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The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-08
ROADS AND BRIDGES.

The following important order has been issued
By General Candy, which sets at rest a most per-
picking question, namely, the manner 10 which
our roads aud bridges to be kept in repair
Those Oh whom this labor devolves must now
perform it OF take the consequences:
HEADQUARTERS I'd MILITARY DISTRICT,
Charleston, Sept. &c, 1867
General Orders. No 95.
Numerous official representations having been
made to these Headquarters, that the roads,
bridges, and causeways in both States are in a
ruinous and unsafe condition, and that the as
sstance of the military authorities is required
by the civil officers charged with the PREPARATION
thereof to enable them to secure obedience to
their lawful requirements in the premlses-it is
ordered that the Commanding Officers of Posts
have authority to enforce the performance OF
labor for the aforesaid purpose, whenever 10
their judgment a necessity exists therefor, re-
porting their action promptly to these Head
quarters.
The following rules will be observed in all
cases under the preceding paragraph:
Fist Commanding Officers shall inform
themselves by the reports of the public officers
charged with the reparation of roads and bridges,
and by other means subject to their control, of
the nature and extent of work required, in order
to render the important thoroughfares cause
ways and bridges, 10 their Posts, conveniently
passable and safe to life ard property and will
announce in orders such works as should in their
judgmen receive aid from the military author
tiles
Second Such Commanding Officers will OBJ
tain, from the proper local officers, estimates of
the amount of labor required for such works.
respectively, and an assessment of the labor re-
quired for that purpose, bu. not in excess OF
that required by the local laws-setting forth
the name of each person assessed the work for
which assessed, and the humber of days work
required of such person; also specification of
the time when such persons shall commence
work; and upon being satisfied that such esti-
mate and assessment is just and equitable, shall
make order requiring the persons therein
named to perform the respective amounts of
work at the time and place therein assessed, such
estimates and assessment lists to be open for
public inspection and to be corrected from tune
to time, when the same shall appear to be un-
equal or unjust.
Third That any person neglecting or refusing
to perform the work required of him, shall be
arrested and tried before the Post Court, and If
convicted shall be sentenced to pay fine o.
two dollars for each days work required of him
and not performed through his fault; and for
default of paying such foe, such person to be
sentenced to hard labor on some public road or
thoroughfare, not to exceed two days for every
days work required of him by the local laws and
not performed.
by command of Brevet Maj Gen. Candy
LOUIS '. CAZIARC, Aid de Camp.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-08
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Pan Anglican Synod has issued On ad.
dress condemniog ritualism and Popery, and
urging united church.
Napoleon has issued calmly worded note To
the South German sovereisns, asking pledges
against union with North Germany
Italy -Garibaldi has written letter from
prison, and says the Romans give slaves the
right to rise against the oppressors and 1t is the
duty of the Italians to help them Hopes Of
bis fellow patriots are undiscouraged and they
will march on to the liberation of Rome. The
eyes of the world are upon them, and nations
auxiously await the result of their action
Later accounts represent that riots serious
To some cities mobs fight obstinate The troops
are using bayouets, occasionally bullets may
kill or wound.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-08
State Of North Carolina. .
EXECUTIVE DEPART aENT,

By direction of His Excellency, Jonathan Worth.
Governor of said State notice is hereby given that
j. d. MnrkIand, Luke Dorland, W. L. Miller, S. C..
Alexander and Vim Dorland, Of the Stale afore-
said, having made application to be created body
corporate. under The name of the 'BlDDLE MEMO
RIAL INSTITUTE" for the purpose of preparing
Teachers, Catechsts and Ministers for the education
of the colored race" and having in all respects COM
piled with the Statute in such case made and pro-
vded, have this day been created body corporate,
under the aforesaid, by Letters Patent signed
by His Excellency, the said Jonathan Worth, Gov
of said State, and atested by the Great Seal
of the State. copy of which has been recorded in
the office of the Secretary of State; Conditioned,
that the said corporation shall exist only for the
term of Thirty years from the date of said Letters
Patent WM II. BAGLEY,
Oct. Z, 1867. Private Secretary
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-08

