The Greensborough patriot [June 29, 1866]

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Volume XXVIII. GREENSBORO, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1866. Number 1,301.
KEOGH & CRANE.
THE PEOPLE'S
Wholesale and Retail
7AEIETT STORE,
LINDSAY'S CORNER.
.,: Couit House Greensboro, N. C.
gest Quality of !! -»ds !
pyE PRICE!
Quick Sales and Small
Profits !
We dont sell one article of goods
below cost with the intention to
fce up the loss on something
else ! We treat all alike, dealing
ly and squarely -with every
GROCERIES.
Family Groceries and Supplies
of ever v grade and quality at the
est juices.
Dn Woods. m
Full iines of Ladies'Dress and
rnishing goods of every qual-
;md at prices which defy
inpetition.
Beat's Furiifeliiug
stock of Gent's Furnish-ls
is complete in every
icular. Best quality of goods,
si prices !
ilar attention is invited
s1 ck ot clothing. In this
Iment we offer the very
cements. Our clothing
e expressly to our own or-of
undamaged goods, and
. r than much of the
y" now in the Southern
Table and tywceii's-ware.
ill assortment of common
is well as the finest qualties of
and Queen'sware, Table
"lery, Spoons, &c.
|iefflestic asid Iinpor-ed
Wines, Liquors
aim iigars.
The ittention of dealers is par-ly
called to this depart-ed
our trade. We can sell
es, liquors and cigars on bet-
: king into consitlera-
>st and carriage, than they
e "procured in Northern
ts.
K as 1
in exchange for goods
all kinds allowing the
larket prices.
PATRIOT.
GREENSBORO, N. C.
FRIDAY, JUNE 29, I860.
- -We are now receiving from
- ity Brewery, Petersburg, Va.,
• DRAUGHT ALE, which we
deliver tr> purchasers fkeapr:
ui.y clseu)i»re. In quality U>Ja
ire favorably with any of the
-ills manufactured in the Norrh.
otUL KEOGH k CRANE.
83-Cim
TIIK COXVENTIOX ADJOURNKT>.—The
Convention of North Carolina having com-pleted
the business before it, adjourned
sine die on Monday last, after a session of
thirty-three days. We publish this week
a list of the Captions of the ordinances and
resolutions passed by the body. The con-sideration
of the amended Constitution
was concluded on Saturday afternoon,
and it passed the third reading by yeas
02, nays 30. It will be published and sub-mitted
to the people for their rejection or
adoption, the vote to be taken on the first
Thursday in August.
The "stay law," winch passed on
Thursday, and which repeals previous en
actments on this subject, will be found in
another coin inn.
THE PRESIDENT'S LATE MESSAGE.—The
late message of the President to Congress
fell like a bomb-shell in the Radical camp.
Its effect upon Radical sympathizers,
South, who have been emboldened in their
course by the impression in some way cre-ated,
that the President was disposed to
compromise with the majority in Congress
upon tlic basis of theHoward amendment,
has been no less startling. Under that
false impression they have gone so far in
their advocacy of the Radical scheme,
that it is impossible for them to retreat;
so that they are now openly located,
where they have all along really, but cov-ertly,
been,—in direct antagonism to the
President.
The National Tuti-Uigencerhas the fol-lowing,
in reference to the effect of the
message upon Congress:
" The radical leaders in Congress were
much chagrined at this Executive mes-sage,
and muttered ** curses, not loud but
deep" while they questioned the right of
the President to enter a protest to their
proceedings. Unfortunately they had
themselves laid the trap in which they
have been caught. They earnestly desir-ed
to avoid .-i veto message on these
amendments. They had attempted to
sneak them before the State Legislatures
for ratification without incurring the pub-lication
of the objections they well knew
would be offered them by the President.
It was for this very purpose that they
were passed as a "concurrent" resolution.
