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PEACK XEGOTI ATI OXS. Another Chapter of the History t of the Rebellion Northern Dem ocrats Traitors .to the Uiiloii. . St. Catherines, C. W.t September 12, 1801. Hon. J. I. Benjamin, Secretary of State, :Dichinond, Va., C. S. A.: Sib: I addressed you on 11th of Au gust last, in explanation of the circum- stances inducing, attending-, and fol lowing the correspondence of Mr. IIoI combe and myself with the Hon. Horace Greeley. Subsequent events have confirmed my opinion that we lost nothing and gained much by that correspondence. It has, at last, formed an issue between Lincoln, and the South, in which all her people should join with all their might and means.--Even his Northern opponents believed, up to the meeting of the Chicago Con vention, that the same issue would be decided against him by the people of the United States in November next. All of the many intelligent men from the United States with whom I. con versed agreed in declaring that it had given a stronger impetus to the peace party of the North than all other caus es combined, and had greatly reduced the strength of the war party. They thought that not even a majority of the Republicans would sustain Lincoln's ultimatum, laid down in his' rescript, "To whom it may concern.". Indeed, Judge Black stated to us that Stanton admitted to him . that it was . a grave , blunder and would defwtfc-lrtneoln, un less he could counteract it oy some de monstration. 7 of his willingness to ac rfnt other terms In other V0rds, to restore the Union as it was Judge B. wished to know if 2Jr. Thompson would go to Washington to discuss the tfrms ofneace. and proceed thence to Richmond; saying that Mr. Skmton desired him to do so, and wou!d send him a safe conduct for that purpose. I doubt not that Judire B. came at the instance of Stanton. Mr. .Win. C. Templeton an acauaintance of the planter In the Mississippi bottoms, and a temporary resident of New Jersey, and reDutedlv a man of wealth before the war, has been here repivsentin that C. S. Baylor is in New York, an was at the Chicago Convention, claim ing to be a Peace Commissioner lrom the State of Georgia, duly atrredited bv Gov. Brown, and urging at; armis tico and Convention of States. T. wished to see Mr. Thompson and to ursre him to accent a safe conduct to Washington, which Baylor was author ized to say would be furnished with a view of arranging such preliminaries forpeacei Templeton has gone to To ronto to see Mr. Thompson on the sub ject. I had no acquaintance with Mr. Templeton before meeting him here. I have known Mr. Baylor well enough a . i " - t? i : . -not io piace implicit reliance upon ma statements. Still, as he is walking abroad in New York, and traveling ad libitum in the United States, I, believe he has been to Washington and hits the authority he claims from there. I do not credit his being sent out by Gov. Brown. Templeton said Baylor objected to his communicatinjr the above facts to me, because I was identified with the "Davis dimasty." and not likely to agree to any terms of peace that would be unacceptable to the President "You may have remarked, that The New York Time maintains, as by au thority, that the rescript declares one mode of making peace, but not lite only one The abler organs of the adminis tration seize this suggestion and hold it ud in vindication of Lincoln from the charge that he is waging war to abol ish slavery, and will not agree to peace until that end is achieved. Mr. Seward, too, in his late speech at Auburn, N. Y., intimates that slavery is no loncrer an "issue of the war. and that it will not be interfered with after peace is declared. These, and other facts, indicate that Lincoln is dissatis fied with the issue he has made with the South, and fears its decision. I am told that his purpose is to try to show that the Confederate Govern ment will not. entertain a proiosition for peace that does not embrace a dis tinct recognition of the Confederate States, thereby expecting to change tho issue from war for abolition to w?r for the Union. lie thinks a majority of the .Northern people will oppose In in on the Issue he has made, but may sup port him on that he. desires to make. It Is that be will send Commissioners to Richmond in order to develop the ultimatum of our Government. If he do. it seems to me our true im1- icy is not to make such development, cr to receive Commissioners, unless they come duly accredited to make. peace: and in that event to demand their conditions and respond to them without suggesting ours. It is well enough to let the North and European Nations believe that reconstruction is not impossible. It will inflame the spirit of peace in tho North, and will encourage the disposition of Lngland and France to recognize ana treat with us. Most of our true friends from the thought itivould be very unwise in the South to do anything tending to the defeat of McClellan. 