THE WIDE AWAKE.
FAYETTEYTLLE, DECEJIBER 20, 1870.
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-mcrrcr Vanco's Imtunxraticn-
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As pany of our citizens will proba
bly attend upon the inauguration of
Gorcrnor Vance, vre Lave busied our
Bclf to elicit tbe following particulars
concerning tbe arrangements which
hf.te been made for thai event:
The cfTemony -will take place at 12
O'clock on Monda;, the first day of
January. Ir. Troy, in behalf of the
Inaugural Committee, before he left
Ilalcigh, contracted for the building of
a stage C0x80 feet on the South side
of thd Capitol, arouud the statue ol
"Washington on which the inaugura
tion will take place. The stage will
be raised in the centre where ' the
Supreme Court and State officers will
be seated; around them will be the
General Assembly in session, the in
vitetl guests from a distance, and the
members of the attending Silver Cor
net Bands supposed to be one hun
dred and twenty men, or'lO full bands.
Tbo, military will be deployed off on
either side of the stage, and the sea ol
people will occupy Fayetteville strett
iri front. Govs. Hampton, of S. C,
Kemper, of Va, Tilden, of N. Y., and
Hendricks, of Indiana have betn in
Titetl. The procession at night will be the
grandest thing ever witnessed in this
State. One firm has sold 1200 Chi
nese lanterns for the occasion, besides,
many other dealers have fold large
numbers.
We are glad to see that our Legisla
ture refused to make any appropria
tion ! for the occasion, and that the
large 6tage is built by the privute con
tributions of the democratic -members
of the General Assembly.
We know that many of our citizens
visited the Grand Centennial and be
"held many of the most wonderful
scenca .visible among men, yet this
grand inauguration will afford glory
enough to those who may attend suf
ficient to eclipse the pleasures of all
the exhibitions of Philadelphia or Vi
enna, Therefore, let's all be there on
that j memorable occasion 'with our
transparences and bon fires and .with
our sentiments tuned in harmony with
" those of the noble Statesmen whom we
expect to see high-seated on the stage !
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Hens. W. C- Troy and Geo- M- Bess,
after j a short stay at home since tht
tdjourament of the, Legislature, left
yeiU-rday morning for Morganton and
AsbVille, w! lere they 5go as members
of a Sfecial Committee from tho Leg
islature; to investigate the manage
ment of ti0 Western N. C. Ilailroad,
now .a Stat toad, and to inquire into
th3 managemt of the building of a
State Insane Awium at Morganton.
. .In addition ioShfs important duty
.devolving upon ouXepresentitives, we
are glad to see thatOw.y are placed up
on; variou other comt&tees: Senat r
Troy is Chairman of tiXsenato Com
mittee on Penal insu$jtion3j also
Chairman of joint standiujC0mmittee
on the same. He is talso cxjie yen.
ate Finance committee, an&oix Edu
cation and special committee Estate
debt; and is, too, on committee pro
vide for the inauguration of. Govnipr
Vance. Mr. Troy will go to CbarHW
from the mountains on the 29th. to
the committee in escorting the Govern
or to Raleigh on the 30th. Ir. Rose is
I Chairman of the Committee on Cities,
towns and counties; also on County
governments besides being on tbe ju
diciary committee of the House.
Tho most of Legislation is done in
Committee Rooms, and members who
arb disposed to do their duty have a
great deal more to do than the public
generally is willing to credit them with.
. Th8 Great Bepnblican Conspiracy.
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NEW A5D MORE 8TAETIJNO DETAILS EDMODR
OK VERMONT THE LEA DEB THET MEAN TO
DLHraANCHIE TEN OB TWELVE . DEMO
CRATIC MEMBERS Or THE FOKTY
j FIFTH CONOEEfS.
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Constructing a Sjxvial House cf Iiepre
iriitaliix Esirexly to Supjxjrt Hayes.
