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Year: 1868

The late Radical raid on the State
Treasury exhausted its contents amount
ing to near S1jO,000 exclusive of the
school fund, in less than thirty days, the
largest item of ofexpenditure being for the
pay ola long list of INDECENT and incom
petent legislators at ten dollars per day,
double salaries, pay for services not rem
dered and other thefts Besides this, sol
emn pledges are made for the loan of the
State credit to the amount of 100000
for school purposes, and $4,000 per
mile for railroads not to exceed eight
hundred and fifty miles, or the enormous
sum of Sl2,75O,000. What use will be
made Of the school funds We cannot say.
But at best the bonds must be disposed
Of at greatly deprecated rate, and the
intent Of the authors is pretty clearly in
dicated by the Immediate demand of all
the cash on hand to pay large number
Of high-salaried officers The ready
money is thus to be pocketed and grand
old free school system run on paper!


In relation to the immense amount to
be given to railroads, we can only say
that if the people would prevent an enor-
nous debt being fastened on the State by
the old dodge of shoveling little dirt
and then pocketing the money for the
bonds at whatever price they may bring
in the market, they had better turn out
the present INSCRIPTIONS men who have
assumed the control Of the State, and
take the matter into their own hands. But
here is something for careful examina-
ton:


appropriations made By the late ISapiy Ley


iSlature for the current year, ending Jaae


3ihh 1864
Year: 1868

The Grant and Colfax flag has refused
to work The rope is foul, the flag bear
ing their names is foul, and the whole
turnout complete failure. This is only
typical of the fate that awaits the Radical
nominees at the hands of justly indig-
nant people, in November next, The
flag wont go up to the top of the gum
pole and Grant and Colfay wont go up to
the White House. Grant must continue
to drink whiskey, smoke segars and talk
horse"
Year: 1868

EF- The government office clique in
our city, threaten to drive Mr.. DvEL-
BLISS, out of the party for daring to ask
that fair expression of the radical voters
should be had on the question of electing
Delegates to the Congressional Conven-
ton. Mr.. u. is one of the members of the
State Central Committee and we think
they will have "happy time" reading
him out.
Year: 1868

kV The BoLEs men say, that if that
little squirt Of SARBER' had not have
come here, they would have had no
trouble at their meeting Saturday. lie
was bad boy to put his foot in just as he
did.
Year: 1868

The salaries of officers did not enrich
the greedy Radicals fast enough, so they
raised them promptly. Here is a brief
comparison of few items that our peo


pie should carefully treasure up. No
Year: 1868

The House If Delegates on yesterday
amended the School Law so as to allow
the Judges OF the Circuit Courts to ap-
point the County Super nterdents with
iu their respective districts. This has
the look of very small piece of Bipartisan
meanuess Because there happen to be
a few counties in the State which the
REGISTRATION law can't make Radical ,
those counties are not to have such
school officers as the people want, but
ere to have obnoxious officials thrust
upon them through the agency of Re-
publican judge.


We are to infer that, as far as the
Legislature can control the subject, the
people are not to choose their own otl-
Gers unless they will agree to choose
Rrpubiican officers. In this particular
ipstsuce the action of that body Will
NOT tend To- make the school system par
ticularly popular. The Radicals are
continually prating about the Opposi-
ton Democrats to free schools, and at
the same time they are striving to make
the system 80 thoroughly partisan III
lis operation rs to compel every decent
man 10 deAounce it, no matter how
Great friend of popular education he
nav he.
Year: 1868

Tux Radical Senator MORTON has
brought in bill for the erection of q
r4v White House. The present one
will not be big enough for the new
President, when his salary is increased
fonr-fold. These are Radical retrench-
mentsl
Year: 1868

