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Fur tike Standard, THE CELEBRATION IS PASQUOTANK CO. Messrs. Editors The 4th day of July was celebrated with appropriate honors by the loyal people ot Fasquotanfc uounty. Earlv on that morning, about two thou sand people having assembled, in the vicinity of the African Church, the procession was iormeci, iea Dy society xxo. uu mo ij Brass Band.

Here the column was opened and "Misa P. Turner, conducted by Mr. 1. A. Sykes, marched to the stand, which was erected for the purpose of presenting the Miss Turner, representing the Daughters ot Charity, then presented a nag io mc Friendship, represented Dy mr.

ua. sw, in the following words Sons op Friendship: It is a pleasing mn to nresent fo you on this day, in behalf of the Daughters of Charity, a flag of the American Union. me lounaers oi mis great Republic established it for the purpose of giving freedom to the white man, but through the efforts of the Republican party, aided by Divine Providence, the same freedom has been extended to our race also. Do not betray the trust which a generous government has reposed in you; but with strong arms and fearless hearts, march forward to the accomplishment of your high destiny. Rwpivfi now from mv hands this banner.

Be true to the sacred principles of liberty of winch this is the syuiuoi nve cimcnj neath its folds in time of peace, and fight under it in the hour of battle 1 Long may it wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave Mr. Davis responded. In the name of the Sons of Friendship I thank you for this beautiful banner of liberty. It is the ensign ol freedom. "When it was first unfolded to the breeze, its defenders proclaimed to the whole world the great truth that man was capable of self-government, and that all were created free and equal.

Though imperfectly understood by those who enunciated them, these sentiments have lived in the hearts of their sons to be enlarged and exemplified by the proclamations of Ahra-. ham Lincoln "and the recent acts of the American Congress. Thus the privilege of the ballot has been conferred upon our race. Jt is a priceless blessing. Released from bondage, restored to the enjoyment of rational and true liberty, we unite to-day in perfect charity and friendship to celebrate the anniversary of American Independence The procession then moved forward to the Academy grove the band meanwhile discoursing patriotic airs.

Here two thousand people and over assembled, and the officers of the day and others being seated, the exercises were opened with prayer by Elder Williams. Mr. P. Johnson introduced Mr. T.

A. Sykes, who read the Declaration, when Mr. C. C. Pool was introduced to the audience, who delivered an eloquent and impressive oration, which was received with great enthusiasm.

In the afternoon Rev. S. Boon also delivered an able address. And thus passed off one of the most orderly celebrations, which it has ever been our good fortune to behold. During the day there was not a single disturbance.

S. At Appleton's, says the Round Table, may be seen a very curious and interesting relic of pre-revolutionary times in the shape of a formal renunciation of belief in the doctrine of transubstantiation, which justices of the peac3 were made to subscribe in Virginia before receiving their commissions. Attached to the document are about forty signatures, comprising many of the foremost names of the colony. There are two of Washington's clear, bold autographs, showing that he twice held the worshipful office of iustice, one under date of September 21, 1768, and the other July 16, 1770. Bryan Fairfax and Edward Payne appear to have been similarly honored, as also George Mason, one of the delegates chosen by the General Assembly to attend the convention at Philadelphia.

Then are John Carlyle and Augustus Darrell and Henry Gunnel, and many others of the F. F. whose names are si ill literally household words in the Old Dominion and one John Atcheson, repre-! sented unworthily by his mark. The original manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott's poems and several ot his novels and other prose works, are about to be sold at auction by order of the executors of the late Mr. Ilobert Cadell, of Edinburg.

All these manuscripts are said to be remarkable for the extraordinary fluency with which they were written, and the very few corrections or alterations occurred in them thus affording a proof of Sir alter Scott's wonderful facility of composition. The manuscripts are stated to be all in a perfect state of preservation, and uniformly bound in Russia, with uncut edges. Ikdian Suffrage in Michigan. In the Michigan Constitutional Convention, a clause extending the right of suffrage to Indians has been adopted. On Monday last a motion was made to qualify the clause extending the right of suffrage to all male Indians, natives of the United States, by requiring that they shall be civilized, but it was afterward rejected on the ground that it was of no practical value.

It was also moved to require that it should apply only to Indians who have dissolved their tribal relations. It was argued that "this would cut of every Indian vote, and this was defeated. Ad Indians are therefore now voters, under the clause. Tub Fleets of All Nations. By a comparison of the merchant fleets of the different nations, it seems that Northern Germany stands the third on the list.

