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National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1866-10-19

EeENSNNRE'S SALOON.
BRADFORD, VERMONT.
FVNlIE FOLLOWING ARTICLES COM
pose portion of my stock in trade
Confectionery.
All kinds of Common and Fancy Candies,
Cough Drops Lozcnges. sc.
Fruit and Nuts.
Consisting of Oranges. Lemons Apples
Brazil Nuts. Peanuts. Filbcrts, Nc., Sc
Tobacco and Cigars.
OF all the different brands, including Army.
Navy, Fine Cut, &c, Ne.
Fish, Oysters. Sc.
Fresh llalibut, Cod, Mackercl, HOLSTERS,
Smoked Herring, Sardincs. Sc. Oyster Stcws
and Fries served at short notice.
Aies and COrsiiaIs.
Porter Champagne Cider, Soda, Sn Ill Beer,
Port, Madeira, and California Wines, Rose
Water, Bay Rum, &c
.pcliic> and Jams.
Raspberry. Strawberry Peach Ounce and
Pineapple Jellics and Jams also. Tomato and
Walnut kctchups; Pickles. Pepper Sauce, and
other articles in this line.
Apples and Onions for sale by the barrel. or
IN less quantities. Please give me "a call.
Bradford, June II, 1850. ltf
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1866-10-19
NO. 3 HARDY'S BUILDING,

80 TO +. y II. +. KENES Il CO.. WHERE.
~ you can get Teas, Coiiccs Sugars. Fish.
Iripe, Flour Chocolate, Broma, Maccaroni.
Tapioca, Sage. Ncrmicelli, and everything else
n The NerN lnMr.I nrirrs
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1866-10-19

FATAI ACClDENT.-JamcS O..
Brien. Il section hand on the Pas
Suinpsic Il. r., who lives about II
mile below the station here, was
found dead on sabbath morning, he
tween the station and his house. II
appears that on Saturday evening
OBricn had been with Il husking
party ut Mr.. Hiram Caswclls, who
lives about a mile below his TO-
Brien'S) house. The party left Mr.
Caswcll'S about II II. VI. some riding
up to the station in O'Brien's hand
car, and some walllingup the track.
O iiricu walked, and came right by
his house up to the railroad yard to
take his ear back to his house. He
stepped into his car, and as it was
down grade, he sat down and the
ear started down the track. The
next morning he was found dead
some 30 rods below where last seen
alive, beside the tracN. and his ear
upon him. There was Il severe
bruSc upon his forehead, and anoth
or on his temple. Nothing is known
relative to the cause of his death /:
hut it is supposed that in leaning
forward, or in reaching to take hold
Of the handle. the crank struck him,
and rs the ear was running back
wards, he was knocked over the end
upon the track, when the ear came
upon him. He was about 10 years
old, and leaves wife and two chil
dren. tdlcdOHidR.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04
Slantler! Slander /!

