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Year: 1868




HALIFAX, Aug. 24-Parlamentary papers
have been brought before the House. which embrace
brief reports OF the delegates all the papers prepared in
England and the legal opinions Of Sir Rounded Palmer
and Vernon HarcOurt The latter differs widely from Nr
WIlkinss constitutional arguments The delegates sub
mitted six questions. The are, In substance, as
follows There is no limit 10 the powers Of Imperial
legislation over a colony like NoyascOtia q The
authority Of the Inpeiat Legislature being absolute, can,
not ia am lgaJ sense be depsEdet ne consent Of me
eoloag g. The preamble OF the Union Act Is important
as evidence that the Imperial Legislature did not intend
10 exercise extreme powers but acted on the supposed
consent OF the colony the fact Of such consent be dis
proved, that may afford valid argument for repeal and
cannot affect the legal validity Of tho statute The fourth
question embraced in the fth and the same answer
applies. The fifth resolution of the NOyaScota Legisla
tue in 1906 authorized the delegates 70 negotiate the
Of all the Provinces but right 10 arrange
scheme leaving out New wfomdland and Prince Edwards
Island This defect would be cured by the subsequent
ratification Of the delegates acts by the Legislature
g. The Imperial acts by the Legislature did not assume to
extinguish the Constitution OF NOya-Scota. or impose
new form OF government without consent. TO do so
would be an extreme exercise Of power
Year: 1868

The NdshUiUe Republican says: Since the as
sasnaon Of Senator Case aud the cruel murder OF s
ObOn County there has been but little security for
either tho lives the property OF Union men In this
ton ON last Thursday night venerable clergyman,
over 60 years Of age, dragged from his bed and
beaten with ashes for the ostcnsbe reason that he
denounced these midnight maIauders in disguise as
Csuabe OF any meanncss and crime On Saturday night
a negro shared fate AT their hands ana was
left as dead Another chased two miles, and
WAS that IL he attempted 10 vote he should be killed
Other Ourages being committed there but no Journal
or voice comes up proclaim their niquues under PEN
alty of death II is only when refugee gets INTO an at
nOsphere where he breathe freely that the facts III
he case be known.
Year: 1868

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23-Ihe trial or the
California steam pow, which TOOK place yesterday s
pronounced success The machine moved at about the
usual speed Of horse cutting the earth SIX inches ID
depth casting the weeds one side, and leaving tile
ground as though dug with = spade
Year: 1868

Mr.. Savage, the President of the Fenian
Brotherhood. has written the following letter:


EXECUTIVE OFFICE, FRSIAS BROTHERHOOD, }


No s23 Broad Say, New-Yor Jan. 9, 6o.
Gen. J. O'NEII


DEAR SIR: Yours OF the 4th in reply 10 mine OF the sd
inst, reached this Office after D. m on Saturday even
ing. greve to that IL IL continued expression OF
departure from the basis OF union You lay the usual
stress upon the Philadelphia Constitution Of 1865 and
strive TO IL the supreme law the body which does
not exist accepted that Constitution the supreme
law of the United Brotherhood and will acknowledge
such when the Brotherhood is united solemn oath
not binding TO observe forms cannot recognize
solemn oath Will prevent such union the basis
contemplated then yOu should have agreed TO such
basis If you made this basis knowing that you could
not carry il out then your predcamen is not to be en-
We'd While further correspondence this subject seems
% futie-judging from the persistency with when
insist autOcratc powers OF Jurisdiction over the
who are 10 compose the council of the United Broth
erhOod-I not willing TO give the idea and hope or
union while chance remains by which 10 may be accom-
pshed The differences of opinion between us to the
mode OF carrying out the basis OF union positive ana
from all appearance there is no hope OF arriving at m
tuay satisfactory solution As party to 1t, believe
understand ITS scope and justly value IFS powers; but
willing to have my views tested BY completely unn-
teresed ordeal therefore propose that submit the
matter for arbitration 10 three gentlemen, one TO be
chosen to select third and that the decision rendered
by them shall be final and binding the parties to these
negotiations aud the organizations in whose behalf the
basis Of union agreed upon and signed by authority


Awaiting your reply, very respectfully,


JOHN SAVAGE, &. l.. L. b.
Year: 1868

ACCIDENT ON THE NEw-JERsEY ROAD.