1 hey argued thus: Peace may be made with him on terms you wm accept, ivi an evems, uv is Ml A. A A. II . . , I. r - committed by the platform to cease hostilities and to any negotiation. That LlTgreaTc6nce!T6nf and the War Democracy. "An armistice will inevitably result in peace ; the war cannot be renewed li once stopped, even ior a snort lime. The North is satisfied that war cannot restore the Union, and will destroy their own liberties and independence if prosecuted much longer." "If McClellan be elected, the real in debtedness of the Government will be exposed, for his own sake and to damn the Republicans. The war must stop when that is known." (Judge Black says it is not now less than five thousand millions, and such is t lie com mon opinion expressed to me.) "Again, your showing a preference for McClellan will aid liim, increase the desire and disposition for peace in the North, and will foster the revolu tionary spirit in me isorinwest in case of Lincoln's election, which may be effected by feree or fraud. "The platform means peace, uncon ditionally; Vallandigham and Welles framed it ; it is recognized as satisfac tory y nearly all the delegates at the the Convention, and by The Neic York, News and other peace papers. McC. will be under the control of the true peace men. Horatio, or T. II. Sey mour, is to be Secretary of State ; Val landigham, Secretary of War. McC. is privately pledged to make peace, even at tho expense of separation, if tho South cannot be Induced to reconstruct any common government. Thevalso assure me that the speech es, and the prevailing sentiment of tho iKonleatchicasro. were for peace, un conditional I v. And this was theim- pression of. the escaped prisoners there, of whom there were near 70, with whom I have conversed. They say McC. was nominated for his availability. v f On tho ' other hand. some, of our friends express a hope that Lincoln will be elected on these grounds : That McC. has, at, West Point and Ticon deroga, declared for war till tho Union is restored, and can accept only with reunion; that .'he- can raise an army and money .to carry on the war, but Lincoln cannot; "that the Republicans will sustain him in making- war, and in addition to them many Democrats; that he will infuse new life, hopes, and vigor into the war party ; that foreign nations will. wait, longer on him than on Lincoln before interfering or recog nizing the South ; that the platform is in accordance with McC's speeches, and docs not commit him to peace, ex cept on the ljasis of Union ; that Val landisrham betraved them for a prom ise of a seat in McCs cabinet: thatf Lincoln's election will produce revo lution in the Northwest; McClellan's will not." . . - Such are the arguments, .. briefly stated, of the Peace men who6upport or who oppose McClellan's election. Perhaps our true policy' is to keep our own counsels, withhold "any further declaration of purpose, ' and' let the so called petJce party of the North have no excuse for laying -its defeat at our door, if Lincoln should bo re-elected. By declaring for Lincoln rather, ihan McClellan we may drive the friends, of the latter ntq a position of hostility to us as implacable and. bitter, as that of the Republicans.1 Yet, since reading McCs letter of acceptance; I see no reason for preferring him to, Lincoln. I am induced to think, from the'in timations of the peace papers and of in dividuals, that there will be a consid erable minority of the - Democracy' of the North who will .not vote for Mc Clellan, and that they may put up some other candidate. .. . , . . M :. His nomination has not been greeted vention at Chicago. Perhaps the fall of Fort Gaines and . Morgan,, and of At lanta, may have caused the apparent ehansre of feelinr in the North.; It is thought those events caused McClellan to ignore the platform, or the construc tion given it by the unconditional Fence men, in his letter of acceptance remember that Dr. Mackay said dur ing Jiis visit here about three weeks since, that the iNortncrn people were as unstable and capricious as spoiled children, and that although a largo majority seemed resolved for peace, the capture of Richmond or Atlanta would cause most of them to renew their shouts for war. Certainly they fare greatly encouraged by those captures, and seem persuaded that the end of the "Rebellion" is near at hand. The Republican papers now urge Lincoln to enjploy all of his Navy, if necesary, to seal up the port of Wilmington, which, they say, will cut us off from all foreign supplies and soon exhaust our means for carrying on the war. I . You may look with confidence to an attack on Fort Fisher erd long. I have been freciuentlv asked by men of Southern birth, residing in the North, whoso desire for an independence I do hot doubt, whether we could support an army lor six months alter the port of Wilmington was sealed. -.'". Upon the whole, I am confirmed in the opinion I entertained, and often, ex pressed before coming here, that' the peace leeiing or the iNortn fluctuates