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NATGHEa AND NEW ORLEANS BEGU.
LAR TUESDAY U. s. MAIL PAGKET

YICKsBURG AND NATCHEz PACKET FASHION.
vx0r. Leaves every SATURDAY, at o p. N.
ca5 FGE Hudson Bson Rouge Bayou Sara Fort Adams Nat
New Carthage and Interchangeable magnificent passenger
steamer Fashion P. D. Pratt, master L. Shaw and F. L
NJ LudWgsen clerks will leave For freight or pas.
sage apply on board orto JAS BUTLER E CO.
10 and II Fulton and II and 10 New Leyee street.
GEbLOS d GWARTNEY, 10 Front street.
NlkGlNIuS c. DEETHEi. Advertising Agent
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BALTIMORE.

Leaves on MONDAY, October s, at 6 P ", precisely
FOE BALTIMORE, VIA HAVANA
AND KEY WEST, carrying the United States mails.
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REGULAR BAYOU SARA PACKET
sFEAhEH NINA SIN Es-W: 4. GREATHQUSE, Master
IR0&LER and MILLER, Clerks
4eages every MoNDAY at u. M, and FRIDAY at IOAn
EisOb5sl bAKOU.SAkA,s PORT HUDSON, BATtJF
n Rouge,, Ptaquemine, Donads0nvie and all intsr
mediate landings the coast taking for all tandue
or to F4ee "ppS 'i ooAtu
J. L TITUS, Agent Mob Tchouptonas street
NELLOS 4 GWARTNEY, Agents ,l3 Front street
VlR9lNIUs- g. DENTzEL, AdveftsinR Agent
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This Line comprises thefoowing frstcass steamships
LIBERTY .. {. 1900 tons. VIVA Rollins, Commander.
CUBA. HOO tons, ~ Thos A. Balm Commander
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The steamship Liberty will Baltimore VIA Havana
and Rey West above, from her wharf, foot Of jackson
street, Fourth District.
For freight or passage having unsurpassed accommoda-
tons, apply to WLTHERSPODN i HALsEY, Agents;
20 Carpnde ct street.
N BNo bills of adipe but those of the Company viii
siRned Permits for freight he procured from this
office Boieght received bills Of lading signed after Il
O'clock on dayof sailing so. " ls-gs3>
The tri-weekly standard., 1866-09-06
Advice for Young Men.

A lady who signs herself A Martyr to late
Hours" offers the following sensible sugges-
tons to young men:
Dear gentlemen, between the ages of " 1s
and As" listen to a few words of gratuitous
remarks When you make social call ofan
evening, on young lady go away at rea-
sonable hour. Say you come at O'Clock,
an hour and half is certainly as long as
the most fascinating of you in conversation
can or rather ought to desire to use his
charms. Two hours, indeed, can he very
pleasantly spent with music, cards, or other
games to lend variety: but, kind sirs, by no
oftener. A girl that is, sensible, true
hearted girl-wili enjoy it better, and really
value your acquaintance more. Just conceive
the agony of a girl who, well knowing the
feeling of her father and mother upon the
subject, hears the clock toll ten, and yet
must sit on the edge of her chair, in mortal
terror lest papa should put his oft-repeated
and inviting the gentleman to breakfast
And we girls understand it all by experience,
and know what it is to dread the prognostic
of displeasure. In such cases sigh of re-
lief generally accompanies the closing of the
door behind the gallant, and one don't get
over the feeling of trouble till safe in the
arms of Morpheus. Even then sometimes
the dreams are troubled with some phantom
of an angry father and distressed Gor all
parties) mother, and all because young
man will make a longer call than he ought
to. Now, young gentlemen friends, Til tell
you what we girls will do. For an hour and
a half we will be most irresistibly charming
and fascinating. Then beware! Monosyla-
BILE responses will be all you need expect
and if, when the limits shall have been
passed, startling query shall be heard COM
ing down stairs, Isn't it time to close up %
you must consider it righteous punishment,
and taking your hat, meekly depart a sad
der, and it Is to be hoped wiser man. Do
not get angry, but the next time you come
be careful to keep within just bounds. We
want TO rise early these pleasant mornings.
and improve the g shining hours - but when
forced to be up at such unreasonable hours
at night, exhausted nature will speak, and,
as natural consequence, with the utmost
speed in dressing, we can barely get down
to breakfast in time to escape a reprimand
from papa, who don't believe in beaux-as
though he never was young-and a mild,
reproving glance from mamma, who under
stands little better poor daughters feelings,
but must still disapprove outwardly, to keep
up appearances. And now, young men,
think about these things, and don't, for
PHYS sake, don't throw down your paper
with "pshaw," but remember the safe side
of ten.
The tri-weekly standard., 1866-09-06
SEPTEMBER 6, 1865.
GENERAL REMARKS.


