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record even of their protested friendship for
President johnson. VS.
We very much fear that such persons as
Ex-Governor Bragg, Josiah Turner. Jr., Sea-
ton Gales, and J: B. Bachelor will not be
able to restore the State to the Union.
Only one thing was lacking TO render the
exercises on the occasion still more in
teresting: Brother Pell, so-called, should
have been present, to open the proceedings
with prayer.
P. s. The public will always regret shat
Gov. Bragg shut down the gate before Mr..
Turner could deliver the very important re-
marks he desired to make. Mr.. Turner is
gerry anxious to be restored to the Union,
just as things are, so that he can occupy his
cushioned seat, draw his five thousand dol
lars per annum, use his franking privilege,
and enjoy the privilege so dear to his heart,
of seeing the true Union men of the State
crushed under the heel of the present rebel
State government. But Mr.. Turner will
ne0er, aeoer occupy seat in the federal
Congress. No matter what may happen, he
will never enter those halls to associate with
loyal men.
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Curious and Useful Invention.

Mr.. John A. Collins, of Halifax County
has shown us what is called The Watch Dog
or Sleeping Mans Protector an iron box
nearly square, weighing sixteen pounds, con.
tanning gun or small cannon, and so ar.
ranged by wires that it will explode at a
slight touch. The hammer of the guu is
used as a lever to raise strong spring.
which, when set, may be released and thrown
upon percussion cap which discharges the
gun, by the touching of strings that are at
tached to four wires, and may be extended
to any distance. The noise of the explosion
will itself startle thief, to say nothing OF
the shot from the gun.
This invention is by Mr.. M. G. Heptinstall,
of Halifax County. 1t may be used in stores,
smoke-houses, corn-cribs, barns, orchards,
and indeed in any situation. Price, $40.
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At a meeting recently held in Asheville,
in which N W. Woodfn and R. B. Vance
were leading actors, the following among
other resolutions, was adopted:
"Resozced, That this meeting deprecate
any action of National Convention that
shall either sanction or fail to condemn, in
decided terms, the odious and unconstitu-
tional test oath, now standing on the records
of Congress"
These gentlemen profess to desire to re-
turn to the Union, but they intend to return
to it in their own way. They will be long
time about it. The test-oath will not be re-
pealed. They might as well make up their
minds to conform to it. They will have
to do it, sooner or later. The Philadelphia
Convention will not condemn the test-oath.
If it were to do SO, its advocates and sup
porters could not rally a corporaPs guard in
any township in the Northern States.
We do not like this test-oath, because it is
too hard on Southern Unionists. But we
have little sympathy with the objection that
it will keep our big men" out of the first
Congress in which the recently insurgent
States are to be represented. 1t is true, we
and they will be there in due time; but it
should be borne in mind that our orators or
great takers contributed much to involve us
in our recent and present troubles, and that
we have, in this State at least, many honest,
intelligent, and respectable mechanics and
farmers who can take this oath. Let US send
some of these mechanics and farmers to
Congress. We know this is gall and worm
wood to a certain class who imagine that
they possess all the talent and all the decency,
and who could not bear Lincoln, the rail-
splitter, nor Douglas, the cabinet-maker, nor
even johnson, the tailor. until very recently.
We do not, by any means, despair of the
Union because it may be necessary to send
mechanics and farmers to Congress. We
regret that more of them were not there, and
in our legislative halls at home, at the time
when great takers with their syren tongues
were Turing our honest, unsuspecting people
into the hell CT disunion and civil war
These mechanics and farmers, who are sneered
at because they can take the test-oath, would
make as good representatives in Congress as
any of our brilliant takers. Sound judg.
ment and common sense are better than mere
learning or genius.
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The Trial of MIR. Davis.

1t will be long time, in all probability,
before Mr.. Davis is tried, owing to the fact
that the Chief Justice refuses to order the trial
until martial law is entirely removed from
Virginia. The Chief Justice left Washing
ton few days since, and does not expect to
return until October. This decision in this
matter seems to be proper. 1t cannot be ex-
pected that the Chief Justice of the highest
civil court in the country will preside in a
case of the first Importance, under the shad-
ow even of martial law.
The people of Virginia are so defiant and
rebellious that President johnson does not
deem it safe to remove martial law. Who,
then, is to blame because Mr.. Davis is not
tried? Surely not the President or the
Chief Justice.
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A RUINED GIRL browns HERSELF TO
HIDE HER SHAME-HER MOTHER AND Sc
DUCER WITNESS THE ACT.-On Sunday eve
ming about the hour of 9 o'clock, a young
girl named Wilhelmina Tage, aged nearly
sixteen years jumped into the Manitowoe
river and wiltully drowned herself, under
circumstances the most lamentable.
