The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1868-08-12

CO. --,--. No. ------ Section, M. 49, Ser
gean, and no arrest shall be made. or au-
thority exercised without the same. The
loan or transfer Of said badge TO an other
shall be an indictable offence. punishable
with imprisonment for not less than one
month, or more than two yoars. The Adj
iutant General shall have power 10 desig.
nate the number Of each company. platoon
and section.
Sec. l2. Any officer Of said Special Mi
litia shall have power. and II shall be his
duty. to use such force as may be necessa-
ry 10 overcome resistance in quelling riots
or making arrests, and not Otherwise.
Sec. 10. That the white and colored
members Of the Special Militia shall not be
compelled to serve in the same sections.
See. "a. Each officer shall be allowed
necessary travelling expenses and postage
incurred in the discharge Of his duties.
Sec. Is. Each Captain shall require
naonthly reports from each Sergeant in his
company. and shall make monthly reports
TO the Adjutant General of The State. ar..
See. 10. That officers shall take rank ac-
cording to the date Of their commissions.
and that the AdIutant General, shall furnish
to each officer a list Of all the. officers &C.
cording to rank. b il; 4ss.n #f...d Wifi
Sec. Ia. The sum necessary 10 carry ont
the provisions Of this act is hereby appro
priated and ordered 10 be. paid from any
money not otherwise appropriated,
Sec. Is. This act shall BE-, in ioree from
and after its passage. sairHaf s=.e FIT =
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Moral RESPONSIBILITY OF AUTiioRs.-Ihe
London Spectator suggests rather dificuil
question in morals. A boy OF fifteen got
hold Of Bulwer's novel of Paul Clifford. aud
he became 50 rapiivaied with the life OF a
highwayman that he at once commenced
the y ork Of robbery BY breaking opena I'LL
and taking flight with its contents. The lit
tie fool has been caught and sentenced 10
be incarcerated for four years. lie owes his
sentence, like scores Of others, TO Bulwer
vet who (says the Spectator) can say that
Bulwer ought to be Imprisoned lor what
was To him an intellectual speculation /!
We don't presume to attempt the solution
of a question so profound as this ; but We
have no doubt justice will not be adj.
minisiered upon Bulwer. .s.. 4..- .t.ss.
EcuNESIcaL COUNCILS. Ecumenical
council. summoned by the Pope 10 meet al
Rome, has directed attention to the nature
If these asselnblsges, ol which only twenty
| - TTka.
summoned except in cases Of great emer.
gency, when important questions require
settlement. They are such serinus affairs
that no Pope since the Council Of Trent, in
the fifteenth century. has been tond oil
nedding with them for, when once SUN.
moned. they are beyond his control and
their DEGREES or authority are superior 10
his nwn. Though be convokes them. they
are not necessarily held in Rome. nor is he
necessarily present. A Legate or Nuncia
lis generally substituted for him. aud what.
ever decision is arrived At is binding upon
him and the party he represents. The
court of Rome, however, has usually con.
ltriyed TO have the direction 81 them. whe.
Their Plus TX. has the ability TO manage
such body remains to be- seen.
i Bosion Journal.
UTaH AND ruE MnRaoss. --'rhe del, gate
in Congress from Utah. Mr. W. II. Hooper,
has recently given an interesting sketch o
that Territory, in a letter. According I,
this account. the Mormons have built VI
Utah from a desert waste, which twent,
years sgo was twelve hundred miles fron
either settlements or nasigable rivers.
is now aourishing young State. contain
ing one hundred thousand inhabitants, viii
territorial extension Of seventy 6y,
thousand square miles. There are eighty
; six aourishiDg towns and cities in the Ter
ritory, with near one hundred posioiiices
, while the grist and saw mills, wooler
nanufartories, and manv other branches 0
the mechanic arts are quite equal 70 ihps
OF the other States. There are one hun