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The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21

The VACANT JUDGESuIP.-The Office of Judge. re-
Gently vacated by d. G. Fowle, rendered to Gen.
Pondcxtcr of Yadkin and declined, and then offered
TO Daniel g. Baker of Wilmington, who also declined
it The difficulty about the matter is, that the APP
poince has take the iron-cad test oath. 1t is
dcrsood that both Mr. Poinde1cr and Mr. Baker could
take that oath and we sorry that of them did
not accept the position. In these times good men
ought TO make sacrifices for the benefit of the
public.
Efforts are being made, we learn from our ex-
changes, TO have Gen Candy appoint \. W. Tourgee
to the poSiOn-a Northern man.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21
South Carolina Convention.

CHARLESTON, Jan. 1.-THE Reconstruction
Convention composed of So whites and 63 ne
grocs met in pursuance of Gen. Canby's order
at noon, to-day. Ninety-two delegates constitu-
ting quorum, were present Robertson, OF
Columbia was chosen temporary Chairman. The
day was consumed in the examination Of creden-
tals of delegates.
Jan. 15.-The Convention to-day perfected a
permanent organization by electing DIR. A. G
Mackey, President; Charles j. Stolbrand, Sec
rotary (both white) Assistant Secretary, En-
crossing Clerk, Door-kecpers, Sergeant-at-Arms
and Messengers, all colored.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21
Composition of the u S. Supreme Court

AS the Supreme Court has again emerged
from its retirement before the public view in
connection with important constitutional ques-
Informed TO its composition and political COM
piexion. There are at present eight Judges, as
follows: Salmon p Chase, Ohio, Chief Justice;
Nathan Clifford, Maine; Samuel Nelson, New
York; Robert G. Gricr, Pennsy kania; David
Davis, Illinois; Noah w. Swayne, Ohio; Samuel
T. Miller Iowa; Stephen S. Field, California.
Their ages as far as can be ascertaincd arc as
follows Chase, sixty; Gricr, seventy-two on
the 9th of March, 1868; Miller, forty-one; Cliff:
ford, sixty on the 18th of August, 1868;
Nelson, about seventy; Field, forty-fve; Davis,
sixty; and Swayne, about flty-fve.
Of these Chase, Miller, Swaync Davis and
Field were appointed by Lincoln, Grier by Polk,
Clifford by Buchanan, and Nelson by Buchanan,
or Pierce
Justice Nelson and Clifford are Democrats
Grier is claimed on the same side. Justice
Field is pronounced by a Republican authority as
"a reconstructed Johnsonian." Judges Chase,
Swayne and Miller are avowed Republicans,
whilst Judge Davis is called "a very moderate
Republican," The full number of Supreme
Judges are mine, but the death of Judge Wayne,
of Georgia (Rcpublican), created vacancy
which an act of Congress has provided shall not
be filed by President johnson.
\ bill now pending before the House of Rep
resentatives proposes to require two thirds ofthe
Supreme Court to concur in pronouncing upon
the constitutionality Of any law of Congress.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21

FREEDMEN OUT OF EMPLOYMENT.-One CT
the painful results of the low price of cotton, and
the consequent stagnation of farming interests,
is to be seen in the unprecedentedly large number
of freed people out of employment, and OF homes
In this District it would be difficult to estimate
the number that are now wandering from place
to place, seeking employers, but it is safe asser
ton that fully one-fourth of the colored popula-
ton are in this condition
Our farmers are too much disheartened with
the results of the last years operations, to plant
on large scale the present year. With favor
able seasons, they failed to pay expenses; and
| while they realized nothing; their lborers were
left in an equally unfortunate condition, for they
worked for a part of the nothing that was made,
Another reason for this state OF affairs, Is to be
| found in the conduct of the freedmen. Many
were idle and vicious, and failed to inspire their
emplovers with that confidence in their industry,
| so necessary to their own welfare We hear it
| reported that in many of the League Associations
in this District, they adopted resolutions last FALL
not to hire for less than the oaehdIf Of the crop
or ten dollars per month wages. If these reports
be true, the freedmen seeking starvation and
| ruin through their own folly.-forh,sOe En-.
| gutrer.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21
Georgia.