The renders of the Sun. will remember that
the text of Senator Edmunds' resolution, under
which the sub-committees of the Committee.ou
Election are now acting. directel the exami
nation to be so conducted to ascertain whether,
iu those electiotis the Constitution of the Uni
teJ States bnd been violated. Thd theory ol
Mr. Edmunds aud his followers, who embrace,
with one or two exception, the entire force iu
the Senate, i that the Helf-prenervative tow-rs
of the Federal Constitution involve the right
of either braoch of Congress to act concurrent
ly w ith the Executive in the event of the other
branch violating or sustaining viohitious of
that instrument They hold that the Houne oi
IleprtteutatiT s is now engaged iu sustaining
or abetting curtain States w hich. ,or citizens ol
which, have j violated the Constitution at tht
la election.! Tin e violations as understood
by Senator Edmunds aud his followers, consist
in denying to certain citizens iu the United
Stats the right to vote for Representatives in
Congress, and abridging the right by iutiruida
tion, Ac. They bold that a certain Congres
sional Districts in Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
l ma, North ''Carolina and South Caroliu..
were carried by the Democrats in a manner
uud by methods which constitute violation of
the Federal Constitution nud the amendme-b
thereto. And bistjy they hoi ! and this is tht
practical end and aim of their whole scheme -that
the Senate and the Executive are bouni
by their oaths to support the Coustitutiou, to
nfu.se to recognize us legally constituted h
House of Representatives in which the Demo
cratic members returned from those district
may lm allowed sits.
The sub-committees of the Senate Committee
on Elections have leguu their work, and thcvf
lull committee will probably not be ready ti
make .its report until very near the 4th ol
March. That report will recite tbat in ten, J
anil per ha j w twelve Congressional Districts in
the State 1 have named, Itepresentatives were
chosen iu violation of the Federal Constitu
tion; that those lleprese:.bttivesare notentitlel
to Keats in Congress, and that any House which
may admit them to seats, is not entitled to re
cognition by! the Senate and the Executive as
the legal House of Itepresentatives of the Fed
erul Congress. The effect of this scheme is hi
once apparent. Counting these ten or twelve
members whom the Senate has selected for
fel rughter in this manner, tbe Democrats can
not have more than Mven or eight majorty i'
tbe next House. If upon the organization 'of
that body, nil the Republican 'member with
draw, leaving only the Democrats, and if oi
the number of Democrats ten or twelve are de
clared to have lieeu elected iu violation of the
Constitution, and hence not entitled to Keats-,
tbe remainder, whose right to sent is not ques
tioned will not constitute a quorum. There
fore, according to the programme of Edmunds
and his followers, tbe Democrats in the House
of the Forty-fifth Congress will be uuable to
organize that body ho us to secure the recogni
tion f tbe Senate and the Executive. But the
Republicans will refuse to joiu the Democrats
iu organizing the House. They will organize
a House of their own and seat enough nieni
lers from these districts to give them a quo
rum, whether they have certificates of election
or not. Aud this House i to lie recoguized by
the Senate and by the new Executive, who.
having been counted " in by frand. shall have
been inaugurated by force. V. 3'. Sn.
The Dan-geil The great nnxiety of
all is the just fear that a President now
seated b force prolongs the power of
the pirtV of force which will p.ipjtu
ato itself j by force, and possibly put an
end to . the civil character of our re
publican System as it was handed down
by our fathers. We suspect that the
American! people are not fully aware
of the danger that hovers over them.
An insatiate Jind ruthless usurper is
treading under his feet every obstacle
in Constitution, law, and custom which
may stand in the way of the accom-
plishment of his purpose to stifle the
national Toice and seat, himself or
Hayes by force of arms. ' j
In October. 1877. electors of Colora
do will vote upon the question of con
rring the right of suffrage upon wo-
ucn. and, small men -have alreadv
K-iAly promised the head of the fami
ly tUch way thev will vote. .1
iTIia Ctiuriir-.TmirnnJ Rnvs Grant can
retire from the Presidential chair with
tlie . proud consciousness ' of having
dine his full dutyto his own family,
fThe Springfield Republican (Inde
pendent) thinks Tilden is more entitled
tcpbe electoral vote lie has got in Or
egon than Haj-es is to those given him
in Louisiana. Correct. !
Mrs. Walker, of Luderdale county,
Tennessee, heard a man under her bed
and taking a revolver from under her
pillow, she jumped out and , opened
tire as only a woman can.. Four buck
negroes crawled out and escaped
through a window. - .
John P. Briscoe, a prominent Demo
crat, and Chancerv Clerk of Claiborne
county. Miss., was assassinated last
Satardav. He was the onlv witness
against some . negroes who fared on a
sheriffs poss in October last.
. Henry "Ward Beecher and others,
trustees of the " Christian Union ' Pub
lishing Company, are being used by
the Victory Webb Type and Press
Manufacturing Company, ,of London
for loss in ordering a press, ruining it
and then returning it as unsuitable.
