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The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-10-09
AWFUL SCENES.
The Cholera at Nashville, Tenn

Nashville Correspondence Louisville Courier
The mortality here is frightful. The board
of health on the 18th reported &fty-six inter-
ments in the city cemetery, which does not in
elude probably the same number whom some
hasty out-of.the-way graves opened their arms
to receive. The negroes die in great numbers,
most of them from their own reckless imprudence
in eating Watermelons and other unreasonable
fruit. The city authorities have taken every
precaution to cleanse the city from filth or an y
nuisance that might attract or produce the pesti-
ence, but it all seems unavailing, as deaths be-
come more frequent and victims more plentiful.
The coffin makers are beseiged with applica-
tions for collins, and hearses greet the eye con-
tiaualy on the streets during the day The
ph ysicans are constantly going and coming, and
so great is the demand on their professional
services.
In the suburbs of the city, around the railroad
machine shops and old government buildings the
disease is making fearful ravages. both among
the whites and the negroes, and have been told
on good authority that 10 many instances negroes
have buried negroes in their own yards.
| learn to- day that there were from sixty to
seventy burials at the cemetery, and that the
disease is fearfuly ON the increase. Business
of all kinds, except with the drug stores, seems
perfectly paralyzed, and the trains going out Of
the city are crowded to such an extent with
fleeing citizens that extra cars have to be put
on, while those coming in are empty.
From the Nashville Gazette, oath.
The mortuary report this morning shows the
number of deaths for the twenty -four hours end
ing yesterday at o'clock, to be sixty seven i;
from ehQera fifty five, and from other causes
twelve. We learn that the disease during yes
terday prevailed in several localities hitherto
exempt, and that while it was virulent in some
quarters, cases occurred throughout the city
generally.
The opinions of some, and the hopes of all,
that the changes in the weather of Thursday
night would abate the scourge have proved
false. There was frost in this region on yester
day morning, the air was bracing, and so far as
can be judged pure, the sun shown, the winds
had evaporated the moisture, the day
balmy and pleasant, and yet there was an in
crease of the epidemic disease. Calculations
would seem to be all at fault. There is but
one plausible explanation of the fact that We
have heard and that is this, the suddenness Of
the change has lent violence to the re-ezisting
cause
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CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Hon. Alfred Dochery:
DEAR SIR The undersigned were appointed
a committee, by the Union Meeting held in
Raleigh on yesterday, the Goth, to inform you
of your nomination for the Office of Governor Of
North Carolina, and to request your acceptance
Of the same
You were selected without dissenting voice
as the most suitable citizen to represent the
Union sentiment of North Carolina. The restor
alton of the Union was felt by the meeting to be
the paramount, all-absorbing question of the
Cay. We have no doubt you concur with US in
this view, and we trust the resolutions adopted
by the meeting will receive your approval
With your assistance at the helm, the ship Of
State, though surrounded by breakers on every
side, will yet weather the storm and reach the
only safe haven for her people-the great ma
tional government founded by Washington.
Sincerely trusting, Sir, that you will accept
the nomination thus rendered, and devote what
time is left to canvassng public questions, we
have the honor to be, with high respect,
J. F. TAYLOR, of Wake,
H. J. MENNINaER, of Craven, Conn.,.
Z. T. BLAIR, of Randolph,
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NEWS ITEMS.

DELAWARE AT the election for Judges and
Election Inspectors held throughout the State
of Delaware, on Wednesday last, the Democrats
and Conservatives were triumphant.
Later Mexican advices report that Maxmii-
ian will put himself at the head of army to
fight the Liberals, aud that he considers his
Empire safe.
SWEDISH IMMIGRANTS We learn from the
Petersburg Index that Mai William Allen has
recently brought on from New York, a number
of intelligent Swedes to labor on his farm on
James river.
WASHINGTON, October 3.-The Attorney
General, in response to inquiries by the Presi-
dent on the subject, has given his opinion to
the effect that the President cannot separate til e
districts for the collection of tax on cotton from
districts for the assessment and collection of tax
on other products This was the point which
the delegation of Southern cotton factors and
planters presented in their memorial to the
President a few days since. The Secretary of
the Treasury has also denied applications to have
the boundaries of collection districts changed,
on the ground that it would take longer for new
appointees to qualify, select and instruct their
assistants, than it would for the present officers
to appoint sufficient number Of assistants and
deputies
All the officers Of the Internal Revenue De-
partment South have taken the oath of office,
excepting one in Texas.
Washington, Oct 2.-The household effects
left at the Arlington mansion of Gen. Lee, or
rather, the fragments remaining of them, were
yesterday delivered to the party authorized by
Gen. Lee to receive them. This was done. it is
said, by order of the President
Nine hundred and forty applications have been
received from negroes in Georgia, Tennessee and
Virginia, by the American Colonization Society.
for transportation to Liberia. They will depart
November LIST.
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STATE NEWS.