with vicissitudes or the war, increasing with their reverses and diminishing with ours. They will not consent to peace without reunion while they be lieve they can subjugate us. j As to revolution in the jSorthwest, or anywhere in the United States, I am growing skeptical. The men who gave us strongest assurances or the purpose of the "Sons of Liberty" to rush-to arms, if any other illegal arrest? was nmde, or any other abuse of private rights committea, are now in prison or fugitives in Canada. I Their houses have been broken open, their arms and private papers seized. and other wrong done them, without exciting anything more than a feeble protest from their friends. The people who would resist such outrages need a leader, aud I fear they will not find one. I Many of them would join our army k I J A X- SA xi : 1 if they could get to it, but they may be forced into that of our enemy. iThey would resist the draft if they were not deterred by the large police force that is sent to enforce it. I I am assured by those who havqi been on the Ohio river, and the roada lead- ing across it, that recruits for the army of Sherman are being sent forward daily. Lincoln will exert his utmost power to. sustain Sherman and Orant in their present positions in order to knows that insure his re-election. He a great disaster to either of them would defeat him. . i RIr. Thompson will. I presume, ex uhurthowthe plans for the release of prisoners failed. He took that matter uuder his peculiar and almost exclusive control, ana l Knew scarcely anytning ofdt until everything was determined, save the time of execution. Mr. liolcombe will probably carry this communication to you, and can ex plain1 more fully than I can do on paper our operations here. ' He has remained here at the instance and request of JUr. T. and' myself, -to await tho result of the enterprises alluded to above. He has bo-Operated with us earnestly and actively .in .all i our efforts, and has sometimes expended the public money in his hands to promote the objects of our mission. I Indeed, I am indebted to! him for most of the money which I have .used ; but Mr. Thompson has. since Mr. San ders was started to Richmond, put in my hands-all the funds I asked for. aim more man l shall nrobablv em- piov.; When Mr. liolcombe 1 left, the, result . 1 of the measures for the release of our prisoners was not known, and. on that account, he transferred to me the bal . , r ' ance of money on deposit to his 'credit in the bank at this place, that I misrht use it in affording those who had es caped or micrht escane tho necpsairv transportation to Wilmington. He left here at the instance of Mr. Thompson and myself, for reasons which he will explain. : I have the honor to be, Yen" resDectfullv. lt '' Your ob't. servant,' U.U.CLAY. -,JR. . i ne statistician oi an ijastern paper avers that the flies are so good-natured this jsoaspa' that a well-organized one will allow himself to be brushed off an editor's nose , eighty-seven times and not show any temper. ' , j The man who never told an editor how he could better his paper hasgono out West to marry the woman who never looked into a looking glass . rr I i a . I ns rordinllv ni was anticipated, and the , professedly T?onni,lirns nrn videntlv in . better President, a Rnirita thnn thpvr uvm hnfnre tho Con Thrilling Adventure of Paulino :7I - . Lucca. - " ' . ;" London Correspondence of Homo Journal. The Royal Italian opera. Co vent gar den, closed on Saturday, the 20th inst., with Meyerbeer's great masterpiece, "IEtoiledu Nord." Talking with a ifrierid about the principal features of the season, I had, naturally, much to say; about Madame Pauline Lucca. After a time 'our. conversation lurneu upbn her higti qualities in private life her'ikind-heartedness, affection, gener- fi! S . I.V. nnl nnnlntinn ositv and courage. For cool resolution, the. following I incident, related to me by iny, friend, cannot well be surpassed. Madame Pauline Lucca usually resides in the: Victoria Strasse, Berlin. Last spring, however, she occupied, tempor arily, at some distance outside the city, ha gartenhaus, (or. country house, con sisting oi oniy a spacious, ramonng basement story, surrounded by a ve randa.) . One night, about 10 o'clock, she was sitting there in her bedroom. Her chair was placed before her toilet table, which was lighted by a wax ta per , on each side of the glass. The two tapers, were not sufficient to illuminate the ; room very brilliantly, and the further end lay buried in a sort of semi obscurity.' Madame Lucca was busy reading some letters concerning en gagements, when suddenly she imag ined, she-heard a noise. She looked round, but, seeing nothing, concluded she made a mistake, and resumed the perusal of theetters. She. had forgot ten all about tiie noise when she heard it again. This time, instead of looking round, she happened, without moving her head', merely to raise her. eyes to the glass. She beheld reflected in it! the face-of