The Daily Standard from Raleigh, North Carolina • Page 2

The Convention. The Republican State Convention met in this city on Wednesday, in Tucker Hall. The attendance was large, and a great deal of enthusiasm prevailed. A majority of the counties of the State were represented, directly, and others by proxy. The colored elemented predominated largely.

The platform was adopted without a dissenting voice It is sunplv a re-affirmatfoa of that promulgated in March, by the meeting in nf Commons. It meets the cor dial approbation of all Republicans in the State, and about it there is no ground of dissatisfaction in any quarter. After the adoption of the platform, however, truth compels us to state that a tliscus-sion'arose on certain resolutions which developed radical differences of principle and feeling. The first of these resolutions declares against the policy and necessity of confiscation. The second is a declaration in favor of universal suffrage.

The third is in the nature of a petition to Congress to remove political disfranchisement from the thousands of loyal men who are put under the ban by the pending constitutional or Howard amendment, as well as by the Reconstruction Acts; and the tourth authorizes the appointment of a committee to wait on Congress, and lay the petition before that body. The rejection of these Resolutions, and the spirit manifested by the speakers, have awakened a feeling or proiounu uiu ub the minds of loyal white men, and there is rpnRon to believe that it will alienate them cnHrilir frnm an organization which has nven such strong indications of indifference, ff not hostility to their rights and interests. TTow can it be expected that men ill co operate with a party which threatens them with confiscation and perpetual disfranchise ment The Republican party in this State cannot and ought not to carry tne clay witn-out the active support of a large proportion of the white people. Reconstruction cannot take place on a basis which alienates a ma ioritv of the white people from the Govern ment. Congress Mas fully aware of this truth and hence, while several thousands are barred from all participation in the choice or delegates to tnc convention, um versal suffrage is immediately to loilow re construction, in all elections btatc and na tional.

Any one who will be at the trouble to read the Constitutional, or Howard Amendment, will see that the proscription contained in the third section extends only to office-holding, while all are to enjoy the nyht of voting. "Confiscation was a war measure, to be en forced acainst men actuallv ensmsed in re bellion. But when the rebellion was quelled, it was the nolicv of the Government to waive the enforcement of the law. It is only despotisms like those of Russia, Austria, and Turkey, which depopulate- their urovinces for the sin 01 rebellion. In liberal Governments amnesty always follows the re storation of authority.

The leaders may be punished, but not the people. In this conn-tiy neither the leaders nor the people have been punished. There is no ground for the complaint that the Government has been too severe. There are severe laws on the Statute books, but with the consent of the President and Congress they have been permitted to lie dormant and Congress has called on the people who were themselves engaged in the rebellion to reconstruct ttieir btate uov- ernments. The call is also addressed to classes M'hich were not engaged in the rebel lion, to the colored people, and to Northern men who have settled in the State.

If there is to be true restoration and peace, there should be a good understanding between these classes. They should stand by each other's rights. White men are called upon to acknowledge the equal civil and political rights of their late slaves. If they fail to respond in good faith to the call, they are no true friends of their country. They are neither Republicans nor good citizens.

On the other hand, colored men are called upon in the names of peace, and the public welfare, to stand by the equal rights of white men, and to forgive and forget the past. Slavery was a heritage of misfortune and wrong both races. It is now forever destroyed, and its unhappy circumstances should be forgotten as soon as possible. We could never for a moment sanction the monstrous suggestion that black men have no rights which white men are bound to respect and now that the prophecy of Sir. Jefferson is fulfilled "the tables are turned," and the "change of situations" which he anticipated as among possible events'' has happened, we repel with equal scorn the idea that white men have no rights which black men are bound to respect.

The action of the Convention is calculated to alienate the races. We profoundly regret the result. It will be worse for both, and especially for the blacks. They are in a minority. There are nearly two whites to one colored man in North Carolina at this time and the whites will increase by immigration from the North, and from Europe, M-hile there is no corner of the earth from which accessions Mill be made to the number of the colored people.

In the election of delegates to the Convention the colored voters may out number the white, or come so near it that a few thousand whites voting with the colored, may constitute a majority; but in uie elections wnicn are to lol ow al white men will be voters, and they will sweep tne state. We will never consent to belong to a white man's party, nor to a black man's party. We stand on broad principles of liberty and equality before the law. If all the black men in the State should array themselves against us, we will stand by their rights and if all the white men in the State oppose us we will still vindicate their rights. We warn the people against anv attempt to form a white man's party.

