North Carolina Newspapers

! il -' i X : V1 X f - v V 1 THE TOLIAMSTON EXPOSITOR. ABNER S. WILLIAMS, Editor. -: Saturday, March. 17, 1866. 3 . : WANTED At this office, a boy about fourteen years of age, to leani the printers trade. He must be writing, made. able: not' only to read-print, , but Immediate application must be ' Some of the miserable sneaks at the North and the Doolittles and the Do no things of Congress, have 'ever since, the capture of Mr. Davis, been unceasing in their efforts to have him brought for trial before a military commission . which, as has been well said, sit only to convict. V hatever may be the faults of this unfortunate man, the cry tnat-nas oeen raisea ior ins oioou 1 -would be a disgrace to the; most savage of i Indian tribes, much more to those that pro- fess to have been raised in, a civilized cpuii I try under the purifying influences of Chris tianity. President Johnson, though, with a firmness truly to be admired has, so far, sternly resisted their importunities to bring him before a court martial, and desires to give him a trial Ibefore some one of the civil courts of the Government. Should Mr. Johnson accede or not, hereafter to the clamors' of those heartless men, and whatever may be the fate of Mr. Davis, we know from the character of the man, that he will, though it be death itself, re ceive it with more; composure than his cowardly persecutors would the picking of a boil or the drawing believed we doubt not, which, he was by the of a tooth.,' He that the cause of Southern"' people chosen leader, was just and our word for fitV he would not, though like one of the martyrs ofold, burned at the stake recant in a single particular, though for doing it his life might be spared and millions placet at Jus disposal. No the man who "saved the American escutcheon from the stair of an ignominous defeat! when an Illinois regiment made a most cowardly retreat; in one of the Mexican, battles, and all would have been lost but for him and his gallant reciment,and who has often before and since exposed; himself to the place where death reaped therichest harvest, is made of too stern stuff to quail before the kinsr of terrors. He fears not those who can kill: thebodv, but rather Him! that can kill both !' if ' bodv- and soul. He has we know the, satisfaction of thinking he was right, and: sothinkinghe willniaintaimit " though, Hell should gape and "bid him hold his peace."! .. i Whjle we were not an 7 son Davis' course in every particular, yet we cannot but admire his moral firmness and his great abilities ver. so much resentmen two great qualities and condition, a' much worse of.more commiseration Though we had against him those p "...' his very pitiable one and deserving han that i of Na- rpoleon) in exile at St . ever still it. We d( Helena, "would for don't know though 1 ; . ; whenhis trial '.will take place,, even before cause or other it iill confidence in a civil court. For some ; is delayed. We have ''the willingness of President Johnson to do him justice. He stands between him and the mad fury of fanaticism that would 4 hang, draw and quarter him. Mr. Johnson, ; thos men that are eager for the execu tion of Mr. Davis are your enemies. You must either.be with them, by acceding to all their mad wishes, or you are considered against -them and they against j you. There is,no go letween. Spare Mr. Davis if you can constitutionally and consistently with your sense of duty, do so He has already filled the cup of his sufferings. His long confinement has broken, down his constitution, and and disappointed ambi tion for ever depressed his spirits. Will, it not! speak well for our) institutions for it : to continue to be said in the future,! as it is now, that there has never been an cxecu . .1 TT L 1 . 1 i. i J i.. I lion in tne united tates ior xreason. t: Cant Dodd., of the Str; Hertford w 11 : please accept our thanks for late. Norfolk papersv Being without any mails as we are, papers are to us quite a rarity. -VThe' Hert ford is. now running regjarly once a Teek from here to Norfolk. She is admirably fitted up ' for carrying both freight arid passengers. C. E. Staples of Norfolk is her owner4, and has, determined " that no thing shall be left undone to give satisfac tion to those that may patronise her See his commission advertisement to be found in our columns. ! 