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the sentinel: a "IT WSJ, E. PEI-L, Slttte Printer. H KATES OF A1VI;UTISI. TFKMS OF SlHlSCUJITIO. 1b eirnitatiea ofths Ssaiissi, makej it one of th most deairahle mediums of advertising In the State.: .'..;. . ' , - i ' AdrertuemenU, occupying the roe,of 10 lines of miaioa type or kn, which w esll aqaar,wehrge u follows fur InMTtioB ! th weekly z, Th W'llLI hUtTiNEi. la punliuM ,viry Monday Miii Wihi.! on friturday and Wedi-daya - Terms : Weekly, year, la advaae, 1 1 01) 6eii weekly, ont jew, in advance, 5 00 - Borni weekly, six months in' advance, 60 Dni'y, one year, 11(0 Dail, six muBtfaf, .. .4 00 i Dily, thnwmimtln, 3 00 ' ilejiy. oh month, 1 0 ' -'- - - , . " WEEKLY. For ene tneortion, For two luiorliom, For one aiuoth, ( For two months, : ' For IX months, For on yer,.f.,v; . 4 - i 0(1 - I HOUI.O RATH EK HK KICXUT THAN 1113 PRESIDENT".. Hem y Clay. 4 ..W; t0 H0- VOL. 1. RALEIGH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 18(50. NO. 35. JOB WORK execateil with Hairiness at the Hukti iu Orriea. - -. -: ..--- -' ILIIE'.BENJUJJiL.. , , xae Annual .Election. The election for Governor and members of tint Iy-gislature, by order of thu liitc Convention, take place, on Urn 18th. of Oct. next, the third Thursday. 1 It is, (ie'refore, only forty days, not quite six weeks, off. . In many counties We have heard ot no candi dates yet announced or brought out by the poo-. plot , The interests involved in this election are immense,' Our Federal rclationa aro stiU deli " cate and disturbing. The proposition of the Kadical Congress to amend tlio Constitution of the U. 8., in a manner deeply and widely affect ing tho renened rights ot the States, seriously reducing our representation in Congress, meh aing tlieSoiitliern State with universal negio suffrage, and disfranchising 'the great body ot 'our peopto who have ever tilled public office, " either under Federal fir State authority, will bo """laid liSirii flic next Legfaruture for its rejection or adoption. This in a grave question. It will lw urged upon the 'favor of' tlie Legislature by the Radicals or Iloldenites of the State, "as the J test we oan Jo." -Moat gloomy and fearul pre dictions will be uiadu of the consequences of rejection. We need Ann, lionest and" able men, to meet this issue, fistly in the canvass, and it '""munt lie , nu't,,maufully, both-on the hustings and in-the, Ix'gislature. . , Moreover, tlr imMitnt and exciting is!ur8 v 'will he brought Into-tho canviiss. The change of the basis of presentation, now fixed upon ; population antaxatim, will be advocated, mil king tho n inn ber iif tho white population tho basis for rcprcsciitatioir for both. Houses, thus ' ignfTrlijjf the claims of property altogether. Our financial difficulties must be carefully re : viewed and cofl54rred by the next Legislature find various other serious subjects must enter into the campaign and into the Assembly. We repeat that we need our soundest, ablest jand moet conservative men , in the next Legislature,.- Lot the people move at onco iri this ''matter. ,16 will lie seen that" Northampton ' TilsjTySen put, And with one voice demands the re-election of Gov. Worth. This is no- time " for the people cither to be -indifferent to the election, or simply to cast their votes for old" friend or favorites! We would not vote for . our father, if we doubted his soundness upon the great national issue before us. Every man . we votf for must bo anti-radical, to the hub, and he must lie honest,, patriotic, devoted to the .honor, hint interest of the ..State, a sound loyal Union man and a friend of Audrew Johnson's policy.1; Vote for no one elt. Stamp. 'Attention, of parties intfccuitcd, is called to the following provision of tho amendment to the Revenue act passed by Congress: Aral pruvidal fvgther. That in all case where ' the party has not affixed the stamp required by law upon any instrument made, signed, or is sued, at a time when and at a ulace where no collection' district was established, it shall be lawful for him or them, or any party having an interest therein, to affix the proper stamp there to, or if tho original be lost, to a copy thereof ; ami the instrument or copy to which, the prop er stamp has own thus affixed prior to the first day of ' January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty seven, and the. record thereof, Bhall be , . as valid, .to all, intents and purposes, as if stamped by tlio collector in the manner herein before provided.. But no right acquired in good Jaith before the stamping of such instrument or copy thereof, and the recording thereof, as herein provided, if such record be required by law, shall in any manner be affected by such stump ing as aforesaid. " ' ' . i It thus appears that parties In possession of instruments made during the war and since, be ; fore a CiUeclion district was constituted, may themselves affix the proper stamps at any time prior to Jannary 1, 1867. Where tlra Somi deration in deeds, &c., is ex .. pressed in Confederate cur repey, wo leu rn .that it-is proper to scale that' consideration to its value in grieiibacksi. Of --eurse it "would bp test td do Uiis with cogniziknce,brSlEoiiccfor. 