The Greensborough patriot [April 12, 1867]

              THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT. ^^
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Volume XXVIII. GREENSBORO, N. 0., FRIDAY, APRIL i2, 1867. Number 1,340.
At ili" " -'•
MARRIED,
lence <>f Mr. Barrel Johnson of
of seven JUT cent, per annum.
ty was mortgaged as collateral
merit of the bond. The m
Certain roper- derive no immediate practical benefit from that "said Andrew Johnson, and his offi-
1 to secure the pay- tue pardon, yet it is pleasing to his friends cers and agents, appointed for that pur-ortgaged
property lo know, that so many Northern men pose, and especially General E. O. C. Ord,
Jemalldcd of prin- . ,. i:«r„_:_„ ,,.:»«, Mm nulloi) in nn- nhnvn nomoH ho nnrnotiiollv ..■,!. ,;<w>.) i».l
I yoi R TAXIS,—M. 8. Sherwood, Esq.,.
lists lor '
GLASS F*OKr.—Our enterprising townsman, ' Appeal to the Supreme Court.
-'T/ l;i tant bill ol com-ll\
V^-?/,r,t1-l''.'N1.- '-'ami1 lrJwHl Dr. Benhow, is making anestensive addition to We learn that au import
dlnthe'officeoftliercgisti'i in the Court his present building, which when finished will plaint was tiled today witl
.daring the week of A[ ril Bnperioi be the moat handsome business house in the Court of the United States
i MI -11 < I ! Ill 1 I at'tel . tile ClOlM! "• the ;. I........ in a mi.re liiuileni stvle of ar-
IfuoaMni uminal Anilrow
Wirz Offered his Life if he Would Im-plicate
Mr. Davis.
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, April 9.—Hon. Theodore
C. Peters, of Maryland, late President of
the New York Agricultural College, has
been appointed agent for distributing seed
South, perfecting Southern agricultural
correspondence, &c.
The Senate to-day passed a resolution
directing the Secretary of War to report
the names and rank of volunteer officers
now in service, what law they are retained
under, and whether their being mustered
out would be detrimental to the service.
A new standing rule was introduced,
that all resolutions calling on the Presi-i
the Supreme
s on the part of ler coaming the suppressed diary of
Mississippi against Andrew Johnson, Pres- Booth and the consequent official murder
' IT 'Mend to this "or thc^wfllbc clritecture, with glass front. We are inclined i(jeut ot- ,ne United States, and General E. of an innocent woman, is followed by an-iJtota
returned for doubfe taxes. | to hope Greensboro is not yet iinished-not (>. C. Ord; It sets out with showing the other little less astounding* or disgraceful
The astounding revelation made bv But- den* and,head8 of Departments for infor-gave
a complimentary dinner to Govern-ors
Orr and Worth, at which the best
cheer and the finest feeling prevailed, and
a number of leading gentlemen were pres-ent.—
Raleigh Sentinel.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette.
The Southern Injunction Against the
Military Satrap Bill.
WASHINGTON, April 5.—A bill was filed
this morning with the Supreme Coutt, in
which the State of Mississippi is the com-
From The London Spectator, March 23.
The 'Gangs" of Rural England.
About fifty years ago prices for com
being very high, the land owners of the
district of Lincolnshire, near Louth, be-gan
enclosing the Fen on a great scale.—
Cottages not paying, they did not build
many, and the farmers gradually collected
bands ol children of both sexes, and set
them to work under an overseer. The
system was found profitable, particularly
plainant, praying an injunction to prevent tc owner8 of clo#0 parches, "who were
the infliction upon that State of the pro- thu„ enab|,,d to puI1 down e,,ttagei, ftnd
i. :i 11<i thereafter, until town, it being more modern style KDITOR <-I THE PATRIOT :—We
icntlv '• eive letters from our
very fire-finished"
in any sense of the term-ami es- status of Mississippi as part of Georgia, to lhe partie8 embraced in j, concerning
peciaUy that much employment may yet be ceded in 1862 to the I mted States, by r "» &
Dyspeptic ''•"ml within its limits for carpenters and which it was agreed that the territory the lawless trial and execution of the un-ire.
W. would JUM say in replying through masons
, thai we are Belling tins remedy ;
: should become a State "on the same loot- fortunate Wirz. The disclosure is made
ins; as the original States in all respects in a letter from Washington to 77te Nero
i,."j state i l.i fact. 1 challenge i le proof of all
i say. I was born and raised al Charlotte, K.
;i well known in this pail of the State. I
i„ !,, vetli 8 th< best r< medyknown now to the
world for Dyspepsia, and I challenge the world
cord of both venders andMedi-
, in,.. JTonrs truly, WM. GRAY.