Late in the afternoon of that day above
mentioned three half-grown young men went
to the deceased's home and enticed her and
another girl to go with them. The five went
off together, but were followed at short
distance by two lads about twelve years of
age each, and each brother to the girls. The
lads kept on the track of the parties for
some time, when one of the three above
named came to them and offered them tri-
file of money to go back. The little boys
took the bride and returned, and about the
same time the girl, whose name is not men
toned above, returned to the home of the
deceased-the latter refusing to go with her.
1t was now nearly dark, and the parents
went, together with the two lads and girl
spoken of, in search of their hayward first
born. They searched for some time without
success, but, after time, dog that went
with the father dislodged the party from a
pine-thicket not far from the river. The
father took after the young scoundrels-they
and the girl ran in different directions The
llOIueT encountered the SlIl near Luc TOdu,
where she took off her bonnet and threw it
on the ground, and went straightway to-
wards the river. Her mother called her to
come back but on she went. The two lads
and the other girl tried to catch her, but she
kept in advance of them all, and, reaching
the river bank, she went down the steep de-
civity in haste till she reached the waters
edge deliberately took off her hoop-skirt;
took the net off of her head and the comb
out of her hair, and threw them on the
ground By this time the boys had gone
down the bank and had got within ten feet
of her. but she forbade them coming near
her at their peril. And just then when the
unhappy mother had reached the bank OF
the stream, with her eyes full upon her erring
daughter, this rash, needless, unfortunate
girl, with curses on her lips, and anger in
her heart-with the eye of God, and the
light of the pale moon upon her, took one
fearful, fatal leap into the deep, engulfng
stream, and sank beneath the surface of the
waters. The father of the unfortunate girl
arrived too late to be of any assistance The
body was not recovered till the next day
MunitoaoOe (Wis.) Pilot.
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JoHANNIsBERG.-Accor to the Paris
Presse the lovers of Johannisberg wine have
remarkably little chance of receiving fresh
supply this year and Prince de Metternich.
ambassador though he be, will be consider
ably out of pocket. His old castle has often
been subject to the vicissitudes of war. In
100 it was an old convent. A margrave of
Brandenburg burnt it some centuries later.
In 1929 the abbot of Fulda purchased the
estate and built castle. Being jolly old
friar, it struck him that it would be pleasant
to make his own wine accordingly he plan
ted vines in all directions. and presently sold
1 $50 bottles at twenty seven francs per bot
tie (e1 Is 1Od) In 1902, William, King of
Holland, bought the castle, Napoleon 1. ap-
propriated it, and presented it to the Duke
de Ualmy, in 1905. The father of its present
proprietor, the mighty diplomatist Prince de
Metternich, bought it from Kellermann in
1918 and left it to his son, the present Aus
trian ambassador to the Tuilleries.
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has none of these for the man whom fate has
made his jaifor, but simply says that to MN
General Miles is an enigma. He says ne g
knows Miles to be brave man and goou
soldier. and is 10th to believe that his course
toward him Davis has been pursued only
for the purpose of adding to his physical
discomforts or of putting indignlty upon
him, and prefers to believe that the man
whom he knows to be o good soldier has
rursned his course from q sense Of duty
Further, Mr. Davis admits that when ne mas
made complaint of anything in his treat
ment. General Miles has rectitied it; and the
prisoners only further ground OF dlssatls1ac-
ton was that it was not done at once tne
General taking his own time to work tne
reform.
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The Statesville 4aaericxsn states that the
Senior Editor of this paper was once o
" Know Nothing Chief, then secessionist
and Head Center of the Knights OF the
Golden Circle in North Carolina, presiding
over secret meetings held in barns and horse
stables about Raleigh"
THERE'S no foundation for these statements.
We were never Know Nothing, and we
know nothing about the Knights of the Col
den Circle. We never belonged to either OF
these organizations. Will the american do
US the justice to correct these misrepresenta-
tions
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Protection to Loyal Persons.

We are glad to see that Mr.. Poland, of
Vermont, has introduced into the Senate a
bill to prevent the Courts from being used
as instruments of persecution against loyal
persons. This bill
provides that in any action of tort to
person or property done between April 13,
1851, and July 1, 1865, it shall be lawful to
plead or give in evidence in bar of said ac-
ton First, that at the time when the
wrong was committed the plaintiff was dis
loyal to the government of the United States !;
second, that the plaintiff was engaged in in
surrection and rebellion against the United
States; third, that the plaintiff aided and
comforted and sympathized with the rebels
and insurgents against the government
of the United States fourth. that the plain
tiff applied for or obtained pardon from the
President relieving him of the penalties of
treason. The establishment of either point
shall be good defence"
We trust Congress will pass some act OF
this kind. 1t is much needed in the States
| recently in rebellion.
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DISTRESSING ACCIDENT AT FAYETTEVILLE.
Information has reached US, by means of pas
sengers by the Fayetteville boats on Sunday
last, of a most distressing accident which
occurred at Fayetteville about 10 o'clock on
Saturday morning last.
