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St I (Mat .TATMfiY "A JL JLJlJOj J Al jf 1 JL TERMS: $3.00 PER ANNUM. LINCOLNTON, N. C.T JULY 5, 1867. VOL. I.--N0. 23. if V ... LINCOLN COURIER. BY EDWAP.5J T. SIRlTTO. OFFICE OS SI A IS HTIiF.ET, Late Sperfi Jrvcelkry Establishment, Lincolnton, N. C. TERMS FOR PAPER tx.T THE WEEKLY COURIER will re .--iifij-lird at $3:00 vr lu.nnm, ji m L!e ir. alvar cf ; r $2.00 for v'x tnot.ths. A 1) VEIL T1S1NO TERMS. JJgT Ailvcrtififir.f-rits will tn-fnrf-d at 75 rt-r pr srparp for fWt publica tion, an J 50 cri;ts for rh fut'H qi n! in fprtin, if uot cor.trsrtf-d for. Transient adverti iuz when ter.dertd tor pubUcsi'n or a st.ort period, must be pau' fur in dvnrn MORE APPROPRIATION GALLED FOR. IIead'qrs 2d", Wj7.jtai District, Charleston S. C, June 18, 18G7 Hon. Henry IV ikon, Chief Mili tary Committee United States Senate. : My Dear Sir: It is pnbable, in view of existing circumstance?, that Congress will convene in July. It is proper, therefore, I should inform you that the appropriation of $5,00,. 000 to execute the reconstruction acts is altogether inadequate. I am informed that my estimates for April and May arc less than those of other district commanders. Indeed, the whole sum was more than absorbed by the estimate for May. For the Carolina, at least 500,000will h. required. I have applied to the Navy and Treasury departments for certain facilities, which, in view of the small apporpriation, I presumed would be granted, but my requests have not been favorable considered. I undcr Btandthat the Secretary of the Navy assigned as his reason that no aid must be expect 1 from that Depart ment in the execution of the recon struction acts of Congress. The Secretary cf the Treasury expressed bi3 desire to do all he could, but did not feel at liberty to make any dis bursements for objects not precisely within the jurisdiction of his Depart ment. It is usual, I believe, when the appropriation for an object author ized by Congress is insufficient, '.to make necessary expenditures aud trust to a deGciency, bill ;" but in the execution of these acts this course will be impracticable, inasmuch as the principal disbursements are for the services of persons who depend upon their pay for support. I have the honor to suggest for your con sideration, and of your colleagues, as well, that the interests of the pub lic service require, without delay, a further appropriation to execute the acts of Congress for the govern ment of the rebel States. Very Respectfully, D. E. Sickles, Major General Commanding - SEWARD ON NORTH CAROLINA Washington, June 25. During the President's speech at Boston, which was cou fined to thanks to the people for courtesies to him as a citi zen and Chief Magistrate, three cheers for Congress were called for from the out -skirt of the audience. The cheers were net given. During Mr. Seward's speech three cheers for North Carolina were pro posed. Mr. Seward said : You may well jrive three cheers for the State of North Carolina ; she was the first State to put forth a declaration of independence in the revolution against Great Britain ; you may well give three cheers for North Carolina ; she was the last State of the eleven who seceded, who went most reluctan tly out of the Union ; you may well give three cheers fur North Carolina, she was the first of the eleven who eeceded, to come back again to the family fireside of the Union, and to dy nothing is wanting for her to re sume her ancient, honorable and moat patriotic position in the family of fhe Republic, Dt the consent of the people cf Massachusetts. Now I- know that all that is com ing about Is comrbg about very soon. I have seen tbe earth anu the skies full of the elements of fertility of health and of vigor. And I saw in North Carolina the eotton spring up which isto supply next year the mills of Massachusetts. I have seen in New York the wheat growing that i to supply the West Indies and the Southern States. I know that na tore designs that this whole cootie nent not mere?y these thirty. six States, but that this whole continent should be sooner or later within the majric circle of the American Union. Post Masters The impression among old postmasters is, that they arc disfranchised under the Recon struction act. Such is not the fact. It was not. customary to require an otnft to sapoort the Constitution of the United States, except from offi cers of some considerable importance, and that in most of the minor cilices a simple oath for the faithful per formance of duty wa3 imposed. None of the latter class are included in the qualifications of the recon struction acts. Among these were postmasters, mail carriers and agents, and others connected with the Post Office Department, as the only oath required of them after the year 1852 and prior to July, 1802, was as fol lows : "I, , do swt ear, or affirm (as the case may be that I will faithfully perform all the duties re quired of m;, and abstain from every thing forbidden by the laws in rela tion fct the establishment of the post offices and post roads within the United Sf.tcs." See publication in 1847, of post office laws, under (he head of organization and miscelhs neous section 9. There may be, and probably are, many others in the same category, a:id it would be well for all those who held minor State or Federal offis-res- preriwis to