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The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22
Especial Despatch to the Chronicle.l
8 SOUTHERN UNIONISTS.
The Convention to be held in Philadel.
phia ON the Sd of September next.
They are welcomed by the Union State Central
Committee Of Pennsylvania.
The Convention to meet in National Hall.

PHILADELPHIA, August 16,-The Union
State Central Committee of Pennsylvania
send, greeting, to their brave Union bro
theirs of the South, and extend to them a
hearty welcome OH the occasion of their meet
ing in this city on Monday, the third day
of September next.
History furnishes no parallel to the patriot
ism, courage, and fidelity ofthose men who,
from the beginning of the rebellion to the
end, fought the good fight and kept the
faith.
The question to be decided is whether
loyalty is to be prescribed and punished in
the persons of patriots like these. or treason
rewarded and honored in the persons of the
guilty authors and agents of the rebellion.
Shall the loyal masses or the baf1ed and de-
feated traitors govern the country In these
great issues all are vitality concerned, and
our Southern compatriots have instinctivelv
turned toward the spot whence the great
charter of American liberty was first pro-
claimed, and propose, within the sacred sha-
dows of Independence Hall, to renew their
vows of fidelity to the principles of that i'm
mortal creed, and to take counsel with their
Union friends. x,
On behalf of the loyal men of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, this committee
hereby gratefully extend cordial welcome
to these patriots and friends from the South
ern States. All who come will be received
with open arms and warm hearts.
The Union men of the entire Common
wealth are cordially and earnestly invited to
come here and honor the occasion with their
presence, and to enable all to confer together
upon the present and future of our imperil-
led country.
1t is also suggested and recommended that
our friends from other States send delega-
tons here on this important occasion, not to
sit in convention, but to cheer and co-ope-
rate with these tried champions of liberty
from the South
By order of the Committee.
FIR. JORDAN, Chairman.
National Hall has been secured for the
sittings of the convention of Southern Union
lists to assemble in this city on the Sd of Sep
TENDER.
The National Union Club of this city in
yite delegates as they arrive to call at their
rooms, No. 1,105 Chestnut street, and re-
gister their names The club place their
rooms at the use of the convention as head
quarters. Governor A. ]. Hamilton, of Tex
as, and Thomas ]. Durant, of New Orleans,
have already registered their names.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22
From the Henderson Pioneer.l


Public Meeting in Henderson County.
A large meeting of the Union citizens of
Henderson County, N. c., was held at the
Blue Ridge Academy.
The meeting was called to order by calling
Rev. N. P. Corn to the Chair, and Levi Jones,
ESQ.,, to act as Secretary.
On motion, the Chairman appointed the
following gentleman committee to draft
resolutions for the meeting, viz IS. T. Fea-
therston, Esq, Robert Jones, L. ]. Pace, Esq,
and T. J. stepp.
The committee reported the following Pre-
amble and Resolutions, which were adop-
ted without dissenting voice.
WHEREAS. A loyal Union Convention will
be holden in the city of Philadelphia on the
3rd dag Of September, proxim., with the view
of endorsing the restoration policy of the
Joint Reconstruction Committee of Congress !;
and
WHEREAS, It is the duty of all good Gov
ernments to protect the innocent and punish
the guilty and
WHEREAS, WE have suffered incalculable
losses from bad men holding offices, in utter
disregard of the oaths they had taken to sup
port the Constitution of the United States
Therefore, be 1t
Resclced, That we recomend the appoint
ment of two delegates to represent this Con-
gressional District in the Philadelphia Con-
vention.
ReNlued, That we most cordially endorse
the Amendments to the Constitution OF the
United States, as recommended by the re-
construction Committee, known as the How
ard Amendment which prohibits Traitors
from holding office.
Resoloed, That we recommend the adop-
ton of the Amendmed Constitution Of
North Carolina.
Resoloed, That we will support no candid
ate for Office that is opposed to these Con-
stitutional Amendments.
ResolUed, That we do not regard Governor
Worth as the candidate of the Union party.
On motion, it was agreed that the pro-
ceedings of this meeting be sent to the Hen
derson Pioneer with request to publish the
same. N. P. CORN, Chm'n.
LEVI JONES, Sec'y.
Aug. LIST, 1856.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22

The hail-storm in northern Illinoislast week
was very destructive, and the hailstones in
size were beyond precedent. One was picked
up in Lanark three and ahalf inches in cir
cumference and over one inch thick. A peck
was gatherd up of nearly that size in Lanark.
Over four thousand lights fglass were bro
ken out at Blackberry Station. Hardly
whole light of glass was left in town. In Ell
gin several thousand lights of glass were
smashed, the hailstones being seven inches in
circumference. In the track of the storm
which was about mile wide. corn and oats
were completely cut down, and garden veg
etables destroyed.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22
THE NORFOLK QUARANTINE.
FoRrnEss MONROE, Aug. 13. 1s6