Great Britain, with her colonies, has about tons the United States have 5,000,000 and Northern Germany 1,340,000 tons. France has 985,000 tons; Italv, Netherlands, 510,000 Spain, 276,000 Austria, 233,000 Sweeden and Norway, and Denmark, 140,000. A veritable story is told of a bright little girl who, attending Sunday school for the first time, was asked Who went into the lion's den The little one appearing puzzled and not answering, the teacher commenced spelling to awake the child's recollection Dan," "I can tell now," exclaimed the three-year-old, all smiles, "it was Bice." A country editor, noticing the decease of a wealthy gentleman says 44 He died regretted by a numerous circle of friends, and leaving a widow as disconso-lable as any widow need be who has obtained the uncontrolled possession of five thousand per annum. More than twenty young men have sent letters ot condolence to her." Wet your wrists before drinking cold water, if you are at all heated. The effect is immediate and grateful, and the danger of fetal results may be warded off by this simple precaution.

By one of the laws of Pittacus, one of the seven wise men of Greece, every fault committed by a person when intoxicated, was deemed worthy of a double punishment. JNo Spots on the Sun. One of our cor-rwpondents calls attention to the unusual act that the sun presents at this time the rare appearance ol being entirely free from Jt of considerable power ite Bhow th0 8UShteat speck on allow 6 eTening or. like the summer fiotehL86' and autumn' rich "ith REPUBLICAN MOVEMENTS SOUTHONLT ONE COURSE FOR TIIE SOUTHERN PEOPLE. We published yesterday a circular from the Republican Executive Committee of Congress which shows a remarkable degree of zeal, activity and success on the part ot said committee in behalf of the republican party in all the ten States of the five Southern military districts.

The committee has the names of twenty thousand loyal persons in the South to whom documents are regularly sent, and the list is being daily augmented. The Committee's correspondence is very extensive, hundreds of letters being received weekly from all parts of the South. It has a republican organization and agents at work in every Southern State Union League councils in all are being rapidly formed, and a largely increased number of intelligent men, "white and colored, could be put in the field at once, if the committee only had the funds. Hence this circular, in pursuance of a resolution of a late republican Congressional caucus, pledging the members on their return home to use their best personal efforts to the work of raising money for the use of this committee. We have heretofore detailed the numerous powerful agencies and instrumentalities through which, within a few months, the republicans have organized a party movement in each of the ten unreconstructed States, which, from all the facts disclosed, and all the signs of the times, promises to carry everything before it.

We have in this Congressional committee only the central directory through which all these agencies and their operations are carried on. But how has this vantage ground been so rapidly and extensively gained It has been gained by the republicans through the foliy of the great body of the Southern whites of old democratic proclivities, in listening to and in adopting the foolish State rights counsels of Northern copperhead politicians. These pernicious politicians had much to do in leading the South into the path of rebellion, and during the war and since the war their good offices as peace makers have brought only disappointments and disasters upon themselves and their followers. The constitutional amendment which was first offered by Congress as a basis of Southern restoration would have answered for all the other rebel States as well as for Tennessee, had they only availed themselves, like Tennessee, of the easy conditions thus laid down. Unfortunately, however, under the encouragement of President Johnson and the copperhead leaders and organs of the North, all the ten remaining rebel States, from Virginia to Texas, indignantly and defiantly scouted what they called these usurpations by Congress of the constitutional rights of the States and the people.

The peojjle directly concerned, who ought to have known better, stupidly consented to follow- those howling dervishes for the constitution whose broad and dusty high road is the road to ruin. Thus, with the indignant rejection of the first conditions emanating from Congress by the ten excluded States, the two houses, in the exercise of their lawful authority, proceeded to impose the more stringent and astonishing terms of their Reconstruction bill, placing these ten incorrigible States under military supervision and under a programme of State reorganization, embracing universal negro suffrage a perfectly appalling innovation and revolution from the old Dred Scott discipline. This was a severe ordeal but as the rightful authority over this business belonged to Congress, and as Congress had manifestly resolved at last that there should be no more trifling with the refractory States wrested from the foreign government of Jeff Davis, the only course of sense and safety to those States was a graceful and prompt compliance with the terms of the supreme law. But again, still adhering to bad advisers and exploded party dogmas and claptrap, the Southern whites, from Virginia to Texas, to a great extent, still looking to President ohnson and the Northern democracy, and disgusted with negro equality, resolved to let the contest go by default "rather than be registered in the same book and on the same footing with niggers." The results are that Southern registrations of lawful voters according to the acts of Congress show decisive majorities for the blacks over the whites in all the Southern cities and towns from Richmond to New Orleans. And as the blacks are en masse republicans, and as only the men registered can participate in the work of reorganizing said rebel States, we see that the republicans, as matters now stand, hold possession as a party of those States by default of their white population, who still adhere to the fallacies of Calhoun, Buchanan, Johnson, and the Northern copperhead press.

The excluded States have surely had enough of this. At 11 events, there is now no other way of political safety and material prosperity before them but the way marked out by Congress, and the sooner the people of these outside States, of all creeds, parties and colors, act upon this conclusion, in order to be restored to the Union as fast as possible, the better it will be for them and for their future peace, harmony and prosperity, as well as for the country at large. The issue is now with these ten States of tbe five military districts, whether they shall participate in the Presidential election of 1868 or remain excluded from a voice for the succession till 1872. New York Herald. Sad Condition of the Interior of California.