CoMMITTED-The court, yesterday, SEN
fenced man named Castlebury to a fine OF
twenty-five dollars, and costs, together with
three months imprisonment, for wilfully neg
lecting his wife and taking up with another
woman. -Raleigh Progress.
The rascal deserved greater punishment
than that.
SAD >CAsE-We understand that Mrs Pen
ny A. Sorrell, living about seven miles from
this city, committed suicide, last Wednesday,
by hanging herself. We have no particulars of
this melancholy affair. She vas the daughter
of Mr. Jacob Maynard, an estimable citizen OF
this county, and had been married less than one
year.-Rateigh Progress.
EMIaRANrs.-We conversed on Tuesday
with Mr. Coffin, the Agent, who had in charge a
company of four hundred emigMnts FROM this
State going west He informed US that they
came principally from the Counties of Ran
dolph, Guiford, Davidson, Alamance and ada
cent localities; and that the large majority of
them were children under twelve years Of age
Some of the emgrants will stop in Indiana, 9TH
ers in Illinois, while many will 60 beyond Mis-
souri, to the new Indian reservation. Mr. Coffin
says that there is no larger exodus of emigrauts
from this State at the present time, than before
the war; but they now go in parties and thus
aLIIdct more atteutiOu DeiOTe the war, enl-
grants went by wagons, now they take the cars.
1t IS sad thing to see SO many of the best and
most industrious of our citizens leaving.-Ral-
eigh Standard.
"a The 18th regiment of North Carolina
militia has been organized by the election of
officers. They will, of course, at present, arm
only with corn-stalks.
A DARING AND OUTRAGEOUS ROBBERY
We learned yesterday from MIR w Ames, a
very peaceable and worthy citizen, who is run
ming the celebrated farm of Council Wooten,
near Mosely Hall in Lenoir county, that party
of half dozen or more white men on Saturday
last went to his farm to take his mules, and on
being resisted bya boy in his employ, they
killed him on the spot, firing some four or five
pistol balls at him. Mr. A hearing the ARRAY
rushed to the scene of action in time to secure
seven or eight of the ten or twelve mules whish
they had taken from the negro boy, they having
broken loose through fright which the melee
had caused. These hardened wretches stood
their ground for time and threatened to shoot
Mr. Ames, but he stood firm in defence of bis
property, and the cowardly scoundrels finally
left with only two or three of the coveted
animals.-Neaobern Times. s'
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Sale Of Salisbury Prison Lot.

Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen and Aban-
doned Lands
HEADe'Rs. ASST CoMM'K, STATE OF N. CT
RALEIGH, N. c., Sept Is, 1866. I
In compliance with orders from the Commission
er of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abanr
doned Lands dated War Department Bureau of Re-
fugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Washing
ton, D. c., August l7th 1866, and by virtue ofau-
thority given in section II of the act of Congress,
passed July l6, 1866, entitled "An Act to continue
in force and to amend AN Act to establish Bureau
for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees, and for
other purposes" | will sell at the Boydeu House,
in the city of Salisbury, N. c. at public asctioa to
the highest bidder, on THURSDAY, THE FIRST
10 O'Clock, A. NJ, and O'clock p. NJ all that GER
tain tract of land known as the 80
"PRISON LOT"
veyed by the Trustees of Davidson College to the
so-caled Confederate States, by deed dated the I'd
day of November, A. ID. 1861, containing about If
teen (l5) or sixteen (l6) acres more or less
Said tract of land was used during the late war
by the so-called Confederate States Government
for n conf ement of prisoners war It was for.
meriy the site of large manufacturing establish
ment: 1t has Railroad front of about three hum
bred (300) yards on the North Carolina Railroad,
making it a very desirable location for a manufac-
turing site or the establishment of a Store-house
for the storage and shipment of the agricultural
products of the country.
TERMs-Cash, in Government funds on the de-
livery OF warranty deed therefor, in the name Of
THOS. P. JOHNSTON,
Capt A @ N, Blu r F Il A L.
Brevet Major q SY
Oct |, 1866. 5w
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THE IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT
Mr. Bingham, of the Ohio Congressman, went
So far in a recent speech as to say that if re-
elected: $500. ....s..
$50 help me God | will neither give sleep to
my eyes, nor slumber to my eye lids, until I
have drawn bills Of impeachment against An
drew johnson"
This is the intention-and Bingham is lead
ing light among the Radical members of Con-
gress. Reflect enough of these uen, and we
have the country convulsed by trial of ;m-
peachmen! which will shake its commerce and
trade from top to bottom, and bottom to top
Neso York Express
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Gbe We5tern BRmnfrat.
CHARLOTTE, n. C.
SENSIBLE SPEECH.

The colored people Of this State held Con-
yeption in Raleigh last week to promote the
cause of education. They invited Gov Worth
to address them. The Governor made the fol-
lowing very proper remarks:
81 have come here, upon your invitation, to
give YOU, by my presence, what couHteDance
and encouragement | could, having understood
that all your proceedings were conducted in a
becoming and orderly manuer. l was not mott
fed that any remarks were expected from me,
till your President just informed me. The few
words shall say are unprecedented.
10 the first place, let NE assure you, that
am disposed to do every thing [ can, as citi-
zen and as Governor, to protect you in all your
rights, and to encourage you to be industrious,
to educate your children and to make yourselves
respectable and happy; and while you may ex,
pect my protection, while you do right, | shall
be equally ready to have those punished who do
wrong.
You are very poor Your first care should be-
By industry and economy, to provide good sup
plies Of meat and bread, and devote all you can
spare to educate your children; and remember
that it is the common interest of both races that
DO enmity be allowed to grow up between them.
As far as l know, the general feeling of your
late masters is kind towards you. The whites
feel that they owe you debt of gratitude for
your quiet and orderly conduct during the war;
and you should endeavor SO to act as to keep up
this kindly feeling between the two races.
Let me advise you not to NEEDLE in govern
mental affairs You know how few of your
race are now capable of understanding matters
of this sort, and you see the strifes and troubles
in which party politics have involved the whites.
Avoid politics. Practice industry, virtue, and
4
tween the races and you will thus acquire COM
petence and elevate your condition"
I'VE are sorry to see that notwithstanding Gov.
Worths good advice, the Convention did take action
on political subjects. The colored people cannot
benefit themselves by meddling with politics.
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RICHMOND County, Sept 27, 1866


Messrs. j. f. Taylor, H. j. Menninger and E. T. Blair:
GENTLEMEN :-Your of the 2lst instant, by
the hand of our friend AIR Logan, has been re-
ceived. Accept the assurances of my regard for
this additional manifestation of trust and conf
dence reposed in me, by our friends assembled
in Raleigh on the goth instant, and my thanks
for the very complimentary terms 10 which you
have been pleased to make known to me the &C.
ton of the meeting
regret, gentlemen, to say that after mature
reflection, circumstances of personal character,
connected with the few days that will intervene
before the day Of election, precluding the posi-
bility of even partial canvass of the State,
compel me most respectfully to decline the can
ddacy rendered me by the meeting in Raleigh.
Allow me, however, to assure you that the
lutions and most excellent address adopted by
the meeting, in the main have my most cordial
approval. -...,
greatly prefer the Howard amendment, with
its reference of negro suffrage to our own Legis-
lature, than to risk the next Congress, which,
in all proba bility, will pass a much more strin-
gent law upon that subject.
/ also vastly prefer the restrictions upon Office
holders, about which the secession organs clamor
so much, TO more general prescription, with the
confscaten of our lands, of which there is great
danger, should the proposed amendment be
jectcd.
The argument in favor of immediate repre-
sentatioo in Congress Cannot be answered. AS
well might General be expected to resist
well-appointed army, or storm a stronghold with
out soldiers, as for our interests in Congress to
be defended until our members shall have been
admitted. And as President johnson and Sec
rotary Seward, as well as the Congress, have re-
pea.edly declared the test-oath to be q pre-
requisite condition of admission, the people
ought to invite all our members elect who can
not comply with the required condition, to re-
tire, and let others who can comply be elected,
as an indispensable step towards harmony and
Most respectfully yours,
ALFRED DOCKERY.
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MONEY AND BUsINEss.-The money mar
ket at New York is much more than supplied,
and the rate for call loans is only per cent,
and some loans are made or government collat-
erals as low as 3 per cent At Boston, the rate,
usual, is higher, 6 per cent being the prevail
ing quotation, though the best houses are sup
piled at per cent
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OUTRAGES IN WESTERN NORTH
CAROLINA.