90 Gen. Wright, of Georgia, says he was on the
| Committee that drafted the resolutions in the
Johnson Philadelphia Convention IN favor OF duly
rewarding Union Soldiers. and that he took care
to have them so worded not to commit the Gov
eminent; for, if the South ever gets into power
again, all pensions to Union Soldiers shall be cu
off unless thc Confederate Soldiers put the
same footing
We clip the above from the editorial col
umns of the Standard. We have often
thought that paper, underline baneful inau'
ence of its senior editor, was, with reckless
Indifference to both truth and results,
giving editorial sanction to the mischievous
faEehoods of the Radical presses and ora
tors in their bitter warfare against the
honor and interests of the South.
Ii required no denial of the above from
the gallant gentleman to whom it was attrl-
buted, to prove to us that it was totally
| false. An acquaintance with General Wright
in the trying ordeal of the past few years
enables us to endorse him as the very type
of honor and truthfulness. His conduct as
gentleman and officer was such as would
convince any one that deception was not
an element in his nature. His course, un-
like his slanderer, has been such as not to
deceive Northern citizens or soldiers
during the war, or since its termination.
Gen. Wright, through the columns of the
Augusta Chronicle d Sentinel, of which he is
an editor, thus refers to this matter
The above statement we find in the Troy Daily
Times of the 22nd. 1t is perhaps useless to deny
statement absurd, for denial here is unneccssa-
ry indeed it s anywhere that the character of the
Troy Times is known. We have no idea that one
who is bass enough to peIpetrate such Islander
will have the manliness to publish denial of
it's truth aud if he did, would be sure to invent
some other canard equally mischievous. General
Wright never wrote line that could be tortured
into any such sentiments He does not expect to
cut off the Union soldiers from their PENSIONS
has he any hope that Confederate soldiers will ever
be allowed any place in the pension list"
It thus appears that the Sandud has
given editorial sanction to the base Islander
of the Troy Times. We can we'll under
stand why these Radical papers publish
such willful falsehoods upon our leading
citizens, for such is the capital by which
they are attempting, and we fear with too
much success, to break down the Admins
tration of President Johnson and the efforts
of the Conservatives to restore the Union
upon honorable and constitutional
grounds, but we cannot appreciate what
truthful and honest motive q North Carroll
MAN, who has held high civil position and
has yet higher aspirations, nay even CON
scientiously desires to be respected among
his fellow-men, can have to give publicity
to the statements of these false witnesses
against our own people. The expectations
which prompt such conduct must be truly
fascinating, but alas what have we to say of
the Leo2t which conceives it.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04
The New York Episc opal Convention.

The Episcopal Diocesan Convention, of
New York, adjourned Friday afternoon, af-
ter session characterized by perfect har-
mony: The New York correspondent of
the Philadelphia Ledger says
The Bishops address, in it's references to the
SOUTH is model for the politicians of all and
every party, but the trouble is, the politicians
never adopt or follow such models. Cancellation
ana kindness Inc have brought the once fractured
parts OF the Episcopal Charch together again in
the bond OF peace and unity of spirit and one can
not help thinking if the politicians would but try
the same experiment, !" just once,' like happy re-
suits would enure to the State. The question of
division of the diocese goes over for another
year, the Bishops recommendation meanwhile he
ing concurred in that the whole matter be referred
posed of some of the ablest clergy and laity con-
nected with the church. "
1t ought to be added, pending the discussion Of
the division" question: Rev. John Henry Hon
klns, OF the Church Journal, announced that he
was authorized by an eminent layman to saw that
he was prepared to give $50 900 for the endowment
OF two new Bishoprics within the diocese The
announcement created sensation, but no action
was taken upon it.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04
JEFFERSON DAVIS,
The Conspiracy to Hang Htm-Letter from
Judge Holt. the Chief Conspirator.

The Conspiracy to Hang Htm-Letter from
Judge Holt. the Chief Conspfrator.
WAR DEPT, BUREAU OF MILITARY JUSTICE, J
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 27, 1866. {
Mr.. James Gordon BenneU:
Sir-I have to acknowledge your prompt
compliance with my request, in having Civ
en- place in your columns to my commu.
nlcation to yourself of the ODD inst, in re-
lation to the calumnious charges against me
in connection with the "Conover testimo-
N.Y." but, while doing SO, regret to find
In your editorial notice of this communica-
ton, in the Herald of yesterday, that YOU
have altogether misapprehended It's mean
ing, and in speaking of comparing
the original letters with the manuscript
of his (my) denial" have inadverten-
tly laid me open to an accusation ut
terly undeserved. did not call in ques-
ton at all the genuineness of my own note
to Oonover of the 18th of December, 1865,
but fully admitted it throughout my letter
to yourself, but did complain that this
genuine note had been adjusted to the two
fabricated notes those of Conover and Har-
ris) 80 as to give it an unwarrantable signi-
fication. A careful reading of my co1nmu-
nication to yourself will clearly show this.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04

