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Legislature of North Carolina.
SENATE.
SATURDAY MORNING, Dec. q

SATURDAY MORNING, Dec. %.
A message was received from the House
transmitting bill allowing fees to Justices
of the Peace in the county of Mecklenburg.
The rules were suspended and the bill passed
its several readings.
On motion of Mr.. Harris, of Franklin. the
rules were suspended and the following bills
were taken up and passed their several read
ings, viz: Bill to incorporate the Collins
Gold Mining Company. Bill to incorporate
the Thomas Gold Mining company, a bill to
incorporate the Sturgess Gold Mining COM
pany, all of which are in the county of
Franklin.
On motion of Mr.. Leach the rules suspen-
ded and the bill concerning appeals in GRIM
ed its third reading.
On motion of Avery, the rules were sus-
pended and the bill to amend the charter of
the town of Wilson was taken up, and pass
ed its third reading.
A message was received from the House
transmitting bill for the relief of the Sher-
itf of Granville county. On motion of Mr.
Cunningham, the rules were suspended and
the bill passed its several readings. Also a
bill to incorporate the town of Durham, in
the county of Orange. On motion of Mr..
Berry the rules were suspended and the bill
passed its third reading. On motion of Mr..
Mclean, the rules were suspended, and the
bill to authorize the President and Directors
of Blunt's Creek Factory, in the town of Fay
ettville, to borrow money to rebuild the
sane, was taken up and passed its several
readings.
A message was received from the House in
forming the Senate of their readiness to re-
ceive them in order to carry into effect the
joint order relative to the Inauguration of the
Governor, whereupon the Speaker and Sen
ators retired to the Commons Hall. The oaths
of office having been administered, and the
Governors address delivered, the Speaker of
the Senate announced the object of the joint
order concluded, the Senators retired to their
chamber, and on motion of Mr. Wilson, the
Senate adjourned until Monday next, at 5
O'Clock, A. NJ.
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We are requested to state that Judge r.
P. Buxton is incorrectly represented by the
Washington Star as favoring the disruption
of the present State government of North
Carolina.
While on this subject we may as we'll state
that the Star no doubt informed itself from
various sources of leading Unionists of this
State, but it could have no authority from
any one for saying that any citizen of the
State who was not IN Washington was in ia
yor of Mr.. Stevens bill. To put all doubts
at rest, we now state emphatically that the
bill referred to, and which proposes gradu-
ally but finally to supersede the present State
organization set up under martial law, was
prepared by Hon. John Pool, James F. Tay-
lor, ESQ.,, and w. w. Holden, at the request
of Mr.. Stevens, and was introduced in the
House by the latter on the 18th December.
These persons ars solely responsible for the
measure, and they are prepared to stand or
fall by it.
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Arkansas.
REJECTION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND

