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PA SUPERIOR REMEDY.-We can con-
scientifically recommend to those suffering from dis-
ressing cough DR.. sriekland's Mslsuous Cough Bal
sam It gives relief almost instantaneous and Is With
al not disagreesble to the taste. There doubt bu
the Melihuous Cough Balsam is Of the best prera-
ratons in use and is all that Its proprietor claims for
It, We have tried during the past week. and fou nd
relieffrom most distressing cough. II is prepared by
Dr. Strickland No. lss Sycamore st., Cincinnati Ohio
and for sale by Druggists. tl. oets).ly
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~ TWO BAD CASES OF PILES CURED
BY DR.. sTRICKLAND's PILE REMgDY.-Mr Glass,
Of Janesvle, Wisconsin, writes for the benefit Of all
who suffer with the Piles, that he has been troubled
for eight years with aggravated case OF Piles and
his brother was discharged from the army as ineubs
he being quite paralyzed with the Piles. Both these
distressing cases were cured with one bot lie Of Dr.
strickland's Pile Remedy. The recomme ndation Of
these gentlemen, beside the daily testimonials received
by DR.. Strickland, ought to convince those suffering
that the most aggravated chronic eases OF Piles arc
cured by DR.. stricklands Pile Remedy It is sold BY
Druggists everywhere. eosO--lv
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have given the Plantation Bitters to
hundreds of disabled soldiers with the most aston
ishng effect G. W. d. ANDREWS,
Supernte ndent Soldiers Home,
MI. Al al
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RREDsBURY, WIS, Sept. l6, 1868.
/ have been in the army hospitals for
fourteen speechless and nearly dead. AT Al
ton, Illinois, they gave bottle Of Plantation Bit
tiers. Three bottles restored my speech and
cured me- G. A. FLAUTE.
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WASHINGTON, March l6-There is much talk
about difficulty between two prominentpolitician
caused by kiss given by one to the wife oil the
other.
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GENERAL REMARKS.

Revenue Stamps may be used unfortunately
upon any OF the matters or things enumerated III
schedule b, except proprietary and playing card
stamps, for which special use has been provided
Postage stamps cannot be used in payment OF
the duty ciargca6ie on instruments.
1t Is TIE duty of the maker of an instrument to
afhX and cancel the stamp thereon. Ifhe neglects
to do so, the party for whom it is made, may
stamp it before ii is used; and if used after the
3Otn of July, 1864, and used without stamp, it
cannot afterwards be efectually stamped. Any
failure upon the part of the maker of an instru-
nent to appropriately stamp it, renders him lia-
BILE to a penalty of two hundred dollars.
Suits are commenced in many States by other
process than writ, viz: summons, warrants, pub
licaton, petition, &c. in which these the
original process, severally require stamps.
Wrlts OF scira faciGs are subject to stamp duty
original processes.
The jurat of an affidavit taken before Justice
of the Peace, Notary Public, or other Office, duly
authorized to take affdavits, is held to be a
tihcate, and is subject to a stamp duty of five
cents, except when taken in suits OF legal proceed
ings.
Certificates of loan N which there shall appear
any printed or written evidence Of an amount OF
money to be paid on demand or at any time de-
signat' d, are subject to stamp duty as Promisory
Notes. :.
Tie assignment of mortgage is subject to the
same duty as that imposed upon the original in
strument; that is to say for every sum of five
hundred dollars, or any fractional part thereof of
the amount secured by the mortgage, at time of
its assignment there must be affixed stamp or
stamps, denoting duty of five cents.
When two or more persons join in the execution
of an instrument, the stamps to which this instru
ment is liable under the law, may be affixed and
cancelled by one of the parties.
In cOnVcyanccS of real estate, the law provides
that the stamp affixed must answer to the value
of the estate Oh interest conveyed.
/ No stamp is required on any warrant of attor-
ney accompanying bond note, when such
bond or note has affixed thereto the stamp
stamps denoting the duty required, and whenever
any bond or note is secured by mortgage, but one
stamp duty is required on such papers, such
stamp duty being the highest rates required for
such instruments, or either of them. In such a
case a note or memorandum OF the value or de-
nomination of the stamp affixed should be made
upon the margin or in the acknowledgement of
the instrument which is not stamped.
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Scale of Depreciation,