the Howard amendment and Reputation
We believe nearly, if not all, the candidates
are opposed to the former, but divi-
ded in reference to the latter. We were
told that Wake county, which gave Gov.
Holden upwards Of fourteen hundred ma
jority last Fall, will give majority for
Governor Worth at the ensuing election.
Raleigh can boast of the very best hotel
we have ever stopped at in the South. The
Exchange Hotel, under the new manage
ment Of Mr.. j. M. Blair, of Asheville, is
most excellent in the neatness and cleanli-
ness of its rooms and furniture, the quality
and quantity of its fare, and the urbanity
and attention of its employees, and is an
ornament to the city.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04
Raleigh.

We were glad to notice, during our re-
cent visit to Raleigh, evidences of improve
ment in that city. We were especially graf
fed with the repairs and improvements to
the Capitol. It has been thoroughly
cleansed, painted and repaired, and the en-
tire furniture renovated, and the building
properly lighted with gas. Mr.. Best, the
energetic Secretary of State, to whom this
work has been entrusted, deserves credit
for the manner in which it has been done.
The Messrs. Tucker, of that city, are build
ing a magnificent store-house on the
Burnt District, P" to meet the demands of a
large wholesale and retail trade. Above
the store-room there will be Hall for pub
lie exhibitions, of ample dimensions This
will supply a want long felt in that city
We noticed several other substantial build
ings going up ON the burnt square near the
Market House.
The most interesting feature we noticed
in Raleigh, was an unusual large number
of MANNED citizens, who lost their limbs
during the war, while calamity serving
their State as soldiers, having measures
taken or receiving artificial legs. We felt
much pride, as we saw that these noble men
who had suffered and lost so much in the
service of North Carolina had not been
left unnoticed, but that the State was dis
playing its gratitude in the most substan-
tial manner. The greatful feelings with
which her gallant but unfortunate sons re-
ceive this evidence of the appreciation of
their services by the State, must be crafty
ing to the eminent member from Craven,
in whose patriotism this action was con-
ceived and carried out, as it is to every
honorable citizen of the State. The
thorough manner in which the work is ex-
ecuted, and the very general satisfaction |
given thus far, reflects credit upon Gov
ernor Worth, and Mr.. Ryan, who has spe-
cial charge of the matter.
Some political excitement, of course, ex-
lists about Raleigh-more of a local than
State character, howeyer-the issues being !
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04

!
The National Htelligencer of the odd say.
practical difficulties have arisen in the col
lection of the tax of three cents pound
upon the cotton crop. A memorial of plant
ent law, planters and cultivators cannot
move bale of cotton until it passes the
satraps of the Internal Revenue Commits
sioner Department. They cannot even send
a wagon-load to market to purchase pro
visions for plantation supplies until they 60
hat in hand and beg some assessor or tax
collector to weigh their cotton aud grant q
permit to send it to market.
! These assessors or collectors cannot be
found in the planting districts. They are il
the towns They do not go to the cotton
plantation. The planter must send it tc
them, and, with much delay and expense,
obtain his certificate of the payment of the
tax, before he can sell. The producer has
generally exhausted all his means, and has
no money to advance to the Government
before his crop is marketed.
The memorialists say that the restric,
tons at present imposed to moving the cot
ton, in addition to the heavy tax assessed
upon it. will tend seriously to discourage
further production of that staple, and will
thus act injuriously upon the entire tinan-
cial condition of the country. If the plan
ter cannot ship his crop to market without
being compelled to sacrifice large part OF
it to the ri9ors imposed by onerous regula-
tons, he will naturally turn his attention
to different system of agriculture.
The remedy proposed for the considera-
ton of the Treasury, is to include in one
collection district all the cotton growing
regions, and allow the producer or factor
to send his cotton to any shipping point in
the district. The Government, by estab-
fishing suitable regulations for receiving
the cotton at the points of delivery, for
weighing it where every facility for that
purpose exists, and for bonding it until
sold, or for receiving the tax from the mer-
chant or other holder, would secure prompt
payment of the tax, with less liability to
fraud, at i sI.laller cost to the Government,
and in a way less expensive and annoying
to the planter and to the merchant,
That this remedy will be resorted to is
very probable, for it is quite within the
power of the Secretary of the Treasury to
adopt it.
If the cotton crop should amount to two
million of bales, of four hundred and fifty
pounds each, the tax payable to the Gov
erEment will be twenty-seven millions of
dollars, which will fall chiefly on the domes-
tic purchaser and consumer. Such is the
scarcity of currency in the cotton-growing
States that the Government tax cannot be
paid in advance of the shipment and sale
of the cotton.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04
Address.

