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The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-04-16
BRENIZER, KELLOGG & PETERS,
Bankers and Brokers,
Trade Street, Springs Budng,)
CHARLOTTE, N. O.
BRENIzER, KELLOGG Co.,
Greensboro, NC.

Dealers in Cold Silver Bullion, Southern Bank
Notes, Exchange, Bonds, Stocks and Coupons.
Deposits in Currency and Specie received, which
may be drawn for without notice and six per cent
interest allowed
Certificates of Deposit given payable after three
months bearing eight per cent interest, available In
all parts of the United States.
REFER TO Brem, Brown Co., Dr. E Nye Hutchi-
son Co. Gov Vance, Charlotte, N @; Jesse
H Lindsay, Esq, Greensboro, Nc.
April Is. 1867.
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MILITARY.-Compaoy I, 5th Cavalry, has
been detached from the command here and sent
to Morganton for duty.-Raleigh Progress.
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WASHINGTON, April Is.
The Supreme Court took the motion for leave
to file the Georgia bill for consideration without
argument. Chief Justice Chase said that if the
Court wished to hear the argument, he would
notify the counsel.
There was an interesting argument in the
Senate, Yesterday, adjournment. Several
Radical Senators announced that were they the
President, they would persist, like Mr. johnson,
In nominating friends and supporters. There is
no sign of compromise
The Presidents health is greatly improved.
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THE MARKETS.

NEW York, April 13.-Cottou quiet aud
dropping. MidGhpg uplands q cents. Gold
81, 1851.
LIVERPOOL, April 13-Cotton quiet Pro-
bable sales 5000 bales. Middling uplands IL
pence Orleans l2}.
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DIED.

Near Davidson College, on the Sd inst, Mr. R
Houston Johnston, aged 81 years. Also, the 3 LIST
ult., Mr. James Johnston, aged 81 years. Also, on
the Cd inst, Miss Martha Gamble, aged so years,
useful member of the Presbyterian Church.
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Professional Notice.

DIR. l. SLOAN is about to retire from the
Practice of Medicine and takes this opportunity Of
returning thanks for the liberal patronage he has
received. de hopes that all persons who are i'm
debted to him will make immediate settlement by
cash note he needs money.
April 10, 1867 lmpd
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A LA II 6 e Took
GOODS

Fine white and eolored Marseiies Quilts, Just
received at BARRINGER, WOLFE cos.
sG- Ladies' French Dmitry Skirts, India Twiiled
Long Cloth, Linen Dress Goods Extra Fine Lace
Collars and Cuffs, yalencine Lace, Cleny Lace,
Black Silk Guper Lace. Call and examine our New
Goods. BARRINGER, WOLFE co.
DGr Irish Linen of an extra quality; Bleached
Shifting, extra quality. Call soon.
Black Chaey for Mourning Dresses, English
Grape and English Grape Wells, at
BARRINGER, WOLFE cos.
April Is, 1867.
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THE ROCK ISLAND FACTORY.