FORTRESS MONROE, aug. To, 1866.
The measures adopted by the Board of
Health OF Norfolk, imposing quarantine of
twelve days upon regular steamers and 9TH
vessels arriving from New York, have been
reeonsidered, and Others passed rendering
necessary that all such vessels leaving New
York shall be provided with certificates from
the appointed inspecting physician that
there IS no sickness on board and that the
vessel is in clesnly and healthy condition.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22

The Beet Sugar Manufacturing Company.
at Chatsworth, Illinois, have 600 acres OF
beets growing this year. They estimate the
crop at ten tons to the acre, which would
yield full one million pounds Of sugar. The
machinery of the Company is all new, was
brought from Germany, and is in the most
perfect order They will commence opera
lions about the list of October.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22

THE ARKANSAS RIoT.-A few days ago
the Secretary of War issued an order direct
ing an investigation as to the alleged out
RACES of colored soldiers upon the citizens Of
Helena, Ark. That Investigation is being
made. Yesterday the President received the
following from the Mayor of Helena =
HELENA, ARK, Aug. 10, 1866 President
johnson :-Rumors going the rounds Of the
papers of riot here on the 7th instant are
entirely unfounded. A street fight between
a drunken man and some soldiers, which was
Immediately stopped, gave rise to rumors.-
Perfect quiet and harmony prevail.
Il. W. GRANT, Mayor City of Helena.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22

A REFRESHING RAIN.---We had a good
rain in this locality on Sunday night last
1t was much needed We hear that the corn
and cotton crop have been suffering fer rain,
many farmers fearing they wonld not make
more than half a crop. We judge from the
appearance of the clouds that the.rain was
general
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22

GAVE THEM THE SLR.-Some soldiers
arrived at this place on the 18th having in
charge young man from Pitt county, for
the murder OF a colored man. While here,
and waiting for the Raleigh train to leave,
he contrived to make good his escape. We
understand he lisa son Of the late Dr.. Blow.
-GoLlsI1ro Nescs
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22

Quick WoRK.-The Geographic synopsis
OF the Presidents speech reached here on
Saturday night, and on Sunday at four
o'clock, P. NJ, we received the Newbern
Times containing the speech. The Times
was the first paper in the State to publish
the speech.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22

The statement of the public debt OF the
United States on the list inst, is published.
1t shows the total debt to be over $4,000, 500,
900. The amount of cash in the Treasury
including SOL ,OOO,0 600 in coin, is over $780,
600, 900, and the reduction Of the debt since
August 1st, 1865, reaches more than S1a4,
mn 000
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22

Old Romeo, one of Dan Rice's elephants,
broke loose in Buffaloe. lately,and getting in
to well stocked garden, proceeded leisurely
to pack his trunk and chest with al, manner
of vegetable goodies. He had roaring
feast and didn't leave much garden.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22

A gentleman in Washington has received
city of Mexico, stating that there is no doubt
felt but that Macmillan contemplates retir-
ing by November, and that the Empress has
gone to France to represent the hopeless
financial condition of the Empire.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22

We are in receipt of the Topographic
Messenger, issued by James Corners Sons,
N. Y. 1t is a beautifully printed monthly,
and contains much useful information for the
craft.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22

Dr. Chipler, Medical Superintendent Of
the Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Kentucky, in
late report, says
Society is daily becoming more artificial.
and new wants more imperative. Mems as
pirations are assuming more impracticable
character, and sad disappointments are con-
scquently more frequent and damaging
Thousands who were formerly happy and
contented in their humble avocations, have
been seduced by the spirit of the times, and
mighty struggles for the attainment of posi-
ton. supposed to be conferred by wealth
alone Too many are wrecked, and come to
spend the remnant of life in our wards"
The UNITED STATES AND ENGLAND.-In
late speech Lord Stanley thus spoke of the
United States: "The United States, by its
extent, by its population, by its rapid in
crease, the energy and intelligence of its peo-
pie, and lastly, by its display of military and
naval strength has come to rank among the
foremost powers in the world. look upon
a proper and friendly understanding with
the United States as almost the first requisite
of English diplomacy. Hear. hear,.l No
one power, except France,i is so closely bound
to us by ties of public interest"
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22
Wood for the Capitol.
CEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED
y by the undersigned, until the

CEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED
y by the undersigned, until the
18th of September next,
to furnish sufficient quantity of Wood for the
use OF the Public Offices in the Capitol, and for
the Legislature the ensuing winter and spring.
The Wood to be sound Oak and Hickory.
to be delivered and measured In the W0od-house
on the Capitol square, from time to time, as re-
quired.
Bidders will state the price, PER CORD, at
which they will deliver It, and endorse on the
envelope-Prop0sals for Wood"
The amount required viii be about 200 Cords.
The right of rejecting bids not advantageous to
the State, is reserved.
r. w. BEST,
Secretary of State.
Raleigh, Aug IL, 1896. Ss-tw-l~
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Rejection.
1884
1886
Majority thus far to reject,


ugdJUIlty InuS rs1 w iHJoCt,
The following Counties remain to be heard
from :: Ashe, Brunswick, Cherokee, Clay,
Davidson, Gates, Haywood, Henderson,
Hyde, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Mcdowell,
Moore, Polk, Randolph, Surry, Pennsylvania,
Tyrell, Watauga, and Yancey. These Coun-
ties have given about 2,50O majority for the
Constitution. 1t has, therefore, probably
been rejected by about 1000 majority.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22
Vote on the New Constitution.

The vote on the New Constitution in 81
Counties foots up as follows:
Ratification. Rejection.
IA, 546 1884
j. IA 54G
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22
Philadelphia Convention --- Presidents
Speech. ,

Wepublish to-day the Declaration of Prin-
ciples made by the Philadelphia Convention,
and shall lay before our readers in our next
the Address of the Convention to the people
OF the United States.
We also publish the speech of the Presi-
dent delivered on Saturday last, to the COM
mittee of the Convention which waited upon
him.
The issue is now fairly joined between the
President and the present Congress in the
elections pending in the Northern and
Western States. The controversy will be
very bitter. We sincerely trust that the re-
suit may be the very best for the whole
country.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22

The cholera is said to have reached Rich
mond, Va. We advise our readers in the
interior to prepare for it as far as possible, by
removing every thing from their premises of
an unwholesome nature, and by particular
attention to their diet.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-22
Original Poetry.
From the Waterman
THE RAMA PARABLE.
By VIZ. : LACY.

The nin,-the rain,-the blessed rain
Visits the thirsty earth again;
Kindly bringing,
With its singing,
Blessings on mountain on woodland and plain
Kisses of hope for the parched grain,
Smiles of life to the crisping corn,
Odours fresh to the scented morn,
Tears Of Joy to the day newborn. A4
Now,-'tis patter
Upon the roof,
Like to the clatter
Of mail and hoof,
When horseman gallop the stony street,
Or the leaden hail where foemen meet
Now,-'tis whisper
Unto the leaves,
Soft as the vesper
Beneath the caves
OF dim gray piles and solemn towers,
Where maidens pure keep holy hours
Now,-tis gently soothing sound,
A murmuring in the distance dying,
As humming birds whirr when south
ward bound,
Or 9 dreamy june-bug's flying;
sweet, yet sad, monotonous strain,
Filling the heart with pleasure and pain;
Like the mingled feelings an old man knows
When heartsick and weary he seeks repose,
Under the trees where his childhood was spent,
So eager, SO peaceful, so innocent:
His memory tells Of the new delights
That heightened his days, and shortened his
nights,
His memory tells that those Joys have flown,
That he is left, slone-alonel
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The Freedmen's Bureau and the Army.
rom the Herald.

From the Herald,
There seems to be considerable clashing and
misunderstanding between the operations OF the
Freedmen's Bureau and the business of the army
in the South. The two branches of the service
do not work together at all. The best adYices
we have convince us that the work OF the Freed
mems Bureau could be better administered by
the United States troops left in the Southern
seeking to make political capital out of their Off
cial positions, put together The best disposl-
ton of the latter would be TO put them into
sack and plunge them into the Mississippi, the
Tombgbee, the Alabama, the Tennessee, the
Chattahoochee, or any other river in the South
that would save them from the effects of the
bowstring. General Grant has a proper under
standing of this whole business. He has seen for
himself, and speaks from personal know
ledge. He advises Essentially that the
business of the iFreedmen's Bureau be
performed by the army; and when
man of General Grants practical good sense
takes such position the people may be assured
there are abundant reasons to back 1t. AS things
are now going on, the Freedmens Bureau is
simply Government asylum for needy politi-
cal adventurers of the radical stamp. Instead
of benefting the unfortunate negroes of the
South, the Bureau simply serves to aggravate
their sufferngs and to accelerate their progress
to ultimate extinction President johnson has
il in his power to reform OF to abolish the whole
concern; and if it be necessary to commence
with the Secretary OF War in order to do so and
he should meet objection from that quarter, let
HIM follow Andrew Jackson's example, and
turn HIM out Of the CABINET, az jackson did
Duane. Some wholesome and vigorous demon
stration OF this sort is required, II the President
intends to carry out in the teeth of the radicals
his admirable reconstruction policy.
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in the midst Of the most perilous and conflicting
questions, with constantly occurring pr0voca
tons and unw1se acts of subo1dinates, not an
opportunity or temptation was offered by our
Government for foreign interference and not q
break of friendly relations occurred with any
European power. il such result be NOS an
evidence of wise statesmanship, we know not
what proof can be offered of it.
By some means or other England and France
never were presented with the chance which
they would so gladly have embraced of inter
fering to break up the Union, and make the
United States a secondrate power. 1t is true
that some steps OF Mr.. Stewards policy have
been less bold and less confident in the asser-
tion of principles tnan we would have pre-
ferred. Still the result justfes his caution. If
he had yielded to clamor, or if Mr.. Lii coin had
put in his place more headstrong man, VIC
might now be plunged in war with halt
the world.
Mr.. Seward's name will go down-not as Of a
man who could we'll forecast the whole struggle,
or who fully understood its bearings-but as OF
a prudent and selt-contained statesman, who
never let present effect and popularity turn him
from what he believed would be tor the permanent
benefit of the country. Both of these leaders in
our civil war show the power OF independence
and persistence in a course conscientiously be-
lieved right, though opposed to popular favor.
They prove that our politics have at length be.
come so earnest as to compel public men to be
statesmen, or to leave the stage. The Pierce
and Buchanan era Is over. The day of popular
effect, of acting solely for influence on 'the peo-
pie" OF the headstrong, clustering, thoughtless,
and superficial craftsmanship Is past-at least
with our leaders. We may now expect indie
pendent men in public places, even though
sometimes they are disagreeable to their con-
htituents
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Hungary.
from the Tribune.


