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A strange decision has just been rendered
in North-C Carolina. Chief Justice Ruttin has
declared against the proposed new Constitu
| ton of the State Convention. The Chief
| Justice says:
Il consider that this is no constitution,
| because your convention was not legitimate
convention and had no power to make a
constitution for us, or to alter that which we
had and hare object to the organization
of YOUR convention because it was called
without the consent of the people, by the
President of the United States, or under his
orclers-and act of clear and despotic usurp-
alton" -Noa1olG Virginann.
The Virginian is mistaken in suposing
that the above quotation is from I" decision"
of Judge Ruffin delivered as Judge. Heis
not now in office as Judge and further
more there has been no decision by any
Court on the question. The extract to which
the Virginidn refers is from an anonymous
communication which first appeared in the
Wilmington Journal, said to have been writ
ten by Judge Ruffin. 1t is the mere opinion
of Judge Rutfin as an individual. But it is
very unfortunate that such language should
be published by Il gentleman occupying the
prominence of Judge Ruffin. The reasoning
is as erroneous as the language is unfortunate.
1t will rejoice the radicals and the enemies of
the South, but will greatly damage the Presi-
denC ana Nortnern Heu VINO are standing up
for our rights. 1t is too late to talk! about
the legality of the Convention and dispute
the authority by which it was called. Tn
der the circumstances, President johnson
did the best he could for us, and it is not
proper for Southern man no to accuse him
of despotism and nsurpation. The above
quotation from Judge Ruffin's communica-
ton will do us much harm-strengthen our
enemies and weeken our friends-and he de-
serves censure for writing it. The people
want peace and quiet, and care very little
about theories. No argument against the
Constitution itself has been advanced, and it
is imprudent to try to get up fuss about
abstract questions Charlotte Democrat.
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Ths mxatery Of slssp

Chambers Journal has the following
on the above subject:
Twelve hundred millions Of dreams
make net work of wild fancies nightly
about their planet. To go, if it were pos
sible, through this world of sleep, would
be a stronger process than that OF ex-
ploring the whole waking world, for in
sleep every living being is poet, from
the baby that clings in its dreams to the
breast of goodness to the cenrenarian
who, with staff and spectacle, hobbies
about paradise at the heels of seraphs.
Sleeping and waking are The two phe-
nomena of our existence What is done
and thought in the everyday working
world, where the ordinary business Of life
is carried on, no living creature has
fully revealed to another There arerei-
licences in the confessions Of the most
frank-things which cannot, and there
fore never will, be spoken-thoughts
which transcend the limits Of language
hopes which the power of no fairy could
satisfy-fear which even Lucifer himself
would fail to exaggeraie If this portion
of our life, which is at least subjected to
our own observation, cannot be fully and
faithfully described, still less can the
other portion which defes even our own
scrutiny, converts US into mere specta-
tors of ourselves, sets free our actions
from the control of our own will, and
transforms us into so many passive
spokes in the great wheel Of destiny.
Whatever may be the laws by which it is
regulated, sleep presents the counterpart
of the waking world-distorted, mutila-
ted, thrown into irremedlable confusion
by the force of the imagination
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Texas Radical Programme.

1t is stated, by authority, in the Intel
Hgencer, of Thursday last, that the
Union men twas there ever so palpable
a misnomer,) now in Austin, has deter
mined not TO bring out or support any
candidates for Congress, and recommend
the same course 10 their party IN the
State generally. They regard all that
has been done in the way oi reconslruc-
ton so far as null and void Of course,
they consider all the State Governments
as illegal, and that no one is bound 10y
their action, or accountable 10 them,
because they say that they have been
created without the sanction OF Congress.
Here, then, we have the Radical pro-
gramme, dictated at the North, and sent
on, doubtless, for the guide of eur South
ern Radicals. The Southern State gov
ernments, all now in successful opera
tion, are 10 be destroyed, and the
Southern States are tu be held ~ terri
torial subjection, aud governed 10y the
few Radical traitors 10 be found among
them, appointed by Congress. But
there is another item which the tools
here of Northern Radical vengeance
have not yet announced Gentlemen
lately returned from the North tell US
that it is a part of the programme to con
fscate the property Of every Southern
rebel, so-called, TO pay off the national
debt, and save The Northern people from
further taxation. Comment nn this Is
unnecessary. The Radical programme
cannot Dee carried out without another
civil war. Andrew johnson, as long as
he is President Of the United States will
never permit these things to be done.
The Radicals know this well. They in
tend to remove him, to revolntionize the
Government, to destroy the Constitution,
and establish Congressional despotism,
10 be administered by an Executive
Committee. II remains to be seen
whether they will be successful II they
are, the republic is at an end, and We are
a lost people.-AHsfin 1erdsl Gazette.
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Twenty-ons Jokes Going Up and Down the
World

A writer in al the Year Round dis
courses of 1.-The Statistics of Joking.
He says: One Hierocles, in the early
Christian days. spent much OF his time
in researches into this highly momentous
subject, being the first author upon IT.
He left behind him, as the harvest of his
labors, tweniy-one jokes, which we may
securely believe were all that, to his
knowledge, existed up and down the
world, after as many as five hundred
years of its Christian life were spared, in
addition, as many people are aware, OF
previous four thousand. Twenty one
Jokes in four thousand five hundred
years Which is as much as to say that
the old world made joke once in about
two hundred and fifty years, and then
took breath. Whata stale, worn, thread
bare thing that first joke must have been
when the second joke was made The
stock OF fun was, of course, compare
lively rich then; there was IA glimpse of
fertility. What an extraordinary run
there must have been upon the little
stranger So we see that for forty II We
centuries the world was in the habit Of
preparing its jokes with stupendous de-
gree of deliberation and forethought I;
and the inhabitants of the universe (who
lived, however, snugly in tiny corner
of it) maintained themselves respeclably
and comfortably during that period on
twenty-one facetie But marvellous
revolution was impending The world
was meditating (speaking jocularly) IA
gigantic and astounding spring From
twenty-one jokes, the Hieroclean legacy,
to twenty one millions, was like one step
accomplished in a moment; or, in or
dinary language, in about thirteen hun
dred years Everything is complra' i've.
Those first forty-hye centuries joked so
slowly that we got somehow into a way
of looking at them as if they had been
mere chronological atoms Adding thir-
teen new centuries to the old forty-fye
brings us very nearly down to the age in
which we live-for arguments sake, say
quite to it. We stand al twenty-one
million jokes. Are we contentP May
twenty-one million jokes be regarded as
high-water mark? The greatest nation
in the world ought TO rest and be thank
ful with such an enormous fortune,
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VOL. H. MEMPHIS TENNESSEE SATURDAY EVENING

back. Are you mad ?" Norman
again shouted, with much anxiety, per
haps he's only stunned, cant answer
for hitting him again. Run of, con-
found you; run away, will you ?" " It's
all serene, old fellow" was the reply.
+" see him lying quite still, and dead as
a door nail. There he is under the tree"
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