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AN ACT
TO Regulate Salaries and Fee

SEC. !. Be enacted by the General ASse1nJl,i Of tn
State Of North Carolina, and is heeby enGcted Jg uu-
sny o. ne same That the officers hereafter named
shall annually receive salaries and compensation as fol
lows, towit The Governor of the State four Thousand
dollars counseors of State the Same compensation
which IS allowed to member of the General Assembly,
every day he may attend public business and
thirty miles travelling to and from the city alcgh
public business the judges Of the Supreme and Sucr
Courts, twenty-five hundred dollars Public Treasure
Two thousand dollars Chief Clerk of the Treasurer
teen hundred dollars Secretary of State one thUusan
two hundred and fifty dollars and fees allowed in cha
ter one hundred and two Revised Code Private
lowed IN chapter one hundred and Revised Code
Attorney General hundred dollars for his atteu-
dance on each term of the Supreme Court.
and twenty dollars for each term of the Superior Court
any county he shall attend and the fees allowed in char
ter one hundred and two Revised Code each Solicitor
the State twenty dollars for term of the SuDer,
Court he shall attend and fees allowed in chapter one hun
dred and two Revised Code Reporter Of the decisions
the Supreme Court six hundred dollars and fees aowy
in chapter hundred and two Revised Code Public Il
brarian six hundred dollars Messenger in Governors
fce three hundred dollars Clerk of the superior COu
i've hundred dollars salary and forty for recording
heretofore besides the allowed in capter one hun
dred and two Revised Code Clerks of the Superior and
County Courts, Clerks and Masters EQUITY Jurors ant
witnesses fifty per cent in addition the fees allowed il
GnaPteI one hundred and two Revised Code P1or|d@
That the salaries and fees herenbefore fixed
garded payable in currency of the United States and
may be hereafter reduced by tho General Assembly but
this reduction shall not be below the present relative value
gold to said currency and shall in that be payable
in gold.
SEC. 2 BE Hfurte, enated That all laws and clauses
laws coming in conflict with this with such pruyS
ions of chapter one hundred and two Revised Code as
not superseded by this act be and the hereby
repealed.
ton shall not be controlled by the thirty fifth al
chapter ffy-two Revised Code.
Ratified this 9th day of February, A. d. 1866.
8. F. PHILLIPS, s. H. c.
THOMAS SETTLE, y, =.
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Troops in the south.

An order was issued by the War Department on
Tuesday to reduce the number of colored troops IN
the South so as to leave two regiments III hen'
tuckv four in Tennessee, one i'll Georgia. two III
Alabama, four i'll Mississippi, one III South Caro-
lima, one in Florida, and one i'll the District OF
Columbia. Looking to the attainment OF fuu
paciication, the we'll meaning, and those who
desire only the good of the whole country, will
generally approve this policy of the administrn-
ton for while the necessity, yet, of retaining
United States troops in the South, to certain
extent, is recognized, few object to the presence
of white soldiers, with whom the disbanded
soldiers of the South almost universally harmon
ze if not fraternizc while exactly the reverse is
the case with the colorcd soldiers who, i'll some
instances, have been guilty of outrages upon
plantations in remote districts for which, under
the influences by which they were melted, there
was no redress. The radical disunion spirit which
seeks to retain negro troops because they are ne
eroes to the exclusion of veteran volunteers who
are discharged is fraught with evil, which might
be wholly obviated 10y d reduction of one-third OF
the war footing and providing for the meritor1ous
discharged volunteer officers who arc seeking
employmentS.
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SALES OF MORE GOVERNMENT PROPERTY.
Government now offers for sale the large steam.
mill at Greensboro, N c., with coal, hay and en-
CINE house, attached. An engine of a hundred
horse power is also in the market.
FORSYTH CoUNTY.--We learn from the S.ler,
Press that at the late term of the Superior Colt for
this county, true bills were found against seven,
persons, charged with being implicated III the
shooting of several persons in the county,-a
members of the late LIST n. G. Battalion, command
ed by Capt r. Z. Wilson.
ELECTION IN MARTIN CoUNTY.-D w. Baglcz
has been elected to fill the vacancy Of delegatr
from Martin, in the State Convention.
CRY CHARTER ELEc11oN.-Our citizens voted
yesterday upon the acceptance or re- ectiOn of tho
new City Charter. The vote stood: For accept
ance, 63; for rejection, 159. The election was
conducted without excitement. -iSentineL
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Election in Duplin County.

