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The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-16

We are an out an out Republican. We
are in favor Of true Republican, Democrat
ic form of Government We are, and have
always been, an unconditional Union man,
and expect to remain such so long as We
live. We believe the government of the
United States should he controlled alone BY
its true friends. We believe the Union to
be the only hope for future peace, prosperi-
ty and happiness of the people inhabiting
its territory. We believe in universal free
dom and protection to all its inhabitants in
every right, civil and political, in person aud
property. Hendersoncine Pioneer. M
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-16
Treatment of Freedmen in Texas.
The last Washington Star SAYS:

Communications have been received at
the Freedmen's Bureau from Austin, Texas,
calling attention to the wrongs and outmges
towards freedmen in the northeastern coun-
ties of Texas, stating they are now more OPP
pressed and brutally treated than in the days
of slavery The lash is more cruelty admin
istered than it ever was, and freedmen who
have cultivated land and raised crops, have
had all taken from them. Outrages, from
cold blooded murders down, have occurred,
and there is no one to whom they can appeal
for redress. A member of the Grand Jury
of Red River county was heard to say, "They
dare not indict these criminals known to
them rs having been guilty; an old citizen
would not be permitted to live there day
we're he known to take any steps to redress
these wrongs"
Also, communication from Austin, Tex
as, reporting the murder of two freedmen :;
one near Austin, and the other at "Homsby's
Bend" by white men. Another case is re-
ported at Prairie Lea, where freedman was
cruelty whipped for addressing young man
as Tom instead of Master Thomas Another
was shot for refusing to give his bottle of
whisky to two white men, The civil officers
will not take any steps to bring the offenders
e. to justice. Another was cruelty whipped
for having brought suit for wages against
a white man. In Pamela county there exists
a gang of five or six white men who live by
robbing freedmen. The people are afraid of
them, and the civil authorities are powerless
because witnesses are afraid to testify against
them. These cases are reported by men who
are known to be truthful and reliable"
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THE LATEST RECONSTRUCTION PRo-
eRAMME.-The HeralFs Washington CORES
pondence gives the following as the latest
reconstruction programme
1t is stated this afternoon, upon unques-
tionable authority, that the leaders Of the
majority in Congress have agreed upon .
programme for the present session, in so far
as the Southern States are concerned. and
that it embraces, first, the ratification of the
constitutional amendment by three-fourths
of the States represented in Congress; and
second, the reorganization Of the recusant
States by compulsion. The adoption of the
amendment by the Legislatures Of the States
will be completed, it is expected, by the first
ofFebuary, when measures will be immedi-
ately carried through in Congress looking to
the governing of the South by the military
arm.
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The Constitutional Amendment Reject
ed by Virginia.

Yesterday, the Virginia Assembly rejected
the Constitutional Amendment, by q unani-
nous vote in the Senate, and with solitary
affirmative in the lower House. of Mr.. Lew
is, Delegate from Fairfax. By simple neg
alive, and without flourish the representa-
tives of Virginia expressed the honest die
tates of their hearts, to which, we are assur-
ed. all the people cry, amen. Virginia had
but one response to make to any proposition
which cow yedlto her dishonor, and on this
occasion her answer is given, with the calm.
ness and dignity appropriate to q name which
has never been coupled with disgrace. In
the manner and The net our Legislature has
truly reflected the sentiment Of their constit-
uency, who will accord to them suitable Gre
dit. AS In thetime when the Roman Senate
was the most august body on earth, the peo-
pie of Virginia say now to their Legislature:
You deserve well of your country; thus we
would have you act." Richmond Examiner.
The Legislature of Kentucky has also re-
jected the amendment by decided majority.
The Legislature of Missouri, which exists
on loyal basis, has adopted the amendment.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-16

SMALL Pox IN SALEM-We learn that
the small pox is prevailing to considers
BILE extent in Salem, in this State. 1t is said
to be mild in its character, and no deaths
are thus far reported.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-16

The Supreme Court of this State assem-
bled in this City yesterday. We learn that
yesterday was devoted to the examination Of
applicants for County Court license, and that
applicants for Superior Court license will be
examined to-day.
The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-16