A correspondent of a morning cotemporary, who has been traveling through some of the interior counties, gives a most woful description of the decadence ot business and material prosperity which has fallen under his observation. What he says of the sections visited by him may properly be applied to a very large portion of the interior of the State. On every side are seen impressive signs of rapid decay." Towns and villages are depopulated; in the country many houses, even large dwellings, surrounded by gardens, are unoccupied fields are unfilled, ranches deserted, fences broken down, vineyards and orchards upturned, stores closed ditches, once used for irrigation, are now dry," and impending ruin hangs over all. What few people are left "make no permanent improvements; they spend nothing on the land they open no new roads, build no new houses, plant no new vineyards, subscribe to no railroads." Taxes on property (exclusive of licenses) range from four to six per cent. A more vivid picture of impending dissolution could not be drawn, and with sadness we are compelled to say that in the main it is true.

There is very little, if any, exaggeration in the coloring. San Francisco Morning Call June 25. At an entertainment given some time ago by the representatives of the press in Washington, the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, who is a practical printer and in 1844 was editor of the North Bend Register, stated that the speaker, clerk, and postmaster of the House were all printers. In the Senate, the Vice President, secretary, and sergeant-at-arms, were likewise practical printers or newspaper men.

The Catholics. It has been estimated that the number of Catholics in the United States, in 1830, was 450,000, in 1840 it was 960,000, and 4,400,000 in 1860. According to these estimates, the Catholics double in number every ten years, and in 1870 we shall have eight or nine millions or nearly one-fifth of the whole population. Seventy-five years ago the United States did not have a single Catholic Bishop. The first bishopric was established at Baltimore in 1799 and now they have 7 archbishops, 33 bishops 61 arch-pnest 3,833 priests, 72 seminaries, 1,40 schools, 3,000 churches, besides other 000 000OnS' andProPertyestimated at $37,.

vs. 'Liberty and Union, now and pobbveb, one and inseparable." Daniel Webster. BAL.EIGII, 3V. C. Thursday, August 1, 1867.

gp" Mr. C. W. Horner is authorized to make business contracts for tbe Standard office, and to give receipts. Good.

A white man named Bowen was recently arrested in South Carolina by order of Gen. Sickles, for going about among the freedmen and making speeches which caused them to neglect their work. One of the official letters of Capt. J. W.

Clous thus states the case against Bowen It is represented that this Bowen issues what the freedmen consider orders' for them to attend these meetings; threatening them with fines if they do not attend telling them that no charge can be made against them for leaving the crop that these meetings are ordered by Brevet Major General Scott, and promising them a band of music. This has all tended to produce disorder, and as this is the time the crop must be saved or lost, no time can be spared from it. The Major-General Commanding orders that you take Mr. Bowen into custody, and prefer such charges as the evidence in the cases may warrant, in order that he may be brought to trial before a military tribunal." We find the above in our exchanges. If this Bowen" has been acting as represented, he has been acting very improperly and foolishly.

It, as au officer of the Union League, he has been telling the people that he has a right to fine them for non-attendance at meetings, or to do any thing to deprive them of their free will as citizens, he deserves expulsion from the Order. Members of this Order are not thus bound. They act together as political equals from choice, and they are cemented together by regard for each other as patriots and love for the Union. There is nothing arbitrary or domineering in the Order, and so far from discouraging industry and attention to business, one of its leading objects is to promote and elevate labor and laboring men. It is true, the crops must be saved or lost, but this applies equally to both races.

Labor in this country is now involuntary. But if this Bowen" deserves to be deprived of his liberty, to be tried by a military court and punished, what should be done with this" Pell and this" Gales, who are the Editors of the Sentinel, of this Citj', the organ of Gov. Worth We respectfully invite the attention of the commanding General t.i the following extracts from that paper, ot date July 30. Speaking of Tennessee the Sentinel says It is the precise condition in which the Red String Radicals would place North-Carolina. It is this for which they are toiling night and day, stirring up the blacks against the whites, and endeavoring to excite hos tility and create alienation between the poor and the rich.

Will the people of North- Carolina listen to these vile enemies of freedom and ot both races Is this true Is it true that the Republicans of this State are "stirring up the blacks against the whites If true, they are enemies to reconstruction, to the government, to law and order, and the very existence of society, and they ought to be dealt with as promptly as this Bowen" has been. But if not true if false, as every one knows it to be, will Gen. Sickles allow such language to be used Does it not tend to strife and bloodshed The Sentinel of the same date also says "And yet it must be plain to every one, that in matters of government and of social life, in a country heretofore ruled by white people, the ineffaceable mark and its accompaniments which God has put upon the negro race, must always have their influence, not against the negro race affecting any essential right of a freeman -Inch he ought to enjoy, but in claiming lor the white race that iireference which virtue, refinement and its accompaniments must always assert." Here it is falsely assumed that the colored people are claiming social equality with the whites, and an effort is made, on this untenable ground, to inflame the latter against the former. And not only this, but the colored race are denied all interest or control in the government. This is directly in the face of the reconstruction acts, and is calculated, and no doubt intended by the Sentinel, which desires a war of races, to inflame the colored people against the whites.

