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The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-04-10
r. A correspondent of the Wilmington Jour

nal, writing from Raleigh, says:
'.Ex-Gov. Swain who came from Washington,
and was in this city last week. is we learn more
than ever pleased with President johnson. whom
he regards as the greatest statesman OF the
age. Gov. Swain went on at the request OF 81
; Treasurer Battle, to make another effort to re-
cover some of the State cotton that was seized by
Federal officers and Agents after the surrender
of Gen. Johnston last Spring. He was not, We
believe, altogether successful in his mission,
though he experienced gratifying courtesy and
kindness at the hands of the officials with whom
he was brought into contact"
IL We are requested by Gen. D. H. Hill,
who proposes to commence the publication of
Monthly Magazine in this place at an early day,
to say that he desires the subscription lists to be
returned to him by the first of May. Those who
have lists will please remember this.
We will take the names of any who may wish
to subscribe for this work. So is the subscrip-
ton price if paid in advance-S5 at the end of
the year. See Prospectus.
THE U. S. LAND TAx.-Within the past two
months the people Of Mecklenburg county have
paid to the U. S. Internal Revenue Collector the
sum of $l5,244 as a part of their direct Land
Tax, besides other taxes paid to U. S. officers.
And yet Mr. Thad. Stevens and his crew of letter.
writers declare that we a-e all disoyal set and
ought to be punished! If supporting the Gov
eminent with money is not sign Of loyalty,
what Is
bs.y~ Three Smoke Houses broken open in
town on Friday night-C. Overman's, Mrs. Owens
and Peter NJ. Browns. Somebody ought to be shot.
NEWSPAPER BORROwERS AND STEALERs.-I
Many of our subscribers complain that they sell
dom get a chance to read their papers because it
is either stolen or borrowed by some one else.
persons who too stingy 70 pay for paper of
their If this paragraph meets the eye of
any who is in the habit of reading other mems
papers in order to avoid paying for Of their
own, will say to him that # he will call at this
Office will furnish him paper gratis. We
will do that much to prevent a great annoyance
to honest men. Come along, and let there be no
more stealing or borrowing of papers hereafter.
SERIOUS AcclDESr.-As MIR David NJ. Lee
was coming into town in his Buggy on Thursday
morning last, accompanied by his wife, the horse
became frightened while blinking at Town Greek, !
ran off and upset the Buggy, throwing Mr. and
Mrs. Lee out against pile Of rock, seriously in
juring Mrs. Lee and we fear fatally wounding Mr.
Lee His head was very badly Cit, besides inter-
nal injuries. He was removed to the residence
of Mr. A. A. N. NJ. Taylor, where he now lies in
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-04-10

eeS" Gen Burnside has been .elected Governor of
Rhode Island with but slight opposition.
Rag The Legislature of New Jersey has adjourn
ed without electing Q Senator to take the place
of Mr. Stockton, recently turned out by the radicals
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-04-10

April ,, Iob5
just Received,
Carriage Hardware, Saddlery- Hardware, Building
Hardware, and almost everything made of Iron or
Steel at BREMs.
April 9, lS66-2t
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-04-10

STATE BoNDs.-Those holding n c. Bonds
mot "war bonds'') had better comply speedily
with the request of the Public Treasurer, viz:
Communicate to him the amount and character
of the securities which they wish to be funded.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-04-10

RELEAsED--We are advised from Washing
ton that Monroe Davis and Thomas MILFORD
citizens Of North Carolina, who were recently
sentercedSly a military commission to four
months imprisonment, have been released by
order Of the President Ralciyh Progress.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-05