'itM ' it, ,. i . "The MUV In the .Cocoanutl.; ' . Tliere are only two points in the Radical pro . gramme that Southern Radicals care a groat about. The Gratis the difrtMttiiig cbmteTnt the Howard amendment; by which they hoe to get all the offices. The second is, to establish Universal negro suffrage, which they think the most certain means of getting the offices. But die truth is, if the Republic were to. con sent to yield both .measures, not omo tmtot' every ' hundred Radicals could either get the offices or hold them, t For, in the first places the negroes . would not vote for one hi a hundred of such ignorant, lad tempered iotriu, and, in the sec "" ond place, if they were elected, the government, in many cases, would bavejto remove thein for iaconi5tency or delinquency. . Tng Slauditrd says that but for the' fact that the machinery of the Htat governnieht "is In the hadflf sce(irinist," Bnd hut for the"in ' - Suencrs thus brought to bear,"7 it would ''''elRXIBattel'V place . the State m Ivfal ' hamls, by, which it means in the hands of those I who gree. with li m political sentiment. , How at it when the t-P. G. was a candidate for government was in KU hands then, he had an immense patronage at his disposal, he put cone but loyal men in office, of course, but lie wasn't elected f -1 , ' ; The "Loyal" Convention. he Kadical organ in (his city speaks of the nouiKscnpt Convention of whites, neuroes and bliMiiueKs at .Philadelphia as "the loyid Conveu tion." (Xcourse, Iwing "Lryal," it endorses its doings. LeKus look nt some of the more re cent of its perWiiiiii!r-r-s,1r1 order to ffiliuse our selves, and, at tliksamu time, see what doligjit-' fill associations thtfytanilard has selected. . The I owcsl abu'seaitdj 'foulest slnuders o'f the I'residunt mark every stage of the proceedings. Is this Itfyal, in the vstiina'uu of the Es. 1. G. ? lie is pronnunceit a traitor, ivtvnegade, a perju rer, an example of "total depVavity," and an ally of Satan. On these and similar terms all the changes nje Jung "hourly. Although the vocabulary ot Billingsgate was well nigh -haustetl, Mr. Theodore Tirlon, the editor of a !'CuligioiUi ' pallet, mauaged Ui viling a new epi.u tliet at Mr. Johnson, He facetiously BHid : 'A-K1. general-ofheer of the army asked him, ou his way here, why tire President .was like a harp struck with lightning ? Of course he could not tell. '" The answer Was, 'Because ho-is a blasted (lyre) liar.'" . . ' --- ' ' A prayer, on tiie opening of ione. of irho mom-J ing sessions, wiis deliyercil by ono Key. Mr. Newman, (a New Orlwihs Vankee belonging, as Brownlow does, to tho M. E. Church, North,) and his infamous and blasphemous" ravbiga wcru enough 16 send n thrill of horror through any other ussuiubMgu. He invoked the Almighty "to deliye,!- the , conutry from the rule of him, who, by Sature ugeiicy, has been iiiiiose(l upon us as a ruler ! Is tins 'Uiynl: We have heretofore ineotio I that Mi Anna Dickinson, the strong-minded aUvooite of breeches for women, yielding to pressing invita tions, had lakeu a seat of honor on the rostrum. She also made a speech, in which she dii lini d that "she was so overwhclnieil by the outburst of undeserved cnthusiHsm with which she M greeted fro'ni true Southern liien, that her tongue refused to do its oB'um." This is something bare ly short of a mi incle. ' . "Ordinuri.Iy, "the gi ntle Annie's" tongue is hung on a pivot, and 'Vfigs at both ends. In the general mass of inanities, vulgari ties and malignities, we find what is styed by the correspondent of the Washington Chron icle "An Historic Relic." "Mr. Charles' GiUjwiis, Chairman of tho Kc ception Committee, then came forward with n small gavel in his hand, and said : 'I hold in my hand the identical gavel used in Chariest o.i, South Carolina when the Convention assembled there in 1800 for the dissolution of the Ameri can Union. Derisive laughter, and shouts of throw it away. ' " This is the gavel which called together that Convention which declared the American-Union dissolved. Clir of -'break it up throw here,' &c 'Sir,' tuning to C. j v. Hamilton, I 'have the pleasure of tendcilng it to you for the pur pose of calling together that loyaf Convention which is to lay the foundation for the re cstal) lishment of that Union.' Gov. Hamilton accepted the gift and then the ceremonies werejlcclared ended." j - Now it really appears to us that this presen tation was in most