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Grant and Colfax Ratification Meeting.

Grant ana COl1aX RatlhcattOn Meeting.
A Grant and Colfax ratification meeting
was held in the Hall of the House of Rep
resentatives on Monday evening. The meet
ing was called to order by Col. Cook. of
Johnston. On motion Mr. R. w. Lassiter
of Granville was unanimously selected as
Chairman, and Messrs. A. L. Hendricks of
Surry and ]. W. Etheridge of Currituck
and Ellington of Rockingham were appoint
ed Secretaries. t
The President in brief speech stated the
object of the meeting, and introduced to the
audience Gen. Peirce, of Virginia, who as
cended the stand and was greeted with ap-
plause. Gen. Peirce addressed the audience
for over an hour in peculiarly happy man.
ner, arraigning the Democratic party as false
to its promises, disloyal to the government,
and so utterly depraved that while its hands
are still dripping with the blood shed in the
late war and the cries of widows and Or
phans are scarcely hushed, are ready to de-
luge this country again in blood in order to
obtain control of the government. We
cannot attempt even a synopsis of the
address which was often interrupted by ap
plause and which gave such universal salts
faction. At the conclusion of the address
on motion vote of thanks was rendered
the General, which he requested should be
recorded at the polls in November.
On motion committee composed OF one
member from each Congressional District
was appointed to take into consideration
the propriety of establishing Grant and
Colfax Club, said committee to report at an
adjourned meeting.
Mr.. Bowman of Mitchell being called for
addressed the meeting in forcible manner.
Judge Jones in answer to call upon him
entertained the meeting in speech Tor Grant
and Colfax.
The following committee was appointed
to organize Grant and Colfax Club
Messrs. Etheridge, Morris, Estes. Harris of
Wake, Hodgins, Forkner and Bowman.
Hon. ]. W. Holden, Speaker of the House
of Representatives being called for, adj
dressed the meeting in pointed and able
manner
Mr.. Davis was called for, who excused
himself from speaking and called for Mr..
Leary who responded in short but happy
speech.
AFTER an address by Mr. Taylor, of Raleigh,
con motion of Maj. Mann the meeting ad-
journed to meet on Friday evening next.
Just prior to the organization of the meet
ing piece of ordnance in the public square
was discharged eleven times-a discharge
| for each letter in the names of Grant and
Colfax. The firing was superintended by
Wessrs c. Ii. Drumm, John Mcguire ano
! Sergeant Pearce.
r. W. LAssITER, Pres.
J. W; ETHERIDaE, e
JIG. ELLINGTON.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

HoUSE DF REPRESENTATIVES,
THURSDAY, July %.
The House met at 10 a. m. Mr.. Seymour
Speaker l1U TEN. in the chair
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Shaver, of the House.
Reading OF the Journal was dispensed
with.
Alr. Latin arose and said:
Mr.. SPEAKER Il arise to announce to
thls Honorable body, the death of one of
tie members of the Senate of the present
1eneral Assembly, the Hon. Lorenzo D. Hall,
senator from the 18th Senatorial District.
1t was hut yesterday, sir, that he was appa-
iehtly IN good health. and occupied his seat
Ill the discharge of his duties; to day his
manly form lies still and cold in death.
:, Truly, sir. are we brought to experience
"e truth OF the sweet, yet sad singer of Is
Gtath.n
., HavIng served with him as a member of
1ne late Constitutional Convention, it was
my good fortune to have known hin, faith
i,u''y and well. A more straight forward,
n. H"neSt man lived not in the old North
S'a'e' s' and none have left. or in the limitless
Ulc VIII leave, purer, patriotic record as
' "n example to the young and asa priceless lie
S"ey 10 sorroNing friends. 1t is not my pur-
d,s g"se 10 enter into any extended eulogy of the
LIeased. a,Gs. | leave that, sir, for other and
Of oFet ,h tongues. tits enough for me to say
I;,L tne noble dead, that while others were
I",se' nc was true; while Others were disloyaJ,
fanoH u was '0yat while others, better known to
fran, fs, lnsulted, derided and would have
t" T"nlPied . under their feet as an unholy thing
will VI our common country, he loved it
in Mus VS. 10 have this emblem OF his country
possession, he would, in q secret chamber.
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COOP BREEDING.-I believe this mstter Of
good manners and good breeding to be chiehyn
the hands of mothers # is as easy to teach child
to say .sThank you for the bread" as "6ive me
some bread :" as easy to accustom family Of
children to bid their parents good morning upon
ordinary, as guests upon extraordinary occaaious.
Let there be no company manners" Convince
the best they have to offer in matter and man
ner should be laid before those they love most
earnestly. A boy taught at ten TO enter the par.
lor and bow to his mothers friend, Will do u
with ease OF twenty. For what, after all, y ease
of manner but politeness long practiced and IN
corporatcd as an unconscious constituent o. me
individual? 1t may be we'll for rs to remember
the original significance Of gentleman, gsnte.
woman-terms which tear would never nave
grown out of the clustering carriage Of hree
Class Of modern gallants. ''Gentle blood and
noble lineage were synonyms In those old days
"Suaveter in ,nodo, (ortiter n" was the Latin
proverb, and 1t has often occurred to the writer
that we, of the present generation, are more 10
danger of forgetting the mildness oi mannei
than the strength in deed.-'Sprina7e'd kspsoes
cdjl.
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NO. 30.
The Long Ago.