Il 6nresldent johnson to pardon the arch rebel
laws. laws The man who will shut his eyes
oals. All tnls light must choose darkness
a1 aaner tnan iight The logic of all this is as
eieai as tne sun shining at noon-Gay. If all
Tue ieDei states are allowed to come back into
tle on,on upon the plan of reconstruction
aaopteo as an experiment by the National
LxecuuVe, II congress admits the delegates
by them chosen to seats in the House and SEN
ate, ii the question of suffrage is left entirely
to the States, so that the rebels can deprive the
negro race of this as well as every other right
that pertains to American citizens, then YOU
may write down the days of this republic as
numbered. We shall as a nation come to an
end more detestable and destructive than
would have attended the permanent with
drawal of the eleven revolted States at The
commencement of the war.
But the reader may enquire where Is all the
danger here limited at? We answer that the
leaders in the rebel States now who work the
wires and control the election are the same
men who plunged the country into the rebel
lion, with only this difference, that their trea-
son has become ten-fold intensified by the
events OF the war. The States with all their
machinery would be so many powerful engines
nred up to again drag the car of State into
maelstrom of swift destruction.
10 allow the rebel States to come back into
the Union as States with the disloyalty and
treason that permeates the whole structure
OF society is to invite national destruction and
national ruin. This is just as clear a problem
as that TWO and two make four.
Our enly safety consists in holding them as
conquered territories until their people become
loyal at heart If the people and Congress
stand firm upon this great question, we Shall
be saved, and the old Ship of State win outride
the storm; if they tamper with traitors and
compromise with treason, she goes to the bot
tom, carrying down with her the best govern
ment the world ever saw. .l fr
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-05
Southern Egotism and Arroeance.


In the Mobile Times of the Bird inst, we find
an article on the new year, in which the Ala
bamians are urged to forget the past and enter
upon the duties of the coming twelvcmonth
with spirit and earnestness, exercising kind
ness toward each other and toward the freed
men. That is all very excellent. Then, by
way of encouraging its readers the Times says:
1t is the destiny of all southern races, even
when overcome by arms, to dictate to their
victors by the highest laws of civilization and
intelligence.
1t illustrates this statement by reference to
the power of Roman law over the descendants
of the very Gauls, who conquered Rome, and
Grecian learning over the Romans, who over
ran Greece. Then it says: ;Eo3
Thus will the South, with her brilliant ORA
tory, her enlightened craftsmanship, her pur
er religion and more exalted morals soon re-
conquer by intellectual power what she heed
lessly risked and temporarily lost in a cor fiict
of arms against ten fold superior numbers.
10 the above quotation the Providence
Journal adds-"Such arrogance and conceit
are offensive and provoking to many men at
the North, and shake the little confidence that
some men may be cherishing in the temper
and spirit of the Sonth. 1t win be greatly to
the interest of the southerners to abate that
lofty tone in which they were so long in the
habit of addressing the North. Instead of in
dulsing in this foolish boasting about ruling
us by their "purer religion and more exalted
morals" they had far better be giving their
energies to the development of their resources
and the exercise of that very simple virtue of
doing by their brethren, especially the black
ones, as they would be done by"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-05
Power of Congress over State Suffrage.

In a recent speech of Hon. VIM. D. Kelley
of Penn, in the House of Representatives, on
the subject of reconstruction, he made a quo
tation from Mr.. Madison, in opposition to the
theory that the States have exclusive control
over the subject of suffrage. In the debates
on the Federal Constitution in 17s7-see Eli
otis Debates, vol. 8, page S67-in reply to a
question by Mr.. Monroe, Mr.. Madison said:
"Should the people of any State, by anv
means, be deprived OF the right of suffaaee. Il
was judged proper that it should be remedied
by the General Government. 1t was found
impossible to fix the time place and manner of
the election of Representatives in the Consti-
tuition. 1t was found necessary to leave the
regulation OF these, in the first place to the
State Governments, as being the best acquain-
ted with the situation OF the people, subject to
the control OF the General Government, in Or
der to enable 1t TO produce uniformity and pre-
vent its own dissolution, and considering the
State Governments and General Government
as distinct bodies, acting in different and in
dependent capacities for the people. 1t was
thought the particular regulations should b
submitted to the former, and general regula-
tions to the latter. Were they exclusively un
der control of the State Governments the
General Government might be easily dissoly
ed; but if they be regulated properly by the
State Legislatures, the Congressional control
will very probably never be exercised. The
power appears to me satisfactory, and as un-
likely to be abused as any part of the Com
stitution."
The reproduction of this extract from one
OF the fathers Of American Democracy, at the
present time, and in connection with pending
issues, is said to have produced profound
sensation in the House.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-05
Some State Debts.

