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1, ' !', f X 1 1 llO'M.JiV,. .4,'4' A. t f ' h '4 "'V.-t ! t T J.: . I'VE BEEN THINKING I- ... Wht a glorious world wbm thi, V indtokittin4 their barfne ,n0,,' ' t- ' Ad mind thaif nelhbori Im. F MtiiMi,rwu Ii y 1 .' '" An wUr Fa talk . ' Of BMttcn tbt oncera as not, ... A4ott'toUieock. r t 1n thinking, tf wfd bf1n V.f f T nend oar own tflun, "Tht powlbJj oar neighbor might ' ' Cnntrtva to manure theirs. re bait enoofb t hom to mend It maybe to with lOthert ;)' ' It weald eeem trMge, If It were not. Since ell mink In d ere broth en. Ob ! woeld that we kd charity, ' ' ' For very man and waman, ForclTeoeM to the mark of those Who know "to err to human." Then let na banish jealousy Let's lilt our ftUlen brother. And aa we Journey down life's road, ., "Do good to one another." THE TAX ON 0Y8TER8. An order (No. 64) haabeen issued by Gen. Rchofield modifying the act of the Legiaia tare of April 23d,' 1867, imposing a tax on OTiterkJn the f ollowjng particulars : fhwnoir 1. In lieu of the liquid measure prescribed by this section, the measure in uJ in the Tear 1866. will be continued to be V - . . . . A 1 used. The measures neretoiore inspect e.n Muled br com re tent authority, will con tinuo to be recognised ; and the measures hereafter made, will be oi tne same capacity ha those heretofore!! use. but of such rela tire dimensions as thVchief Inspector ma; prescribe. , Bbc. 2. Non-residents may allow oysters purchased by them for sale to remain laid out in the waters of Virginia, not to exceed ; ninety days, instead of thirty days. Sec. 6. The collection of the license tax imposed .by this section shall be postponed until the first day of October next Skcs. 8 and 12. These sections shall be con strued that the tax of three cents per bushe upon oysters, (or three dollars per ton upon all oysters sold in the markets of this State, and upon all oysters carried or sent out of the State. ' The prescribed tax will be col lected from the persous carrying oysters to and ressels carrying them) shall be baid once, only once upon market in the State, or from the persons shipping oysters out of the State ; except in the case of planted oysters, upon which the tax was paid at the time of plant ing, in which case no further tax will be collected. An Important Discovert. An invention has recently been patented that promises to worka revolution in the manner of lighting all large establishments. Dr. Herzel. Leipsic, Saxsonrhas been experimenting with petroleum, with a view of generating gas from that oiL and the result is said to be the pro duction of gas which, for brilliancy, (cheap ness and facility of manufacture, will com pare favorably with any hitherto in use. - The process of making the article consists of forcing the petroleum into a retort, which is subjected to a red heat, and the gas is thus generated. The machine is simple in its op erations, and can readily be made of any size from that suitable for the lighting of private dwelling to that which would serve for the illuminating of the largest city in the world. The gas is pure and inodorous, and free from those deleterious effects upon health which are attributed to coal gap. As nearly as can at present be calculated, the cost of petroleum gas about one-third of that produced from coal. Simple Hodb of Preserving Eggs. correspondent, J." 8. Gf., of Nassau, New Providence, Bahama Islands, Bends us the following recipe for preserving eggs : "Smear with the, finger ther shell of newly laid egg, using a slight quantity of butter. This is effectual; I have tried it for years and have, for experiment, kept eggs lor more than nine months, and that in i . tropical climate, and at the end of that De riod the eggs appeared and tasted as fresh as though not more than a day old, it is a . tine qua non that the eggs when buttered will rbe perfectly fresh." Scientific American. InportantT to Apple Growers. Wc make the following extracts from a letter to the editors of the Norfolk Day Booh, giving some important information to apple grow ers. The letter was written from NewfYork, Sept 12th, and says: , The fruit is gathered in baskets winch are let down from the trees and carefully spread in the barn to dry and sweat, afterwards the largest apples are picked out and the smaller ones rejected. Uniformity in size and quality of the fruit should be carefully attended to the barrels ought to be clean and new, with ten hoops and the heads lined. In packing, here, for export, they are laid into the bar rels with the top head at the bottom and piled up so as by gently pressing in the head the apples are all made close and tight without briusing ; the bottom head is then safely lined, and upon arrival at Liverpool, .the top head is opened and the apples seen from that end. In the large fruit sales at Liverpool, two or more barrels of each lot is emptied into a large tub, and if not satisfac tory, another, and another, and so on so as to reach a fair sample. Most of the fruit for export is repacked here unless the brands are Well known. The Newtown pippin wall bring for export from $6 to f 12. -Dried apples are always saleable at 610 cents per pound; peaches 1225 cents. Small quan tities of neither green or dried fruit will do any good to ship to this point" Warlike rumors from Europe continue. At present Russia is the