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The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-02-20

State of N. CarOlina-UnioM County.
Court Of Pleas and Quarter Session. JAM Term 1885,
J Il Perry, Admir- Of Arch'd Grissom, decd, Vs. DR..
z. Huniy, EXT of Jane Grissom ct al.
Petition for account and settlement.
1t appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that
the defendant, John II Grissom resides beyond the
limits Of this State it is therefore ordered by the
CoHrt that publication be made for six successive
weeks in the Western Democrat, paper published
in the town of Charlotte, notifying said defendant
to be and appear at the Term Of this Court to
be held for the county of Union, the Court House
in Monroe, the first Monday in April, 1866, then
and there to plead, answer or demur to this petit
ton, or judgment pro confesso will be taken and
the same heard exparte to him.
Witness irby, Clerk of cur said Court at Of
fee in Monroe the LIST Monday in January A d 1866.
Feb 10th ct J. y. IRBY, ClAk.
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Northern Nails.

Just received forty Kegs Northern NAILS
good artcle-at BROWy,S :,
Feb 18TH ls66.-2t Opposite Kerr's Hotel.
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A family of seven were found starving to
death IN Brooklyn New York.-Erchd"9e
Paper.
OF course they were white people!
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w l.. Q. Sharpe, Esq, of StatesYille, the So
;iictor for this Judicial District, died last week.

STILL AT WoRK--The rogues are still at
work. Last week Mr-Jos A. Cannon, living 4
Inil-s from town. lost u large quantity of meat
his smoke house was undermined by the rogues.
In town. the dwellings, of JOS II Wilson. Esq and
Mrs Alexander. were entered and robbed.
II Gen. Rugrr will give our civil authorities the
power to promptly and publicly whip rogues
tblack and white) when caught. We know it would
have a salutary effect.
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ExpLOsIoS-The boiler of Mr. Niseer ; Steam
FIGURING and Grist Mill. at Concord, exploded
ono day last week. injuring the building consider
ABLY but killing
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u- An attempt is being made by some Rail
road officers to SO arrange as to run passengers
through from New York to Wilmington without
changing cars
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-02-20

The Ohio Legislature has passed bill fixing
eight hours for day labor.
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TEXAs.-Rcsolution were offered in the
Convention declaring the ordinance of secession
null and void, and denying the right of State
to seeede. A motion made to lay the rcsolu-
ton on the table, which was defeated by vote
of IS to SO.
KENTUCKY.-The Kentucky Legislature has
rejected the constitutional amendment, but has
passed resolutions requestieg the withdrawal of
the troops, the restoration of the writ of hdLeas
corpus and condemning the Frcedman's Blu
reau.
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A NEW BANKING ScnEME.-The Raleigh SEN
tinel proposes a new scheme for organizing a
Bank in this State. 1t says:
I'm this State there are millions of acres of
lands now uncutivated and unproductive. We
suggest that company be raised by the land
holders, pledging their surplus lands at fair as
certa;ned value. as stock in the Company. Let
every man subscribe his lands and receive, when
the Company is organized. certificates of shares
to the amount of his stock. Let this stock be
pledged, the whole amount for one fourth its val
ue. to be borrowed for a term of years. at per
cent. Let the funds thus raised be employed in
National Bank.
Perhaps $lO.0OO. 900 in land can be thus OBJ
tanned. This would give $2,5OO.OOO to bank up
on. In the meantime let the owners of those
lands make any improvements and derive any
profit which may accrue. except that they shall
not be sold only stocks
If S2.5OO,UUO not enough let the State
pledge her interest in the Railroads, to raise ar
additional S2.500,O0O. This would afford ample
security to those who loan. and furnish a capital
of $5,OOO,Oo0 to bank upon. Think of it and let
US hear from financiers.'
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E- Some write. a letter from Morehead
City, n. c.. to the Norfolk Post. saying that he
recently saw John Wilkes Booth. the man who
killed President Lincoln, in foreign country,
and that Booth said he escaped from this country
through Florida. 1t is generally believed that
Booth was killed in barn by some soldiers who
pursued him from Washington and We think
he is dead, Notwithstanding the statement Of the
Morehead City correspondent.
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IMPORTANT.