It seem to us that such language on the part of the organ of Gov. Worth, is quite as objectionable and quite as dangerous as any thing that has been said by this Bowen." Again, the Sentinel says In the South, whatever may be the at-tempts of the government, or rather the Radical party, to uproot the very foundations of society, and to Mexicanize our people," Here it is charged that the government" is attempting to uproot the very foundations of society, and to Mexicanize our people." What must be the tendency of such language but to excite the people against the government Has this Bowen" men if all that is alleged against him be true gone as far in the path of sedition as this" Pell and "this" Gales? It should be borne in mind that the Sentinel newspaper is the official organ of Gov. Worth, and that one of its Editors is printer to the rebel Legislature soon to re-assemble in Raleigh. The Editors of the Sentinel are, therefore, paid out of the State Treasury to inculcate the xiews above quoted. One of the Editors is a State officer, and the other is a paroled ex-Confederate officer.

In the name of eighty or ninety thousand loyal men in this State, we protest against the continuance of officials in our State government, who uphold and support this paper in its utterance of these atrocious sentiments. The Sentinel lies and says that the colored people of this State are claiming social equality with the whites. It is paid for this out of the taxes wrung from the impoverished people of the State. The Sentinel lies and says the loyal men of this State are vile enemies" to freedom and to the white and col ored people. It is paid for this out ot the taxes wrung from the impoverished people of the State.

The Sentinel lies and Bays that the colored man has no part or lot in the government, and that he has been marked by God as unfit to take part in the government, as provided by act of Congress. It is paid for this out of taxes wrung from the impoverished people of the State, including the colored people thus to be incapable of self-government because under the special mark of God. We say it is paid for this, for the reason that, as every one knows, if the State patronage referred to should be withdrawn from the Sentinel, it would soon cease to exist. It lives, moves and has its being in State patronage. It was born of it, and will die when it is with drawn.

The loyal people of this State protest against the continuance in office of such rebel tools as Jonathan Worth. They want an honest, loyal, patriotic, "iron clad" Gov ernor. They do not see how the present State officers of various grades can enforce the civil law and obey the military at the same time. If they obey the military, as they must and do every day, what becomes of their solemn oath to support the Consti tution and enforce the laws of the State If they keep their oaths, and enforce the civil law, they are liable to be arrested in their functions and removed. Gov.

Worth can not, to-day, place an old rusty pistol in the hands of a Sheriff or Jailor to guard prisoners, without permission of the milita ry and yet he has taken a solemn oath as Governor to execute the duties of his office agreeably to the Constitution and laws of the State." Why, what is the man doing in that office, with such an oath upon him, at the same time serving the military as thoroughly, as implicitly, as fully as the Orderly Sergeant who rides behind his General Let him get out of it at once. If he is there, under such circumstances, on account of the dollars, then he is mean if from the hope that he can defeat reconstruction, and thus advance the views of Northern copperheads and Southern traitors with Andrew Johnson at their head, then he is mistaken. Let him get out of that place at once. He trifles with his conscience where he is, and he obstructs reconstruction. He is a blight and a mildew on the State.

Let him depart in peace, and with some show of decency, before the time comes for the people eject him from the with scorn and contempt. Our loyal people also protest most indignantly against the re-assembling of the Legislature. It can do no good, but will do harm, by exciting the people against the government, and by absorbing in their own pockets (the members) and squandering on favorites the hard-earned taxes in the Treasury. There are not forty loyal men in the body. More than two-thirds of the members are opposed to the government, and instead of advancing they will obstruct the work of reconstruction.

We earnestly pray that this temporary curse may be averted. It is said, we need a penitentiary. This may be so, but this is not the time to build it. It is said Gen. Sickles is to permit the Legislature to re-assemble, in order that it may take steps to build a penitentiary.

We do not believe this. Gen. Sickles, as a member of the bar and as a private citizen, may favor the penitentiary mode of punishment, but officially, he has nothing to do with a penitentiary in North-Carolina. It is also said some provision should be made to pay the interest on the old debt. We had better clothe our naked, and feed our starving poor before we do that.

The Legislature is wanted to legalize the action of the Board of Claims, which has made certain allowances that ought to have been settled in Confederate money. It is wanted to furnish more printing for the Governor's organ. It is wanted to impose more taxes, to be squan dered on favorites and useless offices. It is wanted to appropriate money to repair and refit the Governor's Palace, in a style to please the fastidious taste of mushroom oligarchs. It is wanted to plot against reconstruction to bolster up that corrupt and wicked faction, the so-called Democratic party to scheme, and plan, and worry along, in the hope that something will happen to paralzye and prostrate the Congress, and thus let in treason broadcast to the public councils.