THE QUESTION SETTLED AT LAsT.-In reply
to telegram asking for instructions regarding
the U. District Court processes against a
party in this city now in the United States Dep
uty Marsha's hands for collection, Col Frank,
Post Commandant, received a dispatch from
Gen. Candy yesterday, directing him not to
obstruet.- Wilmington journal.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-08

SIGNIFICANT Prophecy We heard gen.
tleman state a few days since that in conversa-
ton with j. NJ. Bolts he remarked that he
believed the democracy would be in the ascen-
daucy within few years at least, and control
the affairs of the country. Coming from such a
source, the prophecy may be considered sigoi6-
Rockingham Regtster.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-08
ANOTHER ORDER.
HEADQUARTERS ID MILITARY DISTRICT,
CHARLESTON, S. g., Sept. 80.

HEADQUARTERS ID MILITARY DISTRICT !
CHARLESTON, S. C., Sept. 80
Circular.
Pending the establishment of rules for the
government of Military Tribunals in this Dis
trct, Provost Courts will not exercise jurisdic-
ton in any case when the question involves the
title of land nor iu any civil cause where the
debt sued for or-the damage claimed exceeds
three hundred dollars In all cases where the
amount claimed either as debt or damage ex
ceeda twenty five dollars the defendant shall be
entitled to ten days notice, and if it exceeds one
hundred dollars, he shall be entitled to fifteen
days notice; but this right may be waived by
the defendant, and he trial of the cause set for
an earlier day upon his written consent thereto
which consent must appear on the record of the
court.
BY command of Bvt. Maj Gen. Candy
LOUIS Y. GAZIARC, Aid de Camp.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-08
BY command of Bvt Maj Gen Candy,
LOUIS Y. CAZIARC, Aid de- Camp.

RANDOLPH SUPERIOR COURT We attended
Randolph Superior Court last week, Judge
Mitchell presiding. Qlite a number of cases
on both the State aud Civil dockets were dis
posed of. The most important result Of the
weeks work was the crowding of the Jail with
conVlcts, there to remain from sig to eighteen
months, at the expense of the county This
mode of Furnishing criminals fer crimes com.
mitted cannot be long endured by our impover-
ished and tax burdened people. A portion of
the military forces stationed at this place, made
flying visit to ASHORE, and there remained
for some two or three days. One man was put
under arrest and so held for some time after
shutdown. But wheo he released and what
be was arrested for we could fud no two who
gave exactly the same account There is an
other matter in which the military took action
which we think it would have been we'll enough
had they let it pass unnoticed We allade
to their seizng Of the poor peaceable citizens of
the county, who had, from necessity, perhaps,
been compelled to put upon their new home
spun coats, old confederate buttons, and hold
ing Them In durance vile in the streets of the
town until they were all clipped off their gar
ments. This created some little excitement
among those who we're SO unfortunate as to have
a confederate button on their outer garments
Most oil them retired hastily in every direction,
and either clipped off the buttons themselves 10
private room or took off their coats or vests
and laid them on top CT inside their wagons
1t so happened that most of those who had con
fedeIate buttons on their coats, vests and pants
were noted for their loyalty to the government
of the United States. Indeed we we're told
that one who was clipped clean of all his con-
federate ornaments, had but short time before
beer declaring for long time and in boist err
a.. 81.
cal principles aDG devotuns to the radical party
But after his coat was cleaned Of its shining
confederate ornaments, he sang low Green's
GOro Patriot
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-08

MILITARY ORDER.-- Charleston Oct. . - Gen
Canhy has issued an order prohibiting provost
Courts from exercising jurisdiction in any case
involving the title of land. in any civil cause
where the claim exceeds three hundred dollars.
He has also $ niGed his intention to modify Gen.
Siekles' order closing ba,-rooms throughout the
2} District.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-08

= Y. 0N6NlZEH, CASHIER.
c. N. q. BUTT, TELLER.
This Bank is now open for the transaction of
business, and for The present in order to conform
TO the wants OF the business community the office
hours will be from a m to 6 p m
Buys and sells Foreign and Domestic Exchange.
Gold, Silver, Bullion Southern Bank Notes and
Government Securities
Collections made on all accessible points in The
United States and Europe, on the most reasonable
terms
New York Exchange at par. Revenue Stamps
sold II par. Mutilated Green backs, National Bank
Notes and Fractional Currency bought. New York
Sight and Time Bills discounted at usual bank rates
1V Special attention given to the accounts of
business men and others, and interest allowed
, September 30, 1867.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-08
Health for the Southern Invalid,