REJECTION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND
MENT
! The Senate Committee. in reporting res
olution to reject the amendment, submitted
the following reasons:
First That the State of Arkansas does
not know that the amendment was adopted
by Congress such as is provided for by the
Constitution, as nearly one-third the States
were not represented therein when the
amendment was passed.
Second: 1t never was submitted to the Pres
ident for his sanction. as should have been,
according to the very letter of the Constitu-
ton under which Congress exists, and which
it has sought to amend.
Third: The enormous power sought to be
conferred by giving authority to Congress to
enforce the provisions of the amendment,
would take from the States all control over
local and domestic concerns, and virtually
abolish the States
Fourth The second section seems to be
an effort to force negro suffrage on the
States, whether intended or not, and gives
Congress the power to bring this about,
whether the States consent or not
Fifth: The third section, as an act of dis
reimbursement of the wisest and best citizens
of the State, must be rejected. The people,
having performed all the conditions of the
surrender and general amnesty, are entitled
to restoration to the Union, as before the
war.
There is no reason to believe that the adOp-
ton of the amendment would secure resto-
ration, and, if it would, they recommend
quiet and dignified course of endurance, rath-
er than to purchase it at the sacrifice of prin-
ciple, dignity, and selfrespect.
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WILLIAM earle BROWNE, Esq.-We
learn from the following article from the
Home Journal that our distinguished towns
man, Mr.. Browne, one of the most accom-
plished painters in the country, is engaged
in painting, to order. likeness of President
johnson. Mr.. Brownies paintings are indeed
Licensees. His selection to paint the likeness
of the President is deservedly high COM
pliment to his genius.
Mr. William earle Browne. of Raleigh,
North Carolina, and son of William Browne,
artist, (whose death. in his eighty third year,
we recorded last week, } is engaged in pain
ting, to order, portrait of President John
son. Mr.. Browne has been on visit to
New York during the past few weeks having
been called here by his fathers illness. He
returns to his home, in Raleigh, in few
days, where he bears a fine reputation as a
portrait pa inter-
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THE National Intelligencer, true to itS :,
stincts and its instructors assails the North
Carolina patriots who are now PLEADING b.
fore Congress for republican government IN
that State. Of Mr.. Pool it saws: He v 90
beaten for the Senate in North Carolina not
because of his UniOnism, but because of his
acknowledged nseanness in acauiescng in tbo
statement that he haul entered the LegisIoturo
OF the State to embarrass the Confederotc o,,,
eminent. The dainty defender of Picker
who boosted that he would kill a coIored r.
mon soldier without mercy and reminded
General Peck that he would slaughter ton
OF the defenders of the old flag for every
traitor executed, is right in denominatins
the rebel conspiracy as the Confederate
government" and is of course true to its
teachings in slandering such men as Senator
Pool. How can a genuine devotion to the
Union ever be encouraged in the South when
the wretc4ed organs of treason at the seat of
the national Capitol SANDER every good man
whenever he attempts to show his Cevotion2
The only fayorites of the IntelIigencer and
Its master are heroes like Pickett, usurpurs
like Worth, and malIgnants like Ruffin
Nothing saves the fearless friends of the
Union in the South from the proscrintion
and calumny of the man who was put into
the Presidential chair by the millions that
saved the Republic from rebellion. They
are hunted down by his hounds as if they
were so many criminals Washington Chron-
icZe
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The infamous action of VIM Holden and
his designing colleagues in endeavoring to
overthrow civil government in North Caro-
lima that they may foist petty dynasty on
their fellow citizens, so far from meeting
with the rebuke a republican legislative as
sembly should cast upon it, has been endors-
ed by our lawgivers and is now held up as
an example for ambitious demagogues
throughout our sister States.-Neoc6ern Jeur.
Commerce..
Stephen D. Pool, the Editor Of the New
bern Journal of Commerce, might as we'll pay
us the debt he honestly owes US, before he
proceeds further to abuse us. The same re-
mark will apply to the Editors of the Colds j.
borough Neacs.
We want nothing to do with such traitors,
either politically or personally.
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Rebel Trainings.

We copy the following from the last Colds
borough Ne,os:
"We understand that the following dis
tinguished gentlemen will be present at the
Tournament to be held at Newbern on the
list of January next.
His Excellency, Gov. Worth, Ex-Gov.'s
Bragg, Vance, Graham, Hon. NJ. E. Manly,
Mr.. McAden, Col. Hardy, of Buncombe and
Col. James W. Morris, of Goldsboro
We will give an account of the Wilson
Tournament tomorrow. NJ. @. Nixon of
this place won the championship. Miss NJ
Dortch, of Wilson, was chosen Queen"
These tournaments are simply rebel train
ings. They are intended to keep up the war
spirit of the South, aud to furnish occasions
for leading disloyalists todiscuss and mature
their plans.
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A Mississippi Judge of the Supreme Court
has decided that his State never lost its Or
ganization by the war, and that it was in
every respect State de jure as well as de
.tacto, exercising its functions constitution
ally The least effect of such decision
would be to vitiate MIR. Johnsons plan OF re-
construction. In other words, if State be
such State as Mississippi judge concelVcs,
reconstruction is an impertinence.
The late act of the North Carolina Legls-
lature, granting pardon to all officers and
soldiers of the State of North Carolina, or OF
the late Confederate States armies, or OF the
United States" for offences against the GRIM
inal laws of that State, harmonizes aptly
with the Mississippi decision. North-Caro
lima forgives not only her own sins but those
of the United States, which shows that her re-
construction. if precoci"us, is, in one sense,
perfect. She is sovereign enough to alb
solve herself Could the President do more 2
and if he did, would it not be necessary to
pardon him.-Neao York Tribune.
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KaOlin.