We felt truly sad lew days ago, on reading,
in Charlotte journal, a correspondence be-
tween the President of the Rock Island Manu-
featuring Company of this State, and gentle
man from New Jersey, who, on his way home,
had purchased cloth from that Company for a
suit of clothes. We bad supposed that this
Factory was in fourshins condition, and that
but few merchants in the South, at least, would
consider their stocks perfect without a complete
assortment of Rock Island Factory cloths; but
the President, in his communication to the New
Jersey gentleman, tells very different tale
He says it is languishiog for want of support,
aud that but few merchants at the South give
it patronage. We are at loss to know the
reason of this. We have been acquainted with
the cloths from this factory for many years, and
always purchased them in preference to any
others, when we could get them, because they
are more durable and equally as fine as any 9TH
er goods, beneath the grade of Broad cloth, We
care not where they are made. We have now a
winter coat made from it that We purchased in
February, 1865, which has seen some very hard
service, but bids fair to make respectable ap-
pearance tor years to come, and after we have
done with it our ''better half expects to make
of our little scons comfortable winter clothes
out of it. But aside from the intrinsic value of
the article in our opinion there is a moral obi
cation resting on every individual in the South,
to sustain our Factories, more particularly now,
and when, in the case of the Rock Island
Factory the goods produced by them are equal
10 quality and price.
Nothing can be more suicidal, in the present
depressed condition of our beloved South, than
to neglect our own Manufactures, aud rue after
foreign fabrics, in every way inferior Will the
Southern people never come to their senses and
act wisely in this matter? For our part, We
feel prouder in a suit of cloth made by our
friends and neighbors than We would 10 the
finest broad-cloth made at the tip of the Fashion.
But it is not so much the people at large who
are TO blame the merchants. They prefer
going North for their goods, and many Of the m
have got to thinking that nothing can be profit
able unless it comes from the zig Nor'ard. We
are confident the Rock Island cloths would sell
readily if our merchants would put them on the
market For many years We have enjoyed a
| personal acquaintance with the energetic and
truly honorable President Of the Com 2any, and
unhesitatingly endorse any recommendation he
may give his goods. We hope some of ou'
merchants will get stocks of their Summer cloths
! for we want suit of it as soon as it arrives
Send to John A. Young, President of the
Company, Cbaalotte, NJ C-AsheviNe Neus.
Goop.-The New Orleans Picayune of tht
2sth saws: 1--WE have been eating ripe pumbs
! taken from trees in the open air in our gardens
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SOUTH CARoLINA.-Gov. Orr has appointed
agents to proceed to Europe and represent to
those who contemplate emigrating to America the
advantages of South Carolina. and circular has
been addressed to the planters of the State urg-
ing them to cooperate in the movement
An effort made to induce the late Legisla-
ture of North Carolina to initiate measures for
securing immigration to the State. but that body
was unwilling to do anything to promote the OBJ
ject. A committee of the Mecklenburg Agricul-
tural Society petitioned the Legislature on the
subject, and Mr. Wilson our able Senator, did all
he could to awaken an interest in the matter. but
all failed. The result is that the States around
US, by their prompt action, will increase their
white population and the production of their soil.
while thousands of farms and good land in our
own State will ''lie OUT uncultivated. Small
farms and increased number of farmers are
what is demanded by the circumstances and the
times.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-04-16

THE LAND We LovE.-The April number
Of this excellent Monthly, published in this city,
is as Handsomely printed as any work we ever
saw. 1t is filled "a usual with articles of great
interest consisting of reports of battles, poetry,
and anecdotes of the This is truly South
ern Magazine in every respect. and equal in point
of merit to any published in the North, and the
Southern people should do all in their power to
sustain it.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-04-16

New YoRK, April Is.
Frazier, Trenholm & Co., of Charleston. have
been notified to appear before the Judiciary
Committee, to testify relative to the blockade
running business, aud the firms assets at the
close of the war
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E- 1t would be we'll before North Caronians
purchase any history of the late war, of Gen.
Lee, anybody else, to examine the book and
if there is not some SANDER in it against
North Carolina. Pollard's history of the Lost
Cause" is unworthy of patronage. and history
of Gen. Lees campaigns, gotten up by Vir-
giniun named McCabe, contains an untruthful
statement about Pettigrew's n. c. Brigade at the
battle of Gettysburg On our first page pub
lish an excellent reply to McCabes SANDER, which
the Raleigh Sentinel says written by Col.
Faribault of Wake county.
Although North Carolina the back bone of
the Confederacy. and the bones of her sons lie
on every battle field. she has never yet received
justice from any who processes to give a
history of the Southern Generals and armies.
We repeat. let North Caronians refuse to buy
such books. and wait until some we'll Informed
impartial man writes history.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-04-16

Generals Kershaw, Chestnut and Darlington
all formerly in the rebel army, have been admit
ted to practice in the United States Courts 81
South Carolina
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q. s. Securities, State Bonds, Cou.

