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Merchants,
Solic't Consignmenti! of
Corn, rionr and Produce Generally.
Particular Attention paid to Auction
Salts.
V BBPEn BY I-KIIMISKIOS TO
W. H. Wiikiss. IWl Haleiuh Xafl Jlmik.
W. E. AsncaaoN, i.itiMUB "
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W. H. K. 8. TucCBB Co., Kalcigu, C
March l7-3in
Raleigh National Bank,
Of N. C.
Raleioh, March 20th, 1871.
This Bank (undi-r a resolution of the Htoek-.
holders and authority from the Comptroller r
the currency,! hn opened book at their Rank.
- ins house in thU eiiv, for MiIwrr(r.HT In the in
" rese of 'the Stoek W half a million Pulars,be
"!;r tng: tHeHthorize mm&pf,
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'aWotice:
The undesigned having qnnhfied a -,,,"'n;
X St.a II Vkrtl il,i Mi:ii of John M. Jjowrnnte
before tbe Trobnte Court
of Itow-an connly,
ri 'iL ll ....rim iiaviir-M"no nga
entate to exhibit
the oiiii ueiorv iov
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pleaded in b- SAMx . LOWRANCF,-
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tbe stomach in affected
with Iom of appetite and' nieknow, bowel in
ceneral costive, Minietime alternating with lax.'
W i m mm Km i LI 1
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vv M-Hallnn. onihultra-
pile losx of memory, ac
companied with painful
acnMUioii ol having l-ft undone winethjng which
zbt to have been done. I Mien comil:iining ol
wsakneiw. delnlnv, niid IoriiirifC"'Son'ii;llrtveir
many of the alwive iymitotn uHj rid the diHeane.
and at other times very ffew oftlom; but tbe
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THE DANGER-
All of the Judge in the State hold the
present convention law 10 be unconstitution
al. It was also held to be unconstitutional
by most of the law yers and statesmen of the
past age by such men as Oaston. Rufliu.
Meares. Riggs and Fisher. In view of all
this who doubts what the decision of the
Federal goverumeut will be, should it be
called upou to decide 1 And if the conven
tion meets and turns out all of the present
State officers aud this ia one of the p incL
plt objects for which it is called the Feder
al authorities trill he called upon to decide.
For the present officers will Mill claim to be
the government, and w ill call upn the Pres
ideut to recognize tlieuu as auch. uuder the.
authority delegated to him by the Act of
1705. For thi-rourve they have the pre-
.."U'X J3 VJWWt VJ bU'iH'tf. a.miiu.t
becomes of the work of the convention for
for which you are called upon to vote, 1 It
will be scattered to the four w inds, and all
tha money expended upon it w ill be forever
loat to the people of North -Carolina. The
worst of human passions will a'so be annull
ed, and the returu ol peace an l good feeling
w II be loug retarded. Will the culm aud
peace loving people of the country vote for
the convention under these circumstances ?
TIIK OTHER DAXOEK.
To escape the above danger w have heard
it proposed to let the present Governor and
Supreme Court Judges remain. What is to
be gained by such a course ? Nothing at all !
For some one of the minor oilier, some
Judge or Clerk of the Superior Ci urta, w ill
then test the question of the won&iitutionali
ty of the convention law before the Supreme
Court of the State. Anotlier lloke and
Henderson case w ill be the result, and no one
can doubt how the Court will decide. It w ill
decide that, in the language of the great aud
learned Rulfin, the convention was "an nn
ituthoriied bodv, and therefore Po more
ban voluntary -collection f so many
xi!,r thnt its act -biug . void could du
Trve sii eowfiemaiioa from s vote of the peo-
1u " Sii Li either event the w hole work of
the cjmren Am will ho set aside, aud s.lllhe.