It is dangerous, and can only result in a collision of races. We will have nothing to do with it; and if parties become thus arrayed against each other on grounds of race or color, we prefer to stand alone. We accept the Platform adopted, and the resolutions which were rejected as the true Republican platform We are happy in the belief that thousands of black men in the State, with James Hams, W. Hood, T. Scheuck, and others at their head, will stand with us.

We know too, that we shall have the sympathy and support of the leading native born Republicans in the State-such as B. F. Moore Lewis Thompson, Judge Brooks, Robert Dick, Thomas Settle, David Carter, John Pool, Judge Warren, Judge Fowle, Gen. Ru-fusBarringer, Dr. Eugene Grissom, and in a word, a large majority of those who are fc11 V16 Union men of the State.

We trust, also, that we may count on the sympathy of many Northern men who have settled among us, and who have come here with no purposes hostile to the best interests of the good people of the State. Raleigh Register. Why General Grant does not meet the Cabinet. To-day the demands of pub-he business were so great that he was unable to attend the Cabinet meeting. This is the reason for his absence, and not attributed to him a request that he be re-JTf y0mattendinS tbe meetings generally.

J- fniSted tates Commissioner's Court be-aiV ConniBsioner, John P. Vest, J. W. toSSS Wm' Nel80n re bound over Sud 5n earSe of conspiring to de- JPe Timet says We this week if 7 4 of nce crop son and Gen. Butler.

A correspondent of the Boston Advertiser nas visiieci me puouc men at their residences and gathered their views on the topics of the day. According to this chronicler Senator Sumner, in speaking of General Grant as Secretary of War, said there could be no military obligation on a general to Assume a civil otb.ee. Urant might have refused, and thrilled the country to the confusion of the President and the re bels. But, while at the War Department, Grant is, in a certain sense, what Lord Ber bery called himself the other day, 4 a stop sras? He at least prevents a rebel from be 1icr thrust, into the office." In regard to General Grant aiming for the Presidency, .1 he did not know. Things looked that wav.

His friend, Mr. Wash burne, who has just returned from Europe, speaks of him as a candidate." But Mr. had been insisting on irreversible guarantees. Our next President must be in himself an irreversible guarantee Grant was uncertain. In regard to Mr.

Johnson Sum ner said With a person of ordinary sense and M'ith a heart, reconstruction would be easy. The President is perverse, pig-headed and brutal. His talenfr, such as it is, comes from pugnacy. Of course he is a usurper and a tyrant. The wonder is that Congress did not act accordingly long ago.

Congress has hesitated in its dutv towards the President, as it has in everything else. I have nev er doubted that the President would be im peached." Senator Wilson said, The great mass of the republican party believe that the President will be impeached, and that he deserves impeachment." In regard to Grant, Wilson stated his opinion that he had taken his or rice of Secretary of War for the sole purpose of trvin? to do what srood he can to the country. About the President, he said he would go by fits and starts in carrying out any policy. In tact, he acts like a teliow on a who goes to sleep and wakes up, breaks things, and then goes to sleep again, and so on till he is sober. In my idea he is a foolish man, governed bv gusts of passion and temper and he is a disappointed man, because he really believed he as going to succed.

This has made him vindictive." Gen. Butler said Johnson lacks courage and capacity, and that impeachment is sure to come. General lintler said the Ganger lest he should be influenced in judgment by dislike to the the man, for which said he had so much cause, precluded him from forming an opinion about Grant. If Congress Ever Convenes." Some days ago the confidential organ of the President in this city published a communication from one of its readers and disciples, in M-hich occurred the suggestive clause which we have used as a caption. The Missouri De'noerat alludes to this threatening insinuation as follows "If Congress ever convenes!" It will convene, though the streets of Washington should run with blood.

We trust it will not M-aste three days in performing a duty too long delayed. We trust that this long struggle may yet be ended peacefully, justly, and in accordance with law, by the removal of the only obstacle to a speedy and safe reconstruction. But it can no longer be denied that there is danger. Mr. Johnson has power to do mischief His acts indicate that he means to do mischief.

His position is desperate. And if reconstruction should be defeated, so that new legislation and longer delay should be necessary if new turmoil and strife should arise, with peril to the country; the responsibility will rest upon those Mho permitted this dangerous man to remain in the Presidential chair. General Grant a Radical. The Hon. Burton C.

Cook, of Illinois, and General Shanks, of Indiana, members of the Union Congressional Committee, had interveiews with Gen. Grant yesterday, during which political affairs were discussed at length, and that officer announced his unqualified en dorsement of the congressional policy of reconstruction. He also expressed his willingness to make his political views public, provided a propor opportunity should be offered. Gen. Schenck, another member of the committee, also had an interview with the General, with a similar result.