The Superintendent of the Freedman's Bureau
for the District of Western North Carolina has Just
issued the following instructions for the information
OF Assistant Commissioners in this section We
nope this will have good effect on the laborer
Bureau R. L A. L. Head ouar's Dist West. NC1
SALISBURY, N. C. Feb. l6, 1866 (
SIR: Ii all cases brought before you where
freed person is charged with violating a contract
Tor labor, and no just cause can be shown why he
refuses to fulfill his contract, you will calcu late as
nearly AS possible what damage has been sustained
by the employer, resulting from the ncn .fulflment
ofthe contract the part of the freed person, and
hne the offender such portion of that damage, in
money, not exceeding Slco, you think proper,
taking into consideration the circumstances of.the
party fined. In case the fine cannot be paid
crrity given for its payment you authorized to
punish the offence by imprisonment, either with or
without hard labor, at yodr discretion for period
not exceeding 80 days. You will also please make
t4is order as public possible in your sub District
to the end that freedmen may have notice thereof
az well as their employers.
All cases acted under this order will be report
cd at the end of each month to this office. am sir
Very respec fully, your obedient servant,
CLINTON A. CILEY,
BrcYet Col. u. S. A., Superintendent
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The Rev. DR.. Edward baptized four adult
Jews at the Episcopal Jews Chapel, Charles
ton, s. G. Since its establishment in 1853 the
Home has received CIT Jews and Jewesses,
500 ofwhem have been baptized - Charleston
Record
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HE LEeIsLATURE--On Friday last the House of
Commons, by vote of So to A, rejected the bill to
authorize the Banks of the State subscribe for stock
in the National Banks. bill to repeal modify the
Usury Laws is again under discussion in the Senate
and we hope something will be done on the subject.
We are glad to see that the repeal of the Stay Law
is being advocated and urged by of the members
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CONGRESSIONAL.

WAsIINGToN, Feb. ia petition was presented
from citizens of Alexandria asking for territorial form
of government for the State of Virginia The constit,-
tional amendment discussed.
HoUSE-A bill was reported to reimburse the States
that furnished troops to the Union army for expenses
incurred and advances made in raising the same
Washington, Feb l7.--Gen Robt f Lee arrived
here yesterday, and to-day examined before the
Congressional Reconstruction committee.
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NEW YORK MARKET, Feb. l6.-Cotton dull at "A
and 45 cts (eurrency; Flour declined 10 cts Wheat
declining; Corn "A IS cts per bushel. Gold 1879
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Rock Island Goods.

We have on hand a good stock of Rock Island
CASSIMERES AND JEANS,
which we are Offering to sell low to close out our
present stock. OLr Office is No. and 2, Springs
Row. YOUNG, WINSTON ORR.
February IL, 1866 It
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AMES' SPADES, SHOVELS and HOES,
Garden Rakes and Hoes, Chain Traces and Hames.
Feb 10th. BERNHEIM & SINCLAIR
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S~Stock Locks, Pad Locks; Chest, Trunk, Bu-
reau and closet Locks; Door Latches, &c, at
Feb 10th. BERNHEIM. & SINCLAIRS
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FIRE!
Greensboro Mutual Insurance Co.

COpltdt S0UU,UUU.
One Of the safest and most reliable Companies IN
the country InEurances effected on as reasonable
terms as any company C. W. DOWNING,
Feb IL, 1866 Agent, Charlotte, N G
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Sugar, Coffee, Tea, and Spices, a fresh arrival at
BERNHEIM Il SINCLAIR'S
February 10, 1866
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-02-20

POWDER, SHOT, PISTOLS, CAPS,
Feb 10th. at BERNHEIM h SINCLAIR'S
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-29
THE NEW ORLEANS RIOT.