money etpeoTled upon it will be added to
the taxes of the people, already overbur
dened with taxation. Let tje people pon
der these things well, for they are ihe words
of truth and soberness. If they wou id es
cape trouble let them vote against the pres
seiit unconstitutional con ventior, and wait
for the call of a conttitutional one. They
will not have to wait very foiig. and in the
mean time several important amendment
cau be cheaply and safel.y made by the legis
lative iiioile. - '
WATCH Out M. Thiers3, the French
President, lias issued s circular warning
. .. OT vuairu mi prr crni wnoarnci wiiw wpicrt -1 It great body-ol
h.gher than the above ratea. , wk lnl0 bo fuur( t)M
t ,mrt and Ju.t.re'. Order, w 11 be publish. csreTr, li, spite of it. faults, Jy, in virtue
ed. the Iamt rate, w.th other .Jverti... o ij( faults, sffords- It is. very creat
the soldiersof thfr Republic, to be warn olLn(ioder of Lhis . duys at a. fome liter ol
1' omuiniHhlB poisoned iiiiniX'iise quaiit'tie
in Pairs. It is tliought a large poitionof
it will be shipped to America. JkVlill
tke a drink of French llrandf Ide
ogram' --- v-
Sparkling Catauba-Springt. We di
rect attention to the announcement of
Col. J. Golden Wyatt, in regard to the
faniou!" Spaikling Catawba Springs.-1
I hi wateiing place Ins become a gieat
faVorite with our people, ami needs no re
cnmmeudatioii from us Tho Proprietor
Brmonnces" rtinr"il ff. Wieitii w ilT have
I charce of the culinary department, while
COI. J. m. Jiiair, in; oi ivaitign, win
Jtave gemnal c-bargn -f -Uia rfnjjsjgciMeMt4
This of itself i enough to insure a large j
number of visitois. H7. Journals
The movement made, in Riazil tn-
wardTm aiolnion f slavery w iH, dunlTr-li-a.
neiitiiate. sooner or later, in success.
As jet, it is on! V proposed to emancipate '
the slavef held by the government.; and j
the bill mtrodustd jn the assembly was
earnestly opposed. But the ball is in
Tnotion ; and it will roll on, sntil the i
Stituiion is as extinct ; titers as it is here.
THE LESSON OF VALLANDIGH
AM'S CAREER.
Any on who ia laelinrd to tak
gloom r riew of tho Undenclea of Amrrl
caa politics can hardly hlp barinj hit
courage stnntjtlird ana LU lioprs revived,
ben be looks at tua career of tbe lata
Air. Vallaiidiitbam. and reads the judg
ment upon it that his uoiltoclr end has
called forth.
There eoulj hardlr be a belter lira of
ThS'radlcl lieiHthlDeas oPAinerlcan polit-
r
50 1 k lie, and a better justification oi
very rreat
tiling, in the first place, that lit a lime of
uc n excitement as that lu which Mr.
allandigliam fiist hiado hiirsclf notori
out, men should have been found as ready
to profess unpopular oiiiubns as he show
ed himself, without incurring any worse
renal ties than those Which overtook htm.
n no other country, and iu no other slate
of society, could a man have risen up as
lie did to denounce a cause for which his
neighbor, were perishing by the thousand.
without having any wone thins; to fc
having any wone thing to fear
lemp,ou.xile. Dih would
. . .!..:.. .i .
than cen
be u,,Jut to him to say or insinuate that
I aa iu any ueirreo inuuencea
I by a knowledge of the (itchiness of the
puni.hmeut lhat awaited him. His au
dacity
was in no degree diminished by
the good-natured scorn of the government.
There is nothing in the man's character.
as we know it, to warrant the btlicf that
ho would have flinched in tho least decree
from the expression of his opinions even
if the gibbet or the shooting-party hud
stared him in the f.ice. He had, beyond
all question, civil courage in the highest
degree; and when we say this of any
man wo lives in a community in which
tho temptation 10 go with the crowd is
strong, and to most natures, overwhelm
ing, it is to accord linn the very highest
... -
tliat he pluys one of the most ueul purls
" -""J."1"" '" ey
l, .L r
that a man can play in a democrncy."He
is a valiKihlu cilixeii who gives form and
eiibetance to w hat the muss of li coun
tryman are thinking and feeling. He is
a valmible "citizen tbo--hurdty lens vatua
ble, we were going to say who tells
them boldly w h it they would bate to
mi 11 have never been wanting at any pe
liod of American history, nave never
Tailed to be listened t, and even in the
worst times have suifcrt-d little, if any
thing, in mind, body or estate. If we
wished to give any one a vivid and true
conception o the suiallness of the extent
to which, alter all, the working of tho
machinery of constitu'ional government
was interrupted by ihe war, and oflhe
small importance even of the temporary
disregard of constitutional forms, a long
as the politicul habits of a free people are
unshaken, we should put it into his hands
an edition of Vullnndiglmm's speeches
during t!i late war, mid an account of
iiis trial and condemnation by a court
mart iul.