fFrom the Louisville Courier-Journal l6th.I


The following interesting details did
not appear in the hastily prepared re-
ports first published of the lynching of
the Renos and Charles Anderson. Frank
Reno and Charles Anderson were mar
ried. After the bodies had been laid
out upon the floor in the Jail hall, the
wives of these two men and Miss Reno,
the sister of the three brothers, were
permitted to enter the hall to take their
last look of those who, although COW
cred with crime, were in their lives all
the world to them. All, what a scene
was there What grief and anguish !
What unutterable woe! The three
women entered, paler by far than
the dead bodies stretched out SO
stark and CHASTITY upon the prison
floor. First came from these despairing
women such piercing shrieks as love
only can utter when it feels that all it
lived for is lost forever. Then tears
like rain, bursting from overflown foun-
tains, and means SO touching in their
plaintiveness and utter despair that
not even the most stolid could keep
from Weeping. Then followed that
quiet, almost stelid look, sert of
blank, purposeless agony, that tells that
hearts are breaking, that griefs work
is perfectly done. Great God what u
spectacle of utter woe it was! The out
burst of grief ended, the quiet of despair
settled upon the faces of the wemen.
But not long did one of them remain
under the burden. The sister of the
three Reno brothers, an intelligent
and handsome young lady, dried her
eyes with her handkerchief, then,
taking the grief-stained piece of linen,
she placed it over the face of her brother
William, who to the last declared his
innocence; then she kneeled beside the
dead man, and laid her left hand over
his heart, and, raising her right hand
toward heaven, she took this terrible
oath: ooh! my poor murdered brother,
may God curse your sister if she avenges
not your death, terribly and fully. This
l will do, so help me God" What a
tragic scene was this-the dark, strong
walls on all sides, and the cold stone
floor under her knees-the sable gar
ments of the bereaved sister, the pale
face turned upward and the white hand
pointing heavenward! What tableaQ
of death, despair, love and revenge!
Year: 1868

OBJECT.
The object of this Association Is to secure
cash payment within forty days after the dealt
of member of as many dollars as there ar
members in the class to which he or she belongs
to his or her heirs.
Year: 1868

We fear that tho Republican Inspectors oil
Election do not in all cases understand their
duties either as officers or as Republicans
Complaint is made by the Committees engaged
in the canvass of the city that the Inspectors
do not attend meetings called for the purpose
of consultation, nor do they furnish, when re-
aucsted, the proper lists to enable fraudulent
registration TO be detected. Such inspectors
should be at once removed, aud their names
noted The chances are ten to one that after
our victory these very persons will be clamor-
ous to share in the fruits of a triumph to which
they are too lazy or too self-cOnfdent to con-
tribute.
Year: 1868

moro explicitly than heretofore; gr"ans over
the distribution of National bank cur, cur
rency,T aud edwells largely on other topics
which his associate says it is utterly
idle TO discuss Of course hc does not omit
his characteristic misrepresentation as witness
the atrocious assertion that Congress extorted
from the reviving industry of the South a tax
of sir cents per pound on cotton. When n
person aspiring to the Presidency of this
nation has no more regard for his own word
or the intelligence of those whose votes he
seeks than to make charges like this, the
longer he talks the better for his antagonists.
We thank Gov. Seymour, applaud, aud beg
for more.
Year: 1868

There are at least three Assembly Districts
in our City--the With. XIth and AAist-that
can and will each choose a Republican To our
next Legislature unless our friends permit thef
strength to be frittered away by the senseless
and factious intrigues of place-hunters. we
entreat tlse Republicans of each Of these ana
of every other district to resOlre now that they
,riH not be divided, and take Snstant measures
to enforce their dete,minatifn We do not
know nor guess. who should be supported IN
either district we do know that two Republican
candidates in any district will be fatal, and that
It must not be. Friends in every district
make the little factions or cliques get out OF
the way, and give us candidates that you can
all vote for and electl Look to it that a good
candidate is agreed on in each district, and that
n dozen Others may run without squanderng
dozen votes in all BE wise in time!
Year: 1868

The true Democratic organ of this city
recently declared that ia certain contingency


Grant would not live out fourth his term.


The representative of true Democracy on the


national ticket was recently reported as saying
in q public speech that Grant would never
leave tho White House alive. These facts
moved us to inquire whether assassination of
obnoxious Presidents was now become an
acknowledged plank Of the Democratic plat
form. We take pleasure in saying that diff
ference in the only two verbatim reports of
Gen. Blairs speech leaves it possible to believe
that he did not mean to instigate assassina-
ton, and we hasten to accept the charitable
possibility. One report represents Gen. Blair
az saving ut becomes a mere appendage Of
the military chieftain who is lifted to power
"in the name of the President, but mho
"nerer piH leare the Presidential mansion
"aHre" The other varies the expression
TO this: But who will never leave
tho Presidential mansion as long as ho lives.r
This last is from the report published in the
Democratic paper, after revision by the Gen
Year: 1868

The foreign residents in Panama have rarely,
if ever suffered so much from tho Government
of the State as at present. The letter OF our
Panama correspondent mentions some new acts
of violence The Government seems inclined
TO try to what extent all considerations OF
right and Justice can he set aside
Year: 1868

MARSHALL y. H., August l3.