The Long Ago.
Oh! wonderful stream is the river Of Time,
As 1t runs through the realm of tears
With faultless rythm and musical rhyme,
And broader sweep, and surge sublime,
And blends with the ocean of years!
How the Winters are drifting like fakes of snow.
And the summers like buds between,
And the ears in the sheaf-so they come and they
On the rivers breast, with its ebb and flow.
As 1t glides In the shadow and sheen!
There is magical Isle in the river of Time,
Where the softsst of airs are playing;
There's cloudless sky and tropical cline,
And song as sweet az vesper chime,
And the Junes with the roses are STAYING.
And the name of the isle Is Long Ago,
And we bury our treasures there s-
There are brows of beauty, and bosoms Of snow,
There ave heaps OF dust-but we loved them 90:
There are trinkets and tresses of hair
There are fragments of song that nobody sings,
And past of an infants prayer;
There's lutte unswept and heart without
strings,
There are broken vows and pieces of rings,
And the garments she used to wear
There are hands that are waved when the fairy
shore
By the mirageis lifted in air,
And we sometimes hear thro' the turbdlent
Sweet voices heard in the days before, -
When the wind down the river is lair.
Oh! remembered for aye be that blessed Isle,
All the day of ifc till night;
When the evening comes with its beautiful
And ourSyes are closing to slumber awhile,
May that greenwood" of soul be in sight
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legislature of North h-CarOlina.
Continued from 4th page.)
SENATE.