a (man peering cautiously from put a cupboard behind her. At firsts she fancied she was dreaming. She quietly looked again. No, it was no dream. There was the man, whom she npw recognised as having been for merly in her service, whence he had been discharged for general bad beha vior.' f She had also suspected him of Eurlolning several objects which she ad rnissed from time to time, but not beingl certain on this point, she had kept; her suspicions to herself. Yes, there ho was;: there could be no mis take about the matter. Madame Luc ca's fitst impulse was to start up and give? the alarm. But there was not another habitation within a mile or two, 4ud she recollected that the only person! beside herself in the house was her maid, who, though a very good girl, ifind extremely attached to her mistress was by no means celebrated for her nerve. The other servants, in cluding the gardener and coachman, had been granted permission to attend a friend's wedding some miles off, and werejiot to return till the next day. It flashed across her mind that the man, who, as she knew, had been loitering about the neighborhood for two or three days,- had learned rfhat she would be alone;; and meant to rob the house, or Eerhapis murder, if his project of rob ery could not be executed without the perpetration of the greater crime. What-was to! be done? Again she glanceu toward the mirror. The eyes lifii ii L l 1 xi l- were sun mere, gianug on ner inrougn the gloom. All at once she remem bered ithat a revolver belonging to her husband, the Baron von Rhaden, ought to bejilying on a shelf in the dining room ; but she! was not quite'sure. " If it is there, and if I could only get it," she thought, r"I should not mind!" While she was1 reflecting, a knock was heard on the door oj. the room. She saw the man instantly draw back into the cupboard-! and close it after him. She felt relieved that those two horri ble ey&3 were taken off her ; they seem ed to pierce her like daggers. "Comeinl" she said. Her maid en tered; f " I thought you had gone to bed, my good gtrl," observed Madame Lucca, in a tone of unconcern. " I XVas going, please your ladyship but I-Ul thought you might perhaps want spmething," replied the maid. "I ttold you I would be my own chenimfy d4 chambre to-night. No; the the only thingll want is to stretch my limbs; h little,' for they are cramped from long sitting." Sneaking thus. Madame Lucca arose with ah air of admirably acted indiffer- ance, and tooK a turn or two across the room ri passing close to the cupboard as she did. so. She afterward declared she thought she could hear the man breath in his hiding place. He, on his part, might have heard her heart beat, she said, when, on looking at the keyhole, she fouid the key had been removed. She was foiled n her plan, which had been todock him in. still her presence of mind did not desert her. "h; dear me!" she said, gaping, " I feel very sleepy!" "Sleepy, your ladyship! I wish I did," replied her maid. "I don't feel sleepy. j I'm too frightened!" " Frightened I What are vou fright ened off you foolish goose ? Nonsense!" replied iMadame Lucca. Oh I begging your ladyship's par don, it is not nonsense, and that's just it! Hdw can you be sure that some boseieicht ? (villian) some tavgenicht, (good-for-nothing fellow,) hearing you and I are all alone in the house, may not murder us in our beds? But he shan't murder the in mine; for,' with your ladyship's) permission, I will set up ani night in your ladyship's easy chair.'?! I Madame Pauline Lucca glanced at thecuDboard. Her blood ran cold: she thought sjxe..saw Cthe . handle .turn, What course was she to adopt? She dared not give her maid the slightest hint of the real Lstate of matters: she felt the girl would go into a fit then and there, and thus bring on a crisis. Scarcely knowing what she was doing, piaa&me iucca replied at random : " Murder us! What for?" " Whit for, your ladyship? Why, for ypuc money--for your jewels, to be sure: everybody knows you have plenty df them IV t The girl might have been unconsci ously! sharpening, so to speak, the knife by which she and her mistress were doonied;to perish. "What absurity!" said iMadame Lucca, ; with a forced laugh. As she spokQ her eye wandered from the key hole of the dreaded cupboard to that of an adjoining' room. In J;he latter therei was a key. Her face flushed. aud a,' smile, as it were, of proud inspi ration lighted it up, though only for a second. r "Jewels," she replied. "Why, every one with; a grain 'of sense must know II . T J 1 1.1 A 1 A f 1 . mat x ijiioum cot onng mem aoout me as a rule. Thev. of course, are gen erally safe'under lock and key at Ber lin, it js a strange thing. though, Editha, that to-day is an exception. I expected the Countess von Wartenstean to call, r;and I brought down all the jewels presented to me at my last visit to St.jPetersburgh, to show her." " Ypur ladyship did? Oh, but sup posing a thief "Well, if a thief did know it, he might