The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-04-24

recently submitted to them of inquiring into the
expediency of repeating the test OATH Ihe
President few days ago sent special message
to Congress upon the subject, transmitting let
tiers from the Secretary of the Treasury and the
Postmaster-General strongly urging some legis-
lation upon the subject. and giving the reasons
therefor. The Committee after short discus
sion, directed their Chairman to report against
any modification of the oath whatever. The
Chairman will present elaborate report upon
It. going into the whole question. and attempt TO
vindcate the action of the Committee by quota
tions from the Presidents records MIR Rogers
will present minority report in favor of its re-
peal, desired by the Secretary of the Treasury
and the POstmasterGeneral.
The President removed two Radical Office
holders at Pttsbu,g-the Postmaster and Inter
nal Revenue Collector-and appointed good ad-
mnlstratlon men in their places, Ex-Governor
johnson, of Pennsylv being selected for the
lucrative office of Collector.
The President has signed order for the issue
Of pardons to six persons in North Carolina, nVe
in Arkansas. in Louisiana and one in lexas
special cases-all under the thirteenth excep-
ton. or the twenty thousand dollar property
clause.
President johnson has ordered that writ of
habeas corpus be granted in the in which it
was refused by Judge Underwood in Virginia,
few days ago.
The list of awards for the capture of Mr. Davis.
and the arrest of the assasSins of Mr. Lincoln, has
at length been sent to Congress. The largest
award is to Colonel Pritchard who receives ten
thousand dollars the captor of Mr. Davis.
1t has been limited by the Radicals that the
Senate will not confirm the nomination of Judge
Stanberry to the Supreme Court, but pass bill
abolishng the judicial district
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is at the ST. Lawrence
Hotel, in Montreal.
THE CHOLERA AT NEW YORK.-New York,
April 19.-The disease on the British steamer
Virginia. which arrived here yesterday from Liv
erpool, is pronounced by the Health Officer to be
Asatc cholera. She is at the lower bay,
and no communication between her and the shore
is allowed. The disease is confined entirely to
the steerage passengers, and appeared whenthe
vessel was eight days out. There is no panic on
board.
The Governor of New York will Issue pro-
clamation declaring New York city in peril from
the impending pestiIence.
A DANGEROUS PREPARATIoN.-On the 5th of
November, 1865, the proprietor of the Wyoming
Hotel. on Greenwich street, New York, directed
a porter to place the side walk, in front of his
hotel small box, which emitted an unpleasant
odor. The box had scarcely been deposited in
the street when explosion followed which de-
molshed the hotel killed and wounded many
persons and damaged large number of houses
for several hundred yards around the hotel. An
investigation led to the discovery that the box
contained bottles of explosive agent called
nitro gycerine" the invention of a Swedish en-
gineer named Alfred Noble. This terrible agent
of destruction has fifteen times the power of the
best gunpowder, and the fearful execution which
it did ON Greenwich street gave it a popularity
for mining purposes which the industrious and In
defatigable proprietor of the .Plantation Bitters
could scarcely have given it by a twelve months
laborious advertising. A demand for it at once
sprang up in the mining territories OF Idaho, Ne
vada and Colorado and to meet this demand two
hundred pounds of the nitro glycerine was for
warGed to California by one of the steamers of
the Pacific Mail Line. Fortunately it did not
explode the steamer, for one pound OF it
would have torn vessel of two thousand tons
to pieces. When it arrived in California and
was deposited in the Office of Wells, Fargo &
Co., where it did explode with more terrible eff
feet than when it startled New York and blew
up the Wyoming Hotel. On the 10th of this
month it exploded, instantly killing twenty per-
sons wounding a much larger number, and de-
stroyed whole block of buildings. 1t is very
evident that this is the most terrific and danger
exploding agent ever invented.
In Europe it has been used, it is said, for some
time asa safe and incomparably useful explosive
agent in blasting in tunnels. mines and other ex-
cavations, and accidents have been ntrequent. -
Here it is only known, as the Herald truthtully
states, las an internal machine to destroy the
lives Of persons nacquainted with its tremendous
power" and its transportation and use should be
punished a Ca pital felony.
The EVIL REsULTs.-The negroes Of Nor
folk, Va, last week celebrated the passage of
the Civil Rights BILL and many got drunk and
made an attack On some white people which re-
suited in the killing of three or four white per
sons The Goldsboro News thus speaks OF the
affair: