willing to dig. Then, if you can do no better, dig.' It will pay to dig. Nor is there anything undignified or vulgar iu it. It is honorable, if you choose to make it so. Then dig- and watch your oppor tunity. But don't stand idle and "wait for something to turn up." Atlanta Era. BOGUS DOCTORING. It would prevent much human suffering and save many a life if editors would steadily refuse to admit into their columns any medical receipe or suggestion, unless the nanje of the writer was appended to it, and better still, to exclude every prescription without it had the name of some physician of character aud eminence. Recently an item was going the round of the agricultural journals that petroleum would destroy vermin infecting cattle ; a farmer saw the article and found it 'certainly a very efficient remedy, it killed, the vermin and the cattle too. It has been before stated that a prominent citizen was advised to apply a bit of candle grease to a pimple on his child's shoulder; he did so, aud the child died in convulsions tho next day, most likely the result of some chemical change aris ing from the oontact of hot tallow with a brass candlestick. Many are carried away with "sim ple" remedies, that is, remedies composed of things with which they are familiar, and which at first sight would seem to be inert. The reme dies for cough, cojd and consumption, are in numerable, tbe combinations of ingredients are 1 hisJfcjnnjte . .fcut if the reader is observant, not one uld beTin a hundred will there be which has not opium in the form of paregoiic, laudanum, or morphia, giving water on the braiti to multitudes of chil dren and apoplexies or ruinous results to the digestive organs of adults The luL of Wash ington Irviuji was cut short by the injudicious recommenuationof a simple cough mixture by some pestiferous busybody. In any company of a dozen persons if one complains of anything from the scratch of a pin to a cancer, enough remedies will be volunteered in five minutes to kill a regiment of common men, jylvised too, with all the confidence that it is possible for ig norance to possess, for these two characteristics always exist in identical proportions; the greater the ignoiance, the greater the certainty. The man who insures a cure of anything under all circumstances, is an ignoramus or a knave. Hall's Journal of Health. It is generally believed that the remedies ad visgd by Hall's Journal of Health, kill more than they-cure. Sensible Conduct. The Darlington (S. C.) Southerner gives the fullowiug interesting piece of intelligence : Two. brothers, soldiers from this district, and married men. fell at their post of duty'io the late war.. Their wives and little children saw before them a very gloomy prospect. Since the close of the war, however, two batohelor broth ers of the heroic deceased have sacrificed the charms of "single blessed ness," to a sense of duty, and uiarried the widows In the place of suffering and despondency there is now food and protection aud contentment. These true hearted old fellows say, it was' our dutyto take care of the families of our poor brothers, aud we knew of no better way of so doing. COTTON GlSi A first rate second-band Cotton Gin 50 saws as good as new, iu fine order, is oflwed- for sale. VV. F. PIIIFER". Jnlr 23,-1966. ' . , : V Jut Keceived, A large lot of choice BACON, Liverpool SALT, -Choice Family FLOUR, COliX and Corn MEAL, Wheat and Oiits, Butter and Lard. iiAHMOXD & Mclaughlin. July 30, 1866 2t Sfsilv of IVurlli Cai-olitiu Union Co. Court ofPieat and Quarter Sessions July Term, 1866. Jaine3 S Marsh, Adm'r of Thomas Hasty, dee'd, vs. Nancy Hasty and others. Petition for settlement. It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that Nancy Haty, J -TJastj, Emeliue Hasty, Lavicy Hasty, William Hasty, James Hajty, Griffin Hasty, Marshall Hasty and Jesse Hasty,- reside beyond the limits of tbi9 State; it is ordered by the Court that , publication be made for six week? successively, no tifying said absent defendants and the. other next of : kin of said Thomas Hasty, dee'd, to be and'apjtear at th next term oe this Court to be held for the County of Union at the Court House in Monroe on the 1st Monday in October next, then and there to answer, plead or demur to this petition, or judg ment pro confesso will be taken and heard exparte as to them. - . Witness, J E Irby, Clerk of onr said Court, at office, the 1st Monday in July, A D 1866. pradv$10 J. E. IRBY", Clerk. - : ; 1 Family Flour 25 BAGS, made by .Gen. W. II - Neel frtm new WMieat." The finest article in market. H. B. WILLIAMS. . Also, twenty Bbla. good extra 'FLOUR for'sale. July 23,"l866. " H, B. W. Telegraphic Communication vith Eu- ROPE ine grandest woric ot modern times has been accomplished. : The ocean has at last been spanoed by the electric , wire, and the heart throbs of two nations may be heard to beat almost in unison. After years of trial, failure and disappointment, the gigantic undertaking, at the authors of which half the world sneered in doubt, has become a gigantie eucoeas. Civil ization has taken a step forward, and there is opened to human contemplation new avenues of usefulness and progress. That America