His conduct during the war, however,
was by no meant w hat was most remark
able or most instructive in his lile. ; the
rriost valuable and the most symptomatic
incident in it was undoubtedly ihe readi
ness to adapt himself to altered circum
stances which was displayed by tho "new
departure," which he originated and sup
ported in his last days.
I'he high spirit,
Hie se I -commence, me
pugnacity, the j
strength of conviction, whiih made him.
during the rehellii. the. bilLtrcet of cop
t erluuTs7WWild in European poHtiehave.
. .. 1 .t 11 j ;..
made mm wnat is ineru cancu an mr"
coiicikWe''..lie.: ;nexyj2!iL4..l?.--Jt
given Iiis persecutors, and, so far from
rcieding from any of his original de
mauds, would have udded soineiliing to
them every year lie lived. lie would
have creot d fog himself a system of mor
als in w hich to rwte and conspire would,
have been the first duties. He would in
his own eyes huve gradually grown out
of an humjle martyr inlo an avenging
angel sent to smite and to revile. He
would no more have thought of accepting
the constitutional amendments, or of mod-
ifytng any opinion thai-he ever had LId f
about the causes, conduct, or results of
the war, than of bitraying his mother.
lie would therefore have passed the re-
confusion; he would have managed to
shake the confidence, do less of his ene
mies than of his disciples, in the porrief4
systeni under which In; lived to beget
even among the law- abiding that doubt
about the lulure which, still 11101 e than
the maclrlnatious of tiie lawless, helps to
ruin free governments.
He had,,however, in spite of his fury
and his bitterness, that happy wint r.f
logic, that inbred consciousness of I he
talseliooil of extremes, that invaluable and ,
iiever-tuiliiig perception of tin- fact that!
government, instead of being the end for
, I ! ' I
IMHIUiy tTTTSlS, 18 Slllipiy
a means
f ,ukmg our Iiv a comtoi lat.lo asd the j
the
frr exerow of our faculties secure, whicl4cor like Uw i s at sunsej. orbi eatdow u
; ,. ct f political characterise! f the ., .,,. (Juo injudieioiis stiniiilnit, a
race
to -which tie belonged, which lni
more f.r the Lnild utei than
,1.,
lone more I.T tlie tjinlid tiilei Ilian
Clituate or soil, fir coal or iron, or nv-r or ;
ff?'FfTrflJ,'l-wH'V.wt'1' K;sfy,f;Iv,f,"
j or corfstitutinn or hiw, wiil form lo the ; vi..or until night ha nearly 1 1 in. ,
it... , . . - ,
g Wt guaranteii cf thrfrj
liberty and prosfierity. j
in ceasing to ngnt wi.en fighting wb j
UPtll FD, Hi WVflPiMt IU SirCHl WIlfH lilt' !
Judge had dided,1a accpihig nAors- i
plished ficls, irronccDtrsting all bis in- !