Our information is to the following effect
The heavy rains which have fallen in the
vicinity of the town for week past have
produced most extraordinary freshet in
Cross Creek. A number of persons were
standing upon Eccles' Bridge, watching the
flow of the waters over the dam of McDaniels
Mill, Just above the bridge, which afforded a
sight both beautiful and interesting. Not ap-
pretending any danger, many persons pas
sing were prevailed upon to stop and admire
the fine scene thus presented The number
had been swelled into quite goodly assem-
blage, when the whole dam gave way, and
the mighty rush of waters followed, and
bursting upon the bridge, swept that, to-
gether with its occupants, in wild confusion
down the stream.
The scene was terrible one, and unfortu-
natey but few were near to lend a helping
hand.
The boats left soon after, and up to the
time of leaving no certainty was attached to
the fate of any of the persons on the bridge
at the time of the disaster, excepting that
of a son of Hon. T. G. Fuller, and two ne
groes who are said to have been drowned
beyond doubt. The bodies of the negroes
we understand have been recovered. Mr..
VIM H Haigh, We learn, was rescued from
the waters somewhat injured, at point sew
eral hundred yards from the place where the
| bridge stood.
We are in receipt of the most exaggerated
accounts in regard to this calamity, but for
bear mentioning them as we are doubtful of
their correctness. We are led to the conclu-
sion, however, that the persons mentioned
above were the only ones who lost their lives.
We will receive further particulars by the
| next boat-WM. Journal.
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A Paris letter of recent date con-
tains the following amusing anecdote,
illustrating the shrewdness of an Aus
tr.ian detective: A fast young noble
man of Vienna fell over head and ears
in debt, and famous for his success with
the fair sex, received a perfumed rose
colored note, whose contents ran -
"Sir, your agreeable face and figure
have made such an impression on me, l
earnestly desire to make your acquain-
lance. Come this evening to the Wen
ma theater. / have taken stall No. 10
in the parquette, and have asked the
ticket seller for No. 70 for a gentleman
who would ask for it saying, ono 70
forever" trust may have the pleas
ure of seeing you.-Emma." The dan
dy dressed himself in a most elegant
manner, and as soon as the doors were
opened he applied for No. 70 forever
and received it. AS the curtain rose a
gentleman came into the theater and
took seat. AS soon as he was at ease
he bent over and whispered in the dan
dy's ears: 81 am constable-I've been
hunting for you these fifteen days I'M
successfully. Don't make scandalous
scene here, for tell you I have the
warrant for your arrest in my pocket.
Ifyou be quiet you may hear the opera
out" The fast man stared wildly
enough for a few moments, and then
seeing resistance utterly hopeless, he
remained quiet until the end of the OPP
era, when he followed the constable to
the debtors jail.
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THE NEW ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Washington correspondent of the New York
Times says:
As anticipated in my dispatch of last
night, Hon. Henry Stransbery has accepted
the appointment of Attorney General, ard
his nomination was sent to the Senate this
afternoon. Mr.. Stanbery is resident of
Campbell County, Kentucky, on the south
bank of the Ohio River, just opposite Gin
cinnati. A number of papers have fixed his
residence in Ohio for many years and until
recently he did reside there
MIR. Stansbery has never been upon the
bench, and is not therefore entitled to the
judicial affix of Judge, which most of the
journals give him, but his reputation as a
profound jurist and able advocate is national,
and he stands at the head of the legal pro-
fession in Ohio, and in which State and the
adjoining States he has been long engaged
In the practice of the law None but those
who, like your correspondent, have per-
sonal knowledge of the legal attachments,
high social worth and integrity of Mr.. STAINS
berry can fully appreciate his eminent fitness
for the position of Attorney General, and
the excellent judgment exercised by the
President in selecting Mr.. Stansbery as
member of the Cabinet"
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The following gentlemen have been select
ed as the members of the Commission to re-
wise and modify the statutes of the United
States in accordance with the act of Con-
gress recently passed: Caleb Cushing, of
Mass; Judge VIM. johnson, of Ohio, and
Return J. Meigs, of Washington. It is con-
coded to be good selection.
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DEATH OF SAMUEL r. BELL, Eso.-Samuel
r. Bell ESQ.,, one of our-oldest citizens, died
at his residence in this place, on Thursday
morning last, after protracted illness. He
was a member of the late State Convention,
and returned from Raleigh some two or three
weeks before that body adjourned, in conse-
ouence of bad health.-StatesuiHe american.
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A London correspondent says Dickens is
very careful about the arrangements made
for his readings, having invariably little
red velvet table, with a shelf on one side for
handkerchief and water, and on the other a
little block for the book to which he almost
never refers; ne dresses l.; IN way that might
ing big watch-chain with charms, large
ieWelled shirt-studs, and little boquet in
the lappet of dress-coat.
