The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-10-16

Johnson aoiu triumph I have always regarded
bin man of integrity. have seen him in
many difficulties in times past, and never knew
him to give any encouragement to any device by
which success could be obtained, if it savored in
the least of intrigue corruption. L never ex-
pect to see him, and my position will preclude
me from any favor at his hands. But we can
rely on him in this emergency. He Is man OF
strong mind and great energy, and above all his
inte gritty is untarnished. He will win the fight.
Il have often read. since the termination of this
war. in '.Ramsays Annals of Tennessee" the ac
count there given of the separation Of East len
nessee from North Carolina. | have sometimes
thought of writing President Johnson giving him
an account of the magnanimty of North Carolina
his native State, to John Sewer and other leading
spirits of his adopted State. The struggle lasted
about as long as ours. The chief rsvoter, John
SEWER and Governor of the insurrectionary State,
ostracised by special enactment was elected to
the Legislature of North Carolina, and notwth
standing his treason and outlawry, was magnani-
mously admitted to his seat in the Senate of the
mother State -----
THE ELECTIONS, which took place in the
States of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, on
Tuesday last. have gone largely in favor of the
Republican or Radical party. It seems that the
Radicals have not only elected their old mem
bers. but have gained two or three Congressman.
IMPORTANT DECIsloN.--Judge Aldrich of
South Carolina, at late term of the Court for
York District, made an important decision in
which is thus stated by the Yorkville En-
quirer:
"A case of much Importance came before the
Court for decision on Tuesday. This case
of NJ Nichols. for another, w Boieyn and
r WhiteSides. involving the question of Currency
as legal tender. A rule was issued against the
Sheriff i'll this for refusing to accept the
United States Legal tender notes in discharge of
an execution against the defendants Mr.
Bolton Smith appeared for the rue-Mr Geo W
Williams CONTRA The case deliberately ar
gued by counsel each side. His Honor de-
cided. unhesitatng ly, that the U. S. Treasury
notes purporlng to be legal tender in payment
of debts. are not legal tender for debts, Of any
description, arising upon contracts made either
previous to, since the passage Of the currency
act by Con gress. He conceived that the Consti
tuition of the United States. as well the laws of
this State forbade any such conclusion. Notice
of appeal was given, and this important decision
will go before the Court of Appeals at its next
sitting, for final kearing.''
~ We are indebted to Mr. S. A. Cohen (of
the firm of Elias & Cohen.) who has just returned
from Europe, for file of English papers. We
have found much in these papers to interest US.
We learn that Mr. Cohen, while in Europe,
bought stock of goods for this market.
CorroN AND ITS PRICE In the years 1859
and 1860, just prior to the war, the great South
ern staple, Cotton the production of slave labor,
amounted to five millions of bales per annum -
This three fourths in weight, and seven
eighths in value of all the cotton grown on the
globe, the present year, 1866, wherein hireling
labor will have been tested. BY information
from persons and letters received from the diff
ferent cotton producing States the whole crop
will fall short of one million and half of bales
The rest of the world will produce about the
same notwithstanding up in all three millions
of bales for 1866 According to statistics at
Liverpool, all the manufactures of cotton and
the various goods in which cotton forms part,
aud the manufacture of paper, generally of daus-
aged cotton, gun-cotton, aud other things, the
commerce of the world would require aud use,
if obtainab!e, eight millions of bales next year,
1867. This amount exceeds the production
five millions of bales, the exact amount raised In
the Southern States in 1866. Admitting these
data, our planters may be assured that they will
receive over twenty five cents per pound in cur
rency for their cotton, aud will reach, for best
qualities, probably double that amount.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE NEGRoEs.-A COZ
respondent vi Tue IN. l..
from Georgia, is ofopinion that Providence intends
the Negroes to be scattered equally over the
whole United States. He says:
"Why are there such abundant grain crops
in the North and such scarcity in the South,
just at the time of the freedom of the colored
people? Is not this the hand Of God? Does
he not direct these people to 60 to the North to
get corn? Is there any Joseph to welcome them
to the abundance of the land 1t is too far for
them to send; and moreover, they have neither
"money" nor "camels." The inhabitants of the
land must send for them and their "actres' and
"HtHe Ones" and bid them hearty welcome to
their abundance"
His conclusion is thus summarily reiterated:
81 am wholly mistaken in the indications of
Providence, if God does not intend, t, great
extent, to distribute the colored people among
the Northern States"
We have only to add our hope that God will
urge these Egyptians of the North who have
corn, to send down South after their dear pro-
tcges before the dear protcyes SHALL have eaten
out our slim crops of corn. Hurry up.
attempted Negro Insurrecfion the Ms
sisappi-A Memphis dispatch of Monday says
that serious disturbance occurred at Cat Island
25 miles below that city. last Saturday. About
fiftv negroes armed themselves and started out
as some say, with the determination Of slaugh-
tering all the whites They first encountered
two men named Henry and Ike Turner, and
commenced Erinp unon them when thew re-