lerest in that 'present hour, ha proved
himself to be (a real politician in the best
sense of the word t bs kind of politician
to which the great mass of the Amrrlcss
people belong. Ths Wa In which tbe
South succumbed after the war, the sud
denness of lu overthrow and the eom
pliteness of its ubnibuJou, Were sign, of
a
-
Comicai acuity suco ss o other people
ave ever shown, and the narks of ca
racily were.rq vailed by :he tout absence
from Northern dealings with It of the
usual ludkatloni 6l afker -ludVeJ, the
only eapreasion of "Jatin" wrongheaded
ness aud follpr to be met with in '.he dis
cissions which followed 1h6 talk aboot
"repentance," as a condition precedent of
pardon and amnesty, and even that did
not la-t I'M.g, and was ouly heard f from
tow mouths. I lie tendency to fancy
himself the vicegerent of tho Almighty,
and to expect his enemies to pot their
necks under Lis lit tl, and confess their
sins and wickednesses, which is I lie be
setting sins tie Freuchman when he
finds himself in power, no American ever
disphtys, or disylays long, without excit
ing laughter among the bystanders. Even
I "tho Apostle John of btlvstion by Im-
peacliment" has to put his tongue in his
. , i i t . n
'f T J" I I .e g'i" r
change of heart" on the part of
-
part
as tiecesaary to s complete
restoration of civil government at the
South. The disfranchisement has been
maintained foolishly long, as we think,
hut still on the good old ground of expo
diency ( not as a bit of divine chastise
ment, but as a measure of public sale!.
Mr. Vallandigham, with all hit wrong
headedness, never lost his sight of this
purely njiuidiiue character of Ibe politi
cian's mission. His business is to per
suide, and not to preach ; aud iflie finds
he cannot p.'rtuado, his duty ia to make
the best ol it.
There is another lesson, which we do
not see is to be learnt from Mr. Vallan
dighatn's career, but which, certainly, it
t iiriiitrH tin iiii imbii
brings prominently bciore us, and that is
,i. ..!...... ..r ,tt, ; t:.: it .1 l...
riwwvfTTsjW"ve ssa in instHii ss. 1 11 it ui uvi
nations of the world had only a tithe of
the faith in it, as a redresser of wrongs,
and an nmender of constitutions, and an
nssmiger of malice, and reconciler of dif
fertnees, ihe greatest fountain.. of human
misery would bo dried up. He luve,
perhaps, loo much ol if
li a largo baud I
i a ini-i lean mat lierrKHea would go a
much more ifl'eeiive in Ibe I0111; inn, to
a;... -...... ..I...d ..11 i.tifli iiihi'i. iIih
each other than to cut I
each other's tl.ioals, we could CCllaiuly
spare them, and they could make a most
impressive statem?nt of their case. The
gwoid settles things, lo ho sine settles
many things which nothing else can settle
but it does not settle them with that
completeness with which they arc settled
by the tongue. There are often sects and
panics w hich w ould face -a world iu arms,
and tight w hilr a man w as left to stand
behind a hedge or a barricade ; but any
party which find tho majority of the
stump orators on the enemies side, and
finds that it is being denounced steadily,
week in and week out, by the -Tom-tomt
the Jilathcrslitr, and the lllanhet Sheet,
cannot keep up its courage long. It may
be that the foe has neither logic, nor wit,
nor knowledge, but if he bus the longest
tongue, the game is tolerably Burc. The
noise, if it does not bring conviction, soon
er or later biings weariness of the subject,
and a passionate desire for a quiet lile.
Thousunds of Democrat w ho are now
goi: g to acuuiesce in the changes, wrought
by ihe war, arc no more convinced of the
constitutionality of llieni, or of the expe-
( dkjicy pfjlietn, thaii they ever were; but
the f Itmnm Ww M tr aiort 4 to ? mucU; I or
them. The immortal iniud tnajr he never
I ,pp,niulif ht .the, ncryca.give ws. st- lyt
Jlte Aution.
THE CRITICAL PERIODS OF nU
M AN LIFE.
From the age of forty to lhat of sixty.
a man who properly regulates himself
ma be considered iu the prime of life.