This is the name of mineral earth resem-
bling white clay, and is the chief ingredient
in the manufacture of porcelain, the china
wares, and 'the delf" that was so greatly
priced by our grand mothers.
There is fine deposit of Kaolin clay
twelve miles Southeast of Raleigh, in Wake
County, on plantation owned by the Rand
family This substance is known in miner
alogy as Petunse, and is peculiar decompo-
sition of Feldspar and quartz (or common
flint as it is improperly called) thoroughly
mixed together by natural causes and found
in different quarters of the world in greater
or less quantity. The largest and most val
liable deposit in the United-States is in
South Carolina sixteen miles east of Augusta,
on the Savannah. At this placa called Kao-
lin P. o. factory of the coarser kinds Of
proclaim has been carried on for the past
ten wears, and we believe is still continued
The mode adopted here is the following:
A small quantity of ground glass and
pounded crystalized Feldspar tound in Con-
necticut, is kneaded with the Kaolin clay in
water, and when settled, the water being
drawn off, the combined paste of a pale white
color, and the consistency ofputty is then fash
toned by the hands of the workman, on turn
tables, into all the cOmmoneSt sorts OF ware;
as ewers and basins, plates and dishes, cups
and saucers, ct Get. The articles are then
placed in the drying room, and when dry
are put into the kiln, where certain degree
of heat is kept up, more or less, at different
stages of the baking. And thus is produced
the commoner varieties of the porcelain and
stone-ware OF commerce
The Kaolin of Wake County in quality is
superior to the above mentioned deposit, but
no examinatio has yet been made, to show
its quantity. If the beds of this substance
are as large as they are believed to be on but
slight examination, they would be an ele-
ment of material wealth to our people, and
should be turned to account. There is I'M
mense capital at the Northseeking investment,
and if we can once more get a permanent
government, capital could without doubt
be easily obtained, and this valuable deposit
of Kaolin OF Petunze be made available, not
only for the immediate reighborhood, but
for the whole country. And we hope that
capitalists who may have surplus seeking
paying investment, and one too, that Will
improve the condition of our poor people,
will direct their attention to this valuable
Kaolin deposit of Wake County. There
is also the necessary water power in the i'm
mediate vicinage.
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The War Spirit ReviYin< in thss

The Mobile Times intimates thai -,
'South will resist with force any chano.0' Tue
its political status" The Charleston 49,. IN
calls upon the President to refuse to endorse
and vaguely hints that aid could be obtainn5
if needed, in that fiery State. The R;e1
mond Enquirer asserts that "the Pres; tion.
is bound by his oath to maintain the S.o.t
governments in their just rights, and any '" az
tempt to abolish them by Congress as pS at-
posed by the caucus, would hesitate q p ~
lision." The Petersburg Va) Erpresa . ~,
declares that " if Congress should show a, S
disposition to relax its grasp after absoiu to
dominion, and declare itself in perpetnal on'
sion, the President will have no alterno. ;es-
left him but to disperse the two honsa. y.
the point of the bayonet" 1t is evident ~ at
these irate fellows of the South vet need t1 81
be put through a severe course of recou ~
struction. They are working for it ipdnstri
ously, and will get it to their hearts content
in good time
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What news is there from our Coal fields n
relation to the petroleum Will the Green's
Joro Patriot informs US ?-Standard.
The North Carolina Petroleum and Min
ing Company are at present sinking but
one well-in Rockingham Co. Operatives
who have charge of the work and who have
had much experience in boring for oil in
Pennsylvania, are sanguine of much success.
1t requires capital to develop oil as well as
other interests in the State and unfortu-
nately those who have the means are not dis
posed to aid to proper extent in driving
forward enterprises which would be proita-
BILE to themselves and incalculable benefit to
the State and country at largo Greensboro
Patriot.
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The Arkansas Legislature.

MEMPHIS, Dec 2O.-A joint resolution
passed both Houses to appoint committee
OF fourteen including the president and
three from the Senate, the speaker and six
from the House, and three citizens to be APP
pointed by the Governor-to proceed imme-
diately to Washington for the purpose of
holding conference with the Government
as to the political situation of the country.
and to report on the reassembling of the LIE
gisl allure on the 10th of January.
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CONGRESS has adjourned till Thursday
January Sd, twelve o'clock. When it re-as-
sembles we may expect it to go to work IN
earnest. 1t seems now to be more than pro-
bable that the 10th Congress will assemble
on the 9Th of March, and remain in session
until the Union is restored. We trust it
may do SO. In crisis like the present the
representatives of the people ought to be
constantly at their posts.
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The Eve and Ear.

DR.. Gardner, the celebrated Oculist and
Aurist, is now at the Exchange Hotel, where
he can be consulted for deafness and all dis
eases of the eye. The Doctor has performed
several cures since he has visited Raleigh
therefore, those who require Medical or sur
gcal aid for defective sight or hearing,
should avail themselves of the opportunity
now offered for obtaining relief by going and
consulting DR.. Gardner.
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Christmas.

In order to afford our hands the customary
holiday at the close of the year, no other
paper will be issued from this Office during
the present week.
We shall print again on Monday evening
next, and will send the same edition to our
Tri-Weekly and Weekly subscribers.
We tender to all our readers and friends
our best wishes for their prosperity and hap
piness during the coming year.
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Southern SpItefulness.

The Richmond Times publishes an accor,.
of the burning OF the New Ironside nnJns
the caption. Yankee iron-clad destrorosd5
by fire" The Times adds to the account t Ha
following comment tue
The Southern people will he able to hoo,
this disaster the more philosophically when
they reflect on the fact that the iron clad IN
question was very prominent actor in tba
events of the war on the Southern coast
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The Legislature of North-Carolina adj
journed on Monday morning last, to meet
again on the s2d January, 1867. We are
unable to perceive that this body has been
of any benefit to the people of the State,
though it will cost them before it is dissolv-
ed some fifty thousand dollars of their hard
earnings.
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The Louisville Journal says it will he the
duty of the President to oppose the superse-
dure OF the Southern States governments by
territorial organization with the entire mill
tary and naval forces of the nation, and calls
upon the people to sustain him in using the
national forces for this purpose.
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earnings.