AS the 8p. m. train on the NewJersey Rail
road passing the Jerseyave crossing in Jersey CITY,
the large bar used for swinging the carage-way
OOsened, and caught in the side OF passenger car
tearing through il the entire length It then broken
or and carried along with the train past several crossings
to Waen-st but provdentiay one, either passenger
or pedestrian, was injured.


WOMAN KILLED BY A DUMMY.


The inquest over the body of the aged woman,
Sarah Lenney, who and killed by dummy
the Jersey City and Bergen Point Road ON lhurs
day last held by Coroner Warren OF Jersey CITY st
evening. Mr. Horace WetermOre, conductor on car No


testified that he found the woman ON the track stopped
his car put her off twice, and at length helu her
till the car had passed. Mr.. James Raney, en-
given car No saw her the track Immediately IN
front the car he reversed the engine but although
the running at moderate speed u couid nOt be
stopped until late. Mr. Dexter salter' conductor on
car No Q confirmed the testimony of the last witness
Mrs Ellen Batterman saw the woman on the track ana
OOned TO the conductor stop but Thought nc dd not
understand her as she $50 feet from the track Dr.
Finn of Greenvll who the car IN his testimony
exhonerated the engineer The inquest was adjourned to
Thursday.
Year: 1868

special State train The occasion was rather


sad than otherwise All the officers OF the pos.
present in full uniform A. the General approached
and entered his car the magnificent band OF the pos.
greeted him with Hail to the Chef and as the tram
moved slowly away "Hail Columbia" rung out on the
s air IN tones that sOOthed the sadness OF the parting
few citizens present.
Year: 1868




We publish ia this issue, to the ex~
cluson Of much ether matter, full re-
port ofthe proceedings ofthe mn-consti-
tutional Convention now assembled in
R4lrish.-We shall present during the
session full synopsis of their action,
rs it is a subject in which the people
Of North Carolina are most vitality in-
tsrestcd, and to which the attention OF
the whole State is now directed.


The record made by a large majority
of this Convention will be such as to
stamp them with eternal infamy, and
the course pursued by them in their
day of power will serve as the means
of forever copsiguing them to that obllT
ION and disgrace they so justly merit.


Theproceedings of the few days they
ilaa1 Lucu il session prove that the!
Year: 1868

In the House on Friday Mr.. Brooks,
Of New York, said:


1--WE intend to undo what has been
done by this Congress, and we shall,
sooner or later, have the power with
in the walls of the House to undo it
all These proceedings in Ohio and
New Jersey are but the beginning of
the revolution which has already made
its appearance elsewhere; and the pre-
cedents and prerogatives and powers
which the majority in this House is
now assuming in the most revolution
ary manner we intend to make use of
to undo all these revolutionary and
violent proceedings. So the honoroble
gentleman from Massachusetts might
as we'll make up his mind now to see
the beginning Of this great reaction
ary movement. We do not intend to
deprive the negroes of the South of
their liberty. We intend to allow
them fve>hfths representation, not a
three>ffths one, which the negroes in
the North are having, But we do not
intend to allow, so far as we can help
it, the people Of the North to be
brought into negro co-partnership in
government on the floor of this House,
or to be ruled by the black majorities
by rotten borough negro constituen.
cies in the South. We do not intend
to be ruled by any such government
as that, and all the processes of legis.
lation by which that has been reached
or is to be reached Through State
Legislatures, as in Ohio; through State
action, as in New Jersey; through
$4,000 popular majority in my own
State, to be increased next year te
100000. If this House goes on with
those proceedings VIC intend to undo
them all. I repeat, that everything
which has been done is to be undone
The voice of the people is no Longer
to be heard in whispers, but in the
loud roar ofthe whirlwind, comiDs
; from all parts of the country; and it
! will sooner or latei unseat large pa
jority of those who now conetitute the


majority On this eoor, putting in theli


places the Democracy of the country
If the statistics of elections are eS'"
ined even now it will be found tnas a.
large majority Of members Oh this slu md
of the House hold their seats mere Ie,@er