Gov Worth has issued Il writ of election to the
Sheriff Of Duplin county, for a delegate to the
State Convention, which assemblies OH the fourth
Thursday OF May, in place Of Rev. y. B. Nichol
son, deceased, to be held OH Thursday, May 18th.
We have not heard who will be candidates.
In this connection will correct an error we
made in a late issue, which has been extensively
copied in our State exchanges, that the death OF
Mr. Nicholson WAS the third among the members
of the Convention, Col. Faison of Sampson and
Mr. Hanrahan of Pitt, being the other two We
should have included Col. ]. n. Sanders of Ons
low, among the number, making four.
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A letter from Constantinople of March 10Th, in
the New York Post says that the cholera conference
is still holding its meetings there The proposal OF
the conference to establish quarantine, by sea,
between Mekkah and Egypt and Syria, already
greatly alarms the Porte, who fears revolt among
the pilgrims and their friends. After long dis
cussion the proposal was carried, and Il recommen.
dation to the Porte voted accordingly. It is be-
lieved, however, that this quarantine cannot be
carried out, as the closure of the against the
pilgrims must result, if not in open revolt, GER
tainly in very dangerous ferment Justly provoked
by the impossibiity of their either finding means
of transport back to their homes by land, or OF
procuring food if they remain in the country till
the embargo is removed. Famine, it was rightly
argued, would thus be superadded to pcstilence,
with the certainty of general insurrection, from
which the Porte must politically suffer.
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The Ladies OF baltimore.

As long as q Southern heart pusates, the noble
endeavors of tho beautiful and benevolent ladies
of Baltimore will ever be cherished in eternal
recollection, and their names linked with tho dear
est memories and thankful gratitude of our peo-
pie. Not content with the llunitcent amount al
ready deposited i'll Banks the result of the great
fair, which has already nearly quite reached the
sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
the Baltimore ladies have sent numerous boxes to
the fairs now being held in Richmond and Peters
burg.
But this fair and its results, nlunifcent it is,
is not the dearest offering the Monumental City
has made for the benefit of the sufferings of our
people. We have been kindly permitted to a
private letter, which records the death of two of
the fairest daughters of that city, Miss Lizzie
Hoffman and Miss Myers, in consequence Of their
exposure and incessant labors during the fair
Miss Hoffman is, we learn, near relative of Mr..
Hoffman of the firm CT aIallett 4 Hoffman of our
city .,-..
When can people repay the debt of gratitude
we are under to community, that places upon
the altar of our misfortunes such precious offer
| ings?
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THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
WILMINGTON, n. c., APRIL 26, 1866.
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:. How long viii Our Patience be Abused 20

Yesterday evening foryeigh coored prisoners at the
jai men and women, boys and girls, conra5ands and
natives were with their CONSENT placed on the way
to Louisiana under charge OF officer OF the FREED
mems Bureau. They were all charged with petty larce-
MES. y , :;
each of cases. condition that the should
go South the court will issue order for the re-
covered stolen goods to be turned over to the owners by
About one hundred and twenty other colored per-
nearly all Of them freedmen left at the same time
for the South where they all arc promised good wages.
Ncto York EGeniTg Post.
We are not advised whether the District At
torney acted by authority, OF with the advice OF
the Reconstruction Committee in this matter, OF
upon his own responsibility. An impoverished
people, already overburdened with the support of
many thousands of paupers, resulting from eman-
cipation, cheerfully submitting to taxation by a
government in which representation is Denied
now has it's territory converted into Botany Bay
for negro paupers and criminals by government
official. In all patience criminal records
show We have our quota of negro malefactors, and
the returns of the Freedmen's Bureau will exhibit
what terrible lists of negro paupers are being al
ready fed on government account, while numbers
of the infr1n and old are the recipients of the
charities of former masters.
Colored thieves and vagabonds sent into our
midst, and when punished for crimes, are de-
for and undeserving of re-admission to the Union
and yet not only are forty eight criminals turned
over to the tender mercies of ''rcbcl' Louisiana,
but g one hundred and twenty-five other colored
persons left for the South, where they all arc
promised good wages. Certainly, at least, the nl-
tires spoken Of could not have pcruscl the col
umns of the Chr'onjHe attentively, or listened to
the cruclticS to the negroes, depicted by Senator
Summers most recent Southern correspondent,
when they determined to leave such safe and
happy homes for the South even upon the promise
of 'Sood wages.
independent Of the outrage perpetrated upon
the people of Louisiana, for which, we do not re.
member any constitutional amendment as yet pro-
posed that will give warrant to it, what cOmmen
tary is this announcement upon the conduct OF
| Northern fanatics and humanitarians. How hol'
low and absurd is all their vtlnted affection fol
the ncgro-it indeed dNintlos into shameless party
trickcrv and pharsiacal cant
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NEWS SUMMARY.