pons and Compound Interest Notes wanted BY
BRENIZER, KELLOGG Il PETERS,
April l5 1857 Springs Building.
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do the Guardian and Democrat approve of
coniscaton. further disfranchisement and Brown
lowism? If 50, let them say so."-Rol. Sentinel.
We would be justified in replying to such an
untruthful insnuaton the above in what might
be considered harsh language, but dis
posed to forbear cs long possible, and reason
with those who still (it may be unntenton-
ally) obstructing reconstruction. The Sentinel
knows very well that we have been doing all we
could to prevent confscation. Since the close
of the war we have used our influence to promote
peace and good feeling among the people and
prevent strife and contention for offices. If the
Sentinel and those for whom it speaks had pur-
sued the same course, the white men of our State
would not now be laboring under the disabilities
imposed by Congress. We will speak plainly to
the Sentinel and tell it that its present is
calculated to bring about confscaton ard fur
Their disfranchisement. 1t is doing Gov. Worth's
administration great deal of harm.
We are opposed to test oaths, Acknowledgement
and confscaion. but fear that if :he Sentinel
continues its present imprudent course these
measures. in their worst form, will be forced upon
the people. 1t is said that there persons in
this State who favor confscation. We know that
such persons did not control the late Convention
at Raleigh. We are utterly opposed to the
schemes of all SUCH but the Sentinel is playing
into their hands by its Righteousness and deter
mnation to secure, if possible, the Offices for it's
particular favorites.
There are two classes in this State from whose
operations danger may be apprehended viz the
extreme radicals who favor confscation and fur
Their Acknowledgement, and the class represented
by the Raleigh Sentinel who show disposition
TO rule or ruin.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-04-16

SHOCKING DOUBLE MURDER AT Augusta,
Arkansas, a few days since, Tilman Gregory, a
wealthy planter, got into an alteration at a
game of cards with DR.. Cameron, in the course
of which the latter drew pistol and shot the
former in the hip. MIR Gregory being in liquor,
as indeed both were, tainted him for cot shoot
ing better than that. DR.. Cameron fred again,
shooting him this time in the breast. Mr. Gre.
cory then drew pistol, and taking deliberate
aim at the Doctor, shot him through the heart.
Gregory's shot took effect almost instantaneously
10 Dameron's heart, and both fell dead together
Both were influential citizens, and the tragedy
created profound sensation.
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p0r Gold, Silver and Bullion bought and sold ct
a very small margin by
BRENIZER, KELLOGG Il PETERS,
April Is, 1867. Springs Building.
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Raisins and French Candy,

1000 pounds assorted Candy in boxes, barrels
sorted Nuts Citron, Cocoanuts and Figs $50 pounds
fresh Currants Table Salt Duryea's superior Starch,
Parlor and Telegraph Matches superior lot of Toilet
Soap and Perfumery, Casteel and Turpenine Soap;
Anderson's Solace, Leaks and other choice brands
of.Chewing Tobacco, Durham's and Virginia Smok:
ing Tobacco, choice Havana and American Segars,
Violins, Banjos, and large assortment of Toys,
Notions, &C.
In fact everything usually found in first class
Confectionery and Family Grocery. Persons wish
ing purchase any of the above articles will find it
to their advantage to give a call and examine
our Goods before buying elsewhere. We propose
sell cheap for cash barter. All orders attended
to with promptness.
April I5 1867 INSECT MAXWELL.
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Having been authorized to receive list Of all
Taxable Property in HIPS Beat, all persons inter-
ested will meet me at the School House near r. l..
Diamonds on Tuesday the 23d day of April. 1857.
All persons failing to make their returns will be
liable for double tax.
JOHN W. MOORE, J. P.
April Is, 1867 2wpd
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Groceries and ConfeCtioneries
NISBET & MAXWELL

SO Sacks Liverpool Salt
Sacks Old Java Coffee,
Boxes Choice Green Tea,
Barrels Choice Nolasses,
Barrel Cider Vinegar,
10 Barrels Coffee Sugar,
Rio Coffee, Crushed and Pulverised Sugar,
Rice, English Dairy and New York State Cheese,
10 Gross Carolina Belle and Bbls. Lorillard Snuff.
Also, large and assorted Stock of Pickles, Jellies
Prunes, Dates, Ginger Preserves and fresh Fruits,
Flavoring Extracts, Olive OIL Lemon Syrup, Ground
Cinnamon and Pepper, Tomato Catsup, Pepper
Sauce, Mustard, Sardines, HOLSTERS and Oysters, a
superior lot of
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Encourage Home Industry.
CANDY, CANDY-PLAIN AND FANCY,
Wholesale and Retail at
DA LLAS M. r. I G L Z RS,
OPPOSITE THE MANSION HOUSE.