Conscious, however, of the very question-able
validity of their action, they feared
that the Executive Department might
choose to ignore the Congressional action
not submitted to the President, as requir-ed
by the Constitution. Impelled by this
fear,"on the 16th hist., five days after the
passage of the amendments by Congress,
they adopted a resolution requiring the
President to transmit them to the Gov-ernors
of the several States. This resolu-tion
was in itself an impertinent dictatorial
assumption. It would have been easy
for Congress to have otherwise ascertain-ed
that the amendments had been trans-milted,
as desired, by the Secretary of
State, in his ministerial capacity, two days
before the passage of this resolution,
which was evidently concocte 1 in a spirit
of insulting bravado, to show to the coun-try
that the legislative department had
concluded to dispense with the concurrence
of the Executive in the most important
subjects of legislation. This piece of im-pertinence
defeated the particular purpose
of the Congressional party in passing the
amendments in the form of a concurrent
resolution, in order to avoid any expres-uion
of Executive disapprobation. It has
also elicited an exposure of the falsehood
industriously circulated, -that the Preefr
dentapproved these amendments. It af-forded
a just and proper occasion for the
President to furnish Congress and the
country with the information that the
amendments had, on the 16th inst., been
transmitted to the several States by the
Secretary of State, and that such trans-missal
was '■ purely a ministerial act, and
in no sense whatever committing the Ex-ecutive
to the approval and recommenda-tion
> 'the amendments^ at the same
time 10 condemn the action of Congress in
adopting such important amendments to
the Constitution, while the eleven States
interested were denied representation in
Congress, and without affording an oppor-tunity
for thepeople of the several Mates
to express any opinion on the subjects—
The message "of to-day forcibly calls pub-lic
attention to this fact. The constitution
was originally adopted by the people o.
the several States. The spirit and inten-ple
for ratification. In this respect the re-cent
proceedings of Congress are directly
in violation of the Constitution, in submit-ting
the amendments for the ratification
to State Legislatures, elected with refer-ence
to totally different issues, and which
cannot therefore, be justly presumed to
represent the people in regard to impor-tant
constitutional questions thus sudden-ly
and surreptitiously presented."
OFFICIAL HISTORY.—Congress has re-solved
to have compiled and published "an
official history of the late rebellion."—
The historiographer has not yei been se-lected.
Great pains should be taken to se-cure
the right man. There was a high
officer on the Federal side whom The
London Times, on account of some pecu-liar
qualities which he exhibited as a his-torian
during the war, dubbed " Major-
Gencrnl of Liars." His claims lor the
post will, doubtless, be duly considered.
But we suppose nobody can compete with
Joe Holt. He not only knows how to
compose history, but he keeps up an ac-quaintance
with parties who are ready to
swear to anything he wishes. We dare
say he could produce, if needed, a hun-dred
COXOVEES, CAMPBELLS, MEERITS,
<fec. If Congress wants the job well done,
let it, by all means, turn it over to the
Chief of Bureau of Military Justice. So
says The Richmond Whig. " Joe Holt"
ought, by all means, commit the writing
of at least one chapter of this "history" to
Maj.-Gen. Pope. A faithful chapter by this
distinguished man would cause it to go
down with a better relish in the South,
inasmuch as the Southern States will be
taxed to help defray the expenses of the
publication.
CROAKERS.—The greatest pest to a
community is croakers—men who are con-tinually
harping on the "hard times" and
prognosticating something worse to-mor-row.
The times are certainly bad enough,
with rather a poor prospect ahead; but
what's the use to borrow trouble ? A re-port
is in active circulation in some sec-tions
that the '• L nited States Government"
will soon proceed to collect a land tax of
two dollars per acre on all the land in the
South. How absurd such a story. And
how strange that many intelligent men lis-ten
to such stuff. But men will croak and
complain—those who croaked during the
past four years being the principle grum-blers
now.
" The Unionist who finally falls, falls to
rise no more," says The Standard. We
presume this statement is based upon its
own experience. Having once been the
organ of the secession party in North
Carolina, and being now, as it proclaimed
a few days ago, the only loyal paper pub-lished
in the Atlantic States, it may be
readily inferred why it is that a millifier
is in better odor than a " a non-secession-ist."
Xo RnpuniATlosr.—It seems that all
leading men of this State are agreed that
there shall be no repudiation of public or
private debts, except the debt contracted
for war purposes. The Hon.Thos. Settle,
in a speech in the Convention on the 15th
instant, said :
'; Those who insinuated that he was in
favor of repudiating any honest or just
debt, public or private, simply said or in-sinuated
that which was false. Xo man m
the State would scorn the repudiation of a
just debt more than himself, but the war
debt was not to be classed and confoun-ded
with just and honest debts."