Charlotte, N. C.
1)ropo«a!s for Rebuilding- or
Greensboro Female « oliege.—
pied will receive Proposals at
.-building of Greensboro Female
College. We invite Proposals for the whole
for making the brick, laying the
. ,.: |be wood work each separately. For
information, apply toeitherof the undersigned.
These proposals arc
A. P. ECKLE, -)
W. A. CALDVA ELL,
• <TEELE,
S H. I>. WILSON,
VV. IJAKliiNGER,
parly)
(800,000 acres) in South-Eastern Kansas for
11,000,000.
AOAIH IN THK FIELD.—Gen. Pope has issued
his orders on assuming command of the district
to which be is assigned. We believe he does
not date them on this occasion " in the sad-dle."
We are indebted to our friends of The Regis-ter
for recent favors which we will be happy
to reciprocate at any time.
in\iled until the 25th
Building Com.
PAKMEU'S BASK OK NORTH CAROLINA,
Gicensboro, April 9th, 1-iiT.
By Order «>« Hie Kareetor*,
" I will -.•!'. to the highest bidder, at the
Court 1 '"i se door in Greensboro, at "2 o'clock,
i,. m. on Monday of Ouilford Superior Court,
(being the rtiud day of April, ld67,)the Bank-ing
House and lot, situated on west market
l.ilwii-n tin- Metropolitan Hotel and the
• of Porter* Eckel, for the notes of
Bank, or their equivalent in
I 'nited States currency al the time payment
is made. The title and possession retained
until the purchase money is paid.
Herring's Safe. A credit of six
months « ill '»• given, l> 1 with approved se-curity
required. W. A. CM.DWELL,
40--2w Cashier.
IGNORANCE, CRIME, AND PAUPERISM IN
( MASSACHUSETTS.—The official record.- of Mass-achusetts
show that there are not less than
35,000 adults in that State who can neither read
' nor write, and that about one in every twelve is
cither a pauper, vagrant, criminal, drunkard,
or insane, or idiotic. So we learn from Tho Bal-timore
Gazette.
DEATH OF HON. GKO. W.RANDOLPH.—
Hon. Geo. W. Randolph died at Edgehill, the
re.-idence of his brother, in Albemarlc county
Virginia, on Wednesday last, the "rd in-t.. in
the fiftieth year of bis age. lie was a grandson
of Thomas Jefferson, and distinguished during
the late war as the Confederate Secretary of
War The deceased was a native of Virginia,
and received a military education at the \ lr-ginia
Military Institute. He also studied law,
and at the outbreak of the war was pursuing his
profession and ranked among the ablest speakers
and debaters at the bar of Virginia. He was a
gentleman of great purity ofcharacter.
The New York Evening Post, a leading Rad-ical
journal, gays that the faith of the country is
fully pledscd that if the scheme is carried out
TVTe»v Siii'iim and summer Cioods.
i> SMITH & G1LMEB
arc !i<.\\ opening a large stock of Spring and
Summer Goods is the Mebane Store House
opposite the Metropolitan Hotel, and would
invite their friends and the public generally
five them a call before purchasing.
Ml kinds of produce taken in exchange for
(i Is. SMITH & GILMER.
aprltJ 40-4w ; honostlv and fairlv the reconstruction effected
lVTolice S3© Reward..—Broke Jail on by it shad be recognized as valid and final.
_[\ Ihe night of31sl March, three negroes.) ■*■
Kill v l.iTieln rr\. Franklin Wharton and Hill '■ At Wilmington last week a white man was
Julian. I will pay Thirty DoOmtn their■•*. icted of man.8iaughter and sentenced to be
nd return to me, or ten Dollars for eitn- . ,, , ,
,1 »| ih. m. Lineberryisamublttoabout 5 feet, branded. Gen. Sickles prevented the execution
Hoi 1(1 inches high, weighs 160 pounds, 35 or of the sentence, considering that it came within
.old. Wharton is black, about 5 feet,, ^0 ,ate enactmenl „f Congress against maiming
- in. h. high, weighs about 140 pounds, young, » f . ..
„<> beard. Julian is a dark mulatto. 5 feet, 1" the person. The Court was asked to inflictsome
incl re built, neighs about 135 other punishment.
•litiinp; the incarceration of Wirz and Ma-pital
Prison they
and enjoyed fa-
, one to the oth-through
an aper-btless,
by the jail-rmitted
to see either,
were made "irrevocable,"' "without tho unless by special privilegefrom the Secre-consent
of the United States." And on tary of War. On the night previous to
December 10,1817, Mississippi was ad- the execution of Wirz three men entered
mitted as a State, under "irrevocable" and his cell, of course by permission ol Stan-
"unalterable" compacts, of which it is ton, and proposed to him, that if he wqnld
claimed the court should enforce the per- agree to implicate Jeff. Davis in the al-foriuance.