SOUTHERN MERCHANTS MEETING THEIR LIABILl-
TIEs.-At meeting of tie New York Chamber a
Commerce on Thursday, the committee appointed
recently to petition the President to exact from
the Southern States payments of debts contracted
North before the war reported that they were Of
the opinion the interposition by the government
was not required, the States in question seemed
to be willing to pay their lawful debts without CO.
ercion. The committee add
"No of the States lately in rebellion has shown
disposition to repudate theta liabilities incurred prior
the On the contrary most Of them have already
knowledged that liability and many Of them have al,
been engaged in devisng ways and means for paying
the accumulated interest and providing for the future pay
ment Of interest and principal
The conduct of the individual citizens of the
Southern States is also referred to by the commit
ttee as highly honorable. Few, if any of them.
have failed to acknowledge their obligations or to
provide for the future payment of such portion Of
them their reduced assets will allow.
NATIONAL CURRENCY. The following is ill.,.
amount of each denomination of national curren-
cy issued up to and including April II, 1866:
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SERIOUS AccnENT.Welearut that OIL Sunday last, about
o'clock y. H. accident befe Mr.. John Hopkins, near
his place, about miles from the city.
The facts far have asccrtae to this effect:
Mr.. Hopkins with several other gentlemen, started from
his place sometime during the afternoon, with the nen-
ton of having day hunt On arriving at the place OF
the intended hunt Mr. Hopkins ahghtcd from the buggy
in which he seated and while attempting to draw forth
his gun from under the buggy scat the piece acrden-
tally discharged the contents of which entered his right
arm The wound thus caused was OF so severe nature
that immediate amputation necessary. Dr. Walker,
one our resident physicians being sent for arrived at
Mr.. Hopkinss ouse late in the afternoon and reformed
the operation Of anputan, the limb with all skill and
dispatch
We very much panied at this sad accident the more
so, the that Mr.. Hopkins bcn;, quite old
man. capable of earning living Younger per-
son.
z. S. Since the above printed i'll our edition Of
Tuesday morning, have been informed by DR.. Walker
himself that Dr. Jas. F. McIiee, r aud not DR.. Walker
was the surgeon who anputated the limb for Mr.. Hop
kns Dr.. Walker being called i'll by DR.. McRee
sistant. OF only gave the information we
received it, without any desire to detract from the well
earned merits of Dr.. Mckee.
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In MenOrian1,

BY common consent, throughout the Southern
States, to-day has been set apart for the ladies of
every city, town, and village to decorate and pay
tribute of respect to the resting place of our
dead heroes. We notice with much satisfaction,
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from most of our Southern exchanges, that pre-
paraton has been made by the ladies, generally,
to inaugurate an united effort to hallow and en-
balm the memories of our noble dead by an
nual tribute of respect ly th" lovely daughters OF
the South
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-04-26

