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Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-15

\ lady who is writing letters from
Washingtont to the New York Indepen-
dent, speaks of members of the Ohio del
| eqation as follows:
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Scale of Depreciation:

The following Act, in relation to the scaling OF
Confederate Currency, from the time of its first
issue to the end of the war, passed at the recent
session of the General Assembly:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO
ESTABLISH A SCALE OF DEPRECIATION
OF CONFEDERATE CURRENCY.
WHEREAS, By an ordinance of the Convention,
entitled can ordinance declaring what laws anf
ordinances are in force, and for other purposes,
ratified on the 18th day of October, A. D., 1865,
it is made the duty of the General Assembly to
provide scale of depreciation of the Confederate
Currency from the time of its first issue to the
end of the war; and it is further therein declared
that "all eXecutory contracts, solvable in money,
whether under seal or not, made after the depre-
citation of said currency before the 1st of May,
1862 and untitled Except official bonds and penal
bonds payable to the State) shall be deemed to
have been made with the understanding that they
were solvable in money of the said CURRENCY
subject, nevertheless, to evidence of different in
tent of the parties to the contract; therefore,
Be 1t enacted by tie General assembly of the State
Of NO1t Carolina, and 1t is hereby enacted 6y the
authority Of the same, That the following scale of
depreciation be and the same is hereby adopted
and established as the measure of value of one
gold dollar in Confederate currency, for each
month, and the fractional parts of the month of
December, 1864 from the list day of November,
1861, to the 1st day of May, 1865, to-wit:
Scale Of depreciation Of Confederate currency, the
gold dollar being the anti and measure Of 0Glue
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GENERAL REMARKS.

Revenue Stamps may be used Unfortunately
upon any OF the matters or things enumerated in
schedule B, except proprietary and playing card
stamps, for which special use has been provided.
Postage stamps cannot be used in payment OF
the duty chargeable on instruments.
1t is the duty of the maker of an instrument to
afhx and cancel the stamp thereon. 1.-The neglects
| to do so, the party for whom it is made, may
stamp it before it is used; and if used after the
cannot afterwards be effectually stamped. Any
failure upon the part of the maker of an instru-
ment men to appropriately stamp it. renders him liza
BILE to a penalty of two hundred dollars.
Suits are commenced in many States by other
process than writ, viz: summons, warrants, pub
leation petition, Sc, in which case these as the
Writs of scira facias are subject to stamp duty
as original processes.
The jurat of an affidavit, taken before Justice
of the Peace, Notary Public, or other Officer duly
authorized to take afidayits, is held to be a
titicate, and is subject to a stamp duty of five
CENTS except when taken in suits OF legal proceed
ings.
Certificates of loan in which there shall appear
any printed or written evidence of an amount of
money to be paid on demand or at any time de-
signated, are subject to stamp duty as Promisory
Notes.
The assignment of mortgage is subject to the
same duty that imposed upon the original in
strument; that is to say for every sum of five
hundred dollars, any fractional part thereof, of
the amount secured by the mortgage, at time of
its assignment there must be affixed stamp or
stamps, denoting duty of five cents.
When two or more persons join in the execution
OF an instrument, the stamps to which this instru-
ment is liable under the law, may be affixed and
cancelled by one of the parties.
In conveyances of real estate, the law provides
that the stamp affixed must answer to the value
of the estate on interest conveyed
No stamp is required on any warrant of attor-
ney accompanying bond or note, when such
bond or note has affixed thereto the stamp OIL
stamps denoting the duty required, and whenever
any bond or note is secured by mortgage but one
stamp duty is required on such papers, such
stamp duty being the highest rates required for
such instruments, or either of them. In such q
case note or memorandum of the value or de-
nomination of the stamp affixed should be made
upon the margin or in the acknowledgement of
the instrument which is not stamped.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, December %, 1860.
SIR: The time has arrived when, in the
Judgment of the President of the United
States, the care and conduct of the proper
affairs of the State of North Carolina may be
remitted to the constitutional authorities
chosen by the people thereof without danger
to<the peace and safety of the United States.
By direction of the President, therefore, you
are relieved from the trust which was here
tofore reposed in you as provisional COVER
nor of the State of North Carolina. Wherl-
ever the governor elect shall have accepted
and become qualified to discharge the duties
of the executive office, you will transfer the
papers and property of the State. now in
your custody to his excellency Governor
Worth.
1t gives me especial pleasure to convey to
you the Presidents acknowledgment of the
fidelity, loyalty, and discretion which have
marked your administration.
You will please give me reply, specifying
the day on which this communication is re-
ceived.
have the honor to be
your excellency's most obedient servant,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
His Excelency W. w. HOLDEN,
FT00asaonot GoUernor Of N. C.
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A MAMMOTH AoUARIUM.-A Paris
correspondent says that French capital
ist is erectin g an immense aquarium in
Boulevarde Montmartre A submarine
cavern, which will present the appear
ance of being entirely followed by the
action of the sea out of solid rock, is
rapidly progressing towards completion.
Tons of sea water have arrived, and
among the various anphibious animals
and fish which were to inhabit this
small ocean, was pair of fish tailed
walrus, and some bright, gold colored
cyprlans, sent from China, several coup
ie le OF phoca, ursine seal, and sea calves.
The supply was SO arranged that it
flowed i'll at one and out on the opposite
side, whence by rotary machine it
was propelled back to the upper end.
Thus the water was kept in fresh state,
and never required to be renewed.
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NO. 20.
Railroads, Steamboats,, &c
Raleigh & CASTOR Railroad.
THROUGH FREIGHT TARIFF,
NORTH AND SOUTH, By THE AIR LINE ROUTE.