It is averred that Mississippi ledged conspiracy to starve the Northern
is, and has ever been a Slate, with State prisoners confined at Andersonville his
constitution republican in form, and prop- life woud be spared. Wirz replied that
ei !y administered ; that > be ackoowleages he would not save his own life by sacrifi-thJ
Constitution as the supreme law. and cing that of another innocent man. The
claims her right to appeal to this court.— parties thereupon left the cell, and Wirz
It is denied that it was ever possible for immediately communicated all that trans-the
people or the State, in its corporate pired to Major Winder. The Major some
capacity, to dissolve its connection with time after met Mrs. Davis in New York,
the United States, in view of the sutren- and revealed to her what is here stated,
der of certain rights, and guaranties of the backing it up by an affidavit, which he
rights and privileges of a State; that any gave her, and which she now holds. The
attempt so to do is a utility, which the trial of Davis would involve revelations
State has formally conceded; and further, which would shock humanity, and test to
that she cannot be expelled; nor is there its fullest whatever sense ofjustice or feel-any
power to subject her to pains, penal- ing of national pride is still left at the
ties, and disabilities under the Constitn- North, ft is not unreasonable to presume
tion ; and any disabilities imposed on citi- that popular indignation would be arous-zens,
except after jury trial, are contrary ed to a pitch that would render it unsafe
to the Constitution. for the concoctors of the vile plans devis-
Thc State admits "that by the wrongful ed to secure the sacrifice of Davis's life t<>
acts of parts ot her citizens and the neff- prolong their residence among a people
led of the Federal authorities to protect whose fame and character they so grossly
the loyal" her government became disor- outraged.
ganized ; but tuis is corrected by the peo- Should not the names of the trio who
pic, who have re-organized a government, made this infamous proposition to Wirz
republican in form, which has secured her be traced out by some means? If ihe
recognition as a State by congress, the Worldwould initiate some movement to
Executive, and, as is believed, by this that end, it is probable that some light
court. Even it" there were irregularities might be obtained which would fix the
in these acts, tliev have been cured by the identity of these villians. The time is
sovereiflm act of the people in voluntary eminently auspicioufe for such an inquiry,
now that the rogues are divulging each
old.
'. speaks slow, about --, years
]>'. M. STAFFORD,
Sheriff. THE SOI TII NOT RESFONSIBILE.—The New
York Times admits that the South does not be-
XTollce.—A small sorrel! horse about 14
i\ liaufKhigh, 15 years old, shod before and come responsible for the Congressional plan of
H liind, was hit at my house about the
M .I. h last by a boj calling himself Jim
Smith, and 1 am inclined !•• believe the borst
has been stolen from some person. Notice is
|n-lei.\ given if the horse is not el aimed by the
owner before the Void of this month he will be
|iay expenses. W. 1!. KEKCE.
ioro, V .. April -th. 1-iiT. 40-2w
■\Ti»Siff.— I »i'l sell for cash at tberesi-
\ dcucoofAiuh Seenastii! Davidson conn-
„ ,.,, \\ rdn.-s.laj "the 17th of April, l->r. the
I.lhiwins property : one tract of land, eon-
. more or less, an interest in
uaet of land near the farm, a valuable
reconstruction by acting it It says :
We do not see that the Southern States "be-come
a party to"- the legislation of Congress by
to cepting it" as law and obeying its require-ments.
Congress has passed a law providing for
elections, conventions and other steps in the re-organization
of governments in the Southern
State.-. That law may, or may not be constitu-tional
; but the Southern people are not respon-sible
lor it 'They were not •• parties to it," in
any sense They did not vote for it ; its validi-ty
docs not depwnd on their accepting or assent-ing
to it. It will go into effect, and the South
era State Governments will bo organized under
assemblage.
The State showed her good faith in the
election of Senators and Representatives,
which have been excluded Iroin Congress,
though her people are compelled to pay
taxes ; and the remaining twenty-six States
other's iniquities. It may be that Major
Winder has some information which would
gave a clue to the names of the parties.—
If he has, he should be induced to furnish
it and then the wretches should be held
mation shall go to standing committees.
The Cabinet session to-day was prolong-ed
till two o'clock.
The people ot Maryland vote to-morrow
for or against a convention, and the Bal-timoreians
vote on the Sunday street car
question. The Democrats and Conserva-tives
have carried Hagerstown, Md., mu-nicipal
election.