the war, and who do not now recollect precisely the language cf the obligation taken, to ascertain whether their oath of office included au oath to suport the Con stitution of the United States, so as to dcteruiiij.er each for himself, whether the disqualification extends to him or njt. Goldsboro News. General Sickles. The distin guished officer at the head of the Second District bids fair, says the Atlanta Intelligencer, to become a most politic legislator, if not alto gether the wisest of his generation. TJie people of Charleston retire to their virtuous couches at night fond ly dreaming that on the followiug morning, they will rise with the lark to greet the purplings of the East, and will be met witha new order and they are rarely disappointed. The Code Napoleon was a right smart affair, but we are apprehensive it will be considerably dwarfed, when the Code Sickles shall be complete and make its appearance in royal oc tavo form, boun i in good calf and sheep. The tyranny exercised by this officer over the two Carolinas, who, at one period of his political life, incited the people of the South to resist unto death the enroachments of the Northern Radicals, is justly excitirg the reprobation of even Northern Republican journals. The New York Times, commenting upon the extraordinary edicts recently is, sued by this officer, says he alone of all the military governors of the South, aspires to concentrate in his own person the functions of law-giver and law-administrator, of moral guar diaa and business protector, of police man, judge, and general over the people of North and South Carolina. In a word, he has boldly reversed the proper relations of the civil and military powers, and makes the latter the ever present master instead of the ever-ready assist of civil authority. THE NORTH WEST TELLS US TO "STAND FIRMT The ablest and most indepead-sa-t paper in the State of Indiana, the Evansville Sentinel backed by all of the leading eonservative journals of the great northwest, calls upon the j South to "stand firm." The Sentinel in an editorial on the 13th Las the following. Let everybody read it : The telegraph asserts that Gov. Perry, of South Carolina, reiterates his former opinion that confiscation is preferable to Degro superiority. Gov. Perry is right, and the day will come when every man in the SovkTc&has consented to have his name registered under the infamous military recon struction bill will see his great error and mourn his act. Why notbe true to yourselves, men of the South, and let the conqueror put your race and governments down and make the Afyscan master of the situation, if he dare I Let the ''eonqueror" hand over to an ignorant and barbarous race the governments of white men, and take the responsibility ! Cau you not bear it ? Yonha;Te borne all manner of outrage for the God-given right of self-government. Why stultify yourselves and acknowledge that abolitionism is right? In the name- of God, stand firm if you would destroy your enemies, be firm ! The result of the late registry in the South is proof of the futility of all endeavors- to eome to an agreeable un derstanding with the "scavenger con queror." One reference is sufficient. At Monroe, La., as we learn from the Ouaohita Telegraph, 1,200 negroes had been registered aeainst about 100 white men the majority of the lat ter being rejected. So it is every where. In the city of New Orleans five negroes to one white man are ac cepted voters. Here is proof of the manifest intentions of the Jacobin conspirators, not odIj against liberty, but the white race. And it is duo to every son of the South to look the danger in the face the danger that he is lending himself against himself, 'to carry out the negro programme of the devilrsh minority in this- cour try. Take courage, men of the South ! Before these loudjrying sanctimi- ni&us, blood-sucking hyenas in meu's apparel can accomplish nrgro superi ority or even equality in this land, be-3-ond the power of the avenging army of Democrat to undo it, they must tri umph upon other fields other Bull's Runs, Chanccllorsvilles, Richnsonds, Gettysburgs, Vicksburgs, and seven Pines in the North ! ! ! And there are huudreds of thousands of the "Boys in Blue" who will be with us then, who did not fight for the de gradation of their country and race in the last war, and who will battle against that accomplishment now ! We say to our friends, and we would not advise them wrongly be firm ! .r This is but tbe dark hour before dawn. Let your enemies take the responsibility of breaking the power of the white race in Ameri ca A correspondent of the Anti-Slavery Standard, writing from Vir ginia with an evident understanding of the party machinery among the negroes, gives the Republican party fair warning of what is in reserve lor them. The negro vote, he says, will decide the Presidential election. The negroes understand this perfectly, and are laying their plans in accor dance with it. "There are several negroes," says the writer, "fitted for the position of Vice-President, and that race claim that the second office in the nation shall be fled by a ne gro " The correspondent fully en dorses their claim, and wishes it dis tinctly understood that it must be conceded or the negro vote will be cast against the Republican party. The party, he says, dare not refuse it, as its defeat, -without the