Gen. Meade has removed from office Governor
jenkins, and John Jones, State Treasurer, and
appointed Gen. Thomas Fl. Ruger, U. S. A, to act
Governor, and Capt. Chas. F. Rockwell to act as
State Treasurer Gen. Ruger it will be remembered,
commanded the troops stationed at Charlotte just
after the close of the war. He is now made Governor
of Georgia by Gen. Meade
President Johnson, (who is supposed to be friend
OF the Southern people in their oppressed condition.
has not made much by removing Gen. Pope and ap-
pointing Gen. Meade to command Georgia and Ala
bama. Deliver us from such friends who appoint
Candy and Meade to rule over us.
The difficulty in Georgia appears to have originated
by the State officers refusing to pay the members of
the Convention their per diem the warrant of the
President of that body. In fact, it is stated that
Gov. jenkins had transferred the North for safe
keeping all the funds belonging to the State.
A dispatch from Atlanta dated January 18th says
at is reliably stated that there are no funds in
the State Treasuly-all having been removed, in view
of the probability of such a seizure the present
An order, dated the 10th, appears from Governor
Jenkins suspending the collection of all State
up to the first of May next. The old law authorized
such suspension, and the Convention, by resou-
power for that purpose The effect of this suspen-
sion will be to forbid any collection of the tax i'm
posed by the Convention for the payment of its ex-
penses."
The Washington National Intellgenccr says:
at is understood that within few hours after the
reception of the dispatch announcing the removal by
Gen. Meade of Gov. jenkins, account of his
fusa 10 sanction the payment of the Georgia Conven
ton out of the State funds Gen Grant expressed the
opinion that Gen Meade had acted hastily and should
not have removed him; and that the Convention had
no right to be paid out of the State Treasury
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21

Montgomery, Jan. 16-A
meeting of prominent citizens of the State has
been in session here for two days After calm
and patient deiberation the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
Reso'red, LIST. That we recommend to the peo-
pie of Alabama, who are opposed to the Constitu-
ton proposed by the Convention lately in session
at Montgomery to abstain from voting at all at the
elections to be held on the 4th or 9Th of Feb
ruary, either of ratifying or rejecting the Con-
stitution. Or for candidates for office under it,
I'd. That we also recommend to the opponents
of the said proposed Constitution that they form,
maintain and effect political organizations among
themselves, in every portion of the State, until
they arc delivered from the peris which are pend
ing.
The 3Oth day of January, 1868, was recon-
mended to the people of the State as day of
fasting and prayer to Almighty God, to deliver
the people of Alabama from the horrors Of negro
dominion. An address was also adopted setting
forth to the people of Alabama and the
world, the reasons prompting the white people
of Alabama to abstain from the polls.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21

DE,rH OF 4 Coon MAN.-When good man dies
The proj!C are bcrcavcd. Mr. Chas I. IIaigh, of Fay
ettevile, died last week, aged a years. When
prominent public man dies great deal is said about
him i'll the public papers. but we think more especial
notice should be taken of private citizen who dis
charges his duties we'll and in an nostentatious
manner Ever since were little boy we have
known MIR lIaigh and we knew him to be a christian
gentleman in all the walks of life. He was not
politician, nor an oficc-sceker but he was indeed
and in truth public benefactor. 4 devoted mem
her OF the Episcopal Church. he spent his life in
doing good and relieving the distressed He is en-
crowns III glory. The Fayetteville News, in an
nouncing his death. says:
MIR Hagh was born in England. on the 9Th of
June, lI9l and had been citizen of this place since
lSlS-jO years. He was in all that time one of our
leading business men, and did, for great number
of years, large ana very prosperous business from
which he had, up to the close of the war; amassed a
very handsome fortune, and which was nearly all
swept away at by the great calamity that befell
us all. lie held, for many years before his death
the Presidency of the Branch of the Bank of Game
Fear i'll this town, and the Presidency also of tho
Rockhsh Manufacturing Co. In his lifetime he dis
pensed from his ample fortune charity with no slim
ted hand and the loss Of that fortune may be said TO
be the sore loss of others as well as his own II is
superhuous for us TO say TO those who knew Mr.
Hagh-and he was extensively known in this and
many other States-that the least suspicion of his
integrity i'll any relation of his life was deemed among
the impossibilities.'
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21