I'M, NEW YORK, Aug %.
AZ Inc Times New Orleans special says that
tne commission appointed by Gen. Baird to
in iilsestigate the late riot have completed their
snot nred rom revolver was by white man
az az procession OF freedmen Twenty minutes
enen explred before any further disturbance
LOOK place. When the procession reached the
Pace where the Convention was in session the
ponce lnterfered with it, and attempting to
make arrests, fired upon the freedmen, who re-
Turned u the fire. A mob of citizens then Joined
Cne ponceand great massacre commenced 1t
1lso SHOWS that several policemen hid their
Daages soas not to be recognized, and after
enterlng the Hall they dsregarded the white
nag and tired indiscriminately upon unarmed
members Of the Convention and SPECTATORS
some citizens wore badges indicating an organ
izatlon Those in the room then with chairs
&C; qrovs the attacking party and police out,
anu parrlcaded the DOORS After the barricade
was estaDnshed, not single person in the
room escaped unframed, and about thirty
were murdered
While credit is given to the police for saving
an who we're in the building and are not now
oead, tne force is found guilty Of nearly all the
murders that were committed. The evidence
shows that the policemen killed freedmen
when they could have arrested them without
Trouble, and that wounded negroes were thrown
into carts and killed while struggling to free
themselves from the dead bodies which had
will report that the riot was caused by bitter
feeling on the part of the citizens and police
towards the radical Unionists and freedmen.-
They will also probably report that it was pre-
concerted, inasmuch as it is in evidence that it
was talked Of previously for several days. 1t
IS the opinion of the commission that if the
military had not appeared at the time it did,
the riot would have progressed to the extermi-
nation of all the Unionists and freedmen in
the city. er- ilr--
The city press are attacking Gen. Sheridan
for what he reported in his official dispatches,
charging him with untruthfulness. a
1t has been charged that the meeting held in
the Mayors parlor Saturday evening before the
riot, wnereat Maj Gen. f. j. Heron was
present. and that the latter had testified before
the military commission that the attack on
the Oonvention was planned at the meeting,
and that he left the assemblage before the pro-
ceedlngs terminated. To the Times which de-
med its belief that he could SO testify, as it was
not true, Gen. Heron said that the statement
was false come from where it may. Some for
ty merchants and professional men met at the
meeting and the result of fheir conclusion was
to advise the white people to keep away from
the Convention and avoid any tendency to an
outbreak. The Lieut.. Governor also invited
newspaper officers to ask the papers to urge
abstinence from irritating language and con-
duct, which they did.
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-29
THE STATE.

The Kennebec Journal is informed that
Mr.. Harrison Clark citizen of Salem, COM
mitted suicide Thursday morning, by cutting a
vein above his knee. ''A'
"a The Bangor Whig states that Gen. Alex
ander, q. s. Engineer, who constructed Minot's
Ledge Light, is in that city for the purpose of
instituting survey of the river and harbor, to
the end that the appropriation for removal Of
distractions in the same may be properly ex-
pended. r.rf -s-.7. -. i.-
An exchange says that while two ladies
from Augusta were stopping for few days at
the Sea Side House, Harpswell Neck, their
chamber was entered through the window, and
their trunks carried off, very much to their dis
comfort. No trace of the robbers has yet been
found siat h fH
The Boston Commonwealth says:
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, we have reason to
know, is preparing speech for delivery in
Name prior to the State election, in which he
VIII take unequivocal ground for the Congress
slonal policy. 1t is not improbable it will be
made in Bangor on the night before the elec-
tion.
"A Franklin County correspondent of the
Lewiston Journal writes to that paper srhe
old, firm and reliable republicans are growing
more and more fixed in the principles of free
dom to all, while the few who have more re-
Gently Joined the Union ranks, are becoming
stronger in the faith Expect good news from
us on Sep. 10TH"
The rumor that Marshal Ford, Esq, has
been appointed Postmaster of Lewiston, is pro-
nounced premature by the Journal Mr.. Will
lard Small, reappointed after rejection by the
Senate, to the Auburn Office is preferred over
Gen. j. "A. Hill, who served with distinguished
ability throughout the war, losing an arm in
one of the battles, and who was unanimously
recommended for the position by the loyal men
of Auburn. The wishes of the copperheads,
the men who opposed the war and President
Lincoln's administration at every step, are the
law with Mr.. johnson, and very naturally the
Union soldiers have to stand back.
The Saco Democrat learns that Messrs.
Eastman & Lane are building an extensive
tannery at Limerick, which they are expecting
to have in full operation in the course of a
month. They have erected large building,
containing fifty-three pits and an engine of ten
horse power, with all other necessary machin-
cry and proposes to tan 6OOO hides year
Mrs. Jason Sawyer of Saco committed su-
icide by drowning herself in water hogshead,
on Monday last. She had been ill sometime
and slightly deranged and took the opportuni-
ty afforded by the temporary absence of her
nurse to escape from her room.
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-29
New England and Vermont Agricultural
Fairs.

