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1 PCBLI.nKD EVERY THURSDAY BT CHARLES, nEARXE AND BIGGS. TERMS OF SUBSCRI PTIO M i V (I AbVASCE.) One eopy one year, - - - $3 00 One copy six months, - 2 00 One copy three months, - 1 00 Twenty-Five per cent, h added to tha aWve rates ben paid at the end af the year Baltimore Cards. CHAS. II. MYERS & BRO t IMPORTERS OP Bread, Wine, Gin, Cigars, Olive Oil, Lon don Stout, 4c. 72 Exchange place, . BALTIMORE, MD. Kot. 25 1-tf ' N. C. ROlRTSONTjr," WITH R. T. BANKS, Importers and Dealers in China, Glass & Quccnsware, And Manufacturer of No. 63 South Streot, je23-S0-tf. BALTIMORE, MD. C P. Mexdkshali.. Greensboro', N. C. M. T. Whitakkr, Enfield, N. C. D. Nichols, Baltimore, Md. Cyrus P. Mcndenhall & Co. COTTON, TOBACCO AND General Commission Merchants, 156 Pratt Street Wharf, BALTIMORE, MD. Dee. 2. 2-pdly GRIFFIN BRO. & CO. GHOCERS AND Commission Merchants, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IX Foreign and Domestic Liqrtors, TOBACCO, CIGARS. &c. No. 105 West Lombard Street AND No. 2 Balderston Street, 27 ly BALTIMORE, MD Jan. James R. Herbert, Peter W. IIairstqn, Of Maryland. Of North Carolina HERBERT & IIAIRSTOtf. ' Commission Merchants No. 6 Camden Street, Baltimore. REFFJERENCES ; James W. Allnutt, Prest. Bank of Com meree. Bill.; Woodward, Balwin & Co., Hjlttmort i Howard, Cole & Co., Baltimore; William Johnson. CharloU v.. Cr J-U Caldwell, Salitbury, X. C. Hon. D. M. Bar ringer, Raleigh, K. C. sept. 8, 41-3m JOUN C. MASON & CO., M.ouraeiiUl Steam QxJce and CratJcer Bakery, A'o. 45 and 47 Wratt Street, ? 2d Door from SpenYs Wharf BALTIMORE, MD. Not. 25. 1-tf J. L. DIC KEN, of NoCa., WITH IIARTMAN & STR.lJS, CLOTHIERS, , Not. 321 and 323, Baltimoretreet, Ang tl-37-tf. BALTIMORE. WARNER & BRO., V WHOLESALE DEALERS IN BOOTS AND SHOE, No. 246 Baltimore St., up Stain BALTIMORE, M . JJli. EDWARD WARREN, HAS RESUMED THE Practice oj Medicine Sf Surgery, . IN THE CITY OF BALTIMORE, Office, 48 Courtland Street, 2d Door from Mulbery, Not. 25. 1-tf ChTSpilker. Ckr. BoH CHAS. SPILKER & CO., IMPORTERS OF Fancy Goods & Toys, Nos. 10 & 12 IIanovr St., BALTIMORE, MD. Not. 24, l tf . B,F.rhillip: Burguine Maitland. PHILLIPS & MAITLAND, General Commission S- Forward ing Merchants, BALTIMORE, MD. . Not, 52. W1ESENFELD & CO., CL 0 THIERS, No. 25 Hanover Street, BALTIMORE, MD. Not. 25. 1-tf " WHEDBEE & DICKERSON, Gen: Commission and For warding Mercnanis, BALTIMORE, MD. 1-tf Not. 25. Baltimore, Md. . Of Norm aroiui. DORSET & CO., G?k: Commission Merchants A 240 West Pratt Street, " - A- nallimore, Md. 'ifl oiitVnments of Cotton, Tobacco, Naval ftnd Country rroaucc '"F fully Bolited, and particular attention giT en to tn puVcha and Shipment of all kinds of Jtttrcbapdise. epl-10-6m L JO. JlLI KJJ J- Xl JjJt,P IPj 1 . VOL. XLUI. Norfolk and Petersburg. C.W.Grandv, O.K. G randy, CW.Grandy.tr C. W. GRAND Y& SONS, House Established 1845, FORWARDING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 6 Commercial Row, NORFOLK, VJl. I-y OR THE SALE OF COTTON, Grain, Naval Stores and Country Pro duce generally, and purchasers of General Merchandise. Sept 15 42-tf V. i- SE!2 & Sm$i COTTON FACTORS AND Gen. Commission Merchants WILLS' WHARF. Norfolk, Virginia. REFER TO W. G. Lamb, jr., Esq.. Messrs. Rhodes & Bro.. Williamston : Messrs. Cooccr J- Bro., Jamesville ; Col. W. F. Martin, Eliz abeth City ; Henry Butler, Esq., New York; Exchange Nat. Bank, A'orfolf, Va. Sept 15 42-6m KADER BIOGS. J. J. BIGGS KADER BIGGS & CO., GENERAL Commission Merchants, BELL'S WHARF, NORFOLK, VA. t&m Special attention paid to the sale of Cotton, and all kinds of Country Pro duce, june 2 27 ly FREER & KEAL, Gen. Commission Merchants, NORFOLK. VA. LimtRAi. inviitPM nv mvernvuvvre Geo. H. Freer, John B. Neal, of N. C. of N. C. R. II. Smith, Jr., Scotland Neck, N. C. May 19, 18GG. 25 tf THOS. R. OWEN, Jr., of N. C. WITH COTTON AND Gen. Commission Meixhants axouffOiK, va. BAGGING and ROPE