The following Act, in relation to the scaling of
Confederate Currency, from the time of its first
issue to the end of the war, passed at the recent
session of the General Assembly:
BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO
ESTABLISH A SCALE OF DEPRECIATION
OF CONFEDERATE CURRENCY.
WHEREAS, By an ordinance of the Convention,
entitt An ordinance declaring what laws anf
ordinances are in force, and for other purposes,
ratified un the 18th day of October, A. D., 1865,
it Is made the duty of the General Assembly to
provide scale OF depreciation of the Confederate
Currency from the time of its first issue to the
that all eXecutory contracts, solvable in money,
citation OF said urrency before the LIST OF May,
on AS payable to the State) shall be deemed to
have been made with the understanding that they
sovable in money of the said currency"
subject, nevertheless, to evidence of different in
tent of the parties to the contract; therefore,
Be ii eatdcted 6y tie General assembly of the State
Of No1t- Carolina, and it iS he1ety enacted 6y the
authority Of the same, That the following scale of
depreciation be and the same is hereby adopted
and established as the measure OF value OF one
gold dollar in Confederate currency, for each
month, and the fractional parts OF the month of
December, 1864, from the LIST day of November,
1861, to the 1st day of May, 1865, to-wit:
Scale Of depreciation Of Confederate currency, the
gold dollar being the anti and measure Of UalaSe,
fa,o,1 No1e1,be- Sf 1891 I'm Man kt 1888
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THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE.
Corr ,spondenee Between ]. H. Bell and Seere-
tary Seward.

We publish below, as matter of
general interest, the kilograms which
passed between Secretary Bell and MIR.
Seward in relation to the assembling
of the Texas Legislature and the inau-
curation of General Throckmorton:
STATE DEPARTMENT, AUSTIN, Texas, !
July 26, 1866.
Hon. W II. Se,card:
Please inform me by telegram wheth-
er or not it is the will of the President
that the Texas Legislature shall meet
on the 9Th day of August, and General
Throckmorton be inaugurated on the
9th? Will the Legislature be permit
ted to assemble without the Inaugural
ton ofthe Governor elect? If so, what
am 1 expected to do? You will per-
ceive by reference to your dispatch of
July 18th that my instructions are not
definite. My solicitude increases as the
time for the meeting of the Legislature
approaches.
Your obedient servant,
JAMES H. BELL,
Secretary of State of Texas.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, December %, 1865.
SIR: The time has arrived when in the
Judgment of the President of the United
States. the care and conduct of the proper
affairs of the State of North Carolina may he
remitted to the constitutional authorities
chosen by the people thereof, without danger
to the peace and safety of the United States.
BY direction Of the President, therefore, you
are relieved from the trust which was here
tofore reposed Ill you as provisional COVER
nor of the State of North Carolina. When
ever the governor elect shall have accepted
and become qualified to discharge the duties
of the executive office, you will transfer the
papers and property of the State now in
your custody to his excelEency Governor
Worth.
1t gives me especial pleasure to convey to
you the Presidents acknowledgment of the
fidelity, loyalty, and discretion which have
marked your administration.
You will please give me reply, specifying
the day on which this communication is re-
ceived.
I have the honor to be
your excellency's most obedient servant,
WILLIAM II. SEWARD.
His Exceiency w. w. HOLDEN,
Professional Governor Of ~ c.
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President Of the United
[Telegram-Received $40 p. m.]