The Governors ofthe six New England States
have accepted invitations to be present on the
last day of the New England and Vermont
Fairs, to be held at Brattlebofo, VT, Septem-
Der 4th, 9th, 9th, and 7th. The delegation in
Congress are also expected to be present. His
John A. Andrew of Massachusetts,, will deliver
addresses.
We learn that the entries are already very
large in all the departments. The exhibition
of sheep and agricultural implements bids fair
to be the most extensive ever made in the
United states, and that ofcattle and horses will
also be large. The location is central for the
exhibition of fine herds of Western Massachu-
setts and the horses of Eastern Vermont and
New Hampshire. Connecticut will send con-
tributions of all the various classes.
The grounds are better arranged and located
than any upon which the New England Fair
has yet been held. The trotting park is one of
the best in the country. Hon. John Howe, Jr.,
OF Brandon, has with his accustomed hberality
placed upon the grounds set of Howe's plat
form scales upon which all weighing will be
done Free and thus avoid much trouble and ex-
pense to which exhibitors have hitherto been
subjected
The Fair will be opened on Tuesday, Septem-
Der 4th, by addresses from Hon. Joseph Col
burn, President of the Vermont State Society,
and Dr. George B. Loring, President of the
New England Society, and close on Friday
with the annual address,
THE people of Brattleboro have made the
most extensive and systematic arrangements
for the accommodation of visitors. The several
railroads VIII run morning and eveningSpecial
trains for fa1r, one way for the accommodation
of those who may desire to 60 to towns along
the line OF these roads or cannot procure ac-
commodations at Brattleboro. The exhibition
Dds fair to be the largest and best ever held in
New England.
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-29
The Presidential Excursion.

=. .eyt. ga WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.
The Presidential excursion party left this
morning. Secretary Mccullough and o. H
Browning bid adieu to the party at the depot
public business preventing their accompany
ing them. The Secretaries of State and Navy
andFthe Post Master General, Admiral Farra-
gut, General Grant, Surgeon Barnes Minister
Romero and several others accompany the
President. eAi
PHILADELPHIA, Aug %.
The Presidential party arrived here at two
o'clock this afternoon.
The President was received at the depot by
committee of merchants and welcomed by
Col. Page who rendered the warmest hospitali-
tiles Of the citizens. The President replied.
thanking him. and said he knew how to appre-
ciate a reception from the citizens of Philadel-
phia. Il trust peace has come, and that we
Will have permanent peace and be afflicted
by war no more forever. We have had war
enough. Let us now have peace. All nv eff
forts have been directed to bringing about
peace and permanent reorganization of the
Government" The President and suite were
then escorted to the Continental Hotel by a
procession, and military under Gen. Meade,
firemen, the johnson Club, office holders and
a cavalcade of citizens. Subsequently, the
procession was reviewed by the President At
different points on the route from Baltimore
We're considerable numbers of people who
made demonstrations of welcome to the Presi-
dent, General Grant and Farragut
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-29

A LETTER FBoM WENDELL PHILLPs.-Mr
Wendell Phillips has written letter upon
political matters to the Anti-Slavery Standard.
Its general tenor may be guessed, but the fol-
lowing paragraph, in which he gives his views
of the prospect of another rebellion, shows
some of the old pungency:-
"Some foresee coup detat in the literal sense
"a violent move against Congress. We hardly
expect that That ID too good to be true. The
cunning traitors at Philadelphia do not intend
to give the North any such advantage They
see their mistake at Sumter, and have no in
tention of repeating it. The burnt child breads
painted fire. says the proverb. Thoroughly
whipped in that method, the South will never
risk provoking another 1861, if it can possibly
be avoided. The move upon Congress-upon
what this traitor Accident dares to describe as
- body called, or which assumes to be, the Con-
gress of the United States'-will be made un-
der legal forms. The trick will be so covered
that it will bear aspecious argument of consti-
tutionality. Seward belongs to the Barnum
not to the Cromwell class. But whether a blow
comes from Jefferson Davis's hand, or a trick
from the brain of William HI. Seward, either
will fail in the end. We have no fears for Ghe
final result. Justice will triumph. We have
Gods promise for that. The Jew in Egypt,
burdened and crushed, never doubted he should
see Canaan. God had promised that But
whether IN fonr years or in forty, none could
tell. We too, shall reach our Canaan But
whether in four years, or forty-through what
perils-whether as one nation or two-whether
all gathered round the temple at Jerusalem, OF
with one king there, another in Samaria-none
can tell"
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-29
Store and Fixtures to Let.