We are requested to state that Coioae
Walter L. Steele of Richmond county, vii
deliver an Address before the Duplin Coun
ty Vine Growing and Agricultural Society,
at Kenansville, on Friday, 18th of Novem.
Der next
We congratulate the Society in securing
the services of a gentleman SO capable OF
giving the proper impetus to their new as
ISOLATION, and whose reputation as seiep-
tific agriculturalist will warrant them in
expecting an address worthy the great inter-
est they have manifested in the objects of
the Society.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04
Manufactured News.

| The " Y. Jou,ualof Commerce. in an elab-
crate article under the above head, speaks
of the custom practiced by many papers In
the North and West, of manufacturing
special dispatches, purporting to be from
the South, and which speak in no favorable
terms of the Southern people. That paper
denounces the custom, and speaks of it as
contemplate in the extreme, and says that
the Louisville papers have recently exposed
large number of special dispatches of that
character
Many papers at the North are overflow
ing daily with such dispatches, which,
by the majority of their readers, are gladly
taken for the truth, when really they are
the grossest fasehood
The fact is, the publication of news of this
character pays, and observing the avidity
with which it is perused. when not obtained
through false hearted, unprincipled North
ern men at the South, bogus dispatches
are manufactured in the Office of publica-
ton, i'll order to pander to the popular ap-
petite.
~ NoocCJ III VIC LAoJOAAbJ VA Se'oSoS oASoS
dispatches are written at the North, but we
have many instances of their having been
written on Southern soil, but are none the
less manufactured for all that. We have
not forgotten the memorable communica-
tons concerning our own city, written by
Beadle and Ashley of Freedmen's Bureau
repute, nor the correspondence with ''deown
East " papers, from employees of other
departments Of the government, i'll
oar midst the whole Of which abounded
in falsehood from beginning to end, and
were calculated to heap oppression upon
the heads of people who were innocent of
the wrongs thus imputed to them.
Would that the attention of the people
of the North was directed to the examina-
ton into, and the correction of their own
domestic evils, with that fervor which they
display in endeavoring to remodel, in their
own peculiar way, the internal affairs and
government of the South.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04

80 great is the demand for the Scriptures
In the Turkish empire, and in various parts
OF the Eastern world, that it is in contem-
platlon to build Bible House at Constan-
tlnople. One gentleman in New York has
offered to be one of five to give $25, 900 for
the purpose.
A California paper notices the birth of a
child with one arm under peculiar cir
cumstances." Queer place for an arm.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04
Battles Digest.

We are glad to see that the Law Volumes
of Battles Digesthave been issued and arefor
SALE The volumes before US are complete
and very full The learned and indefatiga-
bic Judge, who has prepared this work, af-
ter years of most devoted labor. has placed
the profession under obligations, which we
hope they will be prompt in acknowledge
ing.
The entire work is to be published in
three volumes, the first two containing the
Law, and the third the Equity cases The
third volume will be ready for delivery in q
few days. The Law cases comprising the
first and second volumes, in some editions
are bound together, giving the purchaser
choice of procuring the entire work in
two or three volumes.
All who have examined the work, are
highly pleased with the Digest. The points
decided are distinctly stated, and the az
rangement Of the cases is simple and ma
tural No lawyer should be without a copy.
The work can be purchased of Nichols,
German & Neathery, Raleigh.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04
Judge Barnes.