vote here on these bills who no Iut are


represent their constituents he neople
acting in utter defiance OF 'n'
/ who sent them here.
Year: 1868

the ends of which are supported by three
rows Of stone abutrnents, placed three in
row, and at equal distance apart. The dis
lance from these beams to the surface Of
the ground is about three feet, except that
in the center an excavation has been made
for the admission of the furnaces about
seven feet deep, and covering an area per
haps 20f feet square, although the excavation
is of irregular form. A passage is dug
from this opening into the basement room
at the rear cf the church. Ia the center
Of this excavation, as nearly beneath the
center of the church as may be, and mid
way between the furnaces, stood the center
abutment, pile Of rough stone, cemented
together, about two and half feet square.
This abutment formed the main support of
the flooring of the church, and it was this
abutment which, suddenly giving way, the
mortar which formed part of its compo-
sition crumbling 10 pieces beneath the
weight of so many people above, that seems
the most probable cause of such lament
able loss of life. By the side of this abut-
ment stood chair, some pieces of wood
and an old barrel. As the abutment gave
way, it fell upon these, and the openings
from the furnace above being near by, the
Dise was conveyed q. tht FafAo of the per
who, Hsticing So ihe settling u the
door, under a thoughtless impulse gave
utterance to the cry which drove the people
in panic of terror to seek escape through
the means Of exit, which were all too
narrow.
Year: 1868

THE New York Journal Of Commerce, de-
voted mainly to the commercial interests
of New York, and which is not partisan
paper now-if it ever was-comes to the
conclusion, after a survey of the recent
elections, that Grants popularity is on the
wane, and that the Republicans in nomi-
mating him for President, will have heavy
load TO carry.
Year: 1868

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
reople 10 he self-reliant. and shall do what we
NAV he able to induce the establishment oi
manufactures in our midst for oar home pro-
ducts To this end We will pay special attention
to the COST and srArIsrIcs Of manuiacturins'
and exert ourselves 70 encourage the diyersh-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
uent of Southern resources
Year: 1868

from the Columbia Is. C) Phoenix, June IL


We are informed that while q negro man, one Dill
and his wife, were sitting In Dils house. they were
fired upon. The negro man and Dill were Killed
and Mrs. Dill wounded. DILL we believe, was the
Senator elect for Kershaw district under the recent
constitution, and q violent radical, exerting much
influence among the negroes Of Kershaw district.
At whose hands these parties met their death we
do not know. In any event we regret the
occurrence and the necessity that devOlves
upon us of recording such an outrage in
our usually quiet and law-abding community. Since
writing the above we learn that quite an excitement
prevails in the neighborhood OF the killing which Is
near Longtown, in Fairfield, and not far from the
Kershaw line. We believe that the military authori
ties here have sent guard to preserve the peace: 1t
the negroes wherein he told them that II he should
be killed they must avenge his death upon the whites
we are informed, have stopped work In that locality
and threatened mischief But take II for granted
that the military win easily put down any violence
on their part.
Year: 1868

General Grant is reported to have said that
out of twenty-five hundred army officers not a
dozen will obey any order of the Presidents
which shall not be sent through him. Then
General Grant is already emperor; for he has
only to refuse to issue the Presidents orders to
make himself commander in chief. If the Presi-
dent has sunk so low that the name of General
Grant is requisite to give vitality to his ORDERS
he is not President. General Grant is emphat-
ically master of the situation" Mr.. johnson
may issue formal orders, but General Grant only
can issue real ones. Our Government has got
exactly back to the form of the one just explod-
ed in Japan. There the Mikado was many
years ago the constitutional ruler but the Zio-
coon, or Tycoon as We generally call it, being
the highest military officer. gradually usurped
all the powers of the government, and the
officers out of twenty. five hundred would obey.
This state of things lasted for so many years,
not to say generations, that the outside world
had eeme.to regard the Ziocoon as the consti-
tutional head of the empire. But last year the
Mikado recovered somehow or other the powers
of his office; and the Dnited States have taken
up the Ziocoon where Japan dropped him, we
now have Tycoon superior to our Mikado-a
General who ranks his COn1n,ander-an- Cltiief