Major Charles A. Morgon has been pla-ced
in command of Fort Delaware.
General Sol. Meredith has been confirm-ed
Surveyor General of Montona, the
vote rejecting him having been reconsid-ed.
Tho internal revenue receipts to-day
were over $700,000.
The Russian treaty was favorably re-ported
on by the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, briefly discussed and
ratified with but two nays.
The President has nominated John P.
Stockton for the Austrain mission, and
Colonel Caperton, of Illinois, for the Ag-ricultural
Commissions ship.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
Chandler, is quiet sick.
The President has pardoned Z. B.
Vance, ot North Carolina on the recom-mendation
of 12 Senators and 30 Repre-sentatives
and Governors Bramlette, of
Kentucky, Sharkey and Parson6, and May-or
Hoffman of New York.
An invitation to George Peabody, to
attend a meeting of the Charleston Board
of trade, has been accepted.
The sloop Simonton, recently sunk in
York river, has been raised.
The fire in Petrolia, Canada West, last
Saturday, burnt to death two girls, one 8
and the other 21 years old.
Affairs in North Carolina and South
Carolina
CHARLESTON, April 9.—In the confer-ence
between General Sickles and Govern-ors
Worth and Orr, the preliminaries of
reorganization were settled as follows:
The details of registration will be im-mediately
prepared by General Sickles
and pot into operation as soon as qualified
persons can be found to act. No election
will be held in either North or South Ca-lina
until a convention shall beheld, except
for members of the Aivention. When-ever
vacancies in office shall occur the
government will appoint persons to fill
such as are filled by the General Assem-blies,
if there is no special reasons to the
contrary, and the General will appoint to
fill vacancies to such offices as are
by the popular suffrage.
visions of the military acts recently passed
blly Congress. It was received and order-so
completely abolish poor races, and it
I gradually spread over other parts of the
ed to be printed. countv, and then into parts of Hunting-
I cannot rav that there is much, if any denshire, Cambridceshire, Norfolk. Suf-dive.
siiy of opinion among well informed
men here in respect to this movement.—
Doubtless, there is much to be said in jus-tification
of the course which patriotic ci-tizens,
smarting under tolerable oppres-sion,
have deemed it their imperative duty
to pursue. No one doubts the sincerity
of righteousness of this action. But is
this a time to try constitutional questions t
That is the point
It is notorious that a decision of the
Supreme Court, if favorable to the com-plainant,
would be treated on all sides
having jyower with utter contempt. Ev-ery
ether branch of the Government
would regard it as so much waste paver,
and thereby sink still lower the authority
of the judicial department. Have we not
seen the decisions of this tribunal in re-spect
to the test oath and judgments of
military courts entirely repudiated by
Congress and the Executive? Is not the
infamous test oath still administered by
the officials in Congress—in every execu-tive
department of the Government, and
in subordinate judicial tribunals? Are
not Dr. Mudd and his fellow-sufferers still
folk, and Xottingshire, till it became a
regular trade. Men out of work, or
without characters, or N<>imd b* instinct,
went about from village to villaoe, hiring
children at so much a week, and then re-letting
them out to the farmers at an ad-vanced
but still moderate rate, till «t th<?
present time, it is bcliev.-d that upwards
of three hundred of these "public gangs"
are in existence, each with it* gang-master
and abont twenty children of both sexes.
The farmers, moreover, finding the supply
of cheap and organized labor convenient,
adopted the,syatem for themselves, and
organized private gangs among their OWB
cottagers, till the total number of children
thus employed amounted to several thous-ands
more. Certain evils connected with
the practice seem at last to have struck
the local clerpy. Parliament was induced
to stir, and the Homo Office ordered an
official inquiry into the system. The re-port
of tho Commissioners hns been re-ceived
and printed with the evidence, and
the latter confirms the worst stories cur-rent.
The gang system, as at prescni.
carried on in these counties, is declared bv
!
filled
..,,.,. To lx sold to satisfy a claim in favor of its provisions, whether they acceptor reject it.
nited States. •'■ ''• t'AJ SLi, \u they do is to •• submit to force." They take
|ii-l« Deputy Collcclor.Gth l>ist. N. C. j the law as they find it—as it is male for them
TO THOSE WHO OWE US.
We hope those indebted to this office for
riptions, advertising,&c, will make pay-ten
ts of the same at an early day. We are
grea v ii need of thu various amounts due
by those who, for the time, have tho power to
make it.