easily make his fortune!" she observed, interrupting her companion.1 '' By murdering us, and1 running on with thfiiowols!" Madame Lucca glanceu t at ,ine cup hoard t,hfnl raisincr her voice. She continued : ' ;7 . Oh ! there woulcfbe no necesity for murder. The door which leads from that room to the garden is unlocked; I forgot to lock it. A thief would merely have to walk in from the garden, and take my jewel case from the table near the window. TT miVht make ' his es- ; cape richer by 60,000 or 70.000 thalers, and never be detected. ! That's better 4-1-rv mn.J aa.Ia !o St nntf" ': ' than murdering rxmle.is it not"' "Oh! vesvour ladyship. And he might get over to England or Amer- Wothinsr easier." ' replied Madame LuVV "However, that reminds me. I mJ, Vi well lock the door4 leading into tJarden. Bun Into the dining room. You'll find the ky on the table. Do notKbe long." " ' ' T ' . "No, your ladyship, I will not; trust me for that " said the girl.; " Editha ! Editha 1" cried - Madame Lucca, an instant afterward. "I have made a mistake. T The key is in the baron's study. Pshaw! she does not hear me," , she continued, speakiiig. aloud. , "I must goand' fetch ,it my self." f- Vr.v -t..r-'- -: ' , With these words, she left the room. No sooner had she done so, then the door of the cupboard, cautiously open ed. A man put hi. heaa out-ana glanced aroumjCr "rtatr no one. he dartedTnto the atoihing chamben. ' The next instant the door was shut to and locked behind him ! But riot by him ! By Madame Lucca ! When she left the room,' she did not proceed two spaces; she stood outside, listening. As . she -wTas in, darkness, . she t could, without being visible- herself, see all that was passing in her . bed-chamber. She beheld the stranger leave his hid ing place and dart Into the adjoining room. She glided after him with the steadiness of a tigress, and the courage of a heroine." The reader knows what followed. . :.:.:M:;'.V-.-,i- !";:. :-. ' " Attrappirt " ("Caught I") she cried, rushing across the room with the key in her hand.; " T: 1 . " I can't find any-" began Editha entering the bed-chamber. But Mad- ame Lucca, pushing her 'one side.'dis- appeared. ditha looKea after her in a mute astonishment, till . her mistress re-entered with a revolver in her hand. " Oh ! your ladyship ! wha-a-a-at's that?" inquired the maid, with a strong presentiment that all was not right. " The baron's revolver; thank good ness!" replied Madame Lucca. " Why thank goodness your lady ship?" inquired the maid. Madame Lucca pointed to the door. Some one on the other side was turning the handle. Editha turned deadly pale, and dropped the lamp she was carry ing. Presently there was a knocking, and a voice exclaimed: "Open this door directly, or " The rest was inaudible. Editha's screams drowned aught else.' Madame Lucca waited until the girl's first stock of breath was exhausted, and her sec ond not yet arrived ; she then said with comic severity, " Editha ! if you are not quiet, I will begin by shooting you!'r Editha thought, apparently, that her mistress was in earnest, for "the poor girl immediately rammed a large por tion of the nearest towel in her mouth,' and restricted herself to swaying to and fro, and sobbing violently. The knocking grew more aud -mdfre; violent, but the door was massive oak and im-, movable. ; - ; " : : J " My friend," cried Madame Lucca, in a loud voice, "you are caged. The garden door is as tightly fastened as this one, and the window is secured.7 Do not attempt to open the latter, for I am going into the garden, and the in stant that ! see you try to escape, you are a dead man !" Flinging open the door which lead to the veranda she went out, followed by Editha, who in her despair, had succeeded in pushing more of the towel in her mouth. The noise of. a bolt be ing drawn wras heard. "Stand aside, my friend!" said Madame Lucca, " or you are a dead man !" A sharp report followed, ac companied by the sound of crashing wrood and splintered glass. There! that is one barrel out of six. That is merely to show that I am arm ed. You had better remain quiet." The visitor also was seemingly of this opinion, for he did not renew the at tempt. When the servants returned next morning, they found Madame Lucca quietly reading under the veran da before the window. They were rather surprised, however, at perceiving she had a six barreled revolver in her hand, and Editha what appeared to be the end of a towel sticking out of her mouth. A few words explained the whole affair, and in about an hour, afterward the would be thief who, as it was proved, would have been ready to turn assassin as wrell, was safely at the nearest Polizeibureau. " Talk of generalship, said my friend, as he concluded his story, " was not the stratagem of the jewels, ' by' which Madame Lucca lured the thief into the room destined to be his dungeon, a magnificent idea! Moltke himself never did any thing to beat it !" : An Ethiopian Changing his Skin. Henry Winston