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THE ELECTION BILL.

We believe the following is an anthem
tic copy of the act providing for the
submission of the constitutions of Vir-
ginia, Mississippi and Texas to a vote OF
the people, and authorizing the election
Of State officers provided by said oonsti-
tutions and members of Congress, as APP
proved and signed by the President:
Sec. ! That the PRESIDENT of the Uni
ted States, at such time as he may deem
best for the public interest, may submit
the constitution which was framed by
the convention winch met IN Richmond
Virginia, on the third day OF December.
1867, to the registered voters OF said
State, registered at the date of said sub
mission, tor ratification or rejection; and
may also submit to separate vote such
provisions of said constitution as he may
deem best, said vote to be taken either
upon each of the said provisions at one
or in connection with the other portions
Of said constitution, as the President
may direct. r.8 el
Sec. 2 That at the same election the
voters Of said State may vote for and
elect members of the General Assembly
of said State, all the officers OF said State
provided for by the said constitution,
and members of Congress and the Off
Ger commanding the District of Virginia
sha ,ause & Fists O. registered voters
of saru State to be revised, enlarged and
corrected prior to such election accord
ing to law, and for that purpose may
appoint such registers as he may deem
necessary |; and said elections shall be
held and returns thereof made in the
manner provided by the acts Of Con-
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TRUE REPUBLICANS.

One OF our contemporaries in reviewing
the situation" asks if we are all True
Republicans. There can be but little
doubt that the State OF Virginia has
been Republicanized by the reconstruc-
ton laws, which allows the negroes to
vote, however disagreeable that fact
may be to some people. 1t is the law
of the land that the negro should be all
lowed to vote and a very plain, COM
mon sense proposition to every man,
that the negre vote had better be man
aged in behalf of the welfare of the
State than to be driven from us and al
lowed to be made use of by those no
one has confidence in.
We are not called on to decide wheth-
er the negro sh all have a vote or not.
That question has long since been deci--
ded in the affirmative. 1t was SO deci-
ded by the reconstruction laws, and
confirmed by every voter who has reg
istered and voted since those laws have
been in operation. Under the operation
of the law there are only certain per-
sons in our State eligible to office, and
the question that presents itself to the
people of Virginia now is, choice Of
those persons. Whether we will take
those We can have confidence in, or those
we cannot;
The question is materially narrowed
down into a vital issue with US. Our
former political prejudices have got tc
be thrown aside, and we must acknowl.
edge the " situation" The struggle is
between the Wells party and the Walk.
er party, and they are both of the Re.
publican party. One is conservative
and the other radical. The conserva-
tive, or GO True Republican" has Presi.
dant Grant and Congress on his side
and the radical stands alone, outside OF
these influences, and calculates to secure
the negro vote by promises which he
knows can never be fulfilled, and hopes
to detract much Of the white vote from
his competitor by having it cast on a
third or conservative candidate, because
that vote may be from prejudice unwill-
ing to cooperate with the True Re-
publicans." Whether the white people
who have substantial interests il the
State, will be thus made the instruments
of the elevation of the Wells ticket, of
course remains to be seen hereafter.
Certainly patriotic view Of the politi-
cal situation should induce the with
holding or Withdrawing of any candi-
date from the Conservative party in this
contest, and allowing the whole conser-
vative 1ote Of the State to be cast for
the candidate the people have confidence
in. Che people have vital interests at
stake now, and this is no time to eyince
spite or Righteousness. --..
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NEWS ITEMS.