A correspondent writes to the Raleigh Sen
tnel from Franklin, Macon county, d g., Sept.
23d, as follows:
"His Honor, Judge Ship, held court in
Cherokee last week But few decisions of i'm
portance were made. The court had its DELHI
eratious very much disturbed, on Monday, by
the return of some noted individuals from Ten
nessee, by the name Of Morrow, well armed
They made an attack on man by the name of
latham, fred pistol at him while on bis horse
in the act Of leaving for home, the ball missing
him and taking effect 10 the neck Of his horse.
latham who, it seems, had been apprehensive
of an attack, was also armed and returned the
fire, killing instantly one Of the Morrows, and
rode off. The other Morrow mounted horse
and pursued him short distance, but not in the
range of guushot He wheeled his horse, came
back to where his brother was lying dead and
deliberately fired on lawyer by the name Of
Boon, killing him instantly. Boon appears to
have been unarmed, not having suspected any
attack. After killing Boon he fired on man
by the name of Cooper, quite peaceable and
inofensive man not engaged in the affray, in
ficting on him two severe wounds, from which
his recovery is deemed doubtful, ard Morrow
then made his escape in the direction of Ten
nessee, where he resides. These outrages by
men from Tennessee, acting under the advice Of
Gov. BrOwniOw, who published the opinion that
it was right to kill the reLs wherever found, aud
that he would pardon the ofence, becoming
too frequent to be continued much longer with
out producing border warfare much to be
deplored.
A man by the name of Cline, residing in the
lower part of jackson county, was shot down in
cold blood, short time since, by band of
marauders from Tennessee, known ss the Robert
Burchield robbers Four Of them came 10 the
house of Cline a little while before dark, called
him out, and pretended that they wanted to
trade with him, he being a merchant, loitercd
about until dark, then pretended that they
wanted candle to count out their money. As
soon as the candle came, without saying word,
two of them shot him-the balls taking effect
near his heart, causing instant death. He
leaves wife and large number of small chill
dren to mourn his loss. The murderers we're
able to make their escape to the dominions of
Governor Brownlow.
Another portion, including the notable Bob
Burchfeld himself, about the same time pene-
trated into the lower portion of Cherokee county,
went to the house of a Mrs. Gunter, fired upon
two of her sons, wounding of them serious
ly. They, too, made their escape to the same
rendezvous.
Will these murderers of our peaceable citizens
along the border, as in the days of yore be sur
rendered and turned over to the civil authority
for trial and punishment"
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-10-09

The Present Polune of Green6ock Curyen-
cy-On the first OF September, 1866 the whole
amount of United States paper money in circu-
latien was SS71 81 5 $50, of which S555, Il5..
1872 were legal tenders, s2s9, 9l5, 1928 National
Bank notes, and SIC, AS, 1913 fractional curren.
ey. Itappears that while the legal tender cur
rency has been reduced 5000, 726 and the
fractional currency sS5O,967, during the last
three months, there has been an increase of
Sll,OlO,l54 in National Bank notes. The
amount of National Bank notes to be issued,
before the 300,0o0,0Oo prescribed by law shall
be reached, is now about o,06O goo. ,.-a
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-10-09