AND
vi LII sTOCK OF GOODS
For sale at 700
aug25dst NO 1Ol SPRING ST.
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-29
REETHES.

Mr.. strother, the "Porte Crayon" of Har-
pers Monthly, is among the delegates appoint
ed from West Virginia to the Philadelphia
Convention of Southern Unionists on the srd
of September. ......
Edwin F.. Whipple is the writer ofthe keen
and masterly analysis of "The johnson Party"
in the last Atlantic Monthly.
Since the brief campaign in which Prussia
has been so triumphant Austria has joined the
association for the relief of suffering on the
battlefield. Before the war she was the only
Christian nation of Europe which held back
from joining this truly humane organization.
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-29
The southrrn Unionists, G Convention.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2S.
The Committee appointed by the Union
League have adopted the following order of
proceedings for the reception of delegates to
the loyal convention: Southern delegates are
invited to meet at 10 A. NJ, Monday, at Inde-
pendence Square, where they will be met by
delegations from other States, boys in blue, and
Republican invincibles from this and other
States, and escorted to the Union League rooms
where they will be formally welcomed by Chas
Gibbons. After this the Southern delegates
will march to the National Hal1, which has been
fitted up for their accommodation during the
session OF the convention. The citizens will
provide for the accommodation of the delegates
at their own houses. Union meetings are to be
held every evening during the session of the
convention in front of the League house.
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-29
From Washington.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.
There is authority for stating that General
Sickles commanding the Department of the
South, has not authorized the use of his name
in connection with the Cleveland Convention,
and declines while on duty in his present com.
mand, to take part in any political movement
Z. Wendell was to-day commissioned Super
intendent of Public Printing
General Howard in letter to the Intelligen-
Ger, says he recommended the issuing of an
order reducing and stopping the issuance Of
rations to refugees and freedmen, in certain
cases after October 1st and is willing to assume
the responsibility attaching to it.
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-29

MUTE VIsIroRs.-A party of five deaf mutes
came from Boston yesterday morning in
the steamer Lewiston to visit the scene of the
late confagration, and they expressed in their
unique way the greatest wonder and astonish-
ment at the scene which the city presented
One of them, Mr.. Slower Rines, native OF
this city, now employed in the Registry of
Deeds in Boston, was one of the party. They
returned to Boston in the evening. m
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-29

PORTLAND AND VICINITY.
New Advertisement. To-Day.

Administrators Sale-Joseph Ils'ey.
Bookkeeper Wanted.
Auction Sales-E. M. Patten g. Co.
House for Sale.
School-Miss H. d. Robbins.
Administrators Notice.. X. Harmon.
Munioy Drug Storc-Charles H. Mark
Caucus-Yarmouth
Notice-Voters of Cumberland.
In the Mart-N. I. Mitchell.
To Agents. -Risley d Creighton
Bricks-Dennison, Pierce s. Co.
Wanted-Machine Girls.
Lost-Pin. I.,..
House and Lot for Sale.
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-29
PASSPORTS.

CITIZENS of The United States about o 60 abroad.
" can obtain Passports By applying at the Office Of
LEWIS PIERCE.
No. Clarp's Block Congress St. Portland
aun20d4w
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-29

RUNAwAY.-Yesterday forenoon Hon. John
Lynch and Senator Wilson took horse and
chaise from Gilson's stable for ride about the
city. They stopped at the new Sugar House
and left the team standing at the door, when
the horse took fright at something and ran fu-
riously until he brought up at his abiding
place, having smashed the chaise considerably.
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-29
THE subscriber hereby gives public notice to all
taken upon himself the trust of Administrator of the

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