The correspondent OF the New York
Tribune says it is understood that the
President has sent cable dispatch
requesting Reverdy Johnson's resigna.
ton. 4.t- .5..a ~rtff
A Pittsburg paper states that the
health of ex-Secretary Stanton is very
bad, and that be has been recently bap.
tised by the clergyman with whose
church he is united.
1t is reported that the seed sugar.
cane in portions of Louisiana has beer
injured to the extent of twenty per cent
by recent heavy rains. { go r, 'iif7
A private dispatch from Augusta
GA, statee that Alexander II. Stephens
Vice~Pre-,Jent of the late rebel govern
ment, has suffered a relapse, and his life
is now despaired of.
On Wednesday next the Grand Lodge
|. o. 0. f., of Virginia, will moet in
annual session in Petersburg, and on
Thursday night splendid supper will
DC gwen IN honor OF the occasion,
The New York Herald says; The en-
inent Baltimore politician and prize
fighter, Mr.. Samuel Collyer, is now en-
tirely g professional" and climbs the
ladder of histronic fame with his two
sons as triple cloggists." ..t.
The Worrell sisters have dissolved
partnership, and two of them are now
in New York, leaving the eldest, Miss
Sophia, to domineer what is known as
the Sophia Worrell Burlesqus Troupein
the West. see hIs lsl
Col. d. B. Parker, the racently-ap-
pointed us. Marshal for the Distri~
OF Virginia, has qualified before Ia ~
Underwood, sitting in chambers slt 81
tered upon the discharge of u"''''
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Res Governor Holden, of North Car
DINA, has made the following appoint
ments: VIM. A. Moore, of Chowan,
I. "A. Sykes. Pasquotank, Eiihu A.
White, Perquimans, John A. Moore,
Chowan, f. 6. Martindale, Martin, as
Directors of the Edenton & Norfolk
Railroad. -fl.---.-..- .-
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VIRGINIA BIBLE SOCIETY.

The annual meeting Of the Virginia
Bible Society was held in Richmond last
week. The anniversary sermon was
preached by the Rev. DR.. Plumer, and
the annual address was delivered by
Judge Fl. w. Shelley. The Rev. George
Woodbridge was elected President for
the ensuing year. I lBdIae
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-13

We will insert an advertisement in one
thousand Newspapers, one month. The List
includes single Popers of ouer 100000 Or
culatio7s aUeekly, more tnan 100 Daily Pa
pers, in which the advertiser obtains "a
insertions to the month, and the leading
Papers IL, more than 500 different to,0nS and
cities. Complete files can be examined at our
office. Send Stamp for our Circular. Adj
dress GEO. p. ROWELL d CO., Advertise
ing Agents, New York.
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The DAY Book will be served TO sub.
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,XvANTEO-AGENTs, S7b to $500
AW 80 month AVERY where. male and

NY NTEO-AGENTs, $50 to 500
w Der month, everywhere, male and an!
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PROVED COMMON SENSE EAElL
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Every second stitch can be cut, and stlll
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roission frona which twice that amount
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A number of citizens of Georgia,
who left for Honduras shortly after
the war, have returned to their old
homes. s----..... ..I.-..-..-
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MEDELSON's RATIONAL
Bank Note Reporter and Financia
Gazette.

A. COHN, PUBLISH Err,
Office rs Nassau ST., N. Y.
Reports and describes Counterfeits SO
accurately that the poorest Judge may a;
detect them: quotes BANKS ana bank on nr.
o chat and of the N. Y. Stock Ex-
Change, besides other valuable inform "a
lion. Subscriptions may commence with
any month. MoNrHLY(per anna ~ ~ ,@l,9V Y;
1atters must be addressed to A. COHN,
Publisher, 76 Nassau sire t, New York.
Letter Box 5,l96.
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AMERICAN NEWSPAPER DIRECTORY.

A COMPLt TIE LIST OF NEWSPAPERS
"A for the United States. Territories ana
British Provinces; giving names, ponies
or general character, su oscr1pllon price,
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names, population and location OF places
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Also separate list showing at glance
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more than 900. 10000 or 20 900 copies each
issue with actual figures given.
Also, classified lists of all pub locations
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A Pamphlet of 80 Pages, con-
tanning q list OF over 1000 Newspapers,
which are particularly recommended to
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New Advertisements.
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TO THE WORKING GLASS; am
now nrepared to furnish all classes with
Constant employment at their homes,
the whole OF the time, or tor the spare
moments. Business new, light and prof
table. Fifty cents to SIS per evening, is
easily earned by persons of either sex,
the 6oys and girls earn nearly as much
as men. Great Inducements are offer ed
those who will devote their whole time
TO the business; aud, that every persen
who sees this notice, may send me the1r
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selves, / make the following uuparal
leled offer: To all who are moi well sat
isfied With the business, / will send 81 to
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Entire Building Flre-Pfoof Floors,
Fronts, Ceilings and Par
Win low LiutelS tit1Ons,
and Sills, Cast Iron Girders &
Riveted q Rolled Beams.
Wrought Iron Gil II on Roofs,
uers and Beams, Columns OF every
Arch Orders with description,
Tension Rods Gutter Spouts,
Roof Crossings, Lamp Posts,
Cast and Wrought Iron Cornices, plain
Iron Water-Tanks, and enriched,
Elevators for Stores, Iron Doors & Shut
Capitals and Bases, tiers.
for Wood, stone, Iron Gates,
Brick and Iron Ora tings for Plat
Columns of Doric IT, n and steps,
Ioni", Corin.-4an VesJ1bule Plates,
and Tower oil Iron stars and Step
Wind Orders Rail,
Awning Stanch- Cellar CurD and
ions, Doors.
Cistern Rings and Sash Weig hts. &C.,
Covers, &C,
Iron First Story
Fronts
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ADVERTISING RATES.