excellent" taste and exceed ingly appropriate. The gavel is in worthy hauds Our Ex. P. Q. should have been present to as sist Hamilton in the reception. The men who advocated secession and war in 1858 may well preach a crusade against peace and re construct tion in 1860. Gov. Coney, of Maine, gave it as hjs opinion that "the negro at the South ia better fitted to vote than the most accomplished rebel fromjlie Potomac to the Rio Grande." This is "loyal," of course, and may also be classed under the head of "decent ;M and we suggest to the Radi cal organ that additional designation of its Con vention. . ,. . "-. - - , "Gov. Yates, alluded to his friend Fred. Doug las, and said "he would rather walk arm-in-arm with that accomplished gentleman than march in a Johnson procession with "the best-bred, of them .:,'.,, - ; ', '.. Notwlthstondingj-alil this -tlieriAical sympa-, thy, however, upon the part of the "loyal" Gov ernors, a siirgular-spectacle bas- con;:pTe8cn!fcd in PhiladelphiaTlie Northern Kin Heals are trying to restrain their Southern brethren on the question of negro suffrage. At a meotiHg of Northern delegatca, it was resolved that it would not do to go beyond the Congressional plat form, fvr tlie jtrexiU. They saij their peojitc were not prepared for tho negro' suifrag. .platform, and would notiustiiiri it. They are jierfectly wil ling that the Southern people should descend to equality with the blsvcks, but they are not quite prepared to tak that Step themselves, and so adyisetheir Sautherp brethren to drop the sub ject. This however, tluiy are unwilling to d.i, and, accordingly, it isunderstood that Hamilton and Brownlow, (Iwth of them "pure" and "glo rious patriots,".accordiiig to tlie Mlamlttrd,). and other "loyal" men, will insiaton a minority re port, to be spread U)n thu records, insisting upon; "nigger suffrage' square up. Goy. An drew, ofJMassai-husettir, thus esplainei! tbemHt ter: j - '' " " ': "Every aspirant who thinks it wilt aid him ja ms search lor ollice will endeavor to secure uc gro sutTrage. As soon as a candidate is beaten by an opponent through- white fotes, he : will turn to seek revenge through negro votes. Thus two parties will lie raised, and that ia the most et.'ential-feature fur as now. If we can keep the South out of any share in the government until ywe-4ttitiat: ant qti t i on .xt.y.xlu:r, we are all right." -'" ''-'-" - The Radical organ in this city speaks of thir teen (" loyal ") delegates in this Contention. We have seen the names of but seven mention ed in the course yf its proceedings. We pro ceed to classify them, the Stimlard having failed to discharge this important duty: 1. CV(i(n (Jlavi: Convicted of a misde meanor lefoic a military Commission. 2. Tou-rget : An Ohio abolitionist. !l. Ibrjie Iliine:- A Yankee and" Universalist Preaeher,- " . 4. 7Jc. Ja. Siiicliiir:A Scotchman, under censure by Ins Presbytery. " - 5. J). II Qooittoi :- -Art' expatriated North Carolina abolitionist. . .'',. 0. Hon. A. II. Jones : Accofding to the Sian dar, a 'erirr from the Confederate army. 7. Wynne. : A Yankee or a North Carolina Buffalo. - ' ; ' " '' ' - Correspondence of the Sentinel. Cii Mtr.KsT'ON, S. C, Mnxs Hoi'sit, ." . f'pti'inlier 5th., ISrtrt. , JltjimHS, Knrrons Ilnvjng lvn - in this famous city tWiv coiipleftftlaj'S, it has occurred 4ajuS.lhaliunjp. little notice oCwhatXhave wn. k ,;., . And flmlof 'this noble house, in which I am tabernacling. Mills House is-a -simcious hostglriis for all who are weary and love clean sheets, ntid.for all who "are hungry ami alU-ct fat tilings.. This House was rcctml iri 1W,- nnd has al ways been a first class Hotel even inn city like, this which of yo.c'was the -scene of elegant I flsp'vi -y and even.now.1q all its disasters, preserves much.of its glorious char.'irter. . ''" ' ' - Mills House received 32 shells during the seiyo of Charleston, moat of which burst, but U:l't tbe sfout old Mansion still standing erect. Its enlei'iiiisint,' proprietor, llr. Joseph IVrcell, is coristantl.v making n-pairs and improvements, and, in so doing, frequently: finds shattered places iii Ms walls before unknown. , This ..enlli ili in informs me that they Inve been doing' Jif.Kilciididly leiiiiinerntive busim-ss lor tlie last year iiii.1 more, noTwil listanmng inn trouoies oi iU-tinie. ami the general impeconiosify which :illli l:i the whole tftnirthrrn conntr?.- Kewer sit nt the tables j!iot now, as many of the citijr -ns in : nbrond in pearch of health and cool breezes, mv'i ai many are wise enough, to seek in. our own moinitnin. The table arrangements of Mills Ponw arc unimpeachable. But that is saying hnt.liltlo, considering their me. its. 