chief source of these reports, and that country is reported by se cret spies sent from Austria to be making ex tensive preparations for war, by collecting large armies and arming her troops with im proved weapons. Russia is disappointed at the mode, in which the map of Europe has recently been patched up, and she has a long ing for' slice of Turkish territory. ANTlETAilfrrw , 'V. I Z The historic fleldW AntietamJ tocated. in the State of Maryland,! where, herhaps as ms4y Confederates as Union soldiers lie,was thejBcene, on! Monday, the 16th inst, of a grand anniversary celebration. The tele graph announced that there were proDaDiy fourteen thousand persons present, including President, State and foreign dignitaries, mil liary omcerayami mcputnuiiuj wuicu erally of the several adjacent Steableto De mere Wlin convenient;, x uo u.cwi uum and preparations were in keeping with the spirit of the occasion, and the event of the , j- Biti'Ti -i fin.- J A-t;n day was the memorial address of Ex-Gover non Bradford, of Maryland. The address gives a sketch of the history of the battle,' 'and is written in spirit far less distasteful to the Southern people than might have been anticipated. Of one long doubtful matter, Mr. Bradford assumed! to speak with some show of confidence, and tht was the real spirit which animated the people of Maryland, notwithstanding the military rule to which they were for a time subjected, and notwithstanding the sentiment which prevailed at the South that the people of ! Maryland 'were with us heart and souL" j On that; march of Lee's into Maryland, it was expected that gallant sympathisers with the South! numbering legions, would imme diately rush into the arms of our victorious men, and swell the tide of -victory that then marked ilk course from Richmond on and was to sweep on to "Washington. Confed erate eloquence, appealing to "down trodden Marylandl" had awakened, it was thought, double the heroism that already existed there, an4 the ranks of the Confederate army contained! many a gallant son of that historic State, whose own enthusiasm in behalf o their native homes, led them to believe also that Maryland was almost "dying to be free." But at Antietam, Mr. Bradford said on Mbnday f the Marylanders at home in the time of war "How lid they respond to this opportu nit? and these eloquent appeals? A Con federate officer, who seems to have accom panied the expedition, and has since written an account of it, tells the story in a few words. Confessing to the disappointment that awaited those who expected the Mary landers to rush to arms, he tells us that on the contrary "they rushed into their houses aid slamped the doors." The "rebels," says he, "were regarded not as friends but ene nodes ; ths inhabitants were union," and the general sentiment was, "Wait, wearers of the gray, th4 patriots in blue are coming When they did come who that saw can ever forget ; what heart that even now docs not throb the quicker as it remembers the change from the dogged, moody, scowling, and stifled condition in which the presence of the Confederates had for four days kept that people tqrtnred, to the outburst of joyous, enthusiastic, exuberant, and irrepressible loyalty that rung out from cellar to the housetop as the boys in blue pressed upon their rear !"! But to Change the subject, the orator, in a tone of conciliation, asks : i- "May not imagination, as it seeks to por tray the future of this great American repub lic, without! any overstraining of its powers. see the coming time, distant it may be, but none the leas desirable or certain when her sons from every State shall seek this little hamlet for its hallowed memories of the past, and coming fidm the South as well a? North reunited in fact as well as theory, in affection as well as formality, shall stand here together as pilgrims at a common shrine, and forget ting the feuds of the past, save only the mighty powers which their results developed, mutually admit, as they appeal to the records of this fieldi that they have sprung from the same stock, are united in the same destiny, entitled to the same respect, and animated by the same heroic and patriotic impulses." And he concludes thus eloquently : "Think not for a moment, my friends, that I am about to desecrate the solemnities of such an occasion by any discussion of the parties and topics of the day. God forbid that the time should ever come or party lines be ever so drawn that a plea for the Consti tution shall be reckoned as a badge of party fealty. The! only party in whose behalf I would this day raise a voice is the party of moderation And conciliation. The only party against which I would this day warn you is made up of j those ultras of all Bides whose agitations have contributed so largely to the disasters of the past, and which, if. not ar rested, may be the forerunner of others equally deplorable in the future. Against such agitatiqns would I therefore invoke and take this an appropriate occasion of doing so the moderate, disinfected, reflect ing, and patriotic people of the country ; it was by this class, as I have already said, that the Constitution was created, and it will be by this class that it must be saved. If it still contains defects ; if it is growing obsolete, or keeps not up with the progres sive ideas of j the age, amend it by the means which its own provisions