They find a certain law in force—they are in
nowise responsible for it —they had nothing to
do with making it—they are merely the parties
upon whom it is to take cflect They avail them-selves
ol power which it puts ill their hands, for
their own protection against others whom ii
cloth..- with the same power.
have passed an act, which is the special up to the universal scorn and contempt
object of complaint, with a supplement, they so richly merit.
both being annexed to the bill. The pre- m
amble of the former affirms that there is
no legal government tin re and in oilier ' " seems v< ry difficult for many persons
Southern States, but th- people, the only to understand the Reconstruction Acts
competent source of a State government, an<1 the Howard Amendment which op-have
organized and put one in operation. crates Wlth. t»ose Acts. Many who are
These two acts annihilate the State, Icj«»ny entitled to vote seem to think that
s
er
tis
itH^i2n^wnmA7wiu^a^ldlsr I »ned to illiterate persons, but prevails to
is the law. On this entire point the Ian-! somc extent among the more intelligent
gunge of the bill is very forcible. These ' *-*'ass-acts';
asserting the paramount authorit v of! This is the only test of voters: Did you
Congress to abolish or control the State j btloro the war hold any office under the
governments, were passed bv a two-thirds j United States, or sene as a member of
vote over the Executive vetoes, and are in ' the Legislature, or hold any Judicial or
processof enforcement by the President Executive office under the State, and
as a
give the
mere ministerial duty." We here
language of the bill:
Now, complainant avers and charges,
that the execution of said acts, by enfor-cing
them in the manner therein provided,
will cause and produce immediate andirre-
.■! wards supported and aided the Confed-racy
? If you did not, you are entitled
ed as above indicated.
lotte Democrat.
That's all.—Char-
PATRIOT.
GREENSBORO, N. C.
FRIDAY. SPRlii 12. 1867.
!,:.. xsitotto i- v.;i: COLLEGE.—The rc-litnl
ion s to be commen-ting
of the snbscri-! to these headquarters the time and place of Mich
lie . ::t. ; |>1 .-.■. held last
l'.l.K( '1 . ;■•'.. I Eo Ot* >'o "•.!.': AND
Sot in vj.\UOI.INA We find ihe following or-der
in the Charleston papers :
HLWKS.. SKCIIND MILITARY DISTRICT,
North ' arolina and South Carolina,
Charleston, S. C, April 1,1867.
General < Irden No. ■>..
When an election for district, county, muni-cipal
er town offic r- is required to take place,
in accordance with the provisions of the local
law. within the limits of any post in this com-mand.
Command Officers will promptly report
designation of tho offices to be
■ • t-sdeiem inert I n make an
it meiit ti -five pel cent.
UNRAVELING.—A man coming home
late one evening, a little more than "hali
seas over," feeling thirsty, procured a
glass of water and drank it. In doing so,
lie swallowed a small ball of silk that lay
in the bottom of the tumbler, the end
catching in his teeth. Feeling something
in his mouth, and not knowing what it
wtis, he began pulling at the end, and the
little ball unrolling he soon had severa:
feet in his hands, and still no end, appar-ently.
Terrified, he shouted, at the top
ol his voice : '-Wife! wife! I say wife 1
come here ! I am unraveling."
it sll l>-e ill..
the 1!
An ailvei 1 isi inent
' ing proposals
tnaj be found in our advcrti-iing
inns.
THE N. I. RAII.KOAO.—We publish this
rt of the Committee appointed
iture to examine into the affairs
if ;he N. C. Eailroad. The
i quite lengthy; bul we infer that
oui readers are interested in this sub
We Iiooe. alter tliis to give a greater va-i
thai we have been do-les
past.
G LD ■ v- "Cl'BREXCY," BUT "A
I —An important decision with
lei i contracted
-. in gold :v.'.l silver, by
r of paper money, basjust been ren-
'■• ■■ - ..•• Court of New York.
In May, ':•;.. Wm. Harrison executed his
in th -penalty of $8,000
m d t' • •;■† in gold and silver coin of
eloclion and il
fi.led.
[fthe present incumbents be ineligible to hold
office, or any objection exist, arising out of their
misconduct ::. office, to the continuance of their
funclion. tin- tacts will be reported by the Post
Commander, with his suggestions, having in
view the interests of the service and the welfare
of the locality mentioned immediately concerned
Bv command of Major General 1>. K SICKLES.
J W. CLOUS,
Capt. 88th V. S. Inft, A. 1). C. and A. A G
Official : ALEX MOORE,
Aide-de-Camp.
Gov. VA.MI: PAKDONED.—The people
ol" the State will hail with pleasure the
announcement that Ex-Gov Vance has
been pardoned. The Raleigh Sentinel
says upon this subject:
We could make no announcement, which
will be more gratifying to the people of
North Carolina, except a few inal-contents,
than that furnished by our Washington
telegram, that the Hon. Zebulon B. Vance
his, upon the recommendation of many
persons, been pardoned by the President.