furnished pay able iu Cotton. Liberal advances made. sep 1 40-tf WMJ. J. BRANCH, WM. H. DREWRY, Late Branch Rivet of DrewrytvilU, Branch, Rivet $ Co. Southampton Co. Va. THOS. D. GAY, of N. C. WITH BRANCH & DREWRY, Wholesale and Retail GROCERS AND Commission Merchants, No 88 Sycamore Street, PETERSBURG, VA. SST Will give strict and personal atten tion to the Sale of all kinds of Country Producft, viz: Tobacco, Cotton, Wheat, Corn, Bacon, Lard, &c, &c. And will furnish No. 1 Peruvian Guano, and other Fertilizers, for Cash, or for Pro duce in hand. my 26 25-tf BRANCH & HERBERT, Grocers and COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Store form'Iy occupied by Hill, Warren & Co 123 Sycamore Street, Doors below Martin & Tannahill's, Petersburg. Va.. 5 tfILL gve tSicir personal attention to ' the sale of Produce of all kinds and prompt returns made. Have constantly on hand & g00(i 8Uppiv 0f Bagging and Rope. Miles tj. T5,v.w r.ni. t t. t Branch, Eivet & Co. J. II. Hebbeht, Late of Halifax Co., N. C. pcpi. l, 1866. 4o.6m J. X. VEKABLE, jr. T. wtlli AMsinw J. E. VENABLE & CO., Comm ission Merchants, PETERSBURG, VA. SELL and buy on Commission, Cotton, Tobacco, Snuff. Wheat, Flour. Corn. rrovisions and tieneral Merchandise. Bagging and Rope on hand and for sale, M- T. Sweeney, Traveling Agent. REFER TO Thomas Wallace, Pres. Exchange Bank, T. T. Broocks, President Virginia Bank, R. Ragland, President City Bank, John Kevan, President Farmers Bank, Frick and Ball, liaiUmore, Md. Sept. 1 , 40-tf CHAS. H. C1JTHBERT, formerly of the firm Pittman & Cuthbert Gen. Commisshn Merchant, PETTIRSBUIlQ, va. 7ILL give his stric tsonai attention ? to the sale of CofJjoa an(j purchasing of Morchandise on Comflissi0n- gei 40 3m R. C. Osborne V R. Patterson N- M. Osborne, jr. J, stainback OSBORNE, PATTElfeQNj & c0. GkOCERS anp Commission McQhunts. 103 Sycamore sjrt sept 14j 42 if Tetereb y "m TARBORO', EDGECOMBE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, DECEMBER 6, 1866. THE WEEKLY SOUTHERNER. THURSDAY, DECfclMBEli 6 1806 meteoric Prayer meeting. In the New York World of Thursday, we fiud the fo lowing accpuntof an extra ordinary prayer meeting among the color ed residence of that city : Tne colored heart of this city throbbed wildly last night, in the terrific expecta tion that it was the precursor of the day of judgment. Their attention was absorb ed by the startling predictions of the as ironomers that the heavens would resem ble the bright fire of a universal smithy, and they believed the event would usher in the M era " of eternity and the reigu of the King loin o' Glorv. But, happily, they were prepared by a series of pious and extraordinary exercises, for the lu Slment of tv.e dread prophecy. The black pas tors in our midst walked energetically over the walls of Ziou, and casting rotary g ancea at the heavens, they were ready at any time to proclaim, iu notes louder than those of the horns of J-richo, a! general alarm to their expectant nocks be 1 iw, should the meteors appear to proclaim the end ot the world and negro suffrage. The rem rkable ze .1 of these sable shep- n rds should put the pastor, who were sleeping at iheir post?, to the b:u.h. or at It ast stimul ite them to more zeal during the next millennial night. Those who profess t j believe that the coloied peop'e take no cognizance of pas sing events would discover their mistake had they observed the preparations among the colored people from Whiteha'l to Harles, to ward off divine wrath, as an ticipated on the predicted shower of stars l.st night. They forsook all their favo rite avocation. From the morneut when the astr. nomers proclaimed the terrible news to the hour when the awful exhibit tion was lo commence, the policy shops in the filib, eighth, and other wards, were deserted, and the venders of ' dream," involving ' lucky numbers," failed to charm their sable patons cut of a single ! cent. This information, though the olf spring