We regard the oath in Mr. Stevens bill as
just and proper. After what has occurred,
no man ought to be allowed to take part in
establishing a new government for the State
who can not take this OATH It proscribes
no secessionist, whether original or otherwise,
who saw his error and repented, and desired
the success of the Union cause after the 4th
of March, 1854. 1t proscribes no Unionist
who remained faithful in his attachment to
his principles. 1t proscribes no poor con-
script who was dragged off to fight against
his will. But it does prescribe conscious
traitors" It does exclude from the ballot
box those who staked all on the Confederacy,
who refused to listen to the voice of peace,
but who plunged forward to the awful end,
regardless Of the prayers and tears of their
suffering countrymen. Such persons have
shown themselves unfit to rule either them
selves or Others. They can destroy. but they
can not rebuild. Let them stand aside for
the present. Their thirst for office and power
can not be quenched just now. If they tell
us they would prefer death to exclusion from
Office, we point them to the fields where their
comrades fell, and suggest that death then
and there would have been more honorable
than at this time, for such cause. We
think they will recover. Our impression is
they viii survive, and surviving, they will
see, after awhile, that this country can be
governed and the Union restored by some
people as well as Others. Mr.. Stevens test
oath provides for this, and Mr.. Stevens test
oath will be adopted and carried out, Sin
spite Of lamentations here and elsewhere"
The Uaioa nsue and ahaN b rsstered, and
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gress They denounce the Congress as an
unconstitutional body; they profess to adj
here to the President for no other reason
than that they expect him to carry out their
views, by force of arms, if necessary; they
declare that the Union as it now is, and the
Constitution, as it is proposed to be altered
by the loyal States, will be but despotism,
for which they have no respect, and to
which they would not submit if they could
help themselves; that the Unionists of the
South are traitors; that they only are loyal,
because they are true to the Constitution. and
the Union as they were, before they fought to
destroy them; that if they are invited to 90
back to the Union debating terms as con-
querors, and in possession of all the Offices,
they will accept the invitation; but that, if
they are not to have their way in every
thing, and especially if they are not to have
the Offices, then the Union may perish so far
as they are concerned, for they will never.
return to it.
The upshot of the whole matter is that
the government must deal with these insti-
! gators and leaders. It must strike them in
such way as to deprive them of all infu-
ence. The great body of our people are dis
posed to submit in good faith to the govern
ment, and to accept the Union on the terms
laid down by the majority, and they would
do SO, but for these wicked instigators and
leaders. Let Congress deal with them. Let
it strike them down, both as measure of Sc
curity for the future and ofjust punishment
for their crimes. Let this be done In an act
to reorganize our State governments on
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-22

here passengers. of the Lucy, which CON-
tinued hard and fast. and the Kate Kear-
new was dispatched to her assistance last
evening. The Illinois is getting no better,
and the Missouri worse Nor can we
speak encouragfngly of the river hence to
aground a. Hat Island for perhaps 4S hours
The Arthur broke one or two. hundred
timbers on her mp trip, by running against
main here two or three weeks for repairs,
&C.
packet City of Cairo, bonnd hence to Menu
phis, being at Hat Island on the 18th, at 8
p. M, out of the cham ell and broadside or
sherman found only four an a half feet
In the channel. The Gypsy and two barges
were assisting the Cairo. The Marble City
reach the Cairo, but failed toe do3 so,I and
proceeded on. 49,. :
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ORDER FOR PLANK sIDEwAIKs.'

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lots or parts OF lots, fronting on or adjoin-
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Moth SIDE Of Eight street, between Ed
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North side5ptI Eighth street, fropsF First
avenue to Second avenue; &c.
North sfdelo Eighth street, from Second
avenue TO fffrd avenue; 81
4 Last side of First avenue, from Seventh
Street o Eleventh street; 49, n -
North side of Ninth street, between
second aSenne a. d Eh reGAvdn6e.d -
IN said CITY, caasefh sidewa1x thereon
to pe. brought 10 the pr per grade, and til at
Ithey cause sidewalk u Class Noi9 70 be
land down thereon within thirty DAYS from
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Examine our goods and prices. Nd trou-
BILE to show goods.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1867-02-28
RECONSTRUCTION.

