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OoNsEsvAnsH-Is defined to be that which pre-.
serves, (which is opposed to innovation, which
maintains established institutions" It is the sup.
port oflaw the advocate Of ORDER the friend of good
government the foe to RIGHTEOUSNESS and the anag-
onist of extremes in opinion 1t is thoughtful and
deliberate cautious in adopting opinions, tenacious
ofthem when adopted. Industry in research makes
it intelligent; deep reflection and close observation
makes it WISE Its moderation holds in check the
violence of passion its discernment shields it from
the errors ofmpulse and precipitsncy. 1t is dgni.
fed and unassumng. In politics, it is uuanbitous
and retiring, and in ordinary times seldom takes
an active and prominent part In society 1t is genial
sympathising and kind. 1t is the ballast in the
hold which, unseen keeps the ship steady, upright
and manageable. 1t is only great in emergencies,
which bring it forth to act conspicuous part in the
affairs of men then it reaches the highest point of
moral grandeur-ascends the sublimest heights of
human action. Aristides at athens: Cincnnatus
at Rome; Hamden in England; Washington in
America, were conservative men. Each, in his
turn, saved his country in time of imminent peril
from foreign foe or intestine commotion. Selma
Reporter
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An Act to exempt certain Officers and I'm.
plOYeeS from Conservation.

An Act to exempt certain Officers and En-.
ployees from CONSUMPTION.
SECTION l. Be 1T enacted 6y the General Assen.
bly, Of the State Of North Carolina and it is hsrs6v
enacted blythe authority of the same, That in obe.
dence to an act of the Congress of the Confederate
States, passed and approved May the 1st, 1853. in
relation to exempting certain persons necessary as
the State officers in addition to the State officers
exempted by the act of Congress, passed October
18th, 1862, the Governor of the State having claim
ed and obtained the exemption of the following Of
fcers necessary to carry on the operationso of the
State government viz: all Justices of the Peace
whose appointments were made previous to Nav
1ltb, 1868, County Trustees, County Solicitors,
Registers, Tax Collectors, one Deputy Sheriff in
each county where there Is no Tax Collector, Coro.
ners, Constables who entered into bond previous
to the l1th OF May 1868, ortheir successors in Of
hce, one Deputy Clerk for each Court requiring it.
one County Commissioner for each county for dis.
tributing money and provisions amongst soldiers
families, Agent appointed under an act Of Assembly
tor any duty, commissioned officers Of the Militia
OF this State and commissioned officers Of the Home
Guard Mayors and Police of Raleigh, Wilmington,
Salisbury, Charlotte, Fayetteville and Gods6oro''
Counsellors of State Board Internal Impro tenants
and Literary Board, and employees Of the State
Government IN the different departments.
Sec. Q. Be 1t further enacted, That the General
Assembly doth claim and exempt all the different
classes of officers named in section first of this act
in obedience to the act Of Congress approved Nav
1st 1863
SEC: g. BE 1t further enacted, That this act shall
De IN force nom and after its ratification Ratified
tho l4th day of December, 4. d., 1863.
r. S. DONNELL, s. q. @.
GILES MEBANE s.
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Secret History of Congressional Legislation.
There is o universal distrust of the wisdom and
sense Of justice and Independence of the Confed.
crate Congress- The secret history of legislation at
Richmond is being divulged We are told that the
plan for peace enunciated in the Congressional Ad.
dress was the result of compromise between the
consolidatienists or monarchists and those who ad
hercd to the original theory of State nationality
1t was agreed by the former, the consoldatonists,
that the word "Confederate" should be stricken
out Of the Peace Address on condition that the
State Rights mon would assent to the suspension of
the writ Of habeas corpus. The address thus
claimed, no. the independence of the Confederate
States but of the several States as sine gua Nom
to paci6cation l. is however, believed that there
are reasons impeing the President to desire this
concession of power not known to the public
There were Congressman willing to vest him with
dctatorial powers just and natural tribute to their
own weakness and incapacity. The President only.
sought the power to be applied to one or two mar.