oi tear, peemea to indicate that tae class who specilaied on their credulity would soon become h nkrupts, and hence they also watched with anxious interest for the celestial display. Ali the Porcine establishment where sable customers de light to patronize their old ancestor ' Ham," were also deserted, and there was a general cessation of the ordinary and business pursuits of negrodom. In mis awiui state 01 tilings a council 01 a clergyman in Grove street yesteaduy af ternoon, for the purpose of improving the oppOrtUliily .0 .o- ..1 raii' ii of 11 ! I Llact souls, a; d the result of their deliberation was, that they ordered a meeting, to take place last night. THE METEORIC PRATER MEETING. The fat sexton of the colored church in Bleeker street was subsequently notiS?d to call every aon and daughter of Alrici into the edifice ; and in response he rush ed up stairs and vigorously pulled the bell, and forthwith the whole neighborhood was nueu wnn me sounas 01 an aiarin sufficieiuly vigorous to denote a mellinium. The peals came " Quick, thick, and heavy, like a thunder cloud ' filled with old and young, single and mar ried people all of the Ethiopian race or one of its unmistable division. The puN pit was filled by the sable divines of eve ry denomination, for the end of the world, whi.b seemed to beat hand, enab el them to forget all minor differences, such as im mersion, church government, bishops, &c Thf ?'efidi!!!,f Le.rB?an ade a brief speech which only seived to create intense excitement and agitation among all pres ent. and in less than an hour the temple was My brethren, fall on your knees. (Shouts of Glorv, and O ave us.") The great red dragon with seventeen heads, j twenty-seven horns is to rush across the sky (Cries of mercy) and Death on a pale norse is a r:dur like fury after tha beast. (Voices I'm ready, save me cap tain. Be ye also ready brethren. (Voice l'se on the sloop of salvation, and I'se bound for glory.) Come at once, the devil is in the air. (Lord chain the dev il.) Hercules and Mars and all the gods of the Heaven are gathered in the atmos phere to destroy us, but glory be to our great MaSer, He can fight all of them. (Amen.) Mind the fiery serpents above your heads. (Keep them things off, A men.) They're worse than the Copper heads, for the Copperheads can't kid the soul. (Glory.) When the clergyman sat dowv the ef feet f his remarks on the audience was of a marked character. They were in a state of uprorious alarm ; they shrieked, sung religious dities, prayed loudly, ex horted and exhausted all the boisterous usages of colored Methodism in a few minutes. At length, when order was partially re stored, a black woman, who weighed about 350 pounds, exclaimed : " I don't care now ifde hevens fall on me, for I'm ready for gloiy. Let dem stars and installations come down ; dey can't kill my soul. " The noble professor of faith created the wildest enthusiasm. Shouts of " Amen, " " Halbjah, " fc;., resounded through the rumple, amid which the pious speaker sat down, th or ughly fatigued with the effort. The pre-iding clergyman then commen ced toe hymn : Sinner ! come right into de ark, The devel's groping for you in the dark, And the dragon's crossing the sky ! Don't let nim eatch you, if you are wise. For the shooting stars wiU blind your eyes, That you cant climb up to the sky. The exercises were closed with the hymn : We are all gwine home to glory, And we'll ride on fiery cars, And the horses dat'll carry us, Will be the shooting stars. fOlYTUV: RIGIIT OR WKO.YG: JEY C01.YTRY." From the Raleigh Sentinel. Farming Lands In Pitt County. Messrs. Editoks : I snppo.se it will not be denied that the lands of Pitt, Edgecombe and that part of Beau fort bordering on Pitt, arc better adap ted to the production of cotton than any other lands in the Statu of North Carolina. Having only a short time since been in this section of the State, I have thought that a short communi cation, relative to