The new governors of Georgia, Alabama
and North Carolina, are obliged to confess. in
their financial statements, that Jordan Is a
hard road to travel. There is a striking SIM
ilarity in the facts, and the remedies they Of
fer; on the subject of money they pitch their
notes upon the same key -
9I Georgia has debt, funded and floating. of
about six millions, with no money in the trea-
sury, and no organized system of TAXATION
Gov. jenkins recommends that a portion of
the income of the Western and Atlantic rail
road be pledged for the payment of the inter-
est, and the ultimate redemption ofthe nrnci-
pal OF the bonds, and tax of one-eipbtb ner
cent. on the property of the state for The snn-
port OF the government. He also advised A
paupers OF the same class.
Alabama has bonded debt of three and
halfmillions, payable in New York and Lon
don, on which the unpaid interest now dine ia
about half million. The London interest.
SIX per cent, is kept up to Jan. /, 1866: the
New York interest, five per cent. has had 10
take care Of itself during the war. Gov. Pat
ton Is inclined to "the stay law" fixing res
trictions upon suits for debt, and makes some
comparatively sensible suggestions in regard to
labor contracts, and the common law rights of
the laboring classes.
North Carolina has a STATE debt Of fourteen
and a half millions of dollars, to meet the in
terest of which, together with the expenses of
carrying on the government, will require
million dollars each year. Gov. Worth says,
dolefully :-"This win require tax nearly
twice as great as we ever paid before the war,
when our taxable property was three times as
great" Her bank capital is lost, her currency
Is comparatively worthless, her lands are de-
preciated in value, and her slaves-looking ont
for themselves. The governor recommends
the exchange of railroad bonds for state bends.
with proper guards against the exercise of i'm,
proper control over the roads of the state by
holders of the bonds. He is also of the opin-
ion that the Freedmen's Burea is augreat bur
den non on the prosperity OF the state, and hopes
Spy.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-05
An Impudent ..Protest.n

A telegraphic despatch from New Orleans
relates that the French naval commander on
the Rio Grande, before his departure for Vera
Cruz to report the presence of American
troops at Dagdad, protested in short note
against the invasion of Mexico by the Ameri-
can soldiers" ...- Is I'D.
The impudence of this French officer would
be laughable, ifit were not vexatious. What
business has he in Mexico? What right has
he to protest? What rights of his govern
ment were attacked or threatened by the pres
ence of American troops in MexicoP We
shall presently hear of a burglar protesting
against the invasion of the police, or of an
area-sneak protesting against the sharp toes of
Evening Post, w '''0
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-05
Insurance.
c H ARTE R OAK
Life Insurance Company.

THE CHARTER OAK Life Insurance Company
declares Dividends each year, and pays them at the
payment of the second and each succeeding premium,
thus aiding the insured in meeting their payments by
IMMEDIATE RETURN.
The advantages of this system over that of divi-
dends payable after term Of gears cithout interest,
are obvious. No other Company pays dividends in
this way. 1I1 H 7.rt.on
The Dividends Of the Charter Oak are equal in
Ualue to those of any Life Co.
Dividends without interest payable in four or five
years, or at death, suffer remarkable diminution
when reduced to their present cagle
OMPTN ESS
In the payment losses is distinguishing feature
OF this Company, @a aeaa
1T MEYER HAVING LITYGATED 4 CLAIM!
@ A n E Ipr ri
six years having been from 80 to 10 DIR. CT. less
than of any other Co. of as long standing.
As the losses OF Co. are are its profits, and as
its profits so are its dividends. The moral is readily
understood.
A few competent men wanted as solicitors.
'"-14 s'i1-lo I "a L-l-G .e1t 8asile %
B- Office No. rs Exchange Street,
s. III. McALPINE,
State Agent for Maine.
Nov. Is. ,.,, aug2s'ssd1y
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-05
Esto jG;sheG June 20, 1862.
PORTLAND DAILY PRESS:
JOHN L. GILMAN. Editor,
PUBLISHED AT s21 EXCHANGE STREET. BY
N. A. FOSTER &c co.

THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS is published at
$500 per year IN advance.
TuE MAINE STATE PRESS is published every
THURSDAY morning, at $500 per annum, in advance;
50 o. q paid within six months; and $780, IL paw
ment be delayed beyond six months.
Rates of Advertising.
One inch OF space, IN length oil column constitute
square"
$150 per square daily first week 70 cents per
week after; three Insertions less, S100; continu
ing every other day after first week, 80 cents.
Halt square, three insertions less 70 cents; one
week, $l.00; so cents per week after.
Under head of sAMUsEMENTs," 200 per square
per week; three insertions or less S1.5O.
ESPECIAL NOTICES." $500 per square first week,
$100 per square after three insertions or less S1b0;
hall square, three Insertions $1.00; one week,
$1.50.
Advertisements inserted in the 'fMAINE STATE
PRESS" (which has large circulation in every par
of the State for $100 per square for first insertion
and 80 cents per square for each subsequent inser-
ton.
SPECIAL NOTICES at the usual rates.
ES All Communications intended for the paper
should be directed 10 the 60 EDITOR OF THE PRESS"
and those of q business character to the '' PUB
IIsHERs." I ct fo ns. e4ri
~ JOB PRINTING, of every description, exc
cuted with dispatch; and all business pertaining 10
the Office or Paper promptly transacted on applica
tion above.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-05
Fryeburg Academy !!
COTTON PLANTATIONS
FOR SALE,

WTE have for sale, and ready for immediate occu-
wv pancy, some of the best cotton plantations, in
the very best cotton growing region of the South,
with beautiful dwellings and all the buildings and
machinery for cotton cultivation complete, and many
with the laborers ready tor work. They will be sold
with perfect titles for less than it cost to clear the
land or erect the buildings. i
Any OF these plantations will pay for themselves
and all expenses by single crop, and must double in
value within year. To raise crop the coming
year, operations must be begun in January. 10 fa-
ciitate Investments at once, the company are pre-
pared to purchase, manage and cultivate plantations
for northern owners without any charge to the pur
chaser the expenses being paid from the net profits.
We also are prepared to negotiate for advances for
growing cotton, giving bottom mortgage with perfect
title upon the entire plantation to secure the princi
pal and giving one-third net crop for the of the
money-the plantations being run under the super
VISION OF our own agents, and cotton shipped to
order. These advances can be deposited with our
agency in New York or Boston, and will be paid at
maturity at the same place without expense.
Cotton, at present prices, win pay from to 300 per
cent on these investments, amply secured and per-
fectly safe.
We assure northern men of perfect security in their
persons and property in any locality where such pur
chases and Investments are made by us.
We believe no more favorable opportunity for in
at the time it will supply the necessities of the
freedmen by furnishing them with remunerative en-
ployment and will help inaugurate the experiment Of
tree labor in the cotton fields Of the South under
Mortgages negotiated upon plantations for which
20 per cent interest annum will be paid absolute
ly, or one-third the net crop Of cotton raised.
An agent of the COMPANY will leave for the South
ou the 10th of january 10 make investments and at
tend to the selection and purchase OF plantations;
until which time he can be at the office of the
New England Agency, No. 46 Washington Street,
Boston, Mass. =
Send for lists of plantations and prices in any de-
sired locality Send for circulars Call for letters OF
introduction to our agents in all parts of the South.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-05
CHEAP INSURANCE.
d Insure Ag0i2ast accidents!

Insure Ag0iaast accidents!
81 MI ALL TRAVELLERS, at
RY RAILROADS STEAMBOATS,, SAILING
- VESSELS, STAGE COACHES, or other public
conveyances may insure against loss OF ife seri-
GUS bodily injury, for $4,000 in case of death,
and $1S weekly benefits in case of bodily injury,
or the small sum Of sscg5I rr9y r.rft. -
TEN CENTS PER DAY!
Thus, 10 cts. will insure to Boston or New York;
Il. . 80 cts, to Chicago or Milwaukee; 30 -
80 cts. TO st. Louis OF Cairo; ~ II .'tA
IE 20 cts. to New Orleans, and SO ON to anypart
OF the country and sor any number of days desired
Before entering Rail Car, Steamboat or other
conveyance, secure yrurseR and family or friends,
Three Thousand Dollars in case of death, or
SO per week in case of injury, whereby you may be
disabled. ~
Policies issued for any sum, covering accidents of
Of any kind, such as Falling of Ice and Snow from
buildings, or Falling the Ice Skating, Broken
Bones, Bruises, Sprains, Cuts Burns and Scalds As
saults by Burglars, Explosions of Lamps, Falls,
Kicks and Bites of Horses other animals, upset.
ting Of or falls from Carriages, &c., &c. llcl
Z Every person ia liable to accidents of some kind,
and should therefore insure without delay. A-''
Policies issued and Tickets sold at the 'i-' -.-.r
General Railway Ticket & Insurance Office,
81 EXCHANGE STREET. lln'
". ID. LITTLE, State Agent.
Dec 14-df Ai -at1sl
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-05
FIRE DEPARTMENT..