row districts. 1t was never his purpose to exercise
such power in Georgia Such are statements
ma e by those seemingly conversant with the
history Of Richmond legislation. 1t was deemed
advisable to make the law universal in its terms and
application, but it was only designed for local an.
forcenent If this be true, there is reason to hone
that much Of the feeling engendered at Medpeviile
is baseless. The establishment of despotism is
no part of the purpose Of the President Let ns
charitably place this construction upon the action
e Congress, until future facts show that We are
-, aiken as to its designs.-Atlanta Reoister
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From the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
THE LIBERTY OF THE CITIZEN

It is plainly incumbent on the Legislature Of
Georgia to sustain the Governor in the bold and
manv position he has taken defence of the liber.
ties of the citizen-in vndcation of the rights Of
the State. They may fail TO do SO. May be tlme.ser.
ving and fear to take the decisive steps which the
exigencies of the times demand. May seek to trim
their sails to catch favorng breeze for the sake Of
position and spoils. May be swayed by the same
debasng influence that induced the late Congress to
surrender the liberties Of the people. In this emer.
gency, it will become the immediate duty Of every
freeman, every true lover of civil liberty in Georgia
to rally to the support of Gov Brown There is
power behind the throne greater than the throne
ITSELF 1t is not too late to make that power felt.
The primary and paramount sovereignty of the State
is fully embodied in Convention Of the people.
Ii the Legislature Of Georgia fail to take prompt
action in the support ofthe Executive, without any
equivocaton, it is the imperative duty Of the people
OF this commonwealth to have State Convention
called to compel them so to do If they show any
sign of weakness let the people rally and strength.
en- them. The issue now presented is plain. 1t can
be summed up in few words Freedom or Des-
Potsm-it is life or death to our liberties and the
liberties of our children
Gov; Brown has done his duty without fear or ia.
vor Let the Legislature do theirs. If they falter,
Jet them see that there is popular power behind,
which will be evoked to sustain the Executive
inis will. impart the right element into the great
esV'' struggle now commenced at Milledgeville.
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EVENING. PRAYER.

leone to Thee tonight,
IN my loue closet where no eye can see.
And dare to crave an interview with The.
Father Of love and light!
Softly the moonbeans shine
On the still branches of the shady trees
While the sweet sounds of evenina m Tho h..
Steal through the slumbering vine >'N'
Thou gav'st the calm renosa
That rests on ali-the air, the birds the flower
he human spirit in its weary hour '''' D'"er'
Now at the bright days close.
IT'S Natures time forxpravsr.
The silent praises Of the glorio1 sky.
anu Tue e Ta has orlson, profound and high,
10 heaven their breathngs bear.
With them my soul wonld ho,a
In humble reverence at thy holv throne
Trusting the merits of thy Son alone
my sceptre to extend.
If | this day have striyen
w WIN my olest Spirit or have bowed The lna.
10 snent OF earth, in weak idolatrv. AAe'
pray to be forgiven. -
If in my heart has been
al AN uniorg'vlng thought or word Or ,ook
Anougn deep the malice which scarce co,,d h,o,.
Wash ne from the dark sin. ''0A'
If have turned away
from fso% grlel or suffering which might relieve
oafe'ess tne cup Of water cen to give,
Forgive me, Lord, pray.
And teach me how to feel
NY sinful wsnderings with a.deeper smart,
And more of mercy and of grace impart,
My sinfulness to heal.
Father my soul would be .
Pure as the drops of ewes unsulled dew,
And as the stars whose nightly course is true,
So would l be to thee.
Not for myself alone,
Would these blessings of thy love implore,
But for each penitent the wide Garth Ger,
Whom thou hast called thine own.
And for thy hearts best friends.
Whose steadfast kindness DER my painful years
Has watched to soothe Affections, grief and tears
My warmest prayer ascends
Should DER their path decline
The light of gladness, or of hope, or health,
Be thou their. solace, and their joy, and wealth.
As they have long been mine.
And now, O Father! take
The heart cast with humble faith on thee.
And cleanse its depths from each impurity.