In fact, General Grant was guilty of gross
breach of military discipline In making the
declaration in question. Military magnates have
lost their heads for less offence for the high
er the officer the greater the offence. Conceding
that General Grant spoke the truth, where now
is the freest and best government the world
ever SAW" Clearly In the hands of a military
chieftain. dispatch.
Year: 1868

One OF the principal reasons why the people
OF Virginia will reject the constitution now
being framed by the counsel of scallawags in
our Capitol is, that that monstrosity will GER
talnly enfranchise the masses of ignorant and
semi-savage negroes, and at the same time dis
franchise large number of the most intellectual,
refined and patriotic Gentlemen in the State
ENQUIRER
Year: 1868

The Springfield Republican is very emphatic
In denunclatlon of the proposition in Congress
to declare the Constitution of Alabama ratified
and the State to be back in the Union, 1t saws
1t IS "a fraud at heart and fraud on its face.'
and as containing a lie that would sink, and
that ought to sink, any party" 1t refuses to
Congress
Year: 1868

Major General John Pope has assured the
Radical State Central Committee of Michigan
that physical fear'' is the only thing by which
the Southern people are influenced, and that
''Ae moral sense has departed" from the great
portion of them. These are accusations at which,
considering the source from which they emanate,
the South can afford to smile. But tits by such
language as this, that this Gen. Pope lays him.
self open to the most severe and bitter retort,
which he will not fail to receive and which he
has no armor to arrest or render harmless. The
arrows will enter For instance, what can be
say when the testimony of Gen. Franklin and
other officers is produced against him, as to his
yeracit ,r?-Alec. Gazette.
Year: 1868

1t must be delightful thing to live just now
in either Maryland or Kentucky, where there
are such things as civil rights, where insolent
and tyrannical soldiers are punished, and where
just retribution has overtaken the miserable
Radical rabble who for four years trampled the
rights of the people under their feet like un-
clean swine. And there is no more pleasant
music than the dismal yet impotent squeaks of
rage with which the discomfted Radicals an
nounce their utter discontinue in the States
where they once dominated with the most in
tolerable insolence and cruelty.


Let US in Virginia, where the mass of the
white population is so completely exempt from
the leprosy of Radicalism, and where the rene
gades, who have sold their birthright of Vir-
ginia State pride, (for mess of official pottage
as repulsive as the Freedmen's Bureau, are
held in such unbounded and well-merited con-
tempt, be encouraged by the utter defeat of
Radicalism in the two States to which we have
alluded. Let us spurn the cowardly thought
that there is power either in the bayonet or in
the traveste of Convention now performs
ing at the Capitol, to bind with disfranchise-
ments which we will not one day break and
trample under foot.-Enquirer.
Year: 1868

IMPORTANT INFORMATION. TO


those In want of a NICE SHIRT: We will
furnish you with good article, made to your
measure, in keeping with your especial wants,
and win guarantee you PERFECT FIT or
no sale. Cotton is rising, but as yet we nave
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as we can give you at the present time first.
rate shirt for from 50. so each up to the best
York Mills Cotton Shirt, which cannot be ex-
ceIled either in style, fit, or workmanship, by
any house either North or South Call soon,
before the advance.


NH "a l3Oo luain street.
Year: 1868

IMPROVEMENTS ON THE YORK RIVER LINE.
The splendid steamer Kennebec, recently
overhauled with special view to the &C
commodation of passengers in the finest
style, will be put on this line next week to
run with the Admiral from the White
House to Baltimore. The Kennebec will
make four trips week, under the manage
ment of the popular Captain Freeman. :,


It is said that in few weeks work will
be commenced on the proposed extension
of this road from Fish Haul to West Point.
Year: 1868

FINE OPPORTUNITY FOR CAPITAL1srs.-
Grubbs & Williams lease to-day the vaiua-
BILE lots on Broad street from the Mona
cello House to Sixth street. By ouiidins
up with good brick buildings, here is a
fine opportunity to improve Broad street
and at the same time make good invest
ment. e ra
Year: 1868

was getting faint and weary, when over the tops of some distant trees described the pagoda of fungchow glistening in the rays ot the setting sun. Never had the Lizard lights after ever so long a commission been so welcome to us as that old pagoda. How we blessed the builder of it. It was about five miles distant on our right. Therefore 1t was evident that during or.E long chase We must have been going very nearly in the right direction. However, had we not seen the pagoda we should have passed the city to the northward, and in that case it IS not easy to say when we should have found it. a fs'