'i At- most every-variety ot bsh( fli'hi Jowl and truits are nt command, brought at Bhort notice by very polite mid active servants,. Of au these boiintv's, however, I could not partake, and it was somewhat amusing to see the stare on the face of Jim or Cnto, when, after examining the long bill of fare, through spectacles, with great solemnity, I bccl.oned the sable attendant to my side, and asked him gravely to bring'a slice of ham and some Irish potatoes. I suspect the African thought there was greenness some where. But with this diet I am familiar , at home, and this is no time to be swapping diets, unless you are quite sure of your digestive pow ers, and can in a" sickly season risk tho untried capacity of a Rtnmach, which is sadly lfcifamil iar with most ot tho viands with which these tables groan. No, sirs ! give me Y m and po tatoes. till l geHlntain, and thi i and there have time to elevate myself, by slow degree to these prandial elegancies, where good nursing is at hand in case of Hygcian difficulties, and also till, ahem I I may have ereenbacks enough to make the experiment. ' We are apt to talk most what we most deeply feel and this may, perhiti, account for this long story about table comforts, not much indulged in to be sure, but seen with great appreciation. Your humble ser vant did, 'however,-punish the puddings and pies and iced sherbets, I believed they called them, and sundry other, almost forgotten, knick knackeries to a considerable extent This is a great House, and a good House, this Mills House. Long may it wave! ' ' The desolation that swept across Charleston on thai awful and tempestuous night when' the fire king poured his whole wrath on this doomed city, causes one's heart to sink within him. Charleston was cut in two, from river to river. The house in which I am writing bsrely escaped. It stood .on the line of the terrible destroyer, and was in fact considerably injured. The streets are- yet in ruins. None ablo as yet to re build asjd reproduce their cherlkbed homes. Many Tmpoverishedr ralnnd, WM'e wahdefcrl over the earth searching homes elsewhere, ' But where can they find such homes as they lost In this beautiful city on that awful night I Where shall they find the refined elegance in. which they luxuriated I Where shall the domestic af fections bloom as brightly as they once bloomed in this QuBcn CityWilLthey find aWpad a. King street, a Queen street, or a Meeting street, such as they left behind them t I haye wnn rtwert among the ruins; nnd- ray" noTtrt fiTsrsad. dened "anil ached at the woe that is Bpf ad among so many squares at the broken fortunes and tlio broken hearts made by this awful ca lamity. How is the city-fallen i-Qiinntum miitiitti nb iWt " A thoughtfulness, almost sad, is on every brow. The lightness and gaiety of leirt that once characterized Charlestonians, scenis fo lie unknown; In the olden time king street-mid QwH street ami " others were aSye with busines! and beauty and fashion; cleiyiMit ladies and high toned utlenien'rnet you at ab most every step all Bono now I 'YoB ineet a few who cannot quite forget the good old times. They strive to rememlier that they .one were a great and flourishing and polished people.. But it seems to.be a hard struggle. The disasters of the past, and the humiliations of the -present, weigh them down, and pnt upon their piwi'd spirits a burden hard to be borne. HK ' -. I find Unit all with iwhom I have conversed on the subject have yielded with quiet dignity to the changed condition of political affairs. They are all the friends of the President and his poHcv. and it docs the heart of S North Carolinian good to hear with" what deep feel ings ot respect tncy speak ot her honored son. All are for Johnsonand all seem -t l lo"I, and disposed, to fall ba!k1nto the Union with ouiet submission which seems indeed strange in South Caroliniafts. There is a dignity intheit tufferings and a patience under pmvocalio which seems to me more characteristic ot the old renutsiiori of our ewn modest, unpretend ing, much enduring old State: My heart goes out towards these Charlestonians. I never be hftKieved in tlicir peculiar political creed. But 1 1 rhnathisa with then ia their great ormw, and. from the liottora of my heart, 1 honor them lor the calm dignity with which they bear it: lour,. , M The President' Progress. The circumstances of the President's journey becomo more exciting 'as he traverses the West, on account of the sympathy and the intense hos tility whichtho two parties in the coiunjunily respectively exhibit towards him, and tho bit GSrriea tlwy display towards each ther. The trip through tho "Weston ltuorv" of Ohio was like running the ga,untUit ot savage , " AtClovelanj the-Presiileut was xposod to the first public insults. While speaking there bo was badgered by opponents in tho crowd. Ho was, however, by no means, overawed or inthuidatcd by the display of enmity,- but pour ed the shot thick and fast into bis assailants. Ashe left the