The Greensborough patriot [February 15, 1866]

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Volume XXVII. GREENSBORO, N. C, FUlDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1866. Number 1,28 I
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PATRIOT
GREENSBORO, N. C.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1866.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.—Wecall espe-eial
attention to the new advertisements
to be found in this issue of THE PATRIOT.
John F. Slump,—Valuable land for stile.
John A. Gilmer, President,—Meeting
of Greensboro -Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Sterling & Albright,—Sale ofllottse and
Lot, Printing Presses, Types, School
Hooks, &c.
James E. Thorn,—Painting and Trim-ming.
W. C. Porter,—Dwelling and offices for
rent.
R. Scott,—Further reduction in prices.
Kcogh & Crane,—Ale.
J. Hildesheimer,—Spring and Summer
Goods.
E. 11. Harris, Exr.—Sale of real estate
in Lexington.
Hugh Rice,—Real estate for Sale in
Greensboro.
this country, as the founding of William
and Mary College and the advancement of
education in that section show. He con-cluded
:
"How little justice has been done to
those venerable benefactors, who deserve
the most glorious memorials for their un-tiring
efforts to benefit their fellow-men.
To nli who would impugn the character of
Virginia, let her great men reply. Are
we worthy descendants of those great men
who advanced learning and religion, and
made their lives one martyrdom that we
might enjoy the greatest blessings ever
poured upon a people? The two antago-nistic
sections of our country possess a
unity both of tradition a; d destiny. No
class of our progenitors were the monopo-lists
of truth. Now is the time to harmo-nize
what is good in Northern and South-ern
sections. There should be no geo-graphical
lines in the nationality of our
country. On policy as well as principle
we can extend the magnanimity of heroes
to our Southern brethren. For some years
there will be much to annoy and pain us,
but if we are resolved that the whole land
shall be one home for the American peo-ple,
we must bury strife and discord. A
future of moral grandeur awaits our coun-try,
bearing the impress of the early foun-ders,
and possessing a glorious civilization
through the agency of the Christian reli-gion."
Such sentiments do honor to their dis-tinguished
author, and, if they can obtain
the ascendant, will speedily hasten that
happy Future of which we speak.
States troops are needed as useful in restor-ing
peace and order, but, on the other
hand, have found them a disturbing ele-ment,
a nuisance and a blighting curse
to the quiet, prosperity and happiness of
both races, in spite of the earnest and
honorable efforts of many of their com-manding
officers.
COUNTY COTJBT ORGANIZED.—On last
Saturday, the 10th, forty-nine of the new-ly
appointed Justices of the Pence in and
for Guilford County assembled in the
court house, after due notice, and, after
being duly qualified by the clerk, proceed-ed
to organize the Court of Picas and
Quarter Sessions for the county.
William A. Caldwell, Esq., was chosen,
by ballot, Chairman of the County Court.
Jed. 11. Lindsay. Jesse Benbow, Anslem
Reid and A. P. Eckel, Esqrs., were chosen,
by ballot, Associate Justices of the Spe-cial
Court.
D. F. Caldwell, Esq.. was chosen, by
ballot. Solicitor for the State in the Coun-ty
of Guilford.
William I*. Steiner was chosen, by bal-lot,
Public Register for the County.
Wyatt W. Ragsdale was chosen, by ac-clamation,
to the office of County Trustee.
The folio wing persons were chosen, by
ballot, Wardens of the Poor, to wit:—
1. Joseph Hoskins. 2. William M. Me-bane,
'■'•■ Abner Apple, 4. C. J. Wheeler,
5. Joshua Ciapp, '.'•. David McKnight,
7. Reuben 1'. Sechrest.
Lyndon Swaim gave bond as Clerk, and
R. M. Stafford as Sheriff, and they were
each duly qualified.
The appointment of other officers was
postponed until the regular term, the 3rd
Monday of this month.
PIEDMONT RAILBOAD.—The work of
changing the gunge of this road is pro-gressing
rapidly. Trains will soon run
through from Richmond to Greensboro in
day-light.