is a mulatto resident of this place. He was born in North Carolina, and is : now about -fifty years oi age, according to his t own account. About seven years ago Henry's skin commenced turning white, or assum ing the lighter color and clear transpa rent hue common to the Caucasian race, since which time his f skin has been gradually changing, until he is now about two-thirds white, and he is as spotted as any leopard. The change has been going on gradually, but with out any regularity as to locality. Spots on his hands, arms, face and body are of as clear a color as that of any Euro pean, while tie surrounding spots are in some places almost black, in others brown, and still others of a light yel low, the different shades marking the different degrees of progress of the change. The changed part of the skin, while possessing the clear, rosy tint of the Caucasian, retains the appearance of coarseness common to the African race, but is extremely sensitive to the light and heat of the sun. The health of this person has been uniformly good, and he can assign no reason whv his skin should change. Cblwnbus (Ky.) sr, b - .r M Lstoyiu.i'i. . vi ' .... A "Lpfivenworth editor rlnpsn't now Spend time, watching the little busy wasp that gathered lint in his sanctum to make its nest. He came in one day and did not observe that the wasp was sitting in his chair. ; ; : , Are auctioneers naturally a forbid ding class of men?" ;' ; .-' 7 - ".J. Autumn lea ves when Winter coirics in. . ' - -: ;- ' i -1 . -The science of sorrow -Sigh-ehology. J M r7." I ..x,. TV : - vaiutrupi - Property. . ; On Tuesday, tho 8th day of October, 1872, I shall sell to tno hignosc niuaer, ior casn, in tho town of Louis burg, in Franklin countv. North Carolina, the tract of land on which Archibald Taylor now lives, about four miles west, of Fotis' gold mine, in Franklin county, North Carolina, contain ing, by said A. Taylor's Schedule, 2,271 acres. This is a very valuable and produc tive tract of land, a large portion of which is in original growth, with about 500 acres of rich low grounds on it. ; It also has all necessary outhouses, such as barns,, stables, tc and a store house for merchandising; also, a splendid dwelling house, large and commodious, built at considerable cost. f On this land, being near Potis' gold mine, is a cold ' mine. . pronounced bye competent judges to be very rich, perhaps the richest in North Carolina. , r ? , - At the same time and place, X shall , sen for cash, to the highest bidder, between 200 and 300 accounts, duo bills,' notes, receipts, fcc, ! amounting to about $5,000. Persons wishing to make a good investment of their funds, would do well to have an eye to this tract of land, as it is very valuable, ;, , , RICHARD W. HARRIS, Assignee v of the' Estate of Archibald Taylor. Oxford, N. C, Aus. 15, 1872. 11 w3w i ' i TREASURY, DEPARTMENT,' - State ot north Carolina; - ' Baleiffn, September 4tK 1872: To the Slierifls of Nortli Carolina. The following question has been presents ed to this Denartment : ' :- "' " Are Sheriflfe in counties where a' succes sion occurred, in" that' office by the .recent election, who liad received into their posses sion the tax lists for tho present year before the first Monday in September, required tq collect all of the taxes onaid Usta or surrender-the lists, and moneys, already Col lected thereon, to their successors?" -1 , It is clear that the Sheriff who had pre viously received the tax lists is entitled to retain the same and complete the collection of: the taxes lor ; the present year, notwitn standing: his successor-may bo inducted in to office before the expiration of the time when the Sheriff's tax'accountsfor the year are closed. ; The outgoing Sheriffs will be held ac countable for the prompt payment of the Section 34. Schedule B.; of the "Act to raise revenue," contemplates the closing of the Sheriff's account of taxes for the year under said Schedule, on the fourth Monday in septemDer, tnereiore, an taxes oi saia Schedule collectable previous to that date must be collected and accounted for by the outgoing Sheriff, and all such taxes collect able subsequent to that date must be col lected bv his successor and accounted for in the taxes for the year 1873. - D. A. JENKINS, 39 It. i State Treasurer. Weekly Sentinel copy one time. Wilmington North Carolina LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. ; OFFICERS: ROBERT H. COWAN, JOHN W. ATKINSON, F. II. CAMERON, DR. E. A. ANDERSON, President. Vice President. Secretary. Medical Direc'r . - DIRECTORS: ; , ; . 3 W Atkinson. General Insurance Acrent I B Granger. President of the Bank of New Hanover, v ' ; v - . " F W Xerchner, Grocer and Commission Mercnanu . .