The news will be as grateful to our peo-ich
the coins ofthe United [ pie, as it is deserved by our distinguished
were reg dated, with interest at the rate j fellow-citizen. It is true Gov. Vance can
to vote—if you did, you are not entitled
to vote.
When you go to offer your vote at %e
coining reconstruction elections, the Re-parable
mischief in the States to which it | construction Act prescribes that you shall
applies, as must be manifest to the Court, ,!lke an °*th that you are not distranclus-in
this, that they are repugnant to the
Federal Constitution, and violate the spirit,
the purpose, and the object of the com-pacts,
between Georgia. Virginia and the
United States; it will deprive the States of
every attribute of State authority, and
practically annihilate them as States, by
converting th< m into subordinate jepeu-i!
tines; it will derange the whole system
o; internal or domestic affiura ; it will an-nul
their legislation, and subvert their
whole judicial system, inasmuch as it de-clares
that State government illegal; it
may annul ail contracts and titles to prop-erty
made with reference to existing laws;
it will deprive the people of their most sa-cred
rights—their exemption from arrests
save on evidence founded on affidavit, the
right ot the intervention of a grand jury,
and the right of trial by jury—and estab-lish
military powers on the ruins of their
constitutional lights, it will produce a
train of it reparable mischiefs that may not
be corrected for years, as the Court will
readily perceive, and they can only be pre-vented
by a very speedy application of the
restraining powers of this Court. But,
above all, these acts, it maintained, estab-lish
a precedent by which Congress, com-posed
of a majority of States, may, at
pleasure, exclude any State, or any num-ber
of States, from the American Union."
The bill further alleges that many legal
questions will arise under these acts,
which must be declared unconstitutional,
leading to innumerable suits and incalcula-ble
mischief, as well as a total disorgani-zation
and state of anarchy.
It furthermore avers that the bill is
filed as a bill, and in order to prevent end-less
legislation, otherwise sure to ensue.
It declares this is done in good lakh, and
not from factious motives, but in the be-lief
that these acts are not obligatory un-less
declared valid by the Court. But if
so declared, they will be eh erfully obey-ed
; and as there is no redress for a State
except through this court, it is prayed
WESTERN RAILROAD.—A meeting of
the Stockholders of the Western Railroad
Company, in this place on Saturday, 30th
March, elected the following officers for
the present year:
C.B. Mallett, President; Col. H. II.
Waugh, of Surry Co., Col. J. T. More-head,
of Greensboro, M. S. Robins, of
Randolph and A. A. McKethan, of Fay-etteville,
Directors on the part cf the
State, and Arch'd McLean, T. S. Latter-loh,
ILL. Myrover, J. D. Williams and
Wm. McL. McKay, Directors on the part
of the Stockholders.
Their action in reference to the exten-sion
of the road is contained in the
following resolution, which was adopted :
Resolved, That the President and Di-rectors
be instructed to proceed to the
construction of the road from Egypt to a
point common to the several proposed
lines to Greensboro, High Point and
Thomasville: Provided, the means can be
obtained to carry on the work, and that
they have the Engineer make an approxi-mate
estimate (without actual survey) ol
the distance, cost ot construction and ad-vantages
from such common point to
Greensboro, High Point and Thomasville,
and also from Greensboro, Hight Point
and Thomasville, to a common point near
Salem, in the direction of Mt. Airy ; and
that they also ascertain what amount of
aid can be had by subscription or other-wise
on each line, and that so soon as such
information can be obtained, a meeting of
the Stockholders be called and the results
submitted to them.—Fayetteville Presby-terian.
iucarcerated at the Dry Tortugas, senten- a]| kinds and classes—clergymen, farmers,
ced by a conclave pronounced by this very
court—the highest court of judicature in
the country—to have been assembled in
utter violation of law? Are not hundreds
of others at this moment suffering punish-ment
inflicted by similar unauthorised
gatherings alter a solemn decision id' the
illegality of this conviction delivered six
months ago? What, then, is to he gain-ed
by even a favorable judgment under
such circumstances ?
But does not this new move " press the
mourners" a little too hard? Do we not
know that the men composing this august
tribunal arc veritable flesh and blood, lia-ble
to be operated upon by the itilln- DOSS
which, unfortunately, at this insane mo-ment
prevail universally from the Aris-took
to Mason and Dixon's line? Is it to
be supposed that the result of the Con-necticut
election has so far paralysed the
Radical arm as to secure the very organi-zation
of the. Court itself, if, in a matter ol
this momentous importance, it should run
counter to the wishes of a controlling and
unscrupulous power? Without further
beating the bush, is there not very great
danger that the Court will be coerced by
fear of losing their places and power HW"
future good to give a decision advene to
the petition, which could not be but dec*
sive hereafter in better day*? In the
minds of thoughtful men, therefore i;
would have been bitter to have pottponed
such a proceeding until at least, some r<
spect would be likely to be paid to the au-thority
of the Court $omi te/u n . and by
S"jnebody having power, coupled with the
inclination to carry their judgment into ef-fect.