THE CHOLERA.—Our cotemporaries,
both North and South, have generally
abandoned .almost till hope of exemption
from the ravages of this terrible disease.
Its advent may be confidently looked for
daring the present year, and those cities
in which the necessary sanitary regula-tions
are omitted, may expect to become
the scenes of tearful mortality. Thousands
of the unfortunate negroes will fall victims
to this fatal scourge, and unless every pre-caution
is taken for mitigating its honors,
by a rigid system of purification, many of
the whites will also fall beneath its with-ering
touch. This important question is
not receiving the attention it deserves.
POETRY OF THE WAR.—Wo see by
a notice in The Daily South Carolinian,
published at Charleston, S. C, that W.
GILLHOBE SLMMS, Esq., is about to collect
the Poetry of the South, during the late
war. and begs of those who have written
that they will send him copies of all such
pieces as relate to the war, or any of its
incident.-. He would wish that the poems
may be dated, if possible, and the names
given of the periodicals or newspapers in
which they originally appeared. Commu-nications
will be addressed to him at the
office of The South Carolinian, Charles-ton,
S. C.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON ON NEGRO SUFF-RAGE.—
A delegation of negroes called on
President Johnston the other day to urge
that the colored man be endowed with
the right to vote. The President was ad-dressed
by two of the delegation, Fred
Douglas and a man named Downing.—
The President responded, saying "if his
past course was not evidence of his good
will to the colored race, he could say no
more. He had said, and repented here,
that if they could find no other Moses to
lead them to the land of promise .and liber-ty,
he would be that Moses; but he was
not willing to adopt a policy which would
result in danger to the colored man. and
possibly lead to a war of races. Nothing
but evil would result from enforcing upon
the people of the District of Columbia,
or any other section, a piinciple in direct
opposition to the expressed will of the
majority.
At the csnclusion of the President's re-marks,
which were of considerable length,
Douglas said the question would havetobe
settled by the people, to which the Presi-dent
expressed his assent, saying he had
great faith in the people. .
MANLY SENTIMENTS.—Bishop Coxe, of
Western *Now York, delivered a lecture
lately before the "Young Men's Associa-tion,"
of Buffalo, on "The Unity of Nor-thern
and Southern Civilization." The
('omrru rcial Advertiser of that city speaks
in laudatory terms of the lecture, which,
from the sketch that it publishes, seems to
have been distinguished by a Christian
and liberal spirit. The speaker referred
to the claims of some reviews and jour-nals,
that New England is the source ofall
learning in this country ; but the fact that
such men as WASHINGTON and FKWKI.IX
sprang from different sections is sufficient
proof that there must have been a unity in
religious and educational influences in
those sections. Virginia, said Bishop
Coxe, was really the mother of learning in
IMPORTANT DECISION OF THE QUARTER-MASTER
GENERAL.—The Quartermaster
General refuses to pay for property used
during the war for military purposes in
Southern States. The following decision
has just been made in a ease where vouch-ers
had been given, by order of a com-manding
general, for the use of a black-smith-
shop and tools belonging to a loyal
citizen of Winchester, Va :
"Winchester was a hostile town, cap-tured
from an enemy who did not surren
der on terms, but were driven out by force
of arms ; everything in it was a prize of
war; as at Atlanta and Charleston, build-ings
were occupied for shelter of troops,
and for sick and wounded soldiers. It
does not appear that the Military Depart-ment
should order payment of any rents
under such circumstances."
We understand that this decision will
apply to all similar cases arising in the
Southern States, even where the claimants
produce evidence of loyalty.—National
intcligt /<'< /•.
"LOYAL STILLS."—A northern paper
speaks of the whisky distilleries that pay
the tax v. ithout evasion, as "Loyal Stills."
On the same principle, the "loyal" drink,
ami the man who inbibes it is a first rate
"loyal" man. Without "loyalty"' no man
shall see the face of a fanatic in peace.