is only eight minutes of time distant from Europe, is a thought which strikes the mind with awe." -That the communication which once required months of dangerous' voyage, can noir.be had by simply tapping a key in a carpeted parlor ; that U(.an may send his lightning messenger across the bottom of an unexplored ocean, and receive in the same hour tidings that make bit hour nlar l. an event which exeiteR a reanAnfc for science art and human energy, well oigh approaching reyerential awe. Congratulatory dispatches have passed between the Queen of England and President of the United States or. the completion of the Atlantic Cable. James E. Harvey. This gentleman, now occupying the position of Minister from th United States to Portugal, and cashiered by the radicals in Cong'ress by refusing to maka appro priation to pay his Salary, (because he sustains President Johnson's-policy) is well known as a Charleston boy a printer who aerved in th Charleston Mercury and went to, Washington to work as a ioiirnevinan rVriuttr for the Venef .. v j r ; able Duff Green. He (Harvey,) has made hit mark, and tbe author of this notice, an intimate friend, 'takes pleasure" in referring to him a& a noble boy, a true man and a faithful represent,- live8 Columbia I atrutt. . . , .. . ... .. ..; . r. MECKLENBURG 11IGII SCHOOL. The third Session of this School,' located at Steel Creek Church, will begin on Monday the 17th of August. Term per session of five months at fol lows : English Gramrner. Arithmetic, Geography, &c. $0 specie : the above, with Latio, Greek, higher.Mathemaiics, Ac, $15 specie. . Good Board can be obtained at reasonable rates. VM. N. DIUKEY, Principal. . July 30, 1806 2t aiMMOiVD & Mclaughlin Having associated themselves together, will keep constantly on hand a fine assortment of . . - -GROCERIES. at the old stand of Tujlor, McLaughlin Sc Co., Brj-ce'd Building", Trade Street. All orders received will be promptly attended to, and we will sell cheap for cash. H. B. HAMMOND. JOSEPU MCLACGHLIX. ' - July 30, 18C. tf FOSt SALE, Three prime large work Mules, Two Milch Cows, with young calves, Onrt good six-horse Wagon, in complete order, One good Buggy, nearly new, One double-barrel Shot Gun. ' Apply to S. A. HARRIS. July 30, 1866" 2t cii. Lane's School Tor Boys, CONCORD,' N. C. The second Session of this School will commtnci Monday, September 3d, 18tit The Principal will be assisted by a Gradual of the University of Virginia. For-circular apply to JAMES II. LANE, A. M., July 30, 1866 2m Principal. NOTICE TO DEBTORS. ggy All persons against whum I have claims, (some of I Hem half as old as myself) and who do not intend to- take the benefit of the Stay Law , (so- called.) will do me a favor and themselves a credit by calling on me at Wm Boyd Si Go's store, and re newing their paper, and pay ing as much as the in terest, if no more, as I am in want of the money. , ' JAS. H. CARSUX. July IC, 1866. ' tf C o-Par 8 siershis IVotice. MR. R. MACDONALD is this day (Ja)j 1st admitted a partner in the business of our House at Charlotte. N. C., which will.be continued under th firm of STENUOUSET, M ACAULA Y k CO. STENIIOUSE Si MAQAULAV. July 16, 1866. PIANO FOR SALE. I have a very good Piano which I wish to pell on, favorable terms. Any one wishing to purchase will please call and exauiiuc it. HUGH KIRKPATRICK. , July 16, 18C6 ' - 3t ivi;y ftooos At greatly 'Reduced Prices. J. L. BROWN & CO., CHARLOTTE, N. C, Have jnst received the LARGEST STOCK of all kinds of NEW GOODS tbey have ever had at any time siuco they have been iu business, aod at lower prices., a$sgf They would especially call the attention f Merchants to their very large' lock of Goods; as they are satisfied tbey are selling Goods lower than they have ever .been sold in thia market. Call toa if you want bargains. J h. BROWN .ft CO., Opposite Charlotte Hotel. July 16, 1866 4t SAUDIS. ACADEMY. J ' "nice Ajtsftcr-(.uet K vrtuf ((((Cy if j The third Sess'on of this School (for Youths) wiU commence Sep-ietntier 3rd, 1H66. - , Terms per Session of five months specie rafet t Primary Engluh' - - - $7 50 Higher. " - - 10 00 CUtssica - - - - 15 00 No deduition except in cases of. protracted sick ness. Boarding, convenient to the Academy. Joi tb families of Itev. John Hunter, Capt. John Walker, Lorenzo Hunter, Esq , and other?, at $10 per month in specitfor its equivalent in currency. - . H. C. REID, Principal. i July 16, 1?66 ' lm I-Uvaa il J. ILile, Jr., Ot FlVICITKVlLLKM. C, - , . with Koranic, Donkle, Johnston & Co, 370 BroaJvcu,.NEVi YORK, , Wholesale Dealers in Hats, Caps, Straw Goods, Fars, Parasols, Ac. , July 16, 18S6 pd - Town Ordinance. Be it ordaiQfd by the Board, that no person shall run any Wheelbarrow or Hand Cart over the side walk, tr play any game thereon, or in any other manner obstruct the free pastagti of tbe side-walks. And any person violating this ordinance shall upon conviction before, the Mayor,' be fined One Dollar for each offence, and in default of payment be im prisoned at the discretion of the Mayor. , SAM'L A, HARRIS, Mayor. Thos . W. J)bwet, Clerk. July "23, 1866. ' Corn.Tffcal. 100 Bushels bolted Cora 'MEAL, for sale by H. B. WILLIAMS, - Julj 30t 186.