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THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL. WILMINGTON, N. C AUGUST 3, 1866. The Lale Convention and fixe C11 Rorlli Stale.; In addition to the very able letter of or corres- pflv toffotice pondent, a oincu, some ofgthe arguments contained in the long, elaborate and carefully written editorial of the Old Forth State, in reply to a position taken iD the letter to a delegate to the-late Convention. We h.ive c-irefully read the article of our cotemporary, and we did so becanse from the reputation he had acquired from the authorship of the celebrated "Davidson letters" as a writer and thinker on constitutional questicus, wexpected to find thecr gnmentjn favor of the legitimacy of the Conven tion presented in its strongest form. With all due respect, however, to his ability and constitutional learning, truth compels us to declare that our able cotemporary has not produced any chaise in our views. Wo make no issue with him as to the cor rectness of his private belief as to the true theory of the st uns of the State aud Federal Govern ments. We intend simply to meet the points he rmik-s in favor o tho legitimacy of the Conven tion. lie says " Here then was the State with her Constitution a.nd laws in full force, but with no administration of her laws and no means of pet ting the machinery of the cvil government in motion." "Bat as the late State Government was not allowed to exercise the functions of gov ernment after the surrender of the Southern ar mies there wa no regular way left in which a Con vention of the people could be called, and the ad ministration of the civil-government restored. 'Yet, as it was held to be indispensable- that such a Convention- should be called, some other way had to be aud was found out." 14 The question arises whether the irregular manner in which it was called in any way affects its power." The Constitution of North Carolina provides that no Coveution of the people of the State shall be called except by the concurrence of two-thirds of the numbers of each II mse of (he General As sembly. We submit that he has not fairly stated the question, for the creation of the Convention being confessedly contrary to the Constitution and laws in force, it should be, not whether its validity was thereby affected, but whether its illegality had ever been cured. It is au ingenious attempt to shift the burden of proof, but one which cannot be sustained; for clearly, having confessed the il legality of the creation, it belongs to him to show that it has been cured, otherwise the whole fulls. "If it was a valid Convention for any purpose and the'author of the letter iu the Journal admits that it was, then it was valid to all intents and purposes as if if had been called in a regular man ner." We submit that a fallacy is patent here also, and that the proposition as stated is untrue. It may be true that if valid for any of tho purpo ses for which it teas called, it was valid for all t uch purposes, or as he himself stated elsewhere, "it was as lawful a body for all purposes rightfuly pertaining to such Convention as it could possibly have been for any such purpose." But any fur ther tl .r. this we deny the truth of the propsi tion. The point of this fallacy is apparent when it is remembered that one of the main questions at issue is whether the Convnt'on was endowed with powers for certain specific purposes only, or whether it was endowed with full powers or all purposes. "So under the English Constitution, no Par liament could be summoned $:cept by a Royal tvi-il- nn.ltir tli (rrnnt rnl " "Rn'fc file Piirl iampnt. which restored Charles II, was in fact, but a mere convention of people convened in the absence of the King from his Dominions without the sem blance of a Iioyal writ. Yet this body thus irreg ularly assembled, .continued to act as the Parlia ment of England for eighteen years, and the va lidity of its acts was never questioned in any of the English courts'. So too the Convention which declared that James II had abdicated the throne aud elected William aud Mary to fill the vacancy, was a body assembled without any of tho .formali ties required by the English Constitution. It was in fact called by the Prince of Orange himself in the abst rice of the King by a letter under his sign manual while in the exercise of a mere Provision al Government, and in that respect, it bears a Very strong analogy to the late State Convention." Both Conventions did indeed assemble without the suction of the Royal writ, and therefore are referred to in history,, as being properly Conven tions and not Parliaments. This is in itself a sig liifieaut fart. The first Convention was assem bled in 1GG0, in the name of the keepers of the liberty of England, by authority of Parliament. ' It was dissolved by the Kiug on 20th December, luGO, "in a speech full of the most gracious ex pressions," so ut it acted only about eight months instead of eighteen years, and its acts were confirmed tha next year by Stat. 13 Car. II C. 7 and C. 14, passed by a new Parliament. Bnt the second Convention is the one mainly re lied on. This too'wa? called without the sanction of a lloyal writ ; but what were the preliminary steps ? We can not do better than to give the f it rrno era rf u m t xt'iM irt c n r i o U'i II nrf Couibered as partial to William. Some rawytrs entangi d in the subtleties and forms r-S their irft bbion, coulu think of no expedient bat that the P.iuco h.mld claim the irotvu In right f conquest. iut tljja Jl(e sur0 i,eUjy destructive of the principles of ltbt rty, he only jiii:cip.e upon which hit toriiue. uulU be e&tabl shed, was prudently rej- cted ly the IMuce, wuo, h.iJui,' ui uA possessed of the od will ot the iiatuai, resOied to icave tneui tuiit ely to their owii gu.d .nee aiid dirt c ion. The Peers tuid -bishops to the liuiub.