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New-York tribune., 1868-04-24
LOUISIANA.
TptI-upu OF TuF NEW CONSTITUTION.

TRIUMPH OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION.
NEw-ORLEANs, April %. - Complete returns
show the majority this parish against the constitution
10 be POS. one Democrat snd Republican Congress
man are elected Conway, Democrat, is chosen Mayor
with Democratic najorities in both branches OF the city
cOunci Returns from the country parishes place the
Constitution nearly $500 ahead In % parishes. The crescent
comedies the ratification OF the Constitution, and the con-
scquen election OF the Republican state ticket by 1000 TO
1900 majority The Republicans claim majority OF
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PREPARATIONS FOR A REPUBLICAN VICTORY IN
VIRGINIA

T1TnMUND,
opened in Virginia. Republican speakers nave peen
leaving here all the week the different portions
OF the state At all the County Courts held this week
Conservative speakers to open the canvass Tx
Gov. Pierpoint addressed Republican meeting this
evening in the Park. He supported the Cohsiltu-
tion and characterized the means by which
he had been removed from the Goyernorshp as simply
contemptibe The speakers on the Repabhcan slde IN
this campalen are snch men rs Alexander Rves and
John Minnr Botts and on the Conservative side X. NJ
Il. Hunter A. H. Ii Stuart, and the Ike.
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THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.

OMAHA, April 22.-The Dale Creek bridge,
four miles west of thc summit and 25 feet hlsh and the
most important on the lue, completed Yesterday
and 20 additional miles of track are laid making 100 niles
New-York tribune., 1868-04-24

LRwIs-on TUESDAY after lingering Illness MARI L. siS
ofCh.,les Y Levi. 10 55th year Of her age
The relatives Of the family ara sss "a attend the tlnsrz
from Church u Beecker and Dos ng GA SataHJ AZ
u .. m, without further notice
pIERcR Mroneck weshester Co.. 22d inst Abrsha
fnday the O'clock 1.-THE NJ b Cssrch
sNBDEKERA Hobokeu j. THURSDAY morning April 9 b%
ward L. Snedeker, aged - years - ,.. 4. 49,.
family respectfully invited 70 atsa
afternoon 25th from tue reeGes OF M
parents TIobokeu at LaclOcS without nrhef
Invitation The win be Harsrstraw Tor nnnI
wARD-At SaybrOOk, 0OsB April H. Mrs RebeseA H. wan eA "
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THE INDIAN MAssAcREs NEAR FORT MCPHERSON.

CHICAGO, April 90. A telegram from Fort
Mcpherson says that party OF Indians supposed to be
part of Spotted Tails" band Cheyennes male dash
upon a company OF cutting wood Yesterday khnng
four and wOu1ding two, who brought IN. The
killed are Jno brown Gus Hall. Geo. Kline, and Joseph
boy named Tanncy was dangerously wounded.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-24

The Howe ScnIe-.-we learn that the Howe Scale Company
rcruy sold the Nslok Central Railroad Company more
than of their Improved standard Scales supplying nearly every
station the branches the number two
RAILROAD TRACK scales weighing 600 pounds single load
New-York tribune., 1868-04-24

ONE OF THE KU-KLUX KHAN KILLED.
MEMPHIS, April 23.-A member of the ku-
Klux Klan killed in Hurricane Bottom, Mississippi
few nights ago by party Of negroes, whom they
attempting to frighten The body carried OF the
next morning.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-24
The UnIon Pacific
p.rfDnan HnupANN

The InIon Pacific
RAILROAD COMPANY
offer limited of their
FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS
AT PAR,
PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST
PAYABLE IN GOLD.
The Union Pacific Railroad COMPANY building railroad from
o,b, on the Missouri River connect with the Central Paeas
=, us bvldpg from Sacramento East and these roads when
completed viii be THE ONLY GRAND RAILROAD BETWEEN TUB
ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC COASTS
The UaiOa Pacific Company ha7e already
COMPLETED $50 MILES,
and are now running over the point the Rocky Moanns
that will be traveed b hue The Company will have much larger
employed this year than ever before aud Is siPo a' '
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HIfNERAI9 Tn-nAY