Chronicle. The Whisky Tax. A radical change in the manner of collecting the whisky revenue tax will be recommended at the next session of Congress, embracing a proposition to dispense with the offices of inspectors, detectives, providing that each whisky still shall be taxed to the amount of its capacity. An inspector or gauger of stills ill be ordered to ascertain their capacity after which the proprietors can obtain from the collector of the district a license to run them for a eek, month, or year as they choose to select, which license must be paid for in advance. The cost of the license will, of course, amount to the present tax on the manufactured article.

It is believed that by this method the Government will be enabled to collect three times as much tax as it now does, and will at the same time protect honest distillers. Debts Due for Negroes. Our readers will be interested in the decision of the case of Agnew vs. Bobo, iust tried in the U. S.

Court at Greenville, S. Judge Bryan presiding. It will be found in another column. According to the ruling of his Honor in this case, debts created in the purchase of slaves are good and will be enforced in the Federal Courts. The warranty of the negro, as a slave for life, will not alter the case, though he was emancipated by the war; because this was an event unforeseen by the vendor, and for which he caunot be held responsible.

It is also decided that the sequestration of debts by the Confederate government, and their payment to a Receiver, does not release the debtor from paying them to the creditor. These are important points, and if they are sustained by the higher Courts, as they will probably be, the effect upon personal liabilities will be extensive. Salem Press. The result of the California election has taught the Union party both in New York and throughout the country a wholesome lesson. It has taught us that we can never afford either to indulge in family quarrels or to nominate any other than unexceptionable men.

Party chicanery was allowed in California to effect a division" in our ranks, and the enemy rushed in at the breach and beat us. Moreover, of the two Republican candidates for Governor neither had any real strength. The personal record of one was not clear the other had no record at all. The Democratic candidate, on the other hand, was a gentleman of the highest personal character. No wonder we were beaten.

Now let us take this lesson to heart, and make no more wicked blunders. N. Y-Tribune. Gen. Grant's Views on Negro Suffrage.

Democratic papers are circulating the statement that Gen. Grant does not hesitate in conversation to condemn negro suf-. rage. This is wholly groundless. The General declares his firm belief that the negroes of the South are fully competent to exercise their right to vote intelligently on present issues there, and further, that only through universal suffrage can the rebel rule be broken down that qualified suffrage would not at the present time afford the means of overcoming the rebel vote.

Washington Correspondence Boston. Advertiser. Registration in Georgia. Augusta, Sept. The Atlanta Hew Era has been officially informed that reparation in Georgia as far as heard from is Something over 183,000, 'LlBBBTT AND UNION, NOW AND FORKVEB, ONE AND inseparable.1 Daniel Webster.

Tuesday, Sept. 10th, I867. Mr. C. W.

Horner is authorized to make business contracts for the Standard office, and to give receipts. The Register The Convention. We copy to-day an nrticle from the Register, of this City, in relation to the late Convention, to which we feel it to be our duty to offer a brief reply. The Register assumes, because the Convention did not think it necessary to adopt a resolution deprecating confiscation, that that body has laid itself open to the charge of being fo confiscation. We do not agree with the Register in this assumption.

No issue had been made before the people on this subject. No speaker or press, recognized as exponents of the Republican creed, had taken ground for confiscation as a proposition on its merits. Nearly every delegate was present under instructions given by meetings to sustain the March platform, which contains no allusion to confiscation. The Con vention thought it safest and best, under the circumstances, to adhere to this platform, and to the reconstruction measures of Con- "1 1 1 1 gress. in doing tms neituer opposeu nor favored confiscation.

It did not commit itselt beyond the action of Congress, and, strictly speaking, it had no right to do so, for the Republican party of this State is yet in its infancy, and was based on the reconstruction measures. No speaker in the Convention took ground for confiscation, save in the event of the defeat of reconstruction under the present acts by the persistent opposition to them of rebellious leaders. The Convention was not disposed to encourage these leaders by the assurance in advance for that would have been the effect that confis cation in any event Mould be repugnant to republican liberty." We have no idea that. in any event, confiscation would be general or sweeping in its character, unless the Congress should be provoked to extinguish the State and place the people under Territorial forms but rebellious leaders who involved this people in ar, or who wickedly continued the carnage to the end, or who still, af ter having agreed to submit in good faith, continue to fan the fires ot resistance to the will of the nation, must be given to understand that if by such a course they prevent the return of this State to the Union, they will have to answer for their crimes by the loss of their estates, if not their lives. That is all.