-r of uear ninety, made au addiess demrng him t summon a convention by circular letters ; to assume in .the ii. ean tiuio 'he m.iiiaKeiiK nt of public affairs. T..c Tr.nce t-eetueil btiil unwil.hig to act upon an ,at'ority which might bo deemed so iuiper.cct. lie wa di-sirus f ontaiiiii.g a more xpreus declaratiou of ihe public cou sent. A judicious expedient was fallen uu for that purpose. Ah ilie members who had i-itten iu the liouee in Commons during any parliament of t buries It., (tlie only parliament whose election whs regarded aafree) ere invited to meet t them weic added the Mayor,. A 1 d rmen and hft of the tomhiou counAl. ibis was ic gard' d as ibe. most prop! r rcj rtseieative of the people that c )Uid Le buinui'u.eii during (ho t resent emergency. Tuey unanimously voted the tame address with the lords, an 1 the Pr.nce being then supported by all the legal au th rity which coulu possibly be obtai .ed on this critical juncture, wroti circular letters to ihe coUniies and'or porati m-j of Jingland ul his orders were universally com plied with vol. h, page 3-4. Iu real revo ut ouo iho puolic voicean scarcely ever be heard, id the opinions of the citizens are at that time less a luded to thatieven m the common course of admin istration. 'Ihe present transa lions iu J-.ngland, it must be coufi ssed, are a singular exception to this observation. The new .e. tions nail ueeu carried on with .reut tran quility and tret-dom. Tne prince had ordered Vie troops to dep:jH from, all the toicus where the voters assemble!. Atu uultuary petitiou to the . two iluuses having .been rr an ited ne look car , though the petition was caicn'a ted lor his adva-utae. effectually to suppress it. He en tered into no intrigues, either with the electors or mem bers, lie kept Limsoit in total silence as if be bad been uu moo tuuitriicu m luteo iinuojtuuuB. tuiu ou inr irom forming cabals with the leaders of p-rtieshe disdained even, to bestow caresses on those whose assistance might bo useful t j him page 361, vol. vl. Macaulay, page 471, vol. n, says : ' Tho elections went on rapidly aud smoothly. There were scarcely any contests, for the mtioii had. during nre than a year, been kept in constant expectation of a parliimerit. Writs, iude d, had been tioe issued and trice recalled. Some constituent bodies had, under thoe Jrt, actually proceeded to tne choice of representatives. Tuera waa so ireely a county in which the geutrv nd yeo nunry had not, many mouths before, fixed upon candi dates, go d Protestiuts, whom n exertion mua berared vocirryin dehuce of the King aud Lord Lieutenant,-' net tUeae candidates were men eei.eraiiu a W ppjamoa. The Prince gave strict orders tlut no person in - , , ..-. oi.oatd on this occasion prac tice tln-sa u. . .uiicii Ld brought so much obloquy on the late government He especially directed that no soldiers sh"uld be suffered to appear In any town, inhere an election teas joiutj on. His admirer were able to boast, and bis enemies eem.not to have been able to deny tbat the sense of the constituerU bodies was fairly taken. Thus was called that celebrated Convention of which one of England's mast eminent judges thus speaks : The TacncT ot the throne was precedent to their meet-ing,-wi'h ut any royal summons, not a consequence. They did not assemble without a writ, And then ms ke the throne vacant, but the throne being previously 'vacant by the King's abdicat ion, they assembled without writ, as they must do if they assembled at all. Had the throne been full their met-ting voovtl not have been regtUar but as it was reall empty, Mich meeting became absolutely necessary, tnd accordinglv it is declared by htatrte William and Mary that the Convention was rer.lly tho two houses of parlia ment, notwithstanding the vin. of writs or other defects of form. How was the late Xorth Carolina Conrentypn called ? By proclamation of Andrew Jojinston, President of the United States of America, dated 29th May, 1865. W. W. Holden was appointed Provisional Governor cf tho State, whose duty it was declared to be At the earliest practicable period to prescribe eu.-h rules and regulation 8 as may be necessary aDd proper for con vfcninir a Convention coiwoced ofd.eleuaUtS to be chosen by that portion of the people of said' State who are loyal to the Luded tales and no others, tor the purpose oi aitern g. or ame dins the Constitution thereof; and with authority to extreme within limits of said State all the powers neces sary and proper to enable su h loyal people of the Mate ot North Carolina to restore said State to its- constitutional relations to the federal government, and to present such a republican form of State government tH win entitle tU8 tato to the guarantee of the United States therefor. It is further directed, That the military commander of the department, and ali olii -era and persons in the military and naval service, a i-1 at. d. assist the si td Provisional Governor in carrying into effect the proclamation, and they are enjoined to ab Htain'f ora. in any way, hinderii g, impeding or discoura ging the loyal pf'ople from the organizotwn of a State got ernmeid. as herein authorised. Immediately, therefore, Governor Holden issues Psoclamation ; It is also proper that tb.G purposes of the Federal Gov ernmei t, iu relation o the people of the State, should be made known so that the loyal may receive assurances of protection and encouragement, and tlie disloydi any there may be. may know thatfffie eye of authority is npon tb.em, Mnil that, tllHV not uo permitted witn impuin y, to resi tho law? or to disturb the peace of society. That a Conenti-n of the people of North Carolina will be held at as e rl period as practicable, No person v:ill be a carAidate for the Convention and no person iciu tote ror mrmoers to comprise u, wno snau not previom'y have fatten raid MauscriUea to the oatu pre scribed iu tho 'President's Proclamation of 29th ddaj-. Ami n rr.sji rtot well af fected fowar Is the Federal Government