The present Congress has been labor
ing assiduously for the last two years to
reconstruct the Southern States, or in
other words, to fasten upon the ten
rebel States, against their will, uni
versal suffrage with all it's concomitant
evils. Many plans have been suggested
as the special specific for all of our ma
tional wants and woes, and have been
discussed with rancorous malignity
not at all calculated to raise the pro-
verbally low estimate which has been
accorded to American craftsmanship, or
to foster the hope of our speedy return
to tranquility and peace. Indeed many
of the leading men in Congress have
manifested in their harangues enough
Of prejudice, passion and diabolism to
quench the blaze of civilization which
is supposed to adorn and WITTY the
nineteenth century. We had hoped
that this political monstrosity, calling
itself a congress of the American people,
would have had quietus put to its eX-
istence by lapse Of time, before it was
delivered of its illegitimate spawn, the
Reconstruction Bill. In this hope and
expectation we have been grievously
disappointed, ana are forced to present
our readers with the Radical panacea :
First, promising that the Bill Gin whole
and in parcels is nothing more nor less"
than the nostrum Of a quack, which will
only aggravate the disease and Ylti-
mately produce dissolution. Here it is !:
Whereas, No legal State Governments
or adequate protection for life or prop
erty now exist in the Rebel States of
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Florida, Texas and Arkan-
sas and whereas it is necessary that
peace and good order should be enforced
in said States until loyal and Republican
State Governments can be legally estab-
iished therefore
BE il enacted, DC, That said Rebel
States shall be divided into military
districts, and made subject to the mill
tary authority of the United States, as
hereinafter prescribed, and for that pur-
pose Virginia shall constitute the first
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4 Pe7ju7ed Tool Convicted.

1t is announced by telegraph that
Sanford Conover on trial in the Crimi-
nal Court of the District of Columbia,
has been found guilty of perjury in GER
tain testimony duplicating jeff. Davis
in the assassination of President Lincoln.
This result is the more gratifying as the
trial was beforea Republican bench, and
every proper opportunity afforded the
criminal to explain his guilt 1t has
been suggested that as this great scoun-
drel has sought by perjury to bring jeff
Davis to the gallows, he himself deserv-
es to suffer the penalty which he sought
to have wrongfully visited upon anoth-
er. But this may be too harsh judy
ment, Whilst Conover is nothing else
than villain, We are inclined to believe
that he thought he was simply doing
what the aBureau OF Public Justice,5
with Judge Holt at its head, desired at
his hands. He thought he was doing
what "loyalty" approved, and that his
employers expected him to convict jeff.
Davis at all hazards. Even as Military
Commissions were organized to con
Vict," SO Conover conceived that detec-
tives were employed to supply all de-
fects in testimony which war neces-
sity" demanded.
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Ne VS. OF TIL e DAY.


At the election for charter officers in
Georgetown, last Monday, the candidate
voted for by the negroes, was electe,l by
96 majority Comment is unnecessary.
At Democratic meeting WHICH was
held at ST. Louis. Missouri, on Friday
evening last, for the purpose ofreorgan-
ization CT the old Democratic party of
the State, a series of resolutions was
adopted strongly denuneiatory of the
usurpations Of Congress; declaring for
direct tax in preference to a protective
tariff; approving the call for National
Democratic Convention to assemble at
Louisville; and finally in reference to
State affairs asserting that every man
in Missouri of lawful age and sound
mind has the right to vote and should
exercise his right at all hazards and sub
.]ect to all consequences which an un-
lawful assumption Of power might
evoke.
The Tariff question has been a ''thorn
in theside" ofCongress during the whole
session. The Bill was virtually killed
in the House on Monday.
The Washington Republican says the
President will veto the Military Recon-
struction Bill
At the recent charter election in SYRIA
cuse New York, the Democrats were
victorious by large and increased ma
.jorities.
Mr.. Blaine, of Maine, has introduced
a Bill to reimburse the States that have
furnished troops to the union army,
for advances made and expenses incur
red in raising the same. The amount
provided for in this Bill is $4,000. 900.
The national debt is not likely to grow
beautifully less" if many such addi-
tions are made to it.
The Tax Bill has finally passed the
House. The income tax has been al
tered SO as to levy five per cent. on all
incomes over 81 900, with allowance
for house rent. The tax on whiskey is
unchanged at - per gallon, affordine
strong inducements to fraud. Cigars
are taxed uniformly at S. per thousand
Though the tax on cotton was taken of
in in committee, it was restored in the
House.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1867-02-28

SPECIAL NOTICES.