prescribe, but while it is still acknowledged as our organic law, and we daily swear to its allegiance, let it be, in all our political controversies, the umpire whose decrees shall be final. Come the peril to it whence it may, from States rights or consolidation, let me, on this anniversary of its adoption, in the name of the men who jmade it, by the memory of the men who hae died for it, upon this spot where blood has been so profusely shed in its behalf, appeal to you to preserve, protect and defend it" Civil. Officers Re-appointed bt Gen. Canbt. The; Intendant and Wardens of the town of Blackville, whose terms of office ex pired on the 10th inst, have been re-appointed by Gen. Canby, and will-continue in the exercise of their official functions as hereto fore. We think the order is an intimation thatno changes of officers will be made where the incumberJa are prompt and faithful in the discharge - of their duties. Cdihnbia ChronicU. 4 i ,?That we may do Gen, Buttlerno injustice, or that our readers may detect it if we should werecopy the material portion of his letter on Finance, given fully in our last He says: -Tyf "T " " Mv proposition isT that the Government shall offer to the country a new loan, sectuM ed bv interest in currency bonds payable at lone date, to which all .future issues of Gov- eminent loans snail ue assimnauju, u w make one class of Government securities only, instead of the nineteen different classes we have- now, and with the proceeds of sucn loan nAv n'ffonfbiffhest class of interest- Erold-beariner bonds as tney Decome uue ; ? , j not to increase, and thereby depreciate, the piirfdiev hut to render the currency ana credit of the Government more stable, and, therefore.' all "the more valuable, by reduc ing the debt by a reduction of interest and increase of taxaDie property, cnusmg um loans to be taken up in .our own country, so that we-may not be obliged to pay tribute to foreign capital, is we now do, at a rate oi interest exceeding three times what they charee their own Governments. to- To the assertion that bV this course the public creditor by five-twenty bonds is in iured: I reply that I propose to pay him when his obligation falls dHe in precisely the same currency or" money which the government has provided for every other creditor, public or private, to be paid in, and that which it is declared-uoon the back of every legal-tender note he may be paid in, the best and most valuable money which the credit of the coun try can sustain, bearing relation to-day to gold as 143 tc 100 while the money that these five twenty creditors lent the Govern ment (being the best which the then credit of the Uoverment could arrora,; stooa in re lation to gold as 200 and 285 to 100. If the Onvpmmcnt pays them a currency from 50 to 100 per cent better than they lent the Gov ernment of what have tney to compiain, save that the Government, will not tax the people to pay them a usurious share ; or, in other words, will not tax the people to enable the capitalists to make a speculation out of the war necessities oi uie uuyoiuuicuh i "History tells of no government which has naid its creditors all they loaned to it, and thus made them whole : and I doubt whether gocd faith, good concience, or equity, require this government to pay its creditors three times what it received from them, with in terest at six per cent on the treble amount Of course if any contract to do that be shown, the Jew shall have his bond, but not one drop of Christian blood." To all which, thus saith The Tribune : 1. If General Butler proposes only that a single loan (like that of British bonds) shall replace all our existing Government loans at thejrtm option of our creditors, wehave no shadow of objection. If we pay the spec lined interest on each bond till the principal falls due. and then sav to tne noiaer, "jaere ' is a new bond, which we offer you in ex "change for that you hold : if you prefer the " cash, it is ready for you" we ask and wish no more. 2. But that is plainly not what Gen. But ler lDumoses. He means to say to the Na tional creditors " Here is a new bond, where "of the interest is payable in Greenbacks " take this in exchange for your gold-bear " ing bond, take its face in greenbacks, or take nothing." And that is, in our view, Repudiation, which is a longer synonym for Rascality. 3. We always distrust the logic which is based on a falsehood. Now it is not true that our "five-twenty creditors" lent the Government the sums we owe them respec tively when " the money" paid by them for "their bonds stood in relation to gold as "200 and 285 to 100." If it were true, it would be in our view nonessential ; since "the vital Question is not, "What did we "get?" but "What did we covenant to payV If our legal tender money was temporarily de predated, that was our own fault or, if you please, our misfortune ; but it was a circuni stance over which pur creditors had no con trol whatever. But the depreciation of our Currency below the gold standard of man kind was loner five, ten, fifteen, twentv, twenty -five per cent, while we were borrow ing it by millions, and giving in return our notes to pay so many dollars, witn six per cent interest in coin. We proposed the bar gain ; specified the terms ; the public cred itors only accepted what we eagerly proffer ed. The Tribune was largely, zealously in strumental, at the request of the Government through its agents, in persuading people to let the Government have their money for those bonds. We assured them, day after day, that every one would be paid in full in coin, principal and interest. In short we deluded them basely, if Gen. Butler is now correct. Gen Butler, uttered no word of dis sent then. He now steps in to tell the debtor that he can pay his debt far more easily and cheaply than he gave his creditors to under stand when he was in urgent pursuit of that creditor's money. We cannot-reconcile this substitution with common honesty. 