SlGNIFrcANT.-The petition presented to Congress-
last week from 900 negroes in the District Of Col
umbia, praying for work on the Government build
ings, and stating that white men would not work
with hem is Indicative of sentiment at the North to-
wards the colored man. The great of the North
ern people not only opposed to negro suffrage
and negro equality with the whites in any re-
spec, but they actually refuse him the privilege of
working in the shop with white men, or on the
same building, on the wharves. Yet the Repre-
sentaves in Congress of these white people force the
Southern white to take position side by side with
the negro at the polls, in the Jury box, sc. Shame
upon such Inconsistency.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21

HELPING TnEMsELvEs.-We feel delicacy
in bringing the domestic arrangements Of fami-
lies into public notice; but there is one feature
in the reorganization for the present year so
commendable, that it deserves a special observa-
ton Many of the ladies ofthis District whose
delicate hands have never before known the use
of splits, skillets, brooms and busters, have de-
termined to become the pioneers of a great re-
form, and lessen the burden of household cxpcn-
scs by doing their own cooking and domestic
work. While VIC all feel in our hearts sincere
pity that the burdens of adversely have fallen SO
heavily upon the tenderer sex, We cannot but
admire the noble fortitude that teaches them to
bear it so bravely. Car apology to the ladies of
York for this public allusion to their domestic
affairs, is in the fact that We believe their ex-
ample worthy of imitation, and that their coun-
try-women elsewhere will not be ashamed to
adopt it.-lorkcMe Enquirer.
All white persons who want to live respectable
must 90 to work in earnest.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21
WASHINGTON NEWS.

WASHINGTON, Jan 17.-Last nights session of the
House was devoted to the discussion of the new Re-
construction Bill, with several angry colloques
Ihe regular Cabinet meeting was held to-day.
Stanton did not appear.
To-day President Johnson issued instructions that
no communication with the War Department be sent
or received through Mr. Stanton, who would under
no circumstances be recognized by the President as
Secretary of War, admitted as a member of his
Cabinet.
The Supreme Court was crowded, to-day to hear
ex parte the McCardle case. The point argued was
the advancement of the case on the docket Judge
Sharkey stated that there several persons in
Mississippi, whom early decision of this case may
save from hanging
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21
CHARLOTTE MARKET, January 20, 1868
CORRECTED BY STRENUOUS E.. MACAULAY &

CORRECTED BY - MACAULAY q 20.
Cotton-Last week the market opened steady ON
the basis of 104 to 103 cents for middlng grades
purchaser paying tax-continuing firm at these
figures the entire week closing on Saturday at the
outside figure Sales for the week PA bales.
Flour, per sack of 90 pounds from wagons, 1913
to $685..
Corn firm at $1.1O to S1.15 per bushel.
Peas 81. Oates, 80 to GO cents.
Wheat, 81 to S2.25 per notwithstanding to
quality.
Pork, 10! to III cents.
Bacon-Baltimore Bacon is selling from stores at
1GJ to II cents Lard, Is to II cents.
Fresh Butter, 80 cents; Eggs, % to 80 cents;
Chickens, 20 cents.
Liverpool Salt, 50 IS per sack.
Corn Whiskey and Apple Brandy, 1925 to $3.50
per gallon.
Molasses, 10 cents TO 81 per gallon by retail
The weather inclement during the greater
portion of last week. that trade rather dull but
towards the closeaof the week there signs OF
revivng activity and produce sold readily at ad-
| vanced prices.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21

In this county, the 18th inst, Emily A., daugh-
ter of j. p. and Nancy NJ. Siford, aged years. 2
months and ID days.
In this county, the 25th of Nov, 1867, Mrs Jane
Hall, wife of Joseph Hall, aged % years Also,
the 18th inst, Mrs Harriet Herron wife of G. T
Heron, aged years-daughters of Mr. G W William
They both were members of the Presbyterian
Church.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21
New Advertisements.