a few of the farms(in Pitt, rented and cultivated by Northern meD, would not be uninteresting. Seve ral Northern men have rented faring i' .i .i . , mis county tne present, year, ana cc. ssdering the dry se.isou, iil5;u!tjr i getting seed, together with a vaot of experience, dec, they have all done well. Passing down from Tarboro' the first farms reached are the two farms of 0. Perkins, Esq. These farms are on ii Tar river, twelve miles from WasLing ton, and are cultivated by Col Ckpp. I am informed that he will make from 350 to 400 bales. At Pactolus (which is immediately between these iirms,) there is a large store, mill and a good turpentine distillery. The mill and store pay handsomely. The distillery, I believe, has not beeu worked for s'rae time j all belong to the farms. Thcs; are good farms. Coming up on the other side of the river the first farms rented by Northeu men are thes.e of Mr. Satterthwaite and Mr. Laughing hoase. I do not recollect by whom they are rented. About 200 bales will be made on these farms this year, which is a very good yield, being mure than was made before the war on them. The next one is that of Gen. Bryan Giimes, which was cultivated this year by Major Smith. This is a very large and fine farm. The crop, this year, is estimated at from 500 to C00 bales. This farm has been rented the next years (1807) for lo,000 in U. S. cur rency. The next farms arc those of Mr. Wil liam Grimes which are classed as the best farms in the Couuty. These farms are cultivated this year by. Messrs. Whittlesey, James & Co., and the crop has cceu estimated at 600 bales. They are capable, I should say, with proper management, of producing twice that uumber. The tenants this year labored under many disadvantages They bad very interior seed and were late in getting a staud, the land had not been cultivated for two or three years and was quits rough, and owing to thesa difiicultids thev gc behind in their work, aud were compelled to give up the cultivation of a large quautity of land which had beeu planted iu cot ton. These farms are just 12 miles from Washington, on Tar River, sepa rated by the liver with good wharves on each, and are immediately opposite each other. They contain about 3500 acre3 each, and from 1200 to 1500 acres of cleared land. each. They Lavo each all the necessarv biiililiTiTB fi.m : dwelling.bouseS &o., and uron one! the (t Yankee Hall farm,) there is a very fins mill, ihe Avon 1 thick is the most beautiful farm I ever saw. The diall ing is on a high point about 80 or 100 feet above the farLi, and witl a a s py 'glass one could stand in the back porch aud see the laborers working in almost v- any part of it. All the cbared land is open to the eye at one view. On thi3 farm I am reliably informed that the year after Grimes planted cotton, he made 300 bales on 300 acres, and the same year he made on the Yankee Hall farm 300 bales on 400 acres, maLinw 600 bales on 700 acrss, besides about 1500 or 2000 bands of corn, and work, ing on both farms only about 70 hands. These valuible farms are I understand for rent the next year, but I suppose they will not long be in the market as, their location and fertility offer such inducements io parties desiring to rent. This section of country 1 consider the best for the culture of cotton I have seen in the State, and persons wishing tosecuie good land, I would advise to visit this section before leasing or pur chasing. I have written this hurriedly and if you see proper yon can publish it OVERSEER. Newbern, Nov. 18th, 1866. Depreciation of Confederate Monet. The following is the table of deprecia tion of Confederate money as established by the Geberal Assembly of North Caro lina: Months. 1861. 1862. 18G3. 18S1. January, 1 20 3 00 21 00 Feb'ry, 1 30 3 00 21 00 1865. 