and not loyal there- to wiU be pernuf.ed. take so id oath and vote in said elec tion. Measures will be perfected as early as practicable, for administering tha cbove oath to such persons as may be entitled to take u&n:l for providing them with cer'Att,- c des of the same as evidence of their loyalty. The election was held in pursuance to these orders a consistent termination of a war which had been prosecuted for the avowed purpose of imposing on a people a peculiar government one too which the people had opposed in arms until every house in the land was a house of mourning, and until sheer exhaustion compelled them to desi-t. The loyal element, consisting of renegades and traitors, and a few honest Union men, being entrusted with the reconstruction of the State. The delegates thus selected met in Raleigh and constituted the Con vention. What analogy can be claimed between Conventions constituted under such different cir cumstances ? Indeed how can there bo a greater contrast ? , 4,Porrsproceedings were, in our opinion revolu tionary. But, bupposy. there had been no euch constituted authority in Rhode Island that from any cause there had been no Governor, no Legisla ture, no Clerks, Sheriffs, or other officers as was the case, here, and the Federal Government had authorizedDorr, as Pro visional Governor, to call such a Convention would not the decision of the Court have been otherwise ? Indeed we think it exceedingly doubtful whether his authority,- and that of the people who acted at his call, would ever have been questioned at all. How then can there be any question about the powers of this Convention? " sayn the Old A'orth State. The jietitia principii ii here most, palpable, for our cotempoi'ary has admitted there was 44 a State with her Constitution aud lawsiu full force," but which 44 was not allowed to exercise the functions of government" the President holding 44 that all the officers of the State government had forfeited their places by treason," which latter opinion was simply the ipse dixit of the President, for there was then as there is now, not a pretence that a single man had been convicted of treason. There were then in North Carolina n Governor, Legisla ture, Sheriffs,. &c, but who were not alio iced to exercise the functions of their offices by the very power which proposed to supplant them. The President had, and Dorr had not iho power to carry out his views. But what answer does our eotenipomry give to the supposed case which he puts ? .Any decision of the U. S. Courtpi any other Court, Supreme or Inferior ? Not at all. He simply gives his own individual private opinion, and not even that pos itively or unequivocally. He only says, 44 we think it exceedingly doubtful " whether his authority would have everloeen questioned at all. Hon con stat, because it was unquestioned that it was valid. And yet he asks as with the triumph of an ''rrisist ible conclusion, 44 How tlien can there be any ques tion about the powers of this Convention ? But he says, 44 tlie lat Convention did not de rive its powers in the slightest degree from the military authorities at whoso instance it was called through' the Provisional Governor," but 44 wholly from the people of the State," and while denying 44 that the Convention was not the Convention of the people, that the delegates were not the choice of the people," admits 44 there may be and there doubtless is some .force in this," though not enough for any serious objection. If the indisputable facts which we have present ed in regard to the history of the call for the Convention, and the qualifications required of both the electors and members thereof, do not convince every ona that it was the manifest and avowed design that only "what was called, in the parlance of the day, the loyal element, should participate- iu 4 the reconstruction of the State:" tiling thatwwe can say, can have that effect. It was openly avowed that if there were only five thousand loyal meihiti a State, that -to them be longed the exclusive right of re-construction, and the country was subjected to such a reign otk ter ror that no man dare oppose the Federal Govern ment or criticise its officials without risk of arrest and-trial before military tribunal, and to this day it is a question how far a man may safely express his honest convictions on certain questions. Gen. (j rant is still supervisor of the press. If -we car" ry ourselves back to our condition and feeling, one year ago, we can fully appseciate the asser tion that the late Convention was in point of - fact a representative of the people of the-State. We have thus far given no opinion as to the true theory upon which tiro- much vexed question can be settled, wo have simply contented ourselves with rebutting as best we could, with the time and space allowed us, the assertion that the late so-called Convention was a lawful representative of the sovereign people of North Carolina and, therefore, entitled to legislate for her neither do we intend to express any opinion of the merits of what we have further to say in this article we miena oniy to present a view that has been sug gested to ns-and to Jet it pass for what it is worth Before the surrender there. -was a &ate govern- ment de jure and de facto administered by Got. Vance and his subordinates, which was succeeded, after the surrender of our armies, by the de facto military government of Gen. Sherman and bis ' army, which in 4urn " was eucceeded by the de .facto Provisional government; immediate ly under G6v. Holden, in turn succeeded by i the de. facto Government -administered by Gover ! nor Worth, which still exists and under which we j live and pay taxes. Regarding this as a Govern- f!f wsfi f n Hon and laws and officers to determine and administer them, there would seem to be no difficulty about the teqpre, by which the incumbents hold these offices. The validity of any ordinance of the Con vention coultl