Is there any confiscation that It seems to us it is oply punishment, ong delayed, for crime. The Republican party of this State has taken no new posi tion on this subject; and therefore, there can be no good reason why a feeling of pro found distrust" should be awakened, or why any one should be alienated" from the Re publican organization. The same remarks apply to universal suffrage and disfranchisement, even in a stronger sense for while the reconstruction acta, M'hich the Convention endorsed, are silent on the subject of confiscation, they expressly provide for both universal suffrage and relief from disfranchisement. To endorse these acts is, therefore, to endorse both these propositions so far as the principles they contain are involved. The remaining question is only one of time.

The former universal suffrage will take effect as soon as the Howard amendment is adopted and the State is rid of the reconstruction acts by being fully restored to the Union and the latter relief from disability is with the Congress, and will doubtless be taken up at the earliest moment that body may deem it safe or expedient to do so. The Register says, we accept the platform adopted, and the resolutions which were rejected, as the true Republican platform." We reply, we accept the platform adopted, and reject the resolutions referred to, as the true platform. We can not serve the party and at the same time add to or take from its platform. If we have a right to add, we have a right to object to and reject. It is unnecessary to say that such a course, it not in itself disrespectful to the Convention, would speedily result in the disorganization and defeat of the party.

We are as much opposed as any one can be to a white or a colored party. We have no such party in this State, nor are we like, ly to have. At present, as the result of a rebellious feeling which ought long since to have disappeared, the Republican party of this State numbers more colored voters than white. We are glad that all the colored people are Republicans, and we are sorry that more of the whites are not Republicans. But we are gaining, and will continue to gain among the whites but whether we do or not, tlte State must he reconstructed.

Our neighbor says, reconstruction can not take place on a basis which alienates a majority of the white people from the government." Then, in our opinion, it can not take place at all, for a majprity of the white people of the State are to-day hostile to the government. We regret the allusion by our neighbor to certain leading Republicans, as likely to go with it in adding to the platform. There should be no division in the Republican ranks. There will be none, in our opinion, that will seriously affect the party. The touchstone of fidelity for the present is the platform.

Gentlemen are entitled to their views and opinions as private citizens, but when they speak for the party they can do bo only by the platform. The subjects which. the Convention declined to incorporate specifically in the platform, should not be used' or he allowed to create discord in the nomi- natiag -Conversions of the party. "We must nominiitA nnoii the platform. We must not im Wnnil it We can neither add to nor take from it We believe that every gen tleman (who is a Republican,) named by the Register will stand by the platform and act with the party but if any one of them should refuse to do so, and should assail the party tor what it did or omitted to do in the late Convention, the loss will be his, and not that of the party.

We have not yet learned that Mr. Moore and Judge Fowle are Republicans. The other gentlemen named by the nre avowed Republicans, ana we have no idea that any of them will abandon the rmrtv 9 lonff as it stands fairly and CJ squarely on the reconstruction acts of Con gress. Gen. Grant and the Convention.

The Sentinel, the rebel organ of Gov. Worth, takes the following notice of Gen Grant's letter to the late Republican Conven tion in this City It is too often the case though there are exceptions, and we have an honorable one in the Post Uommandantm tms city (ana, we are led to believe, in the District Com that the officers of the army are not merely politicians, but partizans. The demoralization is so diffused, that many of those who are highest in authority, and who ought to set a better example, are the most conspicuous in the cxhibtion of their party preiudices. Even Gen. Grant, in a letter ac knowledging an invitation to be present at me jacoDin convention in wis city, lusieau of rebuking, or at least declining to notice it, expresses his utmost thanks" therefor, and pleads business of an urgent nature" as an excuse for non-attendance.

And an ex officer of the Federal army, who was a member of the late Convention, and who made a Radical speech in the affair of March 27th last, while in the army, boastinglv pro claimed that il- was told him (Gen. Grant) in most emphatic terms, that it was a Republican State Convention," and that it was the first acknoMicdgnient that he had ever made to a political Convention We deep ly regret that it should have been his first and we hope, for the sake of the honor of the army and the country, ana ot gooa ex ample, that it may be his last." We are happy to have the SentineVs state ment that Gen. Grant recognized the Convention, thus showing that his sympathies are with the Republican party. This is, of itself, a tower of strength to the Republican cause. Neither the honor ot the army or of the country is in the keeping of such as the Sentinel.

The great soldier M-ho wrote this letter to the Convention is still what he was when Lee surrendered to him, and when he put up his sword with the hope that the Union would be speedily reconstructed. He fought for a loyal cause, and he is still true to that cause. It does not follow, however, that he is a partizan. There is but one organized political party in this country, to wit, the Republican party and Gen. Grant, in standing by that party, is still on the side of his country as he was at Vicksburgi Pittsburg Landing and Petersburg.