His roajurrd strength of constitution Ton
dej-s hiin almost impertions to the uttacrs
of disease, and all his I
nd qll h functions -are 111 the
higlics t -order? Ha viwg gono-a year or
two nast S X' v. however, lie arrives at a
critical period of existence; the river of
death flows beiore nun, ana ne remains at
ataodsiill. Rut athwart ibis river1 is 0
crossed in safety, leads to the valle7o77rl''lTS
if crossr
"Old Age," round wliich the river winds,
trtrd-lben flow s4eyoi:d w ithout a boat or
causeway 10 eff. ct its passage. The bridge
is, ho w matiw
al, and it depends upon Low it is trodden
w hethvr it bend or break. Gout, apoplexy
and other bad characters are also in the
vicinity waylay the traveler, and throsf
him fronr-tho "path; but let him gild up
his toTHs Slid jn-ovMle himself with perfect
composure. To quote a metaphor, the
"Turn of Lii'o" is a turn cither into a
lirolonsed walk or ui'o :he crave. The
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. v . u r.
naviny reacueo wieir
fo I
.l
ntmost expansion, nnwr begin either
tingle .-ilalexcitenieirf, ma Ipice it be-
Vi,nil i;s sliengin j lmst a careful rflip-
iv ,,,i,. and all that tends lo force
R. ware of impaiicucc of contradiclion-
Do ott6nAvw!Kr think hiuJIy of ItmseT
1 . a T
ce 7 tcc.Or judge U
fhtir duty to cootrsrliet on.
THIUST QUENCHED WITHOUT
DRINKING.
It may not be genera!! known to oar
readers that water, eves sail water, im
bibed through tho skin, appeases thirst
almost as well as fresh water Uken in
wardlj. Is illustration of this sul.ieet, a
correspondent bss sent us the following
aunuged quotation from s "Aarrative of
Kennedy's losing Lis vessel, and bis dis
tress afterward," when was wotleed Is
Dodslf j' Annual Regjtter f J rqj
I cannot conclndo without making meu
lion of the great advantage I received
from soaking mr clothe - twice s day in
salt water, and. pulling' ihem on without
wi hiring. It was considerable time be
fore I could make tbe people comply with
this m a ure, although f o n seeing the
good effect produced, ihey aflerwards did
it twice a day of their own accord. To
this discover ! may with justice attrib
ute tho preservation of my own life and
six other persons, who must have perish
ed if it had not be n put In nse. The
hint was first communicated to me from
the perusal of a treatise written by Dr.
Lind. The water absorbed through the
pores of the skin produced in ever re
spect, the same effect as would have re
sulted from the mode.-ate drinking of an
liquid. The saline parlic'ee. however,
which remained in our clothes, became
incrusted by the heat of the sou and that
I of our bodies, lacerating our skins and
being otherwise Inconvenient, but we
found that by washing out these part isles,
and frequently wetting our clothes with
out wringing, twice in the course of a
da, the skin became well in a short time.
After these operations we uniformly found
that the violent drouth went and the
parched throat cured in s few minutes
after bathing aud washing our clothes,
and the same time we found ourselves as
much refreshed' as if we had received
some actual nourishment. Four persons
in the boat who drank salt water went
delirious and died, but those who avoid
ed this and followed lbs above practice,
experienced no sack such symptoms.
DUELLING.
We believe it to be oar duty, and un
hesitatingly join our brethren of the press.
the Riallleboro Advance and Not folk
Journal, 111 condemnation or Ibe so-called
praelTcim,,cir IcsTs tliiiig'lo iwifnxen
t by the officers of the law and approved
!y . .public, -.Wc do liot bidu-vfi. that
he who fighU a duel thereby proves him
self to be possessed of more than ordinary
physical courage, but he often shows in
so doing a lack of moral courage. It ia
equally certain lhat a good character can
not be proven in ibis way. If A calls U
a liar and K kills hire on that account, B
may be both a liar and a murderer. In
the name of common sense aud Christian
ity, let us have no more of it ; for the
ciake of humanity generally, let these
things be stopped. There is a law upon
this subject, let it be enforced whenever
occasiou offers. ..
We would have it understood that no
thing we have here written, is suggested
by any feeling of unkiuduess toward such
tcrson or persons as very erroneously, we
elieve, cutertaiu very different views.
Wilson Plain Dealer.
THE REFORMATION.
