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Mr.. Davis's Threat to Coerce North

/. The Sentinel denies our statement, recently
made, that Mr.. Jefferson Davis threatened in
1854 if the people of this State should think
proper to call a Convention to take steps to
make peace, he would prevent them by force
from doing SO. The following extract from
a letter witten by Mr. Davis to GOV. Vance,
dated January 8, 1854, will prove that our
statement is true: !. .fi.e p
II fear much, from the tenor of the news
receive from North-C Carolina, that an at
tempt will be made by some bad men to in
augurate movements which must be consid-
cred as equivalent to aid and comfort to the
enemy. and which all patriots should COM
bine to put down, at any cost. You NAV
count ON my aid in every effortsto spare your
State the scenes of civil warfare, which will
devastate its homes. if the designs of these
traitors be suffered to make head. know
that you will place yourself in your legiti-
mate position in the lead of those who will
not suffer the name of the Old North State
to be blackened by such stain. Will you
pardon me for suggesting that my only
source of disquietude Oh the subject arises
from the fear that you will delay too long the
action which now appears inevitable; and
that by an Ovcr-earnest desire to reclaim by
conciliation men whom you believe to be
sound at heart, but whose loyalty is more
than suspected elsewhere, you will permit
them to gather such strength as to require
more violent measures than are now needed.
With your influence and position the pro-
moters of the unfounded discontents now
prevalent in your State, would be put down
without the use of physical force, if you
would abandon policy of Cancellation, and
set them at defiance In this course, frankly
and firmly pursued, you would rally around
you all that is best and noblest in your State,
and your triumph would be bloodless. If
the contrary policy be adopted,1 much fear
you will be driven to the use of force to re-
press treason. In either event, however, be
assured that you will have my cordial con-
currence and assistance in maintaining with
you the honor, dignity and fair name of your
State, and in your efforts to crush treason,
whether incipient, as believe it now to be,
or more matured, as l believe, if not now
firmly met, it will in our future inevitably
become"
Here he tells Gov. Vance that he may
"count on his "aid," and that he will have
his ' cordial concurrence and assistance in
preventing the State of North Carolina from
seeding from the so-called Confederacy.
And this from the head of government
whose cornerstone was the rightof secession
He pretended that he was resisting coercion
on the part of Mr.. Lincoln-that coercion
was of the essence of despotism; but when
one of the States he had dragged into his
concern, and which he was subjecting to the
most horrible barbarities and crualties, threat
ened to exercise the very right for which he
said he was contending, he told her if she
did so he would coerce and subjugate her.
We have proved our statement from an Of
fcal document. Will the Sentinel admit or
deny the fact?
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FROM EUROPE By THE CABLE.