FOURTH OF JULY.—This day will be
celebrated at Low's Church in the lower
part of this county and near the Alamance
battle ground. The public are generally
invited to attend. Addresses are expected
to be delivered by Col. Thomas Baffin, jr.,
Gen. William L. Scott and Gen. John A.
Gilmcr, jr.
MR. BRYANT'S LECTURE.—Mr. Bryant
fully met the expectations of the public in
his Lecture, " Satan; his Origin and Ap-pearance,"
which he delivered in this place
on Friday evening last to a large and ap-preciative
audience. From the title of the
Lecture many are led to form erroneous
ideas of its style, supposing it to be of a
li-ht character; but it is neither ridiculous,
burlesque or infidel. It is a work of the
highest order of genius—a production well
worthy its learned and eloquent author.
NAT. EX. AND TRANS. CoMr VXT,
Greensboro, June 22nd, 18liti.
KLITOR OK THE PATRIOT :—Having seen
your item in THK PATRIOT this morning, in re
E»rd to the change made, you put my name
Mr. Elms. Allow me to .say that the change
was made for no fault whatever,lbut because 1
was I Virginian and could not hold an office in
the State of North Carolina, and you will please
correct my name in your paper. Instead of
films you will please place ^ ^ NELMS.
We publish the above note from Mr.
Helms with pleasure. We were led to the
error in spelling his name by having heard
it incorrectly pronounced. Our item in re-gard
to the change of Agents of the Nfr
matter of local news, and without any in-tention
of disparagement to Mr. Xelms,
who, so far as we know, discharged his du-ties
promptly and faithfully. And we feel
sure that Mr. Nelms is quite mistaken in
his belief that a "Virginian cannot hold
office in Xorth Carolina." The people of
North Carolina do not trouble themselves
about the officials of the National Express
Company. It is too much at variance
with their fixed habits of "letting other
peoples' business alone." The managers
of the National Express have doubtless
found it necessary, in order to give their
enterprise character, to jippoiut Agents
from the citlze-.is of the towns in which
their respective offices are located—which
has been the practice heretofore of all Ex-press
Companies.
For The Patriot.
The Stay Law.
«• O wad come power the giftie gie us,
To see oursel's as ithers see us,
It wad fra' many a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion !"
Who has not been reminded of the
above quotation from Burns, on witness-ing
some fantastic caper or egotiscal
swell, by a fellow-citizen ?
We all have our peculiar foibles and
faults, which, though invisible to our own
ken, are very plainly discerned by our
neighbors and fellow-associates. And al-though
it is not considered good manners
to publicly criticise the foibles or frivolous
acts of private citizens, it is very fashiona-ble
for we, the people, to canvass freeh-and
minutely, the public acts of public
servants.
In the exercise of this high privilege, 1
was most forcibly reminded of the above
quotation on reading the last section of the
staw-law recently passed by the State
Convention.
Said section ordains "That the General
Assembly shall have no power to repeal,
alter or modify the ordinance until the
third Monday of November, 1868."
Where, I would like to know, did the
members of the Convention derive the au-thority
to tie the hands of future Legisla-tures
in matters purely legislative in their
character, except as restrained by the
Constitution t
Many intelligent gentlemen entertain se-rious
doubts as to the authority of the
late Convention to enter into general leg-islation
at all, that body having been call-ed
for no such purpose. A:;d it is an un-settled
question whether its ordinances
would prove to be laws, should their le-gality
be tested by the judiciary. But
should it be decided that these general or-dinances
are laws ; and of course they
must be implicitly obeyed by the people,
unless declared null and void by the
Courts, still the assumption of the Con-vention
of authority to bind the action of
future Legislatures outside of the Consti-tution,
does appear to me most absurd ;
and were I a member of the next Legisla-ture,
I should disregard all such restraints
in my legislative action.
In regard to the merits of this now stay
law which the Legislature is forbidden to
repeal, in comparison with its immediate
predecessor, I consider it a great improve-ment.
It is plain and simple in its pro-visions,
easy to be understood ; while the
stay law passed by the last . Legislature
was exceedingly muddy, and its true
meaning difficult to arrive at. And I fur-thar
cheerfully admit, that in my opinion,
the interest of the people will be promoted
by letting it remain the law until the pres-ent
pecuniary embarrassments of the peo-ple
are settled under it. believing it to be
as good a law as we are likely to get on
the subject. The frequent changing of the
law on this important question keeps both
debtor and creditor in a stew of uncertain-ty—
they know not how to direct their en-ergies
for the best—a state ot affairs very
detrimental to general prosperity. But
under this law, if it remains in force, both
debtor and creditor can survey the whole
ground upon which they stand, and have
some data from which to decide what
course to pursue to conserve their true
interest.