WE ARE NOW PREPARED TO SHIP ALI.
wv kinds of freight through to New York,
Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore; on through
bills OF lading giving through receipts, at the
lowest rates.
This is the Line for Shippers.
Your goods will be handled only once through
connections close; no delay; time and expense
less than yany other route Insurance-trining
compared with other routes We take goods to
and from Columbia, 8. c., and all intermediate
stations with more promptness and dispatch than
any Express Company, at about one fourth the
cost.
TAKE NOTICES!
Persons shipping goods South will ship through
the following Agents, and by the following
Steamship Companies, and NO OTHER:
From New York, by the Atlantic Coast Mail
Steamship Company Livingston, Fox & Co.,
Agents, No: IS, Liberty Street, or Pier So North
River, N Y.
From Baltimore, by Baltimore Steam-Packet
Company. L. B. Parks, Agent, foot of Union
Dock; md by Brandt's line of Steamers.
From Philadelphia, by the Philadelphia and
Norfolk Steamship Company. w. B. Clyde &
Co, Agents, No. ID North Delaware Avenue,
Philadelphia.
From Boston, by the Boston and Norfolk Steam
ship Company E. Sampson & Co, Agents,
end of Central Wharf, Boston. -.
Consign your goods to Railroad Agent, Ports
mouth Virginia, and City Point
Goods coming by the way of City Point and
Petersburg must be SO marked.
C. B. ALLEN,
1000 Freight agent r. d G. Il; r. Co.
Aug. Is, 1856. 641m.
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GTelegram-Received $40 p.m.1
RALEIGH, N. c., Auqust 26. 1865

RALEIGH, N c., august 26, 1865.
To THE PRESIDENT
SIR: In reply to your despatch of Au-
gust 22d, have the honor to state, in no in
stance in making appointments to office, OF
in recommending for appointment, have I
shown any preference for persons who have
participated in the rebellion; on the con-
trary, have been very careful to prefer and
to appoint persons who were original Union
men, and persons who were in favor of re-
storing the authority of the federal govern
ment. Doubtless in many appointments
(some four thousandD some have been ap-
pointed who ought not to have been, and in
some cases even friends have misled, to some
slight extent, by their recommendations :;
but, upon the whole, only loyal Union men
have been appointed and recommended at
Washington. 1t is my purpose and wish to
encourage and strengthen those who have
never at heart faltered in theiI allegiance to
the federal government l have proceeded
deliberately and carefully in the work of res
toration, and thus far am sure there are
no grounds for apprehending that North
Carolina will not present an acceptable con-
stitution. The great body of her people are
loyal and submissive to national authority.
know there are malcontents, radicals and
not good men, who are engaged in misrepre-
senting facts, and fomenting strife for Ger
tain purposes; but none of these things move
me in the performance of duty.
Thanking you heartily for the confidence
you have heretofore reposed in me, and for
the honor you have done me in making ME
provisional governor of this noble State,
am, sir, &C., w. w. HOLDEN,
Professional GoUe7u0r.
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Telegram
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,