LONDON, SUNDAY, Aug. 5th.-The follow
ing special is to the N. Y. Herald. 5pe
Before the armistice had been extended,
the Bavarians moved and secured good
footing. They are forcing paper currency
on the people. sn
By agreement the Prussians are to occupy
Werzburg, but the Bavarians are to retsin
the Fortress of Mentz. The Baden troops
left it yesterday and the Wertemburgers
leave on the 9Th. s'ei
The river Rhine is re-opened. ,ie.I
During the last three days the Austrians
have been pouring into Tyrol, sia Hsyuria,
to the number Of 10000.
The Italian Admiral, Persano, is being
court martialed. =. ....s.f,
A new Italian loan has been ordered
Since the beginning of the truce part of
the Swiss troops, that were guarding the
Italian border, have been disbanded.
The cholera is increasing in England.
Decline in cotton Of I'd.
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we said we intended to preserve, DC. This
is not true. We signed with the pen with
which Others signed, and we did it with a
heavy heart. We had an old gold pen at
the time, one of the best we ever put to pa
per. This pen was stulen from us by some of
the friends of the Editors of the Sentinel
the Georgia troops-when they mobbed us
for our Union sentiments in 1868. at the in
stigsiiuaNf Mr.. Davis, the Editors of the
5 = a. and other bloody war men.
The Senior Editor of the Sentinel knows,
that few days after the passage of the Or
dinance of secession a meeting of the Con-
servative members of the Convention was
held at the house of the Senior Editor of this
paper, the object of which was to devise
means to resist and check the secession feel
ing in this State 1t was held with closed
windows and doors in hot weather, and the
discussions were conducted with suppressed
voices. This was formerly the Union party;
but if any member of it had said publicly
he was an Unionist, or that the attempted
secession was only causeless rebellion, he
would have been shot or hanged. This
glorious party, first Union, and then called
Conservative, finally emerged from the dark
ness that enveloped and oppressed it for four
long years, and it now stands out before our
people rallying point for all true men, and
the only hope tor nationality and patriotism
in this State. We are proud to belong to it.
The members of it were the "bod men"
struggling for peace and restoration, referred
to by Mr.. Davis in his letter to Gov. Vance,
an extract from which will be- found in our
paper to-day; and the good men were those
who, like Mr. Benjamin, ignored the divinity
of the Son of God, hated all Yankees as
"hyenas," longed for the assassination of the
"monster and gorilla" Abraham Lincoln,
and held that every man who would not
stake himself for indefinite resistance to the
federal government deserved infamy in this
world and danlnation in the next Our CO.
temporaries of the Sentinel belonged to the
latter class. They have not yet repented of
their sins, and we fear they never will.
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The Pbiladelpbia convention.


This body will meet in Philadelphia on
the 14th inst With Mr. Seward we hold
that the people have right to assemble,
discuss public affairs, and petition or memo
rialize the Congress. After the Congress
acts, however, it is the duty of every good
citizen to submit to its action.
We trust the Philadelphia Convention will
not be molested We deprecate violence
and bloodshed, no matter from what quarter
or cause.
The Albany Eaening Journal, moderate
Republican paper: says:
We are glad, however, to see the sensi-
tiveness of these Philadelphia gentlemen in
regard to their associates 1t is good sign
so far as it goes; and If 1t is carried to its
legitimate conclusion, good may come from it.
Because, if Anti-War Democrats are to be
cast out as evil rebels certainly must be.
And if the wish is to compact the real Union
party, platform will be adopted to accom-
plish this result And it is possible to agree
upon such u PLATFORM We could draw one,
and use no single sentence that has not been
spoken by the President himself If we
should make any modification whatever in
his declared principles, it would only be to
render them less g Radical for We never
favored either general hanging or indiscrin-
mate confiscatiOn.
Our platform would be-
1. Security for the future-to be guaran-
teed by faithful execution of ard submits
sion to the Civil Rights and Freedmen's Bu-
reau laws. ...lr
2. Adoption of the proposed amendment
of the Constitution.
& 8. The immediate admission to their seats
in Congress of all loyal men who can take
the test oath; and
A. The recognition of the right of every
State to regulate the question Of suffrage in
its own way.
If the Philadelphia Pilgrims will give us
some such platform as this, a great many
will go to Philadelphia-nex time. Such a
platform, with conservative and Execu-
tive endorsement, would carry every thing
before it-as it will, whether it has such en-
dOrsement or not"
To which the New York Times, which
favors the Convention, replies III: gfaa
3 eve can assent to his platform most
heartily. There is nothing in it we have not
repeatedly avowed and advocated"
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Rates of Advertising.

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Each subsequent insertion. .........'.' "
Liberal deduction made, by special CONTRACT 10
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Court advertisements will be charged 20 pre-
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SPECIAL NOTICES charged 81 per cent hlsher
than ordinary advertisements.
For advertisements inserted irregulariy' 20 per
cont h;cber than usual rates viii be charged.
No paper in the South has advertising iaclll'les
superior to the Standard
Letters must be addressed to
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Iw HoJnry Raleigh, n. c.
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1mpressment of United states, Citizens.