50 00 March, 1 50 4 00 23 00 April, 1 50 5 00 May, 1 50 5 50 June, 1 50 6 50 July, 1 50 9 00 August, 1 50 14 02 Sept. 2 00 14 00 October, 2 oo 14 oo Nov. $1 lo 2 5o 15 oo Dec. 1 15 2 5o 2o oo 20 00 100 00 19 00 18 00 21 00 23 00 25 oo -25 oo 3o oo December, 1st to the loth in clusive December, loth to 3oth, " 1st to 31st, 35 oo 45 oo 43 oo Lcisnre Time. How do you spend your leisure time ? The boys have a g od del; apprentices and young men have a good deal. The way which you ?ntnd your leisure sh ws more than any thing else what your taste and habits are, what, the re.il bent of your life is, whatever it i towards good or evil In a shipyard at Philadelphia there was, not long since, among the hands one who did not follow his fellow-workmen tobeer shops or saloons, or to larget-shoOting, or to j lific itions of any kin I ; nor did be buy a po xlle, and spend six months in teaching the poor dog to dance a jig John did not spend his leisure so. His min i was at work studying mechanical science; and in the same lime that a man to .k teaching a dog to dince. John invented a Paw vr! ichcan do more work in two hours than a dozsrn men can do iu a whole da? ; ami the saw is now in us-:- i sUlhe ship yards of t he country. It cuts a beam in to a coived shape as quick as an ordinary saw-mill rips up a stra ght plank. J hn kept on studying and planing and making experiments ; and his next invention wa a nuchine that cuts things into the form of a? sphere. lie got a patent for it, and he s le a part ol the patent for what wou d be a sini'l fortune to some of m. Litely lie has invented a boring machine, which bores solid granite at the rate of twenty-two i dies an hour. A gen le man who saw th'S invention tested, offer eJ John ten thous nd dollars for some s'lard in his interest in the inventio i in Eirop , and the offer was accepted on the spot. J hn L. Knowlton for that is his mme is a quiet, modest, i dusirious man. brought up to work. Nobody thought him brilliant or srreat ; but he improved himself. While others wasted their tiioug-its and time on idie pleasures, h applied both his tim and thoughts to something valuable. His leisure evenings were spnt in readirg aud study ; and he got ideas wbich it became his delight and interest to make into better tools than the world had before. . j Such a course of stuly and improve ment rnu'd mike fewer idlers and gam biers, and keep many a young man from the c-ird table, the dice box, and the dram shop. A Kaake Story. The V.cksburg (Miss ) Times tells the fallowing: One of th( officers of that popular steamer the Calumet, which, as everybody knows, plies regularly b -tween this port and Tallahatchie river, tells us the follow ing, which we think ' lays over the above considerable : " On the Tallahatchie river, not long since, an enormous rattlesnake found a setting turkey hen on her nest, and swal lowed her in exactly two minutes and for ty seconds by the watch, and then swal lowed the eggs twenty-three in number, three at a time, without cracking a single shell; after which he immediately relapsed into that state of torpidity pecu'.nr to Tallahatchie snakes after a big dinner. " Anxious to see the denouement of this snake affair, the owner of the unfortunate petually staring us in the face, and viv fowl allowed his sn kehip to go unmolest- 1 jdj an(j gi00rujiy symbolized to our ed, who, coiling himself in a tence corner, ! , .? ea u r remained there quietly for nine days wi h ! IU,Q(ls allrtbe most afflictive horrors of his mouth wide open, wheu the eggs havs j war We are truly rejoiced at the ing finished the process ot incubation, the j prospect of their speedy restoration to juvenile turkeys stepped out of his mouth, ' tue desirable purposes of use and con- one at a time, but as eac l one put his foot u i .i n i . j. ' .. ,i, lA . I vcmence which they ongtnally suhserv on terra jirma it w:is swallowed again by j . o J this 2:10 snake before he had time to look cd- Let the citizens of this vicinity, up at the sun. j and the traveling public, give a suita- ' All this happened about six weeks aro, tie surnort to Mr CamDbell in his