Editors of the Register


1t has been some time since have
scratched out line, or gotten up an
item for that good paper of yours. l
have leisure moment now, and 1 en-
brace it to say to the readers of the
REGISTER everywhere, that the politi-
cal skies are becoming clear and bright
here in priest-ridden and tax-ridden
Marshall. Scores of men, honorable,
high-minded gentlemen, many of whom
done good service in the Union army,
and who are as magnanimous in peace
as they were brave in war, are coming
straight out from the Radical revolu-
tionary party here. They say that they
cannot act longer with party that has
done more to destroy the peace and hap
piness of the people, than all other
causes that ever disturbed society
in this once happy country. These brave
soldiers and citizens are outspoken and
determined in the course they have
marked out for themselves to pursue in
politics. They 60 for the men and the
party who will, if successful, bring
about a peace that God and humanity
will approve of. This they intend to
do, not by force, or the bayonet. but by
extending the hand of friendship and
fellowship to the American citizen
every where, East, West, North and
South, and by convincing the people, of
the South especially that we desire that
by-gones should be by-gones, and that
we have yet some regard for the teach
ings the Good Book, which commands
us to do to others as we would be done
by. The friends of law and order
wherever this article appears can be
assured that such men as are spoken of
above are daily renouncing the Rad
ical cause, aud are giving their
powerful influence and aid to the
party that has ever been the fearless ad-
vocate of the great Democratic idea of
equal and exact justice to all men, and
exclusive privileges to none. No wonder,
then, that some of the extreme Radi-
calls ofthis place shed tears, bitter tears
of grief, over the loss of so many of
their former party friends. They weep
and meurn and 60 about sorrowing,
and, like Rachel of old, refuse to be
comforted, for they see the hand-writ.
ing upon the wall and know that their
days are numbered, and that they can
not any longer be; clothed in purple
and fine linen by the sweat that falls
from the brow Of honest toll and indus
try. t:,tFf IN MARSHALL.
Year: 1868

The Republicans, Knowing that the
vital issues of the day are the green
back question and the taxes, are trying
their hands at political jugglery and
call these "side issues" In order to
drown the clamor of the tax ridden aud
and taX-paying millions who desire
that these Onerous burdens should be
lighteDed, they cry aloud that the great
issue Of the day is peace or ,rdr. Now
this is suDterfuge, mere ruSe de
guerre. They wish to throw their pur-
suers off the track by creating a false
scent. The people are not so easily dc.
ceived. The depletion of their purses
to meet the increasing demands of
the rapacious political vulturss, who
swarm around the Capital and watch
for the loaves and fishes, too plainly
points out the important issues that
interest the public.


From what point of the political COM
pass do the indications of war come 7
Surely not from the Democratic party.
They have ever been the advocates Of
peace. Their object and aim at this
time is to place the country in a posi-.
tion that wars and rumors of wars may
be heard of no more. They have learn
ell by the sad and sickening experience
of eight years that war is the lever
that will overturn the Government of
our fathers. Whence, then, shall it pro-
ceed 7 Is it to come from those who
have SO long enjoyed the pap of
Government patronage that, like
the sucking whelp, they will
fight before they will give up the pub
lie teat 7 If such is not the case, there
are no signs of war. 1t is the policy of
hypocrites to hide their own deformi-
ties by harping about those of others.
So, perhaps, with this false, treacherous
party. They know the questions of
finance and taxation are untenable
grounds for them to occupy. A too
rigid scrutiny into the financial acts of
the party in power would ruin their
cause. The amount of money spent,
and for what purpose disbursed, are
questions too closely connected with
their public acts, and hence they seek
to lodge them and make them side is
sues. But the people will not.
Year: 1868

be quoted as from radical authority, or
for any other purpose whatsoever.


Now, sir, will that do!