I say, wh'le this is my opinion, a ma-jority
of the people of the State may arrive
at a very different conclnsion, and may
desire, through the members ot the next
Legislature to repeal or modify this or
many other ordinances of the Convention,
and I feel very sure that the people have a
legal right to demand such changes,
through the Legislature, if they conceive
that their interest will be advanced therby.
MACON.
The Call for a National Convention of
Conservatives.
WASHINGTON, Juno 20.—The Demo-crats
of Congress, with, perhaps, the ex-ception
of Mr. Harris, of Maryland, en-dorse
the call of a Union Convention at
Philahelphia. The restoration of the
Southern States to representation is consid-ered
by them paramount to all other po-litical
ideas.
SECOND DESPATCH.
WASHINGTON, June 20.—9.15 P. M.—
The precise position occupied by the Dem-ocratic
members of Congress in reference
to the Union Convention, called at Phila-delphia,
is thus stated: They are favora-bly
disposed towards such a Convention,
believing that the representation of the
Southern States in Congress is not only
right but necessary to the harmony and
prosperity of the country. They are wil-ling,
therefore, to co-operate with the
Union Convention for that purpose, but
if it shall be perverted from its original
and patriotic design for the foundation of
a new party, they prefer clinging to their
own. At present the Democrats seem de-sirous
to further the movement.
upon the Legislatures ot the several States
for final decision, until after the admission
of such loyal Senators and Representa-tives
of the now unrepresented States as
have been, or may hereafter be, chosen in
conformity with the Constitution and laws
of the United States.
(Signed) ANDREW JOHNSON.
Accompaning the message of the Presi-dent
is the report of the Secretary of Slate,
announcing that he had, m conformity
with the proceeding which had been
adopted by him in 18ti5, in regard to the
then proposed and afterwards adopted
amendment concerning the prohibition of
slavery, transmitted certified copies of the
joint resolution to the Governors of the
several States, together with a certificate
and circular letter.
Owner Wanted.—For—Boxes Tobao-co.
Said Tobacco was stored in the butl-
Uiug west ol the Store of C. N. MoAdco, in IMS.
The owner will please prove property and pay
charges within eixly <tays, at the expiration ol
that time, if not claimed it will be Bold for expen-ses
W. II. STEVENSON,
1-Sw Greensboro, N. C.
The Proposed Tax on Cotton.
WASHINGTON, June 26.—It is thought
the House will adhere to its tax of live
cents on cotton, which will cause a confer-ence
committee. The action of that com-mittee
will probably be a compromise on
the Senate's amendment—the rate to be
lixed at 2i cents per pound.
D. II. Strother, of West Virginia, was
continued as Consul to Buenos Ayrcs to-day.
The Secretary of the Treasury will re-deem
all certificates of indebtness falling
due after August 31st, with accrued inter-est
thereon, if presented for redemption
on or before July.
The Freedmen's Bureau Bill Passes the
Senate.
WASHINGTON, June 20.—The Freed-men's
Bureau bill passed the Senate to-day,
with an amendment to the House
bil!, which peremptoriaJly confirmed the
negroes in the possession of land under
General Sherman's order. The Senate
amendment is that the negroes shall sur-render
all the Sea Island land to the own-ers,
except those sold for taxes.
Public Lands in the South.
WASHINGTON, .June 20.—The President
has approved the bill for the disposal of
the public lands for homestead and actual
settlement in the States of Alabama, Yir-J
ginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and
Florida. Nothing of interest in the Rouse.
The Fenian Prisoners in Canada.
WASHINGTON, June 20.—The President
is endeavoring to secure the release of all
American citizens now held as Fenian
prisoners in Canada. It is believed the
intercession will meet with a favorable re-sponse
from the British Government.
Important Message from
dent.
tho Presi-
Sumo R^asttiSTSis***«"« **— *** ■ •!** ««***-> »•
MARRIED,
At the residenee of the bride's father in Guil-ford
countv, April 24th by Rev. J. Causey, Mr.