then be tested without involving the question of the loyalty of the Court, before wl'h it was tried, and would depend simply upon its conformity to the recognized law "of the exist ing de facto Government, which it would clearly be the province of tlie Court as the judicial branch thereof to determine. But as we have said, we merely throw out this suggestion for what it. is worth, without having had time to examine it thoroughly to endorse or reject it. TItc New Orleans Riot. Tho recent disturbance in New Orleans, of which we have already given some facts, and still fur ther particulars are given in to-day's issue, is deeply to be deplored. It is just such a scene as the Radicals are desirous of exciting all over the South. - In speaking of our relations and duties towards the freedmen sometime since, we then said that for political success the Radicals would mortgage the blood of the negroes and make such bloody forfeitures of the same as would secure their purpose. This scene is tho first of a similar char acter they desire to inaugurate as a' set off to the Philadelphia Convention. Fearing that the ap proaching national assemblage may jeopardize their success, scenes must be enacted in the South which will furnish food for political excitement and sectional prejudice. We have in the terrible occurrences of this week in New Orleans, an evi dence of tho character of "the nieaDS intended to be used to prevent a reconstruction of. the Union. Money and blood wall be freely expended to de feat tlie President in his patriotic attempts to .re store the Government. Wo have on several occasions given our views at length in regard to the proper relations which should be maintained between the whites and blacks, and volu nteered such advice to the freed men as we thought was for theii good and thejnu tual benefit of both classes of our population. They originated from an honest .desire and pur pose to secure their welfare, for we- candidly con fess a deep sympathy for the negroes f the South ern States. Byrn and raised in the South, we have formed many and lasting attachments among that race, not only on account of faithful services ren dered, but from an honest admiration for many traits of character and feelings of gratitude shown by them. And while wo know that our edvice will be suspected and have no weight when op posed to that of their new friends, so-called, still we will from time to time, continue to give publi city to such sentiments as our dutf to them seems to require. - The success with which those men at thft South who desiro to excite collisions between our people and thv blacks and stimulate violence, have met with in New Orleans will be heralded over the North and will form an important and telling chapter iu the political tracts of the Radical par ty, and Harper, in his Journal of Civilization (?) will illustrate io:: the appreciating appetite of gap- sing thousands, the horrible persecutions, and bloody murdeia of Union men and negroes by eisrantic rebels. Wo- mav expect for the next month tho mot heatea abuse from the pen and on the hustings of disloyal and blood-thirsty rebels. Tho teHble scene has shitted from Mem phis to New Orleans, and who can tell, in the bloody programme which these men have marked out as the winning card in their political cam paign, what city is next on the list. Iu commenting on this last riot the Richmond Enquirer says that the re-asscmblage of the Lou isiana Convention of 18G1-, at this late day, was a lawless. and revolutionary proceeding, is obvious ; and the usurpation of authority was but in unison with the further wickedness that was designe.d. Such an assemblage was itself a breach of the peace. Jt -wasas if the handful of men thatmesoveral years ago in u cock-loft in Alexandria and called them selves the Convention of Virginia were to re-as- semble now in Richmond, for tlie purpose of seiziug again upon our State government. There were further aggravating and irritating circumstances. Gov. Welles, who was elocted Governor of Louisiana after the same manner in which Underwood was elected Senator of Virgin ia, and who is n- icss an offence to his .State, sided with the defunct conventiouists, and, like Under wood, once more, abuses his position to betray his people. Again : the negroes hud been prepared for participation by nightly harangues, that in flamed their faaeies and excited their passions ; and on the day when the Convention met, they paraded the streets in arrogant processions. The first assault was by a negro in procession, upon a citizen who perhaps did not yield him tho track with sufficient promptness. The main excitement, however seems, to haf e been around the Hall in which the Revolutionists met, and which was soon crowded with negroes as their support. Thus there were outrage, insult, challenge and assault, offered to the whites, and the whites responded. There was nothing strange in this result. It was what the managers expect ed and desired and contrived. . Such a collision was wanted for political purposes, by men who are indifferent to everything as compared with their own retention of power, antl who display an utter recklessness and desperation in the choice of means. War with England, nation al bankruptcy, the destruction of the negroes, the continued dissolution of the South, all these they risk or incur, as mere electioneering expedients. They would as soon, the country should be lost, as lost to them. We hope our people will tlo what they can to inaugurate methods to repressthe growth of "the alienation between the races, which has progress ed so rapidly under the late teachings ef false and in terested friends. If those who have possessed-the love of the poor negroes, were their friends they would ask, what are the negroes to-gain by hostile relations with the whites among whom they live ? They are not able . to cope with the whites, either in business or in strife. To provoker a con flict, is to invite destruction. How much better off, for example, are the negroes of New Orleans after the' fight they have had with the whites? Ther suffered far most in killed. They will scarce expect to find employers and friends among the whites as tefore. They have incurred evils from which no amount of mere force can fre tham If every negro in the land were flanked each side by Federal soldiers with muskets loaded and bay- ocetled, that would not give him employment 4.1 1. U 1. 