SUPERIOR CoURT.-Judge Bnxton having arrived i'll the
city Monday night last the court duly opened yes
terday morning and proceeded to regularly organize The
grand selected and of which body Col
E. D. Hall chosen foreman. Judge Buxtons charge
to the grand jury able and efficient one and de-
ineated plainly His Honors nness i'll the which
he intended in regard to ransgressors against
the laws of the State The grand jury then retired for
consideration and returned after being absent several
hours and delivered six bills of Indictment.
The Solicitor, Mr.. Ncill Mckay, present. and ap-
peared busy getting his witnesses together preparatory
the taking the State docket Very little business
of importance transacted during the day except the
execution of a sentence upon freedman in case of
larceny which first brought up several years since
The first brought before the County Court and
from thence went up to the Superior Court, which SEN
fenced the defendant to receive twelve ashos upon his
bareback An appeal taken to the Supreme Court,
which decided that there in the Judgment.
The taken again at this term Of the Superior
Court and the duly executed by the Sheriff
The Court shortly afterwards adjourned until 10 o'clock
this mornng.-Ddily Journals LOcol 2jH, INST.
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Rev James r. Hubbard, of Maryland, has &C.
cepted call to the rectorship OF ST. James Epis.
copal Church at Warrentop, Va,
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LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Ere"tFM Crisis in Cong'ess-Stctc"s' -AD'e"'l"e"
FEei"g tie Basis Of RqTesehodio"-E4'uaIS H:
fiuqe IN ait tie States ttud 7eJTH0yieS---N0 Dis
crinpianion Between Whites and B0chs-4 Pro-
re,fy Educational Q"atifctdion for Both Roces
Tile Aooftion of Ills amendment 10 BE " Basis
Of Representation in tie South.
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DIREcr IRADE.-The British steamship Ephesus,
Capt Ceilings, sailed from Liverpool on Saturday,
April 7th, for Norfolk ria Boston. Her manifest
has been received by Col, William Lamb. Of Nor.
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The grand Fenian fair, under the auspices Of the
tenian Sisterhood of New York, opened in that
city on Monday evening at the German Assembly
Rooms, i'll the Bowery -s-s-.-. ~
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LtttCUEOIfD Ctttt.tCCNCtE
Tile Ao1option of Ills amendment 10 be " Basis
Of Representation in tie iSouth
correspondence of the Richmond Examner.l
WASuINGToS, April -.
This will be an cvcntful week in Congress. Mr..
Thaddeus Stevens has stated that he is ready, rs
the organ of the Reconstruction Committee, to re-
port a constitutional amendment fixing the basis
of representation, and will do If this week. unless
the Committee on Ways and Means should be pre-
pared to press the consideration of the tax bills.
The tariff and internal revenue bills called for,
on the part of the public, inasnuch all business
interests are to be affected by them. They will
give rise to much discussion, and, if brought for
ward now, cannot be expected to be matured and
passed before the end of June and it is desirable
that they should go into operation at the begin
ming of the next fiscal year. Therefore, the fnan
cial questions will have precedence of the political
projects.
The reconstruction plan will be reported to both
Houses at the same time, but it is to be first acted
upon by the House, where it will be certain OF
receiving two-thirds vote than in the Senate.
AS to the new plan, the committee have not yet
promulgated it, but it is believed to be PROPOSE
ton for equal suffrage and applicable to all the
States and Territories That is, each State regrl-
late the suffrage for itself, but IN such g manner
as will avoid discrimination between blacks and
whites. For instance, a State may comply with
the provision BY establishing property quaIiica-
ton, applicable alike to all races and colors, OF
merely require reading OF wiring as y qaulfica-
ton. It is to be provided, however, that those
who are voters, under State laws, shall not be
deprived of the right till after the expiration of
ten years. When three-fourths of the State Leg
islatures adopt the amendment 1t will he part of
the Constitution. .-
! Until the amendment shall be adopted Con-
gross will admit representation from any one
of the excluded States. Those Southern
States now excluded which may not ratify the
provision will remain at present. subject to all
the laws of the United States, without any partici
patton in their enactment. This new scheme ba-
ses repi esentaticn upon the number of those who
may be voters under it. 1t is concession to the
Radical element of the Senate. The Radical Sen
ators defeated the original constitutional amend
ment because it did not impose negro suffrage o,i
the States. but simply excluded the millions of
freedmen from representation until the States
should extend to them the right of suffrage
The Reconstruction Committee proceed, too.
upon the idea that the eleven Southern States will
be forward to adopt the scheme, under which they
will be entitled to representation, provided their
members elect shall take the test oath
.gs.r. Methodist Conference, South, Isl. ......,
New ORLEANS, La, April 10. 10
The Conference has spent two days Oh the case
OF Rey. G. +. Doggett who appeals from the de-
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SUPERIOR CoUET.-Thc Court disposed of several i'm
portant yesterday, and transacted other important
business.
Among the cases disposed of those Of Thomas
Jones and William Tyson, freedmen WHO convicted
larceny and sentenced to receive respectively twelve
and thirty -niue lasllcs upon their bare backs.
A white man, named Vim. Locke, 0liaS Vim. Harrson,
alias Henry Stevens, convicted OF cheating by false
tokens, i'll other words obtaining goods upon forged
ders He sentenced to receive twenty lashcs upon his
baro back.
The above scncnces promptly executed by the
Sheriff.
The case OF john C. bIcIlcnny, who charged with
the murder of VIM Lain by consent transferred
to the Superior Court IF Cumberland county, Spring term
Dd1N JoHtnol PSI i'Si.
tiNrlx SWAMP CoMrASY.Our ncighbor of the DjI1t.h,
i'll an article their Wednesdays ISSUE cutitlcd Enter
PRISE, spoke Of the Green Swamp Company rs being
posed of Northern men, and that 8 such Yankees
they will be always welcomed to the South. This is
error, and perhaps which appeared Inadvertently
We Informed by senior partner in mercantile house
i'll this city that instead OF the stckoderb beng conf
posed of Northern they ALL with two exceptions,
North Caroplans Our Informant certainly ought to be
correct i'll this matter the hIu uf which lie Ii menu
her large share of the capital stock III the CONF
pany.
The gentleman to whom aII1lde, also Informed us
that this enterprise is progressing finely and that small
colony, az it MCrc, has bccn established the of
operation, which consists Of thirty forty families,
and that some Of these families are composed per
SOILS. Tho land which these people have settled hats
bceu disposed of TO them by the Company ut mere
inal price, something like - per acre W. believe, This
settlement is likely to uurhh and also to be benefit to
the Company, under whose auspices 1t established
Most of the men of the settlement learn, mc'har-
les Of different branches and arc calculated to render eff
cient service.
The close proximity of The Green Swamp enables the
Company to procure the best OF material for making
slaves wooden vessels shingles Nc, which they manu-
factuIc in large quantities.
enterprise OF this kind is bound to succeed and grow
i'll favor with all who desire to encourage home manntac-
t1UcS.
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New ORLEANS, La, A