Revenue Stamps may be used indiscriminately
upon any of the matters or things enumerated in
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. Ifhe neglects
stamp it before it is used; and if used after the
cannot afterwards be effectually stamped. Amy
failure upon the part of the maker of an instru-
ment 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
hcatlon, petition, &c, in which case these, as the
original process, severally require stamps
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 aff1davits, is held to be a GER
tifcate, 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 as 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 O 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, either of them. In such n
case note or memorandum of the value de-
nomination of the stamp affixed should be made
upon the margin or in the acknowledgement of
the instrument which is not stamped.
The tri-weekly standard., 1866-09-06
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, December %, 1868.
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. When
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.
I have the honor to be
your exccllency's most obedient servant,
WILLIAM FL. SEWARD.
His Excellency W. w. HOLDEN,
Provisional Governor Of ~ G.
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[Telegram-Received $40 p. MI

RALEIGH, N. c., August 26, 1865.
To THE PRESIDENT
SIR: In reply to your despatch of Au-
gust 22d, 1 have the honor to state, in no in
stance in making appointments to office, or
In recommending for appointment, have 1
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 thousand) 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 thel allegiance to
the federal government. 1 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.
l know there are malcontents, radicals, and
not good men, who are engaged in 1nisrepre
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,
P50risi0naZ GOperuOr
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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:
BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO
ESTABLISH A SCALE OF DEPRECIATION
OF CONFEDERATE CURRENCY.
WHEREAS, By an ordinance of the Convention,
entitled 'tAn ordinance declaring what laws anr
ordinances are in force, and for other purposes,
ratified 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,
1865, 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 it enacted by the General assembly Of the State
Of North Carolina and it is hereby enacted by the
authority Of the same, That the following scale of
depreciation be and the same is hereby adopted
and established 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 1st day of November,
1861, to the 1st day of May, 1865, to-wit:
Scale Of depreciation Of Confederate currency, the
gold dollar being the unit and measure Of Ualate,
The tri-weekly standard., 1866-09-06

A TRAVELLER BADLY TREATED
An Englishman, named George Russell,
travelling on foot in Arkansas, recently,
was seized by some men whose horses
had been stolen, and who supposed that
the stranger must have taken them.
He protested his innocence, but they
threatened to hang him if he did not in
stantly tell who his confederates were.
He still denied all knowledge of the
matter, and they placed a halter around
his neck, hung him up to a tree, and
cutting him down after he had grown
black in the face, again threatened him
unless he confessed. Again he told
them he could not, and again they
hanged him until he was almost dead,
then took him before magistrate, by
whom he was put in prison. He remain
ed there few weeks, was tried and ac
Quilted, and started on foot for Memphis.
Tenn, where he was found dead on the
bluff soon after his arrival. He died Of
want and exposure, the jury said. The
Memphis -1valaeehe says he was a re-
fined gentleman, land having heard glow
ing accounts of Arkansas, visited that
State, but his means giving out, and
no remittances reaching him, he was
compelled to walk andwork his way and
that the treatment he received, and url-
accustomed labor and exposure killed
him.
The tri-weekly standard., 1866-09-06
From the Hillsborough Reeorder.l