1 .1 - . i J . ZZ,i7Jr r TTr him respected and prosperous. For " these, he, must have the good win of the xohltA' nnmmunitv. This good will is more valuable, is worth not only more in dollars, bnt more in protection, than all the rifles that Springfield can make or soldiers carry. H we could reach the freedaien, therefore, we would tell them to reject the counsels of the men who are steering their bark to ruin, and making them pay pilotage ; and to seek peace and pursuo it. To the whites we appeal to repress, to dis courage, to keep down, that hostility of races which, unknown among ns in the days of slavery, has lately made stch alarming growth.' Make great allowance for the baleful influences that mis lead the negroes, and while taking all proper pre cautions, visit your chief indignation upon the wretches who betray them. : The Federal Army. By a recent act passed at the late session of the historit Congress, "the citizens of the States lately in rebellion," wero not to be admitted into the army of the United States. We suppose, even the mp.mhprs of Concrress mentally reserved for rebels Tthat distinguished and desirable favor in case of a foreign war. We do not suppose our people will quarrel much about thismatter, even should they be excluded forever. , Most of us have had quite enough fighting, and will be content to spend the. balance of our lives in peace and qn: et. But if we are considered too disloyal -to be en rolled as soldiers under 44 the flag," or to be re presented in Congress, possibly it may be a .sub ject of congratulation that our terrible -ain has not tainted us to such a degree that our money is riot desired in the Federal Treasury. While we are actually denied representation in the Nation al Legislature and Armies, and but little interest or concern is manifested in establishing post routes (this does not pay,)' we find all the offices connec ted with the Treasury Department fille"d by offi cials collected from every nook and corner of the country. - . No. 103 of thepublic acts of Congress approved July 13, 1866, and entitled, An Act making ap propriations for the support of the Army for the J year ending the 6th of June, eighteen hundre and sixty-seven, and for other purposes, preterits some interesting information. The sum total of appropriations for the army proper is 831,063,' 791 83. The Freedmen's Bureau being .a branch of the military, increases this amount by the sum of 86,941,450, making as the grand aggregate the nice sum. of $38,008,241 83. The various items for the Bureau are set forth, as follows : The salaries of assietant aud sub assista it com miasioneis For salaries of clerk. For stationery and printing. . . .-. For quarters and fuel .-. . . ; For 1-lothinir for distribution 147,000 82 800 63.000 15,000 1,170.00 For commissary stores 3. 100,250 Pnr mn.tinl rieVftvt.mcnt 500,00(1 For transport ation 1.320,0 0 For school superintendents 21,000 Fo" repairs and rent of school houses and asy lums 5"-f00 For telegraphing 18, "no $tj.D4i 450 What proportion f these thirty-eight millions 4 4 the States lately in rebellion " will be called up on to pay, cannot now be ascertained, and when this tribute is paid, wo have performed all the military service required Of us by the Government. DMrereiiees of Time at Prominent Points. The inauguration "of submarine telegraphic communication by means of the Atlantic cable makes it interesting to enquire into the difference of time in the various cities in different parts of the world. When it is 12 o'clock high noon at New York it is fifty-five minutes and forty-two seconds after 4 (P. M.) at London ; fifty-seven minutes and twenty secouds after 6 (P. M.) at St. Petersburg ; seventeen minutes, twenty-four sec onds after 7 (P. M.) at Jerusalem; fifty-one min utes and forty-four seconds after C (P. M.) at Con stantinople ; forty minutes and thirty-two seconds after 4 (P. M.) at Madrid f thirty-one minutes and twenty seconds after 5 (P. M.) at Bremen ; thirty minutes and fifty-four seconds after 4 (P. M.) -at Dublin ; and forty-one minutes and twenty -four eeconds after 6 (P. M.) at Florence. The difference of time between tlie extreme tast and West points of the United States is three hears and fifty minutes. In the China sea, be tween Singapore and China, it is midmingth when it is noon at New York. . For the Journal. "Falls of Tak Rivek, ' July 29, 1866. Mzssra. Editors On Saturday was chronicled, at this place, tho 44 grandest, gloomiest and most peculiar" event, in the shape of a Freedmen's Pic Nic, in the annals of the Bureau. The spot selected for the festivity was the grove, on the North side of the river, known as the "'Lewis grove," from the gentleman who occupies the most locally prominent residence. The affair had been in contemplation some time, "the mana gers, freedmen, appointed, and all the arrange ments perfected a fortnight before hand. I sup pose it was designed as a partial perpetuation of the old custom slave owners had of "allowing their hands several days 44 holyday and feastiug " when the-cora was "laid by;" but with this essential difference, formerly the -slaves had several days instead of one, and the feast was furnished at the master's expense. . On the day appointed, from the time 44 The sun, in russet mantle clad, ' Walked o'er the dew ou yon high Eastern hills.? dark . clouds, in fragmentory detachments, com menced gathering, like radii to the