Occasionally it happens that Radi-
cal writer is indiscreet enough to tell
the truth, Gas was the case with the
Tribune correspondent in his letter
about STEVENSON and straightway the
Radical journals compliment him by the
accusation of being a Democrat.
Year: 1868

Persons having real estate for sale OF TO let,
and those desirous Of purchasing renting such pro
rsrv will find IL 10 their interest 20 advertise in THE
TRIBUNE Its aggregate circulation exceeds that OF any
other newspaper and In addition to this advantage THE
TRIBUNE will be found not only in New-York and all Its
cities and villages, but III every state and Territory
within the Union The advertisement should be made al
brief as will allow Of the advantage offered being clear
to the reader We would especially dwell on the TACT
tbat the subscrbers for the three editions Of THE TRrB
t,,r seml.Weckly and Weekly comprise individuals in
every profession Dnsiness consequently advertise
ments IN eacn disseminate among all classes THE
TRIBUNE deyotes especial attention to the reports OF real
estate both in the city and in every part OF the state
thus adding greatly the value Of its columns as an ad
yertising medium The charges for advertising are rs
follows: DAILY TRIBUNE 25 cents per line Tor single
insertion: WEEKLY TRIBUNE, u so per nnei SEAl-
WEEKLY TRIBUNE IS cents per liue.
Year: 1868

The Investigations in the Alaska business
yesterday were chiefly remarkable for what
they do not show The Treasurer, about the
probable revelations of whose books we have
had so much chatter, simply testified that he
drew two gold drafts for Baron Stoeckl, one
for seven million dollars and the other for
two hundred thousand, and that this was all
he knew about the matter. The bankers, con-
corning whose dealings with the lobbyists we
have heard such tales, confess to plump pay
ment of $4,000 to Robert j. Walker, and
maintain that they turned over the rest direct
to the Russian Minister. The Committee, in
painful pursuit of information, is next to go
after the lobbyists themselves. We greatly
fear that those gentry will prove equal to the
occasion, and il they know anything will
skillfully contIive to keep it monopoly.
Year: 1868

The several political parties in Spain, it is
said. have again united in a solemn pledge TO
uso all their influence to preserve peace and
order throughout the country until the Consti-
tuent Cortes has settled the questions at issue
1t has always been our opinion that such an
agreement, sincerely made and impartially
carried through, is the only political programme
that can save Spain from civil war and recon
struct it on firm basis. But to have full con-
fdence in the efficiency of this new agree
nent we should like to see the Pro-
vsional Government inviting. one or two
prominent Republicans to seats in the Cabinet
declaring officially that they will not use their
influence in favor Of establishing q monarchy,
and not putting off third time the time Of
the election Of the Constituent COrtcs.
Year: 1868

We should have been more grateful TO Mr..
Senator Sherman for his resolution declaring
that the bonds must be paid in gold, if it had
not been preceded by another likewise reported
10y him, which might be interpreted as nsn-
uating the possibility of a right to pay them
in deprecated paper. Mr.. Sherman and other
gentlemen who have in the past thrown out
cautious feelers toward Pendletonism may as
well understand that the people have settled
that matter; and that the sooner they get back
to the party of honesty, without throwing out
deceptive resolutions TO cover their change of
position, the sooner they will regain the con-
fdence of the Country that has heretofore
hOnored and trusted them.
Year: 1868

Disappointing his admirers, until at last
be came to have no admirers ut all. Ho was
always dampins enthusiasm by some maladroit
speech or action; aud no one could ever tell
with certainty from his general principles
what his course of conduct might be in any
particular case lie was, 10 sum up much
smaller man, and rendered far less service to-
his country, than people thought when he was
young; lie was better man and did more
service than most people viii acknowledge now
that he is old.