4. Gen. Butler wants to reduce the interest on our National debt ; so do we. Our way is to treat our creditors so justly, so fairly, that every one will wish to remain our creditor, believing ours the best security he can hold. In other words ; we would make a United States Consol equal to a British Ccisol, inter est for interest, dollar for dollar. Were it fixed as the everlasting hills, that the promise of our Government was sure and better than any other, we might soon borrow at 4 per cent, as England can, and thus reduce the interest on our entire debt below One Hun dred Millions per annum. If we try Gen. Butler's dodge, nobody will ever more choose to lend us at all. It is not enough that we prove ourselves a nation of knaves we must be arrant fools also if we enter upon the downhill road that Gen. Butler opens invit ingly before us. Base Ingratitude. An editor who occu pied a room in a hotel, not a thousand miles distant, absented himself from town for a night The house being crowded with guests, the obliging landlord put a stranger in the editor's bed. This kindness the un grateful fellow requited by scrawling upon a piece of paper, which he left on the table, the following rhymes : "I slept in an editor'i bed last nlgbi, And othera may say what they please ; I iajr there's one editor la the world Who certainly iakefe his ease. When I thought of mj humble cot away, ' ' . I eould not suppress a aln, But J thought; as I rolled in that feathery nest, Dow easily editors in." -av.v prrrr.KTfh, NEWiWAT. IRA ALDIUDOE 'TEE :NEQR0 TRA- " ' VQEDIAN.) This Ethiopian tragedian was a descendant of a line of negro princes of the Pulah tribe, whose dominions were Senegal, on the banks of the river of that name, on the west coast of Africa. - His father fled from his native country with a missionary, and visited Amer ica," living for awhile at Philadflphiai where he was educated as a minister or the feospeL He married and revisited his native country, but the fortune of war was against him, and he had to fly for his life. - After nine years vicissitude, the family ned to America, and the father resumed his profession, but died in New York, in 1840. Ira was born at Bell Air, Md., and was apprenticed to a ship car penter, learning his trade in the same yard with Molyneux, the notorious negro pugilist and prize fighter, tie was intended for the Church and was sent to Schenectady College, N. Y. After remaining thereawhile he went to the University at Glasgow, Scotland, where, after remaining eighteen months, he left and visited London, making his debut on the stage at the Royalty Theatre, in Well close Square, Whitechapel, as Othello, and was successful. But he had -previously ap peared on the amateur stagefc in Philadelphia, as Rolla. While he was playing in Dublin, Edmund Kean came to that pity, and, having seen Mr. Aldridee play, wrote him a very complimentary letter, and gave him a letter of recommendation to the manager of the Bath Theatre. At Belfast he played Othello to Mr. Charles Kean's Iago, and Groonoka to that gentleman's Aboases. During this pro vincial tour ne received a great many com plimentary letters and testimonials from people of distinction and position ; amongst them, one from tne late distinguished dra matist, Shtridan Knowles, wherein he com plimented and encouraged the "only actor of color upon the stage." After his provincial tour he was engaged to play at Convent Garden Theatre, then under the management of Mr. Laporte, and made his first appear ance at that house on April 10th, 1833, as Othello. While at Manchester he received a very complimentasy note from the great vocalist, Madame Malibran, who, in allusion to one of his impersonations, said that never in the whole course of her professional career had she witnessed a more interesting or pow erf ul performance. The accomplished Lady Wnxan Beecher, formerly Miss O NeaL com plimented him too, saying: "During my professional as well as private life, I never saw so correct a portraiture of Othello amidst the principal luminaries of my day." In 1848 he played an engagement at the Surry Theatre, .London, hnsr. In 1 852 he embarked at the head of a troupe of actors for Ger many, and in three years played in nearly all the chief towns. At Berlin his share of the proceeds of four representations amounted to 2,500 dollars. Honors, too, were showered upon him. From the late King of Prussia he received the large gold medal of Art and Science, the only other persons who had been so distinguished up to that period being the philosopherllumboldtjthecomposeropontini, and the musician Listz. He afterwards made several tours on the Continent, and two or three in Russia. In the latter country he played for thirty-one nights in the Imperial Theatre, of