Washington, d. c., October 49, 1866.
". w HOLDEN, Provisional Gooer'aor, Raleigh,
" c.:
Every dollar of the debt created to aid the
rebellion against the United States should
be repudiated finally and forever. The great
mass of the people should not be taxed to
pay a debt to aid in carrying on rebellion
which they in fact, ifleft to themselves, were
opposed to- Let those who have given their
means for the obligations of the State look
to that power they tried to establish in vio-
lation of law, constitution, and will of the
people They must meet their fate 1t is
their misfortune, and cannot be recognized
by the people of any State protesting them
selves loyal to the government OF the United
States and in the Union. repeat that the
loyal people of North Carolina should be ex-
onerated from the payment of every dollar
of Indebtedness created to aid in carrying on
the rebellion. trust and hope that the peo-
pie of North Carolina will wash their hands
of everything that partakes in the slightest
degree of the rebellion, which has been SO
recently crushed by the strong arm of the
government in carrying out the obligations
imposed by the Constitution of the Union.
ANDREW JOHNSON,
President Of the United States
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RALEIGH, NJ c., THURSDAY.
Telegram
EXECUTIVE MANSION,

Washington, d. c., Aagust %, 1865.
Governor VIM. w. HOLDEN, Raleigh, NJ c. !:
Information comes to me that reports are
freely circulating in influential quarters, and
where, without contradiction, they are calcu-
lated to do harm, to the effect that in ap-
Pointments to Office, and in the recommen-
datlons for appointments, the true Union
men are totally ignored, and the provisional
governors are giving decided preference to
those who have participated in the rebellion.
The object of such representations is to en-
barrass the government in its reconstruction
policy; and while place no reliance in such
statements, feel it due to you to advise you
of the extended circulation they have gained,
and to impress upon you the Importance of
encouraging and strengthening to the fullest
extent the men of your State who have never
faltered in their allegiance to the government.
Every opportunity should be made available
to have this known and understood as your
policy and determination. Acknowledge
the receipt of this telegram.
ANDREW JOHNSON,
President of the United States.
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Judges of the Supreme Court,

The Judges of the Supreme Court of the
United States are as follows:
Mr.. Chief Justice Chase, of Ohio.
Mr.. Justice Wayne, Georgia.
MIR. Justice Nelson, New York.
Mr.. Justice Grier, Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Justice Clifford, Maine.
Mr.. Justice Swayne, Ohio.
Mr.. Justice Miller, Iowa.
Mr. Justice Davis, Illinois.
MIR. Justice Field, California.
Mr.. Justice StaEsbury, Ohio.
Reporter, John w. Wallace, Ohio.
Marshal, D. s. Gooding.
Clerk, D. w. Middleton.
The Judge of the District Court of North
Carolina is G. w. Brooks. District Attorney,
D. Fl. Starbuck. Marshal Daniel R. Goodloe
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Telegram. Received 1.sO p. m. Sept. s1

Telegram. 1.3O p. M Sept q. I
RALEIGH, N. c., September 21, 1866.
To THE PRESIDENT
SIR: have decided that as persons who
belong to the excluded classes cannot vote,
so they cannot sit in convention unless they
exhibit their pardons. Ex-Governor Graham,
of Orange, in n letter published in the news
papers, holds that unpardoned persons can
sit in the convention. He declines being a
candidate, but urges this view Am right
or wrong2 The letter to Ex-Governor Ora
ham, to which he replies, taking this view,
does not show good spirit.
The election here is progressing quietly.
A large vote will be polled in the State. /
will telegraph you as the returns comein.
w. w. HOLDEN,
Provisional Gouernor.
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RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Ten lines or one inch space to constitute q
square.
One square, one insertion, 81 w
Each subsequent insertion, 5o
Liberal deduction made, by special contract, to
large advertisers.
Court advertisements will be charged 20 per
cent higher than the regular rates.
SPECIAL NOTICES charged so per cent. higher
than ordinary advertisements
For advertisements inserted irregularly, 70 per
cent higher than usual rates will be charged.
No paper in the South has advertising facilities
superior to the Standard.
Letters must be addressed to
w. W. HOLDEN s. SON,
Raleigh, N. C.
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[Telegrann.1
RALEIGH, N. c., December %, 1865.