ABRAMS. Mrs. JANE A.. ST. Josephs r. &. Church.
BURRELL, CATHAlNB r. athst b
Fourth and FIfhraVes
JEWkTT Mrs. CLARSSA. No. 455 West Twenty secondst
LEE. Mrs ROSA No. 10 Phnee-sL
ODONOHuB JOSEPH WALTER No IS East Twentyeghth ".
sURAUD. JOHN. No. l9s spnngs.
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The sunday school Fair Of the CHURCH OF, Ihh
AT0SBMENr The Rer. W T. Sabine. Recor 70 al 'hsr rys
the New-lok Assembly Rooms continues THIS lfi
ING Broadway Twenty eighhstA Tattoo Al ms
TO bef "a hv auction
New-York tribune., 1868-04-24

Knox's Celebrated Jucunda ;oS sI.Teeg TlI 1@ ~
Grape Bakhery aud Cuuant PiAnts
Nurseries Pittsburgh aud warranted true 20 nas ~ ~
aud sale at ALL NURSERIES IN ON No xsy e
ond foor My representative NJ. BAhlhobOD"' '~AV ~
at No. q Parkpa corner Of Church
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FLASHING TON.

OPINIONS OF sAGACIOUs oBsERvERs-No DOUBT
OF MIR. JoHNsON's CONvICTIoN-REsTORA-
TON OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
VICTORY IN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-09-15
Times for Holding the Superior Courts.
FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.

Harnett county, the second Monday in August
and February
| Moore, second Monday after the second Mon
day in August and February.
ntgomery, fourth Monday after the second
Monday in August and February.
Stany, sixth Monday after the second Mon
day in August and February.
Union, eighth Monday after the second Mon
day in August and February.
Anson, tenth Monday after the second Mon
day in August and February.
Richmond, twelfth Monday after the second
Monday in August and February
Cumberland, fourteenth Monday after the
second Monday in August and February.
EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.
Davie county, the first Monday in April and
September.
Rowan, third Monday in April and September.
Davidson, second Monday after the third
Monday in April and September.
Forsythe, fourth Monday after the third Mon
day in April and September.
Stokes, sixth Monday after the third Monday
in April and September.
sury, eighth Monday after the third Monday
in April and September.
Yadkn, tenth Monday after the third Monday
in April and September
NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
1.-THE Judge in this District is Geo. W. Logan of
Rutherford, and the Solicitor is W. P. Bynum of
Lincoln county
Polk county, the first Monday in March and
September
Rutherford, the third Monday in March and
September.
Cleaveland, the second Monday after the third
Monday in March and September.
Lincoln, the fourth Monday after the third
Monday in March and September
Castor, the sixth Monday after the third
Monday in March and September
Mecklenburg, the eighth Monday after the
third Monday, in March and September.
Cabarrus, the tenth Monday after the third
Monday in March and September.
TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Catawba county, first Monday in March and
September.
Alexander, third Monday in March and Sep
tember.
Iredell, second Monday after the third Mon
day in March and September.
Wilkes, fourth Monday after the third Mon
day in March and September
Caldwell, sixth Monday after the third Mon
day in March and September.
Burke, eighth Monday after the third Monday
in March and September.
Mcdowell, tenth Monday after the third Mon
day in March and September.
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Wilrn.. Char. & Ruth. Railroad.

WILMINGTON, N. c., Aug. 9th, 1868.
The Regular Annual Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Wilmn on, Charlotte & Rutherford Railroad
Company will be held in this place, on Thursday,
October 22d, 1868.
Transfer Books will be closed on the 22d of Sept.
The attention of subscribers is called the follow
ING preamble and resolution, passed at the late
meeting of the Stockholders:
WHEREAS, Many persons, who have worked out
their stock otherwise settled for it, have failed to
come forward and get out their regular stock cert-
fcates; and whereas, this condition of things makes
an improper exhibit on the books of the Company,
and frequently the of great-cmbarrassment;
and whereas, others have failed to pay their sub
scrptions according to the terms thereof;
Res0lred That Stockhoder shall hereafter be
allowed in any of the meetings of this body,
until he shall have received his regular certificate OF
stock in accordance with the Charter and bylaws.
|. L. ALDERMAN,
Aug 81 1868 Sw Secretary.
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SEVENTEENTH vOLUME---NUMBER $50.