Found in the use Of KAY'S WOaDSELL'S Vege-
table Restorative Pills imported by
A. n. WIN & CO.,
These Pills sppercede The of Blue Mass Gallo
mel and all dangerous medicines most effective
IN Chilis and Fever, and will renew and inyigorate
The body. As we have been disfrauchised by the
Yankees let us in ufn disfranchise all Yankee trash
medicines and Yankee nostrums
This Medicine be had at DR.. Scarr's and
Walker Brothers. Charlotte, and at DR.. G. B.
Powlson's, Salisbury. and of A. II. ERWIN,
sept 80, 1867. Lncolnton,
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-08
SOUTHERN ELECTIONS.

The election in Louisiana, it is already known,
under the reconstruction acts of Congress- took
place on Friday aud Saturday, 9th and 28th
September. That in Alabama commenced on
Tuesday and will be completed to day. Vir-
gina votes on the 22d inst and Georgia on the
10Th, Both and 3lst of the present month.
In Louisiana, the decided probability is that
Convention has failed, for the want of sufficient
vote to validate it, under the law, and that the
reconstruction bills, therefore, so far as that
State is concerned, have been laid upon the
shelf. According to the regis,rati returns
for that Stale, there were registered 44,737
whites aud S2,907 b. ,cks-making a total Of
127,G44. If a majority, or say Gl,OOO, of that
registered vote had been polIed, Convention
would have been secured. The blacks, alone,
to say nothing of the Northern and native white
Radicals, bad 1t in their power to cast this num-
Der, with nearly $4,000 spare. Why did they
not DO it ?-RuIeiyh Sentinel.
Later news from Louisiana shows that the
State has voted for Convention.
IAXES ON PURCHASES AND SALES The
Wilmington Journal publishes the following
letter from the Public Treasurer to the Sheriff
OF Cumberland. by request, explaining an i'm
portrait clause of the Revenue Act
RALEIGH, September 25, 1867.
DEAR R:-You ask what is the tax on
sales by Commission Merchants, of -four, cotton.
etc, consigned to them by citizens of this or
adjoining States. | answer, that the tax is
l-2O of per cent You will find this in the
I'd paragraph of section 5, schedule A. clause 3.
The tax on sales by Commission Merchants,
when not the growth or manufacture OF this or
adjoining States, is 5 of per cent.
The same rule applies to purchases as to 50 les
KEMP 2. BATTLE,
Public Treasurer.
MISUNDERSTANDING recent interview
with an old tennessee friend, the purport Of
which bias been retai!ed publicly, Mr. johnson
stated that he would take his final s,an,. against
Congress 10y resisting its right, if it assumed it
TO suspend him during the progress of the i'm
parchment trial, If he was impeachel. So manv
ifs spoil the threits but it is probable that
the first opportunity afforded the President to
take stand against Congress on this sutiec,.
Will Ge TO veto bill providing for suspension
from office of all public officers who may have
been impeached, until they have been tried.
which will undoubtedly be introduced, and passed
early IN the session.-Nep York Times
The Charleston Mercury says tina, there has
not been case of yellow fever in that CITY this
year On the contrary the city has been re.
markedly healthy
MAssACHUsETTs.-The Democrats have nom;.
mated John Quincy Adams, for Governor Un;.
versal enthusiasm prevailed in the Convention.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-08

FIVE LADY EQUESTRIENNES,
THREE POPULAR CLOWNS,
Enabling the management TO produce startling act
of Horsemanship, Daring Gymnastic Exercises
Spectacles Of Oriental Grandeur, with the mos
dazzling splendor.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-08

TAXES ON PURCHASES AND SALES The
Wilmington journal publishes the following
letter from the Public Treasurer to the Sheriff
OF Cumberland, by request, explaining an i'm
portaat clause of the Revenue Act:
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-08
Public Treasurer

ne Charleston Mercury says that there has
not been case of yellow fever in that city this
year, On the contrary the city has been re-
markedly healthy.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30