Having secured the services of No. l Candy
maker, [ am prepared to furnish the trade at mode
rate prices with every description of
Plain and Fancy Candy.
also deal in Cakes, Canned Fruits, Segars, Toys
and Confectioneries generally.
April Is, 1867.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-04-16

WASHINGTON ITEMs-The u s. Senate
still holds executive sessions. A resolution
fixing a day for adjournment, occasioned char
acteristic debate, and developed the fact that
the Senate is willing to divide the officers equally
between the Radicals and the Democrats. Bot
the President is firm in his determination to ad-
here to his friends. In reply to an argument
that unless the President yielded, and during
Objectionable to the Senate, he should be put
out of the way in July, Mr. Fessenden said
that the President was equally with the Senate
part of the government, aud he might, with
equal propriety threaten to put the Senate out
of the way, unless 1t accepted his measures.
The whole question was indefinitely postponed.
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GooD.-The New Orleans Picavune of the
2sth saws: 1--WE have been eating ripe plumbs,
taken from trees in the open air in our gardens,
for over two months. As for green peas, cucum-
bers, tomatoes, caulflower, DC, they have been
on hand so long that they have almost passed out
Of fashion,"
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F. IT. ROSS.
w. W. GRIER, Co
T. w. DEWEY,

Therefore, the County Tax will be about twice as
high as last year This will be pretty hard some
people in these times but if the Court has given
the matter full consideration, it might be out of
place for raise any objections suggest a
different course to lessen the amount of taxes.
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$1,000
5000
10000
s 10000

To raise this amount your Committee would re-
commend that twice the amount of Tax is laid
BY the State. be laid for County purposes and the
money raised be applied only to County purposes.
1t would have been source Of qualification to
your Committee ifthey could possibly have done SO
TO propose levy sufficient to pay all the indebted
ness of the County but they feel that the
would be too great upon the people at this time,
and can only recommend such tax will meet
the wants of the County and trust for better days
to come when her bonded debt and interest shall
receive that attention which it was pride to
give it in more prosperous days.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-04-19
The Mississippi Injunction.

Tho telegraph has informed us Of the
first proceedings in the Supreme Court OF
the United States relative TO the Mississip
ri application for an injunction. The bin
has been objected to by the Attorney Gen-
eral, as containing matter unfit for the j.
risdiction of that Court. iuasmurh as Nj.
johnson, not as a citizen, but ao Presi,len
of the United States, 10 bought b, fore III,
Court in the character oI u deIeh daut. Nj,
Sharkey propose to len,edy this UbJecuo,
by amending the bill 80 us 10 pIO cee,
against Mr.. Johnson simply as u prlNat'
person. MIR. Stahbury chained that III.
could not be done, as tie charges ntI,
against him as President. Snuuld IL sur
puena be served upon Mr.. johnson, ALL.
should he disregard it, the Court had no IA
thority to enforce his attend ,nce. The Law
of imprisonment for contempt of Cour,
does not and cannot apply to the Press
dent OF the United States, as such, aud 1
is only after an impeachment that that OF
ficer can be held to an accountaI ility fol
any action of his while In Office. Alr. Stan
bury announced that he appeared there a.
the request Of the President, who had au,
thorized him to state that as the bill had
been passed over his veto, there was but
one course left for him to pursue, and that
was to fulfill the duties Of his Office by en-.
forcing the bill.
The Georgia bill has been framed differ
entity, and the same objection cannot be
made to it as was argued against fling the
Mississippi bill.
TIE only conclusion that can be arrived
at in the premises is, that the first bill, at
least, is worth but little more than the pa.
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GOnGSCG gGSEs
Cg'nGS
NF-~ .