The moral influence of s decision,
one way or the other, is not worth B
rush.
i
General Sickles has produced a favora-ble
impression all over his command. He
holds forth in Charleston, though his first
order was dated t olumbia. It is reasona-ble
to hope that, under the administration
of such gentlemanly officers, our people
will ready acquiesce in the situation, and
make the best of it; if so, our better days
may not be so very far off. If we. had
less politics we should get on infinitely
better.— Yorkville Enquirer.
EMIGUAXTS FROM NORTH CAROLINA TO
VKNEZUKLA.—The schooner United States
sailed yesterday for Venezuela with a car-go
of about fifteen living souls, destined
to settle "for better, for worse," in that
yet untried land. The scheme did not
prove popular here, and a number of those
who were induced to venture their lives
were poor miserable creatures who had
worn threadbare in this country, and
could not be much worse off anywhere.—
An equal proportion were reckless, dissi-pated
adventurers, some of whom are hap-py
riddances. There were only a lew-well-
to-do, intelligent-looking people in
the party.— Wilmington Dispatch.
Gov. WORTH AT CHARLESTON.—Our
telegraphic dispatches, to-day furnish gra-tifying
intelligence as to the nature and
result of the conference, at Charleston, be-tween
Govs. Worth and Orr and Gen.
Sickles. We have private information
that the official interviews between these
gentlemen were of the most satisfactory
and harmonious character, and that the
District commander exhibited a highly
courteous and liberal spirit.
Gov. Worth has not yet returned to
this city. As soon as he does so, he
will doubtless make known, in some form,
the arrangements which have been
agreed upon relative to the work of re-or-ganization.
Gov. Worth visited Charleston at the
invitation of Gen. Sickles. He reached
that City on Saturday last, and was met
at the Depot by two Aides on the Gener-al's
Staff, and conducted to the residence
of Gen. Sickles, whose guest he was soli-cited
to become.
The Governor was honored by a splen-did
dinner, at the Mills House, given by
bis Excellency Gov. Orr, " in compliment
to the Old North State," at which were
present Gen. Sickles and the other chief
officers of the Army stationed in Charles-ton.
On Monday morning. Gen. Tyler gave
an excursion, on the bay, to Forts Sumter
and Pickens, and at 4, P. M. Gen. Sickles
More Internal Revenue Decisions.
DEDUCTIONS FToM CfCOXI roi: INSI I:AN< K.
Payments on account of insurance ol
property, but not of life or against acci-dents
to persons, are proper deduction*
in ascertaining the profits from business or
property. I>ut when the profits are de-termined
and reported in the return of in-come,
no further deduction on account of
insurance can be allowed. Losses in busi-ness
by fire, less the insurance received,
are proper deductions in determining pro-fits.
INCOME OF DBCKDEKTS.
No income tax accrues on the income
or upon the estate of a person who shall
have died between January 1, 1866, and
December 81,1866. The executors and
administrators c-anuot be required to make
returns of income from the estate of such
decedents, but succession or legacy tax-may
accrue, and should be exacted, and
the annuitants must return their receipts
as income.
GOOD FOR MILLINERS AKD DBBSSKAKBBS.
When hats, caps, bonnets, and hood- are
made by a milliner or dressmaker, they
are exempt. The amendatory act m
no change in this respect. Clothing or ar-ticles
of dress not specially enumerated,
made by Sewing, for the wear ot men,
women, or children, from cloth- and fab-rics
on which a tax or duty his been paid,
are exempt.
NOT so don.
laborers, old gang-masters, mothers of
girls who are in the gangs, and decent la-borers'
wives—to be fatal alike to health,
to civilization, and t<> moinlity. Childrei
of both sexes and all ages, from five to
sixteen, are, in fact, sold by the wretched
laborers to tho gang-masters at so much
per head per week,generally we aie bound
lo add, out ofthe direst poverty. Th-t
ganger having collected his children, take t
them away to his job, forcing them to
walk, or if" needful, to carry each othei,
for distances which often involve of, them-
•MIMS great cruelty. Five miles out and
five back is thought nothing of, in addition
to almost continuous lahor for at least ten
hours a day. This labor is generally weed-ing
or picking stones, perhaps the most
exhausting kinds of toil a child can be
called on to perform. The laborers in
many English parishes are coarse enough,
luit among these poor wretches civiliza-tion
disappears. Upon this point there is
nn overwhelming consensus of evidenct,
■veil from the few farmers who pronounce
that the system is indispensable to their
tillage. The single amusement is obscene
talk, which becomes so shocking that the
very laborers are revolted, and declaie
the) would sooner turn out of the road
than meet the gangs returning. All the
offices ol nature, say twitm \\ itncMRcs,
are performed in public by both sexes,
without the fainte-t effort at concealment.