RALEIGH, N. c., December %, 1865.
SIR: Your dispatch relieving me of my
duty as provisional governor of North Caro-
lima, has been received. 1t gives me pleasure
to be relieved of the responsibilities and la
bors OF the office. L will at once transfer the
great seal, the papers, and property of the
State now in my possession to the Hon.
Jonathan Worth, the governor elect. Be
pleased to convey to the President my sim
cere Acknowledgements for the honor he has
done me, and the confidence reposed in me
in calling me to this position With the ex-
preston OF the hope that his plan for res
toring the insurgent States to their nat
ural and appropriate place in the Union
may be crowned with entire success,
I have the honor to be,
With high respect, your obedient servant.
W. w. HOLDEN.
Hon, ". r. SEWARD, Secretary Of State,
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

Washington, NoDember 81, 1865.
SIR: The President sincerely trusts that
North Carolina will, by her legislature,
promptly accept the congressional amend
ment of the Constitution of the United
States abolishing slavery.
He relies upon you to exercise all your
functions hereafter with the same wisdom
and in the same spirit of loyalty and devo-
ton to the Union that have marked your ;ld-
ministration hitherto.
The President desires you to feel entirely
assured that your efforts to sustain the adj
ministration of the government and give eff
feet to its policy are fully appreciated, and
that they will in no case be forgotten.
am, sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM Fl. SEWARD.
His Excellency w. w. HOLDEN,
Provisional GorernOr Of n. C. Raleigh.
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GO 1st to 31st 40 90
And, ao1e,eas Many grave and difficult disputes
may arise between executors, administrators,
guardians and trustees, and their legatees, distr-
ment of their accounts and trust, arising from the
depreciation of Confederate currency, State trea-
sury notes and bank notes, incident to and grow
ing out of the late war; and that law suits and
expensive litigation may be obviated.
Be it further enacted, That in all such cases. the
parties are hereby empowered to form a full and
perfect statement of the case both sides, which
case shall be committed to the determination of
one of the Judges of the Superior Courts, chosen
slider and determine the same, according to equity
and good conscience: Provided, hoaueUer, That no
part of this section shall be construed to estop
hinder any person from proceeding in the usual
course of law if he shall deem the same necessary
A true copy j. A. ENGELHARD,
clerk of Senate
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~ 4 r ID .

BECAUSE OF AFFL, ,CTION AND AGE,
whi.I renders me incapable of continuing busi-
retire ahG tee soG6 be Sands
NY eli'I D. S.sor & Farrar, except the publication
sflrs' Of the Almanae Which trust will be
verR IN rfffng bera patro aEs which the public has
beow s ssng sh III haas last been eei
aarcyG IN tLs sfstaVan5 cSesrfllly recommend
to NV old friends and pai'rosas my successors,
Messrs. Branson & Farrar, BY ~sosss sd am sure
they will be satisfactorily accon 1so+ea ss. a., Pool,
trade and to the public, and long ensagea ,1 in
business with me- will be retained ,s an assss'aa y
in the business of Messrs Branson d farrar- 1ts
invites Ills old friends to call upon him.
HENRY d. TURNER.
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Telegram
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,

Washington, d. c., November 81, 1865.
w. w. HOLDEN, Professional Governor, Raleigh,
N c.:
Accept my thanks for the noble and eff
cient manner in which you have discharged
your duty as provisional governor. You will
be sustained by the government.
The result of the recent elections in North
Carolina have greatly damaged the prospects
of the State in the restoration of its govern
mental relations Should the action and the
spirit of the legislature be in the same direc-
ton it will greatly increase the mischief al
ready done, and might be fatal.
1t is hoped the action and spirit nantes
ted by the Legislature will be so directed as
rather to repair than to increase the Difficult
ties under which the State has already placed
itself. .. ANDREW JOHNSON,
President Of the Uaited States.
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DEMOYAL.

BRANSON & FARRAR HAVE CONSUM-
MATED arrangements to take charge of the en-
tire stock ef Books owned by Mr.. H. d: Turner,
consisting of valuable English and American
Law Books, and great variety of MISCELLANEOUS 1s
stock They viii Immediately succeed 70 Ine eol o,a
stand on the corner near the 8 .tate ROUSE, occu-
pie for thirtyrthree years past by Mr. Turner
the pepa book
THIS is W ~ IN Ctr Mr <Coley so long Mr.. Tur-
| ner's reP June 1ftf
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ITelegram.-Received 9.35 p. m.