Land Wanted for French emigrants-A Gagnicr.
Groceries for sale-Carson 4 Grier.
Goods for sale-Barringer, Wolfe & Co
New Boots and Shoes b Meacham.
Dentistry-B Traywick, ID ID S.
Great Observation-Disclosures & Lang.
Removable VIM f Carr
Life Insurance Co-HIutchison, Burroughs & Co
New Grocery Store-I S Austin.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21

Ia" We indebted to Mrs. Miller wife of Rev.
Willis S Miller of this city, for the excellent piece
Of poetry on our first page. 1t will be remembered
that under the signature of Lucia" she obtained
considerable reputation as writer for the n. c..
PRESBYTERIAN
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21

Ia The House of Representatives of the Ohio
Legislature has resoiaded its adoption of the Howard
Amendment, known Article 18th of the Consttu-
tiOn of the United States The vote in favor of re-
scinding was %, against 81. This is e step back
wards
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21
WANTED,
" NO JOQUE.o

We have just received superior lot of FLOUR,
consisting of Stewards, Neels, and Strewalt's fam
lily brands Also, fresh lot of Mountain Buckwheat
Flour together with fresh supply of Sugar Coffee,
Cheese
Molasses, Glover Seed,
Candles Lard &C. at the very lowest quotations, and
"no joque" Call early and get supplied
Jan 20 1SGS-1w CARSON g. GREER.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21

la" We direct special attention to the advertise
mcn of Hutchinson, Burroughs & Co, General gents
for the Equitable Life Assurance Society. The Com
pany is good one, and the Agents well known
to people as reliable in every respect.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21
MARKETS.

New York, Jan'y. 17th-Cotton onefourtl
higher and decidedly more active. Sales of 700
bales at II cents. Flour dull Gold 1881.
Liverpool, Jan'y. 17.-Cotton active and ad
vanced one-fourth
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21
NOTICE..

DIR. WM. L. CARR, Dentist, has removed his
Office to the third door south of the Methodist Church
on Tryon Street. Any person desiring his profess
sional services will find him ready to attend to all
calls promptly, at all hours of the day.
January 20 1868.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21

sss@ Gen. Butler, in a speech at Richmond, Va,
last week, declared that eonfscation impossible.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21

Hon. W. T. Hamilton is elected United States
Senator from Maryland
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21
NEW BOOTS AND SHOES
AT MY OLD ESTABLISHED STAND
Sign of the Golden Boot.

am daily receiving additions to my superior stock
of Boots and Shoes from Il. Miles & Son, Dickerman
& Co., and first class Eastern Manufactures. keep
constantly hand LEATHER and SHOE FIND
INGS. will sell as low or lower than any other
house in the city.
Every article warranted as represented.
Don't mistake the place. Give me call.
s. B. MEACHAM,
Near First National Bank.
N. Decomposition is the life of trade.
January 20, 1868.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21

STATE LIBRARIAN.-Theo. II. Hill of this
city has been elected State Librarian in place of
MIR Perry-Raleigh Register
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21
NOTICE..

The undersigned has opened a Cash Store
at the well known stand of the Red House, opposite
the Presbyterian Church, where he hopes to be able
to all his old friends and customers. Expect
ing to keep constantly on hand
Family Supplies
Of the best quality for sale, and earnestly solicits
from the good citizens of Charlotte liberal share Of
their patronage. lis. AUSTIN,
Jan 90, 1868. Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21
Ragged Money.

Torn and defaeed Shinplasters, Greenbacks, and
National Bank Notes, bought at very reasonable
discount at the CITY BANK OF CHARLOTTE,
January l3 1868. Trade Street
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-01-21
Prices of North Carolina Bank Notes.

Corrected weekly by A G. BRESIzER, Cashier City
Rank of Charlotte JANUARY 10Th.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-08-01