SI14NAlL-
Mr.. Wynne said:
Mr.. PRESIDENT The Senator from
Sampson stands to day quivering before his
God to answer for the deeds done ON this
earth. The manly form of yesterday rests
quietly in his shroud and coffin, not to
awake until the elements shall have faded
away-nOt until the great, grand, and glorl-
Gus purposes of the Almighty shall have
been consumated, and the destiny of every
country and person, shall have been fulfilled.
A Senator of North Carolina is dead p Life
is but shadow, and men pursue but a sha-
dow" This sudden death is the voice of God
speaking to this Senate. Let US not mscon-
strue the lesson, or fail to be warned in
time to prepare to pass to the presence OF
that Being. before whom the bright and
beautiful rays of the sun fades into nothing
before whom the greatest and the best.
with all the earth will stand at the great
judgement bar to hear their sentence, and
receive their reward The deceased was a
man Of many virtues. Peace to his ashes. -
May mercifll God have mercy on his fami-
ly, and protect the widow and orphan.
Mr. Cook said but yesterday the deceased
was one of us-we could hear his voice
listen to his counsel, and realize that he was
a man in our midst. But what of to-day ?
Do we see him now-do we hear his voice
do we have the advantage of his counsel
No. he rests with his fathers. He is now
one OF that number who have their being
beyond the river of time-one who has ta-
ken up his abode with the millions who
have passed from earth to immortality. 1t
is fitting that We should pay man of so
many good and Christian virtues some
tribute. 1t is fitting that we should express
our own sorrow by wearing the usual badge
of mourning, and forward to his widow and
family the resolutions proposed. Keeping
ever before US the loss we have sustained,
let us forget as near as we can all the past,
and all that will tend to cause any unkind
feelings in the future, and one aud all, en-
deavor to promote harmony and peace
among all mankind Believing that the de
ceased is the gamer by this sudden exit
from life to immortality, let US try and fol-
low his example, that we may he ready to
pass through the dark valley of the shadow
Of death and fear no evil"
Mr.. Sweet moved that the Senate, in a
body, accompany the remains of the deceased
to the depot Agreed ta.
The President, in accordance with the
resolutions of Mr. Harrington, appointed the
following committee to attend the body to
its last resting place: Messrs. Harrington,
Love and White
A message was received from the House
nt Representatives announcing the appoint
ment OF Messrs. Sinclair, Argo and Keener,
asthe committee to confer with the Senate
committee as TO the forms necessary to he
carried out in relation to the death OF Mr.. L.
ID. Hall, Senator.
The Senate, on motion, adjourned.
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ING.
CHAPTER XIII.
AN ORDINANCE TO ORGANIZE A TEMPORARY
FORCE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LAW
AND ORDER.
SECTION l. Be 1t ordained 6y the delegates
of the people in C0ncention assembled, and 1t is
hereby ord1ined By the duthoraty of the same,
That the Sheriffs appointed under the pro-
visional government shall, as soon as prac,
ticable, summon the Justices of the Peace as
appointed by the Provisional Governor for
their respective counties, to meet at the
court houses of their several counties on
day certain, and majority, or such number
of said Justices as shall he assembled, shall
have power, and they are hereby authorized,
to enroll and organize as many military COM
panies as auxilaries to the county police.
as they in their discretion NAV deem neces-
sary for the preservation of law and order,
under the following rules and regulations:
The said Justices shall enroll all or any por
ton of the free white male residents between
the ages of eighteen and torty-fve years.
They shall appoint or direct the election of
all necessary officers They shall prescribe
the duties, police or otherwise, to be dis
charged by said forces They shall make
such exemptions as they may deem proper.
They shall have power to enforce all their
orders, by the infliction of such pains and
penalties as they may consider just and
proper. And in case of any serious disturbe
ance or outbreak, the said forces shall be
deemed auxiliary to the County police, and
shall he subject to the same orders. And
the said Justices from time to time. shall
have power and they are hereby authorized,
to adopt all such measures as they may con-
slider necessary to render said forces efficient
for the purposes herein set forth.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That this
ordinance shall continue in force until the
organization of the militia, or until modified
or repealed by the General Assembly.
Sec. 8. Be it further 0rdained, That the
Clerk of the Convention transmit copy of
this ordinance to each sheriff and county
court clerk within the State. Immediately
alter the ratification of the same.
Ratified IN Convention the 18th day of
October, 1865.
PEOPLE OF NORTH CAROLINA, "LooK ON
THIS PICTURE, THEN ON THAT" The above
ordinance was passed by the REBEL DEMO
CRATIC CONSERVATIVE party, then in power.
Compare this to the bill now before the
Senate.
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MIR. SEYMOUR NO STATEsMAN.-We are told
by the Democratic press that Seymour is "a
statesman ''the leading Statesman of the
country" and much more OF the same sort
Where are the evidences of his statesmanship?
What has he done? He has held no otnce higher
than that of Governor OF the State Of New York,
position most honorable, but almost shorn OF
power and responsibility, and not calling into
play any of the qualities of statesmanship.-
Neither as member of the Legislature nor as
Mayor of Utica did Gov. Seymour prove himself
statesman. We are then reduced to the Estates.
man-llke grasp Of his speeches" and that Is all
there is Of ii. He makes high sounding
speech, filled with copious advice that nobody
ever followed, and which would have led then
to destruction If they had followed it The claim
,,f craftsmanship tor Gov. Seymour is an impu
s,ant pretense.-Detro,t Tribune.
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Let US have War r!!-GEN. BLAIR.
A Good Ticket.