Boy* and girls off alt ages bathe together
sark link. -I, and the most infamous actions
are boasted of trithashamsleasneM rarely
found among savages The gangs sje the
special resort ot till girls who have lost
their characters, and the gang-masters of
len set themselves Ul delib rate CoiTU|>-
tion. One witness, a bookseller, who find
belonged to one of these gangs, informed
the Commissioner distinctly that th gang-ers
set the children to ting obscene songs
to enliven the long road home, and it is
clear, from all manner of incidental testi
mony, that the dinner le ur is often t if
signal for horseplay, which degenerates
into deliberate obscenity. No doubt much
Of all this i- line to an excessive coarse-ness
of manners still uneradieated in many
parts of the country, and, indeed, ineradi-cable
until theEnglish peasant has been
rehoused; and it is quite possible to con-tuse
alow civilizati'in with a degeneratec
morality, lbit the universal testimony oft
the local witnesses is that the girls am
boy* employed in these gangs are much
Worse than their own brothers mid sister
not so employed, that the evil is deepenc
by aggregation and, as we should add, b
i Lceaeive toil. Gleaners going out are dt
c. nt, but listen to them coming home.—
Women employed in tho fields are every
where the worst on the country side, an
if the labor involves wandering or nigh:
work, as in tho case of the hop pickers!
civilization disappears, and whole farm,
become temporary brothels. Hut among
these gangs the evil strides society at tho
root These gang laborers are children
forced to labor by their parents, deprived
of the possibility of education made lust-ful
by forced companionship, brutal by
compulsory association with brutes.—
Mothers, themselves, bred among associa-ti
tis which at least kill squeamishncss,
repeat to the Commissioners one unvary-ing
song, "I would rather hunger"—their
(1st) On hats, caps, bonnets, and hoods
of all descriptions, two per cent, ad valo-rem
[unless made by as above.]
(2n) On clothing or articles of dr. ss for
the wear of men, women, or children.
made by weaving, knitting, or felting,
from wool, or of which wool is the chief
component material, or the component ma
terial of chief value, the tax is two and
one-half (2i) per cent, ad valorem.
(3) On clothing, or articles of dress,
&c, made by wearing, knitting, or felt-ing,
from materials other than wool, or of
which wool is not the chief component
material, or fiot the component material
ot chief value, the tax is live (."») per cent.
ad valorem.
(4) On clothing, or articles of wearing
apparel manufactured or produced from
India rubber, gutta percba, or from rai,or
fur skins dressed with the fur on, the tax
is five per cent., except articl s mad- of
fur, the value of which do. B not exec d
twenty dollars ($20,) in which case the
tax is two per cent.
(5) On gloves, mittens, and moccasins
the tax is two, two and half, or live- per
cent.adw«/-r';«, according to tue mate-rial
of which they aro made, and the mode
of making them.
ing
strongest asscrvation—'than let my girls
go to the field." For, be it rennmb red,
. il docs not pUB with childhood.—
The gyp«y taste is soon arotis. d, and l»c-comes
rm.-ot the Strongest off the passions.
The girls who have been in the gangs will
raidy take to other work, never go into
service, and when married leave their
children at home drugged with opium to
go out to the fresh, rough, "larky' labor
of the fields, where is "company," and
beer, and paramours at dstCTOHOB. If this
account is considered too Strong, all wc
can say is, we have carefully toned it down
from reports mainly guaranteed by local
rymen who, like the Vicar of Chattel
IS, doubt Whether any chastity is lelt
amoiiL' villagers where gauging is common :
or, like the Key. M. S. Jackson, assert
that "the young women are utt- rly shame-less—
all female deli acy of character is
utterly gone;" or, like the Hector of
Itiamhall, who is a magistrate, testified
that cases ot indecent assault are infre-quent
in his district, because "little is
thought of such behavior, and it is pass-
,1 over unnoticed;" or, like Mi George
Moore Smith, who holds gang labor to Be
absolutely ^dispensable, but is so con*in-cl
of the immortality ofthe -y-tetn that
he would prohibit mixed gangs by law.
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