A RECONSTRUCTED GOVERNOR'S OPIN-ION
OF FEDERAL SOLDIERS.—Governor
Humphreys, of Hississipri, in a letter da-ted
January 10, denying the report of
troubles in Kempee county, and the inter-ference
of Federal soldiers, writes :
I heard of no disturbance or disorder
in that county that needed my attention.
I have never doubted the willingness and
ability of the civil officers and volunteer
companies to maintain peace and order
within the State without the assistance of
the United States military.
I have yet to learn that the United
For The Patriot.
DISTILLATION OF GRAIX.
EDITOR OF THE PATRIOT:—A iaw weeks
since, a bill was introduced into the House
of Commons of our present Legislature,
prohibiting the distiilalion of grain into
whisky. After a pretty full discussion of
the subject, the b»- passed the Commons
by a decided Majoiky; but was rejected
on its second reading in the Senate. The
Guilford members were equally divided
upon this important measure. Messrs.
Caldwell and Movehead votei for the
measure, and Messrs. Smith and Houston
against it. Messrs. Morehead and Cald-well
desired to preserve the grain for
bread, in preference to converting it into
whiskey. Messrs. Smith and Houston
said by their votes, let the stills continue
to convert the "staff of life*' into the
"O-be-JoyfulI." I have no doubt they all
desired by their votes to advance the in-terests
of their constituents, though they
so widely differed on this important hill.
As an humble citizen of the county of
Guilford, I deeply regret the defeat of the
bill above referred to. Grain is scarce
and high, extremely high, when we take
into consideration the great scarcity of
currency. Were not another bushel dis-tilled
between this and corn-gathering
time, it would be difficult on the part of
many of the poor 'and needy to procure
enough bread to sustain life; but with the
stills running as they will now run, I much
fear that thousands will suffer for bread.
I entertain no extreme temperance views.
I usually keep spirits in my house, and use
it when so inclined; but myself and fami
ly can do wiiho.it whisky, (especially
when we can make a sirbsitule of brandy,)
much better than, we can do without
bread. And that appears to be the alterna-tive,
as the matter presents itself to my
mind. flta
But b a financial view, the distillation of
grain is the worst of policy. Jt drains
this State of thousands ofdollars ofmoney,
which is needed here as a medium of
trade, and it brings no money hack into
the State, or very little. But how is that,
says one. Well, I will very soon tell you.
Besides the License tax of $25.00 per
annum, there is a U. S. tax of two dollars
per gallon upon every gallon of whisky
distilled. This tax has to be paid by the
distiller, and is all carried out of the State.
The distiller rakes and scrapesevery dollar
of greenbacks that he can lay his hand
on to pay this heavy tax. That money
never again is permitted to enter into cir-culation
among us. It is at once locked
up in the U. S.Treasury vaults. It is n
total loss to the community. It never gets
back. I will admit, that in a financial
point of view, if the whisky manufac-tured
in the State was carried and sold
out of the State at a big pro/it, then the
community might receive back witli "usu-ry,"
the money paid in taxes to the U. S.
government and carried ot.'. But such is
not the fact. Very little finds a market
abroad. It is unfortunately for the pros-perity
of our people, consumed among us,
and nobody benetitted except the disti.ler
and the man who sells his grain at an en-hanced
price, while the hallancc of the
people are badly worsted. I might pro-duce
other reasons for regretting the de-feat
of the bill in question, but I will let
the foregoing sullice.ibr the present.
GUILFORD.
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For Th.> Patriot.
COXSTil'ITTIOX,\L A MEND-MENTS.
EDITOR OF THE PATRIOT.—Isee in Tin:
PATRIOT of last week, a call for a public
meeting in the court house on Tuesday ol'
Guilford County Court, to consider the
subject of desirable reforms in the State
Constitution. I know not what reforms
you people down in Guilford may desire.