For my Redeemer's Sake
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pride, and virtue and piety, increase and abound
among us; and so shall all che generations which
are destined to exist within our berders utter fer
vent thanks that they frs, saw the light on this
continent and that they are sons and daughters Of
North. Caro1ina
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\cr FROM HoRRY's LIFE OF MAuou -M,rion
..; s4'A mbitious demagogues will rise. and the
sa'a Ugh ignorance and love of change. viii
people, thfo Vast armies will be formed and bloody
h ,ollG~ 'esm I'd after desolatiug their country
With e al Ss ofeir war; the guilty survivors
will have to bend tia like beasts If hnrds yoI rsn
some stern usurpsr, ane rs which they have rivet,
implied those CALLING cha ''
ted upon themselves forever.
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Nurt5- Curollpa 5ta1laard
Fer the Standard.
The Cloud by Day and the Light by N1snt'

Fer the Standard.
The Cloud by Day and the Light by Night.
the DAYTIME also He led them with cloud and all the
night with light Of hre.-7St" fsasn"' lev" '''''
Forever thus-when joyous hours
Surround us with their binding light,
A clond Of hidden mercy lowers;
TO shield and guide our dazzled s'gnt;
But when the starfess ray less night.
Comes Ger us cold. and dark, and dread,
. There shines fiery pillar bright
As that which IsraeIs thousands led.
Yet not to Pnaroah's hardened pride,
Jehoyah's beacnn light was shown,
For he who ISraels God defed,
By Israel's God was over thrown;
Anu not to Ierol on his throne,
The Star of Bethlehem appeared,
Not Caesar, with the world his own,
The glorious song of "Glory" heard.
The smile of day was gone-the irown
or night was on Judea's plans,
When glory from the Lord shcne down
Around her meek and lowly SWANS,
And holy, sweet, celestial strains
0! music, told His lowly birth,
WHO ever and forever reigns,
The Christ, the Lord of Heaven and earth.
The Lake DaQ lpSt tIldG ohNCi S'V"
The cloudless sky had smiled to see'
As her own mirror, made to show =.
How fair her Makers work could be;
For like mania, Ger that sea
The night storm did the tempter's will,
And filled the bark with agony
To sinking, when He said, ''De stll!'.
A home of Bethany was bright,
For he whom Jesus loved was there;
His early tomb was closed IN night
A sisters anguish, who can bear?
Oh who conlo save them from despair!
All'human sympathy, how valn
He dropped tear, He breathed prayer,
And Lazarus was their own again!
Like rain drops on the purest snow,
Pure tears were sprinkled on shroud,
A form of beauty lay below,
A form of love above it bowed
Beneath the shadow of The cloud,
The widow meekly bore her Woes
One hand amid the Borrowing crowd
But touched the bier-her son arose!
No sunny ray was beaming on
The olive groves Of Olivet;
One light, the light of Love alone,
Illumed the drops of blood like sweat
With which the sufferers brow was wet
All night upon that halowed sod,
His PROSTATE form was thrown, and yet
From Olivet He rose-our Godl
Mine be Thy robe of martyrdom,
When foes surround, and friends deny! II
Mine be Thy suffering spirit, dumb
In crucifying agony!
Ny Saviour! Oh EIoi! Elol
When darkness hides the onday sun,
Mine he thy all of Calvary,
Till all Thy holy will be done!
Be Thou my all of righteousness,
Until my dust in dust is laid!
Thy service be my biessedness,
Till in Thy glorious love arrayea,
Ascending from the deepest shade
OF sorrows dark, sepUlchral night, "a
A harp shall SOUND, whose chords were niad
To hymn Thy everlasting light
M
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The Two WSva.

Fight it out-Ze6ulOn B. Vance, Governor Of
North. Carolina.
Wsdom's ways are ways of pleasantness, and all
heE paths are PEACE: -SoIonson, of Daoid, Hing
of Israeli
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Truth can hardly be expected to .dapt herself ia
the crooked policy, and willy sinuosites of worlds
AFFAIRS tor truth like light travels only in straight
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Virtue without talent is Goa, .--nsa r.r.;o.