Telegram-Recelved 80 p. m.
RALEIGH N. c., August 26, 1865
To THE PRESIDENT
SIR: In reply to your despatch of Au-
gust 22d, have the honor to state, in no in
stance in making appointments to office, or
in recommending for appointment, have
shown any preference for persons who have
participated in the rebellion; the con-
trary, have been very careful to prefer and
to appoint persons who were original Union
men. and persons who were in favor of re-
storing the authority of the federal govern
ment Doubtless in many appointments
(some four thousand) some have been ap-
pointed who ought not to have been, and in
some cases even friends have misled, to some
slight extent, by their recommendations :;
but, upon the whole, only loyal Union men
have been appointed and recommended at
Washington. 1t is my purpose and wish to
encourage and strengthen those who have
never at heart faltered in theil allegiance to
the federal government. l have proceeded
deliberately and carefully in the work of res
toration, and thus far am sure there are
no grounds for apprehending that North
Carolina will not present an acceptable con-
stitution. The great body of her people are
loyal and submissive to national authority.
l know there are malcontents, radicals and
not good men, who are engaged in nnisrepre-
senting facts, and fomcnting strife for Ger
tain purposes: but none of these things move
me in the performance of duty.
Thanking you heartily for the confidence
you have heretofore reposed in me, and for
the honor you have done me in making me
provisional governor of this noble State,
am, sir, &c, w. w. HOLDEN,
Professional Governor.
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[Telegram.l
EXECUTIVE OFFICE

EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
Washington, d. g., October 1S, 1865.
w. W. HOLDEN, Provisional Gooern0r, Raleigb,
" c.:
Every dollar of the debt created to aid the
rebellion against the United States should
be reputliated finally and forever. The great
mass of the people should not be taxed to
pay debt to aid in carrying on a rebellion
which they in fact, if left to themselves, were
opposed to- Let those who have given their
means for the obligations of the State look
to that power they tried to establish in vio-
lation of law constitution, and will of the
people They must meet their fate. 1t is
their misfortune. and cannot be recognized
by the people of any State protesting them
selves loyal to the government of the United
States and in the Union. 1 repeat that the
loyal people of North Carolina should be ex-
onerated from the payment of every dollar
of Indebtedness created to aid in carrying on
the rebellion trust and hope that the peo-
pie of North Carolina will wash their hands
of everything that partakes in the slightest
degree of the rebellion, which has been SD
recently crushed by the strong arm of the
government IN carrying out the obligations
imposed by the Constitution of the Union.
ANDREW JOHNSON,
President Of the United States
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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
The National Academy of Science met
at Northampton, Massachusetts, last
Tuesday. This Academy was incorpo-
rated by act of Congress approved
March 3, 1868, consists of fifty members
selected for eminent scientific ability
and attainments, and is intended to
work alone and in cooperation with the
Government in furthering the interests
Of science more Immediately profitable
to the Government and country. Some
of the foremost scientific men of the
country were present. The order of
business was arranged. Papers were
read during the morning session on a
Photometric Method, by Professor 0.
N. Rood on Normal Map ofthe So
lar Spectrum, by Professor Walcot
Gibbs; on the Tracers of Glaciers-un-
der the tropics-by Professor Louis
Agazzis. All these elected questions
and discussions. The latter, which en-
braced the result of Professor Agazzis'
explorations from the Valley of the
Amizon, called out so lively interest
aud discussion that the subject was en-
tered to be carried over to the next
meeting. Many valuable papers have
been entered for reading, and an inter-
esting and profitable meeting is antici-
pated. The Academy will adjourn on
Saturday.
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HHLSBOROUGH, October 1S, 1865.
Hon. William, A. Graham-Dear Sir:
We intend to vote for our neighbor, Josiah
Turner, jr., for Congress. We were preven-
ted from voting for the person of our choice
for Convention. by the interference of Gov
ernor Holden, who had. pretended to
have. instructions from the President that no
unpardoned person was eligible. Yet Gen
eral Hampton, unpardoned, was elected to
the South Carolina Convention. Judge Man
ly, unpardoned, was elected to our Conven-
ton. No other Governor received orders
that unpardoned persons were ineligihle-
How does it happen that our Governor
ceived instructions not given to other Gov
ernors2 How does it happen that no other
Governor or Convention received instructions
that we must repudiate the war debt ? We
are not advocating the payment of the war
or any other debt. If, however, the people
of North Carolina wish to pay the war debt,
or any other debt. they will do it, and whose
business is it but theirs?
We ask your opinion only as to the eligi-
bility of Mr.. Turner.
Respectfully yours.
THOMAS III. HUGHES, NJ. w. MOORE,
DANIEL. Il. HOGAN, JOHN MILLER,
LEVIN CARMICHAEL, BENTON RAY,
JOSEPH W. MCKEE, J. c. HOGAN,
ALEXANDER HOGAN.
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STATE DEPARTMENT.