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There is considerable speculation as to
who will be chosed Vice-President pro tenn of
the Senate before the adjournment. Senators
Pomeroy, Wade and Sherman are mention
ed, but it is conceded that the East should
have it, as the President and Speaker of the
House are both from the West. The eues-
ton viii probably be settled by secret caucus.
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One hundred and fifty-eight burial per-
mits were issued on the 18th in New York,
eighty of which were made out and recorded
as burial permits for persons deceased after
hort diarrhoea disease. 49,
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The 18th was the hottest ever known in
New York city. The thermometer stood at
one hundred and two in the shade at p. M.
Out of forty three cases of sunstroke, twenty
three proved fatal. Nine cases out of sixteen
in Brooklyn were attended with fatal results.
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Gen. Sheridan, in command of the New
Orleans department, has published an orde,
forbidding commemorative Confederate mon
, Gments, and dissolying all organizations fol-
that purpose.
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The people of this State will vote ON
the 2nd, Sd, and 4th of August next to
ratify or reject the Constitution, lately
adopted by the Convention and ordered
to be submitted to them at the polls.
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a party of Americans travelling in Aus
tria were arrested as spies for having in their
possession Lloyd's Military Map of Europe,
which is an accurate reproduction of the
Austrian Private Military Map" so far as
hat Empire is concerned.
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Tri -at|fekl1. tandard.
RALEIGH. n. g.
NOTICE.

rHURsDAY. &c JULY go. 1866.
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would make an excellent officer. It
was not the want of ability, the disloy-
atty, CT any bad conduct on the part
Of either Of these gentlemen that
caused their rejection. The true cause
was their opposition 10 radicalism.
Radicalism covers multitude of Sins
Suppose President johnson should
nominate cur model Secretary Of State,
Mr. Fletcher, for an ctice? Would the
Senate ri. ct him, because he applied
to jeff Davis for ColOnePs commits
sion and authority to raise regi-
ment in East Tennessee FOR the rebel
army? Would it reject Senator Senter
or Representative Patton, of our
Immaculate Legislature, because they
were meml ers Of The rebel Legislature
Of Tennessee, and followed Harris of
10 Memphis when the Federal Eagles
approached Nashville OF course not.
The devil himself would be saint
with them, clothed in radical vest
ments.
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BY LAST NIGHTS MAIL.
ValpaTaisO--The Spanish Admiral's
Version.

H"APOASA NJ . pdAASh AumlEdt>B
Version.
New York, May ga letter of the
Spanish Admiral Nunez, off Valparaiso,
to the Spanish Minister in Washington,
gives a different version of the negoti-
atoms preceding the bombardment.
1t states that Minister Fitzpatrick and
Com Rodgers proposed a cessation of
hostilities and peaceful settlement to
be signalized by reciprocal salutes of
the Chilean and Spanish flags.
At the same moment he says, re-
jected this arrangement, acknowledge
ing, however, the good intentions that
had suggested it, and stating that the
instructions of my Government were
that, notwithstanding any difficulties |
might have to overcome, and should we
60 to the bottom of the Pacific, | must
attempt to have from Chilli that salts.
faction which was due to us; moved,
nevertheless by sincere desire for
reconciliation, | would take upon nv.
self the immense responsibility of not
requiring any other satisfaction than
that contained in the arrangement pro-
posed by England and France and &C
cepted by Spain, to which would only
add the restitution of Covodorga, with
its flag, arms, and crew, in return for
the papers and prisoners / had in
my power. Subsequently he was
informed by the American and
English Admirals that they could not
remain passive spectators, and they
would be compelled to oppose him
with force My answer was, that as to
the question of right the decision be-
longed to my Government, but that, as
an officer, should obey my order, and
that whatever might be the alternative
assumed by the naval forces then in
the bay; however reluctant might be
to come to such an extremity, however
formidable those forces might be, no
earthlp consideration should detain me
from discharging my duty. He repre-
sents also that both Rodgers and Den
man approved his determination, and
subsequently, both opposed his final one
to the Gillian proposal. He adds, how
ever, it was confidently expected that
the forces of England and the United
States would oppose the bombardment.
The Department of State has been
officially informed by the Spanish Gov
eminent that fossil coal, the production
of the mines of Chill, is declared to be
contrabaud of war by the commander
of the Spanish squadron IN the Pacific
1t will only be considered contraband
of war by the Gillian Government in
case of its being dispatched from Chill
ian ports for the enemy's ships.
FoRTREss Monroe, May 8 "A military
commission has been convened by or
der of Lieutenant General Grant, and
is now IN session at Norfolk for the
purpose of investigating the causes
which led to the recent riot in that
city. The proceedings will be con-
Quoted with closed doors, and the evil
dence will be submitted directly to
Gen. Grant