Seymour and Blair are good leaders for
the rebel Democracy. Seymour was a trai-
tor to his Government as far as he dared be
in the agony of rebellion. For him went up
the sympathies and the prayers Of the South
ern rebels. And Blair, shades of the chiv-
airy! Who is he9 The chief spoon-stealer
and hummer in North Carolina and who
also declared to ''colored female" that she
was just as good as any other woman. The
refnemens the intelligence and north OF
the State must experience most profound
satisfaction in voting for this man Blair.
Their joy is their own and a "scallawag" in
termeddleth not Herewith.
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Let US have War!!-GEN. BLAIR.

The Democratic Conservative party waged
a three years war on the Union of the
States, and now claim to be better Union
men than those who stood by the Govern
ment during all this time, and who fought
and bled for its preservation.
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Carpet.Baggers.

In 1851 carpet baggers came here from
the South to hurry up the work of secession.
The Democrats and secessionists (now call
ed Conservatives) gave them hearty vel
come and showered honors on them.
In 1865, and after, carpet-baggers came
here from the North to hurry up the work
of restoration to the Union, and the same
secessionists, Democrats and Conservatives
shower on them the vilest abuse.
These Conservatives showed their hatred
of the Union then by honoring carpet bag
gers. They show their hatred of the Union
now by endeavoring to dishonor carpet
baggers. They failed then, and they will
fail now.
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Let us have War!!-GEN. BLAIR,

Whenever the voters of North Carolina
are called on to pay tax on their cotton, or
tobacco or turpentine, let them ask the
question why were these taxes levied. 1t
was to pay for suppressinga Democratic re-
bellion.
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Let US have Peace GEN. GRANT.

In the days Of slavery the man who in
sisted on justice being shown the slave was
a gentleman. In the days of freedom, the
man who insists on justice being shown the
liberated slave, is a scallawag." Both
these definitions are from the Conservative
dictionary.
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Let US have Peace t!-GEN. GRANT.
To the Republicans of the First Con.
gressi0nal District.

GENTLEMEN: AS many of you have writ
ten to me asking If the Standard will be as
ably edited as when under the direction of
Governor Holden, take this method to in
form you that do think it will. The gen
temen who have this paper now in hand, 1
take pleasure in saying are competent,
worthy and truly reliable This company
will also in few days have two short hand
reporters in the Legislature, and then the
Standard will truly be very interesting. Do
no. only continue your subscriptions i,ut en-.
large the circulation. 1t is the leading Re.
publican paper in the State and Considered
the organ OF the party.
Respectfully,
Your obeflient servant,
j. W. ETHERIDGE.
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Gov. Henry A. Wise, the wind-bag of Virgin
ia, accepts the New York platform with
qualification. He modestly proclaims the first
paragraph lie, and says that secession is not
dead, but more alive than ever. He will never
theless support Seymour and Blair, particularly
Blair, because his letter demands forcible over
throw of the Southern State governments. Con-
sidering how poor figure Wise cut as soldier
during the rebellion, how very far his deeds tell
desire for war would by chastened. 1t Is not q
field in which he shines; but then the prelimina-
ry season of cowardly bombast, by which brave
mems passions are excited to the war pitch, fur
nishes an opportunity for blather-skiting which
he cannot allow to pass. Virginia will suffer
immeasurably from Wise during the next three
months.-Wlsh. Chronicle.
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Let us have War!!-GEN. BLAIR.

The shouts at Chicago, when Grant was
nominated were recognized as the same IS
those which went up after each Union vic
tory during the war.
The shouts at the New York Convention
were recognized by all the boys in blue as
the rebel yell which invariably went up after
a disaster to tn e Union forces.
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d. P. MAST, Secretaries.

Hon. ThomasJ. Robertson, one OF the United
States Senators from South Carolina is a native
of that State, where be has always resided. He
is one of the wealthiest planters in the Richland
district, and was a consistent Union man
throughout the war.
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The Democratic Party.