John Dawson, Esq, has been elected May
or of Wilmington by the following vote
Dawson 436, J. L. Wooster 341.
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From the New York Herald we take the
followln G: MIR. William Browne, the old
est artist In New York, died suddenly on
the 1st of December He was born in the
town OF Leicester, England, in the year 1884.
He evlnced. at a very early age, taste for
the profession which he afterward followed.
He was fellow-student with Wilkie and
Turner, IN the Royal Academy, under the
presidency of Benjamin West. A painting
OF his, still eXtant, done at twelve years Of
age, represents an interior in his birthplace
at Leicester. He came to America twenty
i've years ago, after a long art-lfe in Eng
land. During eleAen years he held a COM
mission as captain in the British army.
ing active service in the campaign which
eliminated with Waterloo and the allied
occupation of Paris. Most of his works
since his residence in this country, were sen
to England as soon as finished, highly ap-
preciated as they were here. His speciality
was landscape. In his later years he devel-
oped special talent for water-color. His
family retain many of his more recent efforts
Nine children came with him to America,
i've daughters and four sons, every one OF
whom inherits artistic tastes from their ia
Their. Three daughters are now professional
artists in this city, and one son, William
Carrie Browne, is well known pOrtrait-pain-
ter In North Carolina. The attending ply
stefan of the late Mr.. Browne found that he
kept intact his love of art, painting almost
to the last hour of his life. OF commanding
stature and military bearing, but slightly
impaired by age, he will long be remem ber-
ed by those who knew him as painter, gen
tleman, and friend. ,, Mr., w. G. Browne is
well known to the Editor of The Waterman
as painter af great ability. We have rare
ly seen a portrait by any master superior to
some which come from his brush
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derous warfare against the nation which they

derous warfare against the nation which they
insisted on prosecuting to the last moment,
and who now arrogantly and wickedly re-
tain the reins of power over the ruin they
have wrought, and over their superiors and
betters, the Union men, when they knoso that
by so doing they are preventing the restora-
ton of the Union and sowing the seeds of
renewed civil war. If they possessed one
spark of virtue, decency or selfrespect, they
would instantly retire, and leave the work of
restoration in the hands of the loyal men. by
whom alone it can ever be accomplished
By waiting until they are forced to relinquish
their hold, as they will be, they will lose
everything in the end, and at the same time
incur the reproaches of every citizen whose
good opinion is worth having.
| A WORD TO CoNGREss-The people of
| North Carolina fear no investigation. We
are ready to abide the decisions of truth and
| justice. We call upon the Congress to send
Committee of its own members of both
Houses, to North Carolina, with power to
send for persons and papers, to investigate
the false charges made by unworthy sons of
the State, at Washington and other places.
We want Mr.. Holden, Mr.. Pool, Mr.. Harris
.,
Holy Evangelists, whereof they affirm of the
people of North Carolina. Let us have the
lnvestigation.-Ssn
Congress is well enough informed already,
without listening to the appeals of traitors
for Investigations into the condition of things
here
We know the people of North Carolina
fear no investigation" but the traitors who
are controlling our affairs do.
The Sentinel and its co-traitors were ready
in May, 1866, to abide the decisions of
truth and justice" but they are now more
defiant than they were in 1864 towards the
federal government. Those who took the
amnesty oath of the President and then broke
it, are pretty set to propose to swear other
people on the Holy Evangelists.
We now tell the Congress that it is the !
fixed impression of our Union people, white
and black, that if the national troops were
withdrawn and the State restored to the
Union under present auspices, the lives of
Union men would be at once placed in dead
ly peril. If they did not Immediately be-
come silent, and bow humbly to secession rule
they would be shot and hanged without mer-
cy. The massacres in Memphis and New
Orleans would be repeated in thousand To-
calities in these insurgent States.
We implore the Congress of the United
States not to turn our Union people perma-
nently over to secession rule. That body
has the power-let 1T exercise it, If it hest
tates now, or if it should only do half work
in recognizing these States, the Union acW
be lost IN the maelstrona Of the blooliest recotu-
ton erer recorded in the annals Of naankind-
We beg the Congress not to misapprehend
Or underrate the true condition of things in
the insurgent States.
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Ma" said young Hopeful at the break
1ast table, If man is Mister is not a wo-
man Jfste7y'' - WV
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Tri- M'eeklp gtamdard.
RAIEIGH. N. g.
The North-CaroIina STANDARD.

TUESDAY. DECEMBER rs. 1866.