Impressment of United States, Citizens.
New YORK, Aug. THE Purser of the
steamship Baltic, publishes card announ.
cling that a sailor on that steamer was seized
by the Prussian authorities in the port Of
Bremerhaven, and pressed into service. The
sailor was shipped in New York, but it is
not known whether he was naturalized
citizen or not.
Mr.. Frink, late Mayor of Muscatine, Iowa,
was also seized lately by the Austrian au-
thorities while on pleasure tour, and forced
into the ranks of the army.
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GONE RENEGADE IS WORSE THAN TEN
TURKS. The Editors of the Wilmington
Dispatch. says, although they were original
secessionists," they prefer Gov. Worth to
Gen. Ransom or Gen. Cox. The Governor
is an apt scholar Although he has been at
the secession school only about ten months,
he has taken the prize from scholars who en-
tered years ago.
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Cholera at Antwerp.

WASHINGTON, Aug. THE United Ststes
Consul. at Antwerp, under date of july 18th,
informs the State Department that the cbol-,
era at that place is increasing gradually, the.
daily death list ranging from sixty to,ninety-
five. The disease first made its appearance.
at that port in an emigrant ship. which wss
not ordered away in time to prevent the in
lection from reaching the shore. The con-.
sui advises strict surveillance over vesselss
from that port $50 Ets ;aN3 oi.asg
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Gen. Sheridan has issued an order to the
effect that martial law will be continued and
enforced in New Orleans, so far as may be
required for the preservation of peace and
the protection of life and property.
The 7ribune's New Orleans Correspondent
says that one thousand Union citizens have
fed from that City since the riot, warned
away by the rebels. 5tl
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A Conflrnatory Dispst,A.

PHILADELPHIA. Friday. Aug. 8, 1885,
A special dispatch from Washingto to the
Ledger says: Gen Sheridan, in . dispatch
from New-Orleans to Gen Grant, received to-
day, states that the late not in that city was
not the effect of hastily congregated mob,
as has been represented, but was the result
Of a preconcerted and prearranged plot Of
the Rebels to slaughter the leading Union
men Of the State, and that there is evidence
that the plan was concerted weeks ago
Sheridan also gives it as his opinion that it
is but the commencement Of the Rebel plan to
rid Louisiana Of Union men. Officers .ffom
the South West ssy there are only about
1900 United States troops serving in Louis
lana.
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Political News from Maryland.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 7th.-The registration
of voters has commenced, and it attracts
considerable interest from the efforts being
made by many, heretofore excluded on
grounds of disloyalty, to obtain registration.
The status Of political parties in town
and State will depend much on the result Of
this registration.
Thos Swami, Jr., only son Of Governor
Swami, died yesterday.
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From Washington.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.-Gens. Steedman
and Fullerton had lengthy interview with
the President to day. st ~
No Executive appointment was made to-
day. a m -
The Secretary of the French Legationh here,
writes to the Secretary of State, announcing
that the grave events which are transpiring
in Europe will not delay the Paris Exposi-
ton. In word, that everything indicates
the anticipation that the Exposition will be
completely ready by the 1stof April, 1857.
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Charles Louis Farini. the italian states
man is dead Mazzini, as heretofore re-
ported. Farini played an important part in
Italian politics since 1s41 up to the time Of
his death. He was born at Russi, in the
Roman States, in October, 1922. He was the
author of history of the Roman States,
which has passed through several editions in
England.
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Wants to Fight.
The last Wilmington Dispatch says:

The last wilmington Dispatch says:
d "In all candor we can tell the authorities
that the Southern people have not lost the
coursge which has rendered them illustrious
for daring. They have not lost any of the
skill in the use of the means of self-defence
for the possession of which they are noted.
They do not intend to sit idly by and see
scenes of violence enacted In their midst
without taking part in the defence Of their
hearthstones and for the security of their
wives and little ones When they shall be
driven to resistance; when, after having beg
ged protection in vain they areforced to take
up arms against this sea of trouble which
threatens, they will carry such destruction
and terror into the midst of the poor crea-
lures who have been tleluded into false ideas
through the persuasion of yankee wolves in
sleeps clothing, that they will wish they
never had been born"
The Dispatch is evidently ready to fight,
and it proposes to begin with the negroes.
What have these "poor creatures" as they
are called, been doing in North Carolina r.
Are they not generally quiet9 Why, then,
this threat to terrify and slaughter thema
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DR.. Dostie, the prominent Unionist who
was knocked down, shot and stabbed during
the riot in New Orleans. died in that City on
the 9th inst, from the wounds inflicted up
on him.
| Also, Rev. Mr. Horton, officiating minis
Yer to the Convention, died the same even
Ag. He was beaten Numerically by his
! rpel assailants
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Indian TroubIes on Kausas Roraer

New York, Aug. 7th.-The Tribune"
Leavenworth special says that the Indians
are making raids on Kansas border, and
committing murders and outrages. Troops
nave been sent to the rescue of the settlers.
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Important Revelation concerning Coun-
terfeiting.
New YORK, Aug. 7th.-The Superinten-
dant of the Metropolitan police has received
information, leading him to believe there is
completely between the detectives and the
,ounterfeiters. John s. Young, long Chief
Of Detectives, has been relieved, and Inspec-
tor Carpenter put in his place. ! 'get
Full developments are not yet made public
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ORDERS TO THE PpEsIDENT.-The Rich
mund Examiner issues the following orders
to the President:
"Now is the occasion for a proclamation
of universal amnesty and restored Union.
The President is sworn toobserve the consti
tuition and to enforce the laws passed in pur
suance thereof, and to the extent Of his pow
er and duty he ought at once to declare the
United States restored to its former political
condition, and should see that every State
has republican form of government-which
cannot be where laws are passed by Congress
or any other body in which she is unrepre-
sented"
High times, indeed, when an infamously
traitorous sheet thus issues its orders to the
President says he ought" +" to do so and SO.
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Markets.

NEW York, Aug. 7th.--Gold. 1881. Ex-
change nominal. Texas wool scarce and
quickly sold q 1s to 20c.
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The Steamboat Exple,fo..

CINCINNATI, Aug: THE latest accounts
from the scene Of the steamer Little's disaster
report 10 killed and about 70 wounded, Most
of the killed were deck hands. Ten Of the
wounded died at Madison, Indiana, to-day.
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Fred. Douglas, who lives in Rochester.
New York, reported aud income of $5,175
for 1865,
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Democratic Convention in Maine.

PORTLAND MAINE. Aug. 18th. Democratic
Convention met to-day and E. F. Pilsbury
was unanimously nominated for Governor.
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Union State Convention will be held in
Nen York, on the 9th day of septelrs,sr
neAsto nominate candidates for Governor,
Lieitaant Governor, &c.
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ON NEGRO SUFFERAGE. 4.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
uWAsHINeToN. Auoust Is 186,

I 7lII71Il. = w ASHINGTON, AuguSI 10, 1000.
Governor w. L. SlIarkey, Jackson, Miss.
8. g I am gratified to see that you have or
ganized your convention without difficulty.
l hope that without delay your convention
will amend your State Constitution, abolish
ing slavery and denying to ali future legis-
latures the power to legisiate that there is
property in man also that theys will adopt
the amendment to the Constitution of the
United States abolishing slavery. If you
could extend the elective franchise to all per-
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To those who get up clubs of five or more SUD-
seribers, one copy, gratis, will be furnished
A cross n mark on the paper indicates the ex-
piration of the subscription
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2 - .
A Richmond, Va, correspondent
says ecf DR.. Craven's "Prison Life Of
Mr. Davis 10 Ga4 ~
II have good reasons for believing
that Its publication has seriously an
noyed the distinguished prisoner In
deed, / have it from excellent authori-
ty that such is the fact. 1t is stated
.thatmuch ofnthe incidental portion OF
the work-.the conversations 80 circum-
stantially jotted down are of that class,
the publication of which, however well
intended by the kind hearted author, is
calculated rather to damage than to
benefit the partymore immediately in
tercsted--at least with the dominant
purity now running the Government.
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An Opinion About Fighting.