centre, until by ten o'clock the grove seemed obscured by the sable canopy, only relieved, ever and anon, by a scintillation of light, emitted from an oval cavity, as some jovial freedmen would display the splen dor of his 44 ivory " in a 44 small smile." Several Websterian Hanes, who were invited for the pur pose, eloquently addressed the assemblage. Some of them gave very sound and wholesome ad vice to their less verbose, but probably more .in dustrious conferes, relative to husbanding their funds, avoiding the intoxicating malestrome of gambling, &c. ; but decidedly the most pertinent speech delivered .on the occasion, emanated from the leader of the orchestre, ebpny visaged who- mounted a stump and politely, informed the 44 beaux of melancholy, countenances, V that those who de sired to participate Terpsichoreanly must 44pay the piper," i. e. deplete the state of their finances to the extent of 25 cents fractional currency. A few immediately went up to their elbows in their breeches pockets, cast on the speaker a look of ineffable disdain and quietly walked off, while the extravagant majority 44 planked down the rhino," 4pitched in lemons" and all went 'merry as a mar riage bell." Dinner came off at 2 P. M., and the table bris tled with countless embrowned barbeens and epi-- cunan lempung iambs. I suppose no complaint was lodged against any member of that vasts murky conclave for failing to d ample justice to t .e savoury viands. Many of the citizens wei e in vited to partake, but I heard of none doing so Ihnner over, dancing again commenced, and proceeded in spite of several showers, that Uidnt at all abate the ardor of the "desperate dancers." About 5, J. M., the crowd began to grow 44 small by decrees anrl hponfifiwi a aa dark arrived, dark-eyes disappeared like the Rwallnwa of lac.. .: ir 7, r. r 1 . v , ica -m nue ney had homeward! n Twa? amusing to seo an atfed P. B. walk- ion, 'phuckling.to himself, stroking bin b-l- hata-; "veriieii. Bv.ocii-w"t"-,--""J ouucjovuiaiaug, craod time ! " fine pic nic 1 " &c. They certainly deserve great credit for the pro per manner in which ,they demeaned themselves ; no drunkenness or disturbance marred'the hilarity of the day, and I venture to assert that no white crowd of the same dimensions would have deport ed themselves with more decorum. I am of the imnreanion that the name of the ! place will have to be changed to "Pic Nic Falls," as this makes three in the same numoer oi monms "and when the crove has had time to become thor oughly disinfected, we may look out for another Caucassian celebrtion I . -t For the Journal. Extract from a Letter of a Friend fa Xorth Caro linian) now in Germany, -tcith Reference to the' . Witt in Europe. . It is intensely interesting both' in a military and po litical point of view, but too long a story for a letter. My sympathies are entirely with Austria it is al ways my fate to be on tho losing side. Prussia, in her arrogance, forced Austria into a position in which she was obliged to fight or be humiliated,, and Italy took advantage of Austria's moment of weakness to grasp at a province which every one wishes her (Italy) to have, but which, we do not like to see taken under such circumstances. Prus sia andtaly, too, have all the radical, revolution ary and ultra democratic.elements of Europe on their side, and I always instinctively oppose any cause which they uphold. So far from sympathi-" zing with your feelings on the subject, I love Ger many next to riiy own conntry, and my heart bleeds for the woes that the brilliant but unscru pulous policy of one man (Bismarck) has inflicted upon her. Tn point of numbers, there is (or was) little dis parity, about a million of men on each side. Austria counting fr 700,000 and her Southern German allies for 300,000 men, while Prussia and and the Northern German States count for 6U0.000 and Italy for 400,000 men. Politically', I have 'said, Austria claims all our sympathy, but our ad miration must be Accorded to Prussia for her bril liant milit ry exploits. The war had lasted but three weeks and actual hostilities b.ut ten days, when the great Empire of Austria lay prostrate. Glance at the map. Prussia' overrun within a week from the first moment Hanover, Saxony and Hesse Cassel, the only Northern German States that op posed her, advancing then in two. great divisions from Prussia, Silesia and from Saxony, thro' the mountains that border all Northern Bohemia, and behind which lay 300,000 men, the very flow er of the Austrian army, the Prussians fought for a week a series of brilliant engagements, and succeeding in routing their two armies, attacked the whole Austrian force near the fortress Konig gratz, defeated it with immense loss, (the prison ers count by tens of thousands) and diove it back into Moravia. All Bohemia is. in their hands, and there is nothing to prevent their marching upon Vienna and dictating terms of rxjace there. At thi juncture, Austria cedes Yenetia to Napol eon, he urges an armistice, and will doubtless be come the arbiter in the dispute and gain some thing for France, but not the Rhine provinces. Those he can never have until after a desperate war against united Germany. The Prussians have made almost brilliant cam paign, quite Napoleonic, accord them all credit for it, but they owe much to their needle gun, a superior breech-loading rifle which can be fired at the rate of six shots per minute and will kill at a distance of 600 to 800 yards. All Europe is now agog with this gun, and France and England are instantly at work to furnish breech loaders to all their troops. The muzzle loader is condemned henceforth and must pass away with flint locks, smooth bore cannon and other such relics of the past. So great was the execution of this Prussian rifle, that the Austrian infantry, whose strong point is the use of the bayonet, could scarceiyuse it, being unable to get to close quarters in the face of the