We learn, on authority not to be ques-
toned; that the fuglemen of the ConserYa-
tive Democratic State Convention, which is
to meet here on the 10th Of April, are Sc
eretly trying TO induce coIored men to sit as
delegates in that body
Propositions to tfat effect and offers of
seats, have been rendered to colored per
sons in this section, by the very men who
tried their utmost to debar them from the
exercise Of suffrage
The Nashville Press and Times is respon-
sible for the above falsehood. The Con
servatives do not wish nor will they allow
negroes to sit in convention with them,
neither do the negroes themselves, except a
few, perhaps, who have been made asso-
ciates of by mean white men, desire such
privilege. The sensible negro knows his
place and is content; in this respect he has
advantage of some white trash that we have
heard tell of
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30
No. "a

SEC. g. Ind be Il further enacted, That
all the lands, estates and property, Of what
ever kind, which shall not be redeemed as
aforesaid, in ninety days, shall be sold and
converted into money IN such time and man
uer as may be deemed by the said Commits
sioners most advantageous to the United
States PrOU1ded, That no arabic land shall
be sold in larger tracts than five hundred
acres; Ind proCided further, that no longer
credit shall be given than three years.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30
Call for a Conservative State Con-
VGRtiOR.
NASHVILLE, March II, 1867.


The undersigned Conservative
members of the General Assembly
of the State Of Tennessee, deeply
impressed with the dangers which
imperil our beloved country, from
the reckless disregard upon the part
of the majorities in Congress and
the Legislature of our own State, of
the sage counsels Of the founders Of
our government, and the funda-
mental principles Of our Constitu-
ton, respectfully propose, that there
be held in the city of Nashville,
on TUESDAY, THE 18TH OF
APRIL NEXT, a convention of
the true Conservative Union people
of the State; of all who wish, in
the language of the Father of his
country, that our Union and broth
erly affection may be perpetuated; /;
that our free Constitution may be
sacredIy maintained, that its ad-
ministration in every department
may be stamped with wisdom and
virtue, that the happiness of the
people of the States, under the au-
spices of liberty, may be made com
plete by the careful preservation
and prudent use of this blessing
in short, a Convention Of all who
oppose the tendencies and ruinous
policy and practices of the domi-
nant party, for the purpose of tax
ing counsel for the common good Of
all the people of the State, and to
select a standard-bearer, in the ap-
preaching canvass for Governor.
who shall be a true, loyal Union
man, a firm and determined de
fender of the Constitution and laws
of the land, and around whom may
rally all the people of the State who
desire the full and complete resto-
ration Of peace, prosperity and hap
piness of our beloved State.
J. D. johnson, John S. Brien,
J. p Thompson, Jas. Jones,
W J. Mcfarland, VIM. W Colemany
Hervey Brown, J. I. Moore,
L. NJ. Tharpe, Dan Able,
s. L. Warren, Peter Pearson,
J. T. Street, L. M Jarvis,
= F. A LoughmilIer, Z. Simmerley,
Henry Bigcs, Wm Wrighe,
John R. Shuts, G. W Overstrset
RI. v. Schmittou, John LelIyett,
r. E. Lasater, James Parks
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30

At the Columbus, Ohio, opera house. on
Monday, night Lester, the gymnast in at
tempting the feat Of dropping head down
ward and hanging by his toes to a trapez,
lost his hold and fell into the orchestra In
falling, however, he conrived to change his
position, so that he struck upon his feet sus-
tanning no other injury than a sprained an
kle. The distance from the trapez to the
stage was over thirty feet.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30

General Joseph Cooper will be candidate
to represent the Knoxville Senatorial Dis
trict in the next legislature, He is a simon
pure (?) Radical while John B. Brownlow
aspires to a seat in the lower honse from the
county of Knox.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30

At a meeting which occurred in Augusta,
Ga, on the 23d, inst, to nominate candidates
for Mayor, aresolution was adopted that
colored citizens be allowed to be registered,
and vote at the election.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30