city next -morning flags were flaunted in his path.,- containing quotations from his former speeches, but there was no dis turbance. At Norwich he was "enthusiastically n eeived, but was also coarsely insultueh ; In an--' s cr to an insulting remark from the. crowd, tho. President said : "J should like to co that follow who-cries 'New Orleans.'" " Cries of ' Here ho in," and a billinua, cadav erous, biuzcn,. w .ill eyed,, red huailed objeot, of the lower sf -ntuni of ninnkind, was' shoved -for. warxl by the crowd, and ranswereil .with an iiu )iudent stare tho searching look of tho Presr dent. ,' . . . . Mr. Johnson "Ali, there you lu-e T thought you would look just about so." ' ' . , The molmoratic element was again rampant, and their rage was allowed lu voeal outpouring, while Mr. Johnum, smilingly m-ived the man iial apd floral congratulations of his filends." : At Fremont tho PrcaMcnt was very liand so'moly reeeivtJtt. Thirty slx'little girls iri while buret. a banner oh which wan' touchingly .In-. sciilMid ''WeTeomo, our President." r.t-.-s. - At To'edo mid at Monroe, the President was also enthusiastically received, aid no, unpleas ant incident occurred.'" Detroit was the next point. Horn the -rowd was imtiieiiiiej-nnd "so thronged and nuimed every -jilaue that tho re ception programme could not be curried out-; Gen, Grant, who had loft the party at Cleveland, here 1 reioilicd tho President. The speech of welcome; warmly complimented the President's policy, and predicted: tor it the triumphant aup- portf the people. Tha Presidesi was dumplje anecteq ana spoke, tor more than an hour, aiuut great app'nse, though toward the last roused and incensed by insults. Hecommehced by re iterating an opinion wlrch he has- often ex pressed, that this government bag a great divine mission, which could rot lie defeated. Ho con-, tinned :' ' " " ; 1 ' -"'''' : ' "He had always upheld the Union, amlhcnne he nau opposed tlie Houlh m their etlorts totis solve it. , But they have been overcome. Their armies have disbanded. Having failed in their effort, they come forward and say 'we accept the terms you oiler.' l iicy comeback repentant, and acknowledging tho supremacy of1 tlie Con stitution, apd ask to ,1m) adiuittud and welcomed as States composing," in part, our giijaxy. This being done, where is there a man, gallant and patriotic, who, when his toe lies prostrated at his feet, would wish to degrado bun ? (Cheers.) Such was not bis estimation of the character of ourWopIo, ,The war having ceased, and the proclaim' tfon of peace having gone forth, and not an armed foe existing in any Territory or State, who, be asked, was it that wanted to re open the wounds for the purposo of gratifying ... r i. ; . i r i r . . . i Lprty f - Who was it that desired again to see ft brother land drenched with a brother's blood ? Was tiiore any one willing to go into another revolution? (Cries of JJo,' no.') i lie wanted to put a common sense proposition to his hear ers. Suppose that eleven foreign, States were lying outside of the Union; with all their ad vantages and riche'qf minerals, with all the Capacity to constitute and make us iu part a. greater , people. 1 Suppose theso States would co ne forkrd and say, 'We want , to add our star to your stars.' . ' , " Letme, he sa'd, ask- tills sea of upturned fa ces I would ask .every one whose heart beats with national pride'and the Jove of fredoin would you not make . then a part o thH' repub lic? (Cries of yeK"tV'J' ouldiyou'recoivo them as accessories from a foruiim nower ? fKc- newed cr?e-"wo wodh),") Where then t the-' man whdeari hcsitate.'aiKl ace Ixin'eof! Itihend, ' anu nesu oi ui oesu, asaiug lor uumissiuo, auu yet shut' the doorih his face? , I care not by what name he is called, if ho woutd do this he is a disunion ist; a Northern secessionist and disu nionist, ' I iouirht tlie battle on the Southern ex treme, and how.when the' circle Is goinir around. , we find tnca attuckihg thq UtiUinbh tho Northern Tcrge, r (Laughter hd apphrusc.) ,Fhis glp rious Union cari lw destroyed by a difTeront way thah by dividing it. 'You liiny have conoolida tioh InHhe tiantft'of few'; " " He 'referred tov the ttct.iotiVof 'Co'ngitss on the FrcedtneH's Bureau bill and their opposition t the Executive department bf" the Governiiietit ; said lie would like to rtveet the whole phalanx of the men', opposed" li" lite 7 principle. Ho would like to. seo tho li-gislativu department of the government. "tliiii is inakiiig chargc;s agiilhst the Eecutivc', go befnro the American people and te'st the rjuvsliiVn ftt Vsslie ( humble individ bid as he was, he would like to Uk& the entire Congress entertaining these iWtrifie before the people and b6 would sOonMifiiy ytha ft w as that was trying trtr abkofb theltbcrty bf the pwiphi. tCheers He bad tooit ii Hie Tribtirte of the peop'e In defence of the, ))eVipe"8 H'ht, and hv WMld cAhthntetlMii' rtctehder.' H'av I lioki lie sniH, Veu elec'ted president by yon ? ' (1 voice- "That 25,0(10 a yea- .") Oh, indeed I ' That Is What yoil give your Tribune I it f Cheers. ' Let mo t all your attention to this.' 