-- . . . ,- CM Stedman. of Wrieht andetedman. T JI McKoy, of W A Whitehead & Co., ayetteviiie. - , - t, - ; R H Cowan, President. ' ' . VvH B Ellers, Commission Merchant. A A Willard. of Wlllard Brothers. U . W A Cumming, of Northrop fe Cumming. G W Williams, of Williams & Murchison. Eli Murray, of E Murray fc Co. : A J DeRossett. of DeRossett & Co. Robert Honning, of Dawson j Teel fe Hen- ning. AlexSprunt. British Vice-Consul,- of Sprunt and Hinson. P Murphv, Attorney at Law. J D WUliams, of'J D Williams Co., Fayetteville. Jas C McRae, Att'y at Law, Fayetteville ' I li Kedy, Merchant, Kenans ville. J T Pope, Merchant, Xumberton. ' SPECIAL FEATURES AND ADVANTAGES. 1st." No restriction on Residence or Travel. 2. No extra charge on the lives of Females. 3. 4. Policies Incontestable after Five Years. The Rates of Interest on the Funds of the Comoanv hisrher than those on the Funds of Companies located in other States, thus insuring larger Dividends to. Policy Holders. , ; - ,. 5. The Directors and Officers of the Com pany are prominent NORTH CAROLI NIANS, who are KNOWN to be men of INTEGRITY and-WORTH. ' ' 6. The Commnv is established on a solid and permanent basis, steps having been taken to increase the . CAPITAL STOCK OF $500,000. 7. ALL THE FUNDS OF THE COM PANY ARE INVESTED IN THIS STATE AND CIRCULATED AMONG OUR OWN PEOPLE. This fact should commend the Company, above all others, to North Caro linians. It is well known that hundreds of thousands of dollars in - Life Premiums are annually sent North to enrich Northern Capitalists, thus continually draining our people of immense amounts which should bo kept at home.' On this ground the friends of this Company confidently appeal to every son of the Old North state, ana ask tneir support for this pHOME - INSTITUTION, which, while it offers substantially all the advantages of Northern Companies, helps to build up HOME INSTITUTIONS. AGENTS WANTED in every county in the State, with whom the most liberal terms will be made. Apply to : ' ' JAMES D. BROOKS, i General Supervising Agent, ' : or, THEO. H. HILL, Local Agent, apr 24 w6m. Raleigh, N. C. jpOTICE TO CLAIMANTS. - All persons having filed claims against the United States for property taken for the use of the army during the war, and not having had testimony taken in their cases, are hereby notified to communicate with the ' undersigned at Chapel Hill, N. C.,. or witn1 Thomas llampson,-at Club house, Hillsboro' street. Raleigh, N. C, stating mat they do not intend to prosecute their claims any further, or at what time they desire to have their testimony taken. ' It is hi ghly desirable that all claims not eom- pleted should be attended to immediately. i i ELMORE W. WOODS ELMORE W. WOODS. ; , Special Commissioner. 11 w3w.! JO FIN ARMSTRONG, - -I No. 1 Fayettevillk Street, '' RA LEIGH, N. C, ..vV B O O It JB I N D K It, ' And . Blank Booh Manufacturer. Newspapers. Magazines. and Law Books. of every description, bound In the very best style, and at lowest prices. ; : . Old numbers of Supremo Court Reports taken jn exchango for binding. tf. STATE OF NORT1I CAROLINA, Tkkasuiiy Department. ' " llalcigh, April 2i, 1872. " The following act is published for the in formation of tho holders of bond s of th St&to of North Carolina. Tho undersigned, in compliance with the requirements of tho act, hereby invito pro posals, to be forwarded to this, Department on or before the 10th day of October, 1872, for an exchange of the stocks of this State in ' any Railroad company, or other corpora tion, for the bonds of the State. Said pro posals must be sealed and endorsed " Pro posals for Exchange ofState Stocks." It is deemed unnecessary to set forth the details of exchange, as the act is explanatory of. itself. . D. A JENKINS, i . otate Treasurer, . , . . W. M. SHIPP, ' ' ; Attorney General.! A2)f ACT for Exchanging the Stocks of the State for Hdnds with which such Stocks ' were obtained and for other purposes. , ' Sec. 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : That the Public Treas urer and Attorney General shall advertise for six months in such newspapers as they may select, and invite proposals for an ex change of the Stocks held by the State in any Railroad or other corporation, for the bonds , by which tho State acquired such stocks ; or any other bonds of the State (not special tax) where the stock is not specially pledged for the redemption of bonds issued to such corporation ; such bid3 shall bo opened on day appointed, and those terms 'be accepted which may be most advantage ous for the State ; rovxaea; Tnat m no event shall any of the said stocks be exchanged for less than their par value, or for less than three bonds of same nominal value, issued in aid of Chatham Railroad,' January 1st, 1863 ; ' and provided further, No stock in the N orth Carolina Railroad sha 1 1 De exenangea j unless in- thesamo offer it is proposed to take twenty shares of stock in the North Carolina Railroadj Jten shares in the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, and twenty shares in the Western North Carolina Rail road Company '(Eastern Division,) and to pay therefor two bonds of one thousand dol lars each of the State, issued to the North Carolina Railroad under acts of 1848-'49, chapter