He is probably the last of his school-a
school which dcgenclated as most schools do,
from ideas into phrases, from realities into
barren forms. Ii is time that he should at last
quit the stage lie Will not be missed in En-
glands active politics, and nothing possible for
him to do during the rest of his life could
change for better or worse his position in Eng
lands political history.
Year: 1868

The address of the Hon. J. Lothrop Motley, de-
livered last evening before the NewYork His
torical Society, at the Academy of Music, on
the occasion of its sixty fourth anniversary, is
an able essay upon the general principles of
history, and the past and prospective progress
of the political world. The Historical Society
las done well in securing for its orator this
year a gentleman who proves himself eqHally
well fitted to express the moral of history and
record its truth
Year: 1868

The modest and manly letter of Nh wash
buine concerning the gossip about his probable
oDpointment to the Cabinet, which has found
It's way into print in Iowa, and which we give
elsewhere this morning, confirms what we have
already said on this subject. Gen. Grant IS
keeping his own counsels, and the talk about
this or that man for this or that place is SIM
ply the emptiest of vapid guCss-wOrk.
Year: 1868

The House has followed Gen. Spinners re-
conmendaton, and resolved 10y vote of 1913
to q that women in the Departments shall be
paid the same wages as men when they do
equally valuable work. The measure is one
the abstract justice Of which cannot be dis
putod, though its reduction to practice is liable
TO such difficulties as are likely to make the
Senate hesitate before confirming the Houses
ecflOu
Year: 1868

We are treated in advance to the list OF
Gentlemen who are to utter rhetorical sorrow
tomorrow over the announcement OF the death
of Thaddeus Stevens. We yield to none OF
these in our admiration of the dead Repre-
sentative or gratitude for his services; but we
do not reckon this either the most useful or
the most graceful way Of doing him honor
Year: 1868

Upon the return of the delegates from
the District Convention at Lumberton, the
train was detained for al hour or two at
Brown Marsh. Quite large collection of
the citizens of that vicinity being present,
called upon several of the delegates, who
responded. Speeches were made by Col
Rob't Strange, Captains 81. q. Brock and
S. Galloway and Maj. J. A. Engelhard.
The speeches were received with marked
attention and applause. Everywhere the
people manifest the most intense desire to
hear speakers and become fully acquainted
with the issues of the contest, and we are
satisfied that at the present time there is
no means so efficacious of reaching the
masses as the hustings. Our public speak
ers must make up for the want of mail
facilities and means upon the part of the
people which deprive them of the newspa-
pers and printed documents. The patriotic
citizens of North Carolina require only to
understand the questions at issue to vote
down the bastard attempt to humiliate, de,
grade and ruin them.
Year: 1868

It will be seen that with the exception of
the Senator to be nominated from Bruins
wick, cur county ticket is now complete.
Look at it, fellow-citizens. It merits your
support. and we believe it will meet the
approval and receive the aid of every re-
spectacle man in the county, white and
black. Every man upon it is thoroughly
identified with the State and county and in
full sympathy with the people, in marked
contrast with the strangers, adventures,
negroes and scallawags who compose the
opposing ticket.
Year: 1868

which is EIGHT TINES greater than the
amount raised last year, SO that where a
man paid one dollar lust year, he will have
hereafter to PAY MORE THAN EIGHT DOL
LARS.


These figures must satisfy, at a glance,
every property holder that the adoption Of
the Constitution will necessarily result in
the practical confscation of his property.
It must be remembered that the command
is imperative on the Legislature to raise
this amount Of money, and imperative also
to raise at least one million seven hundred
thousand dollars Of it on property alone,
and yet this vast sum does not diminish
the principal one dollar! It must be re
membered, too, that this burden of taxa
ton, crushing and overwhelming as it is,
will, after 1880, become immeasurably heav-
ier if the Constitution be adopted, as it re-
quires, after that date, specific annual
tax upon the real and personal property of
the State to be levied to create sinking
fund to pay the principal of the debt Let
property holders be cautious, then, lest, in
disregarding the cries of the widows and
orphans and the appeals Of their poor
white brethren generally, to save them
from the encroachments of the negro, they
lose the very property which they are at
tempting to save at the expense of their
bopor
Year: 1868

This gentleman is doing good service in
several of the counties in this District. He
has already filled many appointments
and will meet others during the campaign.
The white people of North Carolina will
long remember their true hearted fellow,
citizens who in this crisis find opportunity
to devote their tina and talents for theil
welfare
Year: 1868

We are again under the pleasant neces
sity of returning our thanks for numerous
clubs and single subscribers for the DAILY
and WEEKLY JOURNAL. The large increase
of our circulation is one Of the surest evil
dences that our people are becoming
aroused to the Importance of the present
canpdiQn.