We are prepared to issue policies on Dwelling
Houses for a term of years, and also upon EVERY
SPECIES of INSURABLE PROPERTY at FAIR
RATES. A42 81
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-07-12
Major Gee,

We are glad to see it announced in the Raleigh
papers that this gentleman has been released from
confinement. 1t was not only simple Justice to an
injured man. but is especially gratifying, as let
ter received by gentleman in this city from Maj.
Gee, represented his health as rapidly giving
away under his long and close Imprisonment. 1t
is said he starts for Florida to-day,
Major Geo. after confinement of nearly year,
has not only been honorably acquitted but the evil
dence elected upon the trial has proved his hui
mainly and kindness as an officer. Arrested upon
the false testimony of would-be assassins and i'm
prisoned and tried to appease fiendish thirst for
blood, every good will learn the result of the
trial with feelings of great satisfaction We trust
Maj. Gee may be spared to recuperate his health
and revive his fortunes, both of which have been
offered as sacrifices, by the Government, to the
Moloch of Fanaticism.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-07-12
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
WILMINGTON, N. c., JULY IL, 1866.
i'm the Country.

We desire to call the attention of our civil officers
to the account of the recent diabolcal attempt at
murder and arson in this county, which is FUR
nisbed nv an intelligent and reliable correspon-
dent which we publish to-day. We have heard
of many similar outrages throughout the South
IT is not to be wondered that the sudden and to-
tai emancipation of our large negro populauon
from the moral and legal restraints which former
" controlled them, without means, and generally
indolent and improvident, should have forced
them not only to gain livelihood by improper
and illegal means and that their ignorance, al
ways accompanied with spirit of revenge would
have led them to the committal of criminal out
RACES similar to those related by our correspon-
dent, mon such good citizens who should at
temnt to Illustrate them. But the fact that such
deeds so frequently so UNPUBLISHED, and the per-
petrators are not discovered is greatly to be won
dered at unless ascribe it, also, to the general
decentralization produced by the war
Crime will rather increase than diminish, even
without greater inducements, If the perpetrators
90 unmolested and it is time by a moro strin-
oent attention to duties and an increase of the
police force of the country, that criminals should
not only be ferreted out, butshould be madeto know
and feel the majesty of the law. Ii our CIVIL au-
thorties are unable to attend properly to this mat
ter, we respectfully suggest to the military COM
mander the proprety and necessity of issuing an
order similar to the one promulgated by MAJOR
General Scott, commanding in South Carolina
This course will not only lessen crime by prevent
ing lazy vagabonds from wandering about the
country, committing outrages upon industrious
and peaceable citizens, but would compel many OF
them to become industrious and profitable labor
ers in the great work of restoring the former pros
perity of the country and beneftting both the
white and black races
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-07-12
The Atlantic Cable.

The energy and enterprise displayed in the re-
peated and costly efforts made to establish perma-
nent electrical communication between the CONT
nents must eventually meet with complete success.
1t has never been definitely settled whether the
attempt made last proved unsuccessful from
cident or wanton careessness, but now thought
that failure will insure success DUNG the pre-
sent year. We learn from the English jour
nails that during the interim the science of max
ing, testing and laying cables has so much i'm
proved that an undetected fault in an insulated
wire has now become literally impossible, while
so much are the instrument for Signalling been
improved that not only can slight fault be disre
garded if necessary, but it is even easy to work
through q submarine wire with foot Of its cop