'Iain w afraid 'to . 'tttllt, to the, American people ahd all tire' littc fallows they tint Into crowds Ho-call out catch-words -with a view of ereating flisrrnpoct J I csit-fMotTfor them. Tho whoto'kMHie' bns htrn ti?Tii(ct"hjnso upon me long shtee thotr Httle do Thy Und Blanche and Sweet Heart - all have boio let loose, etji ingatwiy hwls for the last eight months. (Cheers.)" The whole, pack of slanderers and caluninbltani h-fd better et nut of my way (Great Chrering.) ItdV ttieui that the Aiurri can people'are taking hold of the questions at isne, and when they begin to consulcr them. -these ttsnrptrs and tyraiitsAln cause iTrmny ciio be eecised more effectually by two hundred aijd forty-two jen,thiutliy:..oiie sl!ijilo nian . (cbeers)-rrl teli them it will be tietter 'for them to keep their snutit boats near shore.' ' (Cnt.i- 4 ued cheering. ' . ,.' : ; r t - : The people are being wakod up, and when L tlie honest, in'clligent and. patriotic masses come to the rescue the wnole act ot tnom w ill lo dustrovod. . But it was said bere- that I, the' Tribune of tho people, was getting $ 25,001 -y-ear; but I ask this question, ha it been in creased since I came into otlicet (Cheeia and crius of "No, no.") ; But lot ma tell you what Congress has done; , Tliey change their pay since they came iu to power. Yes ! this Con gVess that has assailed and attacked me for tho faithful discharge of my duty when tho citadel of. freedom was attacked, (cheers). ?". this iiumacuh 'e, this pure, tl''a people-loving, this' devoted t ongress finds it convenient, while they had the chance, while they were in power, to increase their pay nearly .double. (Great cheering and hisses.) ThOTfJ who livo in glass houses should never tiitr stores.' (Cheers.) Yes, this immaculate Congress increased their pay nearly double, wuTft at the same time they wero magnanimous enough to vote $50 for the br.ivo two year veterans of the war $50 bounty tor the men who shed their blood and lost theit htiibs In the defence of tlie country. For men mutilated ami disabled 1'om work forever this immaculate Congress give's $50, whilo they double tlielrnwneinoltimonts, (cries of shame) fyctiiying $4,000 a ycafc Just pocket that ai you go along. (Cheers and laughter.) They reckoned with Home s:igaeity in the preraisea; thuy feared that there would lie this uprising of the people, und that it would bo the very last ; grali they would have at the ptriille pniw.' (Cheers.) 1 trust in you, and trusting In you, let t he w liolo Co.ngreas uue. Itely ing o jou, I. will meet tiieui single lumdeii I and uloniv, ,Itt the Words of the p)ctt exclaim :' ' - I ' 'Conm otiecoine allf this rock slial fly ,i! Krom its firm Ijase.as sooii as V:i't '' j " ',:mm m I .-ii..l? VUT TUB PEOPLE M0VIKG t ; Jteeting in Northampton County. ; , At,; 'public meeting held iu Jackson, North ampton comity, ou J I on day last, Capt. J. M. S, Kogers was elected Cljuiruuui, and Y- Talljert Walko and Thonias J. Oiirnesr were appointed Secretaries. 1 ' ' s- ''''- ' '-! -w Jn inotion.,)f W. WPeoblcs, a committee bf twelve wei'tj appointed by the Chairman to rc pott business for the meeting; and, U iu their opinion advisable, to nominate suitable candi date ' for ' the naxt Oenerai Assembly of the State. - ,-,-' .:...-.: :. The following gentlemen constituted the com mittee : .; . .,-'... , ;t ' - W. W. Peebles, J. It. Mason, J. JL-Moody. J. !SJ. Bull, W, ll. Uarnss, Haniuel T, Btancill, J. V. f Flei'twnod, Kthelred Kdwards, Henry Spivoy. lleniy Galling, - A, - J. Barrel, Janice H, Ed wards. - ,.-!: 4 ,t;:il-":W;..t..-J ..t .. . . In the absence of tlie committee. Dr. WVS. Cojehuid,buingcalled on, addressed the meeting endorsing President Johnson,, and explaining in energetic language tho efforts of the Kadical party for the complete subjection of the people of the South, and their innovations on the Con stitution of the U. S. ! . - :;; i.