The Conference has spent two days on the case
OF Rev. G: T: Doggett, who appeals from the de-
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NOmmefclaI AdViceS. -.
Llr@poot April 6TIe Brokers' Circular says that tho
authorized quotations are New Orleans fair 20!d mid
ding, $780, Mobile fair, 19fd.; middling 1S5d; upands
l9sstt; middng, 1Sd., Texas, God, nddling, 1sad.
London, April 7.-Buion in the Bank of England has
States 5-20s, 73lG3H. ~ ~
d dee s April 71Eyening saies to-day,
huo0 bales, the market closing easier with but little in
aury and prices weak. Mdd1ng uplands are quoted at
l7@74d Breadstus quiet, but prices steady Tai.
liverpool April -Breadstufs. market is firm,
Flour ls firm and quiet Wheat is firm lower qualities
for mixed. ... w.
market tends downward for provisions
Pork inactive. Bacon quiet Lard dull and declined
12s, but closing steadier: Butter very dull Tallow
heavy and prices declined cd. OILS. s -=5lsf 80
Produce-Sugar very dull, and declined Cd n1s, Cof-
fec quiet and steady Rice inactive. Rosin quiet at Is
Tor common Spirits turpenne steady at 59s @59s Cd
1or American Petroleum quiet at Is. lid, 02s,