CUR1oUs DEATH.-A London paper men
tons the death of a person from singular cause.
He was playing at "puff the DART" game which
Is played With long needle, inserted in some
worsted, and blown at a target through tin
tnbe.> Heplaced the needle in the wrong end
OF the tube, and, drawing in his breath strongly
to puff the dart forward with force, drew the
needle into his throat 1t entered the luops-
and in few days killed him, the unfortunate
man expiring in great agony.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-10-09
E A gentleman residinn In

Es- A gentleman residing in this vicinity
has just communicated to us a mode for the de-
lection of horse thieves while in the act of enter
ing the stable or barn where the animals are kept
He is testing the plan himself, which costs from
two to three dollars only and if properly arran-
ged, will doubtless have the desired effect, unless
the whole family should be too soundiy asleep to
be awakened by signal. But our friend has
forbidden us to detail his plan, at least for the
present, except to those who willing to pay
one dollar for the information.--!Salisbu
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. EcLIPsEs OF THE SUN.-On Monday. October
9Th, there will be a partial eclipse of the SUM-,
which will be visible in New England and in that
part of the State of New York which is northeast
of a line drawn map from the city ofRoches-
Ter to the light house on Fire Island, Long Island.
This eclipse will be the last of the sun, visible in
the United States, until the magnificent one of
August 7th, 1860, when the shadow of the moon
will pass over and produce total eclipse in part
of seven States
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LINCOLN COUNTY.

The friends of DR.. NJ L. BROWN respectfully
nounce his name a suitable person to represent
Lincoln County in the House of Commons of
North Carolina and will give him a hearty support
at the election on the 18th October.
Oct l. 1866
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Assessors Office, \
UNITED STATES INTERNAL REV,
9th DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA,
SALISBURY, Sept 22d, 1866.
In compliance with instructions from the Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue, hereby designate
the following places in this District, where AS
SCISSOR Assistant Assessor, and Collector
a Deputy Collector will be located the days re-
spectively named, for the purpose of weighing and
appropriately marking under the Internal Revenue
laws, (Act approved July l3, 1869 any cotton
which may be brought to those several places from
the places where the same produced, in the
district, viz: ....-.-[ B.. 90
Salisbury StatesUue-Monday. Wednesday end
Friday.
Concord, Charlotte-Tuesday, Thursday Friday.
China Grove, Harris6urg-Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.
Lincolnton-Tuesday and Friday.
H. H. HELPER, Assessor.
Oct !, 1866 IF -,
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From two bushels of Kentucky white wheat,
sown last fall, Mr. John Burns, of Jefferson
county, Va, had yield of sixty-two bushels and
thirty pounds of merehantable wheat That
vas pretty fair yield. - q.
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The MYSTERY OF SLEEP.-Twelve hundred
millions of dreams make network of wild fam
cies nightly about our planet To 60, if it we're
possible, through this world of sleep would be
stranger process than that of exploring the
whole waking world; for in sleep every living
being is poet, from the baby that clings in its
dreams to the breasts of goddesses, to Che GEN.
tenarian who, with staff and spectacles, hobbies
about Paradise at the heels of seraphs. l..
Sleeping aud waking are the two great 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 ever fully revealed to anoth-
err. There are reticences 10 the confessions of
the most frank, things which cannot, and there
fore which never will be spoken-thoughts
which transcend the limits of language-hopes
which the power of no fairy could satisfy-iear
which even Lueifer himself woulc fail to cxag-
gerate. If this portion of our life, which is at
least subjected to our own observation, cannot
be faithfully and fully described, still less can
that other portion which defes even our own
scrutiny, converts US into mere spectators of our
selves, sets free our actions from the control of
our will, and transforms US into so many passive
spokes in the great wheel of destiny.
Whatever may be the laws by which it is
sleep presents the counterpart of the
waking world-distorted, matilated, thrown into
irremediable confusion by the force of the I'M
agination.-C Chambers Journal
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" a m ted,

young man to take charge of, and assist in
working a small Farm, Charlotte. He must
come well recommended, unless personally known
to the Editor of this paper to whom applications
may be made. The situation be made very
desirable one.
Oct l, 1866. st