If Gen. Sickles wants aid in this State in the work of reconstruction, as we are sure he does, he will find none in this rebel Legislature. There are a few good men in it, but eight months ago some of these were summoned before Committees and rudely interrogated on charges of trea son and sedition, because they had asked Congress to pass the reconstruction acts and they were also threatened, in debate, with the pillory and whipping-post, for the same offence This is a pretty body to reassemble at this time to make laws for a loyal people 1 The Raleigh Market. Our market is well supplied with meats of all kinds, and flour and fruits are coming in in considerable quantities. Apples are abundant, but not of the best quality.

The peach crop is full, and for the most part very good. The melon crop is inferior in quantity and quality on account of the heavy rains. Flour is declining in price. It is selling at from ten to fifteen dollars per barrel, according to quality. Good fresh butter can be bought at thirty cents per pound.

Chickens, at from 18 to 25 cents. Occasionally some cotton is brought in. This is bringing in market from 20 to 21c. The New York market is now somewhat buoyant. Persons who bring articles to market would do well to observe care and neatness in putting up and exhibiting what they have to sell.

By doing this they will sell more readily at a better price. Enterprising Spirit of B. P. Williamson Co. These gentlemen, whose workr shops were recently destroyed by fire, commenced at once to rebuild, and will be ready for business again in the course of a few days.

Their enterprising spirit deserves high commendation. If we had many more such citizens the country would soon be again io a prosperous condition. The first bale of new cotton was received ia Savannah on the 29th, from Florida. The The Charlotte Democrat "hopes tbe members of the Legislature will show their good sense by refusing to asemble in Raleigh on the third Monday in August." Now we do not pretend to advise the members in the premises. The last session of the Legislature was adjourned to meet again on the third Monday in August, and we suppose a right goodly nuaiber of the members will embrace the favorable opportunity of visiting Raleigh about the above time.

Wilmington Journal. And the tax-payers of the State will have to pay each of those visitors six dollas per day and mileage, amounting probably to the insignificant sum of twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars. What good can the Legislature do if it does assemble Is there the slightest necessity for such meeting 1 We North-Carolinians are disposed to complain of radical rule, but how many are ready to protest against the waste of the public money by our civil officers and lawmakers. The people of this State have no power over Congresss and the District Commanders, but they can hold their State representatives to a strict accountability. Char.

Dem. The Democrat omitted to state that the Editor of the Journal, who is one of the clerks to the Senate, will get his ten dollars per day during the session of the Legislature. It is much to be regretted that the Congress did not direct the District Commanders to remove eveiy office-holder who can not take the "iron-clad" oath. That would have relieved us in short order of this troublesome, expensive and offensive Legislature. D.

G. McRae, Esq. We are gratified to be able to state that a nol. pros, has been entered as to this gentleman, and he has been discharged from custody by the military court now in session in this City. We felt sure from the first that Mr.

McRae was innocent of the charge on which he was arrested. The sympathies of his large circle of strongly attached friends have been greatly roused in his behalf, and it affords us much pleasure to chronicle the fact of his discharge from custody with no shadow upon his name. In connection with this case we heard of an incident a day or two since, creditable alike to the witness and to the friend for whose benefit the sacrifice was made. Duncan McCormick, ot Cumberland, who is 72 years of age, was summoned to appear before the Court as an important witness for Mr. McRae.

He received the notice on the 24th, to attend on the 25th. He felt that he ought to be here on the 25th, and so he started on foot and walked fifty-two miles. reaching Raleigh on the 25th before the Court opened. Such a proof of friendship and devotion to duty deserves to be recorded aud remembered. Every man is marked, if not killed, who stands in the way of Brownlow and Radicalism.

Sentinel. What a whopper There are some forty thousand anti-Brownlow men in Tennessee. Every one of them who i3 not killed, is marked Does the Sentinel suppose its readers will believe such nonsense The only killing we have heard of in Tennessee was at Memphis and Franklin, with the exception of the picking off, every day or two, of some Unionist by some bushwhacker. At Memphis, the disunionists and anti-Brownlow men amused themselves for hours by killing loyal people. We believe they have never been punished for it.

These traitors did the same thing recently at Franklin. This is the killing that delights the Sentinel. It would like to have it become general, and therefore its efforts to inflame the great body of the whites against the Union whites and the colored people. A Loyal Governor lor Texas. The following order has been issued by Gen Sheridan: Headquarters Fifth Military District, New Orleans, Jidy 30th, 1867.

Special Orders No. 105. A careful consideration of the reports of Brevet Maior-Gcneral Chas. Griffin, U. S.

shows that J. W. Throckmorton, Governor of Texas, is an impediment to the reconstruction of that State under the law. He is therefore removed from that office. E.

M. Pease is hereby appointed Govern or of Texas, in place of J. W. Throckmorton, removed. He will be obeyed and respected accordingly.