the ruins of liberty and the scattered
fragments of the Constitution.
And we do declare and resolve. thai
ever since the people of these United
States threw off all submission to the
British crown, the privilege and trust
Of suffrage have belonged to the seve'
raj States, and have been granted, reg
u,afed and controlled exclusively by
the political power of each State, re
spectively ; and any attempt by Con
gress, on any pretext whatever, to de-
pri,e any State of this right, or inter
fe,e with this exercise, is aagrant
usurpntion of power, which can ind no
warrant in the Constitution, and, il
sanctioned by the people, will subverI
our form of government, and can only
end in single, centralized, consolidate
ed government, in which the separate
existence of the States will be entirely
absorbed. and an unqualified despotism
be established in place OF a federal
union Of equal States; that we regard
the reconstruction acts OF Congress, So
called, rs usurpatiOns, UNCONSTITUTIONAL
revolutionary and void - that our SOL
diers and sailors, who carried the dag
of our country to victory against most
gallant and determined foe, must ever
be gracefully remembered, and all the
guarantees given in their favor must be
faithfully carried into execution - that
public lands should be either disposed OF
under the pre- emption homestead laws,
or sold in reasonable quantities, and to
none but actual occupants, at the min
mum price; as established by the gov
eminent; when grants of the public
lands may be allowed. necessarily for
the encouragement Of important pubic
improvements, the proceeds OF The sale
Of these lands, aud not the lands them
selves, should be SO applied.
Resolred, That tie President Of the
United States, Andrew Johnson, IN eX-
ercising the power Of lis high office IN
resisting the aggressions of Congress on
the constitutional rights of the States and
the people, is entitled to the gratitude of
the whole American people and, on be
half Cf the Democratic party, we tender
him our thanks for his patriotic efforts in
that regard
Upon this platform, the Democratic
party appeal to every patriot, including
all the Conservative element, and all who
desire to support the Constitution and
restore the Union. forgetting all past
differences Of opinion. to unite with US in
the present great struggle for he liberties
Of the people--and to all such, to what
ever party they may have heretofore
belonged. we extend the right hard OF
fellowship, and hail all cooperating with
US as friends and brothers.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-08-01

front. See Jones see Julia, who laughs i'm :
moderately at what she calls my funny APP
pearance. Jones grins malicously. | at
tempt to explain to Julia, who declares she
will not walk home with me looking like
that. | am in the depths of despair, my brain
reels-I stagger-recover in time to see Julia
going ont with Jones, the great unmusical.
I rush wildly from the building, and reach
my boarding house, followed by the shouts
and yells of all the rising population of E..
When | reach home | discover a small boy
eating peanuts and faithfully guarding my
usual habiiments. Jones sent him. could
not meet Julia after that, so left B. early
next morning, vowing [ would never sing or
Gaace again. Aud SO a great musician was
lost to the world.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-08-01

count it prof less to muse and sigh
Ger memory's record Of our buried years.
Were il not best 70 lay It gently by,
And bid our eyes, while yet unwet with tears,
Look onward, upward onward TO the gray
Dim haze that shrouds the future from our sight:
And upward towards the bright iniInits day
Whose mystic dawn shall triumph Ger our night
Well might We sigh and weep, If sigh or tear
Could charge the volume in a single page,
Cleanse one font spot or soothe one irettiug tear;
Well might we weep and sig from youth to age
Il sigh. or tear. or prayer, could e'er prevail
To blot the evil from our life told tale.
Well N ght we weep and sigh If IT. could bring
Back T. our cropping arms and empty hearts, our
lost,
Or win the sun Of youthful hope 10 Gn-
It, golden brightness on our tsUps-t-to>t
agd waste heart-waters. But il cannot he:
And since u cannot. wherefore should we weep
Were il not easiest to trust that he,
Who all things past an6 future aye dath keep,
vii mingle mercy with His dread survey,
And give Us strength life's futare page to write
IN Jharacters As pure a. mortal may
Yes. we will trust Hin. bidding hssrt ard eve
Forsske the past and loJk up faithfully
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-08-01
How Long We Might Live

Prof Faraday adopts Flourin', physiologi.
cal theory that the natural age of man is one
hundred years. The duration of life he be,
lieyes to oe measured by the time OF growth
WAen once the bones and eiphysis are united
the body grows no more, and at twenty years
this union is effected in man. In the camel
it takes place at eight; in the horse a five
in the rabbit at one. TIE natural termna,
ton of life is five removes from these several
points. Man, being twenty years in growing,
licvs five times twenty years the camel is
eight years in growing, and lives five times
eight years; and so with all other animals.
The man who does not die of sickness lives
everywhere from eighty to one hundred
years. Providence has given to man a Gems
fury OF life, but he does not attain to it be-
cause he inherits disease, eats unwhoesome
food, gives license to passions, and permits
vexations to disturb his healthy equipoise,
He does not die he kills himself.
The learned Professor also divides life into
equal halves, growth and decline, and halves
into infancy, youth, yiriity and age. Infancy
extends to the twentieth year youth to the
fftieth, because it is during this period the
tissues become firm; verilty from fifty to
seventyNhye, during which the organism res
mains complete, and at seventy five old age
commences, to last a longer or shorter time,
Ms the dimnution Of reserved forces is hastN
eucd or retarded.