STATE DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, July 2s, 1866.
To james II. Bell:
Your kilograms of the 21st and 26th
of July, received. The President di-
rects me to say that the Legislature of
Texas will assemble and organize on
the 9th of August, without hindrance.
The Governor elect, Mr.. Throckmorton,
will be inaugurated on the 9th, without
hindrance. When you have reported
the organization and Inauguration to
this Department, by telegraph or other
wise, the Provisional Governor will be
relieved, and the government will be
transferred to the elected authorities of
Texas. Until the receipt of such notice
by yourself, or ny the Governor elect,
the condition of affairs will remain in
the Provisional Government, as hereto
fore, except the organization and inau-
guration aforestated.
WIN. H. SEWARD,
Secretary of State.
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HnLsBoRoUGH, October IS, 1865.

Gentlemen:
Yours expressing your wish to vote for the
Hon Josioh Turner, j,r.. as the representa-
tive in Congress from this District. and ask
ing my opinion as to his eligibility, the
doubt arising from his not having yet re-
ceved the pardon of the President, has been
received.
doubt not, that the President has as little
disposition as he has power to interfere in
the case. Memberships in Congress can pre-
sent no question for the President. Each
House is by the Constitution the sole Judge
of the elections, returns and qualifications
of its members, and if a representative be
twenty-five years of age, has been seven years
a citizen of the United States, and he at the
time of his election an inhabitant of the
State. he has all the qualifications prescribed
by the Constitution, and there is no power
or authority that can require any Others.
have recently endeavored to demonstrate this
in paper published in the Raleigh Sentinel
of this date. AS to pardon, presume it
is only necessary that the President shall
have leisure to consider the case of Mr.. Turn
er to obtain that Certainly no citizen of
this State has shown more vigorous oppOsi-
ton to the whole secession movement or
conducted himself in Il more manly and pa
triotic manner throughout the war. l have
recently seen letter from Il high official in
Virginia stating that " a special appeal had
been made to the President" by Governor
Pierpont, Freaman Smith, G. II. Lewis,
Treasurer Of the Commonwealth, and several
other influential citizens of that State, who
formed the acquaintance of Mr.. Turner, and
witnessed his course in the Confederate Con-
gress, praying an immediate grant of his
pardon.
am, with hign respect,
Your obedient servant.
w. A. GRAHAM.
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[Telegram.]
EXECUTIVE MANSION,

EXECUTIVE MANSION,
Washington, ID. c., august %, 1865.
Governor WIN. w. HOLDEN, Raleigh, ~ c. i:
Information comes to me that reports are
freely circulating in influential quarters, and
where, without contradiction. they are calcu-
lated to do harm, to the effect that in ap-
pointments to office. and in the recommen-
dations for appointments, the true Union
men are totally ignored, and the provisional
governors are giving decided preference to
those who have participated in the rebellion.
The object of such representations is to en-
barrass the government in its reconstruction
policy; and while place no reliance in such
statements, feel it due to you to advise you
of the extended circulation they have gained,
and to impress upon you the importance of
encouraging and strengthening to the fullest
extent the men of your State who have never
faltered in their allegiance to the government.
Every opportunity should be made available
to have this known and understood as your
policy and determination. Acknowledge
the receipt of this telegram.
ANDREW JOHNSON,
President of the United States
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[Telegram.-Received 1.30 p. IN. Sept. 21. ]
RALEIGH, N. c., September 81, 1865.
To THE PRESIDENT:
SIR: l have decided that as persons who
belong to the excluded classes cannat vote,
so they cannot sit in convention unless they
exhibit their pardons. Ex-Governor Graham,
of Orange, in IA letter published in the news
papers, holds that unpardoned persons can
sit in the convention. He declines being a
candidate, but urges this view. Am right
or wrong? The letter to Ex-Governor Gra-
ham, to which he replies, taking this view,
does not show good spirit.
The election here is progressing quietly.
A large vote will be polled in the State. l
will telegraph you as the returns come in.
W. w. HOLDEN,
Provisional GoperRor.
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Telegram
RALEIGH, N. c., December %,