Dr. Payne Smith, the new Dean of
CanteiLury.huving been unuble to preside
at a lecture by tho Rev. J. Bradrley, at
Oxford; sent a letter of apology, which is
a gaod,uhtitMt,e (0
have delivered. Referring to the subject
of the lecture, the Reformation, I)i. Smith
said t "Wb-4h lasuXews .years ikiiaiL
become the fashion to apeak contemptu
ously of the 'Reformation, and (o load the
chief actors in it with abuse. It really
was one of the greatest and most reinai k
ble awakenings of the human mind, not
mercty as regards the purifying of the
Church, but all that desire for progress
nnd improvement which has struggled
against nbuses of every k'ni, aud made
England tho home of both civil and reli
gions liberty. An enemy to the llefor-
Lrjjatioi) ..osght Jn cnsistencyaIso to be an
enemy to c,ivm liberty,aiid should wish
for the. restoration, of arbitrary authority,
the abrogation of the rights of conscience.
For really it was tne diffusion ot khowi
or. when hooks were mudeTneapej,f-aiiar
men began to read tho Bible and the
works ot the early fathers, they were sur
prised to-fiud that,, a largeprppprtiin of
the ordinary beliefs of the time had no
authority either in the one or the other.
1 should like to know," the Dean contin
ues, "whether those people who abuse the
term Protestant wish lo bring these er
rors back again. Are we to be dragged
down in lhat state of things which exist
ed, before th discovery of printing I If
thisia uot.loJIiappetij we must still pro
test against fasehood, and abuse, and cr-
JT OI every niou. ..
M lArJ-Ojaa. r. i
A BRUTAL MURDER.
We learo.'thrrtngh a source regarded as
alloget'lier reliable, that A horrible murdi-r
s wi
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.emJuiU.i;.aJ.a.Jl.ilKes.jlop
a VC K Or IWO Pillar, njfCio
'l. inan residine in that county, a few
days previous to the tnurder, sold a neigh
l or a tract of land, for which he received
1,000 in cash. Business calling him
away from "7 home soon: after, bo- left the
tnouey with bis wife, and on returning. he
stopped o cr night with s friend living
some ten or twelve miles distant from
bis borne. Is the night he dreamed that
some mtn bad entered his bouse, murder
ed bis wire and two children, stolen hi
s ft .
money, ana destroyed bis proper! r.
Knowing that bo had left tho money with
his wile, Its became fieasy and restless
after this dream, and requested a peddler,
wuu waa aiuppins; ai io nouse wuu uim,
to arcompany him at r-nee to his home,
for few fro4 there was a realiiv in tha
diciibrpnrsrrlvlng; at his bouse, to his
horror bo round his wifo and two children
ling upon the floor murdered and two
Bittmr st s table eowitinr-owt the-
money he hod left with his wife. He and
the pedler being armed immediately fired
upon the men and killed them, w ho turn
ed out to be the man to whom he bad
sold the land, and from w hom he Lad re
ceived the 11.000, and his son.
Caroll Xrirs.
The Ncwheru "Re publican - relates the
following curious story :
A man named Edward Brown of Pitt
eointy, fled lo the swamps during the
late war to avoid the draft, has been
lately discovered living: a hermit life in a
dense thicket near the bank of the river,
When first discovered, ho fled to his hid
ing place, upon being pursued he showed
tight, but finally surrendered, and lusist
cd upon refusing to g in the army. Up
on ixing intormed the war , was ended
about six years ago, bo concluded to
abandon his hiding place and return to
Ihe old plantation, where found many
changes since the commencement of tho
rebellion. His only elothii.g was made
from the skins, of coons and other ani
mals that he has captured during the
lime; having seen no one with whom to
converse during about eight years, he has
nearly lost the control of language, ex
cegi a few profano words. II is father
and mother have both died during tho
post year. .
UXC0XSTI'ixTlTlXAL7AXD.IiEV
0LUTI0NARY.