lau- anu as soon as me iasi iurtit-y u.s- i .i i . . . i j-i po-ed of, the rattlesnake was caught and put iuto a barrel of two hundred and nine ty five per ct alcohol, and on every clear day those young turkeys can be heard chirping " Tee Measureless Love. I can measure parental love Iot brad, how long, and strong, and djep it is ; it is , they g:ther? Do not be discouraged t e a sea a deep sea which mothers c .n cause you are little. A little star 6hincs only ft.tb.om. But the love displayed on brightly in the sky on a dark night, and yonder hiil ad bloody cross where God's may be the means of saving many a poor own Son is perishing fjr us, nor man nor sailor from shipwreck ; and a little Chris- angel has a line to measure, lha circum- ference of the earth, the attitude of the sun, the distance of the planets thess hava been determined ; but the hight, depth, bseath and length of the love of God paseth kn wledge. Such is the Fa ther against whom all of us have sinned a thousand times ! Walk the shore where the ocean sleeps in the summer calm, or lashed into fury by the winter's tempest, is thundering on her sands; and when you have numbered the drops of her waves, tha bind her sounding beach, you have numbered God's mercies and your sins. Well, therefore, may we go to him with the contrition of the prodigal in our ears and his confession on our lips : ' Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight " Tne Spirit of God helping us to go to God, be assured that the lather, who sc-ing his son aftr off, ran to m et him, fell on his neck and kis sed him, was but an image of Him who, not sparing his own Son, but giving him up to dea h that we might live, invites and now awaitsyour coming.-Dr. Guthrie. A Young Lady's Adventure. Mis" E nma Weddle, daughter of the well known host of Capon Springs, met with an unpleasant adventure on the coldest night last week. Returning on horseback from a visit to a neighbor, she tried a shorter path across the mountain she had never travelled before, and lost her way 50 00; among the laural. With a spirit and re 60 00 ! source characteristic of our mountain : girls, she arranged a bed of leaves, took ; the saddle for a pi low and the saddle blan j ket for a coverlet, and slept soundly till idawn, disturbed only by 'he coal as day I approached and by some cries which she took to be those of a pan her. Her dreams withal, she says, were pleasant. A party of deer hunters found h r the next day and guided her home, none the worse fo a bit ot woodland lite, which, to lowland j ladies, will seem rather trying. . fMnch&sicr Seics. 1 n 1?.. " 1MK PlUIVn missionary ... lrkley, an Eoobh IsniA. writes. oV&ed Cuttack. oK to our door, an lnave been brought dyine tiat ceivea have been t0o we nave res en for nursing and y r?mme 8tr'lc- Aftpr ft fw BKnr Hor. i"e ri'StOTe .v.. fyu-h has closed tne scpne. lenaer ana a lvirj? in verandah, liave irani, morjey to purchase it, with cries tha.t have 1 J . . ' . . -r-e rice, or piercea our nearts. x wo cases ot cainn human flesh have been reported; in the one case it was proved that, the p rson was iupane ; in the other, a child was found eating its dead father's flesh, whuh had b-en roasted, and a few days after the child died Mothers have !eft thir children 5n the maiuan (danhiil) to die, or have sold th.rn for . few pice. In one case, an on ly son was sold for a pint of milky; the mother eagerly draiik it, gave up her child, walked a few steps, and then dropped down do-ad. The dying and the dead have been seen lying in our streets, though this haj not been so much at Cuttack as at Bilasora and some other places. At Pooree it has b ;en common for tha police to find, roomie nfier morning, in the streets and lanes, sixty, seventy, eighty or more corpses ! In the Cuttack dutrict, 3,000 deaths from famine and pesti'ence were repoited in one week, and it is gen erally believed that Balasora and Pooree the distress has been severer than