terrific Prussian fire. The Prussian's may, indeed, thank God and their Zundnadelgewehr for their success. The perfect drill and discipline of the Prussian, army, together with their careful and constant instruction in the use of this partic ular rifle, of course, enhance its effectiveness. TI RMAO THE TABLES. Philemon Hayes and Fanny Itay had been just three weeks married. They sat at breakfast in their coozy dining-room one fine morning in summer, totally infatuated with each other. .Never such happiness as their's before ! The felicity of Adani and his lady before they made the acquaintance of the serpent, was not to be mentioned in the same breath. They kissed each other between every cup of coffee, and made a practice of embracing at least twice sometimes thrice during every meal. Just now, they were speaking of disagreements. Some friends of theirs had fallen out and refused to fall in again. . 44 We never will disagree, will we ? Phil, dear?" asked "Mrs. Fanny. 44Pisagree! will the heavens fall?" returned Phil, tragically.; - 4 I sincerely hope not. It would be decidedly disagreeable," -laughed Fanny ; 44 but if I thought we should ever quarrel, and have thoughts towards each other, I should be tempted to terminate my existence !" 4 My precious Fanny !" cried Phil, springing up and upsetting the toast ' plate on the carpet, of which he was entirely oblivous in his eagerness to get his arms around Fanny 4 4 My little foolish darling! as if we should ever be so absurd! (a kiss.) May I be drawn and quartered (another ki s) if ever Ipeak one word that shall cause a tear to fill the divine eyes of my dearest (a third expla ion) Fanny I" 44 O, how happy you make me, Phil! I shall try so hard to be just the faithful, loving wife you deserve. Now finish your breakfast, deary. The toast will be growing cold. Aud oh, Phil ! did yon .notice Mrs. Smith's horrid new bonnet last night ? I declare ! it destroyed all my pleasure in the music ! I do wish people who will wear such untastefnl bonnets would-stay at home from those delightful concerts !" 44 So do I, Fanny ! .1 noticed the ugly thing the moment we entered the hall L Blue flowers and pink ribbons, and she dark as a Crele Vf "No, my love, the flowers were green Green and blue look so much alike by gas light." 44 1 know they do. but I noticed it so particular that I'could not be deceived. Blue especially light blue looks fearfully on adarkcomplexionecl person V T ' 4 4 So itdoes, PHI, I quite ajn-ee with vou, dear. But the flowers v. f ro not blue, they were green. I saw them at Mrs. Gray's shop before they were purchased." 44 My dearest lannv, of course vou think vour- self right, my love, but I have a very good eve for color, and 1 noticed these flowers with great attention. Blue anemones with vellow centres." 44 Green hibuscus with white centres, mv dear Phil. Very pretty for a light skinned woman, but horrid for a brunette !" 44 Why, Fanny ! how absurd ! As if I could not determine a color when I studied it half the even ing!". '" 44 But it was bv cas-lisrht. mv love. It 'would look altogether different by day-light. It was such a pale green." 44 It was such a pale blue. I remember. I thought of the sky before a storm." , 44 And 1 thought of the sea. It was nearly a sea green !" 44 Why, Fannv ! ridiculous ! It was sky blue !" 44 How you do contradict me ; my 'dear Phile mon. It was a very light green." 44 And I insist it was blue !" 44 Do you mean to tell me I lie ? " " I mean to tell you you are mistaken ! " "Which amounts to the same thing ! " . "You make the applicatijn, Mrs. Hayes." Mr. Philemon Hayes ! " Fanny ! " " I say it was green, sir ! " 44 And I say.it was blue, so there I " xuu ttro a wreicn, run i a reai mean, nearness wveteli!" .nr1 Vonmr nnenon l-tonlr I-iai. 1.1a i ? --m J 1 Til -1 i . 1 . m Rri lv. man ! " and Phil, in his aaitation. unset fee, t-calding the Cat's ITack and himself at the same time. " The deuce 1 " cried he, rubbing his red finger, with his handkerchief. "I whh I'd never seen a woman ! " ' -. , ..."What's that, eir?" " Confound the women 1 They're a curso to ti,. world 1" lht -"You brute 1" cried Mrs. .Hayes, now tlior oughly incensed 44 take that!" and seizing tin', plate of muffins she took aim at Phil's head, hvt being a woman, her aim was not so accurate as j might have been, and the plate went throni-U the window smashing in the new tile of i-jt7 James Jones, who. was passing; and thi ,nn fins were scattered in wild confusion about tLi" room. . Phil. was indignant. Ho laid his hand on tho Joker. "If I did not -scorn to strike a woman" in began. 44 Ob, strike ! " exclaimed Fanny, " it will only be in peace with your other conduct. Don't ht any no ions of honor restrain j ou, because vou never had any." " Fanny, beware ! you may try me too far." "I'll go home to pa, that I will. You inhuman monster, you 1" 44 I'll be divorced from you tins very day. So there!" and the platier of han; made a journey after the muffins. Just at that moment, Phil's uncle John, u shrewd old fellow, appeared on the scene. II, surveyed the group with an anxious twinkle of the eye. 44 What's the matter, Fanny? Anything gom wrong ?" he inquired." : 44 Gone wrong ! Matter enough ! Oh, Uholt John, he's a wretch, and he set out to strike uw with a poker." 44 And she threw a plate of mtffins and the lnnn at me!" " He's a monster,' Uncle John. I'll bo divorced from him this very 'day. He's worse than savage r 44 So he is," cried Uncle John, entering warmly into the spirit of the thing. 44 So he is" stii ping off his coat 44 and I'll settle tho matter ;it once. . -You stand back, Fanny ; I'll give him such a thrashing as he'lt be likely to rememlier. Striking his wife with a poker, indeed ! I'll rec tify matters ;" and Uncle John grasped the lour,, handled feather duster and flourished it thre.