be correct by the Registrar, shall have all the
legal force and effect of the original registration
book
Sec 2. That the County Commissioners, or in
case no Commissioner shall have qualified, the
Governor shall, on or before the Goth of October
next, appoint six electors at each precinct who
shall, with the Registrar be judges of election;
and the said six electors shall take the place of
the electors provided for in the fifth section of
the said act and shall perform all the duties which
have been conferred upon them.
Sec. B. 1t shall be the duty of the judges pro-
vided for in the preceding section to provide at
least three separate ballot boxes on the day of
the election at their precincts for the convenience
of voters, and as mauy more boxes as they may
think necessary Two judges shall preside at
each of the three ballot boxes, and if majority
of the Judges think more boxes necessary, they
shall appoint two additional judges for each ad-
dtional box The Registrar shall assist at all
the boxes.
Sec. 4. The Registrar of voters shall furnish
the original registration book and the two copies
hereinafter provided for, to the judges of the
election in the precinct for which he is appoint
ed he shall furnish one copy to the judges Of
each of the three boxes, and if there be more
than three boxes, he shall furnish one additional
copy for each additional box.
sec. D. lhe ReSlStrar snail receive one cent
for each name copied from the original registra-
ton book.
Sec. 6. Any person who shall, with intent to
commit fraud, vote at more than one time,
shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and on con-
viction, shall be imprisoned not less than six nor
more than twelve months, or fined not less than
one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars,
at the discretion of the Court and any regis
trar of voters any clerk copyist who shall
make any entry or copy with intent to commit u
fraud shall be liable to the same penalty.
Sec Z. No registered voter shall be challenged
on the day of election, but those offering to reg
lister the day of election may be challenged,
and every person applying for registration before
the election may be challenged at that time in
like manner.
Sec 8. All acts inconsistent with the provi-
sons of this act are hereby repealed
Sec 8. The Secretary Of State shall furnish
printed copy of this act to the Commissioners Of
each County.
Sec. 10. This act shall be in force from and
after its passage.
Ratified the oath day of August, A. D., 1868.
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Law in regard to old Bank Debts.
An Act to make Bank Bills O. Set or

An Act to make Bank Bills Set Off,
The General Assembly of North Carolina do
enact: Section 1. That where any note or bond
has been, or may hereafter be, given as renew
al OF any debt or demand due or payable to any
Bank in this State, whose Charter bears date
prior to the Goth day Of May 1861, the bills of
said Bank shall be legal set off to such note or
bond, without regard to whether such note or
bond be made payable to said Bank or to some
other party; and the bills of such Bank may be
offered, and shall be received to sustain the plea
Of set off to any suit brought upon such note or
bond in any Court of this State whether said
note or bond be made payable to such Bank or to
any other party.
Sec. 2. That this act shall be in force from
and after its ratification
Ratified the 22d day of August A. D., 1a68.
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Mecklenburg Superior Court
NOTICE TO SUITORS.

By a recent Act of the General Assembly all suits
heretofore commenced and all executions either in
the County or Superior Courts required to be
transferred to set of Dockets upon application
being made by the Plaintiffs in such cases. and the
ayment of fee of one dollar in each case; and un-
less such application is made within six months from
the passage ofsad act said cases shall stand dlsmis
sed at the cost of the Plaintiffs Those who are in
terested in this matter will please send in their in
structons and their fees practicable as
case will be so transferred without the payment
of said fee according to law
Z. 4. OSBORNE.
Aug. 81, 1868 3w. Clerk of Superior Court
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Charlotte Female Institute,
CHARLOTTE, n. &.

CHARLOTTE, n. g.
The next Session will commence on the 1st October
1865, and continue until 30th of June, 1869.
The Session is divided into terms Of 20 weeks
each and pupils be entered for either the whole
session for one term.
OFFICERS AND INSTRUCTORS:
REV. r. BUEwEIL, Principal and Instructor in Mental
and Moral Philosophy and Mathematics.
Chemistry and Ancient Languages.
Mrs. NJ. A. BURwELL, English Branches and Super
intcndent of Social Duties.
Mrs. SALLY {. WHITE, English Branches
Miss MARGARET I. LoSC, English Branches and
French.
Mrs \. c. PATTON, English Branches and Music on
Piano.
PROF. A. BAUN,NN Vocal and Instrumental Music.
Mrs. JTlIA {. PATTON. Music on Piano.
PROF. r. f. PIGVET Drawing Painting and Modern
Languages.
Expenses per Term Of 20 Weeks:
Board with crcry expense. fuel, lights, wash
ing Sc, with tuition in English Branches, $4,000
Tuition day scholars, Primary Department, 1000
Collegiate $500
Music Ancient and Modern Languages, Drawing and
Painting, ertra, at usual charges.
For Circular and Catalogue containing full partic-
ulars as to terms, &c, address
REV. Il. BURWELL & son,
July -, 1868. Charlotte, n C.
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Edgeworth Female Seminary.