4 correspondent from Duplin county
speaks in the highest terms of Judge
Barnes, who presided at the term of the
Superior Court for that county held last
week. He is represented as prompt and
determined officer, and most efficient
Judge. The law-abiding people of the
county were much pleased with him.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04

The estimated yield of the land this year.
is one bale to four acres, which would make
about one sixth of the yield of 1860.
The crop will not reach 800, 900 bales, lin
the United Statesl
PERRY COUNTY, Ala, Sept. 10, 1866
On the Christian place they the freed
mem have nineteen dogs, and hogis gone
if they get after him. Negroes are wan
dering all the time through the country
with guns and pistols, and it is impossible
to raise hogs here as formerly.
On Monday last the army worm reap
peared, and now scarcely a leaf is to be
seen. Blooms, forms, leaves have disap-
peared and nothing is left but the bolls on
the stalk. On the 18th of April my pros
poets were as good for 300 bales as they
now are for so bales. All the old planters
say they have never seen such a year be-
fore for all sorts of crops. The worm is
everywhere throughout this section, as far
as [ can hear. No place is exempt it is
universal
The crop of corn is miserable. Many
will not make enough to last until Christ
mas. There is more stealing than ever It
has been very sickly.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04

The same exposure had been before made
by me in reference to other notes of mine,
which had been previously treated in the
same way by your correspondent and others;
but have not denied, and do not now de-
ny, the commences of any note that with
in my knowledge has thus far been publish
ed, purporting to have been written and
signed by me.
J. HOLT,
I'd AIuoooto Gopa,.ol
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04

A Texas editor has been presented with
an onion a foot and a half in circumfer-
ance. There was great cry raised over
the matter in that office
Brownlow tainted at Erie, Pennsylvania,
when about to speak. He unfortunately
recovered.
MI: Daniel Drew has given ground and
buildings in New York for Methodist Col
ege--a gift valued at $3.50, O0G.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04
THE CROP.
SEA ISLAND CROP,

The crop this year, from all indications, will be
much less than that of any year given in the
above table. One million, thereabouts will
probably be the product of this season, and this
will be hampered by three per cent tax
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-04
RICHMOND COUNTY. Sept. 81, 1866.

Blair
GENTLEMEN Yours of the Dist instant, bv the
hand Of our friend Mr.. Logan, has been received.
Accept the assurances Of my regard for this addi-
posed in me- by friends assembled in Raleigh
on the Goth instant, and my thanks for the very
complimentary terms in which you have been
pleased to make known to me the action of the
meeting.
regret, gentlemen, to say that after mature re-
Fiction, circumstances OF personal character,
connected with the few days that will intervene
before the day of election, precluding the posi-
bity Of even partial canvass of the State, COM
pei me most respectfully to decline the candidacy
rendered me by the meeting i'll Raleigh. Allow me-
however, to assure you that the resolutions 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
law upon that subject.
l also vastly prefer the restrictions upon office
holders, about which the secession organs clamOr
SO much, to more general prescription, with the
coniscation of our lands, Of which there is great
danger, should the proposed amendment be re-
jected.
The argument in favor Of immediate represen-
tation i'll Congress cannot be answered. As well
might General be expected to resist well-ap-
pointed army, or storm stronghold without
soldiers as for interests in Congress to be de-
Tended until our members shall have been admit
ted. And as President johnson and Secretary
Seward, as well as the Congress, have repeatedly
declared the test-oath to be prerequisite coud-
ton of admission the people ought to invite all our
i4embers elect who cannot comply with the required
condition, to retire, and let others who can com
ply be elected, as indispensable step towards
harmony andrestorati,m.
Most respectfully yours.
ALFRED DocKERY.