1 - 1 County subscribers willhereafler !receive thefr papers at th store of Al C.' Williams & Son! As we expect each ' to pay his subscription therefore wewant everyone to get his paper regularly.! Subscribers at a distance or those who are not, -to whom it is sent upon refusing to take the paper ot Jof the office, it js made the duty of Post Masters to notify the Editor of the fact. We hope these functionaries will attend to this.. We are requested to announce that the Rev. Thos. B. Horton, will hold Divine service on Sunday next, at thfe Church of the Advent in this place. Also that the Rt. RevJ Thomas Atkinson, D. D., Bishop of N. C.,.VilI make his annual visit to this town on the 17th Proximo;- : SIX i;V XX; The greatest excitement is jriow existing at the North Over the latest invented ism of the day, Fenianism. Meetings are being held bv the Irish blood . and thunder speeches being made and the sentiment "go it Bill rilback you seems to pervade not only every foreign, but also evcrj na tive breast. In the name of common sense what will those excitable' and j " todying people North of Mason land Dixon's line next get up. The latest thing invented by them seems to be for a while just the one to suit their purpose " just the thing they long had sought and mourned because they found it not;" but after! having tried it awhile ;and spent theijr wind in gassy demonstrations, the graces. and novelties of it are worn oft and admiration is suc ceeded by indifference -just as a child will throw away its once favorite toy and ask foranother to be in turn likewise cast aside Among the thousand isms that nave in time pleased, but have. been thrown oiithe shelf was Millerism, Know nothingisnij Morman ism,Free loveismand Spiritualism. The first gotten up by a crazy preacher was eagerly received by the gaping m latitude, and for a while, the wits of the people were complete ly turned. Miller after having made num- " 1 A' bers, '-fools was at last discovered by his disciples to be a humbug, and as a. conse- ouent thereto went down." Ivnow So- -.' - thingisni was exceeding y popular onac ?inr doctrine of count ;of the '"'very entic Americans governing - America, anjk-when the correctness of that doctrine had never been dispute since the days of George the third. After various processions,1 and bal- lot box mobs it followed its numerous an- tecessqr and to day all are ashamed of hav- in or belonged to the Order But the thing that most suited and which took, a more 1 1 tenacious hold upon the pjopular mind was the religigi, if we may us the term, of the prophet, priest and king, Joe Smith tile clJSher stone of which was the doc trine of a plurality .of wives. From it has sprung the twin1 sister, Free loveism ; both of which are a disgrace to acivilized - j :i j i age and country. They had at last as they thought obtained a most' wonderful thing when Spiritualism was discovered, by wliich, as- they believed they could call up from the " vasty d-eep" t ie spirits jof the departed; and hold1 converse with them on matters appertaining to the other world. Tlje most intense feeling existed, and many became absolutely and mcuriably insane over it. It lived its days out and died,! and now nothing is heard of it. j , They have it nOw, and what isit.j Why Fenianism. rrnt. In the language of their papers " the country is in one blaze of excitement over it." The same journals in speaking Piltsburg, thus discourses of a meeting at : " The deriion- stration to night istreniendjous, delegations from various towns , are hourlv arriving. bands' of music arej in attendance,' and the greatest enthusiasm prevails ! Gen. Swee ney is recognised by the surging masses and is called on for a speech. He speaks and says, that the time fdrj .'action has ar rivsd." What kind of action, orjin other words what do these Fenians ; propose' to do ? Why is it no less a job than to wrest Ireland from the crown of prikte Canada, and in a England, appro- word to wipe the British Empire from ? the ' map of na- tiohs. They confidently hope to be able tq do this by! the help of discontented spir- its in Ireland. Did any -one overhear of such braggadocio Was the man that at tempted in Laputa to make gun powder out of ice more foolish than are these de luded Fenians ; who are; urged on by the native population with the promise of aid but when the time comes for; that aid and don't believe it ever will, it will not be we for iiicuiniug. 