The Amnesty Proclamation. The following section of an act ot Congress passed July 17, 1862, known as the confiscation act, is the authority upon which rests the previous Amnesty proclamation of President Johnson. On the 4th of January. 18G7, Congress repealed this section by special act. The New York Times calls attention to this, and says that if the President issues a new proclamation in the face of this action, it will be accepted as another indication of his determination to overrule the will of the people, as expressed through Congress.

The late Republican Convention contained about three hundred delegates from seventy Counties. It was the largest delegate Con vention ever held in the State. Letters were received from Hon. A. U.

Jones, Gen. R. M. Henry, Judge Brooks, Tod R. Caldwell, Lewis Thompson, Majors Schenck and Rhoades, Dr.

Grissom, D. M. Carter, Jonathan Trull, Richard Short, E. T. Blair, John A.

Reid. Henry Eppes, W. Caw- thorn, John Hyman, and others, expressing regret that they could not attend. Mr. Settle would have been present but for the fact that his presence was indispensable as Solicitor at Granville Superior Court.

Registration in Raleigh. The Board of Registers is again in session in Kaieigu. They will register two clays, the 9th and 10th. The lists will then be revised. Ample time is thus given to all to register.

We trust every one entitled will go forward and enrol his name. Employers will bear in mind that under the order of Gen. Sickles the fullest opportunity must be given to employees to register. Some of the rebels are ridiculing the late Republican Convention because the hat was handed round to raise money to defray expenses. To this we reply, first, that if the loyal men had even a moiety of the bacon, mules, wagons and cotton which M-ere stolen from the public during and at the close of the rebellion, by certain Confederate and State officials, they would have funds for all purposes and to spare; and secondly, that the Republicans of this Stale have wealthy friends at Washington and at the North, and are not likely to want funds to carry on the campaign.

California. The Republican vote in the recent election was divided between two candidates, and the result will show that it was larger than the Democratic vote. Bad management, not lack of votes, lost California. If the rebels expect that the Lost Cause will be revived on the shores of the Pacific, they will be mistaken. Good.

The Raleigh a conservative Union Republican paper, takes strong ground against the so-called convention. Mr. Goodloe is sufficiently amused with the mongrel horde. Progress. We do not so understand.

Mr. Goodloe. He does not regard the late Convention as a mongrel horde." Meeting at Laws'. A Republican mass meeting will be held at William Laws' Store, Wake County, on the 12th inst We are requested to state that the Board of Registers will attend that day to register voters. A friend writing -us from Pitt County says Cotton is looking well.

I think we will have more than an average crop, notwithstanding the great freshet in Jane." V. Letter from the. Chief Justice. In addition to the letters heretofore published from Gen. Grant and Gen.

Howard, the following was received from the P. Chase, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Providence, Sept 4, 18G7. Dear Colonel: I have just received through you, Gov. Holden's invitation to attend the Convention of course too late. Please assure him and the Committee of my thanks for it, and of my ardent wishes and entire confidence in the speedy restoration of North Carolina to full participation in the national government through the efforts of her loyal sons.

Yours very truly, S. P. CHASE. Col. J.

T. Deweese. Surely, even the Sentinel will not say that the Chief Justice is a "demoralized partizan." We are proud to know that the Republicans of this State, in their earnest efforts to restore North-Carolina to the Union, have the sympathy and confidence of the Chief Justice ot the Supreme Court, of the General of our Armies, and of the Chief of the Freed-men's Bureau. These distinguished men are thus simply standing Try the government, and those who assail them for so doing are enemies to the government. It i3 proper to state that the invitations were not general.

The Republicans would have been glad to have seen and welcomed scores of our Northern and Western friends, but it was deemed proper to invite only the Chief Justice, the General of the Army, and the Chief of the Bureau. The Recent Fenian Convention at Cleveland, Ohio. The sixth annual Congress of this rather famous organization has just closed its deliberations in Cleveland, Ohio. The meet ing was large, enthusiastic and harmonious. There M-ere twelve hundred delegates present from Australia, England, Ireland, the Cana- das and the United States.

The address of President Roberts was a magnificent and hopeful paper. It detailed Mr. Roberts' movements in Europe, and contained suggestions for the improvement of the Brotherhoood. We are glad to learn from the Cleveland journals, that this Irish Brotherhood came out fairly and fearlessly for universal suf frage. A dispatch from five thousand col ored soldiers of New Orleans, tendering Iheir muskets to the cause of Ireland, was received with great enthusiasm.