h1LLSBOROUGH, OCTOBER 10, 1900.
Hon. William A. GTuham-Dedr Sir:
We intend to vote for our neighbor, Josiah
Turner, jr., for Congress. We were preven-
ted from voting for the person of our choice
for Convention by the interference of Gov
ernor Holden, who had, or pretended to
have, instructions from the President that no
unpardoned person was eligible. Yet Gen
eral Hampton, unpardoned, was elected to
the South Carolina Convention Judge Man
ly, unpardoned, was elected to our Conven-
ton. No other Governor received orders
that unpardoned persons were Ineligible
How does it happen that our Governor re-
ceived instructions not given to other Gov
ernors? How does it happen that no other
Governor or Convention received instructions
that we must repudiate the war debt We
are not advocating the payment Of the war
or any other debt. If, however, the people
of North Carolina wish to pay the war debt
or any other debt, they will do it, and whose
business is it but theirs?
We ask your opinion only as to the eligi-
bility of Mr.. Turner.
Respectfully yours,
THOMAS H. HUGHES, NJ. W. MOORE,
DANIEL r. HOGAN, JOHN MILLER,
LEVIN CARMICHAEL, BENTON RAY,
JOSEPH w. MCKEE, J. G. HOGAN,
ALEXANDER HOGAN.
The tri-weekly standard., 1866-09-06

THE BATHoMETER.-Sidney E. Morse, of
New York, has just patented a curious phi
losophical instrument which he calls ''ba-
thometer." 1t is intended. as its name i'm
ports, to measure the depth of water every
where, even in the deepest parts of the ocean :
and it does this with rapidity and accuracy
use for the purpose. No line is used, and it
sinks, therefore, rapidly, with little obstruc-
ton from friction. No line being used, its
accuracy as metre of depth is not affected
by currents. You throw it overheard with
its appendages in the ocean, where the wa
ter is miles deep. 1t goes down like a shot
and as soon as it touches bottom it turns
and comes back to the surfrce. You pick it
up, and the true depth of the water at the
point where it struck bottom is seen on the
scale of the bathometer, just as you see the
degree of heat on the scale of the thermome-
ter
The tri-weekly standard., 1866-09-06
Telegram
IxECUTIyE OFFICl

EXECUTIVE OFF1CE,
Washington, d. O., October 1S, 1865.
W. w. HOLDEN, Provisional Gooernor, Raleigh,
NJ 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
paw debt to aid in carrying on a 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. I 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. I 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
The tri-weekly standard., 1866-09-06
The Civil Rights Bill.
We publish below the Civil Rights
Bill as it recently passed the Congress
oyer the Presidents Veto

''Be it enacted By the Senate and House + Repre-
SentatiVeS Of the United States Of Ane7cd IN Congress
assembled, That all persons born in the United
States and not subject to any foreign Power, eX
Guiding Indians, not taxed, arc hereby declared
to be citizens of the United States and such citi
zens of every race and color, without regard to
any previous condition of slavery or involuntary
servtude, except a punishment for crime
whereof the party shall ave been duly convicted,
ritory in the United States to make and enforce
contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence,
to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey
real and personal property, and to full and equal
benefit OF all laws and proceedings for the securi
ty of person and property as is enjo yed by white
citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment,
pains, and penalties, and to none other, any law,
statute, ordinance, regulation, custom to the
Contrary notwiths landing.
SEC. 2. And be 1t further enacted That any per-
son who, under color of any law, statute, ordi
nance, regulation, or custom, shall subject, or
cause to be subjected, any inhabtant of any State
or Territory to the deprivation of any right
punishment, pains, or penalties on account of
such person having at any time been held in
condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, ex
cept as IL punishment for crime whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted, or by reason of
his color or race than is prescribed for the pun
1shment OF white persons, shall be deemed guilty
OF miSdemcanor, and, on conviction, shall be
punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dol
lars, or impris onment not exceeding one year, or
both, in the discretion of the court.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted That the dis
trict courts of the United States, within their
spective districts, shall have exclusively of the
courts of the several States, cognizanee of all
crimes and offences committed against the provi
slons OF this act, and also, concurrently with the
circuit courts of the United States, of a causes,
civil and criminal, affecting persons who are de,
MED or cannot enforce in the courts or judicial
tribunals of the State or locality where they may
be, any of the rights secured to- them by the first
section of this act; and any suit or prosecution
civil or criminal, has been or shall be commenced
in any State court against any such person, for
any canse whatsoever, against any officer, civil
or military, or other person, for arrest or impri-
ted by virtue or under color of authority derived
from this act or the act establishing bureau for
the relief of freedmen and refugees, aud all acts
The tri-weekly standard., 1866-09-06
RATTLEsNAKE CHARMING TURKEYS