The Democratic party in its leadership is In
harmony and sweet concord with the worst
forms of secession. We have no wish to charge
large class of the rank and file with being un.
patriotic; they are only msled and cheated by q
name, and governed by their prejudices against
what is called radicalism, and also against the
colored people The name of democracy has q
charm, but as excmpliied by the organization
calling itself democratic, it is cheat For such
a party to set up claim that it has principles
and policy which is commendable and which a
free people can adopt, is not only ridiculous, but
such asserted claims are monstrous. There is
not principle in the modern democratic creed
th an intelligent, honest man, who will care
fully reflect can heartily adopt Many men at
tach themselves to the democ attic organization
from prejudice, from preconceived opinions, and
from misunderstanding of the animl,ts and mis-
chIevous tendencies of that party.
The democratic party opposed the war; It re-
fused to aid in suppressing the rebellion, with 1t
is true, some very incOnsiderable exceptions. 1t
opposed the proclamation OF emancipation. It
sympathiscd with secession 1t proclaimed the
war "a failure Invent for receiving, and still
goes for receiving red-handed rebes into full fel-
Iowship in the Union. Itopposed and now op-
poses the principles of reconstruction which give
the rule In the South to loyal men only, and in
ssts that unrepentant secessionists shall be pro-
NOTED to the highest seats OF power in the land.
These are some Of the principles Of the eemocra-
cy, and this is its policy.
We shall help to make these things known.
IN ftk Ref,,fhlicn,,
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IMPORTANT TO PATENT RIGHT MEN-Tbe pro-
visions of the late law passed in reference to the
sale of patent rights require that any person pro-
posing to sell or barter any patent right shall
submit to the Probate Judge OF the county where
in he proposes to sell, for his examination, the
letters patent or an authenticated copy thereof,
and his authority to sell or barter the right so
patented; and shall swear or affirm before such
judge, stating the name, age, place of residence,
and former occupation OF the applicant, and ifan
agent, the name, occupation and residence OF his
or her principal The affidavit shall be filed and
preserved in the office of the Judge, copies of
which may be had on demand, as Of any other
public document ANY person receiving q GER
tiicate shall exhibit the same on demand ANY
person who may take any promise or obligation
in writing, for which patent right shall form any
part of the consideration shall insert in the in-
strument the words "given for patent right"
The penalty for refusing to comply with the
requirements OF this act SHALL on conviction, be
a fine OF not more than $500, or be imprisoned In
the county Jail not more than six months, or
both, at the discretion of the court, and be liable
to the party injured, in civil action, for DANA
ges sustained, ..-......
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BEAUTY IN HOME EMATTERs.-Eugraving she'd
their spirit over household. The calm portraits
OF the great and worthy dead exercise great In
fuence over me. could look on those over my
own fireplace until they seem neither absent nor
departed, but living yet. Every good picture ID
the best of sermons and lectures. The sense in.
forms the soul. Whatever you have, have beau
ty. Let beauty be on the paper on your walls.
It is as easy to choose paper suggestive OF the
lovely in form and color as the uncouth. Why
should not every household object be sanctifed
with this grateful charm? Each chair, each Ia
BILE, each tea or chamber service, and every OBJ
ject for kitchen or parlor, for the home OF the
poor man, artisan or mechanic, would have
them all worthy Of home Of taste.-Sidasy
iSnnifh
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On his way home to North Carolina from the
New York Convention, Governor Vance took
occasion to ventilate his ideas in Richmond, in
the course of which exercise be said that what
the Confederacy fought for during the war would
be won by the election Of Seymour and Blair.
''Is it there ye Gre, me heartyw We did not
although the platform and Blair's letter both
mean war, we lid not understand them to have
meant sepa alton. JEFF. Davis insisted, In his Of
fetal papers, that slavery was not the cause OF So
cession, but that there were inherent causes Of
separation betwe,n n the North and South which
derstood them, and since slavery was abolished
indulged the hope that the union was secure.
Governor Vance Gays no. The election Of 6ey-
mour md Blair will establish the cODiederacy.
OF their purposes he is better authority than
we profess to be. We therefore believe him.
Washington Chroniele.