-it-eningly around the head of his nephew. "There, sir, take that ! and that ! and that !" exclaimed he, bringing down the feathers on the -boulders of the amazed Phil. 44 Fanny, mv dear, I'll not leave a bone of him whole." Fanny's round blue eyes had been growing larger and larger and now her indignation bin t 44 John Hays !" screamed thi'; 44 yon'io a Ik i then, and an old meddling vagabond. Let Phil, alone ! He's my dear, dear husband, and you've no business to touch him. He's an angel! lie never intended to strike me. Be-still striking him, or you'll be sorry !" and Fanny seized the broom from behind the door and le ared to do battle. " Stand back !" cried Urele John, 44 he's a mon ster and deserves death. The man would thn at en to strike a woman ought to be hung. Fanny's eyes blazed she flew at Uncle John with the spite of a tigress, and the way the trio went round the room was vorth witnessing. Uncle John after Phil, with the duster, and Fanny after Uncle John with the broom. Phil, made a spring for the window, but tlicr was a whatnot in the way, and getting his legs en tangled in that, he brought the whole concern to the floor, ambrotypes, books, vases, rare china, aiid a hundred cherished curiosities, wero involved in direct ruin. Phil, went down with, the other 'things, Unci John stumbled over him, and Fanny only saved herself by seizing the bell-cord, which "bronchi her two servants speedily on the spot? Of course they took Phil, and Uncle for house breakers, and if Fanny's explanation had not been enforced by sundry touches cf her broomstick, the consequences might have been serious. The first moment of calm was seized "upon bv the young couple to embrace each other. 44 My angel Fanny !" 44 My precious Phil !" and then followed a sf lies of explosions like the bursting of a series of beer bottles. And Uncle John left the house during this in teresting performance, still firmly q1" the opinion that the surest way of reconciling a wife to 1 er husband is to get a third person to help her abuse him. A Remarkable Cane. The following article is indeed what the enpfiou indicates a most remarkable cose. W; conclude it must be true, from the fact that there are so many persons of known truth and veracity, who testify to the authenticity of the statement : Some time ago, a farmer living near El Passe had a daughter about ten years old. While pay ing with the cat one day, tho animal turned ami bit her on the arm. Several days passed, und th- wound on the little girl's arm healed. One day at the table she attempted to driuk water, and wa seized with convulsions, giving uninistakuUe signs of hydrophobia. Her father came to this city and procured some medicine for her from a physician. Returning home, he found his daub er lying on a lounge, evidently iu great pain, not having been able to swallow anything since htr first convulsions. As soon as she saw her father, she climbed into his arms, with the exclamation : 44 Father, I've seen Marv-." (Mary was an infant sister, who died sever:;! years before.) Her father, thinking that her mind was wander ing, attempted to quiet her but she still insisted ( that she had seen her little sister, and that Maiy had told her that if she took a teij-spoonfid f nitric acid and sweet oil, she would get v.-e.l Her lather told her to lie down, and ho would fix th'1 medicine he had got from town, she presently got up again, "exclaiming : 44 Father, Mary says I must take the acid now, if I would get well ; do give it., to me." ' On hii refusing, she again lay down on the lounge. Pre sently she got up a third time, crying : 44 Father, I must have it; Mary says I mist, and that I must have a tooth pulled. . I must 1 bled in the mouth." Her father told her to keep still. In a sh -rl time she screamed out that her tooth hurt hei After an interval of half a minute, she cried out again, -and soon ran up to her father, crying : " Mary says I must have my tooth pulled," and at the same moment the bjoth (a sound one1 dropped out on the floor. The little girl said : 44 See, father, Mary has pulled it ; now go Kf t the acid." The astonished father finally got a teapoonfnl of acid, and mixing it with sweet oil, gave it to her. Previously, as we have stated, she had been unable to swallow ; but she drank the mixture without any trouble,' and returning to the lounge, lay down, saying that all she had to do now uu to keep still. Mary said that she would get well. Her father prepared the medicine ho had re ceived from the physician, and approaching the lounge, told her that she also must take this. at first positively refused, saying that Mary said if she did it would kill her. But, on her Ut la r urging her, she replied.that if he commanded her to drink it, she would do so, but she could never forgive him, for it would kill. her. Finally, aft' much persuasion, she took tho medicine, rihe remained quiet for a few moments, and then fctaud- ing up, said : 44 1 am dying, father.; Mary says I shall soonl with her." f bne.called the neighbors around her, many whom were present to witness the extraordinary scene, and bade them all good-bye. . Kiss me mother, said she, I am dying." Turning to her father she bado him good-bye, and then added : . 44 Mary says I must forgive you before I di- 1 do forgive you. Yoa djd all for the best." . She then asked to bo laid on the lounge, ana crossing her arms in front of her, breathed lwr last in a few minutes. . The truth of this statement is vcu-hed for ty many and reliable witnesses. Our informant 1L wee saw and talked with tho father of Ihe girl, h related the circumstance to him, and said the tc&t coursed down the old man's face during the rec tal. It has driven the wife almost distracted, ani the sight of the farm and house has become dreadful tchim that he has now so!d ont ana is a ioutto remove fuither West. We bel e.e tlies? lacta can bo fully substantiated. Peoria Tranicrip:
Wilmington Journal [1844-1895] (Wilmington, N.C.)
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