bt Petersburg, in 1859, twenty one of which nights were devoted to Othello. Mr. Aldridge, at various times, received many honors and testimonials. He was made a Knight of the Royal Saxon Ernistinischen House Order, and recipient of the Verdiehst Medal of the Order, in gold, presented by Duke Bernard, of Saxe-Meiningen, brother of the late Queen Adelaide, of England ; member of the Imperial and Archducal In stitution of Our Lady of the Manager; member of the Russian nof Versamlung, of Riga; honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Beaux Arts, of bt. fetersburgh, and holder of the Imperial Jubilee Medal ; Advocate of the Assembly, of Nobles, Bes sarabia, in 1882. His chef d'auvre as an actor was in the character of Othello, for which the color of his skin, setting aside his intel lectual abilities, eminently fitted him. In burlesque Mr. Aldridge was irresistible, and gained for himself, perhaps, more admirers in his humorous delineations, and by his singing of the "Possum up a gum tree,' than by his heavier efforts. Ue has appeared before nearly every crowned head in Europe. Mr. Aldridge was taken to Europe by the elder Wallack as a servant. At the time of his death, which took place August 10th, he was fulfilling an engagement in Poland. He was engaged to appear at tha Academy of Music, in this city, during the month of September. Some years ago a law procedure. affecting his domestic relations, att .acted much attention in London. His wife was a white woman, A London critic speak ing of him, says : As both a tragic and a oomic actor, Mr. Aldridge's talents are undeniable ; he possesses every mental and physical re quisite for both walks of the profession. In trage'dy he has a solemn intensity of style. bursting occasionally into a blaze of fierce invective of passionate declamation-; while the dark shades of his face become doubly sombre in their thoughtful aspect, a night like gloom is spread over them, and an expression more terrible than paler linea ments can readily assume. In farce he is exceedingly amusing, the ebony becomes polished, the coal emits sparks. His face is the faithful index of his mind ; and as there is not a darker from than his, there is not a broader grin. The ecstacy of his long shrill note in "Opossum up a gum tree" can only be equalled by the agony of his cry of despair over the body of Desdemona." Gen. Canby, who has succeetled Gen. Sick les in command of the Second Military Dis trict, is already becoming popular with the South Carolinians, and we find his adminis tration commended by the Press. Our own correspondent at Charleston writes of his ac tivity and earnestness in his labors, and des cribes him as a plain, stern and intelligent soldier, absolutely indifferent to political considerations, and intent only upon the per formance his whole duty as commander, in conformity with the requirements of the iaw It is rather singular to find that one point of commendation is that his demeanor has been singularly free from ostentation, and that he usually appears in citizen's dress. He finds a prompt and cordial social welcome from the leading citizens, even though at the same time he makes no allowance for sedition or its utterance. We are pleased to see Gen. Canby thus honorably situated in his new and difficult position. It is certainly not de sirable, or conducive to the progress of recon struction, that then should be animosity or ill will between the Southern military comman ders and tho people of their districts.. New York Times. Russia in the East. Our recent purchase of territory from Russia, it is now said, is partly to be paid for in six iron-clada, and it is a singular if act that a Frei ch newspaper of the 31st of August comments thereon, and says the iron-dads' may be used by Russia against Turkey 4n a pending war. At a Country Convention held in Salisbury on Saturday last, bj the republicans, Messrs. C. S. Moring and Allen Rose were nominated . for the approaching State Convention Missrssm! . republican bta te 2f CONTENTION. At $he Mississippi 'Republican State Con- vention in ! Jackson; on the 10th inst, majority and" minority reports were presented from the Committee on Resolutioi S. . The two reports were, discussed at some length, and the Con vention adjourned to the next morning without taking action. On assembling on the 11th the various resolutions were recom mitted to the .Committee, from whom the annexed-platform was subsequently reported. and this was unanimously adopted, amid great enthusiasm, as the platform of the Re publican party. It is as follows : Resolved. That we do cordially approve all the principles of the National Republican party. 2. That we pledge ourselves to Keep step with the National Republican party in all its progressive political reforms of the age. 3. That we heartily adopt as our own the plan laid down by Congress for the recon struction of Mississippi 4. That we will spare no pains or influence in our power to give a free education to every child in Mississippi, and the ballot to every man not disfranchised for crimes, including treason. 5. That in neither education, the ballot or other civil or political right, will we ever recognize any distinction of race or color. 6. That honest industry is in all respects honorable, and shall always be protected and encouraged. On motion 6f Rev. H. P. Jacobs,. 