aay~CoNsUMPTIoN Durable BY Dr..
ScHENcK's MEDIeINE-TO CURE CON
SUMPTION, the system must be prepared SO
that the lungs will heal. To accomplish this
the liver and stomach must first be cleansed
and an appetite created for wholesome food,
which, by these medicines will be dgested
properly, and good healthy blood made; thus
building up the constitution. SCHENCh'S
NAN DRAKE PILLS cleanse the stomach o.
all bilious or mucous aecumulations, and, by
using the Sea Weed Tonic in connection, tbs
appetite is restored.
SCHENCkS PULMONIC SYRUP is nu-
tritious as well as medicinal, and, by using the
three remedies, all impurities are expelled
from the system, and good, wholesome blood
made, which will repel all disease. If patients
will take these medicines according to drec-
tons, Consumption very frequently in its ast
stage yields readily to their action. Take the
pills frequently, to cleanse the liver and
stomach. 1t does not follow that because the
bowels are not costive they are not required,
for sometimes in diarrhGa they are necessary.
The stomach must be kept healthy, and an APP
petite created to allow the Pulmonc Syrup to
act on the respiratory organs properly and
allay any irritation. Then all that is required
to perform permanent cure is, to prevent
taking cold. Exercise about the rooms as
much as possible, eat all the richest food-fae
meat, game, and, in fact. anything the appe-
tite Graves; but be particular and mastcats
we'll. November Is, 1866
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1867-02-28
TFIE NEW ERA FEBRUARY %, 1867

THE West Virginia House of Repre-
sentatives has been brought to real
izing sense of the degradation which
attaches to it in having for its leader
pardoned thief. They appointed a COM
mittee to investigate and report on the
charges made against Ferguson. And
Notwithstanding the announcement
some time ago that " Mr.. Ferguson hau
made satisfactory explanation of the
affair."" the report of this committee is
rather damaging. In fact, it virtually
substantiates all the charges made
against the light-fngered" member
from Cabell county, and lays bare the
unpleasant fact that the members of
that Body have followed the leadership
Of a par}oned Mief. And following this
report is a request signed by a majority
of the committee on investigation, ask
ING Ferguson to resign his seat, and
thereby relieve the House of the en-
barrassment and disgrace of his presence
among them. But Ferguson very coolly
informed the House that if they passed
a resolution requesting him to resign, be
arouza moi do ii, and on motion it was
laid on the table. Thus showing that
notwithstanding the damaging report
of committee of his own political
friends, majority Of the members of
the House are still unwilling to break
from his leadership Alas! the weak
ness of poor human nature.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1867-02-28

decisions of the Supreme Court of the
United States. Not a provision but
what is calculated to produce, and de-
signed to produce anarchy, strife and
bloodshed. Not 9 provision but what
is intended to blister dishonor and dis
grace upon the foreheads of five million
Of brave, generous and magnanimous
people. This is playing the same ro{e
that England played towards Ireland,
Russia towards Poland, and Austria
towards Venice, and we may rest as
sured will be followed by the same
consequences. OF course the President
will veto this Bill. 1t will be passed
over his head. Will he execute its pro-
visions? Not If he is the man we take
him to be. Impeachment will follow as
a necessary consequence. Look out for
stirring times.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1867-02-28

During short discussion in Congress,
recently, on the bill introduced by Mr..
Williams, to govern the Southern States
by military power, Mr.. Banks, Rad.,)
of Massachusetts, in giving his views in
opposition to the measure, said, among
other things, that
1T is impossible that the Government
should go on for three years longer, or
two and a half years, or two years, With
out approaching the Verge of ruin.
Business is suspended now. The peo-
pie are oppressed with taxes. Laborers
are thrown out of employment. Every
thing is unsettled. The wisest men
cannot look to the future without APP
prehension, if not without fear. The
future is full of danger, and rather than
face that danger for two and half or
three years longer, the Representatives
Of the people will be obliged to consider
the condition ofthe country, and what
course of conduct is necessary for the
safety Of the Government and the inter-
ests of the people,"
Such is the picture of the country
drawn by one Of the ablest men in the
Radical ranks, and such the prospects he
presents of the future, both of the gov
eminent and the people. And yet Con-
gress is acting as if everything was. 60
ing on swimmingly, buoyantly, hope
fully-as if there were no lowering
clouds, no warnings of the breakers
ahead. Such, however, is the blindness
that always precedes distinctions; and,
probably, the sooner, the storm bursts
over the country, the better for it.