here. Tiie RiuiiTS of the South. TheRadi cal organs grow fiercely indignant over the idea that the South has anv constitu tional rights. They rant about the crimes of purjury, treason, and rebellion, and ask with tiiumphint assurance, what rights can men have to partieip te in a Government ajain-t which they have las ken up aims ? But under the Constitu tion nil that can be claimed about the Southern people is- that they are offending parties. The commission of an offenc-, ho,5ever, does not debar a man from his poli'icil rights, lie must be convictpd of the crime with which he is charged. Now, the people of the Sou hern armies, the re peated protestations of the pres, tha uni versal talk of tlie people, the amnesty proc'ania'ion of the Executive, all com mit this iwion against the prosecution of the great mass of the Southern people. We agreed not to punish if they would return to their alb criance. The abandon ment of the purpose to try, to convict, and to puniah is a complete reinstallment in their former rights, and Radicals violate the national faith in seeking to impose disabilities now that are retroacttve in their nature. Xat Intelligencer. It is a real gratification to see the workmen engaged in repairing the mournfully-battered Lamb Hotel. The injury inflicted upon this property, was one of the most outrageous deeds of vandalism that Williamston suffered during the war. Situated upon a con spicuous part of our Main Street, the sad shattered buildings have kept per- dable enterprise. Expositor. Little Pkople. Little things and lit tle people have often brought great things to pass. Tne large world in which we ex st is made up of little particles as small as the sinih on the sea-ihnrfi. The v:it. g is C()mrio3fcU 0e sruan dr0DS of wate- 'The little busv bees, how much bonev tian may do a great deal of good if he or she will iry. There is nothing like try ing. Dr. Chalmers. Largest Check ever Drawn In the negotiations made a few years since by the English government for a loan of eighty million dollars the tucccssful contractors were the Messrs Rothschild, and havirg been supported by the sub scriptions of friends, they were of course recognized as the acting firm in that important transaction. In paying the first deposit toward this amount to the government, the check tbey drew was for the sum of six million dollars This bank check was probably the larg est ever dawa at once by one private banking house or, if not, was certain ly for a very considerable sum. flow Kentucky yot its Name. When Boone first came to that country, it was the common hunting ground for ail the tribe of the adjacent country. Tbe rich valleys were covered with a chap peral of canes, bearing a small berry, on which the turkeys came in countless numbers to feast. Thu, the whites called it the land of Cane of Turkey. Tbe Indians, trying to pronounce the same words, got it Kane tuckee, from this it was abbreviated iuto Kentuck. and finally tbe name by wbich it is now known Kentucky. mon A grim, hard-headed old Judge, after hearing a flowery discourse from a preten tious young barrister, advised him to pluck out the feathers from th wings of his imagination and stick them in the tail of his judgment. TERMS OP ADVERTISING : : transient rates . One pqcare inch space 1 time, Each subsequent insertion, contract rates. One square one year, One-fourth column, - . , Onohalf column, One column, $1 00 $16 00 0 00, v90 00 1C0 00 Bnsloess Cards occupying a square or less inserted for Twenty Dollars a year. Monthly changes allowed. CURRENT NEWS. " Woman is a delusion but will hug delusions. " men - Uour ten-inoh Tin.lm.nci ' - WrfM. fl be ddcd to the alreadv ?rtrmMM.iL; onroe. heavy failure tak Y 1 ?rJ .D street, New York. rriaay mnrmn at?300,000. Liabilities are placed The New York 777.7 , lev becauso it ,. . " " Javora Owe- Senator who can keep V?L uuvo one 1 i long Biut set sions, and who Vill Forney's " Bourbon bottle." Tl4 -Mr. L. L. Clements, a merchant of Hamiltou," Martin county, in this State on a recent visit to Norfolk, died at the hospital of St. Vincent de Kuj 0f cholera, we 'presume. His renit ;t were escorted to the steamer Orient b the Masonic fraternityj.to be. conveyed home on Friday last. The New York Tribune and Timet are both disgusted with the suggestion of Governor Worth of North Carolina' that the readiest and most satisfactory solution of the negro question in its . present aspects, would be to transfer the freed men from North Carolina to Massachusetts. There are at this time in South Car. , olina eleven cotton factories iu success full operation, running 27,200 spindles J and 006 looms, tbe largest one the Kal- mia Mills, having 10,000 spindles and 600 looms; and the smallest one, the Valley Falls Factory, having 500 spin dles. The capacity of several of these ' factories is to be doubled in the next ' three months. ' A petition is in circulation in Boston and vicinity, and is being numerously : signed, praying Congress to so amend L the Constitution that each and every State of this Union shall determine for itself the status of citizetship and tbd qualification for suffrrge, but in all elec- , tions for Federal officers any proscrip tion on account of race or color shall J nri'iln ' -i 7 'i n.l ItlorY-il .unit 1 .W er Professor Loomis, of Yale College, ' in a letter on the meteoric shower that did not come off, says: The grand dis play which it was supposed might pos sibly occur this year, has not been wit nessed in the United States, and prob ably not in Europe. It may have been witnessed in Asia or tbe Pacifio ocean. The telegraph dispatch published by tbe New Yo-k Herald, purporting to have coma from Greenwich, England, and detailiug the appearance of the me teors there, is evidently spurious. " Tbe message of Governor Orr to tha Legislature of South Carolina takes a very gloomy view of the present aspect ot afJairs. lie attributes the depres sion in the agricultural and business interests of the State to tbe ictolerance of her conquerors. He urges the peo. pie to cultivate habits of industry, and ' in reference to the Constitutional a mendmcnt declares that neither the in terest nor honor of South Carolina will allow her to ratify it. It has already been announced that Don Pedro IL,when on his way to the Paris Exposition, intends to pass through tbe United States, and it is . now s'ated that His Majetty will take advantage of this opportunity to make an exteuded tour through tbo United States. He has long desired to see the country and to witness the pro gress we have made in the arts and sciences. He is a good chemist and . civil engineer, an accomplished lin guist, and a great admirer of American institutions; and be is animated by that desire, so strongly expressed by al most all tbe nations of the world, to make a good friend of tho United States Government. The Grand Jury of the Criminal Court have found a true bill of indict ment against Sanford Conover, alias Charles A. Dunham, for perjury. It will be recollected that this is tbe party who gave evidence before the Judiciary Committee of tbe House of Represent-, tives in April last, intended to impli cate JcfKrson Davis in tbo assassina tion of the late President. The falso charges then sworn to by Conover, ara the grounds of the indictment. Cono ver is in jail. Judge Advocate General Holt, some time since, demanded, under tbe artic les of War, a court of inquiry, for tbe investigation of various charges which have been made against him alike in connection with the Conover testimony, and wi'h bis conduct in tbe prosecu tion of Mrs. Suratt and others, alleged assassins of President Lincoln. The President has declined to order the court, on the ground that he does not deem it neccs-sary to the Judge Aivo cute-General's vindication. x 1
The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.)
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