The Constitution of North Carolina
expressly d darts that mo convention of
the people shall be called by the. General
Assembly, unless by the concurrence of
tiro thirds of all the members tit each House
of the General Assembly. And vet in
by a vote of the people, And" in a Ifianoef
not provided for nor warranted in the or
ganic law. It is true that the Democrat
ic leaders argue that though the ( nnatitu
tion does impose a restriction iu this re
spect on the Legislature, it iiuposea none
on the people, and lhat therefore they can
p-.o;K-il act on ihe matter. To this we
reply that the people, so long as they
profess to he governed by constitutional
forms, must respect those forms, and can
not change them unless they do so under
authority therein contained. nd this
was the view held by the !' mocratic
party itself in its better- and purer days.
In 1854 it declared an attempt like the
present to call a Convention to change
the canstitution by a mere majority hot
piovided for in I lie organic law TO BR
"REVOLUTION, nothing more, nothing
less." At that time a similar bill was
proposed. The Democracy declared it to
be "palpably cncoxstitctional aivd
REVOLUTIONARY. It can be sup
ported upon no other ground than upon
an appeal to the people of the State a
gainst their own organic law." Let the
people pause beforo they take this step.
North Larolinian.
..JUTJUAL. .OK ..Sl'ltE&QJHk
The recent. contest in Ohio for the Rc
publicau. uouiiliiV'i01.' .J.9JL G verimr as a
trial of strength between the- 'Sin "Do-"
ruingo party and tho officeholders on one
side, aud ihe independent press on the
other. , . . 1
President Grant and the San Domingo
speculators were iesolved lhat Ben Wade
should be the candidate for (Jovernor.--The
independent iress were for General
Noyes ; and when tlic Convention met,
Ben Wade was so poweiless in it lhat he
had to withdraw without a ballot, leaving
Noves to be nominated by acclamation.
Grant, and iho officeholders, and ihe S-m
... rwi
n..m;nrn b.hbera Were nowhere.
independent press had cleared lliem all
out of the field. '
JuAtro Si will he nrxtyar, when the 'the working and control of the Load is
Tfnriiililiemi rand idfltgfarlhcreiJaaa4i-4nU.ai .1 1 .'
conies to he nnminatcdX Grant hopes to V
.1 , , ,1
be the man, ana ail tne ntuceiiotuers ami 1
the SaDomingoypeciilators encourage
him; hut the independent press piits in its I
veto. Grant will retire if lie" isTwise he i
veto. U ran I
will not wait for a' ballot to obscurity,
and some man fit to be President will be
nominated in his steail.-;f-A'. Y Sun.
JUDGE GASTON AND
T " TI0N.
CONVEX-
' Upon the question of amending the
CiinsttrntTOTi 1nlhe Cenventimftl83i,
Jttdge Gascon said : .
"This was oife of the most iuinoitant
questions that had come before the-Con--ff
vention ; bir, whatever benefits we may
have piotnised ourselves from onr l.ihois
in this body, in laving the fonndaiipn of
onr Constitution
en equitable
and faun
'jptttpl47tT .wopuTTli lntXtrpelveFoT
wire legislative majorities to -upset then
strpflien'ihdeed have we toiled iu vahi.
He was not only surprised, but filled' with
fearful apprehension. It npocarsss if this
body was going rashly from otic extreme
to another. Beeanrfe difiirnlfv : hnii paa
experienced in calling s convention ts
amend onr constitution, wo are determin
ed to have s petttatly changing constitu
tion. What is the proposition recosi
mended in ths Report f That two bos
ceeding legislature, by soars majority
of rotes, may alter any part of the
Amendments which may b adopted by
this convention, or any principle in ths
Bill of Krigbts. consecrated lor tbs se
curity of our Uvea, liberty and property.
uat reason is given tor this proceeding!
That a maiorit tninht la nnrrm m
not trdrtdved try- gsnerslite. IB what
sense ought tnajortties to gmern I That
tbs deliberate will of ths pe4 sorb! si- -
timatdv to prevail, no one will denyj
but that the temiHtrarw tcill of a tnaiorilu.
trhirh may be produced by the elTereescmet
of the moment, ought to do trht it pleases.
set up and put down constitutions from
day to day no ruau ran be to extrava
gant as to desire.