We notice that some Of our newspapers
are giving vent to their feelings il regard
to the gweeping confscation measures IN
troduced into Congress by Mr.. Stevens,
and to the Accomplishment Of which he has
pledged all the remaining energies Of his
life. Some of our people, 800, appear to
be quite exercised about the matter, and
are protesting with much earnestnesg
against the justice and constitutionality
of the measure. Justice and constitution
atty indeed! AS far as tie South is con-
cerned, we need look for the exercise OF
neither the one OF the other from the dom
inant party in Congress.
Take for example the course pursued by
that party during the wer. They solemnly
published to the world that the war lis
not waged upon our part in any spirit OF
oppression nor for any purpose Of conquest
or suhjlgation, nor for the purpose of over
throwing or interfering with the rights OF
established institutions of those States, but
To defend and maintain the supremacy Of
the Constitution, and all laws made IN pur-
>nance thereof, and TO preserve the Union
with all tue dignity, equality und rights OF
the several States uni,np,ire i aud that as
soon as those obi ct> were accomplished
vhe va onght to cease"
The declaration Was made and passed by
congress with scarcely u dissenting vote
his was the platform upon whlcl they
'r"fessed to carry on the war. How dif,
,.rent thrir practices we're from their pro,
ssions, let the Shanan lo:sh Valley and
4e States Of Georgia and the Car0liua's
answer. Let our devastated fields and
Tue character of the warfare waged against
IL. Il Was empbatically q war for con
quest, aud the feeling that governed the
army then, in plundering as they went, il
still rampant in the bosoms Of the Radica
| leaders IN Congress--such men as Stevens,
Butler, Sumner, and the rest Of that
crowd
We do not believe, however that the
effect we are not prepared to think that a
majority OF the Northern people would
sanction such proceeding. They may be
excited to the attempt by the rancorous
appeals Of some ultras in the South, eyi
dences of whose hatred and bitterness we
see creeping out here and there, but the
general feeling, particularly among the
Western people, is one of opposition to any
such movement.
We have been very much surprised to
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At the REGISTRATION. will be exhibited at the

ballot-box The South, as more Of an agg-
ricultural tlan manufacturing country,
has few large town. aud cities and many
cause viii operate IL The farming districts
to curtaiL the negro vote Not the least
among these will DC tie absolute indiffer-
enoe which 50 maly oE them display to
questions Of ptriotIy political toner, and
the actual ignorance in which many of
them now are, relative to their right Of bal
lot. Of the others, the more intelligent
portion Of that ela4:, generally found IN
tho larger business 1narts Of the country,
their votes will har.;ly nave the effect Of
annulliny those Of the whites. Their
knowledge Of current c>onts, Of tho illu-
sorry nature Of Radical promises and OF
those matters which materially affect their
own welfare Will be sufficient TO guide many
of them Alright in the use which they may
make Of the ballot-bcx. 1t is true that
many OF them, caioled 10y Radical promi-
ses and temptations, will be induced to
abuse their own privileges, and to their
own detrimcut, but we cannot but believe
that the majority Of them, influenced by
the wise counsels Of those who have here
tofore proved themselves their truo friends,
will vote IS their own interests dictate.
1t is vol, however, for the people Of tho
South to awake to tho actual reality which
is upon them, and to grasp the situation
as it is now presented 10 them. The time
for cavil and argument has passed away,
with the institution which gave them birth,
and action now for the improvement of the
present, must succeed all idle dreams for a
political reaction in the future.
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" T.. Ransom, Marshal,
" Through the Mayor.

LABoE OF PRTsoNERs.-Thc order OF GeneUal
Sicklc5, published in this Issue. directs the man
ncr III which criminals, convicted ofpctty Offences
shall be punished. II reading this, 1t must nas
turally be suggested to the minds OF those con
trolling the affairs OF the county, the manner II
which criminals can be employed to advantage,
and the county relieved Of the expenses incident
to the confinement and care OF large number OF
prisoners. Corporal punishment is abolished by
the po7ers that be, but hard labor is not only
permitted, but directed. For the want Of funds,
much work which is necessary on public roads
etc, is necessarily left undonc. But why cannot
the labor Of these criminals be employed TO i'd
vantage on this work, and worll-house which II
so much needed be constructed by means Of their
labor? Surely. there is nothing to prevent it.
III passing judgment upon the prisoners con-
victed Of laroency and other petty offences at tho
recent term Of tho Criminal Court, Judge Mears-
placed them subject to any arrangement which
may bo made by the county TO place them at work,
Then lot there be extra session Of the Justices
called at an early day, as has been already sug-
gested in another department C3 this paper, to
devise means to avail the county OF the benefit Of
their labor. We could point out dozen place.
in the vicinity of this city wh.re work upon thu
public roads and bridges is required. but as for
that the prisoners could be employed in many
ways from which benefit must surely result.
This is question deserving Of serious consd-
Grafton and the sooner it is acted upon tho better
it will be for the public interests.