One Square. 10 lines. 50 cents for one in
sertion; eacn subsequent insertion rs
cents. Advertisements ordered in alter
nate days will be charged SO cents for first
time. and Y1a cents each continuance.
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$4,000 WORT" OF
WINTER CLOTHING

AS / contemplate changing my bust
ness, | offer for sale a fine flock WINTER
CLOTHING, consisting of Overcoats,
Dress Goats, Business Coats, Cape Coats,
Pants, Vests, and all manner of Gentle-
mems Flu nisbing Goods.
Will be sold low 10 m AXE a clearance.
A, w. MILLS,
ii East Main street,
fb3 Head Of Market Square.
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s Fl [ T w O r X

Iron Windlasses, Mast Winches, Cargo
Winches, Gable Shoppers. Side Winche3
Riding Bits. Deck Pipes, Chocks. Cheats,
Hawser Pipes &c.
BRASS AND COMPOSITION WORK.
IA der Braces, Scuppers. Hinges. Man
rope Stanehlons, step Plates, Timber
Head Plates, Hatch Combings. Belayiag
Pins, Rings, Checks. Cleals, and every
description OF
BRASS AND COMPOSITION CAST
INGS.
w. Works near Fort Norfolk. Order
Box at Exchange National Bank.
NJ. ASHTON RAMSEY,
ap9-1w General uperinterdent.
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UST BECEEV ED PER STEAM
% Err ISAAC SELL FROM NEW YORK
Kelier's favorite packages Confectionery
the finest ever offered in this market-at
the exceedingly low prices of 5 and 10
cents per package.
Also, large lot of prime Oranges.
Dates. Citron, Currants, Messina Lemons,
Cocoanuts, etc. All the above, III large
quantities, offered at the lowest price
Imaginable for cash.
The public are respectfully invited to
examine our stock.
Orders solicited and viii be filled All
New York wholesale prices.
BLUE STORE,
No. IS Sonth Church street.
N. B.-Sole agent for Kener's Fancy
Candy packages ior the Stale of Virginia
Jazz w. II. DUNN
New-York tribune., 1869-05-06

The action of the Indian Bureau in this city,
Yesterday, strikes us rs a happy instance of
the discharge of Government duty on business
principles. Col. Parker wanted to buy the goods
for the Indian payments. Gen. Grant thought
thathemight be helped by the advice ofapractical
business man whose integrity could be trusted
and whose patriotism would inducehim to furnish
cordial aid and so asked George ii. Stuart of
Philadelphia TO come over with the Commits
sioner and help make the purchases. We may
be sure there were no swindling commissions
charged in, on the bills bought here yes
day by these gentlemen, and that the Govern
ment got the honest worth of its money.
New-York tribune., 1869-05-06
4 SPECJuEY BRICK.

Our State has two great through lines OF
Railroad-one of them admirably managed SO
far as the interests of its stockholders are con-
cerned; the other rather harder on its stock
holders, rather worse, if possible than it treats
the public. Each line was constructed, and has
hitherto been operated, under charters which
allow the stockholders to choose directors once
a year. This is a part of the compact on the
strength Of which they parted with their money;
and it is but the simplest justice to leave it
intact until they shall indicate desire that it
be changed.
But why should they wish it changedF How
can it be imagined that they would consent to
have their present directors lcgislated into two
or three additional years Of cOntrolY If the
stockholders wish to give those directors
new lease of power, what can be more easy
than to re6lect tbem7 And if they don't want
them continued in office, what an outrage TO
compel their retention by law!
Yet this our Legislature has just dOne-the
Assembly by vote of 70 Yeas to 40 Nays.
Now we do not know that every member
who voted for this bill took his pay in money
for some had axes Of their own to grind, ana
merely swapped votes with the mercenarles
who had been bought to support this bill
but we do say that whoever voted for such
bill without being paid for it is too innocent
70 be set adrift in such a wicked place as AL
bany. Keep him at home religiously here
New-York tribune., 1869-05-06
THF CUBAN INVESTMENT