According to our notions up here, there
are several important changes which ought
to be made in our State Constitution, and
which, I hope, the Convention will duly
consider when it re-assembles. 1 will
mention but one, at present. 1 here should
be a provision in the Constitution making
a member of the Legislature ineligible to
an election of any office within the gift of
the Legislature during the term for which
said member may have been elected.
The writer of this, some years ago,
served several sessions in the Legislature,
and thereby had a good opportunity of
seeing the great detriment to the public
interest, caused by men seeking and se-curing
scats in the Legislature merely as a
stepping-stone to some other and more de-sirable
office. When the Assembly meets,
these men's minds are not occupied with
the public business ol the State, but how
they can best secure the coveted office.—
A large portion of their time, that ought
to be devoted to the consideration of the
weighty affairs of State, is spent in play-ing
the "agreeable " before their brother
members. And whenever their decision
is required on any question before the
Legislature, the only question in their
mind is, which side shall I take to secure
the most votes for the office I want, with
hardly a thought as to what will advance
the best interests of the State.
As many members can testify from ex-perience,
members are frequently placed
in very unpleasant positions by the solici-tations
of brother members for office. The
insertion of the proposed clause in our
State Constitution would remedy many
evils, and do nobody any injustice. Then,
if a man expected to be a candidate before
the Legislature for any office within its
gift, he would not seek a seat in that body
as a stepping-stone for some other promo-tion,
as I firmly believe many now do. In
fact, of late years, it seems to be about
all the chance a man has to an election to
any office at the hands of the Legislature,
is first to secure a seat in that body. A
large portion of the offices filled by the
Legislature are by members of their own
body. I heard it remarked, shortly after
the meeting of the present Legislature, that
about half the members were candidates
for some office before their own body.—
This, I presume, was a rather extravagant
remark ; but the sequel proved that a very
respectable number of them did urge their
peculiar fitness for the various offices that
wevo to be filled by the "Assembled Wis-dom"
of the State.
This is a more important reform than
those who have not been placed in a posi-tion
to see the evil complained of, imag-ine.
I hope the Convention will give this
matter its weighty consideration.
YAI-ivIX.
P. S.—I am a subscriber to The. Daily
Sentinel a& well as THE PATRIOT, and 1
would be pleased to see this communica-tion
copied into The Sentinel.
YADKTN.
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For The Patriot.
Q UILFORD MA GISTRA TES.
EDITOR OF THE PATRIOT:—I saw
THE PATRIOT of a week or two since, a
communication over the signature of "The
Old Man," which, I think, does our mem-bers
of the Legislature some injustice.—
While I admit that among the former Mag-istrates,
several ofthe most intelligent ex-perienced,
and efficient of the "original
pane!" were dropped, for what cause 1
know not, and that several young men
were appointed, whose fathers would have
made better Magistrates, I insist that the
larger portion >i' the appointees are ap-pointments
fit to be made.
JUSTICE.
For The Patriot. ,
CONSTITUTIONAL AMEMD-MKXT.
The citizens of Guilford are invited to
meet at the Court Hotise in Greensboro, at
1 o'clock on Tuesday of February Court,
to make known their wishes in regard to
reform in our State Constitution.
MANY CITIZENS.
A HIT—A PALPABLE IIIT.-IH the House
of Representatives yesterday, Mr. Ross,
of Illinois, moved an amendment of the
rules so that one day in six of the time
spent by Congress might be devoted to
the public business—lo be called the
" White Man's Day."
Of course the resolution was tabled in-stantly.
The Rump Congress finds it bet-ter
worth while to try to save the Repub-lican
party than to restore the Union, and
so, instead of taking care of the national
affairs of thirty millions of people, it spends
ail ils labors upon the local affairs of six
or eight millions, who are quite capable of
managing them for themselves. One of
t::; -e days the thirty millions will wake up
and drive out these wretched fanatics,
wh'i are practising strangulation upon the
political and commercial li!c of the Re-public.
That will be the "white man's
day."—Schldyer (X. Y.) lA>/iorrat.