- m Tho committee returned and reported through their Cha'rman. the following resolutions ; -, liivtlnnf, That Congress ha no right to de prive any State of its reproauntation iu that body... . . . - - ' v"i Tluit - tho Federal Government has no right whaiuvur to abridge or iuterfere with the freed om of speech or the pre, nor to interfere with the' right, of the people to worship God according- to the dictate of their own corncl- CUce. . (,,, ;. m-y i. That the Federal Government ha no right to try or punish civii'an by military commissions "or by ipiin-bead court martial " - 1 ; - That the question ot suffrage "belongs exclus ively to tho people of the Htatea, and the Feder al Government La no right whatever to inter fore with it. -'-"That the Federal Government has no right to .take private p.operty but for public use, and in no case without making just eompens;ion. r Thut totox the people of the Southern States, wheri at thojsamo time thay are denied ,ropre entattb is a hiirh-handed outrage, and Iri di- .pjoct o)poitii)i to on of ths leading principle up p which tii evolutionary war wastougntana won by out father,- ;j,,-i--.7il,J-, -T,.;;t..:vfPr That lr cation ahould'be made equal and uni form, and that the exemption of what is V'rltf-. ed govefiinieut sectti ttle or bends lrotn taxation altogether, i a unjust and an.ntlinus HUcrim inatiou in farir of tho rich against the poor, ft the capltalist'againattbe lalKireT' and pf the' mohicd aristocraiTagainSt tho Industrial class-' eri'-of lli?cuhirv. j-TVP '" h That the Freailmen'e Bureau and tlie Civil RibU bills aro odious and 'vindictive act ,f .Congressional legislation, and, violative., ot,,tJ)o principles of the Constitution. - - - L -'-; - 'That in'lwhalfof th people of Northampton 'county, wo heartily approvoof Prosiile.it John aou'a nicoiuitructhin jMiliey and, hi course in thu tosr wbiith he i waiting Bttuiiial. fanaticism. 'and. admire the tnanly bohfuess with which ho Is striving t) preserve from farther violation the coiistililUon of our common couhtry." 'b-i ', pn.,moiiou threouiiiJiis were; nuanuumisly adopted , j(, .:,1ri;.!'v .- .iMi: !w:-Jhi- coinmlttce having offered , nominees, J(ivm'."t'.' J.-Persons, for the Senate, and Gun-. M.i W. IWIisofliand Samuel T. ' Sfancill for 'the .Mouse of Cbmmoni'nn motion the nominations . were unanimously accepted- . tw-; : On rnotion, the .; nomination ,of,,.Goverpr AVorth for another term of office war approved 'by acclamation. ,;; H :'"' -.'"''"-: . h- Acoininittoe of three, consisting ' of R. B. PeoWeiv lr. W, H. tJopelundand J. J. Bell wru nil million njipointl ty the Chalr.-.to' aflpriite ; Mesnrs. Persons, KanHom and Ktanoill of tbeir -nomination. 's tf. rbnu---rti , - The proceedings ol the meeting werej M BO lum onlerod to lie published in the ' Weldon tiKtiti- tiW Wv titnte nod the Baleigh tirnlinel." ' On motion, the meeting then adjoirrned. ' . T. ' ' J. M. S. UOilEHS, Chm'n. W.i'Ai.t, 'r Wamsk, f f. ', I i: ' TMoMVi.1. Gak,-( Bus- ; - b-'. ' "fTh! f.iiinm province of Vcnetia, lately ceded by A nstna to France, is very well known to tho world, but the kpiu'o -which it occupies on the riiHpot KuropM is not so well known. Veneris, contains IS,M7Q,500 acres.of ground, and 2,483, 908 inhabitanls at the last census. " - - , . Correspondence of the Sentinel . , Columiua, B. C Scpt. 7,18GC, lJftrt. Kditon: Tho rail brought mo Inst . night from the quondam- Queenly city to this city of desolation. How the remaining' Citizens of Columbia can hear ix livo here, and- daily w ituvsa tho ruins of what was once so licauuful, ia a marvel to. mo, I am sure that I, should bo in danger of lit' "sting with rage at least three times a day. The' ruthless destruction ot tho metropolis "was surely enough in. itself, without the superadded rascality of attempting to fasten the stigma of ita tuin on one oi the noblest and purest men of the age. Everybody here knows who did the deed of infamy, and'it is pitiful to talk in this connexion of tho "dishonored name, of Wade Hampton." The blackened and tot terftig walla of the fairest, portion of the city r tell the tale pf vandalism, and will --long- bear . tho memorials of tho ruthless scourgo. if the South, the modern Attlltt, whoso legi ins were commanded to burn ami destroy, without ) er discriminatiotti - 1 Vrt land, i iSw nwnthx ago, was. visited by a, conilrtoration, ami inlllioiis iu money, eupplics for the houseless and the ihU--ttito, uv'!lm-aeflt'ii'tlmt tltsoliMedcUji''- No , enemy jiiJil appliedOlui tiu;ch,: It was, a simple accident that Utijl aU the city of Porlhmd.- .. Columbia wa8aekod ami burned by-H inlur-i '- ate drunken soldiery,' who revelled' in their un holy work Unt il the signal Was given ta cease ope niti'ons, and the rest was left to tlie angty winds. ' Thousands weia hit houailess .mid homeless, no raiment to wear and f no 1kiu to, cat, , No . word of sympathy caiiio fo the poor stricken witstdit-s; No tneltns wuiTjToiifributWt by those whose tender hearts wero multwi- into? osti'Mtti tious lilieiwlity W the poor Port land. Al.my would sdiiubtless lmve scorned .. their gills, but among those ruined' wretches, were, hiimy wid ow Und orphans, steeped in poverty, iini'ny onco contented slave, by -thin woans-mudo ' "fri in deed, but having happy homes thus laid waste, who would have been saved from want and star vation, who would have welcomed any relief. The call was in vain. There was no morey even for those harmless end nooffending sufferers.