1 j j In the first place we don't believe these jmen intend engaging in any such foolr hardy enterprise. If they do, let them not pu too much faith, indeed none at all. in promised assistance from the yarikees, and but little in the discontented portion of the" population of Ireland. - We. will wager .Great Britain, always aliveto her own in tertct, is taking care of them,: and if she is hot, they are A apt to be traitors to one side, as the other. Let those misguided men look back to the fate tnt befell, the expedition of Lopez that sailed to de liver Cuba from the rule of Spain. Those natives that! were to receive them as friends were the first to disclose the insurrection- ary plot. Treating the subject in a senous propose and they light, we believe that" what they doing is an absolute impossibility, either have their brains turned or else they are presuming on the credulity of others. It is a fact though, that on all the globe they could not select a land in whichfwhat they tell they are going to do will! be more eagerly "believed than the 6ne in which they are now having, such demonstrations. Alas ! poor Fenianism, we see the hand writing on the wall. Your days are num bered, and you will soon be laid in the tomb of oblivion. Another humbug will succeed you to please a people so fond of a change. You have gone " up like aroek- and will come ; down like a stick.". i . - Chas. Latham and! James IE. ifnn-rm Esqrs. Members of the Legislature, have laid ns under obligations to them for valu able state documents. . NEG&O USTTMOMY. We understand that MrJ Moore the ?ep- resentative of tgjs county, is being.sevefcly censured by a portion of . his constituents, forjvotmg firivor of the bill to allow ne groes, to testify in cases in which ; white men may be parties. While we trust jwe may never 1 be , regarded .as anything but Southern in our feelin gs, vet. if savin cr tnat Mr. Moore did perfectly right, .and that if we nad peen lin; hisj place we snouia, m ijne present stat e of affairs, have done the same , put us in the way to receive censure wtry then her goes. While we' don't think I in times oflavery we ever gave the subject of negro'testimony much consideration, yet since th question of alio wing them to tes tify against whites has been of late sprung, we can net with all of our predjudices urge any valid objections agaist- it. Courts of justices sit for the purpose of trying pauses and before judgement is given . ither for one party or the other, all the truth touch ing the matter in dispute should t e elicited, if it. is not. whv then the iudcement ren- if " dered may not be a just one. Now wheth er the knowledge of a fact is in tljie breast of a white man or negro, it is material to the pointit issue, and it should be brought but on trial and iiven its iust! weisrht. The objections we believe most generally urged against, the admiring of that sort of testi-, mony, to say nothing of the extreme degre- dation some iwould feel toJbe thus testified against, are that negroes are so much given I li 1 li . ! " to lying that! the; truth could not jbe told by them. , That; might be a valid one pro vided the court and jury were to take all !t they said fpi true, but when brought on j the witness stand; and subjected to me amimzation Of counsel and. to the aniniad-! version of ju uirre ' 1 '1 and jury, we apprehend that it could! soon! be seen whether they were telling a tr th or a lie. 11 a lie, tnrow it'aside and subject them to the pains and penalties of perjury. If the truth why ought it noi to receive the! weight , and consideration that it would i - I I j ; . . 1 - r if coming froiii any other. 1 White testimony may in many instances be liable to the same objection-that is the witness may lie. Thvre is noj objection to it being taken for the rule wej liave just mentioned for getting : the j truth out of the negro, works admirably in obtaining it nine cases in ten out of him. It requires as j has -1 been s said by some legal writers, more sense ior wit to tell'a lie than the trnth.i The first is an invention and consequently requires an ef fort of the mind to arrange circumstances so as to make a plausible storyl The last is natural and requies no effort. Inasmuch : : . ..