negro vote and f.he vote of northern men who will back their claim, is certain. New York Times. WAR OF RACES The war of raess into which venal demagogues are seducing the colored people of the Fouth, presente en 3 feature, which should engage the attention of those vfhoaTCtSsa- cruelly victimized. Let not any temporary or local strength, deceive the black peopleand engage them in such a conflict; forin a very few years they will be reduced every where to a helpless minority; and placed at the mercy of men whom they are teach ing to hate them. Governor Brown well expJajjjjthis io a late speech, thtrs r 1 You should remember that as soon as this political question is settled a large nism&er f pejTe fma ethei States of the Union and other countrb t will come here, and settle among us. Nearly all who come will be white men. This will cause our race to in crease in numbers much faster than yours. Look, for instance, at some of the .North western States, where twenty-five years ago the country was a wilderness, and now the State has half a mlllron, or a mffl Joo of inhabi tants. They have not been raised there. The great mass has poured in from olhcr plac2s where the popu lation wa3 too thick and filled up the oountry and made a great State in a few years. Hut you nicst reeolleet there are very few black people among them. So our territory will be filled up after a time with a large population. You will then be great ly in the minority You can look only to the natural increase of your race, and not to increase from abroad. Doubtless you have noticed since you are free, that you are not increasing as fast as yon dsd before. You se few young children of your race. There arc causes for this that I now ieed not explain. I simply call your attention to the fact. It follows then that while a quarrel betweer us, or a wurof races, would be a great calami ty to both races, you would be most ly injured by it. Mark this and when any man, whether from the North or South, whether white or black, encourages you to quarrel with 1 as, or to make war upon us, recollect he is neither your friend nor our friend, nor the friend of the country, bat he is controlled by selfishness and has some bad object to accom plish. Augusta Chronicle. "OF TWO EVILS CHOOSE TEE LEAST." "Onslow," the correspondent of tbe St. Paul Pioneer, speaking of the Sherman bill, has the following in a late letter : General Pope said to a gentleman, the other day, that unless we adopt this bill, and that speedily, Congress would impose still hersher measures on us, and in less than twelve months we would find ourselves in thecondi tion of Teanessee aud Missouri. The gentleman replied, "that it was to avoid the condition of Tennessee and Missouri that he was opposed to the measuie ; that these States were in the Union and enjoyed the benign protection of the Federal Constitu tion, and yet were ten thousand times worse off than we were : that Ohio or Connecticut or Pennsylvania cared very little what Brownlow did in Tennessee or Fletcher in Missouri ; but they did begin to wince when Congress attempted the same tyranny in Georgia, because their turn might soon come." Said the General, "What are you goiog to do, then V The gentleman replied, "defeat the convention if possible and remain under military rule, for we would much prefer Gen Pope for our king than any such Governor as we would be compelled to elect by the provisions of the Sherman Bill." The General replied, "But, sir the country won't stand a perpetual military government;" Said the gentleman, "I am well aware of that. Congress has placed military rulers over us, aod I think we can stand it, if they can; and I for one, propose to stand it uutil they get tired of paying them. Why did Congress enact that we should go through the tarce of an eleotion, and give us the option of voting conven tion or on couvention?- Why not have prepered just such a constitu tion as they desired and designate the men in view to elect ? I can see no reason for it, except that they desire us to do by our own act, and com plete by State legislation vrhat they are not yet prepared to accom plish by a further usurpation of authority. Confecation aud blood IS what their leaders desire, amz'tkis they well know cannot be brought about until the Southern States are placed under the control of strch laasters-as Brown- low and Fletcher." The Great Prize Drawing. Wo havj feared for some weeks that the "Great P rosnntation Concert" at Baltimore, was a- stup endbus fraud upon the public; If so, we hope that summary mcastraes may bo adopted to punis as they deserve the scoundrels, connected with it. The Baltimore papers as yet know oothing of the drawing that Yas to have come off on the 17th inst. We do not be lieve that any drawing will be had, but that the parties concerned will pocket the large amount they have received. We have just learned that the Palmers are two Connect! cut Yankees who are chief managers in the affair. We took every pains as did the agents in this State, to as certai& the sound'-.icss- and reliability of the concern and supposed every thing was right, but we fear the whole thing has been a deception. Had we suspected such a thing at first, these columns would never have been open to their advertisements. The agents have been as- completely chawed as we ever knew men to be. Raleigh Sentinel.' It