J. M. MeC'ULLOCH and Miss 31. M. HUN-TER.
By tho same at the residence of the bride's
laother in Guilford county, May 10th. Mr. J.
J. THOM and Miss S. G. COLTltAN E, both
of Guilford.
By the same at the residence of the bride's
father in Randolph on the 17th May, Mr. DAN-IEL
SMITH «f Guilford, and Miss E. P,
BALLENTINE of Randolph.
On the 21st of June, 18C0, at Broad Street
Methodist Church, bv the Right Rev. Bishop
Doggett, Miss LET1TIA L. ROANE, daughter
of the late Colonel J. B. Roane, of King and
Queen County, to Colonel CHARLES E. SHO-C.
WASHINGTON, June 22.
The President sent in to Congress to-day
the following message in relation to the
reconstruction amendment :
Toth' Senate and Mouse of'Mepreaentar
tires :
I submit to Congress a report of tho
Secretary of State, to whom was referred
the concurrent resolutions of the 18lh,
just., respecting a submission to the Leg-islature
of the States of an additional ar-ticle
to the Constitution of the United
States. It will bo seen, from the report,
that the Secretary of State had, on the
15th, inst., transmitted to the Governors
of the several States certified copies of the
joint resolution passed on the 1 nth inst.,
proposing an amendment to the Constitu-tion.
Even in ordinary times, any ques-tion
of amending the Constitution must be
justly regarded of paramount importance.
This importance is at the present time en-hanced
by the fact that the joint resolu-tion
was "not submitted by the two Hous-es
for the approval of the President, and
that, of the thirty-six States which consti-tute
the Union, eleven are excluded from
representation in either House of Congress,
although, with the single exception of the
State of Texas, they have been entirely
restored to all their functions as States, in
conformity With tho law of the Ian.1, and
have appeared at the National Capitol by
their Senators and Representatives, who
have appliied for and have been refused
admission to the vacant, seats.
Nor have the sovereign people of the
Nation been afforded an opportunity of
expressing their views upon the important
question which the amendment involves.
Grave doubts may, therefore, naturally
and justly arise as to whether the action
of Congress is in harmony with the senti-ments
of the people, and whether State
Legislatures, elected without reference to
such an issue, should be called upon by
Congress to decide respecting the ratifica-tion
of the proposed amendment.
Waiving the question as to the Consti-tutional
validity of the proceedings of
Congress upon the joint resolution propo-sing
the amendment, or as to the merits
of the article which it submits through
the Executive Department to the Legisla-tures
of the States, I deem it proper to
observe that the steps taken by the Secre-tary
of State, as detailed in the accompa-nying
report, are to be considered as pure-ly
ministerial, and in no sense whatever
committing the Executive to an approval
or a recommendation of the amendment
either to the State Legislatures or the peo-ple.
On the contrary, a proper apprecia-tion
of the letter and spirit of the Con-stitution,
as well as the interest of nation-al
harmony, order and Union, and due re-spect
for an enlightened public judgment,
may at this time well suggest whether
any amendment to the Constitution ought
to be proposed by Congress and pressed
Important Sale
OF
VALUABLE LANDS
A .1 D
Towo Property!
Pursuant to an order from itie Court of Pleas
and Quarter Sessions, November Term, 1800, wc
will effer fur sale at pv.b'ic auction, at the Court
House dcor in the town ol Gictn,boro, ftt 1
o'clock p. m., on Tuesday o. \iigust Ccurt, n»xt,
being the 'Jlst day of the ir.< itli, tho following
Real Estate, on a credit of six and twelve inon'.he,
for bond aud good security, the titles being re-served
lill older of the Court :
A tract of land known as the Hrzekiah San-dera
Tract, in tiuitlord, near Iiiuce's Cross
Rood*, containing 230 acres, adjoining the land*
ot J. Hcskins, S, A. Powell and otbois ; a very
beaut ti.l and healthy location, covered by wid-ow's
lower.
One large tract of land, CC6 acies, more or
loss, in Guilford, on both sides of Reedy Fork,
and called the old Brlttais Plantation, adjoining
the lands ol Candy Wilson and others, covered
by the widow's dower.
One vacant lot No. l'J in the town of High
Point, t nntaiiiing one acre, Iving on the east sidt
cf the i'iiiuk Road, aod soulR ut the lU.il Read -
adjoining the lots of Mr. White and others.