- 1 1 i . as the whites are more intelligent as a gen eral thing, and can combine circumstances more carefully, they will if-, on the stand and dispose tp commit perjury be more difficult to be detected in it. As the truth when" told by a negro will be equally as valuable as when coming from a white man so a lie told by either will not Dei more either will not hurtful, the! one than the other. The non-admission of any testimony or witness i f . i ' , I . ii : i - - I that may have any bearing on aj case is an offence j to public j ustice, and Jmany :a person has gone unwhippeti of 'justice, and many a person been defraulded of his 'rights because all the truth in the matter as not brought out objected to1 forsooth, because it was m a .colored breast.- We can not see . in making a competent witness of a ne gro in the jrial jof white men's causes jthat it is cbnfering ) any ; great liberty on him. It is ilot done for his sake peculiarly, bul only in order to get the whole trnth in regard to any litigated matter. There are other considerations! moving us now for saying we would halve done likeJtfr. Moore did. Apart from! what we. have just given, we would advahce the; following reasons for justifying his course The United States Go veremen tafter manumittin the negroes saw that in. states where their oaths were forbidden by' law against a white man that manifest injury might be! done them by such refusal. ! Heilcef that thing.! of itself was a potent cause mbvmg them to; establish the Freedman's Bureau, in which each uLieu- tenant can resolve himself into a court' and receive testimony of all kind. We all know what odipus things these petty court i are, what undue credence! is given to wha:ever the negro may sayj Well' now: as the j government is resolved that in one way or the other liS hall testify, let ns as it Were frnlA imnH . A . . 1 CHI On1 eATr - I ,! t. . if , J."j - i . ,J , shall too, and we will do no little 10 break ribunals or piepouder courts that now ho. d daily sessions In every county. passed! The bill has very properly iblen It is said that some! papers would have nothing in them if it Tvas not . for matin g mistakes in one issue and correcting them in the next. This maybe so with ns; There is some desn-ee of blame to be attached to making a mistake, but . there;- can't be any in correcting one. In our last- issue, in an article on the Freedom of the Press the phrase dissembled fear instead of pre tended fear, by some means or other, was used which gave it quite the contrary meaning we intended. TVe shall in future pay more attention to the reading of our proo , I Our Leslature adonme oo Monday NOBFOLK AND HEB ! ADVANTAGES.; Kothing would f givei us more pleasure than to see the above City receive that pat ronage from tiie people of "o Ah Carolina particularly those! of. the Eastern portion 01 tne state, to wmcn we iiuuk buc 10 tled. Though situated j in ( the bounds of another state, yetj in feeling and sentiment she is with us. She has' ever sympathized eeply in anything that would redound to 4ur benefit, and has time1 and again mem- oralized the legislature of V lrgima, but to no purpose, to, cede hcjr this state with which her interest is intimately connected. That Lesiaturc not only ref uses to let her come to ns, but' denys to lend its aid in fostering as it should her trade, and what ever else that might put j her on the high road to prosperity. Possessed as she is of one 01 tne nest, 11 roi ine oesi, uaruors iu the United States, she has fine facilities for becoming a great! exporting city, and in return if patronised as she should be, could import goods of all descriptions at as low figures asr- can be done in any market North or South of her. there is no rea son in the world why she could not, prop 1 vided she is the recipent and custom she merits, one is . .aimosi as it F TTftrA .itbur own doors: ! but then m one sense of the word, thai rather militates against ner tnan peing a,nyiumj5 m ney ia vor, for as- people are not so much disposed to sustain an .mdividnay reared in tpeir midst as they are a stranger, so merchants and others have a great perchant for going along ways from home to make their pur chases and that too when there is 1 not a shadow of sense in it, Norfolk are willinfc to he merchants of as much for produce as those cjf any. other city, and .