By command of Major General Sheridan (Signed) GEO. L. HARTSTUFF, Assistant Adjutant General." Gov. Pease is a native of Connecticut, but has been a resident of Texas since 1823. Ho is a lawyer of eminence at the Texas bar, served in both branches of the Texas Legislature and was twice elected Governor from 1853 to 1857.

He was a consistent Union man during the war. Gov. Pease has the full confidence of the loyal people of Texas. Fertilizers. We have been told by some farmers that the fertilizers they bought in the Spring guano for instance did their crops no good, whilst others are gratified with the experiment.

We merely mention the subiect at this time for the purpose of suggesting that the fertilizers used by some persons may have been adulterated, in terior articles, come metnod suouia ue adopted to guard against the introduction of adulterated articles. Cliarlotte Democrat. It seems to us there ought to be an inspec tor of fertilizers, so that the quality of each fertilizer could be known. As it is, our farmers are liable to be imposed upon by worthless compounds. Theo.

H. Hill, Esq. We are much gratified to learn that the Poem, read by this gentleman at the recent Commencement of Pittsborough Scientific Academy, produced a fine impression upon the large and intelligent audience. It was received with such marked evidences of appreciation in the morning, when delivered, that Mr. Hill was urged to repeat it at night, which he did to the gratification of all present.

We hope to see this fine Poem soon in print. The Oxford (Me.) Democrat says that a man in that vicinity has built a summer house in the top ol a huge willow tree, aud connected it with the second 6tory of his bouse by a lattice bridge about fifteen feet in length. A Recipe. To plunge a young lady six fathoms deep in happiness, give her two canary birds, a half dozen moon beams, fifteen yards of silk, an ice cream, several rose buds, a squeeze of the hand, and a promise of a new bonnet. If she don't melt, it will be because she can't.

The Prussian authorities have seized no less than eight public journals within a few weeks for unseasonable or unfriendly articles. Dunns' Rock, Transylvania N. July, 1867. To tlie Editors of the Raleigh Will you suffer a stranger to occupy a small space in your valuable columns? Reconstruction" is now the watchword, and it is painfully true and patent to every reflecting mind that the sooner we are socially as well as politically reconstructed, the shorter will be the period of our prostration and suffering. There appears to have gone abroad an impression that our brethren at the North would meet with but little hospitality should they desire to seek for a home under our genial skies.

I believe this feeling to be prevalent towards our late antagonists in a few scattered spots and to lie by no means general. But I will be responsible only for that part of North-Carolina in which my lot is cast, and here I can unhesitatingly declare that a hearty reception awaifs "all good men and true," no matter from what point of the compass they "hail, especially if they bring with them ability and energy, backed by a little of that which may as aptly be termed the muscles of peace" as it has been the sinews of war." My remarks apply now to agriculturists. The Valley of the French Broad is known far and wide as possessing some of the most productive lands in Western North-Carolina. It is an acknowledged fact that fertility of soil is in this country very commonly joined with sickness of climate. Here we have the exception to the rule, and as facts well established must precede all rules, I will relate an instance kuownto myself and others.

A well Known Rice planter whose persevering energy had enabled him to retire from the more laborious life of a practical planter on the sickly coast of South-Carolina was led to visit this Valley in search of a permanent home, where with him, as I have heard from his own lips, the great desiderata were fertility of soil and salubrity of climate. He found here the home he was in search of, purchased several contiguous small farms, and the success he met with induced many others to follow his example. The fresh river land produces fifty bushels of corn per acre, and on one larni, thirty-three acres, measured out 87 bushels per acre. Where the land has suffered from the wretched system of renting by the year, an application of lime (which can be procured at a price that will amply remunerate the farmer for its use,) will at once restore its productiveness. But I do not wish to' puff my own section of country, and it is always bad policy to do so, as an experienced farmer would, by a personal inspection, at once detect the exag-eration and evil, not good, would be the result Skilful and practical farming is what our Southern country now requires, and I only wish to draw attention to a locality where some of those now seeking new homes, may find the two requisites health and a soil to repay labor.

Let others also make known the characteristics of their several locations, and I think good will be attained by such a distribution of information. I ought not to omit mentioning that abundant water power exists in this section, and capital only is wanting and our Northern brethren can command that to make this Vallev resound with the clatter of wealth -producing machinery. If, Messrs. Editors, you think proper to admit these few lines into your columns, oblige me by sending me a copy of the paper, for which I enclose postage stamps. Your obedient servant, KOSMOS.

We publish the above with pleasure. We should be glad to hear frequently from "Kosmos." Western North-Carolina is one of the most inviting spots in the world. All it needs is Railroads, capital, and skilled labor. The two latter will succeed the former. As soon as the State is restored to the Union steps will be taken to build Railroads in the West, and to educate the rising generation.

If we go back to the Union on a proper basis, and cultivate friendly relations with the great body of the Northern people, Congress will no doubt aid us liberally in the great work of improving the State and educating its children. Eds. Standard. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Headquarters Asst.