A vai'.able lut ol one acre, nvre or less la the
centre cf town, adjoinir.g lo's ol M. 1>. Smith.
VVn.'. 1). Trotter and James T, M^rebjad, known
as the old Academy lot.
And also, will positively be solJ, without re-serve,
THE HOTEL AND LOT,
Formerly called the Rriltuin House, and now the
.Metropolitan Hotel, of Due acre and valuable im-provements.
Also on the same day will be sold all th» Fur-niture,
Table Ware, Cooking Utensils, &e., be-longing
with the said Hotel, consisting of Reds,
Mattresses, Be .tteads. Sheets, Blankets, Sc,
Parlor Furniture, Cooking S'.over, &c, all in
good condition.
RAILROAD STOCK.
Also at the Siitno time, will be sold five sharps
($100each) of Stock in the N. C. Central Rail-road.
Aud one Guilford Ci unly boud of $100.
ARCHIBALD WILSON, >., ,
CATA11K1NE RK1TTA1N. $ A "' r-
Juiio2C, 13UC- l-8w
NTortli Carolina.
KUCK1N0HAM COUNTY.
Superior Court of Law, Spring Terns, 1S86.
Ricuuid Johsjn,
V9.
C. J. Kagland.
ATTACHMENT.
Itnppe.iriug to tLc satisfaction of the Court, that
the drf-ndaut, C. J. Ragland is not an inhabitant
of UkU Stair: It is thereloie ordered by the
Court Ibal pub ication be made in The Greensbo-ro
Pan lot for six successive weeks notifying said
defendant to appear at our next Superior Court
of Law to be hold tor the county of Rookingham
at the Court House in Weniworth on the fill
Monday alter the 4 h Monday in September,
1800, then and there to at-swer s»id attachment
levied, orjudsment pro conlcsso will be entered
and made tiual
Witness, W. S. Allen Clerk of our said Court
at office Oth Monday alter 4ih Monday in March
1SGG.
Issued 2Sth day of June, 18CC.
1-bw adv*l0 W. S. ALLEN. C. S. C.
Wool Carding.—The subsetil.eis ate
prepared to card wool at their WOOL
MILLS on the North Fork of Deep Kiver, Guil-ford
enmity, North CataUna, and iaenre GOOD
ROLLS if the following directions areol-scrved
First wash tLc wool perfectly clean, then pick
out the burn and trash, then put one pound of
soft grease to every ten pounds of wool. Out
terms will oe 10 cetits per pound fer plain and
15 cor.ts per pound 'or mixed. Produce will be
taken at market ptices. We are nUo prepared
to full and press cloth- Those sending us wool or
clolh will be particular to mark the same v.ith
the owner's name on each package.
1-Hw LAMB &. STANLF.Y,
CAPTIONS
Of Ordinance* and Resolutions pasted
by tlie late Convention.
ORl'IN.VX' BL
1. An ordinance to change the time of
holding the court oi" Pleas ud Quarter
Sessions ol" Alexander county.
2. An ortlinauce to alter the time of
holding the courts of Pleas and Quarter
Sessions of Stanly county.
3. An ordinance to provide for execu-ting
decrees of the Supreme Court made
at Morganton.
4. An ordinance concerning the qualifi-cations
of voters for municipal officers in
the cities and incorporated towns of North
Carolina.
5. An ordinance to amend the charters
cf tho Union Mining Company, in the
county of Rowan, and the liudisil Gold
Mining Company in the county of Meck-lenburg,
passed at the late session of the
General Assembly.
6. An ordinance to incorporate the
North Carolina Petroleum and Mining
Company.
8. An ordinance repealing the provisoes
of Section nine* of an act of the General
Assembly, entitled "An Act concerning
negroes and persons of color, or of mixed
blood, and for other purposes.
8. An ordinance to grant to the citizens
of the county of Polk the power of voting
with the district or county to which they
are attached, in the election of members to
the General Assembly.
9. An ordinance concerning the crime
of assault with the intent to commit rape.
10. An ordinance in relation to the ac!.
of the General Assembly, entitled "Rev.
enue."
11. An ordinance to incorporate " the
Oceanic Hook and Ladder Company," of
the town of Beaufort.
12. An ordinance in relation to taxatior.
by the County C< -urls.