50,000 copies of the platform were ..ordered to be published by the State Central Committee, for general distribution. --e GENERAL ORDERS NO. 89. . Heap'qrs Second Military District j Charleston, S. C, Sept. 14, 18G7. J Paragraph two of General Order No 32, dated May 30, 1867, is modified as follow ing : All citizens assessed for taxes, and who shall have paid taxes for the current year, and who are qualified, and have been or may be duly registered as voters, are hereby duly qualified to serve as jurors. It shall be sufficient ground of challenge to the compe tency of a person drawn as a juror, that he has not been duly registered as a voter. Such right of challenge may be exercised in behalf of the people . or of the accused in al criminal proceedings, and by either party in all civil actions or proceedings. Any require ments of a property qualification for jurors in addition to the qualication herein pre scribed is hereby abrogated. The Governors of North and South Caro lina respectfully are hereby authorized, and empowered to order, if it should be necessary special terms of courts to be held for the purpose of revising and preparing jury lists and to provide for summoning and drawing jurors in accordance with the requirements of this order. By command of Brevet Major General Ed. R. S. Cnkt. Louris V. Caziare, A. ;A. A. G. Severe Sentence of a Court Martial. The sence of Capt Charles Frederick Brown, Thirty-seventh United States colored troops, who was tried before a court martial in' this city, in November last, has just been con firmed by General Grant. Captain Brown waS tried on the charges of selling the prop erty of the United States and appropriating to his own use the proceeds of the sales. He was found guilty, and sentenced to be dis honorably dismissed the service, with loss of all pay and allowances now due or hereafter to become due; to be forever disqualified to hold any office of trust or profit under the government ; to pay a fine of $2,000 and be imprisoned in Fort Macon, North Carolina, until the fine is paid ; and that the name and place of abode of the criminal and the sen tence be published in the newspapers of the States of Massachusetts and North Carolina. In approving the sentence, the Secretary of War announces that Captain Brown ceased to be an officer of the United States Army on the 31st ult. A Move in the Right Direction. It will be seen by reference to another collumn that our city fathers have ordered an election to be held on the 8th October next, for the purpose of ascertaining the sense of the qual ified voters, as the expediency of establish ing one or more public schools, for the ben efit of the children of the city. This action is authorized by an act of the last Legislature, and we are glad to see the proper steps taken, by our municipal author ities to give us free schools. There is noth ing we need so much. The schools to be es tablished, as we understand it are exclusively for the benefftof the destitute, those children whose parents arer not able to pay for their schooling. For this purpose every qualified white voter will be required to pay two dol lars. Surely none will object. Sots. Banner. The Fall Term of the Superior Court for this county, Judge Mitchell presiding closed its labors on Saturday evening last. On the criminal docket were two cases of infanti cide, one homicide, and the usual compli ment of larceny cases. A majority of the offenders " against the peace and dignity of the State " were of the colored persuasion. Since the old well-known and effectual pun ishments for crime have been abolished by military authority and no other means devised to keep rascality in awf, a fearful increase of crime has very naturally followed. The civil docket was quite large, mostly actions on old debts upon which no action was taken at this term. The legal fraternity was large represented, there being twenty-five members present. Hmderson Index, Zth. Jno. Taylor and Jim Knight, charged with murder, were convicted at the late term of Edgcombe Superior, Court and sentenced tq be hanged on the second Friday in October. An appeal, however, to the Supreme Court was prayed and granted. It is estimated that one-third of the cotton crop has been destroyed in Georgia by the continuous heavy rains. Prentice says that in his city stuffing im proves the fair as well as the fowl. When dunces call us .fools, our best retort is simply to prove them so. . ' , -r WONDERFTZ.STORY. tha folloW wonderful story is said, to haVe been taken from fhe log bcok of a yes- scj which arrived in New Yoik. In fie course of the voyage, that dreadful disease, the ship fever, broke out among the crew. One of the sailors, among the hret victims, was accompanied by his son, ft lad of fourteen years, who was strongly attached to his father, and remained with lniu Wiy ana night, and never could be persuaded to leave him for a moment - " '"" A large shark was seen ev ry day blow ing the vessel, evidently for the purpose ef devouring any one who should die and be committed to the deep. After lingering a few days the sailor died. As was the custom at sea, he was sewed up in a blanket, and for the purpose of sinking him, an old grindstone and a carpenter's axe were put in with him. The very im pressive service of the Episcopal Church was then read and the body committed to the deep. The poor