An address was pronounced by a well known Methodist Minister of Ohio, vindicat ing the liberal and truly noble objects of the organization. The Reverend speaker had occasion to refer to the gifted and patriotic Sheridan, when the whole Convention rose to their feet, cheering and applauding for several minutes the gallant rider of the Valley. This wonderful change in the po litical opinions of our Irish fellow citizens is signiUcant, and augurs better and brighter times for the race at home and in America. Swine Diptheria and Cholera. We earn irom the Western Farmer that these two diseases so fatal to swine, are still pre vailing in Wilkes, Caldwell, Alleghany and adjoining Counties; and we call the attention of Veterinarians to the fact, so that if any cure is known to them, it may be at once given to the public.

The best known regimen to guard against these diseases, is plenty of pure water, charcoal and rotten lwood, placed conveniently to the place where they are fed. For porcine diptheria a strong tea made from smart-weed or water pepper, and used as a gargle, is a very efficient remedy. An important Circular from Gen-. Miles in relation to the suspension of rations and Freedmen's Savings Banks, shall appear in our next. A Post Office has been re-established at Pactolus, Pitt Co.

and James G. Lewis appointed Post-Master. State Councils of the Union Leauge of America may be addressed as follows Thos. G. Baker, 74 Wall street, New York.

Samuel F. Gwinner, or Philadelphia, Pa. Win. B. Thomas, Benj.

S. Morehouse, Newark, New Jersey. Charles H. Gatch, or Baltimore, Maryland. Henry Stockbridge, Andrew Washburn, Richmond, Va.

W. W. Holden, Raleigh, North-Carolina. S. Pillsbury, or Charleston E.

W. M. Mackey, narIeston a- Wm. Marham, Atlanta, Georgia. A.

A. Knight, Lake City Florida. John C. Keffer, Montgomery, Alabama. James Gen.

H. H. Thomas, Nashville, Tenn. V. Dell, Fort Smith, Ark.

H. C. Dibble, New Orleans, La. Geo. H.

Harlow, Springfield, III. The Amnesty Proclamation The much talked of amnesty proclamation was fully discussed in the Cabinet mee ting to-day and finally agreed upon. It will be promulgated on Mondy next. Only five classes of rebels will be excepted from its operations. These will be First All above the rank of brigadier in the army and captain in the navy of the rebel States.

Second All persons against whom proceedings have already been commenced, under which will be included such as were guilty of act3 of piracy and cruelty to Union prisoners. Third Persons who filled the positions of President and Vice President of the rebel States to wit, Davis and Stephens. Fourth All persons concerned in the assassination conspiracy. Fifth All diplomatic agents of the rebel government. All other classes of rebels will be pardon ed under the new amnesty proclamation.

in tact, this will extend the benefits of amnesty to ten classes excluded under the proclamation of 1865. I have this from a 6ource that leaves no doubt of its reliability. The Female Suffrage Canvass. Lawrence, Kansas, Sept 6. Mrs.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Miss Susan Anthony of New York, addressed a very large audience here last night in favor of female suffrage. Mrs. Stanton's argument in favor ot equal rights is pronounced by The State Journal to be the finest oration ever delivered in Kansas. A vigorous canvass is being made in favor of striking the words "white and male from the State Constitution. General Canby's First Order.

Information has been received here that General Canby has issued an order retaining in force all of the orders issued by his predecessor in the 2d military district, including the famous order No. 10, for the promulgation of which Gen. Sickles was removed. Wash. Chronicle.

Registration Returns We give below the registration returns in, this State as far as received. We shall keep the table standing until completed by the full-returns from the State. No County must be regarded as completed unless it is so stated. White. Colored.

898 203 318 86 490 341 903 39S 375 162 204 541 830 742 545 632 849 607 250 40 371 118 822 609 839 2,120 424 374 2G3 28 446 220 1,273 1,056 986 420 723 1,784 965 427 966 1,405 678 313 347 1,240 1,581 720 577 722 509 263 707 495 185 557 328 211 1,565 1,458 789 206 722 1,534 462 844 965 788 754 660 562 441 315 300 1.667 954 900 200 593 737 490 499 2,258 2,141 371 1,486 885 878 851 816 1,880 192 34,136 30,993 Alamance County, Alexander, Beaufort, Burke, Brunswick, Bladen, Chatham, Chowan, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Carteret, Craven, Cumberland, Cleav.eland, Currituck, Duplin, Davidson, Edgecomb, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Hertford, Harnett, Johnston, Lenoir, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, McDowell, New Hanover, Northampton, Nash, Orange, Pitt, Robeson, Rowan, Rutherford, Richmond, Sampson, Wake, Warren, Wilson, Wayne, Wilkes, Registration in Raleigh up to i past 12 Monday, Whites, 21 Blacks, 108 129 Registration is Forsyth. The fallowing has been communicated to us, as the result of the first sessions of the board of registration, in the Eastern portion ot the County. Whites. Colored. 146 30 76 20 92 41 .84 49 80 24 478 164 Kernersville, Grimes' Roads, Matthews', Sedge Garden, Waughtown, To which add number in Western Dist.