The following incident. given in Gen,
d. II. Hills new magazine, The LAM
We Love, tells a truth to which many
ranr testify,
"A general officer riding alonetwo
days after the retreat OF Burnside stop,
ped to %%arm ct a fire where a group OF
Cobh's brigade, which had defended
the stonewall, was lying down in all tle
~listness of the abandon after q iight'
The officer had on a common soldiers
o~vercoat, and was welcomed as a cavai'
rymanh' to the freside. A country lad
q farmer boy at home, gave him d
graphic description Of the fierce AS
sault and terrible repulse, in his own
simple style, ending his narrative with
his Ingenious comments upon lighting
in general. III.
II have heard men say that theJ
were spilin for a fight, but / never dld
Spite foratight. Stranger, I'y been IN
every fight with my regiment, but
never did like fighting. But when we
was killing them Yankees so purity be-
hind that ar wall, and they wasn't hAr-
tin us, 1 was rale sorry to See 'em run.
And l tell you, Mr.. Stuart's man, that
was the only time Fever did like fight
ing" I =,
MIR. Stuart's man thanked him fol
his narrative, mounted and rode on
rejecting upon certain furious wal
speeches he had heard from men whose
warlike exploits in the field had moi
yet become the theme Of poetry and o
SOnO.
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INTERFERING Decision BY II ST.
pREME CouRr OF GEoRGIA.-Abbott VS..
Dernot.-In Equity from Fulton (.
Lumkin, Cd. Ignorance of facts
is no cause for resembling a contract.
2. On the LIST of May, 1865, after
General Johnson had surrendered the
forces and territory under his ON
mand, and before that event became
known in Atlanta, DeImot sold and
conveyed to Abbott certain real estate
in that city, receiving from him the
agreed price in Treasury Notes of the
Confederate States, both parties being
alike ignorant OF the surrender. The
currency became ~valueless very sooi
after news of the surrender was re.
ceivcd: He'll. That a Court of Equit.,
will not rescind the contract and canoe
the deed at the instance Of Dermot, thu
vendcr.
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Gerritt Smith to Chief Justice
GhaSG.


Gerritt Smith to Chief Justice
sos Chase. er
w Gerritt Smith writes to Chief Justice
Chase. against any trial Of Davis, and
against calling apopular uprising treas
on. He concludes q long letter as fol-
lows: s.,r.. s-r.,.y
Il have said that We must deal with
the South in the spirit Of impartial JUS
tice. We must also deal with her in
t!rc'spirit Of great generosity and Great
love. We mustclaim no indemnity ior
the past, We must exact no nnneces-
sary security for the future. we must
subject her to no changes and no. dlsa-
bilities which are not Indispensable.
1.-THE breaking up Of her large landed
estates to parcel them out to her white
and black pooris not demanded ny her
people, we must not insist upon 1T. IL,
by putting the ballot in the hands OF
her blacks, it will not be necessary, in
order to save her, to withhold it Tor Il
season from her whites, who were in
volved in the guilt Of the war, then are
they strong reasons why we should not
insist upon the probation. One thing
more, the South is poor, and the North
is still rich. Would it be too large an
expression Of fraternal love to save the
South for some five or ten years from
the imposition Of direct national
taxes ~ #..H. gt,..
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The franking privilege is being great,
ly abused, AMI the Postmaster General
has addressed a communication to
Congress, asking a leave to withdraw
it,. ~ u Il j ''i
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WIGFALL. white escaping, through
Texas, in disguise. fell in with n party
of soldiers. He entered freely into
conversation with them, and in the
course offhe conversation asked whai
they would DO with old wigfaIfi If they
we're to catch him. ."Oh, we would
hang him, certain" was tho reply.
And You would serve him right
replied Wigfall. "H should be with
you, ] have no doubt shopld be pulk
ing at the end Of the ropc myselfr'