A correspondent writing from Helena,
Montana, says the mortality of that city is
extraordinary good for a new and mining
country. as only a dozen men have been
killed within the last four weeks.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30

THREATENNe.-A cable dispatch, dated
Paris, 22d inst, says it is announced that
Napoleon favors the confederation of the
Governments of France, Holland, Belgium
and Switzerland against Prussia.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30

A significant ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS was made
Monday, says the Washington Intelligencer,
even by so determined an ultraist as Mr..
Boutwell,, of Massachusetts, which ought
not to escape the attention of the people of
the South Replying 20 Mr.. Bingham's re-
minder, that the constitutions adopted by
tie Southern people would still have to come
before Congress for acceptance, he declared
that q Congress- would be under the irFesisti-
bic pressure to accept any constitution so
adopted as the work of the people Of the
State" This was urged by Mr.. Boutwell,
as a reason for having the preliminaries so
arranged that no needless question should be
raised in Congress, subsequently, about the
admission Of a State
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30

ALAsi PooE YoRK-The Tennessee Ma
tional Bank, George R. Rutter, President,
has closed It's doors-!f gone up. Even the
school fund, $6I8, 600, was not enough to
feed its huge nav. How are you, green
backs?
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30

Congress has given $4,000 of the peoples
money to the destitute negroes living within
the District of Columbia, but would not ap-
prOpriate a cent TO the starving whites of
Alabama and Georgia A whitening curse
on congressional meanness, say we.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30

4 Perfect Aatidote for all Pofsoas-A
plain farmer says "Itis now twenty years
since ] learned that sweet oil would cure the
bite Of a rattlesnake not knowing it would
cure other kinds Of poison. Practice, obser-
vatioR and experience have taught me that
it would cure poisons of any kind, both on
man and beast ] think no farmer should
be without bottle Of IL In his bense.
The patient must take q spoonful Of lt
internally, and bathe the wonBd for a cure.
TO cure a horse it requires eight times Is
much as it does a man.
Here let me mention one Of the most
extreme cases Of snake bite in ibis neigIbor-
hood. 1t was eleven years ago this sumner
the case had been thirty days standing and
the patent had been given up by his physi-
clan ] heard Of It, carried the oil, and gave
him one spoonful, which effected a cure. 1t
is an antidote for arsenic and strichnine.
1t will cure bloat IN cattle caused by eating
too freely Of fresh clover, it viii cure the
sting Of bees, spiders, or other insects, and
viii cure persons who have been poisoned
by low, rnnnning vine growing IN the
meadows called ivy.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30

AdUatising. - We have never known, in.
all our long experience says the Mountain
Democrat, Of an instance of the failure Of
any who advertised freely in order 70 In
crease their business Examples Of success
resulting from the free use OF printing ink
are numerous and we may also add, that ex-
amples who were penny wise and pound
foolish on this subject might be mentioned.
But it is not necessary. Every real business
man appreciates the advantage Of advertis-
ing, and makes q point 10 let the public know
what he has, or whathe can do. A liftle adj
yertising will do o little good, but habitual
and liberal Advertising has never failed to
pay well, and frequently enormously. Let
those who have net tried it make The expert
ment.
To cure the toothscbe, les a omnibus run
F1r
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30

North Alabama adyices state that the re-
cent foods destroyed 5000 bushels of corn
and large amount Of food sent by relief
associations to the sufferers. The people
living at a distance from the railroads are in
danger of starvation.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30

Lent-This quadragesimal fast began
on Ash-Wednesday, Goth of March, and
closes with Easter Sunday, April 2lst
During this period the Episcopal Church
luxuries
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30

The President has been urged bv promi-
nent Republicans and others to release Mr.
Davis on his own recognizance, and it is be-
ieved he viii be released within the next ten
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30

NashUitle. Tennessee, December Term, 1866
.s.-PreseRt, Judges o. Sbactleford and
AI0ig HaUkfns- Thomas Il C0ld,oeH,
AttorHey General, and Reporter.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-03-30

George n. Carleton, charged with pock-
eting $500,00O of government money while
he was Treasury Agent at Memphis, has
been let out of limbo on $25, 900 bond
Pshapv