Com. State ofN.C. Raleigh, N. July 22, 18C7. Circular No.

14. In consequence of the surplus of labor in some sections, and the great demand in others, it becomes apparent that some method should be inagurated for a more equal dis tribution of the same; to this end officers and agents, will provide themselves with a lesnster, and record all applications ot em ployment desired, and laborers wanted, so that such wants may be supplied either at the local station, or from distant parts of the State. The record will show sex, age, color, and nature of employment desired if it is skilled labor it will be specifically stated. At the end of every ten days, a list of those still unemployed will be furnished these Headquarters, Keports ot tnoso vvisn- ing to engage laborers will be forwarded at the same time, giving particulars as to kind of labor wanted, with price, to be paid, By Command of Col. and Bvt.

Maj. Gen, Nelson a. miles, ass torn. JACOB F. CHURR, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, A.

A. A. Gen. Official C. E.

Compton, Maj. Sub. Asst. Corn's. If vou would add lustre to your accom plishments, study a modest behavior.

To excel in anything valuable is great but to be above conceit on account ot one accom plishments is greater. Sydney Smith once commenced a charity sermon by saying Benevolence is a sentiment common to human nature. A. never sees B. in distress without asking C.

to relieve him." Appointment by Gen. Sickles. Charleston, July 30. The term of Sheriff Carew, of Charleston, having expired, Gen. Sickles has appointed W.

S. Hastie to succeed him. Hastie is an old citizen, originally a Northern man, and until jecently was President of the Charleston Board of Trade. The Farries Ontdone. The Princess, in the Fairy Tale, dropt pearls from her month when 6he opened it, but whoever uses that talisman of science, Sozodont, will have a mouthful of pearls that will never drop out, darken, or.

decay. The Markets. New York, July 30. Cotton firmer, sales 300 bales. Uplands 2728.

Flour irregular. State 11. Southern $8f $16. Wheat Southern red Wlnte $2,60. Corn, Western mixed, Mess Pork $23,64.

Stocks stronst. Gold 5-20 coupons of '62 $lllf. Baltimore, July SO- Cotton quiet. Wheat. Receipts light.

"White $3,30 $2,60. Corn scarce, white $1,25. Mixed Western $1,081,10. Wilmington, July 80 P-3 Spirits Turpentine firm at 5454i- Eosin steady at $2,752,77. OFFICIAL.

Registers for Raleigh MilitarTp7s7 The Registers named iu subjoined General Or address to these that they maf furnished with copies of this order. Headquarters Military Post of Balel-h Raleigh, N. CY, July 23d, SSr General Okbebs, No. 2fi. The following appointments of Roisters n.

announced in General Orders No iai rff i ns fso lbOi Ihey will report in person to these Hcm quarters without delay in order tc Bttnr The said oath, and be lui-nished with the ueec-sarv books and blanks for registration. "Everv Board ol Registration will choose its presidh officer, wlio will represent the Board and 1, 7 torelt" UPn UU mattcrs for the government of Register the discharge of their duties ill be duly niih hshed as soon as practicable for general informal All communnications from Registers win addressed to these Headquarters. De Registers will inform these Headquarters of their post ollicc address upon every c1mh'i ..) station. Ul In case of death or casualitv rendcrino- Renters hereby assigned incapable of exeeutiTi" ihX omee that the fact will be reported lo this'olliee by the presiding officer or other member of tlm Board that the vacancies so existing may be tilled without delay. cu Registers, announced in General Order No 60, current series, Headquarters Second Military District not accepting the portion, will vlea inform these Headqnarters at Places hereby established lor Registration in the Counties comprising th.s Post, and are assigned to the Registration Boards herein named as follows WAKE COUNTY.

THIiEE KEG1STKATIOS PRECINCTS Firtf Precinct Raleigh, DuniisvillJ," Forest-ville, Rolesville, Waketield, Eagle Rock 1st -Board. William Wl ite, Hanson T. H-Hies Theodore Joseph. Second Precinct. Spikes', Willie Lynn's M.ir Hays' Store, Oak Grove, Laws' Store- 'M Hoard T.

F. Lee, Solomon Pool, Albert Magnin. Third Precinct. Barney Jones', Nat. Jones' Joel Jones', Duprees', Upchurehs', Bushe.

s' 3d Board Francis Lamson, Benjamins Harrison, Isaiah Hardee. GRANVILLE COUNTY. THREE REGISTRATION PRECINCTS First Precinct. Knapp of Reeds, Tar River, Oxford, Raglan, Henderson, Eppiug Forrest. 1st Hoard Lewis H.

Kiltell, Calvin Betts Abraham Hinton. Second Precinct. Fishing Creek, Fort Creek Beaver Dam, Ledge of Rocks, BrasslieldVDutcu-ville Second Board G. W. Blacknall, John Peed, Aaron Pratcher.