of the County, 670 1148 234 Total, 398 Salem Press. Registration. Registration in Guilford County, so far as we have advices, stands as tolloM's Whites. Blacks. 67 96 33 76 55 34 30 43 48 Total.

Monticello, 155 179 105 224 136 117 143 131 119 222 275 Uruce King's, Friendship. McLeausville, Ragan's, Coble's, Ross's, Gibsonville, Jamestown, High Point, Greensboro', Thursday noon, Total, 138 300 191 151 173 174 167 272 238 510 1581 720 2301 Greensboro Patriot. We have a number of returns in addition to the above, for which we can not find room in this issue. They shall appear in our next-We have given the aggregates in the above table from all the Counties as far as received. Chess.

Paul Morphy, the distinguished American chess-player has arrived in Paris, but it is not announced whether or not he will resume the practice of the game which of late years he has abandoned. Major Jae-mish, well-known Russian chess-writer and analysis, after a short stay in Paris has reached London. AT. Y. TrUmne.

The Southern Cotton Crops. Savannah, September 5. Reports from the sea island crop are discouraging. South Carolina coast reports state that the rain and worms have made great havoc in the cotton crop. Georgia coast reports state that the worm has only appeared on tM'o islands.

The other islands expect a fair crop. The estimate of the island crop last week was bales. This week it is only 30,000. Rains continue, but reports from the interior are good. Fair crops are expected of uplands.

No new sea island cot ton has been received yet. Tennessee. THE RESULT TO THE FLAG AT NASHVILLE. Nashville, Sept. 5.

Gen. Duncan, District Commander, has sent the following sharp notice to the management of the Summer-street Theatre: "Gentlemen: It having come to the knowledge of the General commanding the district that the national air played at your theatre last night was his-sed byflie audience, I beg leave to inform you that if such an insult to our flag occurs again at your place of amusement a military guard will be placed to attend to them, with instructions to expel all persons so offending from the house." From Washington. Washington, Sept. 7. The President has instructed the heads of departments to furnish each person holding an appointment in their respective department with an official copy of the proclamation of the 3rd with directions to observe strictly its requirements for an earnest support of the Constitution and a faithful execution of the laws which have been made in pursuance thereof.

The President is said to be highly elated with the Democratic victory in California, and predicts a similar result at the elections in the Atlantic States. The latest returns from there show a Democratic majority in Legislature, thus cutting off all probability of a Republican Senator to succeed Congress. General Howard to Retain His Position. The following appears as a special despatch in the Boston Advertiser: Providence, R. September 3, 1887.

Major-General Howard, now visiting the agricultural fair in this city, received a despatch from General Grant this evening informing him that he is to retain his position, at the head of the Freedmen's Bureau." Going Going I done I Faster than the auctioneer's hammer knock down merchandise, neglect dispose of the teeth. Bid, therefore, for that prize of life, a perfect set, by brushing them regularly with Sozodont. WHISKEY AND Torino 1 Dr. J. Jj.

Johnson has handed us Salem Press,) the following to puohf ti( the informaton ot all concerned f( Assesor's Office, U. S. Int. rEv Fifth District 'n Dear Sir: I herewith sendynaa ofletter received by in answer to v0 quiries, under date of the 16th inst- The first inquiry is this "A man whm brandy made by a neighbor. 10 or 1 Ions, has he a Yight to remove it branded or sell it, without license oh conld he have that amount branded' It is taken for granted that he brandy distilled from appjes, peachy r' grapes.

These spirits must be inspected rran ami proved, before they are sold orremn ior saie or use irom tue place Wuere flip distilled. The onantitv ivmnvui considerate, does not exempt itrom tlr quirement. 18 The inspection and branding will be formed by the proper General Inspect the District, upon due notice. Another point raised is, whether sni can be removed from the distillery, nQ same premises, for the sake of rooin'conr ience, or safety. As other distilled spirits must he remove from the cistern room directly to the lJOn warehouse, I understand this to refer i to brandy distilled irom apples, peaches an! grapes.