BUTLER ox His DIGNITY.—The Wash-ington
correspondents relate that Lieuten-ant
General Grant having lately removed
into his new residence there, issued invi-tations
to a social " house warming."' A
card was sent to General B. F. Butler,
who returned it insultingly endorsed as
follows :
"I have the honor to receive your card
of invitation. I beg to decline it as polite-ly
as I may ; and I would further state
that in no event would I be willing to hold
personal intercourse with yourself or any
member of vour family.
* B. F. BUTLER.
" Lieutenant General GRANT."
The Ihiladelphia Ayr, in commenting
upon this rather tart missive, remarks
that "this lucky non-acceptance had one
positive ami substantial advantage attend
ant on it—it saved Mrs. Grant the anxiety
of watching her plate while the Imp was
present, and tht labor of counting her
spoons after !■■ had left.
It is said that the high price of eggs is
owing to the fat that the hens are at
great expense to procure revenue stamps
to put on their manufactured articles.
Gov. GRAHAM'S OPINION.—At the re-quest
of the gentlemen to whom it was ad-dressed,
we cheerfully give place to the
following letter of Gov. Graham, written
in reply to a letter addressed to him by
Messrs. Holderbyand Burton,s member of
the Legislature:"
HILLSBORO', Feb. 6th, 18GC.
GENTI.LMEN- :—Yours dated the 1st inst.,
was handed me yesterday.
In reply to your request for mv opinion
on the question pending before the Legis-lature,
whether negroes shall be allowed
to testify before Courts of justice, in all
cases civil or criminal, where the rights of
colored persons is involved, as proposed
by the commission for the revision a .1
amendment of our code as applicable to
the black race, I have vo remark, that re-cognizing
in letter and in spirit, the full
force of the amendment of the Constitu-tion
abolishing slavery, I feel bound to
consider everything pertaining to this
great change in the organism of our so-ciety,
with the same degree of candor and
impartiality, that we apply to other pro-visions
of the Constitution.
Acting upon this principle, were I clothed
with the authority now vested in a mem-ber
of the General Assembly, I should
concur in the modification of' the'law in
this particular, as proposed by the Com-mission,
and mainly for the reasons assign-ed
in their report. Free negroes have al-ways
been regarded as free men in North
Carolina, and as such, entitled to the priv-ilege
of habeas corpus, trial by jury, own-ership
of property, even in slaves, (and ca-ses
were not infrequent of the enjoyment
of this right) to prosecute and defend suits
in courts of justice, and as incident to this,
to make affidavits for a continuance, or as
a foundation for the rules in the progress
of a cause, and to prove by their own oath,
even against white men, aceunits to the
amount of sixty dollars for work and labor
done or goods sold and delivered under
the Book Debt Law.
The change proposed then is not so vio-lent
or extensive as many suppose; nor is
it more fraught with mischief as a danger-ous
innovation, than in the estimation of
the old professors of the Common Law.
were the modern reforms in the Law of
Evidence in England, among which is the
regulation, that parties plaintiffand defen-dant,
are permitted to testify in their own
causes, which is said to work well. The
tendency ofjudicial decisions in modern
times independently of the public opinion
embodied in acts of the Legislature, has
been in favor of the admissibility of wit-linear
lib m injj. their credit to he passed
upon bv the tribunal before which they
depose.
There is great force in the argument,
that this privilege to the extent proposed
to be conferred, is in the present condition
of the black race necessary to their safety,
since they have lost the security of a white
witness in the person of a master or over-seer,
or the families of either. I would
grant it however, on the higher ground of
r ght. I can at this moment call to mind
no essential attribute of civil or religions
liberty, which is denied to them in this
State, except this privilege of bearing ev-idence
in matters involving the rights of
white men. This conceded, they have ev-erything
necessary to the fullestenjoyment
of rights under the law. As to political
liberty or power over the law, as compre-hended
in the right of suffrage, the safety
and welfare of the community require, that
this shall be jealously reserved to the white
race, upon whose salutary control in the
future as in the past, we must rely, for
that national and conservative freedom,
which under a beneficent Providence is to
fulfil the high destiny of the Anglo-Amer-ican
States.