[Telegram.-Received 9.35 p. M
RALEIGH, N G. October II, 1865.
His Excellency the PRESIDENT Of the United
States:
SIR: Contrary to my expectations, the
convention has involved itself in bitter dis
cussion of the State debt made in aid of the
rebellion. A continuance of this discussion
will greatly excite the people and retard the
work of reconstruction. Our people are be-
lieved to be against assuming the debt
by large majority. Is it not advisable
that our Convention, like that of Alabama,
should positively ignore this debt now and
forever? Please answer at once.
W. w. HOLDEN,
Provisional Gooe7nor.
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[Telegram.]
ExEcuTIYE OFFICE.

Washington, d. c., September 21, 1865.
Governor w. W. HOLDEN, Raleigh N. c.:
Your decision is correct-that under the
proclamation they cannot vote for members,
or sit in convention as members, without first
being pardoned on taking the amnesty oath.
If the party comes within any one of the ex-
ceptions, they must obtain pardon before
voting OF sitting as member. All those
and are elected, will be pardoned upon your
recommendation and a submission of their
names by telegraph.
ANDREW JOHNSON,
President United States
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TO AND FROM THE NORTH
THROUGH FREIGHT AIR LINE,
VIA NORTH-CAROLINA RAIL ROAD
And ITS Connecting Lines.

THROUGH FREIGHT AIR LINE,
VIA NORTH-CAROLINA RAIL ROAD
And ITS Connecting Lines.
BY THROUGH FREIGHT ARRANGEMENTS,
through receipts arc given from Charlotte and
all points on the NoRTH-CARoLINA RAILROAD to
New-YOrk, Boston, Philadelphia, Bal.
t1more, Portsmouth, Norfolk, Peters,
burg, and City Point,
at exceedingly low rates.
Lower, with more dispatch and with less In
surance than any other Line.
See Agents, and ship your goods by the fol-
lowing lines and other, care of Railroad agent,
Portsmouth, Va, or City Point.
From New YoFi-Atlantic Coast Mail Steam
ship Company, LIVINGSTON, FOX & Co.,
Agents; Office No SO, Liberty street, Shipping
Point, Pier No. SO, North River, N. 7.
From Boston-Boston and Norfolk Steamship
Company, A. SAMPSON, Agent, end of Central
Wharf, Boston
From Philadelphia Philadelphia and Norfolk
Steamship Company, W. p CLYDE & CO.,
Agents, No. A. North Delaware Avenue, Phila-
delphia.
From Baltimore-Baltimore Steam Packet Co.
(Old Bay Lne,) L. B. PARKS, Agent, foot Of
Union Dock and by Brandts Line.
e3- This Line gives more Despatch th8u
any Express Company, and at about
one-fourth the Cest.
E. likes.
ENG. & SURF.
Aug. IL, 1866. Ge-Im
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One of the above Large and sPlend6d
~ Steamships will leave Pier No. AZ, North
River, foot of Canal Street, at 12 o'clock, noon,
on the 1st, 11th and 21st of every meAth,
Except when those dates fall on Sunday, and
then on the preceding Saturday, for Kspinwait,
connecting, via Panama Railway, with one Of the
Company's Steamships from Panama for San
francisco, touching at Acapulco. ~ ~
Departures of 1st and 21sts connect at Panama
with Steamers for South Pacific and Central
American Ports. Those of the 1st 6toueh at
ManZanillo.
A discount of one quarter from steamers mtes
allowed to second cabin and steerage passengers
with families. Also, an allowances Of one qaaItep
on through rates to clergymen and their hmihes,
and school teachers. Soldiers having honorable
discharges half fare.
One hundred ponnds baggage allowed 20 each
adult. Baggage-masters accompany the baggage
through and attend to ladies and children with
out male protectors. Baggage received en- the
dock the day before sailing, from eteamb0
railroads and passengers who prefer fe send
An experienced Surgeon On beard Medicine
and attendance free.
For Passage Tickets, OF further Information,
apply al the Oompany's Ticket eAiee. on the
Wharf, food of Canal Street. North River n. +
s. K HOLMAN. gent
IS
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On BOXES MFssINA LEMONS, FRESH
~ and IN good order. Just received, and
Will oe solo low to close consignment
B. P. WILLIAMSON & co.
Raleigh, June 29. 1s66-45tf
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DosIN BoILERs-

awe keep constantly on hand IRON Caoia1osas
rs, 100, and 200 gallons; a1IEe
Hardware MerchantA
.fs NewbeSn, C. n.