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The oldest living. Mason in the Unit
ed States is Captaiu Hiram Ferris, of
Fond du Lac. He was initiated at
Whitehall, Washington county, New
York, in 1815 and has therefore been
a Mason sixty-one years.- He is now
eighty-six years s old and voted this
vear for Tilden.
The skeleton of the large whale
which was washed ashore near Beau
fort a year or two ago, anil .which has
hail greatness and: fame thrust. upon it
by the newspapers, arrived in this city
yesterday, for Prof. Kerr, 'who had it
put in the State Museum. The skele
ton weighs 1,000 lbs. llaleigh Xeias.
CENTENNIAL QUESTION-
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WHEN THE OLD CENTURY ENDS AND THE NEW
. ' BEOINS. j
There are &ome questions that nfver seems
to get settled, and here is oue of them, pro
pounded to us for the huudredth time: . i
'Please have the kindness to inform nit
whether the urxt ct ntnry fegins with the first
of January, 11KX), or the first of January,. HXl."
When did the present ceutury legiu 'i Or, to
make it plainer, when did the first ytar or the
first day begin ? At the birth of Christ, ot
course, aud the second year commenced the
very moment the first year was completed, ami
not beiore. Thus the next century la-gins with
tbe first of January 11HJ1, siuce it takes the
hole of the year I'JOO to make up the nine
teenth century.
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Deservedly popular. We mean Dr. Bull's
Cough Syrup, lor it uever fails. Physicians
recommeud it. Price 25 cts.
DIED. I
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In this county, on the 15th insL, Mrs. Mary
Ellis, wife of John C Ellis, Esq., iu the G8th
year of her age. ; I .
The deceased was n consistent member j ol
the Bptist Church for over 40 years.
1877 HERALD. 1877
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TH "OMAS H. - SUTTON,
ATT0ENEY AT LAW,
FAYETTEVILLE N.C.
JEST- Practices in the Courts of Cumberland
Harnett, Bladen andH Columbus, nor 22, Cn
Furniture and Undertaking.
The undersigned keeps always on hand o.
good stock of
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FURNITURE!
(FIHE AD COMM05J. )
. He has recently added to. his business a com
plete assortment of
C Q F ;F I N S ,
ROSEWOOD. MAHOGONY and -WALNUT,
. METALLIC BURIAL CASES,
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Prices mod erate, and all work guaranteed a
o quality. He is prepared to give satisfaction
in all job work and cabinet making.
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PHOTOGRAPHilC.
MESSRS. DODSON & STONE, . Photr
graphers, have re-opened their Art Gallery'
iu Fayetteville, and having increased their fa
facilities for the execution of work in their line,
they respectfully solicit ft continuance of the
patronage of the public, guaranteeing satisfac
tion to all vrho favor them with a trial of their
artistic skill. Life-size pictures taken from the.
smallest locket photographs. . ).
FOUR GEMS FOR 50 CENTS. "
Owing to the stringency of the times, ther
have greatly reduced their charges,' and placed
them on a scale of prices at which no one can
complain, .
Call and see them. Remember, 4 nice pic
tures, for the low price of 50' cents, j
-Pictures taken in india ink a specialty.
DODSON & STONE,
Person Street,
apl29-tf j ... Fayetteville, N. 3.
STABLES ! REMOVED.
R. BURNS
Has removed his LIVERY and SALE STA
BLES to his new tables, recently fit
rpnr of the Ktore of Cole & Gaiuev.
pleased to see bis former, friends and patrons.
FEED IX G A S I EC I A l TY.
Nov. 7, 1876.-
ed up, in
Will be
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THE CONN HOUSE,
SANFORD, N. C. , -
I hereby give notice to the Traveling public
that I have secured the above named houte and -am
prepared to receive transient or permanent
custom at low rates.5 Everything essential to
comfort will lie" provided and board prepared
from the best that can be procured from the
markets of Sanford, Fayetteville and Raleigh
Stop here. " J. M. BRIDGES,
. Nov. 15-tf. . i , Proprietor.
EOWLAFD HOUSE.
LUMBERTOf X. C.
HAVING ASSUMED THE PROPRIETOR
ship of this well-know hotel, I respectful-
ty solicit tne custom t or - me traveling public
and guarantee satisfactory accommodations.
Ai. CARTER, Proprietor.