eighty-two, or' 1854-'55, chapter thirty-two, one bond of one thousand dol lars, issued to the Atlantic and North Car olina Railroad, under acts 1854-'55, . chapter two hundred and thirty-two," or acts of 1856, chapter seventy-four and seventy-six, and two bonds of one thousand dollars, is sued to the Western North Carolina Rail road (Eastern Division,) acts of 186G-'67, chapter one hundred and six or in the aforesaid proportion. i Sec. 2. That any Railroad or other cor poration, which has heretofore received bonds of the State in exchange for bonds of said corporation or person holding sucn State bonds, shall be entitled to a surrender of a bond of such corporation, upon the re turn to the Treasury of any State bond of equal amount, issued under the acts of the General Assembly dr Ordinances of the Convention, authorizing such exchange, and upon a return of all bonds issued un der any particular act or ordinance, the cor- poration snail oe entitled to a cancellation and surrender of any mortgage executed to the State for securing payment of such cor poration bonds, or State bonds ; coupons on said bonds may be exchanged in like man ner and cut off and retained on either side to make equality. Sec. 3. To facilitate the exchange proposed in this act, the State does hereby relinquish all claim for stock in the Western Railroad above one million one hundred thousand dollars, and surrenders to the said Company two hundred and twenty-five thousand dol lars coupons now in Stole Treasury witn- held on a former exchango of ; Company bonds for stock in said Railroad ; and also the State does hereby relinquish all claims to stock in said company above six hundred thousand dollars upon the return" tor the Treasury of .the five hundred thousand dol lars of Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruther ford company bonds, ted coupons . hereto- fevres iasmArt tn saifl WfiJtRrn TJjiilrnad mm. pany; Jirovided, ThaTlny person acquiring a sharo of State-tock in said corporation, shall benentitledvto aiisHgnts and1 privileges with the private stockholders in voting, and In the election of the djflectors whose num ber shall be determined by the stockholders of said company. Th State also relinquish es all claim to stock in the Western North Carolina Railroad above four millions of dollars. :! ' ' Sec. 4. That as soou as the proportion of shares of stock for which the State appoints one director in any corporation, is exchang ed, the right oi the State to appoint such director shall cease and determine, and on director to be selected by lot shall bo deii ducted from the number appointed on the part of the State ; and upon acceptance of this act by any corporation and such guar antees given for its fulfillment as shall be deemed, sumcient by tue Treasurer and Attorney General, all further rights to rep resentation by the State either by directors or proxy, snail cease and determine. Sec. 5. Tnat as soon as may be practica ble, the Public Treasurer shall receive the bonds offered in exchange, and in the pres ence of the Auditor and Attorney General, shall cancel the same. It shall also be his duty to transfer the stocks and execute such conveyances of the other interest hereinbe fore mentioned as shall be deemed necessa ry, sucli conveyance to do in a ioj m ap proved by the Attorney General. I Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the Auditor to make a minute of what shall bo done by the Treasurer in the premises, and to make therefrom such, entries in the books of his office" as may secure a just accountability on the part of the Treasurer because of the transaction hereinbefore mentioned. Sec. 7. The Pablic Treasurer shall make special reports upon the subject of this act to the General Assembly at every session. Sec. 8. That this act shall be in lorcolrom and after its ratification. Ratified the 1st day; of February, A. D., 1872. .''it 44 wtd. W. T. ADAMS. T. R. ADA iM. V. T. A13A31S & SON, Manufacturers and Dealers in S T E A. M EiN G I N 12 H saw and ;msT ?;ii,i,s', Plows, llarrous, Cultivators, Hoisting- ITjacIiiiics, - ; and all kind of i CASTINGS. :- I All work neatly and promptly executed, by skilful workmen, on tho most reasonable terms. ' i ! . ' Tiie senior partner has had over 40 years experience in the business, and lee Is justified in saying that he can give entire satisfaction; WAWTJiD 100,000 pounds old Cast Iron. for whichhe highest market price will bo paid, in cash or exchange for work. . Works one Square West of Coiirttonsc Raleigh, Aug. 13, 1872. 9--w3ni. qo CLAIMANTSi Claimants desirim? testimony taken in cases (not exceeding '$5,000 each) now pend ing against the United States, for Stores or Supplies, taken or furnished during the Rebellion, for the use: of the Union army. will write to mo at once, as I am now ready to officiate in that capacity. J. N. SNELSUN, Special Commissioner, 6 w6w. Asheville, . C. : AND FOR SALE ! 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