- -r will and can it it be 'desired pay for it in I goods at 'as 'cheap rates j as any The ad- vantages too of from here 16 Norfolk aerj exceedingly great. ' all the Bing an inland communication insurance - is not needed,1 and boats can built' to tike produce to and will be! market in eighteen hour. As it is now, thirty six hours are amply sufficient to! ac complish the trip." Aline! a- i I3 i' ! ! .iiil' of commuiiica-; non nas aireauy ueen estabiislied from there to Europe, and steamers to other forei ports are about to1 be put! o running. think she has 1 . 1 a right to ask of us a before we buy elsewhere, and then if1 it be discovered that she cannot compete with other cities in low prices, why then it may be reasonable to give .her the go by. Not uniess sne is weignea in tne oanances ana found wanting. THE WlfcLIAMSTON EXPOSITOR. ' I j f I : i I - I for our paper as possible, we offer the fol- lowing inducements to 'all to exert them selves in ourlbehaifj, viz : j we will give to any person fjr every, subscriber he may procure, other than! himself one dollar, and for every dollar's worth of advertising that may be secured ior ourj columns twenty five cents. . 'the subscriptions and adver tising must; lie paid for in advance, as that is the only plan upon which a paper san be successfully conducted, j Now here is an opportunity for anyone disposed to help us to do so, and at the same time get amply remunerated ffor his services. Oflr paper is established on a firm ibasis, and those subscribing and those getting7 subscribers for it need have no fears of its going down, unless some unfors jen calamity overtakes us. We app ?al to all who have any Public spirit to help us and by that means help themselves. We want to, and will make pur journal (if there ii any evidence that our efforts are appreciated) as good as any in the stafe. Having seen " we . also are ccrmpassed about with so great a clc ud of ..iiuvojco. n';4iCj icsuiveu 10- layiasiae every weight, andj the sin which doth so; easily beset us " (all know what it is) anc run "with patience the race set befor. c rrn 1 m ! li i )".,- -P US. that rafW IS th Slrrvef . vr . ii - 1 irrT '- y sacnnce an py every enort. If oy arrv nossibilitv. wa should fail in our exertions, and which we don't now at all anticipate, it shall not be laid to our want of ! attention to business. We intend it shall rest upon the public. Particularly watchful does one have be over his language m order to escape the criticism of the various critics in this place. There are quite a number belonging to the . vv.uiV uccauuuw ana in it' are lse oral wno we know are about as WpII on I . , A i tl uuul( 38 wef pawi'-c succes&iimy commana an armv ot a hundred thousand men as to judge of the correctness of. a literary composition. Though the order in this town has always been large, yet never iii the memory of the eldest ! inhabitant has there been so great a revival i vi uuiuurs o il in bo short awhile as since the starting of our increase shall contin ue one lodge will not Uld all of them.ll In vain may we cry "dont view us with a critics eye -but pass our imperfections by" They will do no such thing. -. So we would say, criticise away. Mstakes, sickness and accidents wiU happen in the best of families and with and tothe best of men and those that pursue the business of noticing , and commantmg qn ever errpr will haf en endless job; and get no reputation ? pay for theh-trouble . fellow oncTpI flaw in Jefferson's DW.7aMf;Jr K cVi a f - "iiaiu newt for it! lTn i. give trial 1 he High Court of -Appeals of . pi has just decided that the stay W 7 at the late session of the Lemif - - 'feature r.t inastate is 01 no validity, because it .. latel the Constitution of the United andlthat of the state, both of which V 1 es obligation of contracts, and second! 1 cause it comes in conflict witk -, V the state constitution, whirli courts to be always open, and that shall be delayed in obtaining justice While !wc would much regret; in the ent state of. pecuniary embarrassmem ' AMmrp almost jevery one, to" see the courts 1 tiirown open in. which judgementc .