The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-07-17


gress. We feel certain that it will be better for
the coored man and the white man in the South
when the Bureau is abolished forever.
J MORE COSFLICT.-The military authorities at
| Charleston. S. c., have in custody two citizens
on some charge. Judge Bryan. of the U. s.
District Court at the request of the friends of the
prisoners. granted a wri: of habeas corpus (com-
handing the military to produce the bodies of the
prisoners in Court) Gen. Sickles refused to an
swer the writ. whereupcn the Judge issued an
attachment against him for contempt. The Cen
eral, of course, refused to be arrested, and tele
graphed to Washington for instructions. The
reply of Secretary Staunton endorsed General
Sickles course. and ordered him not to be ar
rested. and if force used, resist with what
ever force was necessary.
sad commentary on republican government
especially after the Presidents late proclama-
tions and messages about civil law being restored
e Some of the Virginia editors and others,
who have seen the advance sheets of Mr. +. A.
Pollard's history of the late war, condemn the
work as unreliable and filled too much with the
authors i'll feeling for Elk President Davis and
other prominent Confederates. Such book may
suit our northern BRETHREN" but it won't take
in the South. Let the southern people be care
full what histories they buy. If we subjugat
ed let us see to it that we are tirly and impair
TALLY represented in history before patronize
such work.
IMPORTANT DECISION OF THE SUPREME
Court OF n. C.-The- case of Lackey, adtnr. vs.
Miller &c, decided at the recent term Of the
Supreme Court, has a specific interest about it
in these times, and therefore beg to submit
hote of 1t for your readers
The plaintiff, as administrator, on the Bird of
March, 1868. exposed to public sale COW; and
the defendant, Miller, purchased it, and, in
cordance with the terms Of sale, gave a sealed
note for it as follows:
'S71,OO. Six months after date we or either
of Us promise to pay james Lackey, admr. Of
VIM Wray, deed, Seventy One Dollars in cur:
rent bank money, for value received of him,
March Sd, 1865
On the trial before magistrate in Cleave-
land County, judgment was given against the
defendants for the full amount, and upon an ap-
peal to the Superior Court, this judgment was
affirmed
To the Supreme Court, however, judgment
was given for twenty dollars (s20,) with inter-
est from the time that the note became due,
upon tue ground that $1,000 in specie was the
value tic being left to the Court to say this) Of
the note at the time.
The Court (Chief Justice Pearson giving the
opinion) say that the note in question is not
for specie dollars, but for bank money dollars
that the proper action upon it is corenont for
the damages sustained by a failure to comply
with its promise; that it is not negotiable; and
that the measure of damages is he-value of the
amount 0. bank bills called for, in United States
cuin
By 1t is reported on the best thority that
old Thad. Stevens has written letter to the
Hon. William B. Reed, of Philadelphia, yolun-
teering to defend ex President Davis in his ap-
preaching trial We certainly could OF more
astound our readers We to inform them
that the Devil had turned minister, or that he
bad given up his business and was killing him
self off with drink: Still it is perfectly consist
ent with Thad's theory about the war, formed,
doubtless, as he gazed the meancholy spec
tacle Of his burnt mills aud saw that huge un-
dershot water-wheel revolving all alone in its
glory, to show where his foundry had been. He
then came to the conclusion that MIR Davis was
the head of an undoubted belligerent power and
consequently a de tlcto government,-Rich-
nond Times
AN TMpORTANT RIII-Tn the IT s Senate