The account of the opening of the Hungarian
Diet by the Emperor of Austria will find thou
sands of interested readers in all civilized coun-
tries. By their heroic bravery in 1S4S the Hun
garians have found numerous admirers, and this
admiration was not diminished by the firm,
though passive resistance which the nation,
although conquered, made to the persistent
attempts of the Austrian Government to deprive
them of their auton Omy and reduce them to the
condition of a province Of the Empire. While
Galhcia and other Slavic crown-ands sent dele
gates to the Central Parliament, which was to
consolidate the unity OF the Empire, the Hunga.
rians were firm in refusing to take any part in
it. Politicians have long been specializing as to
what would be the probable end of thus resist
anCe.
The opening of the Diet on December Ii, and
the speech of the Emperor, are a conclusive
proof that the HUngarians, on the whole, have
carried their point. The Imperial speech dis
tinctly recognizes the Kingdom OF Hungary as a
country altogether distinct from the other pos
sessions OF the Emperor, and possessing some
historical rights, which the Emperor declares
himself ready to recognize. This point granted,
the Hungarians generally feel hopeful that a re-
Cancellation between them and the Austrian
Government can be effected. There seems to be
no doubt that the Emperor has met with an en-
thusiastic reception; The natives generally are
wishing to recognize Francis Joseph as their
king, and to forget the struggle of independence
of 184S, and the present leaders of the nation
express themselves hopeful that all the difficult
ties still remaining will be successfully overcome.
Whether these expectations can be realized,
the future must show. At present. the wish to
come TO a mutual understanding seems to over
shadow all other considerations. Still, the natu-
raj interests of the Hungarian people and the
Austrian Government are so different as 10 be
sure to bring on new disaereements. Hungary
demands the development of its own independ-
ent nationality, while the Austrian Government
cannot cease to aim at more thorough consoli-
dation of the empire. Whether these divergent
the Hungarian question will be most import
ant precedent for all other European complica-
tiOns of similar character and thus be OF great
importance for the future of all Europe.
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Financial POlics of the Government.

From the World.
Since the adjournment, Secretary McCuloch
has been in consultation with the heads of the
appropriate committees of Congress on the bills
drafted by him TO carry out the recommends
tons of his annual report. We shall hare no
opportunity to examine these bills until they are
reported to the House of Representatives; but it
is proper enough, meanwhile, to make such sug-
gestions as may seem to be pertinent
The subject can be most conveniently consi-
dered under two heads the first including the
measures suitable 10 be adopted with reference
to the public debt: the other, with reference TO
the currency. The latter is OF more immediate
urgency; hut the former requires more largeness
of view and more long-sighted adjustment to
the future. It is this only which we will discuss
at this tlme
After the maUurest reflection we have been
able TO bestow, we are opposed to any attempt,
by this Congress, to create a sinking fund or to
adopt anv other measure loollng to the imme-
diate reduction of the principal OF the debt.
During the present and the next fiscal year, the
| Government must be large borrower; and 1t Is
sinking fund while we are still borrowing money.
| Such charlatanry was, indeed, practsed in Eng
| land during the NapoleOnic wars but 1t turned
| out in practice that the sinking-fund was di-
| verted to other uses than that to which 1t had
| been set apart The argument in its favoris that
| it nurses the public credit by the assurance OF
| sincere intention to meet the public engage
| ments. But the only solid assurance is
the future ability and disposition OF the people
| TO pay the necessary taxes; and there can be no
question that the ability to hquidate some por-