This institution will be re-opened the first Mon
day of September with full corps of Teachers.
The entire expense for Session of Twenty Weeks
of Tuition with Board Washing and Contingent Fee
will be- according to classes, either i05, or no. or
l16 Dollars if paid in advance, or 1850, 121 so
or l26 so Dollars if paid half in advance Moderate
extra charges will be made for Ancient and Modern
Languages, for Music, drawing and OH Painting.
re- Each Boarder will furnish her own lights
and towels and also pair of sheets and pillow cases
For Circular address,
J. N. NJ. CALDWELL,
Aur "a 1868 4ws Greensboro, \. c.
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VINO ARE TO BE OUR MEcHANIcs.--It isa
noticeable fact that, in the large workshops man.
ufactories, and foundries in our cities, at least
three -fourths of the workmen, and almost all Of
the younger journeymen and apprentices, are
foreign born, or the sons of foreign parents
Many American parents bring up their children
to feel that manual and mechanical arts are not
az genreel as other professions, SO that they are
falling ntothe hands offoreigners. Greensboro
Patriot.
As long as Southern parents pursue their
present course, just SO long will the South be
without native born mechanics.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-09-15

GEN. MAGRUDER ON MAXINILIAN--A
Saratoga correspondent of the Washington Star
gives the following:
"Among the notablcs here is the ex-Confed-
crate General J. B. Magruder He delivered
an interesting lecture night or two since in the
Union Hotel ball room on Maximlian in whose
service he was for sixteen months. He had a
large and brilliant audience, and the lecture was
full of interest. He declared that it was Napo.
Icons desire to encourage the Confederate cause
and to break up the Union if possible; and the
invasion of Mexico was made to accomplish those
ends, and at the same time to gain foothold on
this continent Maximilian, he said, on the con-
trary favored the Union and sympathized with
the North, and hoped by obtaining recognition
of the North, to introduce American ideas and
enterprise into Mexico to develop it's resources"
In addition to raising food enough for its own
support, fine crop of rice and tobacco and other
articles, the South has this year raised crop of
cotton that is estimated by its own papers as
worth S25O,O00,O0O There was not SO much
done in all the six years ofthe rebelon.-IhIa-
dclDhia North Amoican
The American must rccollect that this pro-
duce was raised in despite of the arbitrary rule
and tyrannical oppression Of the radical party.
Had liberal policy been pursued towards us,
the South would have doubled its agricultural
productions, largely increased its population,
and thus have added to the wealth of its own
section and of the whole country. We should
not only have been enabled to pay much larger
proportion of the onerous taxation imposed upon
us by this wasteful and extravagant party, but
these agricultural products would have added
largely to our exports, thus furnishing basis
for our foreign trade that could have been OBJ
tanned from no other source.-NoytoM JonrnaL
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-09-15
Bankrupt Law,

This law has been materially amended by an
enactment of the present Congress at its last
session. Under the law as it stood prior to this
amendment, the debtor would be discharged by
the Court from the payment of all his debts,
provided his petition and the proceedings there
under were all regular, and were filed prior to
tile first of June 1868. The law, as it now
stands, allows petitioners to file their petitions
at any time prior to the first day of January,
1869. If the petitions be filed previous to this
date the petitioner will be discharged from the
payment of all his debts, although he may have
no "ossets.' If the petitions be filed after the
first day of January, 1869, a full discharge will
not be granted unless the pettioning debtor have
assets sufficient to pay fifty per cent of his debts
Y will therefore be seen that i hsheoyes 81 who
contemplate bankruptcy to file their petitions
before the first day of January 1869, unless
their estates are sufficient to pay fifty per cent of
their debts
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Eating His Own Words.