boy, who had watched the pro ceedings closely, plunged in after his father, when the enormous shark swallowed them both. The second day after this dreadful scene, as the shark continued to follow the vessel (for there were others sick in the ship, one of the sailors proposed, as they had ai shark hook on board, to make an effort to take him. They fastened the hook to a long rope, and baiting it with a piece of pork, threw it into the sea, and the shark instantly swallowed it. Having thus hooked him, by rnans of a windlass they hoisted him on board. After he was dead they prepared to open him, when one of the sailors, stooping down for that purpose, suddenly paused, and after listening a few moments, declared most solemnly he heard a low guttural sound, which appeared to proceed from the shark. The sailors, after enjoying a hearty laugh at his expense, proceeded to listen for them selves, when they heard a similar sound. They then proceeded to open the shark, when the mystery was explained. It appears that the sailor was not dead, but in a trance, and his son, on making this discovery, when inside the shark, had, by means of a knife, ripped open the blanket. Having thus liberated his father, they both went to work and righted up the old grind stone the boy was turning ; the father was holding on to the old ship carpenter's axe, sharpening it for the purpose of cutting their way out of their Jonah-like prison, which occasioned the noise heard by the sailor. As it was the hottest season of the year, and very little air stirring where they were at work, they were both sweating tre mendously. COTTON SUPPLY. From the report of the Cotton Supply Association, at Manchester, England, we make an extract : To develop as much as possible, and by every means, the cotton growing capabilities of other countries than America, was the great purpose contemplated by the Associa tion when it began its labors ; and the events which had since intervened had only tended to demonstrate the wisdom and importance of its object. That object had been steadily pursued ; difficulties had been surmounted ; the sources of supply had been multiplied, and were now so numerous that, if retained and made still more prolific, the loss of any one of them, however valuable, would be of comparatively little consequence. To retain 1 them, and to" render them more and more productive, was the special aim of the Asso ciation, and to this end the efforts of the conmittee had, during the past year, been directed. Believing that the Southern States of America, in their altered condition,,would not furnish cotton so abundantly as before the war, the committee made it their first business to encourage renewed exertions to extend and improve the cultivation in other countries. An address, prepared with this object, was translated into the different lan guages where cotton i grown, and widely distributed; and the committee had learned, with much satisfaction, that fresh exertions had been made in Turkey, India, the Brazils, and elsewhere, accompanied with the more extensive use of American seed. The result had been the growth of a better quality, and cotton from Smyrna and other districts had realized in Liverpool nearly as high a price as the produce of the United States. The recent visit of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan and the Viceroy of Egypt to this country, afforded the committee the oppor tunity of bringing under the notice of these two potentates and their ministers the great importance of continuing their exertions to extend and improve the cultivation of cot ton, and the measures which it is believed would promote the object desired. Facts About the Presidents. Of the first seven Presidents of the ynited .States, four were from Virginia, two of the same namer'from Massachusetts, and one from Ten nessee. All but one were sixty-six years old on leaving office, having served two termsL and one of those who served but one term would have been sixty-six years of age at the end of another. Three of the seven died on the 4th of July, and twp of them were on the sub-committee of three that drafted the Declaration of Independence ; and these two died on the same day and year, on the anniversary of the Declaration of Indepen dence, and just half a century from the day of the Declaration. The nameB of three of the seven end in son, yet none of them trans mitted his name to a son. The initials of the names of two of the seven are the same ; the initials of two others are the same ; and and those of still two others, the same. The remaining one, who stands alone in this par- ticular, stands also alone in the love and ad miration of his countrymen and of the civil! ized world, Washington. Of the first fivt only one had a son, and that, son was also President. Neither of the Presidents who, had sons were elected for a second term." . A. T. Stewart, the Merchant Prince of New York, died in that city on the 20th. His property is valued st $70,000,000. tIncoixie Over $G,50 0,000. I TQ-JATf pSjSEPAUJ OTEK 6;O00,00O. DIVIDENDS PAID TO ASStJEED OVER $4,000,000. NUMBER OF MLIVIES IN FORCE O V E R 48, 0 0 0.5 The Connecticut iTIutual Life '''-..I INSURANCE COMPANY, Of Hartford, Gonmeotiout, Was organizcdj in 184C. Its success has not Wn equalled by cny otlier Company. It is organist-. upon the purely mutual system; it has no