If nothing more is needed for the pur
pose of government than this brief max
im, let the maiorit y govern, what becomes
of all our checks on majorities. Why
have two branches in our Legislature I
Why judicial establishments T Why tri
al by jury! If we adopt this unfetter
ed principle, why any of these establish
ments t
"lie would rather live under the most
despotic government on earth, than under
an unlimited government of numbers.
He might er.ipe the notice of one TrrenL
but thertj could be no escape from multi
tude of Tyrants."
On s subsequent day, Mr. Gaston, of
Craven, thought lhat the sense of tbs
couventbn had been to distinctly ascer
tained, tho other day when the question
was discussed, that 110 further obstads
cocld bo thrown in iho way of carrying
out the principles agreed on.
Rut we aru now met w ith the popular
cry, that we are about to limit the potcer
qf the people. It was not the peovlebnt
the creatures of lbu people that the
amendment proposed to limit. TJie
course proposed waa not an unusual oua. .
It was recognized in three Constitutions
which he had picked up on the spur of
tbe moment, vis : South Carotins. ALt-
bama nnd the United States. It is tor im
pose a check on Vie Legislature' thai it
may not ara il itself at' an accidental "ma
jority to disturb the repose of the people
by frequently catting them together tn con-
convention, if we do, wc shall be exposed
to continual fluctuations. The people
have, it is true, the sacred right of Revo
lution, they possess the power of rising
in their might and upturning the funda
mental principles oi governments; but
they cannot do if, unless tbe emergency
is great. Mr. G. concluded by saying,
if the right of a bare majority to call a
conrention were recognized in the Consti
tution he would not give one fig for all
the matters which the Convention had
been engaged in adjusting, since it as
sembled, instead of any permanent reg
ulatiouc, everything would be set afloat
and we should have a new Cons Li tali au
every we two or three years. . t
1 he North Carolina Ilailroad.Ti9
simple announcement that certain parties
' have obtained ae injunction against-the
the N. C. Railroad" is calculated to mis
lead the public while it does not convey
the correct idea of the case tried last week
before iho II. "Sj Court al Raleigh.
The holders of to mo o' t'.e bonds is
sued by the State lo build the N, C.
Railroad commenced action to prevent
ihe dividends dclared by said road from
being paid into tho StMa Treasury,
chumbg,Uuittaid diyidepJa should bo
appropriated nccordiiig to the charter
ot tho.Cornpany, towards paying the in
frresf dif&Tun Ihe" Slate" bondsr"An 1tf"
junction was ohtainad against the road to
that extent and no more merely pre
venting the payment of the State's divi
dend idto the State Treasury, and order
ing that il should be paid to the Receiv
er appointed by the Conrt who is Mr.
S. 1. Phillips j he giving bond in the sum
of $200,000 lo faithfully attend to the
matter.
Tho management of the Road Is not
in any respect interfered'' with; the only
flceUof,tJ4adeci8ioijif jheOourt isf
The-Kbat tbe dividends due tuo Oenrjtotlhe
Bondholders, instead of to the Stats
Treasurer, to bo used for current expenses.
The annual meeting of the Company
-11 1 L.1.1 : rt.....!....1 tl. 10. 1.
win oe mni m uivr.itumu "
day of July, and ofijeers will be 'elected
iu the usual way. Charlotte Democrat.
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NfithebJu the,, support, of Rcvolu
titiary measures, lie the Couventiou
scheme, nor by papciratiug outrages on
odious characters who happen to be iu
office, and tearing diwu tbe prinliog of
fices of offensive radical sheets like tbs
Rutherford Star, will the people of North
Onfoijiin obtain relief- from- their present
of oppression-.- Y o nmt observe
law, and ' respect to all forms of law,
we-wottkl gt b- t4U lb old way ot
the past.
When professed and recognized farty
orsans. in. effect apologise lor and palliate
surti occurrenci-s as the Ruiheiford out-
Snigsttmti'the people-rrf all par-
tfes, and of n wiyr sLoflpi d 10 think.
The country is rapidly drifting toward
an irchy, and even monarchy appears ia
the distance. If these are ever reached, ,
the people have t thank p w'isiu., and
fmil V iorlunrr., ihi n aifiijiri.r