A traveller relates that, during his visit to
Russia, an author was condemned to eat leaf by
leaf ponderous folio volume which he had writ
ten in favor of the liberties Of the people, which
had greatly offended the Czar, and, failing to do
so, he was to endure the knom. 1t was con-
sidercd just, as the book was adjudged to be a
libel on the authorities, that he should be thus
made to eat his own words. A scaffold ac-
cordngly erected, the book was separated from
the binding, the fy-leaves, and all the white
margins cut of, and the unlucky author forced
to swallow each leaf as it was put into his mouth
by the executioner, who previously folded them
into rolls like lottery tickets, to the great amuse
ment of the spectators. AS soon as he had swal-
lowed as much as the physicians, who stood by,
thought he could do with safety he was taken
back to prison and brought back next day, and
the process continued and so on the succeeding
day, until, in three hearty meals, the whole
volume was literally consumed. This poor man
was doubtless martyr to his liberal principles
and deserved far agreeable breakfasts; but
it would be a capital plan to teach some unmer-
cifully stupid writer's of our own day, in this
practical manner, how difficult their books are
to swallow and hard to digest and if the same
plan were used with printers, the whole typo
graphical corps would be confirmed dyspeptics.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-09-15

A Boston editor dcscants upon the falsity Of
the women of the period not their faithlessness
in love affairs, but the false show they make in
their outward appearance. lie says: "Stuffed
busts, skeleton skirts, wire works, pyramids Of
foreign hair, rubber tricks-alas, alas! how DO
any of these items harlnonze in the thought
with the conception Of the thoroughly nat
ural, the graceful, the gentle, the unassuming
woman that is secretly every mans ideal, one
who brings back to him the image ofhis mother,
of his sister, of her he first learned to love" He
evidently Is inexperienced in woman's arts and
artifces.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-09-15
The Bankrupt Law.

The Fifty Per Cent clause in the Bankrupt Law
has been suspended till st January 1869 that all
insolvent persons owing $500 may take the
benefit of the law, first, without reference to
the value of their estates.
The undersigned will keep constantly on hand all
the necessary blanks forms, sc and one or both OF
them may always be found during business hours at
their office in Charlotte.
VANCE s. DOWD,
Aug a 1868 I'm Attorneys at Law.
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CHINESE SYSTEM OF CALcULATIoN.-Every
finger on the left hand represent nine figures; the
little finger the unit; the ring finger the tens;
the middle finger the hundreds; the forefnger
the thousands; the thumb the tens ofthousands.
The three inner joints represent from one to
three; the three outer, four to six; the right
side, seven to nine. The forefnger of the right
hand is employed for pointing to the figure to
be called into use; thus ,234 would at once be
denoted by just touching the inside of the up
per joint of the forefnger, representing 1000;
then the inside of the second, middle joint of
the ring finger, representing 200; thirdly. the
inside of the lower joint of the ring finger, rep
resenting 30; and, lastly, the upper joint of the
little finger touched on the out, represcnting4.
Or, again, 99,999 would be represented by
touching the side of the lower joint of the
thumb go, ,O0O) and the lower side of the joint
of the fore, middle, ring and little fingers, rep
resenting respectively 5000, 900, 90 and Q.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-09-15
LAND FOR SALE.

As Commissioner, / offer for sale 1O2 Acres of
Land, p miles South Of Charlotte the West side OF
Town Crcek-al heavily timbercd, well watered, but
without buildings. The ncghborhood is one of the
best i'll the county. The trac: adjons the Lands of
b. F, Morrow, \. \. n NJ. Taylor and others. Call
on B. F.. Morrow who will show the Land.
Tcrms-part cash and balance in one and two
years NJ L. WALLIS Com
August 2t 1868
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Pictures! Pictures !!

The undersigned Photographic Artist of Baltimore
Nd calls the attention of his friends, and the public
in general, TO hls newly opened PHOTOGRAPH and
AMBROTIPE GALLERY. where he is now pre-
pared to take No. Pictures of each and of every
style and finish. Satisfaction guaranteed in every
Picture. Copies taken from the smallest into the
largest portrait Also pictures neatly fitted in Rings
Breastpins and Lockets. All ask is, ..give me a
trial
n. B.-Parties desiring to learn the trade and art
Of taking Pictures can do so by applying to
HENRY BAUMGARTEN
Charlotte, \. c.
Photograph Gallery over James Harty's Store.
Feb -. hS6S. Ncxt door 10 Court house
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P. p. MEDLIN, M. D.,
Physician and SURGEON,

Offers his professional services to the people of
Charlotte, \. c., and surrounding country. Having
had experience in the practice of his profession, he
hopes to be literally patronized Residence on Col
legc Street. of Mansion House.
August 81, 1868.