-v be obtained and property exposed toTt at an . immense sacrifice, to meet the mands j of unfeeling creditors, yet, to u candid.' we belieVe.ijf the present Stay La passed, by our Legislature was taken bef0 our Supreme court for adjudication, Its cision I would be as it has always be matters 01 similar Kind, viz : uncoristitution al. The one passed by the General s sembljr of. 1860 was taken up on appeal and was then declared of no, effect on the above named grounds. Although the prt ent "one is framed so as not, if possible bji likethat, yet the judges by the way obiter dictum have clearly intimated hat would be their decision on such a law as has just been passed. By it a man is b out of part of his debt for five years If tlie Legislaturo can keep one from obtain- ins a , part of his money for five years, it has equally as much power to prevent his obtainmg the whole within that time. If it can,s3y, five, years it has equally as much right to put it at a hundred or a thousand Is there any one that will say that that is not impairing the obligation of a contract in the spirit of the constitution. While stay laws are very comfortable ones for those in. debt, yet we very much question the wisdom" of them in a trading point of I ... j - w i - View. In the transaction of business mat ters custom has made the credit system t now from the scarcity of money. $ovJ no one is going to credit to any extent if he knows that the property of his debtor, however; much it is, is nnder the seal of the law and! cannot be made subject to debts. The consequence is, that business to a very considerable degree is stagnated. People m times iiKe xnese snouia, exercise mutual - forbearance towards each other, in the ol- lection of debts. If though, they do not see fit to j do so, We don't see anything else to keep them from making their money out of their debtors. 1 JJ 11 Fj IVl fX f, IV u 1 L "Williaxnston Price Current. (Corrected weekly ny WILSON G. LAMb, Jr. 1.1 -I-"- : : - i SATURDAY MOEXIXG, .MARCH iOtli, m. BEEStrix per pound, : : r Bacox j " " : : : Cotios j " " Middling, j : j ' " . " Ordinary; Corn per barrel, : 1. : :' : FiiJixsEED-p-per bushel, (CClbs) ' Peas stock " " 75 " : : " Black Eyed " : : Pork Mess per Bbl.i : : : : : H Country " hundred lbs : : ntoiscts : : S6cts : : 32cts . : lto!l?i : : .T.'cts j- S40.W 10.00 Staves W, O. Hhd 4 : : : : : : $3000 j'1 RJO. " - : : : e20.00toe2o.f)0 Shixgles 12 inch b'h H'ts per th's nd $5. to $6.00 I "- i " " Saps " " $3. toUM Tallow per lb : : : : : : : lOcfs Tin per'Bbl (280 lbs) : : : : : : : 61 S4, TtRPExusE Crude : : ; :' : f 2.00 to $4.00i 1 Spirits : ; : : : : $1.00 to Baltimore Price Current. " (Corrected weekly by A. C. WILLIAMS & S0.V f Staves Red Oak 7 : , Ti I White : ; ; . Salt Turks T7n 43.to$l 50. io : 55 to to. . 98tdtU O.toSii - -eiftft -1 ivi vusuu Mot. ARVe- Pnrtn 17?. - -n2rr. "ivy irgaiion "osnper.Kal ' : iARp-A i perBbl : "-7 gar Porto Rico : Cottox good middling 12 to 14 50 td51cts MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMETS. CYRUS E. STAPIiES, Ship Broker and Forwarding 3Iercbant. ' Agent ior tne Aew Tork and Boston racwn. ' And Steamboat Agent. i 26 Rowland's Wharf, ! NORFOLK, VA: DEALER in Sa kinds of Coraage, Cotton and I Hemn Duck. Oaknm Rin Twine. Blocks. Mast Hoops, Oars, Paints and Oils, Varawbes Kerosene and Engine Oils, Snip and Steam1 outfits. : Groceries of ' all kinds constantly On hand. ! - .. . Vessels procured for all ports at the most rea- ' sonable rates. no.S 3m j j DE. THOMAS C. PUGH. (Office, next door to Williams & Sons' Store.) y M-r.Kjc. ne.may be found when not prw' u 10 oorgery ana diseases of women, ne devote one day in the Treek rSatnrdaTsI to j saltation, and will bp fnnr, in life nffire Iforfl to 12 A. M. and 2 to 5 P. r. Hanv thafiks for nast bltTe. f , . no-.J-tt Tl ." ; Cotton Seed ! Cotton Seedl I "CH)R SALE three hundred bushels of cotton T" -8eed f las years crop. Warranted sotm Apply early at the Exposj tQr Offlee, I March 17th, 1866; ' ' no. S M. a. COTTON of asrV c?r . IH1' i . ' WIITH .:.-' -1' : , L. PASSANO & SONS, Importers and Dealers in J !; -Ji" Hosiery, Gloves - TRIMMINGS 4- SMALL WARES. 7; 268.W. Baltimore St. r ' : i ri TTi rm - - - - ; - v JX. ltf BALTIMORE. MP- r . -St. r 4 i