18. An ordinance for exchanging the
stocks of the State for bonds issued before
the year one thousand, eight hundred Md
sixty-one.
14. An ordinance concerr.iiig widows
who have qualified as Executrix to the
last will and testament of their decease'!
husbands.
15. An ordinance to prohibit the sale of
spirituous liquors within one and a half
miles of the Company Shops.
1C. An ordinance to change the time ol
elections in North Carolina, and for other
purposes.
17. An ordinance to pay the Provisional
Judges of Courts of Oyer and Tei miner
for services under "an ordinance to pro
tect the owners of property and for othei
purposes."
18. An ordinance to repeal the 20tli
section of the 53rd, chap, of the Revised
Code, entitled " Governor and Council."
19. An ordinance to amend the charter
ol the Governor's Creek Steam Tra tspor-tation
and Mining Company.
20. An ordinance to incorporate tho
Wilmington Railway Bridge Company.
21. An ordinance extending the time
for the settlement of the public taxes by
the sheriffs and tax collectors of this State.
22. An ordinance to divorce Jane F.
Havens and Thomas J. Havens.
28. An ordinance to change the juris-diction
of the Courts, and the rules of
pleading therein.
'24. An ordinance to amend an act ot
the General Assembly, patted at its ses-sion
of 1842-43, entitled "an act to au-thorize
the formation of a Fire Engine
Company, in the town of Salem, N. C."
26. An ordinance to authorize sundry
sheriffs to collect arrearages of taxes.
26. Au ordinance concerning the Banks
of the State.
||27. An ordinance in relation to tho
deposit and publication of the ordinances
and resolutions of the Convention.
-,v. An ordinance for the relief of
Thomas D. Fleury.
29. An ordinance in reference to the
payment of a portion of the public taxes
into the treasury of the State.
30. An ordinance submitting to the
qualified voters of the State the ratifica-tion
or rejection of the Constitution
adopted.
31. An ordinance to empower the Jus-tices
of the several counties to borrow
money in certain cases, and lor other pur-poses.
32. An ordinance with regard to tho
incorporation of the town of Mocksville,
in David county.
RKSOI.fTION'S.
1. Resolution in regard to printing.
2. Resolution for the distribution of
laws of the General Assembly.
3. Resolution to have an abstract of tho
census of 1890 printed for the use of tho
Convention.
4. Resolution to print additional copiei
of an abstract of the census of 1800.
".. Resolution in relation to privies and
water-closets.
0. Resolution directing the Secretary
of State to have the necessary binding lor
the Convention done at the Deaf aud
Dumb and Blind Institution.
7. A resolution to print an ordinance.
8. A Resolution allowing compensation
to the principal Secretary of the Conven-tion.
9. A resolution to employ a temporary
door-keeper.
10. Resolution to continue Commis-sioners
appointed by the Governor, under
an act of tho last General Assembly, to
examine into the affairs of the Albemarle
and Chesapeake 'anal Company.
11. Resolution on lighting the Capitol
with gas.
12. Resolution to pay the Commission-ers
appointed to report to the General A.«
sembly on the subject of Freedmen.
13. Resolution in favor of The'). N.
Ramsay.
14. A resolution in favor of R. S.
Tucker.
15. A resolution in reference to pay-ment
of interest on the public debt of tho
State.
10. Resolution to supply delegates of
the Convention with copies o'tlu: ordi-nances
and journals.
17. Resolution concerning Confedera'o
securities, and State securities issued du-ring
the war, and in the treasury.
HOMICIDE.—B. W. Parker, of Davit
county, shot, aud instantly killed, Daniel
Moyer, of Rowan co., near Mocksville,
Sunday evening last. Parker gave him-self
up, and alter an investigation was ad-mitted
to bail in the sum of four thousand
dollars.
The circumstances of this case are to
form the subject of a trial by jury, and it
is not, therefore, proper to speak of them
liere.—Salisbury Jianntr -list.
Garters with diamond buckles are
worn with the new hoops of Paris.—Ex.
The new hoops at e quite prevalent in
this city, but we observe no hackles.—
Most of the garters are of red tape, and
tied above tho knee.—Memphis JlulletinA
It may seem strange, but there are some]
Northern men down South taking Confed-erate
notes.—JjOUfevUb Journal.
Not strange. There is nothing else left?
for them. They had taken all else before}
Columbus Enquirer.
The National game—Reconstruction.