--They were all included in thq same category of the imputed guilt of thoso' wlio hud conspired against tho best and most mccifhl ?oninnient the world ever saw, a government theoretically presumed to.be one;' of choice snA of love, m the administration of which all are prosumcd to act in Arcadian faithi and simplicity, ., 'n. '' Messrs. KditorS, I have Seen in Several papers, but not in yonrs, a poem by Fanny Downing, of great merit, In which the ruins of Columbia are made to address the ruins of Portland in tho manner of tub'e-talk between the. two sister cities, in which 'domestic dihguc are rehearsed rather energetically some wholesome truths. -Can you not bunt up this fine poem nnd give it a place iu jour -excellent -.paper?, I nu tSiire vour readers would read it with pleasure and., plldo. ' : ' , . . t - fTlie calTeif session of tho IjCgislature am mencod yestoriltty, and thu message ot Gov. On lain the papers this": morning,' J it statea ?erjr sensible reasons for calling .the members nway from tlielr homes at this busy season. Their high Court of Krror hua decided their Hlay law to be unconstiUitional.a.id His Excellency thinks some other means should be adopted to ne rom early ruin their impoverished people. ' The dubtor class had K'lietl on their growing crops to relieve them froinembarrasrment.i . That crop throughout the j5tatei'ro.n, the, drought aud. other well understood causes, will not bo much, ' If any, more than mm fourth of what Was onro its production, . The Governor statci protidly that the ciudit'iif fie State has never yet lieeu tarniahsd, and fuuda necessary to save from ut ter destruction tho opprciscd and iuiiwverished debtou may, in onio way be pnxmred by the State and distributed, on lonn.to those in great- ' est distress. vifi-t-. - ''f v;-. ..d"i .. .-; ' There has to be athtitionid legislation' by which tho Freedmen may come under; the full jurisdiotion of tho civil courts. , To .accom plhih this, object certain discriminations,, iir' color most be aliolisliod. And the. Frcodrrou ; mtut be admitted to equal civil right With the once . superior a. class.. : The (Jovernttr, rwsoin mendathat the Fredmon bo admitted as wit- nesses, not only in cases where they are' parties, but in all ca as whatsoever, hnd states his rea aona lor rcomrtiding this change. 4" ;nJ i , A live .General and i lady, drjven'.ia. f, hanfl aome carriage liy a driver drcsbcd la blue, orna mented with 'considerable- bright h-ss.'tiud iilloed by a gaily ir ot itednnd capaiisoned out irider in the rear, was pointed out as Gen. J)an. K. Sickle aud his wilu, with whom in former timet , tho.ubUcI waa pretty j fwniliur.- TJw -military at Columbia; as well as in Charleston, eeiii to beiin; peaeeablo ' terms ;with":the tlti eena, iliough therwdoos not append to be inueh inUroouise lietwten theui,..exectt on matter pf business, The geutlemen in blue dined toguth W,,at (hq'saino, table, In the, Hotel of Nl.ekei so'n, hore, ' for one day, T estod my foot.' This ' Uritii ia ry "j'eonmiod'mu and well kopti. . It was ono used :Yoimg :Irf.dies!Collego, and is well aihiptod.to that, its .original purpose, us ' St is (fow to the comVorts of wuv-farincriiieii. ',;:No one can vtf it Columbia "wifhout going' to c tlut nnigniflcenttjapilol iMJildingi-yet,- nl don't t be, I fear.iii an nnfiuHicd state, i It was miinjured by ; the fire, jthoujU , buildings near and around it were consumed." A large mass ot 'broken columns, most rpfeotisly ornamented 'nd searvdv-nnd other decorations- nd material for the building, and . amounting it value., as I was told, to three-rmwUrs of a williou doljat, lie crumbled in different purta of the ijipniv in iroin, Having oeeu iiroivi-n nu uiimm.-vi in mo. tfontlagration of the buildings, intended tft firt iuct thenK ni -s;;k.i-t J4.-'M.-a-...-:uh . r.TUe House of Ihipresentutivcs hold- tliuir " ,.sious in onepf .the col lege buildings, Uud .(lie i r.i .t.,,:i,i;M.- i... i. oenaiv im jn auoiuer ui mew ijmmii-,.vu onnbslte of the ftiuare.'"' I saw - turning -the--iiucmbT but few appnrent vide7H'es of their gieat and . cnitlung , stirrow. j : I uy met each otlier and .tlieir friends iu great cordiality and cheerfuliU'SS pf sjilritj and it is only when yon sit quietly by their side, " and talk in si.b dued ' tmncsthai' you learn' how dneply tlwy are pierced., The llouse, ia compowd of a fine looking bpdy of. meiu piostof them evidently gentlemen, and men ot ' high honor and noble bearing. : ' Among tho tranrcrs I saw thcro vti tho in- Titable and very patriotic and self-sacrificing K. J. Powell, May tho raimeito citato treat him kindly, and give him whatever he came to ee them about 1 ' ' ' ' " -
The Weekly Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Sept. 17, 1866, edition 1
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