The rule, as laid doM-n above, may alio all such spirits to be removed to anoth building than the distillery, before beina spected, if not removed from the distir premises. Respectfully. E. A. ROLLINS, Commissioner Jessee Wheeler, Assessor 5th j)L Greensboro', N.

C. J. L. Johnson, Asst. Assr.

California. THE DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY ABOUT 7,000 San Francisco, Sept, 6. The Democrats hn carried the State Legislature, and the mnnieij ticket in San Franciso, by overwhelming maio? ties. The Union party elects one minority SuV visor, School Directors. Returns from the i terior continue to swell Huight's majority which may reach 8,000.

The entire Union State' tku is defeated, and it is doubtful if one Union Mem. ber of Congress is elected. The result is astound log to both parties. Nothing worse was expected by the Union men than the defeat of Gorhanifm two or three others of the State ticket. Toe re tarns are not nearly full, but it is believed tliati large number of Union voters absented tliemselvs from the polls.

The Democrats will have a majority of the State Assembly, but lourteen Sens tors out of twenty who held over are Union, this may secure a Union majority in the Senatt but the election ol a Republican Senator tosm ceed Senator Conness is now imnnssiiiio v. Haight addressed a meeting last night clainiiiS uis election us aproicsi against corruption extravagance, una in opposmou to Chinese at negro suffrage, and ihe reconstruction policy Congress. The Union papers urge renewed a forts to carry the October election. The majorities repoated in 27 counties sho Haight to be be 7,000 ahead. The counties hear from will generally give Democratic majorities.

Financial Crisis in Richmond. Richmond, Sept. 6,1867. Insolvency is almost general among the merchants here, and Northern creditors, chiefly of New York and Baltimore, can enter suits in the United States courts for the recovery of debts. il rush into bankruptcy is the No less than tortv applications ere reccu cd to-day by the Register.

The Amnesty Proclamation. It is understood that proposed aratieri r'- -i Ai.i i .1 a I. .1 nun luui. iuuj; uiseubsiuu tuercuu iuuiv piw The subject ol this proclamation has bcendi cussed in Cabinet meting before, meeting cod crable opposition irom some of its originally written it is said to bare provided it: the pardon of all eniraered in the rebellion sn- Davis, Lee, Beauretrard. and a few others: be since the former Cabinet discussion it is said have been so modified as to make the amnesty It sweeping, it may possibly be promulgated ic- aay, aituougn some appear to thint tne rrt dent will recede from his intention, and notion-it at all.

There is no doubts however, that tlier: is great pressure upon him to issue it iiumtil ately. Wash. Chronicle. Death of Col. Shepard Court Martii of Capt.

Mobile, September 5. Col. F. B. Sliepf herd, who was shot at the Mount VermJ arsenal a few weeks since by Captain Shaft of the United ocares army, died here to-flf from the effects of the wound.

Captain ShafF has been on trial before military commission since Monday. Thee: animation was concluded to-day, but tl finding has not yet been promulgated. Cofonel buepard was a highly respecttc citizen. Senator Fessenden for Impeachment It is announced on the anthoritv ot a nnui: letter from Maine, that Senator Fessenden no avows inmsclt in lavor of impeachment states that he favors it in the belief of its at lute necessity for the presrevation of the publi; interest, anu lu obedience to the weJl-Dis unanimous sentiment of his constituents. Mr.

Fessenden has heretofore been the mo- prominent of the opponents of the measure, change of position greatly increases the vm peek vi ilo ueiug cuineu oui. tram, vnromai The Cotton Crop. Memphis, Sept. -Accounts from vaiM portions of Mississippi represent the worm as naving made its appearance, but a. iar tne cotton has sustained little dam age.

The corn crop is represented as unptf cedented in that State. The new cott crop is coming into market verv slow. Tkt weather is clear and hot. General Sickles. General Sickles will proceed direetlr fiwi Charleston to New lork in the steamer 1 sails on Saturday, and on bis arrival there demand a court of inquiry regarding the allegations contained in the recent proclaiuati" of the President.

U'aiA. Chronicle. jTOTICE THE UNDERSIGNED. BUILDING CG M1TTEE for Richmond County, will let out the lowest bidder the building of a public lor Richmond County, on the third Mondsj Sentembernext. Information in respect to specifications, will be given by the bniMiH Committee at Kociunguam, Pi.

C. JOHN W. LEAK, JOHN SHORTRIDGE, h. li. WEBB, WM.

B. COLE, A. DOCKERY, R. BOWDEN. August, 1867.

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