lATTLESNAkE CHARMING 1URkEfS.-a
very strange and novel occurrence took place
on the Sinnemahoning, near Wistar, Pcnnsyl-
vania, a short time since, yet its truthfulness
can be vouched for by Mr.. r. W. McCleland
and others in that vicinity, who were eye
witnesses.
The atteneion of resident of that place
(Hr, McClellanD was attracted to u yard in
the rear of his house, where large flock of
turkeys were congregating, uttering wild
and discordant cries, and fiuttering in the
greatest CONSERVATION. On approaching, he
observed huge rattlesnake, coiled up, in
the act of charming lordly gobhler of the
flock, who was gliding swiftly in a circuit
with eyes riveted on the CLASSY orbits of his
captor, and gradually approaching its veno-
nous jaws. Mr.. McClelland quickly dis
patched the bold intruder, and the turkey
was set at liberty but strange to record,
with its eyes so singularly transfNed that it
could not move ahead in a direct line, and
as it retired from its vanquished foe, moved
obliquely with a shambing gait. AT dusk
on the same day, snake equally as large as
the one destroyed came into the same mans
dooryard. and began calling for his absent
mate, rattling loudly. 1t was slmmarily
disposed of, and, when measured, was as
certained to be four feet in length, with
tail studded with sixteen rattles.-L Bradford
(Pa.) Reporter.
The tri-weekly standard., 1866-09-06
H1LLsBoRoUeH, October 1s, 1865.

Gentlemen:
Yours expressing your wish to vote for the
Hon Josioh Turner, jr., as the representa-
tive in Congress from this District, and ask
ing my opinion as to his eligibility, the
doubt arising from his not having yet re-
ceived the pardon of the President, has been
received.
doubt not, that the President has as little
disposition as he has power to interfere in
the case. Memberships in Congress can pre-
sent no question for the President. Each
House is by the Constitution the sole Judge
of the elections, returns and qualifications
of its members, and if a representative be
twenty-five years Of age, has been seven years
a citizen of the United States and he at the
time of his election an inhabitant of the
State, he has all the qualifications prescribed
by the Constitution, and there is no power
OF authority that can require any Others. 1
have recently endeavored to demonstrate this
in paper published in the Raleigh Sentinel
of this date. AS to a pardon, 1 presume it
is only necessary that the President shall
have leisure to consider the case of Mr.. Turn
er to obtain that. Certainly no citizen of
this State has shown more vigorous opposi-
tion to the whole secession movement, or
conducted himself in more manly and pa
triotic manner throughout the war; I have
recently seen letter from Il high official in
Virginia stating that "a special appeal had
been made to the President' by Governor
Pierpont, Freaman Smith, G.. II. Lewis,
Treasurer of the Commonwealth, and several
other influential citizens of that State, who
formed the acquaintance of Mr.. Turner, and
witnessed his course in the Confederate Con-
gress, praying an immediate grant of his
pardon.
1 am, with high respect,
Your obedient servant.
W. A. GRAHAM
The tri-weekly standard., 1866-09-06

RALEIGH, n. c., THURSDAY.
Telegram

Executive MANSION,
Washington, ID. c., Aag,tst %, 1866
Governor WIN. 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-
dations for appointments, the true Union
men are totally ignored, and the provisional
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.
The tri-weekly standard., 1866-09-06

TTelegram.-Received 130 D. M Sept. 81 |
RALEIGH, N. c., September 81, 1865.
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 theirpardons. Ex-Governor Graham,
of Orange, in Il 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 Gra-
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. I
will telegraph you as the returns come in.
W. W. HOLDEN,
Provisional GoUerIor.