.;rtno v;th t.,.r WIN ,alens an >ty conqueror
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Arlstogiton, public informer, paraded with his
pretended vaor before the people, and pressed them
much to declare war. But wbensthe lists came to
oe made out Of those that were to serve this swag-
se.es nso g0t MS leg bound up, and crutch under
seeing him at some distance in this form called out
70 nus secretary to put down Aristog,ton 80 cripple
ana coward Lite of PAoeion
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lutiou, than in peace.
Mr.. President, to say of this measure that it is
absurd snd calculated to bring rdicule on our legis
lation ana that it is unnecessary, and will be Who'll
" Intellectual, if necessary, inasmuch a forced
oath is wei understood to be no oath in the sight
of man or Is Maker is but to characterize its more
obvious features. lam fully persuaded that abroad
if not at home IL will be regarded the offspring
of fear It viii b argaed, and the hypothesis can
not be resisted, that proceeding so universal, so
unusual, SO searching SO destructive OF personal
freedom and nserons to putilc liberty, would not
be resorted to except iu State wnere pubic senti-
ment was suppressed " lie hlgn nana OF force,
and sense Of danger hhs drI,>e N tne'government
to desperation. In that aspect n. measure coula
give greater encouragement to the 81 7"y anu no
libel could more deeply wound tbs seBA "lasles ol
the people of the State or do them mefs e. ss IN
justice. They have looked upon the pending 'on'
waged upon the frontiers by national armies. Bet
you propose by this ordinance, to declare it civil
and social war, in which no man is to be trusted
In which, the secrets of the right hand may be con,
cealed from the left until you have cleaIsed out the
conscience and made assurance doubly snre BY
forced oath. 1t is not enough that IS 900 men,
portions of them from every county in the State.
are in the field exposing their lives to the arms Of
the enemy. and to the pestilenee of camp and gar
rison, and that almost every family has its repre-
sentative there that they have submitted cheerful
ly to the burthsus of TAXATION and the privation
incident to q destruction of commerce, aud have,
over and above this, voluntarily and cheerfully con-
trbuted Of their labor their substance and the very
comforts of their homes, to give aid to your SOL
diers and vigor to their efforts that there il not
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the position they bad firmly taken, by the false
clamors and wicked libels of pitiful minority:
that as for himself, he regarded such intemperate
and partizan denunciations with mingled feelings of
pity and contempt He read extracts from the
Richmond Wing, an extreme Southern paper and
showed that they smacked thousand times stronger
of re construction than any editorial that had ever
appeared n'the Standard or Progress he deeolv
regretted nay thousands of the best men and abest
IN the land profoundly regretted that Mr.. Davis
alter having been unanimously elected. should have
carried into the Presidential chair his partiz.n
JUDGES, and more especially in an UNEQUAL and fear
iui struggle like this we are engaged in, where the
issues o. life and death are involved that he had
acted thus, not only in his appointments 20 civil
trusts out also in the vast patronage he held in his
appointments to military o6ices-so that, almost
the enure control of the government was in the
nanos Ut those most unfortunate prophets who de-
cared that Cotton oas King, and who foretold that
accession sooutd be peacea6e and would not involve
US IN war. Such, he argued, would not have been
the course of Graham or a Stenh.ns had thoxe
great statesmen been placed at the helm Of the shn
OF State; and he expressed the opinion that not
even Mr. Stephens the Vice President, had the full
confidence Of the President. He hoped for change.
lie concluded, by urging on the people the pro-
Priety Of obeying the civil and military laws, urged
the to see that the deserters return to their
regiments, and stand by their colors-advised that
70 opposition should be manifested to the last call
2er conscrpts, and that no obstacles be thrown in
Pc way Of the tithing lao, though he denounced it
unwise and unjust, and expressed the hope that
II would be repealed, modified as to render IL
acceptable to the people.
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our tn enrich Others lowered the tone of
State pride and State manhood, and dwarfeo our
State independence.
But a better and brighter day has already risen
upon us. Internal Improvements and common
Schools have become the established policy OF the
State and the great interests Of agriculture and the
mechanic arts are receiving the attention OF the Leg
islature and of the people generally. Inc steam
car now thupders along from the mountains to the
seaboard freighted with the productions of the in
terror counties and bearing back for consumption,
for use and for ornament the commodities OF other
and distant regions. The mind of the capitalist is
stimulated and the arm of the miner, the mechanic,
and the manufacturer, invgorated by the prospect
of fair rewards for their expenditures and labors.