is stated that Senator Sherman in a recent dispatch says he will at tend Congress if business requires it. lie sees nothing yet to warrant, the eatra session. Difficulty is appre hended in gettiug two-thirds. Among those who cannot, or wili not attend are two from California, one from Connecticut, two from Ken tucky, one from Main, two from Maryland, one from Nevada, one from Ohio, two from Oregon, one from Pennsylvania, one from Rhode Island, one from Tennessee, one from West Virginia, one from Wisconsin, one from Vermont, Senator Morton of Indiana, will probably be unab e to attend. These estimates show three votes short of two-thirds, ne cessary to defeat a veto. Homesteads. A journal gives the following advice to mechanics: To secure them homes. A mechanic Jiving on rent throws away all the improvements he may make. He accumulates little or no capital around him. On the other hand, when he has a home he can call his own, everything he does counts something. All his labors cluster around one common centre. He has a home, and it is his pride and pleasure to adorn it to the best of his ability. Such advice is srund and sensible, and full of wisdom. The Homestead Act of Georgia guarantees the home stead for the use of the mechanic and his family, subject only to the me chanic's lien law. Our mutual lean associations (and we wish that they were greately multiplied) afford the mechanic an opportunity of antici pating his earnings and saving his rent. Let our mechanics, then se. cuie their own homes. They will not only avoid the harassing anxieties of rent-days, but will add vastly to the comfort and happiness of their wives and children. The .New Orleans Picayune thinks the greatest living excavator is General Sheridan, who kept boring "Wells" till he reached Flanders. Wc invite attention t tha' follow ing very liberal offer. Here is a good chance for thosti w )0 are con cerned : Salisbury !? rAmnrv Peruvian Gua ;o. Ilavfnc thoroughly tested thej I eruvian Gu anno this -season, and jecome per fectly satisUed that it 1i the best in vestment a farmer canm: ke,and tefng: anxious to promote the farmin" in terest, propose to purchase, free of charge, (for my labor.) any quantiU- oi uuanno tne farmer, may wane, and have it shipped (o; heir own ad dress, they simply pay ng. the cost in New York, and th f: sight. Thoa wishing to make this-arrangement, will deposit their mone with me bo fore the 15th of Augu;t,vatwhich time I expect to start ftartn. ' J. S. Mc( UBBIN3. Salisbury, Jane 2 .867. " An Editorial Skou. Governor , Worth, of North CarAll awas guilty of wearing a suit of w .at is called 'KJoofcderate Gray,'! during the re cent visit of President 'J jhnson to the cipitol of that State-'-t the intenso disgust of that superse viccable loyal nwin, exGoTernor II 5denr of the;' Standard. It va3 a'reat outrage, and not to be tolerated? or passed by h silence. When tbigress meets. Holden should call ft3- attention to the matter at ones, in C-der that tho proper legislation maj, be provided , for a future emergency and if that grave and rcveiend y Lesitato to act, let Gen. Sickles ta!l e the responv sibility and issue an old" s prescribing what sort of eio-Shcs tEe people shalf : wear. Evidently, tlie fool killer is needed over about Rile i.Atlan ta Intelligencer. t .., The Confederate Qtij turns out to be a suit of Reek Island Steel mixed, presented t (ov. Worth. Holden was badly 1st d. Lincoln Courier. AMI A RJpICAL. God forbid ! CalDmj any other pet name, but "as thod lovest me," call me not a radical.! Vhata tram pier upon and a Jespiseiof the Con stitution of my couaty ! a villificr and an abuuscr of the s ction of my birlh an oppressor of ny own peo-v pie an avowed enemy of my own race and color, and a wcr. shiper at tho shrine of Africa ! No," '0 not a rad i jal. Call me any thin: - else, lut for goodness sake dont call no a radical. Aecbern Journal of Ctmmerce. Celibacy Advised j. mono Epis copal Clergymen. The Church Journal, a promineat ud influen tial paper in tho Episeoal Church, advises against the mai'iago of tho clergy, and says the eel bacy of tho ministers in the CatholiJ Church is one of the practical advai tages it has over the Episcopal clmr-h. We be lieve that the editor's Lbor is lost, without he can pcrsuacle all the pret ty and lovely youug Iadii3 to go to the convent and takeilu black veil. At a medical studen 's examina tion he was asked : . 'Do wounds often heal by the first Jin eatxon ?" "Not when the patientis "ich and tho doctor poor." "When docs morti fication ensue ?" "WhiU you pop the question, and are answered no 1" General Joseph EL Johnston We are gratified to be:ble to state, oo reliable authority, t 'at General Joseph E, Johnston h s been. ap. pointed President of the Charleston, Memphis an 1 Topeka Ihilway, via Atlanta and Decatur, dir ct. Popular Movemkni In view of the fact that Stevens, Sutler, and the rost of them will o likely to have some fresh deviltry Q hand in July, the New York Excess urges that f; "The people meet too in Conven tion, and in great public meetings in town and country, to ptoc aim, in tho imperative mood, what heir will i3 and to impress upon the pestilent demagogues tho long fo gotten fact that they are the servant and cot what they are aiming tbl, the mas ters of the people," vt7,
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