pro prietary or Stock Capital, and the prc-eminfut vast figures, ii that 0ieyletiote not tho enrichment of arparatioh, bet pikiiot aad coming blad ings to thousands of homes ! The Interest received by this Compan$ durin. j the past ten years has more than ! paid its losses. .?;. The Sixteen millions Dollars, Assets, all belong to, and are under control of ; its Policy holders, which now exceed 48,000, ami notwithsianding the payment of ' sixty perl cent dividend last year, and bier 1,020,000 dollars te widows and orphans there now a surplus of over 6,000,000 dollars. This Company's .Notes cannot bo "ssessed, (nor even deducted from the Policy, as Jin a Stn ' Company, in base of death,) except on. the lin.iti d endowment plan, but are canceled by anticipate! dividends., All Policies Non-Forfeitnble ty tj inetr terms. No extra charge liiada on Policy holders, cx cept only where the risk is extra hazardous. -The undersigned will take pleasure is explaining and proving any of his statements. j All person contemplating life Insurance, are requested, and will find it to their' interest, n contrast other Companies represented in thin State, with the Connecticut Mutual, pis published in the reports of the Insurance Comaiissioners of New York and Massachusetts. ; SAM'L. DOUGLAS; WAIT, - s ' General' Agfcnt N. C. Office with: P. F. PiSSCUD, Agent for Raleigh and vicinity, j jvH. 2-3i9i , i . ; , , THE ETNA LIFE INSURANCE CO 0F HARTFORD, CONN., i ' . OP A STOCK COMPANY. By the Stock Plan the full cash effect of; the Premium is jLmmediatcly secured to the Insured, the Company taking all the risk. By the pi.rclv mutual plan the full value in insurance of tlic Premium Paid is not secured to the Policy-holder, ho takes a portion of the risk himself. Examine the Plan of the Etna before Insurimj Elsewhere. It was chartered 47 years ago. Its Capital and Assets to the 1st July, 1867, is $i,000,000, nt,d has paid losses, during the last 47 years, anmm.t ing to j $17,485,894.71, i i and now lasi over ONE MILLION, abave liabili ties, and is at this time one of the strongest com panies in America. On the; Participating Life plan, you can pay one-half of 'the Premium in Cash, and a ntc for the other half at 6 per cent, interest,, and yon will not be called upon to pay said notes, but thev u ill be alxsorbod by the profitf you be entitW to' J'u r the 2d rear, viz : 50 per cent. Dividend, and tho notes will be returned to you camelled by the Company. We challege comparison with any other invest ment yielding anything like such: advantafi-i us results. ' The "Connecticut Mutual" boastingly cluih.iR to be the largest, best, andgeheapeet Company in all the country with $16,000,000 of assets.. She paid her members 60 per cent divident last rear. Remember you must be a member 4 years before getting it and $h$ has iow dropped down, to r0 per cent ' Like the f Great Eastern," she seems to be driv ing back into a "safer harbor." J p Ldok in Barns' Reiort, at page' 519, and voa will see the following statement: ' ' Total amount of losses and claims Unpaid, $272,700.00, and $18,000 of it resisted. In this same report you find no cuch statement about the little iEm. With hr $7,00ri,or.i) assets she i$ now paying her members 60 per eei:i dividend every two years. Then compare her Non-Forfeiting Endowment table, wdth this m..;-: advantageous of all companies, and see wftieh !,; the Cheapest rates : - . -,I11I, UONN. MUTUAL. 14 to 40 $34,78. 15 to 40 36,80. 20 to 40 50,68. 30 to 50 52.26. 14 to 40 $36,53. 15 to 40 38.74. 20 to 40 52,52. 30 to; 50 55,64. The atove tables are on each thousand dollar.:, and continue 65 years, in like proportion. And the j-eason that the .Etna is drawing f! . o from theiso guns is Bimply owing to the f : r that her olheers can handle $7,000,000, and pav more dividbnd than the purely Mutual, wii'r $16,000,000, and pay losses besides. The AZ-rXA has averaged 1,500 new policies per month since 1st January,' l67, in the face of a.i opposition, ;and there IS BTELL BOOM IN thi Sound Life Boat. W..H. CROW, ! Oenerai Agent, aug28-lm. for N. C & Virginia. Alfred 'Williams, ;C. W. Lambeth Y,LtIA1TIS IiAMBETIT, No. 40 Iayetteville St, Baieigh, N. C, BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS, DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF SCHOOL BOOK S Standard and Miscellaneous Works, Masonic jBooks, Jewels, regalia, : Books on Stock and Agriculture, Stationery, Printing and Wrapping Pappcr, Printers supplies, School and Office Requisite, f Albums,! Perfumery, Fancy Articles, ice We have the pleasure of informing our friends and the public that we are now receiving a lare and well Selected stock of articles in our line, recently purchased by one of the partners in New York and Philadelphia, on the mosf favorable terms, wliich will enable us taj sell at lower prices than the same Goods have been soldi in this market. ; Wc would call the particular attention of School Teachers and others to our stock of School Books, School Requisites, &c ''' All orders iciU receive pr&mpt attention, and at prices, ye guarantee, to give satisfaction. Call on us and examine our stock at the Book Store lately occupied by the " Field and Fireside." opposite the new National Bank.
The Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 24, 1867, edition 1
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