RALEIGH, N. c., December %, 1865.
SIR: Your dispatch relieving me of my
duty as provisional governor of North Caro-
lina has been received. 1t gives me pleasure
to he relieved of the responsibilities and la
bors of the Office. Twill at once transfer the
great seal, the papers, and property OF the
State now in my possession to the Hon.
Jonathan Worth, the governor elect. Be
pleased to convey to the President my sim
cere Acknowledgements for the honor he has
done ME, and the confidence reposed in me
in calling me to this position. With the eN-
preston of the hope that his plan for res
toring the insurgent States to their nat
ural and appropriate place in the Union
may he crowned with entire success,
have the honor to be- s..a..
With high respect. your obedient servant.
w. W. HOLDEN.
Hon. W. II. SEWARD, Secretary Of State.
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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 10.

L HlADElfHIA, aug. ~.
ATRoC1oUs MURDER.-This after
noon man genteelly dressed visited
a house of i'll fame, near ia Race street,
with well dressed girl. After remain
ing secluded about an hour the man de-
parted, saying the girl was asleep, and
he did not wish that she should be dis
turbed. An hour or two later the keep
er of the house wishing to wake the girl,
visited the room, and found her with
her head nearly severed from her body
and sheet tied tightly around her.
The keeper of the house Immediately
communicated the facts to the police.
The girl has not yet been identified,
nor has the man been arrested.
THE PHILADELPHIA MURDER.-The Phil
delphia LeAger of yesterday, after giving the
testimony of number of witnesses before
the corners jury in regard to the murder
recently committed in that city, says:
At the close of the examination the pris-
oner, in answer to questions. said
My name is Newton Champion | am 26
years old ; 1 resided at 1928 Ogden street !;
1 am an engineer; l am single.
He was then removed from the room. and
a very eager desire was manifested by the
crowd assembled around the coroners Office
to get sight of him. Those who did sue
ceed in getting good view of him were sur
prised to find him entirely free from any
appearance that would indicate malicious
ness or a savage nature. He has a mild ex-
preston of face, is below the medium size,
and prematurely bald
At the beginning of the late war he enter
ed the navy as an engineer. and served cred
itably on board the sloop-of war Pawnee and
other vessels. For some reason not known
he resigned after a couple OF years service.
and after drifting about on the shore for a
time, enlisted as private in the army. When
it became known that he had been in the
navy, he was a fireman. Being recognized by
some of his friends, they secured him an ap-
pointment acting engineer. He did not.
however, remain long in the service. 1t is as
serted by those who served in the navy with
him that his conduct was so strange at times
as to induce a belief of insanity.
After the jury rendered verdict, in which
he was named as the murderer, he was COM
mitted by the coroner to take his trial at the
Oyer and Terminer.
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GTelegram.-Received 9.35 p. MI

RALEIGH. N. G. October II, 1866.
His Excellency the PRESIDENT Of the United
States:
SIR: Contrary to my expectations, the
convention has involved itself in bitter dis
cussion of the State debt made in aid of the
rebellion. A continuance of this discussion
will greatly excite the people and retard the
work of reconstruction. Our people are be-
lieved to be against assuming the debt
by large majority. Is it not advisable
that our convention, like that of Alabama,
should positively ignore this debt now and
fOreveri Please answer at once.
W. w. HOLDEN,
Professional Gogcrn0r