I remain, with high respect,
Your o'bt servant,
W. A. GRAHAM.
ward or into the saloon; but to n<#c could
he offer a word ofcomfort by t ujj g them
that their safety was even pro ha i <?. Ho
joined now and then for a few m< lentsio
the public devotions, but his plat to the
last was on the deck. i •
About two o'clock in the after! on, the
water gaining fast on the ship an.j io signs
of the storm subsiding being irjrirept, a
small band of men determine dXio trust
themselves to the mercy of the waves in a
boat rather than go down with, nil: strug-gle.
Leaving UMBBBWM ther file, they
got out and lowered away the pon cutter,
into which sixteen of the crew, a «d three
of the passengers saooeeded in pt ting in
ami launching her clear of the ship These
nineteen men ►hotitfd for tl c
come with them, but with thai
courage which was his chiefabj r|
he declined to go with them, Bavin
I will go down with the passenge
wish you God speed and safe to
The boat then pulled away, t >- iirf about
helplessly on the crest of the lantk
waves. Scarcely had they gone eighty
yards, or been five minutes on the deck,
when the fine steamer went dow I stern
foremost with her crew of human bciugs,
from whom one confused cry of helpless
terror arose, and all was silent AwruTtr.
One account reports among the lost
Bishop Wooley and G. V. Brooke, the
tragedian.
am to
heroic
eristic,
No,
, but I
id."-
THRILLING SCENES ON A SINKISC;
STEAMER.—The ships supposed to have
been lost during the late gales on the Brit-ish
coast number between three and four
hundred. One of the Liverpool papers
says that a letter from Torby states that
thirty-one fine vessels 'and eleven fishing
sloops were dashed tOpieces on the shore.
It is feared that one hundred and fifty men
must have perished. The Liverpool jour-nals
give further particulars of the wreck
of the Australian steamship London, (built
of iron.) in the Bay of Biscay, and the loss
of two hundred and seventy lives. The
vessel which was bound from London to
Melbourne, had been for some time in a
furious gale, and had suffered severe dam-age,
but the fatal incident was when the
engine room hutch was carried away and
the water rushed into the engine room,
put out the fires and stopped the engines.
The scene that ensued when ('apt. Martin,
of the London, informed the passengers
that the steamer was sinking and they
must prepare for the worst is thus de-scribed
:
The whole of the passengers and crew
gathered, as with one consent, in the chief
saloon, and having been calmly told by
Ca.pt. Martin that there was no hope left,
a ren nrkable spirit of resignation came
over them at once. Therewas no scream-ing
or shrieking by women or men, no
rushing on deck or frantic cries. All calmlj
resorted to the saloon, where Rev. Dr.
Draper, one of the passengers, prayed
aloud, and exhorted the unhappy creat ires
by whom he wa- surrounded. Dismay
was present to every heart, but disorder
to none. Mothers were weeping sadly
over the little ones about, with them, to
be cngnlphed, and the children, Ignorant
of their coming death, were pitifully in-quiring
the cause ofso much woe. Friends
were taking leave of friends, as if prepar-ing
for a !<>ng journey; others were
crouched down with Bibles in their hands,
endeavoring to snatch consolation from
Siass: _r -.- long known or long neglected.—
ocredible, we are told, was the compo-sure
which, under such circumstance-..
reigned around. Captain Martin stationed
himself iu the poop, going occasionally for-l
pa-the
wi sei-is
de-st.