Our Common Schools and our academies are throng-
ed with thousands Of happy and ingenious children );
emigration is ceasing and the old State lifts her
self up and girds herself for the work of improve
meut physical, mental, and moral, in which she is
engaged.
And is this time for any true scsg99 hers to fall
ter IN her SERVICE to abandon her for other lands
No-fellow- citizens-Nol Here let US remain, and
plan, and labor for the Improvement of our State,
and for ourselves and our posterty. 1t is goodly
and glorious land, worthy of our best affections
and of every effort and sacrifice which we can make
in its behalf It is the land of our fereathers sust
and free in their day, and hopeful in their death
Their honored ashes mingle with its soil and tha;r
patriotic spirits hover through its air." They sneak
to us by their great examples and invoke Us to he
faithful to the rich Inheritance which has fallen tn
%hpm their hands, Werespond to the iuvoc.t;or
are resolved, that as they performed their whole
3ty in their day, so we will perform onrs ..S
that with one mind and one heart We will mite
to keep the State on the high road of advancement
and Improvement and to give to Ter star new lna'
ire in the constellation Of the Union So SHAH or
Postety look back with gratitude to us, as We look
Gack 10 tnose who have preceded US 90 shall INTEL
''seS' = ana freedom, and manliness, and State
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-05-20
MIDDLE AGED MEN.

There are many men at the age of 40 or-60 whoare
troubled with too frequent excavations from the
bladder, often accompanied by slight smartinR or
burning sensation, and weakening the system In q
manner the patient cannot account for Or exam
lining urinary deposits ropy sediment will often be
albumen will appear, or the color will be of thin
mikish hue, again changing 20 a dark and tarbid
appearance. There are many men who die of this
difficulty, ignorant Of the cause, which Is the
SECOND STAGE or SEMINAL WEAKNESS.
can warrant perfect cure in such cases. and
full and healthy restoration Of the urinary organs
Persons who cannot personally consult the Dr.
can do by writing in plain manner description
Of their disease. and the appropriate remedies will
be forwarded Immediately.
All correspondence strictly confidential and will
be returned If desired.
Address, DR.. j. b. HUGHES,
No. Temple ST., lcorner Of Middlel Portland.
U-Ssnd Stamp for circular.
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Every Intelligent and thinking person must know
that remedies handed out from general should
have their efficacy established BY we'll expe
rieuce In the hands of regularly educated physi-
clan, whose preparatory study hfs him for all the
duties he must fulfill yet the country Is flooded with
poor nostrums and cure-as. purporting to be the
best in the world which not only useless but al
ways injurious. The unfortunate should be PARTio-
uLAR In selecting his physician, IL is amenfable
yet incontrovertable fact that many syphiitic pa
tients made miserable with ruined constitutions
by maltreafment from inexperienced physicians in
agement of these complaints should engross the
whole time of those who would be competent and
successful In their treatment and cure. The mex
perienced general practitioner. having neither OPP
portunity nor time to make himself acquainted with
their pathology. commonly pusrnes one system Of
treatment, in most cases making an indiscriminafe
use Of that antiqustsd and dangerous weapon, Msr.
curry.
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Ia year. They are universally pronounced the
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The upper edge presents perfect curve, free from
the angles noticed in all other collars.
The crayat causes no Fuckers on the inside OF the
rundown collar,-they are AS SMOOTH INSIDE
AS OUTsIDE,-and therefore perfectly free and
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The Oarotte Collar has a smooth and evenly fin
isbed edge on BOTH sIDRe.
These Collars are not simply fat pieces of paper
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SHAPE . TO FIT THE NECK.
They are made in Novelty" Tor turn-down style)in
every halfsize from IL TO IL inches, and in "Euret
Tor Garolte, from ID TO IL inches; and packed in
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EY- EVERY COLLAR ia stamped "GRAY's
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