The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-01-22
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e The Virginia Legislature has passed law
requiring Railroad companies to have their cars
and ticket Offices open one hour before the de-
| parture of every passenger train. and also
curing the railroad companies to keep the en-
frances TO the cars and ticket offices unobstruct-
ed by lettering bystanders, pie and apple vendors
and other nuisances, and empowering them to
arrest and carry before magistrate said loafers
70 The Hon. Simon Cameron, radical, has
been elected to the U. S. Senate from Pennsy-
wanna, in place Of Mr. Cowan. CONSERVATIVES
Cameron is denounced by some of his brother
radicals as very corrupt. bad man. and is
cused of securing his election by bribery.
SUPREME CoURr-Case of VIM II. Hughes
This case, which has occupied the attention
of the Court for several days, is an important
and interesting one, and We regret that we are
not in possession Of all the facts and legal points
involved, in order to give the reader an uteli-
gble idea of it. We must let rumor or what
we have heard, supply the lack.
Some months ago. requlsition was made up
90 Gov. North by Gov. Fenton, of New York,
for the delivery of the body of W. Fl. Hughes,
of Granville County, on charge Of having pur-
chased goods of sundry parties in the city of
New York upon false pretences, and absconded
so that the due course Of law, agreeaby to the
statutes of that State, could not be enforced.
The officer FROM that State presented to Gov.
Worth all the papers, duly executed, necessary
to sustain the requisition of Gov. Fentcn.
Gov. Worth, after due consideration, ordered
the delivery of Mr. Hughes to the proper officer,
and he was taken to New York and legally com
United to prison After short time, We un-
derstand, Mr. Hughes, by some means. obtained
bail for his appearance at court, at given time,
do the city of New York. He came to his home
at Henderson, aud did not answer to his bail.
Recently, Gov. Fenton made q second requl-
stion upon Gov. Worth for his delivery. The
case fully investigated, and Gov. Worth is
sued the order for his re-delivery, upon which
Mr. Hughes sued out the writ of habeas corpus.
The case Was brought before the Supreme Court,
and that body rendered its decision 90 yester-
day. The order of the Court is this: "The
Court orders w. Ii. Hughes to be delivered, by
the Marshal Of the Court, to the Sheriff OF Gran
vile, to the end that he may be surrendered to
James p. Bennett, Agent of the State of New
York, il obedience to the warrant of the Gov
ernor. '-Raieigh Sentinel.
WRETcHED HABITAT1oNs IN NEW York
Among the facts reported to the Board of
Health, at their last meeting, there one
especially worthy the attention of the public
+ The President of the Children's Aid Society
stated that many children had been found living
in such miserable cellars on Washington street
that they were obliged to lie in bed late in the
morning because their rooms were flooded by
the tide Persons accustomed to tolerably com
. Portable houses hardly conceive the wretch
edncss endured by the dseilers in such sinks of
abomnaton. Not only are these deplorabe
, people confined to dark and noisome holes, but
, they are daily visited by floods of filth. II is
10 wonder that in such places all moral and
physical diseases run riot Squalor, filth and
), restitution make these cellars actual hotbeds of
: sickness. It is in vain that children so situated
r are sent to school. Education will not take the
e place of decent lodgings. Here is extraor-
diuary opportunity for the display of little OF
that ostentatious charity that overfows in gaudy
fairs and Jealous contributions for the benefit OF
savages in unknown lands
5 TWhy don't the bureau" relieve these DIES.
ttute white people j
NEGROES EMIGRATING.-It is said that the
freedmen of North and South Carolina and OF
Virginia, ere leaving these States in such num-
q bers as to excite alarm for the future cultiva-
ton of the lands in these States.
f This exodus of the blacks is not DUE as many
of OUT Northern friends would be glad to believe,
to any persecution on the part of the whites,
but to inducements held out by planters and
e others farther Soath, and to the promised aid
extended BY the General Government
t 1.-THE effect of this movement is to seriously
3 injure our agricultural interests it may be a
t matter of regret, otherwise We should regard it
as blessing. North Carolina, as we'll as her
sister States of the South, has but one path to
wealth, and that is through her diversified az
ricultural interests. These must be eostered or
the State decays. Labor of some sort must be
had, and if the negroes, tempted by false hopes,
, abandon the cold plantation" their place must
, be supplied by laborers from abroad who, if
proper means were used, could readily be iu-
duced to take the place Of these wandering ne
groes Wilmington Df:pafch.
q COLUMBIA, S. c., Jan. 1.-THE Freedmen
are leaving this vicinity in such numbers as to
r excite alarm as to the future cultivation of the
lands. They are bound chiefly for Florida,
whittier they are transported at government ex-
f peuse, with promise of rations until the work.
| ing season