 F We now rode straight for the city, and arrived just as it had become quite dark, and it will be long before l forget that ter rlble day,and the chase of the Tartar caval- ry
Year: 1868

When King Leary. surrounded by HI
lords. vassals and Druids. was celebrating
his birthday at Tara, the ancient capital of
Ireland. it Unopened to be the eve of Easter.
The time had come when all the fires were o
10 be extingushed. that, after a while, they
might be relighted from the sarred torch con-
secrated to the heather gods In the interval
Of hallowed darkness suddenly there appeared
brilliant light at the top of the Slope of
the Chariots. The sparks and flames rose
from the mysterious camp, in PROCLAMATION OF
the ancient faith of Tara. Who had dared t.
profane the sacred darkness by unholy fires
What bold blasphemer had ventured to light
the torch until the fame had been brought
from the altar of the gods? The warriors
grasped their arms, and rushed up the hill to
tear the infdel to pieces. They seized him
and dragged him down to the Hall of Judg-
ment, but all the way he kept reciting pray


ers to the unknown God /; and, when brought
before the enraged assembly Of idolators. s..
Patrick, who for twenty years had been MIL
cho's herdsman slave. stood forth, like the
heroic Paul, and answered for himself. In
his lonesome captivity he had learned to love
the Irish people, and with the burden of sal
vation he had traversed the great plains from
the mouth of the Bnyne to the Slope of the
Chariots. He stood and preached to them all
night long-from the birth of the stars till
the grand ascension Of the sun. He spake as
never man had spoken in Tara. He told
them the story of the Nazarine, of the Bless


ed Trinity Father Son and Holy Ghost
of baptism, of the Eucharist-of all the sub
lime faith of the Church of Rome. Towards
daylight the people began to believe, and fell
into debate, one with another. The arch
druid, the king, and two beautiful maidens,
were converted and baptized. The tumult
increased the true fires of heaven were
blazing in the dark valley of pagqnism, and
Patrick preached on until the day-dawn be-
gan to reveal the course of the Blackwater
and the Boyne, together with the hills of
Caven and the heights of Slane. But the
people could not understand the strange doc
trine of the Trinity-how three persons
should constitute one God-and with the
daylight their hearts began to return to their
idols. Suddenly the Apostle caught up a
sprig Of Shamrock, which had been holding
up its triple palms in alteration of the one
true God, and holding it forth, he showed the
people that three leaves growing from sim
gle stalk constituted but one. Instantly the
quick witted people understood the mystery !;
they rushed upon the Apostle, and would
have carried him upon their shoulders, and
from that hour druidical superstition was
overthrown on the Plains of Prostration.
Year: 1868

TOUCHED HIM ON THE RAw.-The Nation
relates the following anecdote of a young
clergyman who had just buried his wife:


In the early freshness of his grief he was
waited upon by one of his deacons. with tie
announcement that Brother Smith had left
his church and gone to the Methodists, - and
Brother Smith does say that you, his own
minister. have hurt his feelings so that he
never can get over it." The tender-hearted
shepherd was touched by this imputation,
and eager to atone to the aggrieved sheep for
any unintentional wrong he might have done
him


"a So up he took his little crook,


Determined for to find him


which he did, sulking over some job of his
trade of carpetry. After an expenditure of
much affectionate entreaty and skillful cross
questioning, the minister elected the follow
ing "Well, the fact is, knew there wasn't
much chance of your wifes getting well, so
[ went to work two or three weeks before she
died, so as to have it all ready, and made
Just the prettest coffin for her that was ever
iurned out in this town. I'd took her meas
ure a hundred times sitting right back of the
parsons pew. you know. l didn't say any
thing to YOU about it beforehand, cause my
woman had notion it would sort O cut you
up. | don't know why, but when | heard
that you'd telegraphed to Boston for one of
them new tangled burying concerns, | must
say felt as if [ couldn't set under your
preaching no longer" and set" he didn't.