Third Precinct. Sassafras Fork, Goshen, County Line, Abram's Plains, Island Creek, Nut Bush 'id Board B. Walker, William Tyler, Thomas Pool. PERSON COUNTY. TWO PRECINCTS.

First. Precinct. Holloway's, Allcnsville. Moun Trrzah 1 Board John H. Jones, JohnBuehannan, R.

P. Martin. Second Precinct. Cunningham's Store, Olive Hill, Bushy Fork, Roxboro', Barrett's Mill: id Board C. H.

Jordan, M. W. Faulkner, W. G. Scott.

ORANGE COUNTY. TWO FRECrNUTS. First Precinct. Hillsboro', J. W.

Miles', Cedar Grove, Nichols', Turner's Mill, Midway 1st Board W. J. Hogan, J. W. Carr, Jordan Swain.

Second Precinct. Durham's, Herndon's, Chapel Hill, White Cross, Cate's Store: 2d Board li. C. Swain, M. Thomas WUsod, John Hancock.

CHATHAM COUNTY. TWO PRECIX'TS. lirst Precinct. Pittsboro', Haywood, Buck Horn, Lasaters Grove, Hadley's 1st Board John B. Drake, Henry Smith, Tlios.

Dixon. Second Precinct- Stout's, Edwards', Bear Creek, Gulf, Oakland, Headen 2d Board Abner Bright, Gilbert Love, Willis Bird. WARREN COUNTY TWO PRECINCTS. First Precinct. Warrenton, Sandy Creek, Smith's Creek, Guntler Creak, Mason's Nut Bash 1st Board M.

W. Williams, John Read, John A. Myman. Second Precinct Judkin's River, Sis-Pound, Hawtree, Thomas B. Fleming's 2d Board Charles D.

Carlton, Benj. R. Browning, Wm. Cawthoru. FRANKLIN COUNTY.

TWO PRECINCTS. First Precinct. Franklinton, Freeman's Roads. Harris' Roads, Robert Griffin's 1st Board 11. II.

Timberlake, A. W. Pierce, HilUard Dunston. Secoiui P-ccinct. Davis' Roads, Jordan Cook's, R.

A. Speed's Store, Haysville, Louis-burg, Pugh's Hill's 2d Board Dr. Wm. M. Crenshaw, Nat.

Hams, J. H. Williamson. By order of Col. J.

V. Bcmford DAN'L. T. WELLS, 1st Lieut. Sth Bit.

Ma). Post Adjutant. Official V. S. Aiken, 1st Lieut.

Sth Inf. A. Q. M. Aug.

1,1867. 55 tt- Headquarters Second Military District, Cuarleston, S. April 27, 1807. Circular. In reply to letters received at these headquarters, asking information as to the operation in particular cases of General Orders No.

10, current series lrom these headquarters, I am directed by the commanding general to state that the provisions of the order will be interpreted and enloreed by tbe courts. The order is to be deemed and taken as an. ordinance having the sanction and authority of the United States for the regulation of certain civil affairs therein specified within so much of the territory occupied by the military forces of the Uuited States, lately the theatre of war, as is embraced wilhin the second military district created by act of Congress. Although some of the former political relations ol the inhabitants are in abeyance, their private relations, their persons and property, and 1 heir remedies for wrongs remain as heretofore, within the cognizance of the local tribunals, and subject to the laws of the provisional government hitherto in force, except so far as such laws are in elcJ with the Constitution and laws of fh States, or with the regulations prescribed by the to the military and indispensable to the odj unA authority is es Ub bJ alld measBre3 control of the cml onu -s con. by which se of this authority, such duetcd will be announ-regulations and "PP a8 roay bec0me neces-ced fm7, reguh.tions eoncern the 6a7? rivH relations of the inhabitant, they by the courts and by the poper ehu in the usual course opro- Whffst it will not be convenient to respond to narticular inquiries made by citizens as to the fSretatioA and application of these interrogatories will be answered when addressed to the general commanding by the appellate courts of law and equity cLoug( Capt.

38th A. T. C. Act. Assist.

Adj. Genl. Official: J. W. Clous, Captain 88th Infantry, A.

D. C. and Aet. Assist. Adj.

Genl. 18 tl iieadqnartf rs Second Military Distritt, CHARtESTOir, S. May 15th, 18C7. ClRCTTLAR. Paragraph XII of General Orders, No.

rent series from these Headquarters, "ttnS prohibit the use of fowling piecces lor EZZroTts are upon good and sufficient cause shown, 5 permission to public prs to carry arms absolutely necessary in the discbarge of their ties; such permission to be in writing, case and to be revoked when abused. iated Commanding officers of Posts, to assoc with one or more commissioned otice at the Post, next in rank, when all constituted military tribunals for the trW persons witbin the limits of their comma charged with violating Par. XII of G. nJ andfar. of G.

No. 12, current scries from these Headquarters. Tbe proceedings in sUf casea to be forwarded to these Headquarters wr approval. By Command of Major-Gen E. SICKLES Capt 38th V.

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