There may he few Spauiards of common
sense in Cuba who have managed notwith-
standing, to keep ont of Jail, but we would
not like to commit ourselves to any precise
statement of their number. II such there be-,
they must have seen straight from the start
that the question of the island was the very
simple one whether it should choose the United
States for protector or should hold to Spain.
No man with sight or foresight could have
quite believed in the absolute independence Of
its unschoolcd, heterogeneous elements. Cuban5
who had the welfare of thcir cause most at
heart were never unmindful of the insane ex.
ample Of some Of their well-mcanng, but
rather reckless, neighbOrs. 1t is far from our
intent to say that the pous tolls and sacrifices
Of any struggling people can be in vain, or
that any now nation, with proper self-knOwl-
edge and solf-pOssesslOn, aud n greater faith
in God and in the moral code than in the
astutencss Of men, may not ausune and sus-
tain indcpcndcncc. Our fear with regard to
Cuba is that she does not know herself web
enough TO stand alone, and has not sufficient
intelligence and moral unity among her common
people to fortify the most Independent
and important position which she can hold
DCIOIc INC NOIlu. Inc tuDoll5 may nave WHAT
virtue is necessary to endure n long and bitter
war, and rather SEQ their island ruined in that
way than be put to n lingering death by the
tortures Of Spanish rule. They may keep up
the elusive warfare thoy have begun and fret
tho soul ont Of their angry and not too saga
cious or ovcr-daring enemies. We would like
to sec more abundant proof, direct from the
provinces of the rebellion, that they are bound
to do this, while, at the same time, we are
earnest in our constant suspicion that anything
said to the contrary by the Captain General of
the island and his inyetcrato toadies of the
Havana press parlal,es moro or less Of the ma
ture of hard lying. For one reason or other,
the question of the actual situation and
strength of the Cuban war has been so much be-
logged upon both sides, that We are now quite at
the climax Of anxiety to know the whole truth
about it. We have considerable faith in the
facts that the Cubans lack no gall to make
their oppression bitter, and that they have a
strong principle Of cohesion IN the hearty and
ineradicable hatred they bear to Spaniards.
Nevertheless it is time that whatever unbelef
New-York tribune., 1869-05-06
CANADA AND ANNEXATIOM

II can readily be understood why any senti-
ment in Canada favoring annexation to the
United States should be very slow to make It's
appearance in the Canadian newspapers. Oil
cial influence, the sense of loyalty, the dread
of agitation, the common tendency of the we'll
to-do classes. especially under British inspira-
ton, to deprecate change, combine to make
men whisper the new heresy with bated breath
When it passes this stage of nominal reproba-
ton by everybody and enters the fields OF or
dinary discussion as a thing to be openly talked
about, it has made a long stride toward secur-
ing the approval of the cautious and conserVa-
tive majority. That it can be mentioned at all
without being condemned is in itself signiil-
cant progress.
Yet we find a reputable daily journal in Mon
treal The Star. in it's comments upon the news
of an approaching visit from the British Minis
fer TO this country, to look into the reports
about desire for annexation, holding such
language as this:
MIR Thortou Will see country miles from England ToU
than the sc Conservative eHgng TO the name Of connection
Nheb mach practical nioanee as tho He Ja oa name
e grave: county e finest 10 the world hodoG
ike geographical poBtR tie Keys which unlock the Ocean and the H
aa which open gr, gates through Which pass he manufactures Of
one continent of another and which commands he gea
hghaay between Europe and Asia Aud county which While possess
sg be treasures, cock duughl would give them all Tor
grain Of barley A country where a tie bnsne" done on '
where ten Der cent trea noeus annually "hee ior
miles one rides By dspoputei farms whose starving Inhabitants have
epte By thousands and whose population is decreasing " the rate
of6l 900 year per million count ruled BY Government bank
and always Musiy whose policy j. Self aud whose Frae'e "
Joberyan prominent running to railway station
amer gallant with feveush intensity Of 50 many ours s'r
spaniel will ard all these phenomena sprnsing from
one cause-Brsh connection"
OF course hard words of themselves signify
little; but that rampant Canadian loyalty has
come to endure if not to approve, hard words
like these, signifies much.
New-York tribune., 1869-05-06
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