md
LET IT COME.—It is the sincere ,-ish of
every friend of permanent peace an i ana-tional
Union, that the following \ state-ments
of a Washington correspondent of
the New York News may prove,' to be
true:
t " Up to this time the President
tiently borne with the Radical -
sake of the country, in hopes th
counsels would prevail. But he
termined now that he will no long
such abuse and vituperation. IluLroela-mation
declaring the Union restoJd and
the Southern States entitled to t fir full
representation in Congress has befj writ-ton
and will soon .appear. It is a| roved
by Mr. Seward and one other mei*>er of
the Cabinet, and disapproved by \lrnu*
Stanton, Harlem and Speed. As th* Cabi-net
is to be unanimoii.s in supportk>f the
I resident's policy, . successors to I these
three officials will be found at on|e. ft
will then remain to be seen whotker the
President's policy or that of Mr. il ovens
is to prevail. The Presided hat i# fears
tor the result, even in Congreal Mr.
Raymond, it i* understood, will ff-Mimo
the position of leader of the Connl ative
Republicans in the House, and Mr / owan
of Pennsylvania will assume the <:\\ a po-sition
in the Senate, and it is 1, .| , M I they
can without dirhcu.ty, when tl9 Presi-dent's
purposes are plainly aonouri' d, ral-ly
around them enough of the ii -derate
Republicans to defeat,'with tl f the
Democrats, all of the radii al me: si * s now
before Congress, and to secure t|j,. com-plete
triumph of the Preside) " itera-tion
policy.
ASTONISHING.—From the way i 1- radi-cal
members of Congress are worshipping
the negro and forever talking nbfut his
" rights," one would suppose tie* they
(the radicals) were perfectly wfflinfto sit,
eat and sleep with almost any nAro on
the face of the earth. But not I hSuol at
all. To our utter astonishment, nf-orres-pondent
of the Baltimore Sun ..riling
from Washington, says thai negroes are
excluded from that part of the galtiricsof
the I'. 8. Senate where t/it trie, t
/nrs an seated! The result is, tjuu ne-groes
have become insulted, and prctc tod
against such Inequality. Then liAl Sen-ators
are for forcing negro oqualit
Southern people, but they thems l|
not so much as permit a negro i i
their wives. They cannot affon il
Use what they preach. — Ch. Th in
I upon
will
K near
prac-rat.
Dooi inn:—JOHN Pool..—Mr.:'.)..olit-tle,
of Wisconsin, in presenting I u-cru-deutials
of John Pool to the Unite States
Senate, thus delivered himself, at reported
in Th<\,,r York Herald; "That hp owed
it to the Senate, as well as to hiufarff, t<»
state that .Mr. Pool was and slwAra had
been, a devoted friend to the I'n <>m. That
he was the Union candidate for I ■•ernor
of the State in 1840, before then &s any
immediate danger of secession. Be can-vassed
the State and Opposed seieMioiiby
every means in ku power, to the !«t. Af-ter
the ordinance of secession hadnasaed,
he retired to private life, and rafw i d to
lake any part in political affairs i il the
peace movement commence d il* North
Carolina, iu which he took an act! pail,
and did all in his power" to embi if 4 the
rebel authorities.1
PRESIDENT JOHNSON- AND THE V* IGINIA
DELEGATION.— Washington, Film II.—
The President gave the Virginia | lega-tion
an interview yesterday. It |was a
warm reception.
Re said he had confidence in thl judg-ment,
integrity, intelligence and v*tue ol
the great mass of the American pdtple.—
He was willing to trust them, an.i 'anked
God that we have noc yet rcac'iji that
point where we have iost all coii.i'_ nee in
each other.
II strongly expressed Umselfih favor
of an early restoration. No ei as of
sentiment for the South could ha*e been
more friendly.
: I THE CASE OF CAPTAIN in MI.- A dis-patch
from Washington states ti.at the
President and the Cabinet have M<\ un-der
consideration the argument If Cap'
tain Semmes. claiming *Jie right tflbe dis-charged
under the Sherman-Joh-isgfm, pa-role,
but havccoinc tonodefinite( 1 IUHOU
thereon. Until this matter is d |™ ted of
there will be no detail for a eourC to try
Semmes, and there is a bare p- lability
that the trial may he indpfini ely J tstpon-ed.
Ill